Incredible Sect Simulator-Chapter 850 - 818: Luminous Stone

After spending some time carefully browsing through the items in the Storage Bag, Lu Ping’s expression gradually changed, revealing a look of astonishment.

These underground cultivators, compared to earth surface cultivators, indeed carry somewhat different things in their Storage Bags.

Due to the different cultivation environment, the cultivators here always carry an item with them.

This item, which Lu Ping knew from accessing Xu Chi’s memory, is called Luminous Stone, a kind of spiritual ore.

The function of Luminous Stone is that it can be used as a high-tier Spirit Stone, often facilitating the quick recovery of Qi Blood and Magical Power, with effects more effective than elixirs.

In this Underground Cultivation Realm, there are numerous Luminous Stone ore veins, resulting in a production that is exceedingly abundant, even comparable to the output of Spirit Stones.

Additionally, the Luminous Stone’s miraculous effect of rapidly restoring Qi Blood has made it a favorite cultivation resource, becoming an essential spiritual ore for every underground cultivator.

Xu Chi had more than six hundred Luminous Stones, which, if used by Lu Ping to restore Qi Blood and Magical Power, could approximately recover twice.

The magical power recovery for Nascent Soul Stage requires significantly more Luminous Stones, far beyond what Crystallization Stage cultivators can compare to.

One is the Luminous Stone.

Another difference lies in the cultivation techniques.

Within the Storage Bag, Lu Ping found a cultivation technique called the Great River Technique, which was for the Crystallization Stage.

While perusing this technique, Lu Ping discovered that the cultivation technique here is based on the use of the Luminous Stone.

It requires absorbing and refining the power within the Luminous Stone to maintain the practice of the cultivation technique.

This also leads to a better recovery effect when refining Luminous Stone to restore Qi Blood and Magical Power afterward.

All of these were learned from accessing Xu Chi’s memory.

These two points are the characteristics of the Underground Cultivation Realm, and Lu Ping also realized the importance of the Luminous Stone as a spiritual ore to the underground cultivators. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

Besides, the Storage Bag also contained about 160,000 Spirit Stones, some elixirs, spirit medicines, and so on.

What surprised Lu Ping was that there wasn’t any artifact refining material among these.

Even in terms of magical artifacts, Xu Chi, a Crystallization Stage cultivator, only possessed two magical artifacts.

Such is a Crystallization Stage cultivator.

In Lingxi State, even a Qi Cultivator has more than one magical artifact, often carrying four or five magical artifacts.

Crystallization Stage cultivators typically carry dozens of magical artifacts, not having to worry about the scarcity of magical artifacts.

But here, Lu Ping realized that magical artifacts are not readily available, and many Crystallization Stage cultivators also only have two or three magical artifacts.

No wonder, a Storage Ring would make Xu Chi so envious.

Not just Xu Chi, but even Golden Core cultivators or Nascent Soul cultivators would covet it if they saw it.

The magical artifact resources in the Underground Cultivation Realm are indeed far less than those on the earth surface.

"After all, it’s still different; in terms of magical artifacts, this place is nowhere near as developed as Lingxi State."

Upon carefully tallying up Xu Chi’s Storage Bag, for Lu Ping, the valuable items were those Spirit Stones and Luminous Stones.

The next day, Lu Ping and Li Beihuo came to the first floor of the inn and encountered Tai Yuming and three other disciples of the Dark River Sect, inquiring about Xu Chi’s whereabouts in the inn.

As their leader and the strongest among them, Xu Chi’s disappearance attracted their significant attention, making them eager to know where Xu Chi had gone and why he disappeared without a trace.

How could a Crystallization Stage cultivator disappear into thin air here, unless he left on his own?

But as fellow disciples, coming to Shanyang City to observe the Divine Ceremony together, how could Xu Chi leave without any reason, just like that?

Tai Yuming and the others kept asking the surrounding guests, searching for Xu Chi’s whereabouts.

Upon seeing Lu Ping and Li Beihuo coming downstairs, they approached them with inquiries.

"Elder Xu is missing? Maybe he went to handle something. You should keep looking; I don’t think he went far."

Li Beihuo said, knowing Xu Chi was a Crystallization Stage cultivator, considering him a master who could disappear occasionally, which was normal.

Lu Ping remained calm and didn’t speak.

However, Tai Yuming and his companions occasionally let their gaze fall on Lu Ping’s fingers, examining that Storage Ring.

Yet, upon looking again today, the Storage Ring was nowhere to be seen.

This led the three to feel puzzled; where had that Storage Ring gone?

Was it kept by Lu Ping himself, or had it already fallen into the hands of others?

After all, in their view, Lu Ping was just a Foundation Establishment Cultivator; if Xu Chi indeed gave birth to greed and wanted the Storage Ring, Lu Ping wouldn’t be a match.

Thinking along these lines, could it be that Lu Ping, to save his life, voluntarily handed the Storage Ring to Xu Chi?

Whether this is the case, Tai Yuming and his peers secretly used communication, and soon Tai Yuming took the lead to inquire Lu Ping.

"Zhang Dao You, did you see Xu Chi last night?"

Tai Yuming stared into Lu Ping’s eyes, trying to observe any changes in his expression to determine the truthfulness of Lu Ping’s response.

Lu Ping slowly shook his head, not wanting to involve Tai Yuming and the others and having to kill them.

Seeing Lu Ping’s response, Tai Yuming squinted his eyes.

"Senior Brother Tai, let’s not ask anymore; look at his cultivation aura..."

Tai Yuming originally wanted to ask Lu Ping further, but the next moment, he was secretly reminded by a fellow disciple that it might not be the time for further questioning.

Because they sensed that the aura Lu Ping was emitting seemed not just as simple as early-stage Foundation Establishment.

There was a hint of having stepped into the Crystallization Stage.

This change made Tai Yuming and his peers secretly shocked, unable to resist feeling they had overlooked something.

"Is this person actually a Crystallization Stage cultivator?!"

While secretly exclaiming, Tai Yuming also took a deep breath.

Even if they cooperated, the three of them wouldn’t be Lu Ping’s match.

Meanwhile, this also made them inevitably speculate whether Xu Chi’s disappearance was indeed related to Lu Ping.

Could it be that Xu Chi went to trouble Lu Ping out of greed and was later counter-killed by Lu Ping?

After all, the cultivation aura Lu Ping is now showing has already reached the Crystallization Stage, fully capable of resisting Xu Chi.

Regarding the specific reason, Tai Yuming and his peers dared not further inquire.

They weren’t really life-and-death friends with Xu Chi, and in their view, it wasn’t worth provoking Lu Ping over Xu Chi, bringing trouble upon themselves.

Whether the Storage Ring was still in Lu Ping’s possession or not, it was no longer possible for them to covet it, and they quickly dispelled any notion of doing so.

In the subsequent two days, Tai Yuming and his companions gradually gave up looking for Xu Chi and began focusing on the upcoming Divine Ceremony.