Huaining County, Chihufang City, Siyuanxuan.
Deep in the first floor of Siyuanxuan, a large number of spiritual materials are placed on a counter carved with transparent crystal. Next to each spiritual material is a wooden sign with a price.
Gu Qing never called the waitress on the first floor, but searched alone among the dazzling array of spiritual materials for a long time.
"The encirclement and suppression of the soul that was suspected to be a foundation-building monk resulted in the damage to the desire soul banner that was forcibly driven by blood essence. Now the soul mist inside it is billowing, and less than half of the remnant soul has collapsed, leaving only more than 2,800 remnant souls, nine More than 30 of the hundreds of remnant souls of Dazhai Xiu were scattered, and the flagpole was covered with cracks. It must be nourished by Yin Qi and soul wood for a period of time, otherwise the desire soul flag might be damaged. trouble."
At a certain moment, Gu Qing's eyes flashed slightly.
He had found a twenty-year-old Yin wood in a remote corner. Next to the twenty-year-old Yin wood was first-level Yin Qi, both of which were inexpensive.
Yin wood is not a precious thing. Trees that grow in places where yin energy gathers can be called yin wood. However, few trees in places where yin energy gathers can be over a hundred years old.
Therefore, the value of century-old Yin wood is very different from ordinary Yin wood.
The same is true for Yin energy.
Ordinary Yin Qi can be said to be everywhere. Gu Qing practices Yin Sha Xuan Gong, and the blood, cold, and death Qi incorporated into Shenque Point can all be called Yin Qi. However, blood, cold, and death Qi are not pure Yin Qi. They are pure. The Yin Qi usually exists in certain places hundreds or even thousands of feet underground, or even deeper, where the Yin Qi between heaven and earth gathers.
The Yin Qi of the first level is naturally not very valuable, but if it is thousands of feet underground, the Yin Qi of the underworld of the third level or above is extremely valuable.
Less than half an hour later, Gu Qing left Siyuanxuan.
Gu Qing once again came to Yutai Waterside Pavilion located on the edge of Chihufang City and rented the No. 3 room in the waterside pavilion.
The shopkeeper of the Yutai Waterside Pavilion here is still the middle-aged man in brocade robes. This man's face is a bit older than seven years ago.
Gu Qing paid the spirit stone and took a casual look at the few dining monks in the hall. Under the leadership of the middle-aged man in brocade robes, he walked through a water corridor.
But I never met the fishing monk again.
Room A No. 3 is located at the end of the water corridor.
The middle-aged man in a brocade robe led Gu Qing to the door of Room A, No. 3. He paused for a moment and took out a jade plaque with the words "A No. 3" engraved on it.
"Fellow Taoist, holding this jade sign, you can enter and exit Room A, No. 3."
He no longer has the same enthusiasm as before.
After handing the jade token to Gu Qing, the middle-aged man in brocade robes clasped his fists and turned to leave. Gu Qing held the jade token in his hand, played with it for a while, and glanced at the man's back.
His eyes moved slightly, feeling something strange.
But I couldn’t tell what exactly was wrong.
Gu Qing withdrew his gaze. He channeled his spiritual energy into the jade tablet in his hand. A bit of spiritual light flew out from the jade tablet and landed on the door bolt of Room A No. 3 in front of him.
As this bit of spiritual light fell on the door bolt, an invisible formation blockage in front of him surged around like water waves, quickly dissipating, and he pushed open the door with a creak.
Walking into the room, Gu Qing glanced briefly at the interior of the small cave-like room. He slowly walked around the corners of the room and activated his consciousness restrictions as a precaution.
Then Gu Qing came to the training room, took out the streamer array disk, and embedded the slightly dim mid-grade spiritual stone in it. Watching the water curtain of light covering the surroundings, he visualized pure black vertical eyes between his eyebrows, and his body disappeared in Under the stream of light.
In the space of the stone tablet, Gu Qing's figure appeared.
He sat cross-legged on the futon and looked at the desire soul flag.
There seemed to be more cracks on the flagpole.
He used his spiritual consciousness to take the Desire Soul Flag in front of him, and his spiritual consciousness penetrated into it.
In the light blue soul mist, most of the more than two thousand remnant souls fell into a deep sleep. Not only did they recuperate from their injuries, these remnant souls that fell into deep sleep also had to digest the suspected foundation-building cultivating souls that had been devoured earlier. These remnant souls were in deep sleep. , breathing in the light blue soul mist, the light blue soul mist continues to become thinner. As the light blue soul mist becomes thinner, the entire soul flag space trembles slightly from time to time, as if it is about to collapse.
Gu Qing took back his consciousness.
"It seems like the Desire Soul Flag can hold up."
He felt the depleted essence and blood in his body and brushed it against the storage bag on his waist.
The Yin trees on both sides appeared in front of him.
These Yin Woods cost him two hundred low-grade spiritual stones.
Gu Qing glanced at the Yinmu on both sides, explored it with his spiritual consciousness, and then took the Snow Flower Sword. He drew the sword with one hand, a cold light flashed in his hand, and several sword flowers danced.
The Yin wood on both sides turned into debris.
He captured the debris with his spiritual consciousness, then brushed the storage bag at his waist and took out a long-necked white jade bottle.
In this long-necked jade bottle, there are Yin Qi from all directions. Purchasing these Yin Qi cost Gu Qing nearly five hundred low-grade spiritual stones. These spiritual stones can already buy a medium-grade magic weapon.
Pulling out the cork of the long-necked jade bottle, Gu Qing took out the Yin energy in it bit by bit, condensed it on his fingertips, and flicked it towards the fragments of Yin wood that were also captured by his spiritual consciousness. As soon as the Yin Qi comes into contact with the Yin wood debris, it blends into it like water droplets.
After Gu Qing took out all the Yin Qi from the long-necked jade bottle and blended it into the Yin wood fragments, the Yin wood fragments were gathered together like sticky soil.
Gu Qing used his spiritual consciousness to take the clay-like debris of Yin wood in front of him, and then used his spiritual power to shape it and knead it into a dark black box.
His spiritual energy adhered to the surface of the box, forming a mist-like membrane that blocked the Yin Qi from escaping to the outside.
Finally, he put the Desire Soul Banner into the box.
Gu Qing looked at it for a few times and once again put his consciousness into the Desire Soul Flag.
The light blue soul mist is no longer rootless water. It can slowly absorb Yin Qi from the outside world to replenish it. Its thinning trend is temporarily suspended. Gu Qing's consciousness stayed in the Desire Soul Flag for two full hours, and he found that it was As time goes by, the trend of the soul mist becoming thinner has indeed begun to reverse.
Only then did he feel relieved, his consciousness retracted between his brows, he placed the box on the blue-grained 100-ray wood table in front of him, sat back on the futon, then closed his eyes and meditated.
After coming to Chihufang City, the information he got from the conversations with the monks was not without any value.
For example, the matter of the elixir of enlightenment.
Among the monks who came and went, although there was no one who directly mentioned the elixir, there was still more than one monk who mentioned the missing elixir from the Alchemy Sect.
Most of the references to this matter provide irrelevant information.
But by integrating very little useful information, Gu Qing discovered one thing, that is, the two lost orifice elixirs of the Alchemy Sect had not been recovered.
If Old Man Liu really took one of the orifice-opening elixirs and broke through to the first level of Qi refining, that means that there is still one orifice-opening elixir left in the water system of Huaining County, or it may have reached the level of Qi Refining. In the hands of any monk.
Thinking of this, Gu Qing's eyes suddenly opened.
He visualized pure black vertical eyes between his brows, returned to the practice room, took out the spirit stone embedded in the streamer array, put the array plate and the spirit stone together into the storage bag, and then left room No. 3. Come to the water promenade.
Gu Qing's expression was a little strange.
He walked quickly, walking for most of the corridor, and suddenly stopped.
Holding Xuehua Sword in his arms, Gu Qing calmed down.
"The aura of the shopkeeper of the Yutai Waterside Pavilion here is indeed very similar to the alchemy that was seen in Qingyang Town earlier from Old Man Liu using the secret method obtained from Huang Tao of the Aland Cauldron Sect, but now It is still not certain that the elixir of enlightenment is in the possession of the shopkeeper, let alone..."
He abandoned distracting thoughts and moved forward slowly.
The young man in black clothes and white hair holding a sword came to the hall of Yutai Waterside Pavilion and immediately attracted the attention of several eyes.
The middle-aged man in brocade robes behind the counter in the waterside hall also raised his eyes to look at Gu Qing, squeezed out a smile and nodded.
Gu Qing nodded expressionlessly.
He showed no signs of anything unusual. He sat in the hall, ordered a few ordinary spiritual meals to the young man in gray who came up to ask, and waited with half-closed eyes.
After a few breaths, all eyes focused on him moved away.
Gu Qing secretly activated the secret technique of the spiritual eye, and quietly glanced at the middle-aged man in brocade robes behind the counter, his pupils narrowed.
His feeling was indeed correct.
The body of this middle-aged man in brocade robes is lingering with a rich, crystal-white elixir. According to Huang Tao, this crystal-white elixir should come from the orifice-opening elixir.
That is to say.
Even if the orifice elixir is not in this person's body, this person must have had close contact with the orifice elixir.
Gu Qing's heart was churning.
A third-grade mid-level elixir.
A small mountain of medium-grade spiritual stones seemed to be behind the counter of the Yutai Waterside Pavilion. It exuded a dazzling luster, urging him to draw out his sword quickly, kill the middle-aged man in brocade robes, and use the orifice-opening spiritual pill to kill him. Included in the bag.
He writhed in patience and looked back with difficulty.
There are more than a dozen monks in the hall.
Although the person with the highest level of cultivation is only at the tenth level of Qi Refining, there are so many monks. If he goes on a killing spree at this moment, there is a possibility that some fish will slip through the net.
…
The middle-aged man in brocade robes behind the counter felt uneasy.
It was still dark that day, when he went to the fishing ground to buy spiritual fish, he accidentally got this elixir of enlightenment. In the first few days after he got it, he was undoubtedly ecstatic.
The family had long ago sent a portrait of the elixir issued by the Alchemy Sect. He knew that the elixir he had obtained was a third-grade mid-level elixir.
The elixirs he takes for daily practice are of the highest grade, which is the first-grade mid-level elixir. A bottle of ten first-grade mid-level elixirs requires more than two hundred low-grade spiritual stones. As for the first-grade and upper-level elixirs, one pill It requires more than two hundred low-grade spiritual stones. A second-grade low-grade elixir requires more than a thousand low-grade spiritual stones. A second-grade mid-grade elixir requires four to five thousand low-grade spiritual stones. , as for higher-grade elixirs...
He had no idea at that time and had never heard of it.
And this enlightenment elixir is a third-grade mid-level elixir!
After several days of ecstasy, he became uneasy.
He gradually realized something.
This elixir is a very hot potato for him, who only broke through the third level of Qi Refining last year. He has no qualifications to exchange this elixir for a spiritual stone.
He had already inquired.
This enlightenment elixir is worth at least a hundred high-grade spiritual stones.
That is, 10,000 mid-grade spiritual stones and one million low-grade spiritual stones, equivalent to the entire spiritual stone reserve of two first-order spiritual veins, can be exchanged for a high-grade spiritual weapon.
When he heard the value, he was completely stunned.
Then, the ecstasy of getting this elixir completely subsided.
There were only two choices before him.
First, hand over this enlightenment elixir to the family.
But for that family, he had no feelings at all, and was even full of hatred. It would be more uncomfortable for him to do this than to die.
The second is to take this pill.
He didn't know what effect this pill had, let alone whether it was something he could take at the third level of Qi Refining. Maybe the next moment he took this pill, he would explode and die. That was him Never want to see it.
He has a lovely daughter and a gentle wife. Although they are all mortals, he is not afraid of death, and he is not willing to lose them.
The middle-aged man in brocade robe slowly stood up.
In his heart, he secretly made a decision.
