Time always slips away unnoticed. After more than half a month of continuous joy, Zhou Fan's mind finally regained the upper hand.
He suddenly remembered that there was another Son of Destiny in Luoyun Temple—Lin Xuanye. This person was currently in seclusion on Chao Duan Peak, and his cultivation was continuously declining.
Zhou Fan did not intend to trouble Lin Xuanye now; who knew what trump cards this Son of Destiny had left in his secluded place.
While thinking about how to harvest this Son of Destiny, Zhou Fan walked into the Historical Pavilion of Luoyun Temple.
After showing his identity token as a Personal Disciple of Yin Yang Peak to the old man guarding the door, Zhou Fan entered unimpeded and successfully found the personal biographies of past Peak Lords of Luoyun Temple.
After roughly reviewing the development history of Luoyun Temple's Nine Peaks, Zhou Fan precisely located the life resume of the former Peak Lord of Lingjian Peak—Ye Xianyu.
Ye Xianyu, male, entered Luoyun Temple five hundred years ago.
After being detected to possess an Earth-Grade Sword Spiritual Root, he was immediately accepted as a Personal Disciple by the then Peak Lord of Lingjian Peak.
Subsequently, under the vigorous cultivation of the entire Lingjian Peak, which poured all its resources into him, Ye Xianyu's cultivation progressed at a divine speed.
He entered the Dao at eighteen, and achieved Foundation Establishment at twenty-four.
He reached Core Formation at forty-five, and achieved Core Formation Perfection before he was a hundred years old, having already forged the most top-tier Nine Revolutions Sword Dao Golden Core in the Core Formation Stage.
Afterward, he descended the mountain with his sword, sweeping away all demonic evils in the southern border of Qingyun State.
At one hundred and twenty years old, he returned to Lingjian Peak and devoted himself to comprehending the Dao.
In September of the same year, his sword emerged from Luoyun, and he advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm.
The whole world rejoiced, and congratulations came from all directions. For a time, he was immensely glorious and naturally assumed the position of Temple Master of Luoyun Temple, concurrently serving as the Peak Lord of Lingjian Peak.
During his tenure, he greatly promoted the Sword Dao.
But perhaps this Sword Immortal Ye Xianyu had exhausted the Sword Dao Luck within a million li radius, as Lingjian Peak was slow to Cultivate true Sword Dao Geniuses. Instead, Dao Xuan Peak accepted a cultivation seed who was naturally close to the Dao and had a clear Dao Heart.
In the eightieth year of Ye Xianyu's tenure, he once again descended the mountain to travel the world.
Three years later, he returned to the temple with a female child who possessed a sword bone.
When this girl's talent was tested at eighteen, golden light burst forth, and ten thousand swords came to her, revealing the legendary Myriad Spirit Sword Body, whose Sword Dao talent was unparalleled in the world.
On that day, Ye Xianyu held a grand Disciple-acceptance banquet, officially designating the girl as his only Personal Disciple and also appointing her as the next Peak Lord of Lingjian Peak.
Later, Ye Xianyu remained in office for over seventy more years. His Disciple, Sword Immortal Bu Yu—Luo Ningshuang, had cultivated for only seventy years, yet her cultivation had reached the Late Stage of Core Formation, her talent surpassing that of her master.
In this year, Ye Xianyu passed on his personal sword to his first Disciple, Luo Ningshuang, and also handed over the position of Peak Lord of Lingjian Peak to this Sword Immortal Bu Yu.
In the same year, Ye Xianyu went out to travel and did not return for a hundred years.
The Disciples of Luoyun Temple searched without success and declared him missing.
After Ye Xianyu's disappearance, his Disciple Luo Ningshuang's cultivation made no further progress, remaining at the Late Stage of Core Formation.
There were rumors within the temple that the path of the Sword Dao had been cut off, and that Ye Xianyu had taken away the Sword Dao Luck within a million li radius before his disappearance, causing the Sword Dao within Luoyun Temple to decline and the Peak Lord of Lingjian Peak's cultivation to make no progress for two hundred years.
And this Sword Immortal Bu Yu's ability to teach Disciples was worrying. The resources of Lingjian Peak were now scarce due to Ye Xianyu's extensive use.
Lingjian Peak suffered from a scarcity of talent and resources, and its Luck had been extremely poor for the past hundred years, with Cultivators from Lingjian Peak frequently dying unexpectedly during missions.
Under the influence of multiple factors, Lingjian Peak had become the weakest among the Nine Peaks of Luoyun Temple.
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After leaving the Historical Pavilion, Zhou Fan contacted the two Senior Brother and Senior Sister who had previously guided him to the Cultivation World. Amidst their enthusiastic flattery, Zhou Fan quickly learned more news about Lingjian Peak.
Currently, Lingjian Peak, apart from Sword Immortal Bu Yu as its Peak Lord, only had two Disciples left, and both of them had shallow cultivation, remaining in the Qi Condensation Stage.
After so many years of decline, the industries of Lingjian Peak had long been mostly divided by the other eight peaks.
Now, Lingjian Peak only had a desolate main peak and a Chao Duan Peak that Sword Immortal Bu Yu had painstakingly protected.
Do not think that the internal competition within Luoyun Temple is too cruel; this is simply how the Cultivation World is.
It is a naked struggle for survival, even more so than the law of the jungle.
If Lingjian Peak did not still have Sword Immortal Bu Yu, who was in the Core Formation Stage, its Legacy would have long been completely plundered by the other eight peaks.
After Zhou Fan chatted with the two for a while, he saw that they had collected all the ingredients for refining Building Foundation Pills.
He immediately fulfilled his promise, using his authority as the only Personal Disciple of Yin Yang Peak Lord, to retrieve two portions of Building Foundation Pill main ingredients of sufficient age from the Yin Yang Peak Medicinal Garden.
Then, he opened a furnace to refine Alchemy in the Class A Alchemy room of Yin Yang Peak.
Under the skilled techniques of a third-tier Alchemist, Zhou Fan successfully refined two furnaces of High Grade Building Foundation Pills in less than half a day.
Each furnace yielded three pills, for a total of six pills from two furnaces.
Zhou Fan carefully stored the Medicinal Pills in a jade box, walked out of the Alchemy room, and gave one High Grade Building Foundation Pill to each of the two who were waiting outside.
These two Inner Sect Disciples were naturally extremely grateful to Zhou Fan. After all, these were High Grade Building Foundation Pills, which could increase the success rate of Foundation Establishment by a full 20% when taken during Breakthrough.
They recalled that the Building Foundation Pills they had taken during their own Breakthrough were only Medium Grade, which could only increase the success rate of Foundation Establishment by 10%.
These High Grade Building Foundation Pills were priceless and rarely available on the market. Basically, no one would sell them; if they were lucky enough to refine High Grade pills, they would keep them for themselves or their descendants.
Many high-tier Alchemists, when refining low-tier Medicinal Pills, only had a less than 20% chance of producing High Grade ones.
But Zhou Fan was different; the value of his third-tier Alchemist status could be considered top-tier even across the Three Thousand Great Worlds.
Let alone second-tier Medicinal Pills like Building Foundation Pills, as long as Zhou Fan was in good condition, he could even produce High Grade third-tier Medicinal Pills in every furnace.
If his condition was average, the probability was about 90% or more for High Grade, with only 10% being High Grade.
After sending off the two tearfully grateful individuals, Zhou Fan returned to the Class A Immortal Cave and, in front of Jiang Mei, gave a High Grade Building Foundation Pill to Fu Fu Jie.
Jiang Mei's eyes were practically red with jealousy.
Although her family background was also good, she would most likely be able to use High Grade Building Foundation Pills for Foundation Establishment after returning to the Jiang Family, but the preciousness of High Grade Building Foundation Pills far exceeded that of High Grade ones.
Jiang Mei was knowledgeable and knew some secrets about Medicinal Pills.
Most Medicinal Pills contained pill toxins, which would accumulate in a Cultivator's body after consumption.
As more and more pill toxins accumulated, a Cultivator's Cultivation speed would gradually decrease until it stopped altogether.
To expel pill toxins, one could only rely on not consuming Medicinal Pills for a long time, allowing the pill toxins to be slowly expelled with the inhalation and exhalation of Spiritual Qi, or by taking advantage of a major Realm Breakthrough, when the Cultivator undergoes a complete transformation, which could also expel most of the pill toxins in the body.
However, these methods were ultimately too restrictive. The most ideal situation was to only consume High Grade Medicinal Pills, because High Grade Medicinal Pills contained very few pill toxins, and it usually only took a few days to expel all of these slight pill toxins.
Most importantly, her Master was actually so generous, casually giving Sister Shen a High Grade Building Foundation Pill!
The more Jiang Mei thought about it, the more jealous she became. She ran to Zhou Fan's leg like a puppy, wagging her tail and pleading.
"Master, if this servant chooses to follow you forever, will you also bestow upon this servant a High Grade Building Foundation Pill?"