Urban Extraordinary Immortal Doctor-Chapter 1006: What to Do?

The Spirit Cores of middle-stage Spirit Beasts were treasures that every disciple of the Bitao Martial Academy dreamed of obtaining during their mountain training expeditions.

However, in the nearly ten thousand years since the establishment of the Bitao Martial Academy, although disciples had ventured into the mountains for training every year, not a single cultivation team had ever managed to kill a middle-stage Spirit Beast and obtain its Spirit Core.

But at this very moment, Fang Bai actually claimed that what he was holding in the palm of his hand were the Spirit Cores from those two middle-stage Spirit Beasts they encountered earlier. How could Huang Miao and the others not be astonished upon hearing such news?

"Junior Brother Fang, what you’re saying... is it true?"

Huang Miao’s gaze was glued to the two Spirit Cores in Fang Bai’s palm, and she felt her heart nearly leap from her chest as she asked with a trembling voice.

Despite already having such a suspicion in her heart, she still wanted to confirm it with Fang Bai.

Fang Bai replied in all seriousness, "Senior Sister Huang, do I look like I’m lying?"

"No! I believe you, Junior Brother Fang, I really do!"

As Huang Miao spoke, the shock on her face was replaced by an indescribable joy.

Hou Ziping was also overwhelmed with joy, so excited he could hardly contain himself.

Although Liu Liehu and Liu Qingqing had not seen much of the world and understood little about the use and value of Spirit Cores, they could see from Huang Miao’s and Hou Ziping’s excited expressions that the two Spirit Cores in Fang Bai’s hands were of great significance to them.

All four of them were seeing a middle-stage Spirit Beast’s Spirit Core for the first time, and, driven by curiosity, they gathered around Fang Bai to take a closer look. They couldn’t help but reach out to touch the cores, clicking their tongues in admiration.

"If we bring these two Spirit Cores back to the Bitao Martial Academy, it will certainly cause a sensation. Just imagine how many Academy disciples will envy us!"

In Hou Ziping’s mind, he envisioned their cultivation team returning to the Bitao Martial Academy and being surrounded by thousands of disciples. The sense of glory under such attention made his eyes shine and his face turn red with excitement.

"Spirit Cores are incredibly precious and can be exchanged for substantial cultivation resources. They have a great allure for Martial Artists. If we bring these two Spirit Cores back to the Academy, it’s very likely the higher-ups might take them,"

Huang Miao sighed, her initial excitement turning to disappointment.

Hou Ziping stared blankly for a moment before saying, "That shouldn’t happen, right? Our Academy has a rule that when disciples obtain cultivation resources during mountain training, they turn in half and keep the other half for themselves. In the nearly ten thousand years since its establishment, I haven’t heard of any high-level Academy officials violating the rules and confiscating all the cultivation resources a disciple gained."

Huang Miao’s lips twitched slightly, pulling into a smile tinged with a hint of mockery, "That’s because the cultivation resources gained by the disciples in the past were all ordinary, and the higher-ups didn’t care much about them. But if we’re talking about Spirit Cores, that’s a completely different story. The higher-ups in the Academy are also Martial Artists, and they won’t be able to resist the temptation of Spirit Cores."

After pausing and taking a deep breath, she added, "If I’m not mistaken, once the Academy’s higher-ups learn that we’ve obtained two Spirit Cores, they’ll surely take them by any means, soft or hard, and then compensate us with some cultivation resources as if that’s that. Junior Brother Hou, if you don’t believe me, shall we make a bet?"

Hou Ziping stood still for a moment, then scratched his head, his face filled with the color of distress, reluctantly saying, "No bet needed, Senior Sister Huang, I trust you. But... if the higher-ups really do this, how is it any different from robbery? Aren’t they afraid of chilling the hearts of the disciples?"

Huang Miao replied with a bitter smile, "The higher-ups are all Desolate Level Experts, do you think they care about how Heaven Level Experts feel?"

The last bit of hope in Hou Ziping’s heart was shattered by Huang Miao’s words as he muttered, "Two Spirit Cores could be exchanged for enough cultivation resources for the five of us to use for several years. If they’re taken by the higher-ups in the Academy, how many cultivation resources will they give us?"

Huang Miao answered, "Our Bitao Martial Academy is just a fourth-grade Sect, with numerous disciples and a severe lack of cultivation resources. It has always been a case of too many monks and not enough porridge. Anyhow, I’m sure that what the higher-ups will give us in cultivation resources will definitely fall far short of what we could get for the two Spirit Cores."

Hou Ziping had just been thinking that if those two Spirit Cores were exchanged for Cultivation Resources, he too would get a share. Perhaps, with those resources, his own strength might advance even further.

But hearing what Huang Miao said, he was increasingly worried that if he returned to Bitao Martial Academy with the Spirit Cores, they might very well be taken away by the higher-ups of the academy. By then, it would be a huge loss, and crying wouldn’t even bring tears.

"What should we do? What can we do?"

Hou Ziping paced anxiously on the spot, looking towards Huang Miao, Fang Bai, and the others, hoping they would have a solution.

To hand over both Spirit Cores to the higher-ups of Bitao Martial Academy was something Hou Ziping was reluctant to do in a thousand ways, unwilling in ten thousand.

But if they didn’t hand them over, they would certainly face pressure from the higher-ups of the academy. Just the five of them were absolutely no match for the academy’s higher echelons.

"How about we hide the two Spirit Cores after we return to the academy, and don’t let the higher-ups know about them? We can find time later to secretly exchange the Spirit Cores for Cultivation Resources. The resources we get from the exchange can be stored at a secret location, and we can take them out for use when we cultivate..."

Liu Liehu swayed his head as he came up with his suggestions.

Hou Ziping shook his head and said, "The higher-ups of the academy are all Desolate Level Martial Artists with keen senses. Spirit Cores naturally release Essence Energy, and it would be very difficult to hide them."

Liu Liehu suggested, "Then just hide the Spirit Cores outside our academy!"

Huang Miao rolled her eyes and said, "It’s not safe outside the academy either. There are so many Martial Artists in this world. If we hide the Spirit Cores outside the academy, and some passerby Martial Artist discovers and then steals them, our loss would be even greater."

"If it’s not feasible to hide them inside or outside the academy, then what should we do with these two Spirit Cores?"

Liu Qingqing’s beautiful eyebrows furrowed slightly, her pretty face showing a touch of worry.

Huang Miao sighed and said, "At a time like this, if we had a Storage Spiritual Artifact, all our problems would be solved. Unfortunately, Storage Spiritual Artifacts are rare and expensive in the entire True Martial Realm. Not even our academy’s higher-ups have one, let alone us disciples."

Speaking of Storage Spiritual Artifacts, I actually have one..."

It was then that Fang Bai finally spoke up.

As he spoke, Fang Bai secretly channeled a wisp of Essence Energy into the Space Ring on the finger of his left hand. With a flash of light, the Space Ring revealed itself in front of Huang Miao and the others.

"This Space Ring, I acquired it before I entered Bitao Martial Academy, during a fortunate encounter,"

Fang Bai said, lifting the Space Ring for Huang Miao and the others to see.

Huang Miao and the others were dumbfounded once again.

For Fang Bai to reveal the Space Ring was even more shocking to Huang Miao and the others than him obtaining the Spirit Cores of two mid-level Spirit Beasts.

It was known that in the True Martial Realm, Artifact Refiners were even rarer than Alchemists, and the difficulty of Artifact Refining was much greater than that of Elixir Refinement. Therefore, in the Martial Artists Trading Market, a Spiritual Artifact of the same tier was far more valuable than an Elixir.

Although Spirit Cores were precious, in the eyes of Huang Miao and the others, the Space Ring could store many items that were not easy to carry and was also hard to detect by others. It not only made life convenient and effectively protected privacy but also had greater practical utility for Martial Artists.