After returning to his cave abode, Han Li sat down with his legs crossed and began to contemplate what to do next.1

The half-batch of Origin Unifying Pills that he had refined had worked quite well, allowing him to make close to 10 years worth of cultivation progress in just two months, but it was going to be very expensive to maintain this rate of progression.1

Seeing as he was able to use his Mantra Treasured Axis to significantly improve his success rate in pill refinement, he naturally wasn't going to purchase ready-made pills using merit points as they were a very useful form of currency in other areas.0

Thus, the top priority for him now was to secure ingredients for pill refinement.0

Aside from manifesting crystals to help the Earthly Deity Avatar heavy water, maturing Blaze Tuber Herbs alone was already close to the limits of the Heaven Controlling Vial's capabilities, so it wouldn't be able to mature many other supplementary ingredients on top of that. Hence, he would have to buy the majority of those ingredients, but the problem was that he didn't have many spirit stones left.4

He could sell some of the spoils he had collected from his vanquished enemies for spirit stones, but that was only a temporary solution that wasn't going to work out over the long term.0

After a brief moment of contemplation,...0