I can gather experience beads

There is no time for cultivation, time passes quickly.

In the blink of an eye, Cao Rui had devoted himself to seclusion, and three months passed by quietly like a flash.

Cao Rui spent this secular New Year in this quiet retreat.

Now, it has been more than ten days since the New Year.

And Cao Rui also reached his 31st birthday.

On this day, Cao Rui decided to temporarily stop his retreat.

"Twenty thousand copies of the Lingyin Jade Pendant have already been sold! There are now an extra 100,000 spiritual stones in my storage bag! Now is the time to purchase the refining materials needed to refine the five magic swords."

The sales of the Lingyin Jade Pendant belong entirely to Cao Rui’s personal profit, and he does not need to share the profits with the sect like he does with the Lingyin Points.

Therefore, these 100,000 spirit stones naturally fell into Cao Rui's private pocket.

The three months of meditation and practice made Cao Rui's strength have a qualitative leap. With the help of the experience beads, he successfully cultivated the first level of the Great Five Elements Sword Formation to perfection.

In this way, the power of the Great Five Elements Sword Formation was enhanced again.

Now, the power of the strengthened Five Elements Sword Formation is no longer something a first-level magic sword can withstand.

Instead of frequently replacing the first-level magic sword, it is better to refine a second-level magic sword at one time, so as to more effectively improve one's own combat effectiveness.

This was also Cao Rui's original intention to refine the second-level magic sword.

During this period, Cao Rui took time out to visit the sect.

He refined a large number of high-level elixirs needed by the sect, and took this opportunity to teach some alchemy techniques and experiences to the disciples of the Alchemy Academy.

From then on, Cao Rui devoted himself wholeheartedly to the preparation work for refining the weapon.

He used metal plates to engrave second-level runes, and used experience beads to continuously improve the level of the second-level runes.

Over the years, Cao Rui would engrave metal plates whenever he had time to accumulate experience, and Cao Rui had mastered almost all of the runes recorded by the Refining Institute.

The sixteen first-level magic arrays have already been mastered.

The nine second-level magic arrays were all completed during this retreat.

There are only four third-level magic arrays that Cao Rui has not started practicing.

When it comes to magic arrays and runes, Cao Rui believes that no one in the entire Yunzhou, even the Jindan cultivators, can be better than him.

Experience beads play an extremely powerful role in practicing this kind of immortal cultivation skill that requires a long period of training.

In addition, Cao Rui also found the time to master a type of second-level recovery elixir - the Purple Spirit Pill.

The Purple Spirit Pill is a second-level recovery elixir, used to restore mana during the foundation-building period.

When hunting monsters in the Endless Sea, this kind of recovery elixir is extremely necessary to quickly restore oneself to normal state.

It is always more economical to refine the Purple Spirit Pill yourself than to spend money to purchase it.

Cao Rui ended his retreat in the cultivation pagoda.

The divine sense spread out over ten miles and quickly found Sun Ming's divine eagle.

Cao Rui transmitted a message to Sun Ming with his spiritual consciousness, and soon after, he appeared in the VIP room of Danlingbao Pavilion.

"Master Cao, I have almost all the refining materials you asked me to pay attention to. For those that are really unavailable, I have also found substitutes with similar properties." Sun Ming said softly.

"Oh?" Cao Rui was slightly surprised. This was an unexpected surprise. According to the Great Five Elements Sword Formation, the second-level magic sword refining method, many of the refining materials used are extremely rare in the current Yunzhou cultivation world.

Originally, she thought that Sun Ming would be able to find most of it, and the rest might require her to search for it in the dangerous areas of the ruins herself.

I didn't expect Sun Ming to be able to find them all for me.

He couldn't help but ask with a little curiosity: "Sun Ming, how did you do it? Some of these refining materials are not common."

Sun Ming smiled and explained, "Thanks to the continuous improvement of the comprehensive strength of the market, our market is now not only in the southwest of Yunzhou, but also in the central, eastern and even northern parts of Yunzhou. With more and more merchants settling in, various rare refining materials are gradually appearing, which gives me the opportunity to collect the materials you need."

Cao Rui nodded with satisfaction and said appreciatively: "Yes, it seems that the development of the market has indeed brought us a lot of benefits."

"That's right!" At this time, Sun Ming suddenly remembered something and continued, "I heard that someone wanted to compete with you for the agency rights of the Lingyin Jade Pendant. It seems that forces from other directions have also set their sights on the Lingyin Jade Pendant."

Cao Rui nodded slightly when he heard this. Zhang Mo had mentioned this matter to him briefly before.

After all, the agency rights for the Lingyin Jade Pendant are a lucrative job, so naturally there will be people with foresight who will see the benefits.

However, the forces that had previously wanted to be represented were not big ones, and Cao Rui felt that the time was not yet ripe, so he did not agree.

As the Lingyin Jade Pendant spread throughout Yunzhou, he naturally earned more, but the risks would also increase.

Before being promoted to the Golden Elixir realm, Cao Rui would be cautious about the expansion of the Lingyin Jade Pendant.

"Old Sun, now that all the materials are gathered, how many spirit stones will it take to get it done?" Cao Rui said.

Sun Ming heard this and said, "It will cost about 40,000 spirit stones, less than 50,000. The average price of each material is around 9,000 spirit stones."

Nine thousand spirit stones, this price is far more than the cost of an ordinary second-level magic weapon.

The refining materials required for an ordinary second-level magic weapon are no more than three thousand.

Nine thousand, it is more than three times.

However, this is after all the material for sword refining using the Great Five Elements Sword Formation set by True Lord Shenyuan according to the highest standards in ancient times.

Such a price is understandable.

Sun Ming took out a list and handed it to Cao Rui.

Cao Rui looked at them one by one and found them very good. About 70% to 80% of the refining materials were found in their original form, and the rest were also found with substitutes that satisfied Cao Rui.

Cao Rui is already 80% confident that he can refine the five magic swords.

"The price and list are no problem. Help me get the materials together as quickly as possible." Cao Rui said.

"Understood. I'll arrange it right away." Sun Ming immediately activated the Lingyin jade pendant hanging on his chest and contacted several people in succession.

Decide on the materials for refining equipment for Cao Rui.

“It will take about a month to gather all the materials.”

"Some of the refining materials need to be transported all the way from the northern part of Yunzhou. I hope the master can understand."

Cao Rui waved his hand and said, "I'll leave it to you. I'm relieved. Just get it together as soon as possible."

As Cao Rui finished speaking, the Lingyin jade pendant on his wrist vibrated slightly.

Cao Rui took a look and saw that it was a communication request from Zhang Mo.

After his spiritual sense was connected, Cao Rui heard Zhang Mo's voice.

"Master, I heard that you have come out of seclusion."

Cao Rui shouted slightly: "Yes, what's wrong?"

"There's someone here who claims to be a cultivator from the Xingyue Sect in the eastern part of Yunzhou, and wants to ask you for the agency rights for the Lingyin Jade Pendant in the east!" Zhang Mo said.

Xingyue Sect? Cao Rui was slightly startled. He had been back for more than three months, but he had not forgotten the battle with Yang Shize.

I didn’t expect that the Xingyue Sect would dare to come to our door?

This was in the southwest of Yunzhou. Cao Rui had the support of the Spirit Beast Sect and was a local native. Naturally, he would not be as afraid of the Star Moon Sect as he had been in the East China Sea before.

"Please ask them to wait on the second floor. I'll be there soon." Cao Rui wanted to see what the Xingyue Sect was up to.