Chapter 705: Origin of Heaven and Earth

"Hoo!"

"Finally done."

Opening the pill furnace, four streaks of purple-red rainbow light instantly appeared in the alchemy room, and a more fragrant medicinal scent immediately permeated the room.

Su Fan reached out his hand, and four pills the size of dragon eyes fell into his palm. Su Fan took out the prepared jade boxes and placed them inside individually.

These four Saint Origin Pills could allow a Foundation Establishment cultivator to recover a great deal of mana just by smelling them from afar; one could see how astonishing the medicinal efficacy of these Saint Origin Pills was.

"At least I didn't lose money."

The cost required for this batch of Saint Origin Pills reached a full three million spirit stones, and that was only because Li Ke had helped, keeping the costs down significantly.

If he had gone to the Profound Void Sect to collect them, not to mention the time, the final cost would likely have reached over 3.5 million.

However, the market price for a single Saint Origin Pill was at least around 1.5 million; if placed in some auctions, with fierce competition, it could fetch a price of two million.

Therefore, by refining four Saint Origin Pills in one batch, Su Fan had earned at least two million spirit stones.

Of course, spirit stones were of no use to Su Fan now; after all, he didn't need to rely on spirit stones to cultivate at all.

He had the Star Heart within his body.

Moreover, for a Nascent Soul stage cultivator like him, if he truly needed to use spirit stones to cultivate or recover magic power, he would at least need high-grade spirit stones.

The impurities contained in low-grade and mid-grade spirit stones were not pure enough, and the absorption efficiency was too low.

However, high-grade spirit stones, and top-grade spirit stones, were not plentiful; even the high-grade spirit stones mined in the Zheng State every year did not amount to much.

Generally, only small spirit stone mines would produce high-grade spirit stones, and a single small spirit stone mine would produce at most a thousand or so.

For high-level cultivators, spirit stones were no longer a necessity; Nascent Soul stage cultivators almost never used spirit stones when trading with each other, unless one could produce top-grade spirit stones.

Nascent Soul stage cultivators could still trade using top-grade spirit stones.

Because the spiritual energy contained in top-grade spirit stones was extremely pure, even more effective than some spirit pills, and could quickly restore the magic power of a Nascent Soul stage cultivator.

But top-grade spirit stones were far scarcer than high-grade spirit stones, even though one top-grade spirit stone could be exchanged for a hundred high-grade spirit stones.

In reality, however, you could not even exchange three hundred high-grade spirit stones for a single top-grade spirit stone.

Top-grade spirit stones were almost entirely controlled by the truly top-tier powers.

It is said that in the ancient era, those top-grade spirit stones all contained the Qi of Heavenly Dao; what is the Qi of Heavenly Dao? The Qi of Heavenly Dao is actually a type of primordial energy born at the moment of communion between heaven and earth.

This Qi of Heavenly Dao contained the origin of heaven and earth, and once absorbed, it could increase the chances for late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators to reach the Primordial Spirit stage.

In the ancient era, there were many Primordial Spirit stage cultivators, and even quite a few immortals were born, precisely because top-grade spirit stones contained this Qi of Heavenly Dao.

A large spirit vein would give birth to quite a few top-grade spirit stones.

Although a single top-grade spirit stone contained very little Qi of Heavenly Dao, as long as one collected enough of them, it was sufficient to gather a strand of the Qi of Heavenly Dao.

Therefore, in the ancient era, it was easier for cultivators to practice, which is why so many Primordial Spirit stage cultivators, and even immortals who ascended to the upper realms, were born.

But ever since the ancient war between immortals and demons, after the Yuanyang Realm suffered heavy damage, heaven and earth became flawed, spirit stone mines became fewer and fewer, and the top-grade spirit stones born became increasingly rare.

Moreover, there was no longer any Qi of Heavenly Dao in top-grade spirit stones at all.

The Qi of Heavenly Dao would only be born as a wisp from the horizon when heaven and earth were in communion, and every time it was born, countless Nascent Soul stage cultivators would fight for it.

But regardless of whether top-grade spirit stones still contained the Qi of Heavenly Dao, they remained extremely expensive, and non-large spirit stone mines simply did not produce top-grade spirit stones.

There were simply no large spirit stone mines in the Nanhuang Continent.

The largest spirit stone mine in the Nanhuang Continent was merely a medium-sized one, and it was occupied by the Yuanding Sect.

This spirit stone mine brought tens of millions of spirit stones to the Yuanding Sect every year, which was also something that made a few rare sects like the Qingmu Sect extremely jealous.

Originally, that medium-sized spirit stone mine had been discovered by the Qingmu Sect first.

Unfortunately, it was discovered by the Yuanding Sect, and the latter occupied it, which was the reason for the hostility between the two major powers; the division of the Wu Guo into north and south also began from that time.

However, the Qingmu Sect was no match for the Yuanding Sect, but by winning over several major powers and uniting, they could barely withstand the power of the Yuanding Sect.

But unfortunately, if they wanted to get a share of the pie from that spirit stone mine, their strength was still a bit weak.

Of course, these things did not have much to do with Su Fan.

The infighting in the Wu Guo was actually a good thing for the Zixiao Sect; for now, the Zixiao Sect did not catch the eyes of these top-tier sects in the Wu Guo.

But after a few hundred years, when the Zixiao Sect expanded, it would likely attract the attention of some powers, and it would be very difficult for the Zixiao Sect to hide then.

But by that time, the Zixiao Sect would likely not fear any power.

As long as he sat in command, even the Central Continent would not easily provoke the Zixiao Sect.

He notified Li Ke and handed a Saint Origin Pill to him, and the latter was full of joy.

"Brother Dao, Li owes you a favor this time; in the future, if Brother Dao has any matters, Li will do his utmost," Li Ke promised with a very serious face.

He thought the same in his heart; being able to refine the Saint Origin Pill meant the other party was already a fourth-tier high-grade alchemist, and not just an ordinary fourth-tier high-grade alchemist at that.

Because those who could refine the Saint Origin Pill in the cultivation world could mostly advance to become fifth-tier alchemists.

Such a person was already someone he had to look up to.

"Then I will have to trouble you in the future, Fellow Daoist Li."

Su Fan looked at the other party's heartfelt sincerity and nodded inwardly; the reason he chose this person was also because he knew this person had a bottom line.

Supporting the other party would be beneficial for the future of the Zixiao Sect and the Su family disciples.

The Su family disciples had been able to develop so smoothly in Dongying City over the past few decades, and behind that was the indispensable support of Li Ke.

The other party had blocked many covetous gazes for them.

After all, the Su family members were quite hot in alchemy and artifact refining, and each one of them was a second-tier, or even a third-tier, artifact refiner.

If these people did not have Li Ke secretly helping them from behind, they would have likely been swallowed clean by those petty people in the shadows long ago.

Without a background, how could the various local powers not take action?

Back then, in the Taihe Mountain Range, Su Fan had encountered powers that specifically targeted alchemists and artifact refiners, let alone here in the Wu Guo.

These types of underground powers were even more numerous and even more sinister.

However, with Li Ke, this local snake, those local powers did not dare to take action at all.

As the manager of the Tiannan Chamber of Commerce, although the Tiannan Chamber of Commerce was just a chamber of commerce, its strength was quite terrifying.