Purple Qi Pill
Ever since transmigrating, this was the first time Mo Wen had faced a life-or-death crisis!
Even his encounter with a Foundation Establishment Devil Cultivator hadn't been as dangerous as today!
Mo Wen firmly believed that if that Sword Qi had struck him, even if he survived, he would have suffered grave injuries that damaged his foundation! The presence of that Sword Qi gave him a very bad feeling.
But he couldn't spare the time to think about it now. Only one thought filled his mind: find that assassin, crush his bones, and scatter his ashes!
His Divine Sense shot out, instantly enveloping the area from which the Sword Qi had come.
A pressure like Mount Tai crashing down instantly crushed the dozen or so Qi Refining cultivators in that area to the ground. Only one person remained standing, seemingly oblivious to the pressure of Mo Wen's Divine Sense!
The assassin looked unremarkable, with an utterly ordinary face and robes of a common style. In a crowd, someone like him would never draw anyone's attention.
Mo Wen stared fixedly at the assassin. Soon, he noticed a strange, deathly gray tinge around the edges of the man's pupils.
Why does this person look so strange, like a dead thing without intelligence?
Mo Wen couldn't wait any longer. He had already unleashed his full strength, and the nearby law enforcers would soon rush over. Once they arrived, killing the assassin wouldn't be easy!
"Die!" Mo Wen shouted. The Purple Star Sword in his hand conjured overlapping streaks of sword light that slashed toward the assassin like a torrential downpour.
His Flowing Light Sword Technique had now reached the minor accomplishment stage, and each streak of sword light could shift freely between real and illusory. As soon as the assassin revealed the slightest opening, the Purple Star Sword could slip through and cut him in two with a single stroke!
For some reason, although the strange-looking assassin was also at Foundation Establishment, his actual combat strength was abysmal. He couldn't even match the weakest Foundation Establishment cultivators.
The Sword Qi the assassin unleashed, however, was bizarre. Not only was it nearly imperceptible, it also carried a mysterious corrosive power that could even affect the sliver of Divine Sense Mo Wen had attached to his Sword Qi.
Mo Wen was curious, but he also knew he couldn't drag this out any longer! He suddenly drove his body-tempering cultivation to its limits and hacked at the assassin with the speed of a thunderclap, too fast for anyone to cover their ears.
The assassin raised his sword to block, only for a tremendous force to knock it from his hand. By the time he tried to dodge, it was already too late!
A faint streak of flowing light flashed, leaving a thin line of blood across the assassin's neck.
Mo Wen put away the Purple Star Sword, cast a brief glance at the assassin, and quickly disappeared into the crowd.
Before long, a patrol squad arrived. Its leader was a middle-aged man with a face full of curly whiskers.
The curly-bearded man frowned slightly when he saw the assassin sprawled on the ground.
"A human-puppet assassin from the Northern Celestial Tower. That's a rare sight!"
He gave a low grunt and turned his attention to the wound.
"Huh, this swordsman's skill was quite impressive! I wonder which Foundation Establishment cultivator did it? Killing someone inside the immortal city takes some nerve!"
He used a Secret Method to sense the lingering traces of Qi on the wound, but found nothing.
"Strange. Could it be that this person didn't use Law Power?"
After muttering to himself, the curly-bearded man ordered his men to collect the corpse and quickly left.
Mo Wen didn't see any of this, but he had happened to use only his physical strength when he killed the assassin. By a lucky accident, he had spared himself trouble later on.
Of course, he couldn't hide the fact that he was the killer from the mastermind who had hired the assassin. After all, the assassin had come for him. But that mastermind wouldn't reveal Mo Wen's identity either, because doing so would implicate him as well.
Well, Mo Wen had already decided who the mastermind was! After all, he had offended only one person in Azure Luan Immortal City. He simply hadn't expected that Ji Yuan, a dignified young master, would resort to such a despicable trick as hiring an assassin!
"You struck first, so I'll strike harder! Once I reach Foundation Establishment, I'll pay you back in kind!" Mo Wen vowed fiercely to himself as he headed for the Divine Pill Pavilion.
Nothing unexpected happened after that, and he successfully bought a genuine Foundation Establishment Pill from the Divine Pill Pavilion. He also bought a bottle of First-Tier Superior-Grade pills called Purple Qi Pills.
According to the steward who attended him, these Purple Qi Pills could enhance Law Power and consolidate one's foundation, and were of slight help in reaching Foundation Establishment.
Mo Wen was mainly interested in the Purple Qi Pill's ability to enhance Law Power. He wanted to see whether taking pills could increase the speed of his Limit Breaking progress.
While cultivating at Red Leaf Market, the body's original owner had taken large quantities of cultivation-enhancing pills, accumulating a great deal of pill toxins in his body. Those pills were partly responsible for how stubborn his Late Qi Refinement bottleneck had become.
After transmigrating, Mo Wen had relied on the Attribute Panel to break through realms and hadn't taken any more pills to aid his cultivation. In his view, no matter how high-quality a pill was, pill toxins would accumulate. In any case, he had a heaven-defying talent like Heavenly Dao Rewards Diligence, and could make progress as long as he worked hard grinding experience. Why take pills and damage his foundation?
Only after he cultivated the Ten Thousand Blood True Body Instruction did the power of Blood Qi gradually wash away most of the pill toxins the original owner had accumulated, and his physical foundation was also restored to a certain extent.
Originally, Mo Wen hadn't wanted to take any more pills before breaking through to Foundation Establishment. But after his brush with death today, he felt that his strength was still insufficient to protect himself, so he wanted to break through to Foundation Establishment as soon as possible. Thus, he had bought this bottle of Purple Qi Pills at the Divine Pill Pavilion to see how well they worked.
After returning home, Mo Wen calmed his mind, then took out a Purple Qi Pill and swallowed it.
Several breaths later, he inspected his Dantian and found wisps of hazy purple qi appearing out of nowhere, rapidly merging into the lake formed from condensed, pure Law Power.
After half a quarter of an hour, the Purple Qi Pill had been completely refined. Mo Wen took care to compare his progress and found that his Limit Breaking progress had shot up by a hundred experience points.
"One Purple Qi Pill equals a hundred experience points. At that rate, if I take one bottle a month, I can gain a thousand experience points. That's twelve thousand in a year!"
"But as I take more Purple Qi Pills, their effect will definitely diminish. When that happens, I'll have to switch to another pill. If everything goes smoothly, I can break through to Foundation Establishment a year and a half to two years sooner."
"A bottle of Purple Qi Pills costs two thousand Spirit Stones. That's twenty-four thousand in a year. Is it really worth spending more than forty thousand Spirit Stones to gain two years?"
Mo Wen hesitated briefly, then made up his mind: his strength was his own, and he could always earn more Spirit Stones! If he wanted to reach the pinnacle of the immortal path, he had to make every second count!
With the help of the Purple Qi Pills, Mo Wen's Limit Breaking progress increased considerably, and his strength grew rapidly, each day surpassing the last.
In the blink of an eye, a month passed, and Mo Wen had used up his Purple Qi Pills. He planned to buy another bottle at the Divine Pill Pavilion and visit Song Yixue while he was at it.