The Mortal's Path to Immortality

There is no time for cultivation, and time flies by.

In a blink of an eye, Cao Rui has devoted himself to retreat, and three months have passed quietly like a white horse passing by.

This secular New Year, Cao Rui spent it in this quiet retreat.

Now, it has been more than ten days since the New Year.

And Cao Rui has also ushered in his 31st year.

On this day, Cao Rui decided to temporarily stop retreat.

"The Lingyin pendant has sold 20,000 copies! There are suddenly 100,000 more spirits in the storage bag! Now is the time to purchase the refining materials needed for the five magic swords for refining."

The sale of the Lingyin pendant is entirely Cao Rui's personal income, and there is no need to share it with the sect like the Lingyin point.

Therefore, these 100,000 spirits naturally fell into Cao Rui's personal pocket.

The three months of meditation and practice have made Cao Rui's strength leap forward. With the help of his experience beads, he successfully cultivated the first level of the Great Five Elements Sword Formation to perfection.

In this way, the power of the Great Five Elements Sword Formation has been improved again.

Now, after being strengthened, the power of the Great Five Elements Sword Formation is no longer something that a first-level magic sword can bear.

Instead of frequently replacing first-level magic swords, it is better to refine a first-level magic sword at one time, so as to more effectively improve one's combat effectiveness.

This is also Cao Rui's original intention to refine a first-level magic sword.

During this period, Cao Rui took time to go to the sect.

He refined a large number of high-level medicines needed by the sect for the sect, and took this opportunity to teach some refining skills and experience to the disciples of the Refining Academy.

After that, Cao Rui devoted himself to the preparation work of refining equipment.

He used metal plates to engrave first-level runes, and used experience beads to continuously improve the realm of first-level runes.

Over the years, Cao Rui would engrave metal plates whenever he had time to accumulate experience, and almost all the runes recorded by the Refining Institute were mastered by Cao Rui. .

He had already mastered all sixteen first-level arrays.

The nine first-level arrays were also completed during this retreat.

Only four third-level arrays Cao Rui had not yet started to practice.

As for array runes, Cao Rui believed that the entire Yunzhou, even the gold cultivators, could not be better than him.

Experience beads have a very powerful effect in practicing this kind of immortal cultivation skills that require long-term practice.

In addition, Cao Rui also took the time to master a type of first-level recovery spirit - purple spirit.

Purple Spirit is a first-class recovery spirit, used to restore mana during the foundation-building period.

When hunting monsters in the Endless Sea, this kind of recovery spirit is extremely needed to quickly restore oneself.

It is more economical to refine Purple Spirit by yourself than to spend money to purchase it.

Cao Rui ended his retreat from the cultivation pagoda.

More than ten miles away, the divine sense spread out and quickly found Sun Ming's divine eagle.

The divine sense slightly transmitted to Sun Ming, and soon Cao Rui appeared in the VIP room of Lingbao Pavilion.

"Master Cao, I have almost found the whereabouts of those refining materials you asked me to pay attention to. If there is really no, I have also found substitutes with similar properties." Sun Ming said softly.

"Oh?" Cao Rui was slightly surprised. This was a pleasant surprise. According to the Great Five Elements Sword Formation, the method of refining the first-level magic sword, many of the refining materials are extremely rare in the current Yunzhou cultivation world.

Originally, she thought that Sun Ming could find about 70% of them, and the rest might have to be searched in the ruins by herself.

Unexpectedly, Sun Ming could find them all for her.

He couldn't help but ask with a little curiosity: "Sun Ming, how did you do it? Some types of refining materials are not common."

Sun Ming smiled and explained: "Thanks to the continuous improvement of the comprehensive strength of the market, now our market is not only in the southwest of Yunzhou, but also in the central, eastern and even northern parts of Yunzhou. Some businesses have settled in. With more and more merchants settling in, various rare refining materials are gradually emerging, which gives me the opportunity to collect the materials you need."

Cao Rui nodded with satisfaction and said with appreciation: "Yes, it seems that the development of the market has indeed brought us a lot of benefits."

"That's right!" At this time, Sun Ming suddenly remembered something and continued: "I heard that someone wanted to compete with you for the management right of Lingyin Pei? It seems that forces in other directions also have their eyes on Lingyin Pei."

Cao Rui nodded slightly when he heard this. Zhang Mo had mentioned this to him before.

After all, the management of the Lingyin Pei is a lucrative job, and naturally there will be foresighted people who see its benefits.

However, the previous management was not a big force, and Cao Rui felt that the time was not yet ripe, so he did not agree.

If the Lingyin Pei spreads to the entire Yunzhou, he will naturally make more money, but the risk will also increase.

Before being promoted to Gold, Cao Rui will be cautious about the expansion of the Lingyin Pei.

"Old Sun, how many spirits can be done after all the materials are gathered." Cao Rui said.

Sun Ming heard this and said: "It takes about 40,000 spirits, less than 50,000. The average price of each material is less than 9,000 spirits."

Nine thousand spirits, this price is far more than the cost price of ordinary first-level magic tools.

Ordinary first-class magic tools only need less than 3,000 materials to refine.

9,000 is more than three times more.

However, this is the material for refining the Great Five Elements Sword Formation Sword that was set by the True Lord Shen Yuan according to the highest standards in ancient times.

Such a price is understandable.

Sun Ming took out a list and handed it to Cao Rui.

Cao Rui looked at them one by one, and it was very good. He had found the original materials for 70% of the refining materials, and he also found satisfactory substitutes for the rest.

Cao Rui was already 100% sure, and he refined the five magic swords.

"The price and the list are fine, help me get the materials as quickly as possible." Cao Rui said.

"Understood, I will arrange it immediately." Sun Ming immediately activated the spiritual sound pendant hanging on his chest and contacted several people in a row.

Determined the refining materials for Cao Rui.

"It will take about a month to gather all the materials."

"Some of the refining materials need to be transported from the northern part of Yunzhou. I hope the owner can understand."

Cao Rui waved his hand: "I'll leave it to you. I'm relieved. Just gather them as soon as possible."

After Cao Rui finished speaking, the Lingyin pendant hanging on his wrist vibrated slightly.

Cao Rui took a look and saw that it was Zhang Mo's communication request.

After the spiritual sense was connected, Cao Rui heard Zhang Mo's voice.

"Master, I heard that you are closed."

Cao Rui shouted slightly: "Yes, what's the matter?"

"Someone here claims to be a cultivator from the Xingyue Sect in the eastern part of Yunzhou. He wants to ask you for the management rights of the Lingyin pendant in the east!" Zhang Mo said.

Xingyue Sect? Cao Rui was slightly startled. He had been back for more than three months, but he had not forgotten the battle with Yang Ze.

Unexpectedly, the Xingyue Sect dared to find the Xiaomen?

This was in the southwest of Yunzhou. Cao Rui had the support of the Spirit Beast Sect. He was a native of this place, so he naturally would not be as afraid of the Xingyue Sect as he was in the East China Sea before.

"Please ask them to wait in the Xiaolou, I'll come right over." Cao Rui wanted to see what the Xingyue Sect was up to.