``` ["Use the Pill-Sacrifice Method!"]
[After only a moment's thought, you made your decision.]
[A greedy heart was like a snake trying to swallow an elephant. For you, the foremost priority was this attempt to reach the nascent soul late stage.]
[As for another attempt if this one failed? If you successfully entered the nascent soul late stage this time, what need would there be for another attempt?]
[The Five Sages Transcendence Pill was a quasi-fifth-tier pill. Even with the method of using heaven and earth to refine pills, you had no confidence in succeeding. Only the Pill-Sacrifice Method could guarantee success.]
[You could not risk failing the refinement and ending up without a single Five Sages Transcendence Pill.]
[That would be fetching water with a bamboo basket-all your effort for nothing.]
[Ten days later, you left the Heavenly Talisman Gate and headed for the location you had selected for pill refinement.]
[Your stated reason was to travel and clear your mind, an entirely fitting excuse for a nascent soul middle stage True Lord.]
[Cultivation in the nascent soul middle stage easily ran into bottlenecks. At such times, going out for a stroll might just lead to a breakthrough.]
[The Red Scorch Mountain Range.]
[This was a stretch of active volcanoes winding for thousands of li, rich in fire spiritual energy.]
[It was also the place you had chosen to refine the Five Sages Transcendence Pill.]
[There was only one nascent soul-level faction near the Red Scorch Mountain Range. Named the Red Feather Church, its strongest member was its leader, whose cultivation was at the nascent soul early stage.]
[It posed no threat to you.]
[Less than a hundred years had passed since the period when cultivators had competed to become Heavenly Monarchs.]
[It was a time when