Vitality Pill, Vitality Divine Palace's Three Paths

[You ask the Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable about the function of Vitality Crystals.]

[The Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable tells you that these are highly concentrated crystallized vitality, which can be used for cultivation or refined into pills for consumption, with even better effects.]

[You have obtained the pill recipe for the Vitality Pill.]

[You examine the pill recipe for the Vitality Pill.]

[This recipe uses crystallized vitality or a large amount of vitality as the main ingredient, along with various auxiliary spiritual items, to refine the Vitality Pill.]

[Effect of the Vitality Pill: One third-tier top-grade Vitality Pill can increase the cultivation speed of a Golden Core cultivator by 3 times within three months.]

[Unfortunately, with your current alchemy skills, the success rate of refining is too low.]

[You intend to search for other Vitality lifeforms.]

[You look around.]

[You discover that apart from Vitality lifeforms at the Golden Core Overlord level and above, all other Vitality lifeforms have long since been hunted by the other True Persons of the Golden Core stage.]

[You are helpless.]

[You can only cultivate in an environment with high concentrations of vitality.]

[Your cultivation speed has reached 1.6 times the normal rate.]

[At 79 years old, you broke through to the fourth layer of the Golden Core stage.]

[In the same year, several True Persons of the Golden Core stage took a liking to your cultivation spot and wanted to seize it.]

[You swiftly killed them.]

[You obtained many storage equipment.]

[You examine the numerous storage equipment.]

[You find that they are all quite wealthy, worthy of cultivators from major forces who can enter the Vitality Secret Realm.]

[After this battle, your reputation also spread throughout the Vitality Secret Realm, and you were known as the Swift Sword True Person.]

Su Yang: ???

"What the hell is Swift Sword True Person? Whoever wants this title can have it."

Su Yang was furious.

[You learn of your title and are extremely dissatisfied.]

[But your reputation has already spread, and there is nothing you can do.]

[You decide that as soon as you return to the Tianjian Sect, you will immediately establish your own True Person title.]

[You begin to cultivate diligently in the Vitality Secret Realm, and in your leisure time, you also hunt some Vitality lifeforms at the Golden Core Overlord level and above.]

[At 82 years old, you can now stably refine third-tier high-grade pills, and you can be called a third-tier high-grade alchemist.]

[Two months later, you traded third-tier top-grade Vitality Crystals with other Golden Core True Persons for third-tier mid-grade and third-tier high-grade Vitality Crystals.]

[Four months later, using third-tier mid-grade Vitality Crystals as material, you successfully refined third-tier Vitality Pills.]

[Unfortunately, due to your lacking alchemy skills, out of 15 pills produced, only 1 reached the third-tier top-grade pill standard.]

[You consumed the third-tier top-grade Vitality Pill.]

[Your cultivation speed increased.]

[You discover that the increased cultivation speed from Vitality Pills cannot be stacked with the cultivation speed from the Vitality environment.]

[You stop consuming top-grade Vitality Pills for cultivation.]

[At 84 years old, your three attribute spells have all reached great success.]

[At 87 years old, you broke through to the fifth layer of the Golden Core stage.]

[At this point, only about three months remain until the Vitality Secret Realm closes.]

[Suddenly, you feel a tremor from the center of the secret realm.]

[You know that the greatest treasure vault of the Vitality Secret Realm, the Vitality Divine Palace, has appeared.]

[You head towards the direction of the Vitality Divine Palace.]

[You arrive at the Vitality Divine Palace.]

[You find that although the palace gate is open, no Golden Core True Person dares to enter.]

[On both sides of the gate stand two late fourth-tier Vitality lifeforms in the form of sphinxes.]

[Someone suggests that everyone join forces to kill these two Vitality lifeforms.]

[Everyone agrees.]

[Two Golden Core True Persons step forward and say they will attract the attacks of these two sphinxes.]

[But after they are killed, they require the fourth-tier Vitality Crystals within the sphinxes.]

[You recognize them as two of the cultivators who released powerful auras when you first arrived at the outer perimeter of the Vitality Secret Realm, practitioners of simplified divine abilities focusing on the physical body.]

[Everyone agreed.]

[After a fierce battle, you successfully killed two sphinxes.]

[You entered the Vitality Divine Palace and found the surroundings to be a hazy gray.]

[Only three paths were brightly lit.]

[One was named the Battle Path, one was named the Foundation Path, and one was named the Enlightenment Path.]

[You can choose one of them to proceed. The further you advance, the more gifts you will receive from the Vitality Divine Palace.]

[If you can reach the end of the path, you will obtain one of the greatest treasures of the Vitality Divine Palace.]

[Which path will you take? Please choose...]

[1. Battle Path (Every segment of progress requires a battle. Nascent Soul overlords can traverse this path.)]

[2. Foundation Path (Every step forward will be suppressed by the Vitality Divine Palace. Exceeding limits in foundation can traverse this path.)]

[3. Enlightenment Path (Suitable for comprehending artistic conception. Perfection in any artistic conception allows traversal of this path.)]

Su Yang scanned the options, his gaze settling on the second choice.

"Exceeding limits in foundation... Su Yang's simulated Supreme Golden Core should be an exceeding limits foundation, right?"

"Choice two, Foundation Path," Su Yang said.

[You chose the Foundation Path and discovered that the most people had entered this path.]

[You stepped onto the Foundation Path and immediately felt a slight pressure squeezing your body.]

[At the same time, you found that this pressure was also penetrating your dantian, slowly grinding your Golden Core, though it was only making futile efforts.]

[However, you estimated that if it were merely a high-grade Golden Core of the second or third rank, its quality could be slowly improved under this pressure.]

[You understood that this path was not only a test but also a tempering of oneself.]

[You continued to advance, and the pressure grew stronger.]

[At the same time, the Golden Core True Persons accompanying you became fewer and fewer.]

[Golden Core True Persons of the fourth, third, and second ranks, one after another, stopped behind you, gazing at your departing figures with unwillingness.]

[Suddenly, you seemed to have crossed a boundary, and the pressure abruptly increased severalfold, causing your body to tremble slightly.]

[Golden Core True Persons who had condensed a first-rank Golden Core all stopped helplessly.]

[Now, only two people are left accompanying you, and they are no longer at ease.]

[As you continued to move forward, another person stopped.]

[He looked distressed and shouted: "I am Wang Xingyan of the Wang Clan from Tianhe. You two are superior to me in foundation. Dare you leave your names?"]

[The other person replied: "Seven Islands Alliance, Chu Tianyi."]

[You, however, paid them no mind.]

[After advancing several more kilometers, Chu Tianyi also could not hold on any longer.]

[He looked at you, still steadily advancing, with disbelief on his face.]

[As a disciple of the Azure Wave King, one of the three leaders of the Seven Islands Alliance, his Golden Core quality was extremely high among supreme-grade Golden Cores, yet he still couldn't beat you.]

[What kind of Golden Core did you condense?]

[You didn't pay much attention to him; your only thought now was to advance, advance, and advance further.]

[After a quarter of an hour, your steps were faltering, each one feeling as if you were carrying a million jun of pressure.]

[You saw the end of the Foundation Path.]

[You gritted your teeth and stepped across the finish line, one step at a time.]

[Instantly, golden light flashed, and the radiance of the entire Foundation Path scattered, illuminating the entire Vitality Divine Palace.]