Ye Chen rejected Li Yu and went into seclusion in the inn of Wanbaowu.

However, the elders of the Li family did not give up easily, and in the following half month, the elders of the clan came to visit, trying by all means to try to win Ye Chen, a "scattered monk in the foundation building period", into the Li family.

Not only the Li family, but also many small families with weak strength in Wanbaowu came with heavy treasures to ask for energy to impress Ye Chen, and came to visit him in various names, inviting him to participate in the treasure appreciation gatherings of the monks of various families, or to practice and exchange.

These small families have a variety of names and guises, but their purpose is actually the same as the Li family, they all want to find an opportunity to persuade Ye Chen to join their family, so as to greatly increase the family's power.

Ye Chen was a little overwhelmed.

If he wants to return to the Heavenly Void Immortal Gate before the joint examination of the Nine Great Immortal Sects, he must strengthen his strength as much as possible before this.

The reason why he practiced in this Wanbaowu was because he took a fancy to the tranquility of this small spiritual land, and he didn't want to participate in the struggle of various families in Wanbaowu.

Ye Chen simply closed the door and thanked the guests, lived in a simple place, and never saw these family monks again.

Wanbaowu's inn has an additional hermit in the foundation building period, although it caused a lot of waves, but Ye Chen closed the door and thanked the guests, and the small families saw that it was hopeless to win over Ye Chen, and their thoughts finally faded, and the bustling Murmuring Spring Inn finally calmed down.

Ye Chen was in retreat at the inn to cultivate, and he didn't need many things, nothing more than a fourth-order or higher spirit pill, a large amount of spirit wine consumed by cultivating middle-level spells, and so on, and spirit wine, which he could refine by himself in the Immortal Mansion.

It's just that a lot of spirit stones will be consumed in the Immortal Mansion every day, and it is impossible for these spirit stones to be conjured out of thin air.

Ye Chen left the inn every one or two months, took the low-level magic weapons he had refined in the Immortal Mansion Refining Pavilion to the magic weapon shop in Wanbaowu and sold them in exchange for a sum of spirit stones, and then returned to the inn to continue his retreat and cultivation.

Ye Chen used a low-level magic weapon to exchange spirit stones for cultivation here. There are not too many scruples.

He was dressed in black and hat, and his costume was mysterious, and it was impossible for the monks of Wanbaowu to know him. The monks here would only think that he was a master of refining, and it was normal to sell magic weapons, and they would not have too many doubts.

Moreover, in a small spiritual place like Wanbaowu, you can't see Jindan monks on weekdays. The status of the foundation building monk is already extremely high, and no family will easily offend a foundation building monk for no reason.

The Wang family sent several clansmen to watch Ye Chen's movements outside the inn. However, after a few months, no anomalies were found, and as time went on, it gradually relaxed

The Gurgling Springs Inn, a retreat in a private house in the backyard.

A golden lotus flower several zhang in size, with golden flowers and leaves closing ∥ forming a small closed spiritual aura, is absorbing the aura of the surrounding heaven and earth with mysterious mana.

The aura gathered inside the lotus throne far exceeds the aura of the outside world.

Ye Chen was in the lotus seat, meditating cross-legged ≯ eyelids slightly closed, and next to the palm size of the lotus-shaped "Lotus Codex", a volume of "Nine Palace Diagram" formation secrets.

A faint aura formed a thin mist that lingered around him. He silently followed the exercises in his heart, breathing and breathing. The rich aura is inhaled into the body, and the pure vitality is transformed into pure vitality in the body, and finally absorbed by the original spirit.

One day and two days, Ye Chen's Yuan Shen was in the process of cultivation, and he became stronger little by little.

Time flies. Half a year has passed.

For an immortal cultivator who cultivates in retreat, the passage of time is almost imperceptible.

Cultivating the Yuan Shen itself is an extremely long thing, and even if there is a large amount of elixir to take, it will definitely not be able to achieve results in a few days. For the Yuan Shen to be significantly strengthened, it will take at least months, years, or even decades of penance.

Immortal cultivators need to endure this long period of cultivation. ...,

Immortal cultivators need to cultivate a high-grade spell and exercise, and it takes a lot of time. When you encounter incomprehensible doubts while practicing the exercises, a meditation and deep reflection may take several days.

Because of this, Shouyuan became extremely important to monks. Only a long enough longevity can allow the monk to have enough time to cultivate high-level exercises and break through the Yuan Shen rank. The breakthrough of the Yuan Shen rank increases the longevity of the monks, and they have more time to cultivate high-level exercises, thus forming a virtuous circle.

Ye Chen was in retreat and cultivating in the meditation room, in the Golden Lotus Dharma Seat, and he didn't know how long it had been.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, an egg-sized primordial god in the mud pill palace in his eyebrows was spitting bursts of brilliant light. There was an extremely slight "breaking" sound, which seemed to break through an invisible barrier, making the light of the Yuan Shen suddenly thicken.

The egg-sized gas-like spirit looks shining, and the light is outward, extremely vigorous and active.

"It's time to break through the middle of foundation building!"

Ye Chen opened his eyes, and a pure divine light suddenly flashed in his eyes.

After a long time, this divine light overflowing with vitality gradually faded.

Ye Chen couldn't help but be overjoyed in his heart.

Although it is only a breakthrough in the first level of cultivation, it has jumped from a monk in the early stage of foundation building to a monk in the middle stage of foundation building, and his strength has been greatly improved. The mid-foundation building monk is already quite powerful among all the foundation building monks.

In the process of cultivation, the refining of the body by the vitality is also a lot more refined.

Ye Chen looked at the several pill bottles in the storage bag, the fourth-order spirit pills in them had been used up, and the spirit stones were almost exhausted.

Counting the time, he practiced in retreat at this inn, and it was almost half a year.

Ye Chen put away the "Lotus Codex" beside him, as well as the yellowed formation secret "Nine Palace Diagram" that had been turned over.

In the immortal cultivation world, it is very likely that he will encounter the immortal gate formation, and during this time, he also began to learn this volume of "Nine Palace Diagrams" obtained from Feng Zhongjie, and he will be prepared for emergencies in the future.

Besides, he also wanted to set up a formation on his Xianfu Island, so after meditating and cultivating every day, he would spend an hour or two to look through this secret book.

"This Nine Palace Diagram is worthy of being the top immortal array secret of Tianxu Gate, the formation inside is obscure, and it took me half a year. It's just that I understand a very small part of it, and I just have a rough peek at the doorway, and it's still far from the array!"

Ye Chen flipped through a few pages of the Nine Palaces Diagram and pondered for a few hours. Revealing a hint of annoyance, he closed the secret book of formations, shook his head and said secretly, "It seems that without more than ten years of hard work to study the formation, it is difficult to have much attainment in the formation." ”

This one is in a hurry, take your time.

"I've been practicing in this inn for nearly half a year, and I don't know much about Wanbaowu. Now that you've been here, take a walk around the town and get a feel for it. It is said that Wanbaowu has a lot of unique spiritual treasures, which are not available anywhere else, so it is not as good as that. By the way, I will go to the magic weapon shop to exchange some spirit stones and come back. ”

Ye Chen pondered for a moment and prepared a few mid- and low-level magic weapons. And he left the house

Ye Chen walked out of the Gurgling Spring Inn and came to the street of Wanbaowu, and suddenly felt like a world away.

In just half a year, Wanbaowu has been many times more lively.

The original sparse source of customers was almost full of guests. The streets were littered with men, women, and young monks ♀ dressed in strange costumes, some of whom were clearly not monks and residents of Wanbaowu.

Even on both sides of the originally sparsely scattered streets in the town, there were many small vendors setting up stalls, shouting at the bustling monks on the streets to sell some low-level alchemy and refining materials.

"Come and take a look, the good second-order purple incense spirit wood ↓ is a good material for the evil poison pill, and it only sells five spirit stones. ”

"Who wants black iron ore to make a good material for making a high-grade spirit knife! The price is not expensive, and the more you buy, the cheaper. "...," here's a pair of crocodile armor. Made of third-order demon crocodile skin, it is extremely tough, and even ordinary magic weapons can't hurt it, it is my family heirloom. Just because my father was critically ill and urgently needed to change the elixir to save his life, he endured the pain and sold 500 spirit stones! Such a good thing is rare in a hundred years! Do you want to buy this little brother? What, it should be cheaper? Alas, I see that you are also a person who knows goods, so it would be better to cheapen you by 10 spirit stones. Hey, don't go!

Ye Chen walked among the crowds on the street, looked at the goods on the stalls and the vendors who were blocking the road to sell, and smiled ♀ at some ordinary low-level spiritual objects, which were not in his eyes.

There are many people on the streets, and there are monks of all origins.

Ye Chen was strolling around the market when he suddenly saw more than a dozen third-generation Qi cultivation stage disciples wearing Heavenly Void Immortal Sect costumes passing by.

He didn't want to meet the disciples of the Heavenly Void Sect. There are many disciples of the three generations of the Heavenly Void Immortal Sect, and he doesn't know these three generations of disciples, but these three generations of Qi cultivation stage disciples are likely to know him. He didn't want to return to the Heavenly Void Immortal Gate now.

Ye Chen immediately lowered his hat, turned around and chatted with a small vendor selling fish on the street.

"How do you sell this spirit fish?"

"This silver spirit fish has just been caught from the Yinsha River, it is fresh, ten spirit stones are one tail! The taste is extremely delicious, and the aura is comparable to a low-level spirit pill. ”

"It's so expensive, it wasn't that price a few months ago!"

Ye Chen said in a hoarse voice. He had tasted this kind of delicacy that was said to be a well-known delicacy in Wanbaowu at the Flowing Spring Inn, and the extremely delicious silver spirit fish soup only cost three spirit stones, which was much cheaper than this one.

"Of course, a few months ago, it couldn't be sold for this price, but now Wanbaowu is holding a biennial competition, and the major families are redividing the section of the Yinsha River. Monks from various spiritual and secular realms for thousands of miles around will come to Wanbaowu to join in the fun, and the inns in the town are overcrowded. The distinguished guests who came here all wanted to taste it, and asked for this dish by name, the price of this silver spirit fish has already doubled, and ten spirit stones are already very cheap!"

The peddler shook his head and scooped up a silver spirit fish that was more than a foot long and jumping around from the silver basin and said, "There are several times more people in the town, and all the inns are rushing to collect the spirit fish. There are not many spirit fish like this that are more than a foot in size. ”

"How many times more people?

Ye Chenqi said.

"You don't know anything about this, not to mention the monks of the spiritual land and secular realms of thousands of miles around, and even some immortal sects further away have sent disciples to watch the battle. ”

"Xianmen, what are they doing here, this Wanbaowu competition has something to do with them?"

Ye Chen froze slightly.

"There are at least dozens of kinds of natural materials and treasures produced by Wanbaowu. However, one of the most famous specialties is the silver sand of the Silver Sand River! This silver sand is extremely rare, and you can ask the master of refining the silver sand raw materials into Mithril and use it to refine the best magic weapons.

It's just that the output of silver sand is very small, and it is only a thousand catties every year, all in the hands of the major local families, and then the local major families sell the silver sand to the major immortals. Each Xian sect has signed a supply contract with the local family.

It's just that the Wanbaowu family has to redivide the river section every two years, so this contract between Xianmen and each family must also be re-signed. The disciples of the various immortal sects came here for this purpose. ”

The peddler was quite talkative and talked endlessly.

"Oh! I see. ”

Ye Chen's eyes flashed slightly, thoughtful.

It was no wonder that not long after he came out of the Murmuring Spring Inn, he met more than a dozen third-generation Qi cultivation stage disciples from the Tianxu Sect. Although he is already a second-generation foundation building disciple of the Tianxu Immortal Sect, the time he has been a second-generation disciple is too short, and he is still unclear about the many trivial affairs of the Immortal Sect. (To be continued...... ，