Realizing the inner workings behind this auction, Li Dai decided to enter simply as an independent cultivator and rely on her own strength. Truth be told, she was only here to go through the motions. Her spatial dimension had undergone drastic changes, and she had practically depleted all her heavenly treasures, spiritual plants, materials, and spirit stones. Even though her mine pig averaged about five to ten top-grade spirit stones a day, and she had previously obtained around a hundred top-grade spirit stones from Nan Li'er and her companions, her total stash of top-grade spirit stones amounted to roughly two hundred. While ordinary people might consider two hundred to be a substantial sum—after all, a single top-grade spirit stone was equivalent to one hundred upper-grade spirit stones, ten thousand middle-grade spirit stones, or one million lower-grade spirit stones, meaning her entire collection could be converted into over two hundred million lower-grade spirit stones—two hundred million was utterly insignificant in a vast continent where ordinary mortals incapable of cultivation numbered in the hundreds of billions, and cultivators alone totaled several billion. If the Cultivation World had a wealth ranking, making it into the top thousand would require a lower-grade spirit stone count of at least ten billion. Placed in that context, one could easily see just how impoverished Li Dai truly was.
Of course, among those several billion cultivators, the vast majority poss…
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