Guild Wars

One should understand that pills and alchemists weren't separated into Grades because the Pill Makers (their official title) of the Martial Spirit World were bored. It was done because pills of a certain Grade were most effective on cultivators in that exact Cultivation Realm. Those with a higher Cultivation Realm would only benefit from diminished effects, while they were actively harmful to those of a lower Cultivation Realm.

The Qi Purifying pill was a Grade 10 pill because of the materials used and its potency. As its effect stated, it would condense the Qi within a cultivator further, which had the effect of making their flow purer and could even create more space for them to increase Qi reserves.

However, this was meant for Integration Realm experts, who were already the peak of the world. It was a pill with little use to them, which was why the association had made Draco make it.

It was cheap (relatively), easy (relatively) and something that wouldn't invoke greed in examiners nor could it be used as a bribe.

However, due to Draco's perfect concoction, the volatile pill had created so pure and docile that anyone with Qi in their Dantian could absorb it, which in this world, started from the 6th realm, Qi Condensation.

Qi Condensation was the first actual Cultivation Realm in other worlds, while it was the 6th here, yet it all served the same purpose, introducing the energy called Qi which was converted from Spirit Energy through cultivation, into the Dantian.

Outside, the next realm was called Foundation Establishment, which was where one used their accumulated Qi to line the walls of their Dantian and reinforce it as well as establish it. As the name of that realm suggested, it was basically establishing a foundation for the building of further cultivation.

In the Martial Spirit World, however, the next realm was the Sublimation Realm (7th) which served a similar purpose. Here, one would sublimate their acquired Qi and turn it into a liquid, something which occurred in the Golden Core Realm in other worlds.

In other words, Sublimation was a combination of Foundation Establishment and Golden Core.

Outside, the next realm was the Nascent Soul Realm. Here, one would shatter their Golden Core and produce a miniature clone of themselves within their Dantian, the so-called Nascent Soul.

The Nascent Soul was special because it allowed the cultivator to double the effects of their cultivation by having one version of themselves cultivate at all times, leaving the original body to do other stuff. Additionally, it could be used to live on should the cultivator's body perish for whatever reason, allowing him to possess another being to live on, albeit in a weakened state.

This equated to the Crystallization Realm (8th). In this realm, you would crystallize your Qi and encase it around your Martial Spirit, forming a sort of cocoon. Cultivation here then becomes about gathering as much Qi as you can to feed your Martial Spirit until it emerges from the Embryo as a full, living Spirit.

Like the previous realm, Crystallization combined Nascent Soul and Soul Formation. Nascent Soul was creating the soul and fortifying it, while Soul Formation was purifying it and allowing it to actually exist outside the body indefinitely without backlash.

Outside, the next realm after Soul Formation was Nihility. Here one would work on the obvious next step, which was strengthening the body to exist without the soul.

Even at the Soul Formation Realm, your soul would be fine if it left your body for decades, but upon return, you would find a rotting corpse where you had left your body. Nihility was about making the body exist in a 'nihil' state while the soul was out, sort of like cryogenic freezing.

That way, no matter where you went, you would come back to find your body in the same state you left it, null and void, as if someone had used a remote to 'pause' it.

In the Martial Spirit World, this equated to the Formation Realm (9th). Here, one would work on forming their future integration with the Martial Spirit, converting their bodies from fully human to half-human, half-beast.

This was the same as the Nihility and Ascension realm, where the latter involved one slowly beginning to prepare their body for Immortal Ascension, converting their Qi over slowly.

Then there was the unofficial Half-Immortal Realm outside, and that equated to the Integration Realm (10th). Here, one would have fully merged with their Martial Spirit, making two entities become one, and doubling their base power.

This was the pinnacle of power in the Martial Spirit World until the passage to the Immortal World was unblocked and Integration Experts could ascend to continue their cultivation using Immortal Qi.

In fact, if you were to compare the two, the Integration Realm would be slightly higher than the Half-Immortal Realm, but not yet at the level of True Immortals in terms of power. An Integration Realm expert could fight a weak True Immortal head-on if they merged with their Martial Spirit, but that was all.

Now, the reason for all this explanation was relevant was to understand just how broken Draco's craft was. It allowed Qi Condensation (6th) experts to jump straight into Sublimation (7th), and not just the beginning stages Sublimation, but the peak of that Cultivation Realm!

It might seem like only one realm in the Martial Spirit World, but outside, this pill would let a Qi Condensation cultivator jump through the Foundation Establishment and let them reach the pinnacle of the Golden Core Realm, ready to rupture it and unleash their Nascent Soul!

All of this without any backlash, danger to their foundation, or hidden pill poison.

Now do you understand why those Elders were frothing at the mouth?

Sure, in the Martial Spirit World this already had great value but if they exported it outside, it would cause wars! Imagine, any brat with average talent could pop this pill and become a peak Golden Core despite their talent.

All these wastrel young masters and untalented scions' parents would kill for this pill, for even though Golden Core was not that high up, it was still better than being fucking cannon fodder Qi Condensation cultivators.

Not to mention, not everyone could survive through the various cultivation tribulations to reach Foundation Establishment and especially Golden Core. The danger of cultivation rose with each realm, depending on your foundation and talent.

That was just picturing the core areas. Rather, think of another use, if Draco were to make1,000 of these pills, he could create a 1,000 FREE Golden Core cultivators ready to fight for him.

This is what we call an Instant Army!

This force might not be impressive in core cities where Nihility and Ascension Realm experts resided, but in those fringe areas where Nascent Soul was the highest, this would allow one to become a powerhouse.

Then finally, there was the implication. If Draco could do this kind of stunt for this pill, who knew how he could amend other recipes? Could he perhaps make those dangerous one-off pills consumable for all?!

Were you telling them that if they gave Draco the Mind and Soul Pill recipe, which was a Grade 10 recipe for fortifying the mind and soul but its ingredients were too powerful, he could make it consumable for Crystallization experts?

This meant that… Jesus Christ, this meant that if a peak Golden Core cultivator took this theoretical pill, they might be able to skip through the Nascent Soul Realm straight to peak Soul Formation!

Ah! Ah! Ah!

Just thinking about it could make a sane man jump around like an enraged monkey in order to vent his shock.

Still thinking along those lines, there was another Grade 10 pill that worked on the body and helped Integration Experts ease the pain of Integration when they first entered the realm and were consolidating it.

If Draco got that recipe and he did something similar here, that pill could also theoretically allow Peak Soul Formation dudes to jump through Nihility and enter Ascension, then reach the peak, wouldn't that be… what words could even describe such a heaven-defying act?

Assuming that the young brat hadn't just used up the entire luck of 7 generations, and he could consistently reproduce this miracle, heck even one out of two, five or ten would be acceptable, and do it for the aforementioned theoretical pills, it would mean that as long as they provided Draco with the materials, he would be able to take an average bloke from Qi Condensation straight to Ascension, ready to become an Immortal with no flaws to foundation and no hidden impurities!!!

The only problem would be their comprehension of the realm, but bro. This was something that anyone could easily fix with a solid training regime and time. If one was training an army, this would be easy as fuck!

In Martial Spirit World terms, this was going from Qi Condensation, right to the peak of Formation in one go, ready to integrate.

The Alchemy Elders paused here and raised their bloodshot eyes to gaze at Draco, who was nonchalantly watching them. This shook the Elders deep down as they snapped out of their fervor, realizing just who the fuck they were dealing with.

Immediately, they announced the result and asked Draco if he would sell the pills to the Association, allowing them to put it on auction. The Alchemy Association wanted to hype up Draco's name by showing the world what he made and his talent, thereby building a platform for the Young Ancestor to continue Pill Making.

They didn't dare to invite him to their ranks, because they didn't have a position suitable for someone like this, a problem that the Main Plane's Tradeskill Association was familiar with, not to mention Draco's obviously more powerful affiliation.

Instead, they crowned him with a title, namely "Alchemic Supremacy", and told him he could use all the resources, materials, personnel, channels, and information of the entire Alchemy Association as he pleased.

While Draco happily skipped down to the library to go and poach recipes, words of his actions thundered across Morta City, before getting spread across the entire continent. The Alchemy Association's credibility was 100/100 in the eyes of all, so no one doubted the effects of the pill they announced.

Many wanted to find this Draco brat and kidnap him. They planned to tie him to their basement, letting him refine pills forever. However, their dicks became flaccid and even lost a few inches when they found that he was the Young Master of the Lucifer Clan and was even son-in-law to the Amaterasu Clan.

Then they became even more terrified when they found that both he and his little wife to be were the next-generation Ancestors of the Dragon and Phoenix Palace.

As such, all evildoers quietly decided to go to church every Sunday, because nowadays being evil was just too dangerous!

Only a few clans frothed at the mouth with madness, willing to risk it all or be damned, and that was the Pangu Clan Alliance. They immediately declared war on the two clans, hoping to use the element of surprise as well as a lighting strike to inflict heavy losses.

Unfortunately for them, they found Elders from the Dragon and Phoenix Place waiting for them in ambush with wide grins, stating that the Little Ancestors had long predicted such a stupid action.

It was said that apart from the little shithead, Ao Shangtian, all the other powerhouses, and prodigies of the alliance were slaughtered that day. The price the Pangu Alliance had paid to allow Shangtian alone to escape was unfathomable.

When Draco heard about this a few days later in the Blacksmithing Association's library (locally called; Artifact Refiners), which he had also gained access to after showing his Grade 10 blacksmithing skills, he and Eva scoffed.

They did not fear this trope of Shangtian getting revenge. They fucking welcomed it!

The Shangtian they hated was locked in another dead timeline, and this timeline's version had become a retard who had fallen into their trap due to his lack of knowledge. Maybe this Tower rendered version could man up and give them a worthy fight before they crushed him into nothing.

As such, they paid no attention to him, as he would most likely pop up on later floors.

Right now, Eva was cultivating using the resources Draco made, which allowed her to break into the Bone Cleansing Realm for both the Pure Angel Tactics and the Supremacy Theory.

Pure Angel Tactics was a mind and soul Cultivation Method while Supremacy Theory was a purely Body Cultivation Method Draco also spent some time working on his Vile Angel Tactics, which was also a mind and soul Cultivation Method, bringing it to the limit of the Bone Cleansing Realm.

However, in the process of doing this, they had consumed a lot of resources of the Alchemy Association. Luckily, after Draco used the ingredients once, he would search for their weaker versions and use Pair Dadeni or Refinement to make up for it.

Also, they let the association enjoy the profits from all his 'extras' which was enough wealth to make the Association richer than this world's equivalent of the Merchant Guild