Chapter 7

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The various first-grade elixirs, such as Body Strengthening Pill, Skin Tempering Pill, Bone Hardening Pill, Marrow Training Pill, Vision Brightening Pill, and more, made Chu Chen feel dizzy and disoriented.

Most first-grade elixirs are extremely fast-consumable items, and their primary function is to slightly enhance the physical body to prevent it from becoming too weak and causing a spiritual breakdown during cultivation advancement.

Generally, the effect of one first-grade spirit pill is equivalent to the results of several days of hard physical training.

However, elixirs, after all, are just medicines, and as the saying goes, "medicine is three parts poison." While they strengthen the body, they also leave a small amount of toxicity within. A small amount of elixir toxicity is not a concern, but if a large amount is consumed in a short period, the accumulated toxins can become lethal.

Therefore, the timing and frequency of elixir use are very important.

Even though they are all first-grade, different elixirs have different effects on the body.

The skin, tendons, bones, muscles, and blood all need to be trained. Which aspect to train and which elixir to take depends on one's own cultivation situation.

After half an hour, Chu Chen was thoroughly disoriented and could no longer read. After some thought, a sudden idea came to his mind. He then found a secluded place, closed his eyes, and slowly opened his "spiritual sense."

"Spiritual sense" is a peculiar ability that cultivators develop after their mental power increases to a certain level. Once the spiritual sense is opened, one can sense the omnipresent spiritual energy in the surrounding void. In a sense, the spiritual sense can be considered the third eye of a cultivator.

Due to his ancient and powerful soul, Chu Chen's "spiritual sense" was much more sensitive than others.

However, this time, Chu Chen decided to use not his "spiritual sense" but his "spiritual perception."

If the spiritual sense is like using eyes to see the surrounding space, then the "spiritual perception" is like using radar to detect the environment. It is essentially an enhanced version of the spiritual sense, often used by cultivators when tracking enemies or exploring unfamiliar terrain.

The original Chu Chen, once he opened his spiritual sense, would feel a surge of energy from the surrounding void, so he dared not open the enhanced "spiritual perception."

Now that his spiritual sense had returned to normal, Chu Chen decided to use his "spiritual perception" to examine the surrounding environment.

As soon as he opened his spiritual perception, Chu Chen's body trembled slightly.

In his mind, a strange and indescribable scene appeared: a complete holographic image of the market within a thirty-zhang radius centered on him. From the streets and shops to the stalls, disciples, and every single pill, everything was clearly visible in minute detail.

From these stalls and shops, various spiritual lights rose, dazzling and brilliant.

These spiritual lights were different from the "treasure lights" created by small arrays by the sellers; they were the natural spiritual lights emitted by the treasures.

Most of them were gray or white, with a few stalls emitting green spiritual lights. It was clear that the quality of the items was different based on the color of the spiritual light.

Chu Chen had heard that some legendary realm experts could see the spiritual lights on treasures, with gold being the best, followed by purple, red, blue, green, white, and gray.

Most low-quality first-grade spirit pills emitted gray spiritual lights. And these were exactly what Chu Chen needed!

Chu Chen was pleasantly surprised. He never expected that after this accident, his soul energy had changed, not only giving him a clone but also allowing him to see the spiritual lights emitted by treasures, which would help him judge their quality. This meant that he wouldn't have to worry about being cheated when buying anything in the future.

Immersed in his surprise, Chu Chen fully opened his spiritual perception and meticulously scanned the market.

Just as he was about to feel exhausted from the intense mental effort, he suddenly felt a slight movement in his body when he carefully sensed a certain direction in the market.

Not far from him, among the many stalls selling low-quality first-grade spirit pills, a pitch-black spiritual light stood out among the gray, white, and green lights.

Black? What quality of treasure is this?

Chu Chen knew that golden spiritual lights represented the best quality among spirit items. Among all colors, gold was the most valuable. But black... what level is it? Could it be even higher than gold?

However, this black light appeared among the gray lights, meaning its owner did not know the true value of the treasure and considered it the same as the low-quality first-grade spirit pills.

Since there was only one black light in the entire market, Chu Chen's curiosity was piqued. Upon closer inspection, among the gray first-grade spirit pills, a faded black jade slip was inconspicuously mixed in, as if casually discarded by the stall owner.

This was actually a cultivation technique!

The difference between immortals and mortals is that the cultivation techniques of immortals cannot be recorded on paper. The great principles of the universe cannot be described by mere words. Therefore, the techniques of the sects are generally recorded on jade slips. Once a sect disciple has cultivated for some time and can sense the spiritual energy in the surrounding void, they can also sense the information in the jade slip.

Cultivation techniques were not uncommon, but the spiritual lights of the jade slips still followed the seven colors: gray, white, green, blue, red, purple, and gold. There should be no technique with a black spiritual light. This made Chu Chen very curious.

Subtly, his sensitive soul power sensed something extraordinary from the jade slip. After some thought, Chu Chen came out of his meditation and walked towards the stall.

"I want these pills, this one, and this one... Hmm? This small thing is quite unique. How much is it?"

To prevent the seller from thinking it was a rare item, Chu Chen casually picked up the "target jade slip" while selecting the first-grade spirit pills he needed and quickly put it back.

It seemed he was just slightly surprised, and he didn't expect the seller to answer his question.

The seller was a twenty-something sect disciple, wearing a white and gold silk robe, with a handsome appearance and elegant demeanor. He had obtained the jade slip in bulk when collecting old jade slips.

At first, he thought it was a cultivation technique. When he used his spiritual sense to probe the old jade slip, he was disappointed to find that it contained no cultivation information.

A jade slip without cultivation information was just an ordinary jade pendant, of no use to a sect disciple. Seeing Chu Chen ask, he raised an eyebrow and sneered.

"If you want all these pills, the jade pendant is free."

At this moment, Chu Chen's heart raced. When he played with the black-light-emitting jade slip, his spiritual perception sensed a familiar aura, the ancient divine aura of the Immortal Mountain, which only Chu Chen had encountered.

He was almost certain that this jade slip was a remnant from the explosion during the Immortal Mountain battle, which spewed out from the Black Mist Valley.

Chu Chen couldn't help but twitch his lips, but he remained calm and collected the pile of pills along with the target jade pendant. Although he had almost spent all his money, he couldn't help but feel excited!

Holding a bunch of low-quality pills, Chu Chen eagerly walked down the mountain. The jade slip from the Black Mist Valley, though he didn't know what it contained, gave him a strong sense that it recorded a mysterious and special cultivation technique!

To get it for free clearly showed his good luck.

His heart full of anticipation, his steps quickened as he wanted to return to his residence to confirm what the jade slip contained.

However, as he approached the entrance of the market, Chu Chen paused for a moment, his brows furrowing. He hadn't expected to encounter someone he least wanted to see here.

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