The next day, inside the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd, eight thousand low-grade spirit stones had become eight thousand mid-grade spirit stones.
Eight thousand mid-grade spirit stones—that's eight hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones, a fortune rivaling that of a Golden Core True Person! With these resources, I won't have to worry about supplies for a while!
Li Qingshan's eyes blazed as he spoke inwardly, his heart brimming with excitement.
Leaving his cave abode, he headed toward Hundred Treasures Street in the East Market.
Unlike the orderly Purple Glow Pavilion, shops lined both sides of the street, while numerous rogue cultivators had set up stalls right in the middle. Calls from vendors and the clamor of bargaining rose and fell, making the place chaotic yet full of life.
A dazzling array of goods filled the street, their authenticity difficult to discern.
With a clear goal in mind, Li Qingshan first looked for spirit talisman shops.
He visited four or five fairly large shops, buying several dozen second-tier low-grade spirit talismans in separate batches at each. They covered attack, defense, escape, and support, totaling three hundred talismans at a cost of three hundred mid-grade spirit stones.
Such spending would have been extravagant for an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator, but it was nothing compared with the fortune he had just acquired.
In a corner of the last spirit talisman shop, he happened to discover a talisman treasure carelessly tossed into a box of miscellaneous items.
The talisman treasure was pale gold and shaped like a small blade, but its surface was covered in cracks, and its spiritual glow had dimmed almost to nothing.
"Shopkeeper, how much for this?" A thought stirred in Li Qingshan's mind, and he picked up the talisman treasure.
The shopkeeper's shrewd eyes lit up, and he immediately said warmly, "This is a