Chapter 21

Chapter 21: Innate Realm 5th-Tier, Pill Toxin! Searching For A Talent Tag Again!

【This answer, even group leader Liu Kun did not know.】

【In other worlds, this kind of dedicated hunting rarely happened.】

【Everyone unanimously speculated that the most likely reason was some predecessor Transmigrator who had done something to incur public fury in the Primordial Realm, causing the local powers to harbor such hostility toward Transmigrators.】

【But whatever that predecessor did had nothing to do with you.】

【If anyone dared to hunt you down, you would absolutely retaliate.】

【Of course, that was on the premise that your strength was sufficient.】

【For now, you could only lie low and quietly grow stronger.】

【After that, you began half a year of arduous cultivation.】

【Innate Realm 4th-Tier was about refining Inner Martial Force.】

【To break through to Innate Realm 5th-Tier, you needed to spread Inner Martial Force throughout your internal organs, to protect your fragile viscera.】

【This process was not simple.】

【Because the internal organs were too fragile, the slightest carelessness could trigger a backlash.】

【Many Innate Realm martial artists suffered internal injuries at this stage, leaving behind hidden ailments.】

【But that wasn't even the hardest part.】

【The hardest part was that to break through to the 6th-Tier, one had to spread Inner Martial Force through every inch of flesh and blood in the entire body.】

【Because only by doing so could the Martial Force be projected outward, forming Outer Martial Force, allowing a breakthrough to Innate Realm 7th-Tier.】

【Otherwise, one would be trapped below Innate Realm 7th-Tier for life.】

【Of course, with enough wealth, one could buy the 【Five Organs Pill】, priced at 3,000 taels each, to strengthen the internal organs.】

【That would make it much easier to spread Inner Martial Force throughout the internal organs.】

【Without the wealth, one could only rely on slow, grinding effort.】

【As for you, wealth was certainly not something you lacked.】

【Your White Talent Tag 【Extraordinary Bone Aptitude】, ever since it advanced into the Green 【Martial Arts Prodigy】, had also greatly increased your ability to absorb pills.】

【The 【Five Organs Pill】 had extraordinary potency—an ordinary Innate Realm 4th-Tier cultivator could only refine 1 pill a day.】

【But you could refine 3 every single day!】

【Your internal organs were growing stronger at an astonishing rate.】

【In just 1 month, their strength had already doubled.】

【And this wasn't an ordinary Innate Realm expert's kind of doubling.】

【You cultivated a Sacred Grade cultivation method, and also possessed 【Born With Divine Strength】—your internal organs were already several times stronger than others of the same level.】

【For you, this was merely a doubling.】

【But for an ordinary Innate Realm 4th-Tier martial artist, it would be several times the increase!】

【However, your Golden Crow Martial Force was terrifyingly destructive.】

【You felt you should keep strengthening your internal organs several more times beyond your current level before daring to attempt a breakthrough.】

【4 months later, your internal organs grew another 3 times stronger.】

【You felt the timing was finally ripe and began attempting to break through to Innate Realm 5th-Tier.】

【After that, it took you only 1 month to spread your Inner Martial Force throughout your internal organs.】

【You successfully broke through to Innate Realm 5th-Tier.】

【Your body could now unleash even more astonishing destructive power.】

【The path of martial arts grows harder the further one goes, yet your breakthrough to the 5th-Tier took even less time than your breakthrough to the 4th-Tier.】

【【Martial Arts Prodigy】 truly lived up to its name.】

【At the same time, the half-year house arrest had also come to an end.】

【A double celebration, so to speak.】

【But after the breakthrough, you felt a dull, lingering pain in your body and internal organs, though you couldn't pinpoint exactly where it hurt.】

Could this be some side effect left behind from the breakthrough?

【You hurried to find Divine Physician Elder Chen.】

【Divine Physician Elder Chen had no idea how far your cultivation had progressed, and upon seeing that you had actually broken through to Innate Realm 5th-Tier, he was utterly stunned.】

【After examining you all over, he said it was fortunate you'd come early—had you come even a little later, things would have gotten troublesome.】

【You quickly asked just what exactly was wrong with you.】

【Elder Chen said, "What's wrong? Isn't it obvious—you've taken too many pills, and a massive buildup of Pill Toxin has accumulated in your body!"】

【"This Pill Toxin has already seeped into your flesh and blood."】

【"If you'd come even a few months later, it would have turned into a chronic affliction—not only would it easily send you into a Cultivation Deviation, it would also be nearly impossible to fully cure!"】

【Your face flushed.】

【You knew Pill Toxin existed, and that the 【Five Organs Pill】 was especially potent, producing several times more Pill Toxin than other pills.】

【But you'd figured it wouldn't be a problem in the short term.】

【You hadn't expected that after only about 400 【Five Organs Pills】, your body would already start showing side effects.】

【Of course, there probably weren't many people out there treating pills like a daily meal the way you did.】

【Most ordinary martial artists had to save up for ages just to afford a single pill.】

【What they consumed in pills over an entire lifetime wouldn't even amount to a fraction of what you took.】

【On top of that, the 【Five Organs Pill】's Pill Toxin was already several times stronger than ordinary pills to begin with.】

【If it weren't for the fact that you cultivated the 【Marrow-Cleansing Scripture】, which had expelled quite a bit of impurities and toxins from your body, your Pill Toxin would likely have erupted long ago.】

【You asked Divine Physician Elder Chen what to do next.】

【Elder Chen said that from now on, you should stop taking pills and focus on recuperating for a while.】

【You panicked.】

【There were only 2 and a half years left until the Family-Annihilating Calamity.】

【You needed to rapidly increase your strength.】

【Pills could boost your cultivation speed by 7-8 times, even over 10 times.】

【Not being able to take pills—wasn't that basically asking for your life?】

【You asked Elder Chen if there was any other way.】

【Elder Chen shook his head: "Only once you've cleared out more than half the Pill Toxin in your body can you take pills again—otherwise you risk dying suddenly."】

【"Your life, or your strength—choose for yourself."】

【You were speechless.】

Well, whatever—guess I just have to clear out the Pill Toxin first, huh?

【After that, Elder Chen gave you a recuperation regimen, which would take roughly 3 years to bring the Pill Toxin in your body down below half.】

【3 years?】

3 years from now, the trail would be ice cold!

【Next, you traveled far and wide in search of renowned physicians, looking for a faster way to clear the Pill Toxin.】

【Pill Toxin wasn't something easily cleared.】

【That Elder Chen could clear half of your Pill Toxin in just 3 years was already worthy of his reputation as a Divine Physician.】

【Many so-called renowned physicians gave methods that took as long as 7 to 8 years.】

【It infuriated you enough that you gave them a beating.】

【Let them learn what a patient's iron fist felt like.】

【Half a month later, at the Capital City's Hundred Herbs Pavilion, you stumbled upon a pill called the 【Heavenly Scorpion Pill】.】

【It was refined from all kinds of poisons, and could efficiently clear Pill Toxin through the principle of fighting poison with poison.】

【But the cost was that it might leave behind other toxins in the body.】

Damn, looks like there really is no perfect method in this world.

Either grind through the years to slowly clear it out, or end up poisoned by something else.

【Others might find themselves stuck in a dilemma, but you had one more option—Talent Tags!】

【You currently had 3 open Talent Tag slots.】

【Your Blue Talent Tag slot, you'd already reserved for life-saving purposes.】

【But your White and Green Talent Tag slots could very well be set aside for Pill Toxin.】

【You began wandering around the Capital City, looking to see if there were any suitable Talent Tags around.】

【Even if you didn't find one related to Pill Toxin, finding a life-saving one would still count as a win.】