Chapter 43: Dispelling Doubts

  Kong Fang made a decision in his heart, and his consciousness left the jade slip. He handed the jade slip to the female servant with one hand.

  "Finished reading?" Sun Hao asked with a smile.

  Kong Fang nodded slightly.

  "Are you disappointed?" Sun Hao chuckled and seemed very happy. Usually, it was Kong Fang who teased him, this time he finally got his revenge.

  Kong Fang glanced at Sun Hao with a hint of disdain and rolled his eyes in annoyance. Although the Five Elements Separation Mirror was not as extraordinary as he had imagined, Kong Fang did not feel too disappointed. After all, the mirror still had great use for him. Moreover, if there really were such powerful and terrifying attack or defense-type innate treasures, he would not have had the chance to see them. The sect masters who possessed such treasures would have long since kept them private, so how could they allow information about them to be recorded on jade slips for everyone to view?

  "By the way, brother, what kind of weapon and armor do you need? I'll help you exchange them first, consider it as a reward for your mission this time. Of course, if you get more rewards from Lan Zhongmen later, I'll give you some contribution points to make up for it." Sun Hao said while handing over the jade slip in his hand.

  Kong Fang did not take the jade slip, but shook his head and directly refused: "As a person of Huoyun Hall, why come to Lingbao Hall to exchange weapons and armor, I have them in my storage ring."

  Inner sect disciples can receive some materials from their respective halls every month to practice and hone their equipment refinement skills. These materials are sufficient for ordinary inner sect disciples, after all, not everyone is obsessed with refining equipment, many people just use it as a stepping stone on the path of cultivation.

  But for the people of Huoyun Hall, those refining materials issued every month are a bit insufficient. Fortunately, after the sect distributes the materials, they all belong to the inner disciples themselves, so the weapons and armor refined with these materials can be exchanged for contribution points at Lingbao Hall.

  If the grade is not high enough, it can only be taken to the outside empty space by followers for self-sale. However, if the refining ability is strong enough, the contribution points exchanged from the Lingbao Hall can not only exchange some materials again but also often have a surplus at the end of each month.

  Seeing Sun Hao open his mouth again, Kong Fang hurriedly waved his hand to stop him. Kong Fang was very clear about what Sun Hao meant.

  According to Sun Hao's idea, Kong Fang can now refine at most quasi-lingbao, but in the Lingbao Hall, he can exchange it for a lower-grade post-heavenly lingbao, and even a medium-grade post-heavenly lingbao. If there is enough contribution, true treasure cannot be exchanged either. The power of one lower-grade post-heavenly lingbao is much stronger than that of quasi-lingbao, which is the difference in quality. Sun Hao just wants to persuade Kong Fang to exchange for a lower-grade post-heavenly lingbao-level weapon and armor.

  However, Kong Fang was well aware that Sun Hao didn't have many contribution points on hand. Although Sun Hao's equipment forging skills were exceptional, the materials he needed every month were also extremely numerous, and he often studied some special materials in hopes of gaining a deeper understanding of their properties. Exchanging for these special materials required even more contribution points, so Sun Hao's monthly contribution points were always used up and still not enough.

  Moreover, Sun Hao is different from Kong Fang. In order to awaken his spirit, Sun Hao still needs to exchange various formations at the Dao Zhen Hall, and the contribution points are barely enough. Otherwise, he wouldn't have to go to the Tian Ji Hall to receive sect tasks all the time.

  "With my own Quasi-Spiritual armor and weapons, I'm more than enough. Moreover, within a radius of tens of thousands of miles around here is the territory of our sect, so there aren't many people who dare to cause us trouble." Kong Fang said with a smile.

  Kong Fang didn't want to owe Sun Hao too much, and secondly, exchanging the Lingbao was a bit of a waste for him. Although the Lingbao greatly enhanced his strength, it still couldn't help him reach the level of entering the spiritual realm.

  Kong Fang possessed the power of entering the spiritual realm, and naturally did not want to waste his contribution points. After all, his goal was that pre-heavenly treasure, the Five Extremes Differentiation Mirror. Accumulating 10,000 contribution points was also not easy.

  "Alright." Sun Hao nodded reluctantly. He had left the sect to complete a few tasks before and indeed hadn't encountered any danger.

  Sun Hao handed the soul token to the female miscellaneous servant, and the other party directly deducted 25 contribution points from the soul token.

  To exchange for a Cloud Chariot, one needs 1,000 contribution points. Generally, inner sect disciples don't have that many contribution points, so they can only rent it. Renting it for just one day costs five sect contribution points, and female miscellaneous chores directly deduct the rental fee for five days.

  Sun Hao took a silver-colored small boat the size of a palm from the hands of a female servant, and then went out of the Lingbao Hall with Kong Fang.

  Coming to the open space outside, Sun Hao input some magic into the silver small boat. The silver small boat quickly enlarged and in the blink of an eye it was four or five meters long and nearly two meters wide.

  "Junior brother, let's go." Sun Hao stepped into the Xingyun boat first, followed closely by Kong Fang.

  The two sat down, and Sun Hao controlled the Flying Cloud Boat to quickly rise into the air.

  People coming and going on the empty land saw that one by one, the flying boats suddenly stopped to watch, and their mouths also burst out with shock.

  "Some people actually rent a Cloud Chariot, and that day would cost five contribution points, what a luxury."

  "Hmph, you didn't see who the people renting the Flying Cloud Chariot are? They're actually Sun Hao and Kong Fang, the top two from the last two assessments! With their ability to refine equipment and accumulate contributions, it's not easy for them to afford the Flying Cloud Chariot, maybe they can even buy it!"

  ……

  The airship soared into the sky, rapidly increasing its speed, and shot out of the temple in a straight line.

  The edges of the Xunzhou formed a windscreen that kept out the gale-force winds generated by its rapid flight.

  "Senior brother, what kind of task did you receive this time?" Kong Fang asked, feeling a bit bored while sitting in the Flying Cloud Chariot.

  "This time, thanks to my junior brother's luck, I found a pretty good task. The task is to go to the Blue Central Gate three thousand miles away and refine three lower-grade post-heavenly spiritual treasures and eight quasi-spiritual treasures. In fact, this task also requires refining medium and high-grade post-heavenly spiritual treasures, but my refining ability is not enough, so I only took on the task of refining quasi-spiritual treasures and lower-grade post-heavenly spiritual treasures."

  Sun Hao suddenly said excitedly: "Junior brother, this time Blue Central Gate's contribution points are quite generous! Refining one quasi-spiritual treasure can get 70 contribution points, and a lower-grade post-heavenly spiritual treasure is almost 200 contribution points. If we complete this task, we can get over 1,100 contribution points, and the two of us can each get over 500 points!"

  "Really that much?" Kong Fang was also somewhat surprised.

  "So it's all thanks to my junior brother's good fortune, if I hadn't gone to the Tianji Hall with him, I wouldn't have gotten such a great task." Sun Hao laughed happily.

  "Junior brother, what's your current success rate in refining quasi-spiritual treasures? Since we're doing tasks outside of our sect and using materials from other sects, if the success rate is too low, our contribution points will be reduced. But it doesn't matter, after I finish crafting three lower-grade Heaven Spirit Treasures, I'll refine those ten quasi-spiritual treasures again. Junior brother can just go out and take a look at the outside world."

  Sun Hao's kindness left Kong Fang speechless, and he really wanted to say that his success rate in refining quasi-spiritual treasures was 100%, with no failures at all. Even if it were a low-grade postnatal spiritual treasure, now that he had the True Fire Ring, he could try to make a breakthrough. However, Sun Hao was kind after all, and if Kong Fang really said so, it would be too embarrassing for both of them.

  "When the time comes, I can try first, if it doesn't work out, then Brother Kong can help."

  Sun Hao smiled and nodded, his tone suddenly changing to a slightly envious one: "Junior brother's spiritual soul has reached one zhang in just half a year, while I've been cultivating for two years and am still over a foot away from reaching one zhang. This is only because I obtained the Three Star Soul Refining Method half a year ago, which increased my spiritual soul's growth speed by quite a bit."

  Kong Fang was taken aback, only to realize that the lie he had told Qing Fan elder in the Transmission Hall earlier was a bit overboard. No wonder Qing Fan elder and others looked at him with strange eyes at that time. Fortunately, everyone thought that his spiritual soul was naturally strong, and no one suspected anything.

  "Right, senior brother, does the higher the level of soul refining, the faster the growth rate of the divine soul?" Kong Fang asked out the doubts that had been suppressed in his heart. The starry true shadow in his purple mansion was countless, but the growth rate of his divine soul was not so exaggerated, and now it has only reached four zhang.

  However, Kong Fang did not dare to ask Qing Fan Zhen Lao about this matter, fearing that it would arouse Qing Fan Zhen Lao's suspicion. At this time, he also asked with the help of Sun Hao's words, so Sun Hao wouldn't suspect anything either.

  "It's like that, but it's also not like that." Sun Hao smiled and shook his head.

  Kong Fang was even more perplexed.

  "Junior brother, can you understand why we use height to measure the strength of a person's soul?" Sun Hao asked.

  Kong Fang shook his head directly, he had been a disciple of the inner hall for only half a year, how could he know so many things.

  Sun Hao smiled and explained, "Because measuring the soul with height is the simplest method, and height can also reflect the strength of the soul, so it has always been measured this way. However, height is not actually accurate, because the soul is growing in size, not just increasing in height."

  Kong Fang was suddenly enlightened and quickly entered the Purple Mansion to take a look. The yellowish-brown divine soul had indeed become more robust and larger, not just taller.

  "As for your question, junior brother, the reason lies in the fact that your spiritual soul was initially very weak. A weak spiritual soul can only absorb a limited amount of power within a certain period of time. Even if you possess an extremely high-level soul cultivation method, if your spiritual soul cannot absorb that much power, its growth speed will naturally be slow as well. However, as the spiritual soul becomes stronger and stronger, higher-level soul cultivation methods will allow it to grow faster. Therefore, junior brother must work hard to accumulate contribution points and exchange them for high-level soul cultivation methods, which will bring great benefits to your future path of cultivation. Moreover, once the spiritual soul is strong enough, its power can be used to attack independently, and Elder Qingfan said that this is an extremely strange and difficult-to-defend-against type of attack. This is because the spiritual soul's power directly attacks your spiritual soul, which cannot be blocked by magical powers."

  Kong Fang's eyes lit up instantly.