Chaotic Star Sea, the Secret Vault of Tianxing City.
Han Li and Ling Yuling stood facing each other, a pile of rare treasures radiating astonishing spiritual pressure between them. These were all prized items Han Li had brought from Heavenly South or carefully selected from the treasure vaults of the Five Demonic Sects.
"Palace Master Ling, thank you for your assistance this time." With a slight stir of his spiritual sense, Han Li pushed three items toward him.
The first was a jade box. Inside lay a pill the size of a longan, crystalline and translucent throughout, radiating a rich aura of life and a Dao rhythm of breaking through bottlenecks-the Nascent Soul Breakthrough Pill. Han Li had obtained it from the Ghost Spirit Sect's Forbidden Land and refined it using the secret methods of the Yellow Division's Pill Hall. It gave cultivators at the nascent soul middle stage more than a fifty percent chance of breaking through the late-stage bottleneck-a truly heaven-defying treasure.
The second was a small pile of nine top-grade spirit stones. Their spiritual energy was so dense it had almost liquefied, and each emitted spatial fluctuations that made the heart tremble.
The third was a length of dark brown deadwood. Though it looked rotten, it contained a faint, elusive trace of spacetime Dao resonance-falling star iron mother, an exceptional primary material for refining spatial treasures.
"This pill will help you break through your bottleneck, and the top-grade spirit stones will secure your sect's foundations. As for the falling star iron mother... I hope you can refine a treasure to protect your palace." Han Li's tone was calm, but every word struck home. He knew Ling Yuling had lingered at the peak of the nascent soul late stage for a long time, held back from attempting a