"Senior Brother, where is this Lijia Village? It's true that Senior Brother Chu Lie sent us out just after the New Year."
On a mountain forest in the south of Yuepan Mountain, two monks dressed in dark red attire were flying in the air on a flying boat. The two people walked one behind the other, the one in front was older and held a brass compass in his hand; the one behind him looked younger, had a long sword hanging on his waist, and was chattering and complaining.
"Junior Brother Zhang, be careful what you say." The older monk turned back to glare at Junior Brother Zhang and said, "I heard that this matter is a task sent by Guangwen Hall, so we will do it."
After a moment of pause, he added: "What's more, this mission also rewards a pound of spiritual grain, and there is no danger, so it's not bad."
The compass in his hand is called a spiritual plate, and it is a low-grade magic weapon. It is engraved with the magic pattern "Inspiration", which can roughly sense which direction has spiritual energy fluctuations. It is often used as an early warning and for finding spiritual objects. However, its sensing distance is only more than five miles, and it is considered a standard magic weapon of the Evil Pavilion of Jindingmen Sword Hall.
For these outer cabinet disciples, one month's monthly salary is five spiritual stones and half a catty of spiritual grain. Apart from the fact that such a task takes some time, it is actually pretty good. But Junior Brother Zhang had some adventures a few days ago. He found a fifty-year-old Sun Flame Grass and handed it over to the sect. He was rewarded with fifty spiritual stones and a sword technique. Now that he has a lot of money in his pocket, he naturally doesn't look down on this half a kilo of spiritual grain.
"Don't mention it." Junior Brother Zhang let out a breath: "I don't know where the casual cultivator came from, but Senior Brother Chu forced me to go, otherwise I wouldn't do this useless task."
As he spoke, he brushed the long sword at his waist with one hand, and said half to the older monk, half to himself: "With this 'Golden Phoenix Sword Technique', I think I can be promoted to the cabinet."
The older monk glanced at him with envy, did not answer, and continued to fly forward. Junior brother Zhang is at the fifth level of qi training this year. He is twenty-nine years old, not yet old enough to stand up. With the "Golden Phoenix Sword Technique" he obtained from the Sutra Pavilion, he has a good chance of entering the Sword Hall's Evil Pavilion in the future. cabinet. If there are more opportunities, it is unknown to enter the foundation building period in the future.
But he is different. He is fifty-eight years old this year, almost reaching his sixtieth year. He is still at the sixth level of Qi training. There is probably no hope of building a foundation in this life. It was because he was related to a senior uncle in the sect that the sect always assigned him some easy tasks, and he lived a relatively comfortable life. Otherwise, if it were a casual cultivator of the same age, many of them would have gray hair, unlike him, whose hair is still black and shiny.
The older monk sighed. He was getting too old and had no hope of building a foundation in this life. It would be better to marry more concubines and take care of himself in his old age. I decided in my heart that after returning to the sect, I would apply to withdraw from the Evil Breaking Pavilion, write to the sect to release me, go to a mortal town to be a city lord, and take a few more mortal women as concubines to pass on my bloodline.
This is also the path that most monks who have no hope of finding a path in the spiritual world ultimately choose. For older monks, it would be the best ending if they could spend their old age as a city lord in peace.
At this moment, the elder monk saw smoke rising from the north from a distance, and both of them, one behind him, were refreshed at the same time. The older monk glanced at the compass in his hand, but showed no reaction. He frowned and turned to Junior Brother Zhang and said, "I wonder if the Lijia Village is ahead. Let's go and take a look first."
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In the evening, Li Qingfeng sat cross-legged in his room. He breathed the last breath of white mist into his belly, exhaled a breath of turbid air, stopped the technique, and opened his eyes.
After arranging the Five Elements Qi Gathering Formation, coupled with the cooperation of elixirs, spiritual stones and spiritual valleys, he is now cultivating at a very fast speed, and is sure to advance to the third level of Qi training within a month and a half.
The "Purple Jade Spiritual Rice" I bought in Nafang City some time ago is really good and worth the price of seven spiritual stones per pound.
Generally speaking, all kinds of spiritual food and spiritual materials specially designed for consumption in the world of immortality are more expensive than elixirs of the same level. As the saying goes, medicine is three-part poison. Any medicine contains erysipelas. After the monk takes it, he needs to use his own spiritual power to resolve it. Otherwise, if these erysipelas accumulate in the body, it will at least affect the monk's future practice, or at worst, the erysipelas will directly backfire and his cultivation will regress. However, spiritual materials designed for consumption do not have this effect. The spiritual energy contained in them can be absorbed by monks without causing any adverse effects.
This is also one of the reasons why monks from big families and sects always practice faster than casual cultivators. At least as far as Li Qingfeng knew in his previous life, not to mention the big sects, even the core disciples of some small sects and small families ate all kinds of spiritual materials as food, and their cultivation speed would naturally be much faster than ordinary casual cultivators.
On the other hand, even if the casual cultivators are given enough spiritual stone wealth, many casual cultivators do not have the channels to collect various spiritual materials for consumption - even if they do, they still need to spend a lot of time to collect them themselves. Instead, it takes up time for practice. Therefore, in Li Qingfeng's previous life, although the number of casual cultivators was the largest, they were the most vulnerable no matter where they were.
This is also Li Qingfeng's original intention to establish a family of immortals in this life. In his previous life, he basically worked his way up to the pill-forming stage as a casual cultivator, so he naturally knows the pain of being a casual cultivator. To put it bluntly, if he had not been lucky and encountered some opportunities in his previous life, he would not have been able to advance to the pill-forming stage, let alone succeed in revenge.
As soon as the exercise was completed, Li Qingfeng stood up and moved his body, walked to the desk and sat down. He lit the oil lamp, brushed the storage bag at his waist with his right hand, and a small stack of blank talisman papers appeared on the table.
Next, he took out the talisman pens, cinnabar, etc. and placed them on the table in front of him. This was something he had planned for a long time. During this period of time, he was going to draw a batch of talismans. On the one hand, it would enhance the strength of Li Qingqing and others. On the other hand, he was also going to take them to Da'anfang City for sale.
His cultivation speed during this period was very fast, but the consumption of spiritual stones was naturally just as fast. He doesn't have many spiritual stones left from Da'anfang City, and they have to be supplied for his daily practice. In a month at most, there won't be any left and all will be used up.
Sitting in front of the table, Li Qingfeng raised the talisman pen and lightly dipped it in the cinnabar. What he plans to refine today is a first-order mid-grade water attribute talisman, which is the defensive talisman "Water Spirit Shield Talisman".
As the name suggests, the Water Spirit Shield Talisman condenses a water shield to protect the user. The Li family's strongest combat power now is Li Qingqing and Li Qingfeng, and no matter which one of them it is, they are now better at offense than defense. Needless to say, Li Qingqing's Flame Dragon, his most effective means of fighting the enemy now is only the soul attack plus the ice cone technique. Defense is their biggest shortcoming. Although the defensive talismans with water attributes are not as effective as those with earth attributes, they are still a supplement.
