After Becoming an Immortal, It Makes Sense to Have a Universal Treasure Pot

55: Storm is comingXu Qi’an discovered that his soul had undergone a slight change.

Originally, his soul was transparent, but after cultivating the Soul Character Incantation, Xu Qi’an discovered that his soul had actually been tinged with a hint of gold from its transparent state.

Currently, Xu Qi’an had only cultivated the first layer, so it wasn’t very obvious yet.

But Xu Qi’an had a strong premonition that after he had cultivated the Soul Character Incantation to great success, his soul might completely turn gold.

”I wonder if there will be any changes when my soul turns gold!”

”But this should be a good thing.”

”It seems in the future I still need to collect some Cultivation Techniques and scriptures related to the soul to properly understand this knowledge.”

Having witnessed the marvel of the Soul Character Incantation, Xu Qi’an temporarily put aside the cultivation of the Soul Character Incantation and began to consider his future plans.

”Currently, my Alchemy is close to the third-tier level, but my Artifact Refining hasn’t made much progress, and I can only refine first-tier Magical Artifacts at the moment. My Formation array skills are at the second-tier level, while my Talisman crafting has progressed slowly, and I can only refine first-tier Talismans at present.”

”Other Cultivation Techniques include puppetry, but unfortunately, puppetry hasn’t made much progress either.”

”Now that I have not only obtained the Floating Cloud Sect’s secret treasure but also the origin of the Blood Spirit Sect’s Cultivation Techniques, I can learn more in various aspects.”

”However, cultivation is still the priority. Body Refinement can also be developed now. Later, I can go to the Floating Cloud Sect’s library to see if there are any suitable Body Refinement techniques.”

”Now I no longer need to worry about cultivation speed. My Spiritual Root can be improved through the Spirit Exchange Great Method combined with the Omnipotent Treasure Basin!”

”But there have always been some issues with my combat power. During the Qi Refining Stage and Foundation Establishment Stage, I basically relied on weapons and Talismans to fight enemies.”

”I haven’t made any progress in divine abilities and spells, which means I still lack some trump cards. Later, I need to check if there are any powerful divine abilities in the Floating Cloud Sect and Blood Spirit Sect’s secret treasures.”

”Currently, I do have three Magic Treasures in my hand, but unfortunately, they are all blood-refined Magic Treasures, which are not easy to use. However, I can continue to improve their grade through the Omnipotent Treasure Basin!”

Xu Qi’an thought a lot and then decided on his future plans.

He would focus on cultivating spiritual power and soul, combined with Body Refinement, cultivating powerful divine abilities, and improving the grade of Magic Treasures, in order to enhance his strength.

In addition, Alchemy and Talisman crafting must also be vigorously developed!

Alchemy is related to the improvement of his cultivation and breaking through Bottlenecks, while Talisman crafting is related to continuous and stable combat power output.

”I also thought of something else. When I was in the Qi Refining Stage, Low-Grade Spirit Stones could be gathered into middle-grade Spirit Stones. When I was in the Foundation Establishment Stage, middle-grade Spirit Stones could be gathered into High-Grade Spirit Stones. So, is it possible that High-Grade Spirit Stones in the Core Formation Stage can be gathered into superior-grade Spirit Stones!”

”If I have sufficient superior-grade Spirit Stones, the spiritual energy provided by the spirit gathering array I set up will greatly improve the efficiency of my cultivation!”

”Not only that, but these superior-grade Spirit Stones are items that even Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators find rare!”

”Maybe they will be very useful in the future!”

As soon as he thought of it, Xu Qi’an began to frantically test the gathering treasure limit of the Omnipotent Treasure Basin.

After a week, Xu Qi’an indeed gathered a superior-grade wood-attribute ling stone!

Looking at the superior-grade wood-attribute ling stone with rich spiritual energy in front of him, Xu Qi’an swallowed a mouthful of saliva and suppressed the urge to temporarily absorb the spiritual energy within it.

He started gathering treasure again!

Just like this, Xu Qi’an spent five uneventful years.

During these five years, Xu Qi’an cultivated while studying various Cultivation Techniques and scriptures, and gathered treasure when he had time.

In just five years, the superior-grade Spirit Stones he accumulated reached as many as five hundred!

Gathering treasure with superior-grade Spirit Stones didn’t result in superior-grade Spirit Stones every time. This stemmed from the original gathering treasure rules. However, Xu Qi’an discovered that if superior-grade Spirit Stones were put in, the probability of getting superior-grade Spirit Stones out was very high!

And during these five years, he didn’t gather ling stones every time, so the probability was still not low.

During this period, Xu Qi’an also specifically cultivated a Divine Ability from the Blood Spirit Sect called Blood Spirit Slash.

This Blood Spirit Slash must be used in conjunction with a blood Spiritual Root. Before use, at least one-tenth of the body’s vital blood must be poured into the blood Spiritual Root for cultivation, and then a powerful slash can be unleashed.

The power of this Blood Spirit Slash is extremely terrifying. It is said that with long cultivation time, it can even tear open the void!

It can definitely be considered Xu Qi’an’s most powerful Divine Ability at the moment!

However, currently, he had only just learned this Divine Ability. It would still take some time before the Divine Ability could exert its maximum power.

Another significant gain was Talisman crafting. Relying on the continuous resource supply from the Floating Cloud Sect and the Materials he gathered, Xu Qi’an could already refine second-tier supreme-grade Talismans.

Unfortunately, he couldn’t attempt third-tier Talismans yet.

Because there were no corresponding Materials, and the entire Floating Cloud Sect, or even the entire Yue Country, had no inheritance for third-tier Talismans!

To obtain it, he would have to start from other countries.

In terms of Alchemy, Xu Qi’an focused his time on researching methods for substituting Spirit Medicine.

In other words, it was using ordinary Spirit Medicine with high medicinal potency from old years to replace those rare Spirit Medicine.

Xu Qi’an even specifically wrote a book for this purpose.

”Introduction to Research on How to Substitute Rare and Extinct Spirit Medicine with Spirit Medicine of High Medicinal Potency Years Without Changing the Efficacy of the Pill”

The name was very long, but very straightforward.

Xu Qi’an liked such straightforward names.

But none of this was what made Xu Qi’an most delighted. During these five years of gathering treasure, his Spiritual Root had actually broken through to the level of an Earth-grade wood Spiritual Root!

The path of Spiritual Roots is extremely complex. As learned from the Floating Cloud Sect’s secret treasure, there are four universally recognized levels of classification in the cultivation world!

First-level classification: Low Grade, middle-grade, High Grade, superior-grade!

Second-level classification: Earth-grade, Heaven-grade!

Third-level classification: Yin-grade, Yang-grade!

Fourth-level classification: Immortal-grade!

Now Xu Qi’an’s Spiritual Root had reached another level of Spiritual Root classification!

Leaving aside the third and fourth-level Spiritual Roots for now, Spiritual Roots at the second level could already be considered Genius level!

Xu Qi’an saw himself coming all this way, from the Low Grade wood Spiritual Root that couldn’t even progress in the Qi Refining Stage back then to the Earth-grade wood Spiritual Root now, tears flowed freely.

(Tears of emotion~)

Unfortunately, Xu Qi’an didn’t know what conditions were needed to gather a Heaven-grade Spiritual Root. He tried many times but didn’t succeed.

Although Xu Qi’an also gathered many of his own Spiritual Roots, he had no way to store them, so they naturally disappeared.

Otherwise, Xu Qi’an would really have a bold idea.

Relying on the spirit gathering array paired with superior-grade Spirit Stones, plus the Earth-grade wood Spiritual Root, Xu Qi’an’s cultivation speed during the Core Formation Stage was comparable to a calf riding a Flying Sword.

In just five short years, he crossed the Bottleneck of the middle Core Formation Stage and reached the fourth layer of Core Formation cultivation!

As for the Soul Character Incantation, he had cultivated it to the third layer and was not far from the fourth layer. During this time, he also mastered the Soul Seal Divine Ability that could be cultivated in the first layer.

In just five years, Xu Qi’an had gained a lot; his future was truly promising.

But just as Xu Qi’an was immersed in his Small World of cultivation, a Nascent Soul Decree from the Heavenly Dao Sect descended from the sky.

Xu Qi’an had no choice but to hastily end his seclusion and came outside his cave dwelling.

”Seven-An True Person Xu Qi’an of Yue Country, receive the decree!”

”My Heavenly Dao Sect will begin the next great battle in the Extraterritorial Battlefield in ten years!”

”In this great battle, your Yue Country needs to send five Jie Dan Cultivators and two hundred Foundation Establishment Cultivators!”

”If you fail to meet the requirements by the agreed time, your entire Yue Country and you will be considered to have defied the Heavenly Dao Sect’s great battle order, and everyone shall be executed!”

”The fate of Yue Country will be annihilation!”

The characters for ’executed’ and ’annihilation’ were written extremely large, seemingly more of a threat.

This caused Xu Qi’an’s brows to furrow tightly.

”Are you kidding? Five Core Formation? A hundred Foundation Establishment?”

”Where the hell am I supposed to find so many Cultivators for their Heavenly Dao Sect?”

”And there are only ten years!”

”Could it be that this Heavenly Dao Sect has gone mad, not considering the actual situation of Yue Country at all?”

The sky was somewhat gloomy, and the voice of this decree spread throughout the entire Yue Country.

Every Cultivator heard it in their hearts.

After reading the content on the Nascent Soul Decree, it directly fell into Xu Qi’an’s hand before he could make any reaction.

It didn’t give Xu Qi’an any chance to speak at all.

Xu Qi’an could only look at the small decree with its infuriating language written inside, but he couldn’t say a word.

At this moment, the Cultivators of the Floating Cloud Sect all gathered around Xu Qi’an, and every single person’s face was filled with disbelief.

Especially Li Yebai, his aged face was even more filled with fear and helplessness.

”Sect Leader...!!”

”What should... what should we do!!”

Xu Qi’an looked at everyone, then glanced at the sky full of dark clouds, feeling that a storm was brewing.

But he still forced out a smile and said to everyone, ”Don’t worry, there will be a solution!”