Starting with the consumables of the Demonic Sect, one can barely achieve immortality.

Let's go back a little earlier.

The morgue, at the bottom floor.

Tian Tong lowered his gaze to the miniature disc in his palm that was emitting a pure white light, and smiled slightly:

"Our Holy Maiden has indeed arrived."

"Everything is just as my senior sister predicted. There is no way she could miss the opportunity to seize the original copy of the 'Pulling Silk Stabilizing Yang True Method'."

Just moments before, he was telling Yu Caiying that he would never allow the Holy Maiden to obtain this inheritance.

But now that he had confirmed the Saintess had indeed arrived, he appeared calm and composed, as always.

This unusual calmness made Yu Caiying instinctively sense that something was wrong.

She glanced at Tiantong with considerable wariness and tentatively asked:

"If that's the case, shouldn't we...?"

Tiantong interrupted her question, and said with a faint smile:

"Have you forgotten what I just said?"

"Things at the bottom of this morgue have a higher priority than anything else."

"Without this item, Senior Sister's path to enlightenment will inevitably face many obstacles."

"And as long as she attains the Great Dao and establishes the foundation of immortality..."

Whether the Holy Maiden obtains the true Dharma or not is not so important to her.

His gaze remained fixed on the round basin in his palm:

"Moreover, judging from the intensity of this aura, our Holy Maiden seems to be fighting with someone."

Yu Caiying was startled and blurted out:

"Yan Cheng?"

Tiantong glanced at her and smiled:

"It seems you have a high opinion of him."

Yu Caiying remained silent for a long while before saying:

"My senior brother knows their skill level, and so do I. How could they possibly contend with the Holy Maiden?"

"Although Yan Cheng's cultivation is the shallowest, he ultimately cultivates cold qi. It's just unknown how many tricks he has up his sleeve."

Tendo smiled and replied:

"To be honest, this thing in my hand is just an ordinary item that Lin Caifeng rushed to make overnight. There's not much you can tell about it."

"But you said that the person she fought was Yan Cheng... that's not impossible."

"Don't forget, he has a very useful early-stage corpse cultivator by his side."

"If used properly, it's enough to hold its own against the Holy Maiden for several rounds."

Seemingly sensing the increasing dampness around him, he gradually lost his composure, and the dark luster in his eyes grew even deeper.

With a cultivation level at the mid-stage of Qi Refining, using the Qi Observation Technique, which is similar in principle to the Pupil Technique, is ultimately a difficult undertaking that transcends a small realm.

Black blood began to seep from the corners of Tiantong's eyes, but his gaze remained fixed on the front.

Until the increasingly heavy humidity finally became like a poisonous miasma, making the two dare not go any further.

The surroundings were now completely dark. Tian Tong released the [Heavenly Moonlit Tracing] he had been hiding in his sleeve, and only then, by the moonlight, could Yu Caiying see the scene before her clearly:

Ten steps away, on the ground, was an array diagram with a huge circle at its core.

The circular formation is crowned with the blazing sun and flanked by the serene white moon, with five stars symbolizing the five elements adorning the sides.

The lines connecting the stars seem to indicate the generating and restraining relationships among the five elements.

Only the Sun and the Moon, the two most noble of the celestial bodies, are not connected by any engraving lines.

At the very core of this circular formation, there was a jet-black coffin, the length of an adult.

Yu Caiying's breathing became light and rapid, and after a long while she finally spoke:

"Is this what Senior Sister wanted?"

The child stared intently at the dark coffin, his gaze burning with desire, and remained silent for a long time.

After a long, unsettling silence, he finally laughed:

"What do you mean by 'things' or 'nothings'?"

"Junior Sister, you should show some respect when dealing with a Foundation Establishment artifact."

"This is the most valuable treasure among the inheritances of the Heavenly Corpse Path stored in this Corpse Raising Institute."

"Foundation Building Artifact [Yin Spirit Coffin]..."

"The reason why the Heavenly Corpse Path was able to cultivate so many Foundation Establishment cultivators and compete with my Taiyin Immortal Sect in the past was precisely because of this magical artifact that can greatly increase the success rate of Foundation Establishment!"

Upon hearing this, Yu Caiying's first thought was to find a way to possess the magical artifact.

Significantly increases the success rate of foundation building!

She was well aware of the significance of those words coming from Tiantong.

For important figures like Huang Tong, the Emperor was extremely supportive of her attainment of enlightenment.

This means that she will inevitably be bestowed with a top-tier Foundation Establishment spiritual item from the Netherworld Sect, in order to maximize her chances of successfully establishing her foundation.

Under this premise, Tian Tong still described the magic artifact in front of him as being able to "significantly increase" the success rate of Foundation Establishment.

This means that the benefits provided by this item surpass even the countless elixirs and miraculous medicines reserved for Huang Tong in the Hall of Longevity!

Yu Caiying has a clear understanding of her own qualifications.

Without the support of the Emperor, even if she could accumulate enough years of service to reach the late stage or even the peak of Qi Refining, her chances of Foundation Establishment would still be extremely slim.

What everyone cultivates is, after all, the "Tao of Nourishing Qi and Cultivating Nature" passed down from ancient times in the Northern Territory.

The upper limit of a monk's achievements depends almost entirely on the quality and quantity of resources he consumes.

With enough spiritual offerings, even a pig can be worshipped and become a high-level cultivator.

Conversely, no matter how talented a person is...

If you don't get enough resources from the faction you belong to, you still won't be able to achieve anything.

This is also the reason why the scattered cultivators inside and outside the northern foothills of the mountain range live such miserable lives.

The best items are monopolized by the behemoth that is Taiyin Immortal Sect. What reaches the hands of independent cultivators are only the defective products that the sect has rejected.

Even so, we should be thankful that the Immortal Sect left a way out for independent cultivators!

As for the corpse cultivators in the Hall of Longevity?

No way! They're just hanging around the title of sect cultivators without getting any resources. They have to endure the almost endless exploitation from the hall, making them even worse off than independent cultivators.

Therefore, Yu Caiying never felt any psychological burden when she exploited her junior repairmen.

Do they think they're miserable? Are they as miserable as she is?

If it weren't for the constant exploitation by the upper-level cultivators, would she need to go to such lengths to squeeze the lower-level cultivators? Wouldn't it be better for her to just focus on her own cultivation?

She stared intently at the coffin in the array diagram.

Once you obtain this item and achieve Foundation Establishment, you will no longer have to endure such painful torment as you do today...

But when she glanced at Tiantong beside her, reason quickly prevailed over greed.

With Tendo watching from the sidelines, the chances of her succeeding were virtually zero.

Not only that, she also had to guard against Tiantong having the idea of ​​coveting the treasure and killing her without warning!

In order to distract Tiantong, Yu Caiying had to transform into a curious child again and ask a question that would likely be dismissed as uncultured:

"If this object belongs to the realm of the netherworld, why does it emit such a strong, humid heat?"

Tian Tong's lips twitched slightly:

"Good question."

"To answer your question, I first need to let you see for yourself what's inside this spirit."

He turned to the side, the smile in his eyes sending a chill down one's spine:

"How about I ask you, junior sister, to lift the coffin lid for me and satisfy your curiosity?"