Spirit Stone

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Spirit Stone
Original Name	灵石
Type	Spiritual material used as currency and an energy source 1 25 32
Documented Grades	Low-grade, middle-grade, high-grade, and supreme-grade in the Universe’s cultivation world; the Immortal Realm uses different grade terminology 1 61 270 639 1525
Documented Attributes	Wood, earth, water, ice, and other unspecified attributes; fire-attribute supreme-grade stones are also referenced 10 95 639
First Appearance	Chapter 1, in the cost of the Liu Lineage’s defenses and its contribution-point system 1

Power Progression

The following table records the increasingly powerful grades documented in the story, rather than an advancement undergone by an individual spirit stone.

Grade	Documented Properties and Role	Recorded Appearance
Low-grade	Basic currency and energy source; one stone is equivalent to one Liu Lineage contribution point 1 25.	Used in the lineage’s early accounting and cultivation expenses 1 10.
Middle-grade	Approximately the same size as low-grade stones, but contains dozens of times more spiritual energy. Can enable formations and flying boats to unleash greater power 61.	Liu Changxu first sees this grade in Chapter 61 61.
High-grade	A higher grade recovered from spirit-stone mines and wealthy cultivators’ storage treasures; no precise energy-content ratio is given in the cited accounts 270 298.	Changxu and Su Jinxiu extract two from the Azurewater Golden Toad’s tiny mine 270.
Supreme-grade	The highest grade in the Universe’s cultivation world. Unlike ordinary spirit stones, an exhausted stone can replenish its spiritual power in an energy-rich location and be reused. These are strategic resources scarce even among Spirit Transformation cultivators 639.	South Cape Island’s mines produce this grade; Changxu first personally sees one while mining a large seabed vein 550 639.

Grade Equivalence and Regional Terminology

• Nominal exchange rate: One middle-grade spirit stone is officially exchangeable for 100 low-grade spirit stones. In practice, holders are unwilling to exchange at this rate because middle-grade stones are much rarer and have uses low-grade stones cannot replace 61.
• Immortal Realm terminology: In Weizhou Immortal City, stones classed as middle-grade in the Universe’s cultivation world are called low-grade locally, while Universe high-grade stones are called middle-grade. Changxu sees the former used most often in purchases, followed by the latter, and sees no Universe low-grade stones in those transactions 1525.

Uses

Currency

• Trade: Spirit stones pay for cultivation resources, magical artifacts, spirit beasts, property, and services 4 31 34 36 47.
• Lineage accounting: One Liu Lineage contribution point is equivalent to one low-grade spirit stone. Members earn points through assignments and resources deposited in the treasury, then exchange them for cultivation supplies 1.
• Mixed payment: Merchants can accept spiritual goods alongside spirit stones. Liu Changxu purchases an Azure Cloud Eagle egg with 2,200 spirit stones, making up the remaining price with spirit rice and medicinal herbs 36.
• Rewards: The Liu Lineage awards spirit stones to parents who produce children with spiritual roots 7.
• Auction admission: Spirit stones are also used to pay admission charges, including entry to the Purple Forest Market auction and underground auctions 38 251 291.
• Investment in strength: Changxu regards spirit stones primarily as a means of acquiring strength. He willingly spends heavily on useful equipment and cultivation resources, reasoning that greater strength makes further treasures and spirit stones easier to obtain 252 463.

Formation Power

• Lesser Four Symbols Primordial Unity Formation: This lower-grade second-tier formation can run on either magical power or spirit stones. During the caravan ambush, inserting spirit stones activates a barrier covering an area two li across 25.
• Spirit-beast incubation: Liu Changxu prepares his Azure Cloud Eagle egg for hatching using spirit stones and a Spirit-Gathering Formation 36.
• Little Three Talents Spirit-Gathering Formation: Each of its three formation discs requires five spirit stones matching the user’s spiritual-root attributes. The formation is particularly suitable for cultivators with three-element roots and also possesses offensive and defensive capabilities 59.
• Spirit-vein upgrading: Upgrading Peach Blossom Mountain’s spirit vein requires a large second-tier-or-higher Spirit-Gathering Formation, whose activation consumes a vast quantity of spirit stones 58.
• Higher-grade fuel: Middle-grade spirit stones allow formations to unleash greater power than low-grade stones 61.

Flying-Boat Power

• Cloud-Piercing Boat: The Wu Household’s upper-grade second-tier boat is powered by spirit stones and can travel 5,000 li per day 32.
• Activation requirement: A flying-boat spirit artifact requires a Foundation Establishment cultivator’s magical power to activate. Once airborne, it can continue using either magical power or spirit stones, though its stone consumption is considerable 49.
• Higher-grade fuel: Middle-grade stones allow flying boats to unleash greater power. Changxu suspects that their use explains the exceptional speed of an evil cultivators’ flying boat 61.

Spirit-Plant Cultivation

• Transplant support: Liu Changxu places 100 low-grade spirit stones of wood, earth, water, and other attributes in the planting pit for his Cloudmist Tea tree, together with prepared spirit soil 10.
• Observed result: The transplanted tree subsequently regains its vitality and develops lush green leaves 15.

Cultivation and Artifact Refining

• Magical-power replenishment: While melting second-tier gold-patterned iron with his Foundation Establishment true fire, Changxu replenishes his magical power from a spirit stone 167.
• Attribute-matched incubation: Changxu places his bound python egg on a pile of ice spirit stones to incubate it at his lake-island base 95.

Economic Role

Income Sources

Source	Documented Income or Value	Notes
Spirit-peach harvest	More than 10,000 low-grade spirit stones annually	Includes peaches sold directly and those made into spirit wine 16.
Spirit-peach charcoal	500 low-grade spirit stones annually	Produced from pruned branches; sold for alchemy and cooking 5.
Demonic-beast hunting	About 200 spirit stones for a Withered Leaf Snake	Its core, gallbladder, venom, blood, bones, skin, and flesh all have uses 2.
Pill refining and talisman-making	More than 300 low-grade spirit stones earned by Liu Changxu	Provides income alongside his cultivation 41.
Yellow crystal copper	More than 10,000 low-grade spirit stones in value for Changxu’s 85 pieces	The hunting party mines the deposit over ten days and sells the material discreetly 45.
Peach Blossom Pavilion’s Purple Forest branch	More than 3,000 spirit stones in opening-day sales	Peach Blossom Brew, pills, and talismans are particularly popular 48.
Two pieces of thunder accumulation stone	At least 800 low-grade spirit stones in estimated sale value	Lightning-attribute materials are exceptionally rare 70.
Surplus third-tier sea-monster materials	200,000 spirit stones	Changxu sells unused materials to a shop, helping offset his purchases 463.
Peach Blossom Island’s large-scale auction	An enormous, unspecified sum of spirit stones	Its offerings include advancement pills, artifacts, magical treasures, formations, and talismans 765.

Resource Constraints

• Cultivation expenses: Liu cultivators are considered adults at sixteen and thereafter expected to obtain their own spirit stones and cultivation resources 10.
• Body-tempering costs: Liu Changshun’s heavy resource consumption and lack of an income-producing craft leave him short of funds. After exhausting his spirit stones, he proposes a demonic-beast hunt to earn more 35 41.
• Preservation costs: The lineage cannot afford enough ice-jade boxes for its peach harvest, so fruit that cannot be stored is turned into Peach Blossom Brew 18.
• Defense costs: A formation covering all of Peach Blossom Mountain would cost at least 200,000–300,000 spirit stones, beyond the means of the small Qi Refinement lineage 16.
• Combat expenditure: The mass talisman attack during the peach harvest consumes several hundred spirit stones’ worth of talismans. The seven beasts killed are worth only a little over 200 spirit stones, leaving the defenders at a financial loss 18.
• Liquidity limits: Despite obtaining abundant golden ironwood during a joint expedition, Huang Tianjie’s group cannot sell all its surplus to the Liu and Wu Households because neither has enough spirit stones. Turning resources over to the Azure Cloud Sect yields fewer stones than direct sale would, but also earns sect contribution points 111.
• Auction budgeting: Changxu’s 180,000-spirit-stone purchase of the Five Elements Demon-Hunting Formation leaves him unable to bid on further items at the underground auction 252.
• Construction and administration: After establishing itself on Peach Blossom Island, the lineage’s construction projects and operating expenses increasingly empty its treasury. Clan head Liu Fuyue hopes to obtain part of his father’s mining proceeds to relieve the strain 640.

Strategic Resources and Territorial Conflict

Spirit-stone mines are important not only as sources of personal wealth, but also as resources affecting sect development and territorial policy 550 752 846.

• South Cape Island: The Azure Cloud Sect defends the island tenaciously during the Human-Demon War because its large veins continually supply enormous quantities of spirit stones and other materials, including rare supreme-grade stones 550.
• Resource exhaustion: Long-term mining has brought the Divine Splendor Continent’s major mineral veins close to exhaustion, leaving them unable to satisfy growing cultivation demands. This helps drive the Azure Cloud Sect’s expansion overseas and beyond the heavens 550.
• Vajra Sect dispute: A newly discovered spirit-stone mine claimed by the Vajra Sect prompts Azure Cloud mobilization and support for Vajra from other northern sects. Changxu expects negotiation rather than all-out war 752.
• Northern Immortal Alliance conflict: The Ice Snow Sword Sect and Northern Immortal Alliance fight several major battles over an enormous border deposit, suffering numerous casualties. Changxu considers joint mining through negotiation preferable to such losses 846.

Documented Prices

Prices are specific to the recorded transactions; grades are retained where explicitly stated.

Cultivation Supplies and Services

Item or Service	Price	Transaction
First-tier talisman paper, per 100 sheets	20 low-grade spirit stones for lower-grade; 30 for middle-grade; 50 for upper-grade	Wu Yunyue’s stall in Yunping City 31.
First-tier talisman ink, per bottle	10 spirit stones for lower-grade; 20 for middle-grade; 30 for upper-grade	Wu Yunyue’s quoted prices 31.
Spirit Beast Bag	300 low-grade spirit stones	Purchased from Liu Shijia for Xiao Qing 4.
Primordial Unity Body-Tempering Art	At least 2,000 spirit stones outside the lineage	An internal three-month loan instead costs 300 contribution points 13.
Icefire Body-Tempering Soup ingredients, per batch	Equivalent to 30 low-grade spirit stones	Treasury price of 30 contribution points 14.
Body-Tempering Pill, each	20 contribution points	Equivalent to 20 low-grade spirit stones under the lineage’s exchange system 1 14.
First-tier Spirit Beast Pills	200 spirit stones	Changxu’s purchase for Xiao Qing 35.
Azure Cloud Eagle egg	3,000 spirit stones	Purchased with an injured Yellow Mountain Lion cub included as an extra 35 36.
Ten upper-grade first-tier Bone-Forging Pills	800 low-grade spirit stones	Changxu’s winning auction bid 39.
Upper-grade second-tier Flame Lion blood essence	2,300 spirit stones	Won by a Foundation Establishment cultivator 39.
Cloud-Piercing Boat passage	20 low-grade spirit stones per person	Fare from Yunping City to Purple Forest Market 32.
Purple Forest Market courtyard rental	1,000 spirit stones for six months	Lodging for the Liu delegation 34.
Green ridge stone for Changxu’s training room	Equivalent to 55 low-grade spirit stones	Costs 55 lineage contribution points 11.
Three bottles of Body-Tempering Pills	120 spirit stones	Liu Changshun’s purchase at a Wang Family Elixir Pavilion 35.
One bottle of middle-grade first-tier Qi-Gathering Pills	50 spirit stones	Liu Changshun’s purchase 35.
Foundation Establishment Pill at an underground auction	60,000 low-grade spirit stones	Changxu’s winning bid; the starting price is 20,000 252.
Earth-Escaping Talisman	1,500 spirit stones	Changxu’s underground-auction purchase 252.
Three Golden Armor Talismans and one Void-Escaping Talisman	More than 20,000 spirit stones in total	Changxu’s additional protective-talisman purchases 252.
Blushing beauty grass	200,000 low-grade spirit stones	Purchased by Su Jinxiu for refining Youth-Preserving Pills 462.
One bottle of third-tier supreme-grade Jade Marrow Spirit Milk	100,000 spirit stones	Changxu’s winning auction bid for a magical-power recovery resource 554.
Nascent Soul Formation Pill	6.3 million spirit stones	Jiang Yuqing’s winning auction bid, supported by pooled family funds 554.
Three sets of Golden Core Formation Pill auxiliary ingredients	300,000 low-grade spirit stones	Purchased by Changxu from Azure Cloud Pavilion in Cape City 632.

Major Lineage Investments

Purchase	Cost	Details
Lesser Four Symbols Primordial Unity Formation	12,000 spirit stones	Obtained with Liu Qiuju’s help from a formation master in her sect 25.
Foundation Establishment Pill	75,000 low-grade spirit stones	Secured by Liu Qiuju at auction for the household 39.
Purple Forest branch property	50,000 low-grade spirit stones	Former general store and rear courtyard 47.
Pavilion reconstruction and courtyard improvements	15,000 spirit stones	Builds the five-story Peach Blossom Pavilion and rear accommodation 47.
Green Feather Boat	40,000 low-grade spirit stones	Much of the purchase is financed through loans from clansmen 49.
Wu Household’s Cloud-Piercing Boat	200,000 spirit stones	Acquired through Azure Cloud Sect connections 33.
Second-tier Spirit-Gathering Formation	20,000 low-grade spirit stones	Purchased by the Liu delegation during its Eastern Splendor City shopping trip 59.

Equipment and Formation Purchases

Item	Price	Transaction
Red Lotus Sword	4,000 spirit stones quoted	The seller cites its second-tier materials; Changxu asks for a lower price 58.
Second-tier lower-grade Jadewater Sword	6,000 low-grade spirit stones	Purchased by Changxu from Xue Yuchan 115.
Second-tier top-grade Five Elements Demon-Hunting Formation	180,000 spirit stones	Changxu’s winning underground-auction bid 252.
Water-Repelling Pearl formed in a Thunder Spirit Clam	300,000 low-grade spirit stones	Purchased by Changxu for underwater protection and enhanced water spells with lightning 463.
Golden Flood Dragon Armor	700,000 low-grade spirit stones	Final auction price after Su Hao withdraws from bidding 554.

Estimated Resource Values

Resource	Estimated Value	Context
Large slab of lower-grade third-tier jadewater tide-rising jade	Well over 100,000 low-grade spirit stones at auction	Found in the Azurewater Golden Toad’s dwelling and divided between Changxu and Su Jinxiu 270.
Two Azurewater Golden Toad eggs	Tens of thousands of low-grade spirit stones at auction	Their bloodline and divine abilities make them valuable spirit-beast prospects 270.

Notable Acquisitions and Financing

• Early personal reserves: After his first hunting expedition, Liu Changxu holds 550 low-grade spirit stones and 750 lineage contribution points, but lacks a reliable income-producing craft 10.
• Caravan-battle spoils: The Liu Household recovers more than 8,000 spirit stones from the evil cultivators’ seized storage bags 28.
• Changxu’s personal spoils: One captured bag contains 1,500 low-grade spirit stones; another contains 3,800 low-grade spirit stones, alongside valuable cultivation resources 30 32.
• Copper-funded advancement: Selling yellow crystal copper allows previously resource-poor relatives to buy pills and enter seclusion. Liu Shichao’s resulting access to supplies supports his breakthrough to the sixth level of Qi Refinement 45 47.
• Expansion financing: Buying the Foundation Establishment Pill and establishing Peach Blossom Pavilion nearly exhaust a century of lineage savings. Changxu lends the household 3,000 spirit stones toward the subsequent Green Feather Boat purchase 49.
• Later ambush spoils: Changxu inventories 2,500 low-grade spirit stones in a captured storage bag, together with pills, talismans, artifacts, and other resources 60.
• Foundation Establishment cultivator’s storage bag: Another acquisition contains more than 15,000 low-grade and 200 middle-grade spirit stones 90.
• Golden Core cultivator’s storage ring: Changxu finds 510,000 low-grade, 21,000 middle-grade, and 1,500 high-grade spirit stones among its contents 298.
• Additional storage-bag haul: A later inventory includes more than 80,000 low-grade and 1,100 middle-grade spirit stones 318.
• Blackflame Tiger cave spoils: Three storage bags left in the tiger’s cave yield more than 90,000 low-grade and 850 middle-grade spirit stones 445.
• Nascent Soul Pill financing: Changxu offers Su Hao and Jiang Yuqing one million low-grade spirit stones, while Su Jinxiu offers more than a million of her own. After Jiang wins the pill, Changxu lends another 500,000 to complete payment 554.
• Large-mine fortune: The seabed mine exhausted in January 3270 yields enough spirit stones that Changxu expects no shortage even as he advances to Spirit Transformation. He initially conceals the enormous yield from his household; later discussion of the mine raises Liu Fuyue’s hopes of relieving the lineage treasury 639 640.
• Werewolf Race spoils: His inventory after killing two Spirit Transformation and 43 Nascent Soul Werewolf cultivators includes vast, unspecified quantities of spirit stones, alongside other treasures. The total haul makes him wealthier than most early-stage Spirit Transformation cultivators 777.
• Ten-Winged Angel spoils: Changxu obtains 30,000 supreme-grade spirit stones in a later inventory 943.
• Greenwood Flood Dragon cave: Changxu and Wu Xuege recover a vast, unquantified collection of spirit stones together with high-grade materials, treasures, and cultivation texts 1119.

Mining and Extraction

Documented Deposits

Location or Expedition	Spirit-Stone Yield or Deposit	Details
Underwater cave near Changxu’s lake-island base	Thousands of water- and ice-attribute stones, including middle-grade stones	The area also possesses a second-tier lower-grade spirit vein and second-tier blue ice jade 95.
Azurewater Golden Toad’s dwelling	70,000 low-grade, 350 middle-grade, and two high-grade stones	Changxu and Su Jinxiu exhaust the tiny mine after more than ten days of work. Water-attribute stones embedded in the walls help explain the dwelling’s dense spiritual energy 270.
Seabed vein near Changxu’s island	636 million low-grade, 5.2 million middle-grade, 70,000 high-grade, and 82 supreme-grade stones	Exposed by the battle against a seven-star clam and exhausted after several months. Most supreme-grade stones are water-attribute, with none fire-attribute 639.
Island explored during the Coral Sea expedition	A medium-sized spirit-stone mine; yield unspecified	Liu Household cultivators, including Changxu, undertake mining alongside extraction from a spirit-gold vein 758.
Frozen planet explored by the household	Eight large spirit-stone veins and numerous other spirit-stone veins	Discovered while mapping the planet’s resources over more than a month; most of its spirit treasures are ice-attributed 1092.

Extraction Methods and Risks

• Manual extraction: Changxu and Su Jinxiu mine the stones embedded in the Azurewater Golden Toad’s dwelling until the deposit is exhausted 270.
• Puppet-assisted mining: At the large seabed mine, Changxu deploys fifteen Mining Puppets and receives assistance from Little Blue and Xiao Yun. The experience reinforces his view that puppets can compensate for the Liu Household’s shortage of cultivators 639.
• Concealment and urgency: Changxu seals the seabed site with a formation and mines day and night, fearing that leaking spiritual energy will attract a powerful sea monster and disrupt the operation 639.
• Bulk extraction by divine ability: On the frozen planet, Changxu lifts an entire seabed spirit-stone vein into the air, strips away rubble and debris, and separates out the stones. He records his mining divine abilities on jade slips for household cultivators, though only those at Spirit Transformation can barely employ the method 1092.