240: The Truth of the World

The final material is the earth vein dragon marrow.

This material is also extremely rare.

It occurs when a place has a Spiritual Vein underground, and happens to have humans living above it.

Due to special circumstances, it forms a Dragon vein.

It is a combination of a Dragon vein and a Spiritual Vein, which is then nourished by human Luck.

This forms the earth vein dragon marrow.

This earth vein dragon marrow contains a trace of human Luck.

When refined into a nascent soul forming pill, it increases the Heavenly Luck of the person Undergoing Tribulation during the formation of the Golden Core.

This trace of Luck is extremely rare for a Cultivator attempting to reach the Nascent Soul Stage.

After all, those who can Cultivate to the Nascent Soul Stage are the cream of the crop, and they all possess some amount of Luck.

If they do not have it themselves, this added trace of Heavenly Luck...

...will make their future Cultivation smooth sailing.

Furthermore, this added trace of Heavenly Luck...

...will make it much smoother when Undergoing Tribulation or overcoming the Heart Demon tribulation.

Therefore, those who Cultivate immortality care about the legends of Luck!

Gu Changan finished reading the list of main Materials, and his heart turned ice cold.

This isn't Cultivating immortality!

This is clearly a gauntlet!

A single nascent soul forming pill has seven hurdles!

With so many Materials, he had no idea where to get them.

No wonder the core formation pill and nascent soul forming pill are all controlled by various Cultivator Families!

Where is a Loose Cultivator supposed to get these Materials?

They require thousands or even tens of thousands of years to Cultivate!

How many years does a Loose Cultivator even live in total?

Even if you wanted to earn Spirit Stones, how long would it take to be able to afford them?

There is truly a difference between immortals and mortals!

The more Gu Changan thought about it, the more stifled he felt.

In his previous life, he worked for money and was always struggling at the bottom.

He thought he could get rich through hard work, but by middle age, he realized it was all a delusion!

Then he thought he could do business; after all, his mind wasn't any worse than others!

Then he suffered another blow!

How could ten years of hard study compete with three generations of business experience?

How could ten years of hard study compete with three generations of high-ranking officials?

How could ten years of hard study compete with three generations of monopolies?

The monopolies mentioned here are the ones in every industry.

Others' grandfathers and fathers had already monopolized every industry.

Even if you wanted to do business and get a piece of the action,

you would end up facing all kinds of suppression!

So in the end, he could only move between various menial jobs just to make ends meet.

Thinking about getting ahead? Forget it!

Unless you squeeze into a new industry track, but then you turn around and find...

...that group of people high above, while setting the rules, are also holding the starting pistol.

While urging you to correct yourself, they urge you to do this and do that!

In the end, no matter what!

They all want to skim a little off the top and get a slice of the pie!

So that's just how the world is!

The life of a beast of burden in his previous life was a life of being a beast of burden.

In this life, he is Cultivating, but he found that nothing has changed!

It turns out that the Qi Refining Stage and Foundation Establishment Stage before the Golden Core are just the menial labor of his previous life!

At these two levels, you still feel you have hope to climb upward.

Thinking that one day you can become a Dragon and an ancestor!

But when forming the Golden Core, you realize that the road ahead has long been blocked.

Some Families have a Legacy spanning tens of thousands of years, passing down their resources from generation to generation.

Some Families kill and plunder, and their resources accumulate like a snowball.

Just like these 7 Materials for the nascent soul forming pill.

How could the bottom-tier Cultivators have heard of them? How could they have seen them?

Even some Families might not possess all of them.

In all likelihood, they only have one or two of them.

Or they possess the production channels for one of them.

Gu Changan's heart grew even colder at this thought.

But what did he have?

Gu Changan thought, fortunately, he has the treasure gathering basin!

This is the hope that Heaven has given him for living a second life.

Relying on it, he can break free from all kinds of restrictions.

He can climb back to the Peak and see the different scenery at that Peak.

Gu Changan's expression was grave; his plan for this life needed to change.

Before, he only thought about Cultivating step by step, without fighting or competing with others.

As long as he could get resources, he could replicate them infinitely and upgrade infinitely.

He could keep Cultivating to the Nascent Soul Stage, all the way to the Peak of this world.

But now he realized this path was broken and impassable.

Because the various Materials needed to Cultivate to this point are all controlled by the upper-level Cultivators.

They are controlled by these Cultivation clans, Cultivation Families, and various major forces.

If he wanted to get the main Materials for the nascent soul forming pill, he could not bypass these major forces.

So what to do?

He could only rob!

He could only steal!

If you say you want to trade, do you think they would pay any attention to you?

Or they would just slap you to death!

So, these major forces are the mountains pressing down on his head.

If he wanted to grow, he had to overturn these mountains.

In that case, his future plans would need to focus on taking action against these major forces.

If he could steal or rob them, that would be fine, but if he couldn't even do that,

he would just have to slowly annihilate these major forces.

If he couldn't do it himself, he would find someone who could!

If he couldn't find anyone, he would build his own force and Cultivate them himself!

Of course, this is the hardest path, and also the most difficult path.

He still needed to make plans in two directions!

One is on the surface: get the various Materials for the nascent soul forming pill and do Alchemy himself!

But thinking about it, it was 99% impossible!

Not to mention that these Materials are extremely hard to get, various Families and various major forces must control them very tightly.

It's almost impossible here!

Furthermore, regarding Alchemy, he didn't possess any Alchemy talent, did he?

How could he know how to do it as soon as he started?

Even if he started refining from low-level Medicinal Pills, how long would he have to refine?

Did he have to spend all his time on Alchemy?

Although it is said that as long as one gets the roughly formed Medicinal Pill, it would be fine.

But who could guarantee that this is easy?

Gu Changan instantly thought of the chemical reactions from his previous life.

Alchemy must be similar; who could guarantee that he would definitely be able to produce a Medicinal Pill lump?

He couldn't even guarantee it for low-Rank ones, let alone the nascent soul forming pill.

The result of a tiny difference leading to a massive error would drive him crazy.

It was highly unlikely that Gu Changan could do Alchemy himself.

But the main Materials for the Medicinal Pill still had to be collected!

What if he could find someone who could do Alchemy in the future?

Such a result is not impossible!

So, the focus from now on would be on getting the main Materials for the nascent soul forming pill.

Then, if there was even a sliver of a chance, he would directly find out where there were finished nascent soul forming pills.

Then he would directly take action; whether by stealing or robbing, as long as he could get his hands on it.

Gu Changan instantly thought that if there was a nascent soul forming pill anywhere in this world,

then it could only be in the warehouse of the Treasure Pavilion headquarters.

As for other places that would likely have nascent soul forming pills,

they would most likely be the treasuries of the other three major forces.

The treasury of the Tianji Pavilion, the treasury of the Blood Fiend Alliance, and the treasury of the Northern Loose Cultivators Alliance.

If he could annihilate any one of these four forces,

he would have a sliver of a chance to obtain a nascent soul forming pill!

Could it be that he had just received the world's main quest?