Five Life Changing Fruits

Li Yu first took out the pile of low grade spirit stones from the spatial ring. He counted the spirit stones, which were a bit more than three hundred in numbers. Putting the spirit stones in his own spatial ring, he took out all the artifacts present in the manager Ma's spatial ring. Looking through them for a bit, he put them back inside manager Ma's spatial ring. He did not have enough experience to identify the grade of the artifacts, but manager Ma had already mentioned that the broadsword was a mid grade Human level artifact, while the rest were low grade Human level artifacts.

However, even though he had gotten five artifacts, he did not plan to use a single one of them. Listening to big sister 24's advice, he had already come to understand that the 'seller' who plotted against manager Ma's group, must be an accomplished schemer. He must have known everything about manager Ma's group before deciding to plot against them. Hence, Li Yu had already planned to not use or show anything on him that may relate him in any way with manager Ma's group.

Next, he took out the glass bottles from the spatial ring, and opened one of the bottles. A cool and refreshing smell assaulted his nose and produced great comfort in his body, and he quickly closed the bottle, fearing that the efficacy of the pills would leak out. They were low grade Tier 1 pills, known as 'Qi Condensing pills', and were used to speed up the cultivation process. By taking a Qi Condensing pill, the speed of cultivation would become twice as usual for a period of three days. Of course, only Qi Expansion realm cultivators would be able to use the pills.

After pestering uncle 96 for a bit, Li Yu now knew that the tiers of the pills were divided into the low, mid, high, and peak sub stages. Each tier of pills corresponded to the respective realms. For example, Tier 1 pills were generally used by Qi Expansion realm cultivators, Tier 2 pills were generally used by Foundation Establishment realm cultivators, Tier 3 pills were generally used by Golden Core realm cultivators, etc. There were obviously some exceptions, but not many. Of course, when Li Yu tried asking the name of the realm in which Tier 6 pills were used, he was met with fierce rejection from uncle 96.

As the Qi Condensing pills were regularly used by poor disciples within the sect, Li Yu didn't have to worry about using them. Putting the bottles containing the pills in his own spatial ring, he took out the narrow strip like object made from jade. The object was one of the gains manager Ma had obtained on the expedition. Manager Ma had explained to him the existence of jade slips, which were used to store written records using spiritual energy of a cultivator. Manager Ma had said that the strip like object was exactly similar to the jade slips he had seen in sect and in the markets , except for the fact that manager Ma couldn't read it using spiritual energy. Not knowing its function, he just kept it away in the spatial ring before he became crippled.

Even though manager Ma couldn't guess, Li Yu could make a guess that the object was truly a jade slip, but it either responded to essence energy of a body cultivator or soul energy of a soul cultivator. As manager Ma did not know the existence of body cultivators and soul cultivators, he couldn't come up with similar guess.

Unfortunately, Li Yu's talent was lowest, commonly found in any mortal, or he could have tried cultivating body cultivation and soul cultivation, and might have gotten to know the content inside the jade slip. Putting it inside manager Ma's ring, he finally took out the big box. The box was black coloured and heavy. Slowly opening the box, Li Yu saw five similar looking fist sized fruits that looked like peaches. The fruits were different from each other only in their colours. The five colours were red, green, earthen yellow, white and blue.

Manager Ma had said that he had taken down the fruits from a withered tree while his friends were blocking the monstrous beast. Unfortunately, he had no idea about the uses of the fruits. He did not dare to eat the fruits, lest they be harmful for him, hence he saved them in a box. He had planned to verify their uses, before sharing them with his friends. But the monstrous beast proved too much to handle for the group, hence there was no chance to share the fruits.

Li Yu looked at the fruits for a bit, then put them in the box and then put the box inside manager Ma's spatial ring. He closed his eyes and said, "Genie, record the memory of the fruits, and store it"

*Beep*[Recording complete! The recording can be used to send to other users as a video message]

Li Yu then entered the chat room and uploaded the video, and said,

UserM78-' Would someone please tell me the name and usage of these fruits?'

UserF57-' I don't know, maybe big sister 24 may know, as she is the head of a business oriented sect.'

UserM43-' Hahahaha, of course, 57 does not know. She is always fooling around or bullying someone relying on her background, how could she have knowledge about the treasures of heaven and earth?'

UserM78-' Big brother 43, do you know about the fruits?'

UserM43-' Ummm..... I don't know.'

UserF57-' Heeheeheehee, don't ask the idiot 43. All he knows is about from drinking wine and merrymaking.'

UserF24-' OK, shut up, you two, little brother 78, even I don't know about the fruits. It seems that you will need the help of little sister 82. She is a peak grade Tier 5 alchemist. She is offline right now, so wait a bit, I will send her a private message.'

UserM78-' Alchemist? What is that?'

UserF57-' An alchemist is a cultivator who forms pills. Of course, it's a very crude definition. There are many more requirements to become an alchemist. For an alchemist of a particular Tier, he/she should be able to form the pill of that Tier with a success rate of 50%. Take big sister 82 for an example, she can form a peak grade Tier 5 pill once for every two tries. Hence, she can be regarded as a peak grade Tier 5 alchemist'

Li Yu sucked in a big mouthful of air. Peak grade Tier 5 pills! Weren't the Tier 5 pills useful for Divine Soul realm? Here he was, content with getting the nine Qi Condensing pills from manager Ma's spatial ring, and his fellow chat room user was already forming peak grade Tier 5 pills! Sighing at the huge difference, he quickly controlled his emotions, sweeping the slight jealousy he felt away from his mind.

It wasn't as if he wanted to be some super awesome expert. His goal was extremely clear. He wanted to search for the person who killed his brother. He didn't know what to do after that, or rather, he didn't have any ambitions in him yet. Hence, he could quickly control his emotions.

He saw as UserF82 came online, and waited for a while to read what he wanted to know. He was feeling a bit nervous talking to someone at such a high status. Obviously, he didn't realise that the other users he had talked to had similar or higher statuses compared to the alchemist big sister. UserF57's grandfather wasn't some ordinary expert, and UserM43 had a similarly strong background as UserF57. The sect, which was headed by big sister 24, was a formidable sect. Even the slightly strict and very helpful uncle 96, who always acts like little children's favourite uncle next door who usually gives away candies, was a formidable expert with a terrifying identity.

UserF82-' Little brother 78, you are very lucky that you got these fruits. The tree which gives birth to these fruits is known as 'Five Life Changing Tree' and it produces five fruits every thousand years. The five fruits are to be consumed within 10 years after their birth, or they will lose their essence. The fruits are collectively known as 'Five Life Changing Fruits'. Their side function is to upgrade the spiritual roots of a cultivator. Red fruit will upgrade Fire element spiritual root, green fruit will upgrade Wood element spiritual root, earthen yellow fruit will upgrade Earth element spiritual root, white fruit will upgrade Metal element spiritual root and blue fruit will upgrade Water element spiritual root.'

UserM78-' What? Spiritual roots can be upgraded? Isn't it supposed to be impossible?'

UserM96-' Why is it considered to be impossible? Little boy Li Yu, remember, we cultivators are already defying the heavens by gaining the amount of power a mortal can never imagine, gaining the amount of lifespan a mortal can never imagine. A cultivator at the peak of the Dao can live longer than the sun and moon, destroy countless stars with a mere flick of a finger, change reincarnation, so why does upgrading the spiritual roots count as impossible?'

UserF82-' Uncle 96 is right, little brother 78, there are many pills that can bring back the dead to living, many pills that can upgrade body types, soul types, and spiritual roots. Don't let yourself be like a frog in a well.'

UserM96-' Well, it isn't his fault anyway, he was a mortal a few days back. However, even though upgrading the spiritual roots, body type and soul type is possible, it becomes progressively hard to do so. In fact, I haven't heard anything that can upgrade the spiritual roots, body type and soul type above peak grade Profound level. There may exist certain methods to upgrade, but I only know of the natural born Sage level and Immortal level, and don't know anyone who has upgraded to the Sage and Immortal level.'

Li Yu now understood everything, and his excitement slightly calmed down. Of course, if it were normal low leveled cultivators, then they would feel like their whole world was crumbling down as they digested the knowledge, as the contents of the chat were truly shocking to the core. It wouldn't be wrong to say that cultivators who were approaching the end of their lifespans would have a heart attack. Spiritual roots, body type, and soul type can be upgraded! The knowledge would be like a nuclear bomb exploding in their minds.

Clearly, as Li Yu was new to the 'common sense' of the cultivation world, he did not have a particularly violent reaction.

UserM78-' What is the main function of the fruits?'

UserF82-' The main function of the fruits is to destroy everything within the body, and rebuild it, thus upgrading the body type.'

Hearing the main function of the fruit, Li Yu was not overjoyed due to a possible upgrade to his body type, rather, he found himself in a dilemma.