Yang Yitian did not refuse: "Then I will accept them. I will give you some more after I have researched the new talismans."
Yang Yitian thought to himself, the resources available to those at the Nascent Soul stage are really good. Even though these are the supplies that Old Li has accumulated over many years, he doesn't have many materials of this quality.
When Qi Zhiheng was in the Slaughtering God Sect, he had already exchanged all the resources held by Que Hanhai and Zuoqiu Man, both of whom were at the Nascent Soul stage, with pills. Now, there were so many Nascent Soul stage cultivators here waiting for them to exchange for resources. Yang Yitian was genuinely excited at the thought.
Spiritual herbs, which can absorb spiritual energy, have been almost completely used up by the cultivators who have been trapped here for many years. However, they still have quite a few spiritual materials, such as talisman materials, which cannot absorb spiritual energy.
Yang Yitian hadn't perfected the talisman yet and didn't intend to make it public. However, they also didn't intend to completely hide it.
Yang Yitian said to Old Li, "Senior Li, I haven't revealed this matter to anyone yet. I don't plan to let too many people know about it to avoid putting too much pressure on them. You can just tell Senior Xiong about the talisman; there's no need to mention it to anyone else."
This was originally Yang Yitian's prerogative, and when Yang Yitian and his companions made his request, Old Li naturally agreed without hesitation.
"Old Li! What are you still doing in there?" At that moment, a man's voice came from outside, and at the same time, there was a knock on their door.
It turned out that Old Li had taken too long to call Qi Zhiheng, and since they hadn't seen him return, they came looking for him.
"I'm here!" Old Li replied, then turned to Yang Yitian and said, "I'll be going now. You guys go to the assembly point when you're ready."
"Okay, go ahead and get busy." Yang Yitian waved and saw him off.
After Lao Li left, Yang Yitian and Qi Zhiheng discussed what to do next.
"After this hunt, let's go look around." Qi Zhiheng had planned to go out for a while, not only to get closer to places with abundant spiritual energy, but also to see if the spiritual herbs outside were really unusable.
"Okay!" Yang Yitian would still stay in Qi Zhiheng's space most of the time, so it didn't matter where he went.
After yet another hunt, Qi Zhiheng went to say goodbye to Xiong Shuang.
Xiong Shuang already knew that Yang Yitian could draw talismans. When he saw the two of them arrive, he was immediately excited and greeted them, "What brings you two brothers here?" There were too many people around, so he couldn't bring up the matter of talismans.
Qi Zhiheng explained their purpose for coming, and then said, "We will return before the next group hunt."
When Xiong Shuang heard that the two wanted to leave, she still disagreed: "I'm telling you, it's really not safe outside. Why are you so desperate?"
Qi Zhiheng: "Senior Xiong, there's no need to worry. We're just going to take a look. We still have some spiritual energy left. If we encounter any danger, we can just teleport away. You don't need to worry about us."
Xiong Shuang thought to himself, "I'm not worried about you guys. I'm afraid that if Yang Yitian dies by accident, it will be difficult for them to continue to obtain usable spiritual energy!"
“Alright then, if you insist on going, I have no reason to stop you, but you should still try to be careful.” After Xiong Shuang finished speaking, he took out a spatial ring, handed it to Qi Zhiheng, and winked: “I have some things here that I don’t need, and it would be a waste to keep them in my hands, so I might as well give them to you.”
He didn't explicitly say what was inside, but judging from the color just now, it seemed to be talisman materials for Yang Yitian.
"Then thank you very much, Senior Xiong," Yang Yitian said.
Qi Zhiheng then handed the spatial ring to Yang Yitian, who happily accepted it, saying, "We will remember Senior Xiong's kindness. When I come back, I will definitely bring you some 'gifts'."
When it came to gifts, the two of them were somewhat tacitly aware of each other's intentions.
"With your words, it's worth giving you all of this!" Xiong Shuang knew he was referring to the talismans for processing spiritual energy, so he couldn't hide his joy, which drew frequent glances from several people around him.
"What's wrong with Boss Xiong? He seems so happy today."
"Who knows? Maybe it's because he wasn't injured."
After bidding farewell to Xiong Shuang, Qi Zhiheng and Yang Yitian left the hunting grounds.
Their target was the West. Qi Zhiheng planned to first find a place to further improve his Five Elements Body Forging Technique, and then explore the center where spiritual energy was abundant, hoping to find some clues there.
Along the way, he had other ideas. There were many spiritual herbs in this world, but they contained violent spiritual energy. He wanted to do some research on these spiritual herbs containing violent spiritual energy and see if they could be used to refine pills.
After walking for a while, Yang Yitian entered Qi Zhiheng's space.
Qi Zhiheng proceeded on his own, picking any spiritual herbs he found that he needed. He did not put these herbs into his spatial storage, fearing that the violent spiritual energy within them might affect the normal spiritual energy and potentially harm his spatial storage.
If he really wants to introduce spiritual energy from outside into his space in the future, he must first set up a space that isolates spiritual energy to prevent the spiritual energy from mixing and affecting the spiritual herbs and fruits in his space.
After gathering enough spiritual herbs to refine several pills, Qi Zhiheng found a place to refine the pills.
The reason why others cannot refine pills here is mainly because they cannot utilize the spiritual energy of this world. He is different. His meridians can now withstand the invasion of this spiritual energy without causing too much damage, so refining a pill is naturally not difficult.
Qi Zhiheng began refining pills, but things did not go as smoothly as he had hoped. Mistakes occurred at the very beginning when he was refining the medicinal liquid.
After the spiritual energy was stirred up, it exploded, turning the entire spiritual herb into dust.
This was indeed quite distressing. Seeing those thousand-year-old spiritual herbs unusable, Qi Zhiheng, as an alchemist, felt his heart screaming, "Why!"
Qi Zhiheng was not one to give up easily. He first identified the problem and then tried to find a solution.
The main problem here is that the impurities in the spiritual herbs are difficult to refine. As long as one's normal spiritual energy enters the structure of the spiritual herbs, it will cause an explosion. This troubled Qi Zhiheng, who wondered if he could release spiritual energy that was filtered through his body and also contained violent factors.
After several days of trying, Qi Zhiheng had used up all the spiritual herbs he had picked, so he temporarily abandoned the plan and began to cultivate.
After adapting to the intense spiritual energy in a certain location, Qi Zhiheng would walk a short distance further and continue cultivating within his limits.
Although the spiritual energy was somewhat violent, it was extremely concentrated. Once Qi Zhiheng was able to adapt to the spiritual energy, his absorption speed increased significantly, and his cultivation progress after absorbing spiritual energy was four to five times faster than when he was outside.
Qi Zhiheng believed that as long as he went in one more circle, his cultivation speed would increase even faster in the future.
Six months later, Qi Zhiheng left the area again and returned to the settlement. At this time, his cultivation had made great progress, and he was showing signs of entering the peak of the Nascent Soul stage. If he did enter the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, the next step would be to prepare for the tribulation of lightning.
When they returned to their encampment, Old Li was somewhat surprised to see the two of them, but then greeted them with a smile, "You two are back?"
Five days before the group hunt, Qi Zhiheng and Yang Yitian returned ahead of schedule.
After numerous failures, Yang Yitian finally managed to draw an improved talisman. The talisman he now possesses can support a spherical space with a diameter of over ten meters. Such a space allows cultivators to cultivate for half an hour, and the spiritual energy within is extremely rich.
Of course, besides the finished products in his hands, Yang Yitian also had a lot of failed results. The space that those failed talismans could support varied in size, and it was impossible to judge whether it was good or bad.
Now, as long as Yang Yitian absorbs the processed spiritual energy, he can draw more than thirty such talismans when his spiritual power is at its peak.
In a sense, he had recouped his spiritual energy investment. These talismans could also be exchanged for a considerable amount of materials. Besides helping with the collective hunt, another reason they returned was to trade the talismans for the items these cultivators possessed.
As for the beast tide, Qi Zhiheng was not worried. With spiritual power, these cultivators had all the supernatural abilities they needed to fear those wild beasts that had no spiritual power at all.
After exchanging pleasantries with Yang Yitian and Lao Li, Qi Zhiheng had someone take them to find Xiong Shuang.
Old Li naturally agreed. Seeing that the two of them were going to find Xiong Shuang as soon as they arrived, he could guess that they must have made some progress in their research on talismans.
Upon seeing the person who had come, Xiong Shuang immediately chased everyone around him away, leaving only Qi Zhiheng, Yang Yitian, and Lao Li.
"You two young brothers have come back to see me again because there's been new progress with the talismans for purifying spiritual energy?" Xiong Shuang roughly understood their purpose, and his heart pounded. You see, in the past six months, he often thought of the two of them, and even when he took out one or two talismans to absorb spiritual energy, he still felt a pang of regret afterwards.
He was thrilled that the two people he had been longing for had finally returned.
Seeing that Qi Zhiheng's eyes were shining and he seemed eager to pounce on him and hug him, Yang Yitian rudely hid behind him.
Seeing his behavior, Xiong Shuang at least toned it down a bit and stopped looking like she wanted to eat him.
Yang Yitian poked his head out and replied, "The research on talismans has basically taken a direction. I currently have quite a few talismans that can reduce violent factors. The main reason I came here this time is to exchange some materials with Senior Xiong."
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