Spirit Stone

Biodata

Properties and Appearance

• Charged stones: The stone Mo Chen gives a boy in Maple Forest Town is clear, translucent, and faintly luminous even in daylight. The much larger stock used for his foundation establishment consists of crystalline stones of many colors 222 226.
• Depleted stones: An almost exhausted Low-Grade Earth Spirit Stone resembles an egg-sized piece of dull gray jade. Mortals mistake it for a poor-quality heirloom rather than a cultivation resource 222.
• Energy loss: Spiritual energy can naturally dissipate over time. The boy’s inherited stone retains only a final trace after being passed down through generations 222.
• Exhausted shells: Once its remaining energy is absorbed, Mo Chen considers the heirloom’s outer shell an ordinary, useless rock 222.
• Natural occurrence: Mo Chen finds nascent spirit stones beside a concealed spiritual-eye spring in a mountain cave 102.

Uses

Spiritual Power Recovery

Cultivators draw spiritual energy from spirit stones to replenish their Dharma Power 38 140 222.

• Mo Chen uses the Qi-Guiding Formula while holding stones to restore his depleted reserves 222.
• Jiang Yantai instructs her companions to recover with stones while advancing through a dangerous, warded area 140.
• A trace of earth spiritual energy restarts Mo Chen’s Spring Water Nayin Effect, allowing his reserves to replenish continuously after complete exhaustion had stopped their natural recovery 19 222.
• After prolonged damage and inactivity in his meridians, Mo Chen chooses stones and passive recovery over potent pills, fearing that stronger medicine could tear his meridians apart 222.
• Recovery is not instantaneous: four hours of meditation restore over thirty percent of his Dharma Power. While traveling afterward, stones and Spring Water barely sustain his Divine Movement Technique 222 223.

Foundation Establishment

A mound of nearly 100,000 spirit stones supplies the energy for Mo Chen’s Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment at Hongfeng Mountain 226.

• Their energy widens his meridians, tempers his flesh, and compresses gaseous spiritual power into liquid True Essence 226.
• His breakthrough completes when nearly half the mound’s radiance has dimmed; the passage does not establish that every stone is exhausted 226.
• His Divine Sense expands to a two-li radius after entering the Foundation Establishment Realm 226.

Artifact Operation

Spirit stones supplement the energy supplied to the Windlike Token, helping sustain flight during prolonged escapes 164 177.

• Embedded stones reduce the amount of spiritual power Mo Chen must personally contribute 164.
• They do not replace control: he still needs Divine Sense to steer and monitor pursuing enemies 164.
• During another chase, he presses stones against the token to assist Wen Rongxue in powering it 177.

Spirit Stone Life Support

Under Feng Jin’s guidance, Mo Chen uses earth spirit stones to form a thin spiritual membrane over Chen Jin’s poisoned wound 226.

• The membrane stops the bleeding and temporarily preserves Chen Jin’s life 226.
• It is emergency support, not a complete cure; its continued function depends on an uninterrupted spiritual-energy supply 226.
• Feng Jin proposes the method because Chen Jin has awakened spiritual faculties and retains a thread of innate vitality despite otherwise fatal injuries 226.

Currency and Market Value

Spirit stones pay for cultivation methods, artifacts, books, divination, transport, and information. They also serve as wages, sect stipends, relief payments, and expedition rewards 8 9 17 19 20 32 66 201.

Prices are not fixed solely by an artifact’s grade: Mo Chen estimates that the old prince’s intact mid-grade flying sword could fetch at least 1,000 stones, while damaged relics might still sell for a few dozen low-grade stones each 18 37.

Notable Acquisitions and Expenditures

Related Materials

• Demon Stones — Mo Chen finds their residue in a demonic-qi-powered teleportation array. Their powder has the same texture as spirit stone fragments, but he identifies them as Demon Stones rather than ordinary spirit stones 103.
• Refreshing Spirit Stone — A separate inspection-related material whose surface appears inlaid with gold dust. Cultivators grind it into powder to conceal secret-realm finds from the Immortal Alliance’s tracking inspection 107 160.
• Spirit Liquid — Another replenishment resource. Mo Chen can retain his refined liquid for personal recovery or sell it for spirit stones 158.