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In one month, Purple Forest Market would hold its grand auction, an event held once every ten years.

Since a batch of Foundation Establishment Pills would be auctioned this time, the event had drawn many cultivators from far away.

With so many members of the Liu Household attending, Grand Elder Liu Qiusheng first went to the market administration office and rented a small courtyard residence. He paid a total of 1,000 spirit stones for an initial lease of six months.

Although the courtyard residence was not large, it had plenty of rooms, enough for each Liu Household cultivator to have one. Liu Changxu was assigned a room as well.

Liu Changxu first followed his father to his father's room.

Seeing Liu Changxu follow him in, his father, Liu Shihao, smiled and asked, "Xu'er, is something the matter?"

Liu Changxu nodded and casually set up a soundproofing restriction. "I obtained five Storage Bags from the late-stage Qi Refinement evil cultivator I killed!"

His father, Liu Shihao, said, "Whatever you seized belongs to you. There's no need to tell me! You're grown up now. All you need to do is take good care of yourself."

Liu Changxu smiled. "It's just that the haul was rather substantial, so I hoped you could offer some advice on how to handle it, Father. Especially with your Foundation Establishment approaching, I'd like to do my part."

Liu Changxu then described the main items he had obtained. After hearing his account, his father, Liu Shihao, asked in disbelief, "Is that really true?"

Liu Changxu handed over the five Storage Bags. "Father, take a look and you'll see!"

After examining the five Storage Bags one by one, his father, Liu Shihao, was utterly astonished.

His father, Liu Shihao, said delightedly, "My son truly enjoys tremendous fortune!" Then he grew serious and told Liu Changxu, "That evil cultivator you killed must have been an important figure among them. Otherwise, he couldn't possibly have carried so many spiritual resources! I'll make copies of these jade slips for the Lineage and secure some Lineage contribution points for you. Handle the other spiritual resources carefully as you see fit! Don't tell anyone about this, not even members of the Lineage! As for me, I'm not short of spirit stones at present. I appreciate your filial devotion!"

After speaking, his father took out blank jade slips and copied the contents onto them, then told Liu Changxu to gather his things and return to his room.

Back in his own room, Liu Changxu pondered how to handle these spiritual resources.

I'm planning to learn pill refining, so I won't sell the spirit herbs. I only have a surplus of spirit rice and spirit fruit, but I consume plenty myself, and I still have quite a few spirit stones. I might as well wait until I need spirit stones before dealing with them!

Liu Changxu planned to stroll around Purple Gold Market and buy some spiritual resources he needed.

With that thought, Liu Changxu left his room, ready to take a look around outside.

Just then, his fifth elder brother, Liu Changshun, came out as well. Seeing Liu Changxu, he asked, "Seventh Brother, are you heading out for a stroll?"

Liu Changxu said, "Yes!"

Liu Changshun said cheerfully, "Then let's go together!"

Liu Changxu replied, "Sure!"

As they spoke, the two left the courtyard together.

Walking down the main street, the brothers chatted and laughed. His fifth elder brother, Liu Changshun, planned to buy some demonic beast meat, pills, and spirit rice.

Shops lined both sides of the streets in Purple Forest Market, and roadside stalls were everywhere, selling all manner of goods. Pills, spirit herbs, spirit rice, spirit fruit, spirit tea, demonic beast meat, spirit fish, demonic beast cubs, magical artifacts, talismans-everything one could want was there, leaving the eyes too busy to take it all in.

They came to the Chen Family Butcher Shop, which sold demonic beast meat, and saw that it carried every kind imaginable. Both felt the urge to buy some. Since they were both body cultivators, regularly eating demonic beast meat was very useful for strengthening their bodies.

Liu Changshun's purse was thin, so he spent only twenty low-grade spirit stones on one hundred jin of lower-grade first-tier Yellow Mountain Bull meat.

Liu Changxu, on the other hand, had no shortage of money. He spent three hundred low-grade spirit stones on one hundred and fifty jin of upper-grade first-tier Golden-Horned Deer meat, fifty jin of upper-grade first-tier Blackwind Fox meat, and a bottle of Blackwind Fox blood essence.

Liu Changxu bought the Blackwind Fox meat and blood essence mainly to help Xiao Qing advance. Demonic beasts primarily advanced by devouring and digesting the flesh and blood of beasts at a higher tier than themselves, along with high-tier spirit herbs. As long as Xiao Qing kept eating the meat and blood essence of demonic foxes at a higher tier than himself, he could advance faster and continually evolve his bloodline.

When his fifth elder brother, Liu Changshun, saw that even the demonic beast meat Liu Changxu bought for his spirit beast cost far more than his own purchases, an indescribable feeling immediately welled up in his heart. My life really isn't even as good as a beast's!