Two months later, the Spirit Boat arrived at Yunhai City, one of the nine great ports of Wu Country. The boat would only remain for a single day, allowing cultivators to disembark while cargo was exchanged; once finished, it would set sail again. Li Yu did not leave his cabin. Although his storage bag contained over seven thousand Spirit Stones, and his supplies of spirit rice and beast-food spirit liquid were still sufficient, earning Spirit Stones was difficult, and he felt it best to avoid unnecessary excursions.
Back in Ruihai City, Li Yu had sold fifty portions of spirit ant powder and fifty Fuling Stems, netting over ten thousand Spirit Stones. The cost, however, was that the Little Armadillo, despite supplementing its spiritual sense with God-Forging Technique pills, had suffered from the trauma of the previous month and was still slumbering within the Spirit Beast Pouch.
Since leaving the Danlin Workshop, the young golden-horned rhinoceros toad—Zhima—had grown significantly thanks to the constant supply of beast-meat pill fragments and spirit liquid, transforming into a "tadpole" with limbs. Li Yu estimated that within three months, it would fully mature into a toad. Once it reached that stage, Zhima’s cultivation would hit the intermediate level of the mortal grade, allowing it to awaken its first innate talent. Li Yu suspected it would be that "descending from the sky" pouncing strike.
Chapter 51