Chapter 137: Others Plan How to Save, I Plan How to Spend

Sitting in the central meditation chamber of the Nine Heavens Spirit Mist Palace, Yu Liang sat cross-legged on a Tier 4 high grade Spirit Nourishing Jade cushion.

The spiritual energy inside the chamber was extremely dense, forming a thick white mist that continuously circulated around his body.

The Tier 3 High Grade spiritual gathering array of the villa was operating at maximum power, consuming a large number of Mid Grade Spiritual Stones every single day to maintain this optimal cultivation environment.

Yu Liang closed his eyes, adjusted his breathing, and began to run his core cultivation method.

He opened his spatial ring and pulled out a massive pile of Mid Grade Spiritual Stones, stacking them all around his body until they formed a very small mountain of shining gems.

At the same time, he took out several bottles of Tier 2 Mid Grade spiritual liquids and Tier 2 Peak Grade cultivation pills.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

A powerful suction force erupted from Yu Liang’s body. The rich spiritual energy inside the room, combined with the pure energy rushing out from the pile of spiritual stones, transformed into a visible vortex of light that continuously poured into his body and meridian channels.

Time passed quickly when one was absorbed in deep cultivation. Day turned into night, and night turned into day.

In the blink of an eye, seven full days passed by without stopping.

For one whole week, Yu Liang did not eat, drink, or sleep for even a single second. He spent every moment absorbing an astronomical amount of spiritual energy, refilling his meridians over and over again, attempting to push past the barrier of his current realm.

Boom!

A muffled vibration echoed inside his dantian as the dense spiritual liquid rolled like a stormy ocean. Yu Liang mobilized all the accumulated energy in his body and launched a fiercer assault on the bottleneck of the Mid Stage Foundation Establishment Realm.

However, the invisible invisible bottleneck remained completely unmoved, like a gigantic iron wall standing firmly across his pathway.

After holding his breath for a long moment, Yu Liang slowly opened his eyes and let out a long, dark breath of turbid air. The breath turned into a cold white arrow that shot out three feet before dissipating into the air.

Looking down at his surroundings, the small mountain of Mid Grade Spiritual Stones around his legs had already lost all their luster and turned into heaps of useless grey dust. The several bottles of cultivation pills and spiritual liquids were also completely empty.

Despite consuming such a massive amount of high tier cultivation resources over seven whole days of non stop effort, his cultivation base was still firmly stuck at the Early Stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm!

"Hah..." Yu Liang shook his head and let out a heavy sigh in his heart. "My body’s natural cultivation talent is truly too trashy! It is simply trash among trash!"

He knew his own situation very clearly. This body of his had the lowest grade water spiritual roots, which made absorbing and refining spiritual energy painfully inefficient. Even though his current cultivation level had been forcibly raised earlier, his innate talent and meridian structure had not magically transformed.

If an ordinary genius disciple with Top Tier spiritual roots was given seven days of time along with such a huge amount of Top Tier Pills and spiritual stones, they would have long broken through to the Mid Stage or even Late Stage of Foundation Establishment without any suspense.

Yet, when all those precious resources were dumped into his body, more than eighty percent of the spiritual energy was naturally wasted and leaked out through his meridians.

"If I rely solely on absorbing spiritual stones and standard pills to cultivate step by step, breaking through to the Mid Stage of Foundation Establishment Realm will still be possible, but it will take a very long time and consume a truly terrifying amount of resources," Yu Liang muttered to himself while analyzing his situation.

Although he did not lack spiritual stones at all, spending months or years sitting in secluded cultivation just to make a minor breakthrough was far too slow for him.

Yu Liang’s mind shifted, and he immediately checked the System interface. A glowing blue screen appeared directly before his vision.

He went straight to the System Store.

Browsing through the High Tier sections of the store, his eyes quickly landed on several glowing golden pills listed in the supreme elixir category.

[ Wash Marrow Divine Pill: Purifies the host’s body structure, completely removes the impurities from spiritual roots, and removes all cultivation bottlenecks below the Core Formation Realm. Cost: 5,000 System Points ]

[ Great Dao Foundation Cleansing Elixir: Directly expands meridians by ten times, allowing instant breakthrough to the Peak Foundation Establishment Realm with zero side effects. Cost: 10,000 System Points ]

[ Spirit Root Nourishing Pill: A low tier pill that slowly nourishes damaged or weak spiritual roots, slightly improving their purity and absorption speed. Cost: 3,000 System Points ]

[ Spirit Root Purification Pill: Removes impurities from the spiritual roots and increases their purity, making spiritual energy easier to absorb and refine. Cost: 4,000 System Points ]

[ Heavenly Root Enhancement Pill: Strengthens the foundation of the spiritual roots and can improve their natural cultivation aptitude by a noticeable amount. Cost: 15,000 System Points ]

[ Five Element Root Pill: Refines and strengthens the five elemental aspects within a cultivator’s spiritual roots. Particularly useful for cultivators with mixed or impure elemental roots. Cost: 20,000 System Points ]

[ Spirit Root Transformation Pill: An extremely rare pill capable of fundamentally improving a cultivator’s spiritual roots. With sufficient medicinal power, it can transform an ordinary grade root into a higher grade spiritual root. Cost: 100,000 System Points ]

[ Heavenly Root Transformation Pill: A rare pill that uses powerful medicinal energy to cleanse and rebuild the cultivator’s spiritual roots. After completely refining the pill, the impurities within the roots are removed, allowing their natural potential to increase significantly. With enough medicinal power, an ordinary spiritual root can be transformed into a High Grade Spiritual Root, greatly improving cultivation speed and spiritual energy absorption. Cost: Two Million System Points ]

[ Ninefold Spirit Root Pill: A powerful pill that repeatedly refines the spiritual roots through nine layers of medicinal energy. Each refinement strengthens the roots and improves their purity, gradually pushing them beyond their original limits. Once all nine layers are absorbed, the spiritual root undergoes a fundamental transformation, allowing it to reach the High Grade level. Cost: 2.4 Million System Points ]

[ Origin Spirit Root Pill: A precious pill containing condensed origin energy capable of nourishing the very foundation of a cultivator’s spiritual roots. Rather than simply increasing their purity, the pill strengthens the roots at their source and unlocks potential that was previously impossible to cultivate. For cultivators with sufficient talent and a stable foundation, it can directly raise their spiritual roots to High Grade. Cost: 10 Million System Points ]

Looking at those miraculous items that could permanently solve his trashy talent problem, Yu Liang’s eyes turned bright.

These pills inside the System Store were the ultimate shortcut. As long as he swallowed one, his low grade talent would no longer matter at all.

However, looking at the required price tags, his expression became helpless again.

To buy these high tier talent reversing pills, he needed millions of System Points. Right now, even though his Mid Grade Spiritual Stones were practically trillions thanks to the high multipliers, his converted System Points were still far from enough to exchange for those top grade elixirs.

"In the end, it all comes down to System Points," Yu Liang said while narrowing his eyes. "To get millions of System Points quickly, I cannot just spend small amounts of money on daily room maintenance or some basic things. I need to find bigger, more expensive targets to spend my wealth on!"

Having settled on his next step, Yu Liang didn’t leave the Nine Heavens Spirit Mist Palace immediately to do his regular around the sect. Instead, he walked into one of the side rooms and sat down at a writing desk.

He took out several sheets of high quality paper, a brush, and an inkstone before staring at the blank page for a moment.

Then he began writing.

He carefully listed down various ways he could increase his spending within the sect. Buying cultivation resources, purchasing rare materials, upgrading his residence even more, commissioning more formations, acquiring pills, purchasing weapons, and even finding legitimate reasons to make larger transactions. He didn’t simply want to spend recklessly as that would be too eye catching meaning it make him look like a complete fool.

Soon, several pages were covered with notes and calculations.

Most cultivators probably used paper and brushes to record cultivation insights, calculate their resources, or plan how to save enough spiritual stones for their next breakthrough.

Yet Yu Liang was doing the exact opposite.

He was sitting there seriously planning how to spend as much money as possible.

For most people, making a spending plan meant figuring out how to save money.

For Yu Liang, it meant figuring out how to spend it.

After spending a considerable amount of time writing, thinking, and calculating, Yu Liang finally stopped. Several plans had already been crossed out, either because they required too much effort or simply weren’t worth the trouble. A few others, however, had survived his scrutiny and remained on the final page.

These were the plans he had decided were actually worth keeping.