Chapter 59: The Misty Maze
Chapter 59 – Misty Hidden Maze
“I have occasionally gained something in the past two days when I was a cultivator, and I was lucky enough to step into the ranks of the middle-ranked Qi Practicing Cultivators.”
Lu Xuan said with a self-respecting smile.
“You kid is not bad.”
The thin old man sighed in admiration, and his words changed.
“If you are at the fourth level of Qi Practicing cultivation, the spiritual energy in your body can still be enough to plant more Spirit Glow Grass.”
“At that time, I will mention it for you, so that you can get some more Spirit Glow Grass or other spirit plant seeds.”
“Thank you Elder He.”
Lu Xuan smiled as he expressed his gratitude to the thin old man.
“That’s by your own ability, if you didn’t have that handful of ability to cultivate high-quality spirit plants, and if your cultivation wasn’t at the middle level of Qi Practicing, I wouldn’t have been able to do anything even if I said the sky was broken.”
“However, your growth is indeed a bit out of my expectation.”
“I remember that when you first came into the Hundred Herb Hall, you were still just a loose cultivator at the second level of Qi Practicing, and after you broke through to the third level of Qi Practicing, your talent in cultivating Spiritual Plants was also revealed, and now you’ve even become a cultivator at the middle level of Qi Practicing.”
Steward He didn’t know what came to his mind, and his expression corrected.
“The fact that your cultivation breakthrough is so rapid shows that your talent in cultivation is quite okay, and with your current cultivation at the middle level of Qi Practicing, you also have the courage to go into those low level secret realms, and your safety can still be greatly guaranteed.”
“In that case, it might be possible to obtain some kind of chance and soar to the heavens.”
“So, do you want to continue to be a Spirit Plant Master willingly, or do you want to not waste this talent and cultivate hard to compete for the chance?”
Lu Xuan let out a bitter smile.
“Steward He, I still have self-knowledge.”
“Being able to quickly break through to the fourth level of Qi cultivation doesn’t mean that my cultivation talent is good, I’m just taking advantage of the situation.”
“In order to make the spiritual energy in my body more abundant, and to be able to perform more techniques to cultivate spiritual plants, the spirit stones I exchanged from selling the spiritual plants before were all used to purchase first-grade elixirs that can accelerate my cultivation.”
“It was only after taking them continuously for a long period of time that I was able to break through to the fourth level of Qi cultivation.”
“The higher up you go, the less effective the first-grade pills become, and the rate of rise in cultivation will slow down in the future.”
“Moreover, I have empty spiritual power in my body, one is not skillful in arts, and the other does not have a powerful magic weapon, so I don’t have the means to go to the secret realm and compete with others for the chance.”
The white light mass involved too much and was difficult to tell, so even though he had great trust in Steward He, he didn’t truthfully tell the truth about his true strength.
“That would be a bit of a shame.”
“I had thought that you are young and the road ahead can’t be seen to the end at a glance, it’s not bad to go out and see the world.”
“Now it seems that honestly cultivating spirit plants and spending your life peacefully is also a good choice.”
Steward He sniffed and sighed, feeling sorry for Lu Xuan.
Lu Xuan kept the old man’s concern for himself in his heart and sat there for a while longer before saying goodbye and leaving.
On the streets of the marketplace.
Buildings lined up on both sides, all kinds of stores were available, and it was very lively.
Lu Xuan arrived in front of one of the tallest buildings.
The building was four storeys high, constructed from heavenly spirit wood, the roof was covered with green colored glazed tiles, and in the middle of the building were three big words written in dragon and phoenix: Ten Thousand Treasures Building.
This was the most famous store in the marketplace, and inside there were all sorts of cultivation treasures, as long as you had enough spirit stones, even if it was needed by a Foundation Establishment cultivator, you could buy it.
Lu Xuan followed the cultivator in front of him into the building.
There were twenty to thirty cultivators in the hall, and the counters were filled with a wide array of magic weapons, talismans, pills, and so on that made one’s eyes glaze over.
Seeing Lu Xuan enter and look around, a young girl welcomed him.
“This Taoist friend, have you come to the Ten Thousand Treasures Building less often? You can tell me what you need, and I’ll take you, fellow Daoist, to take a look.”
“Yes, please, take me to the array type counter and walk around.” Lu Xuan nodded, it was indeed his first time entering the Ten Thousand Treasures Building.
In the past, when he was still a small loose cultivator at the second level of Qi Practicing, he was in dire straits and had not thought of entering the Ten Thousand Treasures Building to buy anything at all.
The back of the spirit field divine white light group appeared, the body is also up and down, the biggest demand for spirit species also has the supply of the Hundred Herb Hall, Wanbao Building will not appear in the unknown spirit species, therefore, until now, want to buy a good point of the protective formation, only to enter the Wanbao Building.
“Fellow Daoist, this is the formation type counter in the hall on the first floor, there are dozens of formations with different functions, offensive formations, maze formations, concealment formations, defense formations and so on.”
The clear-cut young girl brought Lu Xuan to a relatively remote location with an eager smile.
“Introduce me to a few defense formations.”
Lu Xuan said.
“Defense formations, may I ask if you, Daoist, need a first-grade or second-grade one?”
“Second grade.”
First grade formations were effective for cultivators of the lower levels of qi cultivation, but if they bumped into cultivators of the middle levels of qi cultivation, they were average, and if the cultivator still had formation-breaking talismans, magic weapons, and so on in their hands, they were even more fragile and vulnerable.
“Good.”
The smile on the face of the young girl was even greater, for the cultivator, the demand for formations was not very large, if she was able to sell a second-grade formation, she could get a substantial commission.
“This is a chaotic stone formation, known for its defense, if a cultivator invades, he can also control the boulders inside the formation to attack the other party.”
“This is the Wooden Cage Formation, it needs to be set up in an environment where there are special spirit trees growing, it can trap the cultivators who are blocking the entry into the formation.”
“This is the Misty Hidden Maze Formation, the defense is quite good inside the second grade formation, another iteration of a maze formation, after the cultivator enters, his spiritual sense will be affected by the mist inside the formation, and he will easily be trapped inside.”
“This is ……”
……
The clean-cut young girl pointed to the array disk inside the counter, the array flag, and introduced it in detail for Lu Xuan.
“The Chaotic Stone Formation has a certain attacking ability, but it requires the cultivator behind it to actively control it, while the Wooden Cage Formation requires a high level of environment and is not very suitable to be set up outside the courtyard.”
Lu Xuan weighed his options and asked, pointing at one of the mist-filled formation disks.
“How much does this Misty Concealment Formation sell for?”
“One hundred and sixty-five spirit stones.”
“How about one hundred and thirty spirit stones?” Lu Xuan knew that this price was already considered quite affordable, but his long-standing personality had caused him to habitually slash it by a large margin.
The clear-cut girl smiled and shook her head, indicating her refusal.
In the end, Lu Xuan wore out his mouth before he managed to slash off ten spirit stones with difficulty, buying that Misty Hidden Maze for one hundred and fifty-five spirit stones.
“Luckily, that masked cultivator sent over eighty spirit stones in time, or else his fortune would have shrunk by more than half in one go.”
Lu Xuan swept a glance at the nearly two hundred or so Spirit Stones left in his storage bag, and added one more point of gratitude to the masked cultivator who had already fused with the Spirit Soil.
“By the way, do you have the blood of snake or jiao dragon type demonic beasts here, preferably fresh ones.”
After paying for the spirit stones, Lu Xuan asked the clean-cut girl.
“Demonic beast blood then …… usually only those demonic beast species that contain a strange existence in their blood inside, the materials that can be sold on snake type demonic beasts are basically snake skin, scale armor, snake venom and all of these, there is no snake type demonic beast blood as far as I can remember.”
The clean-cut young girl thought back for a moment and showed an apologetic face.
“Fellow Daoist wait a moment, if there is an urgent need, you can reserve a portion of spirit stones in the Ten Thousand Treasures Building, and the building will see if it can find what you need by mobilizing resources in other cities and workshops.”
“It’s just that the spirit stones paid in this way will be one or two percent higher than buying directly.”
“If the agreed period is not there, the spirit stones will all be returned to you, Daoist.”
Seeing Lu Xuan’s intention to leave, the clear-cut young girl called out to him, making a suggestion for Lu Xuan to choose from.
(End of chapter)