Chapter Thirteen, New Year’s Eve Transformation
In the next few days, Qingshi went to the alchemy room of the Alchemist Guild every morning to refine elixirs. There was a magic circle arranged there that was conducive to alchemy. It was much easier to practice elixirs and the quality of the resulting elixirs was relatively high.
In the afternoon, Qingshi walked around the city. Naturally, he saw the admission brochure of Liangyuan College. Not only that, Qingshi also learned more about the school education system in this world. As his understanding deepened, Qingshi also made his own plans.
It is certain to enter the academy to practice, but it is not to enter Liangyuan Academy, nor Mingshan Academy in the capital of Mingshan Kingdom. His goal is Tianlong Academy, the highest level monk school in the entire Tianlong Dynasty.
In addition, Qingshi also visited hundreds of large and small shops selling cultivation resources in Liangyuan City, such as medicinal material shops, pill shops, weapons shops, spiritual weapon shops, bookstores, miscellaneous shops, etc.
Qingshi knew that what he needed were natural and earthly treasures or high-end treasures that could not only help him greatly increase his energy but also be affordable. Such treasures could never be sold casually in any store, so Qingshi The original intention was to pick up and see if I could come across some buried treasures.
But it's not that easy. After a few days of browsing, I didn't find any good things that were useful to me. I did see a few good things that could be considered missed, but the quality was not very high. Except for me, It's of no use except to earn some spiritual stones, and Qingshi doesn't bother to take advantage of them.
In a small street in the east of the city, Qingshi walked into a grocery store.
This store is only three square feet, and it sells all kinds of sundries, such as old weapons, various minerals, metals, some strange equipment whose uses are unknown, etc.
Qingshi turned around and didn't find what he wanted. He turned around and went out, but stopped and pointed at a piece of black ore and asked: "Boss, is this black iron ore? How to sell it?"
"Your Majesty, your eyesight is very good." The boss, who is about forty years old and of medium height, said with a smile on his face, "This piece of black iron ore is a good material for making weapons. It weighs sixty-nine pounds and forty taels. Your Majesty, please If so, give me eighty middle-grade spiritual stones."
"Oh, that's a bit cheap."
"Haha, to be honest, this black iron stone has a little more impurities."
"Well, there are a lot of impurities, but these impurities may be more valuable. The boss might as well take a closer look."
"This...aren't these blue iron mixed in black iron?"
"Well, most of them are blue iron, but I think the piece here looks like blue iron. Let's break it open and take a look. Maybe there's some inside."
"Ah! No way?" The boss quickly looked closely at the place pointed out by Qingshi, and then picked at it with his nails, "Oh, it's true, this, this..."
"Haha, am I right?" Qingshi looked at the boss' stunned look and teased with a smile, "How about it? Or sell me 80 middle-grade spiritual stones?"
"This... this guest is so righteous and has good eyesight." Rolling his eyes, the boss pretended to be generous and said, "Since the guest is so righteous, then you can tell me a price. Absolutely nothing."
"I don't need this thing," Qingshi said, "otherwise I would buy it for eighty middle-grade spiritual stones." After saying that, he laughed and walked away.
Unable to pick up the leak, Qingshi wanted to participate in the auction.
Generally, big cities have big chambers of commerce that hold auctions on a regular basis, and Liang Yuan only has one Dayuan chamber of commerce that cooperates with the city lord's government that is qualified to hold auctions. But the news I heard is that there was a special session for the examination and entrance season just half a month ago. Generally, it will be at least three months before there is another auction.
Qingshi didn't give up, and made a special trip to the Dayuan Chamber of Commerce's store that afternoon. He deliberately put on the uniform of the Alchemist Guild, but the nameplate was not exposed and was tucked into his belt.
As soon as he entered the store, he saw a middle-aged man approaching. He held up his hands and said with a smile from afar: "Oh, what a distinguished guest. I am Wu Chuanhui, the shopkeeper of our store. This must be a bluestone alchemist. Well, it is indeed a young Gao." Talented."
"Well! Do you know me?" Qingshi was shocked.
"Hahaha, our Liangyuan Alchemist Guild has newly registered a second-level alchemist. This is big news. I don't know which alchemist in Liangyuan? I can't guess it when I see your uniform. If you come out, then you are not worthy of being the shopkeeper."
Qingshi didn't expect that he would become famous all of a sudden, so he thought it was not a bad thing, and raised his hand to greet shopkeeper Wu.
After a few words of greeting, shopkeeper Wu asked: "Brother Qingshi came to my place because he must have something to do. I wonder if there is any brother who can help me?"
"You're welcome, Shopkeeper Wu," Qingshi said, "To be honest, I need a few things to come to your Chamber of Commerce and want to see if you have any."
"Oh, what is it?"
"Chicken blood fruit, red phosphorus snake gallbladder, nine-turn jade liquid."
"Ah" Shopkeeper Wu was startled, then shook his head, "To be honest, I have never heard of chicken blood fruit and red phosphorus snake gallbladder. Please forgive my ignorance. I know about the Nine-turn Jade Liquid, but I don’t have one here, and even in the General Assembly, there may not be one.” But he secretly murmured in his heart: Even if there is one, I’m afraid it’s not something you, a newly promoted second-level alchemist, can afford.
Qingshi was slightly disappointed, but as expected, he said goodbye with a few words of greeting.
The next day, at noon, Qingshi walked out of the alchemy room of the Alchemist Guild and went directly to the warehouse manager Huang Lun to hand in the task. Manager Huang was shocked and asked why it took five days to complete the medicine after receiving it?
An ordinary second-level alchemist can refine up to three or four furnaces of pills in a day. How can he refine ten or eight furnaces of pills without stopping like a bluestone without feeling tired.
Qingshi said that he already had a lot of elixirs that met the mission requirements with him, so he should use them to hand in the mission first.
After handing in the task, Qingshi went to the elixir store to find Yu Tao, consigned some elixirs that he did not need, and bought a large amount of medicinal materials. He also figured it out. Since there was no better way, he would rely on alchemy to earn resources to maintain his practice.
Although the amount of cultivation resources he needs is huge, as a registered second-level alchemist who can refine most three-star or even several four-star elixirs, it is enough to earn resources through alchemy to maintain his cultivation. No matter what, cultivation cannot be stopped.
Next, Qingshi rented a small courtyard house in the north of the city. It was smaller than the house in Maozhu Town, but it was beautifully decorated and fully equipped.
Qingshi once again devoted himself wholeheartedly to the practice of Zhenqi, practicing Dahuang Gong every day until his body could bear the limit.
The rest of the time was mainly spent refining elixirs. He made two-star and three-star elixirs and sold them on consignment. The spiritual stones he earned bought medicinal materials to refine the three-star or even four-star Qi elixirs he needed.
After practicing so crazily, more than two months passed quickly. Seeing that the New Year is approaching, the streets began to be decorated with lights and colorful decorations, and the New Year atmosphere became stronger.
The New Year of the Tianlong Dynasty is the most solemn festival. The first to the tenth day of the Lunar New Year are holidays. It is a day for the whole people to take a break and revel.
On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, Qingshi made an exception and did not practice any exercises or make elixirs. Instead, he walked around on the street to feel the flavor of the new year.
But as I walked around, there were fewer and fewer people on the street, and more and more shops were closed.
Subconsciously walking to the Alchemist's Guild, Qingshi found that the alchemy shop had closed early. Remembering that President Lin, Elder Lu and others had also returned to the capital, Qingshi refused to enter the guild and turned to look at the lanterns on the square.
The lanterns here look big and bright, and are filled with flowers, birds, insects, fish, and animals. However, the workmanship is rough and there are few interesting ideas, including lantern riddles, calligraphy, and paintings. Because it was daytime, there were only a few people coming to watch. Qingshi was uninterested and slowly walked towards his home in the north of the city.
On New Year's Eve, every household has a reunion dinner and worships ancestors and some gods. This custom of worshiping gods was originally very prosperous, but there has been no true god in the Tianlong Continent for a long time, so this custom has slowly declined.
At dusk, snowflakes began to fall from the sky, and the originally bustling streets gradually became deserted. Almost all the shops were closed, and there were almost no pedestrians on the streets.
Qingshi stopped when he walked to the dilapidated Tianshen Temple near the back door of the government office. Outside the locked temple door, there was a person lying on his side on the steps. Qingshi walked over and took a look, and saw a man with a red face and a slight smell of alcohol. The old man is short and slightly fat. Although he is dressed in brocade clothes, he is a bit dirty and slovenly. He looks a bit like Elder Lu, but he has a big white beard instead of black, and even his long eyebrows. It's snow white.
The old man squinted his eyes and murmured. Qingshi came closer to listen, but he kept talking about something. These turtles and grandsons built a house for me but locked the door to prevent them from entering. They prepared wine and meat and said that they wanted to be filial to the master, but I pretended to show off. If you take it home, eat or drink it, it’s nothing.
Qingshi was amused. It was obvious that the old man was drunk and not a beggar. Although he couldn't tell whether he was a monk, his body looked quite strong, but it was not easy to live in this ice and snow.
Qingshi knelt down, patted the old man and yelled for him to wake up, but the old man was always hazy in drunkenness, grunting and ignoring him.
After a while, Qingshi reluctantly took out a cloak and covered the old man, then took out a pill and stuffed it into the old man's mouth. With this pill, even if the old man is just an ordinary person, at least he will not freeze. Dead.
Qingshi stood up and walked away. After a while, he returned home, closed the door and sat on the training stone platform in the middle of the yard. He took out the last fourth-grade zhenqi pill on his body and took it. Qingshi started today's practice.
During the silent operation of the Great Huang Gong, the rich spiritual energy in the elixir circulates along the meridians according to the mind. After a week, it gathers into the sea of Qi in the Dantian and turns into one's own true qi. Then, just like in the past, the true qi flows into the bright green soul and disappears without a trace.
Qingshi's mind was not distracted, and he gradually entered a state of forgetfulness of things and myself. Since he was taking pills to practice, the aura outside his body was not disturbed. Although the snow was not heavy, it slowly accumulated on Qingshi's body after a while, and soon his hair and eyebrows were all covered. White.
After touching it for about an hour, the aura provided by the elixir gradually reached its optimal level. Qingshi used all his strength to run the exercises to transform the true energy. At a certain moment, a voice came from the sea of Qingshi's consciousness, no, a message, a long-lost, strange and strange Familiar message: "Need more chi/energy".
This message resounded in the Bluestone Sea of Consciousness, no more than a thunder in the ears. Three years, yes, three full years, finally, the bright green soul body woke up.
Qingshi suppressed his excitement and sent back a message: "You finally woke up! Great!"
"Your mental control is unstable/body control is unstable, and there is a non-energy fluctuation that is very complicated and uncontrollable." A message was sent back to Qingshi.
"It doesn't matter. I'm fine. It's just feelings/mood swings. I'm very happy/excited/excited." Qingshi replied.
"You're talking like me! Feelings/emotions? Well...I feel it; happiness/excitement/excitement? Well...I feel it."
"Great, we'll talk about the rest later. You said you still need spiritual energy?"
"Yes, more."
"I can't give any more now, my body can't handle it."
"Yes, I understand, so I'm leaving."
"You don't need to leave. I can't provide you with Qi right now, but I can do it again after a few hours of rest."
"Yes, I know, but when I wake up, I can absorb energy by myself. Thank you for everything you have done these days. Thank you for being happy for me."
"You are also imitating my speech. You saved me, I should be the one thanking you."
"Yes, I am learning from you too. I woke up, I felt everything you did in the past three years, and I began to understand/learn from you/humanity. I save you, you save me, I thank you, and you thank me."
"Then where are you going?"
“Don’t know, I’ll find/create a place that works for me.”
"Can you tell me who you are? My name is Qingshi."
"I am Yunli."
"Will we meet again in the future?"
"I don't know, your feelings/emotions are fluctuating again, but it's different."
"Yeah, the emotion is regret/sadness."
"Well...I feel it. When I wake up, you are happy; when I leave, you are sad. It's interesting, magical, and...beautiful! Okay, I'm leaving, before I leave I will help you, be ready to receive the energy I give you.”
"No, I can practice by myself. If you leave, I can practice quickly. You need a lot of energy, so don't waste it on me."
"You provided me with energy to wake me up. Now that I'm awake, energy is no longer an issue. I have a lot of energy, and there are many ways to get a lot of energy. Accept it!"
Within the body, the bright green soul body suddenly spit out a pure white energy ball. The energy ball rushed into Qingshi's Dantian Qi sea and was suspended in it.
Then, the trace of bright green zhenqi in Qingshi's body quickly retracted towards the bright green soul body, and after a few breaths, it all flowed into it. The next moment, the bright green soul body drifted out of Qingshi's body like a green ball, and then disappeared with a flash of green light. Gone.
In the small courtyard, the snow had stopped. Qingshi, who was sitting quietly like an old tree, was suddenly shaken. The snow on his body was suddenly stirred by a strong aura, forming a white cyclone that rotated crazily around the bluestone. The aura of the surrounding heaven and earth was swept away. It was absorbed and poured into Qingshi's body.
In the Dantian Qi sea, the white sphere rotates slowly, spitting out a huge amount of white Qi, quickly filling the Qi sea. Then Qingshi shakes his body, the Qi sea expands by one point, and the white Qi shrinks and condenses into a white air ball. Qingshi understood that his cultivation level had improved a lot.
But it wasn't over yet. The white sphere continued to spit out huge amounts of Qi, showing no signs of stopping. This process was repeated five times before the white sphere exhausted its energy and dissipated.
After a long time, Qingshi slowly opened his eyes and felt himself. Yes, he was already at the third level of Qi Gathering Realm, and the true energy in his Dantian was almost overflowing.
In the past, I had not advanced to a higher level of cultivation in three years. I felt that it was really difficult to reach a higher level. But now, I easily advanced to the fifth level in less than an hour. Even if it is from the ninth level of the Qi Training Realm to the first level of the Qi Gathering Realm, it is still a big step. Easily crossed without any obstacles. It seems that upgrading is incredibly simple.
Slowly calming his mind and breathing evenly, Qingshi discovered an even more incredible situation, an extremely huge surprise. Compared with this situation, being promoted to five levels in a row was simply negligible.
Qingshi found that his own Qi was mixed with traces of colored Qi. Counting silently, there were seven colors in total, namely red, green, yellow, blue, orange, cyan, and purple.
Qingshi naturally understood what this meant, but he couldn't believe it.
Yes, this is the attribute Qi. The five colors red, green, yellow, blue, and orange represent the five elements attributes Qi of fire, wood, earth, water, and gold respectively, while the two colors blue and purple represent the wind attribute. There are two types of high-attribute infuriating energy with thunder attribute.
The bluestone itself has two attributes of fire and wood, which has made him a unique alchemist. Now, he has all the attributes of the five elements, which means that he can also become an weapon refiner and a mysterious formation master. .
As for martial arts, he can practice all seven attribute exercises and attribute martial arts. He himself didn't know how to describe his cultivation talent.
After a long time, Qingshi calmed down and stood up in the small courtyard. The snowflakes are getting bigger and falling in large numbers.
The midnight hour has arrived, and people around are cheering for the countdown to the New Year: Five-four-three-two-one, it’s Chinese New Year! It’s Chinese New Year! ...
Qingshi knew that his path of cultivation had truly begun.
