This time, you obtained over twenty Mysterious Grade Treasure Materials and five Earth Grade Treasure Materials on the outskirts of the ruins. Perhaps it was because your Sacred Body Dao Embryo had increased your fortune, but while competing for an Earth Grade Treasure Material, you discovered a formation that teleported you into a room. Judging from its furnishings, it should have been the residence of a high-level figure from the holy land.
After searching the room, you found quite a few treasures. Setting aside the lesser items, the first treasure you found was the owner's wooden bed. Judging by its aura, it was a High-grade Earth Grade treasure.
After testing it, you discovered that this wooden bed could clear the mind and calm the qi. Its use to you was undoubtedly immense. Whether you were painting or cultivating martial skills, both consumed a great deal of mental energy and Primal Force.
Primal Force was manageable; it could be replenished with pills, and their prices were not outrageously high. However, pills that restored mental energy were exceedingly expensive. You could not possibly take them every day for decades during your cultivation. Even with your wealth, you could not withstand such extravagance.
Therefore, rest was indispensable. Only by properly nourishing your mind could your painting and cultivation achieve twice the result with half the effort. Since you cultivated diligently, the more time you spent cultivating, the more rest you needed in turn. This wooden bed could increase the speed at which you recovered your energy and Primal Force. What once required four hours for you to become fully refreshed could now be reduced by at least half. Indirectly, it could greatly increase both your cultivation speed and the number of paintings you could create.
Treasures capable of clearing the mind and calming the qi were extremely rare, let alone ones that had reached High-grade Earth Grade. This was because materials of this kind were exceedingly scarce and produced in very small quantities, while there were countless martial artists who needed them.
The second treasure you found was the room owner's teapot, also a High-grade Earth Grade treasure. This teapot Contains Universe Within—not merely in the literal sense, but truly possessed such an effect.
The phrase "sun and moon within a pot, universe in one's palm," once used to describe treasures, referred to this kind of teapot. This pot could collect Spiritual Water-type treasure materials and greatly reduce the consumption of Spiritual Water-type treasures. The spiritual medicine Mother Lin Lan had previously made for you was in liquid form. Similar spiritual medicines and spiritual baths had to be consumed or used immediately after being prepared to achieve their greatest effect. Yet with this teapot, even if you stored them for hundreds or thousands of years, not much medicinal efficacy or spiritual qi would dissipate. Moreover, it was an auxiliary treasure that could assist in battle. When facing martial artists proficient in the Water Attribute, you could use this teapot to fend them off.
The third treasure was several taels of tea leaves placed beside the teapot, and it was also the item most useful to Jiang Changtian. This tea had reached Low-grade Heaven Grade and was made from the leaves of the Heavenly Dao Tree. Judging by the color of the leaves, they were roughly only a hundred years old—not very old.
But that was entirely sufficient for Jiang Changtian. It could greatly improve the comprehension of a martial artist like him, whose aptitude was relatively ordinary. Unfortunately, these few taels of tea leaves had little effect on you. Drinking them would bring you almost no improvement. Your comprehension was already extremely high; only tea made from Heavenly Dao Tree leaves over ten thousand years old would have a noticeable effect on you. Yet tea leaves of that level were something even the Blazing Sun Holy Land of Jiang State could not possess.
This was because across the entire eastern continent, only the Sky Flame Empire possessed a Heavenly Dao Tree. That Heavenly Dao Tree was currently only thirteen thousand years old, like a mere sapling among trees. Even the ten-thousand-year leaves it produced were not enough for its own use.
The fourth treasure was an alchemy furnace in the room. This alchemy furnace had reached Mid-grade Earth Grade. Due to the scarcity of alchemy furnaces, its value was no less than that of some High-grade Earth Grade treasures.
Beside the alchemy furnace, you also found dozens of bottles of pills. Unfortunately, due to the passage of time, the pills within the bottles all crumbled into powder the moment you opened them, their spiritual qi long since gone. Only one bottle of pills had been perfectly preserved. The bottle containing those pills alone was made from Earth Grade material, so it was no wonder it had retained its spiritual qi for tens of thousands of years without leaking.
Since even the bottle was made from Earth Grade material, the pills within the jade bottle naturally could not be ordinary. You found a total of three pills inside, all with the same effect. They appeared to have been refined from the same furnace batch.
These three pills had reached Low-grade Heaven Grade and were called Longevity Pills. After taking one, it could increase half of the cultivator's Lifespan at the time of consumption, and it did not conflict with other Heaven Grade Lifespan Pill Medicine. In other words, after taking a Longevity Pill, you could still take another Heaven Grade pill that increased Lifespan. Normally, a person could only take one Lifespan Pill Medicine of each grade, and over the course of a lifetime, one could take at most five pills that increased Lifespan.
However, this pill had a restriction: it was only effective for those at the Infant God Realm or below. If one broke through beyond the Infant God Realm, taking a Longevity Pill would have no effect whatsoever. But this restriction was not particularly significant. Most people could not even break through to the Void God Realm, much less the Infant God Realm.
The Infant God Realm was the realm after the Spirit Condensation Realm. After the Three Essences Realm came the Upper Three Realms, known as the Three Spirits Realm.
Martial artists tempered and strengthened their bodies through the Body Tempering Realm, Blood Transformation Realm, and Organ Refining Realm. Once their bodies could withstand primal qi entering them, they began absorbing primal qi to continue tempering themselves and strengthening the primal qi within their bodies. These were respectively the Essence Gathering Realm, Earth Origin Realm, and Heavenly Origin Realm—the stage of qi refinement. After the Heavenly Origin Realm, they gathered qi and condensed spirit, becoming the Void God Realm. After that, they transformed the void into reality and broke through to the Spirit Condensation Realm. Upon reaching the Spirit Condensation Realm, they condensed their essence and qi, beginning to Return to Simplicity and take on an infant state. They returned spirit to infancy and entered the Infant God Realm, preparing for the later realms, where Essence, Qi, and Spirit would unite as one and lay the foundation for sainthood.
The effect of this Longevity Pill was simple: it increased half the Lifespan one possessed at the realm in which one took it. For example, a Void God Realm expert who met no mishaps would naturally live for around five thousand years. Ninety percent of Void God Realm experts could not break through to the Spirit Condensation Realm simply because their Lifespan was insufficient. If they could take a Longevity Pill, their chances of breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm would increase greatly.
Take Liu Family Ancestor Liu Yuanjin. He was now at least forty-eight hundred years old and had essentially no hope of breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm. Back then, he had also been a peerless genius, yet because of Lifespan, he could ultimately only remain in the Void God Realm.
You and Jiang Changtian planned to exchange these three Longevity Pills for other useful treasures later. After all, giving such pills to people below the Void God Realm would be pure waste. You still had more than four thousand years of Lifespan, while Jiang Changtian had only broken through to the Void God Realm five hundred years ago and still had over two thousand years of Lifespan. Neither of you was in urgent need of more Lifespan.