Please bring your best friends to practice immortality

Chapter 518 Fushan Town

Gu Shiyi laughed and said,

"I dare not say that I am loyal and righteous, but I just get along well with them. So... has Manager Liao agreed?"

Shopkeeper Liao nodded and said,

"It's only seven or eight years. It's hard to say how long it will be, but Liao can take care of you in this short period of time!"

“That’s great!”

Gu Shiyi was overjoyed and bowed to the other party.

"Thank you, fellow Taoist!"

Shopkeeper Liao’s return gift.

After a while, people in the city heard that the pretty widow of the Liu family who sold wontons had married the nephew of Manager Liao who was doing business outside, and went to live a life of luxury with her son. The two elders of the Liu family moved to a new house and were taken care of by Manager Liao. Seven years later, the old man died of illness, and a year later, the old woman followed him. Manager Liao paid for and took care of the funeral from beginning to end, and everyone in the city praised him for his righteousness.

After Gu Shiyi "married" herself off, she took the fox and the king, rode a gust of magical wind, and headed for the Mountain of Ten Thousand Beasts.

Wanshou Mountain originally belonged to the wilderness. The wilderness and the Central Plains cultivators did not have the same cultivation system. They used to fight each other, but later they stopped fighting and just kept to themselves. Occasionally the two sides had some exchanges, but most of the time they just lived their own lives in peace. But after the invaders came to the mainland, they coveted not only the Central Plains, but also the wilderness!
After all, the Central Plains is a place for practicing Taoism. Many sacred mountains and spiritual veins have been occupied by people, and a lot of spiritual stone mines have been dug up. However, the methods of practice in the wild lands are very different from those in the Central Plains, and there is basically no need for things like spiritual stones. Only occasionally, some wizards in the wild lands will ask the tribal people to dig some out and take them outside to exchange for necessities with the cultivators.

This is the communication between cultivators, but it is the opposite among the common people. Ordinary mortals have built many villages, towns and markets on the border of the wilderness. The people exchange goods with the barbarians of the tribe, and there is a lot of trade between them. There are also some profit-seeking businessmen who do not hesitate to take great risks to enter the depths of the wilderness and trade with the barbarians. In exchange for top-grade spirit stones the size of a fist, they take them outside to trade with cultivators. Often, one business deal can make them extremely rich!

Of course, this kind of thing rarely happens, only once every one or two hundred years. Every time a top-level spirit stone appears, it attracts cultivators to scramble for it, and no one knows how many lives have been lost!

The Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain is right on the border. It is a huge mountain that rises into the clouds. After the cultivators on the mainland were defeated by the invaders, they had no choice but to retreat to the depths of the mainland, close to the wilderness. At first, the tribes in the wilderness had the same attitude towards invaders and local cultivators. Anyone who dared to break into their territory would be beaten to death with one blow. If one blow didn't kill them, they would be beaten twice. If they were killed, their bodies would be used to feed the tribe's livestock!

However, later on, as more and more monks were forced to enter the wilderness, even the numerous barbarian tribes could not bear it anymore. After several battles, everyone was beaten to a bloody pulp and both sides were injured. Then the local monks sent representatives for negotiations and held a meeting with several barbarian tribes. They discussed that the barbarians should withdraw some territories and rent them to the local monks, and the local monks would join forces with the barbarians to drive away the foreign invaders. When the foreign invaders retreated, the local monks would naturally leave the barbarian territory.

The local monks who rented the land from the barbarians had to pay rent every year for things like elixirs, martial arts, and folk smelting, weaving, and planting techniques. Most of the barbarians who could live near the border were civilized barbarians. Unlike the raw barbarians deep in the wilderness, they were much more civilized. The elders of several tribes got together and decided that fighting every day was not a big deal. The warriors in the tribe died every day, and the wizards were dying one by one. They were all fighting on their own, and if they continued to fight, they would be driven away sooner or later.

Besides, there is indeed a foreign invader who is targeting them now!

No matter what, no matter how close we are to each other, we are from the same continent after all. They are just borrowing your territory to establish a foothold, but those outsiders want to occupy the entire wild land. We should first repel the foreign invaders and then stabilize the internal situation!

So everyone nodded in agreement and made a covenant, which led to the Alliance holding a monks' conference in Wanshou Mountain.

In order to get some information, Gu Shiyi rushed there early. In the human territory not far from Wanshou Mountain, there was a town called Fushan. The town was very small, with only one street and only dozens of households. It would be better to call it a village than a town!

After Gu Shiyi arrived, he counted the spirit stones and silver in his hand and found that he had made a lot of silver, but the spirit stones were pitifully few. So he talked to the fox and the king.
"At any such cultivators' meeting, things have to be bought and sold, and getting information requires spirit stones. But now I only have a dozen low-level spirit stones in my hand. I can only buy one low-level talisman with these spirit stones. It's really pitiful. It seems that I have to take out the spirit herbs and sell a few of them!"

The king said,
"That's easy. There are plenty of spiritual herbs in the garden anyway. I planted a lot more when I was free. If you want spiritual stones, just go in and pick them!" Gu Shiyi nodded.

"It's a good thing to have more spiritual herbs, but we can't sell them all in one place, otherwise it will attract people with ulterior motives. But we can talk about this later. We should find a place to live first!"

This time, Shiyi did not blend in with the crowd of mortals. Instead, he found a hidden valley in the mountains five miles outside the town and opened a cave in it. He made a cave with four bedrooms and a living room, a kitchen and a toilet. He also used the fish beads in the storage bag to make a chandelier above his head. The light emitted by the fish beads was very soft, but because it was a yin object, the appearance of the fish beads caused gusts of cold air in the cave, as if one had entered a refrigerator, which was somewhat unsatisfactory!

After the cave was built, Gu Shiyi also reclaimed a small acre of vegetable field outside the valley and asked the king to grow vegetables in it. He also brought in mountain spring water and made a stream around the vegetable field. The whole thing was like a paradise on earth. The king asked,
"Gu Shiyi, there are only three of us. You have four rooms. Who will live in the extra rooms?"

Gu Shiyi didn't hesitate and blurted out,
"Isn't there still Yan'er?"

After saying this, he just remembered that his best friend was having fun somewhere else. Gu Shiyi's expression darkened. Fox saw the situation and hurriedly said,
"Four rooms are still not enough. What about Old Ma, Old Dragon, and the group of fur balls? Gu Shiyi... We have to build a big cave!"

Gu Shiyi laughed and said,

"That's right. When we find them later, we will build a big cave for everyone to live in together. It will definitely be very lively!"

The fox laughed.

"Then you better keep an eye on those fur balls, don't let them eat all the wild animals within a hundred miles!"

The two of them laughed and passed on the incident. Gu Shiyi found a few small formation flags and placed them near the cave according to the directions.

"I only have this kind of formation flag, which is too simple. It can only protect against wild beasts and mountain people who accidentally break in, but it can't protect against cultivators!"

However, she was not proficient in formations, and there was no market nearby, so she could only make do with it and wait until the cultivators' conference to find a way to buy another set!
It is said that after Gu Shiyi settled down in Fushan Town, she only sent the king and the fox out to inquire about news every day. She herself stayed at home and meditated in the quiet room every day. Since she went to the opposite continent, she felt that there were dangers everywhere, and she was always busy and had no time to improve herself.

Now that she had calmed down, she recalled all the battles she had encountered before. After summing up her gains and losses, she picked up her own martial arts to study. She was not as fond of reading as Pu Yanlan. She hated reading books and studying martial arts the most, so she practiced very few martial arts. Up to now, she only had the Xuanling Jiutianlu and Tianyaojue.

However, having fewer skills also has its advantages. With fewer skills, one can specialize in one. She is still a demon. The demon race's cultivation method emphasizes practice rather than theory. They believe that practice makes perfect. It is better to go out and fight than to sit in a secret room. Therefore, having too many skills is not a good thing!

The Heavenly Demon Art in Gu Shiyi's hand focuses on transformation. After the demon power is fully developed, thousands of changes can be performed, and one demon can imitate multiple demons. The Mysterious Spirit Nine Heavens Record is a practice method for true spirits. It is profound and difficult to understand. Gu Shiyi has only understood one level so far. The practice method of true spirits is actually very rough. It focuses on experiencing the changes in the primordial energy of heaven and earth, incorporating it into the body to turn it into one's own true spirit power, and then using it. However, true spirits have talents and are born to be able to sense, and Gu Shiyi is an acquired true spirit, so it is very difficult for her to apply the exercises in it. However, since she was in the forbidden area of ​​the Juque clan before, and fine scales grew on her body, she felt that she was vaguely touching the door to the second level.

"The first level is to experience the energy of heaven and earth, and the second level is to learn to use it for your own benefit. I know how to use it, and I have transformed the spiritual power in my body into fine scales on my body, like armor. But I don't know how to use it against the enemy..."

Speaking of which, forcing one's true spiritual power out of the body to form fine scales is considered a very low-level understanding!
So... is it possible to remove it from the body?
Thinking of this, Gu Shiyi's mind moved, and fine scales appeared on her body. She looked down, stretched out her hand and gently touched it, only to feel a slight prick in her hand. She thought to herself,
"I've tried many times, but these scales can't be changed anymore. It's better to..."

She might as well do something brute force. She gritted her teeth, stretched out her hand, and pulled a scale off her body. She spread her palm and looked down. She saw a small scale in the center of her palm that was as glittering as red crystal. She pointed at it and tried to pour her magic power into it. The scale glowed at first, and then it actually grew a little bit.

"Hey... there's a way!"

Gu Shiyi became interested and tried to inject more demonic power into it. The scales grew a little bigger...