Published: March 3, 2025
Chapter 481: The Causality of the Physical Body (Supplemental Update, Seeking Monthly Votes!!)
Although the power of a spiritual treasure can indeed devastate the heavens and the earth, compared to an Immortal Abode, it is like a minor witch facing a great witch.
Liu Yu intuitively judged that the two were fundamentally not on the same level.
Even in some fragments passed down from ancient times, the “Heavenly Spirit Treasure” that carries part of the Dao rules might still be of a lower tier than the Immortal Abode.
After all, the Immortal Abode comes with an entire world and has its own unique rules!
Though, these rules should be incomplete.
Smoothing out the ripples in the lake of his heart, Liu Yu no longer thought about the Sword of Ruin and instead picked up the black banner magical treasure obtained from the Black Bone True Man.
“What a pity, what a pity.”
After inspecting it for a while, he repeatedly expressed his regret.
The Black Bone True Man was a late golden core demon cultivator, so the power of his life-bound magical treasure goes without saying. Even though it was damaged, one could still feel the immense power within it.
That was far beyond the foundation establishment level of power.
“Matters after forming the core should be left to my future self to handle.”
“As a foundation establishment cultivator, taking out a powerful magical treasure is too risky, even though I am already a true disciple.”
“It’s better not to test human nature.”
With this in mind, Liu Yu stored the magical treasure in his storage bag, planning to repair it after forming the core.
Then, he began to count the various spiritual artifacts.
This time, the harvest was considerable, including several supreme spiritual artifacts, such as:
Ren Hongyan's Crimson Ancient Zither, Zhou Ziwen's black staff, the browless male cultivator's Black Banner Spiritual Artifact, Tang Tianbao's earthy yellow flying sword, and Zhou Ziwen's black dagger.
And this was just the supreme spiritual artifacts; there were even more superior spiritual artifacts.
“Indeed, no one can get rich without unexpected windfalls, just as a horse cannot fatten without night grass.”
Looking at the pile of spiritual artifacts before him, Liu Yu sighed.
Over the past twenty years, he had thought of acquiring a few supreme spiritual artifacts, but he had always had spiritual stones without a place to buy them.
He had barely managed to buy a defensive spiritual artifact, the Amethyst Shield, but for various reasons, he had acquired nothing more.
Unexpectedly, after going out once, he had such a harvest after some calculations.
Recalling the qi refinement stage, supreme magical artifacts were hard to buy unless one risked using a large amount of spiritual stones to prove their wealth.
When he had just established his foundation, superior spiritual artifacts were also rare items.
But now, Liu Yu had several supreme spiritual artifacts, and the count of superior spiritual artifacts and supreme magical artifacts could be measured in “piles.”
“The winner takes all.”
“Sometimes, this is a road that cannot fail.”
“The consequences of failure often lead to death, with few chances for a do-over.”
Looking at the pile of spoils, Liu Yu's expression grew serious.
Though he had always relied on killing other cultivators for significant gains, this was obviously not a long-term plan.
As the saying goes: "A great nation may be powerful, but those who are warlike are bound to perish."
If one were to rely on the path of killing and plundering treasures to scrape together resources, it is hard to say there wouldn't be times of failure; at that time,
A good swimmer can drown; those who are warlike will perish. Countless historical experiences have already proven everything.
He had the Immortal Abode as a support; as long as he proceeded steadily, he naturally had many advantages over other cultivators from the beginning.
There was no need to walk down this most perilous path.
Sometimes, however, one had no choice but to do so!!