Stories from the Fourth World 44(1/2)
After Su Hang successfully broke through the second level of Qi training, he rested on the spot for a few days. While consolidating his cultivation, he learned the remaining three lower-level spells in the "Five Elements Magic": Water Arrow Technique, Vine Technique and Wood Armor Technique.
This water arrow technique is similar to the fireball technique, but it shoots a water arrow very fast and makes people unable to guard against it. The vine technique grows a group of vines in the ground to wrap around the enemy.
The last Wood Armor Technique is undoubtedly the most practical. Although it consumes a lot of spiritual power, after it is released, a green light armor will be generated around the body to protect the torso. The disadvantage is that it can only protect the torso, and the limbs and head cannot be defended.
There are only a few spells in "Five Elements Spells". After Suhang learns them, he only needs to practice more and master them. There is no way to learn them for the time being.
However, Su Hang thought about what the book said, that miscellaneous spells are worse than fine ones. The current spells are enough. He only needs to improve his cultivation level, and the power of the spells will naturally increase.
Three days later, at noon, the fog in the Danxia Mountains gradually dissipated, but Suhang discovered that there seemed to be traces of someone walking ahead, and a mountain trail appeared in front of Suhang.
Have you left the Danxia Mountains yet? I don’t know where this road leads. To be cautious, Suhang decided to let Xiaoqing hide on his body first to avoid causing unnecessary trouble. At the same time, Xiaoqing hid in his sleeve.
If you encounter a bad person, you can also catch him off guard.
During this time, Xiaoqing and I were together day and night, and the two of them had the same feelings. Suhang waved and opened his sleeves. Xiaoqing turned into a ray of green light and disappeared into the cuffs, and wrapped it around Suhang's right arm, which made Suhang curious.
Yes, Xiaoqing has not eaten less during this period, and her body shape has not changed. Even if it is wrapped on her arm, there will be no abnormality in Suhang's movements.
After seeing Xiao Qingzang, Su Hang walked along the mountain road. Previously, he planned to see where this road led.
With the blessing of the Light Body Technique, Su Hang walked very quickly. After walking about two miles, he saw a young man about his own age appearing from another side of the road.
The other party seemed to notice that someone was watching him and turned around to look at Suhang. Then he waved with some joy and shouted from a distance, "Brother, where are you going at this time? If you plan to go to Yuxifang, why don't you and I do it together?"
Will you go with me, companion?"
Su Hang thought about where this Yuxi Fang was, and was it dangerous for this person to be so enthusiastic when they first met? But he also thought that although he was alone, he was already a Qi practitioner on the path to immortality, and he had Xiao Qing as his successor.
Why don't you exchange information about this place with this person?
Thinking of this, Su Hang replied: "I don't know what my brother's name is, and where is this Yuxifang?"
"I also heard from my family that Yuxifang is the largest city in the Danxia Mountains. Along the mountain road, there is a valley to the north of Yuxi. The mouth of the valley is shrouded in fog. Even if the fog from Danxia Mountain dissipates at noon, there will be no
Come on, this is Yuxifang. My name is Chen Nan. The elders in my family are doing talisman and seal business in Yuxifang, and they are planning to join their elders." After hearing Suhang's inquiry, the young man said a lot.
Su Hang was overjoyed. This young man exposed a lot of information at once. Although he was stupid, he seemed to be a cultivator of immortality, and he should have inherited the practice in his family. He happened to know nothing, so he could use some words to do it.
Next step.
Su Hang walked over but didn't get too close, leaving himself room to react.
The young man opposite didn't seem to notice his little move. Instead, he looked at Su Hang with a smile, "Brother, have you experienced a battle?"
Su Hang then remembered that the clothes he wore when he fled from Jinta City into the mountains had become tattered and torn as he climbed and rolled in the mountains. He couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, "Brother Chen laughed, these days
It's a bit embarrassing to eat and sleep in the mountains, but I hope you don't blame me for being rude."
The young man was stunned and realized that it seemed inappropriate to ask such a thing in front of others. He quickly waved his hand, "No, no, brother, where are you? I'm just curious that brother has actually fought against monsters. I have been practicing in the family."
, I have never had the opportunity to fight against a demon."
Only then did Su Hang realize that this young man was full of spiritual energy and actually had the fourth level of Qi training, two levels higher than himself.
"It's okay. Brother Chen has a high level of cultivation. It's just a coincidence that I embarked on the path of cultivation. I know very little about this practice. I hope Brother Chen can explain it to me. I'm very grateful." Su Hang learned before.
The compliments I saw coming from people who came to visit my father.
Sure enough, this Chen Nan seemed to be new to the world. Su Hang complimented him a few times and then smiled happily, "Brother Ren turns out to be a casual cultivator. Don't worry, I will tell you everything."
In this way, the two of them started chatting while walking. Rather than talking, it was more like Su Hang asking and Chen Nan answering, but Su Hang interspersed some compliments, which made both of them happy.
Su Hang asked a lot of important information from Chen Nan: It turns out that the deeper you go in the Danxia Mountains, there will be monsters living, and in the entire Danxia Mountains, there are actually many small cultivating families living on the top of the mountain, each making a living.
The origin of this Immortal Cultivator family is actually some people in the Immortal Cultivator sect. There was no hope of advancement in cultivation, so they went down the mountain to get married and tried to cultivate the cultivation and growth of their descendants.
Because spiritual cultivation requires spiritual roots, it is easy for people who cultivate immortality to combine and give birth to offspring with spiritual roots. Without a family or sect, people who happen to have spiritual roots to practice by relying on some scattered exercises are casual cultivation.
Most practitioners have no family or sect, and some are excluded from the sect, or those who have failed in their family practice alone.
Su Hang recalled the description of the realm of cultivation in his "Qingyun Qi Lian Jue", which only reached the golden elixir, so he asked Chen Nan about it.
Chen Nan also informed that immortal cultivators are divided according to their realms: Qi training, foundation building, elixir formation, which is also called golden elixir, Nascent Soul, and deity transformation. Chen Nan didn’t know what to do next. But Chen Nan told Su Hang that throughout the
There are no Nascent Soul stage monks in Daqian. I heard that the heads of the seven major sects are only in the Pill Formation stage. Being able to build a foundation and form a pill is a great blessing. Ordinary cultivating families don’t even have foundation building monks.
According to Chen Nan, the lifespan of a cultivator is closely related to the realm of cultivation. The higher the realm, the longer the lifespan. It is rare in the world for a mortal to live to be a hundred years old. And the lifespan of a monk after successful foundation building is
For more than 200 years, if you are lucky enough to become the Golden Core Master, your life span will be extended to more than 500 years. It is said that the life span of the Nascent Soul Master is more than a thousand years.
Suhang could not help but yearn for it. No one could resist the temptation of immortality.
"Brother Ren, I wonder if you have a spirit stone? I heard that when entering Yuxi Fang for the first time, you need to hand in a spirit stone to the city manager in exchange for a voucher, and then you don't need to hand it in again. After all, there are three managers of Yuxi Fang.
Foundation-building monks, we are not allowed to fight in the monastery in order to protect everyone's safety." Chen Nan thought of something, turned his hand over, and found a small earth-yellow stone in the palm of his hand.
Su Hang took a closer look and realized that the pile of stones in the storage bag he had obtained from You Mingzi turned out to be spiritual stones.
Chen Nan also informed that gold and silver are no longer used in transactions between cultivators. The currency used for transactions is the spirit stone. Spirit stones can be used for both cultivation and formation, so transactions are made with spirit stones.
currency.
During the conversation, the two came to a valley. The valley was blocked by fog and it was impossible to see clearly what was inside. This fog was different from the fog in the Danxia Mountains. It was thicker and unnatural.
Chen Nan saw the place and took out a talisman from his body, "Brother Ren, wait a moment, this is the magic circle of Yuxifang. I will use this transmission talisman to notify the people in the square, and someone will open the array to guide us.
Go in." He said and threw the talisman into the air, and it flew into the mist and disappeared.
After a while, the thick fog at the entrance of the valley rolled and parted, forming a path.
"Let's go." Chen Nan seemed to see that Su Hang was worried, so he took the lead to step forward. Su Hang thought for a while, with Chen Nan's cultivation level, if he wanted to harm himself, he would have done it long ago. There is no need.
He arranged such a big scene for himself, and during the conversation along the way, Chen Nan seemed to be a nice person. Then he stepped in.
The road that seemed very far was not long. It took only a moment to reach the end of the road. When he walked out of the intersection, he found a small wooden house. Chen Nan was waiting for him there. Looking at the scenery in the valley, it was like another village with dark flowers and dark flowers.
The whole place is very large, with various pavilions made of carved railings and jade. The streets are criss-crossed, and many people come in and out. There is an open space in the distance, and many vendors set up stalls in the open space. It turns out that the same is true for cultivators and mortals.
Ah, they all require transaction and communication, which broke Suhang's previous assumptions.
"Brother Ren, come here quickly. You need to apply for a voucher here when you enter the city for the first time." Chen Nan called Su Hang next to the cabin.
Su Hang then retracted his gaze and walked towards the wooden house. Inside the house was a middle-aged man wearing a Taoist robe and asked, "What's your name? No matter how big the hatred is in Yuxifang, you can't take action. If you want to go out and fight on your own, you can't commit any crime."
If you want to set up a stall, you still need 10 spiritual stones per month."
Su Hang quickly waved his hand, took out a spiritual stone from his arms and handed it to the middle-aged Taoist: "In the next term, Ping'an, I came to Yuxifang for the first time. I am a casual cultivator. I won't set up a stall for the time being. I also asked my seniors to help me register.
"Su Hang was worried that his real name might make him an enemy, so he wanted to change his name at random, but then he remembered that he had told Chen Nan his last name, so he wrote down Ren Ping'an as his pseudonym to the person who registered him, hoping that he would have a safe road to immortality.
The middle-aged man looked at Su Hang, then took out an iron plate and pinched a spell that Su Hang couldn't understand with one hand, put the spell into the iron plate, collected Su Hang's spirit stone, and handed the iron plate to him.
For Suzhou and Hangzhou, there is only the word "Yuxi" on the iron plate.
When Chen Nan saw that Su Hang had obtained the certificate, he cupped his fists and said, "Since Brother Ren has already registered, I will go to the family elders to meet them first. If Brother Ren wants to find me, he can go to Chen's Talisman in Fangshi."
Zhuan, my shop is over there."
Su Hang hurriedly cupped his fists and returned the greeting, "Brother Chen helped me clear up my doubts along the way. I'm very grateful. It's a big deal to meet the elders. Brother Chen, please do me a favor. I can just walk around the market by myself."
After Chen Nan left, Su Hang walked into Fangshi alone. He just saw a lot of people setting up stalls in the open space, so he decided to go here first.
There are quite a few people at the sparse stalls in the open space. Some are squatting on the ground and bargaining with the stall owners, while others are making deals. The comings and goings are no different from ordinary business transactions.
Originally, he thought that his outfit was already very shabby, but he didn't expect that the immortal cultivator's outfit was an eye-opener for Su Hang. He was actually not that bad, and there were still people who were shirtless.
Su Hang walked in and found that these stalls sold everything. Some sold exercises and spells, some sold elixirs, talismans, and seals. There were also some weapons that had vague spells floating on them. Could these be magic weapons?
There are also some who sell materials directly, including a dazzling array of metals, medicinal materials, monster teeth, fur, flesh and blood that glow with spiritual light.
"You're a profiteer, you actually sold me fake goods, give me back the spirit stone!" From a stall in front, a big man shouted to a girl in the stall, who seemed to have been deceived.
"I paid with one hand and delivered the goods with the other. As I said before I sold it to you, I found the jade slips in an abandoned cave. I couldn't remove the restrictions on the jade slips so I couldn't sell them. Yesterday you sold the jade slips.
Jane bought it back, and today she said that my aunt was selling fake goods. Who knows if you secretly changed the items to throw some dirt on my aunt!" Not to be outdone, the stall owner replied with his hands on his hips, showing no mercy at all.
In the distance, one or two young monks who were dressed exactly like the middle-aged people charging at Fangshikou saw the situation here and hurried over.
"You are not allowed to do anything in the market. Transactions are all voluntary. Regardless of whether it is true or false, it is all a matter of your own eyesight. You must not cause commotion in the market!" The two people who came said to the big man.
The big man was furious but he didn't dare to take action, so he turned around and left. When Su Hang saw this, he understood that these two people should be the city managers responsible for maintaining public order.
The commotion caused by the big man did not alarm other people, and they seemed to be used to it. It seemed that there was no discernment when buying things at this stall, and there was nothing they could do if they were tricked. Su Hang decided not to buy anything for the time being, and wait until he got familiar with it.
After looking at the situation, he found that there were only seventy-five spiritual stones in the bag left by You Mingzi. He had used one when he entered Fangshi before, and there were seventy-four left, so don't use them for the time being.
Su Hang then remembered that the items in the girl's stall were a few jade tablets, which were similar to the three jade tablets in his storage bag. From what they said, they seemed to be called jade slips, not just what?
In order to find out the use of the jade slips, Su Hang came to the stall, squatted down and pretended to be curious and asked, "What is the girl doing now?"
The female stall owner who was angry before immediately smiled like a flower and said, "Brother, this is a jade slip. Some high-value exercises will not be recorded on paper. This jade slip is a carrier of the exercises. You only need to
You can use your spiritual mind to penetrate the jade slip to obtain the skills inside. My jade slip was a treasure that I brought out after narrowly avoiding death when I was exploring a cave. However, it is restricted. My cultivation level is low and I cannot open it. Otherwise, I would not be able to open it easily.
Sell it, how about it, little brother, I think your aura seems to be "Qingyun Qi Lianjue", how can this street stall skill match yours? It only requires fifty spirit stones. You can buy the jade slip back and ask for it again.
A formation mage can break the restriction and have a top-notch skill!"
Su Hang was shocked when the female stall owner revealed the name of the technique. However, after thinking about it, it seemed that "Qingyun Qi Lian Jue" was indeed a popular product, otherwise it would not have been recognized by others. Listening to the technique described by this girl
, was a little excited, but then she thought about it, if it was really so convenient, why didn't she break the restriction herself? It seemed that there was indeed a trap. Now that she knew how to use the jade slips, she could see what the three jade slips in the storage bag were.
I’ll make plans for what exercises to do.
To be continued...