Chapter 66

"Foundation Pill! It's actually a Foundation Pill!"

Hu Donghan carefully placed the jade bottle containing two Foundation Pills into his storage ring, feeling a mix of emotions that were hard to describe.

The Foundation Pill can increase the breakthrough chance of a peak Qi Cultivation practitioner by thirty percent! This means that if a cultivator has decent talent and takes a Foundation Pill, they will have a high chance of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage!

Naturally, such a pill that can help break through a major realm is highly sought after among cultivators. The price of a Foundation Pill generally fluctuates around one million!

In other words, this alchemist casually gave Hu Donghan two pills worth two million!

"I really didn't expect that I would already have two Foundation Pills at just the first level of Qi Cultivation! With this, as long as I can cultivate to the peak of Qi Cultivation, breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage shouldn't be too difficult," Hu Donghan's mind was a bit chaotic. "The alchemists are really generous! No wonder Wang Ruolong said these guys are tycoons..."

Not long after the alchemist left, another alchemist soon came to visit.

The purpose of this alchemist was obvious. After a few polite exchanges with Hu Donghan, he also left a gift and departed.

When this person left, Hu Donghan opened the gift and was speechless—well! This alchemist gave Hu Donghan ten high-grade spirit stones and... three Foundation Pills!

Then, it was the third person, the fourth person, the fifth person...

By evening, six more people had visited Hu Donghan. The gifts they brought were still spirit stones and Foundation Pills!

At this point, Hu Donghan had twenty-three Foundation Pills in his possession! He finally realized that for these full-time alchemists, Foundation Pills didn't seem to be anything rare.

Indeed, Hu Donghan finally understood this point, and it wasn't too late.

In the Yin Soul Sect, the alchemists of the Earth Fire Hall are treated very well. They can keep one-fifth of the pills they refine. The alchemists in the second level of the Earth Fire Cave are already among the stronger ones. Their strength has all reached the Foundation Establishment stage and above, and they can refine Foundation Pills.

For them, refining Foundation Pills is just one of their sect tasks, with no difficulty at all. And the so-called one-fifth of the pill share has little effect on them—there are enough types and quantities of spirit herbs in the Earth Fire Hall to satisfy their needs. The extra pills, apart from what they use for their own cultivation, are basically useless! And these tech geeks, who spend all day thinking about refining pills, naturally have no interest in trading.

Later, the Earth Fire Hall issued a regulation, allowing these alchemists to exchange the extra pills for some spirit herbs once a year, which solved the problem of pill accumulation.

As for these Foundation Pills? They are all part of the share from the pills they refined recently.

In their view, Hu Donghan is currently only at the Qi Cultivation stage, and he will definitely need Foundation Pills in the future. As for other auxiliary cultivation pills, if they were to give them, the Ancestor would probably kick their doors down the next day. So, after much consideration, they decided to give Hu Donghan Foundation Pills. In their eyes, the value of Foundation Pills is not much different from that of Qi Nourishing Pills.

Since all these alchemists thought the same way, it resulted in Hu Donghan having too many Foundation Pills...

Of course, with so many Foundation Pills, Hu Donghan naturally didn't feel any dissatisfaction. This whole evening, Hu Donghan felt as if life was a dream.

That night, while meditating, Hu Donghan took a high-grade Qi Nourishing Pill and, with the help of the spirit herb, broke through to the second level of Qi Cultivation.

The Ghost of the Medicine Spirit's strength had long been ready to break through, but because Hu Donghan hadn't broken through, it couldn't do so. Now that Hu Donghan had just reached the second level of Qi Cultivation, the Ghost of the Medicine Spirit's breakthrough was also a natural progression.

With a breakthrough in strength and receiving a large number of gifts, Hu Donghan felt very pleased.

The next day, after washing up and having breakfast, he was waiting for someone to bring gifts, but unexpectedly, it was Liu Yiqing and Lu Jianwen who came.

This time, they brought a storage ring for Hu Donghan and informed him that it was ordered by Elder Bu Yun. There were no other words.

Waving for Liu Yiqing and Lu Jianwen to leave, Hu Donghan examined the storage ring and found nearly six hundred high-grade spirit stones, forty-eight jade bottles, and a jade slip inside.

First, he took out the jade slip and scanned it with his spiritual energy, and a message directly entered Hu Donghan's mind.

The message seemed to be left by Ancestor Duotian. The content roughly said: "The news that you can cultivate the Lu Jie Grass has spread in the Earth Fire Hall, and all the alchemists know about it. Those who can apply to refine the Six-Transmutation Golden Pill in the second level of the Earth Fire Cave all plan to visit you. However, these people giving you gifts and disturbing your cultivation of the spirit herbs yesterday is unacceptable. For convenience and to keep you informed, I had people record the gifts and gift lists they wanted to give you and directly delivered them to you. This way, it's easier for you and them. Additionally, the final harvest of your Lu Jie Grass must be directly submitted to the Earth Fire Hall for distribution."

Below that was a long list of gifts...

Seeing this jade slip, Hu Donghan was speechless.

The actions of the Earth Fire Hall were indeed different—skipping all the basic formalities and etiquette to this extent!

Of course, Ancestor Duotian wanting to control the distribution of the Lu Jie Grass might also be a key reason—

The Lu Jie Grass is growing well, but the Earth Fire Hall only has about a hundred sets of spirit herbs capable of refining the Six-Transmutation Golden Pill. If the Lu Jie Grass isn't controlled, once it spreads, everyone will want the spirit herbs for the Six-Transmutation Golden Pill, which would be quite a mess.

Thinking about these messy things, Hu Donghan opened the jade bottles one by one.

Sure enough, the pills inside these bottles were still Foundation Pills!

The forty-eight jade bottles contained a total of one hundred and thirty-four Foundation Pills. Adding the twenty-three from last night, there were a total of one hundred and fifty-seven.

With the current number of Foundation Pills, as long as Hu Donghan could reach the peak of Qi Cultivation, even if he just relied on luck, he could easily break through.

However, the current number of Foundation Pills was a bit too much for Hu Donghan! He was already a bit headache over how to deal with these Foundation Pills!