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It was evident that Li Shiming had his thoughts about eating—spiritual plants used as seasoning held little practical value, yet they required the occupation of spirit fields.

The final items were seeds of three special spiritual medicines, and upon seeing these seeds, Qiu Tan couldn’t help but look up at Li Shiming.

“I can’t procure these three types of spiritual medicine seeds for you, but if you really need them, I can try to find them for you. You should be able to purchase them!” said Qiu Tan, though he harbored doubts, he still disclosed the truth.

He was well aware that these three types of spiritual medicines were resources demanded by the Xuanming Sect, so where could one find these seeds within the Sky Sea Sect?

However, the war between the Sky Sea Sect and the Xuanming Sect had lasted for many years, with both sides suffering casualties. Many storage bags had also been captured.

For the Xuanming Sect, the vast majority of resources captured were practically unusable for the cultivators of the Sky Sea Sect.

What Qiu Tan meant was to try and look among some well-known Sky Sea Sect cultivators he was familiar with. Although these three types of spiritual medicine were also considered precious, he had still heard about them, and the likelihood of finding them was extremely high.

“Mr. Qiu, I truly appreciate it, might I ask how many spirit stones will be needed?” Li Shiming, hearing that he could directly purchase the spiritual medicine, naturally felt elated, but he had limited spirit stones, and these three types of spiritual medicine were late-stage Qi Refining resources, and he might not have enough spirit stones.

“If you trust me, Mr. Li, let’s leave 2100 spirit stones for the 2000 catties of Spirit Rice. You take the existing spirit seeds, and I will go to purchase these three types of spiritual medicine. We will refund any excess and make up any shortfall!” Qiu Tan said generously waving his hand.

Li Shiming rode on a paper crane, a smile on his face, as this trip to the market was quite fruitful.

He had purchased the necessary spirit plant seeds, sold the surplus Spirit Rice, and even reserved the last three materials needed for the promotion of the copper corpse to an iron corpse.

He had never imagined that it would go so smoothly. The three materials, which the original owner of the iron corpse in the Xuanming Sect couldn’t procure, were easily accessible in the Sky Sea Sect.

Qiu Tan was as confident as he had said, and Li Shiming even wondered if Qiu Tan knew exactly who had these three materials.

With the help of Qiu Tan, Li Shiming was also able to purchase at a low price the talismanic ink materials he needed, as well as the knowledge appropriate for Qi Refining cultivators to master.

Throughout the process, aside from paying out 2100 spirit stones for the 2000 catties of Spirit Rice, he only spent a little over a hundred spirit stones.

The most important gain from this trip was establishing a channel with Qiu Tan. Despite owning a spirit plant store, Qiu Tan, in fact, had deep connections with many other shops. Through the channel that was Qiu Tan, whether buying or selling any spiritual objects, all could be transacted through him.

Leaving Changming Island Market for the first time, Li Shiming was extremely cautious, fearing that he might encounter the situation he had faced at the Loose Cultivator Market previously.

His first experience going to the market after becoming a cultivator was harrowing. If he hadn’t thrown out the ’thermite grenades,’ his path in cultivation might have ended there.

The safety of Changming Island Market was not just for show. After leaving the market, he continued flying for two hours without encountering any cultivator’s pursuit.

Li Shiming had IBMz15 help sense the surroundings, while he himself took out a Jade Scroll detailing the knowledge relevant to Qi Refining cultivators.

He placed the Jade Scroll at his third eye, a vast amount of knowledge transferred into his brain and simultaneously shared with IBMz15.

IBMz15 opened the section on knowledge relevant to Qi Refining cultivators, and the contents swiftly scrolled through his mind.

This contained a lot of knowledge, including the common spiritual medicine, spirit ore, and spiritual objects encountered by cultivators on their travels. Possessing this knowledge meant he wouldn’t miss opportunities due to knowledge gaps.

Some spiritual objects required specific methods of collection; without knowing these methods, even if one managed to collect these objects, it would greatly diminish the spiritual energy within them, thus tremendously decreasing their value.

In addition, he also realized he was lacking the containers that normal cultivators usually carried—mainly a jade box to store spiritual medicine, a magic artifact-quality skinning knife, a container to store spirit blood, and a device to collect spirits.

These items should not be underestimated; without a jade box, the spiritual energy of any spiritual medicine found in the wild would greatly diminish.

The skinning knife, spirit blood, and spirit soul device formed a set of magic artifacts used specifically for processing sea beasts.

Previously, besides spirit meat, other parts of the sea pig beast weren’t very valuable. However, once reaching an intermediate or higher level of strength, whether it was the skin, spirit blood, or spirit soul, all became important resources; not carrying the proper spiritual vessels could result in significant losses.

In the relevant knowledge for Qi Refining cultivators, there is also information about Elixir Pills, which is not to encourage cultivators to practice alchemy, but rather to recognize Elixir Pills.

Mastering the ability to identify Elixir Pills ensures that cultivators won’t mistakenly purchase unsuitable Elixir Pills that are deceptively sold by unscrupulous merchants.

The Elixir Pills used by Qi Refining Cultivators are First Grade Elixirs, which are further divided into low, intermediate, high, and top grades.

The distinction in quality mainly lies in the effects of the Elixir Pills and the impurities they contain, which greatly influence the aftermath of ingestion.

Take the lowest-grade First Grade Elixirs for example, cultivators consuming these must consider the issue of pill toxicity. The effects of the Elixir Pills may be weaker, but the intake of pill toxicity must be strictly controlled.

Generally, there is a standard monthly limit for low-grade First Grade Elixirs; consuming beyond this amount could result in pill toxicity affecting the body.

As the quality level increases, both the pill toxicity and the effectiveness improve significantly.

The best are the top-grade First Grade Elixirs, which after consumption, not only are free from pill toxicity, but also offer the strongest effects, and moreover do not lead to any drug resistance.

For cultivators, drug resistance is a hidden risk.

Normally, the harm of drug resistance is not evident in cultivators. However, a cultivator who has never consumed Elixir Pills, and one who has ingested a large number of Elixir Pills, both reaching the peak of Qi Refinement and receiving the same Foundation Establishment Pill and accompanying auxiliary Elixir Pills for promotion,

the probability of advancement for the cultivator who has never consumed Elixir Pills is one to two times higher than that of the cultivator who has consumed a large number of Elixir Pills. This conclusion comes from many years of research by numerous forces in the Cultivation World.

However, even though cultivators are aware of the existence of drug resistance, every additional non-top-grade Elixir Pill consumed increases the body’s drug resistance, yet cultivators still use Elixir Pills to enhance their abilities.

Not every cultivator possesses exceptional innate spirit root seeds that enable effortless cultivation to the peak of Qi Refinement without the aid of Elixir Pills.

Top-grade Elixir Pills, which do not induce drug resistance due to their uncertain production, are exceedingly rare.

It is not that Pill Masters do not wish to produce top-grade Elixir Pills, but rather that producing top-grade Elixir Pills is entirely a matter of luck.

Most Pill Masters create only one or two top-grade Elixir Pills in their lifetime, but when asked how to produce top-grade Elixir Pills, they have no clue, as the process is irreproducible.

Li Shiming found from the spoils of war that the Elixir Pills from the Hao Family were low-grade First-grade Grain Avoidance Pills, while the Elixir Pills obtained from Xuanming Sect cultivators were Intermediate First Grade Xuan Yin Life Spirit Pills, which are Xuanming Sect cultivators’ auxiliary Elixir Pills for cultivation.

Even if he was starving, knowing the drawbacks of the low-grade First-grade Grain Avoidance Pills, he would not consume them.

In the relevant knowledge for Qi Refining cultivators, there is also information about various Magic Artifacts.

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Within the sect, the Magic Artifacts produced by Li Peak are the best, and for sect cultivators, Magic Artifacts are among the few Spiritual Objects that should not be scrimped on, as they relate to the cultivator’s life.

Therefore, it is strongly recommended in the relevant knowledge that cultivators, once they have accumulated enough good deeds, should first exchange them for a Magic Artifact produced by Li Peak to enhance themselves.

Seeing this, Li Shiming couldn’t help but take out the Spirit Turtle Shield and look it over again, confirming that there was no mark from Li Peak on it.

“What a loss!” he couldn’t help but shake his head and mutter to himself.

He thought of the sincere farewell smile from that old cultivator, of course, it was genuine, as that was the smile one shows after earning a significant amount of Spirit Stones from him!

“I’ll make do with it for now!” he said, playing with the Spirit Turtle Shield, which he felt wasn’t too bad. Although he was reluctant, he decided not to return to the market to make another purchase.

Although he still had some Spirit Stones, after inquiring about the prices of top-grade Magic Artifacts and Flying Boats, he realized how poor he was; his Spirit Stones amounted to next to nothing.

Even if he couldn’t afford a Spirit Boat for the time being, in order to travel quickly across the sea, he needed to replace his paper crane.

These all required a large amount of Spirit Stones; he still needed to cultivate and had to reserve some Spirit Stones in anticipation for news from Qiu Tan about three types of Spiritual Medicine.