At this time, it was already late at night, and the middle-aged cultivator who had been making a fuss at the door of the Hundred Treasure Pavilion swaggered away from the crowd, and suddenly became nervous and cautious.

He flashed into the path, turned around, and walked to the corner of the market, inexplicably changed another face, his body seemed to be two inches taller, his face and physique, and even his breath changed into another person.

Then I walked quickly to the opposite corner of the street, and walked around the store that sold daily necessities as if I had nothing to do.

Suddenly, a breath came to my face.

"Huh?"

He seemed to notice, turned his head to look, and found nothing.

It turned out that it was just the mountain breeze flowing in the valley.

Li Zhen hugged the ninth princess out of the valley, and with a wave of his sleeves, he released a purple gold shuttle.

The light in the shuttle flashed, and the mana stored in it enveloped the two of them, turning them into spiritual light, and then broke through the air.

Soon after, they returned to their homes, landed on the inner garden path, and walked back to Qingning's residence in much more time than they had previously rushed back from outside the city.

This is probably the goshawk's freedom that Li Zhen said before, just a few dozen miles, it is no different from being at the door of the house.

Those who are suitable for the reckless cang, three meals and the opposite, the belly is still true; those who are suitable for a hundred miles, the food for lodging, those who are suitable for thousands of miles, and gather grain in March, these things, Li Zhen does not need to resonate anymore.

Li Zhen and the Ninth Princess walked leisurely, discussing what they saw in the bazaar, commenting on the value of various spiritual materials and common treasures, and they were quite comfortable.

Walking to the residence, the ninth princess said, "I'll go take a bath first." ”

Li Zhen nodded, went back to the room and lay down, and asked the maid Liju and Jiehua on duty to take turns fanning themselves to cool off, but the spirit had already fallen asleep and came to the dream world.

His spirit appeared in the dark and cold void of the universe, surrounded by boundless outlines, completely devoid of other stars or light.

But with the urging of the magic formula, after a while, in the distant void, there was a flash of bright light.

Its light was so faint that at first glance, it almost disappeared into the darkness, as if it didn't exist.

But with the inspiration of Li Zhen's mana, the power of the dream path between heaven and earth was aroused, and it began to light up again.

After a while, the stars in the distance became brighter and brighter, forming the only light source hanging in this dream universe.

Li Zhen teleported over a thought, and saw a huge bubble of gray and black mist surging, exuding a hazy light.

His mind moved slightly, and a cloud of gray haze actually overflowed from inside, enveloping Li Zhen's body.

Immediately, Li Zhen's body also turned into a mist and penetrated into it.

Like the ripples of water waves, inside this bubble, strange light and shadow changes, emerging scenes of country houses and wilderness forests.

What Li saw was a low-slung house that at first glance looked like an ordinary mountain dweller's residence, located on the edge of the village, built lonely against the mountain.

You can see it when you enter it, and the atmosphere of the local tyrant inside is coming.

On the Taishi chair paved with tiger skin, the middle-aged cultivators closed their eyes and pretended to sleep, in front of the seat was a small table three feet square, and on the wall opposite the table, there was a large paulownia chest of drawers up to a zhang high.

Tiger bones, mountain ginseng, yellow essence, wisteria and other things are placed in a messy manner, and the lower layer is a large piece of high-purity dog's head gold, large silver ingots that have not been dissolved, and various colored gemstones.

Even if he does not practice any supernatural powers, he can easily go deep into the barren mountains, explore the old forests, and deal with all kinds of snakes, insects, rats, ants and fierce beasts.

In the years since his cultivation, he has already traveled hundreds of miles and found many medicinal materials and treasure mines.

These are the gifts of nature.

Usually in the eyes of the villagers, he is just a poor man who has lost his life since he was a child, and he can't marry a daughter-in-law, and gradually becomes silent and withdrawn, but he doesn't know that he has already encountered an adventure and embarked on the road of cultivating immortals.

On weekdays, few people go to his house, using the phantom array to cover up a little, and they are not afraid that the mortal fetus can detect the property with the naked eye, there is no family tiredness, relatives and friends, naturally there are few but many troubles, where they arise, as soon as they enter the mountain, it is ten days and a half moon, and occasionally go to other Taoist friends to talk about the Tao, taste tea and cook wine, it is for leisure.

It's just that in this leisure, there are also a little unsatisfactory.

Li Zhen saw a book spread out on the table in front of him, which was called "The Five Visceral Sutra of the Yellow Court's Internal Scene", which described the qi refining method of visualizing the inner vision, regulating the five internal organs, and transporting the five elements.

Different from the ordinary refining of the five elements and refining the methods of Gangsha, this sutra focuses on health preservation, and it is a kung fu that can prolong life, and the specific effect depends on the physique of each person and the way of participating in the cultivation, and it is different from ten years to Jiazi years longer than ordinary people.

The middle-aged casual cultivator is already over half a hundred years old, and between the temples, it is inevitable that there is a little white.

People grow old, and when they get old, they die.

This is the biggest regret and the biggest discomfort.

So he was far more interested in studying the book than anything else.

It's just that this is the key to refining qigong, and the role it can play is limited, and if you want to fundamentally solve the problem of aging, you have to build a Dao foundation.

With his qualifications and comprehension, he has only been in the middle stage of Qi refining for many years, and the effect of participating in this skill is also so-so, and there is no chance at all.

I saw the scene change again, somewhere in the middle of the city, in a deep courtyard.

The red lanterns hung high on both sides of the door, and the tents in the house hung down, and the red waves were turned.

After more than ten breaths, the middle-aged Sanxiu came out panting: "Hateful demon woman, not only does it not help, but it damages my vitality!"

A woman came out with dissatisfaction: "You guest officer is really unreasonable, just a few taels of silver, a lot of tricks, what kind of breath to breathe, clear the customs and induce breath, I have never heard of it, half of the old lady who burns goose legs knows!"

The middle-aged cultivator said angrily: "Lao Tzu spends money to ask you to cooperate with cultivation, don't you understand any posture!"

The woman crossed her waist and said: "The old lady understands, she is proficient in all eighteen kinds of martial arts, but she has never heard of any pulse qi, stomach qi, tendon qi, and flesh qi...... It's really angry in my stomach!"

The middle-aged man was crazy: "Ignorant and foolish, vulgar and shallow, I don't know how to cultivate the truth, and I don't know how to seize the opportunity before!"

The woman crossed her waist and squirted angrily: "Catch your old mother!" I dare to say that the old lady is vulgar and shallow, I want to think that when the old lady was crisscrossing this river city and the wind and moon realm, which benefactor did not praise my golden flower girl, but now that she is old and decrepit, she looks down on people, is it?

Saying that, he opened his teeth and danced his claws, and came up to bite.

"Vixen, I don't know what to do, it's unreasonable!"

The middle-aged scattered cultivators came out with their clothes in their arms and fled in the wilderness.

Unconsciously, the picture is hazy, like rippling water, switching to another scene.

In the crockpot, the thick soup boiled and steamed.

The middle-aged casual cultivator added the medicinal herbs he was looking for one by one.

"Blood Leaf Lotus, Jade Fruit, Heartless Flower ......"

This is a good prescription for him to write after studying ancient books, thinking about it a few times, and writing it himself.

I don't know how long it took, all kinds of medicinal herbs were boiled into juice, and in the face of a pool of red and black blood, exuding an inexplicable strange smell of decoction, even if it was how to prolong life, I couldn't help but hesitate.

"Can you really drink this thing?"

After all, he still didn't dare to drink this bowl of medicinal soup, and with incomparable flesh pain, he fed half of the medicinal juice that he had spent a long time and worked hard to refine to buy for himself and prepare to eat.

"Uh......h Woo......"

The big yellow dog screamed and died instantly.

Middle-aged cultivators sweat coldly.

Self-written prescriptions are really very risky.

As soon as the picture turned, the cold came and the summer came and went, and it was replaced by a copper Dan furnace to refine the outer Dan.

"Earn eight taels of lead, four taels of silver in the mountains, take flowers from the arrow, get eight taels, eight taels of cinnabar, study finely, enter the gods, and fight three turns of water and fire......"

This is something he recently found by chance, and it is a good prescription for longevity from a casual cultivator, and it is definitely beyond the reach of his own half-baked pharmacological knowledge.

He learned a lesson, and he had to learn from the wisdom of his predecessors.

For three days in a row, the fire refined the real gold, and then tempered it again and again with its own spiritual element, and finally Dan Cheng.

When the lid of the furnace was opened, several yellow, golden, longan-sized pills floated on top of the mercury slurry.

"It worked!"

The middle-aged cultivator was overjoyed, and hurriedly took out all the pills in the furnace with his divine thoughts, poured them into the gourd, and packed them.

Soon, he chose an auspicious day, sat cross-legged facing east, and accepted with a smile.

"My fate is up to me, not ......"

Suddenly, the middle-aged Sanxiu's body stiffened, his smile stiffened like freezing, and the qi in his body surged violently.

After a long time, I finally got rid of this disordered state, and my face was like gold paper.

"This ...... This Dan is poisonous!"

Poof! Blood spurted out of his mouth like mist.

......

Looking at these dreams, Li Zhen couldn't help but be silent.

This person is so miserable!

But this is the true portrayal of ordinary casual practice.

Reckless and helpless, most of them are due to chance and mistakenly embark on the path of cultivation.

If you can read and hyphenate words, understand the meaning of the scriptures, and are smart and wise enough, then that's it, and most of the people who gradually change their lives against the sky after adulthood don't have any ink, and their cultivation depends on word of mouth, even guessing.

Their understanding of the path and cultivation method is far inferior to that of the Xianmen disciples, and their ability to accept new things is extremely limited, let alone have any future plans.

As far as Li Zhen can see, this person is actually a fan of the authorities.

He obtained that volume of the Huangting Dao Sutra, although he only had to refine the qi realm to exercise the five internal organs, but as long as he followed the steps and persisted in cultivation for a long time, it was no problem to extend his life for more than twenty or thirty years, and if he had these twenty or thirty years, he could make up for the lack of qualifications to a certain extent.

When the time comes, it will not be a problem to reach the late stage of Qi refining, or even consummation, and there will still be enough time to read and write, increase knowledge and experience, and maybe there will really be a chance to go through this path.

However, he chose to fish for three days and dry the nets for two days, and if he did not produce results, he did not pay attention to it at all, but devoted his limited time and energy to all kinds of side doors, and he was not allowed to enter the door.

Until now, he has wasted the most critical reversal opportunity in his life, unless he is really lucky and gets a great opportunity, there is no reason to build a foundation.

But just as he was thinking so, the dream changed again.

Li Zhen saw that during a chance gathering, he suddenly found that a person who was about the same as his background, age, and cultivation had actually reached the late stage of qi refining.

The casual cultivator was shocked, and humbly asked the Taoist friend for advice, and the Taoist friend did not hide his secrets, and generously told him that he had been supported by a nobleman.

"The person I am taking is the famous Tsukidan in the immortal cultivation world!"

He couldn't help but be shocked: "Zhuji Dan is also the existence of the best among the inferior spirit pills, and it is often priceless, where did you make a fortune, and you are so lucky to be able to buy it?"

"It's very simple, I was recommended by a senior of the Shengyuan Kingdom to serve the Shengyuan Kingdom, and it was a fluke to say that I successfully completed several tasks, and finally collected merit and exchanged for this pill. ”

"How can you still do this? Fellow Daoist, didn't you say before that you would do a free and loose cultivation, not serve any forces, and be free?"

"That's true, but they're giving too much. ”

Speaking of this, several acquaintances of the Taoist came to be interested.

"What the hell is going on, can you tell us about it?"

"Fellow Daoist, when you talk about this, we are not sleepy. ”

"It's not a secret, I can introduce a few Taoist friends to join, everyone will work together, if you go with the token I issued, if you make great contributions in the future, there will be a small merit accumulated in my personal name, but you can also find other loose cultivators on your own, recommend them to join, within a few years, you can also get the opportunity to ......"

The middle-aged casual cultivator suddenly realized that he had always been working behind closed doors, and he felt that he had opened the door to a new world.

After that, his luck seemed to change for the better.

The organization on the side of the Shengyuan Kingdom has its own masters, who can see through the many problems he is encountering now, and guide him to regulate his vitality, eliminate erysipelas, and effectively recover some vitality.

Then he began to work hard for the organization, just because his predecessors clearly told him that Zhuji Dan could help him be promoted to the late stage of Qi refining and above, and find the only slim chance of promotion in the midst of all difficulties.

With his current situation, it is indeed difficult to have any other means to improve than with the help of such objects.

Time soon came back to the nearest place, and someone found him.

"The organization gives you a new task. ”

"Senior Han, you say. ”

"As a casual cultivator, you go to the Xuanxin Country's Outer Valley, find a random place to stir up trouble, and test their reaction...... For the time being, there is no need to do anything else. ”

The middle-aged casual cultivator had already tasted the sweetness of the task, and he was still a little unsatisfied: "Don't you need me to deal with them?"

"This is just a simple task, don't make a difference in order to reward the occasion, if you make other troubles, not only will it be useless, but it will be over!"

The half-old monk, known as Senior Han, warned this person solemnly.

The middle-aged cultivator showed a look of disappointment: "Okay, I remember." ”

Senior Han said: "You come with me, and I will explain you some relevant details." ”

Li Zhen's heart moved, knowing that the drama meat was coming, and hurriedly followed them in.

Inside, there was a richly decorated inner hall, and a monk dressed in white and looking like a scribe sat on the top, looking at him with a smile on his face.

"Bu Fang Daoyou. ”

It was only at this time that Li Zhen knew that this person was called Bu Fang.

"Mr. Wu!" Bu Fang recognized the person above and hurriedly saw it.