This relies on wisdom! It relies on the utilization of external resources!

When the first ancient person used fire, that marked the beginning of their evolutionary journey.

"So, when we truly learn how to cultivate!" Jiang Yuan suddenly realized, "will we be able to embark on another supreme path of evolution?"

The items in the core are ultimately just supplementary; true power should come from within oneself.

When Jiang Yuan figured this out, his spiritual awakening progress began to soar, reaching 250 per thousand in the blink of an eye. At this time, Ning Yanlan's treatment also ended.

"I'm exhausted!" Ning Yanlan said as she walked over, twisting her neck.

The bed they had made earlier had been given to Xu Feng to rest on, and to avoid embarrassment, the two of them moved to the other side and sat on the mat to cultivate.

"Are you alright now?" Jiang Yuan asked, opening his eyes.

"I should be fine now!" Ning Yanlan stretched her limbs, then lay on the mat in a starfish position and exhaled.

"Come here, let me show you a big treasure!" Jiang Yuan pulled Ning Yanlan up.

Ning Yanlan looked slightly puzzled, and quickly said as she sat up, "No, no, I'm a respectable person!"

"What, you don't even want the core anymore?" Jiang Yuan was a little surprised when he heard this. This was not like Ning Yanlan.

Ning Yanlan: "..."

"Really don't want it?" Jiang Yuan lined up the treasures he had obtained.

The four black iron cores, along with a cloth bag containing more than a dozen Holy Spirit Stones, and a ring snatched from Sun Gaoyuan.

"Tch, then let me show you my precious treasures!" Ning Yanlan's face lit up with pride when she saw them.

Jiang Yuan hadn't noticed anything strange when he said those words before, but now that Ning Yanlan said them, he felt something was off.

That's so suggestive!

Ning Yanlan took out a Radiant Gold Core, which was the one that had dropped when she killed the Sharp-Toothed Fish by the river earlier.

"And there's more!"

Immediately afterwards, Ning Yanlan took out twenty-four Tier 1 Holy Spirit Stones, which were the contribution of the twenty-four Sharp-Toothed Fish she had caught.

"Tsk tsk, begging to latch onto a rich woman's leg!" Jiang Yuan joked shamelessly.

"Do you dare to hug me?" Ning Yanlan asked provocatively, her eyes filled with flirtatious glances.

"Ha, how could I, a model citizen, do something like assaulting a police officer!" Jiang Yuan said righteously.

Ning Yanlan pushed the core and the Holy Spirit Stone together, "Same as always, you open the core and I'll open the treasure chest!"

"Okay!" Jiang Yuan glanced in the direction of Xu Lian and the others a few times, then said, "They shouldn't be able to see us from this angle!"

"Don't worry, you can't see it!" Ning Yanlan said.

"I'm not being stingy, I'm just afraid of being embarrassed!" Jiang Yuan explained, after all, how could his shining personal charm be tainted by a stingy label?

"We're not related to them at all. Helping them is a favor, not helping them is our right! There's nothing petty about it!" Ning Yanlan didn't think it was a matter of being stingy or generous. They weren't familiar with Xu Lian and Xu Feng to begin with, and it was already very kind of them to be able to save them.

"I'm relieved to hear that!" Jiang Yuan didn't stand on ceremony and took a few black iron cores to open.

A quick scan revealed that most of the first-tier black iron cores contained only five items, and the probability of containing unknown items was very low; only one out of the four first-tier black iron cores contained an unknown item.

"Open them one by one!" Jiang Yuan placed the first-tier Holy Spirit Stones one by one, but he didn't use the remaining two Treasure Hunt Positioning attempts. He decided to use the Treasure Hunt Positioning attempts on the Crystal Core instead.

When the first black iron core appeared, Ning Yanlan showed a disappointed expression.

A hideously ugly fishbone helmet, the core of which is the only black iron core provided by the Sharp-Toothed Fish.

"Not bad, wearing a bomb-proof helmet!" Jiang Yuan joked.

"Here you go, this helmet is too ugly! Wearing it is an eyesore!" Ning Yanlan handed the helmet to Jiang Yuan.

"continue!"

The second core was activated, which has ten times the number of cores, but this time the Balance Messenger did not randomly select a core with ten times the number of cores.

"It's actually pills!" Ning Yanlan picked up a jade bottle the size of a child's fist, which contained ten dark brown pills the size of soybeans.

"It's a cultivation aid pill! Very precious!"

Jiang Yuan glanced at it and looked somewhat surprised. If there was one item that was the most precious in the first tier, it would definitely be pills.

Especially for these cultivation-aid pills, the probability of obtaining them is slightly lower than that of pills of the same grade.

"It must be because I had good luck opening treasure chests!" Ning Yanlan boasted to herself.

The third core has been activated; this time it's not a cultivation technique, but a spell.

Fireball!

This spell, whose name is commonly found in various online games, is completely useless to Jiang Yuan, whose spiritual energy is currently zero.

"This suits you perfectly, so you'll have some offensive capabilities!" Jiang Yuan said with a smile.

"What, you look down on me, a melee mage?" Ning Yanlan said coquettishly, picking up a fireball and casting it directly.

After chuckling twice, the fourth core was activated.

"Wow, am I seeing things?!"