Generally speaking, people with stronger wills improved more easily when cultivating psychical energy. When one’s psychical energy reaches a certain level, not only could it assist in refining artifacts, creating pills, or boosting all other types of cultivation, but it can even be used as an offensive weapon.
The masked man nodded and agreed, “That does make sense. It’s custom for ShaoYang Sect’s people to discriminate against low-level disciples, but I didn’t expect them to not even teach the most basic of basics… In that case, let’s first conduct psychical energy practice.”
The people of this world’s psychical energy was, for the most part, either inborn or acquired. The naturally talented, when reaching twelve or thirteen years of age, were capable of activating psychical energy by themselves. Those with so-so aptitudes needed an expert to help them kick-start the psychical particles within their body, and afterwards, it was fine to diligently work hard and cultivate on their own.
The masked man put his hand on top of Ling Xia's hair and a gush of extremely pure and soft energy followed along his hand to envelope the younger boy's head. Meanwhile, he gave Ling Xia verbal guidance on how to activate the power of the mind and adapt tho this stream of energy.
Ling Xia closed his eyes and adhered to the masked man's words, imagining that inside his mind, energy was condensing and taking shape. A span of darkness filled his vision, but gradually, something that shone like fireflies began to flicker about.
Delight filled his heart, and knowing that these were psychical paricles, he patiently gathered these radiant and frail fragmentes inside his sea of consciousnesses. Little by little, they slowly converged into a shining ribbon of light, resembling a constellation drifting amidst the vast heavens, an exceptionally beautiful and enchanting sight.
By the time Ling Xia opened his eyes, he was full of vitality and spirit, and his mind was also remarkably clear and sharp. He didn’t know when, but the masked man had already retracted his hand and was once more reclining in a bamboo chair.
“Senior, I’ll go give it another shot,” Ling Xia said, eager to try refining again as he grabbed two energy stones.
While rocking his chair, the masked man chuckled, “How could it be that easy? Right now, the sun’s already up, so you better return first. Come back in the evening.”
The sun’s up? Ling Xia was shocked; how much time had already passed? It should be noted that the time-flow in the masked man‘s space was set at a 10:1 ratio to the real world’s! In that case, he’s already been in here for multiple days? Alerted of this fact, his stomach growled in hunger right then and there.
Embarrassed, Ling Xia looked at the masked man and nodded in agreement, “Yes, I should go back first.”
Cultivation of psychical energy was different from other forms of cultivation in that one could practice it anywhere. As Ling Xia worked, he condensed his psychical energy around the spiritual herbs, and perhaps it was due to his own misconception, but the ones that had psychical energy poured inside them looked a bit more vigorous than the others.
He didn’t know that because of his inability to control and separate psychical energy from power elementals, plus his innate wood attribute, resulted in his psychical energy containing bits and pieces of elemental energy as well. And wood elementals were exactly what plants loved the most.
By cultivating and working at the same time, Ling Xia became exhausted very quickly. He massaged his pounding temples; looks like it might be better to first start with cultivating psychical energy inside his sea of consciousnesses.
Of course, just having psychical energy didn’t mean that all of a sudden, he’d be able to succeed in refining. Ling Xia had to spend a few days in a row at the masked man’s place training in artifact refinement, and after losing track of the number of energy stones he’d wasted, he finally succeeded in refining a water attribute artifact. However, the artifact’s surface had some muddy impurities, and its degree of transparency and fusion synthesis was far from that of the one made by the masked man.
Despite that, Ling Xia was still extremely happy. Even if it’s like this, this magical artifact could sell for 100 level-1 energy coins on the market and was most suited for beginner divergent-skill cultivators to boost to their cultivation strength.
The masked man slightly nodded his head, an approval to the fruits of Ling Xia’s labor. Although Ling Xia knew that the other hated etiquette customs, but at this moment, he couldn’t help but give a deep, deep bow.
Every teacher was one’s benefactor in life. How could a mere, meager bow be enough to reciprocate all of the masked man’s completely selfless teachings and assistance?
The masked man slight knitted his brows,but swiftly smoothed out his expression.
Ling Xia straightned his body and smiled, ''Senior, i'll go sell this and definitely buy you a jar of delicious wine.''
Actualle, he also knew that the money he'd earn was far from enought to cover the price of the energy stones he'd spent, but he also sincerely wanted to repay this nameless elder in whatever ways he could.
Of course, he did have plenty of suspicions about the masked man deep inside. Then man never left this mountain, and he didn't even let Ah'Lin leave. Was this due to some hidden, unmentionable hardships?
Hearing Ling Xia say this, the masked man's eyes brightened and advised, ''Well then, you better work hard, lad.The kind of wine that i like cost 3000 energy coins you know.''
''... ...''
By cultivating psychical energy while learning how to refine artifacts, two weeks flew past, and Ling Xia had already refined five finished products. Two had water attributes, two had fire attributes, and the last had metal attributes.
Among these, four were appraised as level-1 magical artifacts, and the metal attributed one was an authentic level-2 artifact. For a novice who hadn’t even learned for two months yet, this was already a substantially outstanding achievement.
After all, generally speaking, a level-1 artifact needed level-2 energy stones to make, level-2 artifacts required level-3 energy stones, and so on. Using level-2 energy stones to refine something that‘s also level-2, this result could be said to only have a 5% probability of success. Nevertheless, he wasn’t satisfied with using these as presents for those two kids, so he decided to sell them first and wait until he made something better to gift.
When his day off arrived, for the sake of staying inconspicuous, Ling Xia specifically changed out of ShaoYang Sect’s low-level disciple uniform and wore normal clothes made from a common material.
ChongMing City had a very large cultivator trade market, selling all kinds of energy stones, spiritual herbs, magical artifacts, talismans, and other such items inside, attracting many ShaoYang Sect disciples and rogue cultivators to make transactions here.
Ling Xia wasn’t in rush to sell these magical artifacts. Instead, he first wandered the marketplace and surveyed the place. Some of the things being sold weren’t even as intricate and pure as what he refined, yet the price was marked higher than what he expected. He looked at these prices and memorized them one by one, found the supervisor in charge, and paid 5 energy coins for a vendor’s booth. He took out his five artifacts, laid them out nicely, and not long after, a cultivator came up to ask how much they cost.
Ling Xia’s prices were all reasonable, but seeing that he was a child who also wore unremarkable clothing, some cultivators purposely nitpicked at flaws to try and lower the price. Ling Xia had experience in selling things in college, hence speaking in a level and undisturbed tone, he fended off their haggling. By noon, he had unexpectedly sold three of the artifacts and earned 320 level-1 energy coins.
This many energy coins put together was too eye-catching an amount, not to mention its weight, so Ling Xia took advantage of the lunch lull to buy a storage bag of the lowest grade. It had a capacity of about one cubic meter, yet cost 150 energy coins, making his heart sting as he grimaced.
Storage bags were refined, and its price was determined according to how much it could hold. The larger the space, the more valuable the materials needed in its creation, but the success rate of its refinement also dropped many-fold. Therefore, it followed that the price would increase exponentially as well. He had bought the lowest grade storage bag, and its manufacturing cost was estimated to be, at most, only 20 energy coins.
Ling Xia was resolved that in the future, he must refine a storage bag with an unimaginably massive capacity! In the end, those who could manipulate their own space like the masked man, Yu ZhiJue, and Song XiaoHu were the minority within the minority. You’d be lucky to find one within thousands, and the vast majority of cultivators all needed storage bags. If he could refine a bag with a hundred cubic meter storage space, wouldn’t he make more money than he could spend in a lifetime?
Just as he was gleefully fantasizing, a slender, good-looking hand suddenly picked up the the level-2 magical artifact in front of him. Ling Xia knew that a customer had come and instantly exposed a welcoming smile. As he raised his head, he was suddenly taken aback; the person who picked up the artifact was a fifteen or sixteen year old young man with an elegant appearance, and following at his side was a seven or eight year old cute, small girl with skin as fair as snow.
The young man pointed that artifact at the sun and inspected it, then brought it to his ear, listening attentively to the minute sounds the wind made blowing across its form. Ling Xia saw his actions and couldn’t help but feel somewhat nervous. This young man was a professional!
Presently, he still needed specialized tools to appraise artifacts, but artificers with over ten years of experience were able to use their ears and eyes to evaluate an artifact’s subtle details.
The young man tilted his head, gave him a look, and muttered, “Hmm, this used the level-2 Void Spirit Stone, added Moxa Rock for adhesion purposes, and the fusion with psychical energy is quite good. But, it’s also evident that the refiner is still a novice… It can’t be that these artifacts were all made by you, right?” He skeptically sized up Ling Xia. The other didn’t appear to be a member of a rich or influential family judging from his manner of dress.
If that was true, then solely based on this youngster’s age, he would be considered a very hard to come by talent!
Ling Xia paused. Right now, he had decided to hide his strength, and on top of that, he also didn’t know this young man’s identity. Thus, he shook his head and replied, “No, these were refined by my senior brother who’s currently cultivating at ShaoYang Sect.”
The little girl at the young man’s side heard this and curled her lips. “What a waste! In refining magical artifacts, how could ShaoYang Sect measure up to our ShuYuan Dale?”
ShuYuan Dale? Hearing this name, Ling Xia promptly froze.
That’s right, this was in the plot. ShuYuan Dale’s reputation in refinement was brilliant and famous throughout this entire world. One girl from the protagonist’s harem was from ShuYuan Dale, and she was also a high-level artificer.
Hearing the little girl’s words, the young man reprimanded softly, “Shui Ling, don’t speak nonsense!”
When all was said and done, this was ChongMing City and ShaoYang Sect’s territory, so if someone with certain intentions heard, it might even lead to causing unnecessary disputes. Every sect was trying to rope in those who were gifted, and their ShuYuan Dale naturally wasn’t an exception. He gave the youngster selling artifacts a look, and only now discovered that the other was spacing out.
Yep, Ling Xia was spacing out.
He simply didn’t understand. Why were the protagonist’s harem members popping up one after another in lolita form… It’s shattering his fantasies!
Yep, that harem member artificer, was called Shui Ling.
And that gorgeous and charming lady in the novel was currently even younger than those little lassies Feng Luo and Cui Yu… …
The moment Ling Xia sensed that young man’s gaze upon himself, he snapped out of his daze. Standing up, he smiled, “I am called Ling Xia. Fellow compeer, how may I address you?”
The young man politely replied, ''I am Shui Yue. One can tell, even though the artifacts your esteemed elder brother refined are lacking in some ways, but there are also several areas worthy of note. If your senior brother has the time and is able to come to our ShuYuan Dale for a study-visit some day, i will surely and happily regale in an exchange of knowledge.''
These words he said were considerably modest, since all things considered, ShuYuan Dale was ranked at the very top of the world as one of the most prominent cities in artifact refinement. Yet, he had been willing to humble himself towards a total stranger and even used the phrase '' exchang of knowledge.''
Ling Xia felt touched, and making a friend like Shui Yue was certainly not bad. He gave a bow at once and returned with a smile, ''In that case, i'll offer my thanks on behalf of my senior brother. If the opportunity arises, he will certainly drop by for a visit!''
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