Dark stone interior.
Wrapped by the lotus platform transformed into five-color spiritual light, Gu Qing's expression became more and more peaceful. His handsome face was as beautiful as cast iron, and his skin and flesh were as white as jade, like a statue of a god sitting on a sacred platform.
He closed his eyes slightly, looked at his nose, and his nose looked at his heart, and his mind reflected on his body, limbs, and bones. He realized that from just having a stray thought to extinguishing the stray thought, it only happened in the blink of an eye. In fact, six or seven days have passed since the outside world!
During these six or seven days.
The gathering of spiritual energy from heaven and earth caused by his practice caused the island with a radius of twenty to thirty miles to be shrouded in thin mist. If a monk could look down from mid-air, he would be able to see that the mist that shrouded the island was in the air. During the gathering and dispersing, they were faintly gathering somewhere above the shoal.
The fog covering the island is not spiritual fog.
Just ordinary water mist
For monks, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is comparable to the unusual water vapor. But for the heaven and earth itself, whether it is the spiritual energy of heaven and earth or water vapor, it is just the transformation of qi. And because of Gu Qing's practice, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is gathered together. Wherever you go, water vapor will naturally gather.
As water vapor gathers, mist arises.
This kind of fog that has enveloped the entire island and lasted for several days is a rare sight even for the people who have lived on the island for generations. There was a heavy fog, so no one paid too much attention to this matter.
But the three monks stationed on the island still noticed something unusual one after another, not to mention the old monk who was in the middle stage of Qi refining and possessed divine consciousness.
On that night when the fog enveloped the island.
The remaining two early-stage Qi refining monks, after working hard on the soft bed, used the rare technique to breathe out the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to restore their body's great loss of energy.
Immediately afterwards, the two of them noticed it.
After I could no longer breathe in the aura of heaven and earth from the surrounding heaven and earth, I finally realized that the sudden mist that enveloped the entire island was extraordinary!
So the two of them were shocked. Their usual calm demeanor was completely gone. They got up from the bed one after another, put on their clothes randomly, broke out of the door, walked through the hall, and opened the door on the fifth floor of Qi Refining. The three of them gathered at the old monk's door and discussed for several hours, but they couldn't get any results and they broke up on bad terms.
The two of them were panic-stricken, and returned to their rooms. Faced with Ruhua Meiji who was usually too late to love her, they had no intention of paying attention to her.
Just in these six or seven days.
The two people's usual leisure and leisure time disappeared without a trace, and they consulted with the old monk more than a dozen times!
And just when the three monks on the island were struggling.
A dim ray of light quietly emerged from the shoal of the island where the fog had gathered, and Gu Qing, dressed in black robes, appeared. He stood on the shoal with an expressionless face, releasing his spiritual consciousness and roughly scanning the surroundings. Thirty miles in radius, it was slightly raised and revealed, and suddenly rose into the air.
A dim escaping light circled over the island for several times, then suddenly found its direction and disappeared. In the blink of an eye, it turned into a star point in the sky and disappeared among the thick white clouds in the sky.
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The clouds are stacked on top of each other, like balls of rolling cotton. When you look at them from the ground, you will feel that they are moving very slowly, but when you travel between the clouds, you will realize that most of the clouds are not moving at a slow speed. Even the monks in the middle stage of Qi refining, flying at full speed with their swords, may not be able to catch up with the speed of the clouds.
Gu Qing penetrated a group of cool clouds, paused for a moment, patted the spirit beast bag on his waist, and released the black tiger monster.
The black tiger seemed to have just woken up from a deep sleep, and was still a little dizzy. It was not as usual. As soon as it was released by Gu Qing, it looked up to the sky and roared. Its body, which was more than three feet tall, fell diagonally downwards as soon as it appeared. Then, he fell for more than ten feet before he flapped his wings vigorously and flew away.
Roar! Hoho!
As if to convey dissatisfaction, the black tiger flew to Gu Qing's side and roared a few times like a cat. The black tiger's voice was similar to that of ordinary tiger beasts, but it was obviously much louder. At this time, , even though it was just a low roar, it actually dispersed a lot of the surrounding clouds.
"Heartless." Gu Qing slapped the black tiger's huge head, laughed and scolded, swayed, and sat cross-legged on his back, "Your master, I gave you the body of the unlucky guy from the Qiu family. Looking at your current appearance, eating its flesh and blood, you should gain a lot from it?"
Hearing Gu Qing's words, Black Tiger seemed a little confused.
It shook its head and looked at the surrounding clouds. Its big pink nose twitched slightly, vibrating its black feathered wings, and flew forward.
"The body has grown a bit, and the demonic aura around him is a bit stronger." Gu Qing glanced back at the black tiger's strong figure, nodded with satisfaction, and usually fed the black tiger monster beast feeding pills, that is, It can keep the black tiger monster alive and its flying ability will not decline.
'It seems that we need to improve the strength of the black tiger monster, make it fly faster, and feed it with blood food! ’ Gu Qing nodded in agreement.
Gu Qing communicated with the black tiger through the spiritual imprint left in his body, and ordered him to fly in the direction of Qingshu Island. After that, he sat cross-legged on the black tiger's back, closed his eyes and began to think quietly.
Rushing to Qingshu Island was his decision after careful consideration.
If he had a choice, he would rather never see the middle-aged man in blue shirt again.
After all, the strength of the middle-aged man in blue shirt was extremely terrifying. It could be said that he had no ability to resist in front of that man.
Gu Qing never wanted to experience the feeling of leaving his life and death in the control of others, but he had no choice.
At first, he was able to separate the body of the ancient demon with great kindness from the middle-aged man in blue shirt. Then, under the instructions of the middle-aged man in blue shirt, he found Lin Yan and rushed to the Zichen secret realm with Lin Yan - although He did not rush to the Zi Chen Secret Realm with Lin Yan, but he was able to get out of the Zi Chen Secret Realm in the end thanks to the moving order given by Lin Yan.
The reason why Lin Yan, an elder disciple of the Loose Cultivator Alliance, took the initiative to give him a moving order to leave the Zichen Secret Realm safely was because he wanted to thank him for helping him when he was competing for the place to enter the Purple Light Pool. But most of it depends on the face of the middle-aged man in blue shirt.
In this way, the middle-aged man in blue shirt was as kind to him as a mountain of kindness, and he had no reason not to return to Qingshu Island after completing what the middle-aged man in blue shirt had entrusted him to do that day.
'What's more... with that person's cultivation, if he really had any plans for me, I wouldn't be able to avoid him at all. After thinking about it, Gu Qing smiled bitterly and shook his head. Then his thoughts moved, and spiritual energy formed a barrier around his body, blocking the strong wind from the sky. The black robe that was originally blowing in the wind immediately became Deflated.
Gu Qing stretched out his hand, and a purple flying sword appeared in his hand.
It was the damaged magic weapon obtained from the girl Ye A.
He captured the purple flying sword with his spiritual consciousness and made it hang in front of him. Then he took out a high-grade spiritual stone in one hand and held it in his hand. In the other hand, he condensed the Five Elements Taboo and began to refine the sword.
Gu Qing has broken through all the twenty or so storage rings.
Although it has not been sorted out yet, after he breaks each storage ring, he will use his spiritual consciousness to explore it and take a few quick glances.
The harvest from this trip to Zichen Secret Realm is indeed extremely rich.
Just five of the suspected magic weapons were harvested.
But among the five magic weapons, the only flying sword magic weapon is this purple flying sword. The other four are a hammer, a shield, a ring, and a bead.
Among these five magic weapons, Gu Qing chose the purple flying sword for sacrifice. Generally speaking, in his past journey, he used flying swords more often. As for the other four magic weapons...the ferocious hammer-shaped one That magic weapon is obviously a weapon for attack, and the large purple shield is a weapon for defense. On top of attack and defense, Gu Qing feels that the Tongshan Seal can still last for a long time.
This Tongshan Seal obtained from Li Hengyang is only a middle-grade spiritual weapon, but it is obviously an extraordinary middle-grade spiritual weapon. Even if he has reached the current level, he is still far from exerting its full power.
If nothing unexpected happens, he will sell the hammer-shaped magic weapon and the large shield magic weapon. As for the ring magic weapon and the bead-shaped magic weapon...
Gu Qing was more satisfied with it. He planned to go to Qingshu Island and find a place to stay. After some research, he kept one piece as appropriate and sold the other one together with the hammer-shaped magic weapon and the large shield magic weapon.
The black tiger carried Gu Qing, who was covered by the five-color aura barrier, and flew slowly over the sea for ten days, arriving at the waters near Qingshu Island.
The whole journey to Qingshu Island was uneventful. Although I encountered a few monks on their way, no one disturbed Gu Qing, who showed off his cultivation aura without any concealment. For a fifth-level foundation builder, Monks, even late-stage foundation-building monks, are not willing to offend easily.
However, after approaching the sea area where Qingshu Island was located, Gu Qing still stood up from the black tiger's back and put the black tiger into the spirit beast bag.
Qingshu Island is not comparable to Changming Island.
Qingshu Island, where the headquarters of the Loose Cultivator Alliance in the Linyu Sea Area is located, can be said to be a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger. Not to mention that there are as many monks as stars in the foundation-building period. Even the alchemy monks who are releasing their aura can be seen from time to time. It is even possible to see them. Infants and old monsters are all hidden in the crowd.
If he approaches the waters of Qingshu Island and remains as high-profile as when he is on his way, he may offend some weird old monster, be secretly resented by him, and then die suddenly when he leaves the waters of Qingshu Island.
Gu Qing calmed down his breath slightly, and flew away for a certain distance. He landed on an empty cliff on Qingshu Island. He pressed the escape light and looked around quickly. He saw that there were only a few Qi Refining monks around. , withdrew his gaze and walked towards the island.
'It's really difficult to refine the magic weapon. '
'In ten days, I was only halfway through the process of refining the purple flying sword. If I want to completely complete the refining process, it will take eight or nine days. 'The water-like darkness on Qingshu Island gradually engulfed Gu Qing's figure. The place was still the same as when he came before. The whole island was shrouded in deep darkness, which looked very strange.
If you look at it from a distance, you can see layers of white spiritual mist, which seems to form a huge whirlpool of spiritual energy surrounding the darkness on Qingshu Island. Pour into the darkness shrouding Qingshu Island.
You can sense it when you are in the darkness that envelopes Qingshu Island.
In this deep darkness, there is also spiritual mist gathering and dispersing, but the white spiritual mist cannot give the darkness any color.
The escaping lights either left from Qingshu Island, or came to Qingshu Island from far away, just like a shower of stars in the sky, coming and going. Gu Qing was only an insignificant part of it, almost no one noticed him, but There are always exceptions to everything. Qingshu Island has a prosperous market that is well-known far and wide, and there are also a number of monks who are engaged in guiding people.
"Senior, is this your first time coming to Qingshu Island?"
"I'm in Yinkuang. Six generations of our ancestors have lived here. The fees are low..."
Gu Qing had just taken a few dozen steps when several half-grown monks in the early stage of Qi Refining came out from behind the pillars of the archway on one side, and they were busy promoting themselves.
"No need."
Gu Qing frowned slightly, flicked his sleeves and robes, and several half-grown early-stage Qi-refining monks were pushed away by a gentle force. He walked a few steps quickly and glanced back at a few disappointed Qi-refining monks who had returned to the archway. The monk in the early stage of Qi raised his eyes and looked at the plaque on the archway.
"Qingshu." Gu Qing whispered to himself.
On the plaque, there is only the word Qingshu in ancient seal script.
Walking past this archway, through the deep darkness, you can see sparse stalls and magnificent shops.
'Didn't that person notice that I was here? '
In the water-like darkness around him, Gu Qing took steps and wandered around the island for about a moment, but he never felt the coldness he felt when he was stared at by the middle-aged man in blue shirt.
When passing by a store selling elixirs, he paused in his steps, turned around, and walked towards the elixir shop.
This shop selling elixirs is called 'He Zhen Pavilion'.
It has three floors.
There are powerful formations arranged both inside and outside.
After entering the door of this store, the darkness that had always shrouded his eyes was gone. Gu Qing could see the first floor of this store. This first floor was extremely spacious and roughly divided into three parts. The three parts were colored red, green, and white. Distinguished by three different colors of decoration.
"Today, the elixir recently refined by Fairy Bai arrived..."
"Master Huo opened the furnace yesterday and refined a total of 283 One-Qi Heyuan Pills. Each One-Qi Heyuan Pill is thirty middle-grade spiritual stones. If you buy it in bottles, a bottle of ten pills will make a total of 290. Middle-grade spiritual stone..."
The red and white decorations on both sides of the first floor are very busy at the moment. Behind the unique crystal counter, there are several young monks who are constantly saying hello. In front of the counter, there are monks in the middle and late stages of Qi Refining. , there was a long queue, including more than one monk who had achieved the Great Perfection of Qi Refining.
Among the cultivators queuing up, there were frequent waves of spiritual soul fluctuations, and from time to time there were whispers of conversation. The content of the exchanges probably revolved around the recent increase in the price of the elixirs needed for cultivation.
Gu Qing walked forward and came to the stairs leading to the second floor. He was immediately greeted by a waitress with a respectful face.
"Senior." The waitress stepped forward, bowed to Gu Qing first, and then led Gu Qing upstairs.
The stairs leading to the second floor of the store were not long, only two sections, with a total of more than fifty steps. After reaching the second floor, Gu Qing raised his eyebrows slightly and saw a completely different scene from the first floor of the store.
I saw layers of bright, white-light colored glaze, evenly embedded on the four walls of the second floor, shining like the warm sun. There were several tables of different heights with green lines like tree branches. They are scattered around, with a number of elixir bottles hanging on each table.
The color of the elixir bottle is green or white, and the texture is fine. Below it, at the corresponding position on the table, there are faintly visible small characters, which write the detailed introduction of the bottle of elixir and the selling price.
The waitress on the side took Gu Qing to the second floor, then slowly stepped back, and was greeted by a tall, thin old man who was full of energy.
"I wonder what kind of elixir does this fellow Taoist need?" The tall and thin old man stroked his beard and chuckled, his eyes flashed, and he looked at Gu Qing calmly, "Fellow Taoist, you can take a look at it for a few times before responding to me. "
Gu Qing glanced at the tall and thin old man and nodded slightly.
Gu Qing couldn't see through the cultivation of this tall and thin old man.
But it should not have reached the elixir formation stage, and should still be in the late stage of foundation building.
'The lowest level here is for the upper-level second-level elixir. Each bottle of the elixir costs about five hundred middle-level spiritual stones. The top-level second-level elixir costs three to four thousand mid-level spiritual stones per bottle. The lower-level third-level elixir costs about three thousand or four thousand. Pills generally cost more than 10,000 pieces of middle-grade spiritual stones. Gu Qing walked around the second floor and paused.
He had taken one of the Lotus Heart Jade Dew Pill before when he was mentally and physically exhausted. It was quite helpful in increasing his cultivation.
Under the influence of the medicinal power of the Lotus Heart Jade Dew Pill, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth pouring into his body around him, and the three-phase effect of the top-quality spiritual stone, he had truly improved his cultivation after practicing some time ago, and once again After breaking through more than twenty acupoints and repeating it three to five times, you should be able to reach the fifth level of foundation building.
Therefore, Gu Qing does not intend to sell this Lotus Heart Jade Dew Pill.
His eyes flashed slightly, he looked at the tall and thin old man, considered it, and said: "I wonder if your shop has this third-grade low-level 'Indigo Body Casting Pill', if you buy three bottles at a time, can you collect less spiritual stones?"
"Hmm... As for the Indigo Body Casting Pill, three bottles should be worth 33,000 medium-grade spiritual stones." The tall and thin old man was a little surprised. He took a deep look at Gu Qing and smiled slightly, "However, this kind of pill is just right. Refining it for me, if my fellow Taoist wants to buy it, just give him 30,000 medium-grade spiritual stones."
Gu Qing nodded slightly, waved his sleeves, and 30,000 middle-grade spiritual stones appeared neatly piled in an open space on the second floor.
Seeing Gu Qing being so forthright, the tall and thin old man was also unambiguous.
He also took out three blue pill bottles from the treasure of storage.
The blue pill bottle was made of jade, but not jade. It had the texture of gold and iron. It arced in mid-air and was caught in Gu Qing's hand.
Gu Qing concentrated his consciousness into it and carefully examined it several times. Combined with the previous introduction about the Indigo Body Casting Pill from "Three Hundred Years of Scenery in the World of Cultivation in the Vast Sea", it was confirmed that it was correct.
This type of Indigo Body Building Pill is made from the blood of a demonic beast called 'Indigo' as the main medicine. Its main function is to assist monks in the middle stage of foundation building to open up acupuncture points all over the body.
Gu Qing turned over and put away the three bottles of pills.
The tall and thin old man had already done some testing. He put away 30,000 pieces of middle-grade spiritual stones, handed Gu Qing a communication talisman, and then cupped his fists and said, "I wish you the best. I am willing to be the current leader of Hezhen Pavilion." Shopkeeper, if you Taoist friends need it again in the future, you can come to Hezhen Pavilion to find me... Although I cannot guarantee that the price given is low enough, I will never cheat or destroy my brand."
"In addition, if fellow Taoists want to sell any unused elixirs, they can also come to Hezhen Pavilion. Hezhen Pavilion is backed by several large monk families and is somewhat famous in the sea area of Qingshu Island."
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After leaving Hezhen Pavilion, Gu Qing glanced at the communication talisman in his hand.
This communication talisman is in the shape of a nameplate, with the word "He Zhen" engraved on the front, and on the back is a simple outline of an old man with immortal style and Taoist bones who is lifelike - the old man in this painting is not the tall and thin old man, He Zhen. Zhu Ying, the shopkeeper of Zhen Pavilion, should be the founder of He Zhen Pavilion.
'Hezhen Pavilion...'
'After spending so many spiritual stones, I wonder if I will be targeted...'
Gu Qing looked back inadvertently, glanced at Hezhen Pavilion behind him, then pondered for a moment, put away the strange-shaped communication talisman, and continued to wander around Qingshu Island like a headless fly.
Although it seemed aimless on the surface, Gu Qing was actually waiting for the 'summon' from the middle-aged man in blue shirt. The scene where the middle-aged man in blue shirt 'summoned' him away was still vivid in his mind.
But he wandered around for half an hour, and still nothing happened. The water-like darkness around him didn't feel even colder at all! In front of a stall, he stood up from his crouched position, took a deep breath, and began to think about whether to show the body of an ancient demon.
I remember that the previous time, he was in a restaurant in front of the Ten Thousand Forging Valley, showing off the power of the ancient demon and powerfully killing the Qiu family monks who were chasing him in the air, and was only noticed by the middle-aged man in blue shirt.
However, Gu Qing did not put his idea into practice.
A group of monks who were in the middle stage of foundation building quickly rushed over and surrounded the stall. They were so frightened that several people around the stall were scared to death. The stall owner was trembling all over and stood up tremblingly.
"A few...fellow Taoists, Xiaoxiu here..." The stall owner, who only had the third level of Foundation Establishment cultivation, forced out a smile that was uglier than crying.
"Are you Gu Qing?" The leader of this team of monks was a tall and heroic man with advanced cultivation, reaching the ninth level of foundation building. He narrowed his eyes at Gu Qing and asked loudly.
Gu Qing turned around calmly.
He looked at the group of monks, thought of something, and said in a steady tone: "Is it the one who asked you to wait to pick up Gu?"
The eyes of the monks in this team changed slightly, and they all looked at each other.
The leading heroic man looked at Gu Qing, but his eyes reflected the incomparable darkness. His brows furrowed and then relaxed again: "Yes, I would like to ask fellow Taoist Gu to wait for me."
"Fellow Taoist, please lead the way." Gu Qing's heart sank and he let out a long breath. He knew that what was supposed to come would eventually come.
Avoiding might be able to solve some problems, but he couldn't avoid the current problem. Since he couldn't avoid it, he had to face it.
The leading heroic man was keenly aware of Gu Qing's tragic aura, as if he was going to the execution ground. He was a little confused, but he had no intention of exploring, and just made a gesture of invitation.
"please."
Immediately, the Yingwu Man and his group quickly shuttled towards the center of Qingshu Island with Gu Qing, who was walking heavily.
