Now that He Song had reached the Qi Refining Middle Stage, his funds were still tight for the time being. Over the next few years, before his combat strength reached a certain level,
He Song would likely not invest Spirit Stones into his cultivation.
Spirit Talismans.
Spells.
Magic Artifacts.
These three methods of protecting the Dao were what He Song urgently needed right now.
As such, the cultivation speed increase the Spirit Gathering Array brought He Song became especially important.
Cultivating daily within the Spirit Gathering Array should allow him to keep pace with cultivators who also had four spiritual roots and used both Spirit Stones and medicinal pills in their cultivation.
He might even cultivate faster than those four-spiritual-root cultivators whose cultivation resources were not particularly abundant.
After all, He Song remained within the Spirit Gathering Array every day, while those cultivators who used Spirit Stones or medicinal pills to assist their cultivation did not have Spirit Stones or pills available every day.
That way, He Song's cultivation speed could remain within the normal range.
He would not be regarded as some oddity by other cultivators with four spiritual roots.
Nor would he draw anyone else's attention.
The image He Song presented to others would become that of an utterly ordinary cultivator with four spiritual roots.
With nothing out of the ordinary about him,
who would pay attention to an utterly ordinary cultivator with four spiritual roots?
Having made his decision, He Song took another five Spirit Stones from his Storage Pouch and placed them into the Spirit Gathering Array.
The Spirit Gathering Array
also consumed Spirit Stones.
To keep the Spirit Gathering Array running continuously, five Spirit Stones had to be spent each year. Once a year had passed, the stones needed to be replaced for it to