Chapter 11: Finding the Spiritual Treasure
It is the largest trading market in the county, with hundreds of large and small shops, plus a large number of liquid stalls.
In addition to full-time merchants, students of the Martial Arts Academy, and Dan masters of the Dando Academy also set up stalls here.
On each stall, there are all kinds of brute beast materials, spirit grass spirit stones, and elixir spirit treasures, which can be described as dazzling.
Li Mo took a turn here and found that the price of the spirit treasures he wore was quite high, generally a few hundred taels.
A few hundred taels of silver is within Li Mo's payment range, or even more expensive, after all, he can sell tens of thousands of taels of silver for a top-grade Guiyuan Dan.
The point is that these spirit treasures did not satisfy him, most of them were inferior goods, and the amount of true qi they contained was not much, and they could only provide one or two times to use the Blood Drinking Sword.
After the True Qi is exhausted, it needs to be exchanged for it again, which not only costs money, but is also quite troublesome.
After searching for a while, at a stall in the corner of the trading market, Li Mo suddenly found an inconspicuous black crystal fragment in the dense beast material.
His heart moved, and he glanced at the stall owner, who was in his forties, like a hunter.
Seeing someone stop, the middle-aged hunter immediately greeted warmly: "What does the little brother want to buy?"
Li Mo casually asked the price of a few medicinal materials, the price was not too expensive, he picked a few, and then pointed to the crystal fragment and said curiously: "Forgive me for being clumsy, what kind of beast is this thing on?"
The middle-aged hunter laughed and said, "This is not a beast, it's a piece of jade ore. ”
"Jade ore, there doesn't seem to be any jade mine near this county, right?" Li Mo pretended to ask.
The middle-aged Orion smiled and said, "Yes, on the side of Black Crow Mountain, there is a mine that was abandoned decades ago. I went there a few days ago and found this piece of jade ore. However, the jade ore there is not of high quality and is not valuable. Later, after the haunting incident, the officials abandoned it. ”
"Haunted incident?" Li Mo said curiously.
The middle-aged hunter said mysteriously: "It is said that there are ghosts living in the depths of the mine, which caused many collapse accidents, and many people died at that time. Later, the authorities also sent people to search, but found nothing, and finally abandoned the place. When I was hunting animals yesterday, I accidentally came to a cave and found that it led to the depths of the mine. ”
Speaking of this, he smiled and said, "I picked this piece of jade ore by hand, and I didn't go deeper, I have a family to feed, but I am not interested in asking if there are really ghosts in that cave." ”
Li Mo nodded and said, "Then I also want this jade ore, how many silver taels?"
"A tael will do. The middle-aged Orion said cheerfully.
After Li Mo bought the jade ore, he came to the mouth of a secluded alley, looked carefully at the sun, and found that there were fine red lines in the depths of the ore, so he smiled and said: "Sure enough, there is chalcedony in the mine!"
The amount of true qi hidden in chalcedony is quite huge, and it can even continuously absorb true qi replenishment, which can be said to be very suitable for casting the blood drinking sword.
Obviously, the officials did not go deep into the place where the chalcedony was located at the beginning.
However, since this jade mine has had a strange haunted incident, it carries a lot of danger, and it needs to be taken care of by the injuries, and even more so by improving the cultivation.
At this time, Li Mo remembered another thing.
When he first killed the leader of the fire bull, Zhang Shiliang crossed hundreds of zhang with an arrow, hitting the fire bull in the eye, killing the enemy a hundred zhang away, which was extremely easy.
The martial arts he has learned now, whether it is the Spirit Snake Sword or the Blood Drinking Sword, are all close-range attack techniques, and the attack distance of the lightning step is not far, only a few zhang, which cannot be compared with hundreds of zhang.
It seems that it is better to learn archery.
Cultivating near and far is perfect, not only will hunting be easier in the future, but there will also be multiple ways to deal with dangers.
However, before entering the Rock Realm, it is impossible to enter the True Martial Pagoda again.
The only way to get a new cheat is to borrow someone else's hand.
In the early morning of that day, Li Mo went around the surrounding courtyards.
Most of the people living nearby were the Li family clans from various county towns and other small families in the county seat, and when they heard that Li Mo was from Qingshan City, the children of the same clan were quite enthusiastic.
After all, among the forces of the Li family's clan, the Qingshan City forces were the strongest.
When Li Mo was chatting with the disciples, he casually asked about the martial arts skills that everyone had obtained from the True Martial Pagoda.
As soon as they asked, many young people had bitter expressions, saying that the martial arts they had found were not suitable.
Li Mo offered to take it out and take a look, and the teenagers would not refuse.
After walking more than a dozen courtyards like this, Li Mo did not find a suitable arrow trick, but found a secret book of hidden weapons in the hands of a young man.
The young man had the cultivation in the early stage of the Rock Realm, and he was born to learn the secret weapon technique, and he found this secret book called "Eight Hands Floating Slaughter" in the Zhenwu Pagoda.
Or maybe the time was in a hurry, and the future had time to take a closer look.
Later, after reading it for a few days, I found that this book of cheats was difficult to understand, and there had been no progress in recent months.
Li Mo offered to borrow it to take a look, and the young man readily agreed.
When the cheats were in hand, Li Mo immediately flipped through them.
The eight-handed floating slaughter is a flying knife technique in the hidden weapon, emphasizing the first line of the knife, hitting the same part of the enemy, and achieving the effect of killing.
The knife is out and the knife is repaired, and it is completed synchronously in an instant.
After Li Mo finished reading this booklet, he thought that the difficulty and power were suitable for him, so he immediately rushed to the hidden weapon area of the martial arts training ground and began to practice this technique.
Li Mo stood in a corner of the hidden weapon field, silently using the method of maneuvering his wrist recorded on the eight-handed floating tu, raising his hands forward, and shooting two flying knives at the same time.
The knives were extremely fast, but both were completely out of direction, not even the sides of the stakes.
The students who cultivated the secret weapon in the distance saw this scene, and some people laughed out loud.
Li Mo turned a deaf ear and smiled self-deprecatingly: "The learning of flying knives is really not so easy. ”
He took out the flying knife on his waist and continued to cultivate.
The thin throwing knife is far inferior to the sword in weight, and when it flies out, it is often far away from the target, and the ridicule around it is also continuous all day long.
For several days, Li Mo buried his head in the hidden weapon area, constantly cultivating flying knives.
Gradually, the method of moving the wrist changed from rusty to smooth, and the flying knife got closer and closer to the target.
The hard work paid off, and after a few days, the two flying knives were able to hit the wooden stake five feet away.
This progress is quite impressive, but Li Mo is not satisfied.
Hidden weapons and swordsmanship are completely different in terms of force, and this kind of hit rate cannot be compared with that of a master, and the power is quite insufficient.
In battle, it is likely that you need to switch between hidden weapons and swordsmanship at any time, or even use them simultaneously, so you need to be quite proficient in cultivation.
"Drink!"
"Hah!"
Li Mo kept cultivating day and night, and he hung a row of flying knives around his waist, touching the knife, taking out the knife, and mending the knife, all in one go.
The stake is covered with dense knife edges, from only being able to penetrate the stake for more than an inch, to submerging into the small half of the knife tip, from two flying knives one finger apart, to half a finger, and finally a millimeter difference.
After hard work, ten days later, he finally got the results of the eight-handed Futu Xiaocheng realm, and he can be regarded as stepping into the threshold of the secret weapon technique.
At this time, Li Mo's injuries had finally healed, and he decided to embark on a journey to find the spiritual treasure.
told Li Gaoyuan about this, and Li Gaoyuan was even more geared up and excited.
If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools.
Although Li Mo had the iron sword he brought from home, but now that his cultivation is getting older, the iron sword is no longer easy to use, and he also needs hidden weapon equipment, so early this morning, he and Li Gaoyuan went to the market again.
There are many blacksmith shops, and all kinds of weapons are hung or placed, dazzling people's eyes.
After visiting a few shops, Li Mo chose a horn heavy sword with fire horn as the main material, weighing hundreds of catties, and it was slightly heavy when picked up, but it was very weighty.
Then he selected twenty flying knives made of ice snake bones, and finally two stainless steel shovels and long ropes, which cost hundreds of taels.
Li Gaoyuan also changed a stainless steel sword and bought two sets of protective soft armor, one for his own use and one for Li Mo.
With everything in place, before dawn the next day, the two embarked on a journey to the mine.
The route originally opened up by the official was already overgrown with weeds and small trees, and the two of them also encountered first-class brute beasts from time to time on the road.
They slashed all the way, and it wasn't until noon that the two finally arrived at the entrance of the mine.
In front of the entrance was a large clearing, and some of the tools used to sift through the ore were still left, all of which had long been broken.
There was a lot of rubble scattered on the ground, and the huge hole was black, like the bloody mouth of a wild beast, and even in this broad daylight, there was a kind of creepy horror.
"Is there really a ghost in here?" Li Gaoyuan was a little curious.
"The words of the ghosts must be rumors, but I am afraid that the collapse is true. Li Mo said.
"Then we won't encounter a collapse when we go in, right?" Although Li Gaoyuan was bold, the collapse was not a joke.
"The collapse should be due to the poor geological structure of this mine, coupled with the miners' extensive excavation. Now, decades later, the possibility of a sudden collapse is very small. Besides, there is chalcedony hidden in it, and everything has to be explored. Li Mo said.
Li Gaoyuan also nodded, Li Mo's words were reasonable, and he also wanted to see what chalcedony looked like.
So, the two of them began to go deep into the mine.
Soon after entering the mine, several forks in the road appeared.
On the fork in the road, the numbers are also artificially marked.
The two advanced to Cave No. 1 and searched along the cave.
New forks soon appeared in the mine, and each fork was marked with a number for easy identification.
The rough ground was full of traces of artificial excavation, and the two of them continued to walk deeper and deeper with the fire fold, the air became more and more dull and gloomy, and there was no sound around them.
Walking through the No. 1 mine, there is no gain. Immediately afterward, the two entered Cave No. 2.
It took a full two hours, and just as he entered the depths of Cave No. 4, Li Mo felt a subtle flow of air.
Walking along the air current, you soon found a natural mountain path to the outside world.
Obviously, this is probably the place where Orion found the jade ore.