Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 54 Inventory (Please favorite, please recommend, please vote monthly!)

Still retracing his original path, Li Shiming carefully avoided pedestrians with the help of drones in the sky.

Most residents of Central Capital were just waking up, and there werenʼt many pedestrians on the streets.

He chose a more secluded route and by the time he got home, it was already seven in the morning.

”Young Master, when did you get up?” he didnʼt alarm the guards, but upon entering the main house, he was met by Si Qinʼs bright eyes.

Thinking about it, Si Qin would have already been up preparing his washing items around this time.

”I got up early today and moved around in the courtyard for a bit,” Li Shiming said, having changed back into his usual clothes after entering the city, and he waved his hands in response.

Si Qin didnʼt think much of it and briskly went to make the preparations.

Li Shiming felt Si Qinʼs happiness, and the impact of last nightʼs killings gradually faded from his mind, a smile appearing on his face as well.

After washing up, he went to his study.

Everyone in the courtyard knew he was preparing for the big examination, so they were all very quiet; whoever was doing whatever, they made sure to stay away from the study to provide him with the optimum reading environment.

Li Shiming placed the three storage bags in front of him, knowing that the troubles with the Hao Family had finally ended with them in his possession.

He didnʼt wish for it to be so, but the Hao Family had to be eliminated for him to have peace.

The moment the Hao Family sent Cultivators to assassinate him, a life-and-death struggle between them was set in motion.

Two of the storage bags were the same model, while the third was slightly different.

He first opened one of the identical storage bags, just like the ones heʼd obtained from the Cultivators of the Hao Family previously - inside were a low-grade long sword magical artifact, over a hundred Spirit Stones, and several dozen various talismans.

Feeling a bit disappointed, he opened the second identical storage bag and found a talisman pen and some talismanic ink in addition to the other items, suggesting that the owner of this storage bag was most likely a Talisman Maker.

He then turned his attention to the final storage bag, the one he placed most of his hopes in.

This storage bag probably belonged to that sixth-level Qi Refinement realm elder of the Hao Family who was also the clan leader.

Indeed, as the Spiritual Power Pattern entered the storage bag, he immediately noticed the difference with this one.

All the storage bags he had acquired before had a single cubic space, but this one at hand boasted a whole five cubic spaces.

Various items filled more than half of the five cubic spaces.

There was a Mid-grade Long Sword Artifact and a Mid-grade Shield Artifact, likely the personal magic artifacts of the Hao Family elder; both artifacts were of mid-grade quality, which was extremely rare among Loose Cultivators.

Five porcelain bottles contained ten Elixir Pills each, but sadly Li Shiming still didnʼt know the purpose of these pills.

There were five wooden large boxes, filled with talisman paper when opened - a stack of a hundred sheets, and with a hundred stacks in one box, this amounted to fifty thousand sheets of talisman paper.

The Hao Family was known for selling talisman paper; these must have been their stock.

There were ten cloth bags which Loose Cultivators favored for holding Spirit Stones; indeed, each bag contained a hundred Spirit Stones, totaling a thousand Spirit Stones here.

Opening the five jade boxes, he saw they contained Spiritual Medicine pulsing with Spiritual Energy.

The jade boxes were inscribed with special runes that preserved the Spirit Medicineʼs Spiritual Energy from dissipating.

Spiritual Medicine was something Li Shiming encountered for the first time. He only knew that it could be used for Alchemy, but nothing beyond that.

Lastly, there were some books. In addition to Spells he had already learned, he found spell books like ”Fireball Technique,” ”Rejuvenation Technique,” ”Invisibility Technique,” ”Earth Armor Skill,” and ”Ice Arrow Skill.”

He casually flipped open a copy of ”Fireball Technique” to find detailed content on how to perform the Fireball Technique, including a section that described its true meanings.

The description of the true meanings in the Fireball Technique wasnʼt as clear as he had imagined. Instead, it was expressed in extremely arcane language illustrating the intended mood or vibe.

Li Shiming didnʼt know about other Cultivators, but reading this description of the true meanings only left him puzzled.

He couldnʼt understand why something that could be very simple had to be made so complicated, greatly increasing the difficulty of learning Spells.

In reality, he still hadnʼt delved deep into this world. To any Cultivator, true meanings were always enigmatic, and those who comprehended them would naturally infuse their own imagination and emotions when describing them.

This way, generation after generation, the Cultivation World formed a standardized concept.

But Li Shiming was special. The first time he learned a Spell, there was no description of true meanings in the spell book. His understanding of true meanings was achieved entirely through virtual simulations on the IBMz15, realized through substituting his five senses.

Even if he used plain language to describe the true meanings, other Cultivators couldnʼt feel what he felt.

Unless he could transmit the true meanings simulated by the IBMz15 into the five senses of other Cultivators, they wouldnʼt comprehend the true meanings as easily as he did.

After setting aside the Spellbooks, he picked up another book, ”Chang Chun Gong.”

This was a Qi Refinement Realm Cultivation Technique designed for those with a Wood Spirit Root.

After reading through Chang Chun Gong, and comparing it with his own ”Five Elements Qi Absorption Technique,” he felt Chang Chun Gong seemed too simplistic.

This was just his opinion. With his level of knowledge, he couldnʼt be sure whether this feeling was correct.

The last book was ”Haoʼs Talisman Inheritance,” a talisman inheritance of the Hao Family.

After reading ”Haoʼs Talisman Inheritance,” he finally understood what that spirit bamboo root was.

It was a type of Spirit Bamboo known as ʼSpirit Bamboo.ʼ The Hao Familyʼs inheritance relied on ʼSpirit Bamboo.ʼ

Besides the bamboo shoots, which were Spirit Food, the bamboo itself didnʼt have much use. In contrast, the bamboo leaves were naturally the raw material for talisman paper.

”Haoʼs Talisman Inheritance” contained the Hao Familyʼs unique methods of converting ʼSpirit Bambooʼ leaves into talisman paper, with an average of two leaves needed to make one piece of talisman paper.

With ʼSpirit Bamboo,ʼ the Hao Family could not only sell talisman paper but also use it to train their own Talisman Makers.

”Haoʼs Talisman Inheritance” recorded more knowledge about talisman crafting than the ”Complete Compendium of Runes” and the notes of the Hao Family Cultivator he had obtained before. He also figured out how the Hao Family Cultivator who had tried to assassinate him became invisible.

There were two ways: one was to practice the ʼInvisibility Techniqueʼ to become invisible in front of ordinary people; the other was to create an ʼInvisibility Talismanʼ with the technique, enabling Cultivators to become invisible.

He stored the frequently used items into five cubic storage bags and hung them around his waist. From now on, these would be his regular storage bags.

Since he could always store the storage bags in the machine room space and even secretly switch them without worrying about anyone realizing that a minor Qi Refining Second Level Cultivator like him was using the precious five cubic storage bags.

The rest of the six storage bags were all placed into the machine room space to be used for storing materials.

The gains of this occasion also included ʼSpirit Bambooʼ and the spirit soil needed to cultivate ʼSpirit Bamboo.ʼ There was a little over one cubic meter of spirit soil, taking up one and a half storage bags all by itself.