Xu Qingtong stood up, gave his body a quick cleaning after his breakthrough, moved around the Cultivation Room, and returned to the stone bed.
He replaced a spirit stone and activated the Spirit-Gathering Formation again. He needed to stabilize his cultivation at the fifth layer of Qi Refining.
A month passed, and Xu Qingtong's cultivation was thoroughly consolidated. He ended his cultivation session. It was not that he did not want to continue-he had discovered, to his dismay, that he had run out of spirit stones!
Counting the time, he had been in Gloomwind Valley for over a year. During that time, he had done nothing but refine pills and cultivate, never venturing out even once. There was no source of spirit stones within Gloomwind Valley, either; all transactions were conducted using contribution points.
He did still have over a thousand high-grade spirit stones in his Seven-Star Bracelet, but he could not use those to cultivate. First, there was no need; he was, after all, only at the fifth layer of Qi Refining. Second, high-grade spirit stones were rare. Even the bigwigs of Gloomwind Valley probably did not have many on them.
Since I can't activate the Spirit-Gathering Formation for now, I might as well refine that Soul-Chasing Spear first!
Xu Qingtong took out the Soul-Chasing Spear and toyed with it in his hands. Its dark-gold shaft gave an impression of steadiness and weight. Its gleaming silver tip shone with a faint, cold light that pierced straight into the soul. Holding it, he gave it a light swing, and a whistle split the air, giving him the thought, Beneath the vast heavens, I alone reign supreme.
The more he looked at it, the more he liked it. He just did not know how powerful it was. Following Elder Li of