I have missed out on far too many things. A hundred years on Amphoreus, and then another three hundred years spent in a total coma. Being peppered with competitive kisses was nothing—an upside, I must say. Seele riled Veliona up, which led to us having nothing but kissing. The atmosphere became so heated it became… ambiguous.
The two were nothing short of fragile as their bodies stuck closely to me. Without my arms on their waists, they might have fallen already. Their identical intoxicated expressions only fed to temptations further.
Fortunately, all three of us knew this was not the place to do it. Seele and Velione recovered at the same rate, their expressions returning to normal save for the longing in their eyes.
"Sister Kiana must have told you about the pills."
I nodded at her words.
Kiana told me a lot of things when I woke up, though that happened after the dominating she did on the bed. Four hundred years is more than enough to develop a complete chain for spiritual herb supply. The main reason behind it is the garden-like eighth-grade Dao Artifact I left behind.
Every spiritual herb planted within would yield harvests in a shorter period of time. Immortal herbs which took thousands of years to grow were harvested in less than two hundred years. This gave rise to plenty more options of spiritual pills. The ones gained from daily draws held an element of luck; the ones Seele and Veliona cooked up did not.
Seele took out several jade bottles in one go. Most held a single pill within them, with some holding three. My eyes landed on one of them, feeling startled. The neutral white glow it gave off seemed unassuming at first, but its true effects are not.
She did not tease me further and revealed:
"It is a seventh-grade Realm Breaking Pill."
…
Damn.
Hearing it from Seele did not reduce my shock.
Realm Breaking Pills belong to a very special category of spiritual pills. Often made up of spiritual herbs a grade higher than its own, consuming them would allow someone to break through a minor realm in an instant. There are no direct drawbacks whatsoever.
The pill recipes I held in my mind contained dozens of variations of it, though there is a huge lack of materials for the sixth-grade and above. That was with the items I received on random draws. It speaks volume of how special these pills are.
Seele carried on explaining. She held one floating jade bottle after another. There was a milky-white pill dotted in star-like patterns, the seventh-grade Harmonious Stellar Symphony Pill. It is a special pill that invokes the state of enlightenment, allowing one to become closer to the Dao they are moving. Like the Realm Breaking Pill, it is a rare commodity.
The game changer was a pale purple pill surrounded by purple gases. I recognized it immediately. The seventh-grade Nine-Day Auspicious Purple Qi Pill, the one that allows the unfiltered absorption of any and all Daos into one's own Dao, feeding back to one's realm. It is a rather niche pill, catering those with special needs. It just so happens that we are the ones with the special needs.
In our earlier realms, everyone happened to comprehend a large number of Daos. Though removing any focus on it made it weak, the ascension to the Void Refinement Realm forcefully elevated them all to the level of Daos. They are the weakest kind, but they are still an indirect benefit for cross-checking and comprehension.
Simply put, the pill turns them all into nutrients and converts them into something my Dao of All Creation could fully benefit in, both in terms of Dao comprehension and cultivation realm. The benefits do not end there as the consumed Daos will not disappear. Instead, it is integrated into the main Dao to allow for derived uses.
From the Dao Integration Realm, every Dao follows a unique path. Some require comprehension; others need more feats. The Dao of Enlightenment, for instance, requires the thriving of an immortal cultivation founded by oneself.
The Dao of All Creation requires the comprehension and complete fusion of anotherDao to break through. I start out with four Daos—Five Elements, Yin-Yang, Extremity, and Void—which pushes me to the middle-stage in one go. After that, I would need sevenDaos to enter the late-stage, and then tenDaos to enter the pinnacle-stage.
Where else would I get these Daos but from the ones fused by the Nine-Day Auspicious Purple Pill? It is a pill that cuts the effort required to comprehend and fuse those ten Daos into the Dao of All Creation!
The rest of the pills belong to the 'daily expenditure' type. They are to be popped during every cultivation session, granting a considerable boost atop everything else. Being supplied by all these pills made me feel like a househusband supported by his working wives…
Not that I am complaining about it.
"That's right. We refined two batches of Spirit Raising Pills."
Spirit Raising Pills.
It is, yet again, a special seventh-grade pill with one purpose: to raise one's spirit root aptitude. To be more specific, from middle to high grade. Though there is documentation of low-grade spirit roots consuming it, there are not many. The materials to concoct it is extremely hard to find, sharing the level of difficulty as the Realm Breaking Pill.
"No need to bring it up. I left all the permissions to Kiana before I went out." I paused before continuing, "Unless they feel guilty about it?"
My words hit the mark as Seele nodded helplessly.
"Mister Yang never stopped working ever since. It got to the point his… well, his relationship with Miss Tesla got affected."
The biggest gossip of the past four hundred years drifted to my ears?
Welt Yang and Tesla?
…
Damn.
I somehow expected they would end up. The tension going on between them always shifted from time to time.
"...and their daughter."
My mouth went wide open at the revelation.