Chapter 2713 — The Heaven Dao Golden Pill

"Oh? The Palace Master of the Ice Palace? And the Valley Master of Snow Valley?" Wei Zhao's eyes went wide. He had no idea who the Valley Master of Snow Valley might be, but the Palace Master of the Ice Palace—was that not Bingtang's own founding ancestor?

"That is so. They were the founders of the Ice Palace and Snow Valley. Because one bore the surname Bing and the other the surname Xue, the world called them the Ice Fairy and the Snow Fairy, and ever after, whoever inherited the seat of master in the Ice Palace or Snow Valley, no matter what name they once had, would take up that surname," Thunder Pig explained.

"This Zhang Liju… truly was extraordinary!" Wei Zhao could not help but voice his admiration. "Thunder Pig, so did they really die? Since there is a dwelling here, and a transmission stair as well, that means they lived here for some time?"

"The master and both mistresses were all experts at the peak of the late Heaven Tier, having already reached the limit of life extension. Even Zhang Liju, with all the heavenly treasures and earthly rarities at his command, could not have sustained life for all three. So the three made a pact and built a tomb, resolved to succeed or perish, and came here to enter a life-and-death seclusion, seeking a way to break through the peak of the late Heaven Tier and set foot upon the Heaven Dao. If they succeeded, they would become Heaven Dao experts and could pursue that legendary immortality; if they failed, the three would slumber together in this tomb, and this place would be their eternal resting home," Thunder Pig recounted.

"Then—did Zhang Liju die or not?" Wei Zhao asked.

"He should not have died," Thunder Pig wrote after a moment's hesitation.

"Should not have died? What do you mean, should not have died? What sort of answer is that?" Wei Zhao asked, puzzled. "Dead is dead, and not dead is not dead!"

"One day, they vanished together. I surmise they succeeded. Once one becomes a Heaven Dao expert, one goes to a place called Cloud Terrace Island. The master had many friends and wide connections—he should have had a way to get there…" Thunder Pig wrote.

"So that is how it is…" Wei Zhao nodded. If so, then Zhang Liju most likely had not died, nor had his two confidantes. Yet something puzzled Wei Zhao: "Then have you never come back here to look?"

"I cannot look…" Here Thunder Pig pointed at the stone door above the farthest room and wrote: "That stone door can only be opened by an expert above the Heaven Tier. I cannot open it. They disappeared from that room."

"Oh?" Wei Zhao was somewhat surprised. He had not expected such a mechanism to exist within the tomb, and now he rather wanted to see it. "Shall we go have a look at that door first?"

Thunder Pig nodded and scampered ahead to lead the way.

Yu Xiaoke was utterly lost in the clouds. White Leader was a little better off—after all, this was his own sect's affair, and he understood some of it—but Yu Xiaoke had no idea at all what Thunder Pig was writing about.

The three came to the stone door at the farthest end, and sure enough, beside the stone door Wei Zhao found a line of text.

"The simplified pill formula of the Heaven Dao Golden Pill. An expert at the peak of the late Heaven Tier who is also a first-rank Mystic Tier alchemist may open this door—Zhang Liju."

"The Heaven Dao Golden Pill?" Wei Zhao stared at the text on the wall in astonishment, then turned to Thunder Pig. "What is this Heaven Dao Golden Pill? If an expert at the peak of the late Heaven Tier takes it, can they ascend to the Heaven Dao?"

"It seems so. The master was always researching the refinement of the Heaven Dao Golden Pill, while both mistresses sparred daily in the martial arena, groping for a way to break through to the Heaven Dao by natural means," Thunder Pig explained.

"Hiss—" Thunder Pig's words set Wei Zhao's whole body trembling with excitement. So the Heaven Dao truly existed, and Zhang Liju had actually refined the Heaven Dao Golden Pill. That meant an expert at the peak of the late Heaven Tier could, by taking a single Heaven Dao Pill, break through in an instant to become a Heaven Dao expert?

Was that not far too astonishing and wondrous? And this secret had actually been discovered by Wei Zhao. If, some time from now, Wei Zhao truly became an expert at the peak of the late Heaven Tier and took a Heaven Dao Pill, would he not then be invincible under heaven?

Of course, that surely did not include the so-called Cloud Terrace Island—there would certainly be many Heaven Dao experts there. Wei Zhao's invincibility would extend only to the Ancient Layer and the Five Luminaries Sect.

"So… the founding patriarch really did refine the Heaven Dao Golden Pill?" White Leader's expression was strange as well. "It is said within the sect that in those years, Founding Patriarch Zhang Liju left the sect in search of a way to refine the Heaven Dao Golden Pill, and from then on all trace of him was lost… Back then, many mocked him, saying he was unrealistic and would do better to strive to **break through the barrier to the Heaven Dao, but Founding Patriarch Zhang Liju firmly believed he could refine the Heaven Dao Golden Pill! Yet later, as all word of the patriarch ceased, the matter gradually died down, and no one spoke of it again."

"It seems he truly succeeded." Once more Wei Zhao was filled with hope and confidence for the future. Step by step he had come, through hardship and danger, but… heaven rewards the diligent, and Wei Zhao's diligence had earned him the hope of the Heaven Dao.

"But for now, we cannot enter either." White Leader actually wished to see as soon as possible what this so-called Heaven Dao Golden Pill formula looked like. After all, he too was an alchemist, and toward pill formulas he held a sentiment he could never relinquish.

Moreover, White Leader's idol and goal in those years had been Founding Patriarch Zhang Liju. An accident had caused his dream to wither untimely, but now the hope was rekindled in him.

"Let us go look at the other rooms," Wei Zhao said. He made no attempt to force the stone door open by brute violence. Since Zhang Liju had said as much, there would surely be safeguards in place, and Wei Zhao did not wish to waste effort on a futile task.

They turned to the stone chamber in the middle—the very chamber Yu Xiaoke had not entered. If there was no danger here, then there was no danger anywhere.

Yet judging by Thunder Pig's manner, there was no danger here at all. Thunder Pig nimbly worked the mechanism of the stone door, and the door opened in response. This place was a weapon display room, and on its wall hung a massive rack, within which were placed three weapons.

Yes, only three weapons—no more, no less. Apart from these, there was nothing else in the room at all. Still, on reflection it made sense: Zhang Liju, and the Ice Fairy and Snow Fairy as well, were all experts at the peak of the late Heaven Tier; aside from their love for one another, their minds were fixed on the pursuit of martial arts, and apart from weapons, they would never have bothered to study anything else.

"These three weapons must be the Heaven Tier weapons of Zhang Liju, the Ice Fairy, and the Snow Fairy?" Wei Zhao asked, looking at the three weapons on the wall.

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