Half a month passed without Chen Xi realizing it.

Besides meditating within his abode, Chen Xi had left the abode to head to the Exchange Hall on two occasions during this time.

He’d respectively traded a fifth-grade Ancestral Dao Root and a sixth-grade Ancestral Dao Root for 600,000 year old Treasurelight Ninespirit Sand and a 500,000 year old Jadestar Snowglow Pearl.

Chen Xi was extremely pleased by this. If this situation continued, then he would be able to gather all the materials in less than three months of time.

However, it only represented an ideal state that even Chen Xi didn’t dare hope would continue forever.

When he returned from the Desolate Manku Ruins, besides the Imperial Sovereign Dao Root, Chen Xi had obtained three eighth-grade Ancestral Dao Roots, nine seventh-grade Ancestral Dao Roots, 16 sixth-grade Ancestral Dao Roots, and 27 fifth-grade Ancestral Dao Roots.

So, besides the fifth-grade, sixth-grade, and eighth-grade Ancestral Dao Roots that he’d traded off earlier, he still had numerous Ancestral Dao Roots in his possession.

Chen Xi naturally didn’t need these Ancestral Dao Roots now, but they were like shocking sums of wealth that were sufficient to deeply influence Chen Xi cultivation in the future.

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