"Thank you for your help, Senior Sister. I have so matters to attend to, so I'll take my leave now," Ghost Guest cupped his fists in a salute.
"You're such a heartless person, using and discarding people. You're still young, don't learn from those scoundrels," Amanda Han said with a hint of resentnt as she glanced at Ghost Guest. Seeing his silence, she covered her mouth and chuckled, handing him a storage bag. "Just kidding. You won the championship this ti, making Fragrance Beauty Tower famous. This is a token of appreciation, you can't refuse."
Ghost Guest scanned the storage bag with his spiritual sense and, after a mont of hesitation, accepted it.
He had intended to refuse, but Amanda Han had given him too much. The storage bag contained five thousand spirit stones, making it hard to turn down.
After bidding farewell to Amanda Han, Ghost Guest returned to his courtyard and took out the century-old snow lotus heart to begin his seclusion.
The matters with the dicine Gate were settled. Next, he needed to prepare for the events at Dusk Mountain. The conflict between Douglas Situ and Jiang He was about to begin, and his second level of Qi Refinent was far from sufficient.
Half a month later, Ghost Guest consud a Barrier Breaking Pill, and spiritual energy surged through his ridians, directly attacking the bottleneck.
Monts later, Ghost Guest slowly opened his eyes, his aura suddenly surging.
Qi Refinent Level Three!
With the help of the snow lotus heart, he had broken through to the third level of Qi Refinent in just over a month.
Moreover, there were still seven lotus seeds left. Once he stabilized his cultivation, he could attempt to break through more acupoints.
After so thought, Ghost Guest took out his pill furnace and began refining ingredients to solidify his spiritual energy.
Three days later, Ghost Guest consud another lotus seed. As the seed dissolved, a vast amount of spiritual energy flooded his ridians. Seizing the mont, he swallowed an Acupoint Breakthrough Pill and forcefully broke through the second acupoint of Qi Refinent Level Three.
After reaching the third level of Qi Refinent, the efficacy of the lotus seeds had noticeably diminished. More accurately, the amount of spiritual energy required for acupoint breakthroughs had increased.
At the second level of Qi Refinent, one lotus seed could help him break through two acupoints. Now, it could only break through one, with the remaining dicinal power insufficient for another breakthrough.
After consuming all seven lotus seeds, Ghost Guest's aura surged again, breaking through nine acupoints in total.
Just as he was about to end his cultivation, he glanced at the snow lotus's main body and had a sudden thought.
The century-old snow lotus heart was a rare treasure. His wood spirit root was already close to eighty percent. If he consud the snow lotus heart, his wood spirit root would likely see a significant improvent.
With this in mind, Ghost Guest took a bite of the snow lotus heart.
Half a month later, Ghost Guest abruptly stood up, his aura becoming even sharper.
Qi Refinent Level Three, twelve acupoints!
Most importantly, his wood spirit root had surpassed eighty percent and was approaching ninety percent.
With his improved talent, his sensitivity to spiritual energy had heightened, and his absorption rate had increased.
Although his cultivation speed couldn't match Mark Ye's perfect gold and fire spirit root, it was definitely not inferior to other top-tier talents.
While other cultivators were limited by resources, he was limited by his talent.
As a pill refiner who had outshone his peers, he never lacked spirit stones. Now that his talent was improving, he was confident he could catch up and surpass his peers, even those who had started cultivating earlier.
At the Spirit Treasure Platform, Ghost Guest placed spirit stones on the counter and requested an egg of the Purple Fla Snake.
The cultivator behind the counter accepted the spirit stones and led Ghost Guest to a beast pen beneath the Spirit Treasure Platform.
A five-foot-long Purple Fla Snake coiled in the pen, circling a cluster of damp eggs. It had just laid them, and its eyes burned with purple flas. Its crimson tongue flicked in and out as it stared intently at the two of them.
The cultivator ford a hand seal, releasing a wave of cold air that froze the Purple Fla Snake. He picked up an egg with good quality.
The Purple Fla Snake hissed, spewing flas to dispel the cold air, and lunged at them, only to be repelled by the cultivator's palm strike. Undeterred, it spat more flas, enveloping the cultivator.
After several entanglents, the cultivator grew impatient. He drew a flying sword and decapitated the Purple Fla Snake. Its body went limp, but its head continued to struggle on the ground, glaring at the cultivator until it finally ceased moving.
"Ungrateful beast, after all this ti, it still won't let take an egg," the cultivator cursed, then turned to Ghost Guest with a smile. "Junior Brother, do you want the snake at?"
Ghost Guest shook his head. The storage bag couldn't hold living creatures, so he could only carry the egg away.
Snakes were inherently cold, but the Purple Fla Snake was the opposite, a spirit of fire. He had bought the egg to eat, to test if the first slot of the Extinct Spirit Seed could enhance other spirit roots.
Back in his courtyard room, Ghost Guest sat on the bed, staring at the egg in his arms, lost in thought. He recalled the Purple Fla Snake. Even though snakes were cold-blooded, they would do anything to protect their offspring.
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Despite his ruthless nature, he couldn't bring himself to harm the egg.
As he pondered, the egg suddenly cracked, and a thumb-sized snake slowly erged, wriggling on his leg.
Ghost Guest picked up the tiny snake and sighed, placing it in his palm and releasing spiritual energy to stabilize its vitality.
He could kill without blinking, but he couldn't harm this newborn snake.
Its mother was dead; how could he kill its child?
Ghost Guest wiped the sticky egg fluid off the little snake and brought it close to his eyes, studying it carefully.
The little snake looked back at him with innocent eyes, full of attachnt. It had mistaken Ghost Guest for its parent.
"From now on, you'll be called Sharon," Ghost Guest smiled, seeing the little snake glance at the broken eggshell. He placed it back.
The little snake swam in the egg fluid, soon consuming it all, then began devouring the eggshell, as if driven by instinct.
Watching Sharon bite and swallow the eggshell, Ghost Guest had a thought. He broke off a small piece of the eggshell and chewed it, carefully sensing the changes in his body.
When his fire spirit root began to recover, Ghost Guest's eyes glead.
Although the change was minor, his fire spirit root was indeed growing. This confird his earlier hypothesis: the first slot of the Extinct Spirit Seed could enhance all spirit roots, not just the wood spirit root.
This was true transformation. The more he understood the Extinct Spirit Seed, the more he marveled at its mysteries.
No wonder his master had warned him not to ntion the Extinct Spirit Seed to anyone. If anyone knew he possessed such a heaven-defying treasure, they would stop at nothing to seize it.
Ghost Guest stopped after a taste, not wanting to overly enhance his fire spirit root. He only wanted to test the first slot's effects.
Greed would lead to ruin. He would focus on perfecting his wood spirit root before considering the others.
After consuming all the eggshells, Sharon's tiny body began to grow, eventually reaching the length of an arm. It coiled around Ghost Guest's right wrist and fell asleep, digesting its al.
Ghost Guest rubbed the copper coin on his left wrist, looking at the purple bracelet-like Sharon on his right wrist, and smiled wryly.
He had intended to eat the snake egg, but now it seed he had to raise this little creature.
However, he knew nothing about raising demon beasts. It looked like he would need to visit the Spirit Treasure Platform again.
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