After successfully buying the Qi Enhancing Pill, Gong Xiaocai's pretty face was filled with a sweet smile.
Walking on the noisy streets, she looked here and there from time to time, finally regaining some of the lively and cheerful temperament she had in Qingshuifang City.
"Um?"
The two were walking when suddenly, Gong Xiaocai stopped suddenly and her whole body froze.
Su Ming followed her gaze and looked forward, and saw a young monk who was as gentle as jade, followed by three followers, walking proudly on the streets of Xingluo Island City.
Behind the gentle young master, one of the followers looked the most fierce, with a scar like an earthworm running through his entire cheek.
At first glance, it was the scar left by someone who turned his head to avoid being attacked with a magic weapon at the critical moment.
Seeing Gong Xiaocai's delicate body trembling continuously, Su Ming gently held her little hand.
Feeling the warmth from Su Ming's generous palm, Gong Xiaocai's delicate body regained a bit of vitality and finally stopped trembling, but her face was still very pale.
Sensing the gazes of the two men, the gentle young master who was walking towards him turned to look at Su Ming and Gong Xiaocai, and then walked straight towards them with a faint smile on his face.
Zhang Jingchen bowed his hands to Su Ming and said with a smile: "Fellow Taoist, you keep looking at me, do you know me?"
Hearing this, Gong Xiaocai hurriedly hid behind Su Ming, not daring to show her head.
Su Ming glanced at him indifferently, without saying a word, directly holding Gong Xiaocai's hand and walking past him.
Seeing that Su Ming was so rude, the scar-faced monk behind him stepped forward and said, "Second Young Master, this man is so rude. Do you want me to bring someone to teach him a lesson?"
Hearing this, Zhang Jingchen shook his head: "I have just arrived in the Zhang family, and my top priority is to find a fairy island for my clan as a clan territory, so we don't want to cause unnecessary problems."
"Yes, Second Young Master."
The scar-faced monk accepted the order.
"Zhang family?"
Su Ming looked back at Zhang Jingchen and his group, whose figures were gradually blurring, and frowned slightly.
Beside, Gong Xiaocai's delicate body could not stop trembling.
"It's him, the grandfather he killed!"
Gong Xiaocai muttered.
Hearing this, Su Ming turned to look at her and asked, "Who killed Mr. Gong?"
"That's the monk with the scar on his face."
Obviously, Gong Xiaocai was most impressed by this scar-faced monk, so much so that she even ignored the leader, the second young master of the Zhang family.
"Second Young Master, I remembered!"
Suddenly, the scar-faced monk paused, and then his spiritual consciousness said, "The little girl behind the monk just now seems to be the monk from Qingshuifang City who escaped from my three brothers half a year ago!"
Hearing this, Zhang Jingchen paused in his steps.
His eyes turned cold and he stared at the scar-faced monk: "Is this true?"
"Absolutely true!"
The scar-faced monk nodded solemnly.
Zhang Jingchen's mind changed rapidly, and he said after a while: "Lanzhou is not as good as Lizhou. If our Zhang family wants to gain a foothold here, we must rely on the Xianxia Sect, and the Xianxia Sect has extremely high character requirements for monks.
If what the Zhang family did in Qingshuifang City that day was leaked, my plan to join the Xianxia Sect would be ruined."
Hearing this, the scar-faced monk was heartbroken, and he cupped his hands and said, "Second Young Master, don't worry, I know what to do."
"Handle it cleanly and don't let the monks from Xingluo Island get the handle."
"Yes, Second Young Master."
The scar-faced monk accepted the order.
Su Ming led Gong Xiaocai all the way to the cave.
Gong Xiaocai finally recovered.
Compared to Gong Xiaocai, Su Ming's hatred for the Zhang family was not that great. After all, no matter how great the hatred was, because he robbed and killed all the monks left behind by the Zhang family that day, both sides were cleared.
But for Gong Xiaocai, the Zhang family monk killed her only relative, and she must have hated him extremely in her heart.
It's just that Su Ming couldn't risk killing people on Xingluo Island just for the hatred in Gong Xiaocai's heart.
This will affect his subsequent plans to join the Xianxia Sect.
Even if he wants to avenge Gong Xiaocai, he has to wait until he has a stable footing in the future before talking about it.
Return to the cave.
Su Ming first checked the formations arranged outside the cave and nodded with satisfaction.
Today's practice began immediately.
For monks, practicing day after day is extremely boring, which is why Yaoyuan Taoist Temple attaches so much importance to the character of monks.
Without a persistent Taoist heart, no matter how good your spiritual talent is, your future achievements will be extremely limited.
Only those monks with excellent spiritual roots and extremely firm Taoist hearts can go a long way in cultivating immortality.
Su Ming knew that his spiritual roots were ordinary, so he did not dare to slack off.
As the "Hou Tu Gong" was running, he quickly refined the spiritual energy of plants and trees in the Qi-increasing Pill into true energy, and then transported it bit by bit to the Dantian for storage.
Compared with simply absorbing spiritual energy, taking spiritual pills to practice is at least ten times more efficient.
Su Ming estimated that if the Three Spiritual Root cultivators had been taking spiritual pills to practice, their efficiency would probably be even higher than that of the legendary Heavenly Spiritual Root cultivators.
It's a pity that this kind of continuous taking of spiritual pills can only be used when the cultivation level is still low.
It is undoubtedly a fool's dream to wait until a monk has reached a high level to think of eating elixirs as jelly beans.
The higher the level of the elixir, the more precious its refining materials are.
Not to mention anything else, the age of the medicinal materials used to refine the high-level elixir is destined to make it impossible for monks to eat it like jelly beans.
The Qi-nourishing pills, Qi-enhancing pills, and Qi-increasing pills that Su Ming currently takes are all first-level elixirs.
Although this kind of elixir is precious, the age of the medicinal materials usually does not exceed a hundred years. Even the most precious Qi-enhancing elixir, the age of the medicinal materials is only about eighty or ninety years.
This means that monks can use cultivated medicinal materials grown in batches to produce elixirs.
And what about the second-level elixir?
The required medicinal materials are often more than a hundred years old, and some are even hundreds of years old.
This level of elixir medicinal materials cannot be grown simply by relying on batch planting.
Either it is a large sect with a long tradition, and this kind of elixir may exist.
Or, you just have to go to off-the-beaten-path places to pick it.
Traveling to an inaccessible place also means that medicinal materials of this level are hard to come by.
As a result, it is somewhat unrealistic for monks to expect to take second-level elixirs like jelly beans.
The reason why the Foundation Establishment Pill is so precious is also related to this factor.
Because the main medicinal material for refining the Foundation Building Pill is a 300-year-old elixir called Tianling Fruit. Apart from the large sects that have the background to grow this medicinal material, which casual cultivator can grow it?
Not to mention that the spiritual root of the Heavenly Spirit Fruit is difficult to find, the lifespan of an ordinary Qi-training monk is only about a hundred years. Before the Heavenly Spirit Fruit matures, I have already passed away several times.
In the cave.
Feeling the true energy in his Dantian growing stronger, Su Ming felt a sense of satisfaction in his heart. If he could maintain this speed of cultivation, there would be no need to worry about a prosperous path to immortality.
Night falls.
Su Ming is still meditating in the cave. There are still three days before Yaoyuan Taoist Academy recruits people. Su Ming plans to take this opportunity to further stabilize the eighth level of Qi training that he has just broken through.
At this moment, Su Ming suddenly opened his eyes.
"It's so late, and there are still guests coming to visit."