After Tian Xiaoding exchanged a red beauty pill for millions of low-grade blue spiritual stones, he took Yue Yurou and Zhang Xiaodie, who had changed his name, to a bookstore.
He wanted to buy light and wood techniques for Zhang Xiaodie.
The store clerk led Xiao Ding and three others up to the third floor, then pointed to a few rows of shelves and introduced: "The exercises here are all wood-based exercises. The guests can take a look at the light-based exercises first. It’s on the fourth floor, I’ll take you there later.”
Xiao Ding glanced at the rows of shelves and saw that some were filled with books and some were filled with jade slips. Then he asked curiously: "Brother, why are some exercises made from books and some exercises made from jade slips?"
The store clerk quickly explained with a smile: "Sir, you don't know. Here, low-level exercises are generally recorded in books, while high-level exercises are basically recorded on jade slips. After all, jade slips also have costs. Yes, low-level skills are cheap. If you use jade slips to record them, it will increase the cost and make it difficult to sell."
"That's it!" Xiao Ding suddenly said. He casually picked up a book titled "Basic Wood Skills Practice" and opened it at random, only to find that he could only read half of the book, and the remaining half was sealed and could not be opened.
The shop clerk saw the confusion on Xiao Ding's face, and without waiting for Xiao Ding to ask, he explained: "The reason why these books are half-sealed is because ordinary monks have the ability to remember photographs. If everyone If you just browse through it casually and remember the contents of the book, then our book will not be sold."
Xiao Ding nodded, put down the book in his hand, and looked at the jade slip on the other side.
The shop assistant continued: "The same goes for these jade slips. Our shop owner has set special restrictions. Before the special restrictions are lifted, you can only see a small part of the contents inside the jade slips."
Xiao Ding rarely bought books and exercises before, so he knew very little about the rules for selling books on Tiankun Planet. He didn't expect that selling a skill would have so many twists and turns.
In the end, Xiao Ding selected a low-level exercise book "Introduction to Wood-type Exercises" and a high-level exercise book "The Art of Spring in Dead Trees" for Zhang Xiaodie. These two books are both wood-type exercises, which can be used from the beginning to the gradual progress, step by step, and gradually deepen.
After selecting these two wood-based exercises, the store clerk led the three of them to the fourth floor.
The light-based techniques are indeed very rare as the store clerk said. There are only five or six jade slips placed on a shelf on the fourth floor.
Among the five or six jade slips, Xiao Ding chose "Ten Thousand Zhang Yaoguang Jue" for Zhang Xiaodie, which is a high-level light system technique. Although I didn't buy the low-level light-based skills, Xiao Ding's "Heart Melting Technique" included light control among the spells during the Qi training period. This is also a relatively basic light-based spell. With this as a foundation, it will not be difficult to learn "Ten Thousand Zhang Yaoguang Jue".
After selecting these three exercises, the store clerk led Xiao Ding and the others to the counter on the first floor to check out, and a Nascent Soul monk at the counter was required to unlock the restrictions on the jade slips that recorded the two high-level exercises.
After settling the bill, Xiao Ding suddenly discovered that the three books had cost him more than half a million low-grade blue spiritual stones in one go.
Obviously, the skills that can be bought in the world are definitely not top-notch skills. The result was that it cost so many spirit stones. This made Xiao Ding feel pain.
Counting some of the weapon refining materials he had purchased before and the spiritual stones he had exchanged for the red Beauty Pill, he had already spent more than one million low-grade blue spiritual stones.
With such rapid consumption, Xiao Ding did not dare to continue shopping. He was worried that if he continued shopping, if he came across something good, would he buy it or not?
So the three of them discussed it and decided to leave the city and return to Dazhao Mountain.
Just as the three of them turned around and walked out of the city, Xiao Ding suddenly felt that someone seemed to be peeking at the three of them from behind.
Could it be that someone is following me secretly? He suddenly turned around, but found nothing unusual. People were coming and going on the street, everyone was busy doing their own thing, and no one looked like they were being followed.
Xiao Ding turned around, but let go of his consciousness, especially paying attention to the position behind him.
Set.
However, Xiao Ding did not find any suspicious person until he reached the city gate.
Could it be that my feelings were wrong? Xiao Ding is not sure.
After leaving the city gate and walking forward for a while, Xiao Ding was about to take out the flying cloud shuttle and take off.
At this moment, a gloomy voice suddenly came from behind: "Do you just want to leave like this?"
Xiao Ding looked back and saw a middle-aged man dressed as a farmer catching up behind him. He turned out to be a monk at the golden elixir stage. He wore a worn-out bamboo hat on his head, covering most of his face. His clothes were all made of coarse cloth, and his feet were wearing straw sandals, still stained with a little dried mud.
If you don't look at his cultivation and just look at his appearance, this middle-aged man is an out-and-out farmer. However, since Xiao Ding can see that this man is a Golden Core monk, he can conclude that he is definitely not as simple as a farmer.
Xiao Ding didn't know why this person stopped him, so he asked, "I wonder what this fellow Taoist does for you?"
The monk dressed as a farmer came forward, sneered twice, and said: "I can't say that you are a noble man, but you have taken all the belongings of our master's family, do you just want to run away like this?"
"Your family?" Xiao Ding was confused.
"Yes, our master is Boss Li of Chengxi Auction House." said the farmer-looking monk.
When Xiao Ding heard this, he suddenly realized that it was the people from the auction house who sent people to follow him, hoping to take back the spiritual stones they had paid for.
Xiao Ding has not experienced this kind of thing before, and of course he knows the tricks.
Generally speaking, things like this often happen in places such as auction houses, casinos, black markets, or other trading venues. If the property involved is very huge, there will be unscrupulous merchants who will secretly send people after the transaction to intercept the huge property that has been paid out.
This kind of thing not only happens frequently in the world of cultivation, but actually happens from time to time in any era and in any world.
At this time, Xiao Ding already understood that the golden elixir monk dressed as a farmer who was chasing him was actually a martial artist raised by the auction house. The reason why he dressed up like a farmer was because this outfit was not conspicuous when stalking him on the streets of the city. Because there are pedestrians on the streets in the city from all walks of life, and no one will pay attention to an ordinary farmer.
This is also the main reason why when Xiao Ding was in the city before, he found someone peeping in secret, but failed to find out who was peeping.
You know, there are so many pedestrians on the street, people dressed in all kinds of clothes, and there are monks of all realms, so it is difficult to tell who is following you.
Although the other party was a golden elixir stage monk, Xiao Ding didn't show any fear at all. He asked: "Is it your boss Li who regrets spending money to buy my Beauty Pill?"
The farmer-looking monk looked at Xiao Ding with some confusion and said, "Don't you understand what I mean? I'm here to get money, not to negotiate a deal with you. If the three of you want to survive, it will be painful." Hurry up and hand over all the spirit stones you got from Boss Li, otherwise, hehe..."
Xiao Ding disagreed and said: "I can't hand over those spirit stones. You have been following us, and you should also know that I have purchased a lot of items with those spirit stones, and now I have spent a hundred There are tens of thousands of low-grade blue spiritual stones.”
"Then just hand over the items you purchased. If the value is not enough, then hand over all the storage bags or rings of the three of you." The farmer-looking monk said without mercy. .
Xiao Ding couldn't help but sneered and said, "That depends on whether you have such ability."
The monk dressed as a farmer looked at Xiao Ding with a look of disdain and said, "Are you just a young monk in the Qi training stage? Or is it the female monk behind you who is in the foundation building stage? Even if the three of you go together, what can you do? How's it going, old man?"
Among the three Xiao Ding, Yue Yurou seems to have the highest cultivation level and has just entered the late stage of foundation building. As for Xiao Ding and Zhang Xiaodie, they both seemed to have attained the Dzogchen Qi cultivation level. The Golden Core Stage monks opposite them were naturally
I won't take the three of them seriously.
This is also the main reason why Boss Li of the auction house only sent one Golden Core monk. In Boss Li's view, to deal with Xiao Ding and the other three, one Golden Core monk is enough. Sending more people would be superfluous.
It's a pity that the owner of the auction house, Li, would never have imagined that Xiao Ding's true strength could completely defeat a Golden Core monk.
Therefore, Xiao Ding calmly said calmly: "Don't blame me for not warning you in advance. If you really want to take action with me, don't regret it. I tell you clearly, if I want to kill you, it will be easy." It's easy. If you are aware of current affairs, then go back as soon as possible and tell that boss Li that you have given up your heart completely and don't bother me again. Otherwise, if you make me anxious, I might kill him. Where is that auction house?"...
When the monk dressed as a farmer heard this, he burst out laughing and said, "Hahaha, your cultivation is not very good, but you still dare to say such big words. I want to see today how much you can weigh?"
After saying that, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the top of his head, performed a hand gesture, and then shouted: "Get up!"
Then he saw that the broken hat on his head was spinning and rising into the sky, and it was slashing directly towards Xiao Ding's neck at an extremely fast speed.
It turns out that this broken bamboo hat is actually a low-level magic weapon!
