Khotan Feng City, the capital of Chengzhou, is a prosperous and prosperous place in Dasheng State. It is full of people, noisy carriages and horses, and row upon row of shops and restaurants.
Xue Tong was born in a wild farmer's family. He often sold firewood in Shannan Town in his early years. After joining the Yunxiao Sect, he only visited towns like Pingshan and Donglai. The only big city he entered was Jiayuan Hezhou Qinggao Mansion, where he only stayed for a few days. .
Khotanfeng City was several times more prosperous than Qinggao Mansion. As one of the few large cities in Dasheng Kingdom, Khotanfeng's population exceeded 200,000.
Xue Tong's state of mind at this moment is completely different from the past. He is ready to practice for a few years in peace, remain anonymous, and not get involved in any right and wrong.
He bought Zhang Tian's detailed map of Fengcheng and spent a day studying it in the inn. After searching according to the map, he came to Yunxu Valley in the western suburbs.
In Yunxu Valley, a spiritual vein passes through the ground, and the spiritual energy seeps out of the rock mass. The thick spiritual energy accumulates over the years and remains for a long time. There are hundreds of training rooms built on the slopes of the valley for people to rent, depending on the number of spiritual springs. Discuss price.
The shopkeeper is a middle-aged man. He looked at Xue Tong's clothes and said unkindly: "An ordinary training room costs five yuan a day, a medium one costs ten yuan, and a high-level training room costs thirty yuan. There are many tenants these days and there are not many spare rooms. .”
"Excuse me, brother Taoist. How many days can we rent the advanced training room? How long can we rent it for?"
"The minimum rent is one month, and the maximum rent is two years."
"Well, I'll rent it for two years. The annual price should be cheaper." Xue Tong asked.
"A 10% discount on the annual rent, the change will be wiped off in two years, and the inheritance will be 19,000 spirit stones. If you dare to ask your friend's name and family name, we need to register it in our store." When the shopkeeper saw the big business coming to the door, his words became polite. .
"Oh, I am Li Jincheng, from Liangzhou."
Xue Tongxin took a common pseudonym.
The facilities in the training room are all available, and three springs lead directly to the ground, drawing out spiritual energy. This natural rock-crack-type spiritual energy channel is called a spring.
The spiritual energy in the advanced training room is rich, even compared with Wei Geng Cave Mansion in Xiaodang Mountain, it is not far behind.
Xue Tong has been busy with various tasks over the years and has not had enough time to practice meditation. Now everything is ready and the time is right.
He swallowed a Principle Source Pill and activated the Three Elements Technique.
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There are no years of cultivation, and two years have passed in a flash.
Xue Tong's martial arts master's Dharma Sea has increased to 90%. The refined and purified mana is now different from what it used to be. The purity and explosive power have doubled. The power of spells and martial arts has greatly increased, and the activation time has been shortened by half.
The Thunder Explosion Pearl jumped to the sixth level. The rock shield technique was suspended due to the existence of Kui Shou Shield and Ji Shan Shield. The light and flexible holy light magic shield was refined to the fifth level, forming a close-fitting combination with the body protection light curtain and the turtle scale armor. Three layers of protection for the body.
Xue Tong liked the "Rock Hammer Technique" left by Lu Yangzi very much and refined it to the fifth level. The primary Fire Cloud Technique had been perfected in the volcano cave, so he refined the Nine-curved Flame required for refining weapons and elixirs to the second level.
Xue Tong's auxiliary corrosion technique is close to perfection. Even warriors in the early and middle stages of the acquired life may be infected by it accidentally, causing their strength to be greatly reduced.
The Gui Sha Fist has been refined to the fifth level, the Ji Meng Fist has been refined to the third level, and the Nine Killers have been refined to the full level. The last move is called "No Life in Ten Directions".
In the future, the mana and brute force will increase, and the power of Nine Kills will also increase.
Xue Tong's magic and martial arts have advanced rapidly. In addition to the effects of acquired elixirs such as Zhaoji Pill and Daoyuan Pill, he has also consumed more than 70 high-grade spiritual stones in the storage ring to quickly restore mana and increase the refining speed. .
Spells and martial arts require repeated practice, and a large amount of mana is consumed in the process. It is supplemented by the spiritual power of spiritual stones, which has a great effect on speeding up practice.
Xue Tong will never miss the practice of the Nightmare Bone True Demon Art. With the help of the Dragon Elephant Golden Holy Pill, although the bone art is not as fast as the magic, it has been refined into three sections, approaching the fourth and a half level.
Due to the indoor venue, the performance of the Kite Shadow Technique was limited, and the practice progress was slow and still stopped at the sixth floor. Xue Tong planned to end the lease and practice again in another place.
Xue Tong changed the Nourishing Dew three times and upgraded the Yasha Bone Puppet by two levels, which completely consolidated his cultivation. He often sat in the corner of the stone room, holding high-grade spiritual stones in his claws to refine his magic power.
The bone puppet's red light sword was replaced by a three-ring phoenix tail sword. The phoenix tail sword was originally owned by Gao Hong of the Blood Sword Sect. It is a first-level magical weapon, one level higher than the ordinary red light sword.
After many years, relying on Xue Tong's powerful mental infusion, cultivating the spirit liquid and spirit stones at all costs, and the romance of the volcano fire spirit, the bone puppet's strength has finally reached a level where it can stand alone, making it difficult for ordinary warriors to catch up to their opponents in the later stages.
Xue Tong tried to awaken the gray point in the sea of consciousness, but even though he had finished practicing four more sections of his seven-level divine blazing technique, the gray point was still silent. It no longer stretched out silver threads to absorb spiritual power like in the past, but its color changed slightly. Gloss enhances and brightens.
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At the expiration of two years, the stone door was moved away, and Xue Tong walked out of the training room with great improvement in cultivation and high spirits.
The shopkeeper said flatteringly: "Friend Daoist Li is looking radiant. Congratulations. How about our high-end weapon refining room? It's not bad."
"Very good, very good." Xue Tong threw an orange medium-grade spiritual stone to the shopkeeper.
"Thank you, Director Li, for the reward. Welcome to come again."
Xue Tong secretly laughed, "It's impossible for Li Jincheng to come, haha."
He changed his appearance in a deserted place and changed his name to Yang Shijie.
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Xue Tong bought a small courtyard in the city of Tianfeng, where he drew talismans and practiced kite shadow skills every day. The courtyard was located in an ordinary neighborhood. In a big city like Tianfeng, no one would notice him, who was in his thirties. A casual cultivator who is young and dressed in a nondescript manner.
A few months later, when Xue was on his way to the Talisman Shop to buy talisman paper, he noticed that there were more mules and horses on the street, and many laypeople and martial arts practitioners who seemed to be from other places appeared in Tianfeng.
He walked into the tavern, ordered drinks and food, and struck up a conversation with the waiter.
"Xiao Er, why are so many people coming to the city, with big and small bags, and mules and horses transporting them? It seems very busy."
"Don't you know, Taoist Master? There will be a medicinal materials trade fair in half a month. People from all over the world will gather in Qifeng. Our store's best business days are here."
"Haha, Yang is passing by here and is not familiar with the situation. In addition to the medicinal materials trade, are there any other transactions in Tianfeng City?"
"The Autumn Medicinal Materials Fair, the Spring Market, and irregular auctions and exchange meetings. Khotan Feng merchants gather here, and business is done all year round..."
The neighing of the fierce horses interrupted the talkative waiter, and five luxurious carriages pulled by ten extremely handsome horses drove past, almost knocking down passers-by in their rampage.
"Hey, people from Quexian Palace, what are they doing here?" the waiter asked in surprise.
"Yeah, what are they doing here? It's strange!" Xue Tong pretended to understand and just followed the trend.
"Khotan Feng is the territory of Zhanxing Pavilion. It is the place where the ambassador's office was deposed. Quexian Palace has come here with great arrogance. Is it going to sell precious medicinal materials?" The waiter has lived in Khotan for a long time and is very familiar with the affairs of the mysterious and secular worlds.
"Perhaps he is deliberately making a big noise to attract the attention of Zhanxing Pavilion." Xue Tong put on a sophisticated posture and pretended to be pretentious.
"Well, what the Taoist said is possible." The waiter nodded.
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Xue Tong originally planned to buy a cauldron and start refining weapons in a few months, but the medicinal materials trade fair was so close that he couldn't turn a blind eye.
Three figures quickly appeared in his consciousness, Zhan Tiansheng, Zhan Yi, and Min Yifang.
"The Zhan brothers and sisters are from Liangzhou, which is adjacent to Chengzhou. They traveled thousands of miles to Pingshan to grow medicine. I don't know how they have been living these years."
Xue Tong only knew that alchemy was similar to refining a weapon, which required a lot of practice and was time-consuming and expensive. Alchemists often started by growing elixirs and passed through the early stage of huge consumption.
But growing elixirs is also not easy. In the early stage, it is basically a loss-making business. Not to mention the hard work of cultivating the young plants and seeds, the value of the elixirs will not increase much in the first year. The price of elixirs needs to double in the third year to make a profit.
The capital has been put down for three years, which is too long. If something goes wrong along the way, the hope of making money will come to naught. This is why the Zhan brothers and sisters have such a difficult life.
Refining medicinal-grade elixirs usually requires at least 30 years of medicinal plants. Young plants or seeds cannot quench the near-term thirst. Common solutions include early planting, cultivating medicinal plants collected in the wild to increase the age, or using expensive spiritual liquid to stimulate the process. Ripe.
Xue Tong rolled his eyes and made up his mind.
He went to the largest drug store in Khotan and bought three things.
"One Hundred Prescriptions for Elixir" contains nearly a hundred kinds of prescriptions for non-grade and first-grade elixirs; "Heart Sutra of Plant Medicinal Medicine" contains methods for cultivating common seeds and medicinal plants; "Huanghu Medicine Cauldron" is a non-organic medicinal cauldron for refining third-grade elixirs. and the following elixirs.
He kept working hard and bought a small black-gloss iron smelting cauldron from the smelting shop. In the past, Guanxiufeng used this kind of smelting cauldron.
These are quite common things. Even so, they cost Xue Tong nearly 20,000 spirit stones. Only now did he truly realize that like his brother Zixiong, all the spirit stones were spent on taking elixirs and fighting. How difficult it is to learn how to make magic weapons and how to make alchemy and weapons.
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The Medicinal Materials Fair opened grandly and lasted for three days.
The market was crowded, even more lively than Donglaifang City. Xue Tong's demand was nothing short of ordinary, including seedlings of common elixir seeds and three-year-old elixirs.
His purchasing volume is huge, he goes in and out six times, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. He disguises himself and changes his voice, and his appearance and voice range from thirty to fifty years old.
Xue Tong returned home with a full load and spent 160,000 yuan.
The elixir needs to be planted in the spiritual field, but this is easy for Xue Tong. He has a huge storage ring, so he moved the spiritual soil and quickly opened up an acres of spiritual field in the ring.
Xue Tong put up a wooden frame and built it into five floors, on which thousands of seedlings and seeds were scattered.
Xue Tong spent money like water, and when everything was arranged, he couldn't help but sigh, "If you don't spend money, if you miss this village, you won't have this store!"
He missed the "village" where the true disciples of Zangjing Pavilion randomly selected the exercises, and the "shop" of alchemy was nowhere to be found.
Alchemy skills are not as good as herbal medicine. They are rare in the market and are mostly elementary techniques. Intermediate and advanced alchemy skills have become Xue Tong's top priority.
He recalled the news revealed by the seller when he made a big purchase at the trade fair.
"I heard someone say that a batch of elixirs and herbs have recently appeared, most likely from Master Gaotong. I'm not sure if the Immortal Envoy from Quexian Palace is here for this."
"There is an auction tonight at Yixinzhai."
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Xue Tong thought: "Forget about the spiritual grass, I haven't even mentioned the eight characters of alchemy yet; elixirs? It's impossible to sell Tiancheng Dan; alchemy? I haven't heard of any auction of martial arts skills."
"Anyway, just take a look and try your luck. It's hard to tell if you'll find something you really want to buy."
He recalled the past events of the Ziyun Exchange Meeting in Donglai Town, where he had an idea and obtained spiritual materials.
