Chapter 10, go to the rivers and lakes again

Maozhu Town, Huadu Prefecture, Jiangyang County, Mingshan State.

In the early morning, in an independent courtyard in the east of the town, the door creaked open, and a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy came out, he was tall and straight, with beautiful eyebrows and handsome eyes.

The boy wore a dark blue ribbon in a bun on his head, a light blue diagonal knee-length brocade robe, a belt of the same color without ornaments, black trousers tightened at the lower ends, a pair of brown thick-soled soft cowhide boots on his feet, and a cotton cloth bag on his back.

That's right, this boy is Qingshi, and it's been two years since he came back from the Great Wilderness Mountain.

Turning around and closing the door, Qingshi strode towards Yahua City, the capital city, but his destination was not Yahua City, which was a hundred miles away, but Liangyuan, the county city, and he had to go there to Yahua first and then continue to walk north for eight hundred and twenty miles.

Qingshi brought back more than a hundred Ma Huang Fruits from the Great Wilderness Mountain, and there were tens of thousands of Aishan peach pits, and now, most of these things have become True Qi Pills and have been eaten and refined by Qingshi. The five or six hundred Aishan peaches in the bracelet were also eaten, and only thirty or forty remained.

The amount of spiritual energy provided by these elixirs and spirit fruits alone was enough to enable a hundred Qi Cultivation Realm seventh-stage cultivators to ascend to the Qi Gathering Realm.

However, Qingshi's cultivation at this time was still practicing the seventh stage of the Qi Realm, and the true qi in his body did not increase at all.

His dantian qi sea had expanded several times, but the amount of true qi in it seemed to be even less, and it seemed that it was not even a tenth. The strength of the meridians in his body is very amazing, I am afraid that only Yuan Dan Realm cultivators will have this level, but they may not be stronger than him.

Qingshi has been practicing diligently for the past two years, and his mentality is gradually calmer than at the beginning, and he believes that one day he will awaken that mysterious soul body.

After nourishing his true qi for more than two years, he also had some different feelings about this soul body, sometimes feeling that it was a part of his body or even his life.

Qingshi, who has a calm mind, is a little more leisurely, sometimes going to the city to buy and sell medicine, shopping and shopping, buying some clothes, shoes and socks and other daily necessities, or going to a restaurant for a meal.

When it comes to eating, more often than not, Qingshi will make a delicious meal at home by himself. Sometimes I buy some poetry books to read, but the literature, poetry, painting, sculpture and other arts in this world are as terrible as their food, and bluestone really can't appreciate it.

It's been two years in the blink of an eye, and Qingshi's resources are about to run out, and according to his cultivation speed, the resources on his body are only enough to support one and a half months.

Therefore, he decided to go out again to meet the chance, last time he went to the Great Wilderness Mountain, this time Qingshi decided to go into the big city to see.

Just after noon, Qingshi walked into Yahua City from the east gate, he didn't stop, walked through the streets of the city and went straight out of the north gate, and came to the Yahua Station outside the city gate.

Here, there are vehicles driven by spirit beasts, and the fastest means of transportation from Yahua City to Liangyuan, the county seat, is the flying car drawn by the second-level spirit beast Luhu Lake. There are one departure in the morning and one in the afternoon.

It is said that it only takes three hours for this flying car to travel from Yahua to Liangyuan, and it is said that it is according to the shopkeeper Cao of Yahuadan Medicine Village in Yahua City.

More than a month ago, Qingshi came to Yahua City to sell thirty second-grade True Qi Pills, and bought a batch of auxiliary materials for refining True Qi Pills.

At the banquet, Qingshi has been humbly asking the shopkeeper Cao for advice on various questions, and the shopkeeper Cao is also gushing endlessly, what are the old anecdotes of the four major families in the county, the rumors of the city lord's wife, the gossip of a certain bigwig in the capital, etc., and he told Qingshi about his various experiences in the county and the capital.

Qingshi smiled and listened quietly to ask a few words from time to time, and after eating a meal for nearly two hours, the shopkeeper Cao said happily, and Qingshi also listened interestingly.

He immersed himself in cultivation and had little contact with the outside world, and he heard that Cao's shopkeeper Kan Dashan had gained a lot of knowledge, which could be regarded as a preparation for entering the city.

Qingshi came to the outside of the post station, and asked the staff how to take the flying car to Liangyuan, the county town, and under the guidance of the staff, after a while, Qingshi got on the flying car.

This flying car is about five zhang long and one zhang wide, with four rows of eight wheels under the car, and the body is low. There are ten rows of passenger seats in the car, four in each row side by side, there is another driver's seat in the front of the car, this car has no walls and doors and windows, there is no passage in the middle, passengers are up and down from both sides of the row of seats, eight poles are erected around the body to support an awning, the whole car looks slightly thin, very similar to the battery traffic car in some scenic spots on the earth, but it is larger.

Qingshi silently calculated in his heart, and couldn't help but be surprised, he really didn't understand how this car could reach a speed of two hundred and sixty or seventy miles per hour.

The Luhu Horse is a second-level spirit beast, so it can easily reach such a speed, but it is difficult to drag this car.

There is no highway in this world, in fact, there is basically no hardened road, this car is going to reach such a speed, I'm afraid it won't fall apart early, and besides, this person can't stand it, don't you die?

There were only about 20 people in the car, Qingshi sat in the right position in the seventh row, and an old man in rich clothes sat in the left seat in this row, but there were two empty seats in the middle.

The others also looked richly dressed and extraordinary, and were undoubtedly monks. This fare requires five hundred low-grade spirit stones, where can ordinary people afford to sit on.

After a while, several people led four horses to the front of the car and began to put ropes and other things on the horses, the horses were tall and mighty, handsome and extraordinary, this is the Luhu horse.

The staff was skillful, and the operation was completed after a while, but it was a two-horse configuration in each row of the front and back.

The driver was a man of medium stature, apparently also a monk. The man yelled: It's time to go. Then he shook the reins, shouted and gave orders, and the carriage began to move slowly.

The old man in the fancy dress on the left turned his head and yelled out, and saw a boy who was four or five years younger than Qingshi coming from nowhere, and a jumping figure was like a bird in the air, and in a blink of an eye, he floated into the car and landed on the seat on the right side of the old man.

The young man opened his mouth and grinned: "Grandpa, don't stare at me, won't I come!" As soon as he turned his head, he found the bluestone on the right seat, and his eyes couldn't help but light up, and he immediately moved his butt crookedly, and said to Qingshi: "Hey buddy, what do you call it?" My name is Wang Xiaotian. ”

Qingshi saw that the young man's eyebrows were delicate, his eyes were clear and smart, and he was quite impressed.

He smiled and said, "Qingshi." ”

"Bluestone, your name is so nice, is it a cyan blue, a stone of stone?

"That's right."

"What are you doing in Liangyuan? My grandfather and I are going home, our family is in Liangyuan, is Brother Qingshi also from Liangyuan? By the way, how old are you? I should call you brother, Brother Qingshi is called weird, just call Brother Qing, Brother Qing, brother? No, it's not right, it's still called Brother Shi, it doesn't seem right, so call others still think you're my senior brother, you say yes? ”

Qingshi couldn't help laughing, and he didn't know which sentence to answer for a while, but the young man followed again: "It's better to call Brother Qingshi." And then there was another gushing.

Qingshi has always believed that silence is gold, and he has rarely spoken to people over the years, only smiling and picking up a few words from time to time.

By this time, the carriage had already accelerated and galloped, and the road outside the post station was wide and straight, and it was not bumpy.

Qingshi suddenly felt his body sink slightly, the body lifted up, and the shaking from the road disappeared at once, this feeling Qingshi is familiar, and the moment he took off when he was on a plane on the earth was like this.

Qingshi turned his head and looked out, and saw that the body had already flown up, the wheels were suspended more than three feet above the ground, and there was a slight white light under the body, obviously there was an aura field.

It turns out that this flying car is a spirit weapon that can levitate. Looking ahead, the four horses were still galloping on the ground, and without the friction resistance between the road and the wheels, the horses dragged the speeding car very easily.

"This flying car really lives up to its name." Qingshi couldn't help but sigh softly.

"Hasn't Brother Qingshi ever ridden a flying car before?" Wang Xiaotian said, "But if you want me to say that this flying car is not worthy of the name, there is a spaceship in the national capital to Chaoge, no spirit beasts, the spaceship itself flies in the air, and it can fly to a height of thousands of zhang, then it is the real flight, but I have never sat on it." ”

The two chatted all the way, Wang Xiaotian spoke quickly and talked a lot, but Qingshi was unhurried and listened to more words, but he also talked speculatively.

Chatting and chatting, Qingshi slowly learned about the situation of Wang Xiaotian's family, it turned out that this Wang Xiaotian was the son of the four major families of Liang Yuan, and his grandfather's father was not very high in the clan, and his father was in charge of the family business in the area under the jurisdiction of Yahua City.

Wang Xiaotian is extremely talented among his younger brothers in this life, he has just turned thirteen years old this year, but he is already practicing the ninth stage martial arts cultivation of the Qi Realm, and he attaches great importance to it in the family. This trip was to return home with my grandfather after visiting my father, who was based in Yahua.

When asked about Qingshi, Qingshi simply said that he lived in seclusion in Huadu Mansion with his master, and this time he went to the county town to have a long experience and buy some things. Since he is a recluse, he is naturally reluctant to talk about his life experience, and Xiaotian knows how not to ask.

But Qingshi said that he was an alchemist in the seventh stage of the Qi Realm, but he didn't hide it from Xiaotian, and when he heard that Qingshi was actually an alchemist, Xiaotian was greatly admired.

Old man Wang has been closing his eyes and recuperating, and he has long been surprised by his grandson's words, and when he heard Qingshi say that he was an alchemist, he couldn't help but open his eyes and look at it twice.

Changed horses once, and at dusk, the flying car arrived at Liangyuan City.

Qingshi said goodbye to the grandchildren of the Wang family, and listened to Wang Xiaotian's nagging again. Entering the city, Qingshi slowly walked towards Liangyuan Square according to the direction Wang Xiaotian said.

According to Wang Xiaotian, Liangyuan Square is the center of Liangyuan City, and the north side of the square is the city lord's mansion and other yamen. The other three sides are home to the city's best restaurants, inns, shops and entertainment venues, etc., and Bluestone is naturally a place to visit.

At the beginning of the lanterns, there are a lot of pedestrians on the street, and there are many shops on the side of the street, Qingshi paid close attention to observation, and found that compared with Yahua City, the scale of the shops here is generally larger, the decoration is more luxurious, and the stores are more engaged in various kinds of cultivation resources.

Qingshi didn't enter the store, just walked around and looked, about an hour later, and finally came to Liangyuan Square, which is about a thousand square meters of abbots.

The buildings around the square are really more gorgeous and atmospheric, the light on the square is bright, and the surrounding buildings are also brightly lit, using Yongming lamps with spirit stones as the energy source.

Look around the bluestone, there are a lot of hotels and inns, a name called Liangyuan Danhua Hotel in the west is the most gorgeous, four floors high, and the façade is broad. The bluestone went straight away.

Got closer, only to see the hotel brilliant and gorgeous, but there are not many people in the store, two waiters in purple satin short clothes stood on both sides of the door, saw Qingshi coming, the person on the left hurriedly greeted him.

The waiter led Bluestone through the hall to the counter. A young beauty at the counter made a courteous introduction, and Qingshi chose a suite on the third floor, one into two rooms with bathing and sanitary facilities, and five hundred low-grade spirit stones per day.

Qingshi came to the room with the waiter, and it was really luxurious, so he settled down and rested.

For more than two years, Qingshi has been immersed in refining his true qi, just hoping to awaken the mysterious soul body, but he almost exhausted his resources and failed to succeed. Under the change of thinking, Qingshi came to the county town to find opportunities to obtain resources.

According to the plan, there are several things to do in Qingshi.

First, he wants to go to the Alchemist Guild in the county town to take a qualification certificate, and there are many benefits to joining the Alchemist Guild, and Shopkeeper Cao explained it to him more clearly.

In this world of cultivators, it is difficult for casual cultivation to have a future, and monks generally join various forces, such as families, sects, city-states, armies, various professional guilds, and so on, but the purpose is the same, that is, to obtain safe shelter and obtain cultivation resources.

Qingshi's cultivation is too low and there is no background, joining the Alchemist Guild is naturally the best cultivation path at present, in contrast, the various professional guilds are the most respected, the easiest to obtain resources and the least need to pay too much for the shelter organization, after all, the three major magic path monks are all scarce treasures.

After joining the Alchemist Guild, the way for the Bluestone Project to obtain resources is to pick up leaks and participate in auctions to buy heavenly materials and earth treasures.

Listening to Cao's shopkeeper, there are many shops and night markets selling cultivation resources in the capital and the county, and there are countless treasures in heaven and earth, no one can recognize them, and people with luck and vision can often pick up real gold from the rubble, Qingshi has the memory of Xiao Lou, and the understanding of treasures is afraid that there are few people in this world who can compare.

As for the auction, not to mention, as long as there is money, the treasure can naturally be bought, and the one that needs to be worried is that the money is not enough to afford it, and the second is that the strength is too weak to buy the treasure but can't keep it. However, if you have the identity of an alchemist of the Imperial Alchemist Guild, you can still dispel the covetousness of some unscrupulous people.

And now, Bluestone has another idea.

On the way to Liangyuan, Wang Xiaotian told Qingshi something about entering the cultivation school to study. Only then did Aoshi know that there was a school in this world that specialized in training monks for systematic learning.

Of course, Qingshi understands the benefits of school education, so he is also going to go to the monk's school in Liangyuan.