When Zhou Fan walked out of the arena, he was once again greeted by the sight of floating buildings.
Since the colosseum was one of the buildings on the ground, Zhou Fan was looking upwards.
One of the very highest buildings drew his attention. It was in the shape of a padoga and seemed to have 9 floors. Along with being one of the highest, it was also one of the busiest places. People with varying cultivation levels could be seen coming in and out.
There were both people at foundation establishment and people at nascent soul realm coming out.
Zhou Fan flew up there and decided to take a look. There were two guards at the entrance, but they just stood still as people entered and exited.
Above the entrance was a sign that said 'tinming pavilion.'
Zhou Fan walked in freely and looked around the first floor. The floor was quite big and there seemed to be a hundred people in it. The color theme seemed to be red and gold. There were a few paintings on the walls, but the floor wasn't too decorated besides some carpet.
There were shelves and glass containers that had items, but there were no price tags or anything special.
Zhou Fan walked up to one of the glass containers and looked inside. Laying there was a green bottle with a small formation covering the outside and a couple of pills inside.
With a brief glance, Zhou fan was able to tell that it was a healing pill. It would be able to quickly heal a Qi condensation cultivator and minorly heal a foundation establishment cultivator.
Next to the pill bottle was a bunch of other pills. In fact, it seemed that half of the floor was filled with pills. There were pills that increased Qi absorption for recovery or cultivation and pills that temporarily increased damage, although most of those had side effects.
After looking at the pills, Zhou Fan walked over to the other side of the floor. On that side, there were many things besides pills. Zhou Fan walked around and saw weapons, martial art manuals, formation plates, and even a few cultivation techniques.
When he saw the techniques, Zhou Fan went over to take a closer look. Although a normal person wasn't able to look at it before buying it, Zhou Fan used his divine sense to read it without opening it.
Contrary to the technique he gave to the first celestials, which could be cultivated by anyone regardless of Qi affinity, these manuals could only be cultivated by people with certain affinities.
The ones in front of him were related to the affinities of fire, water, earth, and air. The most interesting thing was that they did not provide a faster cultivation speed, but simply increased the abilities of certain elements or concepts.
That meant that if two people had an affinity to fire and were in the same realm, the person who used this manual would theoretically be stronger.
However, Zhou Fan found a flaw that must have gone invisible to the creators of the manual. It limited one's future ability. Since the manual tweaked Zhou Fans, it messed up some parts. Therefore, if one cultivated this manual, they would forever be stuck at nascent soul.
That means that anyone who was in soul formation must have either started cultivating using his method, or restarted cultivation after realizing that they couldn't go any further with the manual.
If Zhou Fan created a specific manual, the result would be different. One could get the boost but still be able to go however far their talent allowed.
But the creators of the affinity specific manuals were merely copying Zhou Fan and slightly tweaking it. Based on the creator's strength, there would be a limit to how far someone using the manual could go.
Zhou Fan soon lost interest in the manuals and continued to look around the first floor. Just as he was about to leave, something caught his eye.
On one of the pedestals, Zhou Fan saw a rectangular piece of paper with a formation on it. Zhou Fan walked over to it and looked at it closely. It was similar to a formation plate, but it was one use and the formation wasn't on metal.
Zhou Fan had never seen nor created such a thing. He looked around and signaled at one of the attendants to come over.
"Hello sir, how can I be of assistance?" She asked politely.
"What is this?" Zhou Fan said while pointing at the piece of paper.
"That is a talisman, sir. It was invented by the celestial lord Anna." She said, not questioning why Zhou Fan didn't know what it was.
"What does it do?" He asked in order to see if there was anything else about it he couldn't see.
"It depends on the talisman. This one will send an attack at whoever the user wants to attack. Since the creator was in the foundation establishment realm, its attack is only at the level of a Qi condensation realm cultivator. On other floors, there are stronger attack talismans and ones with different uses all together." She said.
"Can anyone create one?" Zhou Fan asked.
"No. In fact, the talent to be a talisman creator is very rare. If a thousand people try to learn it, only one will succeed. Do you have any more questions?" She asked.
"Just one. What does it cost?" He asked. Zhou Fan had no idea how payment was made in the celestial lands and this was a good time to find out.
"It is 50 spirit stones." She answered.
Spirit stones! Although Zhou Fan hadn't created them on this planet, it seemed that they managed to exist either way.
"Where are spirit stones from?" Zhou Fan asked, breaking his promise of one more question.
The attendant's mouth twitched as she almost broke character.
"Umm.. They come from spirit stone mines." She answered, trying to keep a straight face.
"Ohh, okay. Thank you." Zhou Fan said.
The attendant nodded and walked away.
'It seems that spirit stones have naturally formed from the Qi in this world.' Zhou Fan thought. He had no idea how rare a spirit stone was, but he was going to find out soon.