A mortal cultivating immortality can nurture spirit beasts.

Outside Huangfeng Valley in Yue Kingdom

A handsome young man in blue robes was hovering in mid-air on a leaf-shaped flying artifact. He was Lin He, who had just returned from the Tianxing Sect Market.

The reason for using that leaf-shaped flying artifact was to avoid attracting attention. Of course, when traveling, they would still use the flying spirit boat, and only when they approached Yellow Maple Valley would they switch to the leaf-shaped flying artifact.

Although it was just a small detail, Lin He paid close attention to it.

"This has been quite fruitful; we can proceed with the next steps of our plan."

Over the course of ten months, Lin He spent 42 spirit stones to nurture 14 top-level level one demonic beasts, and killed 7 of them to make materials (including the Three-Eyed Fire Wolf, there were still eight spirit beasts left) and sent them to Old Man Xu's shop.

Old Xu's weapon-refining skills were indeed quite good. Apart from a few failed attempts, he successfully refined most of them, producing a total of seventeen magical artifacts, including twelve top-grade artifacts and five high-grade artifacts.

Some of these magical artifacts were bought by Old Man Xu himself, while others were recommended by Old Man Xu to other cultivators. In order to sell them as soon as possible, Lin He specially packaged them together and sold them at a price of 300 spirit stones for top-grade magical artifacts and 100 spirit stones for high-grade magical artifacts, for a total of 4,100 spirit stones.

In addition, after selling the mid-grade and low-grade magic weapons and various materials obtained from Senior Brother Liu and his companion's storage bags at low prices, they also obtained over a hundred spirit stones.

With this, Lin He now has over 4,200 spirit stones, making him a small-time tycoon among Qi Refining cultivators.

But Lin He was not a miser; he had a very good plan for how to use these spirit stones.

With that in mind, Lin He, who had just turned back, prepared to head to the next place. This time, his destination was Huangfeng Valley Market.

"According to the original plot, Han Li should be going to the Yellow Maple Valley market to do a big shopping spree next. I finally managed to gather more than four thousand spirit stones, so I can just intercept this opportunity."

Just as Lin He was preparing to take flight, he encountered a young man with an ordinary appearance and dark skin, who was none other than Han Li!

At this moment, Han Li, riding on a leaf-shaped flying magic artifact, had just flown out of the mountain gate formation of Yellow Maple Valley. He also seemed to be planning to go out. He was taken aback when he saw Lin He, and then subconsciously greeted him.

"Junior Brother Lin, are you also planning to go out? Hmm, your cultivation level..."

Since the last transaction, Lin He and Han Li have developed a little bit of acquaintance and their relationship has improved slightly, but that's all.

Han Li never took the initiative to seek out Lin He, and Lin He never took the initiative to seek out Han Li either; their relationship was neither close nor distant.

After not seeing each other for ten months, Han Li subconsciously used his Heavenly Eye Technique to check and was immediately taken aback.

At this time, Lin He did not hide his cultivation level. After ten months of hard training, with the help of nine bottles of pills that could improve cultivation, his cultivation speed accelerated considerably, and he had actually reached the eleventh level of Qi Refining.

When Lin He last met Han Li, his cultivation level was at the peak of the seventh level of Qi Refining. Now, he has jumped four minor realms in one go. How could Han Li not be surprised?

It should be noted that Han Li's current cultivation level is only the eleventh level of Qi Refining. It took him ten months to advance by one minor realm. This was achieved by eating pills like candy. However, the reason why his cultivation is so slow is that the Yellow Dragon Pill and Golden Marrow Pill are no longer effective for those above the eleventh level of Qi Refining.

"As expected of someone with dual spiritual roots, even with the help of this mysterious little bottle, I'm not as fast as him."

Han Li could only attribute the reason to aptitude, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Junior Brother Lin's cultivation speed is truly astonishing. In just ten months, he has actually crossed four minor realms."

Faced with Han Li's praise, Lin He simply said modestly, "I was able to break through the bottleneck so quickly thanks to the five bottles of pills that Senior Brother Han gave me."

Hearing Lin He mention this matter, Han Li felt a pang of frustration.

To confirm whether the information Lin He gave him was correct, he asked Uncle Ma and Senior Brother Wu, and only then did he realize that he had been tricked.

Many disciples already knew about the forbidden area trial, so Lin He could only trick a lone wolf like Han Li, who was out of touch with the information, with just this one piece of news.

However, Han Li was able to take it all in stride and did not get angry. He had to admit that his opponent was more skilled, and that five bottles of pills were nothing to him.

"I have other matters to attend to, so I'll have to leave now. Goodbye!"

The two were actually quite acquainted. After exchanging a few meaningless words, Han Li took his leave. He had to prepare for the forbidden area trial, which was a more important matter and could not be delayed.

Han Li piloted the leaf-shaped flying magic weapon towards the location of Huangfeng Valley Market.

Ever since he started using the Flying Spirit Boat, Lin He has been quite unimpressed with this leaf-shaped flying artifact, simply because it is too slow.

However, seeing Han Li flying at such a slow speed, Lin He's eyes flashed with joy. He deliberately chose another direction, switched to a flying spirit boat, and made a detour, also heading towards Huangfeng Valley Market.

The flying spirit boat was three times faster than the leaf-shaped magic artifact, so Lin He naturally arrived first.

Huangfeng Valley Market is located in the northeast of the Taiyue Mountains. Because it is relatively close to Yuanwu Kingdom and Yue Kingdom is not in a state of hostility with Yuanwu Kingdom, many cultivators from Yuanwu Kingdom will also go there, bringing a lot of rare goods. Over time, Huangfeng Valley Market has become more and more lively.

Five miles from the market town, the no-fly zone was triggered, forcing Lin He to land and continue on foot.

He deliberately wore a cloak over a grey robe, obscuring his face.

Five miles was no distance for Lin He, and he arrived in no time. He then entered the market through the north gate.

Huangfeng Valley Market has only one street running north to south. The south side is lined with various buildings and shops, most of which belong to Huangfeng Valley, while the other part is rented to other merchants and scattered cultivators who live there year-round.

The north side is left largely empty, reserved for cultivators to set up their own stalls. They only need to hand over one low-grade spirit stone each day.

This measure to encourage business development naturally attracted many cultivators to come here to hunt for treasures, which was also the reason why Lin He entered from the North Gate.

"Let's see if we can find anything good?"

Lin He arrived in the afternoon. There weren't many customers, but quite a few independent cultivators still insisted on setting up stalls here. After all, they had already paid a spirit stone, so it would be a waste not to continue setting up stalls.

His flying spirit boat was much faster than Han Li's leaf-shaped magic weapon, so he wasn't in a hurry to go to the Wanbao Pavilion and planned to browse around here first.

"Come and take a look! These are newly drawn, low-level beginner talismans. They only cost two spirit stones! You won't lose out on them for two spirit stones. You'll be lucky to get one!"

Hearing the familiar hawking lines, Lin He couldn't help but chuckle. He had absolutely no interest in these low-level, basic talismans and simply ignored them.

After walking for a while, Lin He suddenly stopped in front of a street stall.

"Fellow Daoist, are you looking to purchase a spirit beast?"