Cultivating Immortality in a World of Chaos - Chapter 73

[Chapter 73: Flying Fish Robe (Congratulations to Elvin2016 Silver Alliance!)]

Longmen Pavilion.

The pavilion is divided into octagonal parts, with doors in all directions.

On the eaves, there is a “Chiwen” carved with a dragon head and a fish body.

“This fellow Taoist is friendly!”

As Fang Xi and Mo Qingyi entered the pavilion, a young man in the middle stage of Qi Refining came up to them.

This person was wearing a dark black robe with a flying fish patch embroidered on it. The flying fish looked extremely majestic and had two dragon whiskers.

“Flying Fish Robe?”

Fang Xi listened to Mo Qingyi’s chatter all the way, and naturally knew that this was the standard for Zhong’s children. His expression became more serious: “Are you a Zhong’s child?”

“That’s right. I’m Zhong Wangu. I wonder what this Taoist fellow wants to buy? We just happened to have a batch of green jade carp arriving. Taoist fellow, please take a look…”

Zhong Wangu said enthusiastically: “This spiritual fish tastes delicious, and paired with the local specialty ‘Renshui spiritual rice’, it is a must-try!”

“Rice and fish soup are indeed one of the great pleasures in life.” Fang Xi smiled: “But I want to buy a body-building exercise first, it must be at least level four!”

“Foundation-building technique? Fellow Daoist is actually a physical practitioner?” Zhong Wangu was slightly surprised: “I am so sorry, so sorry…”

“In addition to the body-refining exercises, if your pavilion has any inheritance of puppetry and beast-taming techniques, you can also bring them out for a look.” Fang Xi is now at the late stage of Qi Refining, and although he cannot make major improvements to his foundation, he has fewer concerns.

Hearing this request, Zhong Wangu smiled bitterly: “This kind of inheritance, even if it is the first level, is extremely rare, but there is no such thing… This building does have the first level of talisman making, weapon refining, and spiritual plant inheritance, I wonder if you are interested?”

The four arts of cultivating immortals are mainly formations, elixirs, weapons and talismans. Basically, most cultivators also practice these.

Skills such as puppetry and animal taming are relatively niche and rare.

If you want to buy it by just visiting any shop, it really depends on luck.

“Then bring them all over and have a look.”

Fang Xi waved his hand ostentatiously.

Not long after Zhong Wangu flashed into the counter, Fang Xi felt a little uneasy.

It was obvious that the master sitting in the attic had already focused his attention on him.

“Fellow Daoist, please look!”

After a cup of tea, Zhong Wangu came over with a wooden tray. On the tray were several jade slips with sealing talismans attached to them.

He first picked up a blue jade slip and said, “‘Tempering the Golden Body with Heavenly Thunder’, an incomplete technique, but it has four levels. It draws the power of the nine-day purple thunder to temper the body. It is extremely powerful and is good at restraining demons! Three hundred and fifty spirit stones…”

Seeing Fang Xi’s expressionless face, he changed to another blood-red jade slip: “‘Beast Body’, when practicing, you need to extract the essence and blood of monsters to refine it. With the ‘Secret Method of Transforming into a Monster’, you can temporarily transform into a monster, greatly increasing your combat power… Four hundred spirit stones! This technique is easy to go astray for those with weak wills, and it is very difficult to practice to the fourth level. It also requires the essence and blood of a second-level monster as a guide.”

“Even so, it is more expensive than the ‘Golden Body Tempered by Heavenly Thunder’. Obviously, the problem with the first part of this technique must be more serious than the second part… Tempering the body with the thunder of the nine heavens? Maybe you will be killed directly…”

Fang Xi secretly complained in his heart, seeing that Zhong Wangu stopped talking, it was obvious that he was considering his financial resources.

He smiled and handed over a storage bag.

Zhong Wangu took it and found that the other party had withdrawn the magic power mark. He couldn’t help but probe into it with his spiritual sense and immediately took a breath of cold air: “This Taoist friend… are you going to sell monster materials?”

“Well, let’s deal with it.”

Fang Xi looked indifferent.

That storage bag was the smallest one he had on him, and what was inside was not snake or dragon materials, but treasures he had found from the Monster Hunting Society’s warehouse.

The snake dragon has a trace of dragon blood and is also a top-grade monster. It is truly too precious.

What’s more, this dragon fish Zhong can cultivate a little green dragon with awakened dragon blood. He might have in-depth research on the dragon bloodline and have special needs. If he rashly takes out snake dragon materials, he might get himself into trouble.

Therefore, Fang Xi took out a storage bag filled with ordinary first-grade low-quality and first-grade mid-quality monster materials.

“Fellow Daoist, please wait a moment…”

Zhong Wangu immediately called another member of the Zhong clan over and asked him to count the items in front of him while he introduced the other jade slips:

…

“The Ten Thousand Swords Classic – Qi training method, also for training the body, 450 spirit stones.”

“The inheritance of the first-class upper-grade weapon refining – “Qingxi Sanren Weapon Forging Notes”, the price is three hundred spirit stones.”

“First-class high-quality talisman-making inheritance, two hundred and fifty spirit stones.”

“This last one is the inheritance of a spiritual plant husband, obtained from an old farmer named ‘Jia Feicai’!” Zhong Wangu touched the last jade slip, his expression slightly sighing: “This person is a cultivator from this island. Although he has spiritual roots, they are of the lowest quality. He has been a spiritual farmer all his life, and his cultivation is still at the second level of Qi Refining. After his death, his family sold his belongings and found a spiritual plant husband inheritance among them… It is a summary of his life, which mainly focuses on taking care of spiritual rice, and also has many spiritual medicine planting experiences. It only costs 20 spirit stones.”

When Zhong Wangu said this, he also looked depressed, probably because his own aptitude was not very good either.

In the world of immortal cultivation, cultivators like him and Jia Feicai are the mainstream.

He lingered in the Qi Refining Stage for his entire life, silently contributing to his family and children, and finally died quietly.

Fang Xi’s mouth twitched when he heard the offer.

The Spiritual Plant Husband is the upgraded version of the Spiritual Farmer, and is considered the lowest skill among the hundred arts of cultivating immortals. Even the price is so cheap!

However, for him who was about to plant trees, this spiritual plant husband inheritance was still very useful, so he said: “I bought it…”

“good.”

Zhong Wangu smiled and discussed with the family member next to him: “The monster materials sold by Daoyou are a first-level medium-grade mutant monster skin, a pair of unknown monster fangs, a first-level low-grade rat skin, and a rat bone… a total of 172 spirit stones!”

“Okay, let’s do the deal.”

Fang Xi nodded.

Then, under Zhong Wangu’s disappointed gaze, he only purchased the Lingzhifu inheritance and took back the storage bag containing 152 low-grade spirit stones of various colors.

“Let’s go!”

Fang Xi put away the storage bag and said to Mo Qingyi beside him.

Even if he was somewhat tempted, he would not immediately purchase a foundation-building level body-refining technique, after all, it was too expensive…

If you want to buy the whole book, you may have to take out the snake and dragon materials as well, which will inevitably lead to additional risks.

After walking out of Longmen Pavilion, Mo Qingyi seemed to have just recovered from the shock and said with some regret: “If the Immortal Master wants to sell monster materials, I have a better channel here, and I can at least add half of the price…”

“No, I hate trouble.”

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Fang Xi shook his head. Although those independent cultivators’ stall owners might offer a higher purchase price, it was really tiring to nitpick and bargain. It would be better to just deal with it right away. “Now… let’s go find fellow Daoist Miao who has a spirit pet!”

“Well, fellow Taoist, please come this way!”

Mo Qingyi led the way, while sharing the information: “This senior Miao Dongmiao is a master of the sixth level of Qi Refining. He also raises three spiritual pets, one of which is a ‘Water Crow’. He can catch spiritual fish from time to time, which makes us very envious…”

There are also caves for rent in Baochuanfang Market. Miao Dong’s cave is located on the edge, with nice scenery and a small courtyard.

Mo Qingyi went forward and knocked on the door first, but there was no response for a long time.

Fang Xi thought about it, and sent out a “sound transmission talisman”, which turned into flames and flew into the yard.

Not long after, the gate of the courtyard opened, revealing an old man wearing a colorful robe, with a strange appearance and three tumors on his forehead.

Miao Dong ignored Mo Qingyi and looked at Fang Xi: “Fellow Daoist, what do you want from me?”

There was a wariness in his eyes, which was a common problem among all casual cultivators.

Fang Xi bowed his hands and said, “I heard that Fellow Daoist Miao is good at controlling monster beasts. I want to ask if I can buy the beast control inheritance?”

“Humph! How can I sell my ability to eat?” Miao Dong glared at Mo Qingyi and said, “I recognize you. If you dare to bring people here next time, be careful that you feed my treasures!”

As Mo Qingyi’s face turned pale, Miao Dong was about to close the door.

Hiss!

Suddenly, a hissing sound of a snake came from his sleeve.

Miao Dong’s expression changed, and he looked at Fang Xi, and suddenly smiled again: “My fellow Taoist, may I ask your name?”

“It’s cold down there!” Fang Xi gave his pseudonym as usual.

“In that case… please come in and discuss in detail.” Miao Dong turned sideways and made way for the door.

‘This person has a strange temper and is not easy to deal with.’

Fang Xi complained in his heart and walked straight into the yard.

Mo Qingyi gave a bitter smile and said that he would just wait outside the door.

He was just a mortal, and he was already feeling uneasy about offending a monk, so how could he dare to go in?
Miao Dong’s yard was not big, but he had dug a pond that occupied nearly half of the area. At the edge of the pond, there was a water crow, combing its feathers with its long beak, and there was a lot of spirituality in its shiny black eyes.

And inside the pond, there is a black shadow lurking in the mud and it cannot be seen clearly.

“Fellow Daoist, please take a seat…”

Miao Dong asked Fang Xi to sit on the futon, his expression becoming solemn: “Fang Daoyou wants to learn the inheritance of a beastmaster, I wonder what it is for?”

“I met a demon beast and I liked it very much. I wanted to control it as a spiritual pet!”

Fang Xi gave an excuse directly.

In fact, what he wanted to study more was puppetry, as a supplement for when he couldn’t leave too far when planting trees in the future.

But isn’t it possible to find a successor to puppetry?

Considering the rich resources of monsters in the Daliang world, maybe I can give it a try first.

“This is easy…”

Miao Dong’s face immediately showed joy when he heard this: “In fact, for cultivators like me, there are many ways to contract monsters. We don’t need to delve into the art of controlling monsters, unless we want to control multiple monsters and form a formation… Daoist friend, do you know the ‘Blood Contract Document’?”

“Would you like to hear the details?” Fang Xi showed an interested look.

“As everyone knows, if you want to contract a demon beast, it is best to use your spiritual consciousness to penetrate the other party’s sea of consciousness. In this way, you can control the life and death of the demon beast with a thought. Unfortunately, only foundation-building cultivators have spiritual consciousness…”

Miao Dong shook his head and said, “In addition to this, there is also the method of blood contract, which sets up a magic array, consumes the cultivator’s essence and blood, and forms a brand. After the contract is signed, the monster dies but the cultivator is fine. If the cultivator dies, the monster will also explode and die… This ‘blood contract document’ is a convenient method made by a cultivator who is proficient in the art of taming beasts. As long as the cultivation level of the spirit pet does not exceed that of the Taoist friend by one major realm, it can be driven without hindrance after the contract is signed.”

(End of this chapter)