Chapter 95: 130,000 Spirit Stones

Wang Ping, walking down the street, had the message from Old Bai appear in his mind!

Ancient Orchid Relics!

Several Iron Dao friends were trapped in the relics; regarding the Ancient Orchid Relics, he didn't know much, but regarding the term Ancient Orchid, he had heard of it.

Before the Three Great Sects ruled West Droop, there was an ancient country named Ancient Orchid that ruled West Droop for nearly three thousand years and had two Nascent Soul True Lords.

Later, for unknown reasons, it disappeared from West Droop, leading to the rise of the Three Great Sects afterward.

Who would have thought that after three thousand years, their relics would actually appear in the world; although not the core, merely a branch, it still possesses many heavenly materials and earthly treasures, techniques and secret arts!

This relic has only been discovered for three months; hearing Old Bai's explanation, inside are numerous mechanisms and formations spread everywhere; the cultivators who entered only explored the outer region, and just ten days ago they had just entered the inner region. Tie Lanshan, together with several other cultivators, entered at that time and then lost contact.

This relic can be entered only once a month, and the next entry is in two days.

These two days he plans to rest well at Gathering Treasure Workshop, for example by eating some delicious food; he still remembers that bowl of noodles he ate in the market, not knowing whether they survived that great battle.

Wang Ping, while savoring the food, also observed the surrounding shops.

After walking less than a hundred zhang, he discovered that Gathering Treasure Workshop had indeed changed; along the way, Wang Ping found talismans emitting a red glow in many shops.

That is the red glow that only second-rank talismans can emit.

Besides that, medicinal pills, which were almost never seen in the various shops before, are also placed here in twos and threes, two or three bottles.

This is merely placed on the counter for customers to see; likely the shop still has genuine good stuff inside.

Wang Ping casually entered a shop named Heavenly Craft Pavilion.

"Welcome, senior, to Heavenly Craft Pavilion! Junior Zhao Zhili pays respects to you!" a cultivator who seemed to be the shopkeeper hurried over to greet him.

Wang Ping slightly nodded and asked, "Your name is quite imposing, Heavenly Craft! Seizing Heavenly Craft, I haven't heard of this name before! Could you also be a force from the outside world?"

Zhao Zhili understood what Wang Ping meant by outside forces, smiled and explained:

"Senior, your insight is sharp; this shop is indeed a branch opened in West Droop by the Heavenly Craft Sect, a Nascent Soul-level power of the Alliance's interior."

Upon hearing this, Wang Ping chuckled, "Good fellow, a Nascent Soul-level power—now even West Droop has a Nascent Soul-level power stationed with a shop."

Needless to say, this row of shops that look imposing at a glance obviously share the same background as Heavenly Craft Pavilion.

Casually browsing the shop, Wang Ping casually asked, "Do you sell Flame Crystal here?"

Flame Crystal?

Zhao Zhili was a bit doubtful; this item is rarely purchased by cultivators, generally only needed by weaponsmiths and pill masters.

Although doubtful in his heart, he didn't dare think too much, and replied respectfully:

"Senior, our shop does not sell Flame Crystal! However, we have a Flame Crystal Marrow; I don't know if senior needs it!"

Wang Ping felt a slight disappointment at the first sentence, but upon hearing the second, his heart shook—Flame Crystal Marrow!

This thing is rarely seen in West Droop; I didn't expect Heavenly Craft Pavilion to have it for sale—truly befitting a shop opened by a Nascent Soul-level power here!

"May I ask the price?" Wang Ping asked.

Zhao Zhili replied: "The Flame Crystal Marrow costs thirty-five thousand spirit stones!"

Wang Ping said without hesitation: "I'll buy it!"

Zhao Zhili was overjoyed; with this deal closed, he at least gains fifteen hundred spirit stones!

After storing the Flame Crystal Marrow in his storage bag, Wang Ping asked:

"What else does your shop have? I need to purchase some materials!"

Zhao Zhili thought and asked: "Our shop has a second-rank Melting Gold Powder prepared by the sect's master; do you need it, senior?"

Wang Ping nodded and said: "Bring it out to look at, then take out some treasures for me to examine further!"

After half a cup of tea, Wang Ping calmly gazed at the ten mid-Qi Refining young female cultivators holding the strange treasures before him, his expression tranquil, showing no abnormality.

In the corner of his eye, he caught Zhao Zhili's fleeting disappointment and secretly laughed.

Hehe! I, who have been to the Spirit Realm, how could I be startled by these items?

These items are all covered with red cloth, made to look quite mysterious!

But under Wang Ping's divine sense sweep, they were completely defenselessly presented in his mind.

"Senior, these ten items are all rare and hard-to-find materials; I wonder if they meet your approval!"

Zhao Zhili lifted the red cloths one by one, and Wang Ping gazed upon them without a ripple.

The first item is Scarlet Sun Iron, relatively rare—a mineral formed over long years underground in volcanic areas, which after being hammered by a weaponsmith becomes Scarlet Sun Iron, a kind of refined metal extremely close to Spirit Gold!

Spirit Gold is a metal innately imbued with spirituality, extremely rare in the cultivation world, and an excellent material for forging spirit treasures.

In the cultivation world, metallic heavenly materials and earthly treasures are generally divided into refined metal, Spirit Gold, and above that Immortal Gold; however, that material exists only in the Immortal Realm, and may not even be found in the Spirit Realm.

Wang Ping's Vajra Pestle devours the qi of refined metal; it consumes exactly this metal.

This is perfectly suitable for Wang Ping, its price lower than Flame Crystal Marrow, and Heavenly Craft Pavilion sells it for twenty-eight thousand spirit stones!

However, after Wang Ping pointed out that the hammering of this Scarlet Sun Stone was insufficient, he finally acquired it for twenty-three thousand spirit stones.

After storing the Scarlet Sun Stone, of the remaining nine items—Melting Gold Powder, Purple Ghost Copper, Seven Star Jade, Sealed Essence Clay, Azure Treasure Liquid, Green True Sand, Mithril, Black Essence Iron, Meteorite Stone—Wang Ping only purchased Melting Gold Powder, Azure Treasure Liquid, and Black Essence Iron.

Melting Gold Powder needs no further explanation; Azure Treasure Liquid can be added to the process of solidifying heavenly earthly patterns, and because it was researched by a person called Azure Treasure True Lord, it is named Azure Treasure Liquid.

This bottle of Azure Treasure Liquid from Heavenly Craft Pavilion should be considered a fine grade among Azure Treasure Liquids.

Since Azure Treasure Liquid is only useful when refining magical treasures, it is not divided into ranks!

It is merely distinguished as ordinary, fine, and superior.

Additionally, Black Essence Iron is a refined metal containing a large amount of water-attribute spiritual energy; its value is naturally inferior to Scarlet Sun Iron, but Wang Ping can further hammer it to obtain higher-purity refined metal qi, so that he can have his Vajra Pestle absorb it.

These three items together cost him nearly eighty thousand spirit stones; a single trip to Heavenly Craft Pavilion cost him one hundred thirty thousand spirit stones.

Leaving Heavenly Craft Pavilion, Wang Ping couldn't help but sigh, the items used by Foundation Establishment cultivators indeed consume spirit stones.

Actually, it's not that Foundation Establishment cultivators spend heavily; it's just that Wang Ping spends heavily.

Qi Refining cultivators, unless buying Foundation Establishment pills or top-grade magical artifacts, rarely have expenditures exceeding five thousand spirit stones.

Upon reaching Foundation Establishment, even a top-grade nine-pattern magical artifact is at most a million spirit stones.

But top-grade nine-pattern magic treasures are extremely rare; in the cultivation world, the common ones are eight-pattern magic treasures, priced at no more than seventy thousand, and seven-pattern magic treasures cost no more than fifty thousand.

As for ten-pattern supreme-grade magic treasures based on nine-pattern ones, they have never been auctioned in the cultivation world.

Why?

In the world, nine patterns are already the limit; to advance to ten patterns, one must supplement with one's own body.

Why is there the concept of a natal magic treasure? Because after long-term nurturing, the magic treasure and the cultivator have become one entity; only in this way can one use their own body to complete the tenth pattern.

Such a magic treasure can be used only by its owner; unless it passes to his descendants, otherwise, if an outsider obtains it, they would rather destroy the treasure's patterns than give up the chance to become a spiritual treasure.

Therefore, in the cultivation world, supreme-grade magic treasures have never been auctioned.

It is relatively rare for someone like Wang Ping to merely spend over one hundred thousand on materials such as nine flowers.

His 950,000 spirit stones, after expanding the silver-white space to two cubic meters, left him with 350,000; today he spent another 130,000, leaving 220,000.

Looks like I'll have to sort through the miscellaneous items in the storage bag again!

Wang Ping gazed at the newly built six-story Treasure Gathering Pavilion standing in the center of Treasure Gathering Square; he again had to go deliver materials to someone.