This medicinal herb was called Jade Lingluo. It was a first-grade medicinal herb. Although it was only a First-Grade herb, it was still a graded medicinal herb, so it was exceptionally difficult to find.
None of the apothecaries he visited that afternoon had this medicinal herb. Fortunately, he had learned that the Lin Family Treasure Pavilion possessed some Jade Lingluo, which was why he had risked entering the Lin Family Treasure Pavilion.
After carefully putting away this life-saving medicinal herb, Lin Ye followed the stairs up to the second floor of the Treasure Pavilion.
The Lin Family Treasure Pavilion had three floors in total. Since the original host had never entered before, Lin Ye truly had no idea what was stored on the second floor and third floor.
However, surprises always occurred in the unknown.
“I’m rich!” After stepping onto the second floor, Lin Ye stared intently at the rows of jade shelves before him. He slowly swallowed and muttered.
Every jade shelf before him was covered with spirit cards, some red and some yellow. At a glance, there were more than a hundred of them.
Lin Ye slowly calmed his excitement and spread his consciousness over all the spirit cards on the jade shelves before him.
Immediately afterward, the spatial ring in Lin Ye’s hand flashed faintly, and all the spirit cards instantly entered his spatial ring.
Lin Ye swept his consciousness through inside the spatial ring and discovered that it contained all the second-order elemental spirit cards: gold, wood, water, flame, earth, wind, thunder, and lightning.
“Ding!”
“The System has detected decomposable spirit cards. Host, would you like to decompose them?”
With a thought, Lin Ye left one of each type of second-order spirit card in his spatial ring and took out all the others, placing them on the floor before him.
More than a hundred spirit cards scattered across the floor, piling into a small heap. Approximately forty of them were second-order spirit cards.
“Decompose all the spirit cards on the floor.”
“Ding!”
“Decomposition successful! Obtained 39,600 points of spirit card essence. System Upgrade Progress: 47,700/50,000.”
Since each second-order spirit card could provide one thousand energy points, Lin Ye was not particularly surprised that the spirit cards in the Lin Family Treasure Pavilion had allowed the System to nearly advance to third rank.
“How much essence is required for spirit card quality enhancement?” Looking at the eight ordinary quality Elemental Spirit Cards in his spatial ring, Lin Ye suddenly remembered the spirit card quality enhancement function that had been unlocked when the system level reached level two.
“Ding!”
“Each quality enhancement of a tier-one spirit card requires 100 points of spirit card essence. Each quality enhancement of a second-order spirit card requires 1,000 points of spirit card essence, and so on!”
“In other words, enhancing a Second-Order ordinary quality Spirit Card to perfect quality requires 3,000 points of spirit card essence?”
“Ding!”
“That is correct!”
“How much spirit card essence can be obtained by decomposing a Second-Order Perfect-Quality Spirit Card?”
“Ding!”
“4,000 points of spirit card essence!”
“In other words, after using spirit card essence to enhance a Spirit Card’s quality, can I still obtain that essence after decomposing it?” Upon hearing this, Lin Ye’s eyes lit up.
“Ding!”
“That is correct!”
“Enhance all eight of these spirit cards to perfect quality.” After hearing the system notification voice, Lin Ye spoke without the slightest hesitation.
Since there was no loss between the essence gained from enhancing spirit card quality and decomposing spirit cards, what was there for him to hesitate about?
Even though the System was only a little spirit card essence away from advancing to third order, if his own strength did not improve, then even if the System advanced to third rank, it would be difficult for him to unleash its abilities. It would be better to improve his own strength first.
As Lin Ye’s voice fell in his mind, the eight second-order spirit cards in his spatial ring suddenly appeared before him.
The spirit cards floating in the air slowly emitted a faint orange glow. As time passed, the color of the radiance continued to deepen.
At the same time, some kind of energy in the air seemed to condense into an invisible needle. That energy needle slowly yet firmly engraved the pattern on the backs of the spirit cards, making them increasingly intricate and mysterious.
In less than half a minute, the glow had changed from light orange to deep orange, and the patterns on the backs of the spirit cards looked even more perfect.
When the orange radiance reached its utmost intensity, the patterns on the backs of the spirit cards finally achieved an extreme perfection. A dazzling orange light suddenly burst forth from the spirit cards.
The radiance lasted for approximately three seconds before suddenly vanishing. Immediately afterward, all the spirit cards disappeared from the air and reentered Lin Ye’s spatial ring.
“Ding!”
“Spirit card quality enhancement successful! All eight spirit cards have been enhanced to perfect quality. 24,000 points of spirit card essence consumed. System Upgrade Progress: 23,700/50,000.”
The spatial ring in Lin Ye’s hand flashed faintly, and a Fire Spirit Card slightly longer than his palm appeared in his hand. The card felt smooth and cool, like the finest mutton-fat jade.
A faint gold radiance flowed along the edges of the deep orange Spirit Card, making it impossible to look away.
As his fingers rubbed the lively flame on the card, which seemed as though it might leap out of the Spirit Card at any moment, Lin Ye was surprised to discover that he could actually sense a trace of scorching heat from the flame’s pattern. This sensation was completely different from the Spirit Card’s coolness, yet exceptionally comfortable.
Reluctantly, he placed the Spirit Card back into his spatial ring. Lin Ye nodded in satisfaction. Even if these second-order spirit cards could only be used by a martial master, he had already found the Marrow-Washing Flower. How far could he be from being able to use them?
Thinking this, a trace of anticipation flashed through Lin Ye’s eyes, but his feet did not hesitate as he followed the stairs toward the top floor of the Treasure Pavilion.
When Lin Ye’s figure appeared on the third floor, he looked at the neatly arranged cultivation technique scrolls placed on the white jade shelves before him. He was not particularly surprised.
“System, can these cultivation methods be converted into spirit card essence?”
“Ding!”
“The System has inspected all cultivation methods before the host. Inspection result: The cultivation method levels are too low and cannot be converted into spirit card essence.”
Hearing the notification in his mind, Lin Ye shook his head with amusement. “Something regarded by the Lin Family as more important than spirit cards is worthless in the System’s eyes. That’s truly rather ironic.”
“《Ancient spirit cultivation art》—can it be shared with others for cultivation?” Lin Ye suddenly thought of Lin Xue and Mu Rou, then asked in his mind.
“Ding!”
“The divine-grade cultivation technique belongs exclusively to the host. Others cannot cultivate it.”
Although Lin Ye had already guessed the answer after hearing the System’s reply, he still could not help feeling somewhat regretful. If possible, he would have shared it with Lin Xue and Mu Rou for cultivation.
Although they had only spent two short days together, Lin Ye had already basically understood the two women’s personalities and knew that they were two close relatives worthy of his sincere devotion.
Because their status in the Lin Family was too low, even though Lin Xue and Mu Rou had awakened Level Four cultivation talent, they had always cultivated the lowest-grade yellow rank low grade cultivation method. As a result, Lin Xue had only just reached five-star martial artist, while Mu Rou possessed merely nine-star martial artist cultivation.
Even though the two women possessed extraordinary talent, their cultivation speed was still inferior to that of some people with Third-rank cultivation talent who cultivated Black-Rank Cultivation Techniques, which truly made Lin Ye feel it was a pity.
“I’ll take them first. They can choose for themselves later!”
Thinking this, Lin Ye once again moved his consciousness. The spatial ring in his hand flashed faintly, and the cultivation technique scrolls all entered Lin Ye’s spatial ring.