"Let's see what good stuff this old man has!"

Jiang Chen turned his head to look at the items in the wooden house.

Scanning around, Jiang Chen raised his eyebrow, a trace of joy flashed in his eyes. His figure flickered, leaving several afterimages in the wooden house. When Jiang Chen's figure reappeared, he held several spirit herbs and spirit fruits in his hand.

The spirit herbs and spirit fruits exuded abundant energy, with waves of medicinal fragrance wafting in, filling the entire room with a rich aroma. Just smelling it lifted one's spirits, clearing the mind entirely.

"Jiuyou Ming Grass, Lei Ting Fruit..."

"These things are all Eighth-Grade Spiritual Herbs and Spirit Fruits. Most of these spirit herbs... are for refining the Saint Source Pill? What is Tong Jiang up to? Is he trying to refine the Saint Source Pill to break through to the Saint Realm?"

A trace of astonishment appeared in Jiang Chen's eyes, and then he gently furrowed his brow: "According to my mentor, refining the Saint Source Pill is extremely rare and requires one's alchemy skills to reach the level of an Eighth-Grade Alchemist just to barely refine it, with a very low success rate. And the spiritual herbs required to refine the Saint Source Pill are almost all Eighth-Grade. How did Tong Jiang collect so many high-grade spirit herbs?"

"Moreover, the strongest Pill Master in the Mingqian Realm seems to be a Fifth-Grade Senior Alchemist from the Domain Lord's Mansion, right? The entirety of the Canglan Continent seems to have only one Eighth-Grade Alchemist in Canglan City where the Canglan Great Emperor resides. Could it be he's planning to ask that person to refine it? Can he afford the cost of asking that person for help?"

Putting away the spirit herbs, Jiang Chen suppressed his doubts and continued to look at the other items in the wooden house.

After organizing the items a bit, Jiang Chen was overjoyed.

Besides the dozen or so Eighth-Grade Spirit Herbs and Spirit Fruits, Tong Jiang's collection also had dozens of Sixth-Grade and lower spirit herbs, and there were various elixirs with different uses.

The most abundant were Spirit Stones, with two Extreme Grade Spirit Stones, hundreds of High Grade Spirit Stones, and tens of thousands of Middle Grade Spirit Stones. There weren't any Inferior Spirit Stones, likely because Elder Tong Jiang disdained collecting such low-level Spirit Stones.

In addition to Spirit Stones, there was also a large amount of Gold Coins.

Gold Coins are one of the common currencies in the Void Nether Realm; worldly people use Gold Coins, Silver Coins, and Copper Coins.

While cultivators also use Gold Coins, they mostly use Spirit Stones for transactions. One Inferior Spirit Stone equals a hundred Gold Coins.

"Quite interesting, this old fellow has no Inferior Spirit Stones but has plenty of Gold Coins!"

Jiang Chen chuckled slightly and could understand.

At times, the role of Gold Coins cannot be replaced by Spirit Stones, such as in a worldly tavern, crafting certain tools, or when many cultivators like to refine Gold Coins to craft weapons or armor and more.

Gold Coins are melted from Gold Nether Stone, a mineral with an extremely high melting point, and a very hard texture. When refining magical artifacts, spiritual artifacts, or even treasure artifacts, this mineral is often added. Melting these minerals is much simpler than melting Gold Coins, hence the cultivator world hasn't abandoned Gold Coins as a trade currency.

"Next is the cultivation technique. Let's see what cultivation technique Elder Tong Jiang has practiced!"

Jiang Chen put the other items into a azure blue space ring and focused his attention on the four jade slips placed in front of him.

Picking up the jade slips one by one, Jiang Chen was significantly moved.

Among the four jade slips, three appeared to be the cultivation techniques practiced by Elder Tong Jiang. After glancing at them, Jiang Chen threw them into the space ring; these cultivation techniques were not useful to him.

But the last jade slip made Jiang Chen's heart pound.

This jade slip contained not a cultivation technique but a combat skill. When he first saw it was a combat skill, Jiang Chen found it strange—Tong Jiang Elder hadn't used a combat skill during their battle. After carefully reading the combat skill's introduction, Jiang Chen understood; it wasn't that Tong Jiang Elder didn't want to practice it but that he couldn't.

Ice Void Needle, a fusion of the Path of Ice and Spatial Path, a Great Dao Attack, an Earth Rank Intermediate combat skill.

Requires comprehension of the Path of Ice to learn, compressing one's inherent Path of Ice into a needle through a specific method. When trained to the extreme, it can instantaneously kill over a thousand miles!

"A fusion combat skill of the Path of Ice and Spatial Path, a treasure indeed!"

Jiang Chen's mouth curled into a satisfied smile, slowly closing his eyes, and he immersed his Divine Sense into the jade slip, beginning to practice the Ice Void Needle combat skill.

And this practice lasted a whole day and night.

The morning sun fell, illuminating the South Maniac Mountain Peak, draping it with a layer of red gauze.

"Kid, wake up!"

Immersed in his cultivation, Jiang Chen's mind echoed with Hu Yiqiu's voice transmission.

Jiang Chen's body quivered, slowly opening his eyes, seemingly with a shadow of ice needles. The cold gleam flashed on the ice needles, instantly lowering the temperature in the wooden house.

Whew!

He exhaled a mouthful of cold mist, closed his eyes again, and when he reopened them, the ice needles vanished.

"Truly worthy of being an Earth Rank Intermediate combat skill; despite training overnight, I've only formed a preliminary, yet its power..."

Jiang Chen's mouth curled into a satisfied smile. At this point, within his Sea of Consciousness, a tiny ice needle wandered amidst the Spatial Path Divine Ring, now receiving nourishment from the Power of the Great Dao of Spatial Path and the Path of Ice.

And on that ice needle, a majestic aura seemed to be awakening slowly.

He got up and opened the door, cupping his fists in salute to the few people standing at the door: "Master, two mentors, senior brother."

"Haha, you kid, once you dive into cultivation, you just can't stop!"

Jian Cangqiong laughed lightly and said, "Only three days left until the Mingqian Banquet; as half hosts, we must head to Mingyuan City today."

"Alright!"

Jiang Chen nodded lightly.

Glancing at the two space rings on Jiang Chen's hand, Hu Yiqiu whispered, "Remember to keep Tong Jiang's space ring well hidden, don't expose it. You know, now's not the time to fall out with the Domain Lord's Mansion."

"Master, rest assured, I understand!"

Jiang Chen nodded, touching the pocket inside his chest.

"Alright, then we should head to the academy's gate; Wu Hen and the others are already waiting there!"

Jian Cangqiong casually beckoned, his figure flashing towards the mountain.

Jiang Chen and the others soared into the air, following behind.

Reaching the academy's gate, Jian Wuheng, Lei Kai, Sang Zhenglong, Sang Zhirou, Fire Phoenix, and Instructor Lin were already waiting there.

"Sang Junior Sister successfully condensed the Power of the Great Dao?"

After greeting everyone, Jiang Chen laughed lightly, looking at Sang Zhirou.

Sang Zhirou rolled her eyes at Jiang Chen, adorably pouting, "Thanks to you, no disturbances happened this time."

Uh...

Jiang Chen was momentarily stunned, chuckled, and shook his head.

This little girl still bears a grudge.

Seeing this, everyone smiled warmly.

Everyone was quite familiar with the matter between Sang Zhirou and Jiang Chen; although there was some resentment, it didn't hurt much, and the two didn't truly have a rift. It was merely Sang Zhirou's childish personality, and Sang Zhenye didn't try to dissuade her.

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