No hope for eternal life

The grades of Foundation Building Pills are not divided randomly. In addition to the different success rates of foundation building, using special grade Foundation Building Pills, one can build the foundation after refining the spiritual power in the body three times. First grade Foundation Building Pills require refining the spiritual power at least six times, and second grade Foundation Building Pills require refining the spiritual power at least nine times. There is almost no shortcut to refining spiritual power, and one can only spend time to refine it slowly. Those who use special grade Foundation Building Pills can naturally break through faster and be one step ahead.

"The second-grade foundation-building pill is not very effective. If I fail to build the foundation again, I will lose a lot of money. I can't even think about the special-grade foundation-building pill. The first-grade foundation-building pill should be the best choice." Thoughts kept flashing through Mu Changsheng's mind, but when he thought of the price of the first-grade foundation-building pill, he felt a headache.

My father manages the spiritual fields, but he only earns two or three hundred low-grade spirit stones a year. My mother works as an assistant in the town's medicine shop, and she earns at most two hundred low-grade spirit stones a year. A first-grade foundation-building pill would take away our family's savings for a year.

Moreover, Mu Changsheng's parents are both cultivators at the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage. They also need to stockpile spirit stones and elixirs in preparation for a breakthrough to the Golden Core stage. Mu Changsheng feels very sorry about this. He can't just focus on his own cultivation and ignore his parents' lives.

"If it really doesn't work, just spend five years to build my own foundation. Didn't Mr. Yang also teach the principle of late bloomer?" Mu Changsheng comforted himself.

Thinking in his heart, Mu Changsheng had already reached the top of the mountain, and the sun in the sky was half exposed. Mu Changsheng abandoned all distracting thoughts and began to meditate and practice.

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Half an hour later, it was already dawn. Mu Changsheng finished his training and slowly walked down the mountain. In another half an hour, he would go to school for class.

The reason why Mu Changsheng walked down the mountain slowly was that he wanted to walk around the mountain to see if he could pick some spiritual herbs.

However, this hill is so close to the town that it has been visited by countless cultivators from the town. If you want to find some ancient elixir, forget it. Mu Changsheng just thinks that it would be great if he could find a spiritual herb with some spiritual energy.

When he approached the foot of the mountain, Mu Changsheng still found nothing. However, this was a common thing for him, so he was not discouraged.

"Hmm." Suddenly, Mu Changsheng's eyes lit up, and a green spiritual herb with rich spiritual energy came into his sight.

Mu Changsheng immediately walked over quickly and took a closer look. Because his mother Chen Wanru worked in a pharmacy in the small town, he had been influenced by her since he was a child and could identify many spiritual medicines. Now he recognized the spiritual medicine in front of him.

"This is the seedling of Zhanling grass. When it matures, it will be a second-grade spiritual medicine, worth hundreds of low-grade spiritual stones." Mu Changsheng was overjoyed. He carefully dug the seedling out of the soil and prepared to transplant it to his home for cultivation.

After digging out the spiritual herbs, Mu Changsheng was about to leave, but he suddenly squatted down. He found that there were a few small silver particles mixed in the black and yellow soil. This instantly caught his attention: "What is this?"

Mu Changsheng found that he could not even recognize this thing, and that there was a faint spiritual power contained in this thing, which was obviously not an ordinary thing.

Out of curiosity, Mu Changsheng continued digging along the small pit where the Zhan Ling grass was dug out.

As the depth of the pit continued to increase, Mu Changsheng not only discovered more silver particles, but also a considerable amount of gold particles mixed in.

In the end, Mu Changsheng dug more than three feet and finally reached the end, but he couldn't dig any further.

"This is..." Looking at the gold and silver ore under his palm, Mu Changsheng opened his eyes wide and murmured in disbelief: "This seems to be gold and silver stone essence."

When Mu Changsheng was learning to identify spiritual objects from his mother Chen Wanru, he had seen pictures of gold, silver and stone spirits.

"It must be the gold, silver and stone essence." Mu Changsheng said affirmatively, because only the gold, silver and stone essence can explain why this thing has not been discovered before, because the characteristic of the gold, silver and stone essence is to block the spiritual perception of the cultivators!

It is precisely because of this characteristic of gold and silver stone essence that although its grade is ranked third, its value is comparable to that of fourth-grade ore!

"Fourth-grade ore!" Mu Changsheng got excited just thinking about it. A small piece of this level of ore could be sold for hundreds or thousands of low-grade spirit stones.

Forcing down the excitement in his heart, Mu Changsheng quickly raised his head and looked around, and only he heaved a sigh of relief after confirming that there was no one around. This gold and silver stone essence grew on a barren mountain and was ownerless. If discovered by others, getting a share of it would be a small matter, but being killed to silence them was very likely.

Therefore, Mu Changsheng quickly filled the earth pit under his feet to avoid being discovered. But he did not leave, but dug another pit several feet away from the original pit.

Mu Changsheng now knows that there is gold and silver stone concentrate ore hidden in the barren mountain, but he needs to confirm how big this piece of gold and silver stone concentrate ore is. Is it a small piece or a whole huge vein? The difference between the two is huge.

With a clear goal, Mu Changsheng now dug the pit at an astonishing speed. He soon saw gold and silver particles again as well as the gold and silver stone concentrate underneath.

"It's a mineral vein, it's really a mineral vein!" Mu Changsheng's mind was excited again, and he hurriedly filled the hole again.

Mu Changsheng didn't dare to dig any more holes, lest he be discovered. However, the two holes he had just dug proved that the gold and silver stone concentrate under his feet was at least several feet long, which was already very valuable. And this was only the minimum. Mu Changsheng judged that the volume of this gold and silver stone concentrate was probably quite large, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to dig up gold and silver stone concentrate even after digging two holes.

"What should I do with this gold and silver stone concentrate?" Mu Changsheng's question followed. If he wanted to mine the third-grade gold and silver stone concentrate, he would need at least a Jindan realm cultivator to take action. It was impossible for him, a mere Qi-refining realm cultivator, to hire a Jindan realm cultivator. If money tempted people, he would be the first to suffer.

"Wait for my parents to break through? No way, I don't know how long I have to wait. If I delay, something might happen. It's better to get rid of this gold and silver stone concentrate as soon as possible." Mu Changsheng's mind kept surging with thoughts and he kept denying himself.

Suddenly, Mu Changsheng had a flash of inspiration and thought of a perfect person to ask for help - Yang Wuque.

Although Mu Changsheng did not like the empty principles that Yang Wuque talked about, he had no doubts about Yang Wuque's character. Moreover, he was probably the only one in the town who would not be greedy for the gold and silver stone concentrate.

Thinking that it was almost time for class, Mu Changsheng hurried down the mountain and went home. After transplanting the Zhan Ling grass at home, he hurried to the school.

In the classroom, dozens of students filed in, and Yang Wuque took the stage to give a lecture as usual: "Today, I will talk about Tianwen."

"Said: In the beginning of ancient times, who taught the way? The upper and lower worlds had not yet taken shape, so how could we examine it..."

Mu Changsheng waited patiently until the get out of class was over, but he did not leave early. Instead, he sat quietly in his seat, wanting to wait until everyone else left before discussing the gold and silver stone concentrate with Yang Wuque alone.

Mu Xun, who was standing by, keenly noticed Mu Changsheng's abnormality today, but with Yang Wuque present, he couldn't say much and could only leave first.