Preparations for the Future

Preparations for the Future

Wutong Prefecture and Purple Flower Prefecture were also neighboring prefectures, but the largest Cultivator Markets in the two prefectures were relatively far apart.

This time, Li Qianqing spent nearly six days before he reached the largest Cultivator Market in Wutong Prefecture.

He sold forty Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Replenishing Pills and kept three. As with the price at which he had sold them in the Purple Flower Prefecture Xu Clan shop, in Wutong Prefecture's Cultivator Market, all forty Qi Replenishing Pills were sold in bulk at seventy-five percent of the price.

This time, naturally, they were also sold to a Foundation Establishment Clan.

When he came out of the Wutong Prefecture Zhang Clan shop, he had another one hundred and twenty Low-Grade Spirit Stones on him.

Ninety Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Replenishing Pills had brought him an income of two hundred and seventy Low-Grade Spirit Stones. The number of Low-Grade Spirit Stones on him had now broken past three hundred. Among Late-Stage Qi Refining cultivators, there were also very few cultivators who possessed this many spirit stones.

Among the cultivation techniques currently collected by the Li Clan, there were very few Body Refinement techniques.

In the process of breaking through from the Qi Refining stage to the Foundation Establishment Realm, the first of the three barriers was the Physical Body Barrier.

For normal Qi Refining cultivators, if they began breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Realm before the age of sixty, they had a fifty percent chance of crossing the Physical Body Barrier. The younger they were when breaking through, the higher the possibility of safely crossing the Physical Body Barrier.

For cultivators who cultivated both qi and the body, the possibility of crossing the Physical Body Barrier would be even greater, while many cultivators understood this as Body Refinement also needing to reach Body Refinement Ninth Layer, or at least needing to be cultivated to late-stage Body Refinement, before its influence on the first Foundation Establishment barrier, the Physical Body Barrier, became obvious.

The further Body Refinement went, the more resources it required and the harder it became to cultivate. This caused many Qi Refining cultivators to not refine their bodies, and to just peacefully cultivate qi. In any case, as the realm of Qi Refining increased, the body would also be strengthened to varying degrees.

This cultivation knowledge only remained on the very surface of Body Refinement.

In the Cultivation World, knowledge was all the more precious. Great powers sealed off cultivation knowledge, and some small cultivation forces simply did not know deeper-level knowledge at all. Even after some cultivation forces that were not powerful learned of it, they would not spread it.

This was a very normal phenomenon.

In Li Qianqing's understanding, the greatest benefit of Body Refinement was actually to extend the time before the physical body declined, rather than to increase the probability of breaking through the Foundation Establishment Physical Body Barrier.

Body Refinement required time. The most important thing was moderation.

If a cultivator with Three Spiritual Roots only entered Qi Refining Ninth Layer Peak at the age of sixty-three or sixty-four, under normal circumstances, he would not dare attempt Foundation Establishment, because he would very easily get stuck at the first barrier of Foundation Establishment. If he had previously spent half a year to a year cultivating to Body Refinement First Layer, then his physical body would only begin declining at around sixty-five. A good Body Refinement technique might even extend that time a little further.

The Li Clan did not know this knowledge, and Clear Wind Valley was also unclear about it.

In his previous life, Li Qianqing had only learned of the situation when he was in the Nascent Soul Realm.

As for how cultivators should allocate their time and use the resources in their hands to help themselves walk farther, basically no cultivator could grasp it on their own, because for them, the path ahead was all mist. Only after personally exploring it would they know.

For Li Qianqing himself, the mist before Tribulation Transcendence had basically vanished cleanly.

Aside from his own development, only by making good use of his own experience could he better develop the clan's forces. Some knowledge, at certain times, could increase the possibility of Li Clan Cultivators breaking through.

Of course, if the current Li Qianqing wanted to change this point, aside from becoming the clan Patriarch, he also had to explore the "Ancestor's Cave Dwelling" and obtain the corresponding opportunities to help the clan develop better. Knowledge was something he would have only through the inheritance he gained.

The events that would happen afterward did not hinder his current preparations.

Only two.

Li Qianqing made a circuit and discovered that there really were not many Body Refinement techniques for sale, and most of them were even duplicates.

Compared to qi-cultivating techniques, Body Refinement techniques were even cheaper. Of course, these were all techniques for the Qi Refining stage and Body Refinement stage. Once a technique reached the Foundation Establishment Realm, the situation became completely different.

Whether it was Wutong Prefecture or Purple Flower Prefecture, none of the Cultivator Markets sold Foundation Establishment Techniques.

For the two Body Refinement techniques, he only spent ten Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

Both of these Body Refinement techniques were ones the Li Clan did not have. One point in which Body Refinement was more troublesome than qi cultivation was that aside from spiritual root talent, one's own physique's compatibility with a technique was also very important. This was not something Mortal Realm forces could easily test.

Li Qianqing temporarily did not have this ability either. He had to obtain the corresponding treasure first.

He felt that for a clan, the variety of Body Refinement techniques had to be as abundant as possible. Especially when the clan later possessed some resources, at that time, cultivators with Four Spiritual Roots, with the clan's help, would also possess some possibility of Foundation Establishment.

As for Body Refinement techniques, this will do for now. Step by step. No rush.

At the proper time, quite a few Body Refinement techniques would appear in the Li Clan Treasury. This was only just the beginning.

While strolling through the Cultivator Market, Li Qianqing would see whether he could pick up a missed treasure.

He knew the probability of such a thing was especially small, but if it truly succeeded, it would make one feel very comfortable.

After strolling around the Cultivator Market a little more, naturally, he did not pick up any missed treasure. Instead, he was targeted by someone.

In a Cultivator Market, not all cultivators were normal. When you were not paying attention, you might be targeted by hidden Loose Cultivators.

Loose Cultivators who did not engage in production—some liked changing into all sorts of appearances and looking for prey in Cultivator Markets. When their luck was good and they really caught a fat sheep, they could live comfortably for quite a few days.

"He's leaving. Hurry and follow."

"Good."

In Wutong Prefecture's largest Cultivator Market, two cultivators met up, exchanged a couple of sentences in low voices, and immediately separated.

There was also another cultivator in the corner who moved.

Five li east of the city was a stretch of woods.

The three Loose Cultivators had already officially gathered together. Two of them had cultivation at Qi Refining Sixth Layer, and one had cultivation at Qi Refining Seventh Layer.

This was a very small gang of Loose Cultivators.

For this kind of small gang of Loose Cultivators, the cultivation levels of companions usually would not differ by much.

"Where is he?"

"He did head this way, that's right, but I don't know why we can't find him."

"If you lost him, then you lost him. Truly useless!" the Loose Cultivator at Qi Refining Seventh Layer cursed him like a storm breaking over his head.

He trusted his own intuition very much and believed that the cultivator at Qi Refining Sixth Layer in the Cultivator Market just now was a huge fat sheep. As long as they could take him down, they would definitely obtain quite a few cultivation resources.

The prey they targeted cautiously and carefully could not be successfully taken every time. Losing the target was still relatively common.

Cultivators with some resources on them basically would not be careless fools. Once they discovered something was wrong, this kind of cultivator slipped away faster than anyone else. It was precisely because of this reason that he felt all the more that the cultivator was a big fat sheep.

Just then, from behind a tree so thick it took both arms to encircle it, a man slowly walked out.

Being targeted and followed by someone—Li Qianqing had not experienced this feeling in a very, very long time.

Since Loose Cultivators had come to trouble him, he naturally had to collect all of their heads. If his luck was good, perhaps something good could even drop from the Loose Cultivators.

Thank you to Master of Shilong Nunnery for the 100 Qidian coins reward! Thank you for your support!