Chapter 33: Promotion to the Ninth Rank

Long Xiaoyao's Qi Boosting Pill was very sufficient, so he continued to stay in the Wild Python Forest to cultivate. Of course, after being promoted, he can practice new techniques, and he also practiced them all, and gradually mastered them in the actual battle with demon beasts. And after being promoted, his current attack was also fused with the Immortal Cultivator's Thunder Surname Technique, becoming a more powerful Thunderbolt Technique.

After more than a year, Long Xiaoyao reached the peak state of level 7 in the Qi training period. But this time, he was not in a hurry to advance, but according to what the female cultivator of the Jade Maiden Palace of the Immortal Cultivation Conference said, he suppressed the promotion and continued to compress and improve his true qi.

After more than half a year of compression and improvement, Long Xiaoyao felt that his strength had increased by nearly three percent compared to the original, and only then did he break through and advance to level 8 in the Qi training period. As he expected, after he was promoted, he felt that the medicinal power of the Qi Boosting Pill was a little low for him. Moreover, he didn't have much Qi Lifting Pill left, and it seemed that he needed to buy another batch of high-grade Qi Condensing Pills.

However, this time, Long Xiaoyao did not plan to return to the southwest Fengfang City of Huashan, but planned to buy it from the Fang City in the Huangshan range. Among the six sects of Huangshan, the Danding Sect is the famous Danzong, and the refined pills should never be worse than the Lotus Danmen.

Long Xiaoyao now has more than 300 spirit stones on his body, but it still seems that there are too few to use to buy Qi Condensing Pills. He put the materials of more than fifty level 1 and 2 demon beasts collected in the Wild Python Forest in the past two years in two storage bags, and put some of the herbs transplanted to refine the pill of the Qi cultivation period in the fresh-keeping storage bag. Only then did he leave the forest, and in a village not far from the forest, he hired a simple carriage and headed for Danfufang City, northwest of the Yellow Mountain.

According to the introduction of the map of cultivating immortals, this fang city is mainly based on pills and magic runes, and it is jointly opened by Danding Gate and Baifu Gate on Huangshan Mountain. After most of the day, Long Xiaoyao came to Danfufang City.

Long Xiaoyao now knew to be cautious, and after entering the Fang Market, he first walked around the stalls in the Fang Market, until the immortal cultivator who followed him no longer followed, and then he walked into the shop of the Danding Gate and inquired about the price of the high-grade Qi Condensing Pill.

The buyers of the Qi Condensing Pill in the Dan store are generally a small number of inner disciples of the major sects, mainly because the Qi Condensing Pill is full of spiritual power, and only those Qi cultivation stage 9 disciples who practice the earth-level exercises can bear it. But because of this, the sales volume of the Condensing Pill is not large.

The selling price of the high-grade Qi Condensing Pill here is also one of six spirit stones, but now Long Xiaoyao has learned to bargain, and finally the Dan shop agreed that if the whole bottle is purchased, ten can be given away.

Long Xiaoyao immediately went to the stalls and standard shops in Fang City, and sold the prepared herbs and demon beast materials little by little. Originally, he was worried that there were few refining shops, and the demon beast materials were not easy to sell, but most of the magic runes above the high-grade spirit runes were made of animal skins, and all his demon beast materials were sold quickly.

Since there are 11 demon beast materials prepared by Long Xiaoyao this time, they are level 2 demon beasts, and each of them can be sold for about 80 spirit stones. And the herbs that he originally transplanted into the Ten Thousand Beasts Ling Space, due to the abundance of spiritual energy in the space, looked like 3 or 50-year-old herbs, and they were all very fresh, and they were also sold at a good price in several ordinary Dan stores.

Because Long Xiaoyao was worried about causing trouble, he didn't sell many materials and herbs in each shop, and every time he sold, he had to go around the market to avoid being followed, and as a result, it had already taken more than three hours to sell all the items.

However, Long Xiaoyao felt that it was still worth it, as long as it could be less troublesome, it didn't matter if it delayed some time. After he sold all the items, he got more than 2,000 spirit stones.

After Long Xiaoyao confirmed that no one was following, he went to the store in Danding Gate and bought four bottles of high-grade Qi Condensing Pill in one go, but when he saw the clerk's suspicious expression, he couldn't help but regret it a little in his heart.

Long Xiaoyao didn't dare to stay, and after buying the pill, he quickly left Fang City. As soon as he left the city, he immediately got into the carriage and ordered the owner to leave here quickly.

Long Xiaoyao let the carriage wait for him in advance, just so that he could get rid of the other party when he was in trouble. This is also the method he came up with after thinking about it repeatedly. Qi cultivation period immortal cultivators can't fly at all, and their movement speed is no different from that of ordinary mortals, so it's impossible to catch up with the galloping carriage.

Of course, if there is an immortal cultivator in the foundation building period who intends to be unfavorable to him, with the ability to fly and fight with the imperial weapon in the foundation building period, it doesn't matter much if Long Xiaoyao has a carriage or not. However, immortal cultivators in the foundation building period generally do not look at the items of the qi cultivation period cultivators, and moreover, after the foundation building is successful, the longevity reaches 200 years, they generally do not risk making a casual move in the sphere of influence of the great immortal cultivation faction, if they provoke the high-level monks of the great faction, even if the longevity is long, it will not help.

Sure enough, when Long Xiaoyao got into the carriage and galloped away, he saw that there were five angry loose cultivators at the gate of Fang City, and after running unwillingly to chase after two or three hundred meters, he looked at the carriage that was gone, and couldn't help but scold, it seemed that it was not that they were going to poison Long Xiaoyao, but that Long Xiaoyao had deceived them.

Back in the Python Forest, Long Yao entered the depths of the forest and began to retreat. The spiritual power contained in the top-grade Qi Condensing Pill was several times higher than that of the Qi Enhancement Pill, allowing his cultivation progress to return to its original speed. After more than a year, he had reached the peak of level 8 of the Qi cultivation period. However, he still suppressed the promotion for three months, and it was not until the Qi Condensing Pill was almost used up that he broke through again and reached the realm of level 9 in the Qi training period.

After being promoted, the effect of the Qi Condensing Pill was a little insufficient, and Long Xiaoyao didn't care, but hurriedly practiced the new technique of level 9 in the Qi training period. Since there were still more than four months before the opening of the Elixir Garden, he concentrated on hunting demon beasts in the forest to improve his technique skills and actual combat ability.

After Long Xiaoyao was promoted this time, it didn't seem to be difficult to hunt down level 2 demon beasts. Originally, he planned to hunt and kill the appropriate demon beasts, collect the souls of the demon beasts with the Ten Thousand Beast Token, and absorb all the six beast souls that still needed to be absorbed during the cultivation period of the Ten Thousand Beast Immortal Sutra, so as to maximize his strength, so that he would be a little more sure of participating in the Elixir Garden trial.

But Long Xiaoyao found that after he was promoted, the strength of the level 2 demon beast seemed to be too small, and the most important strength of the Ten Thousand Beast Immortal Sutra came from absorbing the beast soul. Although the remaining 6 acupuncture points that need to absorb the beast soul during the Qi training period are just ordinary acupuncture points, which will not affect his absorption and inheritance of the demonic beast's supernatural powers, they are also closely related to his own strength.

The reason why Long Xiaoyao suppressed the promotion and improved his true qi was to improve his strength and absorb more powerful beast souls, and now let him only absorb these level 2 demon beasts, but it made him a little unwilling.