Chapter 743 : A Trio of Heavenly Pills

The Heavenly Path Pill [a supreme elixir said to guide one's cultivation closer to the Heavenly Dao] is exceptionally difficult to refine. Generally speaking, a Fifth Rank High-Grade [a master alchemist at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage] alchemist would only produce one or two pills at most from a single batch.

Fortunately, Eldrin Chen's comprehension was not inferior to that of a Primordial Spirit Path Lord [a cultivator who has mastered the profound mysteries of their Primordial Spirit], and bolstered by the Celestial-Mortal Symbiosis [a unique state where mortal and celestial energies harmonize within a cultivator], he actually managed to refine three pills on his very first attempt.

Producing three pills in one batch—if one's spiritual energy reserves were sufficient, this level of alchemical skill could indeed be considered barely adequate to attempt a breakthrough to the Sixth Rank [the Primordial Spirit stage].

"Three pills are sufficient for now. I shall save this last wisp of Heavenly Path Energy [a rare, heaven-aspected spiritual essence] to refine another batch after I break through to the Infant Soul Late Stage [the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm]," Eldrin Chen said with a smile before setting off to return to Spirit Isle Lake.

Verdant Consort had been waiting for some time. Upon seeing him, she asked immediately, "How did it go?"

"It went rather smoothly," Eldrin Chen replied with a nod, handing the Heavenly Path Pill to Verdant Consort.

She opened the jade vial and a smile graced her features. "With this Heavenly Path Pill, breaking through to the Infant Soul Late Stage will save me centuries of painstakingly honing my spiritual energy."

Taking the Heavenly Path Pill, Verdant Consort entered secluded cultivation that very day to begin refining and absorbing the pill's power.

After seeing her off, Eldrin Chen did not immediately enter seclusion himself. Instead, he took out the Heavenly Path Pill he had refined and began to carefully examine it.

This Heavenly Path Pill was milky white in color, with faint golden patterns swirling on its surface. It emitted a pure and ethereal aura, and just smelling its fragrance made one feel as if their spiritual energy was becoming more refined. Find this and other novels at audio-novel-dot-com.

With her foundation as the Verdant Lotus Immortal Embryo [a supreme constitution said to be the seed of an immortal lotus], breaking through to the Infant Soul Late Stage [the third and final stage of the Infant Soul realm] through secluded cultivation was as effortless as water flowing downhill. This session of closed-door meditation lasted a mere three months before she smoothly ascended to the Infant Soul Late Stage realm.

Seeing her emerge, Eldrin Chen said with delight, "With Summer Reign's successful breakthrough this time, it seems she will be the first among us to reach the Primordial Spirit [the spiritual core of a cultivator, representing a major realm advancement]."

A smile also appeared on the face of Exquisite Jiang beside him. After this breakthrough, Verdant Consort's spiritual power had increased by another fifty percent.

With her Verdant Lotus Immortal Embryo foundation, her current spiritual power was now comparable to that of a cultivator at the Great Perfection of Infant Soul [the absolute peak of the Infant Soul realm] who had also cultivated a Heavenly Path Infant Soul [an Infant Soul foundation of the highest, heaven-defying grade]. Coupled with her Verdant Lotus Arcane Power [a profound mystical power unique to her constitution] and her arsenal of Divine Ability [supernatural techniques] and Spiritual Treasure [enchanted artifacts used by cultivators], she would likely hold a significant advantage even against a Great Perfection of Infant Soul opponent.

With this thought, Exquisite Jiang added, "It is a pity we lack Sixth Rank [a grade of material suitable for crafting high-tier treasures] Precious Metal [rare metals imbued with spiritual properties]. Otherwise, with the nurturing feedback of the Verdant Lotus Path Body [the matured form of her supreme constitution], Summer Reign should have been able to advance her Lifebound Spiritual Treasure [a treasure grown and nurtured in symbiosis with a cultivator's own body] to the Primordial Solar Spiritual Treasure [a treasure of the Primordial Spirit grade, radiant as the sun] level ahead of time."

Eldrin Chen nodded in agreement. While the Path Body [a cultivator's innate physical and spiritual foundation] of any cultivator under heaven could nurture their Lifebound Spiritual Treasure, there were clear distinctions of grade and potency among them.

According to Eldrin Chen's estimation, an ordinary Path Body could at most nurture a treasure to the Spiritual Treasure level. A Path Body capable of allowing an Infant Soul True Lord [an honorary title for a powerful Infant Soul cultivator] to nurture a Primordial Solar Spiritual Treasure was already exceedingly rare.

Examples such as Sea-Calmer Path Master's Vast Sea Path Body and Vast Righteousness True Lord's Vast Righteousness Path Body all belonged to the Superior Grade Path Body [a high-tier constitution] category, capable of nurturing a Primordial Solar Spiritual Treasure.

Constitutions of this caliber also included Support Revive Chen's Three Talents Path Body [a constitution harmonizing the powers of Heaven, Earth, and Man], Literature Abyss Lu's Four Symbols Path Body [a constitution embodying the four celestial beasts], and Withering Liana Gu's Triple Lunar Constitution [a constitution blessed by triple lunar essences], among others.

Beyond these, Path Body of an even higher tier were exceptionally rare. Take, for instance, Ye Verdant Peak's Primordial Solar Path Body [a constitution blazing with the radiance of the primordial sun]. Such a constitution nearly touched the mortal limit, allowing the nurturing of three Primordial Solar Spiritual Treasure even while still at the Infant Soul Stage.

Constitutions like Exquisite Jiang's Supreme Lunar Immortal Body and Verdant Consort's Verdant Lotus Path Body are even rarer. The former is hailed as the physique of an Immortal, while the latter is a foundation forged through a thousand lifetimes of Reincarnation within the supreme immortal art 'Mortal Dust Dream Butterfly Art'.

Both belong to the rarest pinnacle treasures of the Mortal Realm and can naturally nurture a Primordial Solar Spiritual Treasure in return, an outcome even more astonishing than that of the Primordial Solar Path Body.

"A Sixth Rank Primordial Solar Spiritual Material is indeed far too rare," Exquisite Jiang remarked, nodding before turning her gaze to Eldrin Chen. "The growth of the clan's Spiritual Root has been somewhat slow. Can we accelerate its maturation?"

"We can certainly try," Eldrin Chen replied.

He understood Exquisite Jiang's intent perfectly. The family now possessed several Worldly Spiritual Root, with six serving as the clan's Clan-Suppressing Supreme Treasure.

These were the Spiritual Peach Tree, the Immortal Apricot Tree, the Enlightenment Tea Tree, the Purple Marrow Divine Fruit Tree, the Creation Green Jade Lotus, and the Eight Trigrams Treasure Tree.

Among them, the Purple Marrow Divine Fruit Tree held the highest grade, reaching Fifth Rank Mid-Grade. It bore fruit only once every millennium, yielding six Purple Marrow Divine Fruit each time.

These Purple Marrow Divine Fruit could induce a state of profound enlightenment even in Infant Soul True Lord. Consuming a single fruit was enough to comprehend a Great Vehicle Divine Ability. It could be said that the formidable combat prowess of the Chen Clan's several True Lord was largely indebted to this Purple Marrow Divine Fruit Tree.

The Spiritual Peach Tree needs little introduction; it is the key to the rapid advancement of the clan's True Lord cultivators.

The remaining Immortal Apricot Tree, Creation Green Jade Lotus, Eight Trigrams Treasure Tree, and Enlightenment Tea Tree were also treasured heirlooms of the clan.

The reason the Chen Clan had been able to reach its current heights was due in no small part—at least half the credit—to these six Worldly Spiritual Root [rare plants that channel and refine the world's spiritual energy], in addition to the full support and cultivation efforts of Eldrin Chen.

However, as Eldrin Chen's cultivation approached the Infant Soul Late Stage, the clan's six Worldly Spiritual Root were beginning to fall behind.

This was because, aside from the Purple Marrow Divine Fruit Tree, the other Worldly Spiritual Root were only at the Fifth Rank Low-Grade level.

Given that a Fifth Rank Worldly Spiritual Root typically advances one minor grade every thousand years, they would likely still be at the Fifth Rank Mid-Grade level by the time Eldrin Chen broke through to the Primordial Spirit [the spiritual core of a cultivator], making it difficult for them to continue providing him with significant aid.

This was especially true for the Fifth Rank Spiritual Peach Tree. Without the support of this Worldly Spiritual Root, and with the supreme-grade auxiliary Spiritual Treasure [an enchanted artifact used by cultivators], the 'Moon Goddess Pearl', losing its effectiveness for Primordial Spirit Cultivator, Eldrin Chen's cultivation speed was likely to plummet.

Therefore, the most urgent task was to accelerate the growth and grade advancement of these Worldly Spiritual Root. This novel is serialized on audio–novel.com. Visit for updates.

With this thought, Eldrin Chen approached the Spiritual Peach Tree. He reached out, gently touching its bark, and then exhaled a wisp of Primordial Chaos Violet Aura [a supreme-grade primal energy of creation and transformation] towards it.

The Spiritual Peach Tree trembled faintly. After absorbing this strand of Heavenly Path [the supreme cultivation method] Primordial Chaos Violet Aura, it seemed to gain a subtle, ethereal violet hue. Its ability to draw upon the earth's vital energies appeared to have increased dramatically.

"This is..."

Verdant Consort's eyes brightened. With the power of her formidable Primordial Spirit [the spiritual core of a cultivator], she sensed an intangible truth: after absorbing that wisp of Primordial Chaos Violet Aura [a primal, world-creating energy of supreme quality], the Spiritual Peach Tree's growth rate had accelerated by a significant margin.

Seeing that the Primordial Chaos Essence [the foundational essence of primordial chaos] was effective, Eldrin Chen proceeded to exhale several more streams of Primordial Chaos Violet Aura. The Spiritual Peach Tree absorbed three of them in succession before finally ceasing its intake of the Primordial Chaos Violet Aura.

Eldrin Chen looked up and was astonished to see that upon the Spiritual Peach Tree, eighteen peach blossoms had unfurled with astonishing speed.

"A Fifth Rank Mid-Grade Spiritual Peach Tree."

Gazing at the Spiritual Peach Tree before him, a surge of joy welled up in Eldrin Chen's heart.

After some calculation, he said to the two women, "Once these eighteen blossoms mature into Heaven and Earth Spiritual Peach [a legendary spiritual fruit containing immense heaven and earth essence], the Spiritual Peach Tree will be sufficient to advance to the Fifth Rank Mid-Grade."

"Having absorbed three streams of Primordial Chaos Violet Aura, this Spiritual Peach Tree's advancement speed before reaching the Sixth Rank has roughly tripled. It seems it will be sufficient to ascend to the Fifth Rank High-Grade within three hundred years."

Hearing this, Exquisite Jiang also felt a wave of delight. Once the Spiritual Peach Tree advanced to the Fifth Rank Mid-Grade, the number of Spiritual Peach [spiritual fruits] it would bear would increase from nine to eighteen.

Originally, with the increase in the family's Infant Soul [the nascent soul cultivation stage] cultivators over the years, the output of Immortal Peach Pill [pills refined from spiritual peaches] was no longer sufficient for distribution. Now, with the Spiritual Peach Tree's advancement, coupled with Eldrin Chen's continuously improving alchemy skills, it was estimated that the problem of cultivation resources for the family's Infant Soul cultivators could be completely resolved.

As long as there were enough Immortal Peach Pill, the cultivation progress of the clan's True Lord [a title for high-level cultivators] would not fall behind, and their future Path [the Dao, or way of cultivation] would also be smoother.

Witnessing this, Verdant Consort also spoke with delight, "It seems the Enlightenment Tea Tree, the Creation Green Jade Lotus, and the other few Worldly Spiritual Roots will also be able to advance to the Fifth Rank High-Grade within three to four hundred years."

"A pity, though, is the rather severe drain on the Primordial Chaos Violet Aura [the supreme primordial energy from which all creation is said to have emerged]."

Eldrin Chen shook his head, speaking with a touch of helplessness. Enjoyed this chapter? Read more at audio-novel . com.