With Lin Xiuyuan accepting the summoning mission, his resources improved somewhat due to the main lineage's resource allocation.
You can earn nearly 60 contribution points each month, which can be exchanged with the sect for a bottle of mid-grade Yang Dharma Pills. A bottle contains six pills, and a single mid-grade Yang Dharma Pill costs 600 spirit stones, which means a total of 36 contribution points are needed to exchange for a bottle of mid-grade Yang Dharma Pills.
The remaining twenty or so contribution points can be exchanged for two Purple Mountain Leaves that are about two hundred years old, or Azure Nether Fruits. These are rare treasures for Foundation Establishment stage cultivators, and such young ones would cost at least 1,200 spirit stones.
As the years increase, a medicinal herb aged one hundred years will generally increase in value by several hundred spirit stones, until five hundred years is another milestone, when its overall value increases two to three times.
As for the income from talisman making, after delivering a Xuanjia Spirit Talisman to complete the talisman summoning task, there are still more than 10,000 low-grade spirit stones left, enough to raise two or three thousand spirit beasts.
The remaining amount should be enough to guarantee one high-grade Golden Essence Pill per day per month!
Once the Golden Essence Pill reaches a high grade, its efficacy increases by 30%, and naturally, the price more than doubles, requiring nearly two hundred low-grade spirit stones per pill.
Previously, Lin Xiuyuan could only take low- to mid-grade Golden Essence Pills, and would occasionally buy a few Yang Law Pills, since even low-grade Yang Law Pills were several times more effective than Golden Essence Pills.
However, the Golden Essence Pill is easy to refine, and one can be refined in a day, while the Yang Method Pill contains powerful medicinal properties and takes several days to refine completely. Therefore, about ten pills per month are enough.
He's still short of Yangfa Pills, but his income isn't enough to buy them all. He has no choice but to settle for refining high-grade Jin Yuan Pills to make up for the shortfall.
Then, with the remaining spirit stones, one can only purchase two hundred-year-old Purple Mountain Leaves or Azure Nether Fruits... A hundred-year-old medicinal herb is naturally the worst, but because it is a rare and precious natural treasure, it contains pure spiritual energy. After refining the power of the pill, the spiritual energy absorbed in daily cultivation is basically at its limit. The dantian meridians have been circulating for too long, and continuing to refine it will cause the meridians to exceed their capacity, which is more harmful than beneficial.
Therefore, one can only increase spiritual power through spiritual food or rare and precious herbs, because pure spiritual energy can be absorbed without much refining. During the next cultivation session, it can be refined together with the power of elixirs and completely integrated into the dantian.
Otherwise, even the worst 100-year-old Purple Mountain Leaf would cost eight or nine hundred spirit stones. Why would Lin Xiuyuan buy it? It's because his meridians can no longer refine the medicinal power, so he can only continue to increase his spiritual power through this method.
Adding it all up, it's the same as before, maintaining a level of four rare and precious herbs per month, refining one every few days. Naturally, this quantity is insufficient.
Moreover, the quality is even less than ideal in such years.
This is why Lin Xiuyuan, despite his current high income, feels that it is barely enough to sustain his cultivation. He only feels satisfied with the resources that the sect distributes each year for one or two months.
Because there is still a lot of room for improvement in his cultivation level. For geniuses, who can absorb and refine the spiritual energy of heaven and earth very quickly, a high-grade Golden Essence Pill is usually enough for their daily cultivation.
However, due to his poor aptitude, he absorbed and refined the spiritual energy of heaven and earth very slowly. He could only rely on the power of pills and rare and precious materials to have a large amount of spiritual energy to absorb and refine. Before his meridians exceeded their operating time limit and were about to reach their capacity, he tried to absorb and refine as much spiritual energy as possible.
Basically, for a cultivator with his aptitude, the only way to compensate is through resources. Therefore, the upper limit of resource-assisted cultivation is very high, and the demand is very strong!
The cultivation resources brought by the current income, while not comparable to those of aristocratic families among the main peak disciples, are still among the top.
The resulting cultivation speed allowed Lin Xiuyuan to at least rival geniuses with two spiritual roots.
But that's not enough; it must at least match the cultivation speed of those prodigies and scions of noble families!
Ultimately, it's because Lin Xiuyuan's aptitude is poor, his efficiency in refining spiritual energy is low, and breaking through bottlenecks is even more difficult. Only by maintaining his cultivation speed can he have hope for the path to immortality and reach the threshold of the next realm before his lifespan ends, thus launching an attack on the higher realm!
According to Lin Xiuyuan's estimate, to achieve the perfect cultivation speed, his income would need to at least double.
However, given the circumstances of the Great Yue Kingdom in this region, it is practically impossible to double the situation through the creation of talismans.
They can only compete for resources within the main peak; otherwise, their cultivation speed will be difficult to increase further.
Otherwise, if they can only maintain this resource, Lin Xiuyuan doesn't know if he will still have time to challenge for the Upper Realm after reaching the peak of Foundation Establishment!
"Therefore, we must defeat Wang An to break through the resistance brought by the two families. The best-case scenario is to obtain the jade crystal. With guidance from a master and further improved resources, we can achieve the highest cultivation speed!"
"Even if I have to settle for second best and can't break through the resistance from both sides to obtain the jade crystals for the time being, with my combat strength, I can easily achieve a better ranking in the small and large competitions, which will also greatly improve my resources."
Lin Xiuyuan had a clear plan for the future, including how to acquire more resources to improve his cultivation. Otherwise, he would never have accepted the challenge.
Even if it's not seven years from now, Lin Xiuyuan will have to participate in the minor competition within the next two years. This is the only way to improve resources, so what can he do? He can only face the challenge head-on and maximize his benefits. If he wins, he'll get two thousand more contribution points; if he doesn't win, he just needs to protect his life and possessions. At worst, he won't be able to obtain jade crystals, but he can still participate in the major and minor competitions, although he'll be more likely to be challenged...
Only by defeating Wang An can the challenge be lifted, thus preventing any disruption to his acquisition of resources.
Because if he cannot defeat Wang An, then when he participates in the major and minor competitions, the people behind him will arrange for someone else to challenge him again. How can he possibly win then?
If they can't even beat a pioneer like Wang An, let alone the others, they simply can't achieve any rankings, so there's no way they can talk about further improving their resources...
Given Lin Xiuyuan's cautious nature, why would he risk his life to accept the challenge? Because there's only one path he can take. If he can't defeat Wang An, his cultivation resources will be severely limited.
Even though he knew the road ahead was full of thorns, he could only forge ahead.
The path to immortality is never smooth sailing. To think that you can acquire resources by hiding in a cave and making talismans is nothing short of wishful thinking.
Now, thanks to the increased resources from the main peak, Lin Xiuyuan has received more resources after accepting the summoning mission, and his daily cultivation has improved slightly. This has made him even more eager for resources and filled him with determination for the battle seven years from now.
A few months later, Lin Xiuyuan exchanged a few resources and saved up some contribution points before leaving the cave and heading to the main peak, Lingxiao Pavilion.
It's time to cultivate the Lingxiao Secret Talisman to prepare for the grand competition seven years from now!
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