Novel All Day
Chapter 95 Parents Unthreatened by Foes.
"Hu!"
Chen Qiu no longer felt heartache over those Spirit Stones. Since he had already spent them, there was no need to dwell on it; he just needed to patiently wait for the results to come.
Then, he turned his attention to his Cultivation panel.
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'Cultivation': Foundation Establishment Stage Three (36.9%)
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The effect of the lower-grade Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills was quite impressive. One pill could increase his Cultivation Progress by 0.7%; he had a total of 67 pills here, which, if he consumed them all, would raise his Cultivation Progress by 46.9%.
That far exceeded the progress provided by consuming a Golden Core of a Foundation Establishment Stage One cultivator.
Moreover, these pills came with no side effects, left no impurities, and were quickly absorbed.
"Good stuff indeed."
Chen Qiu weighed the Storage Bag in his hand. The shopkeeper who had made the appointment with them had not yet arrived, but he did not hesitate any longer and took out a Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pill and put it into his mouth.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om
It melted upon entering his mouth, and within a few breaths, the Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pill had been completely absorbed by him.
He did not linger any longer and reached for another pill.
One after another, yet another.
After three sticks of incense had burned.
He slowly opened his eyes. Now his Cultivation Progress had reached:
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'Cultivation': Foundation Establishment Stage Three (83.8%)
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Advancing in the Foundation Establishment Stage was extremely difficult. It was quite common for Foundation Establishment cultivators to be stuck in a small realm for three to four years. If one was the head of a household or held an important position in a sect, unable to focus on cultivation,
then advancing a small realm in five to six years was considered quite normal.
Especially from Foundation Establishment Stage One to Nine, advancing through each stage became exceedingly difficult.
Most people in their lifetimes, given a little fortune, could cultivate to the Foundation Establishment Stage.
But to break through to the Golden Core, or to reach the latter stages or even the peak of Foundation Establishment, one needed not just a little fortune but hundreds of such fortunes to progress this far on the path of cultivation.
The reason he had been able to advance so quickly in the Foundation Establishment Stage was essentially due to two things:
Golden Cores and Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills.
These were no longer little strokes of fortune; they were big fortunes that many Golden Core cultivators could hardly come across. Unfortunately, to put it bluntly, throughout the entire Da Xia Country, counting all the Golden Core cultivators, one by one,
at least half of them
had never killed two Golden Core cultivators in their lifetimes.
Golden Cores were not so easy to kill. After breaking through to Golden Core, everyone had climbed up through countless fortunes, and who knew what kind of trump cards or last resorts other Golden Core cultivators had. Engaging in a life-and-death battle and who would fall could really not be predicted.
Just at this moment—
Rustling footsteps came from outside the temple.
The shopkeeper from the night before arrived late, stepping into the temple, he immediately looked towards the two by the campfire, their faces flickering with shadows, and said apologetically, "Gentlemen, I have arrived late, there was a minor mishap on the road."
"Then... shall we begin?"
"Yes."
Chen Qiu placed the remaining six Storage Rings on the ground seriously and said, "Then I will trouble you, elder."
Although the shopkeeper appeared somewhat exhausted, he quickly entered the state of concentration. Without uttering many words, he focused his Spiritual Energy once more and began to sit cross-legged on the ground, attentively starting the ban-breaking process again.
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This time it was evidently much quicker than before. Perhaps having some experience from breaking the ban on a Golden Core Storage Ring once before, all six Storage Rings were decrypted before dawn.
"Now the job is truly complete."
The shopkeeper's eyebrows concealed his unhideable fatigue, and with a pale face and hoarse voice, he said: "Then I shall take my leave first."
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After the shopkeeper left.
Chen Qiu inserted his Divine Sense into the six Storage Rings. The Storage Ring of the poison cultivator Golden Core was completely empty, devoid of anything, not even a set of changes of clothes.
It was as if it were a newly purchased Storage Ring.
However, according to the shopkeeper's words, this Storage Ring had many bans added by the poison cultivator Golden Core, even several times more than the one that contained the Heavenly Dao Jade Scroll.
With such a serious approach, there must be a reason.
But after pondering for a moment, he couldn't understand why the poison cultivator Golden Core had added so many bans to a Storage Ring that did not contain anything. He set it aside for the time being and looked towards the remaining five Storage Rings.
Two of them belonged to that Evil Cultivation.
Disappointingly.
These two Storage Rings did not even have changes of clothes inside.
No Spirit Stones, no pills, and most regretfully, none of the fleeing techniques he had hoped for.
Each Storage Ring contained a piece of paper.
"Remember this, I am... Evil Cultivation, Scion of Ten Thousand Demons!"
"..."
It was evident that the Scion of Ten Thousand Demons had thrown away or hidden all the contents of his Storage Rings elsewhere, perhaps when he was seriously injured. Even if he died, he wouldn't leave any benefits to his enemies.
No wonder, although he was just a Foundation Establishment Cultivator.
When the shopkeeper worked on decrypting these two Storage Rings, his brows were deeply furrowed, and he seemed to be having a lot of trouble, presumably because the bans laid inside were as numerous as the spider webs of the Chao Tian Sect.
Chen Qiu shook his head and stored these two Storage Rings inside his small world, then turned his head to look at the other three Storage Rings.
These three Storage Rings belonged to the workshop owner of the Ask Heaven Market. Although a Loose Cultivator, he had a significant Cultivation and was undoubtedly in possession of substantial stock, as managing a market could bring substantial revenues, not to mention the earnings from the inns of Ask Heaven Market alone each year.
The first Storage Ring.
Was starkly minimal, containing only Spirit Stones.
But for some unknown reason, it had much fewer than the poison cultivator Golden Core. The poison cultivator, who had merely reached the initial stage of Golden Core, possessed tens of thousands of Spirit Stones, and here you are, a mid-stage Golden Core workshop owner with barely 2,000 Spirit Stones in your possession?