Published: March 2, 2025
CHAPTER 123: The Wick
After saying this, he clasped his hands and walked towards the door.
“Daoist Ye, please wait!”
“I wonder what you think of my cousin's skills? If you are satisfied, I can arrange a room for her to serve you again!”
Seeing Liu Yu about to leave, Liu Xueqin also stood up and spoke with a hint of charm in her voice.
Her cousin had poor qualifications, and at forty years old, she still hadn’t broken through to the late stage of qi refinement. If she could win over a foundation establishment cultivator and alchemist, it would undoubtedly be in her best interest, and having a foundation establishment cultivator as a concubine wouldn't be a bad outcome either.
Liu Yu paused, seemingly hesitating, but he still pushed the door and walked out.
Seeing this, Liu Xueqin's beautiful eyes revealed a hint of disappointment, but such matters couldn’t be forced, and despite opening her mouth, she didn’t continue to hold him back.
Liu Yu continued on his way and directly exited the jade orchid pavilion.
He liked women, but he wasn’t desperate. He didn’t plan to engage too deeply with the jade orchid pavilion, and regarding women who actively offered themselves, he politely declined.
After leaving the jade orchid pavilion, Liu Yu visited other large shops in Jiatai Market. Regrettably, none were willing to sell formulas for foundation establishment elixirs. Perhaps offering a five-hundred-year spiritual herb might exchange for one, but five-hundred-year spiritual herbs weren’t ordinary items and could easily attract the attention of golden core cultivators. If used to trade for formulas, it would be too obvious.
Thus, in the end, Liu Yu suppressed this thought. After all, he already had the “Vitality Pill” and “Cultivating Yuan Pill,” two elixirs suitable for the early stage of foundation establishment. If they were still insufficient for his cultivation, he could consider other options later.
For the next five days, he frequented the shops in Jiatai Market, especially some well-known stores selling cultivation techniques, but he couldn’t find a satisfactory one. Not to mention, he only managed to collect a small number of spiritual herb seeds needed for the Vitality Pill, Cultivating Yuan Pill, and Nourishing Yuan Elixir.
The cultivation techniques currently circulating in the cultivation world could be divided into three categories.
The first category includes ordinary techniques that allow for relatively fast training but have weaker divine abilities and secret arts. Cultivators who practice ordinary techniques generally fall to the bottom tier among their peers. If they encounter a cultivator practicing high-grade techniques, even if they are one rank lower, they might not be able to win.
The second category consists of high-grade techniques that have slow training speeds but come with powerful divine abilities and secret arts. Cultivators practicing high-grade techniques usually have better qualifications, confident in their training speed, and believe they can face challenges and advance further.
Of course, many cultivators, knowing they have no hope of reaching the golden core, completely give up on further aspirations, seeking enjoyment and focusing on dueling to earn merit for their faction and benefit future generations.
The third category is top-tier techniques that combine the advantages of the first two. They not only allow for faster training speeds but also possess powerful divine abilities. Cultivators practicing this type of technique are among the top in their ranks.
However, such techniques generally come with many restrictions and peculiar requirements that ordinary cultivators cannot meet. Forcing oneself to practice them only leads to deviation.
Liu Yu didn’t aspire to practice top-tier techniques, but with an Immortal Abode and a continuous supply of elixirs, he was confident that his training speed would surpass many cultivators, so his expectations were set on high-grade techniques.