I handed the refined medicinal liquid to Venerable Skyfire and let him slowly refine it himself.
Qi Fei went out again and posted a mission with Jia Nan Academy.
The mission was to collect blood and essence blood from scaled magical beasts—dragons, lesser dragons, snakes, lizards, fish, and the like.
Any rank would do, and live specimens were preferable.
As for the reward, Qi Fei holed up in his room and refined three Break-Sect Pills on the spot.
They were Sixth-Grade Pills that increased a Peak Dou Emperor's chances of breaking through to Dou Zong.
In a small place like Jia Nan Academy, they were exceedingly rare.
In fact, throughout most regions outside the Central Plains—and even in many parts of the Central Plains—pills that increased one's odds of breaking through were scarce.
Here at Jia Nan Academy, people were willing to temper their bodies with the Fallen Heart Flame's source flame just to improve their chances of advancing from Dou Ling to Dou Wang.
The process was so painful that even Xiao Yan, who had absorbed Heavenly Flames, found it difficult to endure.
Yet even so, the students still flocked to it.
Ultimately, the ability to keep breaking through realms, especially major ones, was a privilege reserved for protagonists.
There were plenty of people whose ordinary cultivation methods and lack of pills left them stuck at a minor bottleneck for the rest of their lives.
Just like this time.
A whole crowd of Jia Nan Academy elders who were stuck at Peak Dou Emperor—or whose families included people stuck at that level—suddenly emerged.
They traded their collections, which they had somehow produced from who knew where, for the three pills.
Even Su Qian was shocked.
The three Break-Sect Pills were snapped up immediately, and Qi Fei received plenty of