Chapter 31 - 31 - 30 Redeeming Rewards (Please Bookmark and Recommend)_1

Chapter 31 – 30 Redeeming Rewards (Please Bookmark and Recommend)_1

The next morning, a slightly glaring ray of sunlight shone through the small window onto Lin Tianming’s handsome face.

Opening his eyes tinged with a hint of spirituality, Lin Tianming got up, tidied up his room, and prepared to head out.

The family’s rewards had been determined, and today he was to go to the Hall of Merit to claim them. In addition to his own rewards, he also needed to exchange some materials that he didn’t need for merit points and purchase some essentials.

Having made up his mind, Lin Tianming stepped out the door, summoned the Qingfeng Sword, hopped onto it, and flew toward the mid-mountain pavilion.

Inside the Family Merits Hall, the place buzzed with voices as many family cultivators presented spiritual medicines or demonic beast inner pills and bodies to the executive officers at the main hall. Among the plethora of spiritual objects, most were common first-order items.

Upon seeing Lin Tianming enter, everyone stopped what they were doing and greeted him.

As the one with the highest talent since the patriarch of the Lin Family, Lin Tianming was naturally the focus of attention for all the clan members.

In the face of the clan members’ goodwill, Lin Tianming greeted them with a fist and palm salute, showing no difference in treatment despite their lower cultivation levels. With the demeanor of a gentleman and the respect of a junior, he won a round of encouraging cheers and applause.

Lin Shixin was very satisfied with this. The child’s cultivation strength and temperament were top-tier, making him the future hope of the family. With some luck, provided he didn’t die young, there was a great hope of leading the family back into the ranks of Core Formation Stage clans.

After greeting the clan members in the hall, Lin Tianming now approached Lin Shixin and bowed respectfully, saying:

“Tianming pays respect to Fifteenth Grandfather.”

Lin Shixin squinted his eyes and smiled, responding:

“Your reward has been prepared. Whatever you need, just say it, and I’ll fetch it for you, especially First Order Superior Grade spiritual medicine materials, talisman paper, and spiritual artifacts.”

“Fifteenth Grandfather, for the First Order Superior Grade spiritual medicine materials, I will need twenty-five portions of each spiritual medicine material listed on these two pill formulas,” Tianming said.

After speaking, Lin Tianming handed Lin Shixin two pill formulas, which undoubtedly were for refining the Strong Spirit Pill and the Body Strengthening Pill, which were aids for cultivating the Tiangang Body Art.

Lin Shixin glanced at the pill formulas, and his old face turned alternately blue and purple as a voice couldn’t help but rise in his heart:

“This little rascal sure knows how to choose, picking the more precious ones from among the first order spiritual medicines.”

“Oh well, this child’s talent and temperament are beyond reproach, and the family’s future depends on him. It’s fine to look after him a bit more. Besides, what he’s asking for are all First Order Superior Grade spiritual medicines; they are just a bit more precious, and there’s no violation of the rules.”

“Go ahead and tell me about the talisman paper and the spiritual artifacts, and I’ll fetch them all for you,” Lin Shixin urged.

Lin Tianming continued:

“I need four First Order Superior Attack Talisman papers, and four Defense Talisman papers, as well as two Speed Evasion Talisman papers.”

“For spiritual artifacts, I would like three defensive spiritual tools. That’s all, and additionally, I want to sell a batch of Fasting Pills.”

Having said that, Lin Tianming took out the Fasting Pills he had refined, a total of one hundred. Originally, after refining all the materials for the Fasting Pills, he obtained one hundred and thirty-six.

Having consumed some during his year of seclusion, he was left with a bit over one hundred and twenty. By selling one hundred, he would keep just over twenty for personal use. After all, he was still in the Qi Refinement Realm, and he couldn’t be without Fasting Pills during his seclusion.

Only upon reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage could he truly fast and survive solely on spiritual energy for an extended period.

“One hundred Fasting Pills in exchange for eighty merit points, is there anything else?” Lin Shixin asked.

Lin Tianming frowned slightly and cautiously inquired:

“Fifteenth Grandfather, does our Green Bamboo Mountain still have Second Order Qingling Bamboo for sale?”

Lin Shixin asked with some confusion:

“What do you need the Second Order Qingling Bamboo for? There are plenty of First Order ones, but not many Second Order ones. Even in the Hundred-mile Bamboo Forest, there are less than a hundred Second Order Qingling Bamboo. These are the batch with the oldest age; our family has rarely let them go!”

Lin Tianming didn’t give it much thought and went straight to the point in his reply:

“I want to exchange for twenty Second Order Qingling Bamboo. Please ask Fifteenth Grandfather to help me refine a complete set of Flying Sword Instruments. My current spiritual artifacts are too substandard and do not allow me to utilize my full strength.”

“Forget it, forget it!”

After his initial shock, Lin Shixin began to elaborate.

“Each Qingling Bamboo is quite valuable. It has excellent tensile strength and is extremely sharp, indeed making it one of the best materials for refining spirit swords.

“Each Second Order Qingling Bamboo costs one hundred and fifty Low-Grade Spirit Stones. It’s not something the average person can afford, so if you want it, you’ll have to chop it down yourself!”

After hearing this, Lin Tianming couldn’t help but be stunned as well. At one hundred and fifty spirit stones each, twenty would cost three thousand spirit stones, an amount indeed unaffordable for the average person. If not for having made significant contributions to the family and received a hefty reward, he truly wouldn’t have been able to afford it.

After half a moment, Lin Shixin handed a storage bag over to Lin Tianming.

“Everything is inside. Count them, and hand me your token as well.”

Lin Tianming respectfully took out his token and handed it to Lin Shixin.

Lin Shixin then took out a token several times larger, formed a hand seal with both hands, and a burst of blue light flashed. A number lit up on Lin Tianming’s token for a few breaths before disappearing.

At this moment, there were an additional two thousand and eighty merits on Lin Tianming’s family token. Five thousand merits vanished in the blink of an eye, leaving just so little.

Lin Tianming felt the pinch acutely. In the past, he would have been reluctant to spend even a few dozen spirit stones, but now he had spent several thousand in one go. Thinking about this made his heart bleed.

Taking the storage bag, Lin Tianming probed it with his divine sense. Inside the bag were over a hundred portions of various spirit grasses, four differently colored talisman papers, and three defensive spiritual tools.

The three spiritual tools were all unique—one was a turtle shell-like shield, another a small umbrella, and the last item was red inner armor. Lin Tianming gave them a cursory check.

Lin Shixin took out another token made of Qingling bamboo material and handed it to Lin Tianming, saying:

“This token is for entry into the deep part of the bamboo forest. Without it, if one rashly intrudes, they probably won’t last long before being blasted to death by the ward.”

Lin Tianming received the token and gave Lin Shixin a bow before departing.

Half a moment later, Lin Tianming appeared at the bottom of a valley at the foot of Green Bamboo Mountain.

The entire valley was shrouded in mist, and the bamboo sea was endless to the eye, the area likely close to a hundred miles in size.

Lin Tianming took out a token, cast a spell, and a light screen appeared out of thin air. The screen tore open to reveal an entrance several feet wide, with a powerful metal attribute aura assailing him.

Because the bamboo forest was so vast and sealed off by great arrays all year round, the strong metal attribute spiritual energy trapped here was greatly beneficial to the growth of the Qingling Bamboo.

Qingling Bamboo is a First Order Spiritual Material that requires a five-hundred-year growth cycle. The vast majority are just First Order Spiritual Materials, and only an extremely small number of Qingling Bamboo can grow into Second Order Spiritual Material by chance.

The Lin Family had chosen to establish the family here originally because they happened upon a large expanse of Qingling Bamboo by chance, thus occupying this place.

After more than eight hundred years of development, the area of Qingling Bamboo had more than doubled, and there were several hundred Second Order Qingling Bamboo. Every year some are used up or sold, leaving nearly a hundred which is one of the Lin Family’s greatest assets.

Lin Tianming tucked the token into his storage bag, leaped up, and entered through the light screen.