The Gate Of Good Fortune

s zombie-faced man disappeared, Jing Han raised his hand and stood up as well.
As twelve pills from his furnace shot out towards a gate, he swept a glance at the many alchemists still refining their pills.
A moment later, he took a step forward and prepared to step onto the passage that appeared in front of him.

However, when his feet touched the passage, his expressions suddenly changed.
He noticed that only eleven doors remained of the original twelve.
It meant that someone had entered the Illusionary Fruit Orchard Before him.

Jing Han’s expressions turned hideous.
There were only two Dao Transformation Pill Sages here.
But Lei Shamu was still refining his batch of pills.
In other words, someone who wasn’t a Dao Transformation Pill Sage had entered the first level of the Illusionary Fruit Orchard Before him.

This was simply a slap to his face.
He was the youngest and the most promising Pill Sage in the Grand Essence Realm, yet someone had actually short-changed him.
Not only would he obtain inferior spirit herbs to the fellow who entered before him, but even his reputation would also fall a lot because of this incident.

Thinking of this, Jing Han no longer dared to stay here much longer.
He absolutely couldn’t let this person enter the second level before him.
With a flash of his body, he disappeared directly inside the gate.

……

After Ning Cheng entered the herb garden, he immediately stopped in shock.

Before entering this place, the most valuable spirit grass garden he had seen was the one left behind by Pill Sage Min Kong in the Grand Essence Mystic Realm.

But only when he came here did he realise that Pill Sage Min Kong’s garden couldn’t even compare to a tiny corner of this herb garden.
The spirit herbs in this garden weren’t just rare, they were all borderline extinct species.
Many of them were herbs that he had read about but simply couldn’t obtain.
Either because only a few of them existed or they had already gone extinct.
Yet, those sage spirit grasses were in this garden in abundance.

Nirvana Flame Fruit, Thunder Immortal Fruit, Soul Seizing Fantasy Ginseng, Measureless Jewel Flower…….

These were things that could only be imagined but not what could be seen.
Ning Cheng felt ecstatic on seeing those herbs.
He even started to feel even more confident about entering the third level to find the Exquisite Star Golden Hidden Leaf[2].

Ning Cheng was about to open the storage bag in his hand when he suddenly felt something wrong.
His spiritual consciousness could communicate with his storage ring, as well as the True Spirit World.

As soon as Ning Cheng raised his hand, a long spear artefact suddenly emerged from the storage ring in his hand.
He looked at the spear in confusion, wondering in his heart. Didn’t people say that once one entered the Illusionary Fruit Orchard’s first level, one couldn’t use any other type of spacial storage? How come he could still use his storage devices?

Ning Cheng quickly cast away the doubt.
In any case, using personal storage devices was a better option anyway.
That way, he wouldn’t need to put the spirit herbs in the storage bag and instead directly transplant them into the True Spirit World.

Scouring the spiritual grass garden, Ning Cheng worked as a professional gardener.
Even if there were more spirit grasses here, he swept everything away without leaving a single trace.

Ning Cheng secretly celebrated that he could use the True Spirit World here in his heart.
Otherwise, his storage bag wouldn’t be able to hold so many spirit grasses.

Ning Cheng finished collecting all the spirit grasses and stood facing another gate an hour later.
Unlike Sheng Huotian’s description, there was only a single door here instead of nine.

Ning Cheng guessed that this should be because he had not come in through those twelve doors.
It also meant that this one wasn’t one of the original nine doors either.

This time, Ning Cheng didn’t think much and refined the Nine Orifices Heart Pill.
The primary spirit grass for the Nine Orifices Heart Pill was the Nine Orifices Spirit Glaze.
It was a spirit pill classified as the best Dao Raising Spirit Pill.
It was also one of the most complex Dao Raising Spirit Pill when it came to refinement.
The Nine Orifices Heart Pill wasn’t a dao pill.
Yet, it allowed a Dao Raising cultivator to sense the path to the Dao Transformation Realm, giving them a slightly higher chance to reach the Dao Transformation Realm.
Moreover, it can cleanse the essence spirit and purify the meridians as an auxiliary effect.

This pill had a high price attached to it as well.
Apart from the difficulty in refining it, the Nine Orifices Spirit Glaze, an expensive item with a sky-high price, also played a huge part.
The primary reason is the almost extinct nature of the Nine Orifices Spirit Glaze in the Grand Essence Realm.
But in the Illusionary Fruit Orchard’s first level, Ning Cheng had obtained at least a dozen stalks of Nine Orifices Spirit Glaze.
He wouldn’t mind parting with a few anyway.
In any case, the more complex and more valuable the pill he refined, the better it would be for him.
Especially as it meant reaching areas with more valuable spirit herbs after opening the door.

Ning Cheng’s refining time was even shorter because he didn’t need to help Jian Sanshan this time.
Again, in less than a third of an incense stick, twelve top-quality Nine Orifices Heart Pills shot out from Ning Cheng’s pill furnace and landed directly in the recesses on the gate.
The gate immediately opened, and the rich scent of spirit herbs wafted out from behind it.

……

Jian Sanshan finally snapped out his pill art, and twelve top-quality Dry Measure Pills shot straight out of the pill furnace.
Jian Sanshan stood up in surprise.
As long as the Dry Measure Pills could shoot out of the pill furnace by itself, it meant that he could enter the Illusionary Fruit Orchard.

Sure enough, he saw three doors still unopened on the right wall.
A moment later, a passage directly extended from one of the doors as if guiding him towards it.

Jian Sanshan strongly suppressed his inner ecstasy and walked into the Illusionary Fruit Orchard one step at a time.
At this moment, his admiration for Ning Cheng could hardly be described in words.
He was sure that Ning Cheng had already entered the Illusionary Fruit Orchard before him. Just how robust was his understanding of alchemy that he could not only refine a batch of top-quality Dao Sculpting Spirit Pills.
But even instruct him at the same time, in mid-refinement?

Refining twelve top-quality spirit pills in a single furnace, he, Jian Sanshan, had done it occasionally.
But it was only due to luck.
But he believed that he would be refining top-quality spirit pills regularly from today onwards.
If nothing else, it was because of the pill art that Ning Cheng had taught him.

[1] Gai He could be both a name and a title of this person.
Need a bit more context for clarification.

[2] I know it’s an odd-sounding name and a mouthful even, but the team simply couldn’t come up with a more appropriate translation, we decided to trans-literate the individual characters into English.