Spirit Gathering Pavilion
After all, they are all people who can afford the city entrance fee. Spending a few more Spirit Stone on food and drink won't be too much of a burden. They can earn it back by picking more herbs next time.
Earning Spirit Stone is all about making your cultivation life better, so spending Spirit Stone on delicious food, drinks, and visually appealing treats that lift your spirits is perfectly reasonable.
That's how everyone comforts themselves.
This street accomplished its feat of "plucking feathers from a passing goose" in its own way. Those who were "plucked" enjoyed a sip of sweet, icy beverage and a bite of soft, sweet pastry, and were all happy and looking forward to the next new product.
Lin Xiao strolled around leisurely. When he reached about one-seventh the height of the giant tree, he noticed a number of cultivators dressed in the light yellow robes of the Zhenyang Sect handing out flyers to passersby.
He noticed that most of the cultivators who came here were cultivators in the Qi Refining Late Stage to the Foundation Establishment Realm.
Various small shops began to appear here, and the things they sold and bought became more diverse and of a higher quality. They were no longer like the streets at the bottom, where rows of small houses bought and sold the lowest-grade herbs Spirit Plant alchemy.
Of course, the overall price is also much higher, and you can hardly find the cheapest items here. Perhaps this is why it stops most Qi Refining cultivators in the early to mid-stages from finding a place with limited funds.
Although many cultivators in this city rely on gathering Spirit Plant and herbs as their main source of income, the methods they gather vary greatly depending on their Spirit Plant.
Harvesting many medicinal herbs Spirit Plant requires not only specialized tools such as spiritual Spirit Plant, but also unique harvesting methods. Furthermore, almost all herbs require special preservation methods after leaving their growing environment.
These three points alone constitute the threshold for cultivation level requirements.
Because all of these requirements can be said to require Spirit Stone to obtain.
Leaving aside the hoes and other tools, which come in different grades, there are naturally different prices.
Many special methods for harvesting herbs are recorded in books sold in the Immortal Cultivation Realm. These books are purchased with Spirit Stone, and the more precious the Spirit Plant or plant, the higher its price.
As for preservation methods, needless to say, the most common is preservation in jade boxes. However, these jade boxes are not just any ordinary jade boxes; they must be spirit jade boxes capable of locking in Spiritual Qi. These jade boxes also have different grades, and many are consumables. Their ability to lock in spiritual energy will decrease with the number of times and the duration of use. Some cheap jade boxes will become completely ineffective after ten or eight uses or a few dozen hours of use. If the Spirit Plant and herbs they contain are of high quality, the consumption rate of the jade box will be even faster.
Therefore, even the simplest act of gathering Spirit Plant and herbs is not a risk-free business for ordinary cultivators.
Other cultivators don't have a private vault like Lin Xiao, where everything can be stored. Even though he doesn't have special tools or special harvesting techniques for many herbs, he basically just moves the entire small space containing the Spirit Plant and herbs, roots and all, into it for convenience. The private vault will automatically separate and store them.
Even with the system as his backing, Lin Xiao only realized how crude his previous behavior was after Senior Liao explained a lot of common knowledge about the Immortal Cultivation Realm to him.
Lin Xiao walked forward with the crowd, and a flyer distributed by a disciple of the Zhenyang Sect was also handed to him.
He glanced at it and found it was a catalog of Spirit Plant plants for acquisition and job postings.
The recruitment is not for disciples or members of the sect, but rather for hiring outside cultivators to do odd jobs for the sect.
For a moment, Lin Xiao felt as if he were hallucinating the current operating model of their Lingxian Sect in the Mortal Realm, compared to other royal families and sects.
He casually put the flyer away and continued walking forward, where he saw a tall building made of tree branches.
This tall building occupies a considerable area and its shape resembles a restaurant, but the sign hanging outside suggests it's not a place for eating or drinking.
This tall building is called "Spirit Gathering Pavilion," and there's a price list next to it.
The prices are divided into four tiers: Heaven, Earth, Black, and Yellow.
A room with the character "Huang" costs five Spirit Stone per day; a room with the character "Xuan" costs seven Spirit Stone Spirit Stone per day; a room with the character "Di" costs nine Spirit Stone per day.
Compared to a restaurant, it looked more like a cultivation room more likely to appear in the Immortal Cultivation Realm. However, Lin Xiao was a little puzzled because Zhenyang City did not have any Spirit Vein or Spirit Vein nodes.
He then picked a monk who seemed relatively free and easy to talk to and asked him a question.
The cultivator, seeing his youthful appearance, chuckled and said, "Young brother, is this your first time in Zhenyang City?"
Lin Xiao nodded.
The cultivator pointed to the Spirit Gathering Pavilion ahead and said, "You may not know this, but this Spirit Gathering Pavilion provides cultivators with a place rich in Wood Spiritual Qi for cultivation. There are five such pavilions in the entire Zhenyang City. This is the lowest level of the Spirit Gathering Pavilion Spirit Gathering Pavilion. The higher the level, the higher the concentration of Spiritual Qi contained within."
"This Zhenyang City is actually willing to use its own sect's Spirit Vein to operate this Spirit Gathering Pavilion?" Because he was outwardly identified as Qi Refining Late Stage, Lin Xiao couldn't directly tell people that he had discovered there were no Spirit Vein or Spirit Vein nodes here, so he asked this question.
The cultivator explained to him, "Since you've come here, young brother, you should know that Zhenyang City was built by Elder Dan Ling of the Zhenyang Sect using his own tree spirit body. This Spirit Gathering Pavilion Zhenyang Sect uses to operate its own Spirit Vein; it's Elder Dan Ling's skill."
"Elder Dan Ling is said to possess a unique Divine Ability ability to purify and transform the impure Spiritual Qi outside into refined Wood Spiritual Qi with minimal loss. Not only that, but he can further purify the Wood Spiritual Qi, making it even purer than the refined Wood Spiritual Qi Wood Spiritual Qi us now. Look, this pure Wood Spiritual Qi is what is supplied to the Spirit Gathering Pavilion."
Upon hearing this, Lin Xiao understood.
What does it mean to purify and transform impure Spiritual Qi into Wood Spiritual Qi with minimal loss? It means that it not only extracts Wood Spiritual Qi, but also transforms all other Spiritual Qi into Wood Spiritual Qi. This is equivalent to obtaining several times more Wood Spiritual Qi than the total amount in the surrounding environment!
If calculated this way, its concentration is even higher than that of a low-level Spirit Vein.
Not to mention, it can further obtain even purer Wood Spiritual Qi. Purer means more efficient, which is very beneficial for cultivation for all cultivators and Demon Beast who are fond of Wood Spiritual Qi.
I never imagined that Elder Dan Ling's innate Divine Ability would be so powerful.
It's unclear whether this innate Divine Ability is unique to Elder Dan Ling or if it's possessed by all members of their tree Demon Race.