Chuzhou City is the capital of the vassal state of Chen. Although Chen State was a small vassal state under Jin State, it was located at the intersection of Jin State and Chu State. The king of Chen State, Shangguan Tong, was already well-known in Jin Dynasty when he was young, and was respected as the four princes of Jin Dynasty! Shangguan Tong's ancestors had made great contributions to the Jin State, and the Emperor of Jin granted Chen State the title of Shangguan family fief.
When Shangguan Tong was young, he became a disciple of Zhang He, a famous strategist in the world. It is said that he got the true biography of Zhang He!
After Shangguan Tong succeeded to the throne, he took advantage of the strategic location of Chen State to gain access to both sides. He also paid very little tax to merchants from various countries doing business in Chen State. Businessmen from all over the world heard about it and came to Chen State, making Chen State a famous and prosperous place far and near! As the capital of the Chen Kingdom, Chuzhou was even more prosperous, with merchants from all over the world gathering, and the city had a population of over one million.
Seeing how busy Chuzhou City was, Jining planned to stay here for the night. After entering Chuzhou City, Jining scanned the carriage with his spiritual sense and found that there was an inn called Wutong Inn on the edge of the official road. The inn consisted of two three-story houses. The house in front was a restaurant, and the one in the back was a restaurant. Each house is a guest room.
Maybe that's why the location of the inn is better. Although it's only noon, the front door of the inn is full of merchants, escorts and various carriages, waiting for the store clerk to arrange a parking place. Not long after, the store clerk pulled Jining's carriage to a backyard not far from the inn. After the innkeeper pulled the carriage away, Jining walked into the inn like an ordinary person with a small baggage and asked for an upper room. It's just that the price of the guest room is a bit expensive. Jining secretly sighed that if he hadn't gotten Brother Li Xiao's Xumi bracelet, he wouldn't be able to afford to stay in this kind of inn now!
Jining was led into the guest room by the store waiter. This guest room was magnificently decorated and divided into a bedroom, a living room and a dressing room. The brown furniture in the living room looks noble and elegant, and the floor is made of fine mahogany. The furniture in the bedroom was elegantly and warmly arranged. Jining looked at the white sheets on the bed and sighed to himself, no wonder the price is so high!
The waiter saw that Jining was a bit dusty, so he arranged for someone to fill the wooden bucket in the dressing room with warm water and then left.
Jining tested the temperature of the water in the wooden barrel with his hands. He recalled that it had been almost eight years since he was chased and killed by a young Taoist priest who had no experience in the world at the mouth of the river. He had also transformed from a mortal to a cultivator at the seventh level of Qi refining. My heart is full of emotions. Take off your clothes and sit in the barrel. The petals are floating in the warm hot water, and the faint fragrance blows into your face, making Jining feel relaxed and happy!
Such a relaxed and happy feeling has never been so relaxed since the master left him. Various scenes from the past appeared in his mind, and Jining gradually entered a mysterious artistic conception. When Jining woke up and felt comfortable all over, he found that his sea of consciousness had changed slightly in a mysterious artistic conception.
After changing his clothes, Jining went downstairs, asked for a private room in the restaurant on the first floor of the inn, and ordered some refreshing side dishes. This feeling was a bit unforgettable for him since he drank Naling wine in the Mengjia Valley last time! On the recommendation of the store owner, he also ordered a bottle of good sake. The mellow and elegant sake passed through his throat, and Jining actually felt a little strange. What's the harm if he feels like this all his life? The road to immortality is full of twists and turns, what are you pursuing?
Noisy sounds came from the restaurant hall from time to time. Jining's spiritual consciousness swept through the restaurant hall. In the noisy hall, Jining heard several people secretly talking about a secret matter. One of them said that the general of Chu State was leading tens of thousands of soldiers. After entering the Qinling Mountains connecting the Jin State, no one survived.
The king of Chu was furious and thought it was Jin's fault, and was ready to go to war with Jin. Another person said that after decades of rare peace, war seemed to be on the rise again. Some people sighed and said that it looked like rivers of blood and mountains of corpses would pile up in the land of Jin and Chu again.
Jining listened to the noisy discussion in the hotel lobby. For Jining, who is currently practicing the seventh level of the Immortality Technique, such mundane things don't matter. Continue to enjoy the side dishes and sake on the table leisurely, and then return to the guest room after eating.
There is no effect in practicing in this place where spiritual power is lacking. Nothing happens when I return to the room. I can see which dagger is in my hand. Since Jining's spiritual power was absorbed for the first time, the dagger nourished by the spiritual power has gradually been revealed. true color.
Since receiving the inheritance from Brother Li Xiao, Jining would occasionally inject spiritual power into the dagger during his training, and also wipe and clean the sword body. Now the blade of this dagger has been completely restored. It is completely different from the original rusty copper and iron. The word "Cloud Hidden" is looming with the floating cloud-like patterns carved around it. The entire dagger above the word "Cloud Hidden" The sword body is engraved with countless sword patterns as if it were flowing water.
Jining guessed that the sword should be a spiritual weapon, so he prepared to use the spiritual weapon refining method to refine the dagger. He bit his tongue and sprayed a mouthful of blood onto the sword body, and then injected spiritual consciousness into the sword body. Then Jining discovered that the spiritual weapon After injecting his consciousness into the sword, his spiritual consciousness entered the lines of the word "Yunyin" and disappeared without a trace. So he increased the injection of spiritual consciousness. Jining's face became more and more ugly. When his spiritual consciousness was exhausted, he still couldn't find it. After reaching the method of refining the dagger, he could only stop.
He learned from Li Xiao's spiritual consciousness that the general method of refining spiritual weapons is to use one's own essence and blood to establish a connection with the spiritual weapon, and then inject it into the spiritual weapon through spiritual consciousness, find the control runes of the spiritual weapon, and then Just refine the runes and attach your own spiritual consciousness. But there are still some gains. The control rune of the dagger should be within the word "Cloud Hidden". Seeing that his sea of consciousness was empty, he knew that it seemed that he could not refine this dagger yet. He was also a little curious in his heart whether this dagger had transcended the category of spiritual weapons, so he put the dagger back into the Sumeru bracelet.
Jining began to run the Divine Refining Art to restore spiritual consciousness. Although the Immortal Abandoned Land lacked spiritual energy, it had no effect on the recovery of spiritual consciousness.
In the past few years, apart from practicing in the back mountain of Chaotianguan, and since then, he has been practicing in the mountains. He rarely lived in such a crowded city. Jining was not in a hurry. After all, there was still a year and a half left before the ten-year appointment. Luodu, Lu State, traveled by land as usual and could reach it in about a year, so he planned to stay in the city for some time.
Then book a guest room in the inn for a month, walk around the city during the day, and practice mind skills at night, or calm down and figure out the Five Elements spells. I remembered that I saw the refining method of Bigu Pill in Mengjia Valley, and I also wanted to try the refining method during my free time.
The waiter at Jining Shop asked about where Chuzhoucheng’s drug stores gathered. He learned that there was a place with many drugstores in the north of Chuzhoucheng, and the inn he was staying in was in the west of the city, so he walked towards the north of Chuzhoucheng.
After walking for more than half an hour, Jining arrived at the place where the drugstores gathered as mentioned by the waiter at the inn. I saw this wide street, and it was bustling with people coming and going. There were people dressed like people in the world, and there were also some villagers from the mountains walking on the street carrying medicine baskets, but the majority were people who looked like traders. All kinds of people are in a hurry and say little!
There are many drugstores on both sides of the street. Each drugstore has white walls and blue glazed tiles. The wooden boards in front of the window sills are carved with birds and animals. The scent of medicine comes to your face, which makes this street more simple and natural.
The words "Huichun Tang" came into view. Jining vaguely remembered that there was this medicine shop in the small town of Hekou. It was the largest medicine shop in Hekou City at that time. The herbs he picked at that time were often sold to it. He did not expect that there would also be one here. I don’t know if it’s the same store. Anyway, Jining walked into the store when nothing happened. The waiter in the store saw Jining wearing an ordinary green shirt and thought that he was not a big customer and ignored Jining.
Jining wandered around the store without caring, and asked the store about some unknown medicinal materials. Although the store clerk was a little reluctant, he didn't dare to refuse when business came to him, so he had to answer Jining's inquiries truthfully. Jining remembered that he had also picked some medicinal materials when he was in the Yulong Mountains, but they were of little use to him now anyway, so he took out a few plants and asked the waiter to evaluate them. One of these plants was iron maple grass. After seeing the medicinal material, the waiter did not dare to say anything, so he took it into the inner room for the shopkeeper who was sitting in the hall to check it.
Not long after, the waiter brought Jining into a side hall, where a thin middle-aged man was inspecting the medicinal materials. He should be the person in charge of Huichun Hall. Then he asked Jining how much of the medicinal material was left, and Jining gave a rough number. Although the shopkeeper's face looked very calm, the excitement that occasionally appeared in the corner of his eyes did not escape Jining's spiritual consciousness.
After checking the medicinal materials, the shopkeeper asked how he planned to sell these medicinal materials.
Jining guessed that this batch of medicinal materials did not have much influence on him, but it seemed to be very important to Huichun Hall, so he said: "Most of this batch of medicinal materials are hidden in the wild and deep forests. Are they treasures from heaven and earth?" , some of the medicinal materials are more than ten years old, I believe the shopkeeper will know the price better than me!"
The shopkeeper of Huichun Hall originally wanted to test Jining's tone, but he didn't expect that the young man's answers were accurate, and his deep eyes occasionally shone with strange light, which made him faintly and inexplicably panic. So the shopkeeper honestly said that the most precious of these medicinal materials was iron maple grass. Although other medicinal materials were also precious, they were not difficult to find for large drug dealers like Huichuntang, which had a separate number in various countries in the East.
What the shopkeeper said was not far from Jining's estimate. Jining didn't know the value of these medicinal materials at first, so he asked the shopkeeper to tell the price of the medicinal materials. After hearing the price given by the shopkeeper, Jining was still a little surprised. He didn't expect that these medicinal materials could be sold at such a price!
