Published: March 2, 2025
CHAPTER 54: Huangshan Bazaar
Every morning, Liu Yu would collect some newly condensed dew and brew a pot of Clear Lotus Tea to drink.
He could clearly feel his spiritual consciousness slowly growing. Although the effects were minimal in the short term, the long-term prospects were extremely promising.
Drinking a pot of Clear Lotus Tea every morning had become a daily routine for him, gradually forming an unbreakable habit.
In the world of cultivating immortality, time seemed to pass without notice. A month slipped by in the blink of an eye during his secluded cultivation life.
During this month, Liu Yu consumed Azure Spirit Pills daily for his cultivation. Compared to absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth without elixirs, his cultivation speed was incomparable. He had made a steady small step forward in the seventh layer of qi refinement.
However, good times were short-lived. After a month, he had to halt such extravagant cultivation due to a pressing problem.
He was out of spiritual stones!
Previously, he had drawn a year's worth of monthly salary from the sect, which was 120 spiritual stones. After spending 100 on cultivation, activating the crimson flame formation for pill refining consumed another five, and with a little loss of spiritual energy, he was left with only ten spiritual stones, not enough to support his extravagant cultivation!
He had to find a way to replenish the spiritual stones to continue his rapid advancement. Having grown accustomed to the quick boosts from elixirs, reverting to meditative qi refinement felt like a tortoise's pace, which was hard for him to accept.
Liu Yu sat cross-legged on the meditation cushion, took out all the remaining spiritual stones from his pocket, and with a thought, connected with the green light points to enter his Immortal Abode.
He placed all the spiritual stones on the black spiritual soil, took out the seeds of spiritual herbs needed for refining Clear Spirit Elixirs from the wooden house on the left, and planted them.
Soon after, through the process of acceleration, he obtained a total of seventy portions of spiritual herbs for refining Clear Spirit Elixirs.
The Clear Spirit Elixir was the type of pill Liu Yu had refined the most, with a success rate close to 30%. It was also among the more valuable pills he could refine and sold well among cultivators.
Due to insufficient spiritual stones, he could not replenish the consumption of black spiritual farmland, and the black spiritual soil had noticeably turned yellow after planting the spiritual herbs, nearing the color of the rocks commonly found on the island. This was a sign of insufficient spiritual power.
But there was no way around it. Liu Yu had no spiritual stones in hand and could only wait for the refined elixirs to be sold to replenish the spiritual power of the black spiritual farmland!
Liu Yu was already extremely familiar with refining Clear Spirit Elixirs, and with his cultivation level rising, the pill's lower grade allowed him to refine ten batches daily.
Another seven days passed, and this time the success rate for refining Clear Spirit Elixirs officially reached 30%. He obtained a total of one hundred seventy Clear Spirit Elixirs.
Liu Yu speculated that the improvement in success rate had two reasons: first, practice makes perfect; with enough practice, one always gains some insight, just like the story of the oil seller; second, with his cultivation breakthrough into the late stage of qi refinement and the daily consumption of Clear Lotus Tea boosting his spiritual consciousness, his current spiritual consciousness strength had made significant progress compared to the mid stage of qi refinement. He gradually began to appreciate the benefits of having strong spiritual consciousness.
He stored the refined elixirs in jade vials, ten per vial, and placed them in his storage bag.
Liu Yu made a hand gesture, casting a spell that emitted a faint light onto the formation disk, activating the three talents formation, and exited the two-story pavilion.