Once again, Lu Li understood how cold-blooded and heartless a Big Family could be. There was no mercy for the Big Families.
If you could create value and benefits for the family, the family would treat you like a prince. If you were useless to the family, even if you begged on your knees, the family wouldn't give you a single copper coin.
Lu Li made up his mind and spent another 2000 contribution points. There was a special explanation on how to condense Spirit Sea in the book.
Lu Li felt he had understood the things inside. He might not be able to condense Spirit Sea, but at least he had a direction.
He read the secret manual several times. Since he had plenty of time, he continued to look for other books to verify whether the book he just read was correct or not.
Two hours later, Lu Li walked out. He found three books on condensing Spirit Sea. The descriptions were similar. Now, he had completely understood how to condense Spirit Sea.
Fearing that he might forget, Lu Li quickly went home to find a pen and paper to write down how to condense Spirit Sea.
Lu Ling saw that Lu Li had been gone for more than four hours but he didn't come back with a pile of abandoned Xuan Artifacts. She asked in confusion, "What is it?"
Lu Li explained and said in a worried tone, "I thought I had enough contribution points and I didn't have to worry about Little White's food.
Now that the Liu Family is targeting me, I don't think I'll be able to last much longer with my remaining 1000 contribution points. "
Little White did not grow in size, but its appetite had increased. If Little White went to buy abandoned Xuan Artifacts, Lu Li would have to leave the county in less than a month to do missions to earn contribution points.
Lu Ling thought about it and said, "Then don't go and trade for abandoned Xuan Artifacts. Go to the Hall of Mystical Materials. There should be food that Little White needs there.
Normal spirit materials are cheaper than scrap profound weapons. If you can find suitable food to replace them, your contribution points can last you for a few months. "
"Alright!"
Lu Li went out to look for the Hall of Mystical Materials. He asked a random person and found it. The Hall of Mystical Materials was so big that it was considered a big hall in every family.
All the spirit materials the Liu Family martial practitioners collected outside would be handed over to the Spirit Material Hall if they didn't need them.
This is one of the family's treasuries. If you need any spirit materials, you can exchange them here with contribution points.
The range of spiritual materials was very wide, such as all kinds of ores, all kinds of profound beast cores, fur, horns, all kinds of spiritual herbs, and all kinds of strange objects.
As long as it was something useful to a martial practitioner, it could be considered a spirit material.
The Spirit Emporium Hall was huge, almost like a huge castle. There were also more guards inside, a total of five of them.
Lu Li walked in and saw that there were two floors inside. There were more than 20 rooms on the first floor.
After Lu Li handed over his ID Token, the deacons of the Hall of Mystical Materials looked gloomy. One of them said in a cold voice, "You are not qualified to enter the second level. If you want to trade for the Mystical Materials on the first level, you will have to pay four times the amount of contribution points!"
Lu Li was not surprised. Guest Warriors already needed twice the contribution points. Now that the Liu Family was targeting him, it was not surprising that the contribution points would be doubled.
He put away the token and glanced at the surrounding rooms. He found a room marked with ores and walked in.
Little White liked to eat abandoned Xuan Artifacts. Before the abandoned Xuan Artifacts were destroyed, they were intact Xuan Artifacts. Xuan Artifacts, on the other hand, were made of all kinds of ores. Lu Li guessed that Little White's real favorite food was ores.
Upon entering the room, Lu Li realized that it wasn't a room at all. It was a hall filled with all kinds of ores.
Lu Li glanced over and took Little White out of his sleeve. He said to Little White, "Is there anything you like here?"
Little White glanced at the piles of ores nearby with disdain in its little eyes.
Little White ran around and looked around. When it saw a type of red crystal, its eyes immediately lit up. It flew out and was about to chew on the red crystal.
Sure enough!
Lu Ling and Lu Li were right. What Little White really liked to eat was not Xuan Artifacts, but the red crystal that was needed to forge Xuan Artifacts.
Lu Li quickly carried Little White in his arms and smiled when he saw the mark next to the crystal.
The crystal was called Fire Jade Stone. It was a very common type of crystal with many uses. It was an indispensable crystal to forge Xuan Artifacts.
The most important thing was — the Fire Jade Stone was cheap. One contribution point for 10 of them. Even though Lu Li had to spend four times the amount of contribution points, he still had more than 1000 contribution points left. It was enough for him to buy thousands of Fire Jade Stones.
Lu Li hid Little White and walked out. He asked the deacon outside to exchange for 1000 Fire Jade Stones for him.
After spending 400 contribution points, Lu Li carried a jute bag of Fire Jade Stones back home. He put the Fire Jade Stones in the corner and let Little White out. He grinned and said, "Eat as much as you want. Don't get stuffed."
"Squeak, squeak ~"
Little White screamed happily. It jumped into the jute bag and bit a Fire Jade Stone. It chewed it up and swallowed it in a few bites.
Only after eating five Fire Jade Stones did Little White lie down in the corner and fall asleep with satisfaction.
"Okay, Lu Li, don't worry about Little White. We have enough food for now."
Lu Ling nodded slightly. She looked at Lu Li and said, "Now, try to see if you can condense Spirit Sea. Don't cultivate the Rolling Thunder Xuan Skill. Realm is the way.
After dinner, you can go into closed-door cultivation. "
It was almost time for dinner. Lu Li and Lu Ling chatted for a while. Then, someone brought food over.
Lu Li glanced at the food and found it was much worse than before. Previously, there were four dishes and one soup for two people. Now, there was no soup, only two dishes …
"The Liu Family is so stingy!"
Lu Li murmured. Lu Ling said with a smile, "I am not a Guest Warrior of the Liu Family. I can still live here. The Liu Family is feeding me for free. They are already giving you a lot of face."
Lu Li didn't care anymore. As long as he was not hungry, it didn't matter if the food was good or bad.
After dinner, he went back to closed-door cultivation. He had mastered the way to condense Spirit Sea. It was time for him to try.
Condensing Spirit Sea was easy.
Rather than condensing, it was more like creating. There was no Spirit Sea in a human's body, so one must be created.
Everyone had 12 main energy channels that ran through the entire body. Warriors could circulate their Xuan Energy around the body to increase their strength, defense and speed.
However!
The energy channels were very small. The amount of Xuan Energy that could be stored in them was too little. Therefore, if a warrior wanted to have inexhaustible Xuan Energy, he must create Spirit Sea and store Xuan Energy in it.
With Spirit Sea, the amount of Xuan Energy that could be stored in a warrior's body would increase by hundreds or even thousands of times. In a fight, the warrior would not run out of Xuan Energy.
Also, Spirit Sea had another amazing ability, which was to condense Xuan Energy and increase the power of Xuan Energy.
That was why warriors of the Spirit Sea Realm could be so powerful. They could defeat all the warriors of the Xuan Wu Realm.
Condensing Spirit Sea was, in essence — to squeeze out a space inside the body with Xuan Energy, a miraculous space that could store Xuan Energy.
The theory was simple, and Lu Li understood the method. However, he dared not to condense Spirit Sea rashly.
He began to cultivate Xuan Energy. He cultivated for 10 to 10 hours. When the Xuan Energy in the 12 energy channels was full, he began to mobilize Xuan Energy to the intersection of the two energy channels in his lower abdomen.
"Condensing!"
Lu Li took a deep breath. He put a piece of wood in his mouth and closed his eyes to meditate.
The reason why he bit the wood was that he was afraid that he might bite his tongue off if the pain was too much.
Condensing Spirit Sea was equivalent to forcefully creating a mysterious space inside the body. Without the help of some special pellets, the warrior would suffer from extreme pain. If he could not control it well, he might even die.
Lu Li didn't have any pellets. He had to bear the pain and rely on his strong willpower to create Spirit Sea.
The cultivation of Wu Dao was to go against nature and change one's fate!