Top-grade Gold Spirit Root

Jiang Liu and Grandma Zhao reached a friendly agreement.

Grandma Zhao would give him the Spirit Stones from her daily sign-ins, and he would help her return to eighteen. Both of them had a perfect future ahead.

As they chatted enthusiastically, Grandma Zhao even went home and brought out a black-and-white photo of herself in her twenties. She had been stunningly beautiful.

Grandma Zhao left with twenty Qi Refining Pills. Those twenty pills would sell for at least dozens of Spirit Stones, but Jiang Liu did not care. There were not many people in this world who cared about him, and he did not want Grandma Zhao to suddenly die of some terrible illness one day.

"Grandpa, take these pills. Once you do, no one will be able to bully you."

Jiang Liu traded another fifty Qi Refining Pills to Master Jiang. Those pills were enough to raise him to the Qi Refining Second Layer. With his old fists and legs, ordinary street punks really would not be able to beat him.

"You should keep them for yourself."

Master Jiang did not want them. "I'm just an old man. If someone bullies me, I'll just lie down on the ground. As long as you don't get bullied, that's enough."

"I'd rather see you knock someone else to the ground."

Jiang Liu had to talk him into it before Master Jiang accepted the Qi Refining Pills. He also traded him an Imprint Version of the Three Revolutions Mysterious Technique.

The old man had nothing to do all day but wander around visiting people. He might as well stay home and cultivate properly.

"Alright, I'm going back to school for intensive training. Don't forget to mail me the Spirit Stones from your daily sign-ins."

After settling matters at home, Jiang Liu was about to return to school. Just as he stepped out the door, he suddenly stopped and turned back to ask, "Nothing's going on between you and Grandma Zhao, right?"

"You little bastard!"

Master Jiang grabbed a slipper and hurled it at him, roaring furiously, "Your grandma's been dead for over ten years! When have you ever seen me fooling around with other old ladies?"

"If you keep spouting nonsense, I'll beat you to death!"

Love among the older generation... Tsk, tsk, tsk.

Jiang Liu ran off in a flash and disappeared.

Half an hour later.

Jiang Liu quietly returned to the classroom. Not a single student in the class was absent, and none of them had gone home. They were all mooching off the school's Spirit Stones in the classroom.

At the front, the Head Teacher sat cross-legged on the podium with his eyes closed.

Below, thirty-three students sat cross-legged on their desks with their eyes closed.

With a scene like this, Zhou Chu could have picked them off one by one with perfect accuracy.

The moment Jiang Liu sat on his desk, Li Dongze beside him heard the movement. He opened his eyes and asked softly, "Everything okay at home?"

He had known Jiang Liu for over two years, so he naturally knew that Jiang Liu had only one elderly person at home. If something happened, there was no way the old man could handle it.

Seeing Jiang Liu leave in such a hurry earlier, he knew something had happened to his grandpa. He figured that since they were good brothers, he would help if he could.

His good brother was about to soar to greatness. Strengthening their relationship now was absolutely necessary.

Jiang Liu hesitated slightly before telling Li Dongze what had happened at home. He lowered his voice and said, "Do me a favor and put in a word for me. I'll sell you another thirty Qi Refining Pills at a low price."

"What do you mean by that?"

Li Dongze frowned, his expression darkening. "Do you think I'm helping you for your lousy Qi Refining Pills? You're mixing two years of brotherhood with profit. How many Spirit Stones are a few dozen Qi Refining Pills worth? Do you think I can't afford them? You're looking down on me!"

"Then I won't sell them?"

"Even blood brothers settle accounts clearly, understand?"

Li Dongze rolled his eyes at Jiang Liu and directly sent him a trade request in Cultivation Era.

"Come on, come on, come on. You said low price, alright?"

He did not lack Spirit Stones, but he lacked Qi Refining Pills. At this point in time, he could not buy many Qi Refining Pills even if he wanted to. After all, not everyone had an artifact-grade pill furnace.

"Hehe."

Thirty Qi Refining Pills earned Jiang Liu sixty Spirit Stones from Li Dongze, bringing the number of Spirit Stones in his possession to 140!

"Seriously, I've got money and nowhere to spend it."

Jiang Liu shook his head. He had bought out the first top-up gift packs and the limited-time gift packs. The Mall items were not cost-effective, so he could only invest this batch of Spirit Stones into the permanent pool.

Without another word, he started pulling.

He opened the permanent pool and directly spent enough to hit a guaranteed pull.

This time, he was not only after Supreme Spiritual Roots. He also wanted the artifacts and spells in the permanent pool.

At this stage, the permanent pool was the only fixed way to obtain artifacts and spells. He wanted to see whether he could pull a water-element artifact or water-element spell.

If he could not pull one, other elements would be fine too. He could trade them with merchants on Taobao.

One ten-pull. All duds.

Two ten-pulls. All duds.

Three ten-pulls. One purple meteor.

Jiang Liu merely raised an eyebrow. After taking a glance, he continued pulling.

Four, five, six...

Before long, the hundred-pull guarantee arrived without question.

"Sigh, another one-shot hit. I'm just too lucky."

Jiang Liu deceived himself in his heart. He did not know whether the outfit luck had taken effect this time, but he had pulled four purples in a hundred pulls. It was a huge profit, no loss at all.

When the golden meteor streaked across his vision and suddenly burst apart, even though he had been prepared, he could not help feeling slightly excited.

His second Supreme Spiritual Root had arrived!

The golden meteor exploded, and a cylindrical top-grade gold Spirit Root radiating brilliant golden light was reflected in his pupils, almost blinding him.

A top-grade gold Spirit Root!

"Not fire-element... Forget it, forget it. As long as it's not a duplicate."

Jiang Liu muttered to himself, and the heart that had been lodged in his throat finally settled.

He had truly been afraid of getting another Supreme Water Spiritual Root!

Everyone knew how gacha pools were. Even with only five Supreme Spiritual Roots in the permanent pool, if his luck was bad, he could spend a million Spirit Stones and still fail to complete the set. He would always be one short, and what could Inventory Detection do about it?

Unlike artifacts and spells, Supreme Spiritual Roots could not be traded. It was specifically stated that this thing was non-tradable!

If he pulled a duplicate, he would only lose a dozen or so Spirit Stones and would not care. For others... watching over a thousand Spirit Stones go down the drain would break their hearts.

"Don't need to get the whole set in one round, just no Inventory Detection."

Jiang Liu prayed silently, then opened his inventory. His eyes fixed intently on the gleaming golden Supreme Spiritual Root.

[Top-grade Gold Spirit Root]: Special rare item. After use, replaces initial aptitude. Spiritual energy limit increases by 100%, spiritual energy recovery speed increases by 100%, and gold-element attack power increases by 100%.

[Note]: Cannot be traded.

Use it immediately!

After using the top-grade gold Spirit Root, Jiang Liu eagerly opened the Character Panel. Seeing the aptitude section made him grin from ear to ear.

[Aptitude]: Supreme Water Spiritual Root, top-grade gold Spirit Root

Dual Supreme Spiritual Root aptitude!

Who else was there in District Four!

"Satisfied, satisfied. Broke, broke."

One guaranteed pull reduced Jiang Liu's Spirit Stones to eleven, but it did not matter.

He did not lack Spirit Stones now. What he lacked were ways to spend them!

Where were the limited-time gift packs? Where were the spending events?

Hurry up and release them! Did they not want to make money anymore?

Who were they looking down on by throwing out some lousy Foundation Establishment event?

"No, I'm already at Qi Refining Layer 8. It's time to fill the furnace."

Jiang Liu suddenly remembered that he was already at Qi Refining Layer 8, only a small step away from the Foundation Establishment Stage. If he accidentally broke through and missed Perfect Foundation Establishment, that would be absolutely screwed.

Sixty-four Spirit Stones, right?

He would fill it tomorrow and secure Perfect Foundation Establishment first!