Spirit Stone
Mortal Body Cultivation ChronicleBiodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Spirit Stone (靈石) |
| Type | Cultivation resource and common currency |
| Status | Extant; naturally found in spirit stone mine veins |
| First Appearance | A Minor Spell Compendium is priced at five Low-grade Spirit Stones in Feiyun Market 10 |
Grades and Exchange Value
| Grade | Documented characteristics | Exchange / value |
|---|---|---|
| Low-grade Spirit Stone | The basic denomination used by low-level cultivators, sects, markets, and task systems. | One Minor Spell Compendium costs five; one first-tier high-grade talisman sells for ten 10 71. |
| Mid-grade Spirit Stone | Contains purer, more concentrated spiritual power than a low-grade stone and can be refined more quickly. | The standard exchange basis is 1 mid-grade stone for 100 low-grade stones, though it commonly trades for about 110 low-grade stones because higher-grade stones are more useful in battle 27. |
| Top-grade Spirit Stone | A high-value cultivation and formation resource, particularly useful to Integration-stage cultivators. | Used to power teleportation arrays and commonly relied upon by Integration cultivators alongside pills for cultivation 344 644. |
| Supreme-grade Spirit Stone | A treasure-like grade distinct from ordinary spirit stones; it actively absorbs ambient spiritual energy rather than slowly dissipating it. | Not primarily used for trade. It can create spirit veins, assist in breaking bottlenecks, and power large formations 27 136. |
Mining and Mine Veins
Sect Mining Rules
The Flowing Cloud Sect issues miners a dedicated Storage Pouch for Spirit Stones, which must be returned upon leaving the mine. Detection arrays at both entrances prevent disciples from carrying stones out privately; theft can result in crippled cultivation, expulsion, or execution 12.
- The monthly mining requirement is twenty Spirit Stones.
- Every additional twenty stones mined earns one Low-grade Spirit Stone as a reward.
- Cultivating secretly inside the mine is also forbidden and treated as theft of sect property 12 13.
Documented Deposits
| Location / event | Yield or quality | Chapter |
|---|---|---|
| Spirit Stone Mining Area No. 3 | Zhang Tie discovers a hidden cavern containing 339 Spirit Stones after killing a One-Eyed Ice Scorpion. | 15 |
| Flowing Cloud Sect mine | Zhang Tie secretly extracts more than 120 Low-grade Spirit Stones over two months while exploiting a weakness in the monitoring formation. | 22 |
| Secret Realm underground vein | Zhang Tie finds several dozen Low-grade Spirit Stones, then confirms the presence of Mid-grade Spirit Stones. | 47 |
| Secret Realm vein | Zhang Tie mines more than 3,700 Mid-grade Spirit Stones in seven days. | 48 |
| East Sea mine vein | A storage ring later found by Zhang Tie contains over 1,400 Mid-grade Spirit Stones and two Top-grade Spirit Stones, believed to have come from a Mid-grade Spirit Stone Mine. | 111 |
| Spirit Medicine Garden | Zhang Tie finds an earth-attribute Supreme-grade Spirit Stone. | 136 |
| Seabed mine | A lightning-attributed Mid-grade Spirit Stone Mine Vein produces a lightning storm and is guarded by a Lightning Peng. | 238 |
Uses
Currency and Trade
Spirit Stones serve as the standard medium of exchange among cultivators.
- They purchase cultivation methods, talismans, spirit beast blood, information, auction access, and market services 10 19 73 145.
- Zhang Tie pays ten Low-grade Spirit Stones for Elder Su's cultivation advice 17.
- A Mid-grade Spirit Stone can be used as a gambling stake; Zhang Tie turns one into more than two hundred through repeated wagers 159.
- Flower Rain Country charges one Low-grade Spirit Stone per day for entry, including from Integration-stage cultivators 390.
Cultivation Resource
Higher-grade Spirit Stones can be refined faster, making them valuable for cultivation and emergencies 27.
- Zhang Tie's Undying Pearl eventually requires more than 30,000 Low-grade Spirit Stones to absorb sufficient energy 39.
- Integration cultivators use Top-grade Spirit Stones and pills to cultivate more efficiently, though this can introduce impurities into their mana 644.
- Spirit Stones finance repeated purchases of spirit medicines, a necessary expense for pill refiners improving through practice 529.
Formation Power Source
Spirit Stones can supply spiritual energy to formations and restrictions.
- Top-grade Spirit Stones activate long-distance teleportation arrays 344 350.
- A Mid-grade Spirit Stone disappears into a giant statue's chest, revealing an entrance mechanism tied to the five elements 267.
- Supreme-grade Spirit Stones can power super arrays and form enduring spirit veins when buried underground 136.
- Nine Supreme-grade Spirit Stones are fitted into a formation disk alongside a teleportation talisman and a Blazing Origin Pill left by Zhang Tie's master 315.
Puppet Cores
Soul-Colored Stones are specialized puppet energy cores refined from essence, soul, and Supreme-grade Spirit Stones 148.
- They provide puppets with energy and sentience.
- When inactive, they absorb ambient spiritual energy like Supreme-grade Spirit Stones to replenish themselves.
- A puppet can be controlled after its user imprints divine sense on its core and installs a compatible Soul-Colored Stone 148.
Spirit Treasure Nourishment
Zhang Tie feeds Mid-grade Spirit Stones to the transforming Five-Colored Fruit to provide spiritual energy during its evolution into a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure 280.
Supreme-grade Spirit Stones
Supreme-grade Spirit Stones are rare enough to be associated with the upper realms. Their active absorption of surrounding spiritual energy allows a buried stone to gradually develop into a spirit vein over thousands of years 136.
- An earth-attribute Supreme-grade Spirit Stone, Five Elements Spirit Soil, and a Life-Generating Spirit Liquid Bottle can establish a self-sustaining spirit medicine garden 136.
- Soul-Colored Stone refinement requires Supreme-grade Spirit Stones, making such puppet cores exceptionally costly to create 148.
- Zhang Tie later possesses hundreds of Supreme-grade Spirit Stones of varying attributes within his master’s storage bracelet 367.
- Supreme-grade stones can be rotated through spirit-gathering restrictions to maintain a Six-winged Demonic Scorpion puppet beast’s energy supply 371.
Story Role
- Spirit Stones are issued to new disciples alongside cultivation manuals, pills, robes, and identity tokens upon entering the outer sect 12.
- The Spirit Stone Mining Area becomes Zhang Tie’s first recurring means of acquiring cultivation resources, despite its harsh quotas and surveillance 12 13.
- Secret Realm mine veins dramatically increase Zhang Tie’s wealth, especially after he discovers large Mid-grade deposits 47 48.
- As Zhang Tie enters the Spirit Realm, he converts much of his wealth into higher-grade stones, carrying 1.2 million Mid-grade and 330,000 Top-grade Spirit Stones 294.
- Later conflicts show the strategic scale of the resource: large defensive restrictions can consume enough Spirit Stones to empty an entire mine vein 726.