50: Evolving eye patterns, the divine eyes of treasure appraisers!

Seeing that it was getting late, Su Ling planned to find a place to stay and rest for the night.

Inside Thousand Star City, there were Immortal Caves specifically for visiting Cultivators to rent.

Renting a Low Grade Immortal Cave for one day cost ten Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

A medium-grade one was fifty, and a high-grade one was one hundred.

As for the two best Supreme-Grade Immortal Caves, they cost over a thousand Spirit Stones per day.

When Su Ling found the Immortal Cave rental office and saw these prices, he couldn't help but click his tongue.

But as an outsider, without a secure location, he wouldn't be able to Cultivate with peace of mind.

He decided to just rent a Low Grade Immortal Cave for a month first.

After paying three hundred Spirit Stones and receiving the Immortal Cave's Formation Token, Su Ling went straight to the numbered location.

Upon entering the Immortal Cave, he was somewhat satisfied with the abundant Spiritual Qi inside.

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Su Ling took out two Spirit Stones and prepared to begin his daily Cultivation.

However, the moment the Spirit Stones touched his hand, he felt something was wrong.

The Spiritual Qi in the Spirit Stone in his right hand was actually dissipating at an extremely fast rate.

"Fake Spirit Stones?!"

Su Ling snapped his eyes open and looked at his right hand, where an extremely dim eye pattern flashed.

The next moment, he realized something else was wrong; the Spiritual Qi was flowing into his palm entirely of its own accord.

Or rather, it was being rapidly absorbed by the eye pattern on his palm.

In just three breaths, that Spirit Stone turned into dust, its Spiritual Qi completely exhausted.

Su Ling held the other Spirit Stone in his hand, and after another three breaths, it also turned into dust.

But the eye pattern seemed to brighten slightly.

"Haha, old partner, you're still here after all!"

Su Ling laughed out loud, and the gloom that had hung over him for days due to the eye pattern's disappearance instantly vanished.

With a wave of his hand, a pile of ten thousand Spirit Stones appeared beside him.

Su Ling didn't bother to pick them up one by one; he simply placed his right hand over the pile of Spirit Stones.

An even stronger suction seemed to surge from his palm.

One by one, the Spirit Stones turned into ash before his eyes... "Little ancestor, are you full yet?!"

A day later, Su Ling looked at the Spirit Stone powder covering the bed, feeling somewhat like crying without tears.

As time passed, the speed at which the eye pattern on his palm absorbed Spirit Stones became faster and faster.

A total of fifty thousand Spirit Stones had been completely absorbed by it in less than twelve hours.

If he hadn't already invested so much, Su Ling would have wanted to temporarily cut off the Spirit Stone supply.

The proceeds from selling his refining Materials were only a little over fifty-one thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

Now, they had all been eaten up by the eye pattern in one go.

As if sensing Su Ling's deep resentment, the eye pattern finally stopped after absorbing the fifty-thousandth Spirit Stone.

Golden light flowed over the pattern, making the entire eye pattern look as if it had come to life.

Su Ling stared curiously at his palm when suddenly a golden light flashed, and a sharp pain shot through his right eye, causing him to groan.

After a long while, Su Ling slowly lowered his right hand from his eye.

A golden glow flashed from his right eye, and streams of information instantly appeared in his mind.

[Century-old Sandalwood Bed]

[Green Jade Stone Table]

[Basic Spirit Gathering Formation: Can increase Spiritual Qi concentration within its range by twenty percent.]

When Su Ling's gaze landed on the faintly appearing formation lines in the center of the Immortal Cave, he finally realized what had happened.

The eye pattern had not only come back to life but seemed to have fused with his own eye.

He no longer needed to touch things with his hand to appraise their information!

At this thought, Su Ling quickly cast a Basic Water Mirror Technique and stared wide-eyed at his reflection in the water mirror.

"Good, good, there's no change."

Finding that his right eye looked completely normal, Su Ling felt relieved.

If his right eye had developed some strange appearance due to the Fusion, he would have had to use an eye patch Magical Artifact to cover it up and avoid trouble.

"Since you've upgraded, I'll call you the Immortal Eye of Treasure Appraisal from now on!"

Although his fortune of fifty thousand had been swallowed by the Immortal Eye before it could even get warm,

Su Ling still felt it was worth it.

After all, from now on, he could see the details of an item with just a glance.

He no longer had to touch them with his palm like before.

His stealthiness had increased greatly!

As Su Ling continued to experiment, the Immortal Eye became more and more natural to use; it was no longer like at the beginning, where appraisal information appeared for everything he saw.

Instead, it could respond to Su Ling's intent, appearing only when needed.

Su Ling couldn't help but wonder: if the Immortal Eye could absorb Spiritual Qi from a distance, did that mean he could upgrade it at no cost just by staring at other people's Spirit Stones and Magical Artifacts?

At this thought, Su Ling immediately placed a Spirit Stone on the bed.

He focused his mind and silently chanted 'absorb' in his heart.

Unfortunately, the Immortal Eye remained completely still.

"Is it full? Or is it just unable to do that?"

Su Ling pondered to himself; when he held Spirit Stones to Cultivate before, the Immortal Eye hadn't reacted at all.

Could it be that during the spatial turbulence, when he faced a life-or-death crisis, the Immortal Eye spontaneously absorbed Spirit Stones to help him withstand the lethal tearing of the turbulence?

Thinking it over, that seemed like the only possibility.

"Does this mean that the upgrade conditions can only be triggered at a life-or-death moment?"

Su Ling felt a bit of a headache.

In his past life as a Dark Walker, he had risked his life many times.

But if he could kill a target stealthily, who would want to face someone head-on?

Only those muscle-brained mercenaries would do such things.

Su Ling still preferred long-range sniping.

However, after the Immortal Eye upgraded, the item information it appraised had indeed increased.

For Su Ling, it was already enough.

Temporarily putting his thoughts aside, Su Ling stood up and walked toward another stone room in the Immortal Cave.

Now that he had no Magical Artifacts left, he could try to refine some himself.

The Immortal Cave had a dedicated Pill Refining Room and a Low Grade Pill Furnace he could use, though unfortunately, there was no Earth Fire.

"Material selection, extraction, shaping, carving array patterns..."

Setting the Pill Furnace aside, Su Ling carefully recalled the content Yun Qingluan had explained.

Dozens of Yao Beast parts flew out of his Storage Pouch and were lined up neatly in front of him.

During their time in the Blazing Hell Abyss, he and Yun Qingluan had killed several Early Core Formation Stage Yao Beasts.

He had kept three turtle shells, over twenty Molten Fire Lizard teeth, and three rolls of Dark Fire Spider silk.

The rest were parts from Peak Foundation Establishment Yao Beasts.

The best ones were naturally the fire-attribute Ores from that Fire Crystal Monster and a Fire Crystal Core.

Su Ling thought for a moment; with his current Artifact Refining skills, using Core Formation Materials for practice was too extravagant.

It would be better to try with other Foundation Establishment Materials first.

He casually flicked out a clump of Nether Abyss Ice Flame, placing it where the Pill Furnace originally stood.

His magic power surged, controlling one of the Late Foundation Establishment Stage Molten Fire Lizard teeth to fly above the ice flame and begin refining.

He intended to try refining a few flying knives first.

But after less than fifteen minutes of refining, the tooth cracked inch by inch and turned directly into powder, its spiritual nature completely gone.

"Uh."

Su Ling looked at this scene, somewhat speechless.

Was his heat control really that bad?

Refusing to believe it, Su Ling controlled another Molten Fire Lizard tooth and began refining again.

In the end, he refined five teeth in a row, and all had the exact same outcome.

Su Ling pondered silently; it definitely wasn't a problem with his heat control.

After a moment's thought, he understood the reason.

Although the Nether Abyss Ice Flame was a spiritual fire, it was an Earth Fire that had transformed from extreme heat to extreme cold; its root was fire, but its expression was ice.

The Molten Fire Lizard's teeth contained a great deal of fire-attribute Yao power.

This conflicted with the attributes of the ice flame.

By rashly using the ice flame for refining, the ice attribute directly suppressed and annihilated the fire attribute.

Material damage was inevitable.