Green Robe Old Man Makes a Move

Within Wei Suo's body, True Essence swirled and flowed within the four purple Divine Seas.

The Stone Spirit Milk, a condensation of spiritual energy with almost no records in the current Cultivation World, was truly astonishing. Even with day-and-night cultivation, it would have taken Wei Suo many days to potentially break through to the Fourth Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm. However, this Stone Spirit Milk had allowed Wei Suo to open up a new Divine Sea and advance to a cultivator at the Fourth Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm!

Recalling the feeling of spiritual energy violently surging and rapidly merging with his True Essence, Wei Suo smacked his lips. He couldn't help but lean over the hole again and take several deep breaths.

If there had been more Stone Spirit Milk, he might have been able to directly break through to the Fifth Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm. At the Fifth Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm, he could already use some powerful techniques and would no longer be just an ordinary low-level rogue cultivator.

To Wei Suo's extreme disappointment, the crystalline pillar, resembling a hollow jade tube, was empty. Not even a drop of Stone Spirit Milk remained.

"Old man, are these crystals inside useful?"

Extremely disappointed, Wei Suo cautiously sent out an Azure Water Blade, slicing open the crystalline pillar a bit more. The inner surface of the pillar was covered in crystalline particles, like grains of salt.

"These are just ordinary glazed crystals, they're not useful. It's likely that the stone stalactite was originally a stone pillar. The dripping from the cave ceiling slid down this pillar, and then another layer of stone stalactite formed around it. The Stone Spirit Milk just flowed out from the glazed crystals within this stone pillar," the Green Robe Old Man said, shaking his head with slight regret.

"Is the Jade Cloud Ganoderma useful for improving cultivation?" Wei Suo couldn't help but take out the Jade Cloud Ganoderma again, looking as if he wanted to swallow it whole.

"Impatience and recklessness are the greatest taboos in cultivation," the Green Robe Old Man sneered. "Just like how Demonic Cores absorb a lot of spiritual energy but cannot be refined directly, the Jade Cloud Ganoderma, like most Spiritual Herbs, has formed many of its own unique components as it grew. While demonic beasts can strengthen their Demonic Cores by consuming Jade Cloud Ganoderma, if you were to swallow this plant, you'd probably stiffen up all over and wouldn't be able to leave this cave."

"I was too impatient," Wei Suo said, his eyes flickering. He took a deep breath, nodded, and calmed down.

The Green Robe Old Man, rarely seeing Wei Suo so serious, had a flash of surprise in his eyes. He had previously thought Wei Suo was only cultivating desperately to pursue Shui Ling'er, the great beauty of the Cultivation World. But seeing Wei Suo's expression change in that instant, he suddenly felt that Wei Suo's desperate cultivation and desire to improve his cultivation might have some other important reason.

"Don't be disappointed. Fortunately, your luck is quite good, and some Stone Spirit Milk allowed you to break through to the Fourth Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm. The speed at which you advanced from the Second Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm to the Fourth Level is already incredibly fast. Moreover, now that you've reached the Fourth Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm, I can tell you some things, and I guarantee they will be no less useful to you than this Stone Spirit Milk!" the Green Robe Old Man said, looking at Wei Suo with slightly narrowed eyes. "However, since we are cooperating, and I am following your lead, there are some things we should discuss frankly. You must tell me the reason you are cultivating so desperately, besides Shui Ling'er."

"To survive... If I didn't fight for it before, I wouldn't have been able to live in Lingyue City," Wei Suo said with a wry smile, his face devoid of its usual playful expression for the first time. "Also... I want to go to the place outside the firmament where my parents had their accident and take a look. I at least want to know how they died..."

"Do you know where outside the firmament they had their accident?" the Green Robe Old Man asked, looking at Wei Suo.

"No, I only found out later that they should have gone outside the firmament in the northern direction of Lingyue City. I went there to take a look once, but my cultivation was too low, and I couldn't go outside the firmament to see," Wei Suo sighed, looking at the Green Robe Old Man. "Alright, I've said what I needed to say. You should tell me what you can tell me now."

"Alright," the Green Robe Old Man said, looking at Wei Suo and nodding. "I will tell you the method for refining a type of pill called the Heaven Mending Pill."

"Heaven Mending Pill? What kind of pill is that? Is it a pill that can quickly restore True Essence or increase True Essence cultivation?" Wei Suo's eyes immediately lit up with their usual golden glow.

"It's not those kinds of pills," the Green Robe Old Man said proudly. "But its effects are far greater! It's a pill that can continuously temper the physical body and strengthen the Divine Sea!"

"What does that mean?" Wei Suo asked, not understanding.

The Green Robe Old Man explained, "For any current cultivation technique, according to its grade, the size of the Divine Sea is fixed after reaching a certain level. When the power of True Essence within the Divine Sea reaches a certain point, a new Divine Sea is opened, and one's cultivation advances another level. The higher the grade of the cultivation technique, the larger the Divine Sea opened and the more True Essence it can store, with the True Essence also being more condensed. Therefore, cultivators who practice high-grade techniques are many times more powerful than cultivators like you who practice inferior techniques, even if they are at the same cultivation level. And this Heaven Mending Pill can continuously enlarge the existing Divine Sea, much like how heavenly spiritual herbs strengthen the Demonic Cores of demonic beasts, allowing a Level Three demonic beast to potentially surpass a Level Four demonic beast in strength. In essence, my Heaven Mending Pill can continuously advance your trash cultivation technique, potentially even surpassing heavenly-grade cultivation techniques in the end!"

"A pill that can advance cultivation techniques!" Wei Suo's pupils contracted sharply. "Old man, are you sure you're not joking with me?"

"If you don't want to know, then forget it," the Green Robe Old Man said, smiling at Wei Suo.

"Damn it, if I didn't want to know, I'd be a complete idiot! But this kind of pill is too overpowered, isn't it?" Wei Suo knew very well the difference between low-grade and high-grade True Essence cultivation techniques. Before, when he couldn't afford much Qi Replenishing Powder, he had to calculate every Azure Water Blade he sent out. But if a cultivator practiced a heavenly-grade technique, even at the Second Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm, they could send out hundreds of Azure Water Blades without thinking. The ability to continuously enlarge the Divine Sea, allowing his Purple Profound True Art, which he had long wanted to replace, to even surpass heavenly-grade cultivation techniques, what kind of concept was that?

"It's overpowered because it's overpowered. However, this pill requires long-term consumption to be effective. And the materials for this pill were very difficult to gather even ten to twenty thousand years ago," the Green Robe Old Man said, looking at Wei Suo. "I can only say that you, a trash rogue cultivator in the eyes of others, and I, a trash artifact spirit in the eyes of others, have both welcomed our era!"

"So, this pill can continuously advance cultivation techniques. Will that affect the speed of cultivation?" Wei Suo asked, taking a deep breath.

The Green Robe Old Man nodded. "Of course. Just like if your cultivation technique became a slightly higher-grade one, and your Divine Sea enlarged, your cultivation speed would naturally slow down. However, I can guarantee that it will still be faster than your cultivation progress with a heavenly-grade technique, because the Heaven Mending Pill itself continuously modifies your physical body, which is equivalent to improving your talent and the speed at which you absorb spiritual energy."

Wei Suo gritted his teeth. "Since there's such a good thing, why did you only tell me about it when I reached the Fourth Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm?"

"It's very simple, because this pill only works for cultivators at or above the Fourth Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm," the Green Robe Old Man gave an extremely simple answer that made Wei Suo roll his eyes.

"Then what are the materials for this Heaven Mending Pill?"

"Silver Moon Grass, Purple Void Grass, Seven Leaf Orchid, Cold Dew Root, and the Demonic Core of a Level Three demonic beast, the Green Armored Beetle," the Green Robe Old Man said.

"Green Armored Beetle Demonic Core?" Wei Suo pondered. Among these materials, only the Demonic Core of the Upper Level Three Green Armored Beetle was somewhat valuable; the rest were not considered precious items. And the current number of Green Armored Beetles was not small; he could acquire them even if he had to purchase them with Spirit Stones.

"Only the Green Armored Beetle Demonic Core is valuable now." The Green Robe Old Man seemed to have seen through Wei Suo's thoughts and said with some emotion, "Don't underestimate the Green Armored Beetle just because it's a Level Three demonic beast. Ten to twenty thousand years ago, Green Armored Beetles were almost wiped out and very difficult to find. I didn't expect their numbers to have multiplied so much now. They can even be found within the firmament."

"Let's go." After a pause, the Green Robe Old Man continued, looking at Wei Suo. "Go back and prepare the materials for alchemy. Also, refining the Heaven Mending Pill requires an Earth Fire Pill Furnace. I'll tell you how to refine it when we get back. The Heaven Mending Pill also requires attention to heat control, and it won't be successful on the first try."

"Okay, but wait a moment." Wei Suo nodded, then quickly took out his Treasure Pouch.

"What are you doing?" To the Green Robe Old Man's incomprehension, he saw Wei Suo take out a Golden Silk Talisman Brush and materials for refining an Illusionary Light Talisman from his Treasure Pouch. Then, Wei Suo released all nearly thirty Ice Snow Mantises.

"I'm going to refine an Illusionary Light Talisman. This time, it's thanks to Nangong Yuqing that I broke through to the Fourth Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm so quickly. I'll refine an Illusionary Light Talisman as a gift for her. An Illusionary Light Talisman that can conjure thirty Ice Snow Mantises should be enough to scare an opponent. The small stone house is too cramped to fit so many Ice Snow Mantises, so I'll refine it here," Wei Suo explained as he began arranging the corpses of the Ice Snow Mantises, posing them in various fierce and menacing ways.

"Holy crap! Your Ice Snow Mantises have so many holes in them; won't the opponent see that they're fake right away?" The Green Robe Old Man was speechless upon seeing the holes left by the Wind Spirit Howler on the Ice Snow Mantises.

"It doesn't matter, a little decoration will fix it. I'm good at this." What made him even more speechless was seeing Wei Suo take out a bottle of white pigment, made from some unknown substance, and start painting on the Ice Snow Mantises.

"This guy!" Although he found Wei Suo's actions rather pointless, for some reason, the Green Robe Old Man increasingly felt that Wei Suo was very different from most rogue cultivators. Thus, he uncharacteristically did not criticize Wei Suo this time, but quietly watched him refine the Illusionary Light Talisman.