All professional Gu Xian

Half a month later, Zhou Qing finally arrived from Shuntian Mansion to Jinyun Mansion.

For a distance of thousands of miles, he traveled normally during the day and used the Ice Demon Gu to fly in the air at night, traveling seven to eight hundred miles a day.

Of course, it could be faster, but the closer he got to Zhongzhou, the more cautious he became, so the time he spent using the Ice Demon Gu was greatly reduced, and his speed on the road also dropped.

Simply traveling on the road is boring, so Zhou Qing will also search for poisons and strange beasts in the mountains and mountains.

As long as you leave the official road, there will be many robbers and gangsters in the mountains and forests.

Some warriors will also make temporary guest appearances, blocking roads and robbing people.

Zhou Qingguang earned tens of thousands of taels of silver notes by killing Jie Dao warriors on the road.

He didn't want to cause trouble, but there were helpless warriors who relied on their own strength and refused to give in. Zhou Qing had no choice but to take action.

But fortunately, most of the warriors in the Tribulation Dao are only bone refining realm warriors, and there are very few in the blood exchange realm, which shows that even in Zhongzhou, the blood exchange realm is not a big deal.

Occasionally, I encounter a few bandits from the Blood Exchange Realm, most of whom are death row criminals who have committed major crimes and are wanted by the court.

Zhou Qing hurried according to the map, and finally entered the hinterland of Jinyun Mansion on the early morning of the sixteenth day.

Fucheng is visible in the distance, like a crawling giant beast.

Zhou Qing rushed to the bottom of the city tower and looked up at the tens of meters high city wall. This was the most majestic city he had ever seen in this world.

Although it was early in the morning, there were quite a few people coming to the market nearby, and a group of people gathered in front of the city gate.

Zhou Qing disguised himself in advance, blended in with the crowd, passed through the city gate which was wide enough to accommodate four carriages, and entered the city.

He entered the main road, and the bustling market was crowded with people. The road was lined with various small stalls, and hawkers carrying burdens walked through the streets.

Zhou Qing found a restaurant, opened a guest room, ordered some special wine and food to be delivered to the room, had a full meal, and then fell asleep.

After arriving in Fucheng, Zhou Qing was not in a hurry.

Having been sleeping in the open air and being stressed out for half a month, he wanted to take a good rest before visiting Yao's house.

In this way, Zhou Qing slept for a whole day and night, and didn't get up until noon the next day.

He ordered another large table of food and drinks, then took out a piece of silver and asked the waiter about the Yao family.

The waiter naturally knew something about the numerous aristocratic families in Jinyun Mansion, so he introduced the basic situation of the Yao family to Zhou Qing.

"I heard that the young lady from the fourth branch of the Yao family is going to marry the Xie family of Emerald Valley. When we got engaged last year, the Xie family gave us an adult second-order water-avoiding python. It was really a big deal. It is estimated that it will be done before the end of this year. Getting married."

As he said that, the waiter mentioned what happened recently in the Yao family.

"The Xie family of Emerald Valley? Are they very powerful?" Zhou Qing showed appropriate curiosity.

The waiter guessed that Zhou Qing was a foreigner, so he continued to explain: "Although the Xie family in Emerald Valley is not as good as the Yao family, it is also a large emerging family in recent years.

The head of the family is in seclusion to strive for the realm of Grand Master, and the eldest daughter of the Xie family was taken to the martial arts academy by the masters of the Imperial City in the early years. It is said that she has good relations with some big families in the imperial city and has many business relationships with the Xie family. contacts.

As a result, the Xie family's medicine business has grown bigger and bigger, which is also the key to the Xie family's rapid rise.

The main reason why the fourth brother of the Yao family wanted to marry the Xie family was because they wanted to use the Xie family's connections to connect with the big families in the imperial city and get a share of the pie.

In addition, the second son of the Yao family that Miss Yao is marrying has become a seven-time great martial artist under the age of thirty, and is well-known in our Jinyun Mansion. "

"Seven blood transfusions?" Zhou Qing nodded secretly, far inferior to him.

I heard Sima Changhe say before that there were several Sima families like him, which led him to overestimate the strength of the younger generation of these wealthy families.

Now that I think about it, the Sima family is already the top family in the Jin Dynasty, and may even have a Martial Saint in charge of the family.

On the premise of good talent, coupled with a superior background and the guidance of high-level warriors since childhood, one can indeed make many detours, not to mention that a wealthy family controls most of the resources in the world.

Among the descendants of the top families, there may also be warriors with spiritual bodies. At the same age, it is not surprising that these people are more advanced and powerful than Zhou Qing.

There are people outside the world, and there is heaven outside the world.

The world is big, and Zhou Qing believes that he is at the forefront among his peers, but he may not be the strongest.

After all, the time for him to awaken his spirit body was very short.

If he had possessed a martial arts spirit body and a first-class Gu Master qualification from the beginning, he would have been confident in becoming the first among his peers.

As for now, he just wants to practice steadily, give full play to his martial arts spirit body and first-class Gu Master qualifications, and compete with the older generation of strong men.

"Thank you very much, little brother. I have one more thing to trouble you with. I am here to visit an old friend in the fourth room of the Yao family. I would like to ask you to send a letter and a greeting. Is it convenient for you, little brother? "

Zhou Qing came to his senses and took out the letter, greeting card, and a piece of silver from his arms.

"Your words are serious! How can such a small thing be inconvenient! I will go to Yao's house to deliver the letter right away!" The waiter took the money, with a smile on his face, respectfully collected the letter and greeting card, and exited the guest room. .

"The Xie family in Emerald Valley does not have a great master with three flowers gathering at the top."

Zhou Qing looked thoughtful.

In his early years, a turning point in his rapid rise was when he killed Lin Tianzheng and obtained the Corpse Insect Gu King whose strength was comparable to that of the Bone Refining Realm.

The Corpse Insect Gu King was the key to him capturing the Wood Spirit Corpse and obtaining the Ice Soul Spider.

So he owed Yao Xuewei a favor and has never repaid it.

Based on the words in Yao Xuewei's previous letter, Zhou Qing determined that her marriage was not of her own free will, but was mostly due to family pressure.

For Zhou Qing today, there is naturally no way to use his strength to change the Yao family's mind. Even the Xie family of Emerald Valley cannot be easily offended.

Of course, Jianghu is not all about fighting and killing, but also about worldly relationships.

The ancestor of the Xie family in Emerald Valley is retreating to prepare for the gathering of three flowers.

If the Grand Master was so easy to break through, it would not become the watershed between ordinary families and wealthy families.

And no family would think that they have too many great masters.

The most important purpose of Zhou Qing's trip to Zhongzhou this time was to collect the medicinal materials for refining the Tianling Pill and the Wufu Forging Yuan Pill.

If this is exchanged, I believe that as long as there are one or two sensible people among the top family members, they will know how to choose.

Moreover, as long as one of the Yao family and Feicui Valley Xie family is willing to cooperate, this matter can be accomplished.

Zhou Qing obtained the medicinal materials, shared the elixirs with his collaborators, and also helped Yao Xuewei gain the right to make independent choices.

Kill multiple birds with one stone.

After thinking about the key points of the matter, Zhou Qing left the restaurant and asked people about the aristocratic family of Jinyun Mansion on the way.

Unexpectedly, the Xie family's reputation is quite good.

"It seems that this kind of family that is on the rise cares more about its external image."

Zhou Qing thought to himself.

Of course, he knew in his heart that actual interactions were based on strength.

After Zhou Qing entered the inner city, he found the 'Xie's Trading Firm' run by the Xie family.

After entering the lobby on the first floor, Zhou Qing looked at the complete range of medicinal materials and had an intuitive understanding of the Xie family's strength.

"Dear guest, may I help you in any way?"

Although Zhou Qing had an ordinary appearance and simple clothes after his disguise, as soon as he entered the door, the waiter greeted him with a warm smile.

"I need some Tianling fruits that are over a hundred years old. I wonder if your company has any in stock?"

Zhou Qing asked straight to the point.

"Centennial Heavenly Spirit Fruit?!" The waiter was stunned, and the smile on his face became brighter. He quickly found the middle-aged man who looked like he was in charge.

The middle-aged man bowed his hands and said, "I, Xie Feng, am the deacon of Xie's Merchant Company. Does this distinguished guest really want the Centennial Spirit Fruit?"

"Absolutely true!"

Zhou Qing nodded.

"Please come upstairs and have a chat." Xie Feng said with a smile, leading Zhou Qing to the private room on the second floor, where his servants would serve tea.

"Haven't you asked me how to address your distinguished guest?"

Xie Feng cupped his hands and said.

"I'm Zhou Chaoxian." Zhou Qing didn't use his real name directly, so he had to find out the reality of the Xie family first.

Xie Feng nodded and asked, "I wonder why your distinguished guest purchased the Centennial Spirit Fruit?"

"Of course it's used for elixir refining, otherwise why else?"

Zhou Qing said angrily.

Xie Feng was not angry at Zhou Qing's attitude and said thoughtfully: "It seems that the distinguished guest is not a native of Fucheng?"

“Don’t your company only give priority to selling medicinal materials to locals?”

Zhou Qing asked back.

Xie Feng smiled faintly, shook his head and said: "The distinguished guests are joking. The Xie family opens their doors to do business, and there are customers from all over the world. As long as they are not enemies of the Xie family, the Xie family will not refuse anyone's business.

As for the distinguished guest not being a local, it is because the warriors near Fucheng all know that the older Tianling Fruits have been purchased by the Yueya Lake Qijia.

Nowadays, in the entire Jinyun Mansion, there are probably not a few Tianling Fruits that are more than fifty years old.

The next batch of Tianling Fruit will probably not arrive from the Imperial City for several years. "

"A few years from now?" Zhou Qing frowned slightly.

The Yueya Lake Qi family is a family second only to the Yao family in Jinyun Mansion. It has two great masters who have gathered three flowers, but they are only one-level grand masters who have gathered human flowers, and one of them is very old. , the deadline is approaching, and another one has just broken through in less than five years.

It seems that the Qi family does not want the Xie family to have a grand master with three flowers gathered at the top, so they try their best to buy up all the older Tianling fruits in Jinyun Mansion.

Things were more troublesome than Zhou Qing expected.

From this point of view, if you refine elixirs for the Xie family, you will definitely offend the Qi family.

The gap between the second level and the third level is like a chasm.

After twelve blood exchanges, the difference in strength between being at the peak of the Three Flowers Gathering with half a foot is only about double.

But with half a foot in the Three Flowers Gathering, the strength gap between him and the real grand master is at least three times, and the normal gap is five times.

In other words, when you first become a Grandmaster, you will be six to ten times stronger than the peak of twelve blood exchanges.

Zhou Qing asked himself that he was now much better than the peak of twelve blood exchanges. Even if he fought against Lan Canghai, who was half-stepped into the Three Flowers Gathering, he still had a chance of winning, but he would not be so big that he could really challenge the Grand Master.

"This is also an opportunity." Zhou Qing thought to himself, risks and opportunities usually appear at the same time.

Refining the Heavenly Spirit Pill will offend the Qi family, but it also makes friends with the Xie family.

The current strength of the Xie family is not as good as that of the Qi family, but the Xie family has higher prospects for future development.

However, the Xie family is now facing pressure from the Qi family, and may pay more attention to the marriage with the Yao family, so they have to deal with this matter, otherwise when the Xie family can no longer handle it and uses the Yao family as a life-saving straw, then Yao Xuewei will not Got to choose.

Of course, it's all a marriage, so Zhou Qing doesn't need the Xie family to give up, just change to someone else.

After all, she is marrying the second son of the Xie family, the future head of the family, and presumably there are girls from the Yao family who are willing to marry her.

There is almost no difference in lifespan between one blood exchange and the peak of twelve blood exchanges.

As long as there is a certain talent for martial arts and a certain amount of resources, it is not difficult to break through the blood exchange realm. If it is really impossible, you can take pills that consume potential.

For warriors below the blood exchange realm, if they can live for fifty, eighty, or even a hundred years, luck is very important.

As long as the blood exchange realm warriors have not been seriously injured and their foundations have not been damaged, they can basically live for more than a hundred years, and there are not a few who live to the age of 120.

"If there is no hundred-year-old Tianling fruit, what about the five-element spirit objects and purple moon lotus?" Zhou Qing asked.

Without the hundred-year-old Tianling fruit, the efficacy of the Tianling pill refined will be greatly reduced, and the effect on breaking through the three flowers will be very small.

However, if you can't refine the Tianling pill, you can choose the more difficult Wufu Duanyuan Pill.

Of course, Zhou Qing still wants to refine the Tianling Pill with a lower difficulty first, and then refine the Wufu Duanyuan Pill. In this way, improving the alchemy skills step by step can maximize the success rate of the pill.

As for failure?

Yuanhun Jindan is a third-level elixir. Although it is not difficult to refine, and may not be as difficult as Tianling Dan, it is also a genuine third-level elixir.

Zhou Qing's success rate in refining Yuanhun Jindan is as high as 70%.

Even if he changes to another elixir, it is equivalent to starting over, but with such a high success rate bonus, how could he not have a single successful elixir when refining second-level elixirs and ordinary third-level elixirs?

It is difficult to succeed once, but it is also not easy to fail all the times after refining.

"Could the distinguished guest be a third-level alchemist?" Xie Feng's eyes condensed, and his breathing became heavier, but he quickly reacted.

The second-level alchemist of the Xie family failed many times in refining Tianling Dan, consuming a lot of resources of the Xie family, and only refined two low-grade Tianling Dan, so that the ancestor did not dare to retreat directly to impact the realm of Sanhua Juding.

Now the Qi family has plundered all the high-year Tianling fruits in Jinyun Mansion.

Even if some families still have high-year Tianling Fruit, they dare not take it out easily, so as not to offend the Qi family.

Moreover, high-year Tianling Fruit is a special resource. Many families do not have enough for themselves, let alone sell it easily.

This time, the Xie family married the Yao family and promised her the position of the legal wife because there was a 200-year-old Tianling Fruit in the dowry of the fourth room of the Yao family.

"I don't dare to be a master of alchemy, I'm still a little short." Zhou Qing said modestly.

"I don't know how the distinguished guest can prove himself?" Xie Feng said carefully. Although he was worried that the person in front of him was sent by the Qi family, he didn't dare to offend a high-level alchemist easily before he confirmed it.

"Why should I prove myself? Do you have to be a master of alchemy to buy medicinal materials?" Zhou Qing pretended to be unhappy.

Seeing that he looked unhappy, Xie Feng lowered his posture even more: "Your Excellency has misunderstood. Today, the Heavenly Spiritual Fruit is hard to find and cannot be obtained through normal transactions. However, if your Excellency is a master of alchemy, the Xie family promises that you will be given priority in obtaining the Heavenly Spiritual Fruit!"

"Well, I'll let you see it."

Zhou Qing's expression eased a little and nodded.

Then, he took out a low-level alchemy furnace, took out the beast gold charcoal and lit it, and began to heat the furnace and refine the alchemy on the spot.

"This" Xie Feng was stunned, looking at the alchemy furnace of ordinary quality, the corner of his mouth twitched, shouldn't it be changed to another place?

However, in just a moment, Xie Feng's eyes widened and his mouth never closed since it opened.

Puff——!

As the alchemy furnace was opened, heat rose and a strange fragrance came to the nose.

Looking at the five milky white pills in the pill furnace, Xie Feng took a deep breath, with a look of disbelief on his face, thinking: "This is the marrow cleansing pill made from low-year-old Tianling fruit? Five pills? And they are all medium-grade pills!"

"Why are there only five?" At this time, Zhou Qing scratched his head vigorously, seeming a little puzzled, because he usually makes eight pills.

"I made a mistake this time, I'll try again."

Zhou Qing looked up at Xie Feng, ready to try again, after all, the marrow cleansing pill is of medium difficulty among the second-level pills.

However, Xie Feng tilted his head, looking confused: O_o