Only I Have the Law: A Realistic Cultivation Game

Thinking of the money, Xu Zhiyi remembered that when he kicked that Shiba Inu to death today, there seemed to be a notification on the panel that something had dropped.

He opened the storage bag and took a look.

In addition to miscellaneous items such as silver ingots, fish spears, and entrenching tools, there were indeed a few new things inside.

[Item]: Demon Soul

[Type]: Refining Material

Quantity: 1

[Description]: The essence of the dog demon's soul after its death can be used to craft magical artifacts or spiritual weapons.

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[Item]: Demon Blood

[Type]: Materials for weapon crafting, alchemy, and talisman making

Quantity: 10

[Description]: Dog demon blood essence contains a weak demonic power and can be used for alchemy, weapon crafting, and talisman drawing.

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[Item]: Black Dragon Demon Core

[Type]: Materials for refining weapons and alchemy

Quantity: 1

[Description]: The thousand-year-old black dragon perished due to its failure to transform into a dragon. Its demon core contains immense demonic power, which can be used for alchemy, weapon crafting, and also for the advancement of spirit pets and mounts.

Spirit pet?

Mount?

Xu Zhiyi's mind started to wander.

This cultivation game is quite comprehensive. Since it already includes alchemy, weapon crafting, talisman making, and array formation, it naturally cannot be without spirit pets and mounts.

Although these two systems are not yet open, the necessary materials have already been collected in advance.

In addition, the demon blood has been collected.

We're one step closer to getting the Soul-Severing Dart.

Now all that's missing are 3 Xuan Iron Ingots, 1 Nether Stone, and the vertebra of a Water Demon Leader.

The problem is that he has absolutely no clue about these three materials.

Ugh, why doesn't this game have an "auto-pathfinding" function? If only I could click on a quest material and it would immediately show the route to the material's location on the map...

By the way, this crappy game doesn't even have a map function.

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The next morning at five o'clock, Xu Zhiyi was woken up by her biological clock on time.

He rolled out of bed, first circulating the "Primordial Breathing Technique" once, restoring his spiritual energy and making him feel refreshed. Then he put on his sportswear, washed up briefly, and took a large mineral water bottle he had prepared beforehand and went out.

It was just dawn, but the park was already bustling with activity.

People are jogging, walking their dogs, practicing Tai Chi, doing aerobics...

There is never a shortage of people in this world who love life.

Especially the elderly.

Most people work hard when they are young, and only realize the importance of having good health when they get older, and then they start to exercise in a belated manner.

Therefore, most of those who get up early to exercise every day are elderly people.

Very few young people go to the park to exercise early in the morning, and Xu Zhiyi is the only one who goes to the park early in the morning not to exercise, but to collect dew!

He deftly slipped into the bushes, crouched down, and began counting his spoils.

Last night, he made twelve simple dew collection racks using disposable chopsticks, plastic cups, plastic bags, rubber bands, and other materials, and then delivered them to the park under the cover of night.

At this time of year, the temperature difference between day and night is significant, reaching 30 degrees Celsius during the day and dropping below 10 degrees Celsius at night. The air humidity is also high, causing water vapor to condense into dew on plastic bags and then flow into disposable plastic cups under the influence of gravity.

At this moment, Xu Zhiyi walked over and saw that almost every plastic cup was more than half full of dew.

All he had to do was pour the dew into the bottle.

You have obtained 1 piece of Morning Dew.

You have obtained 1 piece of Morning Dew.

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The notification messages kept popping up.

Luckily, he brought a large 1.5-liter mineral water bottle; if it had been a smaller bottle, it definitely wouldn't have fit.

It has to be said that the air humidity in the water towns of Jiangnan is really high!

In the end, these twelve dew collection racks collected a total of nearly 700 milliliters of dew, which is equivalent to 23 units plus a little more in the game.

While it was still early, he squatted down in the bushes and manually collected some dew.

By the time the sun came out, the total amount of dew had reached 25 units.

He collected the dew into his storage bag, bought three fried dough sticks and two tea eggs from the breakfast stall at the park entrance, and then served himself a large bowl of white porridge.

The fried dough sticks are golden in color, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, and as long as an arm. The light beige white porridge is thick, with each grain of rice fully expanded and wrapped in the clear rice soup, emitting wisps of steam.

On the simple little square table, there were also free diced radish and pickled mustard greens.

These two are his favorites.

The diced radish is crisp, salty, and slightly spicy, perfect for eating with fried dough sticks; while the pickled mustard greens are finely chopped, glistening with oil, and have a salty and savory flavor with a hint of fermentation sourness. Stir the pickled mustard greens into the porridge with a ladle, then tear a fried dough stick into small pieces and soak them in the porridge.

That little flavor was absolutely amazing!

After finishing breakfast, Xu Zhiyi rode a shared bicycle straight to the Jingge Ginseng and Deer Antler Market in the north of the city.

He found this market online last night. It is said to be the largest wholesale distribution center for ginseng and deer antler medicinal materials in Wuxi, and many Chinese medicine shops get their medicinal materials from here.

He had only refined one pill experimentally before, and the materials were a bit expensive, but if he wanted to refine pills long-term in the future, the wholesale market would be the most cost-effective option.

When he arrived at the market, he discovered that the Jinge Ginseng and Deer Antler Market was much larger than he had imagined.

The variety of signs is dazzling.

From Northeast ginseng and deer antler shops to wild ginseng from Changbai Mountain, cordyceps from XZ, and deer antler specialty stores... in short, all kinds of medicinal herbs from all over the country, whether you've heard of them or not, are available here!

Xu Zhiyi arrived early; many shops had just opened.

He started browsing from the very first store, only asking about the prices of ginseng and lingzhi.

Most of the vendors in the market are honest and stick to their prices. Occasionally, however, there are some dishonest vendors who, seeing that the vendor is young, will introduce him to some ginseng that is displayed on the counter and priced at six thousand six or eight thousand eight.

Without saying a word, he simply reached out and touched it.

The information immediately came to mind:

You have obtained 1 ordinary ginseng.

With such a unique skill, there's no way he could be fooled.

After looking around, he found a store with relatively affordable prices.

This is a 15-year-old wild ginseng, grade 2 according to national inspection, with a certificate. It costs 2200 yuan per piece, which is slightly more expensive than buying it online, but the ginseng is genuine and of the highest quality.

He then discussed wholesale with the boss, and the final price was set at 1800 per tube.

However, each order must contain at least 10 units.

The same goes for Ganoderma lucidum. A high-quality Ganoderma lucidum costs 1500 yuan per piece, and the minimum order is 10 pieces.

You can get an additional 3% discount if you don't get an invoice.

Xu Zhiyi immediately bought ten portions of ginseng and lingzhi. She checked each one individually to confirm that they were all of "top quality" before scanning the code to pay.

Last time he bought materials online, one set cost almost five thousand yuan!

The ten sets of alchemy materials only cost 32,000, which saved a lot of money.

After leaving the market, he secretly put all the alchemy materials into his storage bag when no one was looking, and then rode his bicycle to Nanchansi Pedestrian Street.

Last time, due to time constraints and numerous tasks, he didn't have time to search carefully. This time, he has only one goal: to find the missing material for setting up a basic spirit-gathering array—high-grade peach wood.

Upon arriving at Nanchansi Temple, he went straight to the antique and collectible area.

There are many peach wood bracelets, peace pendants, ornaments, and several old-fashioned peach wood swords, which are said to be made from peach wood struck by lightning a hundred years ago. They even have scorch marks on the surface, and they look quite authentic.

But Xu Zhiyi could tell that this thing was electric-roasted just by touching it!

However, perseverance pays off. After touching peach wood products for more than half an hour, Xu Zhiyi finally found the top-quality peach wood he had been longing for.

It was a wooden pen holder, dark in color, with rough carving. It was just a few lines carved casually, and it looked ordinary with nothing special about it.

The stall owner didn't consider it a valuable item either, and just casually placed it in a corner.

When Xu Zhiyi inquired, the stall owner only asked for two hundred yuan.

After some haggling, Xu Zhiyi finally got the pen holder for only sixty yuan.

He scanned the code to pay and carefully put the pen holder into his backpack.

When I left, I felt lightheaded.

This time, he really got a great deal!

To others, this pen holder may be neither an antique nor made by a famous artist, and therefore has no collectible value whatsoever, and is naturally not worth much money.

Sixty yuan is too much!

But for Xu Zhiyi, this is one of the materials for the [Basic Spirit Gathering Array]!

Without it, we can't set up the formation!

Without it, the mission cannot be completed!

Its value cannot be measured in money at all!

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