Chapter 3693 — Taking the Foundation Establishment Golden Pill!
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According to usual practice, barring special occasions like the new disciples' trial, Wei Zhao was supposed to report to the Spirit Jade Hall to mine. These past two days, however, attendance was optional.
After all, the beginning of the month was two days away—the all-important first ranking tournament of the entire Newcomer Pavilion. So that every new disciple could be fully prepared and thoroughly digest the fruits of the trial, the better to display their best in the tournament, the Newcomer Pavilion had long since reached an agreement with the Spirit Jade Hall permitting new disciples temporary absence.
For Wei Zhao, who had just successfully refined the Foundation Establishment Golden Pill, the timing could not have been better. He needed exactly this time to digest the pill.
Better early than late—no pill, however fine, could take effect until it was swallowed. And since the Foundation Establishment Golden Pill was not the sort to produce violent side effects, Wei Zhao had no need for excessive caution; as long as he had the time, he could take it as soon as possible.
Drawing a long, deep breath, Wei Zhao slowly put the freshly refined Foundation Establishment Golden Pill into his mouth, then calmed his mind and concentrated, mobilizing true qi throughout his body to begin digesting it.
The Foundation Establishment Golden Pill was extremely bitter on entry—perhaps because of its principal ingredient, the Heart-Devouring Linglong Grass. Once swallowed, it even produced waves of heart-devouring agony. An ordinary person would likely have fainted dead away from the pain.
And even for a skilled cultivator of Wei Zhao's caliber, an early-Foundation Establishment expert whose true qi shielded every meridian in his body, the process was exceedingly long and agonizing. He could not help cursing inwardly: if this Foundation Establishment Golden Pill had not been refined by his own hand, he would have taken it for poison by now and forced it back out of his body—this medicinal effect was just too damned torturous!
The heart-devouring agony lasted a full stick of incense's time, leaving Wei Zhao drenched in sweat, before it finally began to fade. And just as Wei Zhao thought he could breathe easy, his body suddenly gave a violent shudder, as if in a trance.
It felt as though a bomb of true qi had detonated inside him. Then an endless, surging tide of medicinal power burst forth in an instant, spreading through every part of his body and ceaselessly transforming into purest true qi that merged into his meridians.
Wei Zhao had assumed that, as an early-Foundation Establishment expert, his true qi was already quite formidable. Only now did he realize he had been a frog at the bottom of a well. Under the Foundation Establishment Golden Pill's effects, within mere breaths his true qi had more than doubled—and was still rising even now!
No wonder not a single one could be found for sale even in the marketplace. Only at this moment did Wei Zhao truly grasp the value of the Foundation Establishment Golden Pill: a single pill was enough to match decades of bitter cultivation by an ordinary early-Foundation Establishment expert!
Even Wei Zhao himself, armed with the cheat-like treasure of the jade pendant's space, would probably need at least several years of bitter cultivation to achieve the same result!
By comparison, the Barrier-Breaking Pill—also a fourth-grade pill—had no such terrifying effect of one pill equaling ten years of cultivation.
In the marketplace, four hundred spirit jades could buy a Barrier-Breaking Pill. But the Foundation Establishment Golden Pill was a thing with a market but no price. Forget four hundred spirit jades—even ten times that amount might not secure one!