Still True

Wang Li was in an extremely good mood.

Even after deducting the 40% he owed He Lingxiu, this Ghost Pattern Spirit Bone was equivalent to a few days' earnings for both him and Lü Shenliang in this kind of place.

"Fellow Daoist Hehe, I don't think any Qi-gazing technique can compare to your Innate Clarity Spiritual Root. With a spiritual root like yours, you could probably find bargains at markets that specialize in artifacts and magic tools, right?" he transmitted to He Lingxiu with a smile.

He Lingxiu turned and gave him a deep look.

Wang Li increasingly felt she was insidious, and she increasingly felt Wang Li was difficult to deal with.

This person seemed to have issues with his brain, acting erratically, but every word he spoke seemed to carry hidden meaning, probing the other's background.

"You don't need to keep probing,"

she transmitted dismissively. "Otherwise, how do you think I managed to establish myself in Jiaomu Market?"

"That's true!" Wang Li acted as if he hadn't heard her first sentence at all. His face was filled with solemn respect, but his tone carried envy and jealousy. "Just helping people appraise the quality of spiritual materials could bring in quite a bit of income. Cultivators with spiritual roots like yours truly wouldn't lack spirit sand for their cultivation. Unlike my senior sister, what good is her Immortal Spiritual Root? She can't earn spirit sand, but she consumes it faster than anyone."

"You dislike your senior sister so much, yet you treasure her and even call her Wang Bihui." He Lingxiu taunted.

Wang Li chuckled, "No matter how much I dislike her, she's still my senior sister. That can't change."

He Lingxiu appreciated his saying one thing and meaning another. She coldly transmitted, "Five hundred paces ahead to the right, one foot beneath that purple vine, did you see any treasure light?"

Wang Li's eyes immediately lit up again.

He grabbed the Ghost Pattern Spirit Bone and walked towards the spot He Lingxiu mentioned. Upon arrival, he quickly said that he thought he saw treasure light and immediately began digging with the Ghost Pattern Spirit Bone.

This Ghost Pattern Spirit Bone was strong enough anyway, and with its slight curve, it was quite convenient for digging and prying.

"What spiritual material is it this time?"

Seeing him like this, Mu Yu, Han Yao, and Chen Wan were all stunned.

But Wang Li was also quickly stunned.

"Was there no treasure light?" He Lingxiu asked, meeting Wang Li's confused gaze.

Wang Li was a bit dazed.

"I asked if you saw treasure light, not if there was treasure light here," He Lingxiu chuckled and transmitted.

Wang Li realized, and immediately felt helpless. "If you do this again, don't blame me for not being able to get along."

"As long as you act normally in the future and don't always try to probe me with your deep schemes, I can get along with you," He Lingxiu glanced at him. "Everyone has their own secrets. We're just collaborating on a business, don't be so curious."

Wang Li felt rebuffed, put away the Ghost Pattern Spirit Bone, and walked forward. "My mistake, there's no treasure light here."

Ye Wan had been astonished, thinking Wang Li could dig up spiritual materials anywhere he went. Seeing Wang Li like this now, he couldn't help but laugh out loud.

This person was truly too peculiar, was he crazy?

At this moment, He Lingxiu's transmission sounded in Wang Li's ear again. "There is treasure light this time, five paces in front of you, a Fire Element Spirit Bone." "There's treasure light!"

Before Ye Wan's laughter had even died down, Wang Li's shout rang out again.

Before he could react, Wang Li had already taken several steps and started digging again.

He was immediately speechless. "Can you at least lead the way properly? Are you a mole, digging everywhere? Do you really think there are spirit bones everywhere?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Ji and Ye Jiuyue beside him gasped in unison, "Holy crap, there really is one!"

Ye Wan's eyes immediately bulged.

A distinct red treasure light appeared in front of Wang Li, and then he unearthed a palm-sized, oval-shaped spirit bone.

Mu Yu and Han Yao exchanged glances. Although their expressions didn't change much, the way they looked at Wang Li was clearly different from before.

For cultivators like them, one instance might be a coincidence, but two instances were definitely not.

"Is this the kneecap bone of some demonic beast?" Wang Li asked He Lingxiu, brushing the dust off the spirit bone.

The spirit bone's shape truly resembled a kneecap bone. It felt very good in his hand, like a smooth, warm piece of jade.

The red light emanating from within was also soft, and the color of the red light was beautiful, a kind of peach red.

He Lingxiu glanced at it casually. "This should be the skull roof bone of a Fire Feather Snake. A complete skull roof bone like this can be used to refine a complete magic shield."

"Amazing!"

Wang Li's face turned bright red.

He weighed the spirit bone in his hand, becoming more and more fond of it.

The price difference between spiritual materials that could be used as the main component for refining artifacts and those that could only be used for consumable magic tools was vast.

In the orthodox Seventy-two Immortal Sects of the Lesser Jade Continent, most disciples, even those who reached the Fifth or Sixth Level of Qi Refining, probably wouldn't possess any proper reusable artifacts, only consumable magic tools.

"Fellow Daoist Wang's luck is indeed quite good," Mu Yu smiled kindly again.

She truly couldn't see through Wang Li and He Lingxiu at all.

In her opinion, cultivators who were so familiar with the White Bone Continent and could discover spiritual materials along the way that even she couldn't detect wouldn't get so excited over just one or two pieces of spiritual material.

But Wang Li's current flushed excitement didn't seem fake.

As for He Lingxiu, her relationship with this person seemed only average, as if they had just teamed up for this business. However, this young girl's insight and knowledge seemed to far surpass ordinary cultivators.

"Let's continue!"

Wang Li excitedly continued forward.

At the same time, he transmitted a message to He Lingxiu, "Fellow Daoist Hehe, I think we can really do long-term business."

He Lingxiu chuckled, "You're so pragmatic."

Wang Li, unashamed and even proud, replied, "Of course. As cultivators, we can't pass up on spirit sand."

He Lingxiu let out a cold laugh.

Although a cold smile played on her lips, she didn't feel any mockery towards Wang Li's words in her heart.

On the contrary, the more Wang Li displayed his miserly nature, his eyes gleaming at the sight of spiritual materials and calculating their value in spirit sand, the more she felt a sense of pity, and even a touch of admiration, for the senior sister and junior brother pair from the Profound Heaven Sect.

It was clear that Wang Li and Lü Shenliang had found it incredibly difficult to earn spirit sand over the past few years.

A cultivator like Wang Li, even without any special spiritual root, given his intellect and understanding of various techniques, would at least be better than her own senior brothers and sisters who called themselves the Five Elders of Huayang. In any other sect, as long as nothing untoward happened, he wouldn't lack spirit sand for his cultivation.

As for Lü Shenliang, who possessed an Innate Immortal Spiritual Root, there was even less reason to worry about spirit sand.

As far as she knew, among all the living cultivators in the Lesser Jade Continent, including Lü Shenliang, there were only four Immortal Spiritual Root cultivators. Two of them had acquired their Immortal Spiritual Roots later in life through spirit medicine, placing them a tier below Innate Immortal Spiritual Roots in terms of cultivation speed.

"I'm asking seriously now, not trying to test you," Wang Li's voice rang out again. He clearly didn't want to miss out on spirit sand, and his tone was both solemn and polite. "Can your Innate Clarity Spiritual Root really distinguish even spirit medicine? If you knew a certain spirit medicine was present in a location, but it was extremely well-hidden and didn't emit any spiritual energy, could you find it?"

"Unless some spirit medicine is sentient and possesses exceptionally powerful Qi-concealing methods, it shouldn't be a problem." Although He Lingxiu and Wang Li had always been at odds, they often shared a strange sense of understanding. The moment Wang Li asked, she vaguely guessed what he intended to do. After a moment's thought, she replied truthfully, "Most Qi-gazing techniques observe spiritual energy fluctuations. For spiritual items that suppress their spiritual energy, only absorbing it without emitting it, they are completely undetectable. But my Innate Clarity Spiritual Root is different; different origins feel entirely distinct to my senses."

Wang Li transmitted a message, "Then can you check if I have any Primordial artifacts inside me?"

He Lingxiu responded with a huge eye-roll.

She thought Wang Li was incorrigible, prone to jumping to random conclusions after a few serious sentences.

But she hadn't expected that Wang Li was actually being very serious.

Wang Li knew that although his senior sister sometimes had significant issues with her mind, when she was lucid, she would never act recklessly.

He Lingxiu also didn't know that back on the lonely peak, Lü Shenliang had considered capturing her and forcing her to check if Wang Li possessed any Primordial artifacts.

"So there really isn't any," Wang Li understood the meaning behind the eye-roll and felt a surge of dejection.

"If this trip to the Seven Treasures Ancient Domain goes well, I might consider looking for spirit medicine to treat your senior sister with you in the future," He Lingxiu's voice echoed in his ear again.

Wang Li took a deep breath and said, "Then you better not go back on your word."

Deep in Wang Li's heart, his senior sister Lü Shenliang was probably even more important than he was.

If he had the chance to restore his senior sister's damaged divine soul, he would risk everything, no matter how dangerous.

He certainly didn't know He Lingxiu well enough.

He only knew that He Lingxiu was cunning and treacherous enough.

But as long as He Lingxiu kept her promise, even if she had seen his weakness and intended to exploit it, he would accept it.