Chapter 3741 — The Top-Grade Foundation-Breaking Pill
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
The shopkeeper explained patiently, "Take Foundation-Breaking Pills of ordinary quality: they can only guarantee a breakthrough through the early Foundation Establishment stage or its peak bottleneck. Once one reaches the higher Foundation Establishment mid-stage, their effect becomes hard to notice, so their buyback price is three hundred spirit jade at most. But those of higher quality imported from Middle Island can still guarantee a successful breakthrough even after the mid-stage, and those fetch a buyback price of four hundred spirit jade or more."
"So what? Surely you are not about to tell me that the Foundation-Breaking Pills this pauper picked up through some back-alley channel can match the quality of those made by Middle Island masters?" Yu Jiang cast Wei Zhao a cold, sidelong glance and, craning his neck, taunted.
"That is not what I mean," the shopkeeper said, shaking his head.
"Then there is nothing more to say!" Yu Jiang's heart instantly eased. He had truly feared that this penniless rogue cultivator might have somehow gotten his hands on two high-grade Foundation-Breaking Pills!
After all, unlikely as such a thing was, if the fellow really had the devil's own luck, there was still the slimmest of chances.
But before he could breathe easy, the shopkeeper gave him a look heavy with meaning, one in which exasperation and pity seemed mingled, and only then went on, "But besides ordinary-grade and high-grade Foundation-Breaking Pills, there is yet another kind—the top grade! In years past, the top-grade Foundation-Breaking Pills produced by the Divine Alchemist and Sage Physician Zhang Lifeng could guarantee a hundred-percent success even in the late Foundation Establishment stage. Surely you have heard something of this, honored customer?"
Zhang Lifeng, the Divine Alchemist and Sage Physician, was a towering figure who had risen from North Island and was by now a name card for the island itself. Any cultivator born on North Island who had not even heard of Zhang Lifeng would be too ashamed to show his face in public.
What the Divine Alchemist produces is surely of the top grade!
Yu Jiang had heard that saying, on everyone's lips, countless times already, and he had naturally heard of Zhang Lifeng's refinement of top-grade Foundation-Breaking Pills.
It was said that in those days, any single top-grade Foundation-Breaking Pill Zhang Lifeng casually put out would be bid up with ease to the sky-high price of a thousand spirit jade or more—sometimes even mountains of spirit jade might not be enough to snatch one up. Ordinary high-grade Foundation-Breaking Pills could not even be mentioned in the same breath.
"What do you mean by that? Top-grade Foundation-Breaking Pills can only be refined by a divine alchemist like Master Zhang. They command a sky-high price of over a thousand, and even then only those with deep connections have any hope of buying one. What in blazes could a penniless rogue cultivator like him have to do with such things?" Yu Jiang looked utterly baffled at the shopkeeper's words.
In his view, if a pauper like Wei Zhao might, by the devil's own luck, have some sliver of a chance at obtaining high-grade Foundation-Breaking Pills, then top-grade Foundation-Breaking Pills could never have the slightest connection to such a person—not one shred of a possibility!