Chapter 42: The Sin of Guilt

The bidder was a middle-aged foundation-building monk, who looked no more than forty years old, with long hair flowing and a dignified appearance. He said with a smile: "Long Lao's talisman level, I am convinced quickly, since he said that it is beneficial, it must be true." I would like to take a look at the refining technique of this talisman. Hearing this, this person is obviously also a talisman master.

The auctioneer was naturally happy to see someone bidding, but he still shouted according to the rules: "This Taoist friend bids two spirit stones! Okay, is there a higher one? Two lower grade spirit stones at a time! Two lower grade spirit stones twice, two lower grade spirit stones twice, ... At this moment, a voice suddenly came: "Four lower grade spirit stones! Two water and wood attributes!" Suddenly doubled the price.

Su Aotian was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly looked in the direction where the voice came from, and found that it was actually coming from a VIP room in the middle. Immediately, someone exclaimed: "It was the people of Yunxiao Pavilion who made the bid!" "It must be Master Lu who saw the mystery in it, so Yunxiao Pavilion made a bid!" "It seems that these talismans are really extraordinary, no wonder they dare to take them to the auction!" Everyone talked about it, but because of the name of Yunxiao Pavilion and Master Lu, no one bid again.

The auctioneer was also interested, and lost no time in shouting: "Do you still have a fellow Daoist to bid? Four lower grade spirit stones once! Four lower grade spirit stones twice! Four lower grade spirit stones three times!

Su Aotian was overjoyed at this time, and after a while, a maid came in with a wooden box, which contained four spirit stones, two water attributes, and two wood attributes, all of which were bright and crystalline, and the aura was rich. After Su Aotian took out the commission he should pay, he didn't want to see what auction items would be in the future, so he quietly walked out while the auction was in full swing.

Expecting that there should not be many monks outside Yuanwu City in the recent period, Su Aotian hurried to the outside of the city and found a secluded place not far from the city. Because when Yuanwu City was selected, it was the place with the most vitality within a radius of tens of thousands of miles, so the closer it was to Yuanwu City, the stronger the vitality of heaven and earth. The vitality of the water and wood here is abundant, he laid down the prohibition, the two souls operated at the same time, and began to cultivate at full speed. Generally, this kind of large-scale auction that has not been seen in a hundred years sometimes lasts for ten days and half a month, and it is not uncommon for someone to rise up and take out the treasure auction to be delayed to a month. In addition, many monks come from far and wide, but they can't buy what they want, and they are not willing to miss this opportunity, and they will organize some small-scale exchange meetings, free markets and other activities to trade their own resources for mutual benefit. Therefore, the aftermath of this kind of auction will often affect a few months to half a year, in short, the Yuanwu City will be very lively during this half a year.

At this moment, Su Aotian felt that the risk of being knocked out of his cultivation was extremely low, so he reassured himself to open the mode of dual soul cultivation. The time of three months passed in a flash, and sure enough, during this period of time, there were few people outside Yuanwu City, until he absorbed all the spiritual energy of the four spirit stones, and no one came to disturb him. The Qiankun Water Scripture successfully broke through to the fourth phase, and the Baicao Shenmu Decision also made great progress, but he didn't feel any signs of a breakthrough yet, which made him a little depressed while being happy.

After returning to Yuanwu City, the lively scene continued, the treasures at the auction and the scene of fierce bidding were still on the lips of the monks, and many monks rented a quiet room to practice after harvesting the materials they needed. However, the price is rising, and it is twice as expensive as before. Su Aotian is not short of spirit coins now, and directly rented a quiet room suitable for the monks of the ninth phase of qi refining, and the rent is half a year, which makes the managers look sideways.

Half a year later, Su Aotian walked out of the quiet room, and although he felt that he had benefited a lot, he still didn't feel the signs of breaking through to the seventh stage of qi refining, which made him sigh again about the difficulty of cultivation. In the past six months, he has also been trying to open up new meridians, but it may be because his cultivation is not enough, or the meridian operation path of the body is not infinite, at least the running meridians of the wood system cannot be developed at present. With the current cultivation speed, it seems that there is no thirty or forty years, and it will not be able to break through the seventh stage of qi refining.

Thinking of the eighth and ninth phases of Qi refining, it is estimated that the difficulty of cultivation will increase exponentially, and the time will also be extended exponentially. At present, the troubles are that there are not enough spirit stones, and second, they dare not openly practice with two souls, if someone discovers their cultivation secrets, maybe a catastrophe will come soon.

After ten years of intersecting cultivation in the living room, the wilderness, and the quiet room, Su Aotian finally faintly felt the signs of a breakthrough, and roughly calculated, twenty years had passed since the sixth stage of qi refining, and several spirit stones had been consumed during this period, otherwise the progress would have been slower. Although he felt the signs, but the breakthrough was not yet known for what year and month, Su Aotian thought about it, and felt that it was better to obtain a spirit stone, break through to the seventh stage of qi refining as soon as possible, and master the skill of flying imperial objects first, so that he could expand the scope of his actions, get rid of the shackles that could only be limited to cultivation in the city, and travel while cultivating, maybe there would be unexpected gains.

The reason why low-level monks did not dare to practice penance in the wild for a long time was because of their own low cultivation and weak self-protection ability, and on the other hand, it was not so much to avoid the invasion of fierce beasts as to avoid being killed by monks and take treasures. In the millions of years of cultivation, in order to compete for resources, there were as many bloody murders as the sand of the Ganges, countless, in the face of the painful experience, in order to protect themselves, gradually formed a place to live on the scale of a cultivation city, and the first principle to abide by in these places is to provide a relatively safe cultivation environment for monks, cultivation resources can be traded, and it is absolutely impossible to kill people and seize treasures in the city. Of course, the city has a ruler, the rules on the surface are like this, and there are inevitably some dark deeds in the dark, but as long as the strength is enough and the hands and feet are clean, no one will come forward to testify. Once the monk enters the seventh stage of qi refining and has mastered the skill of flying, the speed of escape is naturally greatly guaranteed, and he can go to a place farther away from the city to find more resources.

Su Aotian has not stopped making talismans in the past ten years, and he has also practiced three compound talismans, but because he did not pay full attention when making talismans, he did not make a talisman whose power reached the middle stage of foundation building. However, he felt that this kind of talisman was not too difficult for him, as long as he was well prepared and concentrated with all his strength, he would definitely be able to refine it, so he didn't force it. After selecting more than a dozen talismans, some of them were in the ninth stage of qi refining, and some were in the early stage of foundation building, Su Aotian came to the shop where he used to exchange for spirit stones, thinking that it should be easier to exchange for spirit stones from here, but after doing it this time, he resolutely did not go to his house.

Walking into the store, he said that he wanted to see the shopkeeper, he is now a real Qi refining sixth-stage cultivator, and the guys in the store didn't dare to be contemptuous, so they hurriedly invited the shopkeeper out. The shopkeeper came out and looked at it, and couldn't help but be very happy: "Daoyou left that day, why did you come to take care of the shop for so many years, but I am looking forward to Daoyou here day and night." Su Aotian thought that it must have been the last transaction that made him make a lot of money, so he never forgot about himself, and muttered a few words in his mouth, only saying that he was busy with cultivation and had no time to make talismans, so he never came.

The shopkeeper invited him into the inner room and asked, "Daoist friends are here, but they still want to exchange for spirit stones?" Su Aotian said: "Exactly." The shopkeeper said: "I have a proposal, and you can think about it." If you want to, it won't be difficult to get the spirit stone. Su Aotian couldn't help but be stunned: "I don't know what friendship means?" The shopkeeper said: "It's not a secret, I waited for the opening of this Yuanwu City to make a living, and there are a little little forces behind it." I'm also a family's store here, and my family is nothing in Yuanwu City, but it's better than casual cultivation. Daoyou is a talisman master, after I missed it last time, I was complained by the elders of the family, and this time I see Daoyou, it can be seen that there is fate. I officially invite Daoists on behalf of my family this time, and if Daoists don't dislike it, they will definitely support them in terms of cultivation resources. Su Aotian smiled bitterly in his heart: "If I want to take refuge, why bother looking for such an unpopular force as you? It's just that my own secret doesn't want to be discovered, sect families and the like, so I don't have to think about it." He said, "Thank you for your kindness." It's just that I'm alone, I'm used to being comfortable, and I don't want to be restrained more, and my talisman making level is ordinary, and some talismans are still passed down by the master, so I'm ashamed of my family's good intentions. The shopkeeper was very disappointed and repeatedly invited.

At this time, Su Aotian felt that there was a fluctuation of divine consciousness in it, and immediately found that there was a monk who was examining himself with divine sense, so he restrained his divine soul, pretended to be ignorant, and repeatedly prevaricated with the shopkeeper. Seeing that the persuasion was fruitless, the shopkeeper stopped talking, and after a while, he said: "In this case, please consider it carefully, if you change your mind, you can come at any time." Su Aotian noticed that the person inside transmitted the sound to the shopkeeper with his divine sense, so he stopped insisting, and he didn't say anything, but only took out the talisman. The quality of these talismans was much better than the first time, and Su Aotian exchanged two wood attribute spirit stones and got up to leave.

After Su Aotian left, an old man who had built a foundation and cultivated appeared in the house, and the shopkeeper asked respectfully, "Why did the elder let this person go?" The old man said: "This person's talisman level should be the same as what he said, it is nothing." Although he didn't know where it came from, he certainly didn't refine it himself. If you force him to stay, it will not do much good, for this person to break the rules, if someone pinched the handle, the matter is not small, it is not worth the risk. But this person should not be offended, if he comes to sell the talisman again, just trade with him fairly, but his family should be almost paid. This person may have been expelled from the school, so let's not have more trouble with him. The shopkeeper agreed.

Su Aotian would never know what this old man said about him, if he did, he would definitely let go of a big stone in his heart. He returned to his residence with two spirit stones, and immediately placed a ban and began to cultivate. After practicing for a while, somehow there was a bad feeling, it seemed that someone was watching, he released his divine sense, carefully probed the vicinity, found nothing, and examined himself carefully from the outside to the inside, and always felt that something was wrong, so he calmed down and condensed his soul, and after a while, this uncomfortable feeling disappeared.

Continue to cultivate now. After practicing for about three days and nights, I felt that there were monks around me who were using their divine senses to investigate, and this person was not weak in his senses, and he acted very carefully, as if he was afraid of being detected. I secretly thought that I should change places, so I stopped practicing. The consciousness probed back and forth several times, and then disappeared. Su Aotian sat quietly for another two hours, did not explain to the owner, packed up his things, and left quietly.

After leaving this place far away, Su Aotian found a place to live and settle down. There is always a bad feeling in my heart, as if I have experienced it before. He buried his head in thought, and suddenly remembered that when he killed Zhao Yuhao in Lingcui Villa that day, the divine consciousness left by his elders glanced at him, and he had this feeling at that time, but when he condensed his divine soul later, he also dispelled it.

Considering these circumstances, Su Aotian felt that he should be being targeted, but because of his strong divine soul, he was quickly expelled by himself with the divine sense imprint left by others. He acted carefully enough, and the only thing that exposed his traces was the two transactions with the shopkeeper, but I don't know if it was the shopkeeper's doing, and it seems that he doesn't have this ability with his cultivation.

Thinking of this, Su Aotian was extra cautious, and released his divine sense every day to control the surrounding area. His divine soul is powerful and his divine sense is condensed, not to mention the foundation building monk, even the Jiedan monk will not be able to detect his deliberately hidden divine sense exploration. There was nothing abnormal for more than ten days, and Su Aotian began to cultivate again.

With such a sneaky cultivation, the progress is still not fast enough, Su Aotian has been cultivating for two months, and a spirit stone has not yet been absorbed. He was in a hurry to break through to the seventh stage of Qi refining, so he decided to go out of the city to cultivate.

Before leaving, he changed his appearance again, and went to the shop that sold talismans before, and the shopkeeper and shopkeeper were unaware, Su Aotian saw that his talisman was also placed in the goods, and there were already a few missing, maybe they were sold. Seeing that there was nothing unusual, Su Aotian turned around and went out of the door and walked out of the city. As soon as he walked out of the city gate, the same feeling of being watched appeared in his heart, Su Aotian's heart tightened, and he secretly thought that there was indeed something wrong with that store.

Su Aotian examined himself silently, this time he checked very carefully, and finally found that there was a faint trace of divine consciousness attached to his body, almost imperceptible, and had been ignored before.

This divine sense is much weaker than him, and it can be eliminated in the palm of his hand, Su Aotian is not in a hurry to make a move, he wants to lead the person to a distance, so he hurriedly walked for two hours before erasing this trace of divine consciousness, and then ran wildly, ran for a long time, found a forest, entered it, laid a prohibition, and began to cultivate.

This time, he didn't care about it, he just wanted to break through, and he wouldn't come out without absorbing the aura. I don't know how long I have been cultivating, but during this time, there are also monks and fierce beasts passing around, although some people noticed the abnormality, but they didn't see through his prohibition.

Finally, when the aura of the second spirit stone was almost absorbed, Su Aotian successfully broke through to the seventh stage of qi refining. Feeling the joy of success, Su Aotian let go of the ban and walked out of the woods.

After walking not far, suddenly a dangerous warning came to his mind, and before he could react, two people suddenly flashed behind the dirt slope next to him, one in front of him and the other in front of him.

If you look closely, you are still acquaintances, and it is Sima and Chun Yu who have seen them before.

The two of them didn't know Su Aotian at all, and after surrounding Su Aotian, Sima said with a smile in his mouth: "Daoyou is really a good method, even my Divine Charm Talisman can't track you, it can be seen that Daoyou is extremely accomplished in the talisman." If I hadn't noticed that there was a ban in the woods, I would have missed out on my fellow Daoists. ”

Su Aotian intuitively sensed that these two people had bad intentions, so he pretended to be confused and said, "What did Daoyou say? ”

Sima Haha laughed twice and said, "The matter has come to this point, is there any point in Daoist friends denying it?" This talisman was not refined by Daoist friends?" He took out a talisman in his hand, which was one of the talismans that Su Aotian had sold in the store.

Su Aotian finally suddenly realized, it turned out that the talisman he had refined was obtained by this Sima, this person heard that Chun Yu said, what kind of talisman genius of Yuehuamen, thinking that he had some means in talismans, and noticed that his refining method was unique, so he used some tricks and feet, and wanted to find himself.

Since this person is secretly engaging in these small actions, he must have bad intentions, although Su Aotian doesn't know what his idea is, he doesn't care too much. The two people in front of him, seeing that their cultivation is in the ninth stage of qi refining, and they have not broken through to the foundation building, and when they have not broken through to the seventh stage of qi refining, there is no problem in dealing with them, not to mention that they have broken through now, if these two people have bad intentions, they just use them to practice. However, since this Sima can make talismans, he also knows that he has the power to build a foundation, and he still looks like he has no fear, it seems that he also has powerful means. There is also this Chunyu, who is also a disciple of the big faction, and like that Zhao Yuhao, there are always one or two life-saving things on his body, which should not be underestimated.

Su Aotian now has a general understanding of the proud disciples of these famous sects, this kind of people have been vigorously cultivated by the sect very early due to their outstanding talents, and their cultivation achievements far exceed those of ordinary people, and they have developed the habit of seeing their eyes above the top, and they always feel that they are superior, and the disciples in ordinary sects do not pay attention to them, and they are even more contemptuous of loose cultivation, especially their cultivation is not as good as their own loose cultivation. In their consciousness, this kind of person should tremble when they see them, and let them be slaughtered. Moreover, the environment in which they cultivated was too comfortable, and the master did not dare to let them risk life and death, although they had killed people, they were extremely inexperienced in life and death fighting. Therefore, he does not have any pressure to deal with this kind of person, unless the cultivation realm of the two sides is too different. Su Aotian made up his mind, if these two people really wanted to attack him, they must give a thunderous blow, so that their life-saving means would not have time to be used, so as not to have more twists and turns.