Unexpected Encounter, Cave Abode Lv2

An ordinary Gathering Essence Pill was worth seven low-grade Spirit Stones.

That was a decent price for a premium spirit egg.

Five premium spirit eggs came to thirty-five low-grade Spirit Stones.

Li Yunjing had no objections and nodded his agreement.

Next, Li Yunjing took out several pill bottles.

"I also have some Yellow Sprout Pills I'd like you to appraise, Appraiser Li," Li Yunjing said with a smile.

Li Mingjie smiled and nodded, then picked up the bottles and examined the Yellow Sprout Pills inside one by one.

Li Mingjie found that the Yellow Sprout Pills retained a great deal of fire Qi.

They had clearly been refined only recently.

Li Mingjie immediately looked at Li Yunjing in surprise.

"Sect Leader Li, did you refine all these Yellow Sprout Pills yourself?"

Li Yunjing did not deny it. Admitting he was an Alchemist now would bring him considerable benefits.

"Please keep it a secret for me, Appraiser Li," Li Yunjing said with a smile.

Although he had not denied it, Li Yunjing did not want more people to know he was an Alchemist.

At least, not yet.

Li Mingjie's eyes widened slightly, and he was utterly shocked.

The young man before him had truly opened Li Mingjie's eyes.

At such a young age, he had already reached Qi Refining Completion and was only one step away from Foundation Establishment.

He was also a first-grade Alchemist.

"Comparing yourself to others is enough to make you die of envy!"

Li Mingjie thought back to when he had been Li Yunjing's age.

He had still been a greenhorn who knew nothing.

Putting aside his stray thoughts, Li Mingjie began estimating the Yellow Sprout Pills' value.

Just as Li Yunjing had expected,

Li Mingjie offered a purchase price of 508 low-grade Spirit Stones.

Including the spirit eggs he had just sold,

Li Yunjing would receive 638 low-grade Spirit Stones this time.

That was much less than the 1,000 low-grade Spirit Stones he had earned from selling Pure Spiritual Qi over ten days.

Still, these Spirit Stones would be enough to last Li Yunjing a while.

The 638 low-grade Spirit Stones

were to be used by Li Yunjing to purchase upgrade materials.

Of the current buildings, the Sect Grand Hall, the poultry house, and the Patriarch Hall could not be upgraded.

The Sect Grand Hall and the Patriarch Hall required Li Yunjing's cultivation to reach Foundation Establishment.

Li Yunjing was currently only at Qi Refining Completion.

The poultry house, meanwhile, required the sect's prosperity to reach ten.

The sect's prosperity was still at one.

As for how to raise the sect's prosperity,

Li Yunjing had an idea, but he did not know whether it would work.

Aside from those three buildings that could not be upgraded,

among the remaining seven buildings,

the medicinal garden was definitely going to be upgraded.

Upgrading the medicinal garden required only ten stalks of Spirit-Stabilizing Grass and twenty low-grade Spirit Stones.

Spirit-Stabilizing Grass cost one Spirit Stone per stalk, which was very cheap.

Besides the medicinal garden, Li Yunjing intended to upgrade his own cave abode.

To upgrade his cave abode to lv2,

he needed one small Spirit Gathering Formation diagram, cultivation at Qi Refining Completion, and fifty low-grade Spirit Stones.

A small Spirit Gathering Formation diagram worked much like a Spirit Gathering Formation disk.

Their prices were much the same.

It cost only twenty-two low-grade Spirit Stones.

By that calculation, upgrading the two buildings would cost 112 low-grade Spirit Stones.

Li Yunjing planned to upgrade those two buildings first.

He still needed to buy other things with the remaining Spirit Stones,

such as spirit medicine seeds and the spirit medicines for refining Yellow Sprout Pills.

He also had to save some of the Spirit Stones for daily expenses.

He could not squander them recklessly.

Having made up his mind, Li Yunjing told Appraiser Li what he needed.

Besides the Spirit-Stabilizing Grass and the small Spirit Gathering Formation diagram,

Li Yunjing also asked for ten sets of spirit medicines for refining Yellow Sprout Pills,

plus three sets of spirit medicines for refining Flesh Regeneration Pills.

The ten sets of spirit medicines for refining Yellow Sprout Pills cost Li Yunjing 280 low-grade Spirit Stones.

The three sets of spirit medicines for refining Flesh Regeneration Pills cost seventy-five low-grade Spirit Stones.

That left Li Yunjing with 241 low-grade Spirit Stones.

Li Yunjing chose to buy five kinds of spirit medicine seeds.

All five were the most common spirit medicines on the market.

Once the spirit medicines matured, he would have no trouble finding buyers.

They were also the main spirit medicines used to refine Yellow Sprout Pills.

Li Yunjing could use them himself.

The five kinds of spirit medicine seeds cost Li Yunjing another forty-one low-grade Spirit Stones.

That left him with exactly two hundred low-grade Spirit Stones.

Li Yunjing put everything into his Storage Bag, then left the Treasure Gathering Pavilion.

When he reached the northern exit of Xunxian Town,

Li Yunjing thought of Mo Xuan and Shui Yao.

Praying that neither of them was badly hurt, Li Yunjing took out two Breeze Talismans and slapped them onto himself.

Then he hurried back to the Luozhen Sect.

Before long, Li Yunjing was nearly at the Luozhen Sect's mountain gate.

As soon as he arrived at the mountain gate,

Li Yunjing saw two people lying on the ground beside it.

Looking closely, Li Yunjing saw that they were Mo Xuan and Shui Yao.

He hurried over.

Sure enough, it was the two of them.

Li Yunjing quickly crouched down

and checked their breathing.

They were still breathing. They were not dead.

Li Yunjing quickly hoisted them onto his shoulders.

He dashed into Serene Valley.

After returning to the Luozhen Sect, Li Yunjing laid them down in Luozhen Hall.

Then he took out Flesh Regeneration Pills, pried their mouths open, and forced the pills inside.

After he fed them the Flesh Regeneration Pills, neither of them woke up.

Li Yunjing checked their pulses.

As an Alchemist, though he was not as well versed in medicine as a physician,

Li Yunjing still knew some basic skills, such as checking pulses.

After all, physicians were actually Alchemists.

The difference was that when physicians treated patients, they used more than pill refinement, employing methods such as circulating Qi.

But when Alchemists treated patients or healed injuries, their only method was pill refinement.

Thus, it was nothing unusual for a physician to know pill refinement or an Alchemist to know how to check pulses.

After checking their pulses, Li Yunjing found them dangerously irregular.

At the same time, the Qi within both their bodies was in turmoil, and their Qi and Blood were flowing backward, rushing toward their heads.

These were all dire signs.

If they were not treated quickly, the two of them would likely die.

With no other choice, Li Yunjing hurried to the Patriarch Hall and took out the incense burner he had hidden away.

After offering a stick of incense to the patriarch, Li Yunjing took a pill bottle from the incense burner.

"It's time to use this thing. Otherwise, I'll always be on tenterhooks."

Li Yunjing sighed.

After returning to Luozhen Hall,

Li Yunjing took out the pill bottle,

pulled out the stopper, and poured out two crystal-clear pills the size of fingernails.

These were second-tier spirit pills, Immortal Dew Pills.

They were healing pills refined by Li Yunjing's master.

Li Yunjing's master could refine pills, and his medical skills were also excellent.

Unfortunately, physicians could not heal themselves.

He had suffered from a serious illness but had been unable to treat himself.

The Immortal Dew Pills were among the few pills Li Yunjing's master had left behind.

Their healing effects were excellent.

They were said to be able to pull someone back even from the King of Hell's palace.

Of course, that only applied to Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Given Mo Xuan and Shui Yao's condition,

Li Yunjing could only try the Immortal Dew Pills.

He fed the Immortal Dew Pills to the two of them.

Li Yunjing sat down where he was and waited quietly.

If even the Immortal Dew Pills did not work, then Li Yunjing had no other way.

About a quarter of an hour passed.

Li Yunjing took a deep breath.

He checked their pulses again.

By then, Mo Xuan's pulse had steadied and was no longer as dangerously irregular as before.

At the same time, the Qi within Mo Xuan's body had also been calmed, and his Qi and Blood had settled down.

Li Yunjing's face immediately lit up with a smile.

"The Immortal Dew Pills Master refined really do work well," Li Yunjing murmured to himself.

He checked Shui Yao's pulse as well and found it was the same as Mo Xuan's.

The two of them had now made it back from the gates of hell.

All that remained was to wait for them to recover slowly and wake up.

Li Yunjing let out a long breath of relief.

Neither of them would wake up anytime soon.

Li Yunjing therefore walked out of Luozhen Hall.

Having just bought the upgrade materials, Li Yunjing wanted to upgrade the buildings right away.

He first went to his own cave abode.

Li Yunjing took out the small Spirit Gathering Formation diagram and fifty low-grade Spirit Stones.

He silently said upgrade. The materials vanished, and the sect leader's cave abode was upgraded to lv2.

[Sect leader's cave abode (lv2)]

[Lv3 spiritual effects: Spirit Plant maturation cycle -40%, Spiritual Qi concentration +40%, recovery speed while meditating here +30%.

A small Spirit Gathering Formation is added. When cultivating here, the cave abode master's speed +35%.

Combat strength within ten zhang of the cave abode +100%.]

[Upgrade requirement: Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivation.]