Li Tian left the room to go focus on his cultivation. Right now his primary objective was to gather the resources needed for his foundation. By coincidence he had accepted a subordinate and got rewarded the dragon blood and spirit stone of top quality by the system but he didn't think such luck is going to continue for the next items so he needed a way to find them.
According to the system, he needed the core of a demonic beast he killed by himself, also the beast should possess a trace of dragon bloodline and should be higher than him in cultivation. Li Tian thinking of this knew what he had to hunt is a rank-three demonic beast. He had no problem with this as long as it was not it the later stages of rank three.
He also needed the essence of a golden serpent. Very rare but not impossible to find.
He needed an herb that contains the powers of yin and yang, according to the system this was used to maintain Harmony between the materials and another benefit can also be gotten as a result though it did not explain further.
The last main ingredient was the heavenly cloud silver silk, a delicate and ethereal silk spun by celestial silkworms from the clouds.
Another problem he had to solve was to gather materials to refine his natal weapon.
The natal weapon is a very important companion on the part of cultivation for any cultivator.
A natal weapon is a normal forged weapon like any other the difference being that it is stored and nurtured within the dantian of its owner. As the cultivator continues to grow stronger, so to does the natal weapon.
Every cultivator can only have one natal weapon in a life time which can only be forged when entering the foundation realm. If destroyed it will seriously damage your origin resulting in a drop of power which may never again be recovered. When a natal weapon is destroyed, a cultivator will survive however if a cultivator does, so too does his natal weapon unless the cultivator severs his connection to the weapon before death. This will prevent the destruction of the weapon but result in a drop in rank.
Li Tian knew he had to keep an eye out for any good material he could use in the refinement of his weapon.
He open his computer and made an announcement for the things he needed along with a reward for the information then went into his cultivation room and started practicing his battle skills.
He had already gained small success in rising waves-departing winds technique and right now his speed had reached a level that can only be compared with by people in the foundation realm.
He continued practicing till morning when he checked up on Shi Ruo and after making sure she was fine he went to work and handled the matter of her absence. The day was just as boring as he wanted with the occasional demonic beast wandering too close to the wall only to get eliminated. He left early after leaving instructions to be immediately informed incase of an emergency. Returning to his villa he went back to training, then went o bed and only woke up when he sensed Shi Ruo walk out of the cultivation room.
He summoned her to observe the changes to her. She had increased in height and was very enchanting, what was most striking was that her cultivation had already reached high Qi sensing stage of xiantian.
The joy on her face could not be hidden. She was very grateful as she looked at Li Tian.
Within her, she sensed and evolution in terms of her life form.
Li Tian gave her salary in advance along with the pills as allocated by the system. She bowed and thank Li Tian so much and the excitement within her had surpassed her ability to control. Soon she begged her leave to send money to her parents. In terms of conversion rate of money and spirit and spirit stones she is already a millionaire.
Before leaving Li Tian gave her the task of checking up on the information he needed by monitoring the threads he posted and asked her to use every means at her disposal to get what he needed.
Three days later he got information about the golden serpent and without hesitation contacted the seller. It turns out this person was quite connected because after buying the golden serpent for a very generous price, the man gave him information about the heavenly cloud silver silk. He contacted the seller too and payed generously for it. Both buyer and seller were contented with the transaction.
He was very happy as he did not think he would get the two items this easily.
He returned to the villa and just like that two more days passed when Shi Ruo told him of an auction were there will be a yin-yang spiritual herb.
"Are you sure?" He asked suprisingly.
"Yes master" replied the girl.
"When is the auction?"
"Tomorrow but the tickets are already sold out except for the VIP tickets which goes for 200 spirit stones each" said Shi Ruo.
"Then what are you waiting for, he threw a spatial ring at her, quickly but two before it's sold out."
Li Ruo caught the ring and Bowed before leaving.
When she reached outside she looked into the ring and seeing the small hill of spirit stones within, she was shocked and her mouth was left agape.
Knowing that this money was given to her to do little things without disturbing Li Tian she closed the ring, kept it safe and hurried to the auction house. Later in the evening she presented two tickets Infront of Li Tian.
"Keep them, when it's time to go you let me know" Li Tian said as he laid on the chair in a lazy manner.
He found it very exciting at the rate at which he was finding the treasures. This meant that his cultivation will not be delayed any further.
It was only a matter of time before he passed this hurdle and his cultivation will soar by leaps and bounds.