Is It Really A Mission?

He had seen many pills that could advance one's spiritual power, except this one. In fact, the cultivation of one's spiritual power had to be done in an orderly way with a painstaking amount of effort. It was not advisable to depend on the pills alone. Otherwise, one's cultivation might easily go haywire. Also, most of the pills contained vicious elements that came with side effects.

Shen Nianmo's father reserved a lot of miraculous medicines and elixirs for him, but all of them were to maintain his health and were not for the advancement of his spiritual power. Shen Jiuli once told him that the administration of pills would spoil the entire cultivation by destroying the very conditions upon which success depended.

Yet, Gu Xijiu had given him a pill. Was Gu Xijiu very desperate for his advancement?

"I remember that you wanted to take me as your disciple?" Shen Nianmo asked very suddenly.