Starting from the two realms, cultivating immortality by taming beasts

Chapter 14 Black Gold Ginseng

"Wuhu, take off!" Chen Beiwu's face lit up with joy.

Hunting monsters is indeed a lucrative business.

In just a few minutes of fighting, he obtained Bullet Ape Blood (heart essence blood) worth two low-grade spirit stones, equivalent to his mother's monthly income from embroidery at home.

Unfortunately, he couldn't explain the origin of this ape blood, so he couldn't exchange it for spirit stones in the Immortal Alliance and could only use it himself.

But that's enough. The reason why the essence blood of exotic beasts is so expensive is because it can be used to improve a cultivator's understanding of the Myriad Beasts Technique and increase the purity of their mana.

If he could gather the essence blood of a thousand different exotic beasts, Chen Beiwu was confident that he could push the Ten Thousand Beasts Technique, which was at the minor completion stage, to the major completion stage and condense the core spiritual technique of this technique: the Thousand Beasts Seal.

If he could gather the essence blood of ten thousand different spirit beasts, he was confident that he could push the Myriad Beasts Technique to its perfect state and condense a third-tier treasure technique: the Myriad Beasts Seal.

That's a technique comparable to that of a Golden Core cultivator!

Unfortunately, demonic beasts are hard to find, and Chen Beiwu can only bully some low-level beasts with insufficient cultivation at present.

Before the sun set, he cleaned up the debris and garbage inside the cave, then affixed spirit-gathering talismans and warning talismans to the stone wall at the cave entrance, setting up a small warning array centered on the cave.

Soon, an extremely simple cave dwelling was completely completed.

To prevent being disturbed during his cultivation, he moved several stones to block the entrance of the cave, leaving only a small ventilation opening.

After doing all this, Chen Beiwu sat cross-legged on the cold stone and began his first cultivation in this other world.

Perhaps because he was in a primeval forest, the abundant wood-elemental spiritual energy around him immediately transformed into a continuous stream of emerald-green light spots that flowed into Chen Beiwu's dantian, becoming gentle magical power.

The night passed quietly.

Chen Beiwu opened his eyes and smiled with satisfaction.

The second-tier spiritual vein is truly extraordinary. One night of meditation is equivalent to two nights of meditation in a mid-tier first-tier cultivation room. Even the magical power that was somewhat stagnant deep in his dantian became as easy to control as an arm.

This cultivation speed is more than double what it was before.

If he continues to cultivate at this pace, he is confident that he can break through to the eighth level of Qi Refining in his senior year of high school, and to the ninth level of Qi Refining in his fourth or fifth year of high school.

If we take into account the spiritual root enhancement from the future contracted beast, his Qi cultivation efficiency could increase even more dramatically.

"call."

Chen Beiwu got up, stretched, and exhaled a breath of stale air.

He has no classes this morning, so he can explore the area around the cave.

An hour later.

"Squeak squeak squeak!"

As the water needle fell, a fat green rock rat screamed and collapsed, revealing a burrow behind it filled with flowers and plants.

Chen Beiwu discarded the useless pine cones and weeds on the surface of the cave, and a spiritual plant that was completely black and looked like an old tree root came into view.

The leaves at the top of the old tree roots were slightly curled due to improper preservation, and were dark brown in color; they were clearly the first-tier spiritual plant, Black Gold Ginseng.

"What a waste!" He quickly and carefully removed the ginseng with his hands.

Rodents have always had a keen sense of smell, so it's not surprising that they could find such spiritual plants in the mountains.

For many years, the Immortal Alliance has been promoting the four arts of cultivation through compulsory education. Chen Beiwu knows many elixir formulas, and the Qi-Enhancing Pill is one of them.

Black gold ginseng is the main ingredient for refining the first-tier pill, Qi-boosting pill, and it has a high market value, selling for at least ten spirit stones.

If he can refine the black gold ginseng into a pill, the price will skyrocket, reaching as high as fifty low-grade spirit stones.

However, Chen Beiwu was not an entry-level alchemist and was not proficient in water-based alchemy. Rashly attempting to refine pills would only waste medicinal herbs; it would be better to consume them raw.

For cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining, eating raw black gold ginseng is quite beneficial, as it can save half a month of arduous cultivation.

"What a pity." Chen Beiwu sighed.

He once wanted to become an alchemist.

Among the various arts of cultivation, alchemy, weapon crafting, formation, and talisman making are the mainstream. Among them, alchemists are considered to be the most sought-after and profitable profession.

However, alchemy is too expensive, and generally only cultivators from immortal cultivation families can afford to learn it, except for those with extraordinary talent.

Most alchemy apprentices have to work for their teachers for several years without pay when they first start out, and spend a lot of spirit stones to open the furnace and accumulate experience.

On the Xianmeng website, some alchemy apprentices even made a joke among themselves, saying that they were "paying to work," working themselves to the bone for years until their bodies broke down, only to gain experience points in the end.

It was precisely because alchemy required such a large investment, far beyond what an average family could afford, that Chen Beiwu gave up the idea of ​​becoming an alchemist.

Xu Lingling was able to become the only first-level mid-grade alchemist at Shouhe No. 2 High School during her second year of high school, not only because of her own talent, but also because of the influence of her family.

The art of weapon crafting is slightly better than alchemy; it requires less investment but has higher demand.

Even if you're unlucky and fail to forge a rare artifact when you first start out, you can salvage it by reworking it and recovering some of the materials. However, there are too many cultivators in this line of work, so the price of rare artifacts on the market is extremely high.

The art of talismans is suitable for those with average talent and resources, but it requires a lot of time and energy, and may even delay one's cultivation.

The success rate of beginners in crafting low-level talismans is extremely low. Even if they succeed by chance, the cost of crafting the talisman far exceeds the selling price. They need to spend spirit stones to gain experience, just like in alchemy, but the loss is less.

As for the art of formations, it is difficult to learn and master, and talent is highly valued.

At the beginning, array masters did not make money because cultivators had very little demand for low-level arrays.

However, once the array master's rank and level are high, the situation changes.

There's a saying in the world of array formations: "Ten years without business, then ten years of feasting." This speaks to the money-making ability of high-level array masters.

However, the art of formations is extremely difficult to master. To put it bluntly, if some cultivators were willing to spend a lot of resources to build them up, they could easily become a high-level alchemist, weapon maker, or talisman master.

But array formations are different. If you can't learn an array pattern, you just can't learn it. Even if you push a cultivator to the limit, he still can't inscribe the obscure and difficult array patterns.

It is no exaggeration to say that those who lack talent in array formations can only remain at the first-tier array master level for their entire lives. At most, they may become a second-tier array master by chance, but they will never become a third-tier array master.

Chen Beiwu's talent in array formations is barely considered good. What ordinary people find obscure and difficult to understand, array patterns are not complicated in his eyes. What he lacks is just an opportunity to set up an array.

If he has enough array resources, he might become a second-tier array master in the future.

Putting aside his wandering thoughts, Chen Beiwu carefully put away the ginseng.

He was lucky today. If he had arrived a day later, the ginseng might have had several more pits and cracks, and most of its medicinal properties would have dissipated.

Pushing aside the bushes that obstructed his view, Chen Beiwu continued to run the map, carefully drawing a topographical map of the area surrounding the cave.

"Huh!"

Chen Beiwu suddenly stopped and listened intently to the unusual sounds coming from the bushes ahead.

"Help...help me!"

Hearing the extremely weak cry for help, Chen Beiwu frowned slightly and looked at the scattered footprints not far away.

(End of this chapter)