When Cheng Ming walked into the store, he smelled a medicinal fragrance, which should be hundreds of years old.

"Looks like that guy is still a bit reliable. ”

Looking around, Cheng Ming found that this was indeed a grocery store, and there were a lot of miscellaneous things running on the road, swimming in the water, etc.

After looking around for a while, he found that no one came to greet him, so Cheng Ming looked at the counter next to him, but he couldn't see anyone, until he heard a slight snoring sound from behind the counter, and he shook his head a little speechlessly.

Since this person dared to open the door to sleep, Cheng Ming looked at it to himself.

He first walked up to the thing that was swimming in the water, this thing he had never seen before, it looked like a fish, but its lower body was densely packed with dozens of legs, like a centipede. Moreover, it has two horns on the top of its head, and it has bared teeth and grinning, and it looks very fierce.

After checking that there was no danger with his divine thoughts, Cheng Ming picked up the fish curiously, but he didn't expect that the body of the fish, which was only a foot long, actually weighed hundreds of catties. His heart moved, it seems that this thing can be used to refine weapons.

At this time, I heard an old voice from the counter: "This is a two-horned centipede, with iron bones, cold flesh, and yin, which can be used to refine pills." I also got it by accident a few days ago, and if I can't sell it anymore, I'll use it myself for alchemy. ”

Cheng Ming looked back and saw that the person who spoke was an old man with white hair and a red face, a wrinkled face, and sleepy eyes. There was actually a faint hint of a monk's aura on this person's body, but Cheng Ming obviously didn't sense it just now, which made him feel a little vigilant in his heart.

Under normal circumstances, there is generally an upper limit to the scope of a monk's divine mind (divine consciousness), the maximum of the Qi training period is five li, the maximum of the foundation building period is fifty li, the Jindan monk is a hundred li, and the Yuanying monk has five hundred li.

Of course, this is the general case, and some monks are gifted. Or if you practice any exercises to increase your divine thoughts, the scope will be larger and wider.

When he arrived at the Central Continent, the detection range of Cheng Ming's divine sense returned to normal. Moreover, because the effect of his cultivation of the Divine Forging Technique to increase his Divine Thoughts was significant, the detection range of his Divine Thoughts was now the same as that of a fifth-level Qi cultivator. Up to 2.5 miles.

But even so, at such a close distance just now, he didn't even sense that the old man was a monk. It can be seen that the old man either has a much higher cultivation than him, or has a very superb concealment technique.

Thinking of this, Cheng Ming asked tentatively, "Shopkeeper." I don't know how much this two-horned centipede will cost?"

The old man smiled and said: "Then it depends on what you pay, if it is gold, silver and jewelry, the price must be more expensive, if it is a spirit coin, you can get a seven-fold discount, a spirit stone can be discounted by five, as long as a spirit stone you can take it." ”

Spirit Coin is a currency used by low-cost monks, and the exchange ratio with spirit stones is 10 to 1, and the exchange ratio to gold is 1 to 100.

Of course, although the exchange rate is specified. In fact, ordinary monks are not even willing to exchange spirit coins for gold, let alone exchange them for spirit stones. Therefore, in the market, the exchange of gold for spirit coins fluctuates by 20 to 30 percent, while the exchange of spirit coins for spirit stones fluctuates by 5 percent.

Hearing the word spirit coin, Cheng Ming's heart moved, and then smiled: "I don't know if you accept the golden ticket of Xiangyuan Commercial Bank?"

The old man said, "Golden ticket, you receive it, but you really don't have any spirit coins?"

Cheng Ming shook his head, his predecessor was the son of the head. How could he use such a thing as spirit coins, wouldn't that be a loss of share?

The old man looked a little disappointed and said, "Well, two thousand taels of gold." Non-negotiable. ”

"Do you have a ......?"

Considering that the old man was a monk, without knowing who he was, Cheng Ming didn't look at it or ask more, so he reported the materials needed to make the rune paper.

The old man took out the things that Cheng Ming wanted one by one and quoted a price.

Cheng Ming checked them one by one and was satisfied with the quality of the materials. I asked for a few of each. In the end, it was calculated that together with the two-horned centipede, there were more than 2,800 taels of gold. The old man wiped a small amount, counting two thousand eight hundred taels.

The old man smiled and said, "This guest officer, do you have anything else you want?"

Originally, Cheng Ming also planned to buy a wolf hair and cinnabar and other things, but he was worried that the old man would see something, so he was ready to leave, but before the words could be spoken, his heart moved, and he asked: "Shopkeeper, do you have any rune paper for sale here?"

The reason why he asked this was that in addition to wanting to know the price of rune paper, the most important thing was to know what the texture of rune paper in this world was. At that time, if the rune paper he made was just average, then it would be better to say, in case it was a top-notch product, wouldn't it be a disaster for him?

The old man smiled: "Do you want ordinary or high-grade?"

"What about the price?"

"The rune paper is sold at least twenty pieces, the ordinary rune paper is two hundred taels of gold, and the high-grade rune paper is two thousand taels of gold. ”

After listening to the price quoted by the old man, Cheng Ming said, "Can you let me take a look?"

"Can ......"

As he spoke, the old man took out two boxes, the left side was ordinary rune paper, and the other side was high-grade rune paper.

Cheng Ming picked up the rune paper and looked at it, and muttered in his heart, it turned out that the high-grade rune paper was the rune paper he was going to make after buying the materials now, and even the rune paper he made was better than this high-grade rune paper.

Thinking about the price of the materials, plus the fact that these materials can make forty pieces of rune paper, this is simply a huge profit!

However, it is also possible that the old man deliberately gave a high price when he was wronged.

So, Cheng Ming bargained: "Shopkeeper, I can buy two more copies of this high-grade rune paper, I don't know if it can be cheaper?"

The old man shook his head again and again: "Maybe in other places, the high-grade rune paper will be cheaper, but in this Xiqing Mansion, it is this price." If you don't believe me, you can go somewhere else and ask, but the quality of them is not necessarily as good as mine. ”

From Xu Yuanju's words, Cheng Ming heard two points, one is that the rune paper and even materials in Xiqing Mansion are more expensive than other places, and the other is that the quality of the rune paper on the market is uneven.

However, he thought that Xu Yuanju's rune paper should have been made by someone else, otherwise he would probably realize why he used the materials he bought.

Thinking of this, Cheng Ming couldn't help but wipe a cold sweat secretly, fortunately Xu Yuanju didn't know this, otherwise, he would be in danger.

"Then bring me forty pieces of high-grade talisman paper. Cheng Ming said.

"Okay!" Xu Yuanju grinned, took out another peach box, and put the rune paper into the box: "Guest officer, do you need anything? I have a good cinnabar, and a wolf hair made of a hundred-year-old half-moon wolf, I don't know if you are interested?"

Cheng Ming just wanted to say that he was interested, but he immediately changed his tone and said with a wry smile: "Although the thing is good, I have no choice but to be shy!"

Xu Yuanju smiled slightly, and without saying much, he said: "Chenghui, a total of six thousand eight hundred taels of gold." ”

Cheng Ming pretended to take out seven golden tickets of one thousand taels of gold from his clothes and handed them over, Xu Yuanju swept his eyes casually, and handed over two gold tickets of one hundred taels back.

"Palace official, give you a piece of advice, don't use spirit coins to cultivate in the future, otherwise the gains will outweigh the losses. ”

Cheng Ming bowed to express his gratitude, and then walked out of the store.

Xu Yuanju shook his head and muttered, "Another fool who came to hunt for treasures, treasures are so easy to find, will it be their turn to be low-cost disciples in the Qi cultivation period......?"

After leaving the grocery store, Cheng Ming found a few more shops and bought containers for making talismans, as well as cinnabar, wolf hair and other things for making talismans, and then returned to the inn.

After closing the doors and windows, Cheng Ming used his divine thoughts to check the surroundings again, and then began to make rune paper.

It took a night to turn all the materials into rune paper, and Cheng Ming, who was a little tired, slept for a while, and when he regained his energy, he pondered.

The spirit coin that Xu Yuanju said yesterday is actually a special kind of talisman, which is guided by the maker's divine thoughts and true qi, and communicates the aura to gather into the talisman, and it becomes a spirit coin. In essence, it is actually a man-made spirit stone.

In addition to being used for cultivation, spirit coins can also be very convenient to restore true qi and true yuan, but the true yuan in the body of the foundation building monk is huge, and a spirit coin can't recover much, so it's not cost-effective.

Besides, no matter how poor the foundation building monk is, it is impossible for him to be poor and even look at spirit coins. Therefore, things like spirit coins are only popular among monks in the Qi cultivation period.

Although most of the spirit coins are only circulated among the monks during the qi training period, there are still many people who use them, such as alchemy and refining tools, in case the true qi is insufficient, you can use the spirit coins to quickly restore the true qi.

Therefore, the spirit coin is quite popular in the market, and it is only because there is a certain amount of loss when using the spirit coin, so it will only have the current market price.

Speaking of which, the invention of spirit coins also gave low-level monks the opportunity to earn spirit stones. But that's really hard-earned money. First, the time and true qi consumed to make the spirit coin are a lot, and the average monk who refines the first layer of qi can only make one spirit coin a day, and if he cultivates to improve the level, he can make one more.

And like making talismans, making spirit coins also has a success rate, and ordinary people make twenty spirit coins, and if they die, they will succeed in seventeen or eighteen. In addition, the exchange of spirit coins will be discounted, so it is better to make a talisman than this.

It's just that for poor casual cultivators, this is also a helpless thing, and besides, a spirit coin can provide three days of cultivation for a cultivator at the first level of Qi refining, so many people are still happy to do it.

Just like Xu Yuanju, he thought that Cheng Ming made spirit coins to cultivate.

However, Cheng Ming would not do such a stupid thing, after all, the spirit coin is a man-made product, which contains some impurities, and if you use it to cultivate, there will be more and more impurities in your body, and finally affect your own root bones, which is completely a short-sighted behavior. (To be continued.) )