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    Chapter 42: Joining the Descent Sect and Gaining Trust!

    [You have been waiting for this day for a long time, so you have made preparations.]

    [After one night, as expected, Wang Qingxuan gave you the upper half of the Eternal Spring Technique. You didn’t accept it, instead, you proposed joining the Descent Sect.]

    [Wang Qingxuan hesitated, she frankly said it would make you fall into the endless abyss, but under your insistence, Wang Qingxuan agreed.]

    [After spending the day together, Wang Qingxuan took you to meet an elder of her team.]

    [The elder carefully scrutinized you. He seemed to think you were just a small bronze-level professional, so he bluntly said your strength was too low, but for Wang Qingxuan’s sake, he could let you join with difficulty.]

    [You knew it was time to show your worth, so you pulled out a machete and directly hacked a Descent Sect member standing beside you.]

    [Because you controlled your strength, the member wasn’t killed directly. Instead, he received a huge wound on his arm, dozens of centimeters long, and deep enough to see the bone.]

    [The elder was stunned for a moment, and then became furious. He believed you were overestimating yourself and trying to challenge the dignity of the Descent Sect, so he ordered more than ten members to surround you.]

    [In a moment of panic, Wang Qingxuan stood in front of you, trying to protect you.]

    [But you comforted her. You gently pushed her aside, then took out a pill and put it in the member’s mouth.]

    [A miraculous scene unfolded. The wound on the member’s arm began to scab over quickly, but his complexion was still pale.]

    [You then fed him a subpar blood replenishing pill, and soon, the heavily injured member was back to his old self, as healthy as a dragon.]

    [The elder was shocked and looked at you with a strange expression.]

    [You bluntly stated you were an alchemist, and these miraculous pills were made by you. You also expressed your longing to join the Descent Sect.]

    [At the same time, you said you wanted to achieve a higher position and didn’t want to start as a low-level grunt. You told the elder he wasn’t qualified, and asked him to call someone with more authority in the sect.]

    [The elder’s eyes flickered with suspicion and uncertainty. Although he found your words a little far-fetched, he also understood your value. A master capable of refining such miraculous healing elixirs was definitely not someone he could decide on.]

    [So, the elder treated you well and arranged for someone to monitor you. He told you that a protector-level figure would come to test you within three days. As long as you pass the test, you would become an elder like him.]

    “Whew…”

    Su Xing saw this and exhaled a breath, his heart filled with excitement.

    He had gone all out in this simulation, directly exposing his value to the Descent Sect. This might bring huge benefits, but it could also lead to a complete failure of this simulation!

    “But… thankfully, it’s just a simulation. Being able to obtain the Eternal Spring Technique is the most important thing!”

    Su Xing continued the simulation.

    [Three days later, an old man found you. He personally verified the effect of the healing pill and found that it could match some medium-grade healing potions, making him understand its value even more.]

    [However, the old man seemed curious about how you could refine such miraculous pills.]

    [You frankly stated that your profession was a cultivator, and that you accidentally obtained alchemy skills, so you could refine pills in large quantities. You also expressed that you could refine several more precious pills besides the healing pill.]

    [The old man’s face broke into a smile, as if he had already known this. He told you directly that you were telling the truth. If you had lied just now, he would have killed you without hesitation!]

    [Then, he told you that you could temporarily be given the position of assistant elder, and that you would be put through a year-long probation period. After passing the probation, you would be given the official position of elder!]

    Su Xing saw this and nodded knowingly, muttering:

    “As expected, this Descent Sect definitely has knowledge of the cultivation world! They even know I’m refining pills for cultivators… So, do they possess the entrance to a cultivation instance?”

    Su Xing’s heart was filled with excitement. He still knew very little about the cultivation world.

    Especially regarding cultivation techniques, he had no master and had to learn everything on his own.

    So, if he could learn more about the cultivation world through the Descent Sect, it would be a huge gain!

    Su Xing took a deep breath and continued the simulation.

    [You agreed to the protector’s request and joined the Descent Sect!]

    [The Descent Sect is not like official organizations that can operate openly. They are more like sewer rats, lurking in the shadows.]

    [The old man introduced himself as Shadow Protector. He gave you your first month’s mission: to refine five hundred healing pills and one hundred Refining Furnace Pills.]

    [You explained that you lacked alchemy materials and needed more herbs to refine pills.]

    [Shadow Protector agreed to your request. The next day, he sent a large batch of herbs through his subordinates.]

    [You lied about the quantity of herbs and secretly embezzled most of them. You then used some scraps to refine five hundred healing pills and one hundred Refining Furnace Pills.]

    [But they seemed unaware of your deception. They thought this was your alchemy technique and said that the pills you refined had good medicinal properties. So, they asked you to refine more pills.]

    [As you continuously provided the Descent Sect with pills, your status within the sect rose. The elder who had looked down on you before now affectionately called you “brother,” and you became a rising star in the Descent Sect.]

    [As your status became higher, you learned more about some of the sect’s secrets.]

    [Half a year passed like this. In the past half year, you provided the Descent Sect with thousands of healing pills and nearly a thousand Refining Furnace Pills. The Descent Sect’s suspicions towards you decreased, and they treated you as one of their own.]

    [As you continued to demonstrate your value, the sect’s upper echelons provided you with increasingly precious herbs. Some of them were even spiritual herbs. Those herbs were enough for you to try refining new pills: Nourishing Soul Pills!]

    Su Xing nodded slightly upon seeing this.

    Nourishing Soul Pills and Nourishing Element Pills were both low-grade pills, but they had different effects. Nourishing Element Pills were for nourishing the cultivator’s body and spiritual energy, increasing the importance of spiritual qi.

    However, Nourishing Soul Pills were for strengthening the cultivator’s divine consciousness, which was a mysterious concept, almost like a cultivator’s sixth sense.

    The Eternal Spring Technique vaguely mentioned divine consciousness and said that it was a power only Nascent Soul cultivators could master.

    However, even in the Golden Elixir Stage, taking Nourishing Soul Pills could bring great benefits, such as improving control over spiritual qi and so on.

    However, the main herb used in Nourishing Soul Pills, Nourishing Soul Grass, was very precious, even more so than Nourishing Element Grass.

    [You tricked the Descent Sect into giving you hundreds of Nourishing Soul Grass and began to experiment with refining Nourishing Soul Pills!]

    (End of Chapter)

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