As Mo Xie entered the pagoda, a massive plaque can be seen hanging above the second gate.
Alchemy Pagoda: Haven.
Although there weren't as many people inside than those from the other two pagodas and the outer part of the Alchemy Association, but clearly, the difference is still tremendous.
The pure gathering of Immortal ranked experts made the Alchemy Haven Pagoda's pressure immense, surely, the reason for not allowing experts below Immortal rank to come, one of them is this!
Mo Xie smelt all types of medicines, herbs, and concoctions everywhere, seeing the many experts walking here and there, he couldn't help but remember that wonderful day.
When he entered that Alchemy place, that buzzing place with millions of cultivators, and someone bumped into him, he obliterated... He shook his head: 'Ah, I was too ill-tempered those days...'
Mo Xie started to look around, a lot of these pills are actually acceptable for him. Although he can craft all of them with a much higher quality, he doesn't have the materials needed to do so.
"Well, they are still passable." Mo Xie, actually took millions of years to reach the level of his alchemy expertise and all of those that he had mastered.
Although he had only reached Divine King rank in his previous life, he's quite confident that he's not far from reaching the peak with his expertise in alchemy, blacksmithing, and others.
Well, maybe unless... another revelation occurred where what he thought is peak is actually just the scratch of the surface.
That's what he thought though, but seeing the pills displayed here, his confidence with his skills are slowly returning again.
As they continued walking, they found no particular thing that interested him, but that's him. Shang Ting was actually excited to see so many different kinds of pills for different kinds of uses.
And Tanya, there were no pills for cultivation within the tiny world she had lived in, hence, seeing so many things that can help her and her tribe to become stronger displayed everywhere, she couldn't help but be mesmerized by it.
Mo Xie sighed, since they are here to enjoy, he'd let the two of them to have fun.
He needs to adjust his mindset, after all, not everyone had seen and known what he knows.
And, truth be told, this is the very first time that he and Shang Ting had a date, although he felt bad for the latter because Tanya is with them, he couldn't really do anything about it.
Although Tanya is also his wife and it's his obligation to be so, but it seemed unfair that he had only taken Shang Ting out together with Tanya.
He felt guilty about it.
Mo Xie sighed, he accompanied the two of them to stroll, looking for useful things.
'From my previous life, there's a limited amount of mentality cultivation art, maybe I should try looking for them in this world.'
It's the only thing that he couldn't achieve true expertise, hence, it's also his greatest weakness. He remembered that there is actually an auction house in the empire, but he can't really be sure if they will be selling some mentality cultivation arts,
At the very least, those focusing on support or defense are the ones he wanted. The mentality cultivation arts that he knew are far too weak in terms of overall potential, it's like all of Mo Xie's techniques are at the Divine realm but it's still at the bronze stage.
It's all about the foundation for defending against mental attacks and mental attacks as well, but that's it. Like a massive dam without water in it, no essence at all.
He had tried developing it himself for a few hundreds of years, but nothing really happened for some reason. Like a barrier especially blocking his path to knowledge and experience.
With some pondering, Mo Xie got his answer, join a sect that has arts about mental cultivation, or the Empire if they have, then, there are those sects as well.
He at the very least wants to be prepared, mental attacks are both the easiest and the hardest to contend against, that's based on his own experience.
There was a time where he faced that person, he almost died, but his enemy died faster, although the enemy was strong, he's weak against physical attacks, it's like the polar opposite of each other.
As they continued sightseeing, a whole hour had passed.
To think that both Shang Ting and Tanya would garner so much attention due to their earth-shaking beauty.
They've reached the pagoda's 3rd floor, and for some reason, the two beauties actually didn't pick any cultivation pills, they had been getting beauty enhancement or face retaining pills and make-ups.
There was a time when he said that he can casually make something like that easily, but the duo said that there is a difference.
He felt confused!
But after a while, he just accepted their logic without much placing further thought to it.
After another hour had passed, the trio was about to leave, but then, Yan Meng and Fei Lin arrived.
"Master!" The two of them called out.
Mo Xie seeing them remembered that these two were actually members of the Alchemy Association from the Fallen Leaf Continent's branch!
Three great beauties in a single place, this is a rare case, hence, a lot of clan's and sect's young masters started to look at their direction with awe and became mesmerized further.
It's like the fairies themselves had descended.
"Who are they? I've never seen nor heard of such beauties before."
"I think they are visitors?"
"Oh, thanks for the heads up captain obvious!"
They started to chatter amongst themselves, some even wants to approach but for some reason, they couldn't muster up the courage to do so.
Fei Lin approached Mo Xie: "Master, you've done buying things already?"
Mo Xie nodded his head: "Nothing really caught my attention."
Fei Lin nodded her head in understanding, with Mo Xie's attainment in alchemy, why would he even be interested. Before he met Mo Xie, he frequently visits the main branch, she thought that it's a heavenly place for pills since it's filled with high-grade pills, but to think that she was merely a frog in the bottom of the well.
Fei Lin then asked: "Master, you're only allowed till the 6th floor right? Do you wish to enter the upper floors?"
Mo Xie looked at her and asked: "Oh, what goods will be there?"
Fei Lin immediately replied: "Well, mostly cultivation pills, it's where the big clans' and sects' heads can enter, but since I'm an Alchemy Master... high official of the branch from the Fallen Leaf continent, I have access there."
The Pagoda has ten floors, and Fei Lin can access all the way to the 9th floor.
Mo Xie nodded his head: "Sure, we've got nothing better to do for a while."
"Great!" Fei Lin excitedly exclaimed as she led them towards the upper floors, Mo Xie scanned through the pills displayed, unlike the lower floors that displays pills in bulks, the floors above the 6th displays only a handful per rack.
"Quite decent." He couldn't help but remark as he looked at the pills one by one, he need not touch any as he could already sense them.
Something then caught his attention at the 8th floor, there's a plaque hanging above the entrance of it 'Cultivation Breakthrough Floor'.
The first thing that entered his sight is a display above a rack: "Sky Origin Pill..."
"It stinks..." It has a description 'Improves the chance of breaking through from Sky Shattering rank to Heaven Encompassing rank by 50%!'.
It'll definitely catch everyone's attention, but Mo Xie sighed, the quality is actually too poor to his liking: "More like 10%."
He sighed, he took one of it and swallowed it just to try, his face crumbled as he felt the pill disolve in his mouth and entered his soul sea: "Like a single drop in the ocean..."
His soul sea is too massive, hence, it felt like it's almost as good as nothing!
"And you need to pay three hundred low-grade spirit stones for this..."
To him, it's extremely lacking, but he knows that for normal cultivators, it's a great way to break through! "But too much reliance on pills will deteriorate one's own growth."
He shook his head, with the quality of the pills here, it's acceptable for lower tier realms, but it'll be pointless for him.
Figuring out that the reason why there are more higher ranked experts in Myriad Earth Abyss continent is mostly due to these sort of pills, they won't merely need one after all. And if they can't increase their own spiritual energy and breakthrough while only relying on pills, they'll more likely be a well filled with big rocks. There will be so much space for tempering their soul sea.
"A capable pill can produce great cultivators, but it's in the hands of those cultivators whether they be an expert or a frog in the well."
For Mo Xie, he wishes to be like a well filled with finely grained sands, not a single space should be left out. But as he thought of this, he smiled, he finally had some idea to help the Ouyang Clan create some connections!
At this time, a person approached: "Excuse me sir, that... how do you wish to pay for the pill you just ate?"