Peeping into the Immortal Road

Chapter 80 Return to the Old Place
Not long after, Ji Chang declined Ning Jie's invitation and left her house.

On the way home, Ji Chang couldn't help but recall the details of his conversation with Ning Jie.

"Mastering the formation..."

"This Ning Jie's background is not ordinary."

If, in the world of immortal cultivation, a casual cultivator could master a technique, it would most likely be a common technique like talisman making, which has a relatively low threshold.

There are also some independent cultivators, like Ji Chang and Mei Liliang, who are able to master alchemy and refining, which are cultivation skills with higher entry barriers.

After all, although the entry threshold for these two immortal cultivation skills is not low, there is a great demand for elixirs and magical instruments in the immortal cultivation world, so there are naturally many traditions of alchemy and instrument refining.

However, cultivation skills such as formations are not available to ordinary cultivators. Only cultivation forces such as families and sects can cultivate the corresponding talents.

The art of formation not only requires extremely high talent and comprehension, but many formations also need to be connected to spiritual veins, and even rely on some more special spiritual environments for research and practice.

Casual cultivators usually lack this kind of environment, and it is difficult for them to achieve success in the art of formation.

A cultivator like Ning Jie who is proficient in formations must not be an ordinary casual cultivator.

Ji Chang frowned slightly, thinking to himself, "There are many immortal cultivation families in Jiaozhou, but as far as I know, there doesn't seem to be any immortal cultivation family with the surname Ning."

"Probably incognito."

……

A few days later, Ji Chang, wearing an indigo robe, strolled leisurely on the bustling streets of the inner city of Cangyufang City.

His eyes wandered between the shops on both sides, looking for a suitable medicine store, intending to sell the pills he had refined over the years in exchange for spirit stones.

Although Ji Chang still has a lot of spirit stones in his hands, he can't just sit there and eat all of them.

In fact, in addition to selling directly to the pill shop, Ji Chang can also choose to set up a stall in the stall area of ​​the market town to sell pills, or even open his own pill shop to sell pills.

In this way, you can earn even more spirit stones.

However, setting up a stall to sell pills is too time-consuming.

Running a medicine shop not only requires a large amount of spirit stones to rent a shop, but also requires a lot of time to build the shop's reputation, gain a group of regular customers, and compete with other medicine shops.

Moreover, with his demonstrated cultivation level of the sixth level of Qi Refining, if he doesn't take advantage of the Chen family cultivator who manages Cangyufang City and find a backer with a strong background.

Then it is basically impossible to continue operating.

During the days when Ji Chang was in charge of running Qiancao Pavilion, he was already well versed in the ways of the world.

In the past, he and Chen Yinghu were brothers, but it was not just because he wanted to take bribes and covet a little profit.

More importantly, through these exchanges, the relationship with Chen Yinghu, the young patriarch of the Chen family, was maintained. With his background and connections, Qiancao Pavilion was able to develop better in Cangyufang City.

Otherwise, Master Mo Dan would not have just given him a reminder to tell him not to be fooled by Chen Yinghu, but would have become a good brother who was willing to go through fire and water for Chen Yinghu.

Instead, he would directly scold him and cut off the connection between him and Chen Yinghu.

However, now that Ji Chang's cultivation has reached the late stage of Qi Refining, it would be a waste to focus his energy on such trivial matters as running a medicine shop.

In the world of cultivating immortals, cultivation strength is the foundation of everything. Without strong cultivation as support, no matter how much wealth and power one has, it will be nothing but a passing cloud and may vanish at any time.

Ji Chang is not one of those mediocre people who has no hope of breaking through the foundation-building stage. The most important thing for him at this moment should be to concentrate on cultivation and break through to the foundation-building stage as soon as possible.

As long as Ji Chang can break through to the foundation-building stage, by then, not to mention a small medicine shop, even the entire Cangyu Market will be within his reach.

Even if the Chen family knew that a mere Cangyu Market could satisfy the appetite of a foundation-building cultivator, they would probably be very happy. However, in addition to selling elixirs, Ji Chang also needed to purchase high-quality elixirs to meet the needs of cultivation.

As his cultivation level continued to improve, first-grade intermediate-quality elixirs could no longer meet Ji Chang's cultivation needs.

Although Master Mo Dan left him some high-quality elixirs to assist in his cultivation, the quantity was not large.

After all, in the first few years before Master Mo Dan left, he focused his main energy on studying the foundation-building method, and he did not make pills very often.

Before Ji Chang's alchemy skills reach the level of a top-grade alchemist, he still needs to buy some top-grade elixirs in the market to assist in his practice.

In fact, Ji Chang's progress in alchemy is already quite impressive.

However, his spiritual roots were too good, and the speed of his cultivation far exceeded the improvement of his alchemy skills.

This caused Ji Chang's alchemy skills to fall behind due to his cultivation speed, and he was unable to always make his alchemy skills meet the needs of his cultivation.

This is because Ji Chang did not distract himself with other things such as body refining and talisman making. Otherwise, with his attention dispersed, Ji Chang's improvement in alchemy skills would be slower.

Even his own progress in cultivation would be hindered.

Ji Chang cannot slow down his cultivation progress in order to master the skills of cultivating immortals. Cultivation is the foundation of his foothold in the world of cultivating immortals and the cornerstone of his pursuit of immortality.

Despite this, this does not mean that Ji Chang will give up his study of alchemy.

Pills are different from magical instruments and talismans. Even if there are problems with magical instruments and talismans, it is difficult for them to cause much impact on your life and property.

However, elixirs are something that are swallowed directly into the body. Once something goes wrong, the consequences will be disastrous. At the very least, it will damage the foundation, and at the worst, it may lead to death.

Even if the pills you take are not made by yourself, you must have experience in making and identifying pills, and have sufficient knowledge of alchemy to be able to tell whether there are any problems with the pills you take.

Ji Chang looked carefully at each medicine store, observing the decorations, signs, and the cultivation and identities of the customers coming in and out, trying to determine which store had the best quality medicine.

However, as he was strolling along the bustling street, a shop suddenly caught his sight, causing ripples in his heart involuntarily.

It was a shop selling talismans, called Xiao Fu Tang, but what Ji Chang was concerned about was not its name, but its location.

That is where the Qiancao Pavilion was located in the past.

Ji Chang's pace gradually slowed down. He stood in front of the small talisman hall, his eyes revealing a complexity.

Although the traces of the store have been covered by new decorations, the familiar outlines are still vaguely visible.

For a moment, Ji Chang seemed to be trapped in a whirlpool of memories.

He seemed to see the prosperous scene of Qiancao Pavilion in the past, the endless stream of customers, the dazzling array of elixirs, and him and...

Everything is as vivid as if it happened yesterday.

However, when his thoughts returned to reality, the scene before him had changed drastically.

The once prosperous Qiancao Pavilion no longer exists, replaced by a small talisman hall selling talismans.

He took a deep breath and gradually smoothed out the ripples in his heart.

Then he turned and left, ready to continue looking for a pharmacy that could meet his needs.

And just at this moment, a somewhat familiar voice was heard.

"Fellow Daoist, are you here to buy talismans?"

(End of this chapter)