That old man had not even told me where the Immortal Dao Market was. I asked Xianli about it, but all I managed to find out was the location of Luomu Valley Market. It was a small market, so surely someone there would know something about the Immortal Dao Market. I asked about a few things I needed to watch out for there, then finally calmed down and began studying the Maten Powder.
Maten Powder was made by grinding several herbs and the materials of several ferocious beasts into powder and mixing them together. After swallowing some, it did suppress the dull pain in my crystal and the blockages in my Spirit Vein, but I still discovered that several ingredients were not meant to suppress the effects of the Tree Immortal Fruit at all. Instead, they stimulated the formation of human pills, so I immediately stopped Xianli from using it.
I naturally understood pharmacology very well. Since it was meant for cultivators at our Crystal Stage, the selected materials certainly would not exceed that stage by more than one level. That meant all of those materials should be findable.
The effect it produced on my Spirit Vein after I swallowed it clarified most of the Tree Immortal Fruit's nature for me. The Tree Immortal Fruit was indeed vicious. Even if one did not cultivate, the movement of the Spirit Vein would cause it to keep accumulating at various nodes. Then, like a scabbed-over wound, it would continue growing until it formed one fruit after another. All of them would absorb the power of the crystal, so anyone who did not cultivate would eventually be drained of all the crystal energy in their body. In other words, not cultivating was impossible—that would only make you die faster!
So deliberately nurturing the