As soon as Yuan Ming thought of this, he dispersed the fire cloud in mid-air and landed near the flower branch to protect the Dharma.

However, as soon as Yuan Ming landed, his legs suddenly became weak, and his whole body tingled unbearably, as if there was a flame burning in his body, and he couldn't wait to tear the skin and flesh with his fingers, so that this burning power could dissipate.

"Poisoned? Could it be that there are enemies lurking around? Shocked and angry, he endured the severe pain and condensed his mana, and his divine sense swept around.

However, there was silence all around, and no enemies appeared.

Yuan Ming was slightly stunned, then thought of something, and suddenly looked at the spirit flower on the purple and black cocoon, the fragrance lingered in his nostrils, and finally understood where the poison came from.

He struggled to muster the remaining strength in his body and moved outside.

I don't know how long it took, Yuan Ming finally couldn't smell the faint fragrance of the purple and black spirit flower, and when he ran the Nine Yuan Jue, his weak body slowly recovered, and the burning pain in his body gradually subsided.

After a long time, Yuan Ming returned to normal.

"The spirit flower from the flower branch is so poisonous, and it is so powerful that even I was almost hit." He secretly cried out in his heart for luck.

Yuan Ming looked at those purple and black spirit flowers, his eyes flashed, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Three days passed quickly.

The purple-black cocoon shook suddenly, and the purple-black demon vines seemed to wake up from their long sleep and danced slowly.

After a few breaths, all the demon vines completely woke up, and the purple and black cocoons slowly spread out, revealing the body of the flower branch, which looked more delicate than before, and the aura had completely reached the second-level intermediate level.

Yuan Ming thought of the time when he was in the underground palace of the Snake King Valley before, and after Huazhi's strength was refined, he tried to attack him, and he was secretly vigilant in his heart.

However, to his surprise, Hua Zhi immediately flew over, rubbing against his body, with a flattering look: "Master, that Fire Cloud Secret Technique of yours is so powerful that even the scale armor of the Ink Lizard Beast can be shattered, so I can break through the second-level intermediate level!" ”

Yuan Ming sensed the beast control rune in Hua Zhi's body, and learned that this demon's favor was not false, so he was relieved.

"You've recovered a lot of little demon beasts in the past few days, aren't you planning to be an earth overlord in this rain ruin swamp?" He said lightly, then looked into the distance.

Those little demon beasts looked at this side from afar, but they didn't get closer.

"It's so happy to live in this rain swamp, I can only have some fun like this! And I'm doing this for the sake of you, my master. Huazhi said.

"Tell me, how did you catch these little monsters for me?" Yuan Ming looked at Hua Zhi and asked.

"Of course, I am here to expand the territory and gather my subordinates, master, if you encounter a strong enemy in the future, you can lead them here, when I give an order, these demon beasts will besiege together, plus the strength of you and me, even the monks of the Dan period may not be impossible to kill." Huazhi's two arms interlaced with each other, boasting unashamedly.

"If you little demons can deal with the monks of the Dan period, then the monks of the Dan period are inevitably too easy to deal with." Yuan Ming secretly slandered himself in his heart, but he didn't say it directly.

After a moment of thought, he spoke: "Those subordinates of yours should pay attention to collecting all kinds of spiritual materials in the swamp, especially spiritual objects such as flowers and plants, and give them to me when the time comes." ”

"Okay, no problem, just wrap this little thing on me." Hua Zhi patted his chest with one arm and agreed.

"That purple-black spirit flower on your body contains poison?" Yuan Ming asked again.

"I absorbed the life essence of that black toad, which can devour all kinds of poison, and with its own characteristics, it can bloom a spirit flower containing poison." Hanae replied.

"This flower is very toxic, and I want to use it to refine poisonous incense." Yuan Ming said.

"No problem, this flower is easy to obtain, master, you plant these seeds in the soil, water them with water every day, and soon they will take root and sprout, and this poisonous flower will bloom." Flower Branch's arm stretched out, and a burst of green light flashed on it, quickly producing many purple seeds.

Yuan Ming didn't expect the Poison Spirit Flower to be so easy to obtain, so he was overjoyed, put away these seeds, and planned to plant them in the garden of the courtyard after he went back.

It's just that this flower is poisonous, and you need to buy a set of prohibitions to isolate the poisonous incense.

……

In the following days, Yuan Ming was in the room of Xiaohu City, while concentrating on cultivation, and at the same time, every seven days, he lit black incense, possessed the other foundation building period monks he saw at the succession ceremony, and tried to steal the secret methods of various sects.

Of course, due to various reasons, the learning process was not very smooth, but Yuan Ming had the experience of possessing the old emperor before, and he was mentally prepared for the expectations, and he did not intend to force it.

Soon another three months passed.

Yuan Ming also learned a few spells from other sects in the Great Jin Dynasty one after another, and many of them were not low-grade spells, which were very powerful.

During this time, the reputation of the Xuanhua Lingxiang Shop has gradually spread, and there are more and more customers, and Muyang is a little difficult to deal with, so Yuan Ming has to suspend his cultivation and receive it in person.

On this day, a person walked into the Xuanhua Lingxiang Shop, and the dark face was Hu Tu.

"Excuse me, who's the boss here?" Hutu asked, a little hesitantly.

Muyang stepped forward and was about to say hello.

"Muyang, this is my old acquaintance, Hutu, you come into the back room." Yuan Ming, who was in the back room, said.

When Hutu heard this, he came to the back room.

"Hutu, long time no see." Yuan Ming turned around and revealed his face.

"Immortal Master, it's really you! This is Fairy City. Hutu said in surprise.

"Call me boss in the future, you don't need to call me an immortal master here, everyone here is an immortal master." Yuan Ming said.

"I see, the shop mentioned in the letter is this shop?" Hutu nodded abruptly and looked around.

"That's right, if you want, you can help me take care of the shop here, and ask the shopkeeper Muyang if you don't understand." Yuan Ming blinked and said.

After deciding to open this spiritual fragrance shop that day, he didn't plan to take care of it himself, it was too much of a waste of time, and hiring Muyang alone was only an expedient measure, and he had to have someone he was familiar with to help take care of it and supervise each other. It was not appropriate to let the family send someone over, Yuan Ming thought about it and remembered Hu Tu, so this store was originally rented in his name.

So after he used the black incense possession to find out his whereabouts, he then hired a small Sanmeng in Fang City and asked them to go to Zhuozhou in the south of the Great Jin Dynasty to bring Hutu to Xiaohu City.

"Of course you can, I also live a life of inaction in Zhuozhou, I thought that I could live a good life when I came to Dajin, but although the Jin people didn't say it, they were all discriminatory in their eyes, and no one in this small lake city looked at me with a discriminatory eye, so I was naturally willing. As for the remuneration, I don't need it, I only have one request, and I hope the boss will agree. Hutu said.

"Hutu, it's okay if you have something to say." Yuan Ming roughly guessed Hu Tu's thoughts, and said with a smile.

"Hu Mou has seen the methods of the immortal family these days, he is very envious, and he wants to cultivate the immortal way, and he also asks the boss to accept me as an apprentice, Hu Tu will definitely die and repay the great favor!" Hutu took a deep breath, bent down, and made a big bow according to the etiquette of southern Xinjiang.

"Please, admiring the Immortal Dao is an ordinary thing, but cultivating immortals requires certain qualifications, not everyone can." Yuan Ming picked up Hu Tu and said slowly.

"I know a little bit about this, please check it with the boss, if you don't have qualifications, I accept my fate, and the matter of watching the store will be taken over." Hutu said.

Yuan Ming nodded, grabbed Hu Tu's wrist, and put a trace of mana into his body. After the advanced foundation building period, you can test the spiritual roots of others with mana alone, without borrowing magic weapons.

Hu Tu looked a little nervous at this time, holding his breath, not even daring to take a breath, as if he was afraid that he would lose the spiritual root if he was not careful.

"Hey, you really have a spiritual root, your luck is not bad, it is the four spiritual roots of water, fire, wood and earth." After a while, Yuan Ming said with a slightly surprised expression.

"Really?" Hutu was so overjoyed that he was already on his knees and weeping.

"Naturally, since you have a spiritual root, you can cultivate the immortal method, I have a practice here, you take it to enlightenment first, and then ask me if you have any questions." Yuan Ming took out a blank piece of paper, wrote down the mantra of "Biluo Gong", and handed it over.

"Thank you master for giving me immortal skills!" Hutu took the white paper with a trembling hand and bowed down.

"Don't! There is no intention of accepting apprentices, you still call me boss, and I call you Hutu. Yuan Ming grabbed Hu Tu and said.

Hu Tu saw Yuan Ming's serious expression and didn't dare to disobey, but he agreed, and he became more and more grateful to Yuan Ming in his heart.

"Hu Tu, you take good care of my shop in the future, if you do a good job, I still have some Qi refining period pills and magic weapons here, which can be rewarded to you." Yuan Ming encouraged.

Hu Tu followed Fu Qing and others to Dajin before, and this time he came to Xiaohu City with the members of the Scattered Alliance, and he already had some understanding of the world of cultivating immortals, and knew the meaning of pills and magic weapons, so he agreed with great joy.

"Boss, don't worry, I have done business in both southern Xinjiang and Xunzhou, and I will definitely live up to the trust and take care of this store." He patted his chest and assured.

Yuan Ming understands Hu Tu's personality and character, this person has a somewhat sleek nature, will specialize in speculation, and is indeed suitable for business, otherwise he would not invite this person over.

Yuan Ming then took Hu Tu around the store, and introduced Muyang to him, so that they could discuss something, and told him some common sense in the immortal cultivation world, as well as the key points of selling spiritual incense, and then became the shopkeeper.

Instead of returning to the next house, he meditated in the backyard while monitoring Hutu's management of the shop.

Hu Tu is quite clever in business, only half a day's work to thoroughly understand the doorway to sell spiritual incense, and he is quite good at soliciting guests, no matter how many questions the guests have, he can patiently explain to the guests, the store is always in order, there is no feeling of hecticism, if you don't understand the place, ask Muyang, the two are also coordinated, Yuan Ming simply let Muyang live in the store.

Yuan Ming watched it for three days and felt that there was no problem, so he explained Biluo Gong twice for Hu Tu, and after a few words, he returned to the No. 86 residence to practice with peace of mind.

Of course, he would also summon a soul crow to stand guard in a nearby tree from time to time to see how the two of them were doing in the shop.