In front of the abandoned cave.
Thousands of feet away, Gu Qing stared at the young man in white who was on his way for a long time before looking back.
His expression was a little dazed, and the figure that had just jumped into the air landed and raised his head. Look at the sky, which is as clear and bright as glass.
The cold wind blows, the howling becomes more and more shrill, and the wind and sand are everywhere, covering the eyes, making everything in front of the eyes dim.
Letting the black robe on his body flutter in the wind, Gu Qing stretched out his hand, grabbed a withered yellow grass stem floating in front of his eyes, and softly chanted: "Another autumn day, the wind is blowing, a foreign land, where are the same people as before?"
"After the body dies and the soul returns, even if you are reincarnated as a human being, you will not be the young Xiang Lichen that you were back then! Go and rest... go and rest..."
Gu Qing closed his eyes slightly and quickly opened them again.
His eyes were once again as calm as water, without any ripples.
"In these two thousand miles of Jiuchuanfang, I only visited half of it..." Gu Qing jumped into the air, but was only no more than ten feet above the ground, and turned into a shadow and flew away towards the core of Jiuchuanfang.
The place where Gu Qing is currently located is just on the east side of Jiuchuanfang.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth in this area is extremely thin, and there are not many monks living here. In addition, the surrounding terrain is like an urn, with vast mountains on one side and the extremely desolate Gobi on the other side. As a result, this place can be said to be inaccessible. There are almost no shops or stalls.
Gu Qing moved towards the center of Jiuchuanfang and escaped for nearly 800 miles, and the surrounding area became a little more prosperous.
There were stalls and shops in his sight, and there was a strong resistance in the air around him, which pushed his figure down, keeping him three feet above the ground.
'These dozen stalls are all selling elixirs... Judging from the cultivation level of these stall owners, they are all practicing Qi refining, and they don't hide it. Could it be that they are all young disciples of some force..." Gu Qing glanced at the nearby stalls. He came to the nearest stall and squatted down.
Besides Gu Qing, there were two other people in front of this stall, looking through the stall.
"Senior brother, I wonder how you can sell Yuan Dan this time?" Both of them were in the middle stage of Qi refining. One of them, a pretty female cultivator, picked up a pill bottle and asked the stall owner delicately. .
As she said this, the beautiful female cultivator, who was at the sixth level of Qi Refining, also gave the stall owner a cryptic look.
The stall owner was a lazy young man with a slovenly appearance and a stubble on his face. He rolled his eyes when he heard this.
"A bottle of six hundred low-grade spiritual stones, you Liufeng ***, why are you so embarrassed? If you can't afford it, don't touch it." The stall owner, who looked like a lazy young man, squinted his eyes and said in an evil voice.
"...You evil man, why am I willing to call you Senior Brother! It's so expensive, why not grab it!" The expression of the beautiful female cultivator suddenly became ugly, and she threw the pill bottle away like a rat. Throwing it back to the stall, he pulled another monk beside him who was browsing in front of the stall and took a few steps back.
"Senior sister, let's not buy elixirs from this stall named Wu. He is not the only one selling elixirs in Jiuchuanfang!" the beautiful female cultivator said.
The person who was pulled back a few steps by this beautiful female cultivator was also a female cultivator. However, this female cultivator's appearance was not that outstanding and her figure was also very bloated.
However, the cultivation level of this female cultivator is two small realms higher than that of the beautiful female cultivator, and she has already reached the eighth level of Qi refining.
Hearing this, he just nodded without saying anything more. Without even looking at the stall owner, he followed the beautiful female cultivator and left the stall.
The stall owner glanced at the direction where the two female cultivators were leaving, with a somewhat unkind expression on his face, and smiled sarcastically.
Then, the stall owner looked at Gu Qing, who was still rummaging in front of the stall. He briefly sensed the spiritual power fluctuations in Gu Qing, and frowned slightly, feeling surprised in his heart.
'This place is very deep into Jiuchuanfang. How can a mortal come here? The person in front of him..." He took a deep breath in his heart.
'Eighty percent are senior monks in the foundation-building realm! "
"Senior, what do you need?" Realizing this, the stall owner's originally lazy face immediately changed.
After a change, his expression was respectful, he nodded and bowed and asked Gu Qing.
Gu Qing smiled slightly and stopped rummaging around the stall.
He put down the elixir bottle in his hand, looked at the stall owner, and said: "The thirteen elixirs in this stall are all first-grade low-level or first-level mid-level, and most of them are of low quality. Ninety percent of the elixirs have one or two. Dao Dan Pattern, it seems that my little friend’s attainments in alchemy are really impressive!”
The stall owner's stubble-covered face showed surprise.
For a moment, he couldn't figure out what the senior in front of him wanted. He could only blink and responded: "This... senior is ridiculous. I am just a proficient in alchemy skills..."
Gu Qing smiled slightly and looked at the stall in front again.
His eyes wandered over the elixir bottles on the stall: "Since I said so, it seems that the elixirs on this stall were all refined by me... These elixirs are made according to a certain point of view and the refining techniques It’s very confusing, little friend, you probably don’t have the inheritance of alchemy, right?”
With that said, Gu Qing didn't wait for the stall owner to respond.
"I am interested in alchemy. I wonder if this little friend would be willing to teach me some basics of alchemy? I would like to thank you." Gu Qing hugged the stall owner and asked.
"Huh?" The stall owner looked even more shocked and took half a step back.
Then, the stall owner spoke quickly: "Senior, this junior is a disciple of Liu Yin Sect. The alchemy skills he has learned are all passed down by the sect. Please don't force me to do anything."
"It turns out he is a high disciple of Liu Yin Sect." Gu Qing nodded and stood up from the stall without saying anything more.
Since this cultivator is unwilling, he can ask another cultivator.
Since he entered the Jiuchuanfang area, he has interviewed seven or eight stall owners selling low-level first-level and intermediate-level first-level basic elixirs. Most of them sell elixirs for others, or get low-level elixirs from other sources. He bought the elixir at a high price and sold it in the market.
But there are also two people who are alchemists.
When those two people faced Gu Qing's inquiry, their responses were not much different from the stall owner's. No matter what the reasons were, they all clearly expressed their rejection.
Therefore, it is not surprising that Gu Qing is unwilling to practice this practice.
But just before Gu Qing left the stall, seven or eight steps later.
A voice sounded in his ears, causing him to stop in his tracks, turn around and look at the stall owner behind him.
"Senior, most of the alchemy skills of juniors are passed down from family, so it's not a bad idea to leave them to seniors. I wonder... how many spiritual stones can seniors produce?" The stall owner asked via voice transmission with fiery eyes.
Gu Qing raised his eyebrows.
"Oh? I wonder how many spiritual stones you want, little friend?" He responded via voice transmission and quickly returned to the stall.
The stall owner's expression was stagnant, and his eyes were slightly complicated.
He felt a little tangled in his heart.
Driven by greed, he almost blurted out and quoted a sky-high price.
But facing Gu Qing's calm gaze that looked like real pressure, he suppressed his greed and began to think silently.
If he really offends the foundation-building senior in front of him, I'm afraid he won't have a few days to live...
"Senior, the alchemy skills passed down in this junior's family are only superficial. Senior only needs to take out two hundred...one hundred and fifty middle-grade spiritual stones!" The stall owner gritted his teeth and said.
In fact, if he had the choice, he would not want to sell the alchemy skills inherited from his family in exchange for a sum of spiritual stones.
The alchemy skills passed down in the family were collected, organized and practiced by generations of ancestors with great difficulty.
Wouldn't it be a slap in the face of those ancestors to exchange such a precious thing for a sum of spiritual stones? But the family has declined to this point, and he doesn't have many choices. I guess the ancestors are also willing to use the hard work of their ancestors in exchange for the continuation of the family, right?
not to mention.
He doesn't have to hand over all the alchemy skills passed down by his family, he just needs to hand over some of them...
While thinking about it, the stall owner thought of his son and daughter who had cultivation qualifications but lacked sufficient spiritual stones to lay the foundation, and a dozen concubines, and felt a little guilty towards his ancestors.
, disappeared immediately.
"Three hundred middle-grade spiritual stones, hand over the alchemy skills inherited by your family to someone as completely as possible." Gu Qing flicked his sleeves, took out three hundred medium-grade spiritual stones, and piled them on the side of the stall.
The hill made of three hundred medium-grade spiritual stones shone with dazzling light in the sunlight, and the stall owner's eyes lit up.
He looked at the three hundred middle-grade spiritual stones with rapid breathing, and felt that what was placed in front of him were three spiritual weapons that were previously out of reach. They were several second-grade elixirs used by the big families to lay the foundation for the fairy seedlings... …
A gaze as sharp as a sword woke up the stall owner who was a little distracted. He quickly looked around, his consciousness reached out, and he hurriedly scanned the pile of middle-grade spiritual stones. After confirming that they were correct, he put all the spiritual stones into his storage bag. .
Randomly, he gritted his teeth and took out a few yellowed ancient books and two jade slips, and reluctantly handed them to Gu Qing.
These yellowed ancient books and two jade slips recorded almost all the alchemy techniques passed down by their family, leaving only two unique secret techniques that he had concealed.
Originally, if Gu Qing only took out the one hundred and fifty middle-grade spiritual stones he reported, he had no intention of completely handing over the alchemy skills inherited by his family to Gu Qing, but Gu Qing took out a full three hundred middle-grade spiritual stones. The spirit stone forced him to change his previous thoughts. XiuShu.com
Among them, there is certainly greed for the three hundred middle-grade spiritual stones.
But more than anything, it's a fear.
He could easily take out three hundred middle-grade spiritual stones without changing his expression. From his point of view, the handsome young man in black robe in front of the booth was definitely not as simple as the first level of foundation building or the second level of foundation building.
It may even be the cultivation in the middle and late stages of foundation building!
Facing a senior with such a level of cultivation, he was naturally frightened, overturned his previous plan, and handed over the alchemy technique inherited from his family in a relatively complete manner - if it weren't for the remaining two unique secret techniques, Liu Yin Sect forced him to The many families under his command were bound by blood oaths not to teach them to others. He even wanted to hand over these two secret skills to Gu Qing!
Gu Qing took four ancient books and two jade slips.
"The basics of Wu's alchemy...Wu's basic elixir formulas and a collection of medicinal properties of thousands of elixirs...A discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of the two fire-control techniques of Sancai Formation and Four-Yuan Heqi...Wu Qingfeng's ancestor's alchemy notes..." He glanced briefly, nodded, and flipped through the four ancient books.
After confirming that there were no problems, Gu Qing put away the four ancient books and condensed his consciousness into two jade slips.
He probed into his spiritual consciousness and confirmed that the two jade slips were indeed alchemy techniques, and one of the jade slips also recorded several expected methods for refining second-grade lower-level elixirs, so he combined these two jade slips. He put away the jade slip, nodded gently to the stall owner, then turned and left.
The stall owner nodded quickly.
"Senior, walk slowly..."
Gu Qing naturally did not "walk slowly" as the stall owner said. At first, he could cross several feet with one step. Soon, he could cross dozens of feet in one step. Like a flicker, it moved away very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it disappeared into the cover of the blowing sand and dust.
'With the alchemy technique inherited by the Wu family, the alchemy furnace purchased previously, and the earth fire from the underground fire cave, we only need to purchase some more medicinal materials to start refining alchemy..." Rushing to the center of Jiuchuanfang On the way to the area, Gu Qing thought, and a golden shield appeared around him.
This golden shield is condensed from Gu Qing's extremely pure mana. It is extremely tough. Ordinary early and mid-stage foundation building monks may not even be able to create a ripple on this shield.
Gu Qing slowed down slightly, took out the "Wu's Basic Alchemy Formulas and Thousands of Spiritual Medicines Encyclopedia" in his hand, and flipped through it.
This "Wu's Encyclopedia of Basic Alchemy Prescriptions and Thousands of Miraculous Medicinal Properties" records a total of sixteen low-level elixir prescriptions.
Among these sixteen kinds of elixirs, some can be used to improve cultivation, some can be used to strengthen the soul, some are specially used to treat injuries, and some can strengthen the essence and dominate the body after being taken.
Among them, there are ten kinds of elixirs, which are at the lower level of the first grade, four kinds of elixirs, which are at the middle level of the first grade, and two kinds of elixirs which are at the upper level of the first grade. The amount required to refine these elixirs is
Gu Qing planted some medicinal materials in the space of his stone monument. Of course, he did not grow all of them in the space of his stone monument. He still needed to purchase more to get together the medicinal materials needed to refine these elixirs.
' Then prepare one thousand copies of each medicinal material used to refine first-level middle-grade elixirs, and prepare 10,000 copies of each medicinal material used to refine first-level low-grade elixirs, for practicing... refining two Plant the medicinal materials for the first-level high-grade elixir, and prepare 300 copies for the time being. Once the level of alchemy is improved, we will try to refine the first-order high-grade elixir..."
After Gu Qing wrote down the many medicinal materials that needed to be prepared, he put away the "Wu's Basic Prescriptions and Thousands of Spiritual Medicines" in his hand, quietly speeding up and heading towards the core area of Jiuchuanfang.
Time flies like an arrow.
In the blink of an eye, half a year has passed.
The winter that just passed in Dali Country was not much different from the winter in Gu Qing's memory - the same cold, the same snow falling thousands of miles away.
The whistling wind blew away some of the fresh warmth of spring, lifting up the heavy snow on the ground. The crystal snow particles collided and danced in the air. A pair of black stiff boots stepped on the snow, making a squeaking sound. There was a sound, and a faint spiritual light appeared on the solid-colored boots.
This spiritual light circulated several times on the black boots, and the surrounding snow melted quickly as if it were placed under the blazing sun, turning into a few wisps of heat, flowing upward, but was blocked by the corners of the clothes with a dark yellow sheen. .
The dark yellow robe was stretched open by Gu Qing's tall and straight figure.
The essence and blood he had previously lost has been completely restored after these few months of mana's repeated nourishment of his body.
Gu Qing stood in the snow, looking far into the distance, looking at the snow-free Earth Fire Mountains in front of him, and curled his lips.
After being away for half a year, I'm finally back.
Gu Qing's body swayed and turned into a dark yellow shadow, flying close to the ground towards the Earth Fire Mountain Range ahead.
In this short period of time, Gu Qing has visited more than a dozen nearby cultivation shops and cities.
The result was that he was greatly disappointed.
Although the Xiuzhenfang City in Dali Country is not comparable in size and scale to the Xiuzhenfang City that Gu Qing has seen before.
But the degree of freedom is extremely different.
After visiting more than a dozen large-scale cultivation shops, Gu Qing didn't see the Five-Colored Jade Zhi, and he didn't even get any news about the Five-Colored Jade Zhi.
In addition to the five-color jade.
Among the two types of elixirs needed to break through the elixir formation, he had seen the elixir that was based on the ancient elixir and could increase the monk's chance of forming an elixir by 20%, but the price was too outrageous. Even if he spent all his wealth, it would be difficult to buy one!
Even that Jade Pill, he has never purchased even one.
It's not that this kind of elixir is nowhere to be purchased, but that although the price of this kind of elixir is not outrageous, it is still outrageously expensive.
In the end, Gu Qing's biggest purpose of leaving the Earth Fire Mountain Range this time, to prepare the three things needed to break through the pill formation, completely failed.
However, the main purpose failed.
But the secondary purpose was successful.
And what he got was far beyond his expectation.
During this trip, he visited more than a dozen cultivation shops and markets around him, and he had sold all the harvest of the Fu Sect disciples that day.
Since the fall of the demon land, all the things and the demon body of the demon general have been harvested - this demon can be said to be a hard demon body full of treasures, and it is quite popular with this great separation. The popularity of the weapon refiners within the territory gave Gu Qing a small surprise.
Currently, the number of spirit stones in Gu Qing's storage ring is much less than before.
The number of high-grade spiritual stones he owns has exceeded 20,000. As for the mid-grade spiritual stones that he had the most before, there are not many left. Most of them were exchanged by him for top-grade spiritual stones.
Currently, the number of top-quality spiritual stones in his storage ring has reached more than 240! Even if you don't take the premium into account, if you replace all the medium-grade spiritual stones, it will cost a terrifying 2.4 million yuan. If you replace them with low-grade spiritual stones, I'm afraid the space in the storage ring will be ten times larger and you won't be able to fit it in!
Another gain for Gu Qing was the robe and pure black boots.
This dark yellow robe and black boots have reached the level of low-grade spiritual weapons. They cannot be burned in fire. After being refined by him, not only will they not be burned by the golden-red flames he stimulated, they will even be burned. It will add a bit more power to the golden red flame!
Although these two things are only low-grade spiritual weapons.
But the selling price is very different from ordinary low-grade spiritual weapons.
Ordinary low-grade spiritual stones can be purchased for about a hundred medium-grade spiritual stones. However, this robe and boots, because they are relatively rare and more complicated to refine than ordinary low-grade spiritual stones, cost Gu Qing a lot. Thirty-five pieces of high-grade spiritual stones, which is equivalent to three to four thousand pieces of middle-grade spiritual stones!
With so many spiritual stones, you can already purchase some unpopular high-grade spiritual weapons!
But Gu Qing didn't feel that he had suffered any loss in purchasing this robe and boots. On the contrary, he felt that being able to purchase these two things could be regarded as a gain worth mentioning in this trip - he was fed up with every time he went deep into cultivation in the past, or After a battle, everyone has to put on a new robe.
Above the Earth Fire Mountain Range, flying all the way to the east, the number of monks who were also flying around Gu Qing became smaller and smaller, and finally he was the only one left, arriving at the east side of the Earth Fire Mountain Range.
The pale golden light circled in the air several times and slowly landed on a large stone. The light was restrained, revealing Gu Qing in dark yellow robes.
Below is the underground fire cave he rented before.
The sky is clear, the sun is slightly southerly, and the warm, slightly hot sunlight shines on everything golden.
Gu Qing's eyes swept around and landed on one side of his underground fire cave. In front of another underground fire cave, he saw a thin figure - this was a female cultivator at the fourth level of Qi Refining. She was wearing black clothes. Looking at her from the back, , very young, and the tender flesh between her neck is as shiny as jade.
At this time, this thin figure was cleaning the alchemy furnace.
The two-foot-high alchemy furnace was tipped sideways, puffing out black smoke. It was filled with black residue and some hard ashes. These things were stuck together and were extremely difficult to clean. The fourth-level Qi Refining furnace was The female cultivator got into it from time to time, struggling hard, sweating profusely from exhaustion, and cursing, which made Gu Qing's eyes flash slightly.
'Are you the new neighbor who has moved in..."
'Is he also an alchemist? "
'It seems that the refining of some elixir just failed. "
Gu Qing withdrew his gaze, flashed the black light in his hand, and took out a black stone talisman. In a flash, he arrived in front of his Earth Fire Cave.
Gu Qing's sudden appearance was caught by the thin female cultivator at the fourth level of Qi Refining who had just turned around.
This skinny female cultivator at the fourth level of Qi Refining felt a little embarrassed. She was holding back her anger and was about to curse a few words in a low voice. But before she could curse, her little face was covered with black and gray. On the bed, a pair of almond-shaped eyes were widened.
'Standing in the air? "
'Build, build, build... a foundation-building monk? "
"Senior!" Although this skinny female cultivator at the fourth level of Qi Refining had little experience in traveling, she did not dare to make any mistakes when facing the foundation-building cultivators. She immediately bowed and saluted Gu Qing.
"Um."
Gu Qing nodded to his neighbor, then holding the black stone talisman, passed through the invisible barrier in front of the underground fire cave and entered it.
Gu Qing's eyes suddenly darkened.
In the Dihuo Cave, under the dim light, the simple layout was the same as when Gu Qing left.
With a move of his feet, he came to the deepest stone wall of the Earth Fire Cave. Facing the steadily burning Earth Fire, the only light source embedded in the stone wall, he touched his chin.
'Here should be enough to place the alchemy furnace...' Gu Qing looked up and down a few times. The deepest wall of the earth fire cave, the built-in space above the earth fire, waved his sleeves, and put it in the storage ring. The high-grade magic weapon Dange bought was taken out.
