[In just a few months, hundreds of people had flocked in.]
[But among these people, probably less than one percent would survive until the next major competition.]
[None of this had anything to do with you; you merely stayed peacefully in your residence, cultivating Gathering Spirit Flowers.]
[Two years passed in the blink of an eye...]
[In the thirty-second year, under your meticulous care, more than a hundred seeds had matured, growing into fully developed Gathering Spirit Flowers.]
[So you took these Gathering Spirit Flowers, prepared to exchange them for the pill recipe you'd longed for.]
[You quickly found the owner of the pill recipe, a well-known figure in the black market of the valley, Song Si, a late-stage Integration Phase cultivator!]
[Over the past three years, you had dealt with Song Si quite a bit, exchanging spiritual liquid and that magic artifact, as well as previous information from him.]
