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One month later.

Fang Xiu hunched over the table and made the water curtain talisman.

"puff!"

As the brush strokes paused slightly, the transfer of the spiritual blood cinnabar became opaque, a flame rose, and the talisman paper on the table spontaneously ignited and turned into ashes.

"Failed again..."

Fang Xiu sighed and put down the talisman pen.

[Spells: Water Curtain, Beginner (10%), Golden Light Mask, Not Beginner (54%)..:]

[Making Talisman: Cleansing Talisman·Mastery (51%), Wind Control Talisman·Mastery (1 Proficient (33%), Fire Bullet Talisman·Entry (8 Beginners (7%)]]

A month later, he had already mastered the water curtain technique and had initially mastered the production of water curtain talismans.

However, the success rate is only 10%.

Making water curtain charms is definitely a loss.

However, for the sake of practice, there is nothing you can do about losing money.

[Exercise: Qi Refining of the Eight Phases of the Universe·Third Level (22%)]

"You still have to take drugs...

Fang Xiu stood up and checked his cultivation progress.

In the past month, he has focused on learning the Water Curtain Technique and the Golden Light Mask, and spent most of his time practicing the making of the Water Curtain Talisman, so he did not purchase the Qi Nourishing Pill for practice.

After one month of normal practice, the progress of cultivation has only increased by 4%.

Taking two Qi-nourishing pills a day can increase your cultivation progress by 11%-12% in a month.

The gap between the two is nearly three times.

Sure enough, casual cultivators whose spiritual roots are not of high quality will most likely be stuck at the third level of Qi Refining if they cannot afford elixirs.

Otherwise, it will take a lot of time to grind hard.

"How can any real mortal change his fate against the will of God? How can he do it without cheating..."

Fang Xiu sighed in his heart.

I walked out of the house and went to the yard to get some air.

"Counting the days... It has been a year since I came to Anpingfang City.'

Fang Xiu looked at the faint morning light in the distance.

He is twenty-nine years old.

"I wonder how Jin'er's health is and whether Xianlan can walk...'"

Fang Xiu's heart was heavy.

After resting for a while, he returned to the house and lay down on the bed.

With his current level of cultivation, he can make up to ten first-level mid-level seal scripts like the Water Curtain Talisman in a day.

There's no point in forcing yourself, it's better to sleep.

Fang rested and slept until the afternoon, and then went to the casual cultivation area in the outer city after dinner.

"Fang Fu Master."'

"Fellow Daoist Fang, you're so late today."

"Fellow Daoist Fang, are there any wooden and rattan charms for sale today?

"Yeah, I went to bed too late yesterday to draw the talisman."

As Fang Xiu walked on the street, many casual cultivators greeted him, and he responded to them one by one.

Since the wooden and rattan talismans made by Fang Xiu were of good quality and at a fair price, and he could also get elixirs from Wang Fugui as a companion when buying the talismans, he was somewhat famous among the casual cultivators in the early stages of Qi refining.

Although Master Chen's talisman making skills are higher and there are many first-level mid-level talismans on the stall, many first-level mid-level talismans are just life-saving trump cards for low-level casual cultivators and will not be used frequently. .

On the contrary, wooden and rattan talismans, which are more practical first-order low-grade offensive talismans, are more popular.

Many low-level casual cultivators will buy some wooden vine charms to go into the mountains to hunt monsters.

The wooden vine charm is mainly used to entangle and trap enemies. The spikes on the wooden vine can cause damage to monsters, but are not easily fatal.

Unlike fire bomb charms, which can easily cause large-scale damage.

The flesh and blood of a first-level low-grade demonic beast costs ten kilograms of spiritual stone, which is a considerable profit.

Fur can be used to make talisman pens and talisman skins.

Hard bones can be used as auxiliary materials for some low-grade magic weapons.

Hunting monsters is an important means for most casual cultivators to make a living.

However, in order to avoid encountering calamity cultivators, casual cultivators with low cultivation levels usually form teams to enter the Broken Soul Mountain Range. This results in a monster being separated and not many spiritual stones available to each person.

Although talisman making is the easiest to get started among the four mainstream arts of cultivation, the actual threshold is not low.

There are very few talisman masters like Fang Xiu who have made a lot of money by relying on their talisman-making skills in the early stages of Qi refining.

Some first-level low-level talisman masters speculated that Fang Xiu's success in making wooden and rattan talismans may have exceeded 40%, otherwise the shipment rate and quality would not have been maintained at such a high level.

"Old Wang, how was this morning?"

Fang Xiu came to Wang Fugui's stall.

"Xiao Fang, you are finally here! Without you, my business has been much worse."

Wang Fugui smiled and gave up half of the stall and placed a cushion beside him.

"Just kidding, isn't the Blood Essence Pill you improved recently very popular?" Fang Xiu scolded with a smile.

He sat down, took out a cloth bag from his arms, and placed the wooden and rattan charms he wanted to sell today on the stall.

"It's easy to sell, but people often ask if they want to buy elixirs and send wind-controlling talisman as a gift? Where do I get the talisman to send out?" Wang Fugui was dumbfounded.

"We have the wind talisman." Fang Xiu took out another cloth bag from his arms, which contained several wind talismans.

One spiritual stone and three wind-controlling talismans are not easy to sell.

And one spiritual stone and four wind-controlling talismans are easy to lose money.

Although Fang Xiu can still make money with his success rate of making talismans, he has to leave a way for other casual cultivators who sell talismans to survive.

Others bought three spiritual stone elixirs from Wang Fugui, and Fangxiu could give them a Wind Control Talisman.

But you can't directly sell the Wind Control Talisman at a reduced price, otherwise you will be hated by others.

This is the unspoken rule of the casual cultivation area.

If Master Chen Fu had done the same at the beginning, Fang Xiu would have no way of surviving.

Fang Xiu and Wang Fugui's business model of buying talismans and getting elixirs, and buying elixirs and getting talismans and seals, has really made business a lot better.

Many casual cultivators who set up stalls imitated the two men's example and formed a "strong alliance".

However, many times, due to the "unequal distribution" of benefits, the company ends up breaking up on bad terms.

Fang Xiu would occasionally send some talismans to Wang Fugui, and Wang Fugui would also send more when Fang Xiu bought elixirs. Both parties did not care about small profits, so they could cooperate for such a long time.

People who are willing to suffer losses will often suffer endless losses.

People who are unwilling to suffer any losses are sometimes prone to big losses.

The main thing is to look at people.

There were previous conflicts in the street because of this matter, which attracted law enforcement teams.

Although the monks who fought were very restrained and did not use their magic power, they just fought with mortals, verbally abusing them, and fighting each other.

But after the law enforcement team came, they faced both sides insisting on their own opinions. Without asking the reason, they directly hit twenty boards each and fined each person a spiritual stone.

The most indispensable thing in Anpingfang City is casual cultivators, who are cut and grow like leeks.

In the face of disobedient casual cultivators, they will be directly expelled from the city and will not even be allowed to stay in shantytowns.

Without the supply depot in Fangshi, the low-level monks had only a dead end in the jungle-covered Broken Soul Mountain Range.

The twenty wooden and rattan charms were sold out before evening.

Got ten spiritual stones.

The cost of thirty-six blank talisman papers is three spirit stones.

The cost of spiritual blood cinnabar is one spiritual stone.

Fang Xiu made a net profit of six spiritual stones.

It is estimated that no one would believe him, but his success rate in making wooden and rattan talismans is as high as 55%.

These twenty wooden and rattan charms were his inventory for seven days.

He only sells at most 80 wooden and rattan charms a month.

Because he didn't want to squeeze his training time.

Making talismans consumes too much spiritual consciousness, which will affect the efficiency of cultivation.

After selling the talisman seals, Fang Xiu used half a piece of spiritual stone to buy five kilograms of first-grade low-grade black goat meat.

When he returned to the stall with the mutton, Wang Fugui was closing the stall.

"Old Wang, come to my house to roast mutton tonight." Fang Xiu carried the black goat meat tied with straw.

"Hehe! That's a great feeling!" Wang Fugui rubbed his hands and smiled with wrinkles on his face.

At this time, Master Chen Fu who was diagonally opposite yawned, closed the stall and left.

When passing by the two of them, he nodded to Fang Xiu and Wang Fugui.

"Fellow Daoist Chen, let's go to Yuanyang Pavilion again!" Wang Fugui smiled obscenely.

"Who...who! Who went to...Yuanyang Pavilion!" Master Chen Fu's expression was stagnant, and he stuttered a little.

"You're going straight to the inner city, aren't you going to Yuanyang Pavilion?" Wang Fugui joked.

"You...why...why! You are so dirty!" Master Chen's face turned red, and the veins on his forehead popped out, and he argued: "I...went to buy...to buy Talisman!"

"You're already stammering like this, why don't you go to Yuanyang Pavilion!" Wang Fugui advised: "It's better not to go to that kind of place. You see, your legs are weakened by the harvest."

"It's hard to imagine that Master Chen Fu, who often visits Yuanyang Pavilion, can still be so innocent!"

"You don't come here every time, do you?"

The casual cultivators who were watching the excitement burst into laughter. Generally, only when Wang Fugui started did they dare to make fun of Master Chen Fu together.

Although Master Chen Fu loves to go to Yuanyang Pavilion, he never admits it.

He is usually taciturn because he tends to stutter when lying.

"Hahaha!""

Master Chen Fu quickened his pace and hurried away, and a happy atmosphere spread from the crowd.

Two months later.

early morning.

Fang Xiu disguised himself again and went to Zhenbao Pavilion.

"Fellow Taoist Gao is here, why don't you buy the Qi Nourishing Pill this time?" Yan Shou, the steward of Zhenbao Pavilion, looked at Fang Xiu, whose appearance had changed again, and greeted him.

"I've met fellow Daoist Yan." Fang Xiu bowed his hands.

Because the mana fluctuations and breath could not be changed, he was remembered by Yan Shou after buying Qi Nourishing Pills several times.

Fang Xiu will use the pseudonym Gaosheng.

"I don't know how many Qi-nourishing pills Gao Taoist Brother wants this time. If it's still ten bottles, I can decide to give you one more." Yan Shou said with a smile.

"Then thank you, Fellow Daoist Yan." Fang Xiu said with a smile on his face.

After going back and forth, Fang Xiu also gained a basic understanding of Yan Shou.

The opponent is an inner disciple of the Taiqing Sword Sect, with a ninth level of Qi refining.

In his forties, he accepted an assignment from the Taiqing Sword Sect and came to Anpingfang City to work as a steward at the Zhenbao Pavilion, where he accumulated merits and exchanged them for Foundation Establishment Pills.

This year is the eighth year, and he will return to the Taiqing Sword Sect in two years.

Above him, there is Wei Jiang, the chief treasurer of Zhenbao Pavilion, who has an eighth-level Qi refining level, a first-level high-level body refining level, and is also a first-level high-level weapon refiner.

Zhenbao Pavilion is the only shop in Anpingfang City that sells high-grade magical instruments.

As for the medium-grade magical instruments, there are all types available.

These are all done by Wei Jiang.

In addition, Zhenbao Pavilion also accepts orders for magical artifacts, but only for mid-grade and high-grade magical artifacts.

Do not accept inferior products.

"Fellow Taoist Gao, wait a moment." Yan Shou took ten bottles of Qi-nourishing pills, plus four pills, and placed them on the counter.

When Fang Xiu took out a pack of low-grade spiritual stones from his arms, and after both parties had finished checking and accepting them, Yan Shou suddenly asked:

"Fellow Taoist Gao seems to be successful in body training?"

"What do you mean, Fellow Daoist Yan?" Fang Xiu's body tensed up and he felt wary.

"Fellow Taoist Gao, don't be nervous. Yan has no ill intentions."

Yan Shou waved his hand and took out a palm-sized white-haired mouse from his arms.

The white-haired mouse has a small bunch of red hair on its forehead, and its body exudes mana fluctuations comparable to those in the middle stage of Qi refining.

"This first-level, middle-grade golden-haired rat can sense the strength of a creature's energy and blood at a certain distance."

Yan Shou explained.

"Yan discovered through the Golden-haired Rat that Fellow Daoist Gao's energy and blood exceeded those of ordinary first-level mid-level body refiners, so he asked this question."

"I wonder if Fellow Daoist Yan can give you any advice?" Fang Xiu asked.

"Senior Brother Wei, the shopkeeper of this pavilion, wants to recruit a few monks who are successful in body refining as apprentices to teach them the art of refining weapons.

Let Yan look for some candidates. Yan Shou said with a smile.

"Apprentice?" Fang Xiu's first reaction was not one of excitement.

"Mortals learn to be apprentices for three years, five and a half years, and seven years to become a master. I wonder what shopkeeper Wei's rules are for recruiting apprentices?"

"It doesn't have to be so harsh." Yan Shou shook his head and said: "Senior Brother Wei recruits apprentices because he needs the help of body refiners to hammer out some special materials.

If you become a formal apprentice, you only need to serve for one year and be on call within one year.

After one year, you can become Senior Brother Wei's registered disciple and learn the art of weapon refining from him. "

," Fang Xiu was speechless. This was not even as good as an outsourced contract worker. He was just a coolie who worked for nothing for a year. It was comparable to paid work.

After the one-year probationary period is over, you can be kicked out for any reason.

Moreover, he only recruits first-level middle-grade body refining soil, and he has to be on call at all times, which shows that the work is very intensive.

"Of course, in addition to this, there is a second option. You will first have a trial period of one month as a helper. After one month, you can decide to stay or leave on your own. There will be no compensation during this period, but you will enjoy a 10% discount on all items purchased in our store while you are a helper." Yan Shou added.

"10% off?!" Fang Xiu's eyes lit up.

He has a great demand for elixirs. If there is a 10% discount and a trial period of one month, he can try it. And when he reaches the middle stage of Qi refining, there is a high chance that he will have to buy it in the Treasure Pavilion. It can improve the cultivation level of the monks in the middle stage of Qi refining. of Shui Yuan Dan.

It is said that Shui Yuan Dan is mild in nature. In addition to improving cultivation, it also has the effect of strengthening the foundation and cultivating the essence. The price of one pill is as high as four spiritual stones, which is really not affordable for ordinary people.

In addition, after Fang Xiu broke through the Grand Master with his external skills, even the improved version of the Blood Essence Pill had no obvious effect on him.

If he wants to continue to make breakthroughs in external skills and develop the three unique elixirs into Gangjin, he must buy the elixirs used by body refiners to replenish qi and blood.

Zhenbao Pavilion even sells the ‘Guiyuan Pill’ that can strengthen the internal organs.

To buy these things, you have to buy one or two hundred spirit stones at one time, and 10% off is a very high discount.

However, Fang Xiu was not dazzled by the benefits. He paused and asked, "Do you want to sign a contract?"

"This is not necessary. Our reputation has always been very good, and we will not ruin our reputation for small profits. What's more, even if we don't sign the contract, no one will dare to go back on our word with Senior Brother Wei."

Yan Shou smiled.

"I need to think about it." Fang Xiu muttered, "It doesn't matter, this is a long-term mission, and many body refiners have signed up. It's just that Yan will eliminate those who are not qualified in Qi and blood." Yan Shou nodded.

"Must the Qi and blood be qualified? Is it a blood refining method?" Fang Xiu's eyes narrowed.

This method is included in the forging technique of the Divine Weapon Valley. When forging the divine weapons, the warrior's own pure energy and blood are used to quench the blood of the divine weapons.

"Similar." Yan Shou didn't mean to hide it.

"Anyway, before helping, you still need to watch other body refiners assist in refining weapons. Then you will have a chance to choose."

"That's it. Thank you, fellow Taoist Yan, for clarifying my doubts." Fang Xiu handed over his hand and said nothing more.

He took the Qi Nourishing Pill and left the Treasure Pavilion.

A year passed quietly.

Fang Xiu turned thirty.

His cultivation has also reached the peak of the third level of Qi refining.

The wood spirit root, which barely reached the mid-grade spiritual root sensitivity at 20 points, still encountered a bottleneck.

"Although you can slowly grind to the fourth level of Qi Refining, it is not necessary...

After Fang Xiu was stuck in the bottleneck for half a month, he decided to buy Qing Luo Dan to assist in breaking through the realm.

If you don't take the Broken Mirror Pill, you'll probably be stuck for another half a year. If you're not lucky, if you fail to break through, you may still be stuck for another year or two. Fang Xiu will never waste time on things that can be solved with elixirs.

Fang Xiu piled the spiritual stones he had accumulated in the past year on the bed.

Excluding the cost of purchasing elixirs, he spent a year mastering the production of water curtain talismans. However, he can only make a small profit at the moment, not much.

Even so, nearly one hundred and fifty spiritual stones were saved.

Fang Xiu put the spirit stones into a bag and went to Zhenbao Pavilion to buy Qingluo Pill, which cost up to eighty spirit stones a piece.

Then I asked about the price of a medium-grade magic weapon and a talisman pen. I was frightened by the terrifying price of two hundred and forty-five spiritual stones and said, "I can't afford it, I can't afford it."

Fang Xiu waved his hands repeatedly and left the Treasure Pavilion.

Before leaving the inner city, he walked into the alley and returned to his original appearance.

As soon as he walked out of the city gate, he suddenly felt like he was being spied on.

Fang Xiu felt awe-inspiring in his heart. He integrated Gou Ping'an's pattern to strengthen his spiritual consciousness and increase the range of his spiritual thoughts. He soon discovered the clues.

To the rear right was a handsome young man in black robes, staring at him blankly.

"This person is...

Fang Xiu's eyes met with those of the young man in black robes, and his heart suddenly shook.

This person turned out to be the group of robbery cultivators who attacked him and Cheng Ziyi in the Broken Soul Mountain Range two years ago. He was standing next to Ghost Shura at that time.

Through Gou Ping'an's memory, Fang Xiu remembered that this person's name was Lu Jin, and he was at the seventh level of Qi refining.

Fang Xiu turned his attention and quickly left Fangshi. After confirming that no one was following him, he returned to the shantytown.

"This person is really brave!"

When Fang Xiu returned home, his expression suddenly changed.

"Forget it, as long as I don't leave the market, even ghost Shura can't do anything to me!"

Fang Xiu gritted his teeth and became more and more eager to break through the fourth level of Qi Refining.

For the next few days, Fang Xiu stayed behind closed doors.

Eight days later.

Fang Xiu entered the fourth level of Qi Refining.

"Sure enough, drug-induced abortion is the way to go."

With one Qingluo Pill, Fang Xiu easily broke through, saving half a year of hard training.

"No need to be afraid now."

Fang Xiu felt that the mana and consciousness in his body had doubled, and he suddenly felt confident in his heart.

Previously, he could make at most ten first-level low-grade talisman seals a day, or five first-level middle-grade talisman seals.

Now the spiritual consciousness and mana have been doubled, and the efficiency of making talismans has been greatly improved.

After Fang Xiu got used to the change in cultivation, he started making talismans.

Sure enough, he used up a bunch of twelve blank talisman papers in one go to make a first-level mid-grade talisman seal, and he still had some mana left. He only stopped to rest because he consumed too much mental power.

"With the current magic power, practicing water curtain technique and golden light mask is not a problem at all."

Fang Xiu's face was filled with joy. He had broken through to the fourth level of Qi Refining, and his mana recovery speed had also become faster. This meant that in addition to making talismans, he had more time to practice spells every day.