Verse 23

She sat in the tea shop on the side of the road, the owner of the tea shop was an old mortal, Zhao Ning came early, listened to him chatter, said that she had lived in Guiyuan City since she was a child, she had no luck to get immortal fate, and she had no life to return to the mortal world, so she could only support a tea shop in the city for the rest of her life.

There are no mortals in Guiyuan City, and there are no Qi refining period monks in Bigu, and the business of the tea shop is not bad, there are many people, and the boss put a bowl of noodles on Zhao Ning and went to work on his own.

Zhao Ning ate noodles and listened to the guests waiting for noodles at the table next to him talk about yesterday's monsters.

"I heard that several cultivators who had fallen into demons appeared outside the city yesterday, and they almost injured people's lives." It was the male cultivator with the yellow turban who spoke, and his cultivation was on the first level of Qi training.

His companion was also a Qi cultivator, wearing a gray Taoist robe, with a shocked expression, "Why are so many monks suffering from the demons in their hearts on the same day?" It shouldn't be, now the Meditation Pill, the Mind Condensation Technique, and the Awakening Incense, so many magic pills that soothe the mind, how can they still not suppress the demons in their hearts? Could it be that another Heavenly Demon has slipped out of the Sealed Demon Abyss. โ€

"Who knows?" The yellow turban male cultivator was also full of questions, and he approached his companion, "Yesterday, when the Qingxiao Sect patrol team was on duty in Guiyuan City, I heard that someone reported it, and Qin Keyuan, the head of the Qingxiao Sect, personally went down the mountain to investigate this matter."

"Qin Keyuan?" The gray Dao robe companion didn't grasp the other party's focus, but instead tilted the focus towards Qin Keyuan, "He has already become the first seat? Isn't the first seat of the Qingxiao Sect at least to build a complete foundation? That's the future Qingxiao Sect Master. โ€

Zhao Ning's hand paused for a moment, and glanced to the side without a trace, that is to say, Qin Keyuan was most likely the future sect master of the Qingxiao Sect, no wonder the people of the Danling Sect were so jealous of Qin Keyuan last night.

"It's already consummated, Qin Keyuan Qin's first seat was ten years old to introduce qi into the body, fifteen years old to build a foundation, twenty-five years old to build a foundation to be successful, but a few years ago suddenly said that he wanted to enter the world to practice, refine his heart and cut mortal, and only returned to the sect in the first half a year, I am afraid that it will be Jindan soon, and Jindan is less than thirty years old, this is definitely the qualification of Tianlinggen." The yellow turban male cultivator looked like Qin Keyuan's fan brother.

But his companion was disdainful of this, "Heavenly Spirit Root, I don't think so. Qingxiao Sect has never announced that he is a Heavenly Spirit Root, if it was a Heavenly Spirit Root, how could the Heavenly Spirit Root let him deal with the miscellaneous affairs of the sect, he would have been offered up a long time ago, let him have a good life to cultivate, you can see how much the major sects attach importance to the extremely talented Tianjiao, and they can't wait to raise the power of the whole sect to cultivate. โ€

At this moment, the tea shop owner's noodles were on the table, and the yellow turban male cultivator stirred the soup noodles, "You say so, I suddenly thought that Qingxiao Sect found a disciple of Shan Linggen half a year ago, and I heard that the qualifications were extremely high, and even asked Qin Shouzuo to personally run around looking for cultivation resources for him." What's it called, what's Jia? โ€

"Jia Rui!" The companion said the name categorically, "Senior Brother Jia has introduced qi into his body in less than half a decade, and he has already practiced the second level of qi in less than half a year, and this kind of talent Qin Keyuan is nothing in front of him." And I heard that there was a gap between Senior Brother Jia and Qin Shouza, and Senior Brother Jia also said that in three years, the sect would definitely defeat Qin Keyuan and take the name of his first seat. โ€

Zhao Ning put down the dishes and chopsticks, leaving the broken spirit stone for the boss, and the two people at the table next to him were still chattering, "It's a pity that I don't have the talent to enter the sect, otherwise I will definitely be able to see the grand occasion of Jia Tianjiao and Qin Shouzao's showdown......"

After the rest of the words, Zhao Ning no longer listened.

She went straight to the central square, the Scattered Cultivation Alliance is located in the right rear of the central square, the elders of the Scattered Cultivation Alliance in Guiyuan City are not very high, I heard that there is only one Jindan real person, but there are many members of the Scattered Cultivation, and the connection between them is not a teacher or a blood relationship, but by interests.

Guiyuan City Scattered Cultivation Alliance is more like a chamber of commerce, on the surface, in order to survive under the major sects, they will assist the major sects to manage the various Dengxian Cities and issue scattered cultivation tasks, but their main resources are from Duobaolou, Duobaolou is a large-scale comprehensive chamber of commerce that integrates the trading of Dan weapons, talismans, spells, talismans, etc., and some resources may not even be comparable to those of some small sects.

The Duobao Building in Guiyuan City is next to the General Alliance of the Scattered Cultivation League, and Zhao Ning came this time to find a long-term residence in the cave.

On the central square, the Qing Danding of the Danling Sect is still standing there, and the cultivators in the city don't want to gather like yesterday, most of them say that they will leave after hearing the disciples of the Danling Valley say that they will clear the rules of the immortal order, and a small number of people will not believe in evil to test the immortal fate, and the people who regret ending the scene are endless.

In the early morning, there was no business in the Duobao Building, and the nun who greeted the guests also stood by the door and looked at the central square, and when she saw Zhao Ning coming, she quickly withdrew her gaze, and one of the pink-clothed nuns arched her hand towards Zhao Ning, "This fairy, if you need something, I can guide you, you can just call me Fluttershy." โ€

Fluttershy looked at Zhao Ning, who was about the same age, and as soon as she was cultivating to draw qi into her body, Zhao Ning called out to "Miss Fluttershy" and entered the Duobao Building, where there were many Dan Talismans, divided into different categories, glowing with different colors of aura, protected by a clear light shield.

Zhao Ning glanced at it roughly, and only said, "I heard that your building has a cave for lease, I want to rent it for half a year, I don't know what the price is?" โ€

"It turns out that the fairy wants to lease the cave mansion, please come with me." Fluttershy leads Condensation to the inner room, where a large map of mountains is hung on the wall of the inner room, with different markers drawn on the mountain map, and Fluttershy points to the markers, "The price of the cave varies depending on the location and the concentration of aura. โ€

"The cave opened up by our Guiyuan City Scattered Cultivation Alliance is on Qingzhu Mountain in the Qianren Mountain Range, less than half a mile away from Guiyuan City.

Qianren Mountain Range has a lower grade spirit vein that extends to Qingzhu Mountain, so the closer to the location of the spirit vein, generally from the top of the left peak to the mountainside, the price is higher, thirty lower grade spirit stones are needed in ten years, the foot of the left peak and the top of the right peak are second, twenty spirit stones are needed in one ten, and fifteen spirit stones are needed in ten years for the remaining position.

The caves marked in red on Qingzhu Mountain are all caves that have been leased, and the caves marked in green are unmanned, fairy, where do you see where you need caves? โ€

Zhao Ning didn't hesitate much, although the spirit stone was now enough to support the most expensive Zuofeng Cave Mansion, but unexpectedly there were a lot of Zuofeng Cave Mansion marked red in the Zuofeng Cave Mansion, Zhao Ning asked Fluttershy.

Fluttershy smiled, "Monks who can usually rent a cave mansion don't care much about the difference of ten spirit stones a month, and there are quite a few people who rent a foundation in Zuofeng Cave Mansion. โ€

Obviously, these words have not been exhausted, many low-level Qi cultivators want to be closer to the foundation building masters in order to have the opportunity to build a foundation, and the so-called close to the water is also an excellent opportunity.

Zhao Ning didn't say much, just pointed to the cave on the top of the right peak, "It looks clean here, so let's do it." โ€

The caves on the top of the right peak are uninhabited on the left and right, and they are some distance from the other caves, and Zhao Ning took a fancy to it at a glance.

"Okay. If the fairy wants to lease it for half a year, he needs to pay one hundred and twenty low-grade spirit stones at one time. The shopkeeper will give you the Cave Prohibition Token. After you get the token, Fluttershy takes the fairy to the cave. โ€

Zhao Ning nodded, paid off the spirit stone, Fluttershy waited by the side, and after a while, Zhao Ning got the forbidden token, the word "treasure" was engraved on the front of the token, and the serial number of the cave was engraved on the back, and the cave where Zhao Ning was located was "Seventy-Nine".

Fluttershy leads Zhao Ning out the door, and as she walks down the hall, she meets Tian Hongjun, who is shopping for elixir materials with a few people.

"Why, no, that!" Before he walked out of the hall, he heard Tian Hongjun's irritable voice.

His voice attracted the attention of many people in the hall, and Zhao Ning was no exception, seeing that Tian Hongjun was still holding the list given to him by Yu Jingjue yesterday in his hand, he thought that he was buying the elixir in the list in Duobaolou.

Xiao Er, the shopping guide, apologized again and again, "Fellow Daoist, these elixirs you want are too high." Moreover, medicinal materials such as Hanyulu must be picked on the same day and taken for medicine, so it is impossible to sell them over the counter. โ€

"Then go to your medicine field to pick it, Dao Ye can afford to wait."

Xiao Er was embarrassed and helpless, "Fellow Daoist, this kind of medicinal herb can only grow in the swamp of the Spirit Mist Forest, and the medicinal fields we are waiting for are not in this condition." โ€

"I see that you just don't want to do Dao Ye business, I haven't shown you the whole list, only the first five medicinal materials, and you have four medicinal materials for various reasons, I think you still don't want to call it Duobaolou, it's called Wubaolou."

Seeing that this matter is about to make trouble, the shopkeeper hurriedly comes over to greet him, and quickly glances at the other Xiao Er, which means that he should hurry up and take the guests to do what they should do, don't spoil the business, Fluttershy also received it, and hurriedly apologized to Zhao Ning, who didn't say much and left with Fluttershy.

Cast the trick of resisting the wind, and soon came to the foot of Qingzhu Peak.

Qingzhu Peak is even taller and bigger than Zhao Ning imagined, there are large bamboo forests on the mountain, and occasionally you can see the spiritual light of monks casting spells in the forest.

Fluttershy leads Zhao Ning to the cave on the top of the right peak, the road up the mountain of Qingzhu Mountain avoids almost all the caves, and he doesn't meet any monks along the way, but his keen facial features make Zhao Ning clearly perceive the fluctuations of spiritual power nearby, until he is close to the peak, the fluctuations are smaller, but the aura in heaven and earth is also much thicker.

Zhao Ning took a deep breath, compared to the Guiyuan City of fireworks in the world, the aura of heaven and earth here was refreshing.

Fluttershy laughs and explains, "The fairy can see the green bamboos planted nearby, these green bamboos are called Qingning bamboo, and when the breeze blows, the bamboo forest will be filled with a burst of fragrance, which has a calming effect. Therefore, there are many masters of casual cultivation who like to retreat here and break through the bottleneck with their hearts. Zuo Feng even has a senior who wants to break through the foundation building, who has been in retreat for three years, and he thinks that he will be able to hear the good news soon. โ€

"Fairy, please come here."

Fluttershy introduced and guided Zhao Ning, and after a while, the two of them had reached the peak, the view of the peak was much wider than the mountainside, and from here you could even see the general outline of Guiyuan City at a glance, "The cave here is a natural cave that has been renovated by the predecessors of the alliance, and the inside is open, and the fairy looks inside." โ€

There is a small platform in front of the cave, there is a stone table and stone bench on the platform, and there is a brocade rattan hanging above the door of the cave, which naturally forms a curtain for the cave.

Zhao Ning follows Fluttershy towards the cave, but pauses halfway through and suddenly looks at the opposite peak, which Fluttershy notices.

A vortex of spiritual power was slowly forming above the left peak, and Fluttershy smiled at the sight of Zhao Ning, "Fairy, you see, we just said that there was a senior who broke through the retreat, but we didn't expect to be met by the senior breakthrough when we broke through. โ€

Zhao Ning didn't enter the cave anymore, and Zhao Ning was promoted to build the foundation for the first time, or Zhao Ning, the predecessor of the foundation building period, had only met Qin Keyuan alone, and he didn't know what kind of vision of heaven and earth would be caused by the promotion of foundation building.

She stood on the edge of the platform and looked out, only to see the influence of the vortex of spiritual power in the clouds in the sky, and was gradually attracted to the top of the left peak, many of the monks in the cave of the left peak were alarmed, and they all rose against the wind and landed on the top of the bamboo forest.

The clouds in the sky gradually swam into a whirlpool, and the aura of heaven and earth seemed to be wrapped in the clouds, attaching a layer of clear light to the clouds, and then a vision appeared, and a pillar of spiritual light rose from a cave somewhere on the top of the left peak, connecting the clouds, and the clouds faintly felt like they were falling.

This pillar of spiritual power light is not conspicuous, and it can't even be captured if it weren't for the monk's eye, but because of it, it also made Zhao Ning see the turbidity of this pillar of spiritual light, and there were even countless shadows raging in it.

The spiritual power pillar was incorporated into the clouds, and the restlessness of the aura of heaven and earth became more and more intense, and the clouds seemed to be inspired by something, and were suppressed by the aura of heaven and earth to change out of the appearance of the cloud platform, but this cloud platform looked extremely unclear, and even the form was a little scattered.

Zhao Ning heard that there was a monk in the bamboo forest and sighed, "This spiritual platform is difficult to stabilize, I'm afraid it's a little difficult to build a foundation." โ€

I heard Fluttershy say beside me, "This senior often buys cultivation pills in Duobao Building, and looking at the vision of building the foundation now, this senior is afraid that he didn't listen to the instructions of the senior in the building." โ€

Seeing Zhao Ning look at her, Fluttershy mutters.

"Duobaolou's cultivation pill is one top and one good, but you also know that no matter how good the quality of the pill refining is, it still has a little impurity, and the ordinary quality pill can only be taken three times a day, and the impurities in it cannot be washed by itself, and the pill of Duobaolou can only be washed by itself if it is taken five times a day, and it will reach the limit of cleansing.

Like this master who built the foundation of the heavenly phase, the spiritual energy in his spiritual platform contained too many impurities, which was not pure enough, and the spiritual platform was vain, so he thought that he had taken ten pills at least one day. โ€

"Is the aura mixed?" Zhao Ning muttered, she didn't care about the impurities of the elixir, she just felt the same way, she was damaged by the spiritual acupoint to the point of spiritual qi in her body, and when she stayed to build the foundation, would it be the same situation as this senior.

didn't think about it without contemplation, but saw that the spirit platform that had been transformed by the clouds had obviously been formed, but in a few hidden appearances, it was directly shattered.

"Oh my God!" Fluttershy screams softly and subconsciously covers her mouth, "Tsukiji failed. โ€

But this did not seem to be the end, the shattered clouds became distorted, the color of the clouds became extremely dark, and the aura of heaven and earth also โ–กโ–ก, and a strong hurricane suddenly surged from the top of the left peak, with a trace of blood in the wind.

"Not good! Come on! The monks on the bamboo forest on Zuofeng instantly changed their complexions, and they all retreated and ran.

"I'm in the heart of the demon!" I don't know which monk shouted, and then the blood in the wind turned into a blade and attacked the bamboo forest monk.

The blades in the bamboo forest fell and collided with the blade, and the blade that looked bloody and sharp was instantly twisted by the bamboo leaves, and then a blade changed direction sharply, flying towards the cave where the demon barrier entered the heart.

"Uh......" was extremely fast, and a breathless sound came out of the cave.

Fluttershy patted her chest and comforted Zhao Ning by the way, "Don't be nervous, fairies, our Cave Mansion Residence of the Scattered Cultivation Alliance is guarded by a senior who has built a perfect foundation, and we will definitely not let the guests who rent it get hurt." The predecessors stationed here will also protect our cave mansion, and will not let some evil cultivators who are roosters and dogs steal the cave mansion secretly. โ€

Zhao Ning nodded, watched the monks disperse, and followed Fluttershy into the cave to learn about her rented cave.

The cave is indeed a large area, as Fluttershy says, and the cave is divided into two floors, inside and outside.

The outer layer is equipped with a short couch for receiving guests, as well as a jade platform for practicing meditation, perhaps it is the peak, there is a hole above the oblique cave house, the sunlight is scattered from the hole, falling in a bend of the pond water below, the pool is planted with jade lotus, the jade lotus is in the season of blooming, it is very good-looking.

There is only one bed and a bookcase on the inner floor of the cave, which is a place to rest.

"If the fairy has any other fiddling with the cave, it is all up to you, but there is a ban around this cave, and you must not dig other inner rooms."

Zhao Ning was very satisfied with this cave mansion and nodded in response.

She sends Fluttershy out of the cave and returns to stand on the platform, where she happens to see several members of the Scattered Cultivators on the opposite peak carrying out the bodies of the monks who failed to be promoted in the cave on the summit.

The corpse only had a bamboo leaf inserted in the center of his eyebrows, and his pupils were bloodshot, enlarged to the extreme, and Zhao Ning remembered the appearance of the monster he saw that day, which was more serious than this corpse.

Several people from the Scattered Cultivation Alliance put the body on the ground outside the cave, and several people entered the cave again, and it took a long time before they came out, and the storage bags around their waists were bulging and seemed to be stuffed with things.

Several people had smiles on their faces, and there was a strange feeling of returning with a full load, and the smile was hidden when they came to the corpse again.

Someone frowned and said, "Isn't this a slap in the face of our Scattered Cultivation Alliance?" We have wasted the mountains and green bamboos that we have cultivated for a hundred years, and we have calmed down and condensed our minds, which is to prevent some monks from being confused by the demons in their hearts or not practicing very much. โ€

"Who knows? There seem to be a lot of cultivators who have fallen into the demon for a while, and yesterday the first seat of the Qingxiao Sect did not go down the mountain to deal with it in person. It's nothing if you want me to say it, the time for the four major sects to recruit disciples for ten years has arrived, and Danling Valley is even ahead of schedule, and these monks can't hold back and want to take a shortcut to enter the sect. This foundation building realm can enter the sect without thinking about the spiritual root, and after entering the sect, he is directly a disciple of the inner sect, and the temptation is not ordinary, thinking about it like this, I feel like I am a demon. โ€

"Go aside. You've only practiced Qi for a few layers, don't think about building a foundation. Look at this corpse, how can it be so simple to build a foundation, go, and go. Saying that, the people of the Sanxiu Alliance also threw the body into the storage bag, and several people ignored the gaze of the Sanxiu in the bamboo forest, and went down the mountain with a smile to themselves.

There are people in the bamboo forest who are not angry, "Look at the group of people in the Scattered Cultivation League, what do you say that you are not allowed to fight in the cave mansion, and you are not allowed to covet other people's cave mansions, but you see, as soon as people die, the things in the cave mansion become theirs instead." โ€

"Then what's the solution, people's territory, and the predecessors who have built a complete foundation are watching. You have the ability to go to the sect, but if you die in the sect, your things are also from the sect. โ€

Zhao Ning didn't stand at the gate of the cave anymore, she returned to the cave, the cave was silent, so quiet that she could only hear her own breathing.

She sat on the cultivation jade platform, meditating cross-legged, but she did not practice the exercises, but thought about the vision of heaven and earth that she had just seen promoted.

Even if you don't use the spiritual qi powder, there will still be impurities when the spiritual energy enters the body or when you take the pill, the spiritual energy is not pure, and the impurities accumulate.

The scenes in front of Zhao Ning were all visions of the spiritual platform, floating, hollow, and turbid, until they finally collapsed.

She was thinking that this would happen in ordinary practice, how many impurities would accumulate in her body when she broke through the spiritual acupoint like this, and it was even more serious than that senior when building the foundation, maybe she wouldn't be able to wait for the Lingtai vision.

Zhao Ning opened her eyes suddenly, she walked down from the jade platform, knelt on the short couch, took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone from the Silent Spirit Mansion and put it on the long case, grinding the ink, thinking about Yu Jingjue's attitude that day, Yu Jingjue didn't want to treat her.

Although Yu Jingjue was full of nonsense from 10,000 years ago, saying that he was cultivating the supreme medical Taoism 10,000 years ago, Zhao Ning didn't believe it, but Zhao Ning believed that it must be Yu Jingjue who could perform the Rejuvenation Rejuvenation Technique, not others.

The first is to guess a few points from Yu Jingjue's words, and the second is that Qin Keyuan's previous words made Zhao Ning more affirmative.

"There are people who practice the way of medicine, and they can use the magic power of rejuvenation and injury transformation, and the people of this medicine have a strange personality and need to be sincere."

Qin Keyuan's words swept through Zhao Ning's mind, he pointed out that there was this person in the market so casually, and this person had a strange personality, coupled with the introduction of Guiyuan City by the grandson of the Kong family, Yu Jingjue was the only one who echoed Qin Keyuan's statement, and in Yu Jingjue's vague and perfunctory statement, Zhao Ning was even more certain.

Zhao Ning thought, Senior Qin was right, if you want someone to be healed, you must show sincerity.

Chapter 048

The brush is dipped in ink, and more than a dozen kinds of medicinal herbs are written in small letters.