Chapter 46: Earth Root Soul Grass

Inside the Spirit Mine Cave.

Li Qing found an attic located a considerable distance from the other four people.

After a brief inspection, Li Qing frowned slightly.

He would have to find an array suitable for isolating himself whenever the opportunity arose.

At present, many of the secrets he carried could not be publicly exposed.

Sitting cross-legged on a stone bed, Li Qing took a Blood Replenishing Pill from his storage bag and swallowed it.

His physical injuries still required extensive recuperation.

Currently, Li Qing lacked the ability to refine Blood Replenishing Pills as he had before; his internal spiritual apertures needed to be nurtured slowly.

Li Qing opened his mouth again and swallowed a Yuan-Nurturing Pill.

The Water Control Technique began to circulate within his body, and his mana gradually began to recover.

"..."

Two days passed in this manner.

The mana within Li Qing's body finally recovered to his previous level of the fifth layer of Qi Refinement.

He finally possessed a modicum of power to protect himself.

Among the few on duty, with his fifth-layer Qi Refinement strength and the magical tools in his hands, his true combat power actually surpassed the others.

Even if an enemy were to attack, he would have the highest probability of survival.

Once his mind settled slightly, Li Qing began to carefully inspect his greatest harvest from this trip.

"Given their strength and status, their wealth should be quite extraordinary!"

Li Qing's heart sank as he entered the Sea-Suppressing Pearl.

The sea area within the pearl had already been filled with spirit fish by Li Qing, primarily two types: Black Water Spirit Fish and Blood Spirit Fish.

The treasures obtained from Jiao Yujian and Jue Hen were currently floating above the sea.

With a sweep of his divine sense, Li Qing first opened Jiao Yujian's storage bag.

Over a dozen items fell out in a scattered fashion.

The most precious item among them was the high-grade magical tool, the Black Wood Sword, which belonged to Jiao Yujian.

This was also the rarest trophy Jiao Yujian possessed.

This Black Wood Sword, which possessed the function of bewitching the soul, was considered quite excellent among high-grade magical tools.

The value of the Black Wood Sword was approximately around 1,500 low-grade spirit stones.

In addition, there was a cyan sword-type magical tool, which appeared to be a fine mid-grade magical tool.

Jiao Yujian's storage bag also contained a mid-grade defensive magical tool, which also appeared to be of fine quality.

There were about eight hundred low-grade spirit stones inside.

The rest were various pills.

There were three bottles of Essence Pills used by late-stage Qi Refinement cultivators, costing ten low-grade spirit stones each.

There were several Solidification Pills that Li Qing had taken previously.

There were also several Spirit Gathering Pills used during combat.

The Spirit Gathering Pill was also a first-tier high-grade spirit pill; its primary function was to accelerate the circulation of mana within the body, helping a cultivator recover their mana more quickly.

After a careful inventory, Li Qing couldn't help but feel somewhat disappointed.

All the spoils of war combined were worth only about three to four thousand low-grade spirit stones.

With his physical injuries being so severe, these spoils were not even enough to compensate for the damage he had sustained this time.

Li Qing used his divine sense to control the storage bag and put away the items left by Jiao Yujian.

Aside from the pills, the remaining items would need to be sold through an opportunity to exchange for the resources he needed.

The spoils within held no use for Li Qing at the moment.

What he needed now were treasures to strengthen his soul and treasures to nourish his physical body.

Of course, both types of treasures were extremely rare; as an ordinary late-stage Qi Refinement cultivator, Jiao Yujian's wealth would be hard-pressed to meet his requirements.

As if thinking of something, Li Qing looked toward the other storage bag with burning anticipation.

As a true genius disciple of the sect, Jue Hen's immense wealth was naturally incomparable to Jiao Yujian's.

The blue treasure mirror that Jue Hen had used previously was already a fine-quality high-grade magical tool.

The value of that blue mirror was even higher than Jiao Yujian's entire net worth.

An ordinary high-grade magical tool generally cost around one to two thousand low-grade spirit stones, whereas a fine-quality high-grade magical tool was worth at least five thousand low-grade spirit stones.

Even some Foundation Establishment experts with meager wealth, who could not afford top-tier magical tools, used fine-quality high-grade magical tools.

This demonstrated the value of a fine-quality high-grade magical tool.

"Open."

Li Qing swept his divine sense across.

Clatter! Clatter!

A small pile of spirit stones mixed with several shimmering treasures fell out.

There weren't many items, but every single one was enough to drive countless low-level cultivators mad.

Even Li Qing felt a momentary sense of trance.

Perhaps the wealth of an ordinary Foundation Establishment expert was nothing more than this.

There were over five thousand low-grade spirit stones in Jue Hen's storage bag alone.

A fine-quality high-grade magical tool—a blue-black sharp sword.

And the blue treasure mirror Li Qing had seen before.

What made Li Qing even more excited was a jade bottle refined from jade marrow, which had several words engraved on it: Gold-Jade Pill.

The Gold-Jade Pill was a first-tier high-grade spirit pill.

However, it was a pill that almost every late-stage Qi Refinement cultivator dreamed of.

The refinement of the Gold-Jade Pill required a special second-tier spirit herb—the Golden Spirit Jade Grass.

This spirit herb held immeasurable value for late-stage Qi Refinement cultivators, as it could help accelerate the liquefaction of the mana within their bodies, preparing them for Foundation Establishment.

Li Qing's gaze then fell upon a shimmering cyan jade box inside.

The jade box opened.

Inside lay a black spirit herb.

The herb was only about a foot long, with five black leaves. Upon closer inspection, one could see tiny brown beads within each leaf.

"Earth-Root Soul Grass."

A certain spirit herb flashed through Li Qing's mind.

After investigating repeatedly, he finally confirmed that the medicinal herb before him was indeed the Earth-Root Soul Grass.

"It was all worth it..."

An uncontrollable surge of excitement rose in Li Qing's heart.

This single Earth-Root Soul Grass alone made his actions and his injuries worth it.

The Earth-Root Soul Grass was a special, even extremely rare, spirit herb.

Its function was to nourish and strengthen the soul.

For a cultivator, the importance of the soul was self-evident.

This item was widely recognized as a Foundation Establishment spiritual object of immense value; it could help Qi Refinement cultivators break through to the Foundation Establishment realm. It was a treasure dreamed of by countless Qi Refinement cultivators, with a value not inferior to a Foundation Establishment Pill.

Li Qing recalled again what he had heard from Meng Kan and the others regarding Jue Hen being taken in as a disciple by a Golden Core True Person.

From the current situation, it was certainly true.

Such a spiritual object was far beyond what Jue Hen should have been able to obtain on his own.

"Strengthening the soul, plus Jue Hen's innate Heaven-grade Spiritual Root..." Li Qing thought to himself.

It seemed Jue Hen had certainly made preparations to charge toward the Foundation Establishment stage.

With the boost from these treasures, Jue Hen could have completely relied on his proud natural talent to rapidly break through to the Foundation Establishment realm.

Unfortunately, all of Jue Hen's accumulations had become a wedding gift for someone else.

All these treasures now belonged to Li Qing.

Li Qing calmed his mind slightly.

He continued to rummage through the remaining items to see if there were any other surprises.

"Essence Pills for late-stage Qi Refinement cultivation..."

"..."

When Li Qing opened the final blue jade slip, all of Jue Hen's mysteries were resolved.