Chapter 165 Jade Spirit Marrow
The older the phantom grass is, the more powerful the phantom pills it refines are. Generally, a hundred-year-old one can deceive a Qi-training cultivator, and a two-hundred-year-old one is even difficult for a foundation-building cultivator to see through.
The age of the phantom grass that has grown for two hundred years is not too long. The key is that this kind of thing is too rare and is rarely found in the world of immortal cultivation, so it is released by Qianji Hall as a task item.
Qianji Hall is just a second-rate sect, and the value of the task items is much lower than that of the seven major immortal sects. Moreover, this is a task item released thirty years ago, and it may not be used this year, so the value has dropped a lot, but in general, it is still okay to sell it for one or two hundred spirit stones. If the whole team divides it, at least a dozen spirit stones can be divided.
Unlike the immortal cultivation families, casual cultivators do not have extra spirit stones to store supplies, so the task items that are not used in the year can only be sold at a low price in exchange for cultivation resources. Because the Immortal Knocking Conference only happens once every three years, and their cultivation cannot be delayed at all, if they wait for three years and still can't use it, wouldn't it be a big loss? How many three years are there in life? Moreover, the mission items cannot be eaten or drunk, and the casual cultivators cannot afford to buy the object-storing talisman, so it is not safe to carry them with them.
Although Qianjitang is a second-rate immortal cultivation sect, it is like heaven for the casual cultivators in Yuling City who are living from hand to mouth every day. If they can join Qianjitang, they will have a way out for the rest of their lives. Even if there is no relevant immortal sect mission this year, this 200-year-old fantasy grass is also a very popular item. If you are greedy, you can sell it directly before the start of the Immortal Knocking Conference. There must be many cultivators willing to gamble their luck, and maybe you can get more spirit stones. A dozen spirit stones, you can't get so many in the past ten years.
Just when everyone was looking forward to the future, Lu Dingshan suddenly poured cold water and said, "Daoyou Duan, two hundred years have passed. Maybe the fantasy grass has been discovered by others. Can we still find it when we go? Don't make a wasted trip then."
Although Lu Dingshan's words made everyone uncomfortable, his worries were not unnecessary. Everyone couldn't help but look at Duan Rushong to see what he would say.
Duan Rushong smiled and said, "Don't worry, everyone. The conditions in Yehu Ridge are bad and there are many monsters. Usually, almost no cultivators go there. Moreover, the place where the Fantasy Spirit Grass grows is extremely secret. If it weren't for the detailed record in the notebook, we wouldn't be able to find it even if we got there."
After hearing what Duan Rushong said, everyone was relieved. The Fantasy Spirit Grass should not be picked by anyone in advance. The bad conditions and the many monsters also mean that this trip is extremely dangerous, and you may even lose your life. But this is normal. If something worth more than a hundred spirit stones can be easily obtained, how could Duan Rushong let everyone off cheaply?
After everyone digested the first piece of news, Duan Rushong said, "It's more than a thousand miles from here to Yehuling. It will take us about seven or eight days to get there. Including the search for the Phantom Grass, it won't take more than ten days. We still have enough time to go to the next place. Although the notes of the predecessors are very convincing, no one can guarantee that they will be foolproof, so we have an alternative target for this trip. This clue was provided by Fellow Daoist Helan, so let him tell us."
Duan Rushong's words are very correct. No one can guarantee that the Phantom Grass is still there. What if the predecessor remembered it wrong? What if the Phantom Grass was picked by someone in advance? What if it was eaten by a monster? It can't be a wasted trip, right? Then we can only go to other places.
After Duan Rushong finished speaking, Helan Feng said, "The second target is Qianku Cave, which is more than 800 miles away from Yehu Ridge. More than 800 miles is a journey of four or five days at most, and Qianku Cave is only more than 1,000 kilometers away from Yuling City, so even if we stay in Qianku Cave for a few days, we will be able to rush back to Yuling City before the Immortal Knocking Conference begins."
There is indeed plenty of time. Monk Wujing said, "Fellow Daoist Helan, we all know Qianku Cave. I wonder what the mission item in Qianku Cave is?"
Qianku Cave is not unfamiliar to Yuling City. Yuling Mountain is rich in Yuling Dew. Qianku Cave was one of the main production areas at the beginning. It was because of the mining of Yuling Dew that a perfect mountain was dug into Qianku Cave. Later, this place was hollowed out and there was no Yuling Dew, so it was gradually abandoned. The original mine cave became a paradise for monsters. Almost no cultivators came here again. What good things would be in such a place abandoned by cultivators?
"Have you heard of Yuling Marrow?" Helan Feng said mysteriously.
"Jade Spiritual Marrow..."
Hearing this name, almost everyone took a breath of cold air. The cultivators in other places may not know it, but the casual cultivators in Yuling City will know it. Jade Spiritual Marrow, just by listening to the name, you can tell that it is a higher-level thing than Jade Spiritual Dew.
Jade Spiritual Dew takes a hundred years to become dew, and ten thousand years to become marrow. If Jade Spiritual Dew can only make dead wood come back to life, then Jade Spiritual Marrow can really bring the dead back to life. Of course, this is just an exaggeration. Specifically, Jade Spiritual Dew is mainly suitable for low-level spiritual herbs and spiritual trees, or situations where the damage is not serious, while those higher-level spiritual herbs and spiritual trees, or those with more serious damage, must use Jade Spiritual Marrow.
Moreover, Jade Spiritual Marrow is not only useful for spiritual herbs and spiritual trees, but its strong vitality also has a strong effect on cultivators, especially for those cultivators who are on the verge of death. A piece of Jade Spiritual Marrow can temporarily keep them alive and give them enough time to find a way to heal.
The higher the level of the cultivator, the more afraid he is of death. Possessing a piece of jade marrow is equivalent to carrying a golden medal of immunity from death, which shows how important this thing is.
Yuling City has been built for thousands of years, but the number of times that jade spirit marrow appears is very few. Almost every time it appears, it is taken away by the seven major immortal gates, and the outside world can't keep it at all. Such an important thing is of course very valuable. It is said that a piece of jade spirit marrow the size of a finger costs more than a thousand spirit stones, which is almost the same price as the knocking fairy order.
And there is another important point. Jade spirit marrow has been one of the task items of the seven major immortal gates several times in history. In other words, as long as you can get a piece of jade spirit marrow, even if you can't join the seven major immortal gates at that time, you can use the jade spirit marrow to exchange for a knocking fairy order later.
The opportunity to join the seven major immortal gates, this is not a second-rate immortal gate like Qianji Hall. If this news is leaked, I'm afraid the whole Yuling City will go crazy.
If He Lanfeng is talking about other places, others may not believe it, because jade spirit marrow is too precious, and it is not available everywhere. But since the location is Qianku Cave, it is hard to say. You know, Qianku Cave used to be one of the main production areas of Yulinglu. It seems normal to find missed jade spirit marrow in the abandoned mines of Yulinglu.