Chapter 18 You get what you pay for
Squatting on the roof and watching the fire from the other side, until the noise in the distance subsided, the fire was extinguished, and the bustle could no longer be seen, Chen Mou jumped down with satisfaction, and practiced the movement skills he relied on to escape for half an hour in the yard. After washing, he went back to the bedroom and fell asleep.
The sky is twilight.
After morning classes and breakfast, the morning sun hangs brightly on the treetops.
Chen Mou put his left hand in his sleeve, holding the ancient jade, and his heart was extremely at ease. He watched all directions and listened in all directions but still paid attention to walking.
Passing by the forest where he encountered a ghost yesterday, he observed it for a few times before passing quickly.
On the streets of Fangshi, most of the monks coming and going were talking about the fierce battle last night to suppress the evil cultivators.
Chen Mou listened carefully and found out that the evil cultivator of the Foundation Establishment Realm was raising ghosts and murdering the lives of casual cultivators. He was so heinous that he was besieged by many monks in the city and killed him. Even his remnant soul could not escape.
Several courtyards were damaged in Fangshi, several Qi Refining Realm monks were injured, etc.
Many of the rumors were exaggerated, and people rushed to express their hatred for the evil cultivators.
After hearing the answer he wanted, Chen Mou felt more and more at ease. As for the missing ghost that the monks were worried about, he was not worried at all. The ghost had been destroyed by him long ago, but he could not tell the outside world about it.
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Many independent cultivators with strong self-control secretly decided to activate the protective formation in the courtyard residence to guard against the ghost that was said to have reached the first level of perfect cultivation and damaged the owner's short life. If the ghost entered the unprotected courtyard in the middle of the night,
, the only one who is unlucky is himself.
Walking into the Forging Arms Pavilion store, Chen Mou accepted the ancient jade and looked as usual as he bowed his hands to Shopkeeper Hong and said hello.
Shopkeeper Hong smiled and pretended that he didn't know anything, and even chatted for a while.
When they arrived at the blacksmithing room, Xue Biao was sweeping the yard. The two simply nodded as a greeting, and then they went about their own business without saying much.
Senior Brother Wan walked into the courtyard and gave Xue Biao a perfunctory greeting, saying, "Junior Brother Chen, the area in Dongfang is haunted. There was a lot of movement last night. Did you know?"
Chen Mou thought to himself, not only did I know, I was also haunted by a ghost.
He walked down the eaves steps and saluted, but before he could reply, he saw Master Zhong Shi Shiran appearing at the entrance of the courtyard. He hurriedly raised his hands to say hello to Master Zhong.
Master Zhong scolded Wan Lin for "making a fuss and not being steady" and walked into the drawing room in the middle of the east room.
After Chen Mou cleaned his hands, he followed in and closed the door.
Zhong Jin took the upper seat and motioned for Chen Mou to sit down as well, saying: "Last night, when I tortured the evil cultivator's remnant soul, he said that the female ghost he was raising was killed by someone unknown, which caused him to be caught off guard, and his soul was injured, so he did not dare to escape rashly.
, lurking in the residence, hoping to wait until late at night before escaping from the city, but they were surrounded and suppressed."
Chen Mou pretended to be surprised and didn't believe it: "The female ghost was killed?"
Zhong Jin said with a smile: "There is a hidden master in Fang City. Maybe he didn't see the arrogance of the female ghost, so he killed it casually. We are not in the position to investigate further. Don't tell anyone about this matter. Just know it yourself. It will take two days."
, the city will announce the news of the female ghost’s death.”
Chen Mou was very curious about how high the masters hidden in Fang City were?
Could it be that he is a monk in the Golden Core Realm?
How shameless to compete with his ancient jade.
"Thank you, Master Zhong. I will definitely keep my mouth shut and not spread any news."
Chen Mou answered with his hands raised, his face sincere.
The market suppressed the news of the female ghost's death for two days before announcing it, taking advantage of the situation and hoping to make a small fortune.
Zhong Jin took out a small cloth bag from his sleeve and pushed it to Chen Mou with a warm smile: "The three drawings you drew have been recognized and praised by the guests. The ninety spiritual stones in the bag are the reward you deserve."
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After a few words of evasion, Chen Mou happily accepted a bag of spiritual stones.
I sigh from the bottom of my heart that it feels so good to have money.
Zhong Jin did not stay long and let Chen Mou practice drawing in the room. He went out to the forging room opposite and left in a hurry, as if he had something urgent to do.
The next day, Chen Mou took a rest. Xue Biao, who started work on the same day as him, followed his style and postponed his rest for three days.
Chen Mou walked into the lobby on the first floor of the Foreign Affairs Office and paid all the rent for one year, the loan of five spiritual stones and the cost of using the advanced protective formation, a total of seventy-seven spiritual stones, and also calculated a martial virtue coin.
Interest.
As he wished, he took back the document with the bloody fingerprints and found that it was correct. Chen Mou briefly asked about the price of a courtyard near the foot of Fangshi Mountain. He was dumbfounded. No matter how bad a small courtyard was, it would cost at least sixty spiritual stones a year.
It’s so heartbreaking, there aren’t enough spiritual stones.
There are at least 30% fewer monks on the streets of Fangshi than usual.
……
Inside the Taoist Hall.
Affected by the evil cultivators, and thanks to the female ghost who had not yet been "killed", 50% more casual cultivators came to inquire than usual. They all had the same idea, use all the spiritual stones on hand, and learn more skills to protect people.
Body is not a bad thing.
Chen Mou followed the crowd and listened to all kinds of strange questions. Finally, he chose Master Zhang, who had perfected the Qi Refining Realm and majored in Fire Techniques, as his teaching mage to learn formal sound transmission techniques, Qi-gazing techniques, and breathing techniques.
magic and fire magic.
Choose Master Luo, who has perfected the Qi Refining Realm and majored in swordsmanship, as his swordsman to teach regular body movements and stance skills to improve his Nine Palaces swordsmanship.
In the Qi refining stage, due to limitations in mana, spell casting speed, etc., most monks will minor in swordsmanship, swordsmanship, marksmanship, and archery in order to improve their self-protection capabilities.
After delivering thirty spiritual stones and receiving a bronze medal with learning content engraved on it, Chen Mou only had two martial virtue coins left in his pocket.
You need to save money in the next two decades, otherwise you will really be wasted.
Every holiday, come to study in the morning and learn swordsmanship in the afternoon. Come to study once every ten days, for a total of one hundred and fifty days. After squeezing out the water, there are only fifteen days of study left. Regardless of whether you have learned it or not, it is basically
No credit or refund.
The waiter led him into the backyard and along the corridor on the right he found Master Zhang walking back and forth at the door of rows of rooms.
After checking the bronze medal, Master Zhang took Chen Mou into one of the empty rooms, added his name, date and the spells he practiced with a pen in the blank space of the door number, and told him that this small practice room would be his to use from now on until
End of term.
Chen Mou took a closer look and saw that there were more than ten names written densely on the house number, divided into morning and afternoon sessions.
After a simple test with the magic weapon, Master Zhang carefully asked Chen Mou about the exercises he practiced and what spells he had learned. When he learned that the newbie in front of him knew nothing but majoring in exercises, he directly taught the sound transmission.
He taught Chen Mou how to use Yuanli to gather sound, how to convey sounds and other practical skills.
This is the simplest spell. You can learn it by reading a few classics, spending three or two months thinking about it, and practicing on your own.
After spending a lot of time learning with spiritual stones, Chen Mou mastered the trick in less than an hour. Due to his low magic power, he could only transmit sounds about two feet away. In the future, as his cultivation and magic power increased, the sound transmission distance would also increase.
Master Zhang walked around outside for a few times and came back. He saw that Chen Mou had learned the sound transmission technique. After a test, he told him to practice it regularly and taught him the formal Qi-gazing technique. Compared with the wild ways that casual cultivators had figured out on their own, Master Zhang was incomparable.
Comparative advantages.
Before looking at qi, you must first sedate your eyes, concentrate your mind, and practice step by step, so that you can achieve the goal of "looking at qi, eliminating the false and retaining the true".
Otherwise, if you randomly learn the Qi-gazing technique discovered by casual cultivators and eliminate the intermediate steps of eye-catching or concentration, once you have learned the Qi-gazing technique, you will leave irreparable flaws in the future, and it will be too late to regret it.
Chen Mou sighed in his heart, he came to the right place, this spiritual stone is worth spending.
It would be better if the tuition fees could be cheaper.
He is now extremely poor, his eyes are green, and everything he sees looks like spiritual stones.
Chapter completed!