These pauses lasted over a century, and he never managed to break through the Middle Stage, while wave after wave of his disciples came and went, some even becoming rising stars as Elders, yet he remained unchanged.
So, in his twilight years, he ceased delving into the Sword Dao and began researching pill recipes instead.
To become a powerful cultivator in the Crimson Palace Realm, one must take risks and consume some of the less stable Crimson Palace Pills, otherwise... they can only take the standardized elixirs.
Stable they may be, but much weaker as well.
"Erysipelas" is a disaster every Crimson Palace cultivator faces.
This is evident from how Song Yan died tens of thousands of times while digesting the "Changwang Tiger Blood."
Sun Kuye felt that "cultivating the sword on one's own" was short-sighted, while alchemy aimed at the thousand-year grand enterprise of the Sword Sect, focusing on the future sword cultivator talents.
