Insufficient balance

  Although the cultivation speeded up a lot, but one piece of spirit stone disappeared like this also made Tang Hao feel a bit heartache, you know that this piece of spirit stone can buy a Qi Gathering Pill, which is the best medicine for the Qi Gathering period.

  The spiritual energy completed a large cycle in Tang Hao's body, and after a small portion was absorbed by Tang Hao, the majority dissipated into the air. This made Tang Hao even more heartbroken, so he hastily sat down to continue absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy.

  Ordinary spirit stones are a uniform mixture of the five different elemental spiritual energies. After Tang Hao absorbed the wood-elemental spiritual energy, he was unable to absorb the remaining spiritual energies and could only let them slowly dissipate.

  Just as Tang Hao felt a pity, Guo Jing suddenly knocked on the door. Tang Hao opened the door and saw Guo Jing with a puzzled expression: "What are you doing here? Why has the spiritual energy suddenly become much thicker?"

  Tang Hao had no choice but to lead Guo Jing inside and told him the whole story, but unexpectedly, Guo Jing's face turned angry: "How could you use this trick here? What if others find out?"

  Tang Hao was so focused on his cultivation that he had forgotten about this matter. Although the city had a seal set by a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and the inn had a seal set by a Qi Refining cultivator, no one could guarantee that a Nascent Soul cultivator wouldn't come to investigate the city, or that some Foundation Establishment cultivator wouldn't think of strolling into the city. Thinking about this, Tang Hao couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

  Guo Jing didn't say another word, he simply sat down cross-legged and began to meditate, indeed the air was still filled with a high concentration of earth attribute spiritual energy, if he didn't take this opportunity to cultivate it would be a waste of this powdered spirit stone.

  About a quarter of an hour later, the earth attribute spirit energy in the air was almost indistinguishable from the outside world. Guo Jing opened his eyes with satisfaction and said, "Not bad, this time it's about the same as my previous meditation for a whole day, but letting the spirit energy dissipate into the air is indeed a waste."

  Tang Hao asked: "Do you have a way to prevent the spiritual energy from dissipating?"

  "Of course," said Guo Jing, shaking his head, "have you ever heard of the Soul-Sealing Formation?"

  Tang Hao shook his head, the Gathering Spirit Array was something he had heard of, it used spirit stones and array techniques to concentrate the surrounding spiritual energy. However, this array technique had extremely strict requirements for spiritual energy density, if not done properly, it would be a loss, wasting several spirit stones in vain.

  Guo Jing explained: "This formation is basically available in every sect, only with varying strengths. When a sect is established, it will choose to be located at the source of the spiritual vein. To prevent the spiritual energy from dispersing, a sealing formation will be set up around the sect to ensure that the spiritual energy does not disperse in vain. However, the density of the spiritual energy that this sealing formation can seal is limited, and external spiritual energy cannot enter either. Therefore, this sealing formation is rarely used except for the main gates of major sects and some cultivators' caves."

  Tang Hao's heart was filled with joy, if it were really possible, wouldn't he be like a godmode, but now the place he is in is too conspicuous, it seems that after getting the Gongfa, he must earn some Ling stones and then go to a place without cultivators to retreat.

  Guo Jing muttered a few more words, but the rush of the past few days had left him with little sleep, and he eventually yawned several times before returning to his room to rest. Tang Hao tried sitting for a while longer, but found it ineffective, and even felt a bit dizzy, so he thought about going out for some fresh air.

  Tang Hao looked at the palace attire on his body, which he hadn't changed for several days. Although the clothes in the Xiuzhen world had a self-cleaning function, wearing the same set of clothes all the time made Tang Hao feel somewhat uncomfortable, so he thought about going out to buy some new things.

  This side of the maple city is only so lively once a year, some monks with some inventory will not miss this opportunity, and take out things that are not used in their daily lives to sell.

  The most sold items on this street are Ling symbols, which are the result of sealing some monks' spells and part of their magical artifacts' power in the symbol. When necessary, they can be taken out and used to launch an attack without consuming one's own spiritual energy, and even divine abilities that far exceed one's own cultivation level can be used. In battle, they often have an unexpected effect.

  Tang Hao knew that the selection of disciples in Maple Leaf Sect did not allow the use of spirit symbols, and even spirit artifacts could not be used. Of course, it was rare for Qi-refining cultivators to possess spirit artifacts, let alone whether they could truly exert the true power of spirit artifacts. The high price of spirit artifacts alone made it unlikely that even formal disciples of Maple Leaf Sect could afford them.

  Tang Hao had some money, but he wasn't wealthy enough to be arrogant. He didn't have the ability to use spirit symbols as fireworks, so he wasn't in a hurry to make a move and instead went for a walk around.

  Tang Hao didn't have a good eye for things, and after walking for a while, he didn't dare to make a move easily. Seeing that there was a clothing store in front of him, thinking that his current clothes were not very convenient, he entered the store.

  The staff inside all had a golden maple leaf on their right shoulder, it seems that this is the territory of the Maple Leaf Sect. It's likely that they wouldn't dare to cheat Tang Huang, a Qi Refining stage cultivator, for fear of damaging their reputation.

  Tang Hao Xiu was only in his third stage of Qi refinement when a young girl who looked like she was only fifteen or sixteen came to attend to her.

  According to Guo Jing, the hierarchy of Lü Feng Zong is very strict. The entire institution is divided into three courts: inner, middle and outer. The outer court consists of newly admitted Qi-refining disciples who receive two pieces of low-grade spiritual stones and ten bottles of Qi-gathering pills every month. If you want to get more spiritual stones, you must go to the sect's mission hall to accept tasks. Of course, the difficulty and rewards of these tasks vary greatly. For example, working in the sect's industries is the easiest task with the lowest reward.

  "This little girl, in order to complete her own indicators, was still quite polite to Tang Huan: "May I ask what the Taoist friend wants? We sell all kinds of spiritual clothing here, and can even add some formations to the clothes.""

  Tang Hao's eyes lit up, although he couldn't use spirit symbols in the disciple selection, but he could use array method objects with cloth, after all, compared to spirit symbols, arrays are more focused on the cultivator's ability, because their operation is also extracting spiritual energy from oneself.

  Tang Hao looked around the shop, which was divided into two floors. The second floor was filled with foundation-building cultivators coming and going, while this floor was all Qi-refining cultivators. His own cultivation wasn't the weakest, but it was almost there.

  Tang Hao looked around at the five-color clothes, all of which were mainly made of light gauze and long skirts, with prices ranging from ten to a hundred spirit stones. In the cultivation world, this was indeed a place where high-ranking wealthy men and beautiful women came and went, no wonder he wasn't treated well.

  Although Tang Hao had some mid-grade spirit stones and dozens of low-grade spirit stones on him, he didn't dare to spend them recklessly or show them off intentionally. So he could only say weakly: "I've come to place an order for a set of clothes for my senior sister."

  "Place an order!" The little girl's eyes lit up when she heard that, seemingly more enthusiastic about the big business, and her attitude became even more ambiguous. She smiled and said: "Placing an order isn't cheap, it'll need around twenty spirit stones."

  Tang Hao nodded and said: "It's just a subscription, Ling Shi gave me some, it should be enough."

  The little girl took out a scroll and showed it to Tang Hao, on which there were many styles of clothes, including fairy style, rich miss style, and witch style. There was one set that made Tang Hao's eyes light up, and it turned out to be a bikini. It seems that the cultivation world is still keeping pace with the times.

  The little girl looked at Tang Hao staring at the bikini and said somewhat embarrassedly: "Do you want this set?" Tang Hao immediately shook his head and pointed to a set of clothes.

  This set of clothes is made from ice silkworms, and wearing it gives a cool and refreshing feeling, which can calm the mind and increase the time and effect of one's daily cultivation. This set of clothes also includes a light green outer gauze with a light green long skirt, with bright green lining on the edges, a light green ribbon wrapped around several times, tying a light green waistband at the waist, and a long butterfly knot tied at the abdomen.

  "Is this it?" The little girl confirmed, and Tang Hao shook his head, saying: "I want to make some changes, remove the long sleeves, turn it into a short sleeve with a lotus leaf edge, and change the skirt to a short skirt, preferably one with layers. Then add a pair of shoes connected to knee-high socks, preferably with straps to secure them in place. And inside, add a pair of shorts to prevent exposure."

  Tang Hao knew that his advantage lay in his agile body, and in battle, he would inevitably use various rapid jumps and rolls. His original clothes were not conducive to his movements, so Tang Hao tried to wear the heroic female attire from online games.

  The little girl took note of Tang Huan's request and went into the inner hall. Before long, a new drawing came out - a light blue tube top and short skirt, paired with a light blue outer gauze and waistband. However, instead of using binding strips for the arm guards, they were made from snow-white silk thread woven into a pair of light blue lace armlets. After all, in the world of cultivation, the effectiveness of clothing lay not in its thickness but in its material.

  The shoes were tied with a green silk ribbon from the ankle all the way to the knee, and then tied into a bow.

  Tang Hao nodded: "That's all." The little girl asked again: "Do you need any formation?"