Chapter 52: The Bottleneck
After entering the bamboo forest, the nearby bamboo did not grow like last time, but still the same as before. A sheep intestine trail appeared at Liu Xiaoxu's feet, leading to the depths of the bamboo forest.
Liu Xiaoxu was not suspicious, and walked along the sheep intestine path. At the end, a cottage looms in the shade of a bamboo forest.
Liu Xiaoxu walked quickly to the front of the house.
Just about to knock on the door, the door suddenly opened by itself, only to hear Li Changshou's voice from the house.
"Senior Brother Liu, come in by yourself. Senior brother, I'm studying the magic circle, and it's inconvenient, so don't be surprised. β
"Don't dare. β
After getting the consent of the owner of the house, Liu Xiaoxu was no longer polite and walked into the house.
The room was a messy scene, with a mess on the table on the floor, and a bunch of strange gadgets on the table, which looked like magic weapons for formations.
Liu Xiaoxu looked around and found that Li Changshou was sitting on the bed with his back to him, not knowing what he was doing.
"Senior brother?" Liu Xiaoxu called tentatively.
"Senior brother, you're here, sit down!" Li Changshou turned his head and smiled at Liu Xiaoxu: "Senior brother, I inadvertently got a broken teleportation array, and I'm trying to repair it." β
"Is the teleportation array a formation that can teleport people to other places in an instant?" Liu Xiaoxu blinked.
"That's right. Li Changshou said with a smile: "When I repair the teleportation array, I will place it in the bamboo forest, so that there are two major formations of the phantom array and the teleportation array to protect it, and my residence will have a little more security." β
After Liu Xiaoxu heard this, he couldn't help but be puzzled: "Senior brother, you are too cautious, right?"
Li Changshou smiled disappreδΈι¨ly, and began to stir up the teleportation circle again, only to hear him say leisurely: "Definitely." Seeing more people will give birth to more cause and effect. You think, once you deal with people, there is a 50% chance that you will leave a good impression and a 50% chance that you will leave a bad impression. Leaving a good impression does not necessarily lead to any benefit, leaving a bad impression will definitely lead to bad friends with others, and there may be some trouble in the future. Therefore, this practice is to be less involved in cause and effect, and irrelevant people can still be seen and not seen. β
After that, he turned his head to look at Liu Xiaoxu.
"By the way, I just heard you say that you have encountered a problem in your cultivation, and there are any difficulties, but it doesn't hurt to say it. β
"That's right. I have now cultivated to the peak of the late stage of Qi refining, and I am only one step away from the foundation building stage. But no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't cross this step. I was confused, so I asked my senior brother for advice. β
"The peak of the late stage of Qi refining, junior brother, this cultivation speed is not slow. β
Li Changshou showed a little surprise on his face, and couldn't help but glance at Liu Xiaoxu a few more times, and said with great meaning: "You just said that you have cultivated to the peak of the late stage of Qi cultivation, and you can no longer advance an inch, this is a bottleneck." As far as I know, only by using some means of forcibly improving one's cultivation will one encounter a bottleneck if the foundation of cultivation is not strong. If it is a down-to-earth practice, there is no bottleneck. β
After speaking, Li Changshou stared at Liu Xiaoxu with a playful gaze.
Liu Xiaoxu scratched his head, it was not easy to hide it anymore, and said honestly: "Senior brother is really as wise as a torch, junior brother, I am limited by my qualifications, if I practice step by step, the cultivation speed is too slow, so I begged for a trick, and took Lingxi Fruit and Quenching Spirit Pill during the cultivation period." β
Li Changshou was surprised: "Lingxi Fruit is only available in Xiao Jingfeng, I have heard from Senior Brother that you went to Xiao Jingfeng before, this is not unusual." It's just that where did this quenching elixir come from?"
"I have a little friendship with Senior Brother He Zhixing of Danfeng, and he gave it to me. β
"I see. β
Li Changshou's face was abrupt.
"The bottleneck you mentioned is not a big problem, there are two ways to solve it. One of them is to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth step by step, and when the foundation is firmly laid, the cultivation will naturally break through. The bottleneck is just an obstacle set up for people with a weak foundation, but if you keep taking pills, under the accumulation of spiritual energy, you can still pile up your cultivation. β
Speaking of this, he paused, looked at Liu Xiaoxu, and showed a bit of solemnity on his face: "Actually, this cultivation path, whether it is absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth step by step, or taking pills to quickly improve cultivation, there is no right or wrong between the two methods, and there is nothing wrong with it." Just with the help of elixir to practice, the foundation will inevitably be unreliable, and the junior disciple should not be greedy for the speed of cultivation for a while, and ignore the fundamentals of cultivation. β
There was a bit of caution in that tone.
Liu Xiaoxu knew his kindness, and nodded yes on the surface.
However, in my heart, I still decided to continue to take the pill, from quantitative change to qualitative change, and first pile up the cultivation to talk about it. After all, his qualifications were mediocre and ordinary, and if he cultivated step by step, it would take too long.
You must know that many of the spells of the Xianlan Sect must be cultivated at least above the foundation building period before they can be learned! If you learn one more spell, you will have one more skill and one more way to save your life!
The foundation is not firm, and it can be slowly polished in the future. If you can't even save your own life, no matter how solid the foundation is, it will be useless!
On the same day, Liu Xiaoxu went to Danfeng again, preparing to exchange the recipe for a few pairs of medicinal materials for the quenching elixir.
But something happened that made him very angry.
Elder Qi, an old scoundrel, as soon as he heard that he was going to exchange for the Quenching Pill for refining medicinal materials, he immediately sat on the ground and raised the price, from the original one recipe to two copies of the Quenching Pill medicinal materials, to one recipe that could only be exchanged for one medicinal material!
"We clearly said before, one recipe is exchanged for two medicinal herbs, why did you suddenly change your hexagram?" Liu Xiaoxu said indignantly.
"It was before, it is now, and prices are not static. I'm just happy to raise the price, if you don't want to, you can not buy it. Elder Qi said with a roll of his eyes.
"It's still the old rule, one recipe for two quenching elixir herbs!"
"Not for sale!"
"That'...... Two recipes for three quenching elixir herbs, there can't be less!"
"Don't sell it! A recipe can only be exchanged for a quenching pill refining medicinal materials, no bargaining!"
Seeing Elder Qi's resolute attitude, Liu Xiaoxu was so angry that his nose was crooked, this old scoundrel was too unprecedented!
However, no matter how high the price is, the refining medicinal materials of the quenching pill have to be bought, there is no way, who makes this huge Xianlan Sect, only Danfeng has it?
Liu Xiaoxu could only pinch his nose and endure this evil breath, wrote down ten recipes, and exchanged ten copies of quenching pills and refining medicinal materials.
However, he also played a little clever with these ten recipes.
Take stinky tofu as an example, braised stinky tofu counts as a recipe, fried stinky tofu counts as a recipe, and barbecued stinky tofu counts as a recipe.
In the final analysis, it is all derived from the stinky tofu ingredient, but with a slight change, it becomes another recipe.
And Elder Qi was not suspicious, and accepted it with a smile.
Seeing this, Liu Xiaoxu snickered secretly.
In this way, it will be easier to do in the future. For one ingredient, he can come up with at least dozens of recipes. Since Elder Qi was unkind first, then he poured water on the recipe to let Elder Qi see the power of the water god!