Major Harvest, Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi

[Your preparations this time were quite thorough. The precious medicines above Earth Grade were rare treasures. You took out hundreds of treasure boxes, most made from Mysterious Grade materials, with some even crafted from Earth Grade materials. These boxes served to prevent the medicinal effects from dissipating too severely.

But you still underestimated the harvest in this ruin. The grade of the boxes you brought was ultimately too low. For instance, even if you stored that Five-Zhu Sacred Medicine in an Earth Grade treasure box, some of its potency would inevitably leak.

Still, you couldn't be blamed for this. Heaven Grade treasure boxes were far too scarce. Though you had been collecting them vigorously, even auctions rarely sold many. The fact that you could produce so many boxes was mostly thanks to the Sky Domain Sect's accumulated stock.]

[After storing the precious medicines in the treasure boxes, you carefully placed them into your Storage Treasure. Then you searched outside the house once more. Finding nothing left behind, you entered the building.

The house wasn't tall—only three stories—but its exterior was exquisitely crafted. It was clear that the person who lived here held a high status and noble identity.

Once inside, you could tell from the decor that this place was far superior to the room you had searched earlier. But you didn't linger in admiration; you immediately began your search.

In the first room of the house, you discovered a Mid-grade Heaven Grade garment. It was clearly a woman's dress. You could tell at a glance that this clothing wasn't focused on defense—its strength lay in its functionality. But you didn't have time to test its effects. You stowed it in your Storage Treasure and continued searching for the next treasure.

During this time, you rummaged through the room and found two necklaces, a bracelet, and a hairpin. All four accessories were Heaven Grade treasures. Aside from the bracelet, which was a defensive artifact, the rest were functional items.

Just the first room alone had filled your hands with gains, filling you with anticipation for what lay ahead.]

[After confirming nothing else remained in this room, you immediately headed for the second. But the moment you opened the door, a wave of scorching heat hit you. Only then did you realize that this room was sealed by a special Small Formation, which had kept the heat contained. You hadn't even noticed how high the temperature was before opening the door.

The reason for the heat was that this room was an Alchemy Room. As you looked inside, your eyes lit up—there was a Heaven Grade Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fire. But then a wave of frustration hit you. You didn't have any treasure to contain a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fire. That meant you couldn't take this extremely rare spiritual fire with you. Your heart couldn't accept it, but you hadn't been prepared for this.

After realizing you couldn't take it, you quickly adjusted your mindset and turned your attention to the second most eye-catching item in the room: an Alchemy Furnace. This furnace was three to four times larger than the Mid-grade Earth Grade furnace you had found in the teleportation room, and its grade reached Low-grade Heaven Grade.

Realizing that even this rare furnace was Heaven Grade, you couldn't help but praise the owner in your heart. This room's master was absurdly wealthy—everything you had collected here, aside from the precious medicines, was at least Heaven Grade. It was ridiculous.

Still, finding an Alchemy Furnace here wasn't too surprising. In fact, after seeing the Medicine Field outside, you had suspected the owner might be an alchemist. You quickly stored the cauldron into your Storage Treasure and moved toward the Pill Shelf beside it. There were six full rows of pills, and because the bottles containing them were made of high-quality materials, the pills had been perfectly preserved.

You didn't bother checking what kind of pills they were. You immediately stored them all into your Storage Treasure, planning to examine them later.

In the entire Alchemy Room, aside from the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fire, the Alchemy Furnace, and the pills, the only things left were some Heaven and Earth Spiritual Water. Some pills required this water as an auxiliary ingredient to be refined.

Upon seeing the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Water, you took out the High-grade Earth Grade Sun Moon Pot. In the blink of an eye, all the spiritual water was collected into the pot. Sensing no other treasures in the room, you quickly left and headed toward the last room of the house.]

[After entering the final room, you saw over a dozen bookshelves. You guessed this was the owner's study. At the same time, in the upper left corner of the study, you spotted a desk with four wooden chairs beneath it. With a light sweep of your hand, you collected all the books from the shelves into your Storage Treasure. Then you turned your attention to the somewhat unique desk. A book lay half-open on it. You glanced at the title: Alchemy Notes. In the lower right corner, it read "Written by Zhang Xiaoran." You understood that this alchemy manual was the work of a master alchemist named Zhang Xiaoran.]

[After putting away the Alchemy Notes, you looked at the last box on the desk. Curious, you opened it for a look. That single glance made it impossible for you to look away. You rubbed your eyes vigorously to confirm you weren't seeing things.

In the end, you confirmed you hadn't misseen. Inside the box was a crystal-clear jade stone. But this jade was different from ordinary jade.

The truly precious part wasn't the jade itself, but what was inside it. The jade pendant was called the 'River Qi Stone.' As its name suggested, this stone could extract a 'River Qi' from within. This 'River Qi' was a type of Heaven and Earth Qi, and its function was to assist a cultivator at the Infant God Realm Great Perfection in breaking through to the Half-Saint Realm.]

[The Infant God Realm is the final stage of the Three Spirits Realm. After reaching Infant God Realm Great Perfection, one must merge Essence, Qi, and Spirit into one and finally integrate them into the physical body. But achieving this unity is no easy task. It requires drawing upon Heaven and Earth Qi to assist in the fusion. For ordinary Infant God Realm cultivators, attracting Heaven and Earth Qi is extremely difficult—one misstep leads to death.

On average, only one out of three Infant God Realm cultivators can successfully draw forth Heaven and Earth Qi and break through to the Half-Saint Realm. Those who fail mostly die on the spot. Only a few with exceptionally deep foundations can survive and attempt the fusion again later.

But if aided by Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, the difficulty of drawing Heaven and Earth Qi is greatly reduced. Since Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi and Heaven and Earth Qi both originate from the same world, having Primordial Qi's assistance is like having the world itself help you find the Heaven and Earth Qi. Naturally, this makes locating it much easier.

The 'River Qi' contained in the River Qi Stone you now possessed was a type of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi. It also had the effect of helping Infant God Realm experts attract Heaven and Earth Qi. Although River Qi was only the most ordinary kind of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, it could still increase the breakthrough chance by a third—effectively doubling the odds.]

[This kind of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was extremely difficult to gather. For the great sacred lands, supply could never meet demand, so it never leaked out to the outside world. Ordinary people basically had no Great Saint Level elders to help them. Relying solely on their own ability to break through to the Half-Saint Realm would be incredibly difficult.]