Chapter 51: Escalating Situations II

The pill formula from the inheritance was different from the usual ones seen in the city. Although the effect of the pill was fundamentally the same, the process, required ingredients and efficacy were different. Kumari chose the most efficient ones from the pill formula which resulted in the effects of the said pills skyrocketing. For example, the breakthrough pills could break the bottleneck in the qi sensing realm but before the inheritance, the chance was around sixty percent and now due to the new formula it was almost a hundred percent.

 This was why the clan members went into a frenzy, if they had enough contribution points, they could easily reach the peak of the qi sensing realm. If they didn't have time to cultivate, they could use qi improving pills, if they thought their foundation was weak they could just use qi purifying pills and if they thought that excessive use of pills was poisoning them they could just use purifying pills. Although their strength would be the weakest in the realm, they will rapidly increase their cultivation realm and who knows they will have a chance to reach the foundation building realm. That's why when Amrit engraved the Alchemy inheritance in the jade slip, Kumari vetted the formulas and just engraved simple ones that wouldn't make the wave in Lunaris city.

If the clan members had access to the new pill formula that boosted the efficiency of old pills by more than fifty percent, it would eventually leak and the other clans would benefit from this. But now the family just thought the pills were efficient because Kumari had refined top-quality pills when it came to first-grade pills. Due to the change in refining processes and the formulas and vast quantity of pills, Kumari had increased the quality of her concoct. She had now refined an 87% pure pill. This was unprecedented in the whole of Lunaris city and even in the whole Emerald kingdom, there were not many alchemists who could refine that quality. Only those old clans and royal family had some alchemists who could refine top-quality pills. As for perfect quality pills, there may be no alchemist who had the capacity even in neighboring countries.

It wasn't just the realm of alchemist, the quality of pills was limited by heavenly dao, and only those who were lucky or could prove themselves were able to refine them. This was the case in many professions, it was as if the heavens were imposing restrictions on them but the heavens also gave them a way out, if they could break through the threshold, the heavens would reward them with a blessing giving them an opportunity for enlightenment, maybe this was the way of heavens showing their fairness. Although the purity was not announced, the clan members knew the pills were top-grade when they swallowed them. This was the reason the clan members went into a frenzy.

 Many members signed up for the outpost in the Bareback mountains so much so that Punya had to vet them and only sent those who he thought had the knack for survival and who were loyal to clan head. More than two hundred members of the clan were chosen and sent there. In the outpost, they were given training about survival for a week and when the instructor thought they would be able to survive barely in the outskirt set them free. However due to the influx of members, the increase in difficulty for management made it difficult for the clan to make a profit, there were frequent quarrels due to members being loyal to different elders and the area allocated to the previous members overlapped with new members. This caused a decrease in profit and an increase in accidents so much so that Punya had to establish a new department the Battle Hall.

He made Radha the head of the Battle hall and some of his loyal subordinates, deputy elders. When the members of the outpost heard the Battle hall was established and Radha was their leader, the quarrels and fights decreased dramatically, this was because even the elders backing couldn't protect them if they crossed paths with her. Forget about the ordinary clan members, even the elders themselves would be at her mercy. That day Radha went to the outpost and chose some members from old and new personnel to be the members of Battle hall. She even went as far as asking Amrit if he had a curse technique to ensure the hall's loyalty towards her.

After Amrit gave her the curse technique that restrained the clan member from betraying the clan and leaking any sensitive information. Among the chosen members, Punya's subordinate readily accepted the curse but some of the new members were resistant, so she sent them back to the clan. In total, there were 108 members of Battle hall. Before she went to the outpost she ran this idea through the supreme elders and got the green light. Not only green light, Kumari gave her many pills and permission to teach them, her version of Black Earth sword skill. She had incorporated her understanding of the Spirit Halberd technique into the Black Earth sword skill making it infinitely close to spirit grade martial technique.

 Because there were many high-grade swords in the clan, with this technique the Battle hall members would be the cream of the crop. The supreme elders didn't give the green light because it would increase the battle power of the clan but with Radha as the elder, it would ensure Amrit had the greatest backing after their demise. It was all to ensure their grandson would have a smooth journey. Radha was still on the outpost training the members and they were going through hell. With the pills, Black Earth sword skill, and her hellish training, it was like doping, the Battle hall members were improving rapidly, and there were almost no members who hadn't increased a realm. Only some of the members in the peak of qi sensing realm were stuck there.

The new members, especially those with lower grade cultivation realm had improved by two to three stages in a week. This was an astonishing rate of progress. No one in the clan had thought the battle power would increase this much by just sending a few members to the outpost and establishing the Battle hall. But Radha ordered them to keep a low profile and not to flaunt their cultivation realms. Every member was required to hide their cultivation realms by at least a minor stage.