Peeping into the Immortal Road

Chapter 88: Spirit Gathering Formation
Two years later.

Cangyufang City Auction.

On the podium of the auction, a beautiful young woman with a voluptuous figure and charming face was standing there.

After disguising his identity, Ji Chang sat in a corner of the lobby on the first floor, quietly looking at the array plate in the hand of the beautiful young woman.

That was exactly the top-grade spirit gathering array that Ji Chang needed.

"Seven hundred spirit stones, is there a higher price?"

The beautiful young woman looked around, her voice echoing in the air with a hint of alluring vibrato.

Some of the monks present began to whisper, and they seemed to be hesitating whether to increase the price.

However, after a moment's silence, no one made another bid.

The price of seven hundred spirit stones can buy some first-grade top-grade magical tools.

Although the price of formations, especially a set of formation plates, is higher than that of magical instruments of the same level.

However, among independent cultivators, the formations that are in high demand are generally defensive and offensive formations.

Seeing this, the beautiful young woman smiled slightly and gently tapped the hammer in her hand. The crisp sound echoed over the venue.

"Deal! This top-grade spirit gathering array will belong to this fellow Taoist."

Ji Chang also breathed a sigh of relief at this moment.

After waiting for two years and participating in nearly ten auctions, I finally waited for this top-grade spirit gathering array to appear.

After buying the Spirit Gathering Array, Ji Chang did not continue to participate in the auction in order to avoid any further complications.

Instead, he stood up and left the venue, and came to a reception room of the auction, ready to hand over the spirit stones and get the spirit gathering array as soon as possible.

After sitting down, Ji Chang did not touch the cup of spiritual tea beside him, but waited patiently for the auction staff to bring the spirit gathering array.

Soon, a female cultivator in a green dress came over gracefully, holding a storage bag on a tray in her hand.

Ji Chang took the storage bag and carefully activated his magic power, and a formation plate emitting a faint spiritual light came into view.

This is exactly the top-grade spirit gathering formation he has always dreamed of!

Ji Chang carefully checked the formation plate, and after confirming that it was correct, he handed the spirit stones that he had prepared long ago to the female cultivator.

The whole process went very quickly and smoothly without any setbacks.

After obtaining the Spirit Gathering Array, Ji Chang heaved a sigh of relief. He felt that he was one step closer to building his foundation.

"All that's left is cultivation and meridian protection pills."

……

After returning to the house, Ji Chang took out the spirit gathering array plate.

He took a deep breath, slowly mobilized the magic power in his body, and carefully injected it into the formation.

With the infusion of magic power, the array plate began to vibrate gently, and complex restrictions and array patterns gradually emerged in front of Ji Chang's eyes.

They are intertwined to form an extremely mysterious pattern.

These formations and restrictions emitted a faint light, illuminating the entire training room.

Ji Chang raised his hand and waved, and the formation plate flew out lightly and hovered steadily in the center of the training room.

Then the formation patterns and restrictions expanded rapidly, covering the entire training room.

Ji Chang took out a dozen spirit stones and flicked them with his fingertips, inserting them into the formation one by one.

In an instant, the concentration of spiritual energy in the training room increased suddenly, even higher than the caves in the core area of ​​the market town.

If this top-grade spirit gathering formation is activated in the cave in the core area, the spiritual environment formed can definitely reach the level of a second-order spirit vein.

There are three main common ways to activate this spirit gathering formation, as well as many other formations.

Mana, spirit stones and spirit veins.

However, for Ji Chang, he could not activate the spirit gathering array and practice at the same time, so the use of mana was not applicable.

As for using spirit veins to activate the spirit gathering array, this requires connecting to and controlling the first-level spirit vein below the Cangyu Market.

But not only was it difficult for Ji Chang to sneak into the core of the spirit vein, but once he tried, he would definitely be discovered by the Chen family cultivators. Therefore, Ji Chang's only viable option was to use spirit stones to activate the spirit gathering array.

Although this method would consume a large amount of spirit stones, as a top-grade alchemist, Ji Chang's financial resources were sufficient to support this consumption.

"In addition to building the foundation, this top-grade spirit gathering array can be used."

"With the help of this top-grade spirit gathering formation, my daily practice speed can be much faster."

……

On this day, Ji Chang glanced at the peeping picture in his mind as usual.

Ever since Chen Qianzhou failed in building his foundation, Ji Chang has reduced the time he spends spying on Chen Qianzhou.

He only glanced at it occasionally when he was not practicing or refining pills.

After all, Chen Qianzhou has been living in seclusion for many years, recuperating from his injuries, so there is nothing to spy on.

In the picture, the Chen family is holding their routine monthly family meeting to discuss miscellaneous matters.

As a senior member of the Chen family staying in the Zhuyashan clan area, Chen Qianzhou naturally attended the meeting.

Although he failed to build his foundation, Chen Qianzhou was not sent out to be in charge of the market again. Instead, he was able to recuperate in the clan land and participate in the decision-making of the Chen family.

It’s just a pity that Chen Qianzhou’s identity as a member of a side branch did bring certain influence within the Chen family.

His many years of exile also resulted in the relative weakness of his trusted members within the clan.

In the clan meetings, Chen Qianzhou was mostly just a listener and his influence was relatively limited.

"what?"

Just when Ji Chang took a glance and was about to recollect his energy, his expression froze slightly.

Because he saw Chen Yinghu in the clan meeting.

"Eighth level of Qi refining."

Ji Chang noticed Chen Yinghu's cultivation.

"It's been almost ten years, and I have finally reached the eighth level of Qi Refining." Ji Chang thought to himself.

He shook his head slightly. At this rate, by the time he could try to build his foundation, Chen Yinghu might not have reached the threshold of the ninth level of Qi Refining.

However, when he took into account that Chen Yinghu only had a mid-level spiritual root and was only in his early forties, he couldn't help but sigh.

In fact, considering Chen Yinghu's aptitude and age, this cultivation speed is already quite impressive.

"In the Qi Refining Stage, spiritual root aptitude is still quite important."

"If my spiritual roots are only middle-grade spiritual roots, even if I have the ability to spy, I would only be at the middle stage of Qi Refining at most."

Ji Chang sighed.

……

Two months later.

Alchemy room.

The black gold elixir furnace was placed in the center of the room, with flames burning inside it, making crackling sounds.

Ji Chang sat quietly in front of the alchemy furnace, mobilizing his magic power to maintain the flame in the furnace.

As time went by, the medicine liquid began to become gradually viscous, and a faint medicinal fragrance filled the air.

Ji Chang knew that this was a sign that the medicine was about to solidify into a pill. He did not dare to be careless and continued to carefully control the flame in the furnace.

Finally, at a certain moment, the medicinal liquid reached the critical point of pill formation.

There was a slight "hiss" sound, and the medicine suddenly solidified.

Ji Chang raised his hand and the stove cover opened.

Four round meridian-protecting pills lay quietly in the alchemy furnace.

"It's done."

(End of this chapter)