Treasure Exchange (Monthly Ticket Request)

Inside the room, Tan Yan was still burning.

The Tan Yan smelled exceptionally pleasant, like snow-plum blossoms in the Twelfth Lunar Month, lingering at the tip of everyone's nose.

Ye Xuecang began drinking tea again.

But the others were growing anxious.

Still, they were all True Persons. They could not truly be as impatient as Qi Refinement or Foundation Establishment cultivators.

After casting a few yearning glances, they too began drinking tea. Some turned their gazes toward the shore, watching the waves roll in one after another.

The blazing sun at the horizon had already taken on the hue of dusk, casting down swathes of blood-red light.

It shone through the window as well, illuminating everyone's deep thoughts.

Within the room, the five either drank tea, watched the sea, or inhaled the sandalwood fragrance.

They seemed as though none of them cared, but only they themselves knew that their hearts were far from calm.

Each was weighing how to secure this information at the smallest possible cost, and how to obtain the Nine Twists Spirit Ginseng.

Though the Nine Twists Spirit Ginseng was merely one of the three principal ingredients of the Nascent Soul Pill, it was the rarest among them.

Moreover, most Nascent Soul families and Nascent Soul sects had not risen to prominence because of a single stroke of fortune.

Many sects and factions had lain low and endured for centuries, accumulating opportunities generation after generation before finally rising.

Thus, obtaining the Nine Twists Spirit Ginseng was equivalent to giving one's family another hope of producing a Nascent Soul cultivator.

After a long while, the tea in the pot could no longer pour in a stream, only dripping into the cups with a patter.

Clearly, the tea had reached the bottom.

Everyone looked toward Ye Xuecang once more,