Published: August 16, 2025
Chapter 160: Blood Restriction Trial
After hearing this, Han Li understood that the other party’s advice came from goodwill, so he could only helplessly agree vaguely, then changed the subject and finally asked about the foundation establishment pill’s main ingredient.
“Junior Brother Han wants to know the origin of spirit medicines like Jade Marrow Mushroom?” Wu Feng asked in surprise.
“Yes, Senior Brother. You’ve been in our sect so many years, you should know something, right?” Han Li asked eagerly.
Wu Feng pondered for a moment before replying, “Of course I know a bit, but I advise you to give up on this idea! That place is extremely dangerous, and under normal circumstances, it’s impossible to get close. Only at certain times and places, with the help of our sect’s elders, can one enter.”
Hearing that Wu Feng knew something, Han Li was delighted, but the following words shocked him, and he hurriedly pressed for more details.
It turned out that such spirit medicines had become scarce in the immortal cultivation world long ago; they had completely disappeared from ordinary places. Now, the only places where they could still be found were the so-called Forbidden Zones.
Since immortal cultivators called these places Forbidden Zones, they were naturally extremely dangerous, generally located in harsh and remote environments. Some were even demon lairs that had to be cut through by force to pass. Others contained ancient forbidden spells that required great effort to break in order to have a chance to enter.
The foundation establishment pill’s main ingredient for the Yellow Maple Valley and other immortal cultivation sects of Yue Country came from one such Forbidden Zone, sealed by an ancient wind-elemental ban.
The ban was incredibly strong; originally, their sect had no hope of breaking it open. But later, someone discovered that the ban weakened for five days every five years. During that time, if several core formation stage cultivators cast spells together to forcibly break the ban, a temporary passage could open, allowing a limited number of people to enter.
However, when the passage first appeared and all cultivators tried to enter, an unexpected situation occurred.
Cultivators beyond foundation establishment were blocked by another strange ancient restriction inside, while those at the qi refining stage could enter unhindered, gather large amounts of rare spirit medicines, and bring them out.
This discovery caused a sensation in Yue Country’s immortal cultivation world. Thus, every five years, the seven great immortal sects sent groups of disciples below foundation establishment stage into the Forbidden Zone to collect spirit medicines, with the foundation establishment pill’s main ingredients being the top priority.
At first, disciples from different sects could operate independently and without conflict. For those chosen, this was a great opportunity. But over the years, as the spirit medicines inside became scarcer, disputes and fierce confrontations over certain rare medicinal herbs began to occur frequently. A few hundred years ago, some disciples even lost their lives in these conflicts.
That loss of life led the major sects to completely drop pretenses, openly adopting the law of the jungle and encouraging their disciples to snatch from others, turning the Forbidden Zone excursions into blood-soaked trials.
As a result, the spirit medicines gradually decreased, and the fights inside the Forbidden Zone became more vicious and bloody with each passing time.
In the last hundred years, due to the brutal battles, the disciples who survived the Forbidden Zone barely made up a third of the original number, causing significant losses among the elite low-level disciples of all sects! Many disciples began calling the Forbidden Zone excursion the “Blood Restriction Trial” and tried to avoid it, even leading to an embarrassing scene where no one was willing to go.
As for forcing disciples to go, that was impossible.