Top-level Qi Luck: Leading My Clan to Cultivate

After leaving Lin Shilu's courtyard, Lin Tianming returned first to his own cave abode.

Sitting in the small courtyard, he spread out the beast skin Lin Shilu had given him.

He had only glanced briefly at it before and hadn't had the chance to take a closer look; now, naturally, he wanted to calculate roughly how many Merit Points the artifact refining would require.

Looking closely, he saw that the beast skin recorded more than a dozen items.

"One hundred and thirty jin of Second Order Spirit Iron, three Silver Star Stones of Second Order, three strands of Jiuxuan Vine, one hundred jin of Second Order Demon Beast Essence Blood..."

Half a quarter of an hour later, Lin Tianming had finished going through the list of artifact refining materials on the beast skin.

At this moment, his expression was somewhat ugly.

Just the aforementioned materials alone, each of which was no ordinary item, like Second Order Spirit Iron, priced at more than ten Spirit Stones per jin. Just the cost of this item alone would consume more than a thousand Spirit Stones, not to mention that the price of Second Order Qingling Bamboo was even higher.

The other artifact refining materials were also expensive, each costing hundreds of Spirit Stones.

He estimated that just the materials for the artifact refining would cost nearly ten thousand Spirit Stones. Fortunately, he was wealthy; an average Foundation Establishment cultivator couldn't possibly afford it.

"Never mind, I'll go to the Hall of Merit to check first," Lin Tianming decided.

Having made up his mind, Lin Tianming left his cave abode and flew towards the Hall of Merit.

Before long, Lin Tianming appeared inside the Hall of Merit and found Lin Xingcheng. After exchanging a few cordial words, he got straight to the point.

"Uncle, could you help me check how many Merit Points these materials will require?"

Having said that, he handed the beast skin to Lin Xingcheng so he could check and calculate the cost of the exchange.

Lin Xingcheng took the beast skin, looked at just two lines, and his eyes twitched. Then he exclaimed in surprise.

"You need so much? What kind of powerful weapon are you planning to refine?"

After Lin Tianming explained his plan and thought about the power of his Sword Array, he became resigned.

"Tianming, wait a moment while I check if we have all these Spiritual Objects and then I'll calculate the prices for you," Lin Xingcheng said.

After speaking, he directly picked up the ledger and went towards the back of the great hall to inventory the treasures for him.

Lin Tianming sat patiently waiting on the side.

A short half-quarter of an hour quietly passed, and Lin Xingcheng returned, pinching a storage bag in his hand.

Seeing Lin Xingcheng coming out, Lin Tianming hurriedly asked, "How is it, do we have all the Spiritual Objects?"

Lin Xingcheng chuckled and then said:

"You're really lucky; all the materials listed happen to be Second Order Spiritual Items. Although they're precious, the family has fortunately collected some, just enough in quantity."

Upon hearing this, Lin Tianming let out a long sigh of relief.

These items were indeed precious, but with the treasures from the Jin Family and Wu Family added to the family's resources, they could be gathered. If they had not been enough, he would have had to make quite an effort to find them elsewhere.

Lin Xingcheng took out the ledger and started to read out the prices.

"One jin of Second Order Spirit Iron costs ten Spirit Stones, totalling one thousand three hundred Spirit Stones; one Silver Star Stone costs two hundred and eighty Spirit Stones, totalling eight hundred and forty Spirit Stones; one Jiuxuan Vine costs two hundred and sixty Spirit Stones, totalling seven hundred and eighty Spirit Stones..."

Lin Tianming listened, and a line slowly formed on his forehead.

"The total for the aforementioned fourteen materials comes to six thousand seven hundred and fifty Spirit Stones."

It didn't take long for Lin Xingcheng to announce the final price, once again causing Lin Tianming's complexion to change.

Just the more than a dozen Spiritual Objects listed above would amount to more than six thousand Spirit Stones, not including the five thousand Spirit Stones for the Second Order Qingling Bamboo.

If he included the Second Order Qingling Bamboo in the calculation, it would be nearly twelve thousand Spirit Stones, over a thousand more than he had anticipated.

Soon, Lin Tianming came to terms with it.

This time, to refine thirty-four First Order Supreme Quality Earth Evil Swords, as well as one Magic Artifact, it would cost just over ten thousand Spirit Stones for such a massive number. In truth, this price was quite reasonable.

To know that a lower grade second-order magic artifact would cost no less than seven or eight thousand spirit stones, and a supreme quality spiritual artifact is also worth hundreds of spirit stones, this price he's paying is truly insignificant by comparison.

Thinking of this, Lin Tianming speculated that Lin Shilu must have had to add quite a few valuable spiritual objects to refine the weapon for him.

"It seems that I must give up all my wealth to make up for what the old man has spent."

Having made up his mind, Lin Tianming spoke up:

"Uncle, I want all of the above treasures, and also the thirty-four second-order Qingling Bamboos. I'll exchange for them all at once."

After speaking, Lin Tianming didn't care about Lin Xingcheng's expression and directly handed over his family token.

Upon hearing that Lin Tianming wanted to exchange for second-order Qingling Bamboos, Lin Xingcheng was so stunned that it took him a good while to come to his senses.

Afterward, Lin Xingcheng calculated the total price based on the original cost and then accepted his family token.

As a streak of blue light flashed by, the only remaining eleven thousand five hundred and some Merit Points in his family token were completely deducted. He still had to provide some extra spirit stones to the Hall of Merit.

After deducting the Merit Points, Lin Xingcheng handed over a storage pouch to Lin Tianming and then took out the token for the bamboo forest, passing it along to him as well.

The implication was that he would have to go find the bamboos in the forest himself.

Lin Tianming reluctantly accepted the token, his current strength should make the cutting a fair bit quicker.

With the exchange for artifact refining materials settled, Lin Tianming looked at his storage pouch and began pondering.

After such a spree, years of accumulation had been wiped out, and the Merit Points had gone down to zero.

In the storage pouch, there weren't many spiritual objects left, only around one thousand six hundred spirit stones and some pills from the Qi Refinement Realm which hadn't been used up. There were about thirty bottles in total, and only one bottle contained second-order pills, a gift from Lin Shikang when Lin Tianming was breaking through to the Foundation Establishment.

Besides that, there were also some second-order spiritual medicines that he had slowly collected, intending to use for refining second-order pills.

The rest were miscellaneous spiritual artifacts, spirit ores, and Demonic Beasts' bodies and demon cores.

After taking inventory of his storage pouch, Lin Tianming planned to exchange all ordinary objects utterly for spirit stones to gather as many as possible and serve as compensation for Lin Shilu's assistance with artifact refining.

Given that Lin Shilu had helped him many times, and this time, to help him with artifact refining, he was undoubtedly going to use some treasured items, possibly even the Golden Tide Sand obtained from the exchange meeting.

With such help from Lin Shilu, if he did not show any gratitude, would it not be utterly disheartening!

Determined, he decided to keep a few bottles of the pills he wouldn't need, along with two pieces of Earth Mysterious Crystals that had been stored for a long time. All other spiritual items were taken out and laid before Lin Xingcheng.

"Uncle, please take a look at these items. I want to exchange them all for spirit stones!"

Lin Xingcheng, faced with the dazzling array of various treasures, was momentarily dazed. Many of the items before him were not ordinary, and even for someone who had been the Hall of Merit's Master for several years, they were tempting.

"Uncle?"

"Hm…"

After being prompted, Lin Xingcheng came back to his senses and began tallying up the various spiritual objects Lin Tianming had provided.

Seventy-two Superior Spirit Essence Pills, totaling seven hundred and twenty spirit stones, a first-order medium grade attack spirit weapon, valued at one hundred and ten spirit stones…" Your next journey awaits at empire

Half an hour passed, and Lin Xingcheng finished the inventory, and he said to Lin Tianming:

"After tallying, the total value of these spiritual objects comes to two thousand eight hundred and forty-two spirit stones."

Lin Tianming nodded his head, indicating his confirmation to exchange.

Lin Xingcheng, without further words, went back into the storeroom within the passage and took out the exact amount of spirit stones, handing them over to Lin Tianming.

After receiving the spirit stones, he put them into his storage pouch.

Following the exchange, his Merit Points were gone, and he had only four thousand five hundred spirit stones left, most of which would have to be given as respect to Lin Shilu.

Now, he was as poor as a beggar, instantly transported back to years ago.

Having achieved his goal at the Hall of Merit, Lin Tianming did not linger any longer. After a brief conversation with Lin Xingcheng, he cupped his fists and left the Hall of Merit.