[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-treasure-immortal-basin":3,"chapter-the-treasure-immortal-basin-the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-44":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Treasure Immortal Basin",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2355227,4608,"Chapter 44: Strengthening Spirit Stones","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-44",44,"\u003Cp>“This is a Hundred Treasures Bag; I’m giving it to you!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For your daily use!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Go now!” Yu Ning waved her dust whisk, saying: “I’m entering seclusion for the next few months!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you have any questions about your cultivation, first go ask Zhao Linger!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You should also ask her about the taboos of Xiuzhu Peak and Grand Void Gate—otherwise, dying needlessly wouldn’t be worth it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Hundred Treasures Bag is simply a pouch that can hold items.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Similar to ordinary cloth bags from the mortal world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it is forged from special materials, capable of blocking even a Foundation Establishment cultivator’s spiritual sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So others cannot see what’s inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng took the Hundred Treasures Bag, then bowed respectfully and left Yu Ning Palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the afternoon, He Pingsheng visited each of his senior brothers and sisters to make their acquaintance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Senior Brother Hou Muxian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second Senior Brother Xiao Xuejian!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Third Senior Sister Cheng Siyu!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fourth Senior Brother Yang Qingyun!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fifth Senior Brother Wu Zhengyang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sixth Senior Sister is Zhao Linger—the female cultivator who brought He Pingsheng from the Outer Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seventh Senior Sister is also a woman, named Tian Xiaoqing, rumored to be a junior disciple of Master Yu Ning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eighth Senior Brother is a fat man named Xu Kunlun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ninth Senior Brother is He Pingsheng himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although He Pingsheng had bowed to each senior brother and sister, he dared not use his spiritual sense to scan their cultivation bases.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After paying his respects, He Pingsheng returned to his small courtyard and hung a sign reading 【In Seclusion】 on the courtyard gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This way, those who came to disturb him would naturally not knock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Night fell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did He Pingsheng take out the items Master Yu Ning had given him that day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A book!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a fire-affinity cultivation method called: Flame Refining Qi Art.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This thing still needed to be cultivated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he needed to understand some of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, if his master asked him later and he knew nothing, wouldn’t that be inviting trouble upon himself?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he had to pretend he knew it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After reading through the entire cultivation method, He Pingsheng’s gaze turned to the spirit stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That day, Yu Ning had given him twenty spirit stones as a greeting gift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng originally had about five hundred and fifty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now with another twenty, he had five hundred and seven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long ago, He Pingsheng had considered putting spirit stones into the Treasure Basin to strengthen them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he had never done it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason was simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Based on his two years of experiments and observations, putting over five hundred spirit stones into it would double them the next day—becoming over a thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That wasn’t the key point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The key was that while the Treasure Basin doubled items placed inside, it also strengthened them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spirit stones were divided into low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade, and supreme-grade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Based on past experience, if he put in five hundred low-grade spirit stones, tomorrow he’d get a thousand supreme-grade ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What were supreme-grade spirit stones?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What use did they have?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would they cause a sensation?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng knew nothing about these things, so he dared not rashly put the spirit stones in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The problem was, if they came out as nothing but supreme-grade spirit stones, how could he spend them?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Qi Refining fifth-layer cultivator walking around Mount Matou Market with a sack of supreme-grade spirit stones—do you think they’d chop him into eight pieces or sixteen?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, looking at these spirit stones, He Pingsheng couldn’t suppress the thought: What if I put just one in first, to see what comes out?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dingling!” A small spirit stone was tossed by He Pingsheng into the Treasure Basin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then He Pingsheng picked up the 【Flame Refining Qi Art】 again and memorized it, even practicing a bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This method was vastly inferior to his own 【True Law of Departing Fire】.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forget it—I won’t cultivate it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just understand it enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s only to appease my master—can’t let him ask me something and I know nothing, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next morning!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As dawn barely broke, He Pingsheng leapt out of bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huh…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng took a deep breath: “Such dense spiritual power!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hurriedly climbed down and pulled the Treasure Basin from beneath his bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the Treasure Basin lay two spirit stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ordinary low-grade spirit stones in the cultivation world were about the size of jujubes; these two were clearly not—they were larger, roughly the size of eggs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng picked up the two spirit stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had never seen higher-grade spirit stones, so he couldn’t confirm whether these were supreme-grade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the overwhelming spiritual energy filling the room—undeniably—came from these two stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Store!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng dared not let the two spirit stones remain exposed; he quickly stored them, along with the Treasure Basin, into his dantian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After washing up, he waited inside for a long time until the dense spiritual energy slowly faded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the morning sun rose, He Pingsheng opened the courtyard gate and stepped out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Senior Sister Zhao!” He Pingsheng found Zhao Linger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Linger smiled: “What is it, little brother?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng said: “Master said if I have any questions, I should come ask you!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course!” Zhao Linger’s smile deepened: “Little brother, what do you want to know?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh!” He Pingsheng said: “Actually, I’m very unfamiliar with many common cultivation world facts, but I can’t ask you about every single one—so I was wondering if there’s any book compiling these common cultivation world facts!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’d like to get one and read it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Linger said: “Heh… you’ve come to the right person…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Our Grand Void Gate has a Scripture Hall, and it contains exactly the kind of book you mean—I borrowed one myself back then… what was it called…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let me think…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah yes—【Miscellaneous Records of Cultivation】—it records many common cultivation world facts!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You can borrow it, or buy a copy—it’s not expensive!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes!” He Pingsheng said: “Thank you, Senior Sister—where is this Scripture Hall?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hehehe…” Zhao Linger smiled: “The Scripture Hall is right here in Grand Void Gate—on the back mountain, Jade Dragon Peak!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Go to the front square, take the teleportation array to Grand Void Hall, then take another teleportation array from there to Jade Dragon Peak!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Remember—it’s Jade Dragon Peak!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Once you’re there, just ask and you’ll find it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes!” He Pingsheng bowed in thanks, then walked to the square on Xiuzhu Peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were two teleportation arrays here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several years ago, He Pingsheng had come here before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, Linglong, a disciple of Jade Virtue Sect, had been punished here for killing someone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So when He Pingsheng stepped onto this square, he couldn’t help but recall Senior Brother Hao Yun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That familiar face seemed to still dance before his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Senior Brother!” The Outer Sect disciple guarding the teleportation array bowed deeply to He Pingsheng, his head nearly touching the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past, when He Pingsheng was still a menial servant, this Outer Sect disciple had shouted at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Status was different—treatment was worlds apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No need for such formality!” He Pingsheng regarded the man calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I’m not mistaken, this guy is the same one from three years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I need to go to Grand Void Gate—help me activate the teleportation array!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes!” The outer disciple immediately beamed and said, “Brother, please… I’ll activate the array right away!”\u003C\u002Fp>",1231,"2026-06-21T04:08:57.694Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","35de48703c4bf97a2a3b78abb514c756611a3ea69a44caf71d089884356893f9","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-45","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-43",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-treasure-immortal-basin-cover.jpg"]