Chapter 417: Chapter 318: Spirit Crystal Accelerated Cultivation, Blazing Flame Deer Demon! (Double Feature)

The arrival of the elite troops of the imperial Army signals the severity of the current demon infestation.

Song Changming believes it is mostly due to the arrival of that Great Demon that has made the military high alert.

And indeed, this is the case.

Wave after wave of demon beasts have crossed from the West Valley Road to Cui Bai Dao, in large numbers, continuously.

After transferring the elite troops of the imperial Army from the main city, they also deployed more Cuiqi Army to guard the Western Border of Cui Bai Road, to prevent the demon beasts from further spreading, so that the entire Cui Bai Dao does not fall into chaos like that of West Valley Road.

On this day.

In the room, Song Changming, having just finished cultivation, looked at the small crystal that has lost all its spiritual energy, and casually crushed it into powder, blowing it out the window.

"Even with middle grade Spirit Crystals for cultivation, the speed still can’t catch up with the body refinement progress of the Witch Refining Technique..." Song Changming muttered to himself.

It wasn’t that his Qi Refining cultivation was too slow, but that the body refinement progress of the Witch Refining Technique was too fast, making his Qi Refining progress look much slower by comparison.

Especially being deeply embroiled in the demon infestation this time, using demon blood for body refinement has an exceptional effect on him.

In fact, using middle grade Spirit Crystals for long-term cultivation is quite extravagant for the vast majority of Innate Martial Artists.

Unless one’s family wealth is extremely robust, it is simply unachievable.

Song Changming is also among these majority of Innate Martial Artists, without family wealth and resources to support him steadily and continuously.

If relying solely on military salary, it would be difficult to sustain the level of cultivation required. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

He relies on the wealth of others...

Previously, eliminating the Spider Demon, he obtained a large sum of Spirit Crystals from the leader of the Spider Demons, which was his first capital.

Following that, eliminating Lou Baoqiu, the son of an Elder of the Corpse Refining Sect, also brought a small fortune.

Recently, there have been two windfalls.

One was Zhao Linxin’s Qiankun Bag, and the other was spirit crystals blown down from that giant bird’s nest.

Zhao Linxin’s Qiankun Bag contained one hundred nine middle grade Spirit Crystals and three hundred twenty-five low grade Spirit Crystals.

Plus a heap of Spirit Coins, Song Changming counted briefly, numbering over ten thousand, which should be Zhao Family’s pocket money for Zhao Linxin.

Additionally, Zhao Linxin’s Qiankun Bag contained two top-grade Spirit Crystals!

The value of these two top-grade Spirit Crystals alone is at least equivalent to two hundred middle grade Spirit Crystals.

Moreover, Zhao Linxin’s Qiankun Bag also held a variety of talisman papers and tools, along with some other jade and jewelry small treasures.

Regardless of Song Changming’s need for them, these are valuable items, even selling them in the future could exchange for quite a few Spirit Crystals.

Undeniably, compared to Zhao Linxin’s Qiankun Bag, Song Changming’s own Qiankun Bag is merely a poor man’s rag, utterly impoverished.

This is the absolute advantage of being a member of a Noble Family; the fortune and resources accumulated generation after generation are unattainable by any individual martial artist.

Many martial artists who strive all their lives cannot compare to the pocket money held by the Noble Family heirs.

This realization led Song Changming, upon seeing Zhao Linxin’s Qiankun Bag, to lament the tremendous wealth disparity.

The other windfall from the giant bird’s nest, though less than the accumulation in Zhao Linxin’s Qiankun Bag, still amounted to nearly a hundred low grade Spirit Crystals, and a small amount of middle grade Spirit Crystals.

It is precisely these two windfalls of Spirit Crystals that allow Song Changming to continue his cultivation at full speed using middle grade Spirit Crystals.

Song Changming continued to calculate.

"Perhaps with top-grade Spirit Crystals combined with continuous top-grade Innate Pills and the Qi Refining assistance from Xiaojin, along with the extra spiritual energy from the Spiritual Energy Treasure Land, it might match the body refinement cultivation of the Witch Refining Technique..."

Many factors affect Qi Refining cultivation, including personal aptitude also influencing cultivation speed.

It’s essential to have the right timing, geography, and harmony.

Among external conditions, Spirit Crystals provide the greatest aid for Innate Martial Artists in Qi Refining, followed by elixirs, and then the Spiritual Energy Treasure Land.

This is the result of martial artists’ own summaries and tests.

Generally, one low-grade Spirit Crystal can enhance the basic cultivation speed by about thirty to fifty percent.

Whereas one middle grade Spirit Crystal can directly double a martial artist’s cultivation efficiency.

A top-grade Spirit Crystal then doubles the cultivation efficiency.

If costs are not a concern, only focusing on cultivation efficiency, naturally, the higher the quality of Spirit Crystals, the better.

It is rumored that the highest quality top grade Spirit Crystals can accelerate cultivation by four to five times, but the excessive cost means almost no one can maintain the prolonged consumption of such super high-quality Spirit Crystals.

Even those nurtured as the core talents of Noble Families cannot achieve this.

According to Song Changming’s understanding, those Noble Family heirs residing in Core City in the main city, like Zhao Linxin, at most maintain the consumption level of middle grade Spirit Crystals over the long term, similar to his current level of resources.

They may have high-quality cultivation elixirs available, but Song Changming has Xiaojin, a rare item they do not possess, to help him gather spiritual energy.

With the Mountain Ginseng Spirit aiding his cultivation, at least in Qi Refining, he can increase his cultivation efficiency by another thirty percent without the constant consumption of Spirit Crystals or elixirs, merely by keeping Xiaojin by his side during his cultivation.

Overall, after acquiring Zhao Linxin’s Qiankun Bag, the cultivation materials at Song Changming’s disposal can sustain cultivation at the typical level of Noble Family heirs for at least more than a year.

During this year, he need not worry about the exhaustion or inadequacy of resources.

Of course, strategic planning for contingency is also necessary.