"This is..."
Taking the item out of the Storage Bag, Lin Changheng examined it from every angle, searching his memories and comparing what he knew to identify it.
Held between his fingers was a piece of jade roughly the size of a fist, warm and lustrous, milky white throughout.
Natural, cloudlike patterns covered its surface, while a hazy spiritual radiance seemed to flow slowly within. Holding it, he could feel an exceptionally pure, gentle, balanced spiritual energy emanating from it, nourishing the meridians throughout his body and even stirring his magical power.
"Essence-gathering jade marrow!"
Delight suddenly blazed in Lin Changheng's eyes. At last, he had found its name among his memories of spiritual materials!
This rare treasure formed only when the spiritual energy of heaven and earth accumulated under particular conditions over several decades. The spiritual energy contained in its jade marrow was pure and gentle, exceedingly easy for cultivators to absorb and refine. It was one of the treasures that aided breakthroughs within foundation establishment!
Its value far exceeded even many second-tier elixirs used to aid breakthroughs, for it possessed the remarkable ability to temper magical power and weaken bottlenecks, greatly increasing the chances of success!
It worked through gradual, sustained nourishment rather than forcibly breaking through, neither consuming potential nor placing obstacles along a cultivator's future Dao path.
The young cultivator had likely prepared it for his own breakthrough to foundation establishment late stage. Perhaps his false core granduncle had bestowed it upon him. Either way, it had fallen into Lin Changheng's hands.
He had sewn another man's wedding robes!
After all, elixirs that [aided breakthroughs] were entirely different from those that [accelerated cultivation]. They belonged to different tracks, different dimensions, and their values were completely different.
A single bottleneck could trap countless cultivators until death!
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