# Chapter 1018: Qiankun Five Jade Pill
"Qiankun Five Jade Pill!" Mu Xuanyin slowly spoke a name.
"Qiankun Five Jade Pill..." Yun Che murmured softly. This was clearly the name of a pill, yet it was named after Qiankun, which meant it must be extremely extraordinary: "Master, this is?"
Mu Xuanyin's icy eyes slightly narrowed: "Since you refused to increase your profound strength through the Ice Phoenix Yin Yuan, then if you want to achieve the Divine Tribulation Realm before the Profound God Convention, the Qiankun Five Jade Pill is the only method I can think of."
Yun Che's pupils contracted slightly as he said somewhat incredulously: "Could it be that this Qiankun Five Jade Pill... might allow your disciple's profound strength to reach the Divine Tribulation Realm in two years?"
"No." Mu Xuanyin shook her head: "Not might, but definitely will! And it won't even take two years. If you can obtain a Qiankun Five Jade Pill and successfully refine it within your body, one pill will be enough to send your profound strength straight into the Divine Tribulation Realm."
"..." Yun Che's mouth opened slightly, but he wasn't overly excited. Instead, he said slowly: "Obtaining the Qiankun Five Jade Pill should be very difficult, shouldn't it?"
A pill that could allow one to leap directly from the Divine Origin Realm to the Divine Tribulation Realm, even in the God Realm, was considered a heaven-defying treasure. How could it be so easily obtained... Otherwise, Mu Xuanyin wouldn't have first proposed the method of sacrificing many women with Ice Phoenix Yin Yuan.
"Not just difficult, but far more arduous than you imagine. To find one within two years, even if we exhaust the entire strength of the Yin Xue Realm, it would be as difficult as ascending to heaven!"
Mu Xuanyin coldly uttered words that didn't surprise Yun Che at all.
"To refine the Qiankun Five Jade Pill, five things are needed. They must have completely different internal forces, yet all are extremely rare and hard to find. They are: Qilin Horn, Ancient Dragon Heart, Wood Spirit Pearl, Nine-Star Buddha God Jade, and Royal Immortal Herb!"
Qilin Horn, as its name implies, was the horn of a Qilin. Apart from this, Yun Che had never heard of the others, and even understanding them was difficult. As for things like Qilin, on the Tian Xuan Continent and in the Huan Yao Realm, they only existed in records, and it was unknown whether they had ever truly existed. But since Mu Xuanyin mentioned Qilin Horn, it at least indicated that Qilin were not just imaginary profound beasts.
Mu Xuanyin slowly explained: "Ancient Dragon Heart is the heart of an ancient dragon. And this ancient dragon must be a true dragon that has lived at least a hundred thousand years, and it must be complete."
Yun Che abruptly raised his head: "Master, that day when you proposed to the Flame God Realm for a complete Jiaolong heart, was it for..."
The Jiaolong in the Burial God Fire Prison had lived for more than a hundred thousand years.
"You don't need to worry about that!" Mu Xuanyin interrupted him with a cold voice: "Even if we can obtain a single Jiaolong heart smoothly, without the other four materials, it would be completely useless!"
"..." Yun Che said no more, but a slight strange feeling stirred in his heart.
"As for the Wood Spirit Pearl, it is the life source pearl of the Wood Spirit race, and can only be obtained from the bodies of Wood Spirit people."
"Wood Spirit race?" Yun Che was slightly startled. He immediately recalled that he had once heard this name from Mo Li, and it seemed she had mentioned they possessed strong natural power.
Mu Xuanyin glanced at him and continued: "The Wood Spirit race belongs to the elf clan's branch. They possess the most extreme natural power in the world, capable of accelerating the growth of spirit plants and herbs. But what doesn't match their extremely special and pure natural power is that their power is very low in aggressiveness, so they are often enslaved to cultivate medicinal herbs. And their life source pearl, the Wood Spirit Pearl, not only contains the purest natural power itself, serving as a high-grade material, but also has another huge effect known to all."
"The higher the grade of the pill, the harder it is to refine. If it fails, the materials gathered at great cost, even over centuries or millennia, will be destroyed in one go. But if a Wood Spirit Pearl's power is integrated during refining, the success rate will be greatly increased. The higher the spiritual energy in the Wood Spirit Pearl, the easier it is to succeed. Therefore, the Wood Spirit people have been cruelly enslaved and hunted, becoming fewer and fewer. Although enslaving and hunting Wood Spirits is abhorrent to the righteous path, and no one dares to be blatant anymore, profound practitioners secretly searching for and hunting Wood Spirits for huge profits have never decreased. Many years ago, the Wood Spirit race was already on the verge of extinction."
"...Possessing the purest natural power, they should have been blessed by the Heavenly Dao. Instead, their sacred natural power became their nightmare." Yun Che murmured. It was easy to imagine that as Wood Spirits grew scarcer, the price of Wood Spirit Pearls would become more and more expensive, which would naturally drive the hunters to become even more ruthless.
"Although hunting Wood Spirits violates the Heavenly Dao, compared to the other four, the Wood Spirit Pearl is the easiest to obtain. As long as you're willing to pay enough, you can always buy one in the underground black markets of lower star realms. But to find a Wood Spirit Pearl with over seventy percent spiritual power... is a hundred times harder!" Mu Xuanyin frowned.
"Why? Does the spiritual power of a Wood Spirit Pearl easily dissipate?" Yun Che asked.
"You're right. Wood Spirit Pearls require the finest black jade for storage. But the dissipation of its spiritual power doesn't occur during storage, but at the moment of extraction."
Yun Che: "At the moment of extraction?"
"Once the Wood Spirit Pearl is extracted, the Wood Spirit will die along with it. And because its power is too pure, once it leaves the Wood Spirit's body, its power will rapidly dissipate. Moreover, when a Wood Spirit knows it's about to die, it will self-destruct the pearl. So even retaining fifty percent is extremely difficult. To obtain a Wood Spirit Pearl with over seventy percent spiritual power, one must hunt a Wood Spirit without its knowledge and extract the pearl as quickly as possible into a black jade box... Even so, retaining eighty percent is the limit."
"But... the Wood Spirit's power gives them extremely keen perception, sensitive to malicious intent to an extreme degree. It's incredibly difficult to hunt a Wood Spirit without its knowledge. Such Wood Spirit Pearls with high spiritual power retention are priceless and unavailable."
"There's another scenario: a Wood Spirit willingly sacrifices its life and actively extracts the Wood Spirit Pearl from its body. In this case, because the qi connection briefly remains, the Wood Spirit Pearl can retain a complete, full ten percent spiritual power! Of course, such a scenario is almost impossible."
Yun Che nodded and listened seriously.
"As for the Nine-Star Buddha God Jade and the Royal Immortal Herb..." Mu Xuanyin's brows knitted: "These are extremely rare and little-known treasures throughout the entire God Realm! Their existence is beyond your understanding now. I have already sent people to search. Whether they can be found depends on your fortune!"
"Then... what about the Qilin Horn?" Yun Che asked subconsciously. Because Mu Xuanyin had uniquely not mentioned this.
"This is what I want you to do next." Mu Xuanyin said.
Yun Che suddenly understood: "Could it be that there's already news of a Qilin Horn?"
"The Qilin in the Eastern Divine Region have been extinct for many years. I originally intended to send people to search in the Western Divine Region. But I happened to learn that in a place within our Yin Xue Realm, there exists a complete Qilin Horn." Mu Xuanyin said emotionlessly: "It is in the north of Yin Xue Realm, in the Ice Wind Empire."
"Ice Wind Empire?" Yun Che murmured, then immediately remembered: "The Ice Wind Empire where Mu Hanyi comes from?"
"Correct." Mu Xuanyin slowly nodded: "It is an Ice Qilin Horn, which has been passed down in the Ice Wind Empire for nearly a hundred thousand years and is revered as their national sacred treasure. Countless nations in the Yin Xue Realm rise and fall, yet the Ice Wind Empire has flourished for nearly a hundred thousand years without decline. Without doubt, this is attributed to the existence of their national sacred treasure. They will surely value it extremely. Getting them to hand it over will naturally not be easy."
"And soon, it will be the thousand-year birthday of the current Ice Wind Emperor. You will go with Mu Hanyi to the Ice Wind Empire to retrieve that Qilin Horn. Mu Hanyi doesn't know about this, and the Ice Wind Empire knows even less. As for how you will obtain it... that depends on your own ability."
If Mu Xuanyin just said the word, regardless of it being a national sacred treasure, the Ice Wind Empire would surely present it from thousands of miles away without even farting a protest. How could it be "not easy"?
Yun Che instantly understood. This was clearly Mu Xuanyin's way of giving him training and a test. At the same time, it was to let him truly experience the God Realm — after all, since arriving in the God Realm, he had never left the Bing Huang God Sect.
"Alright." Yun Che nodded heavily without hesitation: "Your disciple will definitely not let Master down."
After all, he was the personal disciple of the Yin Xue Realm King. With this identity, even a nation's emperor would have to be respectful. Even a national sacred treasure shouldn't be too hard to ask for, right? After all, in the Yin Xue Realm, who would dare not show face to the Yin Xue Realm King?
Yun Che thought to himself.
"Very good." Mu Xuanyin slowly nodded: "On this trip to the Ice Wind Empire, there will be no one protecting you by your side. So, you must not only retrieve the Qilin Horn, but also accomplish one more thing."
"Return alive!"
Yun Che's mouth opened slightly, then his gaze slightly lowered. He nodded again: "Yes, your disciple remembers."
Mu Xuanyin extended her arm and gently pushed. A white and a red jade bottle floated lightly, landing in Yun Che's hands.
"The white bottle contains Jiaolong Breath." Mu Xuanyin said: "A thousand years ago, Bing Yun was poisoned by it. I have been studying its toxicity over the years, hoping to find a way to neutralize it. Now that Bing Yun's poison has dissipated, it's useless to keep. Since you have the Heavenly Poison Pearl, handling poison is naturally much more convenient, so I'm giving it to you."
"As for the red bottle, it contains Jiaolong Blood."
When she said "Jiaolong Blood," Mu Xuanyin's gaze remained icy and stunning, without a ripple, as if the incident where she had used it to "ambush" Yun Che had never happened: "It's also useless to me now. Hmph, perhaps you will find it useful."
Yun Che had personally experienced the terror of Jiaolong Blood. And the toxicity of Jiaolong Breath had nearly killed a powerhouses at the Divine Sovereign Realm like Mu Bingyun, so its terror was even more imaginable. He carefully put away both bottles, then asked: "Thank you, Master... On which day should your disciple depart for the Ice Wind Empire?"
"Now." Mu Xuanyin said coldly.
"Now?" Yun Che was stunned.
"Mu Hanyi should already be waiting in the Ice Phoenix City Domain. Besides him, there will be one other person. You'll know when you get there." She slightly tilted her icy brows: "What? Do you still need to prepare yourself?"
"Uh... no." Yun Che immediately shook his head: "Your disciple will set off now."
The barrier of Minghan Heavenly Lake opened. Yun Che exited Minghan Heavenly Lake and headed straight for the Ice Phoenix City Domain.
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