Time flies, and half a year has passed in the blink of an eye.
During this period of time, Lu Zhong had initially established a foothold in Yanlingshanfang City.
Unlike Qingliufang, the Sun Stone here can be bought as long as you have money. Once you can prepare the talisman ink containing yang energy by yourself, the biggest obstacle to drawing the exorcism talisman no longer exists.
With the stable output of exorcism talismans, his monthly income no longer fluctuates significantly. Except for a little less in the first month after arriving, he can basically earn thirty to fifty spiritual stones a month in the future.
This kind of income is enough to support daily expenses and daily spiritual rice and spiritual meat needs.
As for the pills to increase cultivation, they are beyond their capabilities.
In the middle stage of Qi refining, the original Marrow Cleansing Pill was no longer suitable for consumption. After careful selection, he finally chose Qi Nourishing Pill, a first-level elixir that focuses on improving cultivation and is suitable for monks in the middle stage of Qi Refining.
The elixir is not completely non-toxic, and the same is true for the Qi-Nourishing Pill. Long-term use of this elixir will cause the spiritual power to be scattered. Compared with other elixirs such as the accumulation of erysipelas in the Golden Marrow Pill, the cold air invading the body and other negative effects of the Cold Soul Pill, it is only a mere spiritual power. For Lu Zhong, whose spiritual power has purifying properties, the dissipation of power is just a scabies problem that is not worth mentioning.
From this point we can also see how useful it is to develop techniques with spiritual power characteristics.
Take the Cold Soul Pill, for example. If it is taken by monks whose spiritual power has yin-cold characteristics, then the so-called cold air invading the body will be beneficial and harmless, and it may also play a role in improving the yin-cold characteristics.
It can be regarded as his arsenic and my honey.
The price of Qi-nourishing pills is not low, and one requires nine spirit stones.
For now, Lu Zhong's monthly balance is only enough to buy one.
Even so, it is still worth nearly half of the effect of the previous entire bottle of Marrow Cleansing Pill.
The reason for this exaggeration was that he had taken too much marrow-cleansing pill before, which led to the development of drug-resistance to the marrow-cleansing pill, which in turn led to the weakening of the effect of taking the pill.
As for the remaining spiritual stones every month, Lu Zhong did not put them there to gather dust.
He still has many necessary spells that he has not yet learned, so he bought a first-level candlelight spell and a first-level cleansing spell. Both of these spells must be learned. Although the talisman is very convenient to use, it consumes money every time it is used. There is a lot of talisman money, and there is no need to deliberately save spiritual energy when staying in the market, so it is more economical to use spells.
After he has accumulated enough spiritual stones, he is also planning to acquire another offensive spell.
However, this is all for the future.
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As usual, Lu Zhong ended his daily meditation practice.
After such a long period of practice, he has already mastered the fourth level of the Four Spiritual Skills. This will make his cultivation progress much faster, and he will be able to break through to the fifth level of Qi Refining in less than three or two years.
Breathing out a puff of turbid air like a dragon, he stood up and pushed open the door of the quiet room and walked into the courtyard.
Different from the chaos when we first arrived, the atrium of the small courtyard and the spiritual field have been tidied up.
The original atrium was a dirt floor, and there were still many training equipment left behind. It was obvious that the previous owner used it as a training ground, and there were potholes everywhere on the floor and walls.
Lu Zhong also planned to use the atrium as a training ground, so he did not choose to pave it with floor tiles. Instead, he directly burned it with Qingyang Fire Rain Technique. After the ground was burned hard by the flames, he used Chi Yangfa Sword flattened the protrusions little by little, thus obtaining a hard ceramic floor.
This kind of ground is not easily damaged and is much better than the previous pure mud ground.
In the small spiritual field outside, Lu Zhong was not good at cultivating spiritual plants and did not want to devote too much energy, so he only scattered some talisman seeds in the ground.
I just take care of it occasionally when I have time, and basically don't expect the output of the spiritual field.
…
Closing his eyes, Lu Zhong entered the gray mist space.
Probably because he had broken through to the fourth level of Qi Refining, the gray fog space had also changed a little. He accidentally discovered that he could move around the scene to a limited extent while looking back.
Through this discovery, Lu Zhong determined that the role of the gray fog space was indeed scene retrospection.
With a thought, the regression begins.
According to the results of previous attempts, with the position where you stand in the scene as the center of the circle, you can move within a spherical area with a radius of roughly ten feet. Going further outside will cause the scene's backtracking to collapse.
Once this happens, he will feel a severe headache, probably due to excessive consumption of his consciousness.
Lu Zhong also did other experiments and found that when he was retracing the scene, he could only observe things, and he could also use Qi Watching to observe, but he could not interfere with things in the retracing scene, which limited his ability to achieve some cool operations. possible.
But even so, the backtracking function of gray fog space can still be of great use if used properly.
"It can be regarded as a human version of divine consciousness with a huge delay..." Lu Zhong thought silently.
Although monks in the Qi Refining Stage also have spiritual consciousness, they can only use it to look inside themselves, and they cannot release their spiritual consciousness outside the body. Only monks in the Foundation Establishment Stage can do this.
For example, now, he can use scene recall to observe the situation outside the bamboo forest.
"Hey, this figure..."
During the retracement process, Lu Zhong discovered something was wrong.
There is only one south-facing exit in the Bamboo Forest Courtyard. Occasionally, in the blind spot outside this exit, people will stay here inadvertently for a while. Although these people have completely different faces and outfits, their actions are very suspicious. Every time As long as you stay, you will make movements of pinching and chanting mantras.
These movements are very clear, and they are clearly performing the Zhan Qi Technique.
Looking back some time, I found that this situation started half a month ago.
"Someone is spying on me secretly."
No, why is there no feedback when detecting malicious intent?
After Lu Zhong learned to detect malicious intent, he basically swiped himself several times every day to prevent someone from secretly spying on him without him knowing it.
But now...
"It seems that the opponent has a way to circumvent the effect of this technique. The book on the experience of detecting maliciousness also mentioned that there are various methods that can make the detection of maliciousness ineffective or offset the effect."
Lu Zhong couldn't help but sigh heavily when he thought of this. .
"I originally wanted to live a peaceful life, but I didn't expect that I would be remembered like this..."
The purpose of the other party's spying is nothing more than seeking money.
Of course, there could also be a kidnapping.
After all, a Talisman Maker slave who can make Talisman is almost equivalent to a cornucopia that can steadily produce spiritual stones.
Even if you have no control over it, you can still resell it and make a lot of money.
In addition, the strength of Talisman Masters is often very average. Although the fighting ability blessed by spirit stones is slightly stronger than that of ordinary casual cultivators, they still do not have much ability to fight back in front of those monks who are really good at fighting.
It is extremely possible that the other party has this purpose.
"It's a pity that there are not enough spiritual stones, otherwise the matter can be solved by directly setting up a defensive formation. Since I can't afford the defensive formation, how should I deal with it?" Lu Zhong thought carefully.
Finding out in advance that the other party is spying is a small advantage.
From this, perhaps some arrangements can be made.
Lay a trap and ambush in the courtyard, or choose to seek help from the law enforcement team?
Since the other party has been secretly watching, it is not difficult to distinguish the actions of laying traps. Therefore, setting traps and ambush is not advisable; the same is true for asking the law enforcement team for help. In this Yanlingshanfang City, where everything is about money, the law enforcement team does not trustworthy.
