Published: August 25, 2025
Chapter 235: Han Li’s Thoughts
Ordinary pills in this world had long lost their effectiveness on core formation stage cultivators.
Only pills refined from medicinal materials over several hundred years old and certain heaven-and-earth-native spirit medicines could accelerate their cultivation speed. Therefore, most of the time during a core formation stage cultivator’s long-distance journeys was spent gathering extremely rare medicinal materials.
This was exactly why, back in the day, Li Huayuan immediately tried every means to take Han Li, who came out of the Forbidden Zone with so many spirit medicines, as a disciple. These heaven-and-earth spirit medicines were simply too tempting!
In fact, even if the team leader hadn’t been Li Huayuan but Lei Wanhe or some other core formation stage cultivator, they probably wouldn’t have missed out on Han Li’s share of spirit medicines either. Nine times out of ten, they would have resorted to the same tactics. It was just that Li Huayuan was slightly stingy and only accepted Han Li as a registered disciple!
However, taking pills was merely an auxiliary method to improve magical power; it could only shorten the time spent meditating and absorbing spiritual energy. Diligent cultivation was the true path to transforming spiritual energy into one’s own magical power!
Otherwise, no matter how many pills one consumed, if they did not spend time refining the contained spiritual energy bit by bit, it would be useless and would not increase any magical power. After all, external spiritual energy and one’s own magical power were two completely different things.
There were even cases where someone took a pill found in ancient ruins that defied the heavens, resulting in an overabundance of spiritual energy inside their body that caused them to explode and die! So casually taking pills far beyond one’s own realm was extremely dangerous.
Moreover, when encountering bottlenecks, many cultivators used the spiritual power of pills to break through, and this method had proven very effective.
Those who could break through cultivation bottlenecks without any medicinal aid were extremely rare in the entire immortal cultivation world. They were all prodigies seen only once in a century!
Those with heavenly spiritual roots were recognized as possessing such supreme talent. Even cultivators with abnormal spiritual roots, when facing such bottlenecks, inevitably had to take pills to break through, which was no different from ordinary spiritual root cultivators.
This cultivator Lei Wanhe was exactly facing such a bottleneck. That was why he had just returned from the outside world after gathering medicinal herbs to refine assisting pills.
But this time, his luck was really poor. Aside from finding two medicinal herbs over four hundred years old, he found nothing else, which left him extremely frustrated!
This was also the main reason why he immediately set out to kill the people from the Thousand Bamboo Sect. If he didn’t vent his anger then, his mood probably wouldn’t have improved for a long time. One could only say Huang Long and the others were extremely unlucky to have encountered such a bad-tempered misfortune.
At this moment, Lei Wanhe’s thoughts were unsettled.
He had experienced over three hundred years of cultivation and had seen all kinds of medicinal herbs. Once these two spirit herbs came into his sight, he immediately judged their exact age and was extremely delighted.
He knew that what he needed for refining his essence-enhancing pills was spirit medicines over five hundred years old, which was why he had traveled for more than a year.
He had searched every big and small town and all the large medicine shops in Yue Country, but hadn’t found a single herb that satisfied him.
He could only reluctantly accept two substandard herbs of four hundred years, planning to use them as a last resort!
But he also knew very well that using spirit herbs not old enough to refine essence-enhancing pills would greatly reduce the pill’s effect and wouldn’t help him much. However, he simply had no suitable main herb on hand. What else could he do?