When Xiao Wu returned to the cave, it was already after dark, and he deliberately walked around the town for a day, and finally found that no one was following him, so he cautiously rushed back. After this experience, he also realized his shortcomings, he now urgently needs to master the means of self-protection and deterrence, if he really encounters a villain, his current ability can only be captured. In the end, Xiao Wu bought a bag of dry food and bacon before he came back, plus the food he packed and brought back, which was enough for himself to retreat in the cave house for two months. As for what trade fair in half a year, he would like to go and see it, because he is still a bit behind closed doors when he cultivates alone, but he can see if he can exchange his cultivation experience, after all, he still has a lot of things that he doesn't understand about cultivating immortals, and then look for some spell formulas, and low-level formulas should be able to be exchanged. What he is most puzzled about now is why the red-clothed ancestor didn't find a book on the spell, and where did Xin Qi's spell be learned, he didn't know that the red-clothed ancestor was an immortal cultivator who was obsessed with alchemy, and he could only use some fire-based spells, and they were all taught orally.

Xiao Wu felt that his cave was still quite secret, and there was no danger of being discovered, so he still planned to consume the elixir in his hand first, so that his cultivation mana could reach the highest without using spirit stones. Therefore, in the first half a month, Xiao Wu took two or three spirit grasses every day, meditating and cultivating constantly, and what he left behind was worthy of a high-level spirit grass, which contained rich and pure spiritual power, and finally pushed his cultivation to the eighth layer and stabilized his cultivation. At this time, there was no more elixir in his hand, Xiao Wu had to use all kinds of ores in his hand to extract spiritual power to cultivate, and after three months of hard cultivation, the ore in Xiao Wu's hand was also exhausted, and a large number of discarded white stones were also thrown underwater, and the ore without spiritual energy turned into ordinary mountain stones. And Xiao Wu's cultivation has finally stepped into the ninth order of qi induction, not only has his mana doubled compared to before, but also the sensing of his divine sense has become more sensitive.

In just four months, Xiao Wu cultivated from the sixth layer to the ninth layer, and if the immortal cultivators outside knew about it, they would definitely be shocked to open their mouths, thinking that Xiao Wu was a once-in-a-millennium cultivation genius. But if they knew that Xiao Wu had used so many cultivation pills, spirit grasses, and ores, and it had taken nearly four years to cultivate to the ninth level of Qi Induction, they could only beat their chests and scold Xiao Wu for wasting so many resources. Of course, Xiao Wu also knew that the characteristic of the first layer of Rong Yuanduel was that it was easy to cultivate, as long as the first six layers opened the whole body pores, and as long as he kept cultivating and accumulating his own mana, he could break through, and in the back, because he did not hesitate to cultivate spiritual grass and ores, he could naturally advance quickly, not because of how good his qualifications were.

After stabilizing his cultivation, Xiao Wu found that if he only relied on his own cultivation to improve his cultivation, it would take at least more than a year of continuous accumulation to reach the peak. So Xiao Wu gave up continuing to cultivate, but took out the cyan wooden sword that had never been moved, and played with it carefully. The wooden sword was only two inches long, half a foot long, and was carved with strange patterns. Xiao Wu slowly injected mana into it, and the little sword became longer and larger with blue light, and finally turned into a zhang long, floating in the air with a dazzling green glow. Seeing the wooden sword that had become so big, Xiao Wu was also stunned, and found that he could easily command the flying sword in the air to move and transform freely, and he could also control the size of the small sword. Just make the flying sword bigger, it consumes a lot of mana, and the small sword just flies in the air for a while and the light dims and flies back into his hands, and he also needs to infuse mana to stabilize the flying sword, it seems that when facing the enemy, you should also pay attention to the size of the spiritual power held by the flying sword, and if you want to lack spiritual power, you must fly back and inject aura. Xiao Wu tried a few more times, and found that he could also control the release size of the spiritual power on the small sword at will, that is, if the small sword wants to fly freely, it needs at least a certain amount of mana injection, and he can control the consumption of mana on the small sword according to the situation, and he should also pay attention to the magic power situation when facing the enemy. After several attempts and experiences, Xiao Wu finally mastered the skills of using the small sword and the omen before the lack of spiritual power of the small sword, and after two days of non-stop practice, he has mastered the longest time he has maintained the use of the flying sword, and also found that the small sword will be shortened little by little after the loss of spiritual power, and the spiritual power will be unstable after a certain extent, so he also imagines how to recall the flying sword to pay attention to the spiritual power when facing the enemy.

After a few days of flying sword use, Xiao Wu finally had a certain amount of confidence in his heart, at least when he encountered the enemy, he also had desperate means. Xiao Wu found the mantra that Rong Yuanjie mentioned last to increase the amulet aura. Each immortal cultivator can form a layer of body protection aura on the surface, and as the cultivation increases, the body protection aura will also be strengthened, and some special cultivation techniques can even change the characteristics of the body protection aura. And Rong Yuanju can strengthen his solid aura to a certain extent, although the degree of reinforcement is average, but it is said in the bamboo slip that the higher his own cultivation, the degree of reinforcement will also be greatly improved, and it can be regarded as the greatest help of the first layer in the future cultivation. Xiao Wu spent a few more days mastering Rong Yuandu's protective effect, and finally achieved that he could freely collect and release the protective aura.

In the next two months, Xiao Wu kept meditating and cultivating, and took part of the time to practice flying swords.

On this day, Xiao Wu stopped cultivating, put away the moonstones around him, and then left the cave. He was going to give up this place for the time being, first go to Qingjun City to see the situation of the trading conference, and after attending the trading conference, he would travel to Jiangnan, first, to find the whereabouts of his relatives, and second, to see how Kou Yuhuan was doing. Xiao Wu didn't have a playmate when he was a child, and when he was a teenager, his life was miserable because of the crowd of his family, and the neighbors were unwilling to help him, so he regarded Kou Yuhuan as a trustworthy friend, and in the process of looking for his brother and sister-in-law, he naturally had to visit his good friend.

After Xiao Wu came out, he used a dressing method introduced in the martial arts classics to change his appearance slightly, and became a thirty-year-old outsider, not only with two handfuls of mustaches, but also with thick eyebrows raised upward, with a tall staff hat, wearing a brocade robe with cross flowers, and on the whole, he really looked a little bit like Zhao Yuanwai he had seen.

Xiao Wu arrived in the town and hired a carriage and rushed to the county seat, along the way, he often tried to hide his spiritual power little by little according to the aura control method mentioned in Rong Yuan's decision, but finally failed. I had to go into the city with trepidation, and find an inn that looked relatively deserted to live in, since there was a trading conference held here, at least there should be some clues to erase. During the day, Xiao Wu listens to the news in various restaurants, and at night wanders around some lively streets.

After two days of investigation, he really found several immortal cultivators, all of whom existed in the same qi induction period as him, and made a good friendship with one of them in a contact and chatted together. It turned out that he also came to the trading conference alone, but he arrived a few days earlier than Xiao Wu. Through that person's news, he knew that the conference had already been held for nine days, and it would be over in one more day, and the address of the meeting was in a large manor in the east of the city, Xiao Wu immediately understood why there were not many immortal cultivators in the city. In the end, the man also warmly invited Xiao Wu to attend the last day's trade fair tomorrow, and Xiao Wu naturally agreed happily.

Back at the inn, Xiao Wu carefully checked the storage bag in his arms on the bed, there was really nothing that could be exchanged, he only had a few bamboo slips and a jade slip in his hand, a small sword and an unknown stone ball, a few martial arts cheats and some moonstones, and a box of gold and silver. In the end, Xiao Wu decided to take a look, and if he could, he would replace the bamboo slip that recorded the method of refining the elixir, anyway, the content had already been copied by him. I really didn't expect that I could only catch the last day of the trade fair, what a mistake, missed an eye-opening opportunity, I can only blame myself for not finding out the specific time and place in advance.