Chapter 22: Fire Ginseng
At this time, in the free trade zone of Binhaifang City, many loose cultivators who returned from Limeng Island set up stalls here.
There are large and small pavings, and the things sold are also varied, but most of them are ordinary objects, and only some things that are unique to Mont Island look more strange.
Obviously, it is impossible for these casual cultivators to have a shop in Binhaifang City, but fortunately, the Ghoul Sect stipulates that as long as they pay a certain amount of spirit stones, they can also sell items in the designated area on their own, so these casual cultivators can also do some business and earn some spirit stones.
Li Xuangang was in this free trade zone at this time, and it was now approaching evening, so there were not many monks still looking for things here.
Although there were still an hour or two before the market closed, Li Xuangan was not in a hurry, he paced slowly, observing the things sold on the ground as he walked.
And he was followed by a tall figure, which was Li Xuangang's refining corpse. However, at this time, in order to cover it up a little, Li Xuangang put on a set of black robes for it.
After putting on the hat pocket of the refining corpse, if others don't use their divine sense to probe and pay attention, it will be really difficult to detect the identity of its refining corpse for a while.
Moreover, after the corpse refining reached the fourth layer of qi refining, Li Xuangang did not continue to put it in the Yin gourd and cultivate it with evil qi, because the evil qi was no longer enough to meet the needs of corpse refining cultivation, and if he wanted to refine the corpse to continue to advance, Li Xuangang needed to find a substitute with higher quality than the evil qi.
As soon as he thought of this, Li Xuangang felt a pain in his flesh, although this kind of thing can be a powerful auxiliary for monks when fighting the law, but it is also a bottomless pit that consumes spirit stones.
Since his refining corpse was destined to be unable to continue cultivating in a short period of time, he simply summoned it out and followed him at all times.
And Li Xuangang's purpose in doing this is naturally not for fun, but to deepen his mental connection with corpse refining, and more importantly, to train himself in the skills of controlling corpse refining.
Just like the disciples of the Ghoul Sect who practice alchemy, they are often accompanied by several corpses.
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Half an hour ago.
After Li Xuangang retreated from the cave, he went to Baicao Pavilion as soon as possible, and wanted to meet the eighth uncle Li Changji, but after arriving, he was told by the clansmen in the Baicao Pavilion that the eighth uncle had started his retreat and cultivation half a year ago, and he didn't know when he would end it for a while.
However, he didn't find nothing, and learned from the clansmen that the family's caravan had just arrived in Binhaifang City yesterday, and now it should still be in the family's grain store, and the leader was Li Xuangang's second uncle, Li Qingyang.
Li Xuangang originally came here to say goodbye to Eighth Uncle, after all, he was approaching the two-year deadline given to him by the patriarch to return to the mountain, and he had to leave to return to Taiqiu Mountain in the near future.
Since it was not a coincidence, Li Xuangang did not stay in Baicao Pavilion for a long time, and was going to go to the grain store to find the family's caravan.
However, when he was leaving, Li Xuangang still asked the clansmen in the Baicao Pavilion to say goodbye for him after the eighth uncle finished his cultivation.
Then, Li Xuangang left the Baicao Pavilion and walked towards the grain store where the family caravan was located.
However, he turned a corner from the street where Baicao Pavilion was located, and after walking a short distance, he came across the free trade zone of Binhaifang City.
Although Li Xuangang has been in Binhaifang City for several years, he is in a hurry every time, so it is the first time he has seen such a lively scene in the free trade zone.
Li Xuangang, who traded with the treasure ships of Limeng Island once every four years in Binhaifang City, knew about it, but every time he was in retreat, he missed it without exception, and he didn't expect that when he was about to leave this time, he actually let himself catch up once.
After thinking for a while, Li Xuangang stepped into the area of the free trade zone, ready to take a stroll and see what he needed.
Looking at the vendors on the ground one by one, Li Xuangang didn't find anything on it that made him excited, in fact, this is normal, almost all the good things are in the shops opened by various forces in Binhaifang City.
When Li Xuangang was about to step out of the scope of the free trade zone, a stall with a fifth-layer Qi refining loose cultivation attracted his attention.
To be precise, it was the few spiritual ginseng plants placed on the stall that attracted him.
Seeing that someone stopped in front of his shop, Liu Jin quickly stood up and greeted:
"I wonder what the two seniors have taken a liking to?"
Li Xuangang squatted down and picked up a jade box, inside the jade box was a spiritual ginseng that was protected by Haosheng, the aura was still sufficient, and after being replanted, it should still survive. It seems that the other party has also carefully preserved.
Li Xuangang knew that the other party had mistaken his refining corpse, but he didn't expose it. Instead, while looking at the specific situation of the spirit plant in the jade box in his hand, he asked:
"I don't know how to sell your spirit ginseng?"
Liu Jin felt a little strange when he saw that the monk shrouded in black robes on the other side ignored him, but Li Xuangang's words immediately diverted his attention from the body of the refining corpse.
"Seniors have taken a fancy to these ginseng strains?"
"You can tell me a price, I am a spirit planter, if your price is not too outrageous, I will want these three plants. ”
Hearing this, Liu Jin secretly said that he was unlucky, the rhetoric he had prepared earlier was now useless, and the two monks in front of him looked young on their faces, and they didn't have much experience, so they fooled around and said that they could sell them for a good price.
But as soon as the young monk in front of him came, he directly found out the identity of his Lingzhifu, obviously he was an expert, and the rhetoric he prepared was afraid that he would not be able to deceive him.
"It turns out that the predecessor is a spirit planter, no wonder he is so discerning, my three spirit ginseng plants were brought back from Limeng Island, since the predecessors are proficient in the spirit plant, I also know that this spirit ginseng is a second-order elixir, or the main material for refining jade ginseng pills. ”
"And in our entire East China Sea area, only Limeng Island is cultivated, so the price is naturally higher than other elixirs, so ......"
Hearing this, Li Xuangang interrupted him with a smile before Liu Jin could quote the price.
"Now that I've reported my identity as Lingzhifu, it's a bit too much for Daoist friends to fool me like this, right?"
After speaking, Li Xuangang didn't make any other moves, but just put down the jade box containing the spirit ginseng in his hand again, his eyes wandered over the other items again, and he shook his head slightly.
Seeing this, Liu Jin confirmed that the other party had revealed his identity as Ling Zhifu before, not to deter himself from lowering the price later, looking at his demeanor, this person should indeed be proficient in this way.
Liu Jin smiled awkwardly, and then said:
"Senior, don't blame, it's indeed the kid Meng Lang, you should also know that it's not easy to have a casual cultivation life, so it's a little more careful. ”
After knowing that he couldn't deceive the other party today, Liu Jin hurriedly lowered his posture.
"If the seniors want to buy it, I can make it cheaper, and I will make amends to the seniors for my previous behavior. ”
Hearing this, Li Xuangang picked up all three spiritual ginseng plants and observed the vintage.
Then he said to Liu Jin.
"In that case, then I'll give you a fair price. Although your spirit ginseng is a second-order elixir, if you want to use it as a refining material for the Jade Ginseng Pill, it will take at least twenty years to make a year, and I just observed that your three spirit ginseng strains are no more than three years at most. ”
"A spirit ginseng plant that is more than twenty years old is worth forty spirit stones at least one plant, you only have three years of young ginseng, how about I give you a total of twenty spirit stones for three plants?"
When Liu Jin heard this, he glanced at Li Xuangang again.
The growth of ginseng is very slow, and there is no difference between 20-year-old ginseng and 23-year-old ginseng in terms of size and appearance.
Unexpectedly, Li Xuangang actually directly said the specific year of his spirit ginseng.
"Since the seniors all know the specific year of this ginseng, the price given is quite fair, if the seniors want it, I naturally have no opinion. ”
Seeing this, Li Xuangang took out twenty lower-grade spirit stones and handed them to Liu Jin, and after he put the seedlings of the three spirit ginseng into the storage bag, he left this free trade zone with the corpse.
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Walking on the way to the family grain store, Li Xuangang tried his best to hide the smile on his face.
"I can still pick up this kind of cheapness, if it weren't for the early stage of my qi refining, in order to better take care of the elixir in the medicine garden, I carefully read the introduction of various spirit plants in the family's library, maybe I wouldn't have recognized this mutated fire spirit ginseng. ”
Among the three ginseng seedlings that Li Xuangang bought, there was a mutant of ginseng: fire ginseng.
Although fire ginseng is the same species as spirit ginseng, its value is very different.
The spirit ginseng is mainly used to refine the second-order elixir taken by the foundation building monks, but the fire spirit ginseng is one of the five auxiliary elixirs for refining the Zhuji Dan, and the value is huge, although it is not as precious as the main medicine of the Zhuji Dan, the ghost fruit, but compared to the ordinary second-order elixir, it is indeed much more precious.
When Li Xuangang passed by Liu Jin's shop, he noticed that there was a spirit ginseng that was a little different, so he squatted down and pretended to take a random one of the three spirit ginseng plants to observe, but in fact, he was holding the spirit ginseng that he thought was a little strange.
After Li Xuangang picked up the spirit ginseng, he took a closer look, and sure enough, he found a slight redness at the root of the main whiskers of the spirit ginseng, which was the characteristic of the fire spirit ginseng larvae.
There is a huge difference between the fire spirit and the ordinary spirit ginseng, because the fire spirit ginseng is transparent red in color, like a piece of red jade, while the ordinary spirit ginseng is white and not transparent. But this difference only occurs for more than 10 years.
However, when the fire spirit ginseng was young, it looked the same as the ordinary spirit ginseng, and only the faint red at the root of the main whisker could distinguish the two.
Very few people know this information, and Li Xuangang happened to see this in the classics, and then remembered it.
And Li Xuangang finally chose to buy the three spiritual ginseng together, naturally to avoid the suspicion of the other party.
In the end, Li Xuangang, who found the fire spirit ginseng, walked into the family's grain store with excitement.
I saw the thirteenth brother Li Xuanshan, who I hadn't seen for a long time.