The residence has been properly settled, and in the next period of time, with Lin Xi's character, he will naturally practice penance behind closed doors.

What made him quite satisfied was that the aura here was very strong, in Lin Xi's opinion, even the famous "Spirit Pool" of the Moisan Sword Mansion was nothing more than that, and cultivating under such conditions was more than three times faster than before, compared to the rent of 20,000 spirit stones a year, it was still quite worthwhile.

Of course, if you don't stay for a year and leave early, it will be a big loss, after all, 20,000 spirit stones is not a small amount for Lin Xi!

However, according to his guess, judging from Mrs. Lanlian's unsalty and non-indifferent attitude, it is very likely that he will stay in Nanling for more than a year.

There is also a formation prohibition attached to this cave, but whenever someone is close to within 100 meters, Lin Xi in the cave can immediately perceive it, and can see the opponent's every move, if the other party forcibly breaks in, Lin Xi can also attack the other party with the help of the formation, as long as the difference in strength between the two sides is not too big, the possibility of someone forcibly breaking in can almost be ruled out.

During this period of retreat, in addition to cultivating to improve the realm, Lin Xi also made a lot of preparations for the upcoming competition.

No matter where it is, gravity can be said to be the natural enemy of monks, and in Wuzhou, there is a natural gravity field everywhere, under such conditions, several secular body cultivators can kill the cultivators, if it is not for special reasons, no monk is willing to stay in this kind of place for a long time.

And Lin Xi, as an earth cultivator, was almost negligible in the influence under such conditions, and under the full force of the earth escape technique, even a rank powerhouse would not be able to help him.

But because of this, he must hide his spiritual root attributes, and the so-called advantage, once known by others, will no longer be an advantage, but may become his Achilles heel.

It was precisely because of this that he decided that if it was not a matter of life and death, he would never show his identity as an earth monk in front of others.

This is easier said than done.

Whether it is the Three-Ring Array, the Quicksand Bond, or the Turtle Breath Spirit Explosion Technique, it must be supported by a heavy earth to do it, Lin Xi's storage bag has a sword given by Qin Guan a year ago, but he is not a sword cultivator after all, and it is not easy to learn sword skills in a short period of time.

In addition, after killing the strong man at the beginning, he got a physical skill called "Seven-stage Grid Killing Technique" from his storage ring, as well as a Gu technique obtained by chance half a year ago, but whether it is a physical skill or a Gu technique, if you want to achieve the effect of hurting the enemy, it is definitely not a one-day attack.

And after Lin Xi thought about it, he finally chose to learn Gu art.

This Gu technique was obtained by him after killing the demon cultivator during a mission to arrest the demon cultivator half a year ago. It is not difficult to get started with Gu Technique, the difficulty lies in finding the Cupworm, and the strength of the Cup Worm determines the power of the Gu Technique to a large extent.

According to the introduction of this Gu technique, if you can find those legendary ancient spirit insects and heaven and earth beasts, even with the cultivation of the realm, you can resist the powerhouses of the rank and be invincible.

Of course, this kind of spirit worm has never appeared only in legends, and for Lin Xi, he can only find some ordinary spirit worms, but as long as there are enough of them, they can also exert their power.

After making such a decision in his heart, Lin Xi immediately left the cave mansion and began to prepare for this matter.

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Half a month later, in Nanling City, Lin Xi came to a store called "Spirit Pet Residence" and pushed the door in.

"Brother Lin, you're here, I thought you had given up on my little shop. As soon as he saw Lin Xi come in, a young man wearing a crown and hat strode forward and was very enthusiastic.

This person's name is Zhao Guan, and he is the owner of this spiritual pet residence, and after dealing with him for half a month, he and Lin Xi can be regarded as acquaintances.

In the cultivation realm, the people who raise spirit insects are only a small number after all, and when Lin Xi first came to the store, he bought more than thirty spirit insects in one go, and all of them were of different kinds, and even after a few days, he came to the store many times, and tirelessly asked about the way of raising spirit insects, which made the shopkeeper, who loved this way, uncontrollably feel like-minded.

However, what really made him remember Lin Xi deeply was because when Lin Xi came a few days ago, he actually told him that all the more than thirty spirit insects he bought at the beginning were dead!

The shopkeeper Zhao was heartbroken, and turned his face on the spot, and after he pushed and kicked Lin Xi out, he shed tears sadly.

If he had known that this would be the result, even if he didn't make money, he would definitely not sell those spirit insects to Lin Xi, a Gu insect killer!

But after thinking about it, he also felt a little uncomfortable, after all, Lin Xi was also very interested in the way of spirit insects, when he first raised spirit insects, who could guarantee that none of them would die?

In the past few days, he has often worried that Lin Xi may never come over again, not because of business, but because it is rare to meet such a "like-minded" friend, it is a pity to miss it!

And now after seeing Lin Xi, he is naturally full of enthusiasm.

"Brother Zhao made fun of the little brother, it was indeed the little brother's fault last time, and I can't compensate Brother Zhao here. Seeing Zhao Guan, Lin Xi first felt a pang in his heart, and then said with a smile.

After reading through the Gu technique, he also became interested in this Dao, and after half a month of experience in raising spirit insects, he also realized the mistake of raising spirit insects before, this time, he had great confidence.

"What did Brother Lin say! Come in quickly, Brother Wei just bought a batch of goods a day ago, just to show you. Zhao Guan said with a smile, making a gesture of invitation and walked inside.

In his shop, there are more than ten breeding rooms, and this is done because many spirit beasts have a strong sense of territory, and if they are in the same place, they will definitely bite each other, which will inevitably greatly hinder their growth speed. If you keep them in separate rooms and set up a means to block odors, you can prevent this from happening.

"Brother Zhao still recommend some spirit insects with strong vitality to me, of course, the attack power can't be too weak. Lin Xi followed him to the inner room and said thoughtfully.

Zhao Guan nodded, carefully took out a fat white insect from a small breeding nest, and said, "This is natural, Brother Lin to see how this ice condensation insect is? If you talk about vitality, this insect is definitely second to none in this store, it can survive in extremely low temperature conditions, and there will be no problem if you don't eat or drink for a few years! As for the attack power, this insect is born with an ice attack, which is equivalent to the ice type alien spirit root among the monks, and it can be said to be the treasure of this store! Brother Lin will know it when you look at it. ”

Lin Xi glanced at this worm, and saw that it was dumbfounded, very wooden, and immediately frowned slightly, and said, "This worm is good, but I'm afraid it can't achieve a surprise effect, right?"

Zhao Guan was stunned when he heard this, and immediately patted his head and smiled, "I almost forgot, Brother Lin also has a lot of requirements for the speed of spirit insects, since this is the case, let's take a look at this blue-eyed toad!"

"The blue-eyed toad is very famous in the spirit insect world, not to mention anything else, just its poisonous attack can make people retreat, as long as any spiritual weapon is contaminated with its poison, it will definitely lose its spirituality, and it is also one of the treasures of the store!"

The so-called blue-eyed toad is a kind of extremely ugly-looking toad spirit worm, and the moment Zhao Guan opened the breeding nest, there was a foul smell that came to his nose, which was very unpleasant.

Lin Xi frowned slightly, and asked curiously, "Can you let me try?"

"Of course. Zhao Guan said confidently.

Lin Xi looked at the blue-eyed toad, flicked his fingers slightly, and a one-yuan heavy earth quickly came to the blue-eyed toad, carrying the sound of "snorting", and the speed was extremely fast.

The blue-eyed toad, which was lying motionless in the breeding nest, seemed to feel the danger, its eyes suddenly opened and closed, and a blue light flashed, and a green mist spit out when it opened its mouth.

As soon as the one-yuan heavy earth Buddha came into contact with this poisonous mist, his speed was reduced by half all of a sudden, and then he saw this toad open its mouth and spit out a slender red tongue, and it immediately flew back under a roll.

Lin Xi didn't have time to stop, and a yuan of heavy soil was swallowed into his stomach.

Seeing this, Lin Xi was slightly startled, and then his eyes lit up, and he said happily, "That's it! Let's take a look at the others first, and finally settle the bill together!"

"Okay, Brother Lin is really refreshing, haha..."

When Zhao Guan heard this, he couldn't help laughing twice, and immediately pointed to a flying insect that exuded a golden luster all over his body, and said, "This is a golden scale insect, and it is also the treasure of this store!

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In the next period of time, Zhao Guan naturally introduced all kinds of "treasures of the town store" to Lin Xi, and in a blink of an eye, a few hours passed.

When it was getting late, when Lin Xi strode out of the "Spirit Pet Residence", both of them were full of smiles, and they seemed to be very satisfied with this transaction.

After returning to his residence, Lin Xi immediately reopened a small breeding nest and put more than a dozen spirit insects into it respectively.

He has high expectations for the spirit insects he bought this time, especially the blue-eyed toad, golden scale insects and other things, if they can be raised to adulthood, it will definitely be a big help for him.

As for how many of these spirit worms can survive in the end, they can only resign themselves to fate.

And what he has to do now is to refine these spirit insects into his own natal things according to the method in the Gu technique, otherwise, once these spirit insects really grow, it will not be a happy event for Lin Xi, but a catastrophe.

Spirit insects are no better than demon beasts, their wisdom is very low, and they will not have feelings because of the grace of people, even if they are raised from a young age, if they do not take precautions in advance, they are very likely to become the things in their womb.

In the next few days, Lin Xi closed the cave once again and began to concentrate on refining spirit insects.

In this process, this batch of spirit insects without exception has a large casualty rate, but the final result is still very gratifying, the last time more than 30 spirit insects, after the sacrifice of two-thirds of the dead, although the rest did not die on the spot, but they are all in a dying state, at most five days to live.

And this time, nine of the more than ten spirit insects survived, and the blue-eyed toad among them, as well as an insect called the "Blood Shadow Insect", actually looked like a living dragon and a tiger, and it seemed that they were not affected by the sacrifice in the slightest.

You must know that the process of sacrificing spirit insects has great damage to the spirit insects' souls, according to Zhao Guan, if you can still live after the sacrifice, it means that there is a great chance of being successfully raised.

The blue-eyed toad was the most expensive of the spirit insects that Lin Xi bought this time, and it was also quite famous in the spirit insect world, while in comparison, the blood shadow insect was very inconspicuous.

But it's strange to say, at first, Zhao Guan didn't plan to introduce this insect to Lin Xi, but when Lin Xi was about to leave, this insect took the initiative to "recommend himself", and took advantage of Lin Xi's accident to get into his arms, looking harmless to humans and animals, very cute, if it weren't for this, Lin Xi would not have bought it.