The practice in this world is divided into two concepts, one is to absorb spiritual power to nourish the living spirit, which in turn improves the efficiency of absorbing spiritual power, and the other is to use spiritual power.

In these two concepts, Bu'an shows two very different attitudes.

Since he found out that he could practice by rubbing ghosts, he has become obsessed with ghosts, and everything he has done, including being willing to be a small follower of the ghost hunting yamen, to forming the seven divisions of ghost hunting in Yuezhou, and now wanting to be an official and a big official, is all for the sake of rubbing ghosts and cultivating.

But in terms of the means of using the divine soul, he was facing Qin Duchu and had no plan.

In fact, he can't really be blamed for that.

When he first arrived in Yuezhou, he carried a strange pipa everywhere he went, one was to deviate from the norm, and the other was to use the pipa to test how to use the ghost qi; later he compared with Qingshan, and found that he had no talent for practicing music at all, and the melody played by the ghost qi could not resonate with the surrounding aura, so he gave up the strange pipa, changed to a bow, and began to practice archery.

After getting the inheritance of Cangjie, he found that Cangjie's soul and soul gave him the possibility of pretending to be calligraphy, and Bu'an practiced calligraphy for a while; but the conditions for the display of calligraphy were too many, and it was too late to deal with the enemy in a hurry;

After that, as the ghost cultivation became a little successful, his strength gradually increased, and Bu An always carried a dagger with him, and after this promotion, the dagger was also replaced by a long sword.

In the four months since he stepped into Yuezhou and started to practice, Bu'an seems to have no longevity, thinking that one is one out, but in fact, he is adjusting his cultivation strategy at any time according to his own ability, in other words, he is seeing and dismantling the tricks with reality.

This is in line with his usual style.

On the day he first arrived at Tianmu Academy, he went to the examination room in order to pass the spring examination; later, in order to cope with the make-up examination, he memorized the classics until it was dark; and when he found that he did not have the talent to absorb spiritual energy, he took Su Su down the mountain resolutely to find a suitable path for his own cultivation.

If this every step of the move is measured by the standard of the hero, it seems somewhat passive, and there is no domineering spirit of "my life is up to me, not by the sky" or "I say I can't do it, I want to do it".

But if Bu An is really the kind of person who doesn't believe in evil and does it with a hammer, he should still be on Tianmu Mountain now, and he has memorized the Four Books and Five Classics to the letter, and then persists for three years, maybe he will become the most familiar student in the history of Tianmu Academy to memorize the Confucian classics, and then because he failed to absorb a trace of aura, he desperately refused to enter the Yu family, jumped off the cliff and died, leaving a singing and crying story for future generations to praise.

In contrast, Bu An feels that it is better to be in this state now, if he becomes a big official, he will have endless ghost spirit, and it will be better if he can't spend endless silver.

As for the choice of the path of cultivation, his thoughts became clearer and clearer.

In the case that he does not need to go to the battlefield, improving his hand-to-hand combat ability as soon as possible is the first priority, so he has to practice swords, pretending to be a preparation for practicing imperial arts.

In fact, he can now use his soul to wrap the hilt of the sword to drive it to fly, but this is more like the Confucian arts, which can't last long, and he can't command the flying sword at will—the Confucian imperial art is to cast a part of his life in the flying sword in order to drive the flying sword, and even step on it to the sky, just like Harry Potter riding a magic wand.

Bu An didn't know if his ghost qi could be refined into the flying sword, and in the future, if he could recruit a trusted enough Daomen Wai Dan Xuan Xiu, he could find a way to try, but it was too early to think about it now.

In addition to sword practice, archery training should not be relaxed. Among the six arts of Confucianism, archery is the simplest and most direct means of long-range attack. Zhu Xiuqi will go to the border, and he is also inseparable from the fact that he is a Confucian cultivator of archery.

In this way, Bu'an is equivalent to choosing two of the six arts of Confucianism to concentrate on practice, and among the other four, he does not expect to be a courtesian, and the music and art have been completely abandoned.

Skill is a newly acquired ability after his promotion, and considering that the teleportation is a very practical ability, Bu An is ready to rank it third.

In short, he made sword training the first priority, followed by archery and third.

In addition to these, there is another thing that is more important - when the archery art is cultivated to a high level, it can be used as a sniper rifle, and Bu An feels that before thinking about how to sneak attack others, he must first ensure that he is not attacked.

That is, he needs a "body armor".

It is rare to come to Hangzhou, the largest city in the south of the Yangtze River, and Bu'an feels that this opportunity should not be wasted. After breakfast on the fifth day of the ninth month, he took Su Su to the East Market of Hangzhou.

The Great Liang Dynasty also had controlled weapons, but only controlled the crossbows and muskets produced by the Mo family, and swords and armor could be bought casually.

The weapons shops in Yuezhou are all ordinary goods, and when they arrived in Hangzhou East City, Bu'an was an eye-opener.

In addition to iron, steel, and other metals with longer and more complex names and higher strength, the most valuable blades and armor are all spiritual weapons.

The prices of spiritual artifacts engraved with the names of the Masters are staggering, and the most valuable of them are the works of the deceased Masters of the Instruments.

A long sword engraved with the words "Xu Qianzao" glowed with a blue and faint cold light, resting in the most conspicuous place in the hall on the first floor of a large weapons shop. When the price was asked, even if Bu'an was reluctant, he could only sigh and walk away.

Seventy-four thousand taels of silver, no two prices!

After inquiring around, he finally learned that there was once a Baopu Taoist Temple on Geling on the north shore of West Lake, which was the cultivation site of Ge Hong, a scattered immortal in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and was one of the holy places for Taoist practice until two hundred years ago.

This Xu Qian is the Baopu Taoist Academy, one of the more famous ones in the past dynasties, and in the ranking of weapons produced by the two provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, Xu Qian is about 40 people. You must know that this is the ranking of Xuan monks in the history of Jiangnan for more than 2,000 years, and it is extremely rare to be able to rank more than forty.

Since Bu'an wants to practice swords, of course he can't ask for a spirit sword in his hand. Moreover, the spirit sword did not conflict with his ghost qi, because the reason why the spirit sword created by the late master was expensive was mainly because of the spirit weapon attached to the rich spiritual power, which had an indestructible hard attribute.

And except for the master of the artifact himself, only those who have an extremely rare chance can use spiritual power to drive a certain spiritual weapon. If a practitioner happens to come across a master's work that he can sense, he will buy it at all costs, but for fear that the merchant will sit on the ground and raise the price, he will try to keep the matter as airtight as possible.

Bu Anxin said, no wonder as soon as he approached the spirit sword, some guys came up, probably to pay attention to whether the spirit sword would react when he approached.

There are many theories about spiritual weapons. For example, the more than 100 Instrument Xuan Dao cultivators who lined up in front of the weapon shop all have the ability to refine the souls of living people into spiritual weapons. The spiritual weapon refined in this way is like a living thing, and it will slowly absorb the spiritual energy, so it is not afraid of the spiritual power being dissipated.

With five thousand taels of silver tickets in his arms, Bu An suddenly felt that he was actually very poor.