“Unlike the guards we recruited outside, Blood Servant can receive a certain amount of cultivation resources from the Sect every month, so they can be considered members of the Sect, and…” Gao Ming smiled, “We can also obtain a lot of good things from the Pill Master we serve, so the Blood Servant Camp of the Sect yearns to be chosen by one of the Alchemists. Every time an Alchemist chooses a Blood Servant, those little brats would act like they were on steroids!”
“It’s understandable!” Yang Kai could imagine such a scene and turned back to look at Hua Rong behind him, “Does that mean I misunderstood her?”
Gao Ming said, “Regardless of whether there are any misunderstandings or not, it’s best not to rashly accept such a person of unknown origins. If Pill Master Yang want a guard, you can go to the Blood Servant Camp later to pick someone.”
Yang Kai nodded slightly and suddenly remembered something, “Is there a Spirit Rank guard in the Blood Servant Camp?”
Gao Ming shook his head and said, “No, in the entire Divine Weapon World, the Spirit Rank is the strongest fighting force, so such a character naturally wouldn’t stay in the Blood Servant Camp. However, many Blood Servant in the Sect grow together with the Alchemists they follow, so the guards around the Sect Elders are basically all Spirit Rank. When Pill Master Yang arrives at Profound Pill Sect, he will naturally understand.”
Yang Kai asked a few more questions about the Profound Pill Sect, all of which were answered by Gao Ming. Most importantly, what Yang Kai asked wasn’t any kind of secret, so there was no need to hide it. If it really was some kind of secret, even someone like Gao Ming wouldn’t have the qualifications to come into contact with it.
The topic of conversation was intentionally or unintentionally brought up towards Yang Kai’s 'master'. Gao Ming didn’t have much of an impression of this mysterious master who had an extremely high seniority and whose whereabouts were unknown, mainly because he was still in the Blood Monster Camp and hadn’t followed Gao Xinpeng.
Unable to obtain any useful information, Yang Kai could only give up. With the current situation, he could only take things one step at a time and try not to give himself away. He was still hoping to obtain the recipe for the Hundred Revolutions Heartless Pill from the Profound Pill Sect.
Three days later, when they passed by Heavenly Martial City’s territory, the two of them went to pay a visit to Miao Hong and rest for the night.
Miao Hong naturally welcomed him warmly, and when he heard that Yang Kai was going to acknowledge his roots and ancestors, he couldn’t stop congratulating him.
The next day, the two changed horses and set off again.
There weren’t many twists and turns along the way. Gao Ming's peak Heaven Rank's cultivation weren’t weak, and they were also from Profound Pill Sect, so naturally, no one would dare cause trouble.
Half a month later, the two of them arrived at the Profound Pill Sect.
The majestic mountain and Spirit Peak is a wonderful scenes. As one of the Divine Weapon World’s Ten Great Sects, the Profound Pill Sect was located in a mountain range. At the foot of the mountain, there was a city called Profound Pill City that was extremely lively.
According to Gao Ming, although this city was also a property of the Profound Pill Sect, it wasn’t built intentionally, but slowly developed to such a scale after countless years of accumulation.
Every year, countless cultivators would come here and ask the Alchemists of the Proofund Pill Sect to refine pills for them. Ordinary people couldn’t enter the Profound Pill Sect and could only wait at the foot of the mountain. Originally, there was no city here, but as more people gathered, a small city gradually appeared. Over the years, the scale of the city grew larger until today, when Profound Pill City was considered one of the largest cities in the entire Divine Weapon World.
In this Profound Pill City, the most common places were the Medicine Store and Pill Store. As long as they were herbs from the Divine Weapon World, they could basically be found here.
Before Yang Kai even entered the city, he saw many people flying around in the sky and couldn’t help being secretly amazed.
He is now a Heaven Rank cultivator, and although he also had the ability to fly, it consumed a great deal of his spiritual force. Unless it was absolutely necessary, Heaven Rank cultivators wouldn’t do such a thing. Only Spirit Rank cultivators would dare fly around recklessly.
In other words, the ones he saw were basically all Spirit Rank masters.
These were the strongest forces in the Divine Weapon World, and although there were differences in strength between them, to Heaven Rank cultivators, the Spirit Rank was undoubtedly their goal. At the very least, Yang Kai could see the desire in Gao Ming's eyes.
He is now at the peak Heaven Rank, so he only needed the Hundred Revolutions Heartless Pill to break through to the Spirit Rank!
Unfortunately, Gao Xinpeng has not yet promoted to the Spirit Pill Master, so there was no way he could refine it for him.
Outside of Profound Pill City, there was an extremely wide stone road that led straight to the nearest mountain peak. Gao Ming led Yang Kai on his horse and rode forward without obstruction.
However, Yang Kai saw that on both sides of this road, there were many people walking on foot. Some of them were nervously climbing up the mountain while others were excitedly descending the mountain.
There were clearly no restrictions on this stone road, but there seemed to be some kind of invisible force that prevented them from stepping into it, and as they flew past, all of them cast looks of admiration and respect towards them.
Seemingly noticing Yang Kai’s confusion, Gao Ming explained, “This road is specifically used by Profound Pill Sect disciples. Only disciples from Profound Pill Sect are allowed to step foot on it. What Pill Master Yang saw was basically people who went up the mountain to seek help to refine a pill.”
“So many people!” Yang Kai exclaimed.
Gao Ming smiled and said, “There is a few people today, there are times when it's more than this.”
Yang Kai suddenly understood why these people’s expressions were so different. If they get the pills, they would naturally be happy, but if they didn’t, they would naturally be disappointed.
“The Sect has specially set up Asking Pill Pavilion where all these people will go to ask for pills. When Pill Master Yang has the qualifications to refine pills, he can also put up a sign there and send his own medicine boy to guard it. If anyone wants to ask you to refine pills, they will naturally hand it over to your medicine boy.”
Hearing this, Yang Kai’s eyes lit up, “This is quite interesting.” Turning to the other side, he asked, “What are these people doing here? Is this the Asking Pill Pavilion?”
As far as he could see, there was a huge platform where a large group of people were gathered. There were men and women, old and young, and after a quick scan, he found that there were Earth and Heaven Rank cultivators. These people basically each occupied a corner and were either looking around vigilantly or sitting cross-legged to cultivate. There were several dozen or even a hundred of them.
What caught Yang Kai’s attention was that there were dried blood stains on the ground, and these blood stains were extremely scattered, making it difficult to distinguish. Yang Kai felt as if there had been many battles here.
This was the foot of the Profound Pill Sect’s mountain, so how could there be people fighting here?
Seeing this, Gao Ming explained, “This is not the Asking Pill Pavilion, this is the *Returning Platform!” [MSN: this *name might change in the future.]
“Returning Platform?” Yang Kai frowned, “What is it?”
Gao Ming’s eyes swept over the crowd before suddenly tightening his grip on the horse’s reins, “It’s still early, if Pill Master Yang wants to know what this place is for, you might as well take a look for yourself. It just so happens that something like this happened.”
Yang Kai also stopped his horse and stood next to Gao Ming, curiously looking towards the Returning Platform.
At this moment, a young man wearing a blue hat walked down from the mountain with his hands behind his back. This young man was not very old, but he had a pretentious look on his face, making others want to laugh.
However, the many cultivators gathered on the Returning Platform suddenly became restless when this young man appeared, as if a stone had been thrown into a calm lake, causing ripples to appear.
The young man wearing the blue hat walked to the center of the Returning Platform and looked around with a self-satisfied expression. Seeing everyone’s eyes on him, he pretended to cough lightly and said, “My master needs to recruit two guards. My master trusts me greatly, so this matter is left to me.”
As soon as he finished speaking, someone hurriedly asked, “Little Sir, may I ask if your old master is a Heaven Pill Master or Earth Pill Master?”
The young man in the blue hat glared fiercely at the person who asked this question, as if blaming him for saying something he shouldn’t have said, before reluctantly saying, “My master is Earth Pill Master for now, but I believe that my master will soon become a Heaven Pill Master!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the eyes of the crowd on the Returning Platform dimmed. Soon, a group of cultivators walked out from the Returning Platform. Seeing this, the young man in the blue hat shouted, “Don’t go! I’ve already said that my Master will soon be promoted to a Heaven Pill Master. At that time, you will be the guards of a Heaven Pill Master. This kind of opportunity is rare. If you don’t seize it today, you will regret it later!”
But no matter how he shouted, those who should have left still walked out of the Returning Platform, leaving only about half of the people standing there.
Yang Kai could clearly see that most of the people who walked out were Heaven Rank, while the rest were Earth Rank.
Yang Kai had a vague idea about the purpose of this Returning Platform, so he turned to Gao Ming and asked, “Is this the place where the Sect’s Alchemists recruit guards?”
Gao Ming nodded and said, “That’s right! In addition to the Blood Servant allocated by the Sect, the Sect’s Alchemists are free to recruit any number of guards they want here. Of course, the premise is that they can afford to raise them.”
“These Heaven Rank masters think that the Earth Pill Master can’t support them, so they left?”
“There are some reasons for this. In addition, Heaven Rank cultivators also have their own dignity, it’s only natural for them to follow a Heaven Pill Master. If they were to follow Earth Pill Master, they wouldn’t be able to overcome the hurdle in their hearts.”
Yang Kai nodded lightly, indicating that he understood.
The young man in the blue hat had arrived with his head held high, but at this moment he was somewhat dispirited. Standing in the middle of the Returning Platform, he sighed lightly.
Among the remaining Earth Rank cultivators, someone asked, “Little Sir, does your Master have any specific requirements for choosing a guard?”
“Requirements?” The young man in the blue hat looked up at the sky, with a bored look on his face, and suddenly grinned, “There’s no request, you can fight first. I’ll take a look, if it’s pleasing to the eye, I’ll bring them to my master. Perhaps the master will keep one of you.”
This request was quite rude, but the many Earth Rank masters on the Returning Platform seemed to accept it as a matter of course. The one who asked the question nodded, “Understood.”
In an instant, the atmosphere on the Returning Platform became tense. Everyone, regardless of whether they were men or women, old or young, was vigilant of the movements of the people around them. A chaotic battle seemed to be on the verge of breaking out.
Yang Kai finally understood where the bloodstains on the Returning Platform came from. Earth Pill Master recruiting guards could cause a chaotic battle, let alone a Heaven Pill Master. Such a situation was probably very common here.
“Let’s go,” Yang Kai was not in the mood to watch such a farce, so he flicked his reins and called out to Gao Ming before the two of them continued up the mountain. Soon, the sounds of fighting could be heard from behind them.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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