The next day, at dawn.
Blood Radiance City.
Western District.
Inside a small courtyard.
Song Wen sat at a stone table in the courtyard, holding a teacup and taking slow, intermittent sips of the spirit tea within.
It should have been a rare moment of leisure, yet Song Wen's brows were tightly furrowed.
"Gu Que, are the Azure Glazed Fruit and Great Yin Netherfire truly that important for breaking through to the Mahayana realm?" Song Wen asked within his sea of consciousness.
In search of these two spirit items, Song Wen had not only combed through shops large and small throughout Blood Radiance City, but had also visited every nearby market and Ghost Market. Aside from learning that the Divine Blood Sect possessed both items, he had obtained no other useful information.
Gu Que hesitated slightly, as though organizing his thoughts, before slowly speaking.
"To this day, cultivators of the Profound Realm have yet to discover any pill or spirit medicine capable of effectively raising the chances of breaking through to the Mahayana realm. They have only summarized certain auxiliary spirit items. The reason is..."
"The Mahayana realm is the stage at which a cultivator tempers their physical body, divine soul, and spiritual power until they become perfectly harmonious, preparing for advancement to the Tribulation Transcendence realm. Simply put, so long as the physical body is strong enough, the divine soul condensed enough, and the spiritual power vast and pure enough, advancing to Mahayana will follow as naturally as water flowing into a channel."
"But a cultivator's lifespan is finite. Even if one follows the rules and cultivates bitterly for an entire lifetime, it is difficult to push all three to the critical threshold for a breakthrough at once. Thus, one can only rely on external aids. Therefore, any spirit