When the elder surnamed Mu announced the conditions for bidding on the Foundation Establishment Pill, admiration showed in Daoist Ji's eyes. "Only Windmist True Person would show rogue cultivators such mercy. In other kingdoms, what chance would they have to buy a Foundation Establishment Pill?"
Li Ping nodded as well. If he had not heard that rogue cultivators in the Immortal City had a chance to buy Foundation Establishment Pills, why would he have left his homeland and traveled ten thousand miles to come here?
As a resource almost indispensable to cultivators attempting to reach Foundation Establishment, Foundation Establishment Pills were strategic resources in every kingdom.
Only those fortunate enough to enter a sect had any hope of obtaining one.
In the Jiang Kingdom, for instance, the Jiang Lineage controlled the distribution of Foundation Establishment Pills. Apart from its own cultivators and its subordinate lineages, other rogue cultivators had no right to lay a finger on them.
Daoist Ji's granddaughter, Ji Shuwen, possessed a dual spirit root, an aptitude second only to variant spiritual roots and heavenly spiritual roots. Yet if she remained in the Jiang Kingdom, even marrying into the Jiang Lineage would give her little hope of obtaining a Foundation Establishment Pill. Her only option was to cross the border into a neighboring kingdom and join a sect.
The main reason Foundation Establishment Pills were so precious was the difficulty of obtaining their principal ingredient.
That ingredient had to be either golden marrow jade zhi at least seven hundred years old or a third-tier demon core.
There was little point in discussing third-tier demon cores. They formed only inside third-tier demon beasts, and obtaining one required killing such a beast. Given how powerful third-tier demon beasts were, even ordinary Core Formation cultivators were unwilling to provoke them.
Thus,