Sitting cross-legged beside the spirit gathering array in the medicine garden, Lu Tiandu recalled everything that had happened over the past year, feeling almost dreamlike.
A year ago, after graduating from university and breaking up with his girlfriend, he had been busy at various job fairs, unable to find a satisfactory job.
One day, while hiking to relax, he picked up a stone bead and, unexpectedly, found himself in this world of mortal cultivators, and even a cultivator with rare special spiritual roots.
After his initial surprise, he quickly assimilated into this world, focusing his days on earning spirit stones to buy elixirs and improve his cultivation.
After all, he was a foresighted person and knew the fierce competition among cultivators in this world.
Especially after realizing he had transmigrated into the body of the unfortunate "Senior Brother Lu," he felt an inexplicable sense of urgency.
He soon discovered that the "stone bead" that had brought him to this world actually contained a different world. This world still had mountains and rivers, a continent or even a giant island emerging from the boundless ocean.
Moreover, the spiritual energy within this stone bead world was dozens of times greater than that of the outside world, leaving him in a state of incomprehensible astonishment!
Lu Tiandu first entered the Stone Pearl World and emerged onto this land. He was astonished by the towering trees that could be hugged by dozens of people. The immense peak that soared into the sky in the center of the land was truly unmissable.
The rich spiritual energy here naturally inspired him to secretly cultivate spiritual herbs, and his spiritual herb garden was born.
After three months of exploring the hundreds of miles surrounding the peak, Lu Tiandu finally discovered the mysterious stone furnace nestled in a cave midway.
He immediately knew it was a treasure, but he didn't know how to refine it.
Unexpectedly, after accidentally using a primitive blood oath to recognize his master, he obtained a mantra that, through practice, allowed him to slightly control the stone furnace.
At the same time, a shadow of the furnace appeared in his sea of consciousness, much to his delight.
Besides the Stone Pearl World he carried with him, he knew this stone furnace was perhaps his greatest treasure.
After some experimentation, he quickly discovered the various uses of the stone furnace. For example, by refining a lower-level talisman and a low-level spirit stone into the furnace, he could improve the talisman's quality and obtain a lower-level mid-level talisman.
A lower-level mid-level talisman and ten lower-grade spirit stones could be refined into a lower-level upper-level talisman.
and a lower-level upper-level talisman fetched 30-50 spirit stones.
The price difference was staggering.
Although a talisman could only be enhanced once, it still earned him a considerable amount of spirit stones.
Most of the talismans he currently sold were lower-level and mid-level. Over the past year, he had earned thousands of spirit stones, which he used to purchase elixirs to improve his cultivation, collect spiritual herbs to build his own herb garden, and so on.
During this process, his spiritual awareness grew slightly under the subtle influence of the furnace image within his sea of consciousness. Combined with his exceptional magical talent, his talisman-making skills also improved significantly.
Currently, his success rate for lower-level talismans is as high as 10%, for mid-level talismans it's half, and for higher-level talismans it's 10%. If this were known to anyone, it would likely shock everyone.
Despite some attempts to conceal his abilities, word of the Lu family's talisman-making prodigy spread.
Talisman-making and alchemy are two of the most expensive professions in the world of immortal cultivation, requiring vast resources and a mountain of spirit stones. Even experienced talisman-makers only have a 30% to 40% success rate at each level, demonstrating the benefits this stone furnace offers him.
A secondary benefit of this furnace is that it removes impurities from elixirs, slightly improving their quality
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