Procuring in the Upper Realm

Upper Realm, Mingyuan Immortal City.

Li Yuan emerged from the Ascension Passage, altered his visage, and entered the city disguised as a gray-robed rogue cultivator.

His first stop was the marketplace.

The lower-realm spirit materials and Azure Profound Realm ores accumulated in his storage bag sold for several times their price in the Upper Realm. After visiting three spirit material shops, a substantial amount of spirit stones entered his account.

Fourth-order talisman paper, Spatial-Attribute Mineral Powder, Light-Attribute Spirit Liquid, and Demonic Qi Spirit Ink—he gathered the majority of the items on his list along Danmaterial Street in the southern district, then headed to Profound Sun City to pick up the remaining few scarce items.

Materials secured, his storage bag grew considerably heavier.

On the return journey, Li Yuan did not idle.

His evasion light swept across the high heavens, where the spatial barrier above the atmosphere was thin and natural fissures occasionally flashed. Li Yuan raised a hand to flick out blade threads, polishing his Spatial Severing Technique strike after strike.

When one particular strike landed, the blade thread did not travel in a straight line.

It carved an arc through mid-air, bypassed a shattered fragment of the barrier, and sliced into the target rock from the other side.

Spatial Severing Technique, perfection.

The residual fissure lingered in mid-air for over five breaths, its edges shattering a circle further.

Li Yuan withdrew his spell, and his evasion light descended into Mingyuan Sect.

Mingyuan Sect, Scripture Pavilion.

Li Yuan used contribution points to exchange for a batch of texts, focusing primarily on materials for Spirit Transformation breakthroughs.

Returning to his dwelling, he perused them one by one.

Spirit Transformation breakthroughs were much like what was described at the Dharma Lecture Peak podium. The Nascent Soul had to transform into the Spirit