darknovel Chapter 91: Quiet Room
Chapter 91: Quiet Room
However, purchasing puppets is not so easy. This kind of obscure inheritance is scarce even on Ice Spirit Island, let alone in the depths of the Ice Domain where spiritual objects are extremely rare.
Furthermore, the quality of the puppet itself is also a question, mainly depending on the puppeteer's own lineage and skills.
Tong Bingfeng knew absolutely nothing about puppets; he was completely clueless. He couldn't effectively distinguish between the two puppets placed in front of him.
If you want to buy a puppet, you will naturally need to accumulate enough spirit stones and have a certain understanding of the relevant common knowledge before returning to a trustworthy shop that has been established for more than ten years on Ice Spirit Island to buy it.
Day after day, month after month, the two cultivators, Tong Bingfeng and Liu Zong, systematically harvested the spiritual ice according to their respective tasks.
Every three days, Menglan would come to buy a batch of spirit stones, and at the same time, she would take the opportunity to sell some daily consumable spirit items such as spirit pills and spirit talismans. She would make a fortune by buying spirit stones twice in one trip.
Meanwhile, on their respective days of rest, in addition to their normal cultivation, the two cultivators would occasionally go to the Ice Domain to hunt monsters and gather spiritual herbs.
Of course, the scope of the operation was mainly limited to the ice area within a radius of fifty miles centered on the spirit ice mine. This kind of behavior could earn the two cultivators an extra income, as the corpse of each first-tier mid-to-high-grade demon beast was itself a valuable resource.
On the other hand, try to kill as many monsters as possible near the Spirit Ice Mine to prevent them from discovering its existence through their keen sense of smell or other talents, thus reducing potential dangers.
Benefiting from the numerous demonic beasts deep within the icy realm, Tong Bingfeng and Liu Zong also gained considerable profits, and each had different opportunities to collect some valuable companion herbs near the demonic beasts' lair.
These monster corpses and the gathered medicinal herbs were also sold to Meng Lan, provided that she gave a fair and just price.
The cold wind rages, autumn has gone and winter has come.
When the icy lands of the northern frontier once again turned to winter, Tong Bingfeng, having accumulated his strength, finally ushered in the moment of advancement in his cultivation.
With his cultivation at the sixth level of Qi Refining, after repeated and tireless efforts to solidify it, his dantian was once again occupied by aquamarine magic power, and no matter how hard he tried, he could no longer integrate even a tiny bit of magic power.
All the magical power painstakingly refined through repeated cycles of the Great Heavenly Cycle, after circulating once around the almost integrated dantian, dissipates again into the physical body.
A portion of this magical power becomes an excellent supplement to nourish and improve the quality of the physical body, but more than 80% of it can only quietly slip away and dissipate into the world, becoming free-flowing spiritual energy.
"Sharpening the axe won't delay the work of chopping wood. Although it took half a year to solidify my cultivation foundation, all the effort was worthwhile. In this state, I can accumulate strength and unleash it. Not only am I more confident in advancing to the seventh level of Qi Refining, but the quality of the magical power in my dantian will also be a notch higher after the advancement."
"This indestructible bottleneck, as solid as a mountain, would have taken at least three to five years to overcome if not for the innate energy from the water-attribute crystal gourd to aid my advancement, relying solely on my own cultivation and painstaking effort."
Feeling the rich water-attribute magic power in his dantian and clearly sensing the threshold and bottleneck that must be overcome on the path of cultivation, Tong Bingfeng spoke with feeling, and at the same time, a light called ambition burst forth in his eyes.
This gaze, full of profound meaning, seemed to have easily pierced through the barriers of time, seeing the long river of time after the cultivation advancement, a glory belonging to a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator.
"One must always be wary of others. This time, I cannot choose to advance my cultivation in this spirit ice mine. I must return to Ice Spirit Island and rent a special quiet room to assist cultivators in their advancement."
Although Tong Bingfeng and Liu Zong had gotten along quite well during this period, the crucial moment for their cultivation advancement was extremely important. Given his cautious nature and style of doing things, he would naturally not leave any potential risks behind, nor would he place his hopes on his companion's moral bottom line.
At the crucial moment when a cultivator breaks through to higher levels, Liu Zong only needs to interrupt them slightly to completely disrupt their progress. He can then easily take their head by summoning a mid-grade first-level magic weapon.
The allure of having a miniature spirit ice mine all to oneself, and enjoying all the resources obtained from the spirit ice production, is unimaginable for a rogue cultivator.
Tong Bingfeng never revealed any related information. Before leaving, he quietly left a letter, then chose the location of Bingling Spirit Island and transformed into a streak of light, speeding away.
As his cultivation level improved and his understanding of the survival habits of the monsters deep within the ice domain deepened, Tong Bingfeng tried his best to avoid areas of the ice domain where monsters might be found, and avoided conflicts as much as possible. He traveled smoothly and finally returned to Bingling Spirit Island on the evening of the second day.
Without even having a chance to rest, they went directly to the market management office and rented a first-grade high-quality quiet room, which was specially designed to help cultivators at the sixth level of Qi Refining advance to the seventh level of Qi Refining, for the high price of fifty spirit stones.
The quiet room is located on a first-grade high-quality spiritual vein, which is an important branch of the main spiritual vein of Ice Spirit Island. It is rich in spiritual energy, of excellent quality, and limited in number. Only cultivators who are about to advance to the seventh level of Qi Refining, as confirmed by the Market Management Office, are eligible to rent it.
Although fifty spirit stones are not cheap, they are safe. As long as you cultivate here, you don't need to worry about being disturbed by others.
Each meditation room is specially built independently and protected by a first-class, immovable mountain array. Once the stone door is closed, no one can directly contact the meditation room, making it an excellent choice for independent cultivators to advance their cultivation.
Guided by the jade token in her hand, Tong Bingfeng successfully entered the first-grade high-level meditation room numbered thirty-one. As a beam of spiritual light shot out from the jade token, the stone door slowly closed, and only then did she breathe a sigh of relief.
"The door to the meditation room is now closed. Even Elder Meng, who has some influence on Ice Spirit Island, cannot interfere in the slightest. We can finally begin to break through the bottleneck and start the process of advancing to the seventh level of Qi Refining."
"Only in this quiet room can I safely refine the innate water-attribute energy within the water-attribute crystal gourd to aid in my cultivation advancement."
Several years have passed since he was invited to pick the crystal gourd, but he has always kept the news about the crystal gourd firmly suppressed in the deepest part of his heart, second only to the two pairs of big teeth that can search for ice-attribute monsters.
He feared that the news would leak and attract even the slightest attention from the so-called direct descendants of the Chen family, as Liu Guangqing had mentioned back then. This was the fundamental reason why he came to Ice Spirit Island to break through to the seventh level of Qi Refining. Only here could he feel at ease.