Post-War Harvest

Skill: Wild Transformation increases experience by one point, so he can upgrade his skills by using them, without having to use his source energy for the time being.

The essence is still used to upgrade the World Tree species and the Druid class.

Currently, the Druid class level is relatively low, and no new skills or destiny have been activated yet. Logically, using essence to upgrade the Druid class would be the optimal solution, but upgrading the World Tree is equally important. It's just unknown how effective it would be to use essence to upgrade both the Druid class and the World Tree.

A thousand thoughts are no substitute for a single attempt. Xu Yunxin first applied that portion of his essence to the world's tree species.

[Consuming one unit of essence, World Tree Species: Golden Buddha Tree (White), growth rate increased by 0.1%.]

It takes twelve mortals in the late stage of Body Building to combine one part of the original essence, increasing their growth rate by one-thousandth. This proportion is far too small.

Xu Yunxin used the remaining two Origin Stones on the growth rate of World Tree Species and the Druid class level, respectively.

After using the Source, Xu Yunxin's [Profession: Druid LV0 (1/100)]

[World Tree Species: Golden Buddha Tree (White), Growth Rate 1.1%]

His career level and growth rate both increased by one percentage point. That was it; Xu Yunxin didn't notice any difference or change.

This road to upgrading is truly long and arduous.

Xu Yunxin sighed briefly, then went to Uncle Fu's place to check on the inventory of the spoils.

In just a short while, Uncle Fu had gathered together everything that was still of value.

The most numerous items were weapons.

There were eight longbows broken in two, four broken knives, three broken swords, three shattered shields, two intact daggers, and six arrows engraved with silver runes.

These six arrows engraved with silver runes are called "Silver Light Arrows." These arrows are not considered magical artifacts and can be fired with ordinary bows and crossbows. The "Silver Light Arrows" they shoot also have the power to break magic. They are disposable consumables and are controlled by the Immortal Dynasty. They are rarely circulated on the market. There must be something more to it than meets the eye that these cultivators were able to obtain them.

Xu Yunxin picked up a "silver arrow" and studied it for a while. He only recognized the two special runes on the arrowhead as the "break" and "sharp" characters that the Taoist academy had taught him.

Uncle Fu packed the six silver arrows into a quiver and put all the other ordinary weapons into a storage talisman, planning to melt them all down to forge new weapons once he arrived in Qingxi Town.

Then it was the turn of the hot female cultivator. Although she was flattened like a pancake, her dark green dagger was intact. Uncle Fu looked at it and saw that the dark green dagger was a mid-grade first-tier magic weapon. Its material was special and it contained a kind of poison that could paralyze people all over their bodies, so it had more uses. Its price should be similar to some ordinary high-grade first-tier magic weapons.

The fiery female cultivator only contributed a dagger before she was clean.

However, the vampire-looking male cultivator dropped quite a few good items.

First, there was the long sword used by the male cultivator. This long sword was a genuine first-grade high-quality magic weapon.

Xu Yunxin took it and examined it. The knife looked familiar, with a bloodline on the blade, which resembled the one used by the Blood Blade Ancestor. No wonder the two of them died in similar ways.

Aside from this first-grade superior longsword, the most valuable thing the male cultivator possessed was a dark black storage bag!

The storage bag has a green peony embroidered on the front and the characters "三方二" (three squares and two characters) embroidered on the back.

"Young Master, it's actually a storage bag about three square meters in size!" Uncle Fu exclaimed in surprise.

Storage bags are quite valuable. The ones circulating in the market are usually one or two square ones. A single square storage bag is worth one second-tier spirit stone, while a three-square one is worth at least ten spirit stones.

The low-level storage bag had no restrictions. Xu Yunxin took it, gently made a hand seal to open the storage bag, and took out all the items inside.

There weren't many items in the storage bag, but the most eye-catching one was a small pile of spirit stones. The two of them counted them carefully and found a total of 317 first-tier spirit stones and 10 second-tier spirit stones.

Besides this pile of spirit stones, there were also more than ten first-tier magic talismans, four or five pill bottles, and a dark blue jade slip.

At first glance, the talisman and the elixir bottle seemed to be common items available on the market. However, the dark blue jade slip was quite unique, with a Tai Chi symbol engraved in the center. Xu Yunxin took a look at it but dared not try it rashly.

After studying it carefully for a while, Uncle Fu roughly determined the origin of the jade slip, and said only: "This Taiji Talisman is used exclusively by the Liangyi Pavilion under the Dao Academy, and it should be the Liangyi Pavilion's cultivation method."

Liangyi Pavilion is an institution under the Taoist temple, mainly engaged in the sale of cultivation methods and magic spells.

Although this world is unified by the Xuanqiong Immortal Dynasty, and Daoist academies have been established to educate all people, and any qualified child of school age can study at the Daoist academies, the tuition fees for these academies are not something that everyone can afford.

Moreover, even if you go to the Taoist academy, the cultivation techniques are not something you can just take for granted; everything comes with a price.

Simply put, if you want the best, you pay money.

The Xuanqiong Immortal Dynasty has now stood for 9527 years, and there are countless cultivators in the world, with even more eager for cultivation techniques and secret arts.

In addition, the quality of the martial arts techniques and secret methods circulating on the market is worrying, and many of them are counterfeit.

Those with discerning eyes can distinguish the good from the bad, but some reckless cultivators who lack cultivation techniques buy a manual from the market or black market and start practicing it, only to end up suffering from qi deviation or even dying from a body explosion.

Some even went on killing sprees to seize the martial arts techniques, resulting in numerous tragedies.

In order to maintain peace in the area, the Taoist temple took advantage of the situation and set up the Liangyi Pavilion, which was specifically for selling the cultivation techniques.

With the backing of a Taoist academy, the cultivation techniques sold by Liangyi Pavilion are guaranteed to be of high quality and absolutely free from any underhanded dealings. Cultivators can practice with peace of mind.

Furthermore, the cultivation technique jade slips sold by Liangyi Pavilion are all equipped with special restrictions. Buyers must use the corresponding incantation to open them. If they try to open them by force without the incantation, the restriction will be triggered, and the cultivation technique jade slip will be destroyed.

However, the cultivation techniques of the Two Elements Pavilion are quite expensive. For example, this dark blue jade slip containing cultivation techniques is worth at least one third-tier spirit stone.

"So expensive!"

Let alone Xu Yunxin, even Uncle Fu, who had spent most of his life struggling in Wancheng, had only ever seen what a third-tier spirit stone looked like, and had never even touched one.

"Uncle Fu, since we can't force it open, this cultivation technique jade slip is useless to me. Can we sell it back?"

"Selling is possible, but the price offered by the Liangyi Pavilion is very low. No matter what grade of the cultivation technique jade slip, they only give one spirit stone when they buy it back."

"Shady businessman!"

Xu Yunxin verbally denounced the Liangyi Pavilion, but still carefully put away the cultivation technique jade slip, put the other items back into his storage bag, transferred the supplies that Uncle Fu had previously stored in the storage talisman, and finally handed the storage bag to Uncle Fu to keep safe.

The place where Jie Xiu surrounded and killed them was in the middle of the dense forest, where the trees were the tallest. Further towards Qingxi Town, the trees around them began to get shorter.

As the two led their horses out of the dense forest, they were greeted by a vast and desolate landscape.