Dragon Abyss Wonder Bone, Immortal Source Supreme Weapon

"System, the blue and golden spirit herbs in those three Storage Bags on the right are giving off a faint glow. They seem even more extraordinary. What are they?"

Li Moqing examined the spirit herbs in the three Storage Bags on the right with his Divine Sense and asked in puzzlement.

[Ding! The blue spirit herbs filling two and a half Storage Bags are Azure-Forging Pill Herbs. They cannot be eaten, but they can be refined into Azure-Forging Pills!]

[Azure-Forging Pills are more effective at forming Source Cores than Core-Forging Pills of the same quality, and there is a very high chance they will not affect a cultivator's future cultivation!]

[One Azure-Forging Pill Herb can be refined into at most two Azure-Forging Pills!]

[The golden spirit herbs filling the remaining half of a Storage Bag are Golden-Breakthrough Pill Herbs, found nowhere else in the world. They cannot be eaten, but they can be refined into Golden-Breakthrough Pills!]

[Golden-Breakthrough Pills can help cultivators at the ninth level of the Core Formation Realm shatter their Source Cores and form Nascent Souls more quickly!]

[Note, however, that a Golden-Breakthrough Pill shatters the core through external force and may leave a cultivator's Nascent Soul unstable!]

[One Golden-Breakthrough Pill Herb can be refined into at most one Golden-Breakthrough Pill!]

"Azure-Forging Pills?"

Li Moqing raised an eyebrow.

After entering the Core Formation Realm, cultivators might form their cores slowly—or find themselves unable to form one at all.

At such times, cultivators on the Spirit Source Continent took Core-Forging Pills to help form their cores.

But cores formed with the help of pills were often fragile and could easily hinder future cultivation.

Generally, a Core-Forging Pill would only let a cultivator advance another one or two minor levels.

"Yet Azure-Forging Pills won't hinder future cultivation. If these went on sale, people would be fighting to get their hands on them."

Li Moqing pondered to himself.

"And the Golden-Breakthrough Pills are even more remarkable. They can help ninth-level Core Formation Realm cultivators shatter their Source Cores!"

"Countless ninth-level Core Formation Realm cultivators on the Spirit Source Continent spend their whole lives unable to shatter their cores and form Nascent Souls, then die with their hopes unfulfilled."

"A Golden-Breakthrough Pill may affect the quality of the Nascent Soul, but at least it lets a ninth-level Core Formation Realm cultivator break through."

"If these went on sale, they'd cause an uproar."

"After all, no pill in this world has ever been able to help a ninth-level Core Formation Realm cultivator shatter their core!"

"There are 250,000 Azure-Forging Pill Herbs and 50,000 Golden-Breakthrough Pill Herbs in the Storage Bags. Hmm..."

Li Moqing paused in thought. A plan had already taken shape in his mind.

"The plan sounds wonderful, but the Sect still lacks alchemists. I'll need to recruit some disciples and elders."

With that thought, Li Moqing asked, "System, do personal disciples recruited through a disciple recruitment assembly count as people with a destined connection?"

[Ding! Naturally, but you can only recruit one personal disciple per assembly!]

"One personal disciple? Then I'll need to assess the participants more carefully."

"The traditional Trial Stele can't meet that need anymore. I'll have to find a way to get a new testing tool."

Li Moqing considered the matter.

"Never mind. I'll announce the disciple recruitment assembly first."

Li Moqing looked up and instructed Mo Lingyuan, "Elder Mo, spread the word that our Sect will hold a disciple recruitment assembly in one month. Anyone under thirty may participate!"

"Ah..."

The order caught Mo Lingyuan so completely off guard that he froze for a moment.

Zhang Xingfeng and the other three were dumbstruck as well.

"Yes, Sect Master!"

After several breaths, Mo Lingyuan collected himself and left the hall.

"Master, did you figure out what these Heavenly Treasures are?"

Zhang Xingfeng had watched Li Moqing frown in thought for some time, looking utterly inscrutable, and could not help asking.

"Just some ingredients for refining pills."

Li Moqing put away the six bags of spirit herbs and answered mildly.

"Oh..."

Zhang Xingfeng looked a little disappointed. He took the Danling Qisheng Art and the pitch-black object from his robe. "Right, Master, there's also this Cultivation Art and this strange black thing."

"The Danling Qisheng Art?"

Li Moqing raised an eyebrow and casually flipped through the Danling Qisheng Art. "It seems to be a Heaven-Tier Upper Grade Pill Art. Excellent. Now the Sect can make full use of these Heavenly Treasures."

"You three have worked hard on this trip. You fought in the secret realm for over three days, so go get some proper rest."

"Take these three Storage Bags."

Li Moqing smiled faintly and handed three new Storage Bags to Zhang Xingfeng and the other two.

"Yes, Master."

"All right, Master."

Zhang Xingfeng and the other two took the Storage Bags and went their separate ways.

"Sect Master, I'll go cultivate too."

Seeing that only she remained in the hall, Lü Liu rose to her feet.

"All right."

Li Moqing nodded, but his attention was wholly on the pitch-black object in his hand.

"This feels like bone, yet not bone; stone, yet not stone. Holding it, I can sense boundless spiritual resonance. How strange."

He marveled inwardly.

"System, what is this?"

After examining it for a while, Li Moqing looked up and asked.

[Ding! This is the Dragon Abyss Wonder Bone. Together with the Fated Lodging Wonder Bone, Phoenix Star Wonder Bone, Azure Han Wonder Bone, and Mirror Flower Wonder Stone, it can be forged into an Immortal Source Supreme Weapon—the Hongpo Sword!]

"An Immortal Source Supreme Weapon? What is that? Why have I never heard of one?"

Li Moqing looked baffled.

[Legend has it that when seven Supreme Celestials of the Spirit Source Continent ascended, they left their weapons behind in the world. Those weapons later transformed into people, and upon their deaths became wonder bones or wonder stones.

Gather those wonder bones and stones, and you can forge a weapon stronger than a Dao Source Peerless Weapon—an Immortal Source Supreme Weapon!]

"So that's how it is."

Understanding dawned on Li Moqing.

"Those seven Supreme Celestials presumably don't include Supreme Celestial and Supreme Spirit-Mixer, who died in battle. But why are there no bones or stones from the other two Supreme Celestials?"

"Not that it has anything to do with me." Li Moqing set the thought aside and asked, "System, where are the other Supreme Celestials' bones and stones?"

[They have yet to appear in the world!]

"Then I'll wait until they do."

Li Moqing placed the Dragon Abyss Wonder Bone in a Storage Bag and drank his tea, his expression as still as an ancient well.

The Southern Domain of Qitian.

The Proud Sword Sect.

The Sect's Discussion Hall.

Only three people were in the hall: Qin Linyu, Gu Aoxin, and Aojian Juechen, the Proud Sword Sect's sect master.

While Qin Linyu and Gu Aoxin sat in silence, Aojian Juechen smiled from the main seat, looking as though the matter had nothing to do with him.

"Linyu, why did you come back from the Qigu Secret Realm empty-handed this time?"

At last, Gu Aoxin broke the silence, his face stern.

The reproach in his voice was unmistakable.

"Grand Elder, my strategy was at fault on this trip to the Qigu Secret Realm. Please punish me!"

Qin Linyu made no attempt to defend himself.

Exploring toward the center of the secret realm from the moment we entered was my mistake. Two hundred fellow disciples died because of it. I'm deeply ashamed!

He was consumed with self-reproach.

"But I heard from the other disciples that you had a chance to seize the supreme treasure. Why didn't you fight for it?"

Gu Aoxin's expression hardened with anger.

"Grand Elder, we still don't know whether that pitch-black object was the supreme treasure. Besides, it flew into the hands of Dongfang Muxue and her companions, which means they were destined to—"

Qin Linyu hurried to explain.

"Enough!" Gu Aoxin cut him off in a low voice. "Go reflect on your mistakes in Reflection Forest. You are not to come out for ten days!"

"Yes, Grand Elder!"

Qin Linyu left obediently.

"Sect Master, just look at Qin Linyu. I told him to seize treasures in the secret realm and kill anyone who stood in his way."

"Not only did he fail to do that, he even helped others, saying he wouldn't fight over what fate had given them!"

"He's getting more outrageous by the day. I'm furious!"

Gu Aoxin turned to Aojian Juechen, seething.

"Grand Elder, calm down."

Aojian Juechen tried to soothe him with a smile.

"No. The more I think about it, the angrier I get. Add another five days to his punishment!"

Gu Aoxin spoke in a rage.

"All right. As you wish!"

Aojian Juechen shook his head helplessly.