The treasure embryo of the Sea Pearl requires shell pearls, the higher the grade the better.
That three-thousand-year-old Spiritual Pearl was prepared for refining the Sea Suppressing Pearl. However, he was not satisfied with it and hoped to find a higher quality Spiritual Pearl in the future, preferably one that surpassed ten thousand years.
Once a shell pearl surpasses ten thousand years, it is called a Spirit Communication Treasure Pearl. Using it to refine magical treasures ensures that the grade of the treasure will be at least high-grade, which is immensely helpful for breaking through the Nascent Soul Barrier in the future.
That being said, Zhao Sheng was not entirely without hope for advancing to the True Pill.
All Divine Powers and Treasure Techniques were also created and deduced by predecessors.
He would neither be arrogantly self-aggrandizing nor unduly self-deprecating.
If predecessors could achieve it, so might he.
Such were his thoughts when,
