Exchange of Spirit Treasures

Since they had only just met and the Exchange Gathering was still in progress, the two merely exchanged names and Communication Talismans. They said no more afterward, concentrating on absorbing the other cultivators' insights into Talisman Crafting.

Li Shiqiong came after Yang Tianyou. This cultivator from the Li Household was free and unrestrained by nature, and the Talisman Crafting insights he shared soared like a heavenly steed across the sky, bound by no convention. His unique insights made everyone's eyes light up.

One after another, Talisman Makers took the stage and shared their insights. When it was all over, their words seemed to linger like music around the rafters, echoing without end.

After the exchange of Talisman Crafting insights, Qi Yusheng took the stage. With a faint smile, he took out three Spirit Items and laid them before him.

They were a bottle of pills, a piece of azure beast hide, and a box of purplish-red spirit ink.

"The pills are first-tier superior-grade Meridian-Stabilizing Pills, three to a bottle, refined by a Tier 2 Alchemist of our Three Rivers Sect. I doubt I need to say much about their effects.

"This Beast Hide came from a first-tier superior-grade Azure Wind Tiger. It naturally contains Wind-Attribute Spirit Patterns. Once made into talisman paper, it can considerably increase the power of any wind-attribute talismans inscribed on it.

"As for this spirit ink, I mixed it myself. It has the fire attribute and is also first-tier superior-grade. Fellow Daoists, if any of these three Spirit Items catch your fancy, you may send me a voice transmission. If the offer is suitable, I will trade."

As soon as he finished speaking, cultivators interested in the three Spirit Items before him began making offers, and Yang Tianyou was no exception.

He wanted the bottle of Meridian-Stabilizing Pills. There was a small hurdle between Middle Qi Refinement and Late Qi Refinement, and with this bottle of Meridian-Stabilizing Pills, he would get through it much more smoothly.

Yang Tianyou offered three Qi-Nourishing Pills and fifty Spirit Stones, and ultimately secured the bottle of Spirit Pills.

Come to think of it, Qi-Nourishing Pills were not much inferior to Meridian-Stabilizing Pills, but that was how trading worked. To obtain what one wanted, one had to be willing to pay the price.

After receiving the Meridian-Stabilizing Pills, Yang Tianyou looked a little pleased. Now, so long as he encountered no bottlenecks, the road to Foundation Establishment would be smooth.

Soon, all the Spirit Items Qi Yusheng had brought out were traded away, and the second cultivator took the stage according to the previous order.

He brought out only two kinds of Spirit Items: an earth-attribute shield and three sheets of blank talisman paper. The paper appeared to have the water attribute, with specks of water Spiritual Qi drifting across it.

Yang Tianyou needed neither Spirit Item, so he made no offer. Before long, this cultivator had finished trading his Spirit Items as well and left the stage with a delighted look on his face.

After that, cultivators took the stage one after another. Some offered as many as five or six items, while others had only one. Some laughed heartily after trading for Spirit Items they urgently needed, while others found that no one was interested in what they had displayed, leaving them thoroughly embarrassed.

As time passed, Jinge, the young man in golden robes, took the stage. With a sweep of his sleeve, he set out four Spirit Items.

There was a small blue cauldron with three legs and two handles, giving off dense water- and wood-attribute Spiritual Qi.

A small, fiery red flower, its petals covered in fine golden markings.

A white Law Robe, finely made and clearly a superior piece of work.

Finally, there were two sheets of Metal Attribute blank talisman paper, with faint Metal Qi curling around them.

All four Spirit Items were fine pieces. The moment they were set on the ground, many cultivators' eyes lit up.

With a faint smile and a genial expression, Jinge said, "A first-tier superior-grade water- and wood-attribute Alchemy Cauldron, a first-tier superior-grade Essence Fire Flower, a first-tier superior-grade Dust-Avoiding White Robe, and first-tier superior-grade Metal-Attribute Blank Talisman Paper."

When he had finished, he gestured for the trading to begin.

The crowd sent voice transmissions one after another. Yang Tianyou had taken a fancy to the Alchemy Cauldron and the blank talisman paper, so he sent Jinge an offer.

He naturally had no use for the Alchemy Cauldron himself, but his fifth elder sister, Yang Tianyun, was an Alchemist with Dual Spirit Roots of water and wood, making her an excellent match for the little blue cauldron.

As for the Metal-Attribute Blank Talisman Paper, that went without saying. With it, Yang Tianyou could make a few more first-tier superior-grade talismans.

For the small cauldron, he offered three Qi-Nourishing Pills and two hundred Spirit Stones. For the blank talisman paper, he simply offered a hundred and fifty Spirit Stones.

Jinge's brow twitched slightly when he heard Yang Tianyou's transmission. After considering it for a moment, he agreed to the trade.

By now, Yang Tianyou had spent six Qi-Nourishing Pills.

Earlier, he had asked his fourth uncle, Yang Qiongqing, to refine Qi-Nourishing Pills using four Wu Earth Yellow Apricot Fruits, yielding seventeen pills in all. Having spent six, he had only eleven left.

Yang Tianyou had calculated that, with the aid of other pills, he would need approximately nine Qi-Nourishing Pills to advance from the Qi Refinement Fifth Layer to the Great Perfection of the Ninth Layer of Qi Refinement. That meant he had only two Qi-Nourishing Pills left to spare.

A feeling of being poor suddenly welled up in Yang Tianyou's heart. He shook his head slightly. There were never enough resources.

No wonder some cultivators ranked the means to immortality as Wealth, Companions, Land, and Dharma, putting wealth first. There was indeed a reason for it.

Everything Jinge brought out was a fine piece, so it was quickly snapped up.

Notably, Yang Tianyou, a Middle Qi Refinement cultivator, had drawn considerable attention by trading for Spirit Items twice in a row.

Many Late Qi Refinement cultivators could not match the wealth he had displayed. As a result, many people present secretly sent voice transmissions to their friends, asking about Yang Tianyou.

Unaware that he had already been labeled a wealthy man, Yang Tianyou slowly took the stage.

He put out only two kinds of Spirit Items. One was a small bottle containing two Qi-Nourishing Pills.

The other was a first-tier superior-grade talisman, a Golden Shield Talisman!

The former were the only high-grade pills Yang Tianyou had left to spare. The Golden Shield Talisman was a Metal Attribute defensive talisman he had made himself over the past month.

"First-tier superior-grade Qi-Nourishing Pills can increase the spiritual power of Late Qi Refinement cultivators.

"The first-tier superior-grade Golden Shield Talisman is a Metal Attribute defensive talisman capable of withstanding three full-force attacks from a Qi Refining seventh layer cultivator."

After speaking, Yang Tianyou signaled for the trading to begin.

Although his two Spirit Items were not particularly rare, they were extremely practical, so many cultivators sent him offers by voice transmission.

Yang Tianyou considered them carefully and ultimately struck deals with two of them.

He traded the two Qi-Nourishing Pills for a piece of first-tier superior-grade Metal-Attribute Spirit Metal, which he intended to use to strengthen his Twin Blades.

He traded the Golden Shield Talisman for two first-tier superior-grade Wound-Healing Pills, Green Zhi Pills.

After the trades were complete, Yang Tianyou returned to his place. Now his stock was completely depleted.

It was not that he had no valuable Spirit Items left, but that everything remaining had a use and could not be traded away.

The nine Qi-Nourishing Pills, for example, concerned the progress of his cultivation, so naturally he could not part with them.

As for his Law Artifacts, the Twin Blades were for close combat, the Sky-Piercing Blade for long-range attacks, the Exquisite Tower for defense and suppression, and the Wind-Chasing Boots for increasing his speed. He could not trade away a single one of them.

He also had to keep supplies of Wound-Healing Pills, Qi-Replenishing Pills, and the like on hand, just in case, so he could not part with those either.

Thus, during the trades that followed, although Yang Tianyou took a fancy to several Spirit Items, he had nothing to spare. He could only stare helplessly as the things he wanted were pocketed by others.