Chapter 132: Encounters and Acquaintances
When something is not sure whether it is there, even if it is precious, it doesn't matter what it feels.
But when you really hold it in your hands and know that it is completely yours, the feeling is completely different.
Top-grade spirit stones! Theoretically, a high-grade spirit stone can be exchanged for more than 20 medium-grade spirit stones, and it doesn't seem to be worth much. But you must know that this is the price of the major Fang cities in exchange for high-grade spirit stones, and casual cultivation can use high-grade spirit stones to exchange for medium-grade spirit stones in Fang City, but if you want to exchange medium-grade spirit stones for high-grade spirit stones, you can't exchange them at all.
According to the popular saying in the immortal cultivation world, the aura in the high-grade spirit stone is more refined, and it is suitable for high-level monks to absorb and cultivate, so generally low-level monks can't use it, and they can't easily see high-grade spirit stones.
This statement cannot be said to be wrong, generally speaking, high-grade spirit stones are not very useful for low-level cultivators, especially for some casual cultivators, holding a high-grade spirit stone to use, it is better to exchange it for a medium-grade spirit stone and some cultivation resources.
But the reality is that the value of the high-grade spirit stone is far more precious than the one on the surface, many monks don't know, and what they know is basically not passed on.
To build the foundation and advance to Jindan, the spiritual power in the body is transformed into true yuan, and it must be in an environment with sufficient spiritual energy, for the disciples of the sect, this is not a problem, as long as it is a normal sect, it occupies an excellent spiritual vein place, and it is not a problem to want this kind of spiritual energy environment.
But for monks outside the sect, it is not so easy, take the Li branch where Li Qiao is located, for example, if the foundation building monks in the clan have cultivated to the foundation building consummation, and want to advance to the Jindan, they can only go to the main clan, and what is there in the main clan? High-quality spiritual veins? Although it may occupy a small spiritual vein, it may be almost impossible to say that it can be used to continuously provide a promotion environment for foundation building monks, and most of them rely on high-grade spirit stones to advance.
Li Qiao is a family monk, he wants to advance to the Jindan, but it is more difficult than the ordinary family foundation building, other family monks cultivate to the foundation building perfection, they need to get the Jindan method, and his cultivation method is different, and he can only refer to the Jindan method when he wants to try to advance to the Jindan, and the probability of failure is much higher than others, and it is impossible to go to the main clan to advance to the Jindan for free, not to mention what he has to pay.
And at this moment, getting this high-grade spirit stone, it can be said that he has the environment to advance to Jindan, which saves him some trouble in the difficult cultivation path, and his mood is full of joy in an instant, which is not difficult to understand.
If it weren't for the ghost veins that were in possession, it would be bad to say that it would fall here because of those strange insects in the other party's captivity, although the risk was very high, but the harvest was also huge.
At this time, this piece of top-grade spirit stone the size of a human head was full of aura, but Li Qiao did not plan to absorb the aura cultivation inside and divide this top-grade spirit stone, but directly stored it as a whole piece and kept it for direct use when needed in the future.
In this way, the whole high-grade spirit stone is a whole, and it is also convenient to absorb and use it in the future, and the general spirit stone will be divided into standard sizes, just because the spiritual energy in the whole large spirit stone is used up, and it takes too long to recover.
And if you want to divide it into the size of a normal spirit stone, you need to absorb the spiritual energy inside first, otherwise it will be easy to cause fragmentation when cutting, and because he knows some formation knowledge, Li Qiao also knows that if he uses a large number of normal standard high-grade spirit stones to advance, he will either break a large number of high-grade spirit stones in an instant to release the spiritual energy, or he will have to arrange a complex spirit gathering array, but it is better to use the whole piece like this.
After quickly calming down, Li Qiao continued to excavate, after all, this spiritual vein has not been excavated yet, and it is good to dig some medium-grade spirit stones, but the good luck is not over, a few days later, Li Qiao dug up another high-grade spirit stone, and the volume is close to twice that of the previous one, he can't believe that he is so lucky.
He decided at this time, no matter what the result of the excavation would be later, after digging this spiritual vein, he would return to the family and cultivate the immortal realm? The harvest at this moment is enough, and there is no need to continue the adventure in the immortal cultivation world.
Then he continued to excavate, just when Li Qiao was thinking about whether it was possible to continue digging out the high-grade spirit stone, he dug up the medium-grade spirit stone, and then it was still a medium-grade spirit stone, and soon after, when the lower-grade spirit stone began to appear, he understood that the core of the spiritual vein had been dug up, so he gave up continuing to excavate.
Li Qiao thought that he was lucky, but in fact, it was just that he was rare and strange, if it weren't for the excavation and destruction of many small spiritual veins in the immortal cultivation world, not to mention the high-grade spiritual stones, as long as the gestation time was long enough, the small spiritual veins would gradually grow into medium-sized spiritual veins or even large spiritual veins, not to mention that the high-grade spiritual stones were the best spiritual stones, but in the current immortal cultivation world, except for those high-quality spiritual veins that were occupied, there was no chance for small spiritual veins to grow up.
Take this one under the desert here as an example, although it is so hidden, as long as the spiritual veins are formed, they will be discovered by the monks sooner or later, and there is no chance to grow forever.
At the end of the harvest, when he packed up everything and planned to leave, Li Qiao fell into a situation where there were too many things, and the space of a storage bag was too small and a little insufficient.
In fact, the most are mainly lower-grade spirit stones, because this is the most in the spiritual vein, except for the storage bags of the foundation building monks, there are a large number of lower-grade spirit stones, that is, in those storage bags of loose cultivation, there are also a lot of lower-grade spirit stones.
It was not the first time to face this situation, how much Li Qiao wished he could have a storage bag with a larger space, he knew that there were storage magic weapons in the immortal cultivation world, and there were even magical storage spirit treasures that could be stored in the body, but he also understood that those things were not something that a junior monk of his level could have.
Youxin carried two storage bags with him, but he knew that he was not passing through an area in a short time, but a long journey, passing through many areas, meeting many monks on the way, maybe some monks who had no idea about him at the beginning, seeing more than one storage bag on him, would cause some unnecessary trouble.
Don't talk about others, just talk about himself, and when he sees more than one storage bag on a foundation building monk, he will inevitably have some thoughts.
Generally, monks will convert the resources on their bodies into strength, so most monks don't have too many good things on their bodies except for some necessary magic weapons, and there will not be a situation where a storage bag can't fit it.
It's a little reluctant to throw it away, but to take it with you, it increases your own risk, in fact, in addition, there is another choice, then find a market, convert some resources, and turn them into something smaller.
After a short period of hesitation, Li Qiao still decided to give up some things, although there are many things, but the value is not high, mainly some low-grade spirit stones, looking for the exchange of the market, not only tossing, increasing the risk, but also not bringing anything.
After making a decision, he did not leave in a hurry, but first recovered his own strength, although Li Qiao did not use much spiritual power when he fought, but later when he excavated the ore vein, in order to speed up the speed, it took a lot of spiritual power, because he had to give up a part of the lower grade spirit stones, so when Li Qiao recovered, he absorbed the aura of these lower grade spirit stones by the way, which could speed up some recovery.
Although some resources were abandoned, they were not just thrown away, but collected and sorted out and hidden somewhere. The overall value of things is not high, especially because it is not worth a trip, but if you have the opportunity to pass by the neighborhood in the future, it is also possible to pick it up.
When leaving, Li Qiao was a little more cautious, and did not rush out of the desert to leave, but first traveled through the desert for a distance, and then waited until the time came to night, before he came out of the sand, and left quickly according to the chosen direction.
Returning to the family and wandering in the Xiuxian family are completely different states, it can be said that under the condition of trying to ensure their own safety, they hurried with all their might, especially returning according to the original way, many of the areas they passed through were relatively familiar, and they basically did not encounter any danger.
It's just that in this process, Li Qiao still took a detour, he didn't choose to pass through the area where he encountered two sect foundation building, those two sect monks were still alive at least one, or even all of them, and it was better for a strange foundation building monk like him to stay away from there.
And in the process of detouring, there was also a small episode.
When passing by an area, he saw the scene of three Qi Cultivators chasing a Qi Cultivator, originally this kind of thing was very common in the Immortal Cultivation Realm, but after Li Qiao took a closer look, he found that the Qi Cultivator who had escaped in front of him actually carried several storage bags.
At this moment, he suddenly felt that he was not too careful, a qi cultivator had the courage to carry several storage bags, and he didn't dare, but soon he did
Thinking that this monk can be pursued by other monks, it is likely that it is also the relationship between these storage bags.
Because of the relationship between a few Qi Cultivators, Li Qiao did not open the Ghost Vein to extinguish the line, wasting precious silk coldness, so soon, those Qi Cultivators also discovered Li Qiao's existence.
The monk who was being pursued may have been a little cornered, seeing this situation, he came directly in the direction where Li Qiao was, this move made the monk who was chasing behind obviously hesitate.
Seeing this scene, Li Qiao first observed the surrounding scene, and determined that this was a desolate area, and there were no other monks nearby, so he greeted him in a hurry, anyway, he had the means to open the storage bag, in case the other party had any good things on him, it would be a pity to miss it.
Without any accidents, Li Qiao met the pursued monk, and the chasing Qi cultivators in the distance did not leave, but wandered and observed.
"Hand over all the storage bags!" Maybe it was because he was in a better mood, Li Qiao didn't choose to kill people directly.
But after these words fell on the ears of the young, somewhat pale monk, the other man's expression became a little strange, a little hesitant.
Don't pay? Then take it yourself, Li Qiao is not a soft-hearted person, just add some coldness, he doesn't dare to bring more storage bags, the other party dares, he doesn't do it, the other party won't live long.
"I'm a dirty bag!"
When Li Qiao was about to make a move, the other party may have also sensed that the situation was wrong, and suddenly said it so loudly.
"Dirty bags? What dirty bag?" The first time he heard this word, Li Qiao was a little curious, and always felt that it would not be a good thing, so he didn't do it directly, but asked again.
"The dirty bag is my own name, this immortal cultivation realm is too dangerous, and I don't have any skills, so I make this kind of dirty bag, if someone shoots at me, even if I can't beat it, I will disgust the other party......
This Qi cultivator can't help it, if he doesn't explain it and hand over his storage bag directly, then he may die even worse.
Perhaps to verify his claims, the Qi Cultivator also opened one of the storage bags and threw out the filth inside.
Throwing a large piece of it, it looked like a storage bag full of them, and the stench dispersed in an instant.
Seeing this strange look, Li Qiao didn't know what to say for a moment, saying that the other party put some precious Dong XZ into the dirty bag? There is simply no need. Perhaps seeing Li Qiao's ugly face, and also to prove his innocence, the Qi Cultivator opened all the storage bags on his body one after another, except for one of them, which contained some commonly used items that had no value, and the rest were dirty bags.
In the face of this situation, it can only be said that some scattered cultivators who have grown up savagely, and any idea may appear.
After the other party opened the first dirty bag, Li Qiao retreated some distance, and when the other party was all released, he just wanted to stay away from the other party, as for killing the other party or something, he felt that he would dirty his sword.
But before he could get away, there was a sudden burst of crisp laughter: "Haha, I'm laughing to death, it's the first time I've seen a robber."
The voice came suddenly, I don't know when, a female cultivator appeared in the sky, her figure was in a kind of haze, which made people unreal, and as the words sounded, a kind of strong coercion that belonged to a high-ranking monk swept through the audience.
In an instant, Li Qiao and several Qi cultivators on the scene did not dare to move.
How did the other party appear? I obviously didn't see any monk just now, in this extreme danger, Li Qiao first thought of this, this experience also made him understand that observing the surrounding situation does not guarantee safety many times, if it wasn't for the other party feeling funny, he might not be able to find out the existence of the other party from beginning to end.
In this case, life or death is all in the thought of the other party.
I don't know if it's because the other party is in a good mood, or if this place is really too dirty, and the high-level monks don't want to stay longer, the other party just appeared for a short moment and disappeared without a trace.
When he was sure that the other party's trace had disappeared, Li Qiao turned around and walked away, not paying attention to the Qi cultivator again, and the surrounding Qi cultivators were all scattered.
The high-ranking nun didn't recognize that a child she had nearly strangled to death decades earlier had grown into a foundation-building monk and appeared in front of her.
And Li Qiao didn't dare to look at each other directly because the other party's figure was illusory, and he didn't recognize the other party, so the two simply staggered.
Li Qiao remembered the appearance of the nun, and although the high-ranking nun didn't know what the child looked like, she remembered the foundation building monk who robbed the dirty bag monk.