Leaving Xiao Hua and the others meditating within Mingxi, quietly awaiting the appearance of spatial rifts, let us turn to another place in Mingxi. Near a wind pillar stood several twelfth-layer Qi Cultivation cultivators. They were dressed differently and varied in age, yet a faint radiance rose around each of them, resisting the enormous suction force spiraling down from the wind pillar.
Every one of them had a burning light in their eyes as they stared fixedly at the massive wind pillar. The pillar spanned dozens of zhang, and the rotating hurricane churned the space within, making it impossible to see clearly inside. Yet at the bottom of the pillar, a pale blue glow flickered faintly—the outline of an orchid! Strangely, that pale blue orchid was not torn apart by the hurricane. Instead, it floated quietly, its radiance growing ever brighter!
After a moment, an older male cultivator muttered, "Th-this is Ming You Lan? That legendary treasure even more wondrous than a Foundation Establishment Pill?"
"Fellow Daoist Feng is mistaken!" An equally elderly female cultivator beside him smiled. "Ming You Lan is even more miraculous than Linglong Grass! When Foundation Establishment Pills are refined with the juice of Ming You Lan, only a single drop is needed to alter the pill's nature at once. Ordinary Foundation Establishment Pills can only help the true qi within one's meridians condense into true essence, while this mutated Foundation Establishment Pill can directly condense true qi into true essence! Is this not a treasure Heaven has bestowed upon peak Qi Cultivation cultivators like us?"
"Hahaha! Precisely so!" Another cultivator, thin in build and slightly pale-faced, stroked the short beard beneath his chin and laughed. "The key is that we came here together in search of an opportunity to establish our foundations, yet we encountered