Besides the map the Spirit Beast Shop's owner had given him.
Wang Ba had also visited the Market's bookshop earlier, buying maps of the surrounding area, detailed maps of most of the Yan Kingdom, and travelogues.
Comparing them, he found no errors or omissions.
However, the map from the Spirit Beast Shop was clearly more detailed within a hundred-mile radius of Swordwave Garrison.
It even marked places where certain first-tier spirit beasts appeared.
Of course, he could forget about second-tier spirit beasts.
The Heavenly Gate Sect's major Markets essentially sold only first-tier resources of various kinds. Second-tier resources could only be encountered by chance.
Anything related to the second tier was almost invariably precious.
The Spirit Beast Shop's owner was only at Qi Refining. Although he did not need to do the work himself, he could hardly hand out such a precious map at will.
To obtain second-tier law artifacts, spirit beasts, pills, cultivation methods, and so on, one had to either leave the garrison and seize them outside.
Or complete tasks within the sect, earn merit, and exchange it for items in the sect's treasury.
Or build good relationships with cultivators who possessed second-tier skills and trade privately.
In any case, the Heavenly Gate Sect took an extremely conservative approach to second-tier resources.
This was also one of the means the Heavenly Gate Sect used to control Foundation Establishment cultivators.
Anyone who wanted resources had to work themselves to death for the Heavenly Gate Sect.
Leaving that aside, first-tier spirit beasts were enough for Wang Ba.
After all, he had simply spent too long inside the sect and wanted to get out and about, catching some unfamiliar spirit beasts along the way.
If they were valuable, he would rear them and expand his collection of spirit beast species. If