Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 1265 - 1265 0728 The Tempting Pill Spirit

Chapter 1265: Chapter 0728: The Tempting Pill Spirit Chapter 1265: Chapter 0728: The Tempting Pill Spirit Chapter 0728: The Covetous Pill Spirit

Qi Tian did not linger any longer and continued to move forward, walking while simultaneously using the sensing function of the Heavenly Dao Engine to monitor the surroundings in real-time, avoiding traps and other uncontrollable circumstances.

Having crispily taken care of those three Gold Core Realm cultivators with the black heart not long ago, Qi Tian’s confidence had greatly increased. It also made him acutely aware of how terrifying the means at his disposal were. Within the Gold Core Realm, he was nearly invincible.

Through the sensing ability of the Heavenly Dao Engine, Qi Tian could now basically pinpoint Manager Chen’s location. The results of the investigation led Qi Tian to admire the fact that Manager Chen indeed deserved to be the person in charge dispatched by the Wanjie Commerce to the Imperial Family Secret Territory. There had been six or seven Gold Core Realm cultivators who had already died at Qi Tian’s hands, yet he still detected that around Manager Chen, there were about ten Gold Core Realm cultivators protecting him. Among these ten, none were weaklings; each of them possessed the cultivation level and strength of the middle or late Gold Core Realm.

What set Qi Tian’s mind at ease was that none of these people had reached the Half-step Nascent Soul level, let alone the Nascent Soul Stage cultivators. Dealing with them was still relatively easy for Qi Tian.

However, Qi Tian wasn’t in a hurry to make a move. What he was most concerned about at the moment was Manager Chen. He needed to ascertain whether Manager Chen had found an opportunity and whether he had digested and absorbed it. Honestly, Qi Tian had not expected that so much time would pass and Manager Chen still hadn’t digested the opportunity. However, according to the situation he had detected, Manager Chen had already gotten his hands on the opportunity he had been yearning for, and was currently trying to digest and absorb it. The two sides were currently in a tug-of-war, with Manager Chen wanting to transform the opportunity into his own asset, but the opportunity was very resistant, stubbornly refusing to submit.

This was a very common occurrence in the Cultivation World. All sorts of opportunities emerged endlessly, but it didn’t mean that whoever got them first could transform them into their own strength. Fate played a part; otherwise, such chances wouldn’t be referred to as “opportunities.” Of course, the real determinant of whether an opportunity could be digested and absorbed was an individual’s strength. If one’s strength was great enough, even a reluctant opportunity would eventually have to capitulate.

The problem Manager Chen now faced was that his personal strength wasn’t very formidable. The Saint’s Tomb where he discovered the opportunity was slightly inferior in nature to the one Qi Tian had just explored, but the various opportunities it contained were all of Nascent Soul Level. Manager Chen was just above the Half-step Nascent Soul level in terms of his cultivation realm, still a fair distance from the Nascent Soul Stage. It had already taken much effort for him to barely secure an opportunity, which was quite inferior, and yet he still hoped to digest and absorb this opportunity in the shortest time. Since the opportunity itself had its own personality and looked down on Manager Chen, the chances of agreeing to his hasty demands were even slimmer.

Manager Chen felt extremely frustrated but had no solution. The opportunity he found was a pill that had nurtured a Pill Spirit. The wisdom of the Pill Spirit was not high, but it had its own thoughts. Convincing it to willingly be consumed by Manager Chen was far from an easy task, especially since Manager Chen’s own strength was not quite up to par, making the Pill Spirit look down upon him.

Several times, Manager Chen thought about swallowing the Pill Spirit and the pill together, but each time he dismissed the foolish idea. Once a pill had nurtured a Pill Spirit, most of the pill’s medicinal effect would have transferred to the Pill Spirit. If the Pill Spirit wasn’t willing to be consumed, even if it was forcibly swallowed, the Pill Spirit would not release the medicinal power it nurtured. Thus, most of the medicinal effect would be wasted.

The pill that Manager Chen had obtained was extraordinarily efficacious, but he needed to consume it and digest the majority of its medicinal effect to have a good chance of reaching the Nascent Soul Stage. If the Pill Spirit was not cooperative during this process, then at most he could only digest the remaining part of the pill’s medicinal effect, and the majority of the potency contained within the Pill Spirit would be wasted, unable to benefit him.

The lack of the majority of the medicinal effect would inevitably lead to Manager Chen’s unsuccessful ascension to the Nascent Soul Stage. This meant that despite going through so much trouble to obtain this opportunity, Manager Chen’s grand expectations were severely diminished. How could the prideful Manager Chen possibly accept such an outcome?

Manager Chen tried to communicate with the Pill Spirit, hoping to persuade it. However, the Pill Spirit was impervious to enticement, not agreeing no matter what benefits Manager Chen offered. Desperate, Manager Chen scratched his head in frustration, but he had no way to deal with the Pill Spirit.

Qi Tian was unaware of the predicament Manager Chen was facing. Even if he knew about it, he wouldn’t have any sympathy for Manager Chen’s plight. Qi Tian was a mortal enemy of Manager Chen. If Manager Chen could not digest and absorb the opportunity, his cultivation realm would not advance, posing much less of a threat to Qi Tian. This was precisely the outcome Qi Tian preferred to see.