1 Tianyu City, Yang Guang!
"Xiao Guang... The quality of these Azure Jade Grass is too shabby!" the shopkeeper throws the herb aside after he inspects all of them.
"How much can you give me for them?" Yang Guang quickly replied.
"Three Soul Jades. Take it or leave it." the shopkeeper offered a third of the original price, which is nine Soul Jades.
"Make it four!" Yang Guang slaps the surface of the countertop as he tried to raise the price slightly.
"Get out of my shop if you're not selling them. I don't need these trash quality herbs in my store." the shopkeeper packed the herbs roughly and tossed them on the floor.
"Fine! Three Soul Jades then!" Yang Guang picked the Azure Jade Grass from the floor and agreed with the purchasing price.
"It's two Soul Jades now. A few stalks are ruined when you're picking them up." unfortunate for Yang Guang, the shopkeeper did not have the intention to stop making life hard for him.
"Fine!" Yang Guang took out a light green jade from his pocket and tapped on a similar jade that belonged to the shopkeeper. Two white light flashed from the piece of jade, indicating that the two Soul Jades has been transferred from the shopkeeper to Yang Guang.
"Xiao Guang, instead of providing herbs, you should just become a hunter. As long as you can hunt a Stone Rabbit, you won't starve for that day." the shopkeeper added before Yang Guang left his store.
"Uncle Li, I appreciate your advice, but I won't give up. One day, you'll see a Precious-Grade Azure Jade Grass inside your store!" Yang Guang replied and quickly left.
"Stupid brat. With that kind of talent, what kind of useless grass can you grow?" the shopkeeper continued with his talks, but Yang Guang has gone more than a hundred meters away from the store.
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"Back to his broken hut, his first attention was placed inside the greenhouse behind. Within this small greenhouse plants, is two rows of green plants similar to the Azure Jade Grass Yang Guang sold earlier in the herb store.
"I hope this batch of Azure Jade Grass won't have the same problem as before. If these problems continue to rise, I'll have no other choice but to change my profession into a hunter and enter the forest to catch some Stone Rabbits."
After checking up on the condition of the sprouts, Yang Guang returns to the broken hut as he prepared himself to start cultivating.
Jade Realm.
Every individual, from the day they were born, received a piece of bright green jade known as Soul Keeping Jade from heaven. As a form of identity, each piece of Soul Keeping Jade is made different from another.
Once a drop of blood seeps into this jade, it will only recognize this person until he passed away.
The Soul Keeping Jade also mainly used as the container to hold Soul Jade, a piece of jade that was refined from Soul Qi that can be used to cultivates. Of course, this made the Soul Jade quickly became a currency used in daily life due to the inexhaustible source of Soul Qi.
Soul Qi is omnipresent, but the most concentrated source of energy mainly came from plants and minerals found in their daily life. One of the best examples would be the Azure Jade Grass.
Here in Jade Realm, plants rich with Soul Qi is split into four grading categories. Basic, Profound, Earthly, and Heavenly. If the plant is allowed to grow naturally, a matured plant below 10 years is categorized as Basic, below 100 years as Profound, below 1000 years as Earthly, and Above 5000 Years as Heavenly.
But to refine the Soul Jade, the skills and plant are equally important.
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There's nothing better than using Soul Jade to cultivates. Since the Soul Qi within is pure and refined, absorbing the Qi from Soul Jade is much faster than slowly purifying them from nature. Of course, such luxury is only available to Yang Guang once a day, if he's lucky enough to sell some of the herbs.
"Huh..." Yang Guang exhaled a breath of air filled with impurities. After cultivating from when he's ten to five years later, he's only managed to reach the 2nd layer of Jade Formation Realm.
"Three years. I have three more years before my talent stagnates. Is there no other choice but to try the hunter profession?" although he seems calm from the outside, it cannot hide the fact he's worried about his future once he reached 18.
"Let's start with something simple later on at night." Yang Guang decided to hunt. It was not a problem for him as his father was a hunter before he went missing. Although he's lack of experience as a hunter, it was enough for him to hunt for one or two Stone Rabbits.
After resting for a few hours and a nibble on the piece of rabbit jerky with a bowl of boiled potato, Yang Guang left the broken hut with a leather vest, a short blade about the length from his elbow to his fingers, and a weird jade container with a slight stench of blood.
His trip to the Thousand Boar Forest was not too long. It was about half an hour's journey since he's staying about three hours from Tianyu City.
It did not take him too long to find a pack of six Stone Rabbits. As the rabbits barely in the 1st layer of Jade Formation Realm, none of the beasts possess the strength to fight against him.
But it was the same situation for Yang Guang. Stone Rabbit's defensive ability can be said to be around the peak 1st layer to the early stage of the 2nd layer of Jade Formation Realm. With only a lousy Steel blade in his hand, capturing the Stone Rabbit is as hard as planting herbs.
"Ting!"
"Ting!"
"Aargh! I'm mad!" Yang Guang anger explodes.
Cutting, slashing, stabbing, and knocking the outer stone shell of the Stone Rabbit yields no gain for him at all! In return of all those efforts, he even scratched his inner palm to bleed from trying to knock the Stone Rabbit with the hilt.
