Three days later, Yuan Ming went to Toad Valley on time and found Zhao Tong in the first stone house in the valley, lying down and reading a book with great interest.
"Senior Brother Zhao, how are you? Have you got the Yin Marrow Liquid?" Yuan Ming asked as soon as they met.
Zhao Tong glanced sideways at Yuan Ming, reluctantly closed the book in his hand, stretched, and then slowly took out a transparent glass vial from his arms and shook it. There was something sticky inside.
The thick black liquid hung on the wall of the bottle and slid left and right.
"Don't worry about me doing the work. No, I got the stuff, but it only costs 200 contribution points, and you'll have both money and property, so you can be a good person." Zhao Tong said, shaking his head.
"Profiteer!"
Yuan Ming frowned when he heard this, and after secretly cursing, he asked tentatively: "I think this is too much... How about you lend me two hundred first, and then pay you back when I have it?"
Sure enough, I received a blank look from Zhao Tong.
"Borrow two hundred? Are you really asking for it? It's better to just grab it outright! My store is small and we don't accept credit! Think again, do you have anything of value? You can use it as a mortgage." Zhao Tong
He said angrily.
Yuan Ming frowned and pondered. Among the valuable things he had on him, apart from the incense burner, there were spiritual herbs and other items recently obtained from the island in the fog. Even if they were converted into contribution points, there was still a big gap between them and the two hundred points.
Apart from that, there are some treasures left by Master Kuroki.
"I think that storage bag of yours is good. How about mortgaging it first and then redeeming it when you have contribution value?" Zhao Tong raised his eyebrows and said.
"If you can get the Yin Marrow Liquid from Elder Wumeng, you must have paid the bill. I'm afraid you have already set your sights on my storage bag, right?" Yuan Ming said with a glare.
"If you have other valuable things with you, just use them in exchange. What's the use of saying so much?" Zhao Tong said nonchalantly.
"The storage bag was temporarily lent to me by the Master of the Third Cave. It cannot be used as collateral." Yuan Ming shook his head.
He naturally hid Master Kuroki's storage bag and did not dare to reveal it in front of others.
"Then what are you talking about? Let's wait until you save more. I'm unlucky, this thing might end up rotting in my hands." Zhao Tong spread his hands and said helplessly.
"Take a look at this thing." Yuan Ming said, raising his hand to touch the storage bag on his waist.
A piece of fire chalcedony immediately appeared in his hand.
"Oh, fire chalcedony! This is a good thing, where did you get it?" Zhao Tong's eyes lit up and he said immediately.
"I'm lucky. I picked it up when I was out on a mission." Yuan Ming said calmly.
"Picked it up? What kind of luck can you pick up this big treasure? Can you pick up another one for me?" Zhao Tong shouted loudly.
"You just want to change it or not?" Seeing the greed in Zhao Tong's eyes, Yuan Ming was confident.
"Change, why not change?" Zhao Tong immediately said with a smile on his face.
"What's the matter with your traitorous appearance?" Yuan Ming pretended to frown.
Zhao Tong suppressed his smile and put the Yin Marrow Liquid in Yuan Ming's hand seriously: "Uncle Yuan, you want to prepare the body tempering liquid. Don't waste your precious time. I can't bear this!"
"Give me the grimace grass and purple core pollen too." Yuan Ming said.
"It's been prepared a long time ago." Zhao Tong immediately leaned over, picked up a cloth bag from his feet, and handed it to Yuan Ming.
After Yuan Ming took it, he handed the fire chalcedony to him, turned around and left without saying a word.
"Hey, did you forget that you still have two contribution points that you haven't given me?" Zhao Tong quickly reminded him.
"What are you talking about? The wind is too strong and I can't hear you clearly..." Yuan Ming's voice came erratically, and he was already running quickly towards the mouth of the valley.
…
at night.
Yuan Ming looked at the Grimace Grass, Purple Core Pollen, Black Scale Fruit, and Yin Marrow Liquid placed on the table, and asked: "Can you tell me now what you want these things for?"
On the table in front of him, a silver cat squatted elegantly, its eyes lowered.
"How does it feel to be out of body?" Silver Cat's cold and ethereal voice sounded in Yuan Ming's mind, but he had no intention of answering.
"I tried it just once last time, and it felt pretty good. It gave me the illusion of being like a fairy, but it couldn't be too far away from my body, so it didn't seem to be of much use," Yuan Ming said honestly.
"If you were too far away from your body, you would have been out of your mind a long time ago." Although the silver cat transmitted his voice, his tone was full of ridicule.
"I wanted to ask last time, why is this?" Yuan Ming asked.
"The soul during the Qi refining period is formless and extremely fragile. It cannot withstand the strong winds from the outside world, especially in autumn." Silver Cat said.
"Why is this?" Yuan Ming was puzzled.
Regarding these contents, none of the information on soul cultivation that I read before was mentioned.
"The five elements of autumn are gold, you can think of the rest by yourself." Silver Cat's tone seemed a little impatient.
"Oh, I understand, wind belongs to water, and metal generates water. No wonder in the Central Plains countries, there is often an act of questioning and beheading the Queen of Autumn. Perhaps the wind is the strongest in the Queen of Autumn, which can dissipate the souls of the dead as quickly as possible and prevent the remaining souls from remaining in the world.
, harming living people. Then why..." Yuan Ming said thoughtfully.
"Shut up, I'm not here to explain this to you." Yuan Ming was interrupted impatiently by Yin Mao before he could finish his question.
"Isn't this the out-of-body experience you mentioned first? Once it is far away from the body, the connection with the body becomes weaker, and it is also restricted by the strong wind. What's the use of this out-of-body experience?" Yuan Ming said.
"If you want to travel outside the body, you must have something to rely on. Use secret techniques to help your soul refine its form. I will ask you to find those spiritual materials and use them to refine the most basic form-refining potion." Silver Cat said.
"Now that everything is here, tell me, what should we do next?" Yuan Ming heard the term Soul Refining, his heart skipped a beat and he asked.
The silver cat didn't speak. He raised one of his front legs and lightly scratched his paw on the table. A flash of silver light revealed a drop-shaped white porcelain vial on the table.
"What is this?" Yuan Ming frowned.
"The essence and blood of the white-feathered raven." The silver cat said.
When Yuan Ming heard this, doubts suddenly arose in his heart.
He knew that this white-feathered raven, although it had the word "white" in its name, was not white. It had black feathers all over its body, with only a handful of white feathers between its eyebrows. It was one of the most common birds in the Shiwan Mountains, and it ate carrion as a food.
They have almost no attack power, but there are a lot of them.
"Is the refining of my soul related to this object? Could it be that the refining object is this bird? This is too common!" Yuan Ming had a bad guess in his heart.
Silver Cat didn't say anything, but looked at Yuan Ming with his eyes of different colors without blinking.
"Must it be this thing?" Yuan Ming asked unwillingly.
"The essence and blood of any ferocious beast can be used, which determines the form of the soul. Even if it is enhanced in the future, the basic form cannot be changed." Silver Cat said.
"Do you mean that my soul will undergo permanent changes? Or do you mean that the refining object will only be manifested when the soul is exposed, and after returning to the body, it should return to human form, right?" Yuan Ming gave birth to a trace of emotion.
alert.
"The latter." Silver Cat said.
Seeing that the silver cat was already looking impatient, Yuan Ming said quickly:
"The last question is, there is no shortage of ferocious beasts in the Hundred Thousand Mountains. Why not choose the more powerful ferocious beast essence and blood, but choose this extremely ordinary white-feathered raven?"
"Powerful? The truly powerful ferocious beasts in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, or monsters, are not something you can hunt at all. As for the ferocious beasts you can hunt, in my opinion, they are no different from the white-feathered raven, or even
It's not as good as that." Silver Cat's tone did not hide the sarcasm at all, and it was rare for him to say a long sentence.
"Sorry, this is related to my future practice. Please tell me clearly why you chose White Feather Raven. Otherwise, I cannot accept such an arrangement." Yuan Ming thought for a moment and said firmly.
The silver cat stared at Yuan Ming for a long time, and when he saw that Yuan Ming was unmoved, he patiently transmitted the message into Yuan Ming's sea of consciousness again.
"Although your soul is stronger than the same level, your cultivation qualifications are too poor. For a long time to come, you must first consider self-protection. Strong reconnaissance ability is the first choice." Silver Cat did not hide his purpose of training Yuan Ming.
"So, smaller birds are more suitable for reconnaissance, and have advantages over animals such as jackals, tigers, and leopards. I think it's more than this, right?" Yuan Ming pondered for a moment after hearing this, nodded, and then asked.
"Although the white-feathered raven is weak, it is sharp enough. Unlike other birds, it has an innate intuition about death. As for what changes can occur and what abilities you can acquire after fusion and refining, it depends on your luck.
." Silver Cat said again.
"Are you saying that there are many uncontrollable factors after the soul is refining?" Yuan Ming asked with his heart skipping a beat.
"The result will be determined based on the characteristics of your soul and the characteristics of the body of the refining object. It is generally a sensory enhancement and crisis warning. As for what it will be in the end, you will know it after the completion. That's it.
, you decide for yourself how to choose." Silver Cat said so many words for the first time today, and the last bit of patience has obviously been exhausted.
After Yuan Ming hesitated for a long time, he nodded and said: "In that case, let's get started!"
"Take your things and follow me." The silver cat's voice sounded.
After saying that, it turned around and jumped out of the window, heading outside the courtyard wall.
Yuan Ming quickly packed up his things and followed.
Along the way, the silver cat walked through the trees in the mountains and forests, often hiding in the gaps between the leaves.
At first, Yuan Ming didn't feel anything was wrong, but after walking for a while, he discovered something strange.
Before leaving the realm of Huoliantang, Yuan Ming met many fellow disciples and servants on the mountain. Most of these people noticed him and greeted him, but no one seemed to notice the existence of the silver cat.
Even though the silver cat was right above his head, on a branch of a tree only a few feet away, they didn't notice it at all.
If Yuan Ming hadn't followed the silver cat from the beginning and was clearly aware of its existence, otherwise he wouldn't have noticed its traces at all.
This chapter has been completed!