Chapter 181: Understanding the Cultivation World (1/2)
After Cheng Yu managed to escape from the restriction, he did not leave immediately. He looked at the few daoist friends and asked, ”Several daoist friends are all Kunlun disciples?”
“That’s right. We are all Kunlun Sect’s disciples,” This was not a secret. If it was anyone from a big sect, the moment they saw their clothing, they would have known that they were all from Kunlun Sect.
“I shall not conceal it from my fellow daoist friends. This is my first time entering the Cultivation World and the main reason I am doing so is to accumulate experience, but I am completely ignorant of anything regarding the Cultivation World. Therefore, I wish the fellow daoists would share some knowledge with me. Take these pills as a reward,” Cheng Yu took out another 10 top-grade Qi Gathering Pills and requested.
The Kunlun Sect disciples saw Cheng Yu was actually so generous and had taken out so many pills again, and their faces grew even more excited and enthusiastic. They looked at each other. Within their eyes, there were obvious traces of greed. Cheng Yu had also seen it, but he did not seem to be concerned. The few Qi Training Realm initial stage cultivators were not even fit to be his opponent.
“Haha! So it’s like that. Fellow daoist, there’s no harm in saying what you wish to know!” One of the Kunlun disciples said passionately.
“The Cultivation World is vast. How many gateways are there in total? And if I want to come back, how am I supposed to look for the exit?”
“Actually, no one has a precise number for how many gates there are in the Cultivation World. Solely in our Kunlun Mountains, there are already five of gates. However, if you want to look for the gate to the Cultivation World, it’s not a difficult issue. 100 kilometres from here, there’s an inn. It’s called Qiongyu Inn. It is the biggest chain inn in the whole Cultivation World. Basically, in the whole Cultivation World, you would be able to find their shadows. Inside, there are food and drinks, and you are also able to buy information from them. Therefore, as long as you have money, you will be able to buy the news you wish,” While he spoke, especially when talking about the Qiongyu Inn, his eyes clearly shone as if he was yearning for it.
“I see. What kind of currency does the Cultivation World use?” What Cheng Yu wanted to know the most was the currency of the Cultivation World. Since he rarely came to the Cultivation World, he felt that he must bring some treasure back to well equip his women. Don’t look down on these armaments. If two cultivators who had the same cultivation were to fight, and if one of the sides possessed a formidable armament, he would be able to defeat the other or might even be able to kill him outright. This showed how important armaments were to a cultivator.
“In the Cultivation World, all of us use spiritual stones and spiritual crystals for transactions. The spiritual stones and crystals are classified into high, medium and low grade. A high-grade spiritual stone would exchange for 100 middle-grade spiritual stones or 10000 low-grade spiritual stones. The spiritual crystals are on a higher grade than a spiritual stone. Therefore, a low-grade spiritual crystal would exchange for 100 high-grade spiritual stones. And the exchange rate between each grade for the spiritual crystal is also 1:100,” That person explained to Cheng Yu the currency of the Cultivation World. Cheng Yu also knew of spiritual crystals. If a spiritual bone is a large sum of fortune, then a crystal vine would be an uncountable fortune.
A crystal vein was formed under the nurturing of spiritual Qi for countless years in a crystal mine and was constantly in contact with the vein of the spiritual crystal. There were lots of crystal mines in this world, even if it was the Secular World, there were also all kinds of crystal mines. But to change these stone crystals into a spiritual crystal, was extremely hard to do.
Therefore, in the Secular World, the crystal ores excavated would at most be able to craft an ordinary armament. Besides, with the sparseness of the Secular World’s spiritual Qi, if they want to transform an ordinary crystal mine into a crystal vine, it would at least take a million years.
“Then how many spiritual stones can these Qi Gathering Pills exchange for?” Within Cheng Yu’s assumptions, he should be the most destitute person in the whole of the Cultivation World because on him, there was only one low-grade spiritual stone that he had picked up in the abyss. The only thing on Cheng Yu, which could be exchanged for money would be his pills. So, he asked curiously.
“A low-grade spiritual stone would exchange for roughly 100 low-grade Qi Gathering Pills, 10 middle-grade Qi Gathering Pills, or a high-grade Qi Gathering Pill. But with fellow daoist’s top-grade Qi Gathering Pills, which are hardly seen, you would probably be able to exchange each pill for three low-grade spiritual stones,” When this person recalled to how Cheng Yu had simply taken out so many top-grade Qi Gathering Pills, if he changed all of them to spiritual stones, he could already have gotten dozens of them. He was truly envious. Within his heart, his greed started to get the better of him.
In the Cultivation World, a lot of people wished to rely on those big sects not only because they would have a backer behind them, but also have access to resources. To a cultivator, if they did not have any resources, how are they going to cultivate? If they were to rely on their own talent and cultivate painstakingly, if they wished to breakthrough and become an expert, they would just be indulging in their own fantasy. Even if they were a genius, they would also need different levels of resources to assist them. There was never once anyone who said that they relied on their own effort to soar through the heavens. This was something that had never happened before in the Cultivation World.