Qinghe Sword Sect

Baihefang City

Wooden Bridge Street

It was overcast and drizzling.

On the muddy streets, a group of low-level qi practitioners wearing old Taoist robes were sticking out their heads to watch the excitement.

"Xu Mu, why haven't you moved out yet? Do I have to do it? ”

Followed by a few subordinates, Steward Liu, who had gloomy eyes, stared at a middle-aged man with slightly gray hair in the courtyard, and said coldly.

"Steward Liu, see if you can give some grace, my wife is about to give birth!" Xu Mu said with a smile.

"Your wife is about to give birth, and she is not our species!"

Behind Steward Liu, a short and fat man, squinting his triangular eyes, said jokingly.

The others burst into laughter.

Xu Mu's blood instantly surged to his face.

His fists clenched slightly, and he almost rushed up to fight the other party.

"Please also ask the steward to help, when I have the spirit stone, I will make up all the differences!"

After Xu Mu's momentary annoyance, he took a deep breath and calmed down, his fists opened lightly, and his tone turned calm.

He himself could have died.

But he died?

What about the wife who is about to give birth?

At his age, having a family and a mouth, even death is a luxury.

"Help? How can it help? Everybody is like you, should I be this steward? If you don't have a spirit stone, get out of here immediately! If you let me see you in an hour, don't blame me for being rude! ”

Steward Liu snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves, and turned around with people to leave.

Xu Mu gritted his teeth, but he didn't even dare to say a cruel word.

As for what thirty years to the east of the river, thirty years to the west of the river?

It's better to save it!

He is already in his sixties this year, and in another thirty years, the grave grass will probably be three feet high.

Xu Mu returned to the house decadently and began to pack his things.

His wife, Ye Yingying, walked out of the bedroom with a big belly.

The fair face was full of guilt.

"It's all my fault, if it weren't for the fact that I contracted the wind evil some time ago and spent all my savings, our family wouldn't have been able to pay the rent!"

Xu Mu smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"It has nothing to do with you, now the rent is rising three times a day, even if we can survive this time, next time, next time, sooner or later, we will be kicked out!"

Recently, the Qinghe Sword Sect and the Soul Refining Demon Sect started a war, and in order to collect war resources, the family responsible for managing Fang City was constantly squeezing the people below.

I remember that when he first moved to Muqiao Lane, the monthly rent was only two lower grade spirit stones, but now, it has risen to ten, a fivefold increase.

It is likely to rise again this month.

Although he is an alchemist, his income is not high, and more than ten lower-grade spirit stones are recorded in his account a month.

After deducting the living expenses and the consumption of one's own cultivation, the remaining spirit stones cannot afford the high rent at all.

In recent times, almost all of them have been barely supported by their previous savings.

As for Ye Yingying's previous illness, it can only be regarded as adding insult to injury, and she has advanced the time of leaving by a few months.

After appeasing his wife, Xu Mu continued to pack his things, but he couldn't help laughing at himself in his heart.

"I didn't expect that I was a dignified traverser, and I was so mixed that I couldn't even afford to support my wife, I was probably the most wasteful of all the traversers!"

That's right!

Xu Mu is not from this world.

His soul is a twentieth-century college student.

Just because I asked the goddess to go to the hotel, I was too excited when I was doing errands, and I accidentally crossed into this mysterious world of cultivating immortals, and possessed the body of a middle-aged old cultivator.

Originally, he wanted to struggle, and it was up to me to die.

But he was soon pressed to the ground by reality and rubbed hard, and he still achieved nothing in his sixties.

In the end, I simply rested my mind about immortality, and was introduced to Ye Yingying, my father had just passed away, and my lonely wife Ye Yingying.

The two are married and ready to live honestly, have children, and cultivate offspring, if they can live for a long time, then thank God.

It's just that I didn't expect the house leak to coincide with the rain, and not long after getting married, I caught up with the battle between the Qinghe Sword Sect and the Soul Refining Demon Sect, so that I couldn't even maintain my life.

Speaking of which, Ye Yingying has not had a good life since she followed him, and Xu Mu feels ashamed when she thinks of it.

The two packed up their things, and Xu Mu helped Ye Yingying out of the yard.

"Master Xu Dan, remember to come back often when you have time!"

"There's nothing I can give you, so I'll give you some newly bought fruit and let your wife eat more!"

"Take care, maybe we'll be with you in a while!"

Some neighbors who were quite familiar with each other came out to see them off.

Xu Mu politely returned the gift one by one!

"Alas! I don't know when this battle will end! ”

Looking at the back of Xu Mu in the drizzle, everyone couldn't help but feel a little sad.

Muqiao Lane itself is already on the outskirts of Baishifang City, and if you can't even afford to live here, you can only go to the shantytowns on the periphery.

There is a lot of sewage, a foul smell, and it is said that there are evil spirits at work, and people often die without explanation.

Xu Mu is not good at fighting, and he takes his wife who is about to give birth, this farewell, I am afraid that it will be difficult to see each other again.

Everyone couldn't help but sigh in their hearts!

……

Baishifang City

shanty

The dilapidated streets, the air that had just fallen after a light rain, filled the air with the smell of earth and the faint smell of urine.

Xu Mu held an oil-paper umbrella, supported Ye Yingying, and followed a man in Tsing Yi with a roe head and a rat eye, and entered the alley with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

"Well, this is it! A spirit stone for a month, if you want to, sign it! ”

The man pinched his nose and pointed to a dilapidated house next to him.

He is a shanty town, a tooth man in charge of renting a house.

Xu Mu asked Ye Yingying to wait outside the door, and walked in by himself.

There are four bedrooms in the house, a bedroom, a kitchen, a living room, and a utility room.

The walls of the house, all made of mud and thatch, and the roof of poplar and mud tiles, were broken in many places, with thick cobwebs in the corners, and the only wooden bed was covered with dust.

The smell of rot and mildew filled the air, and no one had lived in it for a long time.

But after Xu Mu saw it, he could only grit his teeth and nodded.

He had already looked at several of them in the neighborhood, and they were basically the same, and this one was at least in a good location.

After signing the contract and handing over the spirit stone, this became a new residence for the husband and wife.

"Seeing that you are so happy to hand over the spirit stones, I will remind you one last time, try not to go out at night, I don't want the next time I come, I will help you two collect the corpses!"

With that, the tooth man turned and walked away briskly along the corner, as if he didn't want to stay here for a second.

The tooth man's words made Xu Mu's heart hang inexplicably, but he had no other choice but to live here.

After cleaning up briefly, Xu Mu asked Ye Yingying to stay in the house, and he brought some small gifts to visit the nearby neighbors one by one.

As he had expected, the people living nearby were all poor monks like him, but there were also some murderers who seemed to be powerful.

For example, one of the twin brothers, their faces were as pale as paper, their eyes were cold, and they had a strong bloody smell on their bodies.

When Xu Mu knocked on the door to visit, the two only opened the door a crack, looked at him coldly, and closed the door.

And this glance made Xu Mu's scalp numb and his body cold.

"These two are probably monks who make a living from fighting, so if they can not provoke them in the future, it is better not to provoke them as much as possible." Xu Mu secretly reminded himself in his heart.

However, there are also some talkatives, such as a young couple who live next door to him, and an old Danshi who lives at the mouth of the alley.

After returning home after the visit, Xu Mu and Ye Yingying talked about the situation in the alley, and let her lie down to rest.

He left the bedroom and went to the cleaned utility room, ready to start refining the pill.

He is an alchemist, and all his sources of livelihood come from pills.

Alchemists can be said to be the most profitable of all professions, and at the same time, they are also the most money-burning.

Although Xu Mu has passed the initial stage of burning money, he is still 108,000 miles away from making a lot of money.

Now there are only two kinds of pills that he can refine, one is the Bigu Pill and the other is the Qi Gathering Pill.

Bigu Dan is one of the most common pills, and the effect is that you can not go hungry for three days after taking one pill.

Of course

These three days are three days for ordinary people!

Cultivators consume enormously.

Like Xu Mu, a grain of Bigu Dan can be held for a day at most!

Generally, when cultivators go out hunting, or when they practice in retreat, they will prepare some for convenience.

If it is a relatively wealthy cultivator, they will regard Bigu Dan as a regular meal.

Although cultivators can eat ordinary food, there is often a heavy turbidity in ordinary food, and if it is consumed for a long time, it will remain in the body, which will seriously affect cultivation.

The Qi Gathering Pill is an elixir that assists in cultivation, and after taking it, it can increase the speed of cultivators' spiritual energy condensation in a short period of time.

Although the Qi Gathering Pill is much more expensive than the Bigu Pill, it is very popular among cultivators because it can assist in cultivation.

What Xu Mu wants to refine now is the Bigu Pill, as for the Qi Gathering Pill, although he can refine it, the high failure rate is terrifying, and he is still in the stage of burning money for the time being.

He first took out the medicinal materials from the storage bag, and after carefully inspecting them, he took out the most precious alchemy furnace in all the belongings.

The Dan furnace is three feet high, three-legged and double-eared, the overall color is brass, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, like a little fat man, and there are many mysterious runes engraved on the furnace body, like tadpoles.

When he couldn't pay the rent, he once thought about selling the Dan furnace.

But in the end, reason triumphed over impulse.

Because that's tantamount to drinking to quench your thirst.

He cultivated to the third level of Qi cultivation, and he was not good at fighting, if he lost the source of life of alchemy, then there would be only one dead end.

After setting up the Dan furnace, Xu Mu took out a few cyan spirit wood like Puyu from the storage bag and placed them under the Dan furnace.

Both hands pinched a magic trick, and the spiritual power in the body surged, "poof"! An orange-red fireball the size of a ping-pong ball appeared in front of him.

"Go!"

As soon as Xu Mu's magic trick changed, the fireball fell on the spirit tree, and soon ignited the spirit wood.

Then he crossed his fingers and quickly pinched a few more spells to cast new spells.

Rumble!

The flames on the spirit wood rose violently, turning into several fire snakes like living creatures, wrapping the alchemy furnace and preheating the inside and outside of the furnace at the same time.

The spell he used to control the flames was called Fire Resistance, and it was a first-order fire spell that all alchemists must practice.

Whether the fire resistance technique is strong or not has a great impact on the success of the elixir.

Xu Mu has practiced for many years, and he has already cultivated the fire resistance technique to the proficient level, and it is estimated that he will be able to complete it in a few years, as for the later masters, grandmasters, and even the transcendent realm, it is not something that can be achieved by simple cultivation.

Fire resistance is not only Xu Mu's alchemy method, but also his strongest combat method now, after casting it, he can control the flames, form a fire snake and fire bird, and launch an attack on the enemy.

As for the attack magic weapon used by most cultivators, Xu Mu used to have it, but some time ago he sold it to help Ye Yingying see a doctor.

After the preheating of the Dan furnace was completed, Xu Mu began to put medicinal materials into it in the same way, and at the same time activated the formation runes on the Dan furnace to perceive and control the changes in the medicinal materials inside.

When the herbs were completely melted, he used the Flame Resistance Technique to control the flames and raise the temperature.

Although Bigu Pill is the most common pill in the cultivation world, it is still very cumbersome and troublesome to refine.

However, it is precisely because of the trouble that alchemists will be extremely scarce, so that he can be profitable.

The busy refining process lasted all night.

Sensing the medicinal properties of the medicinal materials in the Dan furnace, they had steadily begun to precipitate and contract, Xu Mu's hands were as fast as phantoms, and he quickly pinched out the recipe for collecting the Dan.

Bang Dang!

The lid of the furnace was opened, the fragrance of medicine was fragrant, and one by one, the round, yellow and clear pills flew out of it and landed in the palm of his hand.

"It's a pity, it's all middle and lower quality!"

Xu Mu checked it, and there was a hint of disappointment on his face.

He didn't know how many times he had refined it, and the chance of failure was not great, but the quality had not been able to improve.

Alchemists divide the same kind of elixir into lower grade, middle grade, upper grade, and best grade according to the quality of the elixir, among which the lower grade is the worst and the best is the best.

Under normal circumstances, fifteen low-grade Bigu Dan can be exchanged for a low-grade spirit stone, the middle grade needs twelve or thirteen grains, and the top-grade only needs ten grains, as for the best grade, five grains are enough.

The best Bigu Dan is not only expensive, but also very profitable, and it is also very easy to sell.

Cultivators eat Bigu Dan, firstly, to replenish the body's consumption, and secondly, to avoid residual turbidity in the body.

There is turbidity in the lower grade, middle grade, and upper grade, but it is only a matter of how much, only the best will not have it, and it can be eaten in large quantities for a long time.

"I don't dare to think of the best, I will be satisfied if I can refine a little high-grade!"

Xu Mu was just about to meditate to recover his spiritual power when his wife's exclamation suddenly came from the bedroom.