Songyu Peak, mountain market.
"Master Immortal, please come in. What do you want to buy?"
Zhao Lin walked into a shop selling elixirs, and the mortal clerk came forward to greet him enthusiastically.
"Two bottles of chalcedony liquid."
Zhao Lin said simply and handed the other party a "merit ticket."
Precious elixirs require good deeds to purchase, but it is too troublesome to exchange them at the Good Merit Hall every time, so a kind of bill stamped with the seal of the Merit Hall came into being.
The monks can exchange fifty or one hundred good deeds at one time. The Good Deeds Hall will issue a ticket for the corresponding amount, and he can use the ticket to buy elixirs, eliminating the trouble of traveling back and forth.
"Okay, a total of six good deeds and six spiritual stones."
The waiter took the merit ticket respectfully, crossed out six good deeds on it, and stamped it with the store's seal.
"Wrap things up."
"Okay, please wait a moment, Master Immortal."
The man turned around and took out a small brocade box and put two bottles of chalcedony liquid into it.
Zhao Lin paid another sixty Yuanling coins and left the shop with the brocade box in hand.
Not long after, we arrived at the back mountain of Daofeng.
The back mountain is where the disciples of Lingdao Academy live. Ordinary disciples live on the hillside near the foot of the mountain, while deacons, acting disciples and disciples who teach martial arts live on the mountainside.
Zhao Lin walked to a mansion surrounded by green trees, looked at the stone sign beside the door, and said to himself: "Yellow number five, Senior Brother Yan should live here."
Knocked on the door and said loudly: "Is Senior Brother Yan here?"
"Squeak..."
The door of the mansion opened, and a handsome boy in his late teens walked out.
"you are?"
The young man looked at Zhao Lin and asked.
"I am a disciple of Lingdao Academy and I am here to see Senior Brother Yan Yuan."
Seeing that the other party was a mortal, Zhao Lin guessed that he might be Yan Yuan's family member, so he said politely.
"Oh, wait a minute."
The young man turned around and ran away, and soon a shout came from the courtyard: "Brother, someone from the Spiritual Dao Academy is looking for you."
Not long after, footsteps sounded, Yan Yuan walked out quickly, saw Zhao Lin, and said in surprise: "Junior Brother Zhao, why are you here?"
Zhao Lin handed over the brocade box with a smile, "I heard that Senior Brother Yan has mastered the Rock Armor Technique, so I came here to congratulate him."
The effect of chalcedony liquid is equivalent to that of liquor in the previous life, and it can be regarded as a stepping stone to bring the two people closer.
Yan Yuan did not expect that Zhao Lin would give him something, and was stunned for a moment, "What's in the box?"
Zhao Lin smiled and said, "Senior brother, please accept your thoughts."
"Junior Brother Zhao is too polite. Just come. Why do you still give me something?"
Yan Yuan opened the box and saw the chalcedony liquid inside. He was silent for a moment and said, "Junior brother Zhao, I accept your wishes. You are still a disciple of Lingdao Academy. It is not easy to accumulate good deeds."
"This chalcedony liquid... I can't have it."
Good deeds are a personal secret. Only Hu Guanshi and Elder Wu of the Shanggong Hall in the county know the number of Zhao Lin's good deeds.
Zhao Lin pushed the brocade box back, "Senior brother, don't worry, I went out on a sect mission half a year ago and earned a lot of good deeds. I still have a lot on hand."
"And I have already taken a chalcedony pill this year, so the chalcedony liquid is useless to me."
He said with an expression on his face, "Thanks to the guidance of my senior brother, I was able to achieve a small success in the Rock Armor Technique. I should have come to say thank you. I heard that my senior brother has achieved a great success in the Rock Armor Technique, so I just took this opportunity to celebrate."
"Hey, then I'm not welcome!"
Yan Yuan accepted the brocade box and said with a smile: "You see, I have forgotten it and asked my junior brother to stand outside. Come in quickly!"
The two walked into the living room and sat down respectively.
"Tea, please."
The young man who opened the door just now brought two cups of spiritual tea.
Zhao Lin glanced at the young man and saw that he was tall and slender, and his appearance was almost the same as Yan Yuan's. He wondered what the relationship between the two was.
"He's my half-brother."
Yan Yuan noticed Zhao Lin's eyes and took the initiative to introduce: "My father passed away when I was ten years old. My mother remarried and gave birth to a younger brother with my stepfather."
"I have practiced Taoism in the sect for several years. After I accumulated enough good deeds, I brought my biological mother, stepfather and this younger brother to the county."
Zhao Lin thought about it and asked, "How much good deeds did senior brother use to bring his parents and brothers to the county?"
The Chenghua Sect allows monks to bring their family members into the sect, but they are generally placed in spiritual veins that are not of a higher grade.
If you want your relatives to live in a state or county with abundant spiritual energy, you must exchange it for good deeds.
"It's not much, just one hundred good deeds per person."
Yan Yuan smiled and asked, "Why, junior brother also wants to take his family over?"
Zhao Lin nodded, "I have this plan."
Yan Yuan took a sip of the spiritual tea and said with some emotion: "Speaking of which, I have brought many disciples, and you are the first one to come and say thank you."
"Junior brother, if you have any questions about earth magic in the future, just come to me."
Now that the other party started talking, Zhao Lin naturally wouldn't let it go and said: "Senior brother, how much stronger is the master level of Rock Armor Technique than the proficient level? Where is it stronger?"
Yan Yuan laughed, "I can't explain this clearly. I'll show you how to practice it directly. You can't use it here. Come on, let's go outside."
"Thank you, senior brother, it's just an eye-opener."
Zhao Lin stood up, held up his hands, and followed him to the courtyard.
"Watch carefully, Rock Armor Technique!"
Yan Yuan pinched the magic formula, and a yellow halo appeared around his body.
The halo surged up and down and quickly turned into a thick layer of rock armor.
The rock armor is divided into two layers, the inner and outer layers, which are covered with edges, protrusions, and intersected together. At first glance, they look like the stacked armor of a snapping turtle.
The color is brown and translucent, with many diagonal stripes distributed, and has a texture as hard as corundum.
Yan Yuan walked around Zhao Lin, and Yan Jia kept following him.
"How's it going? How are these changes?"
"very good!"
Zhao Lin sincerely praised that before he mastered the rock armor technique, he could only stand in place and cast spells, but now he can finally move around at will like an aura shield.
"Use your ice blade technique to attack my rock armor."
Yan Yuan took a few steps back and waved to Zhao Lin.
"good."
Zhao Lin also wanted to see the defensive effect of the rock armor technique, so he waved his hand and released an ice knife, hitting the rock armor directly.
"boom!"
The ice blade hit the rock armor, but the rock armor did not move at all. Instead, cracks appeared on the ice blade.
"Crack!"
Before Zhao Lin could retract the skate, the double-layered rock armor suddenly closed, crushing the skate.
"how?"
Yan Yuan asked proudly.
"What a stake!"
Zhao Lin happily walked closer and touched the hard rock armor, thinking that pure defense would always be passive. With this double layer of armor, he could clamp the opponent's magic weapon and turn defense into offense.
"Senior Brother Yan, if you practice for a few more years, the perfection level will be just around the corner!"
Yan Yuan's mind was still clear, and he quickly waved his hands and said: "It is more difficult to cultivate to perfection than to practice from the beginning, but I hope I can do it in my lifetime, based on my junior brother's good words."
"Senior Brother Yan can definitely do it..."
When Zhao Lin walked out of the mansion, the first grid of the spiritual cultivation map had changed. The plum blossom next to the rock armor technique had changed from four petals to five petals. (End of chapter)
