Inside the
Meanwhile, at the Human Race's General Administration Bureau, numerous Eighth-grade powerhouses had gathered. These were all elites selected from the human side, ones who would venture into the interior of the Chaos Enamel Furnace to compete for opportunities. Among them were many veteran Eighth-graders, as well as a few newly risen ones, but without exception, every single one had reached the absolute limit of their martial path at the Eighth-grade.
Back when they had ascended, they had all achieved Sixth-grade Opening Heaven. The Eighth-grade was the ceiling of their lives, and if they wanted to advance even a step further, seizing the opportunities within the Chaos Enamel Furnace was the only way.
Once the entrance to the Chaos Enamel Furnace solidified, a massive war between the human and ink races would erupt. Their mission was to charge in ahead of everyone else, seek out opportunities, and achieve the exalted Ninth-grade!
As for everything else, they needn't worry. Other human powerhouses would handle intercepting the
The numerous Eighth-graders sat below, resembling diligent scholars in a classroom. Standing before them was a martial artist with vigorous blood energy, an imposing aura, and a cultivation so deep it was impossible to gauge.
Because Blood Crow had been a firsthand witness to the last appearance of the Chaos Enamel Furnace and had once ventured inside to seek opportunities, his understanding of the furnace surpassed anyone else's.
Mi Jinglun had personally invited him to brief these Eighth-graders on the conditions inside the Chaos Enamel Furnace, so that everyone could prepare in advance.
Blood Crow had no structured lecture prepared, so he simply spoke whatever came to mind. The Eighth-graders below all took careful notes—nobody could say whether what Blood Crow described might become a lifeline or a key to seizing opportunities at the critical moment.
"Let me tell you about the Opening Heaven Pills nurtured inside the Chaos Enamel Furnace. The world only knows that these pills can help warriors break through their own shackles, but has anyone ever told you that even the Opening Heaven Pills inside the Chaos Enamel Furnace are divided into grades?"
The assembled Eighth-graders burst into an uproar. Nobody had ever told them this, and they had never heard of it before. Beside them, Mi Jinglun and
Truthfully, when they had first received this intelligence from Blood Crow, they had been equally shocked.
The Opening Heaven Pills inside the Chaos Enamel Furnace actually had different grades.
Blood Crow didn't keep them in suspense and continued: "I don't know how the Ninth-graders of the Blessed Lands categorize them—after all, I'm not from any Blessed Land. I'll simply divide the Opening Heaven Pills in the Chaos Enamel Furnace into two types. One is the well-known Supreme-quality Opening Heaven Pill, the kind that can help you Eighth-graders break through to the Ninth-grade. The other lacks such miraculous power—it is merely an Ordinary-quality Opening Heaven Pill!"
Supreme-quality and Ordinary-quality—rather rough classifications, but clear enough.
One of the Eighth-graders below asked in confusion: "The Supreme-quality Opening Heaven Pill goes without saying, but Brother Blood Crow, why would the Chaos Enamel Furnace also nurture Ordinary-quality ones? What use are they?"
Blood Crow replied: "Why it nurtures Ordinary-quality Opening Heaven Pills, I don't know either. But they are not useless. While their medicinal effects aren't as miraculous as the Supreme-quality variety, they still possess the ability to help warriors break through bottlenecks."
Break through bottlenecks, not shackles…
Hearing it put that way, the Eighth-graders roughly understood.
The same Eighth-grader who had spoken before said: "So that's how it is. In that case, these Ordinary-quality Opening Heaven Pills are also rare treasures."
A warrior's path of cultivation was never entirely smooth sailing. Take, for example, the proprietress
Though for Opening Heaven Realm warriors, a few centuries was not considered long, if one could obtain the aid of an Ordinary-quality Opening Heaven Pill, there would be no need to waste all that time.
The human race currently had a large number of high-grade Opening Heaven cultivators, and quite a few were stuck at their own bottlenecks with no way to advance. They hadn't yet reached the point of needing Supreme-quality Opening Heaven Pills. If they could obtain some Ordinary-quality Opening Heaven Pills for assistance, they could break through to the next grade. One or two wouldn't make much difference, but once the numbers added up, the human race's overall strength would surge tremendously!
It wasn't as though the human race lacked spirit pills for helping warriors break through bottlenecks—their effects simply weren't particularly impressive. But Ordinary-quality Opening Heaven Pills nurtured within the Chaos Enamel Furnace were a different matter entirely. They were the finest spirit pills for helping warriors overcome bottlenecks!
As for Xiang Shan, he had originally entered the Chaos Enamel Furnace with the Supreme-quality Opening Heaven Pill in mind. But now it seemed he didn't necessarily have to compete for that. An Ordinary-quality Opening Heaven Pill could equally help him break through his current bottleneck.
"Brother Blood Crow, how many Supreme-quality Opening Heaven Pills are there? And how many Ordinary-quality ones?" another Eighth-grader asked the question he wanted answered.
Blood Crow glanced at him and replied: "I'm not sure of the exact number of Supreme-quality Opening Heaven Pills. When I entered the Chaos Enamel Furnace back then, I was only Seventh-grade. I didn't dare wander around freely, let alone compete for opportunities meant for the absolute apex powerhouses. Though I don't know the precise count, for such heaven-defying spirit pills, the quantity surely isn't large."
He paused, then continued: "As for the Ordinary-quality Opening Heaven Pills… there are quite a lot of them. I managed to obtain some back then. The reason I was able to advance to Eighth-grade so smoothly was precisely because I took those Ordinary-quality Opening Heaven Pills."
As the discussion deepened, the atmosphere in the great hall grew increasingly heated. One Eighth-grade Opening Heaven cultivator after another raised the questions on their minds. Blood Crow answered everything he could. For things he truly didn't know, he refrained from speculating, so as not to mislead anyone.
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Inside the Chaos Enamel Furnace, Yang Kai naturally had no idea that Blood Crow had classified the Opening Heaven Pills into Supreme-quality and Ordinary-quality. But even from this close vantage point of observation, he still arrived at a conclusion that he could hardly believe.
The Opening Heaven Pills within the Chaos Enamel Furnace did indeed come in two different qualities.
The nine points of light that shone brightest were undoubtedly the type of Opening Heaven Pills he already knew about. With such proximity, Yang Kai couldn't help feeling a restless itch in his heart.