"This time, I've really brought back a treasure."
Guo Feilong couldn't contain his joy.
You see, an Earth Grade medium Spiritual Root.
Cultivation speed is ten times faster than his own Low Grade medium Spiritual Root.
He remembered twenty years ago.
An Ancestor at the Golden Elixir stage from the Spirit Creek Sect.
Brought back a child with an Earth Grade low Spiritual Root from outside.
The Golden Elixir Ancestor accepted the child as his last disciple.
Before the age of twenty, the disciple successfully reached Foundation Establishment and became a sect Elder.
The Golden Elixir Ancestor was so pleased that he rewarded this last disciple with the fiefdom of ten counties, making other Foundation Establishment Elders green with envy.
Normally, a Foundation Establishment Elder's fiefdom is just one county.
But that Golden Elixir stage Elder's last disciple was given ten counties upon reaching Foundation Establishment, who wouldn't be envious?
However, envy is just envy.
After all, with an Earth Grade Spiritual Root, there's a twenty to thirty percent chance of becoming a great cultivator at the Golden Elixir stage in the future.
Wang Yuyan has a Spiritual Root, which means she can become an Immortal Cultivator.
This was excellent news for Guo Feilong.
The children they have in the future.
Will have a high chance of possessing Spiritual Roots.
"Right, Auspicious Clouds can enhance the grade of Spiritual Roots. With 3600 Auspicious Clouds, I wonder what grade my Spiritual Root can be elevated to?"
Thinking of this, Guo Feilong's divine sense entered his mindscape.
He directed all 3601 Auspicious Clouds from the cauldron into his Energy Core.
Under his divine sense control, one Auspicious Cloud after another drilled into his Low Grade medium Water Spiritual Root.
Buzz!
His Spiritual Root began to shine brightly, like a small water-blue sun.
When the 356th Auspicious Cloud merged into the Spiritual Root.
His Low Grade medium Water Spiritual Root evolved into a Low Grade high Water Spiritual Root.
Buzz~
The Spiritual Root suddenly burst with brilliant light again.
When the 869th Auspicious Cloud merged into the Spiritual Root.
The Low Grade high Water Spiritual Root evolved into a Medium Grade low Spiritual Root.
Buzz~
The Spiritual Root glowed brightly.
When the 2336th Auspicious Cloud merged into the Spiritual Root.
The Medium Grade low Spiritual Root evolved into a Medium Grade medium Spiritual Root.
Now there were 1265 Auspicious Clouds left.
Guo Feilong knew that the remaining Auspicious Clouds couldn't evolve his Spiritual Root to a Medium Grade high Spiritual Root, so he returned the remaining Auspicious Clouds to the cauldron.
Next, he sat cross-legged on the bridal bed, holding two Low Grade Spirit Stones to cultivate.
***
After two hours of cultivation, Guo Feilong opened his eyes, a smile spread across his face.
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After his Spiritual Root was elevated to Medium Grade medium, his cultivation speed increased more than twofold.
At this rate, with sufficient resources.
It wouldn't take twenty years, at most seven or eight years.
He could open the path to the next cultivation stage.
Unfortunately, his current Spirit Stones couldn't support daily cultivation for seven or eight years.
In just two hours of cultivation, he consumed 14 Low Grade Spirit Stones.
The Spirit Stones he currently possessed could only support daily cultivation for eight months.
Now it's just him using Spirit Stones for cultivation, starting tomorrow it would be him and Wang Yuyan, and in the future, who knows how many descendants would need Spirit Stones for cultivation.
He needed to find a way to earn Spirit Stones.
During his hundred years in the Spirit Creek Sect, he didn't waste his time; he learned alchemy, crafting, and even cultivating spirit herbs, making him quite a versatile person.
However, he truly had no talent in alchemy or crafting.
The success rate for refining the lowest First Grade elixirs was less than ten percent, making alchemy a loss-making endeavor.
Crafting was the same, with a success rate of less than ten percent, making it a loss as well.
Later, he didn't pursue further studies in alchemy or crafting.
Auspicious Clouds can increase the success rate of alchemy and crafting.
As long as the success rate for alchemy and crafting reaches twenty percent, it breaks even, and anything above that is profit.
***
The next morning after breakfast.
Guo Feilong called Wang Yuyan to the basement, telling her that she had a Spiritual Root and could cultivate immortality.
For an ordinary person, the greatest dream is to have a Spiritual Root and become an Immortal Cultivator, to fly among the clouds and live freely.
Upon learning that she could also become an Immortal Cultivator, Wang Yuyan excitedly hugged his neck, as happy as a child.
In fact, Wang Yuyan was only sixteen years old, so her childlike demeanor was normal.
In the basement, he taught Wang Yuyan how to absorb spiritual energy from heaven and earth into her Spiritual Root to convert it into mystic power, and how to break through the initial bottleneck of the Qi Refining stage to become a first-level Qi Refining cultivator.
Guo Feilong thought that even if Wang Yuyan was fast, it would take ten days to half a month to become a first-level Qi Refining cultivator.
However, Wang Yuyan was much faster than he imagined, reaching the first level of Qi Refining in just three days.
The cultivation speed of an Earth Grade Spiritual Root is truly extraordinary.
Although a first-level Qi Refining cultivator doesn't have much mystic power, they can still control a flying sword to kill.
Guo Feilong gave Wang Yuyan a Medium Grade flying sword, a storage bag, and dozens of Low Grade Spirit Stones.
With another cultivator in the family, there was another person needing Spirit Stones for cultivation, so Guo Feilong planned to earn money through alchemy.
Alchemy requires a cauldron.
It also needs medicinal herbs and recipes.
He had recipes for First and Second Grade elixirs.
What he lacked now was a cauldron and medicinal herbs.
Green Sun County was a place with scarce cultivation resources, and there weren't many Immortal Cultivators, nor was there a local gathering place for them.
But at the junction of five counties, 1300 miles east of Green Sun County, there was a lake island.
On the tenth day of each month, many Immortal Cultivators would set up stalls there, buying and selling goods, exchanging what they had for what they needed.
***
On this day.
The morning of July tenth.
Guo Feilong rode on a Soaring Cloud to the lake island.
Immortal Cultivators, who were rarely seen, were everywhere on this lake island.
Guo Feilong roughly counted.
There were about three hundred Immortal Cultivators on the lake island.
So many Immortal Cultivators were actually quite normal.
After all, it was the junction of five counties.
The smallest county had over fifty towns and countless villages.
Just in Green Sun County, there were about a hundred cultivation families, and it was normal for a large family to have seven or eight to a dozen cultivators.
Having two to three hundred cultivators in a county was normal.
For five counties, having one to two thousand Immortal Cultivators was also normal.
With one to two thousand Immortal Cultivators, having two to three hundred come here was even more normal.
Ordinary people rarely see Immortal Cultivators because they are busy, either searching the mountains for spirit herbs or cultivating divine powers, spells, and martial skills.
Guo Feilong had nothing to sell to other Immortal Cultivators, so he didn't need to set up a stall; he wandered around others' stalls.
When he found spirit herbs he could use, he haggled with the stall owner, buying if he could, and moving on if he couldn't.
As the saying goes, "wealth should not be exposed," so Guo Feilong didn't dare to buy too much spirit herbs, fearing he'd be targeted as a fat sheep.
You should know, just on this small lake island.
There were at least ten cultivators with higher cultivation stages than him, three of whom were at the ninth level of Qi Refining.
In the cultivation world, every moment, there were cultivators being killed and robbed by other cultivators.
With his seventh level of Qi Refining, it was best to stay low-key.
After buying about two hundred Spirit Stones worth of spirit herbs, Guo Feilong stopped purchasing; he needed a cauldron, so he took out paper and pen from his storage bag,
On a wooden board.
He wrote five words:
[Looking to Buy Cauldron]
High-grade cauldrons are expensive.
Low-grade cauldrons aren't too costly.
Not long after he finished writing on the board.
A sixth-level Qi Refining cultivator approached him.
She was a pretty and pure-looking female cultivator who appeared to be nineteen.
But her actual age was definitely over thirty.
Because, to reach the sixth level of Qi Refining before thirty.
One generally needed a Medium Grade Spiritual Root, meeting the Spirit Creek Sect's standard for recruiting Outer Disciples.
"I have a Low Grade high cauldron here, 5000 Low Grade Spirit Stones."
After the woman spoke, Guo Feilong quickly waved his hand, saying he couldn't afford it.
Even if he could afford it, he wouldn't spend 5000 Low Grade Spirit Stones on it.
It's not that a Low Grade high cauldron isn't worth 5000 Low Grade Spirit Stones.
But taking out 5000 Low Grade Spirit Stones in such a place.
Isn't it just telling everyone, "I'm rich, I'm wealthy, I'm low in cultivation, come rob me"?
"I also have two Third Grade alchemy recipes here, do you want them? 1000 Spirit Stones each, selling them cheap to you."
The pretty and pure-looking female cultivator asked him.
Guo Feilong shook his head, saying he couldn't afford them.
It's not that he truly couldn't afford them.
But he didn't dare to buy them.
Didn't you see he only dared to buy around 200 Spirit Stones worth of spirit herbs?
1000 Spirit Stones could definitely make some people think of killing and robbing.
He didn't want to court death.
The pretty and pure-looking female cultivator left disappointed.
Then Guo Feilong saw her in an open space not far away, taking out a Low Grade high cauldron, several Medium Grade flying swords, and one High Grade flying sword from her storage bag, waiting for people to ask about prices.
"Such a pretty face, does she have tofu growing in her head instead of brains?" Guo Feilong thought.
A High Grade flying sword is worth at least 5000 Spirit Stones, and with that Low Grade high cauldron, it's over ten thousand Low Grade Spirit Stones.
1000 Low Grade Spirit Stones could make people think of killing and robbing.
Let alone items worth at least ten thousand Spirit Stones.
"I have a Low Grade low cauldron here, 300 Spirit Stones, do you want it?"
At this moment, a middle-aged cultivator who looked to be in his forties approached him.
A Low Grade low cauldron for three hundred Spirit Stones wasn't expensive or cheap, so Guo Feilong said, "I don't have enough Spirit Stones for 300, I only have 290, if you're willing to sell, I'll buy it."
"290 Spirit Stones will do." The middle-aged cultivator agreed without hesitation, patting his storage bag, and a Low Grade low cauldron appeared in front of Guo Feilong.
Guo Feilong gave him 290 Spirit Stones, put the Low Grade low cauldron into his storage bag, and left on his Soaring Cloud.
Today, he only showed wealth equivalent to about five hundred Spirit Stones, not enough to make anyone think of killing and robbing him.
Indeed, his judgment was correct.
***
He returned safely to Yellow Rock Town.
Yellow Rock Town was his fiefdom.
Even if a Foundation Establishment cultivator killed him openly in his fiefdom.
The Spirit Creek Sect would avenge him.
Daring to kill the lord of a fiefdom openly is a slap in the face to the Spirit Creek Sect, and the sect would be angered.
After returning, Guo Feilong called his two wives, Su Xue and Wang Yuyan, telling them he would be in seclusion for alchemy for a few days, and to find him in the underground chamber if needed.
A moment later.
Guo Feilong placed the cauldron on the basement floor, using mundane fire to ignite the fire crystal at the base of the cauldron, which immediately emitted intense heat.
Fire crystals are a type of combustible high-temperature flame material used in alchemy, accidentally created by an ancient crafting master, and now commonly used by alchemists below the Foundation Establishment stage.
Guo Feilong began alchemy by adding various spirit herbs into the cauldron in a specific order and proportion.