Guo Feilong had always known that cultivating the body as a cultivator was particularly costly.

But this wasn't just costly; it was like burning money.

However, the Golden Body Technique was indeed powerful. Even with just the incomplete upper part, it could refine the physical form to a level comparable to a high-quality spiritual instrument.

If he could obtain the subsequent body refining techniques of the Golden Body Technique, it might truly be possible to refine the body to a level comparable to a sacred treasure.

If the physical form could be refined to a level comparable to a sacred treasure, even a Qi Refining stage cultivator could confront a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator head-on.

Of course, Qi Refining stage cultivators have limited mystic power within them. Even if they refined their physical form to the level of a sacred treasure, they would ultimately still fall to a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator.

Because in this cultivation world, whether it is divine powers or spells, or body refining techniques, all require mystic power as support.

Without mystic power, everything is just an illusion.

A moment later.

Guo Feilong checked out of his room.

He donned a tiger-head mask and walked into the Spirit Creek Sect's elixir shop in the market, spending a piece of low-quality spirit stone to buy enough spirit herbs and spirit medicines for two people to cultivate the Golden Body Technique to a level comparable to a low-quality spiritual instrument.

Then he went to a shop selling formations and spent spirit stones to buy a courtyard protection formation disk.

When set up at home, it could withstand three attacks from a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator, making it impervious to attacks from Qi Refining stage cultivators.

It was a sort of insurance for the home, after all, this cultivation world still had man-eating demons, and without some defensive measures, it would be hard to sleep peacefully.

Those demons particularly loved eating immortal cultivators.

Because eating immortal cultivators was more nourishing for them than eating ordinary people, and it could enhance their cultivation stage.

If ordinary people were a delicacy in the eyes of demons, then immortal cultivators were walking human-shaped elixirs to them.

Guo Feilong not only bought a defensive formation but also purchased a large number of attack talismans, such as lightning talismans, fire talismans, ice blade talismans, and so on.

Now, even when facing a ninth-level Qi Refining stage cultivator, he had a seventy percent chance of killing the opponent.

Because he had bought nearly thirty thousand spirit stones worth of talismans.

Activating a talisman required only a tiny bit of mystic power to unleash a powerful spell attack.

He could even exhaust a ninth-level Qi Refining stage cultivator to death.

The remaining thirty percent chance of not being able to kill a ninth-level Qi Refining stage cultivator was because wealthy cultivators were not just him; others could be wealthy too.

Especially those ninth-level Qi Refining stage cultivators with genius spiritual root aptitude, they were either the pride of various sects or core members of various families, and the good things they carried would only be more than his, never less.

Guo Feilong firmly remembered one thing: never underestimate the world's cultivators just because you have some resources.

Playing the pig to eat the tiger, winning with weakness against strength, was not something only he understood, but something many people understood.

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After buying everything he needed, Guo Feilong formed a hand seal, and a white cloud rose under his feet as he was about to fly away, but suddenly he remembered something.

Then, he went to a spiritual beast arena operated by the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, a major cultivation force, in the Xiaoye Village market.

The variety of spiritual beasts here was vast, from those that flew in the sky, ran on the ground, to those that swam in the rivers—everything was available.

The Ten Thousand Beasts Sect not only sold spiritual beasts but also sold spiritual beast elixirs that specifically accelerated the maturity of spiritual beasts and aided in their cultivation.

Even the Spirit Creek Sect didn't have spiritual beast elixirs because they didn't have the alchemy recipe for them.

The Ten Thousand Beasts Sect's influence was even greater than that of the Spirit Creek Sect. If the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect's power were smaller, the Spirit Creek Sect would have long taken their spiritual beast elixir recipe by force.

The cultivation world was like this, survival of the fittest; if you couldn't buy it, you would take it by force, and the logic was determined by who had the stronger fist.

After browsing through the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, Guo Feilong spent a piece of low-quality spirit stone to buy a ninth-rank spiritual beast, the Ice Flame Hound, which was naturally capable of using ice and fire spell divine powers, had fast running speed, and a fierce temperament, stronger than most ninth-level Qi Refining stage human cultivators.

At the same time, all spiritual beasts were natural body refiners, with tough skin and thick flesh, their defense comparable to spiritual instruments and sacred treasures.

Originally, Guo Feilong wanted to buy a ninth-rank flying spiritual beast, but the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect's shop in the Xiaoye Village market didn't have any ninth-rank flying spiritual beasts.

The Ten Thousand Beasts Sect couldn't cultivate many ninth-rank flying spiritual beasts each year, and the quantity was very limited.

Ninth-rank flying spiritual beasts had fast flying speeds, and many cultivators liked them, making them very popular.

The ninth-rank flying spiritual beasts of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect were all pre-ordered by customers with a large deposit of spirit stones.

If he were to pre-order a ninth-rank flying spiritual beast now, it would take 30 years before he could own one.

He couldn't wait 30 years.

Guo Feilong named the ninth-rank spiritual beast Ice Flame Hound "Stupid Husky" because it looked very much like a husky, only much larger in size.

Not counting the length of its tail, it was seven to eight meters long from snout to rump.

Standing on all fours, it was over four meters tall from the top of its head to the ground, much larger than an African elephant on Earth.

After putting Stupid Husky into the spiritual beast bag, Guo Feilong also bought a mature seventh-rank flying spiritual beast, the Fire-Winged Eagle, from the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, spending 7,500 low-quality spirit stones, and named it "Great Fortune," to match the young Fire-Winged Eagle at home named "Lucky."

Together, they symbolized great wealth and prosperity.

In this cultivation world, they were particularly cruel to spiritual beasts destined to be sold.

They would neuter them when they were very young.

No matter whether the spiritual beasts bought were male or female, they couldn't reproduce the next generation.

Only in this way would spiritual beasts become consumables, forcing people to purchase them from the spiritual beast sects and those major sects.

After buying two spiritual beasts, Guo Feilong also bought some spiritual beast elixirs, and now his storage bag only had about twenty thousand low-quality spirit stones left.

Unable to think of anything else to buy, Guo Feilong began his journey back to Yellow Rock Village.

On the way there.

Guo Feilong rode on a white cloud, flying 120 to 130 miles per hour, traveling for sixteen to seventeen hours a day, covering 2000 miles.

Now, on his way back.

He sat on the back of the seventh-rank flying spiritual beast, the Fire-Winged Eagle "Great Fortune," flying at an average speed of 370 to 400 miles per hour, traveling sixteen to seventeen hours a day, covering over 6000 miles.

When he was about 2000 miles from Yellow Rock Town, after flying for more than ten hours, Great Fortune was too tired to continue, so Guo Feilong had it land in front of a mountain forest lake below.

He fed Great Fortune over a hundred pounds of beef, and after putting it into the spiritual beast bag, Guo Feilong patted another spiritual beast bag at his waist, releasing the ninth-rank Ice Flame Hound, Stupid Husky.

"Master, I'm hungry," Stupid Husky wagged its tail shamelessly and called out for food as soon as it came out of the spiritual beast bag.

The Ice Flame Hound, larger than an African elephant, had a stomach like a bottomless pit, eating over four hundred pounds of beef before it was full.

After Stupid Husky finished the beef and drank a few sips of water by the lake, Guo Feilong sat on its head, directing it to run towards Yellow Rock Town.

The ninth-rank spiritual beast Ice Flame Hound, Stupid Husky, could run at an average speed of 450 miles per hour, and if it sprinted at full speed, it could reach a top speed of 800 miles per hour.

However, running at 800 miles per hour wasn't sustainable, and it would be panting with its tongue out after running for twenty to thirty minutes, needing to stop and rest.

As time passed, when they were about 1300 miles from Yellow Rock Town, Stupid Husky suddenly stopped abruptly, almost throwing Guo Feilong off its head.

Just as Guo Feilong was about to get angry, Stupid Husky softly whimpered, and Guo Feilong understood its meaning.

"Master, it seems like there's a fight going on in the woods four or five miles ahead. There are two human scents and one demon scent, along with the aura of an unknown spiritual beast."

Ordinary dogs had keen noses, let alone a ninth-rank spiritual beast dog, which could smell scents from a hundred miles away.

Guo Feilong didn't doubt Stupid Husky's words at all. He didn't want to get involved in the battle five or six miles ahead, so he had Stupid Husky detour far to the right.

It's better to avoid trouble than to seek it. Even if he went to help the human cultivators, there's no guarantee he could defeat the demon. It's very likely that after helping them kill the demon and saving them, they might turn on him for the demon's treasures.

Demons were full of treasures for human cultivators, especially the demon core, which was worth at least 5000 spirit stones.

For the sake of wealth, after killing the demon, they might very well turn on him, their savior.

His philosophy was that if he didn't have the ability, he shouldn't meddle in others' affairs.

Without the ability to meddle, it was easy to get himself into trouble.

If he were now a Foundation Establishment or Golden Elixir stage cultivator, he would definitely go help those two human cultivators and slap that demon to death.

However, the more Guo Feilong wanted to avoid trouble, the more trouble came his way.

The two young female cultivators at the ninth level of Qi Refining, who were fighting the demon, had one of them say:

"Senior Sister, my Treasure-Seeking Mouse senses the presence of a cultivator and a spiritual beast over there, and they're trying to avoid us."

The other female cultivator, hearing this, showed a look of joy and said, "We are no match for this ninth-rank demon and will eventually be killed. Since that person avoiding us can detect us from such a distance, they must also be a ninth-rank cultivator. With their spiritual beast, if we join forces, we might be able to kill this demon. Junior Sister, let's go after them."

The two young and beautiful female cultivators at the ninth level of Qi Refining flashed onto the ninth-rank Treasure-Seeking Mouse, while controlling their flying swords to fend off the ninth-rank demon's attacks, and urged the Treasure-Seeking Mouse to speed towards Guo Feilong's direction.