I can identify everything, but this is an upgraded version of identification.

After the golden spirit rat was taken away from the outer sect's medicine garden, the little guy kept looking around, trying to escape from Su Changming's grasp several times.

However, although the mouse was agile, it was no faster than Su Changming and could never escape from Su Changming's grasp.

As the golden spirit rat traveled further and further away from the herb garden, it could no longer smell the familiar scent and began to grow restless.

Seeing this, Su Changming fed it some more desserts to calm it down a bit.

"Hopefully this spirit beast circle will actually work..."

Su Changming took out a ring about the thickness of an arm and put it around the neck of the golden spirit rat.

In just a moment, the circle shrank, tightly binding the spirit rat's neck.

The spirit mouse, feeling the restraints, immediately began to struggle. However, once this ring was used, unless Su Changming actively removed it, the mouse had no chance of being freed.

"Not entirely..."

This spirit rat has sharp teeth and can easily bite through even arrays. Although he spent over a hundred low-grade spirit stones on this spirit beast ring, it's hard to say whether it can defend against the rat's teeth.

But unless this little thing is a snake, it probably won't be able to bite its own neck.

Originally, Su Changming was planning to search for some beast-taming techniques, but when he saw that the Inner Sect's Treasure Pavilion had this spirit beast circle, and given that he had just received a huge sum of fifty mid-grade spirit stones, he bought it directly.

This circle can change size depending on the spiritual energy infused by the user.

Furthermore, it allows users to sense the location of the spirit beast circle.

In this way, whenever the spirit mouse tries to escape, it can directly shrink the circle, causing it immense pain.

However, it is only a low-end product after all, and can only be controlled within a range of 500 meters. Beyond this distance, it will be unable to sense the spirit beast circle.

Therefore, these spirit beast enclosures are generally only used to control spirit beasts that are relatively easy to raise.

The golden spirit rat in his hand happened to be among them.

The Treasure Pavilion also has many rare spiritual artifacts and magical artifacts. However, these spiritual artifacts are not the ordinary ones that Liu Yu bought in the outer sect. Instead, they are high-quality spiritual artifacts that can be used up to the Foundation Establishment stage. Each one is extremely expensive, costing at least tens of spirit stones. As for magical artifacts, they cost hundreds or even thousands.

Because he was short of money, Su Changming could only afford this one spirit beast ring.

"I won't need it anyway, and I don't need those external things..."

Su Changming rubbed the golden spirit rat's body and then put it into the spirit beast pouch.

This spirit beast bag was a free gift with the purchase of the spirit beast ring.

Inside, there is a space of half a zhang (approximately 3.3 meters), which can hold most types of spirit beasts.

The spirit beasts will fall into a state of hibernation within it, remaining without food or water for a long time.

The space is large, but it can only store living organisms.

"It's truly astonishing that these things are affordable for Qi Refining stage cultivators..."

Even though Earth's technology was so advanced in its previous life, it still didn't have any so-called space technology.

In this realm, even a Qi Refining stage cultivator's storage bag and spirit beast bag possess spatial abilities.

One can only say that the world of cultivation is terrifying...

"I still have forty-eight mid-grade spirit stones... There's not much to spend, and with the income from the Jiamu Herb Garden in the future, resources shouldn't be lacking. Perhaps I should learn a skill..."

Su Changming pondered to himself.

He had already planned to refine pills when he was practicing the Lesser Spirit Rain Technique.

However, at that time he was short of money and had no family support, so he thought that he could only start learning alchemy when he reached the Qi Refining Perfection realm.

Unexpectedly, a casually accepted task in a medicinal garden allowed him to profit from it, propelling him to the eighth level of Qi Refining. With his daily cultivation using "high-grade spirit stones" and "true spirit herbs," reaching the ninth level of Qi Refining was just around the corner.

His ability to identify upgraded items is limited to identifying things that are naturally occurring, such as medicinal herbs and minerals.

Man-made items, such as elixirs and artifacts, cannot be identified or upgraded.

After cultivating for so long, he realized that even innate essential elements like spiritual energy and purple energy could not be identified or upgraded.

However, there are unexpected exceptions in artificially created identification cases.

That means the items he creates can be identified and upgraded.

For example, he once casually made a wooden puppet to practice the accuracy of his fireball technique.

But unexpectedly, the wooden dummy turned into a hundred-times-forged puppet.

Not only is it impervious to swords and spears, but it also did not melt in the slightest when faced with the high temperature of fireballs.

But to outsiders, what appears to be a wooden puppet is actually not something Su Changming himself knows.

"My lord, you're back. How did the battle go today?"

Seeing Su Changming return to his cave, Su Rui ran over with a smile.

"The master didn't have a match today; he went to work at the inner gate."

Su Changming patted Su Rui's head.

"Oh... is that a good position? Should we move?"

Su Rui nodded.

These days, Su Changming has been showing little expression when he returns, neither regret for not being selected nor joy for advancing.

Everyone said that Su Changming was just an ordinary outer disciple who had never shown any great power. He was eliminated on the first day and only pretended to participate in the following days to save face in front of his servants, while actually just sightseeing.

However, Su Rui firmly believed that Su Changming had obtained the status of an inner disciple as he had said.

"The position... it should be pretty good, and it's definitely time to move."

By noon today, he had already squeezed a lot of medicinal herbs from the Jiamu Herb Garden. If he squeezes any more resources, those spiritual plant cultivators will probably be exhausted.

"By the way, Su Rui, haven't you been practicing swordsmanship lately? Try cutting this wooden puppet."

Su Changming found the wooden puppet and gestured for Su Rui to chop it up.

"Yes, sir..."

Su Rui took out her sword, took a deep breath, and prepared to unleash a swift and decisive move.

Her swordsmanship master was introduced by Su Changming. He was a martial arts master who had reached the peak of the Innate Realm and was also said to be an outer sect steward.

Even so, they were still obsequious when facing the master.

After I became her disciple, she treated me even better than her own granddaughter.

She knew that all of this was because of the master.

Therefore, she wanted to showcase all the achievements she had made in recent days.

A mere little wooden puppet, give it to me!

huh?

Just as Su Rui confidently swung her sword down, she found that it felt as if she had struck some kind of gold or jade gem.

The ordinary wooden puppet made her arm go numb.

Su Rui's eyes widened in disbelief.

How is that possible?

Her master said she had a great talent for swordsmanship and could already handle three or five thieves.

How could you not even be able to cut a small wooden puppet?

Undeterred, she swung her sword again.

However, the faceless puppet remained motionless, seemingly mocking her overestimation of her abilities.

"Master...I..."

Su Rui blushed and cried out.

He felt guilty for letting Su Changming down, and frustrated that his swordsmanship, which he had practiced diligently for many days, could not cut through the "wood".

"No problem, no problem!"

However, Su Changming's eyes lit up.

He walked quickly to the puppet and reached out to touch the spot where Su Rui had made the cut.

It was struck by a steel sword forged from fine steel, yet there wasn't a single mark.

This puppet! Its inner workings have probably been completely transformed into a hundred-fold forged puppet!