Seven days passed in the flick of a finger.
Inside his cave abode, Xu Yan gazed at the jade slip before him, a thoughtful expression crossing his face.
Over the past few days, he had thoroughly studied the recipe for refining the Ginseng Essence-Restoring Pill.
The reason he had yet to fire up his furnace was that he still lacked one main ingredient: Jade Zhi Golden Ginseng with at least five hundred years of medicinal maturity.
This ginseng was quite precious. Since it could replenish a cultivator's essence blood and vitality, cultivators would hoard it whenever they found it, and it rarely circulated on the market.
Xu Yan had tried using his status as a Guest Elder to purchase a specimen from the Crimson Sun Sect's treasure pavilion, only to be told that the sect's grand elder had redeemed the last Jade Zhi Golden Ginseng more than ten years ago.
"Looks like I'll have to try my luck at the Ancient Market!" Xu Yan murmured, shaking his head helplessly.
Through discreet inquiries over the past few days, he had learned a great deal about the Crimson Sun Sect and even the Cultivation World of the Fire Prosperity Kingdom.
Just as Danyangzi had said, the sects of all sizes throughout the Fire Prosperity Kingdom's Cultivation World had gathered together to form a unified alliance called the Immortal Alliance.
The most basic requirement for an immortal sect to join the Immortal Alliance was to have a Golden Core cultivator presiding over it. The Crimson Sun Sect was one such member.
The Immortal Alliance maintained extremely strict control over spiritual treasures within the Fire Prosperity Kingdom's Cultivation World. Certain precious treasures circulated only among its member sects, and rogue cultivators had almost no chance of gaining access to them.
Even when some occasionally