Spirit Gathering Bead · Mortal Journey Archive

If use this bead to cultivate, cultivation base and magic power will indeed progress at a phenomenal rate,
High-grade cultivators who use this bead to cultivate will find it many times harder to break through bottlenecks than other cultivators.
This is because while the bead does increase your rate of spiritual Qi absorption, it also blunts your sensitivity toward the other types of spiritual Qi. For cultivators below the Nascent Soul Stage, the negative effects stemming from that won’t be very apparent.
However, for a cultivator like you, who will need to sense all types of the world’s origin Qi in order to make a breakthrough, this bead is more trouble than its worth.
As such, the Spirit Gathering Bead is indeed a treasure that’s very tempting to use, but in the Spirit Realm, it’s only given to low-grade cultivators with mediocre aptitudes. No high-grade cultivator would ever use something like this,” the small child explained in detail.
“Is that so? So what you’re saying is that this treasure is completely useless to me.”
“That’s not necessarily the case. If you can find a few rare wood-attribute materials, you’ll be able to convert this bead into another type of treasure known as the Wood Birth Bead.
That bead won’t be able to accelerate your cultivation, but after you completely refine it, you’ll able to attain the immortal body ability. Even though you’ll only be able to use that ability once, it’ll save your life in a perilous situation,” the small child replied