Lingxiao Immortal Clan.

"Only a few mid-grade fifth-tier Frost Spirit Fruits and a small piece of top-grade fifth-tier ice-attribute refining material? That's rather meager."

"By the way, Elder, I have just come to Qingxia Realm from Chaoyue Immortal Sect. In addition, there are no high-level spirit crystal mines in Chaoyue Immortal Sect. Therefore, I do not have any fifth-level spirit crystals on me."

"I wonder if I could sell some mid- to high-grade fifth-tier spiritual treasures to the General Affairs Hall to exchange for spirit crystals, and then use those mid-grade fifth-tier frost spirit fruits and ice-attribute refining materials from our Ice Profound lineage."

Ling Pengyun took out several fifth-grade mid-to-high-grade spiritual treasures that he had refined in his early years and handed them to Ice Marrow Daoist for inspection.

"These spiritual treasures are of good quality, and because of their high grade, my Ice Profound lineage has some need for them."

"Therefore, my Bingxuan lineage will accept these spiritual treasures, and the price will be based on the market price."

"A mid-grade fifth-tier and a high-grade fifth-tier attack spirit treasure are worth 1,000 and 2,000 fifth-tier spirit crystals respectively."

"As for fifth-grade mid-level and fifth-grade high-level defensive spirit treasures, their prices can be twice as high due to their effectiveness..."

The Ice Marrow Old Daoist carefully examined the spiritual treasures that Ling Pengyun handed over, and his eyes lit up slightly. He then gave Ling Pengyun an appraisal.

The Ice Profound lineage is not skilled in weapon crafting, and in recent years, it has cultivated many new Nascent Soul cultivators, so its demand for high-level spiritual treasures is relatively high.

Moreover, even if such a magical treasure is not needed, it can be sold to the outside world.

The spiritual treasures in the Qingxia Realm can often be extremely large, unless the Bingxuan lineage invests hundreds of fifth-order spiritual treasures into markets across various regions at once.

Otherwise, the Qingxia Realm could have easily acquired those spiritual treasures quickly, and the Bingxuan lineage might even have acted as a middleman, selling them at a premium and making a small profit.

In addition, high-level spiritual treasures are more powerful and can remain for thousands or even tens of thousands of years. Furthermore, once a spirit is born, they can still unleash considerable power.

Therefore, such items are expensive and costly no matter where they are found.

In addition, the Ice Marrow Old Daoist offered a pretty good price, so Ling Pengyun was satisfied with the sale.

The number of fifth-tier spirit crystals on his body also increased dramatically.

He also easily purchased several mid-grade fifth-order frost spirit fruits and a small fist-sized piece of top-grade fifth-order ice-attribute spirit iron, "Snow Essence Spirit Iron," from the Ice Marrow Old Daoist.

Although the spirit iron is relatively small, at least one or two pieces of spirit iron of this size are needed to be collected before it can be used as the main material to refine high-level spirit treasures.

However, Ling Pengyun did not purchase it for the purpose of refining treasures, but rather to temper his natal divine treasure, the Five Elements Magic Bead.

In addition, its high grade indirectly contributes significantly to the Five Elements Magic Beads.

Those few mid-grade fifth-tier Frost Spirit Fruits were, after all, excellent spiritual items. Even though their grade was relatively ordinary, they could still significantly accelerate Ling Pengyun's cultivation speed.

However, Ling Pengyun's ambitions are quite grand.

In addition, he still had quite a few fifth-tier spirit crystals left.

Following the suggestion of the Ice Marrow Old Daoist, he issued a task in the General Affairs Hall of the Ice Profound lineage to acquire high-grade Five Elements Refining Materials, as well as Space Refining Materials, cultivation resources, and breakthrough spiritual objects.

In addition, he also purchased some common fifth-grade low, medium and high-grade refining materials, common fifth-grade cultivation pills, some common fifth-grade breakthrough spirit objects, high-potential spirit plant seeds and other things from the General Affairs Hall.

While the high-potential spiritual plant seeds and ordinary spiritual items used for breaking through realms were of limited help to Ling Pengyun.

But those are the things that the family and the Chaoyue Immortal Sect lack the most.

Moreover, his family and the Chaoyue Immortal Sect treated him well, even providing him with a large amount of cultivation resources every year, so he intended to help them develop.

However, the family is still one's own family, while the Chaoyue Immortal Sect can only be considered half a family.

Ling Pengyun only intended to give a small portion of the spiritual items he had acquired to the Chaoyue Immortal Sect, and the majority to his family.

Secondly, although the other ordinary fifth-grade cultivation pills he purchased this time were only of average efficacy, they were at least better than nothing.

Moreover, if there are enough of them, he can also cultivate.

As for those ordinary refining materials, although they are of little use to the Five Elements Magic Beads, Ling Pengyun can use them to refine more high-level spiritual treasures, thereby earning profits and giving back to his cultivation path.

Moreover, he currently needs to balance cultivation, care for the spiritual plants in Maple Leaf Valley, and help the Ice Profound lineage refine weapons, among other miscellaneous tasks.

However, his skills in cultivating spiritual plants and refining weapons were quite high, so he was able to refine weapons and care for spiritual plants more quickly.

He still had some spare energy, enough to refine a few more batches of fifth-tier spiritual treasures without delaying his cultivation.

'Most importantly, the Ice Profound lineage has an enormous reserve of spiritual resources. I estimate that the batch of spiritual resources I purchased this time alone is equivalent to the high-grade pills and other such items produced by my clan in a year…'

'Furthermore, the Ice Profound lineage is quite large, which will greatly benefit my sales of high-level spiritual treasures.'

'Upon careful consideration, this Ice Profound lineage is truly a treasure trove for me.'

Ling Pengyun looked at the batch of spiritual items he had purchased and was unexpectedly delighted.

During his cultivation in the Heavenly River Realm and the Tide Moon Immortal Sect in the Cold Spirit Minor Realm, he also frequently sold high-level spiritual treasures.

However, the Heavenly River Realm and the Cold Spirit Minor Realm are of average size.

In addition, he has a high success rate and speed in refining high-level spiritual treasures.

Moreover, spiritual treasures are not like elixirs, which are consumable items that can be used for a long time.

As a result, it became difficult for those two places to quickly absorb the spiritual treasures he sold.

He often encountered the predicament of having nowhere to sell the magical treasures he had refined.

In addition, the family owns many treasure lands in places like the Tianhe Realm and the Cangxuan Realm, which can generate considerable profits every year.

However, the family is not comparable to the Ice Profound lineage, one of the main branches of the Frost Immortal Sect with a Void Refining expert in charge, so the benefits it produces are much less.

Afterwards, he chatted briefly with the old Daoist Bing Sui for a few more minutes before bidding farewell and leaving the place.

'This Guest Elder Ling truly lives up to his reputation for possessing advanced skills in weapon crafting and the art of cultivating spiritual plants; his generosity is truly remarkable.'

'I never expected him to buy so many spiritual items this time, and the spiritual treasures he sold to my Ice Profound lineage were truly excellent. He's quite the wealthy man.'

As the old Daoist Bing Sui watched Ling Pengyun's departing figure, a slight glint appeared in his eyes.

In addition, although he could tell that many of the spiritual items Ling Pengyun had purchased were most likely for the Chaoyue Immortal Sect, which did not conform to the rules of the Bingxuan lineage and was suspected of having two-timing.

However, Ling Pengyun did sell several mid-to-high-grade fifth-tier spiritual treasures to the Bingxuan lineage this time.

That's worth a lot of money.

In addition, most of the pills and other spiritual items that Ling Pengyun purchased this time were refined and produced by the Bingxuan lineage itself, and their production cost was relatively low.

In this exchange, the Ice Profound lineage can earn a considerable amount of spirit crystals, which will benefit the lineage's development.

Furthermore, the things Ling Pengyun bought weren't particularly needed by the Bingxuan lineage.

Therefore, the Ice Marrow Old Daoist decided to turn a blind eye.

He even couldn't help but hope that Ling Pengyun would come to the General Affairs Hall more often to sell high-level spiritual treasures and purchase spiritual items there.

'Furthermore, judging from his previous actions, he does seem to value the past and hasn't forgotten the Frost Immortal Sect just because he joined my Ice Profound lineage. He can be considered a reliable person.'

"Moreover, he is quite diligent. After all, my Ice Profound lineage previously entrusted him with a great deal of heavy work, such as tending to spiritual plants and refining spiritual treasures. Under such circumstances, it is truly rare that he still intends to privately purchase refining materials for crafting treasures."

"He even bears a resemblance to that young Bingxuan back in the day." "Junior Brother Bingqiu's recommendation of this person to our Bingxuan lineage is a wise move. Even if he doesn't reach the Void Refinement stage in the future, he can still achieve something."

After a moment's thought, the old Daoist Bing Sui felt a surge of goodwill towards Ling Pengyun.

In addition, the newly promoted Refining Void Ice Profound Heavenly Venerable of the Ice Profound lineage has achieved extraordinary success.

However, the special spiritual body he possessed was, after all, a hidden spiritual body, extremely obscure, and even the advanced detection methods of the Ice Profound lineage could not detect it in the early years.

Therefore, the spirit remained hidden within its body.

Indirectly, the talent that Ice Profound Celestial Venerable displayed in his early years was only considered passable within the Ice Profound lineage.

However, thanks to his hardworking nature and unwavering dedication, he managed to achieve some success.

Then, by chance, he awakened the special spiritual body within him, and with divine assistance, he entered the realm of Void Refinement.

Therefore, while his special spiritual body was extremely important to his path of cultivation, his diligent nature was also of paramount importance.

Both are indispensable.

At the same time, the Ice Marrow Old Daoist glanced at Ling Pengyun's departing figure, then returned to the General Affairs Hall and gave a few instructions to the servants in the General Affairs Hall to keep a good eye on the servants' quarters.

He then returned to his cultivation grounds within the Ice Profound lineage and began frantically refining pills.

This incident also reflects the plight of most alchemists in the Ice Profound lineage.

Recently, the Bingxuan lineage has been recruiting quite a few young disciples and Nascent Soul guest elders.

Although this incident greatly increased the strength of the Ice Profound lineage, it also allowed them to gain more benefits within the Frost Immortal Sect and acquire more manpower to search for hidden realms outside the Clear Cloud Realm, thus benefiting them immensely.

However, the Ice Profound lineage also consumes more resources.

This has indirectly led to the Ice Profound lineage falling behind in terms of resources, and they even frequently have to acquire cultivation resources from outside sources.

This is not a good thing for the development of the Bingxuan lineage.

Furthermore, since the Ice Marrow Elder was an elder of the Ice Profound lineage, he was extremely eager to make some changes.

If this matter succeeds, the Ice Profound lineage will truly get on the right track and become stronger and stronger.

……

the other side.

In Maple Valley.

After returning to the cave, Ling Pengyun set up a concealment barrier around the cave.

He then took out the piece of Snow Essence Iron and put it into his natal divine treasure, the "Five Elements Magic Bead".

And they helped him refine that spirit iron.

As time went by, and the magic bead gradually refined it, the aura of the magic bead became even stronger, and it got closer and closer to the peak of the fifth-order top-grade.

Moreover, its efficacy was enhanced as a result, and even Ling Pengyun's ability to refine his spiritual power was strengthened by using it.

'As expected, the improvement brought by tempering its essence with precious iron is much faster. If I were to simply nurture it with my own spiritual energy, it would probably take at least several decades to reach this stage.'

Ling Pengyun looked at the Five Elements Magic Beads, raised an eyebrow slightly, and was extremely satisfied.

Besides using high-grade precious iron to temper its essence, Ling Pengyun could also use spiritual energy to nurture the essence of the Five Elements Magic Beads.

However, this approach is relatively slow.

Even if Ling Pengyun spent thousands of years, he might not be able to nurture it to the peak of the fifth-order top grade.

But if precious iron is used as an aid, it will be a different story. In fact, if there is enough precious iron, this matter may be accomplished in a few hundred years.

However, the cost of this move is also greater.

Even relying solely on Ling Pengyun's current resources, it would be difficult to accomplish this task.

Therefore, Ling Pengyun immediately took out the ordinary fifth-order refining materials he had previously purchased, as well as the Silver Moon Refining Furnace he had acquired in his early years, and started refining a spiritual treasure.

During this time, he did not neglect his duties of refining spiritual treasures for the Bingxuan lineage and taking care of their spiritual plants.

As time goes by.

Ten years have passed in a row.

During this period, he used his spare energy to refine three batches of fifth-tier spiritual treasures.

Moreover, the spiritual treasures he crafted were of relatively ordinary quality, and his crafting skills had already reached the fifth-tier top-grade level at a young age.

The probability of him refining ordinary spiritual treasures is relatively high.

In fact, those three furnaces of spiritual treasures only failed once due to bad luck.

The other two attempts at refining the treasure were successful.

Moreover, one is a low-grade fifth-order spiritual treasure, and the other is a mid-grade fifth-order spiritual treasure.

'According to market prices in the Qingxia Realm, such a spiritual treasure could barely be worth a considerable amount of spirit crystals.'

Even disregarding the refining materials previously consumed, I estimate I can still make a small profit of nearly a thousand spirit crystals. The gains from this refining effort are barely acceptable.

'Moreover, given my current situation, I've managed to establish a foothold within the Ice Profound lineage and gain a foundation for myself.'

Ling Pengyun looked at the two spiritual treasures he had just crafted, and a slight smile appeared on his face.

In addition, during these ten years, he did a good job in refining spiritual treasures and taking care of spiritual plants for the Bingxuan lineage, and he also received a lot of extra rewards from the Bingxuan lineage.

His wealth also grew stronger as a result.

He even used this to post tasks at a premium in the Bingxuan lineage's general affairs hall, obtaining a lot of high-level cultivation resources and other things.

In addition, the annual resource support from the Bingxuan lineage was also delivered to him as promised.

He has abundant cultivation resources, and he can even condense dozens of Divine Transformation Spiritual Power Sources almost every year.

His cultivation level and the speed at which he refined the Five Elements Magic Beads were also progressing rapidly.

Perhaps in a few decades, he will be able to refine the Five Elements Magic Beads to the peak of the fifth rank and cultivate to the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.

"And this timeframe is relatively short; I might even be able to perfectly complete the task that Ice Profound Heavenly Lord set for me—three hundred years of illusory cultivation to reach the peak of the Nascent Soul stage."

'Next, I just need to hope that I can reach that stage before the other core guest elders of the Ice Profound lineage, and the Ice Profound lineage disciples who have the potential to become Void Refinement cultivators.'

"By the way, recently, thanks to my spiritual plants and the spiritual path of weapon refining, I've managed to acquire quite a few common breakthrough spiritual items and other things. I even have some surplus common fifth-tier resources, which I can send back to the family and my wife."

A hint of longing appeared in Ling Pengyun's eyes. (End of Chapter)