The other materials were a lot easier, if a fair bit more boring. Starsteel and moonstone, and the less common sunstone, each crushed into a fine powder and placed in glass ampules. Mostly because they’d be really suspicious otherwise. A bunch of different types of blood including, maybe unwisely but it wasn’t like anyone would be able to use it to hurt him from what he’d seen, his own

, also put into glass vials. Several types of exotic stones, most of which were tiny slivers too small to be useful in almost anything. A vial of spiritual asbestos, which was both really funny and a little scary, given he’d found it in a motal market just outside the city. An entire first-step spiritual fish. It was a small fish. Several types of qi-infused inkstones… and so on and so forth.

When he finally spread everything out on his desk, he realized he’d gotten a little more than he’d expected. Trash, yes, but it was a fairly decent amount of trash…

“What’s this?” The blinked, glancing up at Janus as he walked into his office with a handful of books, only to stop and stare at the eclectic collection of stuff on his desk. “It’s… wait. Let me guess. Stones… blood? Some metal, a fish, a few seeds… trinkets. It's a collection of trinkets.”

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Mingtian rolled his eyes. “That’s not even a collection category.”

Janus huffed. “Well, I tried my best! It’s a really random assortment, alright?” A second passed. “Well… what is it?”

“Some simple spiritual materials for Lily to practice with.” Janus’s eyes widened in dramatic surprise. “There was a bit more than I’d expected in the end. I’m going to need to enchant a whole briefcase to store it all at this rate…”

“Right.” Janus stared at the various spiritual materials, before just sighing and turning away. “Right. Of course. I’m just going to… go. Have fun with that.” Mingtian chuckled softly to himself as he turned tail and fled. Too cultivator-y for him, he supposed…

Now, to see what Lily could do with some proper resources. He smiled.

He couldn’t wait to see what Lily came up with for the exams.