Chapter 36: The Quartet Converges
"Recently, there have been more and more cultivators in Xiashan!"
In Xiashanfang City, Zhang Wentao stood with his hands behind his back, looked at the flow of people outside, and sighed.
"Shopkeeper, can there not be many people? This is an alchemy conference held by the adults of the Changqing Sect, and it is said that many sect alchemists participated!"
The guy at the counter responded with a smile that the more cultivators there are, the more things sold in the store, and the more commissions they will have.
Ten days ago, Yuhu District released the news that an alchemy conference would be held in Xiashanfang City, and those large and small forces in Yuhu District did not need to say much, they had to participate, and the participation of the disciples of the Changqing Sect added a lot of excitement to this conference. These days, a large number of low-level cultivators have poured into Xiashanfang City, just to get a glimpse of the strength of the alchemists of the great sects.
These cultivators, in addition to the natives of Yuhu District, also have well-informed people in other districts.
Alchemists have always been extremely rare in the cultivation world, and generally only large sects will consume a lot of materials to cultivate, as for the so-called alchemists in casual cultivation, most of them only occasionally get a prescription, and refine the pill after a few strokes, the medicinal effect is far inferior to that of a real alchemist, and basically there are only one or two pills.
Of course, most cultivators, in addition to increasing their knowledge, also have plans to take the opportunity to buy pills.
The pill is a scarce resource in the eyes of the low-level cultivators, and this time, nearly a hundred alchemists gathered in Xiashanfang City, and a little pill leaking out of their hands was enough for these low-level cultivators to compete for.
"Da Yuan, you look at the store, I'll go to the venue and have a look!"
Zhang Wentao watched a large number of cultivators go to the venue, his heart was itching, and he was ready to follow over to have a look.
Before the conference began, many alchemists had already arrived and lived near the venue, and some alchemists had already set up stalls there to sell pills.
There is a formation guarding here in the store, and it will be fine for Zhang Wentao to leave for a while, anyway, no one dares to move the shop opened by the disciples of the Changqing Sect in Xiuzhenfang City.
Yinxing Pavilion is the store that Li Muchen arranged for Zhang Wentao to establish, with Li Muchen, the director of Yuhu, behind it, the person in charge of Xiashanfang City did not dare to be embarrassed, so the store was opened in a very good location.
As for the guys in the shop, they are the people Zhang Wentao himself pulled, his acquaintance in the Zhuxi faction, named Fang Dayuan, the talent is miscellaneous spiritual roots, he is in his twenties, but his cultivation is only the second layer of qi refining, he belongs to the kind of people who can't settle down to cultivate, he has long given up the extravagant hope of cultivation, and he has been tinkering with spiritual material trading in the Zhuxi faction, and it is precisely because of this that he met Zhang Wentao.
Whether it is Zhang Wentao or Fang Dayuan, they don't know much about Xiuzhenfang City, and they don't know enough, but fortunately, Li Muchen also knows the current situation, and now the rules of Yinxing Pavilion are to only sell, not to exchange or buy, otherwise, with the knowledge of the two of them, they probably don't know each other if someone else takes out a few treasures.
Therefore, recently, they have been frantically making up for this knowledge, a cultivation shop, it is impossible to only allow the trading of spirit stones, there have been several times in these days that someone has planned to barter, but they can't recognize the real and fake, and they have to give up, and they have to watch the transaction fall through, which makes the two of them very heartbroken.
Now the work, they are very satisfied, Zhang Wentao doesn't need to say much, sitting in the shop to cultivate have spirit stones to earn, even Fang Dayuan, because there are enough spirit stones, now there is a faint trend of breakthrough. Therefore, they naturally want to do a better job so as not to lose their current position.
Although it was impossible for anyone to make trouble, Zhang Wentao still replenished the spirit stone for the defensive formation first, handed over the formation token to Fang Dayuan, and then walked to the venue.
Along the way, there were stalls everywhere, these were not stalls opened by the participating alchemists, near the venue, Yuhu District had already made a good place for them, so there was no need to set up stalls here.
Li Muchen set up a rule, and the rent of the shop was reduced or reduced during the alchemy conference, so many people were ready to take the opportunity to make a fortune, and many of them saw the required pills in the alchemist's shop, but there were not enough spirit stones, so they had to sell some things.
Looking at the young cultivator who couldn't afford to buy things, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion, once, he was also one of them, and he had to take the risk of hunting demon beasts in order to gather resources to cultivate, and only since he met Li Muchen a month ago, everything has changed. In just one month, according to the rules set by Li Muchen and him, he had already received a hundred lower-grade spirit stones from the income of the store, far exceeding the total number of spirit stones he had obtained in the previous years, plus the magic weapons and spiritual weapons given by Li Muchen, now, among the cultivators in the middle stage of Qi refining, he was also considered a rich man.
Due to the characteristics of the exercises, after Sifang Ding advanced, he quickly broke through to the fifth layer of qi refining, and now he has reached the peak of the fifth layer of qi refining, and is about to break through the sixth layer of qi refining.
Wandering all the way, Zhang Wentao didn't buy anything, he himself was in charge of the Yinxing Pavilion, and the things in it were all obtained from the Changqing Sect, and the quality was far beyond the ordinary shops in Fang City, unless he encountered some special treasures that were not in the store, he would not sell easily.
Soon, Zhang Wentao came to the vicinity of the venue, and saw the huge copper tripod in the center of the venue from a distance, and the hundreds of alchemy tripods arranged in turn on the venue were even more impressive.
These Dandings, at least they are medium-grade magic weapons!
The layout of the venue can be described as magnificent, and Li Muchen teamed up with Lin Tianxu to spend more than ten days to get the alchemy conference, so naturally they will not be fooled casually.
A shadow covered Zhang Wentao's location, and when he looked up, a flying boat with the logo of the Changqing Sect slowly flew by, landing in the center of the venue, and many cultivators walked down from it, causing a commotion.
This is the flying boat of the Foreign Affairs Hall of Yuhu District, and the cultivators who came down from it were the last batch of alchemists to participate in the competition.
Since he met Qin Xiaofeng in the Library Pavilion and was inspired, Li Muchen weighed it again and again, considering his lack of prestige and ability, under the pretext of increasing the popularity of Yuhu District and attracting cultivators to station, he moved Lin Tianxu to use the resources of the Yuhu District Foreign Affairs Hall to hold an alchemy conference, and now it seems that the effect is good.
A cadre of Changqing Sect disciples stepped off the flying boat, saw the Danding array in front of them, and looked at the envious eyes of the cultivators nearby, their psychology was greatly satisfied, and they walked towards the resting place with a lofty spirit.
In the medicine hall, they are just the most ordinary alchemy apprentices, but here, they are respected alchemists!
The alchemists in the outside world are only at the level of alchemy apprentices of the Changqing Sect.
These alchemy apprentices, even if the sect has a certain amount of resources, also lack alchemy materials, this is the main reason for them to participate in the alchemy conference, the reward for the first place is as high as tens of thousands of spirit stones, as well as spiritual weapons, and as long as they enter the top ten, Yuhu District will provide them with alchemy materials.
The low-level elixirs provided by the Changqing Sect to these apprentices were all from the medicine garden of the Foreign Affairs Hall, and Yuhu District, as one of the twelve districts, could naturally meet the needs of ten alchemy apprentices. As for who will compensate for these consumptions, this kind of question is not raised by fools.
Being able to get the top ten in this kind of competition is enough to show the potential of this apprentice, and now just by paying some low-level elixir, he can marry an alchemy master in advance, and he will definitely not lose.
As for the possibility of the alchemists of those small sects getting the top ten, Li Muchen mentioned it, and the others didn't care at all, in the eyes of everyone, this was completely impossible, even if there was an accident, it didn't matter, if you could refine the alchemy skills in the small sect that could defeat the disciples of the Changqing Sect, presumably the alchemy talent was good, just absorb it directly into the Changqing Sect.
This is within the sphere of influence of the Changqing Sect, and for these subsidiary forces, if someone can be included in the Changqing Sect, it is a great joy, and the Changqing Sect will therefore give the sect materials or exercises, and many of the outer disciples of the Changqing Sect are recommended by these subsidiary forces, which is also an effective way for the Changqing Sect to absorb disciples.
Ordinary people can't enter the Changqing Sect, even if they are the sect masters of small sects, they can't enter the gate of the Changqing Sect in order to reach the foundation building period.
Looking at those disciples of the Changqing Sect with extraordinary temperament, Zhang Wentao was naturally very envious, but he was very aware of his own situation, shook his head, retracted his thoughts, and continued to observe these shops.
Passing by a shop, the owner is just a young monk in the middle stage of qi refining, there should be no good goods, Zhang Wentao was about to leave, subconsciously glanced at the goods, saw a piece of ore, and was stunned.
"How do you sell this ore?"
Reacting to this, Zhang Wentao walked up and asked.
Crypto Ore is a rare ore, this kind of ore generally grows near spiritual plants, absorbing the spiritual power of the wood system, and the originally hard ore is also tougher.
"Thirty spirit stones, this guest officer, this ore is extremely tough, and it is definitely the best choice for refining magic weapons!"
The shopkeeper hurriedly replied that he didn't know this kind of spiritual ore, but this did not prevent him from knowing its value, but he himself practiced fire system exercises, and it was not in line with the attributes of this ore, so he sold it.
"Okay, I'll buy it!"
Thirty low-grade spirit stones, such a large piece of ore, is definitely not a loss, maybe enough to refine your natal magic weapon again.
Sifang Ding, there is a layer of Qinglong Ding, which corresponds to the power of the wood system, and the hidden green ore is a good material for Zhang Wentao.
"Wait!"
Just as Zhang Wentao was about to pay, a middle-aged strong man with a sinister face walked over, he didn't hide his aura at all, and his cultivation in the later stage of qi refining could be seen at a glance.
"This ore, I want it!"
Zhang Wentao frowned, doesn't this guy talk about the rules at all?
"Boy, why are you staring at the uncle?"
The strong man asked dissatisfiedly, as a cultivator in the late stage of qi refining, he took a fancy to this fast ore, and this kid in the middle stage of qi refining still didn't obediently get out of the way?
"First come, first come, this kind of rule is not clear? Your master has never taught you how to behave in a person?"
"Heh, the little ghost is quite horizontal, the rules, I only know that the one with the highest price will get it, this ore, I will give thirty-five low-grade spirit stones!"
He originally seemed to want to make a move, but I don't know if he remembered the position he was in now, suppressed his impulse, and added five spirit stones.