In the ancient martial arts world, spiritual stones were rare items. The ancient martial art practitioners from some small sects would even see a spiritual stone as a treasure. On a normal basis, they would be reluctant to even use them.
Mo Wen and Ling Feng were both people who had seen the world at large. But even for them, a spiritual stone a day as a fee for a guide made them secretly astonished.
A sect like the Intentionless Sect would at most accumulate three to five hundred spiritual stones a year. On average, that would be around one spiritual stone a day. This was the spiritual stone intake of a large sect.
In Dragon City, a guide had a daily income of one spiritual stone. It was comparable to the income of a sect!