Starting Cultivation During a Trip

Chapter 236: Chapter 144: Three Corpses Primordial Pill! Zhang Fan and Li Yishan

”For what purpose?” Liu Xingyu shook his head, indicating he didn’t know.

”To search for the Three Corpses Primordial Pill!”

”What?”

Liu Xingyu was stunned for a moment, an odd expression unconsciously appearing on his face.

”Does that thing really exist?”

The Three Corpses Primordial Pill, within the ’Three Corpses Illuminating Fate’, is forged by using the Minor Divinity Splitting Technique to peel off one’s own primordial spirit and refine it into a pill.

No one knows what the real Three Corpses Primordial Pill actually looks like.

It has no consciousness of its own, nor any activity; as long as the original primordial spirit hasn’t perished, it remains in a dead, ignorant, and unaware state.

”The Three Corpses Daoist has already fallen for a whole sixty years. If he truly left behind a Three Corpses Primordial Pill, why has there been no movement at all?” Liu Xingyu couldn’t help but ask.

The Three Corpses Primordial Pill is a backup of a cultivator’s primordial spirit; once the original falls, the pill may, under special conditions, transform to give birth to a new primordial spirit.

This is exactly the terrifying aspect of the ’Three Corpses Illuminating Fate’.

A whole sixty years have passed—if the Three Corpses Daoist really left behind a pill, a backup, there ought to have been some sign by now.

”Such a thing can only be activated and transformed under special conditions, and the process is extremely long, measured in centuries,” Liu Xingtui said in a deep voice.

The Heavenly Dao is absolutely impartial, yin and yang in balance; where there is the power to ascend to the heavens, there will be tribulations that threaten one’s life.

Especially such as the Nine Great Inner Elixir Methods, which defy common sense and transcend the mundane; naturally, there are countless calamities along the path. No cultivation technique can be without any restrictions.

If the Three Corpses Primordial Pill is not activated under special conditions, then it’s nothing but a dead thing.

”The Three Corpses Primordial Pill contains all the knowledge, experience, and secrets of the Three Corpses Daoist... and even unique powers.”

To any cultivator, it is a supreme treasure for cultivation, comparable to the Daoist Canon Profound Scripture.

”I know it’s precious, but does it really exist?” Liu Xingyu’s face was skeptical.

”Of course it does.”

At these words, Liu Xingtui paused slightly before continuing, ”Do you know about the grandmaster suppressed behind the Nanxuan Palace of Zhenwu Mountain?”

”Of course I do.” Liu Xingyu’s expression turned serious.

Although they wandered the mortal world, every year they had to return to the mountain for further study and to report on duties.

The one suppressed behind the Nanxuan Palace was named Zhuo Kuangsheng, the junior fellow apprentice of Chu Chaoran.

It’s said his talent was extraordinary; he achieved High Skill at the age of twenty, caught the eye of Chu Chaoran, who took him as a disciple on the master’s behalf, making him the junior brother of that Living Zhenren.

”It’s said he cultivated the forbidden technique Heart Demon Guide and thus fell into devilry,” Liu Xingyu couldn’t help but remark.

”In truth, there are hidden facts.”

”Could it be...” Liu Xingyu’s heart stirred, as if grasping a clue.

”Achieving High Skill before thirty already marks someone as a dragon among men, one in ten thousand. For that grandmaster to reach such a realm at twenty—is that even possible? Unless some heaven-defying fortune came his way.”

”You mean to say...”

”Exactly. That grandmaster happened to find a Three Corpses Primordial Pill in his youth; such fortune allowed him to step into the High Rank at the age of twenty,” Liu Xingtui said in a hushed, somber tone.

This is a secret, something he’d only overheard the curator mention.

”Is the Three Corpses Primordial Pill really as miraculous as they say?” Liu Xingyu couldn’t help but ask.

”That grandmaster was already supremely talented, and with the Three Corpses Primordial Pill, his ambition soared all the higher, so he forced his way into cultivating Heart Demon Guide...”

At this, Liu Xingtui couldn’t help but sigh.

The Heart Demon Guide, derived from the Divine Demon Holy Embryo—how could it be so easy to cultivate?

Heart Demon Guide, Heart Demon Guide: this body is but the great medicine’s lead, nurturing myriad thoughts until they awaken as demons, the broken body becoming the Demon Suppression Well.

This is the technique of plunging into madness for Dao, a way to forsake life and self for enlightenment.

With Zhuo Kuangsheng’s talent and willpower, even if he failed at cultivation, he shouldn’t have lost himself to madness and devilry.

Alas, once his wild and aggressive nature flared up, his consciousness became restless. In a single moment of desire for quick success, he pinned all his hopes on the Three Corpses Primordial Pill.

That treasure might solve any problem in cultivation. However, the whole of the Three Corpses Daoist’s life is sealed within, vast and limitless as the sea. Even if you rode your primordial spirit as a boat to traverse it, the dangers are immense.

”He failed—his primordial spirit was nearly devoured by the Three Corpses Primordial Pill. Were it not for Transcendent Zhenren’s timely intervention, he may not have even kept his life.”

Liu Xingtui sighed uncontrollably.

From then on, this peerless genius was lost, mad as a demon, suppressed behind the Nanxuan Palace.

”And that Three Corpses Primordial Pill?” Liu Xingyu couldn’t help asking.

”Naturally, it was destroyed,” Liu Xingtui said in a lowered voice.

”Do you know, that pill, nourished by Zhuo Kuangsheng’s primordial spirit, nearly reawakened? Had that truly happened, the consequences would have been endless trouble.”

”So, that thing is really...” Liu Xingyu hesitated on the verge of speaking.

”Exactly; it is both the great medicine for seeking Dao and the demon tribulation of cultivation... I’ve heard Transcendent Zhenren’s primordial spirit leaves his body every month, roaming the world to search for lost Three Corpses Primordial Pills.”

At this, both Liu Xingtui and Liu Xingyu fell silent.

Perhaps inspired by Zhuo Kuangsheng, Meng Qingtong, likewise from Zhenwu Mountain, developed an almost obsessive fervor for the Three Corpses Primordial Pill, venturing out every half month to search for it.

But this time is different—he’s been absent for two full months.

”Could it be...the curator has found it?” Liu Xingyu couldn’t help but say.

”I don’t know.”

Liu Xingtui shook his head, his expression grave: ”Even if it’s found, may it only be the most ordinary kind.”

”The most ordinary kind? What, this thing comes in tiers?” Liu Xingyu asked doubtfully.

”A backup at twenty years old and one at forty—how could they be the same?”

”No one knows how many Three Corpses Primordial Pills that number one in the world left behind... The more advanced his cultivation, the more dangerous the pills he left behind become...”