As Mo Wuji had expected, the second level was also an empty room, but the pills inside had all become Rank 2 God Pills. Moreover, the size of the room had also doubled.

Similarly, in half an incense stick's worth of time, Mo Wuji easily refined a furnace of Gathering Rain God Pills, obtaining Rank 2 God Pill Master certification. Then, he entered the third level and, in one incense stick's worth of time, refined a furnace of Calamity Spirit God Pills, continuing to obtain Rank 3 God Pill Master certification.

By the time Mo Wuji reached the fourth level, it had only taken him less than an hour. This was after he had slowed down his speed. If he had sped up a little more, he could have reached the fourth level in half an hour. From the first level to the fourth level, besides the room size increasing and the value of the spiritual herbs for refining pills increasing, nothing else had changed.

For the fourth level, Mo Wuji chose Profound Fate God Pills, a type of God Pill that helps stabilize one's Dao heart, which wasn't too difficult to refine. The only troublesome thing was the time wasted in purifying the spiritual herbs, which wasn't a problem at all for Mo Wuji, as he was best at purifying spiritual herbs.

Even though Mo Wuji deliberately used a bit more time, he still managed to refine a furnace of only six superior-grade Profound Fate God Pills in more than half an hour. Others wasted time to refine more pills, while he wasted time to make the pills fewer and of lower quality.

With Mo Wuji's ability, he could have refined nine special-grade Profound Fate God Pills in an even shorter amount of time. Mo Wuji didn't want to stand out too much; all he wanted was an opportunity to go to the Nirvana Learning Academy. Once he got there, he would go take a look at the Mortal Land.

When he had first heard about the Mortal Land, Mo Wuji vaguely felt that the Mortal Land would be of unparalleled help to his Mortal Dao, a feeling that grew stronger day by day. However, after he re-comprehended his Mortal Dao, Mo Wuji discovered that the increasingly strong feeling of wanting to go to the Mortal Land had weakened a lot.

As he decided to find time to rebuild his Immortal World, this feeling was no longer a necessity.

This made Mo Wuji somewhat suspicious. Could it be that he felt the importance of the Mortal Land before because his Mortal Dao was headed in the wrong direction? Going to the Mortal Land could allow him to understand that his Immortal World didn't need the outside's five elements origin, but the perfection of its own rules.

Even though his desire to go to the Mortal Land had weakened a lot, Mo Wuji still decided to make a trip to the Mortal Land of the Nirvana Learning Academy. After all, the Immortal Mortal Art was passed down from the Mortal Land of the Nirvana Learning Academy, and he could be considered to have come from that lineage. Moreover, the Nirvana Learning Academy was safe enough for him to stay there and improve his strength.

Because of this change in mindset, Mo Wuji didn't need to stand out too much; it was enough for him to obtain the title of God Pill King and participate in the assessment.

Looking at the dark iron token in his hand, which had already taken on a light golden color, and the words on it that had changed to: Rogue Cultivator 2705, Rank 4 Great God Pill Master, Mo Wuji stepped into the fifth level of the Pill Dao Honor Tower with great satisfaction.

The fifth level was the same as the previous four levels, except that the area of the room had become much larger again.

Just as Mo Wuji was about to choose an ordinary Rank 5 God Pill, he stared blankly at the white jade wall in front of him.

When he had refined pills on the previous levels, the white jade wall had various corresponding pill names. But on the fifth level, there weren't any Rank 5 God Pill names. On the white jade wall of the fifth level, there was only one type of God Pill: Five-Claw Purple Dragon Pill.

Mo Wuji carefully looked around to make sure that there were no other pill names, only the Five-Claw Purple Dragon Pill.

Helpless, Mo Wuji could only select the Five-Claw Purple Dragon Pill.

After Mo Wuji selected the Five-Claw Purple Dragon Pill, a transmission vortex and the number of God Spirit Crystals didn't appear as before. Instead, there was only a line of text stating that he should inscribe the spiritual herbs he needed on a jade slip and send it into the transmission vortex.

Mo Wuji stopped his movements. Others might not know the pill formula for the Five-Claw Purple Dragon Pill, but he did. Back then, he had auctioned off a pill furnace in Yongying Horn, and the pill formula for the Five-Claw Purple Dragon Pill was hidden inside that pill furnace. Besides the Five-Claw Purple Dragon Pill, there were also the Azure Essence Pill and the Glazed Blood Exchange Pill.

Mo Wuji hadn't used the Glazed Blood Exchange Pill, but since he began cultivating, the Azure Essence Pill had helped him more than just a little bit.

Based on his knowledge of the Five-Claw Purple Dragon Pill, the Five-Claw Purple Dragon Pill should be a pill formula without a grade. Now that it appeared on the Rank 5 God Pill King assessment, did that mean the Five-Claw Purple Dragon Pill was a Rank 5 God Pill?

In the Pill Dao Honor Tower assessment of Nirvana Dao City, if the pill masters had to provide their own pill formulas, not to mention anything else, how many people would have this Five-Claw Purple Dragon Pill formula? Mo Wuji didn't believe that all the pill masters were like him, able to obtain such a pill formula by chance.

When he had just obtained the Five-Claw Purple Dragon Pill, Mo Wuji only recognized a very few of the spiritual herbs in the pill formula. And among the few he recognized, most of them were Grade 9 Immortal Spiritual Herbs. Now that he had become a Rank 5 God Pill King and obtained the inheritance of the Azure-Clad God Pill King, his knowledge of spiritual herbs had greatly increased. Even so, he still only recognized those few Grade 9 Immortal Spiritual Herbs in the Five-Claw Purple Dragon Pill formula; he still didn't recognize the rest.

It should be known that the Azure-Clad God Pill King's spiritual herb introduction covered almost all Grade 6 and below God Spiritual Herbs in the entire God Continent. He had obtained the Azure-Clad God Pill King's inheritance, yet he could still only recognize those few Grade 9 Immortal Spiritual Herbs. The only possibility was that all the spiritual herbs he didn't recognize were above Grade 6 God Spiritual Herbs.

In that case, the Five-Claw Purple Dragon Pill was definitely not a Rank 5 God Pill.

If it wasn't a Rank 5 God Pill, why would it be placed here to assess Rank 5 God Pill Kings? The only explanation was that the assessors of the Pill Dao Honor Tower didn't know the pill formula for the Five-Claw Purple Dragon Pill; they were seeking this pill formula.

Mo Wuji shook his head, looked around again, and resolutely turned to leave. Even if he handed over this pill formula and the other party produced the spiritual herbs, he wouldn't be able to refine it.

...

Seeing Mo Wuji turn around and leave, several pill masters on the top floor of the Pill Dao Honor Tower looked at each other.

A red-faced man wearing a Yin-Yang Fish Daoist robe said somewhat unhappily, "It seems that this Rogue Cultivator 2705 doesn't know the pill formula for the Five-Claw Purple Dragon Pill either."

"Sigh, I guess we made the wrong judgment; this kid isn't a descendant of the Henghe Pill Dao." Another person sighed.

Sitting at the head of the table was a flat-nosed old Daoist, who frowned without saying anything.

"Brother Jian, do you have a different opinion?" Seeing the flat-nosed old Daoist frown, the red-faced man asked suspiciously.

The red-faced man had spoken somewhat unhappily just now, but he was extremely respectful when speaking to this flat-nosed old Daoist. This flat-nosed old Daoist was called Jian Sha, and he was the most powerful pill master in the Nirvana Learning Academy. He had a nickname: Flat-Nosed God Pill King.

Jian Sha said in a deep voice, "How long did this person take to obtain the title of Rank 4 Great God Pill Master from the first to the fourth level? Not even two hours. This includes the time to choose pills and trade for spiritual herbs.

"You have all been immersed in pill dao for at least hundreds of thousands of years, right? Have you ever heard of a pill master who can complete the refining of four furnaces of God Pills in less than half a day? And one of them was a Rank 4 Profound Fate God Pill? Don't mention others, even for me, it takes at least half a day to refine a furnace of Rank 4 Profound Fate God Pills. My pill refining speed is considered fast, right? But that Rogue Cultivator 2705 is several times faster than me."

A pale-faced old man sighed and said, "If there really is a pill master who refines pills so quickly, then he can only be a descendant of the Henghe Pill Dao."

Jian Sha nodded and said in a low voice, "Brother Zhai is right. This person's pill refining speed, the method of purifying spiritual herbs, and the purity he extracts, have an 80% or more chance of being a descendant of the Henghe Pill Dao. The Five-Claw Purple Dragon Pill was created by Henghe. As a descendant of the Henghe Pill Dao, how could he not know the Five-Claw Purple Dragon Pill?"

"Maybe this Five-Claw Purple Dragon Pill isn't a Rank 5 God Pill..." The beardless old man hesitated slightly.

Before Jian Sha could speak this time, the red-faced man said, "The Five-Claw Purple Dragon Pill is definitely a Rank 5 God Pill. The few spiritual herbs we obtained from the incomplete pill formula are all Rank 5 God Spiritual Herbs, and they are extremely precious. This shows that it is a Rank 5 God Pill."

Jian Sha said, "That's right, the Five-Claw Purple Dragon Pill is undoubtedly a Rank 5 God Pill. If we want to know whether that Rogue Cultivator 2705 knows the pill formula for the Five-Claw Purple Dragon Pill, it's very simple. We just need to confirm whether he is a descendant of the Henghe Pill Dao..."

"Brother Jian, fast pill refining isn't necessarily only from the Henghe Pill Dao. There's also Zhong Di from the Mortal Land of the Nirvana Learning Academy back then..." The person who spoke this time was a man with only one arm, and his appearance looked young. It's just that for some reason, his severed arm hadn't recovered.

Don't look down on this person for having one arm missing. He is a well-known God Pill King in the Nirvana Learning Academy. He also has a nickname: One-Armed God Pill King. Like the Flat-Nosed God Pill King, if outsiders can ask the One-Armed God Pill King to refine a furnace of pills, it's not just luck, but also a kind of honor.

Jian Sha nodded and said, "That's right, but after Zhong Di passed away, even the cultivation methods passed down were only low-level. As for the inheritance, it should have been cut off long ago. More importantly, Zhong Di refines pills quickly, but the quality of the pills he refines is generally average because his purification isn't good. This Rogue Cultivator 2705's purification of spiritual herbs is definitely not from Zhong Di's inheritance.

"Caihe, I'll leave the task of testing that Rogue Cultivator 2705 to you. If he is a descendant of the Henghe Pill Dao, don't alarm him first. Just send the message back. Don't be too anxious about this matter. This Rogue Cultivator 2705 came to Nirvana Dao City probably to participate in the Nirvana Learning Academy's assessment. He won't leave in a short time. Now he is a Rank 4 Great God Pill Master. If he wants to have the qualification to participate in the assessment, he can only go to the Rogue Cultivator Alliance. You can put pressure on him through the Rogue Cultivator Alliance."

"Alright." The one-armed youth responded. His name was Shi Caihe.

The red-faced man laughed and said, "If this kid is really a descendant of Zhong Di, but we misunderstood him and he didn't obtain the title of Rank 5 God Pill King, I bet he would wake up depressed in his sleep."