Mortal Cultivator: Lin Tianzun

Chapter 162 Ningcui Island

Lin Fan is on the 48th floor of the Holy Mountain in Tianxing City, where he rents a cave. The rental price of this cave is not cheap, costing 3,800 low-level spirit stones every hundred years.

For an ordinary Jindan stage cultivator, this is undoubtedly a heavy expense, but Lin Fan has the golden finger, so this amount of spirit stone expenditure is just a drop in the bucket for him and is not worth mentioning at all.

The reason why he stayed here temporarily was because all kinds of raw materials were extremely abundant in the Tianxing City market, and it was much easier to collect the spiritual materials he needed here.

If he doesn't have a stable place to stay, many things will be restricted. He can't sleep on the street. Even if he is willing, Xinggong will never agree.

In the following days, Lin Fan frequently went to various shops in the market town.

He had two main goals: first, to search everywhere for all kinds of materials needed for the ancient recipes of the Nascent Soul stage. He would accept all of them, whether they were spiritual medicine seeds or spiritual medicine seedlings. After all, he had the Taiqing Jade Bottle, which could ripen spiritual medicines.

Secondly, he purchased a large number of classics covering various aspects such as martial arts, formations, refining equipment, and alchemy. These classics can not only broaden his horizons and make him knowledgeable, but more importantly, they can help him learn the knowledge and improve his skills in all aspects.

Time flew by, and nearly a year had passed in the blink of an eye. During this year, Lin Fan had gone through a lot of trouble, going from shop to shop in the market, but he had only managed to collect seven or eight ingredients, a far cry from having the complete recipe.

The complexity of the materials required for the ancient recipe of the Nascent Soul stage is far beyond that of the Core Formation stage. It is obviously impossible to gather them all in a short period of time.

However, giving up is out of the question.

Lin Fan asked some shops to help collect the materials and offered prices that were nearly 30% higher than the market price; as long as these shops could make a profit, they would naturally do their best to collect materials for Lin Fan.

Since the collection of spiritual medicines was not going well, Lin Fan turned his attention to the monsters in the outer sea.

You know, demon pills are excellent materials for refining elixirs to improve cultivation, and the fur, claws, blood, scales, etc. of demon beasts can all be used to exchange for spirit stones.

Level eight demon pills are difficult to obtain, but level seven demon pills can be used after being cultivated using the Qiankun Creation Cauldron.

Lin Fan secretly calculated in his mind that after taking the Bu Tian Pill, his cultivation speed increased by nearly eight times.

However, after careful calculation, it seems that it is not much faster. The cultivation speed of the heavenly spiritual roots is twice that of the double spiritual roots, and the double spiritual roots are twice that of the triple spiritual roots. In this way, the cultivation speed of the heavenly spiritual roots is four times that of the triple spiritual roots.

Lin Fan's eight times divided by four is twice, but his mana is three times that of the same level, and the time required to accumulate mana is also three times longer. Calculated this way, his cultivation speed is still not as fast as that of the natural spiritual roots.

It takes at least a hundred years to cultivate one's spiritual roots from the early stage of the Nascent Soul to the peak, and one must meditate and practice continuously every day, maximizing the meditation time.

It would take Lin Fan at least one hundred and fifty years to reach the peak of the initial stage of meditation. There would be bottlenecks ahead, and it would take even longer to break through them.

It is common for some Nascent Soul cultivators to be stuck in bottlenecks for hundreds of years. If they want to break through to the Spirit Transformation stage, they have to speed up their cultivation so that they have enough time to break through the bottleneck.

Therefore, Lin Fan planned to use the demon-luring grass, also known as the colorful grass, to attract demon beasts above level five and hunt for their demon cores.

Then, with the help of the Qiankun Creation Cauldron, the demon pill will be cultivated to the eighth level, and then the finished pill will be refined. This will surely help improve your cultivation quickly.

Furthermore, Lin Fan also wanted to gain some benefits for his fellow Taoists.

In the process of hunting monsters and obtaining monster pills, you can bring back a batch of monster pills for them and refine a large number of pills to improve their cultivation. This will save them one or two hundred years of time to accumulate magic power and increase their chances of successfully reaching the Nascent Soul stage.

Cultivating immortality is not about achieving immortality alone. If there is no one to talk to, what is the point of such immortality?

It’s better to have a few close female friends by your side so that you won’t feel lonely.

After a period of time, Lin Fan once again stepped into the market town.

He first purchased three extra-large storage bags. After all, he would definitely obtain a lot of monster materials by then. If they couldn't hold all the materials, he couldn't just throw them away. These were treasures that could be exchanged for spirit stones.

Then, he carefully selected a large batch of colorful grass, which was the key item of this trip. He wanted to use it to lure the monsters to come to him.

We can't let Lin Fan go to the deep sea to search for monsters by himself. That would be too inefficient and it would be a matter of luck. Sometimes, it is possible that he wouldn't encounter a monster for several years.

He then headed towards the fiftieth floor of Tianxing City. What came into view was a towering, imposing hall constructed of white marble. Above the hall hung a massive plaque several meters long, inscribed in gold lacquer: "Starry Sky Hall." The three characters, gleaming brightly in the sunlight, were particularly striking.

Five monks were gathered at the entrance of the hall, and they seemed to be discussing something in low voices.

Lin Fan took a quick look and found that three of them were Jindan stage cultivators, and the other two were late foundation building stage cultivators.

Seeing Lin Fan approaching, a middle-aged man dressed in brocade clothes and whose cultivation had reached the Jindan stage stepped forward.

He smiled and politely asked, "Fellow Daoist, are you also planning to go to the Outer Sea? I'm Li Yong. Why don't you teleport with us? This way you can save a lot of spirit stones."

Lin Fan's expression remained calm as he responded unhurriedly, "I'm heading to Ningcui Island. I wonder if that's on your route. If not, we can't teleport together. Besides, I don't have time to wait here for all seven of you to gather before setting off."

The five people looked at each other, and their eyes seemed to communicate something. Then, they said in unison: "Yes, fellow Daoist, please come. We are also planning to go to Ningcui Island."

Lin Fan didn't believe that they would go to Ningcui Island on the way, but this way he could save a lot of spirit stones. Don't underestimate these one hundred spirit stones. For ordinary cultivators, it is a huge sum of money. Naturally, Lin Fan would not think that he had too many spirit stones.

So, Lin Fan followed these people and walked towards the teleportation hall.

After walking through a short corridor, the view suddenly widened to reveal a spacious hall over twenty feet long and wide. Inside, seven monks were conversing with a white-robed Tianxing Palace monk.

Behind them, there were several rows of teleportation arrays of the same size arranged neatly. In front of each teleportation array stood a small stone tablet, on which was clearly marked the name of the place to which the teleportation array led, making it easy to see at a glance.

Not long after, the seven people from before walked onto a teleportation array. The Xinggong monk gave them teleportation talismans and put one on each of them.

The cultivator from Tianxing Palace just lightly pinched the teleportation spell, and the teleportation array suddenly flashed with rosy light. In the blink of an eye, the seven people on the teleportation array disappeared without a trace.

Lin Fan and the others immediately arrived at the teleportation array. Lin Fan directly said to the white-robed cultivator from the Star Palace, "Let's go to Ningcui Island."

The Tianxing Palace monk in white said, "The cost of one teleportation is 700 spirit stones."

So, Lin Fan and the other six people each took out the corresponding spirit stones, gathered them together and handed them to the white-robed monk.

Immediately afterwards, everyone stood together on the teleportation array marked with the words "Ningcui Island".

After the white-robed monk collected the spirit stones, he gave each person a "teleportation talisman" and told them to stick it on their bodies.

This "teleportation talisman" has the same protective effect as the "Great Teleportation Order", which can prevent them from encountering accidents during long-distance transmission.

Although the "Teleportation Talisman" can only be used once, it is naturally much inferior to the "Great Teleportation Order". However, even so, this "Teleportation Talisman" can be considered a rare item. Only the talisman makers of Tianxing Palace can refine it, and it is not sold in the outside market.

The spirit stones embedded in the teleportation array glowed brightly. A white-robed cultivator from the Heavenly Star Palace activated a teleportation spell, sending everyone spinning. After a flash of white light, they appeared in a simple stone house.

There was no one else in the room except an expressionless cultivator from the Tianxing Palace who was only at the initial stage of foundation building.

The cultivator was sitting cross-legged in a corner of the stone house meditating. When he saw Lin Fan and others being teleported over, he just glanced at them silently and closed his eyes again, with no intention of paying any attention to them.

Lin Fan didn't stay for long and walked straight out of the stone house. After leaving the stone house, a small street appeared in front of him.

There are not only grocery stores, magic tool stores, and talisman stores near this small street, but also several purchasing agencies.

There is a lazy shopkeeper sitting in each shop. These shops are really simple. They are either built randomly with rough stones or simply pieced together with wooden strips. They are as simple as can be.

Moreover, this so-called street was centered on the stone house they had just come out of. It was built randomly in a small area with one house here and one house there. It looked messy and looked a bit like a riot zone.

Lin Fan didn't hesitate and walked directly towards the grocery store made of piles of rocks.

"Are there any new maps of the nearby sea areas?"

Lin Fan asked calmly. Before coming here, he had already learned that the sea maps of all Monster Islands were constantly being updated, so naturally he had to buy the latest one.

"Yes! There are two types: rough and fine. I wonder which one you would like?"

The owner of the grocery store was a middle-aged man in the Qi Refining Stage. When he saw Lin Fan coming to ask, he immediately became excited and hurriedly introduced himself.

"Exquisite."

Lin Fan said without hesitation.

"Detailed sea map, one hundred spirit stones!"

The middle-aged man opened his mouth and quoted a price. "One hundred?"

Lin Fan's expression remained calm as he casually took out a mid-level spirit stone and threw it over.

The middle-aged man took the spirit stone with both hands, his smile growing even wider. He hurriedly took out a jade slip from under the counter and respectfully handed it to Lin Fan, saying, "Senior, this is the latest version of the sea map you requested. Please keep it!"

Lin Fan reached out to take the jade slip, walked to the side, and immediately activated his spiritual sense to check the contents.

However, in just a few moments, he had finished reading the information in the jade slip.

Thanks to the immortal cultivator's photographic memory, he memorized all the information. Lin Fan nodded with satisfaction and carefully put the jade slip into his storage bag for safekeeping.

At this moment, the five monks who had been teleported together earlier came over together.

Li Yong, a Jindan-stage cultivator dressed in brocade robes, was all smiles as he spoke first, "Fellow Daoist, hunting monsters is no easy task. How about joining us? There's strength in numbers, and we can look out for each other."

Lin Fan didn't even hesitate and directly refused: "No thanks."

As soon as he finished speaking, the spiritual energy around him surged like a living thing, and in the blink of an eye it turned into a dazzling golden light, flying towards the depths of the sea at lightning speed.

Lin Fan's escape speed was extremely fast. He disappeared from everyone's sight in the blink of an eye, leaving only five cultivators standing there with stunned expressions.

(End of this chapter)