This is a cultivation game, but its operation is terrible.

After thinking for a moment, Jiang Liu switched back to the Immortal Cultivation Era and directly opened the shop to search.

Sure enough, in the [Items] section, he found an item called the Qiankun Bag.

【Small Qiankun Bag】: Low-grade functional magic item, 10 storage slots, price 68 spirit stones.

【Great Universe Bag】: A superior functional magic item with 50 storage slots, priced at 680 spirit stones.

The Qiankun Bag is used to store items, just like a backpack. It's probably listed in the store so that players can use it in real life.

"Honestly, it would be so much better if you just let me bring the backpack into reality."

Jiang Liu muttered to himself, spent 0.68 spirit stones to buy a small Qiankun bag, put the Chaoyang Sword into the Qiankun bag, and then put the Qiankun bag back into his game backpack.

Perfectly safe!

That's just too much of a hassle.

After synchronizing his game realm and playing with the magical artifact for a while, it was already past nine o'clock at night, but he was not sleepy at all. He was still full of energy and vigor, so vigorous that his yang energy was standing straight up.

"How about we go to the rooftop and practice our Fire-Blowing Palm technique?"

Jiang Liu hesitated. After his game character synchronized with reality, the technique of the Fire-Blowing Palm appeared in his mind. He was itching to try it, but he was afraid that he would set the house on fire with one palm. So he decided to set the rooftop terrace as his destination.

After thinking about it for a while, he couldn't resist the temptation of magic, so he left the room, put on his shoes, and went straight to the rooftop.

The rooftop was dimly lit, with only a few slivers of moonlight shining through. Dark clouds obscured the starry sky, and in the distance, the high-rise buildings were already brightly lit.

Even cultivators shouldn't expect to leave work at nine o'clock.

Jiang Liu stood on the deserted rooftop, a gentle breeze brushing his cheeks. He recalled the incantation of the Fire-Blowing Palm technique in his mind, raised his palm, and a blazing flame gathered in his palm. With each breath, spiritual energy surged.

Fire-blowing Palm!

The moment the intense heat from his palm reached its limit, Jiang Liu slapped his palm into the void. A blazing flame burst forth from his palm, shooting out several meters like a fire serpent before exploding in the void, as dazzling as fireworks, yet fleeting like fireworks.

"It only sprayed a few meters away."

Jiang Liu looked at the vanished flames with some disappointment in his eyes. He didn't know how powerful they were, but their momentum was slightly lacking, and they had consumed a lot of energy.

He sensed the emptiness of spiritual energy within his body; with his current amount of spiritual energy, he estimated he could only use the Fire-Blowing Palm technique three times.

"A mixed three-elemental spiritual root is still too rubbish."

Jiang Liu couldn't help but sigh. With his mixed spiritual roots of three elements, his spiritual energy was extremely poor, and the power of his spells was also relatively weak.

If it had a top-grade fire-type spiritual root, the power of the Fire-Blowing Palm could be increased by at least two times.

Top-grade spiritual roots—that's what we should get our hands on first!

Jiang Liu felt a surge of anger at the thought of the low probability of winning in the card pool. He unleashed two more Fire-Blowing Palms to deplete his spiritual energy before finally leaving the rooftop and returning home.

After returning home, he didn't sleep. Instead, he sat cross-legged on the bed and focused intently on circulating the Absorption Technique.

Even a mosquito's leg is meat, and what era are we living in that we're still sleeping? He's just not going to sleep until he ascends to immortality.

A night passed in the blink of an eye.

It was bright.

Jiang Liu slowly opened his eyes, exhaled a breath of turbid air, his eyes bright and gleaming, and glanced at his cultivation realm after switching to the Immortal Cultivation Era.

Qi Refining Level 4 (1844/8000).

My cultivation points increased by over a thousand!

This speed was truly beyond his expectations; the title, the Spirit Jade, and the Absorption Technique greatly enhanced his cultivation speed.

In particular, he also had a real-life version of the Spirit Jade on his body. Although it was unknown whether it could be stacked twice, there was no doubt that with the Spirit Jade there, the concentration of spiritual energy around him had increased, which could be considered to have accelerated his cultivation speed.

"Little things add up, so I can't play games with Li Dongze anymore..."

Jiang Liu stretched and muttered to himself, feeling extremely relaxed and comfortable as his bones crackled and popped all over his body.

His body, which had never been used to exercise, was full of power, and even his muscles were slightly bulging. The benefits of cultivating immortality were gradually becoming apparent.

After getting out of bed and leaving the room, he went to the bathroom to wash up. As soon as he entered the living room, he saw his energetic grandfather waving at him.

"Liu Liu, come here and I'll give you spirit stones."

"Grandpa, you've signed in."

Jiang Liu took two steps over and saw his grandfather take out a handful of white, translucent pebbles from his pocket and place them on the coffee table.

Is this a spirit stone?

This was the first time he had ever seen spirit stones in real life. Just as he was about to reach out and grab one to take a look, his hand suddenly froze. He counted the number of spirit stones on the coffee table and exclaimed in surprise, "Master, why are there 15 spirit stones?"

There are 15 spirit stones on the coffee table. Could it be that I got double the reward for signing in today?

"hey-hey."

With a sly grin, Jiang said, "I took over the spirit stones from your neighbor, Grandma Zhao."

"I taught her for two hours, and she's even dumber than me!"

Chapter 9 Launch Events and Limited-Time Gift Packs

Grandma Zhao next door is a single woman who has never married or had children. She has watched Jiang Liu grow up, and the relationship between the neighbors is quite good. When Grandpa Jiang's legs were better a couple of years ago, he even danced square dancing with Grandma Zhao for a few years.

When Grandpa Jiang heard from his grandson that the spirit stone was a good thing, he ran to Grandma Zhao's house at three or four in the morning and asked for the spirit stone.

Around three or four in the morning, for more than two hours...

Jiang Liu felt something was off, but he was quickly overwhelmed by the unexpected surprise and gave Grandpa Jiang a thumbs up: "It has to be Grandpa."

He received exactly what he needed; the 15 spirit stones proved invaluable in his hands, and he was deeply grateful to his grandfather.

"Wait a minute, why are there 15?"

As Jiang Liu put the spirit stones back into his backpack, he suddenly paused and asked Jiang Ye, "Weren't there 10 of you two?"

"She also has yesterday's."

Jiang replied, "The person who came up to buy spirit stones yesterday taught Grandma Zhao for over an hour but couldn't teach her, so he left because he thought it was a waste of time."

Jiang Liu: "......"

It has to be Grandma Zhao.

Jiang Liu ate a quick bite of breakfast and went back to his room. With his daily check-in bonus of 20 spirit stones, which was equivalent to 2000 spirit stones, he was quite wealthy.

As soon as he logged into the Immortal Cultivation Era, a large page popped up. The title displayed on it made his face darken, and he immediately had a bad feeling.

[The first phase of the cultivation event is here!]

[Build a perfect foundation by laying foundation stones!]

Lay the foundation and get ahead of the competition today!

Behind the striking artistic title is a backdrop of raging flames, in which a human-shaped black figure sits cross-legged. The outline of the black figure emits a faint glow, as if a person is being forged in a furnace.

Here it comes, here it comes!

The launch event is here!

Jiang Liu was puzzled. How come the interface of such a game, which is full of pay-to-win elements, is so clean? There are no launch events or limited-time gift packs, and even the items sold in the store are normal.

Now it's here. Let me tell you very clearly, it's not that it doesn't exist, it's just that we didn't want to make a mess of things on the first day of the server launch.

They'll make a good impression on you on the first day, but they won't pretend on the second.

Okay, I expected this.

Jiang Liu, who had already been deeply poisoned by pay-to-win mobile games, remained completely unmoved and directly opened the launch event to check it out.

【Forging Perfect Foundation in the Furnace】: During the event, adding foundation stones to the furnace will increase the progress bar for perfect foundation building. When the progress bar is full, you will achieve perfect foundation building upon breaking through the foundation building period.

Foundation Stone Acquisition Conditions: Foundation Stones can be obtained with a chance through story trials, or through limited-time gift packs.

Progress bar: 0/100%.

On the right side of the event page, there was a gift pack icon, which Jiang Liu casually clicked to take a look.

[Foundation Stone Gift Pack 1]: 10 Foundation Stones, Price: 98 Spirit Stones.

[Foundation Stone Gift Pack 2]: 40 Foundation Stones, Price: 328 Spirit Stones.

[Foundation Stone Gift Pack 3]: 100 Foundation Stones, Price: 648 Spirit Stones.

"Three tiers would be the most suitable..."

Jiang Liu silently calculated, but instead of directly purchasing the third-tier gift pack, he tentatively bought the first-tier gift pack first.

Original price 98 spirit stones, now 0.98 spirit stones.

After purchasing it, he immediately threw the foundation stone into the furnace and then glanced at the progress bar.

That one glance chilled him to the bone.

Progress bar: 1/100%.

One percent!

"Oh my god! It takes 1000 Foundation Stones to fill the slots!"

"Damn, did their operations team lose their minds? Who can afford to invest in this?!"

Jiang Liu's face turned green after taking a look, and he couldn't help but curse. How many spirit stones are 1000 Foundation Building Stones? 6480 spirit stones!

Even if he were to come and invest, it would still cost 64.8 spirits...

Huh?

It doesn't seem like there are that many?

Oh, I'm offering a 0.1 discount. Sorry, my voice was too loud.

Just consider this me speaking on behalf of other players.

Jiang Liu's anger came and went quickly, but when he realized that the expense was nothing to him, he immediately became happy, even feeling that the cost was too low and that it would be better if it were a little higher.

A perfect Foundation Establishment cultivator only needs a few thousand spirit stones? That's underestimating the perfection of Foundation Establishment cultivators!

It would cost at least tens of thousands of spirit stones!

"You can also obtain it through story trials, I'm afraid many people will break through the story trials."