With the remaining five hundred dragon coins, Kang Shin-mu rented a small room in the Monster Hunters Association to take the Spirit Line Pill and try to break through to the sixth level of the Dragon Ascension Realm.
In terms of safety, there was no place safer than this in the entire Dragon City. If there was, it would definitely be the City Lord's Mansion …
"The Spiritual Line Pill is made from eighteen precious medicinal ingredients and the blood essence of two special demonic beasts. Each Spiritual Line Pill contains a vast amount of Spiritual Qi. Most importantly, the medicinal efficacy of the Spiritual Line Pill can strengthen the body of the Divine Dragon to a certain extent, which is useful to me!"
Kang Shin-mu thought as he sat cross-legged in the small room.
Although it was only a small room, it was enough for him as long as no one disturbed him. Moreover, every small room in the Monster Hunters Association had an array.
Under the effect of the array, not only could others not enter the small room, there would not be any sound from the outside world, and it also had an effect of gathering spiritual energy in the surroundings.
The effect of gathering spiritual energy was quite good. At least, it was not much different from the effect of the Cultivation Tower of the Jiang Clan. Even in the higher level rooms, the effect of the Spirit Line Gathering Array was even stronger.
Because of this, just renting this small room for three days required five hundred dragon coins, which could be considered very extravagant.
Kang Shin-mu spent three months to obtain those Monster Cores, which added up to a value of five thousand dragon coins. In total, he could only stay in this small room for a month. It was clear that his earning speed was still too slow.
Of course, that was when he was at the second layer of the Dragon Ascension Realm. Now that his cultivation base had improved, his hunting speed had certainly increased a lot. But even so, it was still too far-fetched for him to surpass Jiang Liuxue in six months.
He had to work harder!
The subsequent training in the Demon Hunters Association would determine what level he could reach after six months. But no matter what, Jiang Shenwu still had a minimum requirement. At the very least, he had to try and see if he could break through to the Divine Martial Arts realm.
In order to achieve this goal, he had to rely on fortuitous encounters. For example, when he followed Ji Yexuan to the Dragon Nether Ruins, he coincidentally found the Qitian Spirit Grass. This was something that even Ji Yexuan was jealous of, and it allowed him to jump two levels of cultivation.
This kind of opportunity could only be encountered by chance. Even some Dragon Warriors of the Divine Dragon rank would appear to fight for the Qitian Spirit Grass. It could be said that if it wasn't for a particularly fortuitous encounter, Kang Shin-mu would never have such an opportunity.
For the current Kang Shin-mu, a Spirit Line Pill was already a pretty good thing. He had to spend two months hunting demonic beasts in the Heavendrive Forest to exchange for a Spirit Line Pill.
However, the medicinal power contained in the Spirit Line Pill was far inferior to the Qitian Spirit Grass. It was less than one percent of the Qitian Spirit Grass.
Of course, this did not mean that a hundred Spirit Line Pills were equivalent to a single Qitian Spirit Grass. After taking the same pill many times, it would produce some antibodies, causing the effect to continuously decline. Moreover, the greatest value of the Qitian Spirit Grass was not to be taken directly.
If the Qitian Spirit Grass was refined into a pill, its value would definitely be a thousand times more expensive than the Spirit Line Pill.
An item worth three million dragon coins, even for the Jiang Clan, was a huge sum of money.
The main reason was that such an item was rarely used by ordinary cultivators. Rather than spending three million dragon coins to buy such a pill, it was better to buy other cultivation resources, which would play a much greater role for the entire tribe.
After all, after taking the pill, only an individual's strength would increase, and it would not increase the overall strength of the Jiang Clan.
Unless it was a peerless genius, an individual's increase in martial arts realm would not affect the strength of the entire Jiang Clan.
After Kang Shin-mu took the Spirit Line Pill, he felt a wave of spiritual energy directly spread throughout his body. It soaked into the divine dragon blood essence, and was quickly absorbed by the divine dragon blood essence.
"Just this little spiritual energy …"
Kang Shin-mu was somewhat disappointed. Compared to the Qitian Spirit Grass, the difference was too great. To rely on a Spirit Line Pill to increase from the fifth to the sixth level of the Dragon Ascension Realm was basically impossible, and he could not even reach one-tenth of the progress.
To rely on pills to increase one's cultivation, the financial resources needed were not just a little bit.
Moreover, taking pills to increase one's cultivation was relatively superficial. If one did not spend time to consolidate it, compared to the natural cultivation strength of other dragon warriors, there would be a big difference.
So even if one had money, it was difficult to quickly increase one's cultivation. It had to be accompanied by cultivation consolidation and accumulation.
Kang Shin-mu had taken the Qitian Spirit Grass and directly increased his cultivation by two levels. There were some signs of this. The strength in his body was not as strong as that of an ordinary dragon warrior in the fifth level of the Dragon Ascension Realm. If he wanted to consolidate it, he would have to experience enough battles, or meditate for nearly a month.
Kang Shin-mu did not have that much time to meditate, so the method he chose was to fight.
"After the medicinal efficacy of the Spirit Line Pill is digested, it's time to go to the Demon Hunters Association to gain experience."
Kang Shin-mu thought like this, and decided to cultivate in this small room for three days.
After all, he had rented a small room for three days, so he could not casually waste it. Relying on the Spirit Gathering Array to increase his strength was a very real power, and did not need to be consolidated. Even if he cultivated in the small room, he could properly consolidate his previous rapid increase in cultivation.
… …
Three days later, Kang Shin-mu finally left the Demon Hunters Association.
His cultivation had not stepped into the sixth level of the Dragon Ascension Realm, and was even far from it.
After accepting a mission to hunt demonic beasts from the Demon Hunters Association, he followed a Demon Hunters team to the outskirts of the Dragon Prison City. Outside the Dragon Prison City, there were many places where demonic beasts gathered, but they were relatively far away from the Dragon Prison City, and the demonic beasts there were relatively stronger.
Compared to the demonic beasts in the Heaven Driving Forest, the demonic beasts around the Dragon Prison City did not display their profound cultivation, but mainly displayed their strong bloodline.
It was similar to the inheritance of the blood essence of a Mortal Dragon and a True Dragon, and the blood essence of a True Dragon and a Heavenly Dragon. The bloodline of the demonic beasts around the Dragon Prison City was generally much stronger, resulting in the demon cores obtained from hunting them to be much more precious.
This time, Kang Shin-mu's Demon Hunters Association had a total of eight people, and all of them were inheritors of the blood essence of a True Dragon.
The Demon Hunters Association mission they had accepted was to hunt a powerful demonic beast equivalent to the blood essence of a Heavenly Dragon, and it was an eighth level Earth Demon!
Among the entire Demon Hunters Association, Kang Shin-mu's cultivation was the weakest, but the atmosphere in the Demon Hunters Association was still harmonious, and there were no quarrels. In fact, it could be said that Kang Shin-mu was forced into this group, because they were short of people, and the demonic beast was about to leave, so in a relatively rushed situation, they could only randomly pick one.