Chapter 11 Remaining Pictures
Five or six days passed in the blink of an eye. The Song family searched the area several times for the group of robbers, but found nothing. They could only report the matter to the nearby Huang family, a wealthy foundation-building family. Unexpectedly, the Huang family did not care about the matter. He just verbally comforted the Song family.
Unexpectedly, half a month later, another major incident occurred in Qinghe County. A Qi Refining monk from the Huang family was attacked and killed by robbers from Yingchao Ridge outside Qinghefang.
This has stirred up a hornet's nest. The Huang family is an old foundation-building family in Qinghe County. There are still three foundation-building monks in the family. It has been the largest immortal-cultivating family in Qinghe County for the past hundred years.
In the following days, several major foundation-building families in Qinghe County, headed by the Huang family, gathered dozens of law enforcement monks with great momentum and began a large-scale search for foreign and strange monks in Qinghe County. When the gangsters from the Eagle Nest Leader saw what had happened, they all chose to flee.
Foreign forces are killing people and seizing treasures outside Qinghefang. This will seriously affect the reputation of Qinghefang. Qinghefang is the foundation of many immortal cultivating forces in Qinghe County. The large and small cultivating families in Qinghe County all have some industries in Qinghefang. .
The major cultivating families showed extraordinary unity in the face of common interests. This operation not only captured and killed more than a dozen well-known gangsters, but also accidentally discovered that a store in Qinghefang had been colluding with the Yingchaoling gangsters all year round.
This store was originally run by a partnership of several veteran casual cultivators in Qinghe County. Driven by profit, they had been selling customer information to the Yingchao Ridge gangsters for a year.
This made several major foundation-building families extremely angry, and they once again joined forces with the stationed Xiaoyao Sect monks to conduct an inventory of all the major shops in the city. This caused Qinghefang to be in a state of turmoil for half a month, and then slowly... Restore its former prosperity.
In Lingyuan Mountain, Song Qingming, who had fully recovered, did not know what was happening outside. He spent more than ten days recovering from his injuries at home, and he did not have to go out to inspect the mines on a daily basis, which also made him rarely free.
At this moment, he was in the small room where he usually practiced, staring thoughtfully at a simple gray animal skin in his hand. There was also a delicate cyan jade box not far away.
This animal skin is only four or five inches in diameter. There are some pictures of mountains and rivers painted on the front, but it is very incomplete, and there is no clue at all. On the back, there are several pictures of immortal energy and floating clouds, and there are several unknown magic spells engraved on it, which are also incomplete. thing.
Speaking of the origin of this residual picture, we have to go back to the cave where Song Qingming almost died a few days ago.
On that day, Song Qingming hid in the waste soil in the cave to deceive Zhu Wu, and his body happened to be pressed on the jade box. After Zhu Wu left, Song Qingming climbed out of the mound, and by the way, he also took this little thing that had made him sick for a long time. I dug it out and saw that the jade box outside was very beautiful, so I put it in the storage bag and brought it back.
It wasn't until more than ten days later that Song Qingming, who was too bored, remembered that he thought the jade box might contain some kind of treasure, but he didn't expect it to be a broken picture that he couldn't understand at all, which really disappointed him.
"This jade box is quite beautiful. You can exchange it with the second sister for a few Qi Refining Powders, or it would be good to keep it for decoration."
"As for this broken picture"
Song Qingming raised his hand and threw the picture into the air, and released a fireball with his left hand.
After a burst of flames, what he didn't expect was that the animal skin remains intact, without any change.
Could it be that this picture is not a mortal object, but a spiritual object? Even if the spiritual object is placed in the flames, it will not change at all. Could it be that it is a high-level magic weapon?
"That's all, let's take it to Uncle Jiu tomorrow."
With a surprised look on his face, Song Qingming carefully put away the remaining pictures and put them back into the jade box.
The next morning, after inspecting the mine early in the morning, Song Qingming came to Song Changxin's small building.
Song Changxin looked at the gray residual picture and thought for a while before speaking:
"Look, this should be a fragment of a broken magic weapon. I also saw similar things in the nearby market when I was training in Ziyun Mountain. The magic weapon is a powerful magic weapon that can only be refined by the Danjie monks. Even if it is a The fragments are also much tougher than ordinary magic weapons."
"Such incomplete objects can be exchanged for a few spirit stones, which can be used as high-level materials to be refined into new magic weapons. I think someone must have deliberately painted these patterns on them to disguise them as treasures hidden by senior monks. "There are often people in the market using this thing to deceive you, the immature people who have just entered the world."
Song Qingming, who left Song Changxin's residence, was still calm. This thing was picked up by accident. Although it was not a high-level magic weapon, it was already worth a few spiritual stones.
He did not intend to sell it in the market. After experiencing life and death, Song Qingming urgently needed to arm himself.
"Although this residual diagram has no other use, it is very tough. Find a robe and sew it on the key points. Maybe you can save your life at a critical moment. In cultivating immortals these days, life-saving means are the most important thing."
Song Qingming returned to his residence, dug out the shabby cassock he had worn before, sewed the broken picture on his chest, and wore it as underwear on the inside of his cassock.
At night, after another boring day of practice, Song Qingming sat down cross-legged and began to practice "Kun Yuan Jue" as usual.
It has only been more than half a year since Song Qingming broke through to the fourth level of Qi Refining. With his qualifications of the Four Spiritual Roots, he is still far away from reaching the fifth level of Qi Refining in normal cultivation. If he wants to take pills to save training time, his whole body now only costs more than a dozen yuan. It is even more impossible to owe Uncle Thirteen and the others more than twenty spiritual stones.
Just when he was halfway through practicing, he felt a sense of overflowing spiritual energy in his body, which made him instantly feel confused.
"On weekdays, it takes three or four hours of meditation to fully recover the spiritual energy. Today, it only took an hour, but the spiritual energy in my Dantian was already overflowing."
Feeling the same thing, Song Qingming hurriedly entered meditation and used his spiritual consciousness to check for any strangeness in his body.
"I haven't broken through in cultivation yet, so how come I am absorbing spiritual energy so much faster? What's going on?"
"Could it be."
Song Qingming took off his outer robes and started to use the "Kun Yuan Jue" to absorb the surrounding spiritual energy. Suddenly, a faint white light emitted from his chest, and the spiritual energy in his body circulated several times faster than usual.
After repeated twists and turns, Song Qingming finally confirmed the cause of the abnormality in his practice, which was found in the residual diagram he had sewn on his chest today.
"This residual image can actually affect the speed at which I absorb spiritual energy. This is a bit amazing."
It seems that this thing is not like the magic weapon fragment that Uncle Jiu mentioned, and I don’t know what it is.
A month later, Song Qingming, who was nestled in his room, was looking at the two complete sets of low-grade formations in his hands with satisfaction.
The speed of recovering spiritual energy was inexplicably accelerated, so that the injury that should have healed him in a month was basically healed in less than half a month, which was beyond Song Qingming's expectation.
Especially because of the trauma to his consciousness caused by excessive consumption of spiritual energy, he would have pain in his brain from time to time. Song Changxin said that it would take half a year to slowly recover.
In the past few days, he has felt that most of the consciousness in his body has recovered. He has tried several spells that consume more spiritual energy, but the previous tingling sensation has not returned.
At this time, Song Qingming slowly felt a little frightened. This residual picture was probably not a simple treasure. Apart from several pills that helped restore spiritual energy, Song Qingming had never heard of any spiritual objects that could speed up the recovery of spiritual energy.
If other monks discover its use, the Song family will definitely not be able to protect themselves. I am afraid that those high-ranking foundation-building monks will be jealous of this thing.
Although Song Qingming stayed in the room all day, he did not dare to use the residual pictures too much to practice. Fortunately, when this residual image is used, it will not cause much noise, and it will only emit the white light that ordinary magic weapons can emit. It is sewn on the inner shirt. When practicing, you will not notice anything unusual when you wear the cassock outside, and it will not attract ordinary people's attention.
Recovering spiritual energy at several times the speed allowed Song Qingming to make a set of formations in three months in the past, and now he can complete one set in one month. If there are enough materials, at this speed, he can pay off Uncle Thirteen and the others this year. of spiritual stones.
After more than a month of thinking, Song Qingming gradually saw a business opportunity. Although the residual pictures on his body did not greatly improve his usual practice speed, it could help him greatly save time on practice and meditation, giving him several times the time to concentrate on making formations. .
A normal monk would spend four or five hours a day meditating and cultivating to restore his spiritual energy. Now he can almost complete it in one hour. The spiritual energy consumed in making the formation is several times more than usual.
The key is that he has no materials on hand now, and the seven or eight spirit stones left on him are barely enough for his daily practice. Excluding the mid-grade flying sword he purchased last time, there are only these two sets in the storage bag. The formations were worth some money, so he had to find a way to go to the market again and exchange these two sets of formations for spiritual stones to buy new talisman-making materials. "
Song Qingming understands that the biggest disadvantage of an array master is that making arrays is too time-consuming. Making a set of low-level arrays without delaying the training time usually takes about three months to complete.
Excluding the cost of materials, a set of low-level formations can only earn four or five spiritual stones. Fortunately, making formations generally does not waste materials. Compared with the higher-risk talisman making, alchemy, and Qi refining, the income is relatively high. Stablize.
However, after the last attack, the elders of the clan told him that Song Qingming could not travel far away alone within a year. This also caused a big difficulty in his plan to make money. The materials used for the formation in Song Qingming's hands came from Song Changxin. I entrusted him to help buy it during the market.
After being injured last time, the elders of the clan were also worried that his spiritual injury had not fully recovered, and something might happen if he went out alone. For a weak cultivating family like the Song family, every cultivator is very important to the family, and low-level cultivators cannot be allowed to If you take too many risks, you can only make more contributions to the family by ensuring that the young monks in the clan grow up as much as possible.
But they didn't know that Song Qingming's consciousness had almost recovered a long time ago. Song Qingming did not dare to reveal the special abilities of the residual map, nor did he dare to explain his injuries to them. He could only wait patiently for other opportunities to go to Fangshi.