"Is this the Soul-Merging Pill Recipe?"
Xu Taiping lowered his head to look at the jade box in his hand, his eyes full of curiosity.
As though worried that Xu Taiping would open the jade box immediately, the phantom formed from Fairy Lingyue's divine sense promptly added:
"Taiping, don't be in a hurry to open it."
Somewhat puzzled, Xu Taiping asked:
"Why is that?"
The divine sense phantom immediately explained:
"The Pill Recipe for the Immortal Rank Soul-Merging Pill has all but vanished from the lineages of the Shangqing Realm. These days, only a scattered few Heaven Rank Soul-Merging Pills can still be found in the ruins of immortal abodes in the Land of Chaos, out in the Upper Realm's Outer Heaven."
"Moreover, almost every time a Heaven Rank Soul-Merging Pill appears, it draws large numbers of Outer Heaven experts into a struggle for it."
"The fighting can be so brutal that it sometimes even rivals the Heaven-Demon War."
At this point, although Xu Taiping understood how precious high-rank Soul-Merging Pills were, he still did not quite understand why Fairy Lingyue would not let him open the jade box now.
As though seeing the confusion in Xu Taiping's heart, the divine sense phantom paused only briefly before continuing her explanation:
"It is precisely because high-rank Soul-Merging Pills are so precious in the Shangqing Realm that every single one becomes entangled with immensely heavy karma."
"That is why many powerful True Cultivation practitioners and factions in Outer Heaven use the Qi-Gazing Art to search for traces of Soul-Merging Pills."
"Once a powerful karmic aura appears somewhere, these powerful True Cultivation practitioners and Outer Heaven factions will come to fight for it at any cost."
"Even ordinary Soul-Merging Pills draw such a response."
"How much more so the Pill Recipe for an