"What special Medicinal Pill-refining missions are there? What kinds of missions do they involve?"
Su Shi'er's brows twitched as he hurriedly asked.
"Well... within the Sacred Spirit Cult, special Medicinal Pill-refining missions had always been kept secret from outsiders. Even participants were forbidden from spreading the word."
"I'm merely a Qi Refining Stage servant. How could I possibly know the specifics?"
The middle-aged female cultivator hurriedly shook her head, lowering her voice with a nervous expression. ????
"It's no matter. Even if you don't know the details, surely some rumors must have leaked out?"
Su Shi'er spoke with a smile. He was no greenhorn, so how could he fail to understand what she was thinking?
Before he had even finished speaking, he raised a hand. Another low-grade Spirit Stone drifted before the middle-aged female cultivator under the Object Manipulation Technique.
"Gulp!"
Though she had been prepared, the middle-aged female cultivator still unconsciously swallowed when she saw the crystalline stone before her and felt its surging spiritual energy wash over her face.
After hesitating for only a moment, she swiftly tucked the Spirit Stone away. "This... I only happened to hear a few scattered words from other servants. There are mainly two types of special Medicinal Pill-refining missions within the cult."
"One is to study the Nine Revolutions Pill and seek ways to improve it. However, although quite a few alchemists had tried over the past two months, it seemed they had gained nothing."
"As for the other, it is the most mysterious. All we know is that every Core Alchemist summoned into the depths of the cult had never emerged again. As for what they were doing, that truly remains unknown."
So it really was related to the Nine Revolutions Pill.
*But there was another situation as well? Entering the