Chapter 435 Formation Book
Of course, mature fourth-level spiritual herbs and refining materials are basically not available in this relatively low-end market.
But nothing is absolute. Mature fourth-level spiritual herbs and refining materials may not be seen, but seedlings of fourth-level spiritual herbs picked by some immortal cultivators occasionally appear.
The medicinal age of mature fourth-level spiritual herbs must be at least seven or eight hundred years. This means that if an immortal cultivator finds a seedling of a fourth-level spiritual herb in a remote place, he will basically not continue to raise it and wait for it to mature before picking it.
In most cases, he will pick it directly and sell it at a lower price. For such fourth-level spiritual herbs with insufficient years, they are not completely useless. In the world of immortal cultivators, some alchemists have specially developed a downgraded spiritual pill.
For example, it is naturally impossible to refine a fourth-level spiritual pill with a hundred-year-old fourth-level spiritual herb, but the alchemist can refine a second-level spiritual pill based on the concentration of spiritual energy and the medicinal age of the spiritual herb.
This improved version of the elixir is much more potent than the average second-level elixir. Because the spiritual energy in it is more condensed, even if some cultivators who have reached the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment take this type of second-level elixir, they can improve their cultivation a little bit.
In Xiao Lin's opinion, this behavior is a bit of a waste of natural resources, but it is also a way to use immature high-level spiritual herbs to avoid waste. This also makes the seedlings of high-level spiritual herbs on the market very precious. Basically, as soon as they appear, they will be bought by some alchemists.
However, the third-level spiritual herbs do not have this effect. The degree of spiritual energy of immature third-level spiritual herbs is not as condensed as most second-level spiritual herbs. It is not enough to refine elixirs. Even if they are barely refined, they are at most ordinary first-level elixir level. For cultivators, it is really a bit useless.
Therefore, those immature third-level spiritual herbs that can produce seeds or split roots can still be sold at a relatively good price. After all, they can be cultivated. As for those immature third-level spiritual herbs that grow with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, no one cares about them and it is difficult to sell them.
Xiao Lin quickly arrived at the market in the east of the city. He quickly estimated the area of the market, which was about ten miles. At this moment, people were coming and going, and at least tens of thousands of immortal cultivators were shuttling through it.
This market in the east of the city was clearly divided into three categories according to the cultivation level of the stall owners. The outermost one was naturally a large number of Qi Refining cultivators. They set up stalls more casually. Some people simply pulled a piece of cloth on the ground and put things on it, and a stall was made.
Near the middle, there were some small counters with items for sale on them, and inside the counters, there were foundation-building immortal cultivators sitting with their eyes closed.
At this time, Xiao Lin saw that in the center of the market, there were actually several rows of extremely exquisite small wooden houses. These small wooden houses had no doors, and they were opened very wide. You could vaguely see the counters filled with items inside.
At the same time, Xiao Lin saw rows of female cultivators neatly arranged around the market. There were at least dozens of them, most of whom were low-level cultivators above the seventh or eighth level of Qi Refining, but the leading ten or so female cultivators were at the foundation-building stage.
Moreover, Xiao Lin also saw four wooden houses in the four corners of the East Market. These four wooden houses were not without doors like those in the middle of the market, but the doors were tightly closed. Xiao Lin could vaguely sense the amazing spiritual pressure emanating from the wooden houses.
Xiao Lin naturally understood that these people were guards stationed in the Black Stone City by the Yu Shui Palace, responsible for maintaining order. Of course, they also collected stall fees for better management.
This is actually a very normal thing. The reason why the sect was born is to occupy more immortal cultivation resources through the form of the sect. In the East Territory, whether it is the Yu Shui Palace, the Six Dao Kui Mo Palace, or the Five Elements Alliance, they are all such organizations.
Except for the large sea area in the north, the entire East Territory is basically under the control of these three major forces. Within the respective scopes of these three major forces, whether it is the immortal city or the island, it is basically firmly controlled by these three major forces.
With the help of the huge number of cultivators in the Eastern Territory, these three major forces also made a lot of money. Xiao Lin could clearly understand that these three major forces were absolutely rich. The rent collected every year alone was countless.
For the top leaders of these three major forces, they could basically obtain a large amount of immortal cultivation resources without leaving their homes. It was no wonder that these three major forces had controlled the hundreds of millions of miles of sea in the Eastern Territory for hundreds of thousands of years, and they were still as stable as a mountain and could not be shaken.
After thinking about this, Xiao Lin also understood the importance of the forces behind him. In the final analysis, the immortal cultivation world is a huge food chain. Standing at the top of this food chain are naturally the supreme elders of the major sects who are high above, and the great cultivators who may exist or may not exist behind the scenes, and even the great gods.
In this world, after the immortal cultivators break through the Nascent Soul Great Perfection and enter the God Transformation Stage, they seem to disappear without a trace, and the God Transformation cultivators seem to have never shown their presence.
Xiao Lin knew that the Spiritualization Stage was the same as the Nascent Soul Stage. Only after cultivating to the Great Perfection of the Spiritualization Stage could one ascend to the ethereal upper realm. The process from the early stage of the Nascent Soul Stage to the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul Stage was enough to make more than 99% of the Nascent Soul cultivators unable to catch up.
Then, wouldn't it be several times more difficult to go from the early stage of the Spiritualization Stage to the Great Perfection of the Spiritualization Stage? Although the life span of a Spiritualization cultivator was much longer than that of a Nascent Soul cultivator, in Xiao Lin's opinion, cultivating to the Great Perfection of the Spiritualization Stage should be a nearly impossible task.
Therefore, Xiao Lin had guessed that these great masters who had entered the God Transformation Stage were probably busy cultivating to break through the realm, and had no time or interest to get involved in the disputes in the world of immortal cultivation.
After all, for them, everything could not be compared with ascending to heaven, and these great masters of the God Transformation Stage were at the top of the food chain in the world of immortal cultivation, and they did not need to consider the shortage of resources at all, so there was no need for them to show up and go on adventures and training everywhere.
Of course, Xiao Lin knew that he did not have such treatment, so he threw these distracting thoughts out of his mind and walked into the market.
In order to avoid trouble, Xiao Lin used the secret technique of Yi Lingbian to hide his own aura, revealing only the cultivation of the middle stage of foundation building. This level of cultivators can be said to be a lot in this city east market, and it will not attract attention.
The quality of the market in Black Stone City is much higher than what Xiao Lin saw in several large immortal cities in the southern region. This is of course because the cultivators in the market in Black Stone City not only have a large number of immortal cultivators in the foundation building stage, but also a lot of golden elixir cultivators.
On the other hand, perhaps because Black Stone City is connected to Jinxia Fairy City in the Wan Yao Sea, the immortal cultivation resources sold there are more abundant and diverse, and both in quality and level, they are much higher than those in the market in the Southern Territory.
Xiao Lin did not even doubt that there were many Jindan cultivators like himself who concealed their cultivation and mixed in with many immortal cultivators.
After entering the market, Xiao Lin began to stroll around. After strolling for half an hour, Xiao Lin found that most of the materials in this market were materials for refining and making talismans from some monsters, which also led to the number and types of magic tools in the entire Southern Territory far exceeding that of the Southern Territory.
Moreover, there are a large number of talisman pens made of monster hair, spiritual ink made of monster essence and blood, and talisman paper made of monster skin, which makes the spiritual talismans sold in the market very large.
However, these talismans are basically first- and second-level low-level cultivators suitable for refining qi and building foundations. For Xiao Lin, they are not worth looking at at all.
Originally, he wanted to buy some blood essence of the emperor-level monsters so that he could go back and refine blood alchemy. However, after a round of shopping, he found that there were quite a few blood essences of monsters for sale in the market, but they were basically the blood essences of ordinary and true monsters. As for the blood essences of the emperor-level monsters, there were also several stalls selling them.
But the quantity was relatively small, and the price was more expensive than that in the business. After thinking about it, Xiao Lin decisively gave up.
Later, while strolling around, Xiao Lin bought a few more sea maps around Jinxia Xiancheng. After he understood that the Eastern Territory was divided into the Inner Sea, the Burning Immortal Sea, and the Outer Sea of Ten Thousand Monsters, he was also full of curiosity about the Outer Sea.
This may be a common problem for cultivators, who are full of desire to explore some unknown places. The Outer Sea of Ten Thousand Monsters is the intersection of human cultivators and endless monsters. Human cultivators collect various materials for cultivation by hunting monsters.
For monsters, it is also to satisfy their appetite by hunting humans, and after devouring human cultivators, it can also greatly improve the Taoism of monsters.
After walking around the periphery of the market, Xiao Lin did not find any traces of immature fourth-level spiritual herbs, but this was within his expectations. Fourth-level spiritual herbs, even if they were immature, were very rare and could not be bought just because they wanted to.
"Huh?" Xiao Lin, who was strolling around, suddenly exclaimed in surprise. He stopped moving forward and turned to look at the stall beside him.
The stall owner was an ordinary-looking man who looked to be about 27 or 28 years old. He looked a little haggard, and his chin was almost covered with stubble. In front of his stall, there were only a few ancient books.
The covers of these ancient books were yellowed, and some places were damaged. After seeing these ancient books, most of the immortal cultivators would choose to stop, pick up a book, and flip through a few pages.
After reading a few pages, they would basically put it down, shake their heads, and turn around and leave.
As for the ordinary-looking stall owner, whenever someone picked up a book to read, a glimmer of hope appeared on his face, and after someone left, a hint of disappointment appeared in his eyes.
The reason why Xiao Lin stopped was because one of these ancient books had the words [Detailed Explanation of the Mysteries of Formation] written on the cover.