Heaven Refining physique-Chapter 82: Mortals Can Only Kneel

"I want a peak Grade 4 knife, do you have it?"

"Of course we have it. Grade 4 and Grade 5 weapons are kept inside; not many cultivators buy them after all. Please come inside."

Jiang Hao nodded. This was his original purpose anyway. He wanted to see how many of them were in the shop. The day he would be about to leave this city, this shop would also be gone from this world.

Figuring out who is targeting them is almost impossible. After all, even a Truth Seeker wouldn’t be able to help them unless they kept asking names as wild guesses, but how many times would the other two sects let them question? He doubted it would be even once.

The shop was quite well maintained. There were four other disciples inside the shop, with one sitting at the reception.

Jiang Hao could easily see through their cultivation realms as they weren’t hiding it. The guy sitting at the reception was at the early stage of the Soul Sea Realm, while the others were in the Core Formation Realm.

He couldn’t help but wonder if managing shops really gave them good contribution points. Well, looking at the crowd inside and outside the shop, it really seemed quite profitable.

Jiang Hao followed the disciple to a counter displaying various knives.

"Esteemed guest, these are all the Grade 4 knives we have. Those are of peak grade. See if there is anything you like."

Jiang Hao looked toward the knives he pointed at; there were about 12 or 13 of them. freēwēbnovel.com

After looking through them, he pointed at a blue knife.

"You have good eyes, esteemed guest. That’s a supreme tier; it will cost you only 2300 spirit stones."

Jiang Hao nodded. Usually, spirit weapons cost half the price of pills of the same grade.

A supreme tier peak Grade 4 weapon would cost around 2500 spirit stones, so it was an expected price.

He didn’t really need it; he just bought it out of convenience as he had already come inside, and it might look a little suspicious if he left without anything.

He could sell this knife back to the Heavenly Fortune Pavilion, so he wasn’t taking any loss.

"I will take it."

"Wonderful choice, esteemed guest. Please go to the counter; I will bring it there for you."

Jiang Hao left and arrived at the reception where the Soul Sea cultivator was sitting. He didn’t seem overly alert. Jiang Hao had no doubt that if he attacked right now with the Nihility Sphere, this guy would definitely die.

That’s good; it looked like it wouldn’t be a problem to destroy this shop once he was about to leave.

The disciple came with the knife, and he took out 2300 normal spirit stones and placed them on the counter.

It didn’t take long to count them, as cultivators have quite good eyes, not mention with spirit sense it was even easier.

"Thank you for your purchase, esteemed guest. Please come again. You can also customize your weapons here."

Jiang Hao nodded and left the shop.

It really seemed very easy for him to destroy this shop and kill all the disciples in it. All he had to do was kill the Soul Sea Realm cultivator first, and everything would be easy.

He didn’t go back to the Heavenly Pavilion and went to see the city more. Today, he had left for this reason only, but since he met with those Blazing Valley disciples, he had diverted from this.

Now that he had come again, he decided to see the city more. He moved along the streets, watching all the shops, pavilions, and other places.

He was alone again after a very long time. Well, technically, he wasn’t alone, as Yin Ni was always with him.

He reached the center of the city where a big building was located. He knew it was the city lord’s mansion.

There were many guards standing outside the building; they were all mortals.

Kingdoms and empires in these worlds are basically left for mortals to rule.

Jiang Hao shook his head at this thought internally. Although mortals rule from the front, they were definitely controlled by cultivators in the back. Strength is everything in this world, and mortals don’t have that.

Mortals can only kneel in front of cultivators and be at their mercy. It didn’t matter if you were a king, emperor, or anything. As long as you were a mortal, you were nothing.

Jiang Hao watched the building one last time and went in another direction. He wasn’t feeling sad for the mortals; he wasn’t a saint.

His mother is mortal, and his father was too, probably. Maybe he would have lived like a mortal too, if he hadn’t encountered Senior Hu Tian.

"Senior, is there really no way to let mortals cultivate?"

"There is none—unless, by chance, they stumble upon a treasure rivaling the pill that forged your physique.

Even if a mortal got that level of pill, how many can survive? You surviving is already quite astonishing for me.

Also, finding these types of heaven-defying treasures, even in a million years, is considered quite lucky for the cultivation world.

Do you know an amusing part? Mortals only exist in lower worlds. There is not a single person in the upper worlds who doesn’t have spiritual roots.

The reason why mortals are born is because of the overall lesser spirit qi density in the lower worlds."

Jiang Hao sighed when he heard that. He had asked this question in passing, wanting to know if there was a way for his mother to cultivate.

But to think there exist no mortals in the upper world—this was totally new knowledge for him.

Wouldn’t it have been wonderful if his family was born in the upper world? Who decides that someone will be born in a lower or upper world? Is it also fate? But on what basis, or is it just random?

These are all topics he won’t be able to understand right now. Maybe he won’t be able to understand even if he reached the top of the world.

He walked through every corner of the city at a slow pace. Although there was a lot of noise due to the crowd, he felt at peace walking alone.

Nobody came to disturb him, and he didn’t find any other Blazing Valley disciples. After a while, he returned to his own room in the pavilion and sat down while taking out a spirit stone and started refining it.

His speed of refining the spirit stone was faster than before, but the amount of qi he required to raise his cultivation realm was also tremendously higher than before, so overall, he would take even longer to reach the Mid Stage of Core Formation Realm.

Now that they had achieved a rudimentary level of battle sense, both of them were free to cultivate as much as they wanted. At least Senior Huan Caiyi wasn’t going to stop them.

Although refinement of spirit stones gave him higher speed in cultivation, Ming Yue also had a way to increase her cultivation speed tremendously.

She could cultivate closer to his speed if she was in an environment where a lot of ice or yin qi was present.

The cave abode of Ming Yue was basically a frozen cave. It was due to an array, which created a prison of coldness. It might be an array used for punishment, but it was heaven for Ming Yue.

So even if Ming Yue couldn’t use spirit stones directly, she could still use them through arrays like this.

In fact, many cultivators use spirit stones in this way to cultivate, but of course, they aren’t as fast as Jiang Hao or Ming Yue, as they don’t have special means like Ming Yue to increase cultivation speed in a specific environment, unless they too have a special constitution.

But it is just the speed of cultivation. In general, those people also don’t have to consume as many resources as these two. Well, Jiang Hao even needed more resources than Ming Yue.

Till now, Jiang Hao didn’t have problems with resources. Huan Caiyi had provided them enough whenever they needed. She had collected a lot of spirit herbs as a master alchemist.

But eventually, they had used the maximum of it, and higher-level herbs were converted into these pills to earn more spirit stones.

From now on, if they want to cultivate, they have to actively search for resources.

He cultivated till morning and consumed about 56 normal-grade spirit stones. He refined one spirit stone in about 15 minutes.

He could feel that he had advanced a little, but it was a really minuscule amount. He was going to cultivate this whole day; tomorrow was the day of the auction.

He wondered how much they would be able to earn.

A single peak Grade 5 perfect tier pill cost about 15,000 spirit stones, while a peak Grade 6 perfect tier pill cost around 25,000 spirit stones.

Well, this price is according to the availability of the pills; in an auction, these prices can go even higher.

If they sell each Grade 5 pill for around 20,000 spirit stones, then he would get 1,200,000 spirit stones, and if they sell each Grade 6 pill for around 30,000 spirit stones, then they would have similarly 1,200,000 spirit stones. So total, he would get around 2,400,000 spirit stones. That’s a huge amount of spirit stones.

Of course, 10 percent would be taken by the Heavenly Fortune Pavilion, but even then, they would get around 2,160,000 spirit stones.