Heaven Refining physique-Chapter 108: Regrouping

Although spirit beasts did not use spirit stones, they knew that they were valuable items, so collecting them was natural if they found them.

It is said that spirit beasts in the upper realms can transform into humans. They are called demons, and demons use spirit stones in a manner similar to how humans do. It was just totally useless for them right now, but in the future, they might reach that level, so collecting them was natural.

The amount of spirit stones this beast had was only possible if it had found a spirit mine, and it should be near its territory. This was big news for them. If they could gain access to this mine, would they even need to sell pills to acquire spirit stones?

Well, technically, they would still auction them, as there would never be enough spirit stones with Jiang Hao and Ming Yue here, but that would happen in future.

And right now it would really be an unimaginable help for them if they could gain access to this spirit mine.

Jiang Hao looked at her shocked expression and did not know what caused it. After all, there was no way she was shocked merely because they got a lot of spirit stones, right?

If it were someone else, he might have believed that they were shocked because of how much they got, but in the case of Huan Caiyi, it was impossible.

There was no way she could ever be satisfied, no matter how much they got.

"What? Is there something on my face?"

"Cough... it is surprising to see you get shocked, Senior, just by seeing spirit stones."

"It is not that. The reason I am shocked is because this beast definitely knew the location of a spirit mine. That was the reason it gathered so many spirit stones in the first place.

Darn it, we should have captured at least one of the beasts from that territory. That way we could have gotten the location of the mine."

Jiang Hao nodded in understanding but was also speechless. It was not like they knew about this before, so not capturing any beast was logical. Why curse over it now?

"There was no spirit mine inside that territory, at least" Yin Ni said.

Jiang Hao nodded internally, but how could he explain this to Senior Huan? He could not tell her that it was again a ability of his ring.

"We can just hope the other beasts weren’t killed by that territory lord in a fit of rage. We should visit there once more later to check."

Jiang Hao could only nod. If they captured any beast, they could use Sister Meiying to communicate with it. Although not all beasts spoke the same language, they understood each other well enough.

They sorted out everything. There were a total of seven million spirit stones, thirteen grade seven spirit herbs, among which two were late stage, three were mid stage, and the rest were early stage.

Among all those spirit herbs, there was not a single herb of the thunder element. This proved one thing: the territory lord definitely had a thunder-attributed bloodline, and the herb they picked from the mountain might have been very important to it.

There were a total of three hundred and four grade six and one thousand and fourteen grade five spirit herbs. As for the blood cores, not a single one was grade seven. They had thirteen peak grade six, thirty-four late stage, fifty-eight mid stage, and one hundred and seven early stage blood cores. There was nothing below that.

The total number of resources they obtained this time was truly tremendous.

After four days, Zhi Hui and Ming Yue arrived.

"Welcome back."

Huan Caiyi welcomed them.

Jiang Hao also came out. He had been cultivating for the past four days. He was still a little away from reaching mid stage, as he was consuming low-level spirit herbs to balance out his affinities.

"When did you guys arrive?"

Zhi Hui inquired.

"Four days ago. So, how was it? Got anything?"

"Although I would not say it was awesome, it was still better than expected. We even got some blood cores too."

"You shouldn’t have taken that risk."

"Don’t worry. We stumbled upon two spirit beasts fighting each other. After both were injured, it was an easy matter to kill them."

"Fine. Let’s go. I have some important news to share."

Zhi Hui moved towards the treasury with Huan Caiyi and Ming Yue following behind.

Jiang Hao was about to leave, as he knew what Huan Caiyi would talk about, when Ming Yue beckoned to him, so he followed too.

"Was it fun, Junior Brother?"

Jiang Hao knew her well enough by now to understand that she was asking about their expedition. But he did not know how he should answer. Was it fun? Maybe for others it might have been, but for him, it was not.

It was not that he disliked it; everything was just normal for him. The point of it being fun or boring did not even come to his mind. His only goal was to secure as many resources as they could.

The only time he ever felt excitement was when fighting stronger spirit beasts, which pushed him to the edge.

"I guess so," he answered, according to how anyone else would have felt.

"As boring as always, Junior Brother," Ming Yue shook her head. She had expected this answer.

Jiang Hao did not say anything to refute it, as he had heard it many times.

"So, let me phrase my question differently, Junior Brother. Did something unexpected and exciting happen while you were out there?"

"Well, if you consider us being able to loot a territory lord’s resources from its cave abode, then yes, Senior Sister."

"What? You guys were able to loot the treasury of a territory lord? How?"

Jiang Hao sighed. Now he would have to explain the process, but just as he was about to, Huan Caiyi spoke.

"I will explain. Come inside first."

He sighed in relief, as it was a hassle to explain anything to Senior Sister. She would ask even more questions, which would extend their conversation even further, and he preferred silence.

When Zhi Hui and Ming Yue saw the amount of spirit stones along with the spirit herbs and blood cores, they were stunned too.

Zhi Hui came to the same conclusion as Huan Caiyi regarding the spirit stones, while Ming Yue was stunned at the sheer amount of resources present in front of her.

"You must have guessed it, right?"

Zhi Hui nodded at Huan Caiyi’s comment.

"So, the location of the mine?"

"We don’t know yet. We will go one more time into that territory, but later. Right now, it will definitely be in its angriest state possible.

After all, we first stole its favorite spirit herb, then its treasury, and also killed its concubines, perhaps. Who knows how much ruckus it would be creating in its territory?"

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Ming Yue could not help but exclaim.

"Well... whatever," Huan Caiyi just shrugged.

"Since we have enough resources, we don’t have to go outside anymore for time being. I am going to cultivate with perfect-grade pills, It won’t be long before I reach the peak of Grade Six."

Zhi Hui nodded too. She was thinking the same.

They both went to their cave abodes to cultivate.

Usually, cultivators take pills to successfully break through to the next stage or realm. As pills are too costly to use merely for cultivation.

When you take pills at the stage of breakthrough, even if the pill is absorbed in small amounts, the breakthrough process starts, and refining the pill becomes easy at that stage as heavens itself helps you refine it. Since most of the qi comes from the pill itself, even with lesser absorption speed, you can successfully break through.

But if you take pills to cultivate normally, you have to refine them yourself, which takes more time—days, in fact. But it is still much faster than absorbing natural qi.

And since Huan Caiyi and Zhi Hui would be using perfect-grade pills, they would not waste qi and would absorb the full amount from the pills.

This would tremendously boost their cultivation speed.

Jiang Hao and Ming Yue also went to cultivate. Jiang Hao had already decided he would not leave his abode until he reached the Mid Stage of the Core Formation Realm.

After that, he would begin his training for the way of the sword too.

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Time passed, and fifteen days later, Jiang Hao reached the Mid Stage of the Core Formation Realm. This time, he had used higher-grade spirit herbs, so he was able to gather more spirit qi.

He stretched himself and came out. Only Sister Meiying was outside, and she was roasting spirit beast meat again.

"Skreee..."

He nodded, and a slab of meat came flying toward him. This time it was not small like last time, as Meiying knew he could handle it.

He ate it. It was perfectly cooked. He was always amazed at how Sister Meiying, who was a beast and could eat raw meat, cooked it to perfection like humans to eat.

It was definitely because Senior Sister had spoiled everyone’s taste buds. After eating her cooked meals once, you could not even think about eating anything raw.

But since Sister Meiying needed to eat more than them and Senior Sister Ming Yue was not always available to cook, she roasted her food to make it at least far better than raw.

After eating it, his cultivation realm stabilized somewhat. He sighed in exasperation though—the amount of resources needed to cross even stages was growing exponentially. Right now, it was still manageable, but what would he do when he reached higher levels?

He hoped there was some way to solve this problem.