Starting From A Fisherman To Cultivate Immortality And Live Forever

Chapter 5: Cultivating Spirit Rats

The purchasing power of spirit stones in the realm of alchemy is still quite strong.

Compared to low-level talismans that require two or three spirit stones to purchase, low-level artifacts are priced in the tens.

Unless it is a top-grade pill, alchemical pills are not too expensive.

One spirit stone can buy two to three medium-grade Pill of Nurturing Essence.

It can even be exchanged for more than 120 discarded Pill of Nurturing Essence.

Such prices for alchemical pills are intentionally promoted by the Chiyan Immortal Sect in order to better cultivate their inner disciples.

For some unknown reason, the majority of spiritual medicines in the cultivation world contain some kind of toxin that is harmful to cultivators and cannot be consumed raw.

The key to alchemy lies in eliminating the toxins from the medicinal materials while retaining their efficacy as much as possible.

Therefore, in this realm, a mature alchemist usually produces seven discarded pills, two inferior pills, and one medium-grade pill.

As for top-grade pills, it all depends on luck. One can only encounter them after refining a sufficient number of pills.

And because of the existence of pill toxins, the prodigies will not consume anything less than top-grade pills.

Thus, driven by the prodigies and with the tacit approval of the higher-ups, the result is that for alchemists, top-grade pills, which only appear under extremely rare circumstances, become their true source of profit.

Each top-grade pill is priced a hundred times higher than a medium-grade pill and is always in short supply.

This greatly increases the enthusiasm of alchemists and indirectly increases the production of other quality pills.

Furthermore, because the sect has always held a policy of vigorously supporting low-level cultivators with talent in alchemy, the number of alchemists in the sect far exceeds that of practitioners in other arts.

As a result, the prices of low-quality pills have been suppressed, which is only natural.

Su Ping is not clear about whether this trend is good or bad for the future of alchemists, nor is he in a position to judge.

But now, Su Ping is quite satisfied with the situation as he takes out three spirit stones and receives 230 discarded Pill of Nurturing Essence and 120 discarded Pill of Qi and Blood.

After buying the discarded pills, Su Ping drinks the good tea sent by the old cultivator.

After exchanging a few compliments with the old cultivator, Su Ping leaves the Yunbao Tower and returns to the street.

It is only now that Su Ping realizes that there are quite a few vendors on this street selling those spiritually intelligent ordinary beasts mentioned by the old cultivator.

This makes Su Ping understand that there are also shrewd businessmen in this cultivation world.

These people obviously understand that feeding ordinary beasts with discarded pills may not necessarily make money.

But selling ordinary beasts to those who are willing to take a gamble will definitely make money, and this is a hard truth!

Su Ping scans the ordinary beasts on these stalls.

After thinking for a while, Su Ping takes out a medium-grade Pill of Nurturing Essence and ten discarded pills and exchanges them with a Qi Refining Stage 1 loose cultivator for a white and a gray rat, as well as three small snakes.

The eyes of these two rats are bright, and they seem to be quite intelligent and able to understand human nature.

According to Su Ping's perception on this street, these two rats are the most spiritually intelligent ordinary beasts.

It is rumored that once rat-type spiritual beasts grow up, their escape techniques are unparalleled.

In addition, they are small in size and inconspicuous even in modern society. Su Ping feels that he can make use of them here.

As for the three small snakes, their appearance is slightly inferior, but they are just accompanying the two rats.

Su Ping has already made plans in his mind. When the spiritual snakes are cultivated, he can find another place to sell them to make up for the shortfall in spirit stones during these days.

...

At night, a bright moon hangs high in the sky.

Inside the owner's room of the Lingyue Villa, Su Ping has exchanged all the fish he caught for fishing coins, removed the purified spiritual medicine exchanged last night, and now has 160 coins left.

Su Ping looks at the two rats and three snakes in separate cages that he brought back.

He smiles faintly and softly says, "After meeting me, it's your good fortune."

Su Ping is not in a hurry to use the discarded pills. Instead, he takes out two beast-control talismans from his storage bag.

As a former inspector who has cut off his future prospects, Su Ping naturally has preparations for things he may need in the future.

Many times, using fierce beasts is undoubtedly more useful and ensures loyalty compared to relying on humans to guard the house and protect the family.

Especially when the cultivator is old and weak.

Even the most trusted person can change their mind.

These two beast-taming talismans were bought by Su Ping from his junior brother who learned the art of beast-taming.

They allow ordinary cultivators to also practice the art of beast-taming.

Of course, the talismans Su Ping took out are not even considered low-grade talismans!

The art of beast-taming displayed by these talismans can at most be considered a trick, only effective against fierce beasts in the mortal realm.

Therefore, they are cheap, and the target customers are cultivators like Su Ping who have descended to enjoy life.

"Contract!"

Su Ping bit his tongue and spat out two drops of blood onto the talismans.

Immediately, the two talismans turned into two red lights and entered the trembling white and gray mice in the cage.

"Squeak?"

The mice were in a panic, but after being hit by the red light, they had no resistance and Su Ping's mana imprint appeared in their minds.

"Squeak squeak squeak!"

The red light dissipated in the blink of an eye, and the two mice were no longer afraid. Instead, they looked at Su Ping with a hint of flattery, as they were capable of understanding human nature.

"It's only natural that it went smoothly... But when you think about it, I am already a mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator. If the contract with two ordinary mice were to fail, how unlucky would I be!"

Su Ping felt the profound enlightenment brought by the beast-taming contract and gently opened his hands.

Suddenly, with the cost of thirty fishing coins, purifying elixirs and life elixirs appeared in the palm of his hand.

"You both behave!"

"Eat the waste pill first, then drink some life elixir. If you can't hold on, then drink the purifying elixir!"

Su Ping held a waste pill in one hand and a elixir in the other, and used his mana to control the mice.

With on-site practice.

Su Ping discovered that the minimum dosage of elixir he could exchange was one milliliter.

Elixirs below one milliliter would not be effective.

This made Su Ping unable to use the method of infinitely subdividing the elixir to test its lower limit, which left him somewhat regretful.

However, Su Ping's method of feeding elixirs to waste beasts and turning them into spirit beasts, with the help of elixirs, was indeed the correct path as he had guessed!

The white mouse advanced to the first rank spirit mouse after consuming the waste elixir for the sixth time.

The little gray mouse successfully advanced during the fourth feeding of the waste elixir.

Don't be fooled by the fact that they only consumed single-digit amounts of waste elixir.

In fact, without the help of life elixirs, there was a high probability that both mice would have been poisoned to death when they consumed the first waste elixir.

And without purifying elixirs to remove the poison and repair defects.

Even if the mice survived the first elixir, they would reach their limit and be unable to make further progress when consuming the second waste elixir.

In the real world, for ordinary beasts to become spirit beasts... it is probably even more difficult than winning the jackpot in the lottery!

"Squeak!"

After becoming spirit beasts, the two mice became even more human-like, and they could even transmit messages to Su Ping through their contract.

After Su Ping opened the cage and released them, the two mice turned into afterimages and leaped out of the cage. They each lay on Su Ping's left and right shoulders, spontaneously activating their breathing technique and absorbing the essence of moonlight under the night sky.

"Uncontrolled beasts are monsters, controlled ones are spirit beasts."

"Once my spirit mice successfully advance, they can spontaneously absorb moonlight... and even subtly nourish my physical body, their master."

"With spirit pets like these, if I were to sell them for spirit stones, it would be at least a three-digit number, right?"

Su Ping was pleasantly surprised that he had good luck with his first cultivation, obtaining two spirit mice that seemed to have great potential.

He ignored the mice that were practicing on their own and turned his gaze to the little snake.

Following the same pattern, Su Ping, who had gained experience, took out a homemade syringe and successfully turned the three little snakes into spirit beasts.

(End of this chapter)