Gou Zai Liang Jie Dao Wen Cheng Xian

As they spoke, a barely perceptible primordial aura was drawn into the strange magic seal in Elder Qian's hand. The moment the primordial aura entered the seal, the entire seal shone brightly.

Dense patterns rose up, and countless mysterious lights flowed around them. However, these mysterious lights appeared quickly and disappeared just as quickly. In the blink of an eye, only about ten streams of light remained in the Spirit Testing Seal.

Only three beams of light were truly bright inside; the rest of the spiritual light was very dim.

Old Qian withdrew his hand, and the magic seal in his hand also dissipated. He closed the lid and casually dispersed the magic array on the wooden box.

"This spiritual ginseng is somewhat similar to the purple jade ginseng, with about 80% of its effects. However, this spiritual ginseng is milder in nature than the purple jade ginseng, making it more suitable for refining nourishing elixirs. It can also be used to neutralize the effects of other medicines and to nourish those who are seriously injured."

As he spoke, Elder Qian's palms flickered, and wisps of spiritual energy circulated, transforming into a small array. Chu Xuan could recognize a small part of it, which was somewhat similar to the spirit-sealing array in the Federation's textbook. However, the array set up by Elder Qian was far more complex than the one in the textbook.

As soon as he finished speaking, the array in Old Qian's hand took shape and landed on the wooden box. The entire wooden box was instantly covered with array patterns, directly isolating the spiritual energy inside and outside.

Compared to the previous spirit-sealing array, which even Chu Xuan found rudimentary, this one was a complete upgrade.

After doing all this, Old Qian looked up and said, "I always speak fairly and I won't cheat you. This wooden box is worth fifty contribution points. As for this spiritual herb, it's not worth much in terms of grade alone, but it can be used as an auxiliary medicine to increase the effect of the third-grade pill. I'll give you five hundred contribution points for that."

"So, are you selling or not?"

"Sell!"

Chu Xuan agreed without hesitation.

When Chu Xuan was exchanging for the Longevity Pill, he had seen the Federation's exchange list. In addition to exchanging for spiritual medicines used by mortals, contribution points could also be used to exchange for cultivation resources.

Almost any cultivation resource that the immortal mansion has can be exchanged, even spirit stones.

However, spirit stones are very precious in the Federation itself, and their exchange price remains high. Using contribution points to exchange for spirit stones would be a pure loss.

The real purpose of contribution points is to exchange them for the Federation's resources, including spiritual artifacts and treasures that almost no one uses, sealed array flags and array plates, and various puppets.

These are all useful for exploring secret realms, but completely useless to the Federation. Exchanging contribution points for these is the correct way to use contribution points.

These items are not considered valuable in the Federation, but if they were taken to the territory of the Xuanming Sect, their value would increase several times over.

This round trip increased the value by at least several dozen times!

At this moment, the allure of inter-world trade was on full display before Chu Xuan. Resources were arriving far too quickly, especially from two worlds that were perfectly complementary.

And this was just a trial item he casually picked up. If it were a more advanced resource... At this moment, Chu Xuan's breathing became somewhat heavy.

However, Chu Xuan quickly suppressed his thoughts. He believed that everything should be based on cultivation, and acquiring resources was only for the purpose of cultivation. He should not put the cart before the horse.

Cultivation is the most important thing. Resources should be earned, but cultivation cannot be neglected.

Seeing that Chu Xuan had calmed down again, Elder Qian nodded in satisfaction. "Not bad, you can tell what's important. Kid, keep up the good work. What's yours will eventually be yours. Once your cultivation level is high, the entire secret realm will be yours."

"Some youngsters, after getting a chance, become complacent and forget about cultivation, only to die tragically in the secret realm, ending up with nothing."

"Thank you for your guidance, Elder Qian." Chu Xuan immediately bowed upon hearing this.

"Just a few words, take it with a grain of salt. If you find anything good in the future, don't forget to come find me."

"must!"

After leaving the External Affairs Hall and bidding farewell to Senior Sister An, Chu Xuan returned to his cave dwelling.

Including the contribution points I had left, I had a total of 1,100 contribution points. I'll see if I can exchange them for a suitable formation.

Open the exchange list, select the formation category, and soon a large number of formations will appear before Chu Xuan's eyes, with countless different kinds of formations.

These array formations and array plates were all sealed away by the Federation in the past. They are all of very high grade. However, after so much time has passed, they can probably only exert the strength of first or second grade arrays.

There are even specialized custom modules that can provide materials and have the Federation's array masters customize specific arrays.

Chu Xuan glanced at it and skipped it. This was the least resource-efficient method. The most cost-effective method was to use the array plates sealed by the Federation.

After all, to the Federation, these array plates are nothing but garbage, gathering dust in a corner. Even if they can be used even a little bit, it's a bonus.

After all, it's about making use of waste; if it can be used, it's not a loss.

Looking through the list of formations in front of him, Chu Xuan was filled with emotion. The formations on it were mostly at least fourth-order, with no upper limit. There were even eighth-order formations that corresponded to cultivators at the Mahayana stage!

Moreover, there are quite a few fourth-order formations. Only a few fourth-order formation plates were left behind because they were easy to carry. Most of the formation plates have long been ruined. The mainstream formations are all fifth-order and sixth-order.

At this moment, these once-renowned mountain-protecting formations were being casually picked and chosen by a mere Qi Refining cultivator. The scene was truly somewhat surreal.

Such dreamlike scenes are not uncommon in the Federation. This situation is common when there are fewer magical artifacts and formations than cultivators.

Moreover, these formations are ridiculously cheap, with the cheapest costing only ten or twenty thousand contribution points, although Chu Xuan can't afford them right now.

However, a single Rank 1 superior-grade Scrophularia can be exchanged for 500 contribution points. In other words, you only need 20 Scrophularia to accumulate 10,000 contribution points.

Twenty top-grade first-level spiritual herbs can be exchanged for a fourth-level formation.

Even though this fourth-order formation is not a large formation covering tens or hundreds of miles, and it has no formation flags, but only a formation plate, it is the simplest formation among the fourth-order formations.

Moreover, it had been sealed for a long time, and the spiritual energy of the array plate had dropped significantly. Its power had weakened several times over, and it was probably only at the level of a second-tier array.

But that's still shocking enough.

Twenty top-grade first-tier spiritual herbs can be exchanged for a second-tier formation. It's too cheap. Moreover, as long as there is enough spiritual energy from heaven and earth to nourish this "second-tier" formation, its power can be gradually restored and enhanced.

With proper care, it should be able to recover to the third level, if not completely restored.

Twenty top-grade spiritual herbs in exchange for a third-tier formation—this is an absolute steal! Even snatching spirit stones wouldn't be as fast as this.

The world where the Federation and Xuanming Sect are located is like a monopolistic trade between a technologically advanced but resource-poor country and a resource-rich but technologically underdeveloped country in my previous life.

This is practically free spirit stones!