TBIP: Chapter 29 Part 3

Unexpectedly, after thinking for a moment, Wen Hanshan gave an explanation. “Your description is somewhat similar to spiritual consciousness.”

“But doesn’t spiritual consciousness come after the foundation is built?” Lou Xingyao instinctively asked.

“To be precise, after the cultivator induces qi into their body, they have already opened up the sea of consciousness. However, most people can’t communicate with it before building the foundation.” Wen Hanshan explained that if it wasn’t for this, he wouldn’t have thought of Lou Xingyao’s manipulation in terms of spiritual consciousness.

“Is that so?” Lou Xingyao thought about it carefully and found that his appearance when he used his consciousness to manipulate objects in the space was really somewhat similar to spiritual consciousness.

“But these are just my guesses. I’m afraid we can only know after you build your foundation.” It was just speculation.

“Then I will distinguish it carefully at that time.” Lou Xingyao nodded. He was still a long way from building the foundation, but he also took this matter to heart.

No matter what this consciousness manipulation was, it wasn’t harmful to Lou Xingyao. Neither of them took this too seriously.

After thinking about it for a while, they once again looked at the personal space.

Since the harvesting of spiritual plants was mentioned, he had to mention that storage weapon that cooperated with it, the medicine chest of drawers.

As he spoke, he directly brought Wen Hanshan into the cabin.

He pulled open one of the medicine chests and motioned for Wen Hanshan to check. “Those vermilion fruits just now were received here.”

Lou Xingyao had mentioned this medicine chest of drawers before.

Now that he had seen it with his own eyes, Wen Hanshan couldn’t help sighing. “It is really magical.”

“The spiritual plants previously harvested and haven’t been sold are also here.” As he spoke, Lou Xingyao opened several more medicine chests containing spiritual plants, revealing a full supply of plants.

This eager look of showing off his treasure to his companion was actually somewhat cute.

Speaking of these spiritual plants, Lou Xingyao inevitably thought of the treacherous shopkeeper of the spiritual plants store. He couldn’t help gritting his teeth. He explained the reason to Wen Hanshan and complained, “I thought I had made a profit. Who knew that shopkeeper was so black-hearted?”

Wen Hanshan had a deep understanding of Lou Xingyao’s degree of money obsession, and hurriedly reassured him. “You don’t have to worry about selling good things. If the shopkeeper doesn’t increase the price next time, we won’t sell them to him.”

“That is natural. Not only will the price increase, but he will have to return all the things I lost before!” Lou Xingyao had obviously thought about this matter a long time ago.

Obviously, he would directly choose to break off the cooperation if the shopkeeper couldn’t give a satisfactory answer next time.

In front of money, even Wen Hanshan had to retreat.

At this moment, he could only silently light a candle in his heart to the shopkeeper who dared to treat Lou Xingyao badly.

After finishing with the medicine chest of drawers, it was finally the turn of the biggest treasure in the space—the spiritual spring well.

The moment he arrived at the well, Wen Hanshan could clearly perceive that this was the place in the space with the most abundant aura.

Looking down at the gurgling spring, Wen Hanshan said clearly, “The water we usually use comes from here?”

“That’s right!” Lou Xingyao nodded before saying with some regret, “It is a pity that this spring water is more helpful to plants. It is inferior for cultivators.”

Wen Hanshan corrected him. “It is already a rare treasure in the world.”

Lou Xingyao quickly realized the inappropriateness of his thoughts.

The effect of the spiritual spring water on cultivators was slow, but the effect wasn’t reduced in the slightest. How could he feel disgusted?

What was the difference between such an idea and Ye Hantian complaining that the space was too simple in the original novel?

After some introspection, his mood was a lot more enlightened again. Lou Xingyao immediately said, “Brother Wen’s words are very true. I was a bit too obsessed.”

“Yes.” Wen Hanshan nodded, but he wasn’t surprised by Lou Xingyao’s quick reaction.

This was also where he was extremely satisfied with Lou Xingyao.

His mood wasn’t stable enough and there were occasionally times when he deviated, but the moment Wen Hanshan mentioned it slightly, Lou Xingyao could quickly wake up without too many words.

Since he was half Lou Xingyao’s master, there was obviously nothing to be dissatisfied with when the student was too intelligent.

After seeing the spiritual spring, the content of the space was exhausted. Lou Xingyao inevitably mentioned his plan for the spiritual fields. “After this, I am going to reorganize the spiritual fields and plant some usable spiritual plants. This way, I can supplement the plants when refining pills.”

In the past, Lou Xingyao didn’t have much planning for this acre of spiritual field in the space.

He planted almost whatever he had in his hands. At most, he adjusted it according to the market price.

Now, it couldn’t be said that he had achieved a small success on the path of alchemy, but he could be regarded as entering the door.

In the future, the cultivation of spiritual plants in this space would naturally have to cooperate with alchemy.

According to Lou Xingyao’s vision, the most ideal state should be to plant some second and third-grade spiritual plants.

In this way, once his alchemy technique improved, he wouldn’t fall behind in the field of spiritual plants.

It was still easy to talk about second-grade plants. There weren’t as many as first-grade spiritual plants on the market, but second-grade plants were still common. They could always be obtained with a bit of thought.

It was more about third-grade spiritual plants and above. Almost all of them had been monopolized by third-grade alchemists and the six major families of Canglan City.

The ones on the market weren’t useful for alchemy and were of really low quality, so they couldn’t be used.

The difficulty of collecting them completely could be imagined.

“If you are careful, you can always find it. If it is really difficult to collect it on the market, you can also go to the Endless Forest to find it.” Wen Hanshan pondered on it.

There was the Endless Forest, so it was impossible for them to be stumped by a few third-grade spiritual plants.

Lou Xingyao’s expression looked a bit better. “Brother Wen’s words are reasonable.”

“You can try growing this.” As Wen Hanshan spoke, he was already handing a storage bag to Lou Xingyao.

“What is this?” Lou Xingyao took it and looked inside. He found that there were many spiritual plant seeds stored in this storage bag.

The large and small ones were stacked on top of each other, and there were at least five hundred.

Their appearances were even more different. Lou Xingyao knew everything about most first and second-grade spiritual plants, but he couldn’t see the origin of these seeds.

Wen Hanshan explained, “They were left by my mother. I don’t know what the grade is. I think they shouldn’t be lower than third-grade.”

He had a guess in his heart, but Lou Xingyao’s fingers pinching the storage bag couldn’t help tightening. His expression was serious. “I will take it seriously.”

“Just put it to good use.” Regarding the relics left by his mother, Wen Hanshan might cherish them very much but it wasn’t to the point of putting them away and not using them.

After all, Wen Miaoyin left these things to make his path go more smoothly.

Refusing to use it due to emotion was just putting the cart before the horse.

Lou Xingyao naturally understood Wen Hanshan’s meaning, but he also decided to divide a separate area in the space for the spiritual plants in this storage bag.

There was no conflict between making the best use of things and valuing them.

The space was good, but it wasn’t a place where one should stay for a long time.

After the visit, Wen Hanshan didn’t want to stay in it too much.

In order to conceal the existence of the space, Lou Xingyao once didn’t dare to enter it easily. Therefore, he didn’t rely heavily on it.

Seriously speaking, in addition to planting spiritual plants and taking spring water, Lou Xingyao’s use of the space wasn’t even as frequent as his use of the medicine chest of drawers.

He saw that the exploration in Wen Hanshan’s eyes had disappeared and didn’t want to be stuck too much on this.

His mind worked, and the two of them returned straight to where they were before entering the space.

They came out of the space, and Lou Xingyao realized that at some point, it was nighttime.

He thought about it and found that many things had happened today.

It was the first time he received a failed assessment from Wen Hanshan. Then he lost a lot of time in order to make up his homework.

Later, he explained the heart refining method to Wen Hanshan, the other person polished his Sword Dao Stone, etc.

In addition, the two of them spent several hours in the space.

Wasn’t it possible that all these things stacked on each other until it ended up being late at night?

Wen Hanshan also saw the sky outside the window and didn’t want to stay longer. He only gave a reminder, “Rest early. Remember not to be late for your training tomorrow morning.”

Obviously, what happened today could be described as being full of magnificent ups and downs, but it still couldn’t shake the status of the daily training in Wen Hanshan’s heart.

This attitude, as always, made Lou Xingyao feel a bit more real. He smiled and replied, “I respectfully follow Brother Wen’s instructions.”

Wen Hanshan gently tapped on Lou Xingyao’s forehead and withdrew from the room.

After he was the only one left in the room, Lou Xingyao finally realized that it seemed he didn’t have time to take a bath since Wen Hanshan used the cleansing spell on him?

At such a time, Lou Xingyao suddenly had an uncomfortable feeling that there were countless ants scurrying around on his body.

He didn’t care about anything else. He jumped directly into the bathtub in the room in two or three steps. He took a hot bath and finally felt that he was alive.

According to Lou Xingyao’s current cultivation, sleeping was no longer his own means of rest.

But maybe it was because there was twice as much training during the day as usual, maybe it was that what happened later was too draining, or maybe a hot bath went too well with sleep.

In short, after coming out of the bathtub, Lou Xingyao had no intention of meditating. He chose to fall asleep.

Still, he didn’t forget the promise he made to Wen Hanshan before resting. This time, he didn’t oversleep again and arrived at the training ground on time.

After arriving, Lou Xingyao found that Wen Hanshan was already in the training ground as always.

Seeing his appearance, it was clear that he had been there for a while.

Lou Xingyao sighed emotionally. It was worthy of Wen Hanshan. In the matter of cultivation, it was difficult to stop him even if the sky was falling.

He took out yesterday’s long sword and started to repeat yesterday’s lesson.

In the following period, Lou Xingyao and Wen Hanshan seemed to have returned to their original appearance.

They concentrated on polishing and moving forward.

However, when comparing it carefully, it wasn’t difficult to see the difference.

For example, Lou Xingyao no longer shied away from using his personal space in front of Wen Hanshan.

For example, after Wen Hanshan used up all the water in the gourd, he also took the initiative to ask Lou Xingyao for it.

The already close relationship between the two of them became even closer.

In addition, the two of them also gained a lot in terms of cultivation.

Needless to say, Wen Hanshan’s sword intent had reached a refined level subconsciously.

Even the Sword Dao Stone had been polished. The matter of building the foundation was already close at hand.

As for Lou Xingyao, he made a breakthrough in cultivation from the early stage of the seventh level of qi condensation. Now he was only one step away from the eighth level of qi condensation, and even his swordsmanship had made a lot of progress.

Now he had felt the rudiments of the sword shape, carefully understood it, and polished it. It was only a matter of time before he got started.

In addition, Lou Xingyao’s biggest harvest was still with alchemy.

Now in terms of the fasting pill, he was able to achieve a furnace of full pills, and they were all best-grade.

In addition, other first-grade pills could almost reach such results.

In the beginning, Lou Xingyao’s joke of ‘I will take care of all the pills that my brother needs in the future’ had long been implemented.

Of course, in addition to the best-grade pills used by the two of them, Lou Xingyao often needed to refine some medium-grade pills.

The best-grade pills were so good that they were almost an ‘invisible’ existence.

If he wanted to get rich and spend a lot of money buying the beast fire, he still had to rely on medium-grade pills.

Fortunately, for today’s Lou Xingyao, he could achieve a furnace of full best-grade pills.

At the same time, he could do whatever he wanted with the grade of the pills. If he wanted to refine medium-grade pills, there would never be a situation of low, top or best-grade pills. This saved him a lot of effort.

As for why he didn’t refine low-grade pills?

Lou Xingyao thought this was nonsense.

The price difference between low and medium-grade pills was nearly ten times? If he could learn more, who would want to earn less?

It was also Lou Xingyao’s behavior that caused the price of medium-grade pills in Xilin County to decline.

Fortunately, Lou Xingyao discovered this early and adjusted the sales frequency in time. This way, there weren’t too many waves.

Now the medium-grade pills in Lou Xingyao’s space had accumulated to the point of flooding.

After recalling it, the last time he went out to clear the goods was two months ago. The batch of medium-grade pills on the market had been almost consumed.

He cast a spell and packed away the nine pills that had just been refined in the furnace. Then Lou Xingyao slowly stood up.

He was going to say something to Wen Hanshan before going out to clear the goods.