Using entries to cultivate immortality in chaotic times

"Look at you now, still shamelessly following behind."

"Tsk, I'm curious about that old man who looks almost ready to croak. Even if he takes a bride home, what good would it do?"

...

"Oh?"

Chen Qiu's eyes squinted slightly with a flicker of excitement. The effects of the Heavenly Dao Beauty were indeed awe-inspiringly powerful. Normally an Alchemy Cultivator could achieve a success rate of thirty percent per batch of pills, which was considered pretty good.

Especially with some high-level pills.

In that case, you'd be lucky to even get one pill from a batch, let alone a whole pill—it was entirely normal even for the attempt to end in an explosion.

But if you became the husband of a Heavenly Dao Beauty.

Then no matter how difficult the high-level pills you were crafting were, as long as there wasn't an issue in the alchemical process, a success rate that was normally ten percent could now be a full one hundred percent.

This wasn't just an ordinary improvement.

It was extremely useful when crafting some high-level pills.

Of course, if you couldn't produce even a single pill, then the benefits of this one hundred percent improvement wouldn't manifest at all.

"This Heavenly Dao Beauty effect is really good."

Even Chen Qiu, who wasn't an Alchemy Cultivator but a Magic Practitioner, couldn't help feeling tempted after hearing about the effects of the Heavenly Dao Beauty, not to mention the Alchemy Cultivators—it probably kept them awake at night, so eager they couldn't sleep.

Bringing such a Heavenly Dao Beauty home was like bringing home a gold mine.

"Eh?"

Fat Long suddenly thought of something and started flipping through the Heavenly Dao Beauty Ranking, then grinned and said, "Let's see if there's a Heavenly Dao Beauty suitable for Magic Practitioners. Maybe we can find a wife for Brother Qiu, and get ourselves a sister-in-law."

Soon—

Fat Long's eyes lit up as he found his target: "The sixteenth entry on the Heavenly Dao Beauty Ranking has great effects, the power of the Heavenly Dao Beauty can accelerate the husband's Spell cultivation speed, allowing him to master multiple Great Perfection Realm Spells much faster."

"No good."

The scholar shook his head: "She already has a husband, the Young Master of the Qu family from the Capital, Qu Qi."

"Never mind, the Heavenly Dao Beauty ranked twenty-seventh is also quite suitable for Magic Practitioners. Her effect can enhance the husband's speed of absorbing Spiritual Energy, which would greatly speed up both replenishing Spiritual Energy and improving Cultivation."

"That doesn't work either, she's also taken."

"By who?"

"The Young Master of the Qu family from the Capital, Qu Qi."

"How about the thirty-third?"

The scholar quietly interrupted: "She has a husband too."

"You're not going to tell me it's Qu Qi again, are you?"

"Mhm."

"What about the forty-third?"

"Qu Qi."

"Surely the eighty-ninth one isn't Qu Qi as well?"

"Still Qu Qi."

"..."

Fat Long looked up expressionlessly at the scholar: "What's the deal, there are only five Heavenly Dao Beauties suitable for Magic Practitioners on this ranking, and all five are with that Qu Qi?"

"His father has quite the knack for naming, huh?"

"Can one person really marry five Heavenly Dao Beauties?"

"Yes."

The scholar spoke with mixed emotions: "As long as you're willing and charming enough, you could even marry everyone on the Heavenly Dao Beauty Ranking. Qu Qi is in fact a Magic Practitioner. He's now in the early stages of the Golden Core and has just broken through a few days ago."

"He's also one of the strong contenders for the top spot on the Heavenly Pride Leaderboard."

"If Brother Qiu decides to participate in this Heavenly Pride Leaderboard, he may even meet him."

"The 'Qu family' has always been into commerce; they're not lacking in anything but Spirit Stones. His father equipped him from head to toe, only the best of everything, several defensive Spiritual Treasures, to say nothing of talismans, pills, Array Plates, and more."

"To marry these five wives for Qu Qi, the Qu family really spent a huge sum of Spirit Stones."

"At that time, many people in the Capital said that the effects of these five Heavenly Dao Beauties weren't worth that many Spirit Stones."

"Guess what the old man Qu said?"

"That old man Qu simply waved his hand disdainfully and said that no matter how good Spiritual Treasures are, how strong Spells are, other Magic Practitioners might have what Qu Qi has, but something like 'Heavenly Dao Beauty' is unique!"

"Once Qu Qi has it, nobody else does!"

"That's an everlasting gap!"

"An unbridgeable gap!"

"So..." Experience tales at empire

The scholar spoke softly: "So the Capital created this miracle, the only one in Da Xia who has married five Heavenly Dao Beauties. These past few years, the Qu family has also been aggressively buying up entry jade slips that are suitable for Magic Practitioners."

"It's fair to say, a lot of people consider Qu Qi the hottest candidate for the chief spot this year."

"No way," Fat Long said somewhat dazed, "So, someone who's just been bolstered by Spirit Stones can be considered Heavenly Pride?"

Gazing complexly at Fat Long, the scholar said: "Otherwise, why do you think the saying goes 'Wealth, Companionship, Magic, and Land,' with 'Wealth' ranked first, 'Companionship' second, 'Magic' third, and 'Land' fourth?"

"Having all four, and all of the highest caliber."

"If such a person isn't Heavenly Pride, then who is?"

...

After their conversation and a sigh about the immense talents the future husband of the Heavenly Dao Beauty must possess, they got up and left Fei City to continue their journey towards the Boundless Icefield.

An hour later, the sky had darkened, and they had arrived at the Boundless Icefield.

At a glance.

The icefield stretched boundlessly, its cracked earth frozen solid. Standing there, one could feel the endless chill rushing towards them, and above the icefield spread a cloud so pitch black it covered hundreds of thousands of miles.

It almost blocked all sight.

The deeper one went, the blacker it became.

Until, in its deepest part, it was almost like a black hole swallowing all light, where you couldn't even see your own hand in front of you, losing all sense of feeling, unable even to tell if you were standing on solid ground.

Such conditions could gradually lead to a breakdown of the spirit.