I Seek Immortality Through Serendipity

By analogy, if the Five-Element Gold Pill can be formed, it can directly elevate a Golden Core cultivator’s mana to the mid-stage of the Golden Core!

It is a rare and precious pill that can significantly enhance Golden Core mana.

However, the refinement of this pill is extremely difficult, and none have circulated in the South Mountain Domain for quite some time.

The last time it was seen was five hundred years ago, during the Treasure Pavilion Assembly at the South Mountain Pavilion, where a One-Element Gold Pill was auctioned.

It was valued at ten thousand gold, won by a Golden Core cultivator from the Rakshasa Sect, only exchanged for a high-grade treasure, shocking the South Mountain Domain.

This pill can only be taken once in a lifetime, yet it is priceless.

One Dharma Pill is equivalent to a hundred years of bitter cultivation.

It’s known that an Early Stage Golden Core cultivator needs at least five hundred strands of Gold-Attribute Magical Power to break through to the Mid-Stage Golden Core. Generally, this process takes at least five hundred years.

Although one can consume pills and heavenly materials and earthly treasures along the way, a cultivator cannot always practice meditation.

Comprehending techniques and refining Dharma Seals, each is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Offsetting these, an ordinary cultivator would find it difficult to reach the mid-stage of the Golden Core without five hundred years.

If faced with a formidable enemy, injured at the core, or experiencing any mishap, this period would be further delayed.

And a Two-Element Gold Pill can save at least two hundred years of bitter cultivation!

Zuo Tianlun’s proudest achievement in his cultivation journey is his youth.

Full of spirit and not betraying his youthful ambition.

Now seeing this precious pill that can save two hundred years of hard cultivation, how could he resist, with the Five-Thunder Sleeve surging, transforming into a giant claw, reaching straight for the pill.

”Whoosh!”

But with just a gentle wave of a green sleeve, all three treasures were captured by it.

The giant claw reached into the air, only to grasp nothing.

”Fellow Daoist Gu, what do you mean by this?!”

Seeing this, Zuo Tianlun stopped in his tracks and asked with a grim face.

Xin Ning, on the other hand, narrowed her eyes and subdued her aura, quietly watching the two with the hope that they would immediately turn against each other.

Having used the Taiyin Godslaying Seal, Gu Yuan’s Divine Soul Power was much weakened; his face was pale, and his eyes were somewhat dim. If not for his Mid-Stage Golden Core Divine Soul Power, he would have nearly lost the ability to fight, nearing unconsciousness.

Yet facing Zuo Tianlun’s questioning, Gu Yuan remained calm, sincerely saying, ”Fellow Daoist Zuo, this woman is treacherous, a ploy to drive wolves and swallow tigers. You are a prodigy among the Golden Cores in the South Mountain Domain and the first among the young generation in the Sunset Glow Sect for hundreds of years. How could you be deceived by such tricks?”

”Such a shallow trick, how could I fall for it?!”

Zuo Tianlun said instinctively.

”I would not expect otherwise. Fellow Daoist Zuo, you are extraordinarily intelligent, much more so than I am. If I can see through this trick, how can you not?”

Gu Yuan nodded slightly, seemingly admiring Zuo Tianlun’s wisdom.

”In that case, why don’t we join forces to slay this woman and then distribute the treasure, what do you say?”

Gu Yuan proposed again.

The witch from Qingyang Temple couldn’t help but chuckle softly upon hearing this, ”Fellow Daoist Zuo, the treasures are all in this person’s pocket, can you still trust him?”

”If I leave this place, he will surely swallow up all the treasures and definitely will not share them with you!”

”From what I see, it’s better that you and I join forces to drive this person away, then you and I can distribute the treasures!”

The two had differing opinions, leaving Zuo Tianlun momentarily hesitant and pondering.

”The word of a demoness, how can it be trusted?”

”Fellow Daoist Zuo, I know your aspirations are grand. I have a plan; would you like to hear it?”

Ignoring Xin Ning’s manipulation, Gu Yuan merely looked at Zuo Tianlun.

”Stop babbling, just say it already!”

Zuo Tianlun said somewhat impatiently.

”Cultivators are esteemed in competition; the ownership of treasures must also be contested!”

”Whether scheming and sinister or forthright and open, it all lies in your thoughts.”

”Fellow Daoist could stay here for a moment, wait for me to kill this woman, and then discuss the Dao with you.”

”If I win between us two, the treasures in this Secret Realm will naturally belong to me!”

”If fellow Daoist wins, I will hand over all three treasures!”

”If we are evenly matched, fellow Daoist will choose first, and then me; we will split it equally, with any difference compensated as fellow Daoist suggests!”

Gu Yuan raised his head and said aloud.

”Bah, Fellow Daoist Zuo, this person only wants to gobble up the treasures, his ambitions are far-reaching, and he must not be trusted!”

The witch from Qingyang Temple immediately retorted.

But Gu Yuan just smiled, saying calmly, ”Indeed, the treasures should belong to those with virtue. As these have no owner, why can I not claim them all?”

”However, I am not as deceitful as you. If it were as we previously negotiated, I would certainly take only my share, no more.”

”Now that things have come to this point, the agreement is lost, naturally relying on personal means!”

”But I will not launch sneak attacks, nor use disreputable tactics.”

”Fellow Daoist Zuo, if you are unwilling to follow my method, then join hands with this woman to attack me!”

”But merely two people!”

”If I am defeated, the treasures shall be given up willingly!”