The female cultivator of the Chamber of Commerce brought Ning Cheng to a large blue gate, stopped and said to Ning Cheng respectfully, “Senior, entering this gate is the place where the Yudao Dan God is tested.”
Ning Cheng, however, did not enter the blue gate, but looked at the female cultivator with a smile and said, “I have changed my mind again, you take me to the examination for the Dao Transformation Dan Sage.”
“Ah ……” If Ning Cheng had changed his mind the first time, this female cultivator still just thought that Ning Cheng was odd, then now that Ning Cheng said that he was going to test the Dao Breeding Dan Saint, she didn’t think that Ning Cheng was odd anymore, she thought that Ning Cheng was looking for death.
It was only after a while that she stammered and asked, “Senior you said, you are going to test for the Dao Transformation Dan Saint?”
It was no wonder that she was so surprised, there were quite a few Dao Transformation Dan Gods in the Tai Su Realm, but Dao Transformation Dan Saints, that could be counted on the palm of one’s hand in the Tai Su Realm. The difference between a Dao Transformation Dan God and a Dao Transformation Dan Saint was just one word, and the difference between them was simply heavenly.
What is a Dan Saint? Only someone who can refine a Dao Dan can be called a Dan Saint. A Dao-shaping Dan Saint was also far more sought after and valuable than a Dao-transforming Dan God. What’s more, the one Ning Cheng was going to test was a Dao Transformation Dan Saint?
Dao Pills were generally refined from Dao Fruits or divine Spirit Grasses that were similar to Dao Fruits and contained the rules of Heaven and Earth. Or pills that were not refined from Dao Fruits, but contained rules of heaven and earth similar to those of Dao Fruits. Most Dao Pills are more effective than Dao Fruits.
Refining Dao pills without Dao fruits and Cardinal Spirit Grasses that contain the rules of heaven and earth is ten times more difficult than refining Dao pills with Dao fruits. Those who can refine a Dao Pill without using Dao Fruits are at least Dao Yuan Dan Saints, and their cultivation level cannot be lower than the second step of the Dao of Enlightenment.
How many Dao Fruits are there in the world? And how precious are they? Who can afford the luxury of practising with countless Dao fruits. To learn how to refine Dao pills? It is because Dao Fruits are few and precious. Divine Spirit Grasses that contain the rules of heaven and earth are also rare. This is why there are so few Dao Saints who can refine Dao pills.
Ning Cheng’s desire to choose the Dao Transformation Dan Saint was not just a casual remark, as the fact that he could refine Dao Transformation Divine Pills meant that he had the strength to refine Dao Transformation Pills.
The reason why his talent in alchemy was high was not that he was smarter than others. Rather, it was because he cultivated Xuanhuang Wufang and was born with the ability to constantly perfect it. More importantly, his spiritual roots are balanced. There was no such thing as having one main spiritual root for a particular one, but rather eight systems of spiritual roots that were equally outstanding.
This balance of spiritual roots makes learning alchemy and refining weapons easier for him than for others. It also caused him to need tens, if not hundreds or thousands, of times more cultivation resources than others.
There was an even more important reason, and that was because his gong method was an origin gong method. Not only did the Xuanhuang Pearl contain the five elemental origin, it also contained the Xuanhuang origin that opened up the heavens and opened up the earth.
The surface of the Dan Dao is to extract the essence of various spiritual objects and polymerise them together. A further step is to extract the essence of the origin of spiritual objects and aggregate them together. At a deeper level of understanding, it is the extraction of the essence of the origin of the spiritual object itself and the rules of heaven and earth contained in the spiritual object, gathered together.
Ning Cheng cultivated Xuan Huang Wu Xiang and studied the Dao of Dan almost as soon as he began his cultivation. Up until now. His understanding of the Dao of Dan was far greater than that of an ordinary alchemist.
What’s more, to him. There was no difference between Dao fruits and ordinary divine spirit grasses. If he could use ordinary divine Spirit Grass to refine a Dao Transformation Divine Pill, he could use Dao Fruits to refine a Dao Transformation Dao Pill.
This did have something to do with Xuanhuang Wufang, which simply did not focus on the superficial form of a blade of grass or a tree. Coupled with the fact that he now had a certain understanding of the Rule-Breaking Avatar, the rules contained in the Dao Fruits were certainly not as strong as the rules of heaven and earth, and he believed he could manage them.
The main thing was that once the refinement was successful, he would be able to obtain fifty percent of the Dao Pill. Taking a step back, in case it failed, he could always use the Empty City Dao Pill as collateral, right? On the surface, the Empty City Dao Pill was not as precious as the Dao Pill, but Dao Pills could be obtained, and his Empty City Dao Pill was the only one of its kind.
“What, is there any problem? Are there still various restrictions on the examination of Dan Saints?” Ning Cheng took the initiative to ask when he saw that the female cultivator was hesitant to speak.
Only then did the female cultivator leading the way respond and hurriedly said, “Senior, the Dao Transformation Dan Saint is not something that anyone can be tested for. Before the examination, one has to pledge many divine crystals or treasures equivalent to dao fruits, and once one fails, not only will these things be taken away, but there will even be more severe penalties.”
Seemingly feeling that her tone was slightly heavy, the female cultivator hurriedly explained again, “I didn’t mean to belittle senior because, because ……”
The female cultivator was afraid of Ning Cheng’s anger, and her tone was even more apprehensive.
Ning Cheng smiled faintly, “I know, if everyone could try to test for Dan Saints, wouldn’t the Dan Association have to come up with countless Dao fruits. Just feel free to lead the way, you don’t need to worry about anything else.”
When the female cultivator saw that even after she had said this, Ning Cheng still wanted to insist on testing the Dan Saints, she had no choice but to respond, “Then please follow me senior ……”
In fact if Ning Cheng really passed the examination, her status as the female cultivator leading the way would soar. However, she knew very well that Ning Cheng was thinking that he would not pass the examination. Ning Cheng did not look very old, and was not even a Dao Shaping Dan God. To be tested as a Dao Transformation Dan Saint, don’t joke about it.
From the place where the Dao Breeding Dan God was being assessed to the place where the Dao Transformation Dan Saint was being assessed, there were only a few hundred metres. These hundreds of metres were like millions of kilometres of hardship to this female cultivator who was leading the way.
It was with great difficulty that she brought Ning Cheng to a pale golden step, “Senior, stepping onto this pale golden step is the place where the Dao Transformation Dan Saint is assessed.”
Ning Cheng looked all the way over and slightly understood the meaning of the pale golden colour. In front of the pale golden colour, there was another golden step, which must be the place where the Dao Yuan Dan Saints were tested. After the golden colour, there were no more steps. In other words, at the Tian Su Holy City Dan Meeting, the most that could be tested was the Dao Yuan Dan Saint.
“It’s been hard for you.” Ning Cheng nodded.
“Then junior will wait here for senior.” Some fine sweat seeped out of the female cultivator’s forehead, which was clearly not from heat, but from nervousness. She had never brought anyone to test a Dan Saint before, let alone test a Dao Transformation Dan Saint.
“Good.” Ning Cheng responded and stepped onto this pale golden ladder.
A powerful divine sense pressure blasted down, and only then did Ning Cheng understand that it was not a simple matter to enter the place where the Dao Transformation Dan Saint was being assessed. No wonder this female cultivator who led the way did not dare to come up, this kind of pressure on divine sense was definitely not something that an ordinary Saint Emperor could resist.
Ning Cheng was not an ordinary Dao-shaping Saint Emperor. His most powerful thing was actually not his divine essence. Rather, it was his divine sense.
The divine sense defence was open. This powerful divine sense pressure did not form much of an impact on Ning Cheng, who had already stepped through these pale golden steps and arrived in a hall.
The pale golden steps beneath his feet disappeared without a trace, as if they had appeared out of nowhere. There was no way in, nor was there a gate.
“Huh, just shaped the dao, yet your divine sense is so powerful.” A short, fat old man stared at Ning Cheng. Somewhat puzzled, he muttered to himself.
Ning Cheng stepped forward and cupped his fist and said, “Scattered cultivator Ning Cheng, here to test for Dao Transformation Dan Saints.”
He could sense that this short, fat old man’s cultivation level was at least that of a Dao Yuan powerhouse.
The short, fat old man was not impressed and said in a bland tone, “As long as you have something to pledge and can afford to pay for it, even if you come for the examination every hundred years, I won’t care.”
As soon as Ning Cheng heard these words, he knew that the other party did not have any optimism that he would pass the Dao Transformation Dan Saint’s examination. What this short, fat old man cared about was. Whether Ning Cheng could produce the collateral treasure for taking the examination.
“May I ask senior what some things he needs as collateral?” Ning Cheng asked once again.
The short, fat old man stood up and walked to Ning Cheng’s side. He walked around Ning Cheng. He was only as tall as Ning Cheng’s chest and looked somewhat comical.
Only after the circle was completed did the short, fat old man then shook his head and said, “Looking at you, I guess there is nothing good about you. The material you need to test for the Dao Transformation Dan Saint is a Dao fruit, and I’m afraid you can’t afford even the worst Dao fruit of the Dao Transformation. How about this, you hand over the ring to me to see if you can refine a Dao Harmonisation Dao Pill.”
Ning Cheng smiled lightly, wanting to see his ring? Then don’t dream about it. He directly took out a jade bottle and placed it in the old man’s hand, “This thing, it can refine dozens of Dao Transformation Dao Pills?”
The short, fat old man’s face sank, such a small jade bottle, even if it was precious, it would not be able to refine dozens of stoves.
“Young man, you can refine as many Dao pills as you like here, as long as you can come up with something to pledge. If you can’t produce something to pledge and want to amuse this Saint, then don’t blame your fate.”
Ning Cheng did not care about the old man’s threat at all and calmly said, “Senior why don’t you take a look before you say anything?”
The truth was that he did not know how much that little bit of Dan Marrow the size of a dragon’s eye could be worth. Saying a few dozen furnaces was because he was afraid that this short fat fellow would fool him.
The old man snorted coldly and opened the jade bottle, and then his eyes widened in shock, “This is Dan Marrow?”
Dan pith was a priceless treasure, it was the essence of the Dan Dao that top Dan masters used top Dan furnaces and condensed out over a long period of time to refine pills. It was not only the essence of a spiritual object, but also the essence of the ages.
This dragon’s eye sized lump was far more valuable than a Dao fruit, no wonder this little Shaping Dao dared to say this.
“How did you get such a large ball of Dan Marrow?” The old man could no longer remain calm.
Ning Cheng said with a somewhat unsightly face, “Senior, I am here to test for the Dao Transformation Dan Saint, not to be questioned.”
He had obtained a piece of Dan Marrow the size of his fist, and this point was only a small portion of it.
“Yes, yes, you can take the examination, you can take it.” The old man rubbed his hands excitedly, he had actually met a Dan Marrow today.
Ning Cheng asked without panic, “I know I can take the test, I am asking, if I fail in refining, how many dozens of Dao Dao Pills can be mortgaged with this lump of Dan Marrow?”
“Dozens of furnaces? No way, no?” The old man hurriedly waved his hand, “The Dao Transformation Dan Saint test is three pills, I will mortgage you three pills, no more …… The success rate of a Dan Saint must be at least 60%, you must succeed in at least two of your three Dao pills to pass. If you fail, come back in a hundred years.”
Ning Cheng originally thought that there would only be one to two furnaces at most, but he did not expect the old man to actually say three furnaces, which made his heart overjoyed. He then realized that it was not that this Dan Marrow was only worth three furnaces, but that the Dan Saint’s test required a success rate of 60% or more, and these three furnaces were the maximum number of furnaces that he could refine to test a Dao of Transformation Dan Saint.
Ning Cheng did not raise any objections, “In that case, then it will be three stoves. Please bring out the materials, senior, the first furnace I will refine is the Violet Heaven Pill.”
As long as he successfully advanced to Dao Transformation Dan Saint anyway, he would still have to take this Dan Marrow, he was mortgaging it not compensating for it.
“Ah ……” This time it was the old man who froze, although the Violet Heavenly Pill was a Dao Pill for the Sense of Dao Transformation Saint Emperor, the value of its main Dao Fruit, the Violet Heavenly Dao Fruit, was not a little bit or two. Knowing that Ning Cheng could not refine it, to take out the Violet Heaven Dao Fruit for Ning Cheng to spoil, he was really a bit heartbroken.