31: Chapter 31 Gathering Spirit Jade Marrow

With this strong-willed sword cultivation genius providing emotional threads, your cultivation has once again stepped onto the right track. You also tried to provoke the emotions of ordinary cultivators, but unfortunately, you didn't even have the qualification to generate emotional mist.

Besides occasionally having to suffer a bit yourself, combined with the generous resource help from both of them, you began to consume pills regardless of the consequences, and your cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds in just four years.

Now your cultivation has reached the peak of the seventh layer of the Qi Refinement Stage, only a step away from the eighth layer of the Qi Refinement Stage, but your cultivation speed has slowed down once again.

First is because of the re-accumulation of pill poison.

The second is that frantically devouring pills to enhance cultivation like you did will still cause spiritual qi to be unstable, making breaking through realms even more difficult.

Cultivation below the Nascent Soul is inherently a process of continuously absorbing and condensing spiritual power—spiritual qi turns into liquid, and liquid condenses into pills.

The minor realm bottlenecks of the Qi Refinement Stage might still be forcibly broken through with pills or heavenly treasures.

But when it comes to the Foundation Establishment hurdle, without a solid Dao foundation, it will inevitably become a natural chasm spanning across the cultivation path, difficult to cross.

Of course, spiritual power can also be condensed through combat, practicing spells, secret techniques, and so on, but this process is bound to be long.

Taking precautions, you have long started paying attention to heavenly treasures capable of refining spiritual power.

Yesterday, Ling Shuanghua brought you good news—three days later, Yunque City will have a spirit-gathering jade marrow auction.

This item is precisely a top-grade spiritual object for refining spiritual power.

And Yunque City is located on the periphery of the Wanren Mountain Range, a city built basically centering around the internal forces of the Tianxuan Sword Sect.

Some cultivators who left the Sword Sect will also establish families there to extend their descendants, and of course, there is no shortage of cultivators from other sects or rogue cultivators mingling among them.

This time you will definitely go, but after such a long time of unrestrained consumption, you only have about five thousand low-grade spirit stones left on you, which is probably not enough to cope with this auction.

The Qingfeng Valley Secret Realm will open tomorrow, overlapping with the time of this auction, so it is inconvenient to go make another fortune.

However, that brat Lin Bufan definitely has good things on him. Over the years, he has successively sent supplies close to three or four thousand low-grade spirit stones, among which the blood spirit fruit is the most precious.

Yet although this item is rare, it is ultimately just a spiritual object used in the early Qi Refinement Stage. Perhaps the price at the auction will be a bit higher, but its value is limited. Fortunately, there are still many magical tools in the storage bag, so it's just right to take this opportunity to deal with them.

In addition, since you can't enter the secret realm, you might as well trade with him using the news of the spirit-nourishing fruit.

Thinking of this, after you got up from the spirit spring, you casually wrapped a gauze garment around yourself and headed straight for Lin Bufan's cave dwelling.

"Junior Brother Lin~"

Lin Bufan, who was sitting cross-legged in meditation, almost felt awkward upon hearing this magnetic and bewitching voice, and then immediately tapped the ring in his hand.

"Hehe~ Teacher!"

"Got it, got it! Young people nowadays don't respect the old and love the young at all."

The Ring Old Man muttered impatiently, and the ring that was originally emitting a trace of spiritual luster rapidly dimmed.

Seeing this, he impatiently opened the cave dwelling's restriction, and a streak of red light directly crashed into his embrace.

Lin Bufan looked down, and a warm current quickly surged into his nasal cavity.

You blankly looked at the blood drops flowing down before you, feeling somewhat speechless for a moment.

This kid actually had a nosebleed...

"Hehe~ Junior Brother, are you up for it?"

So you couldn't help it and still spoke up to tease him.

"Sen! ! ! ior! ! ! Sis! ! ! ter! ! !"

The next moment, the world was spinning...

A long time later, you lazily wanted to get up, but accidentally fell back onto the bed.

Lin Bufan quick-wittedly pulled you into his embrace, his brows and eyes full of smugness.

"Senior Sister, are you up for it?"

You groggily pinched his waist, and seeing that he was unwilling to let go, you stopped struggling and casually pointed toward the back of the cave dwelling.

"Take me to bathe."

Hearing this, Lin Bufan secretly swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

You gave him an exasperated roll of the eyes.

Is this kid's energy a bit too exuberant?

"Don't mess around, I have something to discuss with you."

"Ah~ comfortable."

A moment later, you half-leaned in the spirit spring, feeling like your whole person had come back to life.

Seeing Lin Bufan's gaze fall on you again, you didn't dare to tease him anymore and quickly spoke up:

"Are you heading to the Qingfeng Valley Secret Realm tomorrow?"

"Yes."

"Senior Sister here has news about the spirit-nourishing fruit, do you want it?"

Hearing this, Lin Bufan's eyes lit up.

The spirit-nourishing fruit—he had naturally heard of it, a top-grade spiritual object that was priceless and unavailable on the market.

"I wonder what Senior Sister needs?"

Although they had dual-cultivated many times, Lin Bufan could tell that you didn't seem to have much affection for him, so transactions were mostly the mainstay between you two.

"Spirit stones, or treasures that can be exchanged for spirit stones. How much do you think this news is worth? Just give whatever you see fit."

You waved your hand indifferently; Lin Bufan's character was still very trustworthy.

"Is the news true?"

"One hundred percent true."

Hearing this, Lin Bufan pondered for a moment, then hesitated and said:

"Before setting off tomorrow, I will give Senior Sister a satisfactory answer."

"Alright."

You nodded, knowing that he had to discuss it with the Ring Old Man, so you didn't plan to stay anymore, but just as you stood up, you were dragged back again.

"F*ck! Again?"

You couldn't help cursing out loud, and half-reluctantly went along with his nonsense once more.

An hour later, you walked out of the cave dwelling, exhausted, supporting yourself against the wall.

...

"Senior Sister!"

Dazedly, it seemed you heard the voice of Lin Bufan, that little wolf cub, again. You shuddered like a conditioned reflex, instantly becoming much more awake.

"Senior Sister! Senior Sister!"

Hearing the voice outside the cave dwelling, you finally confirmed it wasn't a dream, so you raised your hand and opened the restriction.

As soon as Lin Bufan entered the door, he saw you leaning lazily against the couch with a weary expression.

He guiltily touched his nose, his footsteps unconsciously lightening a bit.

"Senior Sister, these are the things I've prepared."

He gently patted his storage bag, and three streams of light flew out from it, landing on the stone table.

Hearing this, your lazy eyes lit up a bit, and you waved your hand to summon the three items before you.

Good fellow, as expected of a Child of Fortune making a move, they were all top-grade items.

Three Thousand-Mile Escape Talismans, a second-tier wood-attribute monster core, plus a jade slip.

You lightly pressed the jade slip against your forehead, your divine sense probing in. A moment later, you slowly lowered it and looked at him with a strange expression:

"You brat, you aren't hinting something to me, are you?"

"There's no such thing, Senior Sister. Are you still satisfied?"

Lin Bufan's tone was calm, and his gaze was extremely open and honest.

"Satisfied, of course I'm satisfied."

Not to mention anything else, the Thousand-Mile Escape Talisman alone was a priceless treasure for low-rank cultivators to save their lives.

What's more, what was recorded in that jade slip was unexpectedly an extremely profound body-refining cultivation technique!