Donghua Immortal Realm, Qin State.
The Qianzhu Mountains are located at the junction of Qingzhou and Jingzhou, stretching for tens of thousands of miles. A large number of Qingyun bamboos grow here, hence the name.
In the southwest of the Qianzhu Mountains, there is a valley surrounded by mountains on three sides. Outside the valley stands a green stone tablet more than ten feet high, with three large golden characters "Qianzhu Valley" written on it.
There was a noise in the valley. The streets in the valley were spacious and clean, with many shops. A large number of monks could be seen walking around.
There once appeared a third-level demonic beast, Qingfeng Wolf, in the Qianzhu Mountains, which killed many monks. Later, it was the Green Python Master of the Yuling Sect who took action, and this demon was eliminated.
The three families of Chen, Han, and Li jointly manage Qianzhu Valley. There are foundation-building monks in charge all year round. Their business scope is vast, and many casual cultivators make a living here.
Fang City is built on the mountain. There is a steep peak. At the foot of the mountain stands a five-foot-high blue stone tablet with the three characters "Qianzhu Peak" engraved on it. There are many buildings on the mountain. This is a residential area. Accommodation is provided for cultivators.
There are many buildings on Qianzhu Peak, ranging from simple stone houses to gorgeous palaces and single-family blue attics. These buildings extend from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain.
At the foot of the mountain, there is a two-foot-long blue stone house. The stone house is made of stacked blue boulders. The gaps are filled with shells and the door is closed.
There is a blue stone bed about ten feet long in the stone house. There is a blue magic circle in the corner. There are five grooves of the same size on the magic circle. There is a gray-white spiritual stone in each groove. It seems that there is a gray stone inside. His spiritual energy is almost exhausted.
A tall and tall young man in blue shirt is sitting cross-legged on the stone bed. The young man in blue shirt has a face like a crown of jade, a straight nose, and his eyes are slightly closed. The surface of his body is covered by a layer of blue glow, and wisps of water aura converge into the blue shirt. On the young man, it poured into his mouth and nose.
After a while, the young man in blue shirt opened his eyes, and there was a faint gleam in his eyes.
"Finally reached the fifth level of Qi refining."
The young man in blue shirt said to himself, his face full of joy.
The young man in blue shirt is called Shen Long. His parents are both casual cultivators who make a living by hunting monsters.
When he was ten years old, Shen Long's parents went out hunting for treasure with their friends. Before leaving, they left most of their belongings to Shen Long and told him not to leave Fangshi privately.
It has been seven years since my parents left without returning.
The property left by his parents was not much, and Shen Long knew very well that no matter how much he saved, it would be spent sooner or later. He wanted to find a job, but he was too young, and the shops didn't want him. Some even tried to trick him into leaving Fangshi.
His parents often visited Qiaobingtang, a weapon-refining shop that sold magical weapons and helped repair them.
Sun Huowang, the shopkeeper of Qiaobing Hall, probably felt sorry for him and hired Shen Long as a helper. He was given two spiritual stones every month to help Shen Long through the most difficult period.
Seven years have passed, and Shen Long's parents have not returned yet, and their life and death are uncertain.
Shen Long devoted himself to training. If he wanted to find his parents, he must first be strong enough.
He works five hours a day at Qiaobing Hall, five hours for cultivation, one hour for practicing spells, and one hour for finding something to do, such as serving as a guide for foreign monks, or hanging out in the square where casual monks set up stalls. , listen to the stall owner's experience of hunting monsters or anecdotes about the world of immortality. If you are lucky, you can buy better weapon refining materials at a low price and resell them to make a small profit.
Sun Huowang taught Shen Long how to identify the materials for refining, and introduced them from the characteristics of the materials to the purchase prices. Shen Long studied hard, was familiar with the characteristics and purchase prices of various first-level materials for refining, and worked diligently.
Shen Long didn't want to be a waiter in a shop all his life and could barely survive with two spiritual stones every month. He took an hour every day to practice magic. In five years, he practiced two first-level spells to perfection, and then quit his job. , team up with other casual cultivators to hunt monsters and earn immortal cultivation resources.
Spells are easy to learn but difficult to master. Spells are divided into four stages: Beginner, Small Success, Dacheng and Dzogchen.
When casting a spell, the cultivator must recite the mantra silently, and it will take a certain amount of time to release the spell. It does not take long to get started. If you want to practice a first-level spell to perfection, it can take at least a year and a half, or at most more than ten years. Depends on the person.
Some monks are very talented in cultivating magic. They can practice a first-level spell to perfection in one year. They can cast spells instantly and their power will be greatly improved. Some monks spend more than ten years to achieve this. If they are unable to practice a first-level spell to perfection, they can purchase magic weapons or talismans to save time and effort.
Qiaobingtang's magical weapons are of good quality and reasonably priced, and they have a group of repeat customers who make a living by hunting monsters.
Shen Long took advantage of his position to observe the character of these casual cultivators. Some casual cultivators were careless, some were greedy for petty gains, and some were greedy for money and lust.
He has established a good relationship with a powerful Qi Refining monk who is the captain of a demon hunting team. There is a great risk when the demon hunting team goes out to hunt monsters. Attrition is very common. If you are unlucky, , the whole army may be annihilated.
Two years ago, when the demon-hunting team came back from an outing, four Qi-refining monks died. Shen Long learned the news and recommended himself.
He was at the fourth level of Qi Refining at the time. With his Dzogchen Fireball Technique and his familiarity with the purchase prices of first-level weapon refining materials, he successfully joined the demon hunting team.
The cave he is renting now is the cheapest cave in the city, with five spiritual stones a year, only one soundproof array, and the spiritual energy is not abundant.
He has twenty-four spiritual stones a year in Qiaobing Hall. After deducting the rent, he still has nineteen spiritual stones. He can barely make ends meet by buying the cheapest Jinzhu spiritual rice. A bottle of Qi Lianping powder costs ten spiritual stones. Stone, a better Qi-nourishing pill costs twenty spiritual stones per bottle.
In his second year of work, Sun Huowang gave him a salary increase, three spiritual stones a month. Before resigning, he had four spiritual stones a month. After deducting the rent and the cost of purchasing spiritual rice, after one year, the spiritual stones he had saved It is only enough to buy a bottle of Qi Nourishing Pill. As the cultivation level increases, more cultivation resources are needed. In the long run, I must resign.
Four spiritual stones a month was considered a high salary in Fang City. Sun Huowang could not give him another salary increase, which was why Shen Long resigned.
He also had the idea of learning to refine weapons, but Sun Huowang didn't teach him how to refine weapons at all. It was too difficult to learn by himself. One weapon-refining material required dozens of spirit stones. He worked in Qiaobing Hall for a year and lived frugally. You can only buy one material, and if you fail once, you will be wasted for a year, not to mention buying a refining furnace and a refining book.
According to Sun Huowang, he failed four times in refining the weapon for the first time before he succeeded.
Shen Long calculated that after ten years of frugality, he could buy a low-grade weapon-refining furnace and a tool-refining classic, and gather four items of weapon-refining materials. It would be okay if he succeeded once, but if he failed, ten years of hard work would be in vain. , this is on the premise of not buying the elixir.
He quickly gave up the idea. For a low-level person like him, the cost of trial and error was too high. He couldn't afford to lose. It would be better to hunt monsters.
As far as he knew, the three new generations of immortal cultivating families, Chen, Han, and Li, did not have to do anything every month. They could receive a sum of immortal cultivating resources and concentrate on their cultivation. They would then go out to work when they were eighteen years old. However, he did not have this fate. , you can only rely on your own efforts.
