Su Ming walked up to the shopkeeper of Yuxiang Tower and bowed his hands to him, "I am Su Ming, a disciple of the Xianxia Sect."
Upon hearing that Su Ming was a disciple of Xianxia, the face of the shopkeeper of Yuxiang Tower immediately became eager.
"It turns out he is a disciple of the Xianxia Sect, disrespectful!"
The shopkeeper of Yuxianglou repeatedly handed over his hands and confessed, "I heard that a fellow Taoist from the Xianxia sect came to the Tianzihao box. I was about to pay him a visit, but just now... alas!"
"It doesn't matter."
Su Ming smiled and waved his hands.
"I, Zhao Dexing, will be the shopkeeper of Yuxianglou."
The late-stage foundation-building monk in front of him formally introduced himself to Su Ming.
"It turns out to be Fellow Daoist Zhao,"
Su Ming cupped his hands and continued, "Fellow Daoist Zhao, what was that just now..."
"well, "
Hearing Su Ming ask about the bad things, Zhao Dexing sighed, "A rogue, but it makes fellow Taoist Su laugh."
As he said this, Zhao De couldn't help but shake his head.
Hearing this, Su Ming's expression changed and he sent a message: "Fellow Daoist Zhao, I'm telling you the truth, my master is the elder of the Xianxia Law Enforcement Pavilion. The rogue I just saw causing trouble doesn't seem to be looking for trouble for no reason, but under the instructions of others.
"
At this point, Su Ming changed the subject, "Of course, if Fellow Daoist Zhao feels that this matter is not a big deal, then he is worrying too much."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Dexing's eyes flickered.
Seeing the other person's expression of struggle, Su Ming stood aside quietly, waiting for the other person's reply.
Half a moment.
Zhao Dexing seemed to have made up his mind. He kept offering his hands to Su Ming and said angrily: "I also ask fellow Taoist Su to show his respect to the master and uphold justice for this junior!"
Say it.
Zhao Dexing told the story of how the Yan family suppressed his Yuxianglou business and forced him to hand over the Yuxiang wine formula.
After Su Ming heard this, he couldn't help feeling that Zhao Dexing was really unlucky.
Logically speaking, although the Yan family is the largest supplier in the Tianshu Island spiritual wine market, it is not yet at the point where it dominates 100% of the Tianshu Island spiritual wine market.
On Tianshu Island, there are many restaurants and taverns opened by other monks, and the business is pretty good.
But Zhao Dexing is unlucky because the quality and taste of his Yuxiang wine is excellent, even better than the Yan family's best-selling spiritual wine called gilding wine.
At this time, the recipe of Yuxiang wine came into the Yan family's sight.
Especially after some investigation, the Yan family discovered that Zhao Dexing did not have any backer, and they immediately wanted to seize the formula of Yuxiang wine.
After listening to Zhao Dexing's confession, Su Ming frowned and said, "Fellow Daoist Zhao, are you saying that the Yan family wants to suppress your restaurant?"
"Exactly!"
Zhao Dexing nodded.
After listening to this, Su Ming kept shaking his head and said, "Fellow Daoist Zhao, the three Jindan monks from the Yan family are all the elders of our Xianxia sect's guest ministers. Since you said that it was the Yan family that suppressed your restaurant business, can you provide evidence?"
"I"
Zhao Dexing was speechless for a moment.
evidence?
Of course he couldn't take it out.
In fact, even if there is evidence, if this matter comes to the Xianxia Sect Law Enforcement Court, it is just a petty dispute over peer competition.
The Law Enforcement Pavilion can at most give the Yan family a symbolic punishment of a few spiritual stones.
Even with the Yan family's connections in the Xianxia Sect, there was not even a symbolic punishment.
And Zhao Dexing has neither strength nor connections, so what can he do to the Yan family?
Besides, if the trouble really comes to that, can Zhao Dexing dare to guarantee that he will never leave Tianshu Island in his life?
After thinking about these joints, Zhao Xingde couldn't help but feel extremely depressed.
But if he was asked to hand over the Yuxiang wine formula to the Yan family, Zhao Dexing couldn't get over it.
He would rather destroy the recipe of Yuxiang Wine than give it to the Yan family, a family that bullies others.
At this moment.
Su Ming's words rang in Zhao Xingde's ears again: "Fellow Daoist Zhao, in my opinion, if you want to resolve this matter, your first priority is not to find the Xianxia Sect to uphold justice, but to find a Jindan monk as your backer."
Hearing this, Zhao Dexing immediately smiled bitterly and said: "Fellow Daoist Su is joking, how do I know any Golden Elixir monks?
Even if I know the Jindan cultivator, in this situation, I may not want anyone to be my backer."
Indeed, now that the Yan family is eyeing the Jade Fragrance Wine formula, if other Golden Elixir monks interfere, it would be equivalent to making the three Golden Elixir monks of the Yan family enemies.
How dare ordinary Jindan monks be enemies with the Jindan family, which has three Jindan monks?
Unless he is a top-notch Jindan monk, but that kind of big shot, where can Zhao Dexing meet him?
Su Ming just nodded to Zhao Dexing, then bowed his hands to Zhao Dexing and said goodbye to him.
Even though Zhao Dexing looked at him with expectant eyes, Su Ming could not bring out the master behind him to be his backer.
Because Su Ming is only an outer disciple of the Xianxia Sect, he has not entered the inner sect, and is not yet qualified to become a disciple.
The Master of the Law Enforcement Pavilion he talks about is just nonsense.
After leaving Yuxiang Tower with Gong Xiaocai, Su Ming looked back at the plaque of Yuxiang Tower and said silently in his heart: "I hope you can hold on until I sacrifice the spirit puppet clone."
Shaking his head, Su Ming took Gong Xiaocai and strode away.
After such a fuss, Su Ming and Gong Xiaocai lost interest in hanging out, so they returned directly to the cave.
It's not that Su Ming wants to bring Gong Xiaocai back, but Gong Xiaocai said that she is now an outer disciple of the Xianxia Sect. Once she succeeds in building the foundation, she can be like Su Ming and work in the sect's affiliated institutions, which is inconvenient to live in.
In the dormitory of Yaoyuan Taoist Temple.
As an alchemist, Gong Xiaocai works for only one institution, and that is the sect's alchemy pavilion.
In fact, as an alchemist of the Xianxia Sect, his daily tasks are very easy.
Every year, you only need to complete a small number of alchemy tasks assigned by the Alchemy Pavilion.
In fact, in order to improve the level of alchemy, alchemists will try their best to find opportunities for alchemy. The few tasks assigned by the alchemy pavilion are not enough in the eyes of alchemists who are interested in improving the level of alchemy.
Therefore, the alchemists of Xianxia Sect will privately accept alchemy tasks from fellow disciples based on their personal connections.
Rather than directly exchanging sect contributions for elixirs at the sect, Xianxia sect disciples also prefer to use spiritual stones as reward to invite alchemists to refine elixirs.
Because doing this can save the sect's contribution, it is very cost-effective.
Inside Su Mingdong Mansion.
"This is the alchemy room."
Su Ming took Gong Xiaocai to an empty alchemy room and pointed to the alchemy room.
"Brother Su Ming, you actually have a special alchemy room here?"
Gong Xiaocai exclaimed, then smiled and said, "Now, it belongs to me."
"Okay, except for the quiet room where I practice, all the places in this cave are under your control."
Su Ming said casually with a smile on his face.
"good."
Gong Xiaocai's eyes turned into crescent moons.
Time flies.
In the blink of an eye, half a year has passed.
Su Ming Cave Mansion.
A figure wearing a white Taoist robe sat cross-legged on a futon in the quiet room, his eyes closed.
The spiritual energy in the surrounding air continued to converge towards this young figure.
After the spiritual energy gathered in the Dantian, it was quickly refined into true essence.
Above Su Ming's Dantian, the spiritual energy is like clouds and mist, and the true energy is like drizzle.
The drizzle fell in the Dantian, integrating with the lake-like Zhenyuan Lake.
Feeling that the lake of true essence in his dantian had grown stronger, Su Ming opened his eyes.
"The Guyuan Pill refined by Xiaocai is indeed very effective. It is several times faster than not taking the elixir. Moreover, the quality of these elixirs are all top-grade or even the best, with very little erysipelas."
After Su Ming opened his eyes, he silently commented in his heart.
During this period of time, Gong Xiaocai lived with him, and he didn't know how many Solid Yuan Pills Gong Xiaocai had refined in order to select ten top-grade or even top-grade elixirs for him.
With Gong Xiaocai's current alchemy skills, the success rate of a furnace of elixirs is about 30% to 50%.
In other words, from a furnace of elixirs, Gong Xiaocai can produce about three to five elixirs.
Calculated based on the value of the elixir consumed in refining a furnace of Gu Yuan Dan, if you can produce three pills, you have basically saved your capital.
In other words, Gong Xiaocai will no longer lose money by refining Guyuan Dan.
With the identity of the alchemist of the Alchemy Alliance in hand, the elixir refined by Gong Xiaocai can be sold easily whether it is sold to elixir shops or directly to Xianxia sect disciples.
In other words, Gong Xiaocai can already earn a lot of spiritual stones as long as she doesn't try to refine other high-grade spiritual pills.
After all, if Gong Xiaocai is lucky and can produce five pills from one furnace of Guyuan Pills, it is equivalent to making a pure profit of two Guyuan Pills.
The market price of Guyuan Dan is about one thousand spirit stones.
It's just that others who use a thousand spirit stones to buy Gu Yuan Dan may not be able to buy the best quality ones. This depends on the monk's luck.
Anyway, Gong Xiaocai selected all the best-quality Guyuan Pills here for Su Ming to use.
The Guyuan Dan he sells is mainly of medium quality.
It can't be said to be very good, nor can it be said to be very bad. It is roughly the same as the mainstream Guyuan Dan in the market.
In fact, most of the truly top-quality elixirs have been intercepted by the alchemists themselves.
This kind of top-grade or even top-grade spiritual elixir, whether given as a favor or given to oneself, is much more valuable than simply selling spiritual stones.
It takes about three days for Gong Xiaocai to refine a batch of Gu Yuan Dan.
Theoretically, Gong Xiaocai can earn up to two thousand spiritual stones in three days, and more than two million spiritual stones in one year.
Of course, this is only theoretical.
In fact, the alchemist is not an alchemy machine. In addition, the alchemist himself has to rest and practice, so it is impossible to make alchemy without stopping.
But even so, in Lanzhou, it is still very easy for a second-level alchemist to earn hundreds of thousands of spirit stones a year.
As the most prestigious profession among all the arts of cultivating immortals, once an alchemist achieves success, earning spiritual stones is beyond the imagination of monks of the same level.
Since breaking through to the second level alchemy master, Gong Xiaocai no longer reaches out to Su Ming for spiritual stones.
Even Su Ming couldn't figure out how many spiritual stones this little rich woman had in her hands now.
"Ha ha!"
In the alchemy room, Gong Xiaocai's happy voice reached Su Ming's ears.
He knew that the other party must have succeeded in refining the elixir again.
Sure enough, when Su Ming stepped out of the secret room of seclusion, Gong Xiaocai also walked out of the alchemy room with a face full of joy.
"What are you so happy about?"
"Hehe, I just made a batch of Gu Yuan Dan, and it turned into six pills!"
Gong Xiaocai waved her little fist and said excitedly.
Hearing this, Su Ming nodded secretly in his heart. In just six months, Gong Xiaocai's cultivation not only broke through to the ninth level of Qi training, but also her level of alchemy was steadily improving.
On the contrary, Su Ming's cultivation speed slowed down significantly after entering the foundation building stage compared to the Qi training stage.
According to the records of the Xianxia Sect, after Tianlinggen monks build a foundation, they will usually break through a small realm in three to five years, and a major realm in ten to twenty years.
In other words, without the help of any external force, it would take about forty years at the fastest for a Tianlinggen monk to practice from the first level of Foundation Establishment to the ninth level of Foundation Establishment.
Based on the age at which a Tianlinggen monk builds his foundation, it means that he can reach the golden elixir stage before the age of sixty at the earliest.
If you take the magic pill, this time can be further shortened.
But no matter how shortened it is, it will not break through a small realm in one year.
Compared with the entry speed during the Qi training period, the foundation building period is indeed much slower.
This is still the foundation building stage. If you reach the golden elixir stage, it will really be called slow cultivation. It is possible that a golden elixir monk can be stuck in any small realm for decades or even hundreds of years.
As for the Nascent Soul stage, Su Ming didn't know much about it.
However, foundation-building monks have a lifespan of two hundred years. With Su Ming's talent, there is no problem in reaching the golden elixir stage before he is a hundred years old.
Seeing Gong Xiaocai's joyful expression, Su Ming shook his head and said, "Don't be happy now. Your cultivation level has reached the ninth level of Qi training. It's time to go to the sect to receive the foundation building pill and enter the foundation building stage."
Gong Xiaocai is only sixteen years old. At this age, she is entering the foundation building stage. If she can succeed, it means that she will be three years earlier than Su Ming.
This speed is even faster than the Tianlinggen monk.
It can be seen that taking the magic pill all the time can greatly increase the speed of cultivation.
This is also an important reason why among the four major elements of cultivation, wealth always occupies the first place.
Sure enough, when Gong Xiaocai heard that she was going to the Xianxia Sect to receive the Foundation Establishment Pill, her expression immediately calmed down.
At this moment, she couldn't help but think of Mr. Gong.
Gong Lao's biggest wish in this life is that Gong Xiaocai can successfully build the foundation.
It's a pity that he will never see this scene again.
"Well, I will definitely succeed in building the foundation!"
"I believe you can succeed in building the foundation."
Su Ming nodded solemnly.
During the qi training period, monks build foundations, and various aspects such as cultivation, soul, mentality, and qi and blood will have an impact on foundation building.
Su Ming spoke to Gong Xiaocai in a solemn and serious tone, which was to establish a belief in her that she would win!
Although as long as a monk is less than thirty years old, the probability of success in building a foundation by taking the Foundation Establishment Pill is almost 100%, but it is not absolutely without accidents.
What Su Ming has to do is to prevent any accidents.
Half a month later.
A flying boat descended from the sky and landed in front of the Alchemy Pavilion of the Xianxia Sect.
There were few people in the Alchemy Pavilion at the headquarters of the Xianxia Sect. Su Ming put away the second-order high-grade flying boat he purchased and walked straight into a main hall of the Alchemy Pavilion.
Enter the main hall.
There were only a few people inside.
Since Gong Xiaocai was specially recruited into the Xianxia Sect in advance, she, like Su Ming, did not meet many new disciples along the way.
Gong Xiaocai walked up to a deacon in the main hall of the Alchemy Pavilion, took out the jade plaque and said, "Senior brother, I am Gong Xiaocai, a new outer disciple of the Xianxia Sect. This is my identity plaque."
Saying that, Gong Xiaocai handed over the jade token.
The foundation-building monk who was responsible for guarding the main hall of the Alchemy Pavilion lazily raised his head and glanced at Gong Xiaocai. After checking her identity plate, he threw a jade box and her identity plate on the table.
Seeing this scene, Su Ming, who was standing next to Gong Xiaocai, couldn't help but frown slightly.
Compared to him, a first-class disciple, Gong Xiaocai's treatment was much worse.
Shaking his head, Su Ming didn't want to cause trouble, as long as he got the Foundation Establishment Pill.
After Gong Xiaocai got the jade box, she was so excited that she didn't even care about the attitude of the alchemy pavilion disciple.
Before she walked out of the alchemy pavilion, Gong Xiaocai couldn't wait to open the jade box, but the elixir in the jade box made her expression change immediately.
Feeling that Gong Xiaocai's expression was strange, Su Ming stopped and asked, "What's wrong?"
Gong Xiaocai's face was pale, her delicate body was trembling slightly, she raised her head and said, "This Foundation Building Pill is a bad pill."