Donghua cultivates the immortal realm, Qin State.

The Qianzhu Mountain Range is located at the junction of Qingzhou and Jingzhou, stretching for tens of thousands of miles, and a large number of Qingyun bamboos grow here, hence the name.

In the southwest of the Qianzhu Mountains, a valley surrounded by mountains on three sides, there is a cyan stone tablet more than ten zhang high outside the valley, on which are written "Qianzhu Valley" three golden characters.

There was a commotion in the valley, and the streets were wide and clean, and there were many shops, and a large number of monks could be seen walking around.

There was once a third-order demon beast Qingfeng Wolf in the Qianzhu Mountain Range, which killed many monks, and later it was the Qing Python of the Imperial Spirit Sect who took action, which solved this demon.

The Chen, Han, and Li families jointly manage the Thousand Bamboo Valley, and there are foundation building monks all the year round, and the business scope is extensive, and there are many casual cultivators who make a living here.

Fang City is built according to the mountain, a steep peak, at the foot of the mountain stands a five-zhang high cyan stone tablet, which is engraved with three big characters of "Thousand Bamboo Peak", there are many buildings on the mountain, here is a residential area, providing accommodation for the immortal cultivators.

There are many buildings in Qianzhu Peak, ranging from simple stone houses to ornate palaces, as well as detached cyan lofts, which stretch from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, a two-zhang blue stone house, the stone house is made of some cyan boulders, the gaps are filled with shells, and the door is closed.

There is a long cyan stone bed in the stone house, and there is a cyan magic circle in the corner, and there are five grooves of the same size on the magic circle, and there is a gray-white spirit stone in each groove, and it seems that the spiritual energy in the spirit stone is about to be exhausted.

A tall blue-shirted young man sat cross-legged on the stone bed, the blue-shirted young man's face was like a crown of jade, the bridge of his nose was high, his eyes were slightly closed, and his body was covered by a layer of blue glow, and wisps of water aura gathered on the blue-shirted young man's body, pouring into his mouth and nose.

After a while, the blue-shirted young man opened his eyes, and his eyes faintly shot a gleam.

"Finally the fifth layer of qi refining."

The blue-shirted young man muttered to himself, his face full of joy.

The blue-shirted young man's name is Shen Long, and his parents are both casual cultivators, who make a living by hunting demon beasts.

When he was ten years old, Shen Long's parents followed their friends out to hunt for treasures, and before leaving, they left most of their belongings for Shen Long, telling him not to leave Fang City without permission.

It's been seven years since my parents never returned.

There are not many belongings left by his parents, Shen Long knows very well, no matter how much he saves, sooner or later he will spend it, he wants to find a job, but he is too young, the store doesn't want him, and some people even want to lure him out of Fang City.

His parents frequented Qiaobingtang, a refining shop that sold and repaired artifacts.

Sun Huowang, the shopkeeper of Qiaobing Hall, Xu saw him as pitiful, and hired Shen Long as a helper, two spirit stones per month, to help Shen Long get through the most difficult period.

Seven years have passed, and Shen Long's parents have not returned, and their life and death are uncertain.

Shen Long devoted himself to cultivation, and if he wanted to find his parents, he must first have strong enough strength.

He works five hours a day in the Qiaobing Hall, five hours are used for cultivation, one hour is used to practice spells, and one hour is to find something to do, such as being a guide for foreign monks, or wandering around the square where the stall is set up, listening to the stall owner's story about the experience of hunting demon beasts or the anecdotes of the immortal cultivation world, if you are lucky, you can buy better refining materials at a low price, and sell them to make a small profit.

Sun Huowang taught Shen Long to identify refining materials, from the characteristics of the materials to the purchase price, Shen Long studied very hard, was familiar with the characteristics and purchase price of a variety of first-order refining materials, and worked diligently.

Shen Long didn't want to be a shopkeeper for the rest of his life, two spirit stones a month could only barely survive, he took an hour every day to practice spells, and in five years, he cultivated two first-order spells to the Great Perfection, and then quit his job and teamed up with other loose cultivators to hunt demon beasts and earn immortal cultivation resources.

Spells are easy to learn and difficult to master, and spells are divided into four stages: entry, small success, great success, and great consummation.

When casting spells, immortal cultivators have to recite the mantra silently, it takes a certain amount of time to release the spell, it doesn't take long to get started, and if you want to cultivate a first-order spell to the Great Perfection, it will take as little as a year and a half, and more than ten years, depending on the person.

Some monks are very talented in cultivating spells, and they can cultivate a first-order spell to the Great Perfection in a year, and they can instantaneously use spells, and their power will increase a lot, and some monks spend more than ten years and cannot cultivate a first-order spell to the Great Perfection, they can buy magic weapons or talismans, saving time and effort.

The magic weapons in Qiaobingtang are of good quality, the price is fair, and there are a group of repeat customers, all of whom make a living by hunting demon beasts.

Shen Long took advantage of his position to observe the character of these casual cultivators, some of them were calculating, some of them liked to be greedy for small and cheap, and some were greedy for money and lustful.

He had a good relationship with a powerful Qi Refining Cultivator, this person was the captain of a demon hunting team, and the demon hunting team had a great risk of going out to hunt demon beasts, and it was a common thing to lose troops, and if he was unlucky, it was possible that the entire army would be wiped out.

Two years ago, when this demon hunting team came back from an outing, four Qi Refining Cultivators fell, and Shen Long learned the news and recommended himself.

At that time, he was at the fourth level of Qi refining, and with the Great Perfection's Fireball Technique, coupled with his familiarity with the purchase price of first-order refining materials, he successfully joined this demon hunting team.

The cave house he is renting now is the cheapest cave house in Fang City, with five spirit stones a year, only one soundproof array, and the spiritual energy is not abundant.

He has twenty-four spirit stones a year in Qiaobing Hall, deducting rent, and nineteen spirit stones, buying the cheapest gold bead spirit rice, barely making ends meet, a bottle of refining qi dispersion costs ten spirit stones, and a better qi nourishing pill costs twenty spirit stones a bottle.

In the second year of work, Sun Huowang gave him a salary increase, three spirit stones a month, before resigning, he had four spirit stones a month, deducting the rent and the cost of buying spiritual rice, and after a year, the spirit stones saved were only enough to buy a bottle of Qi Cultivation Pill, as the cultivation improved, the more immortal cultivation resources were needed, in the long run, he had to resign.

Four spirit stones a month, which is considered a high salary in Fang City, Sun Huowang cannot give him a salary increase, which is also the reason for Shen Long's resignation.

He also had the idea of learning refining, but Sun Huowang didn't teach him refining at all, it was too difficult to explore by himself, a refining material needed dozens of spirit stones, he worked in Qiaobing Hall for a year, and he could only buy one material if he was thrifty, and he failed once and for a year, not to mention buying refining furnaces and refining classics.

According to Sun Huowang, he failed to refine the weapon four times for the first time before he succeeded.

Shen Long calculated that he had saved money for ten years, he could buy a low-grade refining furnace and a refining classic, and he had gathered four refining materials, and it was good to succeed once, but if they all failed, ten years would be in vain, and this was still the premise of not buying pills.

He quickly dispelled this idea, for a bottom like him, the cost of trial and error was too high, he couldn't afford to lose, so it was better to hunt demon beasts.

As far as he knew, the three new generations of the immortal cultivation families of Chen, Han, and Li, didn't have to do anything every month, they could receive a sum of immortal cultivation resources, concentrate on cultivation, and come out to do things at the age of eighteen, but he didn't have this life, so he could only rely on his own efforts.