"The Dao Child's status is exalted. Angering the ancestor might not hurt him, but wouldn't a sect traitor like me be implicated?"
Jiang Yuyan unconsciously pressed her lips together, as though she could already see the star of death flickering.
Unexpectedly, the ancestor was not angry. He merely smiled and asked, "Zi'ang, do you know how difficult Nascent Soul Formation Pills are to obtain?"
"For the sect to refine a batch of Nascent Soul Formation Pills, it must gather nine fourth-tier upper-grade profound medicines and eighty-one third-tier upper-grade treasure medicines. Then a fourth-tier profound elixir master must spend sixty years drawing upon Heavenly Gang profound fire, aligning with the right time and terrain, just to have a thirty-percent chance of Golden Core Formation for a batch."
"Even then, a successful batch yields no more than three Nascent Soul Formation Pills, leaving the sect's stock perpetually short.
"If they queue to exchange merit for them, some Golden Core elders in the sect might wait three or four hundred years without obtaining even one." "In principle, I can agree to give you two. But Zi'ang, are you confident you can withstand the criticism within the sect?" the ancestor asked with interest. Quite a few Nascent Soul True Lords and Golden Core elders in the sect had their eyes fixed on the Nascent Soul Formation Pills.
Especially those Golden Core elders who had hopes of becoming True Lords-they were unwilling to miss any chance to obtain a Nascent Soul Formation Pill.
If the pill Shaoyuan had received was counted as well, the sect's allotment of Nascent Soul Formation Pills for three generations would all have gone to the Dao Child's lineage. The controversy and resistance this would provoke were easy to imagine.
"If I cannot withstand a little criticism, how could I attain