The Second Yin Soul Fruit (3k Bonus Chapter, Owed Chapters Still Outstanding)

Ji An inventoried all the spoils, then let out a long breath.

"So many gains. No wonder robber cultivators could never be stamped out."

He had obtained over twenty thousand High-grade Spirit Stones, the least valuable of the haul.

There were many third order resources: materials for artifact refining and refining Puppet, as well as some Third Order Spiritual Medicine. He had even found a Yin Soul Fruit—a fully mature fourth order low-grade Yin Soul Fruit.

It was one of the main ingredients for the Nascent Soul Pill. Perhaps True Lord Xuanji had prepared it for himself. After all, he was a late-stage Golden Core cultivator, so it was perfectly reasonable.

These resources were hard currency anywhere. With Yin Soul Fruit seeds, Ji An could cultivate them himself. They would become another great source of wealth in the future, and the sect would benefit as well.

He had once killed a robber cultivator carrying a Nascent Soul Pill and obtained a batch of ingredients, including a Yin Soul Fruit. However, that fruit had not been fully mature when it was picked.

Spiritual fruits were unlike mortal fruits. If picked too early, they could not slowly ripen through storage; their medicinal efficacy would only remain fixed.

If a spiritual fruit was not mature, its seeds' vitality would naturally not be at its peak. Planting them would require far more effort afterward to make up for it.

With the Gathering Origin Tree, planting Yin Soul Wood in the small world could gradually compensate for a spiritual plant's innate deficiencies. But it would take an exceedingly long time, and whether its potential could be fully restored remained unknown.

Now that he had obtained a fully mature Yin Soul Fruit, Ji An had no more concerns.

He planned to wait until his cultivation broke