Chapter 28: The Fourth Level of Qi Practicing
Chapter 28 – Qi Practicing Fourth Layer
The next day.
Early in the morning, Li An and Tan Qingxue set off, the clan arranged for the spirit beast White Eagle to pick up and drop off, which saved the two from traveling.
The white eagle lifted its wings and flew out of the mountain gate, the wind whistling in its ears.
Li An suddenly remembered six years ago, when he walked through the rugged mountain road step by step and arrived at the Xuan Yang Sect’s mountain gate.
Now, leaving Xuan Yang Sect, the scenery was different.
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It was only in the evening that Li An and Tan Qingxue, saw a bustling marketplace built between mountain ranges.
The market is built on a secondary spiritual vein, and the traffic is very lively, ten miles away from the market in the periphery, encountered a lot of Xuan Yang Sect disciples patrolling around, see is the Xuan Yang Sect’s white eagle escort, did not stop, and then put into the market.
Li An can’t help but be a little wary, it seems that what Xu Qiuhui said is true, the security around the market is not so good.
However, the workshop market has a large array of protection, even if the robber cultivator does not dare to enter it, but it is safe.
At the entrance of the marketplace, Li An and Tan Qingxue got off the white eagle, and after checking their identity at the entrance, they entered the city.
The market is very lively, the traffic is very busy, all the people coming and going are cultivators.
Fu Hall’s store, in the center of the second street of the market, the location is very good, the front is also decorated quite high-end, the plaque is written in four big words: Xuan Yang talisman.
These four words were roughly equivalent to announcing to the world that this was the official store of the Xuan Yang Sect.
Tan Qingxue and Li An went up to the door, inside the talisman hall a young disciple was boredly guarding the counter, seeing that it was someone from the Xuan Yang Sect, he hurriedly and enthusiastically came forward:
“Two senior brothers and sisters, what do you need here? In the following talisman hall Xuan Yang sub rudder Li helmsman’s disciple, Wang Yun.”
Tan Qingxue said, “By order of the Rune Hall, I have come to take over from Rune Master Li, so please inform me.”
Wang Yun sniffed and hurriedly jogged inside in a burst.
Within a short time, an old Rune Master with a white beard and hair, had tremblingly walked out, excited beyond words, “The clan has finally graced me to go back to …… leave the Rune Hall for sixty years, great!”
He brought Tan Qingxue and Li An and walked around the store, telling both of them about the precautions.
Then rejoicing, he packed up his things and left overnight.
Inside the talisman hall, only Tan Qingxue, Li An, and a handyman Wang Yun remained.
The store wasn’t big, the front hall was where the goods were sold, and a small courtyard at the back for them to live in, compared to the environment of the talisman hall, it was a lot worse, but barely.
The operation mode of the spirit talisman store was not complicated, every month the clan side would send a batch of goods over, mainly spirit talismans, talisman pens, talisman paper and peripheral materials, etc., and Li An and the others were mainly responsible for selling out this batch of goods.
The price of this part of the goods are fixed, the income is also regularly paid to the sect, if the sales volume is high, there is a certain reward, and if the sales volume is insufficient, the monthly regulations will be deducted.
-But since the Xuan Yang Sect’s things were generally in short supply, there was no worry about selling them at all.
In fact, the Xuan Yang Sect didn’t rely on selling goods to make money either; the main income of the workshop market was rent.
Most of the stores in the market are rented by other surrounding Immortal Cultivation forces, and every month they need to pay the Xuan Yang Sect a considerable amount of rent, and just by relying on the rent, the Xuan Yang Sect can collect a large amount of spirit stones every month.
The reason why the stores were opened was just to maintain the popularity of the market. After all, other Immortal Cultivation forces, casual cultivators, etc., can buy things produced by Xuan Yang Sect here, it can increase the attractiveness of a lot.
Li An roughly calculated, here every month can earn a total of four pieces of spirit stones or so, food and drink, a should pay for themselves, compared to the charm hall within a lot worse, even free charm pen charm paper are no longer.
However, what makes him happy is that he can also make his own talismans for sale here, and this part of the income belongs to himself, without having to pay it in.
Soon, Tan Qingxue and Li An settled down to support the daily operation of the store.
After a brief period of depression, Tan Qingxue quickly rekindled her fighting spirit, as a first-rank upper-grade talisman master, in her first month, she had additionally refined two first-rank upper-grade talismans and ten first-rank middle-grade talismans, with her personal extra income reaching thirty spirit stones!
Li An also silently took out a lot of first-order low-grade talisman stocks, mainly fine talismans like flame talisman, cold wind talisman, and earth shield talisman, and sold more than twenty extra spirit stones.
Counting the costs, Li An was able to make a steady net profit of twenty spirit stones every month!
This speed made Li An very satisfied.
This made Tan Qingxue a little surprised, Li An s talisman making efficiency …… was obviously much higher than when he was in the talisman hall!
However, remembering what Xu Qiuhui had said about Li An, she didn’t show surprise and was silent about it, and even, took the initiative to look for Li An twice, giving Li An a detailed explanation of the main points of making a first-grade middle-order talisman.
Her enthusiasm and initiative made Li An quite surprised.
Tan Qingxue seemed to have become very sincere, and even when he deliberately kept his distance, she still cared about him very much, quite a bit of hot face on cold ass.
Li An did not reject this too much, nor did he take too much initiative, everything went with the flow.
In the blink of an eye, three months passed.
The Spirit Symbol Store was operating normally, and business was even better than before.
After all, Tan Qingxue and Li An, it could be said that they were both elites among talisman masters, and the talismans they produced were extremely popular.
In order not to delay their own and Li An cultivation, Tan Qingxue out of her own pocket, and collected two young people who know what they are doing to Wang Yun to bring, play the next hand, responsible for the sale of work.
Li An and she stayed behind the scenes, making talismans and cultivating at ease.
It was even more peaceful than when they were in the talisman hall.
All of this was just as Li An had expected.
…… Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, three years had passed.
On this day, Li An walked out of his residence, and he had a look of delight written all over his face.
Three years, finally breaking through to the fourth level of Qi Practicing!
Three years ago, he had been successful at the third level of Qi cultivation, but this step of the threshold, it actually took another three years to cross over.
After all, the first three layers of qi cultivation belonged to the early stage of qi cultivation, and after reaching the middle stage of qi refining, the difficulty of cultivation was completely different.
The upper limit of cultivation for a low grade yellow spiritual root is generally about the sixth level of Qi cultivation, and without chance, one would never reach the late stage of Qi refining in one’s life.
“The range of the Super Sense Skill, expanded to three hundred meters ……”
Li An muttered, as his cultivation level rose, the perception range of the Super Sense Skill also increased.
“The Iron Tree Decree practiced flesh into one third.”
These three years, he had been purchasing silver sand within the marketplace, and because of the richer source, there had been little shortage of it, and his arms and chest, had all been refined into a state of silver flesh.
It was possible to carry the attack of a mid qi cultivator!
“Three years, in addition to the cultivation rushes, as well as purchasing silver sand, medicinal liquids, talisman paper and talisman pens, etc., there are still more than three hundred Spirit Stones left ……”
Li An took stock of his current “savings” and was quite happy.
“I can also try to make a first rank upper grade talisman!”
In three years’ time, he had completely mastered the first-order mid-grade talismans and was comfortable with them.
Currently, there were still a hundred first-order mid-grade talismans in his hand!
Before he mastered the production of first-order upper-grade talismans, he would not let anyone know that he could refine first-order middle-grade talismans.
He would always keep a hand for himself.
He took out the Advanced Talisman Pen that Xu Qiuhui had gifted him three years ago!
The high-grade talisman pen, made of spiritual materials throughout, the main body of which was snow spirit bamboo, while the brush was made of first-order top-grade white crane fluff, was very refined and expensive, and a single pen would cost hundreds of spirit stones!
For Li An, this was a heavy gift.
Li An is clear, Xu Qiuhui should be able to see the Spirit Beast Mountain range that time some clues, guessed some, will send this kind of gift, quite some “entrusted” meaning, let Li An take care of Tan Qingxue.
Li An does not care about this, as long as the core interests are not jeopardized, can help, after all, and a future Foundation Stage cultivator to build a good relationship, it is worth it.
But if Tan Qingxue really want to make stupid mistakes, he is still the same principle: respect the fate of others.
The Advanced Talisman Pen was very, very light in his hand, making it difficult to grasp.
Among the goods sent by the Xuan Yang Sect to the store for sale, there were also advanced talisman papers, and over the past three years, Li An had bought one every now and then, and now had fifty-two of them saved up.
Spreading out the snow-white talisman paper, he held the talisman pen that was as light as a feather and gently inked it.
The brush had just fallen, and the talisman paper was destroyed!
It was too difficult to create a first rank upper grade talisman.
Li An was not discouraged and continued to drop his pen.
This night, Li An wasted more than thirty pieces of talisman paper with a zero success rate.
Even though Li An’s mental strength was very strong, he couldn’t help but feel sleepy, and he fell asleep.
The next day, he continued refining again, but today, with only four pieces of talisman paper left, he finally finished his last stroke and succeeded with one!
“A first rank upper grade talisman, a confinement talisman, it’s done!”
Li An was very excited, on the snow-white talisman paper, a symbol of a chain, as if it contained the aura of the Great Dao.
The success rate was miserable, fifty-three pieces of talisman paper, only one succeeded!
But, this is already very amazing, from the first order of the middle grade to the first order of the top grade, the gap between the two is difficult to cross, if there is no excessive talent, the general talisman masters are afraid that it will take more than ten years of time, spending sky-high prices of spirit stones, in order to be able to have a small success.
Li An was able to draw one with more than fifty pieces of talisman paper, which had even surpassed the success rate of a genius like Tan Qingxue when she was first learning.
This was mainly due to the strength of his spiritual power, as well as his experience in his previous life.
“The quality isn’t too high yet, it shouldn’t be useful against cultivators at the eighth or ninth level of Qi Refining, but it can have an effect on the seventh level of Qi Refining, and there’s a high probability that it can achieve true confinement at the sixth level of Qi Refining and below ……!”
Li An whispered.
Nowadays, his mental power could manipulate around twenty first-order mid-grade talismans at the same time.
Controlling someone with a confinement talisman, and twenty first-order middle-grade talismans blasting together, cultivators at the fifth or sixth level of Qi Refining would definitely be killed in seconds without treasures to defend themselves!
Putting away the spirit talisman, he began practicing the Water Arrow Art again!
Nowadays, he could send out thirty water arrows at once!
The control distance of the Star Mantle Dagger also reached one hundred meters.
In the next three months, Li An didn’t move, handled it himself, and bought another hundred high-level talismans from the store!
On this day three months later, Li An left the store.
After coming to the workshop for more than three years, he had basically mapped out the situation around him and could go do that.
Sell stolen goods!
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(End of chapter)