Starting from the two realms, cultivating immortality by taming beasts

Chapter 57: Tide Aya Aya

After teasing Tie Dan for a while, Chen Beiwu opened the Immortal Alliance website and started shopping.

A dozen high-quality talisman paper consists of fifty sheets and costs five spirit coins. You can buy two dozen to practice talisman making.

Ten sets of finely forged array plates are priced at two zero yuan, which is good value for money. You can buy twenty sets to practice with.

A first-grade superior water blade talisman costs ten spirit coins. Great, he's not short of money right now, so he'll just buy five to replenish his inventory.

Unfortunately, the official website of the Immortal Alliance has restrictions; talismans of the second tier or higher require special permissions to purchase.

Otherwise, Chen Beiwu could spend spiritual energy to buy dozens of second-tier spirit talismans, and then use them in conjunction with the five-fold water-locking formation to set a trap and give that Azure Thunder Tiger a surprise.

"Forget it, that mysterious spirit lake smells wonderful, but it's not worth the risk." Chen Beiwu shook his head, decisively extinguishing his fantasies.

The lesser demons at the second realm vary in strength. The weaker ones have just advanced to the second realm, with only fifty-odd years of cultivation. Even if they survive being bombarded by dozens of second-tier spirit talismans, they will be severely injured.

However, those with over 450 years of cultivation who have reached the barrier of the third realm can ignore the rigid second-tier spirit talismans by relying on their innate spells.

If that Azure Thunder Tiger had a cultivation level of over two hundred years, it wouldn't be a target that Chen Beiwu could covet before advancing to the Foundation Establishment stage.

"I still need to improve my cultivation level as soon as possible." Chen Beiwu clicked on the elixir category.

With the help of second-tier spirit talismans, Qi Refining cultivators can unleash a portion of the power of Foundation Establishment cultivators by activating their magic power. Therefore, spirit talismans have many limitations, but spirit pills, spirit weapons, and spirit arrays are different.

Most elixirs lack the power to kill, while spiritual artifacts and arrays require the host to have Foundation Establishment cultivation to unleash their full potential.

Therefore, as long as a cultivator has enough spiritual energy, they can freely purchase most of the elixirs, spiritual weapons, and spiritual arrays sold on the Immortal Alliance's official website after registration.

【Qi Gathering Pill】

Qi Condensation Pill

【Spirit-Nourishing Pill】

Looking at the dazzling array of elixirs on the Immortal Alliance's official website, Chen Beiwu clicked on each one and analyzed their cost-effectiveness based on price and efficacy.

The Spirit Nourishing Pill is a second-tier, low-grade spiritual pill that can greatly increase the speed of spiritual energy absorption for Qi Refining cultivators.

The higher the purity of a cultivator's spiritual root, the more significant the increase in the speed of spiritual energy absorption, which can be as high as 50%.

Note: This elixir has a mild effect; taking one bottle per month will not damage the foundation of a Qi Refining cultivator, making it suitable for long-term use.

Upon seeing these instructions, Chen Beiwu placed an order without hesitation, purchasing a bottle of Spirit Nourishing Pills for one hundred spirit coins, intending to test its effects.

His current cultivation speed is already far superior to that of other cultivators at the same level.

If the effects of the Spirit Nourishing Pill are as practical as described on the product details page, Chen Beiwu feels he can raise his cultivation to the eighth level of Qi Refining within a month.

After buying the pills, Chen Beiwu glanced at the meager balance on his phone account and opened the spiritual weapon category.

【Soul-protecting pendant】

【Mist-Concealed Spirit Bracelet】

【Whirlwind Heart Armor】

……

These second-tier low-grade spiritual artifacts either consume too much mana, have poor defensive capabilities, or are subject to numerous restrictions.

In short, Chen Beiwu spent more than ten minutes selecting, but found that none of the defensive magical artifacts satisfied him.

"Forget it, you get what you pay for." Chen Beiwu shook his head and decisively gave up.

Defensive magical artifacts are a matter of life and death, and cannot be compromised.

Instead of spending hundreds of spirit coins to buy a second-tier low-grade standard spirit weapon, he should wait for the payment from the live-stream sales to be settled, and then buy a second-tier high-grade passive defensive spirit weapon that he can use for a long time.

For example, the second-tier superior spiritual weapon [Tide-Born Armor] has a 99% positive review rate on the official website of the Immortal Alliance.

This spirit armor possesses three major advantages that Qi Refining cultivators cannot ignore:

First, automatic defense function. When a Qi Refining cultivator encounters an attack that is difficult to avoid, the Tide-Rising Armor will automatically unfold, manifesting a layer of continuously rising water curtain for defense. It can withstand a full-force attack from an early Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Second, automatic counterattack function. When the Tide-Rising Water Curtain appears, the Tide-Rising Armor will automatically release spiritual water ribbons to entangle the enemy, buying time for the host to escape.

Third, it has an outstanding ability to escape. At the cost of the complete destruction of the Tide-Born Silk Armor and the loss of its spirituality, it can allow the user to teleport to a random location two kilometers away.

However, while the Tide-Generating Silk Armor has many advantages, it also has a drawback that Qi Refining cultivators cannot afford: its price is extremely high.

In wartime, a single piece of Tide-Generating Silk Armor would fetch at least tens of thousands of spirit coins, making it even more valuable than a Foundation Establishment Five Spirits Armor.

Fortunately, the Immortal Alliance has been at peace for a long time and there has been no war, so the price of Chaosheng Silk Armor has been falling all the way down.

Now, one item only costs two thousand spirit coins, and Chen Beiwu can afford it after settling the payment.

"With this spiritual artifact protecting me, coupled with the Ten Directions Chaos Gate, even if a Foundation Establishment cultivator were to attack me in Biyuan Market, they wouldn't be able to stop me."

Thinking of this, Chen Beiwu decisively added the Tide-Born Armor to his shopping cart, and then continued to scroll down, looking for spiritual artifacts that could conceal one's aura.

In the treacherous cultivation world of the Southern Wilderness, the most important factor in the struggle between cultivators is the information gap.

What is information asymmetry?

A cultivator's aura and magical power can reveal a lot of intelligence.

Before attempting an ambush, powerful cultivators will assess the strength and attributes of both sides by intercepting their qi and mana, thus determining whether to attempt an ambush.

If a Golden Core cultivator wishes, they can use a wisp of magical energy to cast a Soul Locking Technique that spans thousands of miles, hunting down and killing any Foundation Establishment cultivator who exposes their energy.

This is how a high-level cultivator crushes a low-level cultivator.

It's no exaggeration to say that in the dog-eat-dog world of the Southern Wilderness, every cultivator with a certain background carries at least one magical artifact to conceal their aura when they go out, in order to survive long enough.

Chen Beiwu previously lacked spiritual energy, but now that he does, he naturally wants to make up for the last shortcoming in his body to avoid being targeted by others.

After carefully selecting for more than ten minutes, Chen Beiwu's gaze fell upon the second-tier mid-grade spiritual weapon, the Hidden Jade Pendant.

It was a palm-sized piece of green jade, with seal patterns engraved on the front to conceal its aura, possessing two main functions.

Firstly, it can conceal the fluctuations of the host's qi and mana, making it difficult for cultivators below the late Foundation Establishment stage to detect the specific realm.

Secondly, it can blur the host's appearance and interfere with others' perception, and at most prevent the spiritual sense of a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator from probing.

This magical artifact is priced at 500 spiritual yuan, making it the most cost-effective among concealment magical artifacts, enough for him to use until the Foundation Establishment stage.

[Successfully added to cart]

Seeing the interface that popped up on his phone screen, Chen Beiwu shook his head.

The spiritual energy in my account really doesn't last long.

He had only browsed the official website of the Immortal Alliance, and he had already spent most of the money he had spent on the Yellow Tail Dendrobium.

Fortunately, his live-streaming sales business has started to show promise.

Thinking of this, Chen Beiwu displayed the Huangwei Dendrobium in the Wanling app's shop window at the high price of 25 spirit coins per catty.

In this way, he can use tactics such as huge discounts, loss-making sales, and scarcity marketing to attract more cultivators to make impulsive purchases in the next live-streaming sales event.

After all, some cultivators buy things online not because they need them, but because they like the feeling of getting a bargain, especially a great deal that they won't be able to get if they miss it.

(End of this chapter)