dognovel Chapter 217 The Banner of Ten Thousand Souls, the Nine-Story Iron Pagoda
Chapter 217 The Banner of Ten Thousand Souls, the Nine-Story Iron Pagoda
Although Wu Tao had only just obtained the Myriad Soul Banner, he had already collected over a hundred Foundation Establishment souls, more than a dozen Golden Core souls, and one fourth-tier demon beast soul into it.
These were all the evil cultivators, ghost cultivators, demonic cultivators, and monsters he casually eliminated along the way.
Meanwhile, the numerous storage bags in his personal space also indicate just how amazing his gains were.
Even if those storage bags don't contain many treasures, they can still be converted into tens of millions of low-grade spirit stones.
Now, the personal space is already comparable to a fourth-order spiritual vein, but after reaching the fourth order, further improvement seems to become somewhat difficult.
Wu Tao guessed that it would be difficult for his personal space to break through to the fifth-order spiritual vein simply by absorbing spiritual energy from the outside world.
But it doesn't matter. In addition to relying on the automatic absorption of spirit stones by his personal space, Wu Tao can also replenish the spirit stones in his personal space.
When Wu Tao first transmigrated to the cultivation world, he discovered that as long as he put spirit stones into the soil of his personal space, those spirit stones would slowly melt away.
At the same time, the spiritual energy in the personal space will increase slightly, but the spiritual energy brought by tens or hundreds of spirit stones will definitely be very small.
However, if the quantity is as high as several million or tens of millions, the situation will definitely be different.
Because Wu Tao's personal space allows him to quickly grow spiritual herbs, he naturally doesn't need to spend money to buy the pills he needs.
In this way, the perks Wu Tao received daily were replaced with low-grade spirit stones, mid-grade spirit stones, and high-grade spirit stones.
When he broke through to the Nascent Soul stage and became the sixth elder of Changchun Valley, he directly took away ten million low-grade spirit stones from the sect's treasury in one go.
Normally, one hundred low-grade spirit stones can be exchanged for one mid-grade spirit stone, and one hundred mid-grade spirit stones can be exchanged for one high-grade spirit stone.
Ten million low-grade spirit stones are actually equivalent to one thousand high-grade spirit stones. If you are replenishing your true essence, the higher the grade of spirit stones, the better the effect.
The situation was different with his personal space. Wu Tao discovered that the replenishing effect of mid-grade and high-grade spirit stones was actually not as good as that of low-grade spirit stones.
Wu Tao could only guess that it was because the two had different receptors. After all, one was absorbed by cultivators, and the other was absorbed by personal space, so there would naturally be a difference.
When a personal space absorbs data, it absorbs almost 100%, with no waste. However, when a cultivator absorbs data, some impurities are always eliminated, or some losses occur due to differences in absorption methods.
Wu Tao didn't bother to investigate why; he had no intention of becoming a scientist. Since he knew that lower-grade spirit stones were more cost-effective, he would simply let his personal space absorb them.
Wu Tao flew slowly along a line, stopping to trade and observe whenever he saw a market along the way.
Of course, he would also occasionally take action to eliminate some evil cultivators along the way.
Once you get the other party's storage bag, take stock of it. If there are any special treasures, keep them; otherwise, exchange the rest for lower-grade spirit stones at the market.
Or occasionally he would sell some pills he had refined in the past, which were finished products specifically made for learning alchemy.
Aside from keeping the pills needed for the Nascent Soul stage, he sold everything else. Originally, Wu Tao left the sect with ten million low-grade spirit stones and some spoils of war.
Along the way, the Myriad Souls Banner has gained even more souls. Wu Tao has also managed to stuff fifty million low-grade spirit stones into his personal spatial storage.
In addition, Wu Tao also had 500 high-grade spirit stones on him for emergencies.
There were also three rare treasures. One of them was an invisible needle that could be used to ambush people. If the opponent's cultivation level hadn't been too low, Wu Tao would probably have suffered a great loss from this magic weapon.
This invisible needle can actually evade the divine sense of a Nascent Soul cultivator. I wonder where that deceased Golden Core cultivator got it from.
The second treasure is a gourd. This gourd is black, but it can hold thousands of tons of water.
When Wu Tao first encountered that enemy, the opponent used a gourd directly against him, which gave him quite a fright.
In other words, the water used by the other party was ordinary water. If it were a special liquid that could harm cultivators, Wu Tao might really be in trouble.
The third treasure is even more peculiar; it is a nine-story iron tower that can directly imprison beings such as cultivators, demonic beasts, ghost cultivators, and demonic cultivators.
Wu Tao still suspects that the other party might be an item left behind by the immortals, because the inside of this iron tower can be infinitely large.
The first level can directly trap a Qi Refining stage cultivator. Inside the iron tower, the opponent can move freely, or be turned into a wooden puppet at the master's whim.
The corresponding second level is Foundation Establishment, and the third level is Golden Core True Person.
The fourth level is naturally the Nascent Soul stage ancestor.
Of course, after obtaining this treasure, Wu Tao had already figured out that if he wanted to capture someone, he would have to knock them unconscious.
Instead of just throwing it anywhere and grabbing it.
What left Wu Tao speechless was that this treasure was actually found in the storage bag of a Qi Refining cultivator.
This reminded Wu Tao of the protagonists' aura of good fortune in those cultivation novels. The cultivation world is indeed full of fortuitous encounters and opportunities; who would have thought that such a treasure would fall into the hands of a Qi Refining stage cultivator?
The key point is that the other party's cultivation level is probably very low, and the treasure is concealed, so in the other party's eyes this iron tower is just a somewhat peculiar toy.
If Wu Tao hadn't read those cultivation novels, he would always carefully examine the spoils with his divine sense, regardless of the cultivation level of the target.
He usually categorizes his spoils, such as putting spirit stones and spirit herbs into one pile.
Magical artifacts, jade slips, and cultivation techniques were grouped together into one pile.
Wu Tao would never sell something unless he had thoroughly figured it out himself.
Although it was a bit silly and troublesome, after obtaining the iron tower, Wu Tao had to admit that he was right to be too cautious.
Wu Tao now possesses four top-tier magic treasures. Since the Invisibility Needle can evade the consciousness of a Nascent Soul cultivator, it must be effective against cultivators of the same level.
The gourd magic weapon is not being considered for now; it will only be useful once a better special liquid is found.
The iron tower is definitely the most powerful. According to Wu Tao's analysis, he will have two most effective weapons against enemies in the future.
One is the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, which is a treasure for capturing the souls of enemies.
The second is the nine-story iron tower, which can directly capture living people.
In the future, when he encounters enemies, he will not need to worry about being surrounded and attacked.
Those who can be captured alive will be imprisoned in the Nine-Story Iron Tower; those who cannot be captured alive will be killed and their souls absorbed into the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.
As for the invisible needle and the gourd magic weapon, they are at most used temporarily as a surprise auxiliary magic weapon.
From that day on, Wu Tao walked even slower on the road. The Nine-Story Iron Tower and the Ten Thousand Soul Banner urgently needed reinforcements.
In the past, when he encountered evil cultivators on the road, Wu Tao would ignore them as long as they didn't intentionally attack him.
Evil cultivators are the largest evil organization in the cultivation world, and their members include human cultivators, demonic beasts, ghost cultivators, and demonic cultivators.
Most of them were wanted for committing serious crimes within their own tribe and subsequently became heretical cultivators.