Although Zhao Di practiced diligently, he finally only reached the fourth level of the Qi Refining Stage at the age of fourteen. Even if it was only one year before the age of fifteen, it would be impossible to cultivate to the fifth level.

Cultivating immortals was originally acting against the sky, and the higher you go, the more difficult it becomes, and the difficulty is increased exponentially. With his current cultivation speed, even if he could take one pill of Qi Gathering Powder every month, it would take at least seven or eight years to reach the fifth level.

Since it was impossible to continue to stay in the Jian family to practice, he simply suspended his cultivation and made some preparations for the "experience" a year later.

The Jian family has a library-like place, called the Library Pavilion, which contains many important anecdotes about the immortal cultivation world collected or written by the monks of the Jian family in the past dynasties. Since you have to go out, you naturally need to know more about the outside environment.

This library was managed by an obese middle-aged man with a shrunken appearance, and Zhao Di gave him two bribes to save two pills of Qi San, so he promised to let Zhao Di read books here for half a month, but Zhao Di was not allowed to borrow them.

Since practicing the "Chasing Waves", Zhao Di clearly felt that his hearing, vision and various senses had become extremely acute, and even his brain was getting better and better. And as the cultivation continues to improve, this sensory improvement becomes more obvious. After entering the fourth layer of the Qi Refining Period, if he put all his efforts into it, he could hear the sound of a cricket crawling on the mud more than twenty meters outside the house, or see a hair attached to the grass more than ten meters away. As for the brain, he can't say it's a sight to remember now, but it's not too much off.

It is rumored that as long as they reach the cultivation level of more than six levels in the Qi refining period, most monks can do it without forgetting.

Therefore, although there were more than a thousand books in the Library Pavilion, Zhao Di seemed to be very fast. He reads each book first, takes a closer look at the information it is useful, and puts it back if it is not useful or interesting. Even so, looking at this library pavilion for half a month also gave Zhao Di a headache, and he used his brain a little too much.

However, the harvest of this half month is also very amazing, Zhao Di finally has a general understanding of the outside world, especially the situation in the Golden Flame Country's cultivation immortal realm, and also has a general direction for the future experience of going out.

He didn't dare to hope that as soon as he walked out of this Nanhua Mountain Canyon, he would be lucky with shit, and a bunch of good things were waiting for him to pick up. If he wants to continue to cultivate in the Immortal Cultivation Realm, he must have the ability to continuously obtain some elixirs that strengthen the foundation and increase his cultivation, otherwise, with his qualifications, he is afraid that it will be impossible to reach the tenth level of the Qi Refining Period even if he cultivates to the age of one hundred, and his lifespan is only about the same as that of ordinary mortals, and at that time there will be no chance to continue to pursue the Immortal Cultivation Dao.

According to Zhao Di's understanding in the classics, if you want to continue your cultivation, there are only two options:

The first is to take refuge in an immortal cultivation sect.

The Golden Flame Kingdom has no less than a thousand large and small immortal cultivation families and sects, but the most powerful of them are the recognized three sects, four sects and seven major sects. These seven immortal cultivation giants almost monopolized all the immortal cultivation resources of the Golden Flame Country, from spiritual herbs and elixirs to various treasured mineral deposits. The rest of the small and medium-sized forces can only rely on these seven giants to survive. Some of the forces are branches of one of the seven major sects, and some are handed over to a major faction every year for some worship, which is recognized and protected by this major faction. Even the Immortal Cultivation Family is inextricably linked to these seven major factions. Some immortal cultivators belong to a certain sect, and they are mainly responsible for continuously sending outstanding cultivators to the sect. The ancestors of most immortal cultivation families are also high-level cultivators who belong to these seven major sects, and after making great contributions to the sect, they are allowed to establish their own families, and this kind of immortal cultivation family often maintains a good cooperative relationship with a certain major sect. If the sect encounters danger, taking into account the death of the cold lips and teeth, these immortal cultivation families will also come forward and serve the sect.

If you can join a certain immortal cultivation faction, you will receive certain responsibilities, and as long as you complete the tasks specified in the duties, you can enjoy certain benefits, such as pills and so on. Everyone understands the principle of enjoying the shade under the big tree, so every time these seven major sects recruit disciples, the young monks of the Golden Flame Kingdom are eager to flock to them.

The number of disciples of the seven major sects is becoming more and more sought-after, and the entry requirements will not be too low. With Zhao Di's cultivation at the fourth level of the current Qi refining period and the pseudo-spiritual root of the five spirit roots, it is impossible for any great immortal cultivation sect to accept him as a disciple, but I am afraid that even small and medium-sized sects are unwilling.

Even if Zhao Di was lucky and joined a small sect, you must know that the immortal cultivation resources mastered by the small sect are very limited, and they can only use these few resources on some elite disciples with good qualifications, how can they still take care of people like Zhao Di. I'm afraid that there will be a lot of chores to take care of at that time, and I won't even have time to practice and meditate.

This road is impassable to Zhao Di now, and there is another road that Zhao Di barely has a trace of possibility. That is, to master a skill, to be able to mix a bowl of rice in the immortal cultivation world.

When it comes to a skill, I have to mention the four popular professions in the immortal cultivation world, in addition to the first-ranked alchemist, there are also refiners, array mages and talisman makers.

The refiner is a master who refines special magic weapons that can only be used by immortal cultivators, and like an alchemist, he needs the full support of the sect to be cultivated, and it is impossible to become a refiner without refining dozens of magic weapons with his own hands and accumulating the necessary experience. And the materials of the refining weapons are all some cherished spiritual objects, how can ordinary monks have the opportunity to touch and refine so many magic weapons.

As for the formation mage, in addition to having a certain degree of attainment in refining weapons, he must also know many obscure ways of formation. There are even fewer such people, often a medium-sized sect will have such a formation mage, and a smaller sect will not have a formation mage at all.

The last talisman maker is the one who makes the talisman. Talismans are a good thing that monks often use. To put it bluntly, making a talisman is when the talisman maker seals a certain spell and its spiritual power on the rune paper with a special spell to make a talisman with the power of this spell. When you need to use this talisman, as long as you recite a few short spells and refine a little spiritual power on the rune paper, you can immediately activate the spell sealed in the talisman, which is much more convenient and faster than using a spell. And more importantly, once the talisman has been refined, it can be sold or given to other monks, and other monks can easily use it.

Take the Fireball Talisman as an example, as the name suggests, it is a talisman that seals the low-level spell "Fireball Technique". The four elders of the Jian family once rewarded a fireball talisman to one of his descendants, who was also a little girl in the same batch as Zhao Di. This little girl is the surname of Jinmu Shui Sanlinggen, and she has no fire spirit root, so she couldn't perform the "Fireball Technique" at all. But that time, she took out a piece of yellow paper, about ten centimeters long and five or six centimeters wide and narrow, with a flame shape and a red weird rune like an earthworm drawn on it, and then shook it in front of Zhao Di and several others, and instantly turned into a ball of fire, which startled Zhao Di and the others who saw the talisman for the first time.

The little girl saw the stunned looks of several people, obviously her goal was achieved, and she clapped her hands proudly and left. Zhao Di asked for a long time afterwards, and only then did he figure out that the thing with the strange rune was the legendary rune.

The use of talismans is not only convenient and quick, but also has all kinds of incredible uses, making it one of the most used things by monks, along with elixirs.

If there are shortcomings in the talisman, there are also two shortcomings.

First, the talisman is a consumable, such as attacking the surname talisman such as the fireball talisman, it is all a surname, and after using the talisman, it will turn into ashes. If it is a talisman with some auxiliary or defensive surnames, it can be used more often, but when the spiritual power sealed in the talisman is consumed, the talisman will still spontaneously combust and disappear into flying ashes. Because of this, in terms of talismans of the same level, the talisman with the defensive surname is always a little more expensive than the talisman with the offensive surname.

Since it is a consumable that is used a little less at a time, ordinary immortal cultivators will not easily use the talisman until a critical moment.

Second, the success rate of making talismans is too low. Generally speaking, even the lowest-level "Fireball Talisman", "Vajra Talisman" and other primary talismans in the Qi refining period often have to fail dozens or even hundreds of times in a row before they can successfully make one. Even experienced hands with thousands of productions tend to have a success rate of only about 30%. If it is a more advanced talisman, not only the talisman paper, dansha, rune pen, etc. required are higher, but the success rate will also drop a lot.