Xuantian Zhenren smiled bitterly. "Junior Brother, you managed to exchange for so many spirit items on your own. I'm representing an entire sect, but my gains are slightly more than yours. How can I accept this!"
Xuantian Zhenren sighed. The curfew in the underground palace was about to end, so Xuantian Zhenren excused himself.
Just as Lu Ping was about to send him off, Xuantian Zhenren suddenly turned around. "This time, Junior Sister Qi returned to Tianling Mountain with a piece of news. Uncle-Master Tianshu has come out of seclusion."
Lu Ping paused. He couldn't remember when Tianshu Laozu had appeared in Zhenling. Then, his expression changed. Tianshu Laozu was Xuantian Zhenren before he reached Dharma Manifestation.
Lu Ping looked at Xuantian Zhenren, who nodded. "Uncle-Master Tianshu reached Dharma Manifestation three years ago. After that, he went into seclusion for more than a year to consolidate his cultivation. After that, he took over Uncle-Master Tianqin's position on Huang Li Island and intimidated the North Sea monsters!"
Lu Ping nodded solemnly. "I'll get back as soon as possible!"
After sending Xuantian Zhenren off, Lu Ping sat quietly in the small room. He didn't refine his inner Yuan, but no one knew what he was thinking. After a while, he started preparing for the third day, which was also the last day of the underground palace's spirit item trade fair, to exchange for the spirit items.
One low-Earth-class and two low-Mystic-class spirit items. This time, Lu Ping decided to switch to the most frugal mode. Especially after hearing that Xuantian Zhenren had already exchanged for twenty to thirty Mystic-class spirit items, he realized that for ordinary cultivators in Zhenling, advancing to Core Forging was already an extremely difficult thing.
For most cultivators, including the Heavenly Mystic Sect, the Five Holy Lands, and the Crystal Palace, reaching the Blood Condensation Realm was already an impressive achievement. Advancing to the Core Forging Realm meant that most cultivators had exhausted their potential and had no more room for improvement.
Among the disciples who were able to advance to the Core Forging stage, those who were able to advance to the third layer of the Core Forging stage and touch the barrier of the Mid Core Forging stage were considered to be extremely lucky.
If these people wanted to advance to the middle stage of the Core Forging realm, then an earth-tier spirit treasure was as difficult to touch as a star in the sky, and a mystic spirit treasure was something that could only be discovered by luck.
In their eyes, being able to advance to the middle stage of the Core Forging stage and become the backbone of the sect was already a blessing from the heavens. As for whether it was a low-grade or mid-grade mystic spirit treasure, it didn't matter much to them.
The earth-tier spirit items that Lu Ping had previously focused on were, in fact, only those who could at least become Zhenling's direct disciple, or even a direct disciple. Only these people could aim for a high-grade mystic spirit treasure on their first attempt, and at least a mid-grade earth-tier spirit treasure on their second attempt.
In this way, during the third smelting of Heaven and Earth Spirit Objects, there would be a slight chance of smelting a Heaven Level Spirit Object and achieving a seventh-grade Golden Core. At this time, cultivators would have a little hope of reaching the Dharma Realm.
Apart from that, for most Core Forging cultivators, the spirit items that were suitable for them were not earth-tier spirit items, but mystic spirit items.
When it came to arranging the treasures that could be used to exchange for spirit items, Lu Ping was in a bit of a dilemma. Without the restriction breaking talismans and the Minor Forging Spirit Pills, it would be difficult to exchange other things for spirit items.
The Spirit Water Cultivating Pills that had not been exchanged yesterday were exchanged by Lu Ping for twelve high-grade mystic spirit items instead of one high-grade earth-tier spirit item.
Although twelve high-grade mystic spirit items were technically the same as one high-grade earth-tier spirit item, no cultivator would be stupid enough to exchange one high grade spirit stone for one hundred high-grade spirit stones. The difficulty of finding twelve high-grade mystic spirit items was definitely much harder than finding one high-grade earth-tier spirit item.
This was also because the five Spirit Water Cultivating Pills had not been exchanged yesterday. Otherwise, why would Lu Ping have exchanged the earth-tier spirit items for twelve high-grade mystic spirit items?
Lu Ping thought for a moment, and then took out a jade box from his storage ring.
He opened the jade box, and a round, purple-gold pill appeared in the middle of the jade box.
Lu Ping placed the jade box in the middle of the stone table. This was a ten-year longevity pill that he had refined himself. It was enough to exchange for a spirit item.
This ten-year longevity pill was marked by Lu Ping as a low-grade heaven-tier spirit item.
Something like a longevity pill was a priceless treasure for a cultivator who had reached the end of his or her lifespan.
To a Dharma adept, ten years was enough for them to do many things.
In fact, in the cultivation world, there were fifteen and twenty year longevity pill recipes. It was just that these high-grade longevity pill recipes all required a main ingredient, which was the mid-grade heaven-tier spirit item, the Thousand Wonder Dew.
This was also why the mid-grade heaven-tier Thousand Wonder Dew was sometimes worth as much as a high-grade heaven-tier spirit item.
In fact, in the cultivation world, there was also a high-grade longevity pill recipe, which was the thirty-year longevity pill recipe. Legend had it that this recipe was passed down by Taoist Gui, one of the Seventh Patriarch of the Heavens.
This recipe had not appeared in the cultivation world for many years. Although there were rumors that this recipe was actually kept by some holy land, many people believed that this recipe had long been lost in the cultivation world.
Lu Ping himself had used two drops of the Thousand Wonder Dew in an attempt to refine a higher-grade longevity pill. However, he had only managed to refine two fifteen-year longevity pills. This caused Lu Ping to be very disheartened, and he had not used the Thousand Wonder Dew to refine pills ever since.
Lu Ping searched around in the Golden House for a while. When he pulled his hand back, there was a large, juicy, red-skinned peach in his palm.
Lu Ping weighed the big peach in his hand. In the end, he put it back and took out two walnut-sized golden fruits.
All these years, Lu Ping had not used the Azure Wood Pure Jade Fruit, the White Jade Lotus Seed, the White Jade Lotus Root, or the other spiritual treasures to refine pills to strengthen the physical body. The main reason was that Lu Ping had always had enough golden nuts to concoct the Golden Firmament Pills.
The golden nuts that Lu Ping obtained from the Seven Star Grotto-Heaven and the golden nuts from the tree had been used up long ago. However, for the past hundred years, Lu Ping had been meticulously managing the space in the Golden House. He had moved the spirit vein, spread the Living Soil, buried the Living Soil, and so on, which greatly shortened the time needed for the golden nuts to ripen. The two golden nuts that Lu Ping was holding in his hand were the golden nuts that had matured again.
The effect of the golden nuts on the physical body was naturally not as good as the Azure Wood Pure Jade Fruit, let alone the White Jade Lotus Seed, the Bloody Skeleton Flower, and other spiritual treasures.
However, the golden nuts that could strengthen the physical body of a cultivator were still a rare treasure to the Dharma adepts. Lu Ping immediately indicated that the two golden nuts could be exchanged for two mid-grade earth-level spiritual items.
Actually, at this point, Lu Ping had already understood that in order to truly exchange for spiritual items at this trade fair, the best way was to target the Dharma adepts' needs. The other Core Forging adepts might not even have solved the problem of refining their own spiritual items, so how could they easily exchange the few spiritual items they had on hand?
However, it was different for the Dharma adepts. Most of the spiritual items no longer had any direct impact on the Dharma adepts' level of practice, and it just so happened that most of the spiritual items in the world of practice were in the hands of the Dharma adepts. Hence, in order to truly exchange for a spiritual item, one had to target the Dharma adepts who had come to participate in the trade fair.
Just looking at the Spirit-Calming Incense that Lu Ping had placed on the stone table yesterday was enough to illustrate the problem. Twelve incense sticks had been exchanged for a low-grade heaven-level spiritual item.
Lu Ping dared to bet his own level of practice that no Core Forging adept would exchange a heaven-level spiritual item for a few incense sticks. Even though these incense sticks were also rare treasures in the world of practice, only Dharma adepts would use heaven-level spiritual items to exchange for these luxurious items.
Lu Ping then took out three pieces of Spirit-Calming Incense from the incense burner and marked them with the same price of a low-grade heaven-level spiritual item. However, when he thought about it, he felt that it was too high. Although the Spirit-Calming Incense was more valuable than the Spirit-Calming Incense, in actual terms, one Spirit-Calming Incense could only be exchanged for two or three pieces of Spirit-Calming Incense.
Hence, Lu Ping erased the previous markings and marked them with the words "Exchange for one high-grade earth-level and mid-grade earth-level spiritual item each."
Because Lu Ping had changed his mind this time, he wanted to change his main spiritual items from earth-level to a large number of black-level spiritual items. Hence, the prices of the items that Lu Ping had obtained from the other adepts were lower this time, and they were all targeted at low-grade black-level spiritual items. This made Lu Ping feel as if he was dumping his goods at a low price on the last day of the trade fair.
After decorating his own exhibition room, Lu Ping circulated his inner Yuan in his blood for a full cycle. On the last day of the underground trade fair, the Tianxuan Sect's morning bell rang.
Lu Ping left his own room and walked towards the other exhibition rooms. Although Lu Ping had seen many of the items on display in the other rooms over the past two days, he had seen many new things. However, there were hundreds of exhibition rooms in the underground palace, and the items on display were constantly changing every day. In fact, Lu Ping could not even see thirty to forty percent of the items on display.
It was just that Lu Ping had already used up most of his bargaining chips, and he could only look at the items that he wanted to see. If he wanted to exchange for them, he would not have the strength to do so.
Lu Ping saw with his own eyes that there was a high-grade alchemy furnace that was of decent quality in a small room. He was surprised that such an item was being sold. However, before he could go forward and ask about it, a cultivator had hurriedly exchanged it with him.
Not only that, but yesterday, Lu Ping had heard that not only alchemy furnaces, but also alchemy furnace restrictions had also appeared at the trade fair. As for other things such as spirit nurturing treasures, dharma pills, secret refining techniques, inheritance techniques, and so on, there were countless of them.
Lu Ping shook his head and was about to walk in another direction when he vaguely heard a few words of conversation between two cultivators who were hurriedly walking past him. There were words like "Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire", "Heavenly Abode Restriction", and so on. Lu Ping's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, and he followed behind the two cultivators and walked in another direction.
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