Chapter 75 – New Changes to the Imperial Spirit Tower
Chapter 75 – New Changes to the Imperial Spirit Tower
After leaving Chen Qingqing’s residence, Shen Long Royal Weapon came to the Free Trade Valley.
He arrived at the Golden Toad Building, and after slightly outwardly releasing his Foundation Establishment Stage aura, a tall, blue-shirted man walked over quickly.
“Disciple Chen Hai, I don’t know what I can do for senior uncle?”
The blue-shirted man said enthusiastically.
“I want to purchase magic weapons and second-order talisman seals, and I heard that Golden Toad House has good stuff, so I came here to take a look.”
Shen Long said.
He didn’t know if there were any second-order demonic beasts on the second level of the Royal Spirit Tower, and he intended to purchase defense-type magic weapons to protect his body, as well as to prepare for the trip to Zhao.
“Senior uncle came just in time, a new batch just arrived a few days ago, please follow me.”
Chen Hai brought Shen Long to a secret room.
As soon as Shen Long sat down, a green-shirted attendant walked in, put down a cup of fragrant tea and left.
“I don’t know how to address senior uncle? This is our store’s catalog of magic weapons, and also the catalog of talisman seals, senior uncle check it out.”
Chen Hai took out a blue light flickering magic disk and handed it to Shen Long.
Shen Long carefully examined it, top-grade magic weapons were indeed expensive, the better ones cost three to four thousand spirit stones, a second-stage talisman seal cost hundreds of spirit stones at least, thousands more, and talisman treasures cost tens of thousands.
He picked a top-grade magic weapon Shi Shui Lock and a second-order talisman seal Five Elements Demon Trapping Talisman, Shi Shui Lock was a defense magic weapon and sold for four thousand spirit stones, and Five Elements Demon Trapping Talisman cost two thousand spirit stones each.
With these two items, even if there were second-order demonic beasts on the second floor of the Royal Spirit Tower, Shen Long was not afraid.
“I want the Shi Shui Lock and a Five Yuan Demon Trapping Talisman!”
Shen Long said.
“Uncle Shen wait for a moment, disciple will go and come.”
Chen Hai got up and left.
Not long after, Chen Hai returned, holding a blue storage bag in his hand and handed it to Shen Long.
Shen Long took the storage bag, swept his divine sense, nodded, paid the spirit stones and walked out.
He had just walked out of the Golden Toad Building when he saw Lin Sisi walking head-on.
Lin Sisi had already advanced to the Foundation Establishment Stage, and she didn’t seem to recognize Shen Long and brushed past him.
Shen Long came to a steep mountain peak, and at the foot of the mountain stood a golden stone monument more than ten feet high, on which were written the three big silver characters “Tianhu Peak”.
There are some manor houses on the mountain, Shen Long quickly found the Green Lotus Garden and walked in, I don’t know how long it has been empty, the spiritual field is full of weeds, and the water in the fish pond is a little turbid.
“Is Senior Brother Shen inside?”
A pleasant woman’s voice came from outside.
Shen Long walked out and saw a green-skirted young woman in her early thirties standing in the doorway, and judging by her aura, she was also a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
“Concubine Zhao Qian, Senior Sister Chen greeted me, I am responsible for managing the disciples of Tianhu Peak, Senior Uncle Song is in closed-door cultivation, if Senior Brother Shen has any needs, just talk to me.”
The green-skirted young woman introduced a sentence and said enthusiastically.
Shen Long invited Zhao Qian inside and asked about the situation of Tianhu Peak, Zhao Qian briefly said introduced.
“Senior brother Shen, according to the regulations, what spiritual medicine do you want to plant? What spirit fish to raise, I will send someone to arrange for you, the spirit medicine seeds and fish fry will be provided by Tianhu Peak, it is considered one of the benefits, I will send someone to help plant and raise the spirit fish, you just need to feel at ease to cultivate.”
Zhao Qian said enthusiastically.
Heavenly Tiger Peak hadn’t had any fresh blood join it for a long time, and in terms of welfare, Heavenly Tiger Peak could only be considered medium.
Most of the new foundation disciples joined the inner peaks with generous benefits, and the strong were always strong.
Shen Long went to Zhao this time, he didn’t know when he would come back, planting spirit medicine or raising spirit fish, he couldn’t get any return in the short term, and he had to invest quite a lot of Immortal Cultivation resources.
“Senior Sister Zhao, I heard that cave dwellings can be rented out.”
Shen Long asked.
“Of course you can, Senior Brother Shen is going to be sent out on a mission so soon? I don’t know how long Senior Brother Shen intends to rent it out, and from when to start renting it out? I can help you introduce a few good tenants.”
Zhao Qian said enthusiastically.
“In half a year, I’ll be going out on a mission, and I’m not sure when I’ll be back, does Senior Sister Zhao have any good suggestions.”
Shen Long asked politely.
“Senior brother Shen can designate to delineate a maximum time and a minimum time, divide the rent according to the time, such as five years, ten years, twenty years, how much is the rent respectively, if you can’t come back in five years, automatically renew the contract for ten years, if you can’t come back in ten years, automatically renew the contract for twenty years, and the outgoing rent is up to twenty years.”
Zhao Qian said.
“This is a good solution, then I’ll trouble Senior Sister Zhao to help me introduce a few good tenants.”
Shen Long said sincerely, taking out two medium grade spirit stones and handing them to Zhao Qian.
“Senior brother Shen don’t have to be polite, senior sister Chen has greeted me, I will help you deal with these trivial matters, you just cultivate at ease.”
Zhao Qian said, politely refusing Shen Long’s bribe.
Shen Long didn’t insist and cupped his fists to thank him.
After chatting for a while, Shen Long walked towards a green-colored pavilion, while Zhao Qian gathered Qi Refining disciples to help weed and clean the Green Lotus Garden.
The plaque on the green colored pavilion was written with three big words “Green Lotus Pavilion”, Shen Long pushed the door and walked in.
The attic was covered with dust, and it was unknown how long it had been unoccupied.
He walked into a secret room, in the corner there was a ten-odd feet large magic formation, there were thirty-six grooves on the formation, and on the left hand side there was a ten-odd feet long green stone bed.
He took out thirty-six spirit stones and put them into the grooves, took out a green token engraved with a green lotus pattern, injected his mana, and a green light flew out and disappeared into the spell formation.
The spell formation shook slightly, the surface of the spell formation lit up with countless arcane patterns, and a green light curtain appeared, covering the entire Green Lotus Pavilion.
Shen Long took out a small blue lock, it was the Shi Shui lock, he sat on the stone bed and sacrificed the Shi Shui lock.
After he finished sacrificing Shi Shui Lock, he injected his mana, and a thick blue water curtain appeared, protecting his entire body.
Shen Long nodded and entered the Royal Spirit Tower.
That light ladder was still there, Shen Long released a few gold-eating ants and let them fly on top of the light ladder, there was no abnormality, the light ladder was like a solid body, the gold-eating ants were unable to pass through the light ladder.
Shen Long retrieved the gold-eating ants, took out the Zi Mu Blade, and walked towards the light ladder, it didn’t take long for him to arrive at the end of the light ladder, and a light door blocked his way.
He took a deep breath and took a big step towards the light door.
His body easily passed through the light door, Shen Long felt a blur before his eyes and suddenly appeared in a red-colored space, the ground was crimson and the temperature was frighteningly high.
He walked towards the front and carefully observed everything around him.
After more than an hour, Shen Long appeared at the top of a red peak, the fire aura here was relatively abundant, and strangely enough, he did not encounter any demonic beasts or insects along the way.
Shen Long thought briefly, offered a flying magic weapon and flew towards the high altitude, his speed was not fast.
Flying to a height of three hundred feet above the ground, Shen Long sucked in a breath of cool air, below was a vast and boundless volcanic cluster.
“Spatial treasure?”
Shen Long’s voice trembled a little.
The Imperial Spirit Pagoda actually came with its own space, which was really out of his expectation.
He turned around with his imperial weapon and did not encounter any demonic beasts or insects, nor did he encounter any prohibitions.
“Could it be that the previous owner took away all the spirit beasts?”
Shen Long guessed.
He released the Fire Rock Beast, which let out a joyful hiss and burrowed into the ground, it liked the environment here.
“It seems that this place is specialized for keeping spirit beasts, keeping the Fire Rock Beast here, this is a good choice.”
Shen Long said excitedly.
Xu Feng had mentioned building a good nest for spirit insects and spirit beasts, and with the abundance of heaven and earth’s spiritual qi here, it would be good to raise the Fire Rock Beast here.
If Immortal Cultivators who practiced fire techniques cultivated here, they would get twice the result with half the effort.
Shen Long Royal Weapon circled around and double-checked, and indeed did not find any demonic beasts or insects, nor did he find any spiritual medicine.
“Could it be that I can only enter the second layer when I have advanced to the Foundation Establishment stage! According to this projection, to enter the third layer, I need to advance to the JieDan stage?”
Shen Long guessed.
This one volcano cluster could be used to plant fire-attribute spirit medicine and fruit trees, and it could also be used to breed fire-type spirit beasts and spirit insects.
In this way, Shen Long was equivalent to having an additional large piece of portable spirit field, which was an unrivaled fortune.
Shen Long exited the Royal Spirit Tower, and with a thought, the Fire Rock Beast flew out of the Royal Spirit Tower and landed in front of Shen Long.
“Advanced spirit beast pouch!”
Shen Long’s expression was excited.
As far as he knew, more advanced than the Spirit Beast Bag was the Spirit Beast Bracelet, which had more space and could store different types of Spirit Beasts, while the Spirit Beast Bag could only store one type of Spirit Beast.
The Spirit Tower also has the function of the Spirit Beast Bracelet, which comes with its own space and is even more advanced.
In fact, Shen Long also could not recognize the text on the top of the Royal Spirit Tower, he consulted the Royal Spirit Sect’s canonical books that introduced the text, and none of them recognized the text on the plaque of the Royal Spirit Tower.
Since he couldn’t recognize it, Shen Long had been calling it by the Imperial Spirit Tower.
Shen Long took out a blue light flickering summoning disk and punched in a spell, and Chen Qingqing’s voice rang out, “Senior brother Shen, the things and people you want, I’ve brought them all, just outside the Green Lotus Garden.”
“Senior Sister Chen, I’ll go out immediately.”
Shen Long said.
He took the Fire Rock Beast back into the Royal Spirit Tower, put away the summoning disk and the Royal Spirit Tower, and walked out.
Chen Qingqing and a red-faced golden-robed old man stood at the entrance of the Green Lotus Garden, and Shen Long invited them in.
“Senior brother Shen, let me introduce to you, this is senior brother Chen Changsheng Chen, he is proficient in the art of refining weapons, you can learn the art of refining weapons from him, as to whether you can become a refiner or not, that will depend on yourself, this is what you want.”
Chen Qingqing introduced a sentence, took out a blue storage bag and handed it to Shen Long.
“Junior brother has met senior brother Chen, thanks a lot, senior sister Chen.”
Shen Long claimed his thanks and accepted the storage bag.
“I also live in the Heavenly Tiger Peak, live in the Golden Crow Garden, Shen senior brother wants to refine weapons, directly to my residence to find me on it, I will teach you with all my heart, whether you can become a refiner or not, it depends on you personally.”
Chen Changsheng said.
“Good, then I’ll trouble senior brother Chen.”
Shen Long claimed his thanks.
“No trouble, Senior Sister Chen opened her mouth, you don’t need to purchase a refining furnace, I have it there, I’ll lend it to you directly, but you have to prepare your own refining materials, you prepare these materials first, go over and find me at that time, I’ll teach you to refine weapons.” Chen Changsheng took out a golden jade slip and handed it to Shen Long.
Shen Long once again said thank you and accepted the golden jade slip.
After chatting for a few moments, Chen Qingqing and Chen Changsheng left.
Shen Long returned to Green Lotus Pavilion and walked into a secret art.
He took out a red jade slip and his divine sense dipped into it.
The jade slip recorded the cultivation technique of the first six layers of the Nine Transformation Jiao Gong, he was only a foundation cultivator, it was impossible for him to get all of the cultivation techniques, even if he cultivated other techniques.
After a tea time, Shen Long removed the jade slip and took out a red porcelain bottle, peeled off the cork and a pungent smell of blood floated out.
He pinched his nose and drank all the demonic beast’s blood in the bottle, according to the gongfu records, in addition to drinking demonic beast’s blood in raw form, it could also be refined and taken as a potion, which had a better effect.
A strong bloody odor spread in Shen Long’s mouth, he felt nauseous, endured the nausea, silently recited the cultivation mantra of the first layer and cultivated.
Seven days later, a sound transmission note flew in and floated in front of him.
Shen Long hastily withdrew his energy and exhaled a long breath of turbid air.
He had successfully cultivated the first layer successfully, and could clearly feel that his qi had increased quite a bit, and his whole body was filled with power.
Shen Long grabbed the transmission note and pinched it with force, the transmission note spontaneously combusted, and Zhao Qian’s voice rang out, ”Senior brother Shen, is it convenient for you now? There is a senior sister who wants to rent your cave.”
“Finally the tenant has come, I hope to be able to exchange a sum of spirit stones.”
Shen Long muttered to himself and walked out.
Zhao Qian and a slender green-skirted girl stood at the entrance of the Green Lotus Garden as Shen Long pushed the door and walked out.
“Senior brother Shen, let me introduce you, this is senior sister Wang Yumei Wang.”
Zhao Qian introduced.
“So it’s Senior Sister Wang, inside please.”
Shen Long invited Zhao Qian and Wang Yumei inside and accompanied them as they strolled around.
Wang Yumei was very satisfied and said, “Senior Brother Shen, how many spirit stones do you need for a year?”
“Three thousand, how about it?”
Shen Long said.
Forty acres of spirit field, even if it was planted with silver pith spirit rice, just according to the yield of six hundred pounds per acre, after three years of maturity, he was able to get twenty-four thousand pounds of silver pith spirit rice, and according to the price of ten pounds and three spirit stones, he was able to sell seven thousand and two hundred spirit stones, which counted up to two thousand and four hundred spirit stones per year, and that was not even counting the income from the fish ponds and the spirit lakes.
“This price is too expensive, fifteen hundred is more or less the same.”
Wang Yumei bargained.
After some bargaining, an agreement was finally reached, one year’s rent of two thousand seven hundred spirit stones, Wang Yumei paid a one-time rent of ten years, if after ten years, Shen Long had not returned, then the lease would automatically be renewed for fifteen years, if after fifteen years, Shen Long had not returned, the lease would automatically be renewed for twenty years, and after twenty years, the lease would be null and void.
During this period, if Shen Long came back early, he only had the right to live there, and did not have the right to dispose of the spirit field, fish pond and spirit lake.
They signed the deed in front of Zhao Qian, in triplicate, one for each of the three Shen Longs, and Shen Long received twenty-seven thousand spirit stones.
“Senior brother Shen, I’ll take my leave now, half a year later, I’ll come over again.”
Wang Yumei excused herself and left.
“Senior Sister Zhao, it’s been hard on you, a small token of appreciation.”
Shen Long took out a green-colored storage bag and handed it to Zhao Qian, which contained one thousand spirit stones.
Zhao Qian did not excuse herself and accepted it.
Shen Long chatted with Zhao Qian for a while and bought a Demon Measuring Mirror from Zhao Qian at a favorable price, mainly used to test the purity of the bloodline of spirit beasts and spirit insects.
Sending Zhao Qian away, Shen Long walked into a secret room and sacrificed the Demon Measuring Mirror.
The Demon Measuring Mirror was a medium-grade magic weapon, and it had no problem testing the purity of the bloodline of second-order spirit beasts, let alone first-order spirit beasts.
He released the Fire Rock Beast, Gold Eating Ant Queen, Iron Tail Scorpion, Snow Wind Sparrow and Hundred Eyes Golden Cicada and used the Demon Detecting Mirror to test the purity of their bloodline.
The Iron-tailed Scorpion and Hundred-eyed Golden Cicada’s bloodline purity was two, while the others were one.
Shen Long could now pick his own spirit beast, he intended to get a spirit beast spirit bird or spirit insect with high bloodline purity to act as his own spirit beast, currently there was no good target, that’s why he didn’t pick his own spirit beast.
According to the Royal Spirit Sect’s successive generations of cultivators to cultivate their own spirit beasts, the bloodline purity of their own spirit beasts reaches two in order to have the potential and value of cultivation, the Royal Spirit Sect’s many generations of protector spirit beasts, the highest bloodline purity is only four, spirit beasts want to increase the purity of their bloodline is too difficult.
It’s not that when a spirit beast is promoted to a big realm, the bloodline purity will definitely follow the increase, some spirit beasts are hatched out, the bloodline purity is two, three is relatively rare.
Some of the second-order spirit beast bloodline purity is the same as one, no accident, stop second-order, aptitude will not be too strong.
“Strange, the Iron-tailed Scorpion just ate some Twin-tailed Scorpion corpses, not only did it mutate, but its bloodline purity also increased? Or is it the cause of the Imperial Spirit Tower?”
Shen Long wondered.
According to the insights of the previous generations of the Royal Spirit Sect in cultivating mutated spirit scorpions, for a thousand first-order spirit scorpions, it would be very good if one spirit scorpion could mutate, a one-in-a-thousand probability.
Not only did the Iron Tail Scorpion mutate, the purity of its bloodline also increased, either the Iron Tail Scorpion was more special or it was due to the Royal Spirit Pagoda.
He was more inclined to the latter, if the Iron Tail Scorpion was more special, it would have manifested itself long ago, he didn’t believe that after taking some first rank Twin Tailed Scorpion corpses and Ink Mustard Grass, the Iron Tail Scorpion would be able to undergo a mutation, and also increase its bloodline purity, there was not a single case in ten thousand of the Royal Spirit Sect’s predecessors cultivating a mutated first rank Spirit Scorpion, with a bloodline purity reaching two.
From here, it could be seen that the Iron Tail Scorpion’s mutation and increased bloodline purity had a lot to do with the Imperial Spirit Pagoda.
Of course, this is only Shen Long’s personal speculation, how the truth, will only know later, after all, he raised a lot of spirit beasts, the Royal Spirit Tower really has this kind of heaven-defying magical power, the fire rock beasts, the snow wind sparrow, the gold-eating ants, and the hundred-eyed golden cicadas were able to find the anomaly.
Shen Long fed each of them a Spirit Feeding Pill, he now had more than 40,000 Spirit Stones and was rich.
Shen Long made a trip to the Free Trade Valley, purchased a batch of basic weapon refining materials, and came to the entrance of a vast manor, with three big words “Golden Crow Garden” written on the plaque.
Shen Long sent a transmitting note, not long after, the gate opened and a slender purple-skirted girl walked out, “Uncle Shen, grandfather has an invitation.”
The purple-skirted girl was Chen Changsheng’s granddaughter, Chen Ziyi, who was only at the Qi refining stage.
Shen Long nodded and followed Chen Ziyi inside, after passing through three arched small courtyards, they arrived at a secluded small courtyard, within the courtyard there was a three-storey red attic building with three big words “Golden Crow Pavilion” written on the plaque.
Chen Changsheng walked out of the Golden Crow Pavilion and instructed, “Ziyi, go and get busy! I’ll greet Senior Brother Shen.”
Chen Ziyi answered and turned to leave.
“Senior Brother Shen, come with me!”
Chen Changsheng walked into the Golden Crow Pavilion, and Shen Long followed.
The pavilion was simply decorated with a few tables and chairs, and they walked into a secret room with a large number of red runes inscribed on the stone walls and a relatively high temperature.
Inside the secret room there was a half man tall red refining furnace with three feet and two ears, and there was a pattern of red clouds on the tripod.
“Senior Brother Shen, how much do you know about refining weapons?”
Chen Changsheng asked.
Shen Long naturally knew that Sun Sen had said it when he taught the hundred arts of Immortal Cultivation, but that was just theory, practical exercises were another matter.
“You purchased the refining materials, right? Take out the materials and I’ll personally show you once, then you can practice while I give you instructions.”
Chen Changsheng said.
Shen Long nodded and took out the weapon refining materials.
Chen Changsheng opened his mouth and spewed out a golden flame that landed at the bottom of the red refining furnace, opened the lid of the refining furnace, threw the refining materials in one after another, and covered the lid.
He explained his insights while refining the weapon.
Shen Long humbly asked for advice, and Chen Changsheng patiently instructed.
A month’s time quickly passed, and Shen Long and Chen Changsheng walked out from the refining room.
Shen Long’s face was full of frustration, he had spent a large batch of materials and failed to succeed even once, miserable, he really had no talent in the art of refining weapons.
This was not surprising, if one could become a refiner by recognizing more refining materials, refiners would be everywhere.
“Senior Brother Shen, are you really going to give up? Not practicing for a while longer? Diligence makes up for clumsiness, I’m not hiding anything.”
Chen Changsheng said.
“People value self-knowledge, I haven’t even succeeded once, it’s clear that I don’t have the talent, continuing to consume it is just a waste of time and treasure, it’s been hard on Senior Chen for this period of time, a small token of appreciation, no honor.”
Shen Long took out two thousand spirit stones and handed them to Chen Changsheng.
Chen Changsheng was not polite and accepted the spirit stones.
“Senior Brother Chen, I want to ask you to help me refine a magic weapon, mainly for changing my appearance, name your price.”
Shen Long said.
“Change appearance? That’s not difficult, let’s charge you two thousand spirit stones! After it’s refined, I’ll send someone to deliver it to you.”
Chen Changsheng said.
“Many thanks, Senior Brother Chen.”
Shen Long claimed his thanks and took out two thousand spirit stones, handing them to Chen Changsheng.
“It’s just a show of hands, for the sake of the Dao, Senior Brother Shen is better to learn a skill, alchemy, talisman making, array formation, brewing, whatever, this clan has a special hall for teaching skills, you provide your own expenses.”
Chen Changsheng advised.
“Thanks to Senior Brother Chen for reminding me, that’s exactly what I intend to do, I still have things to do, so I won’t stay much longer.”
Shen Long claimed his thanks and left the Golden Crow Garden.
He took out a flickering blue light transmission disk, punched in a spell, and said, “Senior Sister Chen, is it convenient for you? I’m looking for you for something.”
“Convenient, come over here!”
Chen Qingqing’s voice rang out.
Shen Long agreed and put away the summoning disk, imperial weapon came to Chen Qingqing’s residence and met Chen Qingqing.
“Senior Sister Chen, I don’t have a talent for refining weapons, can you introduce a second-ranked talisman maker who is proficient in the art of talisman making to me? Teach me to make talismans? I’ll pay for the expenses myself.”
Shen Long said.
“Senior brother Shen, you went to the State of Zhao to gather intelligence, what identity do you plan to use as a cover? If it’s a loose cultivator, you know the skills of talisman making, alchemy, refining, and weapon deployment, it’s very easy to arouse suspicion, after all, you appeared in the State of Zhao out of the blue.”
Chen Qingqing asked.
“Senior Sister Chen, I don’t know much about the Immortal Cultivation World of Zhao, can you first introduce me to the situation of the Immortal Cultivation World of Zhao?”
Shen Long asked sincerely.
Sun Sen had mentioned the Zhao Immortal Cultivation Realm and only briefly introduced the Zhao Immortal Cultivation Forces.
The pig foot has not yet had an innate spirit beast, I am trying to get a bloodline purity higher for the pig foot, there is no need to rush to choose an ordinary spirit beast as an innate spirit beast, maybe a beast, or a spirit bird, or a spirit insect
(End of chapter)