After Tian Xiaoding exchanged a red Zhuyan Pill for millions of blue lower grade spirit stones, he took Yue Yurou and Zhang Xiaodie, who had already changed his name, to a bookstore.

He wanted to buy light and wood exercises for Zhang Xiaodie.

The shopkeeper led Xiao Ding and the three of them up to the third floor, and then pointed to several rows of shelves and introduced: "The exercises here are all wood-based exercises, a few guest officers can take a look at them first, the light-based exercises are on the fourth floor, and I will take you there later."

Xiao Ding glanced at the rows of shelves, and saw that some of them were books, and some were jade slips. Then he asked strangely, "Man, why are some exercises books and some of them jade slips?"

The shopkeeper hurriedly explained with a smile: "Guest officer, don't you know, here, generally low-level exercises are recorded in books, and high-level exercises are basically recorded in jade slips. After all, jade slips also have a cost, and low-level exercises are cheap, and if you use jade slips to record, it will increase the cost, and it is not easy to sell."

"I see!" Xiao Ding said suddenly. He casually picked up a book called "Practical Operation of the Basic Wood System Exercises" and opened it with his hand, only to find that this book could only be read halfway, and the remaining half was sealed and could not be opened.

Seeing the confusion on Xiao Ding's face, the shopkeeper didn't wait for Xiao Ding to ask, he opened his mouth to explain: "The reason why these books are half sealed is because ordinary monks have the ability to remember the books, and if you look at them casually and remember the contents of the books, then our books will not be sold."

Xiao Ding nodded, put down the book in his hand, and looked at the jade slip on the other side.

The shopkeeper continued, "These jade slips are the same, they have been set by our shopkeeper with a unique ban, and you can only see a small part of the contents of the jade slips until the unique prohibition is lifted."

Xiao Ding rarely bought books and exercises before, so he didn't know much about the rules for selling books on Tiankun Star. He didn't expect that there would be so many twists and turns in it when he sold a practice.

In the end, Xiao Ding selected a low-level exercise "Introduction to Wood Exercises" and a high-level exercise "Dead Wood Spring Jue" for Zhang Xiaodie. These two books are all wood-based exercises, which can just go from the beginning to the gradual, step-by-step, and gradually deepened.

After selecting these two wood-based exercises, the shopkeeper led the three of them to the fourth floor.

The exercises of the light system were indeed very rare as the guy in the shop said, and there were only five or six jade slips in total, placed on a shelf on the fourth floor.

Among these five or six jade slips, Xiao Ding chose a "Wanzhang Yaoguang Jue" for Zhang Xiaodie, which is a high-level light system exercise. Although I didn't buy a low-level light system technique, in Xiao Ding's "Melting Heart Technique", there is a light control technique in the Qi training period spell, which is also a relatively basic light system spell. With this as a foundation, it will not be difficult to learn "Wanzhang Shine Jue".

After selecting these three exercises, the shop guy led Xiao Ding and the three of them to the counter on the first floor to settle the bill, and asked a Yuanying monk at the counter to unlock the prohibition on the jade slip that recorded the two high-level exercises.

At this checkout, Xiao Ding was shocked to find that the three books actually cost him more than 500,000 blue lower grade spirit stones at once.

Obviously, the exercises that can be bought in the world are definitely not top-notch exercises. As a result, it costs so many spirit stones. This made Xiao Ding feel pain in his flesh too.

Counting some of the refining materials he had purchased before, and the spirit stones he had exchanged for the Red Zhuyan Pill before, he had already spent more than a million blue low-grade spirit stones.

With such a rapid consumption, Xiao Ding didn't dare to continue shopping, he was worried that if he went shopping again, if he encountered something good, would he buy it or not?

So the three of them discussed it and decided to go out of the city and return to Dazhao Mountain.

Just as the three of them turned around and walked towards the outside of the city, Xiao Ding suddenly felt that someone seemed to be watching the three of them from behind.

Could it be that someone is secretly stalking him? He turned his head suddenly, but found nothing unusual. People come and go on the streets, each busy, and no one looks like a stalker.

Xiao Ding turned around, but he let go of his senses, especially paying attention to the position behind him

Place.

However, until he walked to the city gate, Xiao Ding did not find any suspicious people.

Could it be that my feelings have gone wrong? Xiao Ding wasn't sure.

After leaving the city gate, he walked forward for a distance, and Xiao Ding was just about to take out the flying cloud shuttle and take off.

At this moment, a gloomy voice suddenly came from behind him: "Do you want to leave like this?"

Xiao Ding looked back and saw a middle-aged man dressed as a farmer catching up behind him, who was already a monk in the Jindan period. He wore a shabby hat on his head, which covered most of his face, and his clothes were coarse cloth, and his feet were covered with straw sandals, and a little mud that had long since dried.

If you don't look at cultivation, just from the outside, this middle-aged man is an authentic farmer. However, since Xiao Ding saw that this person was a Jindan period monk, he could conclude that he was definitely not as simple as a farmer.

Xiao Ding didn't know why this person stopped him, so he asked, "I don't know what this Taoist friend is doing?"

The monk dressed as a farmer came to the front, sneered twice, and said, "You can't talk about it, but you have taken all the belongings of our lord's family, do you want to leave like this?"

"Your lord's house?" Xiao Ding was puzzled.

"Yes, our master's family is Boss Li of the Chengxi Auction House." The farmer-like monk said.

When Xiao Ding heard this, he suddenly realized that it was someone from the auction house who sent someone to follow him, wanting to take back the spirit stones they paid.

Xiao Ding had not experienced this kind of thing before, and of course he knew the routine.

Generally speaking, auction houses, casinos, black markets, etc., or other places where you buy and sell, often have something like this. If the property involved is very huge, there will be unscrupulous merchants, after the transaction is over, secretly send people to intercept the huge amount of property that has been paid halfway.

This kind of thing not only happens often in the cultivation realm, but in fact, it happens from time to time in any era and in any world.

At this time, Xiao Ding already understood that the Jindan monk dressed as a farmer who chased after him was actually the martial artist raised in the auction house. The reason why he dressed up as a farmer was also because he was inconspicuous when he followed the streets of the city. Because there are pedestrians in the streets of the city, from all walks of life, no one will pay attention to an ordinary farmer.

This is also the main reason why when Xiao Ding was in the city before, he found that someone was secretly peeping, but he couldn't find out who was peeping.

You know, there are so many pedestrians on the streets, people of all kinds of clothes, and monks of all realms, so it is difficult to tell who is following you.

Although the other party was a Jindan period monk, Xiao Ding did not have the slightest fear. He opened his mouth and asked, "Is it your Boss Li who regrets spending money to buy my Zhuyan Pill?"

The farmer-like monk looked at Xiao Ding with some confusion and said, "Don't you understand what I mean? I'm here to get the money, not to negotiate a deal with you. If the three of you want to live, you should be happy and hand over all the spirit stones you got from Boss Li, otherwise, hehe......

Xiao Ding didn't think so, and said, "Those spirit stones, you can't hand them over. You've been following us all along, so you should know that I've already purchased a lot of items with those spirit stones, and I've already spent more than a million blue low-grade spirit stones."

"Then you can hand over all the items you bought. If the value is not enough, then hand over all the storage bags or rings of the three of you." The farmer-like monk said mercilessly.

Xiao Ding couldn't help but sneer and said, "Then it depends on whether you have such a ability."

The monk dressed as a farmer glanced at Xiao Ding and said, "Is it just that you are a little monk in the Qi cultivation period? Or the foundational friar behind you? Even if the three of you go together, how can you help the old man?"

Among the three of Xiao Ding, Yue Yurou's cultivation is the tallest, and she has just entered the late stage of foundation building. And Xiao Ding and Zhang Xiaodie seem to be cultivators of the Great Perfection of Qi Cultivation, and the Jindan period monks on the opposite side are natural

Won't take the three of them in their eyes.

This is also the main reason why Boss Li of the auction house only sent one Jindan period monk. In Boss Li's opinion, if you deal with the three of Xiaoding, it is enough to have a Jindan monk, and if there are more people, it will be more than a snake.

It's a pity that Boss Li of the auction house would never have thought that Xiao Ding's real force value could completely defeat a Jindan period monk.

Therefore, Xiao Ding was not in a hurry, and said lightly, "Don't blame me for not warning you in advance, if you really want to do it with me, you don't regret it. I tell you plainly, if I wanted to kill you, it would be easy. If you know the current affairs, then go back as soon as possible and tell that Boss Li that you are completely dead, and don't come to attack my idea again, otherwise, if you provoke me, I may go and destroy his auction house."

When the monk dressed as a farmer heard this, he laughed and said, "Hahaha, your kid is not very good at cultivation, and you dare to say such a big thing, I want to see how many catties and taels you can have today?"

After speaking, he reached out and pointed at the top of his head, made a gesture, and then drank in his mouth: "Get up!"

Then I saw that the broken hat above his head actually spun and soared into the sky, and slashed directly towards Xiao Ding's neck, which was extremely fast.

It turns out that this broken hat is actually a low-level magic weapon!