"Qiao Daoyou, are you also going to the city to participate in the exchange event?"

Su Chen had just flown out of the cave, and he happened to see Qiao Qian, who was dressed in yellow cedar, and he also happened to leave to go out, so he took the initiative to say hello.

When Qiao Qian heard this, she responded with a smile: "At the five-year exchange event, you can listen to the sermons of the strong people who build the foundation, which is a rare opportunity for us to cultivate, and we can't miss it." Brother Lin is also participating in this grand event for the first time, right? It's better to go together. ”

She asked.

Su Chen didn't refuse, he originally went to Tianyuan City in this direction, and the two of them left immediately.

Qiao Qian rode its immortal crane, Su Chen was still the sword, and Kunluo took the Candle Dragon Yang Pill some time ago, and now he is still in retreat and digesting.

On the way, Qiao Qian inquired about its situation, and Su Chen just deduced that he had already given it a white jade toad, so he was digesting the strength, and he would be able to continue to perform the contract after a while.

Between words.

The two of them soon arrived in Tian Yuan City.

The grand event is imminent, Tian Yuan City is much more lively than usual, and from a distance, I can see countless rays of light like the sky, gathering from all directions, and then landing outside the city gate, entering the city one after another.

The streets are full of people, lively, all kinds of liquor inns and shops, are full, the stalls in the square area have already been crowded, and even spread all the way to many surrounding streets, and the most people are still the city square, which is the place where the next seven days of preaching and teaching, a high platform has been erected, and countless scattered cultivators have begun to wait early in order to occupy a favorable position in advance.

"Unexpectedly, there were so many scattered cultivators around Tianyuan City, it was really lively, and it looked like there was a bit of fireworks in a mundane city."

Su Chen walked on the street, listening to the voices of the people around him, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

When Qiao Qian next to her heard this, she turned her head and glanced at him: "It seems that Brother Lin also knows a lot about mundane cities?" ”

"Of course."

Su Chen didn't hide it, and replied with a smile, "It's not a secret, I also entered the Tao with martial arts, so before entering the Tao, I wandered in the mundane city." ”

"I see."

Qiao Qian suddenly realized, after learning that Su Chen also entered the Tao with martial arts, she looked at him with a slightly cordial gaze.

"The preaching will not start for a while, I plan to go to Fang Market to see if there is anything that needs to be exchanged, do you want to go with Qiao Daoyou?"

After entering the city, Su Chen asked.

Qiao Qian shook her head when she heard this: "I don't have anything worth trading on me anymore, and it's a waste of time to go over there, so it's better to go to the city square first and occupy a good position." Brother Lin just go, and I'll take a place for you when the time comes. ”

"Thank you very much."

After speaking, the two gave up and parted ways.

Qiao Qian had just left, but Su Chen heard a familiar voice next to him: "Yo, brother, I haven't seen you for a few months, and you've already hooked up with a female monk?" It seems that he knows the taste of the marrow and understands the benefits of this couple? ”

There is no need to look back, Su Chen knows who said this.

couldn't help rolling his eyes, turned his head to look at Wang Hu, and said, "Brother Wang, don't make fun of it, this female monk lives opposite my cave mansion, and she is a neighbor, just a companion." ”

"It's for the best."

Wang Hu restrained the joke on his face at this time, and then looked at the direction Qiao Qian left, his expression a little solemn.

"This woman is not an ordinary casual cultivator, she has a lot of background, and it is best for my brother not to get too close to her."

Hearing this, Su Chen couldn't help but wonder in his heart.

He frowned and asked, "Could it be that there is something wrong with this woman?" ”

"Not really. This woman has only been in Tianyuan City for seven or eight years, not long before you, and she spends her days in retreat and cultivation in the cave mansion, rarely walking around, and she is not a treacherous person. It's just that I vaguely heard a little news from my uncle that her cave house was not bought with spirit stones. ”

"What do you mean?"

"The cave house where she lives now is a foundation building monk in the early years, and it was bought out permanently with a lot of money, so it can't be sold again, and only the person she believes to inherit it can inherit it. And that monk is the founding ancestor of the Dali Dynasty......"

The Great Departure Dynasty?

Su Chen had heard of it.

It is a mundane kingdom in the north of Tianyuan City, with a vast area and good strength, and it is a country ranked in the upper reaches of the ten kingdoms of Jingzhou.

"So, this Qiao Qian turned out to be a descendant of the Dali royal family?"

"So I told you to stay away from her. Ordinary dynasties are controlled by sects behind them, and I heard that more than ten years ago, there was a great change in Dali, and the royal family members were forced to live outside, which involved the battle between the Yunyang Sect and the Blood Refining Sect. These two sects are feuding, one good and one evil, and it is estimated that they are fighting for control of the Dali Dynasty. If you get too close to her, I'm afraid you will be implicated in the future, and the sect fights, so it's best for us casual cultivators not to get contaminated ......."

"I see."

Su Chen nodded, he really didn't expect that Qiao Qian would have such a background.

It's no wonder that at a young age, she was able to cultivate to the eighth level of Qi Refining with Martial Dao cultivation, and she really had a foundation, not an ordinary casual cultivation.

However, Su Chen didn't care too much.

She and Qiao Qian are not too involved, just some transactions and cooperation, and Su Chen will not get involved in her private affairs.

Of course.

Wang Hu's words were also kind, he listened to them and thanked him again and again.

"I'm almost about to build the foundation, and this sermon is no longer of much use to me, so I won't join in the fun this time. I'll go to Tianbao Pavilion first to find out about this auction and see if there are any treasures. Brother Lin, after you are done, remember to come to the auction to find me, and take you to see the excitement when the time comes. ”

After Wang Hu finished speaking, he left first.

He also has a foundation building master in his family, so he has received formal teaching since he was a child, and he has a solid foundation, which is naturally different from ordinary casual cultivation, and he doesn't have to run to listen to lectures every time.

In this regard, Su Chen is not only envious, but only envious.

After separating from Wang Hu, Su Chen did not delay and set off to Fang City.

On the many stalls, the items sold are also varied, exercises, secret arts, magic weapons, elixirs, talismans, materials, and all kinds of miscellaneous things, what so-called powerful relics, rare treasures that are difficult to distinguish between true and fake, and many are too many to count.

Compared with auctions, the advantage of the market is that it is cheaper, but it is also difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake.

If you are lucky, you can buy a good baby at a low price, and if you are unlucky, you can also buy a completely useless waste at a high price.

This is also the charm of the market.

Therefore, even some wealthy masters like to wander around the market from time to time.

Su Chen had a clear goal, and after purchasing some basic materials for alchemy talismans, his eyes were mainly focused on those exercises and secret techniques.

In a world full of immortal cultivators, the effect of disguise is not obvious, and it is easy for people to see the clues, so he rarely uses it now, and for people like him who needs to change his identity from time to time to hide himself, a secret spell that can change his appearance is very important.

This is the focus of Su Chen's search.

As for the secret method that can increase the success rate of foundation building, the probability of appearing is too low, and he just has the mentality of giving it a try and trying his luck.

I really can't, I still have to go to the auction, where the things will be more advanced, but the price will be more expensive.

"Phaseless Demon Skill: formless and phaseless, after cultivation, you can completely change your appearance. It sounds very powerful, but the content of this exercise is clearly not right, fortunately, I am no longer a rookie in the immortal cultivation world, otherwise I will really be deceived......"

"Yin and Yang Incarnation Technique, it can change the appearance, but it will convert men and women, and after a long time of cultivation, it will also cause hormonal disorders in the body, becoming neither male nor female, forget it, I don't want to be a big ...... women's clothing."

"The water curtain is gorgeous, and the principle of condensing the dough with the mana of the water system is like a human skin mask, which is appropriate. But it's too crude......"

Su Chen picked and chose and looked at several stalls specializing in magic techniques, but in the end he didn't find a suitable one.

I stumbled upon another interesting secret art.

This skill is called "Grass and Wood Danqi", which is a secret art related to the method of alchemy, which is very special.

This method cannot directly absorb the spiritual energy, nor can it increase cultivation, but it has a special effect, which can directly extract the spiritual energy medicinal power from the spiritual grass and spiritual wood, and store it in the body to form a special kind of medicinal energy, which can be directly injected into it when refining the elixir, omitting the process of refining the medicinal power.

It is a good alternative for monks who have weak fire control and cannot find a suitable flame.

It's just that the Dan Qi extracted in this way lacks a process of refining and purifying, and the effect of the refined Dan will be much weaker than that of the normal Dan.

Su Chen's divine thoughts are strong, and the fire control technique is now perfect, and there is also the Sun Flood Furnace, which is alchemy by pure yang fire, and the effect is far beyond that of ordinary monks, so naturally there is no need for this trick.

The reason why he valued this secret method was because there was another skill in using it.

That is, the pill refined by oneself is directly absorbed, turned into pill qi and stored in the body, and when needed, the pill qi can have the same effect, eliminating the process of refining and absorption, and ensuring the safety of one's own pill to a greater extent.

Let's take an analogy.

Su Chen now has three hundred Qi Gathering Pills, and when he cultivates, he has to eat them one by one, if he is robbed and stolen in the process, these pills will be lost.

However, if he cultivated the Herb and Tree Dan Qi, he could directly turn all the three hundred Qi Gathering Pills into Dan Qi and store them in his body, so that others could not steal or snatch them, and when he needed them, he could directly differentiate them into Dan Qi and absorb them, which was easy to use.

It can also be used directly to restore mana in battle.

In addition, such as healing pills and detoxification pills, they can also be stored and used instantly when needed, saving a lot of hands and feet, and can also have an unexpected effect at critical moments.

"Friendly eyes. This herb and wood Dan Qi is a very practical exercise. It can improve the efficiency of alchemy, and it can also accumulate Dan Qi storage, if you have enough pills, store them, and consume them when you take Zhuji Dan, you can also increase the success rate of foundation building. ”

The stall owner who sells spares no effort to praise and boast about the effect of such an exercise.

After hearing this, Su Chen just smiled and said nothing.

The accumulated Dan Qi, which is consumed together when taking Zhuji Dan, can indeed theoretically increase the success rate a little, but this improvement is very small, and it requires a large amount of Dan medicine.

Ordinary people, where would there be so many pills to assist.

So it's basically the function of a chicken rib, and its real function is to facilitate alchemy, as well as to store Dan Qi for easy use.

Therefore, no matter how the other party bragged, Su Chen was unmoved, and offered a fixed price: "Twenty spirit stones, no more." ”

"It's too little, no, no. This secret method is also my desperate effort to find from a ruin cave, although it is not a top-level powerful exercise spell, but it is also a unique book, only this one, if it weren't for the fact that I didn't have a wood attribute in my spiritual root, I would have practiced it, and I wouldn't have taken it out for sale. Less than 100 spirit stones, not sold. ”

The monk was resolute.

It was also at this time that Su Chen learned that spiritual root cultivators had another drawback, that is, they had to practice exercises that matched their own spiritual root attributes, otherwise the effect would be very poor, or even impossible to cultivate.

And people like themselves who enter the Tao with martial arts do not have this restriction, as long as it is a practice, it seems that they can cultivate.

Of course, when a spiritual root cultivator cultivates exercises that fit his own attributes, his efficiency will increase exponentially, and those who enter the Tao with martial arts will practice any attribute exercises according to their own talent and qualifications, which is about the same, with no shortcomings and no bonuses, which can be regarded as a relatively balanced one.

"A hundred spirit stones, it's too expensive. Besides, I don't have that many spirit stones, hey, it seems that I can only forget it. ”

Su Chen pretended to sigh regretfully.

Seeing this, the monk thought for a moment, and now that the preaching event was approaching, he did not want to waste time by setting up a stall here, but only wanted to sell a few things as soon as possible so that he could get a place in the square.

So he said: "If you want to buy this herb and tree pill qi, you must also be a person who is good at alchemy, right?" If the spirit stone is not enough, you can use the pill to offset it. ”

In the world of cultivating immortals, the elixir needed for daily cultivation is basically a hard currency second only to spirit stones, so most of the time, it can be used to replace spirit stones for trading.

"I do have the elixir, but the problem is that your price is still too expensive. I don't have many pills on my body, so I gave them all to you, and it's a great loss to change to a herb and tree pill qi. ”

"That's not the case, the elixir is gone, and Daoist friends can find another way to refine it, but if you miss this secret method, you won't have a chance in the future."

The stall owner highly recommended it, and the skin of his mouth was about to wear out, but Su Chen never let go, and finally had to grit his teeth and say: "In this way, a hundred spirit stones or a pill of considerable value, after Daoyou buys this herb and wood pill, I will give you a few more gadgets." The miscellaneous items here are all brought out by me from those ruins caves, and Taoist friends can choose three pieces at random as additives. ”

"Is that all?"

Su Chen glanced at those miscellaneous things, his eyes showed disgust, most of them were strange things, many of them didn't even have aura brilliance, they were completely useless.

"That's eighty, and if it's less, I'll really die."

"Okay."

In the end, Su Chen bought the herb pill qi at the price of eighty spirit stones, and at the same time, he chose three things in the miscellaneous pile next to him.

A fragment of what appears to be a magic artifact, a black stone, and another strangely shaped wooden sculpture.

The stall owner saw that the three things Su Chen had chosen were all sundries without any aura fluctuations, and his heart blossomed.

As everyone knows, Su Chen has actually taken a fancy to the wooden sculpture for a long time, and he has spent so much effort and feet just to get this wooden sculpture quietly.

This wood carving is no more than five inches high, the whole body is dark, and the material of the carving is also a very ordinary spirit wood.

But its image is a hideous appearance with three heads and six arms, exactly the same as the statue of the witch god that Su Chen had seen before.

The strange runes depicted on it are also somewhat similar to the piece of cloth given to him by Emperor Jin at the beginning.

At the beginning of the Chu State's southern expedition and the destruction of the Barbarian King's Palace, there was a treasure left by the Witch God Sect, which was a cloth that recorded some kind of witchcraft, but because he didn't know much about witchcraft, Su Chen studied it for so many years and didn't crack the mystery.

The inscription on this sculpture corresponds to some things on the cloth, which has the effect of corroborating each other.

Therefore, Su Chen bought it and planned to go back to study it, maybe he would be able to crack the ancient witchcraft recorded on the cloth.