Gu Shuo sacrificed the Qiankun Cauldron and called out the recovered Xiao Bing. Xiao Bing showed his original shape. Gu Shuo stepped forward in the air, landed on Xiao Bing's back, and sat cross-legged. Xiaobing spread his wings and shot into the pouring sky like a sharp arrow.
"boom……"
A bolt of thunder struck Gu Shuo.
Gu Shuo remained motionless while cross-legged, while Xiao Bing suddenly tilted his body, flapped his wings towards the falling thunder, and suddenly penetrated the dark clouds.
Gu Shuo looked down.
The dark clouds below were rolling, and there were layers of thunder rolling in the dark clouds. From time to time, there were loud explosions, and they bombarded the ground. The dark clouds below were getting farther and farther away from Gu Shuo, and the thick thunder became more and more slender. Xiaobing flew higher and higher, with the bright moon and stars above his head. Rolling dark clouds below, and exploding thunder.
Xiaobing flew over Xifeng Pass and approached Xitie Pass. Then we came to the sky above Xitieguan. With a thought in his mind, Gu Shuo entered the Qiankun Cauldron. The Qiankun Cauldron turned into a piece of gravel, which was held in Xiao Bing's mouth and plunged towards the dark clouds below. As she dived downwards, her figure was shrinking rapidly. When she emerged from the clouds, she had turned into a palm-sized bird and fell towards a forest in Xifeng Pass. It circled around the woods and landed on the branch of an ancient tree.
He lowered his head, opened his mouth, and placed the gravel-sized Qiankun Ding on the thick tree trunk.
The figure flashed, and Gu Shuo appeared on the tree trunk.
"boom……"
There was a sound of thunder, illuminating the forest with white snow!
Gu Shuo glanced around, and there was nothing else around except the roar of thunder and the dense sound of heavy rain hitting the leaves. He was still worried, so he looked around and then felt relieved. After Xiaobing returned to the Qiankun Cauldron, he sat cross-legged on a branch and let the heavy rain pour on him.
Dawn.
The heavy rain finally stopped, the sky became darker, and then a sliver of white appeared on the horizon.
Gu Shuo took off his clothes and took out dry clothes from the storage ring to change them. Then he stretched out his index fingers to face each other in the air, and then drew a circle. The circle turned into a water mirror. Gu Shuo looked at himself in the water mirror and began to control the muscle changes on his face.
His body has reached the eighth level of transcending tribulation, and he has no problem controlling his muscles. The muscles moved for a moment and then stopped. Gu Shuo wonders what he will become?
Or just change it?
After thinking about it, the face in the water mirror began to change again, and finally turned into one face, that was Yue Tonghui's face.
He couldn't turn into the face of people related to him, such as the Dahuang team or the Qingyun Sect monks. Thinking of the people he had known before, he thought of Yue Tonghui. Yue Tonghui has disappeared for so long, so if he pretends to be for the time being, he should not be exposed. And even if he gets into any trouble, Yue Tonghui will take the blame, and he won't feel any guilt.
He looked down at the wine gourd hanging around his waist and frowned.
This wine gourd cannot be collected into the sea of consciousness, because there are too many high-grade magic weapons in it, and the sea of consciousness cannot bear it. But this gourd is too obvious.
Black and white.
People who are familiar with themselves will recognize their true identity from the color of this gourd.
The Black and White Sword Gourd was originally a space magic weapon, and it couldn't be stored in a storage ring. Gu Shuo thought for a while, took out a talisman pen and talisman ink, and began to draw talismans on the black and white sword-raising gourd.
The sky was getting brighter and Gu Shuo finished the last stroke of his painting. Then he saw that the talismans on the sword-raising gourd were connected together, and Gu Shuo drew a talisman array. The talisman array rippled for a while, then converged again. But the color of the gourd changed and turned into the normal color of the gourd, just like a real small gourd.
Gu Shuo hung the gourd on his waist again and used the withered cicada technique. Gu Shuo's aura quickly dropped, and finally he appeared to be in the middle stage of Nascent Soul. Then he jumped down from the old tree and walked out of the woods.
Gu Shuo first went to find an inn to stay, and then started walking around Xitieguan.
He has been to Xitieguan many times and is no stranger to it. He knew he needed to find a place to settle down and couldn't stay in an inn.
If you have been living in an inn and doing nothing all day long, you will definitely be suspected. No monk lives in an inn for several years. Therefore, he must find a place for himself to live.
While walking on the street, he thought about how he could live in Xitieguan.
One way is to rent or buy a small courtyard in a residential area and live in seclusion there. Another way is to rent or buy a shop and live in seclusion like a shop owner.
In terms of method, it is definitely the second one. Having a business will provide a good cover. The first method will also attract attention over time.
Then choose the second one.
So there is another question, what kind of business do you do?
The monk's business is very simple, it is nothing more than the four major auxiliaries, the alchemy weapon array.
Of course, what he was most proficient in was weapon refining, but Gu Shuo immediately rejected this business. Although his biggest purpose in seclusion was to heal his wounds, he couldn't waste time.
If you open a weapons-refining shop, what level of weapons will you refine?
If you just refine those magic weapons, it will not be of any help to your pursuit of weapon refining. If you want not to waste time, you must refine magic weapons, and they are also high-grade magic weapons, which will be too conspicuous. What he wants is to be like the light and dust, so that no one can notice. So he rejected the idea instantly.
There was no need to think about making formations. He had almost no practice in making formations, and he had no inheritance at hand, so all that was left was making talismans and refining pills.
He quickly decided to take the path of alchemy. He is now also a yellow-level alchemist and can refine Xiaoying Dan. But he can only refine the Little Infant Pill. He can't refine the Big Infant Pill yet. He is currently at a low-to-medium-grade yellow level. And he has no shortage of inheritance. He also read a lot of yellow-level alchemy inheritance in Tianmeng. This period of time is just right for me to become a true yellow-level alchemist.
The idea was made, the next step was to pick a place.
He didn't want to find the busiest place, but a relatively remote place. After all, his main purpose is to heal wounds, not to make elixirs. He first came to the busiest main street of Xitieguan. There are many shops on this street. These shops are from various sects in Tianxuan, or shops established here by various big families.
This is a wide vertical street, very long.
But on this wide vertical street, there are also horizontal streets.
This vertical street is like a straight line, dividing the city of Xitieguan into two halves, and the horizontal streets are equivalent to horizontal lines.
Therefore, this vertical street is called the main street by merchants, while the horizontal streets are called side streets by merchants.
The shops on the main street naturally have the best business, but the shops are also the most expensive whether to rent or buy. The business on the side street is much worse than that on the main street. Of course, the rental and purchase costs are much lower than those on the main street.
Gu Shuo just wanted to find a side street and buy a shop on the side street.
There are many side streets, so the business quality of each side street is also different. Gu Shuo wanted to be inconspicuous, so he finally chose a street.
This street is called Zhaobi Street.
This street is not the most prosperous among the side streets, nor is it the most depressed. It is average.
Such a street is the most inconspicuous among the West Railway Pass, making it easy to hide. Gu Shuo walked back and forth on this street for a few times, then chose a shop and opened the door and walked in.
The store is small.
In addition to the counter and the shelves behind the counter, it can only accommodate about fifteen people. There is a door behind the counter that leads to the backyard.
There was only one old man in the shop, and there were no customers in the room. Hearing the sound of the door opening, the old man raised his head and saw Gu Shuo, with a smile on his face:
"What do you want to buy, sir?"
Gu Shuo glanced at the shelves behind the counter and knew what was going on.
No wonder the business of this shop is not good. The elixirs sold are all very low-grade elixirs, and the quality is probably average. I could smell the smell of herbs from the old man's body. It was estimated that these elixirs were refined by this old man.
"Fellow Taoist, is your store for sale?" Gu Shuo asked directly without being pretentious.
The old man's eyes lit up: "Your Majesty, you want to buy it?"
"That's what it means."
"This is the main city, and the prices are not cheap."
"How Taoist fellow Taoist wants to sell it, I have to see first."
"OK!"
The old man got up and closed the shop. Then he took Gu Shuo through the back door. Through the back door, there was a small courtyard, which was really not big. There are three more rooms in the backyard. The old man introduced:
"The room in the middle is where I practice and rest. The room on the left is where guests are entertained, and the room on the right is where I refine alchemy. If you are satisfied, fellow Taoist, we will discuss the price."
Gu Shuo nodded and said, "I really want to buy it, but my Taoist friend really wants to sell it?"
The old man looked at Gu Shuo's deep eyes and suppressed some thoughts. Then he sighed and said:
"To be honest, I am a casual cultivator. After finally saving some spiritual stones, I bought this small shop and planned to settle here and spend the rest of my life. But..."
Speaking of this, he said bitterly: "To be honest, the business is not very good. But I am not losing money, I just don't make much. I originally spent 800 high-grade spiritual stones to buy this shop. I don't want more, you give it to me A thousand high-grade spiritual stones, together with the elixirs in the shop, will be given to you."
Gu Shuo thought for a moment, then nodded in agreement.
To be honest, a thousand high-grade spiritual stones are a lot more expensive. In his opinion, this shop can be won with only 600 high-grade spiritual stones. However, Gu Shuo has no time to grind now, and a thousand high-grade spiritual stones are not enough for this loose shop. Xiu may think it's a lot, but to Gu Shuo, it's a drop in the bucket.
The casual cultivator took the spirit stone and accompanied Gu Shuo to the Xitieguan Trading Hall to transfer the property. The two of them broke up in front of the main hall, but Gu Shuo did not return directly to the shop, but returned to the trading hall. There were many trading items here, including hiring people.
Gu Shuo couldn't sit in the shop selling goods every day, so he needed to hire someone. In such a small shop, only one person is enough. The trading hall handled this matter very quickly. First, they gave him a jade slip, which contained a person's personal information. Very detailed, this person's origin, experience, what he has done in Xifeng Pass, and how long he has been doing it. In the end, Gu Shuo chose a female cultivator who was in the foundation-building stage.
After receiving the notification from the trading hall, the female cultivator came quickly. He looks very ordinary and has a simple and honest face. Gu Shuo chatted with her for a while, and he was a very down-to-earth person. He negotiated the price with her, paid the introduction fee to the main hall, and returned to the shop with the woman named Zhu Sanniang.
This shop is called Zhonghe Shop. Gu Shuo didn't want to change the name, so he just used the original plaque. He asked Zhu Sanniang to come in and clean the house, while he moved a deck chair and sat outside the door.
To the left of his shop is a talisman-making shop called Qianfu Shop, and the owner of the shop is named Song Jinshui. This Song Jinshui is a young monk and a disciple of Qianfu Sect.
The Thousand Talisman Sect is also a second-rate sect after the four super sects. Although the sect does not have great tribulation monks, the monks are also very powerful in combat, because the monks of the Thousand Talisman Sect are all Talisman cultivators and carry them with them everywhere. Lots of talismans.
Song Jinshui is the son of the third elder of the Qianfu Sect. Although his status is very high in the sect, he also thinks highly of himself and has his own pride. But this person's qualifications, talent, understanding and character are quite good. Willing to endure hardship.
After he broke through the Nascent Soul, he left the sect and traveled around the world. After traveling for two years, he came to Xitieguan. He felt something in his heart and settled here.
If Gu Shuo came here to set up a shop to heal his wounds, Song Jinshui came here to set up a shop to calm down and seek a breakthrough.
Today he happened to be communicating and chatting in the backyard with two good friends he had made in Xitieguan. The three of them are all Fu cultivators and have known each other for more than a year. The atmosphere of communication was very lively. In addition to communicating, we also talked about romantic affairs and interesting stories in the world. When it comes to Jianghu, we naturally have to talk about Gu Shuo.
The three of them all admired Gu Shuo very much. It was impossible not to admire him. He was chased for thousands of miles by a great monk in the late stage of the Tribulation, and finally escaped.
"Speaking of which, Sect Master Bai was chasing Gu Shuo. When we passed by Xitieguan, I happened to be on top of the city. I was frightened by the six-armed man. Do you think the six-armed man was a demon or a human?"
Song Jinshui said: "The news I got is that the six-armed man is called Bai Jugu, and he was once the leader of the Eastern White Bone Sect."
"Pa!" Fan Yuan slapped his thigh: "You said that and I remembered it. Decades ago, it was rumored that the White Bone Sect was destroyed by a six-armed man. It turned out to be this six-armed man. Then how did he get along with Gu? Did you get a piece?"
"Who knows!" Song Jinshui shook his head.
Gu Shuo was lying on the recliner, holding the sword-raising gourd in his hand. He would take a sip of the Kuchan wine from time to time, squinting his eyes in the sun and carefully sensing the yin and yang in the Kuchan wine.
Song Jinshui sent his two friends out. He turned his head and saw Gu Shuo lying on the recliner. The three of them looked stunned. It turned out that the owners of the shop knew each other. After all, they were Song Jinshui's neighbors, and those two people often came to Song Jinshui's place. Song Jinshui pondered for a moment, then walked over and cupped his hands:
"Fellow Taoist, please come!"
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