Chapter 20 (1/2)

Lin Xun intended to practice the Meditating Magic; however, before he took action, his stomach growled loudly.

Meanwhile, an ineffable feeling of hunger flew over his body. Lin Xun could not bear it anymore and rushed to the kitchen.

Not until then did he realize it was already dark outside. No one could endure one day without any food.

There were pots and pans, as well as many pieces of preserved beast meat from villagers in the repaired kitchen.

Lin Xun cooked a pot of spiritual grain rice, cut a pan of beast meat, and then wolfed down all squatting at the kitchen.

The mild spiritual energy in the spiritual grain was indispensable for cultivation. However, for people in Feiyun Village who could not cultivate, the spiritual grain would be exchanged for goods and materials as money. So valuable that they would not feed on it.

As for the beast meat made with the wild animals hunted from the mountain, it could only satisfy people’s hunger, and could not possibly be compared with the precious spiritual grains that contained spiritual energy.

However, Lin Xun was a little surprised to find the hungry feeling didn’t clear away after he ate three pans of beast meat and ten bowls of spiritual rice.

Meanwhile, Lin Xun was also delighted to find his appetite increased, which meant his body was different from what it used to be and needed to be supplied with extra nutrition.

The more one ate, the stronger one’s body, Qi, blood and spirit would become. It was said that there would be spiritual vegetables, fruits, and refined elixirs, besides plenty of spiritual grains in each meal for the practitioners in Ziyao Empire.

As a practitioner, Lin Xun understood it clearly.

However, after being replete, he realized it would be a problem with only half bag of spiritual grain and six pieces of beast meat left.

Based on his appetite, Lin Xun would consume 2500g spiritual grains and ten pieces of 1500-gram beast meat for three meals.

However, he relied on Feiyun villagers for food and living materials at the moment. It was acceptable for a few days, but for a long time, it would not be appropriate.

“It would be hard without food.”

Lin Xun pondered and sighed. An old saying, “The poor goes for civil and the rich seeks martial virtues”, was reasonable. The poor could not get enough resources to cultivate; they could not even afford the goods for cultivation at all.

Another old saying, “Cultivation requires four things including wealth, partner, manual, and land”, which put the wealth in the first place, emphasized the importance of money if one wanted to cultivate.

Moreover, elixirs, manuals, fighting treasures, weapons and others practitioners needed would require large wealth.

Now being poor and blank without a penny, Lin Xun had no more belongings except for some spiritual materials.

So he needed to earn money in the first place, not only to solve the problem at present, but also to prepare for the cultivation in the future.

In Feiyun Village, spiritual grains and beast meat meant money. However, growing spiritual grains cost too much time, which Lin Xun could not spare. So getting beast meat would be his best choice.

He knew the robust villagers would get together and hunt in the mountains outside the village during slack seasons. The beasts they captured would be partly left for life necessaries; as for the fur and leather, membranes and bones, as well as blood and meat would be sent to the Green-sun Tribe to be traded for goods.

“Go hunting? I can give this a try.”

Making a resolution in the heart, Lin Xun thought it should be easy for him to hunt common beasts at his cultivation level, although hunting fierce beasts would be hard.

Actually, Lin Xun thought more than that – he needed much more money if he planned to move to other towns in Ziyao Empire.

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Lin Xun sat and meditated in his room in the dark night. Obscure and mysterious words were shining and streaming like flowing light.

Meditating Magic, a manual to refine spirit, included three realms named Star Circulation, Moon Turn and Sun Glory.

The Meditating in the name meant meditation. It required one to observe the mystique of spiritual refining with his own consciousness, to strengthen one’s spirit and soul.

This was a real incomparable and rare manual.

It was well-known that the amount and kinds of cultivation manuals were as vast as a mighty ocean and there were too many to enumerate. However, 99 percent of them were for spiritual energy cultivation or martial fighting.

Manuals to refine soul and mind were hard to find and most of them were preserved by ancient clans and families. You could not find one in the market.

This kind of manual was also called Soul Mystique, a rare treasure which every practitioner would yearn for.

Why? After one broke through Martial, Gang Spirit and Sea Spirit Realms, and reached Tao Insight Realm, he needed to refine the soul to cultivate Innate Will.

After he got Innate Will successfully and mastered the power of soul, he could be qualified as a real strong practitioner in Tao Insight Realm.

At that level, inferior practitioners would be terrified and could not help but kneel down in front of him.