Chapter 423 Consuming Spiritual Stones
Everyone understood this principle, so there was no need for others to urge them, so they did their best and attacked the formation continuously. Of course, no one was a fool, and it was impossible for them to risk their lives to break the formation, so they held back a little when attacking. It seemed that they had done their best, but in fact, they were just ordinary means. Only when the formation was broken in the future, everyone rushed in to grab the treasures, and that was when they really needed to show their skills.
Qingyang had the same idea as everyone else. While breaking the formation, he had to preserve his strength and not put himself in danger. At this time, he could not use any dual-element swordsmanship or three-element swordsmanship. He just sacrificed a green bamboo sword and attacked the formation with others.
As the number of attacks increased, Qingyang could also feel that the power of the formation outside the secret passage was indeed reduced, but compared with the strength of the entire formation, the degree of reduction was negligible. Qingyang estimated that according to everyone's current strength in breaking the formation, it would take at least half a month to completely break the formation outside the secret passage.
Now more than 200 people have gathered outside the Blood River. Half a month later, there will definitely be more trial disciples gathered. When hundreds of people rush into the secret hall together, a melee and fighting are inevitable. How easy is it to seize a treasure in the chaos?
But if Qingyang is allowed to leave, he is a little unwilling. No one will complain about too many treasures. It is rare to encounter a Blood Demon Sect relic that has never been discovered. How can you miss it easily?
Most of the trial disciples present also hold this idea. If you come, you may not have a chance, but if you don’t come, you will definitely have no chance. Even if the number of treasures is small and only a few of them get it, who dares to guarantee that the one who gets the treasure is definitely not himself?
In a blink of an eye, half an hour has passed. Because of the continuous consumption of true energy, the dozen trial disciples in the deep pit have gradually separated their strengths. The old-fashioned sixth-level Qi Refining cultivators still have spare energy at this time, and the attacks are endless. Those with lower cultivation have already lost their true energy at this time. Some people have even begun to swallow pills to restore their true energy.
Qingyang's situation is similar to that of others. The Green Bamboo Sword is only a top-grade magic weapon. Compared with other top-grade magic weapons, or even spiritual weapons, it consumes very little true Qi. However, he suffers from his low cultivation level. The lowest cultivation level of other disciples is the fifth level of Qi Refining. Although the consumption is large, the base of true Qi in the body is also large, and they are not afraid of the consumption of powerful magic weapons.
After half an hour, more than 80% of the true Qi in Qingyang's body has been consumed. If he does not replenish it, there is a danger of insufficient true Qi. Not only will the attack of the Green Bamboo Sword be interrupted, but even the true Qi shield outside the body will be broken, thus losing its water-proof function.
Qingyang had taken a pill to restore true Qi before, but the effect was very general, and the amount restored was not enough to replenish the amount consumed. Even if he continued to take the pill, as time went by, the true Qi in his body would become less and less. After an hour, Qingyang would be like the previous cultivators, with exhausted true Qi and unstable shield.
Qingyang didn't dare to put himself in danger, because Wei Yufeng and others were eyeing him, so he took out a spiritual stone from the Nawu Fu and held it in his hand, and used the exercises to absorb the spiritual energy in the spiritual stone to replenish the consumed true energy in his body.
Spiritual stones have many functions, such as replenishing true energy, improving cultivation, and providing energy for formations, etc., which is why they are used as currency by cultivators. However, despite their many functions, few cultivators directly use spiritual stones to improve their cultivation and replenish true energy, but use elixirs. This is not because the effect of elixirs is good, but because elixirs are cheaper and more affordable.
Cultivators are all thrifty people. They worry about cultivation resources every day, so how can they be so extravagant? Only those who are not short of spiritual stones and do not take spiritual stones seriously, or at critical moments when they cannot be used, will use spiritual stones directly.
Seeing Qingyang take out the spirit stone, the other trial disciples were not surprised. They had seen this situation before. Qingyang's cultivation was the lowest, and the pills were not enough to restore his true qi. It was normal for him to use the spirit stone. It was just that this behavior was too extravagant and consumed a lot of energy. It seemed that this kid was fighting for the treasure in the secret hall.
Qingyang didn't care what others thought. While absorbing the spiritual energy in the spirit stone, he used his mind to control the Qingzhu Sword to continue attacking. In less than an incense stick of time, the spiritual energy in the spirit stone was consumed, and the spirit stone turned into a handful of useless stone dust, while the true qi in Qingyang's body did not decrease but increased, at least 10% more than before.
If the consumption is taken into account, a spirit stone can replenish about 20% of Qingyang's true qi, and a pill used by a Qi-refining cultivator to restore true qi, if the medicinal effect is fully exerted, can replenish about 40% to 50% of true qi, and the spirit stone is only half the effect of the pill.
Not only is the efficacy different, but the price is also different. One spiritual stone can buy almost two of these pills, which is almost four times the difference. With such a big gap between spiritual stones and pills, it is no wonder that everyone's first choice is to use pills.
The only advantage of spiritual stones is that they can restore true qi quickly. When there is no need to pursue speed, almost no one will be so extravagant as to use spiritual stones to restore true qi.
After a spiritual stone was used up, Qingyang threw away the discarded spiritual stone powder, took out another piece from the collection talisman, held it in his hand and began to absorb the spiritual energy inside.
This behavior made the people around him gasp. It has only been a short time, but he has already used up two spirit stones. If he persists at the bottom of the river for an hour, wouldn't he have to consume more than ten spirit stones? The formation outside the secret hall will take at least half a month to break. Even if they take turns every two days, each person will have to come down at least seven or eight times. Wouldn't the spirit stones consumed reach seventy or eighty?
Seventy or eighty spirit stones, many Qi Refining disciples can't save so many in four or five years. It's too extravagant to consume so many spirit stones just to break the formation? Could it be that he is the direct descendant of a Jindan elder of a sect? But he doesn't look like that. If he is really the descendant of a Jindan elder, how could he not arrange a few followers? Could it be that he came to Chaos Demon Valley just to hone himself this time?
No matter what they thought in their hearts, at least Qingyang had formed a perception in the minds of others. Even though this guy's cultivation level was low, he was not someone they could easily provoke. This guy either had a strong family background or had great strength to rely on, otherwise he would never dare to consume spirit stones like this in front of everyone.