Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 506: Chapter 299 Inventory_2

The original owner Supervisor Feng Yi, although still alive in body, had his soul annihilate along with the False Infant, so the ownership of the ring was automatically revoked.

After Li Shiming claimed ownership of the ring, he understood what the ring was.

‘Mustard Seed Ring’, a super-large space ring with an internal space of one trillion cubic meters.

The Mustard Seed Ring itself is not considered a spiritual treasure or a magical treasure but a rare treasure, incredibly scarce even within the Cultivation World.

It was only because Supervisor Feng Yi was in charge of the Skywalk Trading Company’s operations on the Beishu Continent that he was assigned this Mustard Seed Ring to transport large quantities of goods.

Once the Mustard Seed Ring recognized a new owner, it would automatically hide in the void as per the owner’s will, becoming undetectable to touch, Divine Thought, or any other of the five senses.

It was only after the owner perished that the Mustard Seed Ring could be sensed by Divine Thought.

Li Shiming’s Divine Thought entered the Mustard Seed Ring and he was astonished by the space inside; a space ten thousand meters in length, width, and height which his Divine Thought could not fully grasp if not for the ring’s unique properties.

The first feeling he had after perceiving the inside of the Mustard Seed Ring was vast, extreme vastness,

He originally thought that, as a supervisor of Skywalk Trading Company, Supervisor Feng Yi’s spatial items would be filled with precious Spiritual Objects.

However, to his perception, the Spiritual Objects within the Mustard Seed Ring were pitifully scarce, nothing like what one would expect from a False Infant Cultivator’s spatial possessions.

Li Shiming did not know that Supervisor Feng Yi had traded away most of his less important Spiritual Objects in order to purchase the ‘Red Infant Ginseng Fruit,’ thus acquiring the funds to exchange for it.

Of course, although the Spiritual Objects were few, those that Supervisor Feng Yi had kept were extremely valuable.

A False Infant in the Cultivation World is considered on par with a Nascent Soul Cultivator, and despite being the weakest among them, it still ranks among the top existences in the realm of cultivation.

Moreover, as the branch supervisor of such an intercontinental company as Skywalk Trading, Supervisor Feng Yi had access to a level of Spiritual Objects far beyond what ordinary False Infants, or even Nascent Soul Ancestors, could compare with.

“Is this the legendary top-grade spirit stone?” Li Shiming exclaimed when his Divine Thought swept over twenty-three spirit stones, sensing the surging Spiritual Power within them.

It wasn’t that he was inexperienced; spirit stones were an easily obtainable resource for him.

With his abilities as an Alchemy Master, if he chose to sell the Spirit Pills he refined for spirit stones, he could quickly amass a huge amount of them.

But what was referred to here did not include top-grade spirit stones, only low-grade and mid-grade.

For in the Cultivation World, top-grade spirit stones were not in circulation, not used as currency.

This might have to do with Li Shiming’s own perspective; after all, no Cultivator at the Golden Core Stage had the chance to encounter a top-grade spirit stone.

Legend has it that top-grade spirit stones were used among Nascent Soul Ancestors and were incredibly difficult to mine.

In a large spirit stone mine, only a minuscule amount of top-grade spirit stones would be found at the core.

The twenty-three top-grade spirit stones before him represented a tremendous fortune, items worthy of trade with a Nascent Soul Ancestor.

Of the twenty-three top-grade spirit stones, twenty were red and three were green. The red spirit stones contained fire attribute Spiritual Power, while the green ones had wood attribute Spiritual Power.

He had previously heard about top-grade spirit stones but never comprehensively; it wasn’t until he saw them with his own eyes that he understood how different they were from mid and low-grade spirit stones. Top-grade spirit stones are classified by the Five Elements Attribute.

Next to the twenty-three top-grade spirit stones, there were two magical treasures, a sword and a ruler.

Li Shiming first examined the Jade Ruler Treasure, and under his Divine Thought scan, he found it was made of fourth-grade materials, a Fourth-Grade Magical Treasure used by Nascent Soul Ancestors.

All the magical treasures he had seen before were forged from third-grade refining materials; this was the first time he had encountered one made with fourth-grade refining materials.

He did not know if he would be able to refine such a Fourth-Grade Magical Treasure after he achieved his own Golden Core.

Another magical treasure was a flying sword short like a dagger; he sensed that its material was also of the fourth grade.

At this moment, Li Shiming felt some regret. He shouldn’t have been so hasty to let his alter ego, Li Yuanba, refine the Lifebound Flying Sword.

Even though the Lifebound Flying Sword that Li Yuanba had refined, the Xingyi Sword, had been strengthened for several hundred years by the Sword Cultivation Golden Core, Yun Xingyi, and Li Yuanba could perfectly inherit the Cloud One Sword and wield all of its might,

there was still a significant gap in the material quality, which placed the Xingyi Sword far behind the fourth-grade flying sword.

Perhaps in the initial phase after refinement, the Xingyi Sword might lead by virtue of Yun Xingyi’s several hundred years of strengthening, but the fourth-grade quality possessed even greater potential, allowing the fourth-grade flying sword to eventually surpass it.

What puzzled Li Shiming was that neither the fourth-grade Jade Ruler nor the fourth-grade flying sword were Lifebound Magical Treasures.

He then took out the Vestment robe magical treasure; he couldn’t judge its grade, but he also found that it was not a Lifebound Magical Treasure either.

That is to say, among the three magical treasures he received from Supervisor Feng Yi, none was Feng Yi’s Lifebound Magical Treasure.

He poured his divine thought into the mechanism space, scanning within Feng Yi’s shell without finding any existence of a Lifebound Magical Treasure.

The truth was that Supervisor Feng Yi had never refined a Lifebound Magical Treasure. As a branch manager of the Skywalk Trading Company, he used his position to access more magical treasures than other cultivators.

After becoming a False Infant Cultivator, he got rid of all his Golden Core stage treasures and then continually used the treasures sold by the company for himself first. The reason he had not refined a Lifebound Magical Treasure was that he wanted to find the most suitable treasure before doing so.

The magical treasures of Supervisor Feng Yi were continuously updated and became stronger—his ambitions grew, and he kept dreaming of a better Lifebound Magical Treasure, which led to the current situation.

After looking for a while and not finding a Lifebound Magical Treasure, Li Shiming gave up searching.

He projected his divine thought into the Mustard Seed Ring and used his divine thought to retrieve a jade bottle.

This was the only jade bottle in the Mustard Seed Ring, and its material was of the third grade; had it not been unrefined, he might have considered it a magical treasure.

The jade bottle was carved with an Array that, along with the material, sealed the spirit within.

His divine thought passed through the Array and into the interior of the jade bottle.

“This is Heavenly Immortal Milk!” Although he was no longer the youth of his earlier days, whether it was Formation, Alchemy, or Artifact Refining, he had considerable expertise, and his knowledge had greatly expanded in these fields.

While he had not encountered Heavenly Immortal Milk personally, the Shushan Sect provided introductions to various top resources in the Cultivation World that were necessary for a True Disciple to master; otherwise, one might not recognize top Spiritual Objects when encountering them. Heavenly Immortal Milk was among them.

The grade of the Heavenly Immortal Milk was fourth-grade, and it was currently the most effective Body Refinement Spiritual Object.

Any Spiritual Object of the fourth grade belonged to extremely rare resources, only found in the hands of Nascent Soul Cultivators.

The jade bottle contained twenty drops of Heavenly Immortal Milk; for a fourth-grade quality, this quantity was already very substantial.

In truth, neither the top-grade spirit stones nor the Heavenly Immortal Milk belonged to Supervisor Feng Yi, but were assets of the Skywalk Trading Company, although such fourth-grade Spirit Items were in his custody.

It was just that Li Shiming’s luck wasn’t the best; had he killed Feng Yi and obtained the Mustard Seed Ring during the Skywalk Trading Company’s five-yearly trade fair, it would have been an immense fortune.

Nevertheless, even now, what he had obtained was too much—for him, a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, if any of the Spiritual Objects he obtained today were revealed, they would spell big trouble.

The three magical treasures, top-grade spirit stones, and Heavenly Immortal Milk, even the earlier ‘Red Infant Ginseng Fruit,’ were rare treasures even to a Nascent Soul Ancestor, who would not care about his status as an Alchemy Master.

Lastly, he took out a Jade Scroll and his expression slightly changed after seeing its contents.

Li Shiming stored all the precious treasures, including the Mustard Seed Ring, into the mechanism space. Although the Mustard Seed Ring had the effect of concealing itself, he still didn’t want to wear it on his finger.

With his status and strength, he was not yet capable of protecting such precious items.