The next day, after class, Xiao Mo and Tushan Jingci went to Hanshan City and bought a Spirit Testing Stone.
Then, on the Baibao Pavilion shopkeeper's recommendation, they bought several cultivation manuals for humans.
The shopkeeper of Baibao Pavilion sang the manuals' praises to the skies, and the prices were no bargain, either.
Still, since the Eldest Miss of the Tushan Clan had come in person to buy something, they didn't dare fleece her too badly.
Fairly speaking, though all the manuals were somewhat overpriced, each was a complete set, and their quality truly wasn't low.
But cultivating all the way to the Nascent Soul Realm with these manuals would be quite difficult.
After all, the Nascent Soul Realm was known as the "Earth Immortal" realm. Those who reached it could found sects.
In fact, many cultivators didn't even know the Upper Three Realms existed. They thought the "Nascent Soul Realm" was the end of the road.
So cultivation manuals capable of helping someone found a sect were basically never found in ordinary markets.
Unless someone had such absurdly good fortune that they bought what looked like an ordinary piece of hide or a tortoiseshell—or perhaps some common bone—only to discover within it a peerless cultivation manual that led straight to the Great Dao.
Not long after Xiao Mo and Tushan Jingci returned from town to the courtyard, Liu Shui arrived again after finishing drying herbs for the Pill Room.
Xiao Mo took out the Spirit Testing Stone and tested her Root Bone.
Liu Shui's Root Bone wasn't particularly good, but it was still decent.
As long as she cultivated diligently, reaching the Golden Core Realm someday shouldn't be a problem.
To go any further, she'd need more opportunities and higher-level cultivation manuals.
Xiao Mo gave Liu Shui the cultivation