After enough time had passed for him to prepare himself, Lin Tian stood from where he had been sitting on the stone altar, which felt cold against his buttocks.

He walked forward after storing what he needed inside his bag of holding, while the rest would be sold at the nearest shop from the City Natural Spiritual Vein Inn.

When he arrived outside the gate, Lin Tian turned and looked at the female cultivator standing guard in front of the gate.

He gently tapped the bag of holding at his waist, brought out the room token, and returned it to the cultivator. She looked surprised.

"Wait! You don’t want to cultivate anymore?"

"I have cultivated enough. I don’t want to break through anytime soon," Lin Tian replied.

"That is a foolish thing to say! Every cultivator knows that breaking through quickly will benefit them."

"True, but it takes a long time and a large amount of resources for me to break through."

Without saying anything else, Lin Tian walked away and left the woman behind.

She was still shocked and looked back at the token for room number 56.

She felt puzzled because from what she had seen, the man’s cultivation base was still at the Peak Foundation Establishment stage.

For some cultivators, it was easy for them to break through to Core Formation.

"Forget it. Every cultivator has their own cultivation way. What a shame for him."

The woman chose to ignore the matter, stored the room token, and returned to cultivating while guarding the gate.

Elsewhere, Lin Tian stopped walking when he arrived at an equipment shop.

A young woman came over in simple clothes and smiled as she greeted Lin Tian.

"Welcome, Master Immortal."

"Is there anything you need?"

Lin Tian tapped his bag of holding while releasing white qi light, then directed it forward to take out all of Gu Xianyu’s items that he intended to sell.

"I want to sell everything. About how much are you willing to buy them for?" Lin Tian asked.

The woman looked ahead and saw several items floating in front of her face.

She shouted toward the back, calling her father to come.

As the shop owner, he had more authority to determine the purchase price of the items Lin Tian was selling.

Unlike the woman earlier, Lin Tian sensed a qi aura from the body of the middle-aged man who stepped out of the back room of the shop.

There was no mistake. He was indeed a cultivator.

"What is it?"

"This Master Immortal plans to sell his items. You understand the quality of the items better," the woman said.

The man glanced forward and looked at every item floating in front of him.

There were many items, but not all of them were interesting in the man’s eyes.

"I will only buy some of the items, not all of them. Besides not having much extra money, I also don’t know how to use those items."

"That’s fine," Lin Tian said.

The man nodded, took several items, and told his daughter to store them. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

After they were sorted, Lin Tian put away the items that were not sold.

"In total... I can only give you a price of around 150 spirit stones. What do you think?"

"What if we barter?"

"Barter?" the man asked.

"You get those items, and I get items worth 150 spirit stones," Lin Tian replied.

"About that... I doubt I can do it. There aren’t many good items in my shop."

Lin Tian stepped past him, his eyes continuously examining the common technique scrolls displayed on the walls and in the shop’s glass cases, "Let me decide what items I need."

The man continued walking around the inside of the shop, accompanied by the woman from earlier so she could tell him which item Lin Tian would choose.

Lin Tian’s eyes lit up and released bright white qi light, activating his qi aura eyes.

With that ability, Lin Tian could determine the quality of an item based on the qi aura radiating from within it.

His steps stopped when his eyes caught a thump of hidden qi aura.

It did not come from a technique scroll, but clearly from a whip weapon.

The qi aura inside the whip was buried, as if being held back by something.

His hand reached out and pulled the whip from the lower glass case of the shop.

His hand gripped the whip tightly, and the woman beside Lin Tian immediately explained.

"We got it from a cultivator who found that whip in the Black Bat Cave Valley. We couldn’t appraise the whip at a high price because of its poor quality," the woman said.

What she said was true. The whip’s handle was covered in moss and stone, and the whip itself had snapped and was no longer in perfect shape.

However, a condition like that could be repaired by using qi manipulation.

What made Lin Tian interested was the cause of the hidden qi aura inside the whip.

There are no good technique scrolls or weapons in this shop. My gamble is only on this whip.

"I’ll take it."

"B-But the price of that whip is around—"

CRACK!

Lin Tian placed his finger on the whip and wiped it from bottom to top, stripping away the moss and destroying the stones stuck to it.

Now, the whip in his hand was in perfect condition, colored a mix of red and black. However, the qi aura inside it was still hidden.

"So... it was a good whip," the woman said, shocked.

"You won’t refuse, right?" Lin Tian asked.

"Of course not. Our agreement happened right before you repaired that whip. Now, that whip fully belongs to you."

Lin Tian nodded. One of his hands rose and formed a seal to break the array inside the whip.

With the ability of his cultivation base, he was confident he could destroy the power-sealing array inside the whip.

THUMP!

An explosion of white qi spread and expanded inside the shop, blowing a small gust of wind that was strong enough to make every item displayed in the shop’s glass cases tremble.

The woman and her father looked shocked, staring closely at Lin Tian.

Lin Tian’s attention was fixed on the whip in his hand.

The handle was already clean, the whip’s cord had also recovered to its original condition, and the qi aura radiating from inside the whip now shone strongly, different from before.

Lin Tian pressed two of his fingers against the whip, bringing up a system panel about the weapon’s details for Lin Tian, which only he could see.

[Weapon Details:]

[Name: Soul-Splitting Whip]

[Grade: Heaven-Grade]

[Minimum Requirements:]

[1. Host must have a Nascent Soul cultivation base (✓)]

[2. Soul power must be above the Spirit realm (✓)]

[Description: The Soul-Splitting Whip can separate the soul from the body and is effective against cultivators who have formed a primordial soul. Injuring cultivators below Soul Formation will result in fatal damage to their physical body and soul core. Using the whip consumes a high amount of qi.]

I never expected... a moss-covered, stone-crusted weapon from a small shop in Lanzhu City to be a heaven-grade weapon.

For Soul Formation cultivators, this weapon is a real threat they must be wary of.

Lin Tian considered the whip ideal for fighting the people of the Cangyun Sect, especially because its fatal effect would work on them, cultivators who were still below the roof of Soul Formation.

"This is a good weapon," Lin Tian said, turning toward them. "I’ll take this."