Chapter 107: Chapter 105: To the Profound Level Cave Mansion to Experience 10 Years in a Day

Sunset. The bewitching hour.

After parting ways with Xie Yunxiang earlier, Song Ciwan immediately found a secluded spot, changed her face, and swapped out her entire outfit, from her clothes down to her shoes and socks.

She had temporarily created a new identity for herself. This persona was brand new and disposable, so there was no need to think of a name or a backstory. She simply adjusted her aura to that of an Early-Stage Qi Refining cultivator and, under this new guise, visited the shops Xie Yunxiang had recommended.

Song Ciwan took Xie Yunxiang’s words to heart. This trip was not only to procure some supplies but also to trade for gold, silver, and Primordial Pearls.

The process itself isn’t worth recounting, but judging by the results, Song Ciwan was quite satisfied.

Among her possessions, items like the Profound City Life and Death Seal and the Purple Gold Sea-Swallowing Gourd were incredibly precious—they could even be called true treasures. However, Marvels of this kind couldn’t be sold.

It wasn’t a matter of whether Song Ciwan was willing to part with them; it was that once such a transaction was made, disaster would inevitably follow.

As for her other items, like the Whetstone and the Spirit Plant Fertilizer, they could be sold, but they weren’t worth much. There was no point in selling them; she was better off keeping them for her own use.

In the end, the only things Song Ciwan sold were one hundred Fuyuan Pills.

She didn’t sell her Red Sun Pills, but while she was trading, she made sure to inquire about their price.

According to the rules of the Heaven and Earth Scale, one tael of Dragon Blood could be traded for ten Fuyuan Pills, while ten taels of Dragon Blood could be traded for ten Red Sun Pills.

In other words, a Red Sun Pill was ten times more valuable than a Fuyuan Pill!

However, in the Spiritual Material Shops of Pinglan City, the buy-back price for Fuyuan Pills was three Primordial Pearls for two pills—that’s right, three for two. Compared to the exchange rate at Wangjiang Cave Mansion, Fuyuan Pills were more valuable here.

As for buying them, the retail price at the Spiritual Material Shops was two Primordial Pearls per pill. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

As for Red Sun Pills, the buy-back price was ten Primordial Pearls apiece, and the retail price was twenty.

Where could you even go to complain?

That’s just how they do business: buy low, sell high!

Song Ciwan sold one hundred Fuyuan Pills, receiving one hundred and fifty Primordial Pearls. She then spent five of them to buy a Two-star Storage Talisman.

This was a standard piece of equipment for Low Level Cultivators. It typically contained a storage space five feet square and could be used for deposits and withdrawals about three hundred times before it broke down and became useless.

It had many drawbacks—for one, it couldn’t be bound to an owner—but its main advantage was its price.

Song Ciwan bought one to carry as a part of her cover.

She also bought many other standard items for a traveling cultivator, such as a Moyun Grass Tent for setting up camp. Woven from grass, this type of tent was highly durable and offered excellent concealment, making it perfect for Low Level Cultivators on the road.

She also purchased Array Flags to supplement her Array Plate. Song Ciwan’s Duality Heart Protection Array Plate had many wonderful functions she had yet to explore; with the addition of Array Flags, she could now utilize many of its variations.

Then there were various commonly used, bizarre items like White Candles, Red Candles, Soul-Attracting Incense, Enchanting Incense, Soul Calming Incense, and Cyan Wood Incense.

She also got some low-level Talisman Paper with strange and peculiar properties.

For instance, there were Purifying Talismans, Incense Talismans, Fog Talismans, Stinky Charms, and the like.

These Low Level Talismans didn’t require Primordial Pearls for purchase; one could buy a fair amount using just gold and silver.

So, Song Ciwan exchanged two Primordial Pearls for one thousand taels of silver and one hundred taels of gold.

At market rates, it was easy to exchange Primordial Pearls for gold and silver, but converting gold and silver back into Primordial Pearls often cost a premium.

After this round of shopping, Song Ciwan had spent a total of sixty-seven Primordial Pearls and five hundred eighty taels of silver.

She later visited a few other shops, selling another thirty Fuyuan Pills in separate batches to get back forty-five Primordial Pearls.

Finally, Song Ciwan discovered that the Spiritual Material Shops actually sold Spirit Beast Bags!

As the name implied, Spirit Beast Bags were used to contain Spirit Beasts.

Placing a Spirit Beast inside would put it into a state of slumber and recuperation. If Primordial Pearls or specific Spiritual Materials were also placed into the bag, it could even accelerate the Spirit Beast’s growth and evolution.

The bags were fantastic, but they had one major flaw: they were far too expensive!

The lowest-grade Spirit Beast Bag cost five hundred Primordial Pearls, while a slightly better, more respectable one would run you one to two thousand!

It wasn’t that Song Ciwan couldn’t afford it, but having to exchange a large number of Fuyuan Pills for Primordial Pearls would be a terrible deal.

Fuyuan Pills were a useful cultivation resource for her as well. Selling them was easy, but buying them back in the future would be at a much higher price.

It was at this moment that Song Ciwan was struck by a profound realization: ’So, I’m actually broke!’

The trip to Illusory Nether City was now imperative.

She couldn’t use the Primordial Longevity Pearls herself, but at a thousand Primordial Pearls apiece, selling them would bring in a massive fortune!

After getting everything in order, she went home to check on the Big White Goose.

Then, she changed her face again, adopted another disposable identity, and returned to Wangjiang Mountain.

By this point, only six hours had passed. Song Ciwan had been combining the Wind Manipulation Technique with her Grasshopper Lightweight Skill to travel, so despite Pinglan City’s size, she moved back and forth with incredible speed.

By the time she returned to Wangjiang Mountain, it was late evening, and the Stewards of Wangjiang Cave Mansion were just about to close up for the night.

Song Ciwan rushed to spend ten Primordial Pearls to rent a Profound Level Cave Mansion for a day. That very night, inside the mansion, she sold all the "human desires" she had harvested.

These "human desires" had all come from Xie Yunxiang. They formed five clumps in total, weighing ten catties and six taels.

Song Ciwan poured all of it into her Cultivation of the Sutra of Sitting and Forgetting!

As time flew by, a dense wave of Vitality surged toward her.

During cultivation time within the Heaven and Earth Scale, the concentration of Vitality inside the Void Space was identical to the concentration in Song Ciwan’s current physical location.

This meant it was as if Song Ciwan had been cultivating nonstop in a Profound Level Cave Mansion for over ten years!!

Ten years of cultivation in a Profound Level Cave Mansion—what did that even mean?

With that kind of advantage, even a pig could probably learn to fly.

Someone like Xie Yunxiang, a disciple from a branch family, would never have access to this kind of resource.

With the aid of the "Dao" and "Strong" Character Techniques, insights and inspirations flooded Song Ciwan’s mind during her ten years of cultivation. Before she knew it, she had broken through to the Mid-Stage Qi Refining realm.

Her cultivation continued to rise, only stopping just shy of a breakthrough into the Late-stage Qi Refining realm.

The Insight Technique panel appeared.

Song Ciwan: Age 15 (Lifespan: 567 years)

Main Cultivation Method: Sutra of Sitting and Forgetting (First Layer: Masterful Skill 317,625/1,000,000; Second Layer: Mastery 76,519/100,000)

Cultivation Realm: Qi Refining and Divinity Transformation (Mid-Stage Qi Refining 935,216/1,000,000)

She was just a hair’s breadth away from breaking through to Late-stage Qi Refining!

Now that the First Layer of her Sutra of Sitting and Forgetting had reached the stage of Masterful Skill, Song Ciwan could feel that her Spiritual Sense and comprehension had been greatly enhanced.

A vague, ethereal intuition seemed to grant her clearer judgment over her every choice.

It was like... a vague, instinctual ability to seek good fortune and avoid calamity!

As a top-tier Cultivation Technique, the Sutra of Sitting and Forgetting didn’t seem to offer any direct boost to one’s combat prowess.

It was neither incisive nor domineering; it didn’t even come with any associated Combat Techniques.

However, its ability to conceal was second to none. Its power to mimic auras was like an instinct, and it allowed Song Ciwan to use any Technique under the heavens without obstruction, completely free from attribute restrictions.

It enhanced a cultivator’s Spiritual Sense and comprehension, and now, it even granted the ability to seek good fortune and avoid calamity!

Clearly, its reputation as one of the world’s best was well-deserved.

Song Ciwan’s "ten years of cultivation" ended in an instant as she ceased her practice.

A quick mental calculation told her it was still a long time until dawn, so she first spent a while regulating her breath before beginning to practice Low Level Taoist Skills like Grasshopper, the Qi Absorption Technique, and the Wind Manipulation Technique.

Oh, Grasshopper wasn’t a Low Level Taoist Skill. It was merely a second-rate Lightweight Body Technique.

Song Ciwan decided to use it first to test her newly improved comprehension.