"Qingmao?" I thought to myself. This master had already set everything up for her, which meant the chances of advancement would be quite high. As it happened, my primary attribute was wood as well. I didn't need Qingmao's crystal. As long as I could figure out the direction of the Spirit Vein and integrate it with the damaged parts of my own, I could break through using other crystals, because the function of pill crystals was precisely to crystallize the energy of countless super materials from every stage.
To break into the next stage of the Spirit-Assembled Realm, that old man Feng Zhen had no idea how many pills he had refined—from the Foundation Establishment Realm to the Crystallization Realm, then to the Pill Dao Realm, and finally the Spirit-Assembled Realm. Refining those pills required not only vast quantities of precious heavenly treasures and earthly riches of every kind, but also the crystallized cores inside all sorts of fierce beasts, and perhaps even super fierce beasts that had already formed pills in the Pill Dao Realm.
Although the materials useful to the old man had been refined into medicine, that didn't mean the parts he couldn't use were useless to me. Some of them might have been selectively retained as pill crystals. As someone cultivating all six spiritual roots, I could now choose from these pill crystals to refine and replicate cores comparable to those of crystallization-grade spirit beasts!
This was my true plan.
"Yes. That spirit beast was Qingmao, a spirit herb from among the Two Poles that had gained sentience. It was extremely powerful. Before crystallizing, it often used vine techniques to bind other spirit beasts and use them as food. After crystallizing and transforming, it could move as swiftly as flying, becoming a fierce spirit that had