"I didn't expect that Fellow Daoist Zhao is so knowledgeable that he even recognizes a pomegranate and a gourd!"
Shopkeeper Tian raised his thumb in praise and pointed at the brocade box, "When the pomegranate gourd falls to the ground, it is light blue. As time goes by, the color slowly becomes darker. It turns from green to red, then from red to purple, and finally it is completely black. .”
"Look at this pomegranate gourd, which is red with purple. It has lasted at least a hundred years, which shows that what I said is true."
Zhao Lin nodded slightly. The pomegranate gourd did have a saying of "Purple for a hundred years, black for a thousand years."
However, although the gourd cannot be fake, it is hard to tell what is inside.
Thinking of this, I picked up the gourd and looked at it for a while, then shook it gently, and the sound of rolling elixirs came from inside.
"Can you open it for inspection?"
Shopkeeper Tian smiled calmly when he heard this, "Of course you can, but you have to give a deposit first."
"Fellow Taoist also knows that the pomegranate gourd itself is valuable. If you open it but don't want it, I will cry."
Zhao Lin asked: "How much does the elixir cost, and how much is the deposit?"
Shopkeeper Tian stretched out two fingers and said, "Two hundred good deeds, plus five hundred spiritual stones. The deposit is only the spiritual stones."
Zhao Lin was surprised, "So expensive?"
Shopkeeper Tian shook his head and smiled bitterly, with a look of helplessness on his face, "There is no way, things are rare and expensive, and it is a banned drug, so the price is already very low."
"I dare not tell you because we are far away. We are the only one in Nanhezhou that has Chongqiao Dan. If we were not worried about the crowd, we would have sold it to Uehara Immortal Shop, and the price would have at least doubled."
Zhao Lin pondered after hearing this. If the side effects were not taken into account, Chongqiao Pill was indeed worth the price.
The first spiritual aperture used to attack the level is equivalent to exchanging a pill to improve one level of cultivation. This is why many monks are willing to risk injury to use the aperture-clearing pill.
You don’t have to worry about getting hurt, and it’s more value for money.
The problem is that Chongqiao Dan cannot be identified. What if you buy a fake medicine?
Is it possible to file a complaint with the sect, saying that he bought banned drugs and encountered fake ones?
Shopkeeper Tian was not in a hurry. He picked up a golden toad ornament on the table and started playing with it leisurely.
"Okay, I trust Shopkeeper Tian, I want this Aphrodisiac Pill!"
After thinking for a while, Zhao Lin finally made up his mind that if the elixir was fake, he should teach it a lesson.
He immediately took out five thousand spirit coins and placed it on the table, "This is the deposit. Let's inspect the goods first."
Shopkeeper Tian clapped his palms together and said with a smile: "Young Taoist Zhao is so happy!" He winked at the waiter.
The clerk came over quickly, put away the spirit coins on the table, took out a sharp knife, cut open the mouth of the gourd, and gently put it back on the table.
Zhao Lin picked up the gourd, turned it over, and with a "Gulu" sound, a green pill rolled into his hand.
The pill is only about the size of your thumb and has an extremely strong taste, pungent and pungent with the smell of alcohol.
Zhao Lin relied on his extraordinary sense of smell to roughly distinguish that it contained dozens of kinds of spiritual herbs such as golden corn leaf, tiger tail green, neon mustard, and Yinfengti.
The art of alchemy is extensive and profound, and the medicinal properties of various spiritual herbs may be mutually reinforcing or incompatible with each other. Without knowing the ratio of each medicinal material, even a master of alchemy would have a hard time judging the function of the final medicine.
According to common sense, it is unlikely that the elixir is fake, unless someone deliberately put a fake elixir into a pomegranate gourd more than a hundred years ago.
"That's it, how can you trade good deeds?"
Zhao Lin asked as he put the elixir back into the gourd.
Good deeds are different from spiritual stones. Every transaction must be recorded.
"This is easy to do. Just fill in the receipt with chalcedony pills, water rejuvenating pills and other elixirs that can only be purchased with good deeds. Just make up two hundred good deeds."
"In case the sect investigates, Fellow Daoist Zhao will say that these pills have entered his stomach."
Shopkeeper Tian joked and took out the store seal from his arms.
Seeing that the other party was so considerate, Zhao Lin felt relieved.
The private drug trade is like fighting a wolf with a weak stick. Both parties are afraid, and generally no one dares to expose the other party.
Zhao Lin recalled the entire purchase process and felt that there were no omissions, so he took out the merit ticket.
"The money has been paid, welcome to patronize again!"
Shopkeeper Tian and his waiter walked Zhao Lin to the door of the store until Zhao Lin disappeared at the end of the street, and the smiles on their faces instantly turned into sneers.
"Master Tanaka, why did you give him the real Aphrodisiac Pill?"
The man's eyes were grim and he said, "Why don't you switch to poison and get rid of a serious trouble for the sect?"
"poison?"
Shopkeeper Tian's face darkened and he reprimanded: "No matter how powerful the poison is, it is not easy to poison a monk. As long as he holds his breath and runs to the Spiritual Dao Temple, the three foundation-building monks can revive him. "
"Besides, even if the matter is completed, it will be easy to find us here. The sect has spent a lot of effort to send us in, are we just giving up?"
The man lowered his head and admitted his mistake: "I didn't think carefully and oversimplified the matter."
Shopkeeper Tian softened his tone and said, "What I just said is only one. Second, the Chongqiao Pill has extremely side effects, not much worse than poison."
"Once the spiritual orifice is injured, the practice will stop and the person will be disabled. Isn't the effect the same?"
The waiter raised his head and asked puzzledly: "What if he is lucky and succeeds? Didn't we help him?"
"That's even better!"
Shopkeeper Tian smiled sinisterly and said, "If this person's Qiao Qiao Chong is successful, this person will definitely know the taste after eating the marrow. Whenever he encounters resistance in his practice in the future, he will think of the wonderful benefits of Qiao Qiao Dan and come to buy it."
"It's okay to eat one, but what about two or three?"
"The side effects will be even greater by then. It won't be a matter of damaging one spiritual orifice, but the whole body's cultivation will be completely destroyed!"
After hearing this, the waiter suddenly realized, "Master Tanaka is wise!"
After saying this, a question suddenly occurred to him, "How do you know that he can perform so many good deeds? Ordinary Lingdao Academy disciples may not be able to perform even twenty good deeds."
Shopkeeper Tian snorted, "He killed fourteen monks from our sect. How could the Chenghua Sect not reward him? But sooner or later, I will make him vomit them all out!"
At the end of the sentence, he was gritting his teeth, as if he had a deep hatred for Zhao Lin.
…
Zhao Linhuai entered the spiritual cave again and attacked the Tiantu Aperture.
After practicing for five days, I still couldn't make a breakthrough, so I finally decided to use this Aphrodisiac Pill.
Bring the medicine to your mouth, tilt your neck and swallow it in one gulp!
The power of the medicine slowly dissolved, and a hot breath rose from the sea of qi.
Immediately afterwards, I felt a tearing pain, and a tyrannical force spiraled up, sweeping away the surrounding spiritual energy!
The spiritual energy was tightly twisted into a ball, and Zhao Lin thought for a moment, and he went straight to Tiantu Point like a soldier holding a sword and a halberd.
"The elixir is fine!"
Zhao Lin felt relieved. With such effect, it must be the Aphrodisiac Pill!
No wonder it was banned. Ordinary monks couldn't afford such a powerful medicine.
The condensed spiritual energy continued to grow, and it came to the vicinity of the Tiantu Aperture and slammed into it.
Boom!
Upon impact, a crack immediately appeared in the barrier.
Then came the second, third...
There are more and more gaps in the barrier, just like the ice that has just thawed in early spring, with cracks intertwined and spreading out like a spider web.
At the same time, the inside of the spiritual orifice was also under great pressure, and several wounds of various sizes appeared.
At the ninth stroke, the barrier cracked open and spiritual energy poured in.
Zhao Lin felt a stinging pain in the Tiantu Aperture, and thought that the rumors were indeed true, and his spiritual aperture was also damaged.
But soon, a white mist emerged from the body and entered the Tiantu Aperture, and the wound healed quickly.
The spiritual energy in the spiritual cave seemed to be attracted and gathered towards Zhao Lin one after another.
"Finally entered the fifth level of Qi refining!"
Zhao Lin opened his eyes, his eyes were shining brightly, feeling the abundant spiritual power in his body, and his heart was filled with excitement.
For ordinary monks, the fourth and fifth levels of Qi refining are just a step in the middle stage of Qi refining. Their spiritual consciousness and spiritual power have improved a lot, but for Zhao Lin, it is completely different!
At the fifth level of Qi refining, the mana released instantly can maintain a perfect level spell.
There is not much difference in realm, but the difference between Dacheng-level spells and Perfection-level spells is huge.
Perfection-level spells, as the name suggests, mean there are no flaws and they reach a state of perfection.
If a monk in the Qi Refining Realm masters the first-order perfection-level spell, he will be able to defeat the monks in the Foundation-Establishment Realm, unless the latter masters the second-order spell at the Dacheng level.
Zhao Lin was so happy that he jumped up from the ground.
There are seven spells in the spiritual chart, and there are three spells that can be upgraded to the perfect level: ice knife, flaming arrow and waterbending.
He couldn't wait to practice these three spells to perfection.
Walking out of the spiritual cave, you can see the sky full of stars when you look up.
When we returned to our residence, the entire house was enveloped in a thin layer of white mist.
Zhao Lin took out his token and shined it at the mist illusion array. The mist immediately dispersed, making way for a passage.
Pushing the door open, he walked into the room and dragged out seven large wooden boxes from the bedroom.
Zhao Lin had been waiting for this day for a long time and had already prepared enough spiritual stones.
It takes 256 spiritual stones to practice the magic to perfection, and 1,024 spiritual stones to practice it to perfection. There is a difference of 768 spiritual stones in the middle.
The three spells add up to more than two thousand spiritual stones.
Thinking that these spiritual stones would turn into powder in a short while, Zhao Lin couldn't help but feel a little pain in his body.
However, it is a sigh of relief. If you can cultivate a perfect level spell, you will be willing to give up no matter how many spiritual stones you have.
This is only a first-level spell. If the second-level spell is perfected, it will cost 4,096 spiritual stones.
Zhao Lin opened the wooden box and neatly stacked the spirit stones in front of him.
He stretched out his hands and grabbed a spiritual stone respectively.
laugh!
The spiritual cultivation map stretched out dozens of thick tentacles, instantly absorbing the spiritual energy in the spiritual stone.
As the cultivation level increases, the speed at which the spiritual cultivation map absorbs spiritual energy becomes much faster.
Almost in the blink of an eye, the spirit stone turned into a ball of powder.
Zhao Lin kept absorbing the spirit stones, and there was only a slight sound of breathing in the room, and the "swish" sound of the spirit stones collapsing.
After a while of burning incense, the spiritual cultivation diagram absorbed enough spiritual energy, and the grids where the three spells of ice blade, flaming arrow and waterbending flickered at the same time.
Zhao Lin knew that the time had come and introduced spiritual energy into the ice knife technique, pushing the spell to perfection.
I saw a flash of brilliance on the surface of the plum blossom, and the sixth petal turned bright red.
After a moment, a stream of light flew into the sea of consciousness.
Miao Kefa's decades of experience in practicing skateboarding flowed into Zhao Lin's body and mind like a trickle.
Zhao Lin's eyes flashed with joy, and his understanding of the ice blade technique took another step forward at the tip of the hundred-foot pole.
Although it is only one step, it is a state that most monks will never reach.
Zhao Lin calmed down, stretched out his hands, and continued to absorb spiritual stones...
At Hai hour, all three spells were upgraded to the perfect level!
"Done!"
Zhao Lin exhaled slowly, and a feeling of sleepiness surged into his heart.
…
Early the next morning, Zhao Lin rushed to Lingdao Temple.
Halfway through the journey, I suddenly remembered something: "Chongqiao pills are rare in the world. It's hard to find a seller, so why not take this opportunity to buy a few more pills."
“If someone buys it all, it will be difficult to buy again.”
Thinking of this, Zhao Lin turned around and went down the mountain to the market at Songyu Peak.
There were still only the shopkeeper and the waiter in the store. When they saw Zhao Lin, they both had surprised looks on their faces.
The last time Zhao Lin came here, he was still at the fourth level of Qi Refining, and now he was at the fifth level.
The guy's face even looked a little ugly.
Zhao Lin thought he was jealous, but didn't take it to heart.
Shopkeeper Tian was the first to come to his senses, cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Congratulations to fellow Taoist Zhao, your practice has reached a higher level. It's really gratifying!"
Zhao Lin responded with a smile: "Thanks to Shopkeeper Tian for the elixir."
Shopkeeper Tian's mouth twitched slightly, "You're welcome! Fellow Daoist Zhao is here this time, does he want to buy another one?"
Zhao Lin nodded and said: "Exactly, but not necessarily one. How many more do you have in your store?"
"Well..."
Shopkeeper Tian's eyes flashed, a little confused: "Chongqiao Pill is not another pill. If you use one less pill, our store will not have much inventory."
Zhao Lin was unmoved and looked at the other party steadily.
"That's fine."
Shopkeeper Tian seemed to have made a lot of determination and said: "There are still two Aphrodisiac Pills, both of which are sold to fellow Taoists."
Zhao Linzhan smiled and said, "Thank you so much, Shopkeeper Tian. If there are any Chongqiao Pills left in the future, don't forget to keep them for me."
"no problem!"
Shopkeeper Tian said, but there was a burst of laughter in his heart: "There is a Chongqiao Pill, but I am afraid that you will die to get it."
Just like last time, the three of them came to the inner hall, paid with one hand, and delivered the goods with the other.
After Zhao Lin left, shopkeeper Tian and the waiter looked unhappy.
"Lord Tanaka, he has made a breakthrough."
The guy said carefully.
"This person is a martial artist, and his meridians and spiritual apertures are stronger than ordinary monks. A successful breakthrough with a single Aphrodisiac Pill is nothing."
Shopkeeper Tian's face was as dark as water, "But the second and third pills are different. Even if his body is made of iron, he can't withstand the pills that are like wolves and tigers!"
When Zhao Lin arrived at the Lingdao Academy, morning classes were about to begin, and all the disciples were present.
Today, Elder Wu is teaching the Kung Fu, and all the third-year disciples are in the Kung Fu Hall.
As soon as Zhao Lin entered the door, he attracted the attention of the disciples.
"What, Zhao Lin has reached the fifth level of Qi refining!"
A good disciple looked at Zhao Lin using the Qi Watching Technique and found that he had actually cultivated to the fifth level of Qi Refining. He couldn't help but be surprised.
"Ah, so fast?"
"Senior Brother Zhao has a middle-grade spiritual root. Unexpectedly, he is the second disciple to enter the fifth level of Qi Refining, second only to Lin Chaoran."
"Isn't it said that the level of martial arts is slow to improve? This speed has left high-grade spiritual root disciples behind."
"I practice in the spiritual cave every day. Taking pills is just like eating. Can I be unhappy?"
The disciples were in an uproar and talking about it.
Elder Wu was also secretly surprised. He had thought that Zhao Lin would be stagnant at the fourth level of Qi Refining for half a year or even a year, but he did not expect that he would break through. (End of chapter)
