Buzzz...
White light flashed before his eyes!
He Pingsheng felt a wave of dizziness wash over him. When he opened his eyes again, everything before him had changed.
Before him stood a row of several dozen Teleportation Arrays, arranged in neat formation.
Beyond the Teleportation Arrays lay a spacious plaza, and beyond that stood a towering hall.
The hall was enormous, several times taller and grander than even the Grand Ancestor's sanctuary on Bamboo Peak.
Above its entrance hung four large gilded characters: Great Void Divine Hall.
He Pingsheng knew this was the most important place in the entire Great Void Sect-the palace of its Grand Supreme Elder and the heart of the sect.
The Grand Supreme Elder!
That was the master of Bamboo Peak's Grand Ancestor, his master Yu Ning's grandmaster-a terrifying powerhouse in the Nascent Soul Realm.
After taking a couple of glances, He Pingsheng hurriedly withdrew his gaze and asked the disciples guarding the arrays, "Which Teleportation Array should I take to Jade Dragon Peak?"
"Senior brother... this way!" An Outer Disciple led He Pingsheng to another Teleportation Array.
Buzzz...
White light flashed, bringing the same sensation and the same dizziness.
He Pingsheng had arrived on Jade Dragon Peak.
Looking around from Jade Dragon Peak, he found everything obscured by a layer of clouds. He could see nothing at all.
Thus, He Pingsheng had no idea where he was within the Great Void Sect, nor in which direction Bamboo Peak lay.
"May I ask where the Scripture Repository Hall is?" He Pingsheng asked the Outer Disciple.
The Outer Disciple guarding the Teleportation Array stood and replied respectfully, "I've heard it's behind Jade Dragon Peak. I'm not qualified to go there, senior brother, but you'll find it if you head over and look!"
"All right!"
He Pingsheng walked from the Teleportation Array toward the rear of Jade Dragon Peak, asking for directions along the way. Before long, he spotted the Scripture Repository Hall.
The Scripture Repository Hall was guarded as well.
Two Outer Disciples stood at the first-floor entrance. Only after He Pingsheng produced his identification token was he allowed inside.
On the first floor sat an old man who looked like a shopkeeper. His hair and beard were completely white, and He Pingsheng could not discern his cultivation.
"Young man!" The old man looked up at He Pingsheng. "Didn't your master teach you that casually scanning your seniors with divine sense is impolite?"
A senior?
He Pingsheng was immediately startled. He hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "This disciple admits his mistake!"
"Mm!" The old man did not pursue the matter. Instead, he nodded and asked, "Which peak are you from, and whose disciple are you?"
He Pingsheng replied, "Bamboo Peak. My master is True Person Yu Ning!"
"Oh..." The old man nodded. "So you're Junior Sister Yu Ning's disciple... Very well, young man. You may address me as senior martial uncle from now on!"
"Yes, senior martial uncle!" He Pingsheng was deeply shaken.
The old man said, "With your cultivation, you can only browse the first floor. Go on... If there's anything you wish to buy, just bring it to me!"
He Pingsheng cupped his hands in thanks, then walked farther inside.
The first floor was vast.
But it was empty, save for a single bookshelf in the very center.
The bookshelf was roughly a hundred feet long and divided into several tiers.
On closer inspection, he discovered that most of the books here were cultivation methods for Qi Refining Stage disciples.
Metal, wood, water, fire, earth-every attribute was represented.
Besides cultivation methods, there were also methods for refining pills, crafting artifacts, making talismans, setting formations, and so on.
There were spells and divine abilities as well.
A price was marked beneath each kind of book.
Most of the cultivation methods were low-level ones, so their prices were relatively low, ranging from one hundred to three hundred spirit stones.
The cheapest was the Basic Breathing and Qi-Guiding Method, which cost only thirty spirit stones.
After browsing, He Pingsheng finally found the [Cultivation Miscellany].
It was a very thick volume.
He checked the price: ten low-grade spirit stones.
Not expensive at all!
He Pingsheng looked around. Apart from this, there was nothing else useful to him, so he took the Cultivation Miscellany back to the old man.
"Made your choice?" The old man glanced at the Cultivation Miscellany and smiled. "Ten spirit stones!"
"Right!"
He Pingsheng took out ten spirit stones, then left the Scripture Repository Hall with the Cultivation Miscellany in his arms.
Why had he bought the Cultivation Miscellany?
Because He Pingsheng was sorely lacking in basic cultivation knowledge.
Moreover, he desperately wanted to know exactly what the spirit stones enhanced in his Treasure-Gathering Basin were, and how much they were worth.
After leaving the Scripture Repository Hall, He Pingsheng looked farther behind it.
Another building stood there.
Its name was the Treasury Hall!
What was it for?
Could it be like the one in the outer sect, where all sorts of items could be purchased?
Curious, He Pingsheng walked to the entrance of the Treasures Pavilion at the back and asked the Outer Disciples guarding it.
Sure enough, like the second floor of the Outer Sect Hall, this was a place that sold all kinds of cultivation supplies.
He Pingsheng produced his identification token and naturally gained entry without any trouble.
The Treasury Hall was much livelier.
Disciples streamed in and out without pause, unlike the Scripture Repository Hall up front, whose doorway was quiet enough for sparrows to gather.
He Pingsheng went inside and began browsing with keen interest.
Pills!
Spirit Herb!
All kinds of materials!
Talismans!
Paper Cranes!
Magical artifacts!
And more!
It had everything one could want.
A talisman used at the Qi Refining Stage cost roughly several dozen spirit stones.
Even a low-grade magical artifact used at the Qi Refining Stage cost only fifty spirit stones.
A Middle Grade one cost around a hundred spirit stones.
A high-grade one cost two hundred spirit stones.
Supreme-grade ones!
Sorry, there were no supreme-grade ones.
The truly expensive items were those used by Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators.
Spirit Artifacts, for instance!
A Middle Grade Spirit Artifact cost over a thousand spirit stones.
Second-grade talismans for the Foundation Establishment Realm also cost several hundred spirit stones.
Of course, such talismans possessed tremendous offensive power. Any one of them could pose an enormous threat to a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator.
Used against a Qi Refining Stage disciple, they could kill outright.
After some thought, He Pingsheng selected a low-grade magical artifact, a [Flying Sword], another low-grade magical artifact, a [Greenwood Shield], and two talismans: a [Fireball Talisman] and an [Ice Needle Talisman].
The [Flying Sword] cost fifty spirit stones, while the first-grade talismans cost sixty spirit stones each.
The most expensive was the Greenwood Shield, priced at a hundred spirit stones.
The total came to two hundred and seventy spirit stones.
He Pingsheng paid the spirit stones, then left the Treasury Hall looking pained at the expense.
He retraced his steps!
By the time he returned to his little courtyard, it was nearly noon.
He Pingsheng once again took out the sign marked [In seclusion] and hung it at his entrance.
Once inside his room, he eagerly took out the [Cultivation Miscellany] and began leafing through it.
Soon, he reached the pages introducing spirit stones.
Spirit stones were divided into four types according to quality: low-grade, Middle Grade, high-grade, and supreme-grade.
The book explained: low-grade spirit stones were as large as red dates; Middle Grade spirit stones were as large as chicken eggs; high-grade spirit stones were as large as fists; supreme-grade spirit stones were as large as human heads.
"This... is only a Middle Grade?" He Pingsheng immediately felt disdainful.
Over the past three years, whatever item he enhanced had always been raised straight to supreme grade.
Why did I only get a Middle Grade when it came to spirit stones?
Was giving me a supreme-grade one so difficult?
Let's see just what these supreme-grade spirit stones are!
Before you continue