They recognized the man before them.
Anyone who had spent time in the Golden Dragon Market knew who this man was. He was a famous Nascent Soul True Monarch who often frequented the market, a person everyone knew they must never, ever offend.
This man was named Duan Sha, from the Cloud Net Sect, and he was their Grand Elder!
“True Monarch Duan!”
The two Foundation Establishment cultivators hurriedly lowered their heads in deference.
Duan Sha’s face darkened. “Did you just say two of my Cloud Net Sect’s Golden Core True Persons have died?”
He knew his sect had sent people to the ruins. He hadn’t paid much attention to the matter; after all, from the information revealed, the treasures within the ruins were only useful to cultivators below the Golden Core stage, meaning there shouldn’t be much danger. Sending three Golden Core cultivators from Cloud Net Sect should have been more than enough.
Yet, of those three Golden Core cultivators, two had actually died?
Duan Sha stared at the two men before him. If they dared to deceive him, he would never let them off.
Under Duan Sha’s gaze, cold sweat beaded on both their foreheads as they hurriedly explained the situation.
“It’s true! Your sect’s Golden Core True Persons, Xia Xiancai and Zheng Jinglong, were both killed. True Person Luo Wenlie was also captured.”
“All of this was done by the Heavenly Maiden. She is the existence behind both Blazing Heaven Sect and the Qixi Festival Sect. We don’t know exactly what kind of being she is, only that she is extraordinarily powerful.”
Hearing this, Duan Sha’s expression grew darker.
Under his oppressive aura, mere Foundation Establishment cultivators were incapable of lying. That meant it was true.
‘Damned Blazing Heaven Sect, breaking the agreement and letting a Nascent Soul True Monarch deal with Golden Core True Persons?’
Duan Sha’s heart burned with fury.
He didn’t take this so-called Heavenly Maiden seriously at all. In his view, the only way this could have happened was if a Nascent Soul True Monarch had acted. Besides Golden Dragon True Monarch, the founder of Golden Dragon Market, the only other Nascent Soul True Monarchs near Magpie Mountain belonged to Cloud Net Sect and Blazing Heaven Sect.
In the past, Cloud Net Sect and Blazing Heaven Sect had clashed violently, causing heavy casualties on both sides. To prevent further losses, both sides had agreed never to let Nascent Soul True Monarchs make a move. Yet now, Blazing Heaven Sect had broken its word.
‘Did they think creating some Heavenly Maiden hoax could cover up their broken promise? They are truly damned!’
Duan Sha’s fists clenched unconsciously.
He looked at the two men and said, “Show me the Divine Medicine you just mentioned.”
The two Foundation Establishment cultivators’ faces stiffened. Reluctantly, they brought out their Divine Medicine.
Duan Sha took the Divine Medicine, glanced at it, and pocketed it. “This Seat will take it back to study it. I will return it once I am done.”
With that, he soared directly into the air and headed for Magpie Mountain.
With Luo Wenlie currently imprisoned, he had to go rescue him first, no matter what.
As a Nascent Soul True Monarch himself, he feared no one in the Blazing Heaven Sect, not even their Sect Leader. After all, he was the Grand Elder of Cloud Net Sect!
Watching Duan Sha fly away, the two Foundation Establishment cultivators left behind wore extremely grim expressions.
Their Divine Medicine had been confiscated.
Even so, they dared not complain. If they hadn’t given up the Divine Medicine, what would have been taken away wouldn’t have been just the medicine, but their very lives.
As for the promise to return it after studying it, they didn’t believe it for a second.
Before a Nascent Soul True Monarch, Foundation Establishment was little more than ants.
Outside the ruins.
As the Divine Medicine granules were consumed, people broke through one after another, and cries of surprise echoed from all around.
Those with complete Divine Medicine granules advanced an entire minor stage with a single pill. Those with fragments who were close to breaking through also succeeded, while those who weren’t still experienced significant improvements.
By this point, no one doubted the Divine Medicine’s effects anymore.
Even if the Divine Medicine looked vastly different from what everyone had imagined, as long as the effect was real, what did its appearance matter?
Suddenly, a powerful aura surged forth, sweeping through the area like a fierce wind and drawing many gazes toward it.
It came from where the Qixi Festival Sect members were gathered.
The one emitting that powerful aura was precisely Yin Mengyu.
She sat there, her aura climbing steadily, successfully breaking through with the help of the Divine Medicine.
From this day forward, she was a Golden Core True Person!
Seeing this, many couldn’t help but reveal expressions of envy. After all, she was a Golden Core True Person now! Upon reaching this step, a cultivator’s status and identity were clearly different from before. Why else would they be granted the title of True Person?
This was a whole new threshold!
“Huff…”
Yin Mengyu let out a long breath, opened her eyes, and rose to her feet.
She examined the state within her body, sensing a Spiritual Power far more vast and potent than before. The same spell cast now would possess power far surpassing before.
She could now suppress her former self with a casual flick of her hand.
That was how vast the gap between Golden Core and Foundation Establishment truly was.
“Congratulations on breaking through to Golden Core,” Liu Jinzhi said enviously from the side.
The others also came forward one after another to offer their congratulations.
As a Golden Core cultivator now, Yin Mengyu’s status and identity had become extraordinary, making her worthy of everyone’s well-wishes.
Yin Mengyu had never experienced such a scene before. A smile she couldn’t suppress spread across her face as she responded to the crowd.
“Golden Core… I wonder how long it’ll take before I reach the Golden Core stage.”
Su Xiaoyu watched this scene from beside the Diorama Box, feeling a bit envious herself.
She was currently only at the Qi Refining Third Layer…
But it wouldn’t be long before she could make her cultivation advance by leaps and bounds. She had confidence in this.
Checking her Faith Value, it had already neared thirty thousand.
Due to the proven effects of the Divine Medicine, many people, while marveling at the medicine, inevitably thought of her. After all, it was because of her presence that this place hadn’t fallen into a chaotic, bloody scramble over the medicine. Without her, who knew how many bloody incidents would have occurred.
And the more people thought of her, the more significantly her Faith Value increased.
Back when only the Qixi Festival Sect members provided her Faith Value, the growth had been incredibly slow, because the Qixi Festival Sect only had a few dozen people.
Now, over three thousand people could provide her with Faith Value. Her gains could be described as massive!
Su Xiaoyu began calculating what she should do to maximize the use of this Faith Value.
If she bought nothing but Elixir Pills or exchanged them for Formation Flags to aid her cultivation, her cultivation could improve to a very high level.
But, then again, was improving her cultivation really that urgent right now?
If she used the Faith Value to expand her Vision Range instead, how far could she actually extend it? It didn’t seem like much of an increase either?
Su Xiaoyu didn’t revel in her joy for long before sinking deep into thought.
She found that the Faith Value she thought was so plentiful wasn’t as much as she’d imagined.
Faith Value… it was still not enough!
