Chapter 441: Price Increase

The spirit peak Yiyi chose had large bamboo forests starting from its halfway point and extending all the way to the summit. The entire peak was lush with colorful flowers and green willows, presenting a beautiful scenery.

The peak was named Green Bamboo Peak, but as no one had lived there for decades, its buildings were now dilapidated.

Lu Ye landed and walked among the crumbling walls and broken remnants, faintly sensing the past hustle and bustle of the sect.

A spirit peak was quite large, and there were many buildings on it.

However, it wasn't suitable for habitation at the moment.

After deciding on this spirit peak, Lu Ye took Yiyi back to Shouzhen Peak. He found his second senior sister and asked her to help issue a mission to the disciples at the base: to rebuild Green Bamboo Peak.

Currently, there were hundreds of disciples at the Blood Sect's base. Apart from cultivation, they generally had little else to do. This type of sect-issued mission would allow them to earn some contribution points, and Lu Ye believed the disciples would be very willing to help.

His second senior sister had no objections to this.

At present, almost all the contribution points at the Blood Sect's base had been earned solely by Lu Ye. So, spending some sect contribution points to help him rebuild a spirit peak was naturally not an issue.

"By the way, junior brother," Shui Yuan said, "you are now in the Cloud River realm. The spirit stones and Spirit-Nourishing Pills you used before are no longer suitable for your current cultivation. Go to the treasure vault and exchange for a new batch." With that, she handed Lu Ye the key to the treasure vault, which was actually a jade tablet used to open the protective array.

The Blood Sect's treasure vault currently held tens of millions of contribution points worth of valuables, containing everything imaginable. The protective array of the vault had even been personally set up by Lady Yun at his second senior sister's request. Without this jade tablet, anyone who dared to trespass would face severe consequences, even if they didn't die.

Even if Shui Yuan hadn't mentioned it, Lu Ye had already intended to ask her for it.

The spirit stones used at the Spirit Stream realm were all low-grade, and the Spirit-Nourishing Pills were only the most basic elixirs. Now that his cultivation had reached the Cloud River realm, these items could no longer keep up with the pace of his cultivation.

Setting aside the spirit stones, when Lu Ye was in the Heavenly Eight realm, he had to consume dozens of Spirit-Nourishing Pills a day, which was almost unbearable.

There were better elixirs above the Spirit-Nourishing Pills, more suitable for Cloud River realm cultivators. If he consumed these superior elixirs, he wouldn't need to take so many each day.

Holding the jade tablet, Lu Ye, familiar with the route, arrived at the treasure vault's location. He shook the jade tablet in his hand, and the vault's massive door, built into the mountain wall, rumbled open. Lu Ye stepped inside.

Although the vast treasure vault wasn't entirely full at the moment, it was incredibly abundant.

These were all "peace money" from the various sects of the Ten Thousand Demon Ridge, now piled up in the Blood Sect's treasure vault.

Categorized, various valuables were placed in different sections.

Lu Ye first took out his unused spirit stones and elixirs and placed them in appropriate locations. Then, from the spirit stone section, he took several thousand mid-grade spirit stones and put them into his storage space. He didn't need to take too many; ever since he began cultivating, all his cultivation resources had been acquired by defeating enemies. Generally, the resources he obtained from killing enemies far exceeded what he consumed for cultivation.

Although he now had a storage space created by his Void Spiritual Mark, he still habitually wore a storage bag at his waist. However, it contained nothing valuable, just some food.

The main reason for doing this was to conceal his true abilities from others. Otherwise, if a cultivator didn't even carry a storage bag, everyone would know they possessed a Spiritual Mark space, which would inevitably attract unwanted attention.

Amber also had a storage bag around its neck. It was shared by Yiyi and Amber; since Yiyi was a spirit body, it wasn't convenient for her to carry items, so it was hung on Amber's neck.

Lu Ye took down that storage bag and put a few hundred mid-grade spirit stones into it as well.

Lu Ye then walked to the elixir section.

Cultivators in the Spirit Stream realm consumed Spirit-Nourishing Pills, but those in the Cloud River realm used Prime Spirit Pills. Relatively speaking, the latter's medicinal effects were much stronger, generally too potent for Spirit Stream realm cultivators to bear.

Lu Ye took a bottle of Prime Spirit Pills, poured one out, and chewed it.

His eyebrows rose. The taste was unexpectedly good.

He felt a surge of relief. Finally, he no longer had to consume Spirit-Nourishing Pills. This was perhaps the most comforting thing he had encountered since advancing to the Cloud River realm.

Amber watched eagerly from the side. Lu Ye casually fed it a pill, then observed its reaction.

There was no reaction. After eating it, Amber looked at Lu Ye with an expression that clearly said, "I want more."

There was no need to worry about Amber's tolerance; as a monster beast that even ate spirit stones, consuming Prime Spirit Pills was naturally not an issue.

The medicinal effect of the Prime Spirit Pill was indeed much stronger than that of the Spirit-Nourishing Pill. As the pill entered his stomach, Lu Ye quickly felt a surge of warmth within his abdomen, which then transformed into his own spiritual power, flowing into the long river of spiritual power and expanding its volume.

Roughly estimated, one Prime Spirit Pill had an effect equivalent to more than ten Spirit-Nourishing Pills. However, their prices also differed by more than tenfold.

After putting some Prime Spirit Pills into his Spiritual Mark space and Amber's storage bag, Lu Ye searched the rest of the treasure vault but found nothing else he needed, so he exited.

He returned the jade tablet to Shui Yuan and went back to his room.

He didn't rush to cultivate but instead took out the Breath Fruit Core.

Having just advanced to the Cloud River realm, he naturally needed to first familiarize himself with the various techniques of this realm. Using the Breath Fruit Core to enter the Mirage Realm for combat was the best method.