Immortality and Cultivation: I Have Too Many Talents

Chapter 19 Mantis Demon Shrimp (Please continue reading)

"really!"

Shopkeeper Ding told him that the Qingyun Sect had discovered a hidden spiritual land in the desolate wilderness, containing a third-order spiritual vein and several second-order spiritual veins.

However, the area surrounding that hidden spiritual land is inhabited by a large number of demonic birds and beasts.

This land reclamation is to hunt down the demonic birds and beasts surrounding the hidden spiritual land.

Third-tier spiritual vein!

This is a high-level training ground suitable for cultivators who have reached the Core Formation stage.

"Indeed, high returns are usually accompanied by high risks!"

Shen Xuan thought to himself.

A third-tier spiritual vein may very well be inhabited by a third-tier demon king.

That's a terrifying existence comparable to a Core Formation cultivator!
In the eyes of a third-tier demon king, a Qi Refining cultivator is not even worth a dish.

At most, it would be a small bean sprout, not even enough to fill its teeth!
The terrain in the wilderness is complex, with numerous monsters and a perpetually pervasive poisonous fog that obstructs divine sense.

Therefore, the Qingyun Sect needs a large number of independent cultivators to be conscripted for corvée labor and serve as cannon fodder to explore and pave the way for them.

Upon realizing this, Shen Xuan immediately abandoned his idea of ​​participating in the land reclamation.

Go home.

Shen Xuan sold twenty high-quality "Rejuvenation Talismans" to Zhao Chunsheng at a low price.

They only accepted fifty spirit stones.

The price difference of ten spirit stones was waived, allowing Zhao Chunsheng to profit.

After the transaction was completed, Zhao Chunsheng's face lit up with joy.

"Master Shen, is there any more next month?"

"besides."

"That's good!"

Zhao Chunsheng smiled very happily.

"To be honest, Master Shen, these high-quality Rejuvenation Talismans have already been pre-ordered. If they're not available in the future, I won't dare to leave the house."

"You!"

Shen Xuan shook his head: "Take it easy! Don't make too many promises."

After seeing Zhao Chunsheng off, Shen Xuan changed his clothes, used the [Concealing Breath Technique] to disguise himself as a young cultivator at the third level of Qi Refining, and went out for a stroll.

I wandered around the market but didn't find any water-attribute monsters that caught my eye.

Later, he went into a bookstore.

This place sells cultivation techniques, magic spells on jade slips, and some cultivation classics.

Such as various legends about cultivation, travel notes, cultivation experiences, and so on.

However, these cultivation manuals are not guaranteed to be authentic, and they are cheap, costing only one spirit stone per book.

Shen Xuan flipped through them and found they were all common items, not worth spending spirit stones on.

"Sir, you've been looking for so long, have you found anything you like?" the shop assistant asked in a low voice.

"These are too ordinary," Shen Xuan offered as an excuse.

Why spend spirit stones to buy it when you can watch it for free!
The shop owner personally came to greet us.

"Fellow Daoist, what do you need?"

"Are there any books or records that describe various monsters?"

"Naturally there is."

The shop owner took a jade slip from the bookshelf.

Shen Xuan took the jade slip and saw the name on the cover.

"Illustrated Compendium of Monsters in the Wilderness"

The area where the Qingyun Sect reclaimed land was called the Wilderness Plains, a place rarely visited by humans.

The territory spans hundreds of thousands of miles, encompassing swamps, forests, deserts, wetlands, barren mountains, and more, with harsh environments and unpredictable weather.

But more often, there are various kinds of demonic beasts, birds, insects, spiritual plants, flowers, herbs, and cultivation ores, etc.

For cultivation sects that are overdeveloped and increasingly depleted of resources, this is undoubtedly a treasure trove of abundant resources.

Every year, the Qingyun Sect organizes independent cultivators to explore and find hidden spiritual sites, and to cheaply purchase monster flesh and blood, spiritual flowers and herbs, various ores, refining materials and other resources to plunder cultivation resources.

This book, "Illustrated Compendium of Monsters in the Wilderness," is richly illustrated and introduces the characteristics and abilities of various monsters discovered in the Wilderness.

"How many spiritual stones."

"Four spirit stones."

"Three spiritual stones."

Shen Xuan instinctively tried to bargain.

"Sorry, we do not accept bargaining."

"I want to try it out first."

"Can!"

Shen Xuan pressed the jade slip to his forehead and scanned its contents with his divine sense. He only managed to see descriptions of a dozen or so demonic beasts before being restricted by the jade slip's seal.

"Four spirit stones! I'll buy it, and give me a book on cultivation insights as a bonus!"

The shop owner reluctantly agreed.

"Don't say I didn't warn you beforehand. These cultivation tips aren't guaranteed to be authentic. You can look at them, but whatever you do, don't try to learn them recklessly! Don't blame me if you suffer a qi deviation!"

"Thanks for the reminder, boss!"

Shen Xuan found the book with the most prominent title.

"Random Notes of Master Qingxu"

Real person!

Only cultivators who reach the Core Formation stage are qualified to be called True Persons!
Shen Xuan flipped through it, but there were no cultivation techniques or spells, nor any cultivation insights. Instead, there were some leisurely essays.

"Just this one!"

In any case, this is the masterpiece of a Core Formation Realm cultivator!
Back home, Shen Xuan couldn't wait to start reading "The Random Notes of Master Qingxu".

It mostly records some of his interesting stories and thoughts.

"Of wealth, companions, methods, and land, I believe land is of paramount importance. Without spiritual land, a cultivator is like water without a source, unable to make any progress!"

"The Xuan Yuan Continent was originally one, but it split apart for some reason. The innate spiritual land was transformed into countless small spiritual lands, each of which gave rise to spiritual veins and emitted spiritual energy on its own."

……

After reading "The Random Notes of Master Qingxu", Shen Xuan gained a general understanding of the cultivation world.

The most important thing for cultivators is to absorb spiritual energy and make it their own.

The source of spiritual energy is closely related to spiritual veins.

Various major sects have occupied the high-grade spiritual veins of the Xuan Yuan Continent.

The remaining small and medium-sized sects divided up the mid-grade spiritual veins.

The remaining low- to mid-grade spiritual veins were occupied by various cultivation families.

The entire Xuan Yuan Continent has formed a pyramid structure with distinct hierarchical levels.

The number of independent cultivators is the largest; they live at the lowest level and serve as slaves to the upper-level cultivators.

The higher a cultivator's cultivation level, the more high-grade spiritual veins they need to supply spiritual energy.

When a high-level cultivator enters the mortal realm, their cultivation level will rapidly decline, and they themselves will become a source of spiritual energy. Nearby mountains, rocks, and trees may benefit and become spirits.

Therefore, there is a reason why demonic beasts like to devour the bodies of cultivators.

To the demon beasts, cultivators are walking sources of spiritual energy.

In essence, it also involves plundering the spiritual energy of cultivators.

Not just monks.

Magical artifacts also need spiritual energy to nourish them.

No matter how powerful a magical artifact is, if placed in a place devoid of spiritual energy like the mortal world, its spirituality will dissipate, and it will eventually become scrap metal.

Elixirs, talismans, and so on all follow the same principle.

Therefore, special medicine bottles and jade boxes are required for storage.

Similar to the principle of the Spirit Gathering Array, it confines spiritual energy within a certain range.

Master Qingxu believed that spiritual energy is the foundation of a cultivator, and spiritual veins are the foundation of spiritual energy.

Whether they are cultivators or demonic beasts, they are all spiritual beings that absorb spiritual energy.

The richer the spiritual energy within one's body, the higher one's cultivation level.

Spiritual power, demonic power, and so on are all external manifestations of spiritual energy.

The entire collection of essays is actually Master Qingxu's reflection on spiritual energy.

The reason is very simple.

"No wonder it only sells for one spirit stone!"

For ordinary cultivators, reading it is as good as not reading it at all.

Shen Xuan seemed to have an epiphany, seeing through the fog and pointing directly to his true self.

In his view, the mysterious jade talisman's ability to plunder talent is actually to plunder the hidden spiritual power in the bloodline of demonic beasts, convert it into one's own power, strengthen one's own spiritual power, and amplify the effects of spells.

The principle is the same as that of cultivators using the inner cores of demonic beasts to refine elixirs and amplify their own cultivation level.

Demonic cultivators devour essence and blood, extract souls and refine spirits; in essence, they treat cultivators as spiritual entities that can be absorbed.

"The Random Notes of Master Qingxu" is only a little over 10,000 words long, and I finished reading it quickly.

Shen Xuan then flipped through the "Illustrated Compendium of Monsters of the Wilderness".

It records more than 3,000 common monsters in the wilderness, ranging from low-grade first-order monsters to third-order monster kings, with a wide variety of species.

"Water attribute, first-tier mid-grade, with special bloodline talent, preferably in large quantities, and the price cannot be too high."

This is the request from the demon beast that Shen Xuan wants to plunder the talent of.

Finally, he found a suitable target monster.

Mantis shrimp, the monstrous shrimp that delivers devastating punches in the water!

(End of this chapter)