My equipment is designed for cultivation; I started by slaughtering my way through a small world.

This storage bag is quite large; what could be inside?

but……

Gu Qing didn't answer, but looked at her with a smile.

Gu Qing had figured out Yang Xi's personality; she liked to come to him with all her problems.

Even if Gu Qing didn't ask, she would tell him everything on her own.

Seeing this, Yang Xi pouted and said:

"Master, these are spirit stones my father sent. Do you like them?"

"hehe……"

"I naturally like spirit stones; they're just what I need in my immediate crisis."

This is a godsend.

Taking the storage bag, Gu Qing probed it with his spiritual sense and found a large pile of spirit stones inside.

"This quantity is incorrect, isn't it?"

"How come there are 20,000 spirit stones? I think I said 10,000 spirit stones?"

"Master, don't you like it?"

Yang Xi tilted her head and looked at Gu Qing with a grin.

"I do like it."

"But a gentleman loves money, but he earns it in a proper way. We agreed on ten thousand spirit stones beforehand, how can you change your mind at the last minute..."

When dealing with enemies, Gu Qing didn't mind using plundering methods to completely wipe them out.

But the Yang family father and daughter are not enemies after all, so we can't take them down with all our might.

"Master, you underestimate the opportunity to form your core."

"The three-thousand-year-old Bitter Bamboo of the Sword Tomb Secret Realm condenses sword energy comparable to the strength of an eighth-level Foundation Establishment spell. If one establishes their foundation with such sword energy and then undergoes refinement and tempering by other cultivators, the probability of forming a Core is extremely high."

If this opportunity were put at an auction house, many people would compete to buy it even for 100,000 spirit stones.

The master bestowed upon his disciple an opportunity.

My father said that the Yang family must not be ignorant and must repay kindness.

Father has already sent over all the available funds from the Chamber of Commerce. If there were more working capital, Master would have received more than 20,000 spirit stones…”

Yang Xiuyuan had calculated this very clearly.

Leaving aside the matter of befriending Gu Qing, a genius in alchemy, just considering Yang Xi himself, if Yang Xi successfully forms his core in the future, the Yang family will be promoted to a Golden Core family.

No matter how much you invest today, you will earn it back many times over in the future.

Gu Qing put away the storage bag, and seeing that Yang Xi's words were sincere, he nodded.

Then he asked her about another matter: "Yang Xi, you just said one good thing and one bad thing."

"You've already mentioned the good news, so what's the bad news?"

"Master."

"The sect leader just summoned all the disciples and told everyone to prepare for battle. The Tiger Fiend Sect's offensive is getting fiercer and fiercer. My batch of inner disciples may also have to join the battle."

This is a battle between two major Golden Core sects.

When Yang Xi talked about this, a hint of nervousness appeared on her face.

Gu Qing frowned slightly upon hearing this.

He looked at Yang Xi, whose cultivation level was only at the eighth level of the Qi Refining Realm, which was the late stage of the Qi Refining Realm. However, in the sect battle at the Golden Core level, she was just a nobody.

"You've been a member of the sect for less than six months, haven't you?"

"Why is even a newcomer like you joining the battle? Has the situation at the Azure Emperor Sword Sect really deteriorated to this point?"

Gu Qing has been staying on the back mountain of Cuiyun Peak these days, cultivating his natal spiritual root.

Gu Qing publicly stated that he was in seclusion for cultivation.

Yang Xilai told him most of the news about the Azure Emperor Sword Sect and other outside information.

"This is really not good!"

"In the past few days, disciples who were injured outside have been returning to heal. Huichun Hall is overcrowded. Many of the senior brothers and sisters with minor injuries even left the sect again the next day."

At this point, Yang Xi felt a chill run down her spine.

These are just the injured senior brothers and sisters; those who perished had no chance of returning.

Flying swords, magical artifacts, even corpses and souls can become someone else's spoils of war. (Currently reading Chapter 113 of the novel, "Deterioration," I'm completely absorbed and unable to tear myself away.)

Or become a member of the Soul Banner.

Or they may become food for zombies and evil creatures.

……

Gu Qing sighed.

War is a great opportunity to make money; when others are fearful, I am greedy.

Murder and arson bring wealth...

If it weren't for the potential risks brought by Han Feng, a Golden Core cultivator, Gu Qing would have really wanted to go to the battlefield and plunder a batch of spirit stones from the Tiger Fiend Sect disciples to cultivate his natal spiritual root.

Pity.

Looking at the somewhat nervous Yang Xi, Gu Qing had a thought, and three dark red sand balls flew out from the Karmic Fire Melting Sand Gourd at his waist.

"Molten Core Prison Suppression!"

"凝".

Before Gu Qing could finish speaking, the three clumps of dark red sand, under the mysterious control of gravity, instantly collapsed into a dark red crystal ball the size of a billiard ball.

With a thought, three streams of dark red hellfire surged forth from the gourd once more.

The karmic flames, like threads, entwined around the crystal ball formed by the minor ultimate skill, "Melting Core Suppressing Prison."

The blazing hellfire seeped quietly through the spiritual patterns on the surface of the crystal ball, quickly merging into it.

The crystal ball trembled slightly.

The yellowish-brown aura inside the crystal ball gradually revealed a dark red hue.

This is an abridged version of the ultimate skill [Hellfire Explosion], which only incorporates hellfire and does not include the profound mysteries of fire attribute.

"Yang Xi".

"Keep these three [Rockburst Beads] safe."

"This item can unleash the attack power of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and can save your life in critical moments."

The three rock burst beads, containing gravity mysteries at the Foundation Establishment level, are compressed to more than ten times the gravity mysteries and fused with second-grade hellfire. If an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator were to be hit by one of these, he would be severely injured, if not killed.

"Oh, right."

"When using rock burst beads, you must be at least 50 meters away."

In fact, even if a Qi Refining Realm cultivator like Yang Xi were to come into contact with a trace of Second-Rank Karmic Fire from dozens of meters away, he would most likely suffer a terrible fate, or even die.

The reason she was allowed to use it from 50 meters away was because that distance would allow her to retreat to a more distant location.

"Thank you, Master."

Yang Xixi happily accepted the three rock burst beads.

She had personally witnessed Gu Qing, at the Qi Refining Realm, forcefully kill a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator from the Tiger Fiend Sect, so she naturally knew that Gu Qing's true combat strength was extremely terrifying.

With three Rockburst Beads by his side, Yang Xi felt much more at ease.

After reporting on the current situation of the sect, Gu Qing then pointed out and corrected many loopholes and shortcomings in her sword technique.

After practicing techniques in actual combat, Yang Xiling finally dragged her exhausted body down the mountain when she was completely drained of her spiritual energy.

"Let the strife outside the mountains go."

"Without cultivating the six-thousand-year-old Pink Jade Sword Realm Bitter Bamboo, I have no means to contend with a Golden Core True Person. I will never leave the sect to go outside and be a freeloader."

Thinking of this, Gu Qing came to the side of his natal spiritual root, took out spirit stones from the storage bag given to him by Yang Xi, and piled them near the main root of the Sword Realm Bitter Bamboo.

The Bitter Bamboo of the Sword Realm seemed to come alive, drawing out roots from the ground and wrapping them around the spirit stones at the base.

The next day.

Purple clouds rise from the east.

Gu Qing sat beneath the Bitter Bamboo in the Sword Realm. As the sun rose, the Bitter Bamboo seemed to have just woken up.

buzzing...

Suddenly, a strange fluctuation emanated from the Bitter Bamboo of the Sword Realm, and Gu Qing suddenly felt an extreme hunger that exploded like a volcano, rushing straight to the top of his head.

It wasn't that Gu Qing was hungry.

It came from his innate spiritual root, the Bitter Bamboo of the Sword Realm.

bang bang bang...

Nearly two thousand spirit stones were piled up at the base of the bitter bamboo, but they were instantly drained of their spiritual energy and turned into puffs of powder that exploded outwards.

"Finally, it's evolved!!"

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