The Myriad Shadow Paper Doll made a circuit around Hundred Gates Alley in the Capital City, but found no useful information whatsoever about the Spirit of Man.
He had also asked several shops specializing in materials. Their answers were all the same: rare items, not for sale.
Li Qing was helpless. "Many truly precious materials simply can't be bought."
"Though I know the refining methods for quite a few Dharma Materials, I have no force that can help me make them."
"Nor do I have that many resources at my disposal. I can only steal and rob, and that makes it easy for people to trace things back to me."
"The last time I looted an Essence Stone stockpile from the Infinite Sect, they locked onto my target and plan."
"Unfortunately, time waits for no one. I have no idea what the situation will look like after the Six Paths Investiture of Gods."
"When that time comes, who knows how many of those Dao Lineages will remain."
"If I'd arrived a few hundred years earlier, perhaps I could have supported a few small Dao Lineages and made them my material suppliers."
With a faint sigh, Li Qing cast aside those impractical thoughts.
He began consulting the Jade Tablet, pulling up all information related to the Spirit of Man.
Very soon, he discovered that roughly a dozen Dao Lineages were capable of refining the Spirit of Man.
They were scattered across the Nine Provinces, almost all within major cities.
The Spirit of Man was a formless substance created by gathering the spiritual will of countless people, then condensing it with essence qi.
It was an exceedingly rare material, one of the key ingredients for cultivating certain powerful spells or refining Dharma artifacts and Dao artifacts.
It was not easy to obtain.