Chapter 11: Getting Rich by Exchanging Spirit Stones, Buying Pills for Cultivation
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Xu Haoming’s eyes lit up along with the radiant glow.
It really was Blazing Sun Essence Jade!
A tier-three material!
No need for secondary refinement, no need for processing—it could directly be used to forge tier-three magical artifacts!
In fact, at the Blacksmith Pavilion, you’d normally need at least 300 pieces of Blazing Sun Essence Stones, plus a fair amount of manual labor, to refine a single Blazing Sun Crystal that barely matched the quality of this Essence Jade.
The Blazing Sun Essence Jade was essentially a natural, unrefined Blazing Sun Crystal.
Yu Xian had clearly underestimated its value. He was just two months into the sect and had no clue about how valuable this item was.
Otherwise, there was no way he’d sell it for just 800 spirit stones.
“It is—it really is Blazing Sun Essence Jade…”
Xu Haoming swallowed hard, eyes shining, staring at the Essence Jade in Yu Xian’s hand, voice trembling with excitement.
Seeing his reaction, Yu Xian’s heart stirred.
Eight hundred spirit stones was quite a sum, but someone like Xu Haoming, who dealt in trade daily, should be worldly-wise.
Yet just a piece of Essence Jade got him this worked up?
Could it be that… this item was worth far more than 800 spirit stones?
Xu Haoming didn’t hesitate any longer—he started pulling out spirit stones.
Instead of taking out 800 low-grade spirit stones, which would fill the entire floor,
he took out eight middle-grade spirit stones instead!
“Young Brother Yu, don’t say I didn’t look after you. Out there, it takes 120 low-grade stones to trade for one middle-grade stone.”
He said in a tempting tone, “But with me, I’ll exchange at a flat rate of 100:1. Here—eight middle-grade stones. Take them.”
Middle-grade spirit stones were still fist-sized, but far more radiant and saturated with spiritual energy.
The concentration and purity of the qi inside them was over ten times that of a low-grade stone!
But still—ten times the qi, and you could trade them for over 100 low-grade ones?
In truth, the greatest value of middle-grade stones lay not just in their quantity of qi, but in the rate of qi transfer.
If you were in a life-or-death battle, running out of qi and relying on low-grade stones for recovery, while your opponent used a middle-grade stone—
They’d recover ten times faster than you.
You think you’d survive?
So for cultivators, middle-grade stones were vastly more valuable.
Yu Xian looked at the eight stones, then picked up just one.
“I’ll take one. The other seven—exchange them for low-grade stones at 1:150.”
“Uh…”
Xu Haoming paused for a moment. Seeing Yu Xian’s serious expression, as if he saw through the trick, Xu got a bit sheepish and nodded quickly,
“Alright, alright. 1:150 it is.”
Even if he had to give 200:1, it would still be worth it just to get his hands on Blazing Sun Essence Jade.
This kid was a walking gold mine!
He didn’t care how Yu Xian got the Essence Jade—as long as he kept bringing them, he was a godsend.
“You have a storage pouch? Or should I just pour them on the ground?”
As he was about to take out the spirit stones, Xu Haoming suddenly paused and asked,
“Want to buy a storage pouch from me?”
After all, 1,000+ stones wouldn’t fit in a cloth bag. Without a storage pouch, Yu Xian couldn’t carry them.
“I already have one,”
Yu Xian replied, pulling it from his chest.
“Oh, clever kid…”
Xu Haoming was a bit surprised.
If he remembered correctly, fifteen days ago this boy had no storage pouch—he carried twelve pieces of Essence Stone wrapped in cloth.
Now in just two weeks, not only did he have a piece of Essence Jade, he even had a storage pouch…
Since he had a pouch, things got easy. Xu Haoming grinned and passed over a storage pouch filled with spirit stones.
“1,050 low-grade stones. Check it.”
Yu Xian took the pouch, channeled spiritual energy into it to inspect the contents, then transferred the stones into his own pouch.
He then took out another bag with 84 pieces of Blazing Sun Essence Stone and handed it over.
“There are 84 more. Exchange all of them.”
“More!?”
Xu Haoming quickly accepted the bag. After a brief spiritual probe, his face beamed like a blooming chrysanthemum.
“Good, good! I’ll give you 1,100 spirit stones—round it up!”
He quickly pocketed the Essence Stones, transferred 1,100 stones into the pouch, and passed it back with a smile.
Yu Xian calmly took the pouch, stored the stones, and handed the pouch back with a faint,
“Thanks.”
“You’re too kind, Brother Yu!”
Xu Haoming grinned like a fox. “How about buying some talismanic treasures? One-time use, sure, but deadly powerful.”
“No need.”
Yu Xian shook his head and turned to leave.
Xu Haoming didn’t mind and followed him out with a smile.
“After this trade, you should know my character now. Anytime you’ve got more materials, come find me—I’ll always offer you a fair deal!”
Yu Xian didn’t look back, just nodded faintly,
“Alright.”
And with that, he swiftly departed, vanishing beyond the side hall entrance.
Xu Haoming stared at the doorway for a while before stomping in excitement, muttering under his breath,
“Jackpot! Absolute jackpot!”
And rushed deeper into the main hall.
Outside the smithing hall, Yu Xian let out a long breath. His eyes sparkled with excitement.
He was rich!
That one trip had netted him over 2,000 low-grade spirit stones and one middle-grade one!
This kind of wealth—he had never even dreamed of it!
With this many spirit stones, he could even barely afford a Foundation Establishment Pill!
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Yu Xian kept a calm demeanor and headed toward the Pill Hall.
In the Taiyun Sect, the most bustling place in the outer sect was the Pill Hall.
To quickly rise in cultivation, beyond hard work, the fastest and most direct way… was pills!
Tens of thousands of outer disciples labored every day to supply the sect with resources.
With their meager spirit stone pay, part went into basic survival and cultivation—but most went toward buying pills.
So the Pill Hall was always crowded, packed with people.
Yu Xian followed the crowd into the grand hall and saw rows of sparkling pills displayed in glass cases, each labeled with its price.
As long as you fed enough spirit stones into the formation array, the pill bottle would automatically drop down.
This automation was due to the overwhelming daily traffic—the sect didn’t rely on human staff to sell pills anymore.
Yu Xian found this arrangement very satisfying.
Right now, what he wanted most was not to let anyone know he was carrying a massive fortune.
After browsing a bit, he quickly spent 500 spirit stones on a bottle of Earth Spirit Pill, 300 on Ocean Expansion Pill, and 1,000 on ten bottles of Minor Spirit Pill.
Then he quietly left.
His eyes gleamed. With this many pills, he could definitely break through to Mid Qi Condensation today!
Returning to the mining zone, Yu Xian went straight into his room, locked the door, and went silent.
“That brat’s been working the mine two months straight and just returned to the sect today. If I’m right, he went to sell Essence Stones.”
The house that once belonged to Zhao Mulin was now occupied by Zhang Laosan.
At this moment, he, Sun Bingcheng, and Liu Xue were staring out the window at the teleportation array. Seeing Yu Xian return, their eyes grew cold.
“What do you think?” he asked.
Sun and Liu had both lost badly to Zhang Laosan in previous power struggles and harbored resentment.
They didn’t want to follow Huang Hanxiao’s orders anymore.
“You’re the manager now. You decide,” Liu said indifferently. “I’m busy mining.”
“Yeah, our savings are all gone. No time to meddle,” Sun scoffed. “Gotta dig or starve.”
Zhang Laosan chuckled at their retreating backs.
“Fine. You’re busy—I’ll handle it myself.”
Once they were gone, he checked the time and muttered,
“Let’s wait till night… Two months of mining from a dead zone, still bringing extra stones back to the sect… Heh, I’m very curious what secrets you’re hiding…”
Inside his room, Yu Xian sat cross-legged on his bed, pulled out a bottle of Minor Spirit Pill, swallowed one, and began cultivating.
The effect was remarkable. As spiritual energy surged through him, more impurities began to emerge from his body.
His qi sea boiled and expanded—reaching 2.1, then 2.2 inches in diameter…
