Cultivation Begins From The Desert-Chapter 164 - 162: The Flaws of the Spirit Beast Bag [2 Updates, Seeking Subscription]
Chapter 164: Chapter 162: The Flaws of the Spirit Beast Bag [2 Updates, Seeking Subscription]
The Tier Five Spiritual Artifact Spirit Beast Ring has no obvious flaws. It possesses a peculiar "Nascent Soul in Sumeru" effect, allowing even colossal demon beasts hundreds of feet long to be contained within it. As long as someone feeds them, they won’t starve or suffocate inside.
However, the Tier Three Spiritual Artifact Spirit Beast Bag presented by Hua Yuerong cannot achieve this.
According to Hua Yuerong’s own words, the "Six Paths Alliance" craftsman mimicked the Spirit Beast Ring to create the Spirit Beast Bag, and divided its functionality into three levels.
The lowest level, like the one around her waist, can only contain demon beasts with a power level below Tier Four and a size less than ten feet. Moreover, a demon beast can remain inside for a maximum of one month before needing to be released to live outside for a period, or else it will suffocate inside.
A higher-level Spirit Beast Bag can also only contain demon beasts below Tier Four, but the size limit can be extended to twenty feet. The duration a demon beast can live inside is extended to three months.
The highest level Spirit Beast Bag can contain demon beasts below Tier Five with a size not exceeding thirty feet, and the duration a demon beast can live inside is greatly extended to one year.
However, all three kinds of spirit beast bags have a fatal weakness: their defense is not strong. A Tier Three Flying Sword can tear them apart, and once the spirit beast bag is ruptured, the spirit beasts inside are virtually doomed!
In contrast, the Spirit Beast Ring does not have this flaw. The materials used to refine the Spirit Beast Ring are extremely hard, and unless a Golden Core Stage Cultivator attacks with full force, it is almost impossible to damage it.
Undoubtedly, compared to the Spirit Beast Ring, these Spirit Beast Bags are worthless.
But for middle-tier cultivators who cannot use the Spirit Beast Ring, having a Spirit Beast Bag as an alternative is still quite good.
Especially since this Spirit Beast Bag has recently appeared in the cultivation realm as a "new-style spiritual artifact," its effects are so unique that purchasing one is valuable for Zhouyang, who is shopping in the Liuyun Continent Cultivation Realm.
There are also many clans raising clan guardian spirit beasts in the Boundless Desert Sea Cultivation Realm, so if Zhouyang buys a few of these spirit beast bags to take back, they might have a market.
"Fellow Daoist Hua, how do you price these three kinds of spirit beast bags?"
Feeling tempted, he immediately asked about the price.
Asking the price implies interest. Hua Yuerong couldn’t help but smile again upon hearing this.
"The price is negotiable. Since these artifacts are currently being promoted, we at Divine Weapon Workshop can offer Fellow Daoist a discount price: four thousand spirit stones for lower quality, six thousand spirit stones for medium quality, twelve thousand spirit stones for upper quality!"
Hearing this price, Zhouyang’s heart sank halfway.
The first two prices are fair, only slightly higher than the price of Tier Three Lower Grade and Tier Three Middle Grade Spiritual Artifacts. Foundation Establishment Cultivators, with some gritting of teeth, can still afford it.
However, the upper quality one quoted at twelve thousand spirit stones is something Foundation Establishment Cultivators cannot afford.
Not only him but Dong Jianping beside him, who was originally somewhat interested, also closed his mouth immediately upon hearing this, bitterly laughing and shaking his head, abandoning the idea of buying one.
After all, even a ten-foot storage bag only sells for three thousand low-grade spirit stones on the market!
However, after thinking it over, Zhouyang still said, "Give me one medium-quality Spirit Beast Bag!"
After all, as a "new-style spiritual artifact," buying one to take back, even if it can’t be sold, can still be passed down as an heirloom in the clan. If someone in the clan later subjugates a Tier Three Demon Beast, this thing can be useful.
Upon hearing this, Hua Yuerong’s smile became even brighter. She quickly fetched a medium-quality Spirit Beast Bag from the counter for Zhouyang and then looked expectantly at Dong Jianping: "Fellow Daoist Dong, don’t you want one?"
"Such an item, Dong as a loose cultivator can’t afford to enjoy. Fellow Daoist Hua should still introduce them to those sect cultivators and clan cultivators!" Dong Jianping waved his hand, showing a respectful unwillingness.
"That’s really a pity!"
Hua Yuerong sighed regretfully and then settled the payment for Zhouyang.
This shopping trip cost Zhouyang more than twenty thousand spirit stones in one go. If he hadn’t earned over ten thousand spirit stones by selling spirit elixirs and demon beast corpses since arriving at Zhenyue Immortal City, he wouldn’t have many spirit stones left.
As Zhouyang was about to return to the Immortal Inn to refine artifacts after leaving Divine Weapon Workshop, Dong Jianping stopped him and said, "Brother Zhou, forgive Dong for being overly talkative, but the Immortal Inn is a place to stay briefly, and if you intend to cultivate and refine artifacts, it’s best to rent a cave mansion. This beast tide will last for at least a few years; renting a cave mansion for three to five years won’t cost too many spirit stones!"
Upon hearing this, Zhouyang immediately grasped the situation. Dong Jianping is correct; although the Immortal Inn can absorb spiritual qi for cultivation, it lacks significantly in security and privacy protection, making it unsuitable for long-term cultivation.
He immediately nodded and said, "Brother Dong, you are right. However, I am not familiar with Zhenyue Immortal City, and I don’t know where it’s best to rent a temporary cave mansion."
"In the area where I currently reside, there are such temporary cave mansions for rent. Brother Zhou can come with me to see if any fit his eye."
Under Dong Jianping’s guidance, Zhouyang and he left Zhenyue Peak via Cloud Bridge, arriving at the auxiliary peak where Dong resided.
The Cloud Bridge connecting the three Immortal Mountains of Zhenyue Immortal City towers a thousand feet high and is constructed by Array Power. Most low-tier demon beasts can’t attack this Cloud Bridge.
And those Tier Three and Tier Four demon beasts that can attack, won’t bother to, because as long as the array isn’t broken, the Cloud Bridge can quickly recover even if temporarily damaged.
Upon reaching the auxiliary peak where Dong Jianping lived, Zhouyang, introduced by him, took a fancy to a cave mansion with a Spiritual Qi concentration of Tier Three Top Grade, and rented it immediately for three years at a price of five hundred Spirit Stones per year.
The rented cave mansion, in terms of area, definitely isn’t as large as the ones on the Zhou Family’s Jade Spring Peak. Inside are only five stone chambers: a seclusion chamber, a bedroom, a living room, an artifact refining chamber, and a storage chamber, with a total area of less than eight hundred square meters.
However, the safety and Spiritual Qi concentration within the cave mansion far surpass those of Jade Spring Peak. The entire cave mansion is protected by an independent Tier Three Middle Grade Array. Without the cave mansion token in Zhouyang’s possession, even the cultivator renting him the mansion can’t forcibly enter, and if under attack, there’s immediate visitation from the Divine Sense of a Purple Mansion Stage Cultivator.
Upon entering the cave mansion, Zhouyang immediately buried over a hundred low-grade Spirit Stones in the array base, activating the guardian array of the mansion.
A mist of white surged out, instantly enveloping his cave mansion situated beneath a cliff, isolating it from external detection.
Thus, as long as no one attacks the array, the Spiritual Power provided by over a hundred low-grade Spirit Stones can keep the array running normally for a long time.
With the array’s protection, Zhouyang finally felt a significant increase in safety. He didn’t rush to refine a magical artifact, instead heading to the bedroom for a refreshing sleep to alleviate the exhaustion left by today’s battle.
After sleeping for more than ten hours, Zhouyang then got up to refine a magical artifact.
Given his current cultivation level, refining two magical artifacts didn’t take much time, merely half a month. He then completed the refinement of two artifacts, ready for normal combat.
Having refined the two magical artifacts, Zhouyang had only one and a half months of rest left. He thought it over and immediately took out the demon beast materials previously acquired to attempt crafting a second Tier Three Spiritual Artifact.
Spending another one and a half months, after four rounds of furnace refining, Zhouyang finally crafted a second Tier Three Lower Grade Spiritual Artifact.
Calculating thus, his current success rate in crafting Tier Three Lower Grade Spiritual Artifacts is about twenty to thirty percent, still requiring improvement.
As the newly crafted artifact’s power is mediocre, he didn’t refine it, simply storing it as a collection, intending to possibly exchange it in future trade fairs.
After two months had passed, Zhouyang was once again summoned to the city walls to resist the "beast tide", but this time, he was no longer a squad leader, merely an ordinary defending cultivator.
As the frequency of "beast tide" storming the city increases, the casualties among Qi Cultivation Stage Cultivators inside the city also rise. Now, the surviving Qi Cultivation Stage Cultivators are all enlisted into the Zhenyue Immortal City Defense Army, donning defense army battle armor to fight against the attacking demon beasts via array.
This time, Zhouyang fought fiercely on the city walls for ten days straight. During which the "beast tide" launched three assaults, each time leading many Tier Three demon beasts onto the walls to battle the defending cultivators.
With new powerful magical artifacts, this time Zhouyang gained more than before, killing five Tier Three Lower Grade Demon Beasts and two Tier Three Middle Grade Demon Beasts, earning six to seven thousand low-grade Spirit Stones through selling demon beast carcasses.
However, in this battle he got injured, hit by the talent divine technique of a Tier Three Middle Grade Demon Beast, "Blazing Tiger". Although afterward he retaliated, using "Thunderfire Gourd" to blast the beast into several fragments.
Due to being injured, Zhouyang earned three months of recovery time after the battle.
Returning, he learned a shocking piece of news from Dong Jianping through their conversation. fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com
It turns out, in just these two short months, Zhenyue Immortal City has already seen over three thousand Qi Cultivation Stage Cultivators fall, and thirty to forty Foundation Establishment Cultivators perish.
According to Dong Jianping, such circumstances are typical during the first year of "beast tide" attacks; it’s the year when middle-lower tier cultivators drop the fastest. Zhenyue Immortal City now has twenty to thirty thousand cultivators, and after this battle, if three thousand can survive, that’s considered competent!
However, those who survive will likely advance further in their cultivation journey than ordinary cultivators. Following former "beast tide" attacks, many surviving Qi Cultivation Stage Cultivators quickly purchase Foundation Establishment Pills to establish their foundation, and some Ninth-Layer Foundation Establishment Cultivators would gather enough Spirit Stones to buy the spiritual objects needed for opening a Purple Mansion, successfully establishing it.
Zhouyang wishes to be the one who survives till the end, so upon getting a three-month rest, he immediately returned to his cave mansion, took out a "Jade Moon Fruit" and consumed it, seeking to leverage its power to further enhance his cultivation.
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