Thinking of this, Jiang Yue started to worry about the embryonic spirit artifact. She was somewhat confident in refining it, but she wondered how much it would consume in other worlds, and whether she could even carry it. Sigh, she still had to find a way to exchange all the spirit stones in her account for high-grade spirit stones, and top-grade spirit stones would be best. Spirit crystals were just a dream; Jiang Yue had only found one by luck.
Logically speaking, now that Jiang Yue's cultivation level is high enough, she should be able to find spirit stone veins, right? But you have to understand that spirit stones are like gold; everyone is looking for them. The cultivation world has a history of many years, and easy-to-find spirit stone mines have already been discovered. Jiang Yue is already incredibly lucky to have managed to acquire a low-level spirit stone vein while still in the Qi Refining stage.
After reaching the Nascent Soul stage, Jiang Yue went to the sea to look for spirit stone veins. The sea was cleaner than the land, and high-level demonic beasts were everywhere in the open sea. Jiang Yue didn't dare to go deep and had to retreat. Later, Jiang Yue gave up on this idea and focused on making money through talismans and weapon refining. In fact, human golden cores and demonic beast cores also contain a lot of spiritual power, but this stuff is too inhumane. Jiang Yue only hoarded a few demonic cores and didn't have a single human golden core.
After thinking about various things, Jiang Yue started refining weapons to complete her orders. She still had five or six weapons left on her order. Actually, weapons were originally Jiang Yue's least skilled skill, since she wasn't good at combat and her fourth-tier longsword was mainly used for traveling. However, over this period of time, she had become more proficient with weapons, since people still preferred offensive weapons.
After completing the orders, Jiang Yue told Manager Zhou to take a break. She was exhausted from taking more than a dozen orders in a row, and taking a break before taking more orders would help raise prices. She also sold the talismans she had recently produced and finally bought a batch of raw materials.
The remaining spirit stones in the account, converted into high-grade spirit stones, amount to only 500 high-grade spirit stones. The official exchange rate is 1 high-grade spirit stone for 300 mid-grade spirit stones and 1 mid-grade spirit stone for 200 low-grade spirit stones. However, in actual exchanges, most often it's 1 high-grade spirit stone for 450 mid-grade spirit stones and 1 mid-grade spirit stone for 250 low-grade spirit stones. This is the difference between the official suggested retail price and the actual selling price.
Over the past 200 years, Jiang Yue has accumulated a little over 3,000 high-grade spirit stones. This is mainly because Jiang Yue earns a lot of money but also spends a lot. She has spent money to buy cultivation techniques and spells, and the pills for cultivation are also a major expense. Not to mention that she has been buying ores all along. Most of these 3,000 spirit stones were recently saved up by refining magic treasures for others.
Unfortunately, after losing contact with the protagonist, I haven't received a single high-quality herb. The highest-grade one I could buy was only 700 years old, and I didn't even have many of those.
Jiang Yue has recently slowed down her ore-buying activities and is focusing on saving money. The once-in-a-millennium auction of the Universal Chamber of Commerce will begin in a little over a hundred years. As a gold member, Jiang Yue is already qualified to participate in the auction. She doesn't dare to dream about what's in the main venue, but she can still look forward to the items in the branch venues.
During the period when orders were suspended, Jiang Yue added several more talisman production lines. With the large-scale invasion of the demon race, the prices of talismans and pills had recently risen considerably. The Universal Chamber of Commerce placed an order for 10,000 high-grade spirit stones. She herself had been refining fourth-tier talismans, which were also very valuable, and she felt they were more profitable than weapons.
Fifty years have passed in this way, and Jiang Yue is now 350 years old. She has heard that remote areas such as the Taixu Domain have been completely overrun and become a paradise for demonic cultivators. She wonders if Shopkeeper Zhang and the shop assistant have met with any misfortune. In recent years, there have been more demonic cultivators in the Central Domain, but there are also quite a few powerful cultivators there. According to the world's plot, the full-scale invasion of the Central Domain will only begin after the protagonist forms his core. The protagonist forms his core at over 700 years old, which is still more than 300 years away. However, Jiang Yue cannot wait that long.
It took Jiang Yue fifty years to break through to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm. The spiritual energy was too much of a drag on her. Unless she was willing to reveal her true strength, there were only a few cave dwellings that could support Nascent Soul cultivation, and Jiang Yue wouldn't get a chance to use them. Now that she had saved up 150,000 high-grade spirit stones, Jiang Yue was planning to change maps and go to the Spirit Realm. It just so happened that the place where the auction was reported was also in the Spirit Realm.
The Spirit Realm is located in the northern part of the Central Region. It is a continent below the Spirit Realm Passage. The Central Region where Jiang Yue is currently staying or the Spirit Realm she is about to go to are both part of the mortal realm. After reaching the Integration Stage, she will have to go to the Spirit Realm. The mortal realm cannot accommodate cultivators at the Integration Stage. In fact, there are not many cultivators above the Integration Stage in the Spirit Realm. Low-level cultivators are the mainstream.
After deciding to leave, Jiang Yue went to the Huanyu Chamber of Commerce and booked a ticket for the next 15 years. After saying goodbye to Manager Zhou, Manager Zhou was reluctant to see Jiang Yue leave. In the end, he persuaded Jiang Yue to make one last profit before leaving. Jiang Yue was convinced and accepted several more orders. The money earned from these orders was equivalent to more than a dozen of the previous ones.
Jiang Yue packed up all the items in her cave. Sensitive items such as the talisman production line were placed in her spatial storage, while the remaining unimportant items were put into her storage bag. It's worth mentioning that Jiang Yue's spatial storage was also expanded to 12×12×12. Knowing that Jiang Yue was leaving, the Universal Chamber of Commerce hadn't figured out the use of the energy ore, so they lied and said it was newly received and sold it to Jiang Yue cheaply. Of course, Jiang Yue didn't expose them, after all, it's better to see through them than to say anything.
After tidying up the cave dwelling, they called the people from the Universal Chamber of Commerce to come and 'inspect' the house. The remaining time limit was converted into spirit stones and transferred to Jiang Yue's account. In the last month, Jiang Yue took a good look around Juxing City. She had lived here for hundreds of years, but this was the first time she had ever visited the city.
On the day of her departure, Manager Zhou came to see Jiang Yue off. After a reluctant farewell, Jiang Yue boarded the flying boat. This flying boat was not as big as the one from the Taixu Domain to the Central Domain, but the two were very different in strength. This was a seventh-tier flying boat, which would take twenty years to cross the Star Sea Continent to reach the Spirit Domain.
Life on the flying boat wasn't so boring. Jiang Yue secluded herself for fifteen years. In the environment of abundant spiritual energy, Jiang Yue directly leveled up and reached the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm. She then spent three years consolidating her cultivation. In the last two years, she searched for treasures on the flying boat and bought a lot of ores. Some of them were ones that Jiang Yue recognized, while others were purely for gambling.
She also made some deals in weapon crafting and exchanged contact information with many people. There were definitely some with ulterior motives among them, but Jiang Yue was a homebody and it didn't affect anything. A few days later, she arrived at the Spirit Realm. The Spirit Realm was not large and was surrounded by the sea. There was only one city on it, which was even more magnificent than Juxing City. After entering, she showed her gold membership of the Universal Chamber of Commerce and could go in directly. This was the headquarters of the Universal Chamber of Commerce. Gold members really had this kind of prestige.
After entering the city, Jiang Yue found the headquarters of the Universal Chamber of Commerce. The magnificent buildings shocked this country bumpkin. Inside, there were all kinds of items. Jiang Yue wandered around for a long time and found a servant to show him his membership token. He then found a small leader to receive Jiang Yue and rented a fifth-tier cave dwelling. It cost 200,000 spirit stones for a hundred years, which was ten times more expensive than in the Central Region. Rice was expensive in the Spirit Region, and it was not easy to live there.
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