Too Sharp

"How did you possibly get so many Fire Scorpion bones?" In the darkness, after Wei Suo returned to his small stone house and retrieved the Ghost Nurturing Jar, disguised as a black broken tile jar, from under his bed, the Green Robe Old Man who emerged from it saw the large pile of Fire Scorpion bones on the stone table and his eyes immediately widened like copper bells.

"Haha, I got lucky. I happened to stumble upon a group of male Fire Scorpions fighting to the death over a female Fire Scorpion, so I just waited on the side to collect the spoils," Wei Suo replied with a chuckle, carefully cleaning the Silver Candle Grass and Fire Tail Flower he had picked on his way back. Wei Suo had already realized that the higher the quality of the Silver Candle Grass and Fire Tail Flower, the smoother the talismans produced, and the higher the success rate of completing the talismans.

"Do you take me for an idiot?" Hearing Wei Suo's words, the Green Robe Old Man immediately rolled his eyes in anger.

"Haha, if you want to know what really happened, then give me something useful," Wei Suo said slyly.

"Give me a break. You should know the principle of proceeding step by step," the Green Robe Old Man said, giving Wei Suo a sideways glance.

"Of course I know that, but you always say you'll give me more benefits once I reach the fourth level of the Sea of Consciousness Realm. But you're always so mysterious, it's driving me crazy, like a cat scratching my heart!" Wei Suo said, looking at the Green Robe Old Man. "You have to at least tell me what benefits I'll get when I reach the fourth level of the Sea of Consciousness Realm."

"Alright," the Green Robe Old Man said, looking at Wei Suo. "When the time comes, I'll give you a useful Pill Recipe, and I'll tell you some things I know, like how to deal with certain demonic beasts, or what might be in certain places. For example, I know that in certain places tens of thousands of years ago, some rogue cultivators built their cave dwellings, but after so many years, those rogue cultivators might not be there anymore..."

"Holy crap! That's amazing!"

Wei Suo's eyes immediately widened. The Pill Recipe alone was enough to excite him. Wei Suo wasn't stupid; judging by the Green Robe Old Man's expression, he knew this Pill Recipe, like the formula for the Fireball Talisman, would be extremely useful to him. But besides the Pill Recipe, there were also cave dwellings! What are cave dwellings? They are the palaces of the most formidable rogue cultivators in the entire Cultivation World. Basically, all the good stuff would be stored in the cave dwellings. In recent years, any occasional discovery of ruins from ancient sects or dilapidated cave dwellings on the Tianxuan Continent had caused countless sects to fight over them. If he could really find one or two well-preserved cave dwellings left behind by powerful rogue cultivators after their demise, he would definitely strike it rich. Because rogue cultivators of that caliber, even at the very least, would have left behind a few powerful Magic Treasures.

Moreover, besides these things, the demon beast wilderness beyond the sky was incredibly vast. Even the Taichi Sect, the most powerful force in Lingyue City, was only familiar with a small area of the demon beast wilderness near Lingyue City. The demon beast wilderness not only had a large number of demonic beasts, but also an unimaginable number of high-level demonic beasts. Even cultivators in the Golden Core stage could easily perish there. Therefore, maps of some explored areas in the demon beast wilderness were very expensive. However, this old man had served fifty to sixty generations of masters and had tens of thousands of years of experience. Looking at him, it seemed like he had not only traveled to other continents but had also been to many places in the wilderness beyond the sky.

What is the most precious thing in the Cultivation World? It's experience!

He hadn't understood before, but now that Wei Suo had figured it out, he completely understood how incredibly valuable the Green Robe Old Man was. "Old man, it seems that whether I can truly reach Shui Ling'er in this life really depends on you. But why don't you tell me the Pill Recipe and other things now? Why do you have to wait until then?"

"I don't want you to go to your death," the Green Robe Old Man sneered. "Given your personality, if I told you today, you might not be able to resist going to the places I mentioned tomorrow. The Pill Recipe I mentioned will only be useful after you reach the fourth level of the Sea of Consciousness Realm, and you'll only have a chance to save your life if you go to the places I mentioned after reaching the fourth level of the Sea of Consciousness Realm."

"Alright, I have one more question..."

"Why are you so talkative?"

"This is the last question for today." Wei Suo scratched his head. "Old man, last time you came out, you were clamoring to drink Fire Scorpion Blood, saying it could nourish your vital energy. How exactly do you drink this Fire Scorpion Blood?"

The Green Robe Old Man was slightly stunned for a moment. After glancing at Wei Suo, he pointed to a spot on the Ghost Nurturing Jar. "Drip the Fire Scorpion Blood on that spot."

"Really?"

Wei Suo looked at the spot the Green Robe Old Man pointed to and carefully dripped the Fire Scorpion Blood from a Fire Scorpion bone onto it. The spot flashed with green light, and faint light runes flowed. The Fire Scorpion Blood that was dripped seemed to dissolve into the green light. After dripping the Fire Scorpion Blood from one Fire Scorpion bone, the Green Robe Old Man's complexion visibly improved.

Wei Suo glanced at the Green Robe Old Man and dripped the blood from another Fire Scorpion bone. When he was about to drip the blood from another bone, the Green Robe Old Man shook his head and said, "Alright, that's enough."

"Enough?"

"Given the current damaged state of the formation on this Ghost Nurturing Jar, it can only absorb this much Fire Scorpion Blood within three days. Dripping more would be a waste."

"Since that's the case, I'm not bothering with you anymore." Although it felt wrong not to give the Green Robe Old Man some of the Fire Scorpion bones he had obtained, Wei Suo was still quite pained thinking that each Fire Scorpion bone was equivalent to a Low-grade Spirit Stone. Hearing the Green Robe Old Man voluntarily say it was enough, Wei Suo immediately became excited again. He carefully collected the Fire Scorpion Blood from the remaining one hundred and four Fire Scorpion bones into several glass bottles, sealed them, and then immediately set about refining talismans.

After refining sixteen satisfactory talismans, Wei Suo stopped and took out his talisman brush. The reason he stopped after refining so many was that, based on his previous experience, after refining about fourteen Fireball Talismans at once, Wei Suo's physical strength and mental energy would be almost at their limit.

"Puff! Puff! Puff!"

In Wei Suo's small stone house, balls of red light occasionally flashed.

"Refining talismans is really not human work." Several hours later, Wei Suo lay on his back on the bed, exhausted, not even wanting to move a finger. On the stone table not far from the bed, nine newly refined Fireball Talismans were emitting a faint glow.

This time, Wei Suo persisted in refining sixteen Fireball Talismans, and a total of nine were successful, with a success rate of over fifty percent.