Chapter 6 Gathering Spiritual Materials
Cultivators travel to different planets, and in addition to increasing their knowledge and improving their realm, it is also a very important thing to collect various cultivation materials and cultivation resources. After all, they all have elixirs and magic weapons to refine, and without materials, those things will not fall from the sky, even if they are not refined themselves, but obtained from other people, then they also need to have items of equal value to exchange.
Receiving benefits from others for no reason is not a way of behavior that cultivators are accustomed to. For true cultivators, maintaining an ethereal state of mind is an extremely important thing, unless they are truly their own people, whether it is for things or to others, under normal circumstances, they cannot store too many thoughts of gratitude in their hearts, and once they have them, they must be eliminated immediately, so as not to produce unnecessary entanglements of cause and effect. For them, only with peace of mind can they continue to practice without any worries, and if they are involved too much, it will not be beneficial to their tribulation process.
It is precisely for this reason that a truly successful cultivator will never get something that does not belong to him from others for no reason, and even if others don't mind, they will themselves be restrained, and when they can exchange equally, they will try their best to exchange equally. If there is really no equivalent item, even if they rely on cultivation to forcibly snatch it, they will not get it for nothing, especially if they give favors to others, it is especially taboo, otherwise their hearts will be blocked for a lifetime, and their state of mind will be flawed, which will definitely have an impact on their future cultivation.
Therefore, in order to satisfy their own cultivation needs, or to be able to exchange chips worth enough when they want to get something, cultivators will stop and collect one or two whenever they encounter a suitable item during their travels, so that they can be prepared if they need it in the future. Ordinary cultivators are still like this, not to mention Ye Qiuli, who has always been full of crisis awareness, living in an environment where cultivation resources are extremely lacking on earth, he naturally has more desire for those things.
Cultivation resources such as spars and elixirs, because the relationship with the aura of heaven and earth is too close, will only exist in large quantities on the life planet where the aura is very abundant, and it is really scarce in the solar system, and he can't find it, that is something that can't be helped. However, the base materials for refining treasures such as meteorites, meteoric iron, and underground vein essence are produced on many planets, and as long as you are willing to work hard and spend time collecting them, you will always have something to gain.
And this aspect is the field where Ye Qiuli has made great achievements, just like now, the Mars he is searching for is a place where many refining spirit materials are very rich. In fact, compared to those planets in the cultivation realm that have been repeatedly searched by countless cultivators, these large and small planets in the solar system can be called undeveloped treasure lands, and he came to find treasures and collect materials at this time, but he also took a big advantage.
The reason for this is actually very simple, since the complete decline of the Earth cultivation realm, no one has been able to fly away from Earth for a long time and come to Mars and other planets to collect those things. It is only born, not consumed, and after such a long period of accumulation, whether it falls from the sky or erupts from the ground with a volcanic eruption, there are naturally a lot of refining materials gathered on those planets, not to mention everywhere, but it can also be called a vehicle bucket.
In fact, long before the official landing, the "Red Rabbit" spacecraft had already marked the locations of those large meteorites, meteorites, or high-density earth fire iron and other materials when drawing a three-dimensional map of Mars, waiting for Ye Qiuli to collect them at any time.
And now, in addition to the marked locations, there are hundreds of craters and craters waiting to be excavated on Mars. At this time, he can already feel very clearly that this trip to Mars, he will return with a full load.
The future is bright, the process is hard, and the final result is naturally extremely satisfying. According to the guidance of the holographic electronic map drawn by the "Red Rabbit" spacecraft, Ye Qiuli found a lot of good things along the way, especially those meteorites, meteorites and other materials, which were even more abundant, and they were many times more than the similar items he got when he auctioned pills on the earth.
Although the density of the atmosphere of Mars is only 1% of that of the earth, the atmosphere is much worse than that of the earth, and the burning of meteorites, meteorites and the like when they fall from the sky is not sufficient, and the degree of refining is not enough, and Ye Qiuli needs to use the Samadhi True Fire to continue refining to obtain suitable refining materials, but that is much simpler and less labor-saving than refining the relevant refining materials from the ore step by step.
Dig the ore yourself, extract metals such as copper and iron from the ore, then refine copper and iron to get refined copper and iron, and then refine the refined copper and iron again to get the dark iron and red copper...... Such a process seems to be time-consuming, labor-intensive, and troublesome, and it doesn't look like something that a cultivator should do at all. However, in the cultivation realm, most of the low-level cultivators have done such things, especially those who are loose cultivators, they do not have the support of large forces behind them, and all the resources needed for cultivation can only be met by themselves.
Slowly refining the appropriate refining materials from the ore, and then finding the help of others or directly doing it yourself, refining various materials into finished magic weapons and spiritual weapons, that process is almost the only means for the vast majority of low-level cultivators to obtain magic weapons. Like Ye Qiuli, the use of magic weapons and elixirs at the beginning of cultivation can only occur in sect cultivators or cultivators whose masters are very wealthy. For those casual cultivators who have nothing else on their bodies except for a set of low-level cultivation exercises, such a thing can only be thought about, and they have never had the luxury of expecting it to happen to themselves.
In addition to these common methods, the situation of digging up the relics of the predecessors has certainly appeared many times in the cultivation world, but after being evenly distributed on countless cultivators, the probability is probably less than 1 in 10,000, which is completely negligible. Therefore, if cultivators want to obtain the magic weapon that they can use at their disposal, in addition to inheriting it from the elders of the sect, they also have to rely on their own efforts, do it themselves, and have enough food and clothing.
In the cultivation realm, the reason why the cultivation speed of casual cultivation is much slower than that of sect cultivators is that in addition to the huge gap in cultivation conditions, another very critical factor is that they need to spend a lot of time and energy to collect and obtain low-level materials that are not eye-catching or unwilling to collect by themselves, and then exchange these materials for items such as elixirs, magic weapons, and cultivation exercises that are helpful to their cultivation. Those mid-to-low-end cultivation materials that appeared in the cultivation realm trading market were basically all produced in this way, and I don't know how much effort and energy they had immersed themselves in.
Of course, the cultivation materials obtained through this method can only refine some low-end magic weapons or spiritual weapons, and if you want to refine the top magic weapons at the level of treasures and immortal weapons, you also need those spiritual heavenly and earthly treasures. It's a pity that that kind of top-level materials are basically produced in some extremely dangerous or very special environments, and they can't be collected at all without extremely superb cultivation strength and good enough luck.
As a low-level cultivator who had just cultivated to the Jindan stage, Ye Qiuli naturally would not be delusional to suddenly get any great heavenly and earthly treasures, and at this time, having the opportunity to directly collect these better-quality finished materials had already made him very busy and very satisfied. These mid-to-high-grade refining materials, even if he can't use them up by himself, when he reaches the cultivation realm, he can also take them out and exchange them with others in exchange for resources such as spars and elixirs. There are countless cultivators in the cultivation realm, and there will not be too many resources for any one, especially this kind of basic material, just like a spar, every cultivator must be lacking.
Just searched and searched, stopped and stopped, and the harvest along the way really made Ye Qiuli satisfied. Mars is a barren planet without any intelligent life, there is no interference and change in life activities, those materials that fall from the sky, after falling, they will never move again, basically in every crater, you can find a large or small meteorite, meteorite, although the quality is much worse than those similar items he collected on the earth, but the number has increased several times.
Looking at the dense craters on Mars, Ye Qiuli hadn't figured out the reason at first, but when he remembered that the periphery of Mars was the asteroid belt, he was quickly relieved. In that meteorite-strewn asteroid belt, it is normal for a few meteorites to fall out of position occasionally and fall on Mars. He even wondered if the Earth would still be as stable as it is today if it weren't for a Mars that helped shelter the Earth from the wind and rain and attracted most of the meteorites, meteors and other attacks from outer space.
After spending a lot of time collecting all the meteorites and meteorites left on Mars, Ye Qiuli flew to the vicinity of those extinct volcanoes and began to collect medium and high-grade refining materials such as Earth Fire Flame Iron and Geocentric Dark Iron that erupted from the ground of Mars with the eruption of volcanoes.
Volcanic eruptions are naturally extremely dangerous natural disasters for ordinary people, but for cultivators, they are more like a special gift from nature. Because with the eruption of the volcano, many heavenly and earthly treasures that are usually rare will erupt from the depths of the earth or from the sea of magma and fire, and thus be obtained by cultivators. Not only are there a variety of metal materials, but other spirit crystals and spirit stones can also be found from time to time.
For example, treasures such as fire crystals, heavy dust, fire element crystals, bacitrine, earth fire crystals, flame crystals, red refining fire copper, fire gold steel, Taiyi pure gold, Taiyi fine silver, etc., basically appear in volcanic lava or earth fire magma. Those who have cultivated highly and have powerful magic weapons can naturally venture into the underground magma and collect a large number of these superb materials, while those who are not cultivated enough and whose magic weapons are not strong can only wait for the volcano to erupt and slowly rummage through the solidified and cold-frozen volcanic lava, and if they want to go down to the extremely dangerous earth-fire magma, there may not be any of them.