After sending Qian Qiancheng away, Gu Dan returned to the simple and narrow cave and opened the package.
Inside is a ball of dark ointment. When you get closer and take a gentle sniff, the strong medicinal aroma reaches your heart. It is indeed not an ordinary product.
Gently sip a little with your fingers and take a brief taste.
A slightly bitter feeling burst out in the taste buds, and then the power of the medicine began to spread, reaching the whole body, and the speed was many times stronger than ordinary mortal healing medicine.
Even though Gu Dan was healthy, his spirit was slightly lifted.
Just as Qian Qiancheng said, this ointment is absolutely extraordinary. It is very effective in healing wounds and even uses elixir.
"However, compared with Aokiye, the gap is still a bit big."
After just a brief taste, Gu Xingzhong already made a judgment.
The elixir is not as good as Aoki liquid.
If it weren't for the fact that if too much Aoki liquid is used, it can easily kill people, it would probably be the most powerful healing medicine in the competition.
"It's a pity that due to the current situation, it is not convenient for Qingmu Liquid to be 'liquidated'. I will look for an opportunity later to see if I can exchange for some elixir seeds. If Qingmu Liquid can also have an effect on it, that would be great."
Gu has already thought about it while worried.
Save up in secret, develop silently, gain a firm foothold, and then look for something else!
After all, the immortal mentioned by Qing Pingzi has not even seen a shadow until now. Only the fire in the Buzhou Mountains is in full swing. Gu still has a trace of doubt in his worries, and he does not dare to do anything fancy. People will be settled later.
"Fellow Daoist Kong, are you in the cave?"
Not long after Gu Dan came back, another voice sounded outside.
"Where did I get so many acquaintances?"
With a slight frown on his brow, Gu Dan still opened the door of the cave.
Standing outside the door was his short-term neighbor, Lin Cheng.
The last time we met, I wanted to sell Gu Dan his "Lingdao Experience"!
But today, Lin Cheng was smiling all over his face. How could he still look as confident as before?
"Fellow Daoist Lin? I don't know what's going on."
Seeing Lin Cheng, Gu Dan's expression naturally darkened.
Not only did this person have a one-time relationship, but he still wanted to cheat him, so naturally he didn't need to give him a good look.
After all, 'Kong Zhai' doesn't have a good temper. He dares to fight against the foundation-building monks, and he always looks so pleasant, but his dignity has been reduced.
"I heard that Fellow Daoist Kong was appreciated by Hall Master Huang Chao?"
Lin Cheng stared at Gu Dan for several times, sensing that the aura on his body was fluctuating violently and weakly, and he was sure that the man burning flesh and blood did not have the same name as him.
"So what?"
Gu Dan asked calmly.
"Haha, I'm here specially to congratulate Fellow Daoist Kong."
Lin Cheng laughed dryly, knowing that the first impression he left on the other party was very bad. He took out a small package from his body with heartache and said: "Neighbors, this little spiritual rice is all my brother's thoughts. "
Seeing that the other person, who had a gray beard and looked twenty or thirty years older than himself, could still call himself his younger brother without any shame, Gu Dan was quite impressed.
"In that case, I would like to thank Lin Daoyou for his kindness."
Gu Dan took the small bag of spiritual rice without any courtesy and returned to the cave.
"Hey, hey, fellow Taoist, please stay!"
Seeing that Gu Dan was about to leave, Lin Cheng shouted quickly.
"Um?!"
When he suddenly heard those five words, Gu Dan's expression changed, he turned his head and stared at Lin Cheng with an unkind expression, "Fellow Taoist Lin Cheng, do you have any advice?"
He called out his full name directly, which meant something bad.
"Fellow Daoist Kong, please don't misunderstand me. My brother has something intimate that he wants to tell his brother!"
Lin Cheng didn't know that being so close to him would easily arouse hostility, but if he didn't take advantage of the opportunity to build relationships now, he might not even get his turn after a while, so he couldn't care less.
"Is it?"
Gu Dan glanced at Lin Cheng up and down. No matter how he looked at it, this guy didn't look like a leopard, so his expression softened slightly.
"There are some things that are not convenient to talk about outside. Can we go in and talk about it?"
Lin Cheng pointed to his cave and said carefully: "I don't mean any harm at all!"
"I hope you really have something to say."
Gu Dan did not refuse this time and wanted to see what kind of medicine was hidden in the gourd.
After the two of them walked into the cave together, the door slowly closed.
When the door was completely closed, Lin Cheng said: "Fellow Daoist Kong has just arrived in Ningfang not long ago. How much do you know about Ningfang?"
Gu Dan just looked at him and said nothing.
Lin Cheng, who was asking for trouble, could only bite the bullet and continue, "As seen by fellow Taoist Kong, Ningfang seems to be a whole, but in fact it is divided into three areas.
The worst one among them is the mortal level area where we are.
The monks living here are all at the bottom of Ningfang. Not to mention that the spiritual energy here is the thinnest, and the chances of earning spiritual stones are far inferior to those in yellow-level areas.
Only real immortal seedlings and monks with no real abilities will live here. Otherwise, they must try their best to move!
Of course, Fellow Daoist Kong was appreciated by Hall Master Huang Chao. He no longer had to spend decades of hard work to accumulate a family fortune, and he escaped from the prison in one day. This was Fellow Daoist Kong's strength and luck that others could not envy. "
After saying this, Lin Cheng sighed.
"What do you want to say? You don't have to be so arrogant, just say what you have to say."
Gu Dan waved his hand, not wanting to listen to his long speech anymore, and spoke simply and neatly.
"Let's put it this way, fellow Taoist, do you know how much an ordinary monk's spiritual stone income in a mortal area makes per year?"
Lin Cheng asked.
"not sure."
Gu Dan shook his head slightly, he really hadn't heard about this.
"On average, it's about ten."
Lin Cheng didn't show off, and said directly: "Ten spiritual stones, one spiritual stone per month in a Huang-level cave. If you work hard for a year, you can only rent the lowest-grade Huang-level cave for ten months!"
Gu Dan looked at him with an expression on his face, waiting for his next words.
"But if the Huang-level cave is to be rented out, it will take at least three years. This is also the reason why the master had to sign a five-year contract before. In five years, as long as you don't spend recklessly, you can almost rent a low-class house for three years. Huang-level cave, then find another way, or practice diligently for three years.
But here comes the question, where did the spirit stone come from? The monk made it himself! As time goes by, the monks are getting stronger and stronger, and they can produce more and more spiritual stones. However, the price of goods today is almost the same as before. This is undoubtedly unreasonable! "
Lin Cheng said with a rather excited expression.
There are no spiritual mines in the Buzhou Mountains.
All the spiritual stones here are made by monks who absorb the spiritual energy themselves and then pour it into special jade stones.
It's just that Xianfang has a monopoly on the production rights of spirit stones. Spirit stones that are not officially certified are not recognized at all, and naturally they cannot be made public.
"You mean, the spirit stone has been depreciating all the time? It's just that Ningfang kept suppressing it, so it didn't leak out?"
Gu Dan understood somewhat.
"That's right! It would be great if Fellow Daoist Kong understands this truth."
Lin Cheng said quickly: "I have heard that only monks in the middle stage of qi training can make their own spiritual stones. A skilled worker who knows the method can make one in about half a month. After a year, it will be much better than farming." many.
As for the monks in the late stage of Qi training, it only takes seven days to make a spirit stone. If there is the help of spirit gathering array and other things, it will be faster!
As for the foundation-building monks, I dare not even think about it! "
Today's artificial spiritual stones cannot be used directly for practice. In most cases, they can only be used as a material and energy source, and are given a monetary value.
But the problem is that with the improvement of spiritual stone currency, the output is constantly increasing, but the real producers, that is, those people in the mortal area, still have so much output and harvest.
The consumption channels of rich man-made spiritual stones have not increased, the output has increased, and the consumption has remained unchanged. It should be devalued no matter what, which corresponds to the increase in the income of ordinary-level areas.
But not!
The result was naturally that the excess spirit stones were deliberately accumulated.
"After all, spiritual stones need to be condensed by monks. Wouldn't it be better if there are too many and they don't need to be condensed?"
Gu Dan said.
"What you said, why are the standard spiritual stones of the Immortal Workshop considered spiritual stones? Will those monks in the middle and late stages of Qi training be so obedient? They can produce spiritual stones by themselves, and they have to work hard for a whole year. , working for Ningfang is worse than producing it yourself, who would be willing?"
Lin Cheng sneered and said: "Nowadays, standard spiritual stones are still used when buying things from the Immortal Workshop. But most of the monks' private transactions use self-made spiritual stones. For the same immortal technique, standard spiritual stones can only be sold. Ten yuan, I’ll give you twelve yuan of self-made spirit stones, the effect is almost the same, which one will Brother Kong choose?”
After saying this, Gu Dan naturally understood.
Since Xianfang is shameless, then the monks are not obedient people. Sooner or later, the trap will be unstoppable.
The currency of artificial spiritual stones is bad. In theory, every monk can produce it on his own, and the higher his practice, the more he can produce, but the underlying productivity cannot keep up.
However, artificial spiritual stones are very unsuitable for cultivation and have great hidden dangers. Unless they are not prepared to break through the foundation building in this life, they will definitely not be absorbed.
Without absorption, artificial spiritual stones can only be used as various materials for cultivating immortals.
But there is a limit to the use of materials for cultivating immortals. No one would use ten spiritual stones to grow one acre of spiritual rice, right? That means you can't make ends meet!
The difference between standard spiritual stones and self-made spiritual stones is only certified by an immortal workshop and condensed by a monk on his own!
I can still play now simply because Ningfang still has the core competitiveness of Dongfu!
As long as the cave has not been sold out, it can be used as a means of recycling and distributing standard spiritual stones.
Because the difference in spiritual energy concentration will always drive future monks, even if they know clearly that whoever wants the standard spiritual stone is a fool, they have to bite the bullet, otherwise they will only be able to hang around in the mortal level area for the rest of their lives.
Looking into the root cause, it is still because the strength of the monks is constantly growing, but the corresponding consumption is difficult to increase - if you can't display all the skills of cultivating immortals, how can there really be so many places to consume spiritual stones?
It’s not like Ningfang hasn’t thought of ways over the years, such as digging deep into the art of weapon refining and formations, making flying boats for sale, just to use this method to consume the surplus of accumulated spiritual stones, but it has only just reached the beginning stage, and there is nothing What a great achievement.
What really limits them is not the lack of methods, but the inability to find the corresponding materials to complete it.
In the foreseeable future, unless consumption and production can reach a balance, there will definitely be more and more self-made spiritual stones until the conventional spiritual stones are completely crushed.
And the monks who have already purchased the cave abode will take another look at the standard spiritual stone. Will they be oppressed by the Immortal Workshop in vain?
Only those unlucky fairy seedlings, as the lowest level of the labor force, were severely sucked and squeezed.
Nowadays, I am afraid that the immortal seedlings are not enough, so the oppression on the grandmaster is becoming more and more severe. From the initial five-year contract to the ten-year contract signed by Gu Dan, now I heard that a fifteen-year contract is being discussed. matter
Oh, normal people need to be at least forty or fifty years old to become a master in cultivation. If they are farther away, it would take quite a while to get here. To make a compromise, let’s calculate it as sixty years old.
The grandmaster came to Ningfang when he was sixty years old, and worked for Ningfang for fifteen years before starting to cultivate immortality normally. He is already seventy-five years old, and he still has low-grade spiritual roots. How much time is left to find a way to break through and build a foundation?
It’s hard to say whether I will have the opportunity to practice to the later stage of Qi training!
"What's the use of knowing this?"
Gu Dan asked.
This thunder can still operate without exploding, but if it really explodes, no one in Ningfang can withstand it.
"As you can imagine, this matter is too big. Although everyone knows it well, they can live with it as long as they don't suffer any loss."
Lin Cheng chuckled.
"However, since you are going to the Law Enforcement Hall, if you don't know about this, I'm afraid you will lose a lot of money."
Lin Cheng said again.
"oh?"
Gu Dan raised his eyebrows slightly.
"For example, the salary of the Law Enforcement Hall will definitely be distributed with standard spiritual stones. But if the standard spiritual stones are really spent by yourself, it will be a big loss. If you use them to exchange for self-made spiritual stones, not only the effect will not change, but the quantity will increase. It’s just that you can no longer openly buy things inside Xianfang.”
Lin Cheng said: "If Brother Kong needs a standard spiritual stone, you might as well come to me. I will definitely find a fair price for him, without any deception!"
Good guy, this guy is still a second-rate dealer!
"Then what's the benefit to you?"
Gu Dan was really interested. Ningfang was far from as peaceful as it looked.
"As you said, aren't connections also good for you?"
Lin Cheng said in an extremely sincere tone: "The Law Enforcement Hall earns a lot of money. If you are willing, it is just like taking a bad hand, but your net worth has increased by several percent! To be honest, this is almost an established rule in the city. , but everyone understands it tacitly.
We just saw that you had just arrived, so we boldly came over and said this. "
"I see."
Gu Dan nodded lightly.
"Then don't bother Brother Kong."
Lin Cheng said goodbye and left without further entanglement.
"The spiritual stone crisis. This is a big thunder for yourself!"
Gu Dan thought carefully and couldn't find a solution.
For monks, ordinary things such as gold and silver are almost useless.
As a material for cultivating immortals, artificial spiritual stones will not depreciate in theory - but if the development does not match the reality, there is really no way.
Everyone can only believe in the wisdom of future generations, and just don’t let this thunder explode on you.
"There is such a thing as cultivating an immortal!"
(End of chapter)
