For Shen Mo, the more top-notch spiritual materials, the merrier. He didn't have to worry about being unable to consume them all.
Take the materials needed for Alchemy as an example.
Raw materials worth 10,000 low-grade Spirit Stones, when refined by other Alchemists with relatively high attainments in the Alchemy Path, would yield Elixirs worth around 30,000 Spirit Stones.
Conversely, Shen Mo, when refining a certain type of Elixir he had mastered, far surpassed ordinary Alchemy Grandmasters in terms of success rate and the yield of Perfect and higher quality Elixirs. He was capable of refining Elixirs worth 50,000 Spirit Stones or even more!
Apart from replenishing spiritual medicinal materials, the rest could be used for his own consumption, sold for profit, or exchanged for other cultivation resources.
The same principle applied to crafting talismans and forging magic artifacts, though their liquidation capacity was slightly lower than that of Elixirs.
