Chapter 579: One-Time Treasure Infant-Formation Network

After all the spending, the balance of 3.2 billion low-grade spirit stones dropped to only 1.7 billion low-grade spirit stones.

"Sitting and eating until the mountain is empty, without continuous income, no matter how many spirit stones you have, they won't last!"

Jiang Ding felt a pang of heartache.

He had a feeling that even with mountains of gold and seas of silver right before his eyes, they would always disappear in strange yet reasonable ways.

As for the library points, he did not intend to use them to exchange for spirit stones and heavenly treasures.

Not only would he not use them, but if needed, he could continue to subsidize spirit stones into them.

In short, everything is for the Great Sun Infant-Formation Secret Art; the Great Sun Infant-Formation Secret Art is everything.

If the Great Sun Infant-Formation Secret Art cannot be produced, no amount of wealth will be of any use; it would be a tragedy if one's lifespan ran out while a huge pile of spirit stones remained in the treasury.

"Lifespan?"

"Yes, lifespan."

Jiang Ding remembered something and searched through the balance list on the Immortal Sect Bank app with his divine sense.

"First-Stage Lifespan-Extending Grass, quantity 320 plants, usable for extending the lifespan of Qi Refining cultivators, up to twenty years."

"Second-Stage Lifespan-Extending Grass, quantity 67 plants: 30 Second-Stage Low-Grade, 20 Second-Stage Mid-Grade, 17 Second-Stage High-Grade, usable for extending the lifespan of Foundation Establishment cultivators."

"Second-Stage Low-Grade Lifespan-Extending Pills extend life by ten years and can be taken repeatedly, though the effect diminishes, with a limit of twenty years; the limit for Second-Stage Mid-Grade Lifespan-Extending Pills is also twenty years; the limit for Second-Stage High-Grade Lifespan-Extending Pills is ten years."

"Foundation Establishment cultivators can live up to three hundred years at most."

Jiang Ding muttered to himself, recalling knowledge from class.

This is not inverted; the closer one gets to the three-hundred-year limit of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, the more difficult it becomes; in the end, adding even a little lifespan is as hard as climbing to the sky.

"Third-Stage Lifespan-Extending Grass, quantity ten plants, all Third-Stage Low-Grade; refined into Third-Stage Low-Grade Lifespan-Extending Pills, they can extend a Jin Dan cultivator's life by thirty years, and can be taken repeatedly, up to fifty years."

"The lifespan limit for Jin Dan cultivators is seven hundred years; no matter how much life is extended, seven hundred years is the endpoint."

"Fourth-Stage Lifespan-Extending Grass: none."

This shows the difficulty of extending life in the Cultivation World.

The former Northern Plains' number one sect, having sealed its gates for so many years, could not even produce a single Fourth-Stage Lifespan-Extending Grass.

These heavenly treasures, which can be said to seize the creation of heaven and earth, cannot be artificially planted; they rely entirely on natural birth, and where they are born is completely random, following no pattern; they can appear in deserts, in water, in flames, everywhere and nowhere.

Even the Immortal Sects cannot reverse this pattern by a single bit.

"One Lifespan-Extending Grass can be refined into one Lifespan-Extending Pill, only one, cannot be divided; the principle is unknown."

Jiang Ding calculated silently: "The First-Stage ones are useless for now; store them first."

These heavenly treasures are extremely rare; even for Nascent Soul cultivators, they are rare items, rarely circulating in the market, and can only be used on Qi Refining cultivators whose souls have undergone a qualitative change.

Mortals cannot use them; their souls are already exhausted like a lamp running out of oil, and Lifespan-Extending Grass cannot affect them.

"Sixty-seven Second-Stage Lifespan-Extending Grasses can be refined into sixty-seven Lifespan-Extending Pills."

"Mom, sister, and An Siyan can also receive some; if Jin Jin Lingfeng needs any, give it to her; the rest will go to those with fate."

"As for the Third-Stage ones, there are only the three of us; each gets thirty years added to their lifespan, that's it."

With his divine sense, he operated within the phone for a moment, sending these Lifespan-Extending Grasses to the most famous and reputable alchemy company for commissioning, to be refined by a Fourth-Stage Alchemist, with the reward being Fourth-Stage heavenly treasures.

There was no other way.

Extending life is too tempting for cultivators; no law, not even life and death, can control it; if you dare give it to someone, they dare to keep it for themselves, caring nothing for their lives.

This was the harvest of this time.

"By the way, there is also the Nine-Yuan Spirit Ginseng."

Jiang Ding suddenly thought of an item: "After this thing was sealed, it was buried underground a thousand meters deep; if I return, I can dig it up and use it as a spiritual plant manager until it pays back the rent it owes me."

With all matters handled, Jiang Ding stood up and flew toward the direction of the Chinese class to continue studying the Nascent Soul chapter of the Wan Hua Ci Yuan Jing under Master Dinghai Master Dinghai Zhenjun.

Over these years, except for very rare occasions, his routine of attending class once a year had never been interrupted.

Three months later.

Jiang Ding returned after class, bid farewell to Jin Jin Lingfeng and An Siyan who had just emerged from seclusion to stabilize their Jin Dan realm, and returned to his Silver Void Island dormitory.

Taking out the three Third-Stage High-Grade Golden Dragon Bamboos given by Panda Hua Hua Xiaohua, the Number 21 Synthetic Synthetic Gengjin, and other items, Jiang Ding sent his divine sense into the Taiqing Flying Sword.

Over these years, the Great Sun Dayang Tianchi Refinement Method had been continuously refining, accepting everything, devouring all the metals of the world like a Taotie; the Earth Fiend prohibitions within the Taiqing Flying Sword had reached the fortieth layer, with each prohibition pattern surrounding the sword body in concentric rings, emitting a sharp and powerful aura.

There were still thirty-two prohibitions away from the Earth Fiend Great Perfection of seventy-two Earth Fiend prohibitions.

"Probably sixteen years, and I can refine it to Earth Fiend Great Perfection, pass the treasure heavenly tribulation, and assault the Infant-Treasure realm."

Jiang Ding calculated: "The difficulty will not increase, but the seventy-second Earth Fiend prohibition will need to merge all Earth Fiend prohibitions to generate one Heavenly Gang prohibition, equivalent to a Jin Dan cultivator breaking through to Nascent Soul, producing a qualitative change; this will be more difficult and may require some years of settling before one can step into it."

"No matter; time is plentiful."

Closing his eyes, he exhaled the pill fire, merging the sword-intent fire from the Ri Yan Jing; under the scorching heat, the Third-Stage High-Grade Golden Dragon Bamboo instantly turned into a pool of deep golden liquid, merging with the Number 21 Synthetic Synthetic Gengjin that had also been forged for a long time.

Using his divine sense and sword intent as a brush and the golden liquid as ink, he traced the Earth Fiend prohibition patterns inside the Taiqing Flying Sword, connecting them to the original forty Earth Fiend prohibitions.

Jiang Ding was so familiar with all this that he completed the carving in just over a month.

With the final stroke laid down,

the forty-first Earth Fiend prohibition succeeded, taking another step toward Earth Fiend Great Perfection.

Buzz!

The Taiqing Flying Sword flashed with light for a moment, then flew spontaneously into the electromagnetic induction pattern at the center of his brow, resting quietly to merge with the newly appeared Earth Fiend prohibition.

Jiang Ding closed his eyes to recover his magic power and divine sense, opening them again several days later.

Not far away, a kingfisher had appeared at some unknown time, standing quietly in the air, its claws clutching a silver-white box.

"Chirp chirp."

It flapped its right wing, and a delivery receipt emerged from the gaps between its feathers.

"Senior, good afternoon."

Jiang Ding stood up, approached the kingfisher, paid his respects, and signed his name on the delivery receipt.

"Chirp!"

The kingfisher glanced at the name on the delivery slip, confirmed it matched, then beat its wings, tore open the void, and vanished.

Jiang Ding took the silver-white box and examined it closely.

"Sender: Lu Ban Military Cultivation Technology Co., Ltd. — Item sent: Single-use Fourth-Grade Treasure — Nascent Soul Net, one piece. Recipient: Clear Breeze University…"

(End of chapter)