Martial Arts: I Have a Wilderness World

Chapter 549: Chapter 291: Formed Wood Spirit Pearl; Dialogue with the Ring Spirit

At the same time, he had the Mole Beast burrow more than a hundred meters into the mountaintop, where it discovered the fiery red Fire Spirit Pearl near the magma region!

It was still unformed.

Cheng Zongyang then traveled to the third mountain, Qingcheng Mountain, where he dug up the Gold Spirit Pearl and took the three Divine Statues that had no servants.

As for the fifth mountain, when Cheng Zongyang saw the colossal tree before him—so tall it pierced the clouds, with a base seventy to eighty meters in diameter—he was utterly stunned.

’For a tree to grow to this size... it must be more than a thousand years old. It might have even gained sentience, right?’

Through appraisal, Cheng Zongyang learned that the colossal tree’s death was related to the Wood Spirit Pearl in the Divine Temple.

The Wood Spiritual Qi had drained this colossal tree of its Wood Spirit Power.

And just as he had guessed, the colossal tree had indeed gained sentience, but the power of a Divine Daoist had trapped it within the tree. To avoid being drained to death, the giant tree had constantly absorbed more Spiritual Power from its surroundings, eventually reaching a state of equilibrium.

But in the end, some accident occurred. The great tree had no more Spiritual Power to absorb, and even its own Power was drained by the Wood Spirit Pearl.

When Cheng Zongyang found the Wood Spirit Pearl in the central region of the tree’s roots, he discovered that it had actually formed!

It was the only one of the five Spirit Pearls that had formed!

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[Wood Spirit Pearl]

Description: The Wood Spirit Pearl is not an Innate Treasure, but was instead created through a sophisticated Array that used the Wood Origin of a Celestial Spirit Wood’s mother spirit. It contains extremely abundant Wood Spirit Power. It reaches First Grade in one hundred years and can only form after a thousand years. Its formation was accelerated by absorbing the essence of a four-thousand-year-old Celestial Spirit Wood. It can continuously release Wood Spirit Power for one’s Cultivation and can rapidly heal any external injuries. It can be combined with the other Four Element Spirit Pearls to form a Five Elements Spiritual Vein.

Grade: Earth Treasure (Formed)

Function: Endless Life (Within a Five Elements Spiritual Vein Array)

Points: 5,000,000

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Looking at the slightly different description and the value of five million Points, Cheng Zongyang’s heart pounded with excitement.

’This one is five million, and the other four are worth a total of six hundred thousand. That’s five million six hundred thousand right there. Eighteen Soul Crystals, at an average of eighty thousand each... that’s one million four hundred and forty thousand! My God, just the things from this Three Lords Temple are already worth seven million and forty thousand! My God!!’

He was truly tempted by this sum of Points!

With these Points, he could buy more things to stock his Immortal City.

But the thought that the Immortal City needed the Five Elements Spiritual Vein to enhance its Five Elements Spiritual Qi, and that he needed to converse with the Ring Spirit and enhance its Abilities, made him dismiss the idea of selling them. He also realized that his previous line of thinking had been a bit naive.

’Five million is just the price of a single formed, Earth Treasure Level Spirit Pearl. If I needed to buy all five...’

Cheng Zongyang immediately gave up the idea.

As for the Grade of an Earth Treasure, it was a higher Grade beyond Ninth Grade, but it didn’t yet fall into the category of Immortal Artifacts or Innate Spiritual Treasures.

A Ninth Grade item could still be classified as a man-made treasure, but anything above Ninth Grade could be considered a semi-natural creation—a treasure with Spiritual Nature, half-born from the heavens and earth. Its power and effects far surpassed those of the Ninth Grade Tier.

This could be seen from the Wood Spirit Pearl’s effects.

Endless vitality meant that as long as it was inside the Five Elements Array, it could provide a continuous supply of Wood Spiritual Qi.

’It’s too powerful!’ Cheng Zongyang suppressed the thought of selling it.

Back on the Fourth Level of the marketplace cottage, Cheng Zongyang looked at the rows of Three Monarchs Divine Statues and the Mountain God’s Servant Clay Statues lined up before him. Without further hesitation, he pried the Soul Crystals from the foreheads of each one.

As waves of pressure descended and then vanished, Cheng Zongyang grew accustomed to it.

He looked at the fifteen Soul Crystals from the Three Monarchs Divine Statues and the three from the River God and Mountain God, and fell into thought.

He had already compiled the questions he wanted to ask, so there was nothing to worry about there. The only concern was whether these eighteen Soul Crystals would be enough.

"My lord," Luo Dingran asked from the side, "are you having second thoughts?"

Hearing this, Cheng Zongyang shook his head. "No. I’ve waited this long and come this far. There’s no room for hesitation."

And so, Cheng Zongyang went to the first floor, placed the eighteen Soul Crystals on the counter, and said, "Ring Spirit, here are eighteen Soul Crystals in total. If I sacrifice them, will I get eighteen minutes of conversation time?"

The Ring Spirit quickly responded: [Yes]

Cheng Zongyang nodded slightly. Steeling himself, he suppressed his reluctance and sacrificed all the Soul Crystals to the Ring Spirit.

The next moment, all eighteen Soul Crystals vanished, and a notification box appeared.

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Soul Crystal sacrifice successful. The marketplace cottage has received a new Power supplement and will undergo an update. Update time: 24 hours. The update is scheduled to begin in eighteen minutes. During the update, the Purchase Requests, Consignment, Dismantle, and Analysis functions will be temporarily unavailable. All other functions will remain unchanged.

Update Countdown—17:55

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Seeing the notification, Cheng Zongyang understood that the eighteen minutes was a grace period given by the Ring Spirit. Wasting no more time, he immediately asked, "First, tell me about the overall situation in this Wilderness World. Why are there so many different races? And what is your status and role here?"

The Ring Spirit responded without concealment:

[I am not clear on what this world was like originally. I only know that after my birth, when I was assigned this world, it was already in its current state.]

[Later, I learned this world was called the "Realm of Ten Thousand Races." It was owned by a predecessor of my kind, who brought creatures of all races from other worlds to develop here.]

[It seems this state of affairs was discovered by others of their kind. The result was the annihilation of this world’s life and the consumption of my predecessor. Whether this is the exact truth, I do not know.]