"Fourteen thousand spirit matter."
"Fourteen thousand?" Chu Mo paused, slightly taken aback. That figure was a fair bit higher than he had expected.
Hearing this, the person on the other end of the Command Token instead assumed he thought it too little and hurried to explain:
"Most of these divine abilities and methods are below Spirit Transformation, so they aren't particularly valuable. They're worth no more than eleven thousand four hundred. The remaining cultivation methods are all qi-collecting methods. Sixteen hundred is already their upper limit."
Chu Mo was even more surprised. "The method for forging a True Realm is only worth a thousand spirit matter?" A method that changed a cultivator's Dao Path surely couldn't be worth so little?
"You mean that secret method? It isn't worth much."
The person on the other end of the Command Token said, "You may not know this, fellow Daoist, but people in the society have already researched secret methods of this kind. Not only that, we once invested substantial resources in trying to perfect them."
Aside from making counterfeits, the Hezhen Society also had profound expertise in the various arts of cultivation. Most of the methods in the Scripture Repository had been created or improved by them.
"Unfortunately..." The person on the other end of the Command Token sighed, his voice tinged with regret.
"The final conclusion was that this path leads nowhere. Those who establish their foundations through qi collection can change their Dao Paths and forge a True Realm, gaining a tremendous increase in strength, but they cannot truly ascend to the Great Dao. Their cultivation can no longer advance even an inch."
"Why is that?" Chu Mo pressed.
"The paths are different," the person on the other end of the Command Token explained. "Without a register, there is no