Fengyu casually cast a sound-proofing spell as he asked, "Brother, how come you’re here?"

Theoretically every exchange here was important and no one would come for pointless things, so he was curious why this prodigy who had so much would still come here.

"Didn’t I get a request thanks to brother?" Shanqing grinned from ear to ear while casually glancing over to the thin veil around them, thinking that this brother was indeed meticulous.

"Oh! Then I hope brother can get what he hopes for!" Fengyu didn’t press further since it seemed to be a private matter.

On the other hand, Shanqing didn’t keep it to himself and vaguely explained, "This time I’m going to request a breakthrough item for myself!

Brother, you’ve already formed inspirations, so it’s not harmful to tell you.

In the second stage, the focus of cultivation will mainly be Spiritual Inspirations, one of which is to raise these preliminary inspirations to the real inspirations.

Ancient cultivators thought about this and found out that if you can gain aspects of the higher stage before reaching it, then you can achieve greater things early on and have a smooth breakthrough, so formulated a specific method -

Raising our preliminary inspirations to semi-real inspirations with the help of rare second stage resources targeted at inspirations, one can then directly push their cultivation to the second stage without harm!

But in fact, the real opportunity is not to push your cultivation forcefully, but to break-through normally. Then, with the combination of the semi-formed inspiration, there is actually a chance to push the inspiration directly to the fully formed state!

This saves some resources and allows for an easier cultivation and faster stabilisation of the cultivation."

"Oh?" Fengyu looked curious, "How much higher will the chances of success become?"

"Hmm? Oh, brother, don’t talk about this success chance." Shanqing shook his head, "The last time I told you about it, it was mostly to convince you. But now that I know you better, just forget those things.

Before the third stage, prodigies like us have various ways to reach the second stage without an issue. The focus is to reach it in the best way possible - not just efficiency wise, but also using experiences such as breaking through and establishing the inspiration right away, something of extremely high difficulty, to support our own breakthroughs further!" Shanqing directly explained the difference between normal people and people like them.

Fengyu thought about it and understood - with the background of wealthy families, reaching the second stage was easy. But using money to reach it quickly, what would the effect be? Simply a cultivation stage with no power.

Instead, learning step by step, exploring the path and passing difficult challenges would be more rewarding. Since they’re so wealthy, they can’t have financial difficulties, and instead find higher challenges.

Thinking about it, these rich third generations didn’t have it much easier than those rogue cultivators who fought step by step. It was true that the bottom of rogue cultivators was a lot lower, but the height they could reach was also different.

It’s like someone starts at level 1, with level 100 being the greatest height they can achieve. On the other hand, someone starts at level 90, but the greatest height they can achieve is level 190. And when comparing it in the end, it turns out that level 100 for one is the same as level 190 for the other!

Fengyu could only sigh at the fact that fate was kind and yet also unkind...

Just then he realised - he, who was supposed to be a rogue cultivator, somehow experienced both! He started impoverished and was now in a similar situation as these wealthy people. So... was his height 100, 190, or perhaps... 200?

"Anyways, as I said, these items are rare and even if you want to buy it, you can’t. There are so many cultivators in the family, and each second stage cultivator purchases them. I can at most get one item from my family, while the other two will have to be obtained by myself." Shanqing said, gaining Fengyu’s attention again.

"Two others?" Fengyu asked curiously.

"Uh, yeah. I don’t know why, but the family said that having three inspirations is the best. Having less is not an issue and allows more focused learning, while having more should be avoided at all costs, even at the cost of destroying one to have three instead of four!"

"Hmm, thank you for telling me this, brother!" Fengyu thanked him deeply, cupping his fists.

"No need, no need! I doubt many people can form three, so it’s not a big issue. By the way, brother, why are you here? Will you also use your request to get a resource?"

"I’m here to purchase the Cultivation Set for Zimu!"

"Oh, it’s this little friend? We haven’t talked before! Greetings!" Shanqing cupped his hands at Zimu.

"Quack, quack quack!" Zimu raised his wings and held them in front of his chest as if also cupping them while quacking a few times.

"He’s greeting you back and thanking you for taking care of me," Fengyu translated while chuckling at Zimu’s words.

"You can understand beasts?" Shanqing asked curiously.

"Yes, I had this ability since my youth." Fengyu nodded, not hiding it.

Shanqing hummed and didn’t say much, though his eyes betrayed his thoughts.

"As for my request, I’m not sure yet, but I’m more inclined to get a breakthrough item for Zimu." Fengyu explained honestly, not hiding it either since the other person was so open about it.

"Brother, I was present when you chose your cultivation art, and afterwards I looked a bit into it. Actually, you will gain an inspiration after you complete transforming your cultivation arts and contracting your herd.

At that point, the inspiration you get is mainly based on the herd leader - which is, in this case, brother Zimu.

I don’t know specifically what happens, but I heard from my father that some herder’s inspiration can grow to the semi-state when their main contracted beasts advance before them." Shanqing said this casually, not suggesting anything but just informing Fengyu, leaving it to him to decide what he would do.

Fengyu’s eyes brightened and he thanked him once more, an idea appearing in his mind!