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Chapter 23 Mountains and Seas and Blood Sea

["Secret Realm of Mountains and Seas..."]

You Rou's beautiful eyes sparkled as she chuckled, "I didn't expect Master Wang to be so interested in that secret realm."

You smile silently.

Even if the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm has a great history, more than ten years have passed, and the relevant information is no longer considered a secret.

【"no problem."】

You Rou nodded and said, "I will help Master Wang inquire about that secret realm. However, I've heard that this secret realm has a significant history and is closely related to the Mountain and Sea Sect, which mysteriously disappeared hundreds of years ago."

"So that's how it is."

[You immediately showed a hint of surprise on your face.]

You learned about the relationship between the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm and the Mountain and Sea Sect during the first simulation, but you naturally wouldn't show it in front of You Rou.

After sending Yourou away, you return to your cave.

[You Rou, the vice leader of the Pill Alliance, has extensive connections. If she wanted to inquire, she could definitely find out some hidden information that you didn't know during the first simulation.]

After all, behind You Rou stands the leader of the Pill Alliance, who is a genuine Foundation Establishment cultivator with second-tier alchemy skills.

[You Rou was able to utilize the connections of Foundation Establishment cultivators to some extent.]

[This is the change brought about by different levels. In the first simulation, you were only a Qi Refining Level 5 cultivator and a mid-grade alchemist, so naturally you were far inferior to now.]

"The leader of the Dan Alliance..."

Information about this Foundation Establishment cultivator flashed through your mind.

The leader of the Pill Alliance also resides in Biyue Immortal City. As for Wushan Market? He only comes to visit occasionally.

For Foundation Establishment cultivators, Wushan Market is ultimately too small; Azure Moon Immortal City is the true stage.

The various resources and elixirs needed by Foundation Establishment cultivators for their daily cultivation are extremely scarce and expensive in Wushan Market. For example, the highlight of the recent auction was a mid-grade second-tier Breakthrough Pill.

However, in Azure Moon Immortal City, while these kinds of pills aren't readily available in large quantities, they can definitely be purchased as long as you have enough spirit stones.

[“The Pill Alliance Leader’s alchemy skills are only at the second-tier, low-grade level; he is incapable of refining Foundation Establishment Pills…”]

You thought to yourself silently.

The Foundation Establishment Pill is a high-grade second-tier pill, requiring at least a mid-grade second-tier alchemist to have any chance of refining it.

From this perspective, the leader of the Pill Alliance is not as good as Master Zhao, who is behind Master Yun.

The news of your becoming a top-grade alchemist quickly spread throughout the area surrounding Wushan Market.

Monks visit you every day.

These cultivators were either late-stage Qi Refining rogue cultivators or representative cultivators from a nearby Qi Refining cultivation family.

All the visitors brought their own gifts.

The purpose of my visit is, of course, to cultivate a good relationship with you, a top-grade alchemist.

A top-tier alchemist is capable of refining top-tier pills, which is equivalent to mastering the advancement path for the vast majority of late-stage Qi Refining cultivators.

While it's not necessary to cultivate a close relationship with a top-tier alchemist, it's definitely not something you can afford to offend.

After all, alchemists mostly like to stick together. If you offend one high-grade alchemist, you might end up on the blacklist of several high-grade alchemists.

How many top-grade alchemists are there in the entire Wushan Market?

Three days later, a Foundation Establishment cultivator personally came to visit.

[This is the first Foundation Establishment cultivator to visit you after you became a top-grade alchemist.]

This Foundation Establishment cultivator comes from the Zheng family of Green Pine Mountain; he is the Foundation Establishment ancestor of the Zheng family.

The purpose of this visit is to invite you to become the chief alchemist of the Zheng family of Qingsong Mountain.

[You can name your salary/compensation requirements]

The Foundation Establishment stage ancestor of the Zheng family promised that, as long as you are willing, the Zheng family will fully support you in your attempt to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.

After a moment's thought, you declined the invitation from the Foundation Establishment cultivator.

[The main issue is that once you accept the invitation, you'll have to go to the Zheng family's residence in Qingsong Mountain, which makes you feel very insecure.]

[While dealing with the numerous visitors, you once again realize the preciousness of a top-grade alchemist.]

[You have become a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator, and only a handful of friends, including Master Yun, have congratulated you.]

However, once you become a top-grade alchemist, the influence that radiates outwards will cover countless Qi Refining stage cultivators.

Even some Foundation Establishment level forces would not underestimate a high-grade alchemist. Many Foundation Establishment level forces have not cultivated their own high-grade alchemists and can only rely on external high-grade alchemists to refine pills.

In the thirty-third year, at the age of forty-eight, after a seclusion lasting several months, you discovered that your cultivation speed was as slow as a tortoise.

[At the late stage of Qi Refining, you've already broken through some of the limits of low-grade spiritual root cultivators. At this level, even with the help of numerous high-grade pills, you'll still find it extremely difficult.]

In fact, even for cultivators with mid-grade spiritual roots, their cultivation speed slows down in the later stages, but for those with low-grade spiritual roots, this slowdown is even more pronounced.

Based on your current cultivation speed, it will take you approximately eighteen to twenty years to reach the eighth level of Qi Refining.

[And in eighteen to twenty years, you will be sixty-seven years old, only a few years away from the critical age of seventy.]

At that time, let alone breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage, even reaching the ninth level of Qi Refining would be a pipe dream.

You realize that you underestimated the difficulty of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage with a low-grade spiritual root.

Of course, this is also related to your switch to cultivating the "Mountain and Sea Manual".

The magical power cultivated through the "Mountain and Sea Manual" is incredibly profound, making its cultivation difficulty far exceed that of your previous cultivation methods.

However, you were not discouraged at all.

Even if you don't get a chance to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage in this simulation...

[The next simulation will start again from when you're sixteen or seventeen, giving you over fifty years. Even a pig could attempt to reach the Foundation Establishment stage by then.]

A few days later, Vice Alliance Leader You Rou paid a visit.

Inside the cave, Vice Alliance Leader You Rou rolled her eyes. "Alchemist Wang, I made a special trip to Azure Moon Immortal City to inquire with the Alliance Leader about this matter..."

"Thank you. Please don't hesitate to ask if you need anything from me in the future, Alliance Leader You."

You immediately speak up and state your position.

You Rou smiled slightly, not bothering to keep anyone in suspense, and said in a gentle voice, "Master Wang, regarding that Mountain and Sea Secret Realm, it was created by the Mountain and Sea Sect, a powerful sect at the Core Formation level back then..."

"This is the last resort for the Mountain and Sea Sect."

"The Mountain and Sea Sect was established by the Mountain and Sea Immortal. However, more than two hundred years ago, the Mountain and Sea Immortal's junior brother, the Blood Sea Immortal, came to the sect and fought a fierce battle with the Mountain and Sea Immortal..."

"The destruction and demise of the Mountain and Sea Sect was largely related to this Blood Sea True Man."

"However, afterwards, not only did Master Shan Hai disappear, but Master Xue Hai also disappeared, which attracted the attention of many masters at the time."

Vice Alliance Leader You Rou, with her dignified demeanor and smiling blue eyes, revealed this secret from two or three hundred years ago.

"The Blood Sea Immortal? The Mountain and Sea Immortal?"

You looked puzzled. "Since these two masters are fellow disciples, why did things escalate to this point?"

"I'm not sure about that. The Alliance Leader said it's probably because of a female cultivator? But even the Alliance Leader has limited knowledge of conflicts at the True Person level..."

Vice Alliance Leader You Rou tossed her hair and said with a smile.