If You're Not Ruthless, You Can't Stand Firm

Inside the Cave Mansion.

Cheng Buzheng examined the gains in the Storage Bag.

His brows furrowed slightly!

Though there were more than nine hundred thousand low-grade Spirit Stones, that was absolutely too little for a mid-Golden Core Mortal Cultivator.

An ordinary early-Golden Core Mortal Cultivator normally had a reserve of a million Spirit Stones.

This amount of Spirit Stones was not even enough for a single point of Deduction Value, was it?

Seeing this, Cheng Buzheng felt somewhat disappointed.

Though he found them somewhat beneath notice, his hands did not slow in the slightest.

In the blink of an eye, he had placed all the Spirit Stones into another Storage Bag specifically meant for storing Spirit Stones.

Clearly, this action of saying one thing and doing another was very much Cheng Buzheng.

Next!

Cheng Buzheng could not help but look forward to it!

Spirit Stones were not particularly important to Golden Core Mortal Cultivators. What mattered most were Spirit Materials and Spirit Pills; only those could reveal just how deep a Mortal Cultivator's foundations truly were.

Only by this could one judge their net worth.

Otherwise, no matter how many Spirit Stones one had, without precious Spiritual Items and rare Spirit Pills, one would merely be seen as a pauper in the eyes of other Golden Core Mortal Cultivators.

Without precious Spirit Materials, how could one refine treasures?

Without rare Spirit Pills, how could one advance one's cultivation?

Thus, these were the standards by which a high-level Mortal Cultivator's wealth was measured.

With a sweep of his hand!

More than a dozen Jade Boxes appeared before him.

A spirit talisman was affixed to each Jade Box.

These spirit talismans were a means of preventing the essence of the treasures within the Jade Boxes from dissipating, and also the usual method