Creation Pill

Card Fairy had promised him that, to encourage Wang Yan to cultivate diligently, she would let him draw a prize from the Lottery Cube whenever he successfully broke through a minor realm. Advancing to a major realm would earn him a chance at a grand prize, too. The first time Wang Yan used the Lottery Cube, he had drawn the Water-Fire Blast Card, his ultimate trump card. With it, he had slain a Fang Bear Beast in the core condensation realm and two Ma Family cultivators at major completion of the cultivation realm. It was an absolute treasure.

How could ordinary cultivators so easily cross realms to fight someone a level above them? Under normal circumstances, even a single minor realm meant a two- to fourfold difference in strength between cultivators. Naturally, killing someone in a higher realm was extremely difficult.

Of course, Wang Yan had only managed to kill those two Ma Family cultivators thanks in large part to his scheming and surprise attacks, striking when they were unprepared.

Actually, if his cultivation had been high enough, he would not have needed to fear those people at all.

As a condition, however, Card Fairy would no longer provide Wang Yan with any other material assistance outside those occasions. Everything else depended on him. Wang Yan had no idea what she was thinking, but only an idiot would turn down a benefit. Naturally, he remembered her promise. He just wondered what good thing he would draw this time.

"Looks like you've finally calmed down!" Card Fairy said mildly when she heard him. Then she laughed. "Hurry up and take off your pants! Expose what's underneath!"

"What?!" Wang Yan's face stiffened. Why did that sound so awkward? After his startled exclamation, he paused, then hurriedly asked as something occurred to him, "Hey! Card Fairy! Are you male or female, anyway?"

Although he had asked several times already, Card Fairy had never given him a straight answer.

Sure enough!

"Tch! How would I know whether I'm male or female?" Card Fairy replied casually. "Why would cultivators like us care about such trifles?" She paused, then urged him, "All right! Hurry up! If you miss your chance, I'm not waiting!"

"Fine!" Cultivator or not, Wang Yan was still a boy just over fourteen, and his skin was hardly that thick. Fortunately, the Immortal Card Artifact was only a little below his navel.

Then!

"Buzz, buzz, buzz!" Spiritual light rippled outward, and the entire Lottery Cube began shaking and spinning with astonishing force...

I wonder what I'll draw this time? Wang Yan stared expectantly at the spinning Lottery Cube. Will it be a really powerful Immortal Card?

Finally!

"Click, click, click!" The Lottery Cube slowed more and more until it finally stopped...

On the face turned toward Wang Yan!

"Click, click!" It flipped open, revealing the image of a round, blue-green sphere. There was no picture of an Immortal Card, only that round sphere.

"What's that?" Wang Yan froze at the sight and asked in confusion.

Just then!

"Buzz, buzz, buzz!" Astonishing spiritual light surged as the Lottery Cube opened. Something the size of a fingernail flew out, looking just like the blue-green sphere pictured on the cube.

Instantly!

An incredible wave of spiritual energy rippled outward. Merely breathing it in refreshed the mind, and a wonderfully comfortable sensation welled up in him.

"Oh! It's a Creation Pill!" Card Fairy exclaimed.

"A Creation Pill? A medicinal pill? What kind of pill is it?" Wang Yan blinked, hurriedly caught it, and fired off his questions in surprise. A layer of blue-green spiritual light enveloped its surface, which was why it looked blue-green. Still, a medicinal pill could certainly be something valuable. Naturally, he had to find out exactly what it was.

"This is a real treasure!" Card Fairy said quickly. "It's a pill for breaking through to the golden core stage. You've hit the jackpot, brat! This reward is hundreds of times better than the Water-Fire Blast Card!"

"A pill for breaking through to the golden core stage? Hundreds of times better than the Water-Fire Blast Card?" Wang Yan frowned, showing little joy. After a pause, he continued, "Hey! Card Fairy, I don't want this. How about letting me draw again?"

"Tch! Since when do you get a second draw?" Card Fairy replied irritably. Then she paused and hurriedly added, "Hey! Wait! This Creation Pill is incredibly precious. Why don't you want it?"

"Hey! Can I take this Creation Pill right now?" Wang Yan asked with a frown.

"Of course not! With your current cultivation, its spiritual energy and medicinal power would burst you apart the moment you swallowed it!" Card Fairy answered.

"Exactly! My cultivation is only at minor completion of the cultivation realm right now. I have to reach the peak of the core condensation realm before I can use this Creation Pill. How many years will it take before I can use it? Doesn't that make it as good as useless? If I accidentally kick the bucket in the meantime, won't all that hope come to nothing?" Wang Yan rattled off a whole string of reasons, sounding thoroughly justified...

Indeed.

The Cultivation World was so dangerous that something he could only use in the future was naturally less desirable than something that could immediately improve his strength. Wang Yan's thinking certainly had merit...

"What does that have to do with me?" Card Fairy said. "You drew the prize. What does it matter to me whether you want it? Whatever you draw is what you get...!"

"Uh! Fine, then. I can sell it later and trade it for plenty of good things!" Wang Yan muttered.

"Absolutely not!" Card Fairy snapped angrily the moment he said that. "Anything from the Lottery Cube is for your own use only. You can't sell it!"

"How does that make any sense? If I don't use it myself, I can't even sell it?" Wang Yan protested.

"You can sell it if you like, but don't expect any more prize draws afterward!" Card Fairy threatened.

"Uh! Then we'll talk about it later!" Wang Yan choked on his words and could only give in.

"Don't try any tricks. I'm watching you all the time!" Card Fairy told him.

"All right! I get it!" Wang Yan was rather disappointed, but at least he had reached major completion of the cultivation realm. He watched Card Fairy return the Lottery Cube to the Immortal Card Artifact.

He examined himself and found that everything before his eyes looked clearer than before, and he could see farther. His body brimmed with vitality, as though he had endless strength, and his mind felt wonderfully refreshed. When he carefully sensed the ball of red spiritual light inside the Immortal Card Artifact, he found that it had grown considerably as well. If it had felt as large as a fist before, now it felt as large as a head. Of course, that was only a sensation; it was not actually that big.

"Rise!" Suddenly, Wang Yan began muttering an incantation, his hands continuously forming seals. Red, glowing runes rippled from his palm and swirled around his hand. Before long, they transformed into a striking mass of Red-Light Flame, with tiny strands of light surging across it. A fist-sized Red-Light Fireballs appeared in his palm...

"I can finally cast it without an Immortal Card!" Wang Yan murmured as he looked at the Red-Light Fireballs in his palm. Indeed, he had not used the Fireball Spell Immortal Card this time. He had cast the Fireball Spell by chanting and forming hand seals. Although casting it took much longer, he could finally produce it. Technically, he had been able to cast it before, but the resulting fireball had been too small to do any real damage.

"Still!" Wang Yan casually extinguished the Red-Light Fireballs in his hand and said, "The Immortal Card's Fireball Spell is stronger!" Without chanting or forming seals, he made red light flash in his hand, and a red fireball the size of two fists appeared. This was the Fireball Spell cast through the Immortal Card!

The comparison made the benefits of the Immortal Card even more obvious.

Clearly, as Wang Yan's cultivation increased, the power of the Fireball Spell cast through the Immortal Card had soared as well. It still required no hand seals or incantations. Moreover, using the Fireball Spell Immortal Card consumed very little of Wang Yan's own magic power, whereas the spell he cast through chanting and hand seals directly drained a substantial amount-roughly one-tenth of his magic power.

Indeed, although cultivators at major completion of the cultivation realm could cast spells, this was why they seldom did. Spells consumed far too much magic power...

However!

That also meant the Fireball Spell Immortal Card now consumed far more of its stored magic power than before. Previously, a fully charged Fireball Spell Immortal Card could cast over a dozen fireballs. Now it could only cast seven or eight. That counted as one drawback.

Of course.

Each fireball's power had increased dramatically, which was naturally much better. They would be more effective against cultivators whose cultivation exceeded his, and he would need fewer fireballs to finish off weaker opponents.

Overall, the benefits still outweighed the drawbacks!

And just then.

Suddenly!

"Brother Wang! Brother Wang!" A rough, booming voice rang out from outside the cave. It was Ye Shisan.

"Tch! That guy's here again!" Wang Yan smacked his lips and spoke helplessly.

"Right! Brat! I've finished preparing the cultivation art that big dark fellow wanted! Take out a Jade Slip, record it, and give it to him!" Card Fairy suddenly said.

"Well... all right!" Wang Yan answered quickly and took out a Jade Slip...

"This cultivation art is called the Earthforce Art! It suits that big dark fellow very well...!" Card Fairy explained...

"All right!"

"...!"

"Buzz, buzz, buzz!" Yellow light flashed, and the restriction's light barrier vanished...

"Ah! Brother Wang! You're out!" Seeing Wang Yan emerge from the cave, Ye Shisan hurried forward to greet him. Then, as though he had suddenly noticed something, he added, "Huh?! Brother Wang! Your aura seems different!"

"Oh! I just advanced to major completion of the cultivation realm!" Wang Yan replied casually.

"Ah! Brother, you've already reached major completion of the cultivation realm? I'm so jealous!" Ye Shisan cried with an exaggerated expression...

"Tch! Keep your voice down. You're going to deafen me!" Wang Yan's eardrums buzzed, and he quickly spoke up. After a pause, he added, "Tell me! What did you come to see me about?"

"Oh! My father wants to see you! He sent me!" Ye Shisan answered quickly.

"See me? What about?" Wang Yan blinked and asked in surprise.

"I don't know either. Anyway, let's head over first!"

"All right!"