Coming Out to See Spirit Stones

"Hahahaha!"

In a very ordinary small stone house on the west side of the city, a creepy, lewd laugh echoed.

Wei Suo, who let out this laugh, was staring at a large pile of Spirit Stones on the bed with eyes full of greed.

Before heading to the Golden Jade Pavilion, Wei Suo and the others had sold the three Ice Silk Spiders, two Rock Snakes, and all the ice spider silk from the cave. They had sold them all for a total of 210 Low-grade Spirit Stones. Ye Xiaozheng, being very generous, had only taken 60 Low-grade Spirit Stones, equivalent to the value of one Ice Silk Spider. Adding Nangong Yuqing's 40, the remaining 110 Low-grade Spirit Stones filled the beast skin bag Wei Suo had obtained from Lin Daoyi to the brim.

In addition to these 110 Low-grade Spirit Stones, Wei Suo had also pocketed the 13 Low-grade Spirit Stones and 3 Mid-grade Spirit Stones found on Lin Daoyi and the unlucky low-level cultivators who had become prey for the Ice Silk Spiders in the cave.

Combined with the 15 Mid-grade Spirit Stones obtained from the Golden Jade Pavilion, and the Low-grade Spirit Stones Wei Suo had on him previously, there were now a total of 18 Mid-grade Spirit Stones and 128 Low-grade Spirit Stones piled on Wei Suo's bed.

With such a large pile of Spirit Stones, Wei Suo hadn't even bothered to sell the miscellaneous items he'd gotten from Lin Daoyi and the two unlucky fellows. He had rushed straight home, eager to see what a large pile of Spirit Stones looked like when piled together.

Since it wasn't yet evening, the Green Robe Old Man was still in the Ghost Nurturing Jar and hadn't come out. In the somewhat desolate small stone house, the radiance from the large pile of Spirit Stones made the room shine.

The Low-grade Spirit Stones, which emitted a faint green light, were nothing new to Wei Suo. However, the pale yellow Mid-grade Spirit Stones were something he had mostly only seen before, and rarely gotten his hands on.

"Let's start with a Mid-grade Spirit Stone for some fun!"

In fact, compared to Low-grade Spirit Stones, Mid-grade Spirit Stones simply contained more abundant spiritual energy. The amount of Heaven and Earth spiritual energy contained within one was equivalent to ten Low-grade Spirit Stones. With Wei Suo's current cultivation at the third level of the Sea of Consciousness Realm, he couldn't even refine one Mid-grade Spirit Stone a day. However, having never cultivated with Mid-grade Spirit Stones before, Wei Suo felt an inexplicable sense of novelty. As he played with a few lustrous, pale yellow Mid-grade Spirit Stones, he found them increasingly hard to put down. After a while, he finally couldn't resist, and holding a Mid-grade Spirit Stone in his hand, he closed his eyes and began to cultivate.

For several hours, Wei Suo remained motionless. Wisps of pale yellow spiritual energy continuously seeped out from the Mid-grade Spirit Stone, slowly entering his body through the meridians in his hand. Inside his body, the sound of True Essence flowing like water could be heard rhythmically.

His heavenly spirit, the Zi Gong point in his chest, and his Dantian in the lower abdomen all faintly emitted three clusters of purple light. As the spiritual energy continued to infiltrate, these three clusters of purple light seemed to be slowly growing.

These three clusters of purple light, which looked somewhat like swirling vortices, were his Divine Seas formed by cultivating the Purple Profound True Art. Only when these three Divine Seas grew to a certain extent could he use the power of True Essence from these three Divine Seas to open another Divine Sea and break through to the fourth level of the Sea of Consciousness Realm. However, looking at them now, these three Divine Seas didn't seem particularly surging, and it seemed like it would take some time to break through to the fourth level of the Sea of Consciousness Realm.

"So refreshing!"

Wei Suo only opened his eyes when the sky outside had unknowingly turned completely dark. He stretched lazily, completely satisfied.

"Mid-grade Spirit Stones are indeed Mid-grade Spirit Stones. They're durable and plentiful."

The pale yellow Mid-grade Spirit Stone in Wei Suo's hand had only faded by half its color. It looked like it could still be absorbed for several more hours. He glanced at the window again and saw that it was completely dark. Wei Suo's eyes darted, he chuckled, then took out the Ghost Nurturing Jar, which he had disguised as an ordinary black ceramic jar, from under the bed. He patted it and said, "Lazy old man, still sleeping? Come out and see the Spirit Stones!"

"What are you yelling about?"

When Wei Suo patted it, the Green Robe Old Man indeed floated out of the Ghost Nurturing Jar leisurely.

"How do you have so many Spirit Stones!"

But the moment he saw the large pile of Spirit Stones spread out on Wei Suo's bed, the Green Robe Old Man's eyes immediately bulged, almost causing him to have a stroke. He no longer had the same lack of concept about Spirit Stones as when Wei Suo had accidentally released him from the Ghost Nurturing Jar at first. He now clearly understood the value of each Spirit Stone, and seeing the pile of Spirit Stones on Wei Suo's bed, with at least sixteen or seventeen Mid-grade Spirit Stones among them, he calculated that this pile of Spirit Stones was equivalent to over 300 Low-grade Spirit Stones.

"Killed someone and looted their goods." Wei Suo chuckled at the Green Robe Old Man, "I used a Fireball Talisman to kill a guy at the fifth level of the Divine Ability Realm and got a lot of good stuff from him."

"Killing and looting! How could you do such a thing!" The Green Robe Old Man immediately became anxious. "Do you know who that person was? For powerful cultivators, killing and looting is something they do as little as possible, because you never know what kind of background they might have. Do you know how the Golden Core Realm rogue cultivator Nan Tianba, who was renowned throughout the region 20,000 years ago, died? It was because he was poisoned by a demonic beast and his mouth swelled up like two fat sausages. A cultivator at the second level of the Divine Ability Realm couldn't help but laugh at him. In a fit of rage, Nan Tianba killed him. Unexpectedly, the eighth great-aunt's mother-in-law's son's younger brother of that insignificant cultivator at the second level of the Divine Ability Realm was a powerful cultivator at the Divine Profound Realm, and he was eventually killed by that great cultivator. You, a mere cultivator at the third level of the Sea of Consciousness Realm, dare to kill and loot..."

The Green Robe Old Man spoke more and more animatedly. If he had saliva, he could probably drown Wei Suo with just his spit. But Wei Suo just chuckled and said, "Old man, don't worry. That guy was just an ordinary rogue cultivator, and if anything happens, his major sect will take care of it, not me. Besides, if I didn't kill and loot, he would have killed and looted me."

"What exactly happened?" The Green Robe Old Man was stunned for a moment.

"It's like this..." Wei Suo recounted everything, from accepting Lin Daoyi's invitation to hunt Ice Silk Spiders for Spirit Stones, to how Lin Daoyi tried to double-cross him and was killed by his Fireball Talisman, and then discovered the large piece of Mid-grade Cold Jade. He told the Green Robe Old Man the whole story.

"You blockhead, with your cultivation level? You dare to hunt demonic beasts with someone whose background you don't know?" Wei Suo had expected the Green Robe Old Man to praise his cleverness, but instead, he was scolded again by the Green Robe Old Man. "At least two of my previous masters died because they hunted demonic beasts with people whose backgrounds they didn't know. If you don't want to be the third, then never hunt demonic beasts with people whose backgrounds you don't know."

"Alright, at most I'll only go out with people who definitely can't kill me in the future." Wei Suo pinched his nose and said to the Green Robe Old Man.

"That's more like it. Anyway, remember one thing: over the years, many cultivators who have high cultivation and live long lives haven't done so because of their powerful cultivation techniques or formidable sects, but because they are more cautious than ordinary cultivators." Seeing Wei Suo's obedient demeanor, the Green Robe Old Man's expression softened a bit. His gaze swept over a pile of things next to the Spirit Stones.

That pile of things was the miscellaneous items, including Qi Replenishing Pills, found on Lin Daoyi and the few low-level cultivators who had become prey for the Ice Silk Spiders. Wei Suo had intended to keep the useful items like Ice Mist Fruit and Wind Lord Treasure Talisman from this pile and sell the rest for Spirit Stones, but he hadn't had time to deal with these miscellaneous items yet.

"What is this...?" As his eyes swept over them, the Green Robe Old Man's eyes showed surprise.

"Oh, it's the Ice Mist Fruit, the one that grew alongside that piece of Cold Jade," Wei Suo replied casually, thinking the Green Robe Old Man was referring to the Ice Mist Fruit.

"Bring that white jade box over here for me to see." However, the Green Robe Old Man didn't even look at the Ice Mist Fruit, his gaze fixed on the plain white jade box.

"What, old man, isn't this just an ordinary white jade box?" Wei Suo wasn't stupid and immediately saw something amiss from the Green Robe Old Man's expression. He quickly placed the white jade box, which he had obtained from the chest of a cultivator who had been treated as food by the Ice Silk Spiders, in front of the Green Robe Old Man.

The Green Robe Old Man examined the plain white jade box meticulously for a moment, without answering. Suddenly, he said to Wei Suo, "Go outside and casually break off a Silver Candle Grass and put it inside."

"Casually break off a Silver Candle Grass and put it inside?" Wei Suo didn't understand what the Green Robe Old Man meant, but he immediately went outside, broke off a Silver Candle Grass, and placed it inside the white jade box. Then, he couldn't help but ask, "Old man, what exactly do you mean by this?"

"I suspect this is a Treasure Origin Jade Box," the Green Robe Old Man said.

"Treasure Origin Jade Box? What is that?"

"It's a treasure that can prevent the medicinal properties and spiritual energy of collected Spiritual Herbs from dissipating. Its efficacy is mainly due to the material of the jade box itself, which nurtures the Yuan Jade."

"Damn, I thought it was some kind of powerful Magic Treasure. It just has a preservation effect?"

"You ignorant fool, I can't be bothered to talk to you," the Green Robe Old Man said, looking at Wei Suo with extreme contempt. "Do you know that for some Spiritual Herbs and Demonic Cores, as soon as they are collected, or as soon as a demonic beast is killed, their spiritual energy will dissipate rapidly? This item isn't much normally, but if you happen to collect such Spiritual Herbs or Demonic Cores, without this jade box or other treasures that can preserve spiritual energy, you can only watch as the spiritual energy of the good things you obtained dissipates quickly into dust and cry to death. These things are originally very rare, and when you desperately need them, you might not be able to buy them even with Spirit Stones, because knowledgeable cultivators will always keep one for themselves."

"Hearing you say that, this thing does seem quite useful." Wei Suo thought about it and chuckled. After a moment, he pushed the two items forward to the Green Robe Old Man again. "Speaking of knowledge, you've really reminded me. Help me see what this is. And do you know how to remove the restriction on this jade talisman?"

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