"Thank you for thinking of her, Sixth Junior Brother, but I doubt there's anything you can do to help Master."
An Lingyue said, "Master is only mentally weakened. Nothing else is seriously wrong, so don't worry too much. Just focus on your cultivation."
"Also, the sect's Alchemy Dao Grand Competition is a month from now. You can enter if you have time. If you can't spare the time, don't bother. The rewards aren't very good anyway—"
An Lingyue paused, then added, "The winner will receive a Treasure Realm pill furnace—which is hardly worth mentioning next to your Little Black Cauldron."
"—Thank you for letting me know, Eldest Senior Sister. I'll decide whether to go when the time comes."
Chen Cheng did not give a definite answer.
To him, the competition's ultimate reward really held little appeal.
But if some unexpected development arose, there would be no harm in taking a look.
Five days later.
Chen Cheng successfully opened his fourth divine aperture, and his physique grew significantly stronger as well.
As luck would have it, Gu Fei delivered the Gu Lineage's first installment of support that very day.
Thirty Northern Emperor Currency coins, plus three Mid-Grade Aperture-Refining Profound Pills and three mid-grade Aperture-Nourishing Profound Pills.
For an ordinary martial artist in the God-Forging Realm, mid-grade profound pills were extremely rare cultivation resources. In that respect, the Gu Lineage could be considered quite generous.
For Chen Cheng, however, Mid-Grade Aperture-Refining Profound Pills were merely ordinary.
At present, Chen Cheng still had two high-grade Aperture-Refining Profound Pills and three Supreme-Grade Aperture-Refining Profound Pills that Wang Changsheng had given him.
He would only use the mid-grade pills once both the high-grade and supreme-grade ones were exhausted and could not be replenished.
And Wang Changsheng had already promised Chen Cheng an ample supply of