Chapter 45 Smoky Mountain
This market is on a small hill.
A wide road about ten feet wide runs from the bottom of the hill to the middle of the hill.
On both sides of the road are houses, which are densely packed and neatly arranged. There are nearly a thousand houses.
On the cliffs of the mountain, there are many excavated caves, some of which emit a faint light, which are obviously the caves of cultivators.
"Fang Yang, this is your first time here. Go to Yanyunfang to buy an identity jade slip first. With this jade slip, you can enter and leave Xiaoyun Market freely." Lu Xueshuang reminded with a smile.
"By the way, you must remember to find a place to live first. Changsheng Pavilion can rent temporary caves at a fair price. I will take you there first."
"Thank you, Fairy Lu."
Fang Yang and Lu Xueshuang are quite speculative. He feels that Lu Xueshuang is kind-hearted and can be a friend.
During the chat, we learned that although Lu Xueshuang's family is a cultivation family, since his grandfather, the only foundation-building cultivator in the family, died, the entire family has been declining.
The Lu family is now in a difficult situation.
Although Lu Xueshuang's cultivation is only in the middle stage of the sixth level of Qi training, she is already a second-level weapon refiner and is best at making armor.
The armor she made of animal skins is well-known in Xiaoyun Market.
If she could not earn spirit stones to support her family, I am afraid her family would have fallen and scattered long ago.
While talking, the two of them prepared an identity jade slip for Fang Yang in Yanyunfang.
This jade slip is white in color, exactly the same as the jade slip that Lu Xueshuang used to open the mist formation just now, except that Fang Yang's name is engraved on the back.
Lu Xueshuang then led Fang Yang to a loft next to a cliff.
The plaque on the loft was hung with the big characters "Changsheng Pavilion".
As soon as the two of them stepped into the attic door, an old man of the second level of Qi Refining came to greet them.
"It turns out to be Fairy Lu, you are finally here. This time, several cultivators came to ask when you will come to sell armor!" The old man greeted them with a smile.
"Thank you, Old Song. If it weren't for Old Song's recommendation, it wouldn't sell so well." Lu Xueshuang said with a smile.
"What kind of words are you talking about? If it weren't for your grandfather, Master Lu, who saved me, I'm afraid I would have died long ago." Old Song said with a smile. "By the way, who is this?" Old Song looked at Fang Yang and asked.
"This is Fang Yang, a cultivator from the Western Shu Kingdom, whom I met on the road. He is coming to Xiaoyunji for the first time and may have to stay for a while. I know that Old Song's Changsheng Pavilion is the most fair, so I brought him here."
Lu Xueshuang's mouth was as sweet as honey, making Old Song smile from ear to ear.
"Fang Xiaodaoyou, since you were introduced by Fairy Lu, I will do my best to give you the lowest price."
Old Song introduced the situation of Changsheng Pavilion here, "The temporary caves here are divided into long-term and short-term rentals. I wonder which one Fellow Daoist Fang would like to choose?"
"Is there any particularity?" Fang Yang asked.
"The temporary caves here are divided into three grades: upper, middle and lower. If you rent it short-term, the lower grade will cost 1 spirit stone per month."
"The middle grade will cost 10 spirit stones per month, and the upper grade will cost 100 spirit stones per month."
"If you rent it long-term, the lower grade will cost 8 spirit stones per year, the middle grade will cost 80 spirit stones per year, and the upper grade will cost 800 spirit stones."
Old Song introduced carefully and slowly.
"What are the differences between these caves? Why is the price difference so big?" Fang Yang also wanted to understand clearly.
"Of course there is a difference. Such distribution is also determined according to the richness of the spiritual energy in the spirit stone cave."
Old Song introduced without any boredom.
"The top-grade caves are all built on the spiritual veins with rich spiritual energy. Although the middle-grade caves are not on the spiritual veins, the spiritual energy is also high. The spiritual energy of the low-grade caves is very weak, and they are generally used as a place for cultivators to stay."
"Mr. Song, I'm still the same, a low-grade cave for one year." Lu Xueshuang said with a smile.
Since the death of her family's foundation-building ancestor, Lu Xueshuang has begun to earn spiritual stones by refining weapons.
She has several younger brothers in her family, and her father's spiritual roots are also poor. Now he is only at the fourth level of Qi training.
In order to support the family, she has to be extremely harsh on herself.
"Mr. Song, let me pay the rent for Fairy Lu. I want a middle-grade cave. Here are 88 spiritual stones. Please."
Fang Yang knew Lu Xueshuang's suffering, and immediately handed over 88 spiritual stones.
"How can this be done?" Lu Xueshuang said embarrassedly.
Fang Yang was worried about hurting Lu Xueshuang's self-esteem, so he smiled and said:
"First, thanks to Fairy Lu, this time I came out of the family to practice. If it weren't for Fairy Lu, I wouldn't even be able to find the door of the market."
"Second, after I refine the elixir and talisman, I will have to trouble Fairy Lu to help contact the buyer."
"Fang Daoyou is both a talisman maker and an alchemist?" Lu Xueshuang and Old Song exclaimed at the same time.
You know, although talisman makers and alchemists can earn a lot of spirit stones, they have to consume a lot of materials to succeed.
Not to mention that they can all practice alchemy and talismans together, they are basically geniuses.
They couldn't help but look up to Fang Yang a little more, and even secretly guessed that Fang Yang should be the core disciple of a large cultivation family, and this time he came out to practice.
What they didn't know was that Fang Yang could refine many elixirs regardless of cost because he had Qingyuan Fairy Mountain.
So it's not an exaggeration to say that Fang Yang became a talisman maker and an alchemist with spirit stones.
"Yes, it's just a fluke. The fairy is familiar with this city. I will have to trouble the fairy to make connections in the future." Fang Yangxiao said politely.
The reason why Fang Yang chose the middle-grade cave is because he felt that he was already at a bottleneck stage.
Moreover, his own qualifications are not good. If he wants to improve, he will certainly need a cave with better spiritual energy.
However, choosing a top-grade cave seemed too abrupt, and Fang Yang had left most of the spiritual stones at home, and it would take some time for the spiritual stones planted in the Qingyuan Immortal Mountain to be harvested.
"No problem, but if I buy elixirs and talismans from you in the future, remember to give me a discount."
Lu Xueshuang smiled and stuck out his tongue, looking very cute, obviously acquiescing to Fang Yang's help, and Lu Xueshuang's innocence and cuteness actually made Fang Yang's face turn red.
Mr. Song took two jade slips and distributed them to the two of them: "These are the jade slips used to control the formation outside the cave. Please keep them."
Fang Yang discovered that the runes on the jade slips of the middle-grade cave he was in were many times more complex than those of Lu Xueshuang.
"Mr. Song, Fellow Daoist Fang, I still have things to do, so I'm going to leave first." Lu Xueshuang left in a hurry.
Fang Yang took the formation jade slip and used the wind control spell to reach the Lingshi Cave located halfway up the mountain.
Following Mr. Song's instructions, Fang Yang input spiritual energy into the formation jade slips, and suddenly a ray of light led Fang Yang into the cave.
Fang Yang discovered that although this was a cave dug from the stone wall, there were three or four rooms with different purposes inside.
Luminous pearls hang from the roof, illuminating the entire room.
In the cave, all kinds of tables, beds and chairs are simple and plain, but they are all well-equipped.
"The middle-grade cave is not bad. It even has an alchemy room and a practice room. It also brings mountain spring water to the cave. You can even plant spiritual grass directly in the cave." Fang Yang is still quite satisfied with such a spiritual stone cave.
"But I heard that there is a spiritual spring in the top-grade cave. It is said that using it when refining elixirs can increase the rate of elixir formation. However, there is a spiritual spring in my Qingyuan Immortal Mountain, so this is not necessary."
Fang Yang first adjusted his breath in the practice room for a while to restore himself to the best condition, and then began to refine the elixir.
Along the way, I gained a lot because I had enough money to explore.
Moreover, Fang Yang has reached the sixth level of Qi training, and his skills have improved a lot, so Fang Yang has more expectations for this time.
The first level Spirit Gathering Pill, the first level Detoxification Pill, the second level Cloud Spirit Pill, the third level Fire Spirit Pill...
Fang Yang spent three months in seclusion to refine alchemy this time.
Now the success rate of Fang Yang's Spirit-Gathering Pill has increased to 80%, and the success rate of the second-level Yunling Pill is also about 50%.
As for the success rate of the third-level Fire Spirit Pill, it is about 30%. This result is enough to make many alchemists in the foundation building period stunned.
Of course, Fang Yang was able to achieve such achievements only because of the support of a large number of spiritual flowers and spiritual grass provided by Qingyuan Immortal Mountain.
He can refine it regardless of the cost.
You know, one day outside is equivalent to one year of spiritual grass growing in Qingyuan Immortal Mountain.
It took Fang Yang more than half a year to travel, which is equivalent to adding nearly 200 years of medicinal properties to the magical herbs in the fairy mountain.
There are also some low-level spiritual herbs that were planted a few years ago and now have medicinal properties that are close to a thousand years old.
However, Fang Yang didn't dare to take it out. After all, the spiritual herb with thousand-year medicinal properties was a hot commodity everywhere.
Even foundation-building monks and golden elixir monks would be very eager to get it, so Fang Yang did not dare to take it out, and would rather spend a lot of time refining low-level elixirs.
Fang Yang takes most of the elixirs himself, and only sells a small number of them.
After all, Fang Yang's spiritual roots were very low, and he couldn't improve his cultivation without enough elixirs.
At the same time, Fang Yang is not willing to let a large amount of pills flow into the market, otherwise interested people will definitely find out the secrets.
Every time Fang Yang sells elixirs, he goes through Lu Xueshuang.
Lu Xueshuang is very familiar with Yanyun Mountain. After all, her ancestor was also a foundation-building monk born and raised here. Although he died, many relatives and friends are still there, so most of them will give some thin noodles.
Therefore, Fang Yang's elixirs and talismans are sold at very high prices.
Of course, Fang Yang would always take out some spiritual stones as a reward for Lu Xueshuang. Over time, the two became not only business partners, but also good friends.
Fang Yang's white-skinned fire rhinoceros and other materials were given to Lu Xueshuang for processing.
Lu Xueshuang also specially used the white-skinned fire rhinoceros to refine armor for Fang Yang.
Lu Xueshuang also refined the armor into a medium-grade magic weapon by restraining the formation on the leather armor.
A spiritual energy shield is engraved on the front of the armor, an earth shield talisman is engraved on the back, and two wind control charms are engraved on both sides.
As long as it is worn, it will not only have amazing defense, but also double the speed. If it is put on the market, it will be sold for at least three to four hundred spirit stones.
Lu Xueshuang only asked for the cost price of two hundred spirit stones, which made Fang Yang very grateful.
Fang Yang also took the time to buy a spirit beast bag, which was specially prepared for Qian Duoduo.
Spring goes and autumn comes, and a year passes.
Fang Yang also gradually became familiar with Xiaoyun Market, and also met many low-level monks in the Qi training period.
These people were first introduced by Lu Xueshuang. When they first arrived, they were full of suspicion.
It wasn't until Fang Yang came up with a good quality pill that they felt relieved.
In addition, they often came to Fang Yang to buy elixirs, and they often discussed their cultivation experiences with Fang Yang, and over time they became familiar with him.
Interacting with them also allowed Fang Yang to learn a lot of knowledge about the world of cultivation, which can be said to have benefited a lot.
After a year, Fang Yang gradually gained a foothold in Xiaoyun Market.
Although Fang Yang's aptitude was very poor, with the unlimited supply of the third-level elixir Huoyun Dan, he was able to advance from the sixth level of Qi training to the seventh level of Qi training.