The Ten Thousand Ways to Hug the Female Protagonist’s Thigh - Chapter 13.1

Two months flew by in the blink of an eye.

By now, Wen Shu had mastered using spiritual blades and the water-based spell, “Frozen Needle Rain”! At first glance, the principle behind this spell seemed simple, but executing it was pretty challenging. In the process, Wen Shu had practiced it for a long time, destroying many pots and pans in the courtyard!

This technique required the practitioner to use their affinity with water elements, channeling them through a spiritual brush and special incantations to disperse and condense the water elements in the air. The water would then freeze into sharp ice needles, which would rain like a storm, leaving no room for escape!

Now, Wen Shu had successfully broken through to the fourth level of Qi Refinement and was even at the peak of this stage. She was just one step away from another breakthrough!

With the upcoming Clan Tournament, the clan school was busy preparing their best magical tools and talismans.

One day, Wen Xuening planned to visit the market to buy some materials for refining tools and came to ask Wen Shu if she wanted to join.

Wen Shu calculated the days. The weather was gradually warming up, and the courtyard was lush with plants and flowers, hinting at the arrival of early summer. It seemed that a plot involving the Li family in the book would unfold around this time.

So, she happily agreed but specifically reminded Wen Xuening to only bring money for shopping and to leave everything else, especially the spiritual pills, at home.

“I heard that thieves have been rampant in the market recently. We must be prepared to avoid significant losses,” Wen Shu explained calmly.

Wen Xuening was puzzled. She hadn’t heard anything about thieves daring to steal from cultivators’ storage bags. But she followed Wen Shu’s repeated instructions and did as she was told.

“Let’s go to the Spiritual Weapon Pavilion first!” Wen Xuening said excitedly.

After drawing talismans for the family for so long, she had finally saved up enough to refine her tools.

On the path of cultivation, wealth, companions, methods, and resources were all indispensable.

Although she was an honorary elder of the Wen family with a decent monthly salary, as an alchemist, the cost of materials for pill refining was high. Now that she wanted to refine tools, her savings seemed pitifully insufficient.

Magical treasures in the world were divided into artifacts, spiritual tools, and divine tools.

They were further classified into lower, middle, and upper grades, each with three tiers for nine levels.

Among these, artifacts were relatively cheap and suitable for Qi Refinement cultivators, while spiritual tools were at least for Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Wen Xuening, having inherited the legacy of a refining master, found it easy to craft a high-grade artifact sword for herself.

The Spiritual Weapon Pavilion sold expensive finished artifacts and semi-finished blanks for disciples with refining talent to practice on.

Unlike the numerous medicine shops, there was only one Spiritual Weapon Pavilion in Nanyang City, a branch of the Spiritual Weapon Pavilion headquarters in the Eastern Continent.

The headquarters adapted to local conditions. In remote places like the Shao Kingdom, only one branch was needed. Since there were few Foundation Establishment cultivators here, the pavilion rarely sold finished spiritual tools. Still, it had a wide variety of artifacts at different prices.

In the Shao Kingdom, refiners were extremely rare because training one required vast resources, and the success rate of crafting tools was low.

The refining lineage was complex, often passed down through single lines and closely guarded. The refining disciples nurtured by various families in Nanyang City were still at the beginner stage.

Thus, the families had to rely on the Spiritual Weapon Pavilion, purchasing expensive artifacts and spiritual tools.