Starting From A Fisherman To Cultivate Immortality And Live Forever

Chapter 45: Bloodline Stone Tablet

Under the starry night sky, with the moon shining faintly, the Nine Leaf Mountain was enveloped in a dense fog even thicker than in the morning. It wasn't until Su Ping walked into the mist with a wooden sign that he felt the mist suddenly churn around him. Then, a layer of water vapor formed a floating platform beneath his feet, carrying Su Ping directly to the mountaintop.

Unlike the market located halfway up the mountain, there was only a simple and ancient courtyard on the mountaintop. As Su Ping landed at the entrance, an old cultivator who presided over the Cloud Treasure Tower came forward to greet him. The old cultivator recognized Su Ping but didn't reveal it, only whispering when handing over the wooden sign:

"Please come in, fellow cultivator. First, take a look at the inventory of the Yun family. We will hold the Yun family's auction later. After that, the Yun family will provide a quiet room for everyone to communicate."

"Please rest assured, the Cloud Mist Array in the Nine Leaf Market is fully operational, ensuring everyone's privacy and safety."

Su Ping nodded slightly, neither confirming nor denying the Yun family's assurance. He entered the main hall of the courtyard and saw several people sitting around a large round table. One of them, if he guessed correctly, seemed to be the master of talismans he had encountered last time. Although this old cultivator wore a mask, he was still wearing the same robe as before. Moreover, the scent of rouge and powder on his body hadn't changed, as confirmed by Su Ping's spirit mouse, Xiao Bai.

Su Ping shook his head inwardly. The Immortal Sect had been peaceful for too long, to the point where this old cultivator, who had been earning spirit stones peacefully for decades relying on talismans, had lost his caution.

He slowly drank the good tea and waited for a while. After a few more extraordinary cultivators arrived at the courtyard, the gate closed, and a mist enveloped the courtyard. Then, a cultivator in the late Qi Refining stage walked into the main hall from the corridor and bowed to the cultivators present.

"I am Yun Yuan, the current elder of the Yun family!"

"At the same time, I am also one of the three stewards of the Agricultural Affairs Hall of the Outer Sect of the Immortal Sect."

"This time, entrusted by the family, I am here to preside over the Yun family's affairs. If there are any shortcomings, I hope you all can forgive us."

Yun Yuan quickly walked to the main seat, glanced at the people present, and took out a storage bag labeled as number one, placing it on the table.

"Three hundred years of mid-grade Dragon Whisker Grass, starting price of 100 spirit stones..."

Su Ping had already finished reading the inventory and wasn't interested in the first spirit plant. He wasn't proficient in alchemy or knowledgeable about spirit plants. Besides, those who usually bought these were outer sect cultivators with backgrounds in other cultivation families. Su Ping disliked trouble and didn't bother competing with them for these useless items.

"It's here!"

As the auction progressed, Su Ping suddenly straightened his body and looked at the storage bag Yun Yuan had taken out.

"The Bloodline Stone Tablet from my Yun family was obtained by our ancestor a hundred years ago. It can identify 3,600 types of spiritual bodies."

Yun Yuan paused before continuing, "This item is essential for cultivators who aspire to establish a cultivation family."

"With this Bloodline Stone Tablet, one can know in advance whether the descendants have innate spiritual bodies and focus on cultivating them."

"It requires spirit stones to activate, and each spirit stone can be used for a hundred tests."

"Each test can detect the blood of up to a hundred people."

"In addition, a jade slip with detailed explanations of spiritual bodies annotated by our Yun family's ancestors will be included."

"Starting price... 200 spirit stones!"

Su Ping stared at the storage bag, recalling the relevant knowledge he had recently reviewed in his mind.

An artifact that can accurately detect the quality of spiritual roots has always been strictly controlled by the Immortal Sect. Even cultivation families haven't heard of anyone openly claiming to possess a similar artifact. Those cultivation families have mostly chosen artifacts like the Bloodline Stone Tablet that can detect spiritual bodies.

Most people with spiritual roots don't have spiritual bodies.

Unless they are extremely special, those with spiritual bodies at least have low-grade spiritual roots!

For example, that girl from the Ji family in the Golden Sparrow City most likely possesses some kind of enchanting-related spiritual body, which is why she has at least a low-grade spiritual root.

If the Ji family possesses this kind of artifact, there is no doubt that the girl from the Ji family would have received family cultivation since she was young.

However, compared to the cultivation families, the gap in status is still too large for the Ji family.

Not to mention two hundred spirit stones, even if the Ji family were to use all their liquid assets, they might not be able to gather twenty spirit stones!

"Two hundred and thirty spirit stones!"

As Yun Yuan's voice fell, a hawk-faced cultivator who had bought a lot of spiritual plants made another bid.

"This is already a high price. In the main hall of the Immortal Sect, similar bloodline stone tablets are only worth two hundred and fifty spirit stones."

Yun Yuan frowned upon hearing this and added, "But to go to the main hall of the Immortal Sect, you need to contribute merits. Besides, we have more than a hundred types of spiritual bodies on this stone tablet."

"Hehe, the probability of encountering spiritual bodies is too low. How many spiritual bodies has your Yun family detected in the past hundred years?"

Listening to their open discussion.

Su Ping silently calculated the spirit stones in his storage bag.

In addition to the one hundred and fifty spirit stones provided by the robbery cultivator, Su Ping had also earned over six hundred spirit stones from selling monster materials this week.

There was no way around it. Even though the quality of the monster materials forcibly upgraded was low, the quantity was large enough, especially the six hundred kilograms of monster meat provided by the lone-horned bull!

It was impossible for Su Ping not to think about getting rich overnight!

"Two hundred and fifty spirit stones!"

After thinking for a moment, Su Ping gave his offer and prepared for a dispute with the cultivators.

However, as this price was announced, several cultivators with backgrounds exchanged glances and unanimously chose to give up.

"Hmm?"

Su Ping was slightly taken aback, and then understood the reason behind it.

The use of bloodline stone tablets was actually quite limited, and most of the cultivators present could afford similar ones. They would only buy them to fill in the gaps.

As for those who couldn't afford them... well, naturally they wouldn't make a bid.

If the price was right, they would buy it; if not, they would just let it go.

After all, even in the cultivation world, there were plenty of ordinary people in cultivation families who didn't even have mediocre spiritual roots.

The probability of encountering people with spiritual bodies was even rarer!

Some stingy cultivation families even denied non-direct descendants the opportunity to use bloodline stone tablets if they didn't show any extraordinary abilities.

It was unlikely that any of the cultivators present would dare to make the decision to buy an extra one at a high price just to fill in the gaps.

Next, Su Ping participated in several more auctions.

He acquired a small illusion formation and several small artifacts that could conceal one's aura and protect one's body.

After that, Su Ping began to observe silently, waiting for the auction to end.

Su Ping's behavior made the cultivators from the families, led by the hawk-faced cultivator, secretly relieved.

At first, they thought this guy was a newcomer brought in by the Yun family to drive up the prices.

Fortunately, they didn't participate in the auctions that involved heavyweight interests.

It seemed that they had overthought it.

As the auction reached its second half, the spirit fields, spirit mines, and even the market itself were all sold by the Yun family.

This made the other cultivators present envious.

The old symbol master even lost his composure, as if he had been dreaming of having his own market and spirit fields.

"The auction is over. Thank you all for your presence. You can come and settle with me, and there are private rooms on both sides for private transactions."

After speaking, Yun Yuan went to the back hall with the cultivators from the families.

When the cultivators from the families were satisfied and came out, Su Ping went in and settled, receiving the spirit stones and the formation disk.

Then he returned to the hall and took out the elemental elixirs and qi replenishing elixirs from the robbery cultivator.

He exchanged some talismans with the old symbol master and bought some talismans, refining materials, and formation arrays from other cultivators using spirit stones.

Afterwards, Su Ping found Yun Yuan and expressed his desire to leave.

Accompanied by the operation of the formation, Su Ping flew back to the foot of the Nine Leaf Mountain with water vapor.

When his feet touched the ground, Su Ping silently released the Thunderfire Bead hidden in his sleeve.

And gently closed his eyes to contact the surrounding rat swarm through Little White and Little Grey to check the situation around the Nine Leaf Mountain.

After confirming its safety tens of seconds later, Su Ping, who was about to leave, suddenly discovered an unexpected situation.

"Huh?"

"Oh, there really is an unexpected situation!"

"However, it seems that it's not targeting me, but rather a fellow cultivator who left earlier and encountered a pursuit!"