[Qi Nourishing Pill recipe: 50 Spirit Stones]
[True Martial Pill recipe: Two thousand and one hundred Spirit Stones]
[Qi Nourishing Pill ingredients x20: Twenty Spirit Stones]
[True Martial Pill ingredients x5: Five hundred Spirit Stones]
The Qi Nourishing Pill was relatively cheap.
But starting with the True Martial Pill, the price became extremely expensive.
Especially the True Martial Pill recipe, it was frighteningly expensive.
[Fasting Pill recipe: Twenty Spirit Stones]
[Fasting Pill ingredients x50: Five Spirit Crystals]
If one wanted to practice alchemy, starting from the simplest was a must.
So, Chen Sansi bought the cheapest Fasting Pill recipe and materials to practice with.
[Storage Bag: Twenty Spirit Stones]
Chen Sansi found something interesting.
A brocade bag the size of the palm, able to hold many items.
This trip, they purchased so many things in the workshop, carrying them openly was too conspicuous. Considering the character of Li Huzi and his cronies, parading through the market would have certainly attracted an attack from robbery cultivators.
Naturally, it was better to buy a storage bag, which also had other uses back home.
For instance, storing weapons.
With it, Chen Sansi need not worry about a long spear being too lengthy to carry around anymore.
He could also have a large reserve of arrows.
One mustn't be stingy; he decisively made the purchase.
After buying everything needed, the total cost was two thousand nine hundred and thirty Spirit Stones plus one Spirit Crystal. The considerable fortune he had just accumulated was spent clean, leaving him with only a few Spirit Stones and a single Flying Knife magical artifact.
Without a clear understanding of the black market channels, he dare not blindly go there. Besides, the item wasn't very valuable, so he might as well keep it for his own use. For an ordinary martial artist, it was still a considerable weapon.
The shop owners were overjoyed.
Especially Treasure Tower.
It was said that due to the scarcity of martial cultivators, the True Martial Pills often went for years without a buyer, not to mention pill furnaces worth over two thousand Spirit Stones, which could sit untouched for a hundred years.
To invest in oneself!
It was indeed a luxury!
According to Chen Sansi's knowledge,
Ordinary loose cultivators looking to practice alchemy would save up Spirit Stones to buy second-hand Alchemy Furnaces and start with Fasting Pills, paying back their investment crystal by crystal, then steadily moving up. This could take decades.
Chen Sansi was willing to pay such a high price to break through to the Martial Saint Realm as quickly as possible.
After settling everything,
they left using the ancient transmission array.
Only one Jade Token was left.
Leaving depended entirely on Qian Xun transporting the Jade Token back and forth.
Looking back at the Cultivation World one last time, Chen Sansi felt a hint of regret in his heart.
Immortality, everyone desires it.
It's just unfortunate that with his current strength, even facing a Qi Refinement Middle Stage cultivator could be disastrous. Moreover, Liangzhou still had many affairs requiring his attention; he couldn't abandon everything to stay here for years or even decades.
The fate has not arrived!
Once he broke through to Martial Saint, gained sufficient self-protective ability, and dealt with Liangzhou's affairs, he would return for a visit. By that time, he would also have almost mastered the art of alchemy, making everything much easier.
Without further hesitation,
Chen Sansi placed the Jade Token into the groove. Accompanied by the surge of Spiritual Power from the transmission array, he smoothly returned to the island at the ends of the earth.
Ning Xiang said in a meticulous tone, "Recently, every few days there is a ferry from within the workshop, we can take it to Nanling Town, then return by the same route we came, and within two months we'll be back in Liangzhou."
Chen Sansi and his party avoided the ancient road of the transmission array and returned to the seashore at the ends of the earth without encountering any more covetous pursuit.
On the island at that moment,
There still gathered a large number of immortality seekers and mundane loose cultivators, who neither could enter the Cultivation World nor were willing to return to the mundane world. A small portion came through various serendipities but now lacked Spirit Stones. Without the means to leave, they were most likely fated to stay and die there.
Chen Sansi's journey had been smooth.
But in reality, the path to seeking immortality was incredibly difficult. Who knows how many have died on the way, including potentially many talents.
The next ferry was scheduled for midnight the next day.
They found a corner to sit down, planning to wait quietly until the next day. However, in the latter part of the night, a group of more than ten cultivators suddenly flew out from the southwest direction, landing among the crowd, and the ends of the earth were stirred into commotion.
Ning Xiang returned promptly, her tone grave beneath her veil: "It's Gui Qi.
"The cultivators from Daze Fang City, having discovered Gui Qi's tracks here on the ends of the earth, plan to completely seal the island until they capture him; we can't leave now...
"As for the commotion,
"The cultivators declared that whoever finds Gui Qi will be taken into the Cultivation World free of charge.
"Now, everyone on the island has gone mad searching for him."
Chen Sansi winced. "I left Nanling Town in a hurry just to avoid that old fellow. I didn't expect to encounter him on the boat, and now in my haste to leave, there he is again. Could he be my nemesis?"
"Lai Zi Daoist, why are you speaking ill of me behind my back?"
An aged voice from behind made him stiffen, and from the corner of his eye,
he could see an old man in a black robe, who had approached unnoticed.
Ning Xiang's wrist where the Silver Ring Magical Artifact was, started to activate, but the black-robed old man said in a deep voice, "Girl, if you want to live, it's best not to make a fuss."
Ning Xiang wisely halted.