Jiang Li was stunned for a moment and said uncertainly: "Ah?"
Li Yu flicked his finger and a pill entered his mouth.
He originally planned to sell a Qi Gathering Pill and exchange it for a low-level magic weapon or talisman from Elder Sun for self-defense. After hearing Jiang Li's words, Li Yu changed his mind.
Spiritual coins are truly valuable, but friendship is even more valuable.
He can slowly accumulate magic weapons and talismans, and this is the only friend he sincerely cares for.
Following the entrance of the Qi Gathering Pill, Jiang Li felt a stream of spiritual energy rushing through his body, and a foul-smelling black substance soon appeared on his body.
Li Yu had already expected this, and when he put the elixir into Jiang Li's mouth, he distanced himself from him.
Not long ago, by a stream somewhere in the Baiyun Mountains.
A figure fell from the sky. Li Yu had already changed into his own clothes and brought a set for Jiang Li. It is best to take the Qi Gathering Pill outdoors. If it is taken indoors, no one can live in the room for at least ten days and a half.
Li Yu put the clothes on the shore. Jiang Li huddled in the water and said, "Throw down the clothes."
Li Yu didn't say much. He picked up the clothes and threw them away. Jiang Li was a generous boy, but he was also very coquettish. He was just like a woman. If his chest hadn't been ordinary, Li Yu might have thought he was a
woman.
Jiang Li has water spirit veins and practices water-based exercises, so he doesn't have to worry about his clothes getting wet.
Quickly, he put on his clothes and walked out of the water. Because Li Yu was taller than him, Li Yu's clothes looked a little too big for him, which made him look a little funny.
Jiang Li adjusted his sleeves awkwardly and asked Li Yudao curiously: "Where did your Qi Gathering Pill come from?"
The price of the Qi Gathering Pill was not low. It required at least five hundred spirit coins to exchange for it. He couldn't imagine where Li Yu had saved so many spirit coins.
Li Yu shrugged and said, "I picked it up..."
"..."
Jiang Li was stunned for a while, but in the end he could only sigh that Li Yu was lucky.
When the two returned to Baiyun Temple, they met many disciples along the way. Many people looked at Li Yu with strange expressions. To be precise, the male disciples' eyes were slightly envious and jealous, while the female disciples were mostly weird.
.
"Li Yu really succeeded in gathering energy?"
"Of course, I saw it with my own eyes. Chen Ming was knocked away with one punch, but he could still fly in the air. What if he didn't successfully gather energy?"
"In three months, the sect's deacon will come to select his disciples. He is so lucky..."
…
Everyone's eyes were envious. After all, successfully gathering Qi meant officially entering the path of spiritual practice. Unlike them, they were still in the Qi-entraining stage after two years and were about to be expelled from Baiyun Temple.
A female disciple also approached a young woman and asked in a low voice: "Senior Sister Zhou, are what they said true? Did you see it?"
The young woman's face turned red as she remembered a certain scene. When the girls saw this, they couldn't help being shocked: "Li Yu, Li Yu, I didn't see it..."
…
Li Yu appeared in front of everyone again, three days later.
During these three days, he stayed at home and concentrated on sorting out his memories. Even the food was brought to him by Jiang Li.
Li Yu's current body is exactly eighteen years old this year. His memory before the age of sixteen is nothing special. It is nothing more than a young man who lost his parents, struggling to survive in this world.
The turning point in his life occurred at the age of sixteen.
That year, he met a demonic witch.
From then on, another mysterious and magnificent world opened the door for the young man.
After all, he has officially entered the Qi refining period. During the past few days of retreat, Li Yu focused on digesting some memories about practice.
A long time ago, the ancients in this world began to pursue the pursuit of immortality. Many cultivation methods have flourished. Today, some heretical cultivation methods have long been lost and lost, and only a few are left.
Li Yu and Jiang Li practiced Taoism. It is said that if you practice Taoism to the extreme, you can break through the world and ascend to the legendary fairyland, where you can live as long as the heaven and the earth, and the sun and the moon can shine together.
The Qi refining period is the first step in Taoist practice. This period focuses on meridians. The predecessors divided the 360 acupuncture points on the human body into five spiritual meridians. Each spiritual meridian has 72 acupoints, corresponding to the five elements.
During the Qi refining period, all 72 acupuncture points of a certain spiritual meridian need to be opened.
Li Yu raised his hand and looked at it. Although he could store spiritual energy in his body, he could only store it in the Shaochong point on his right hand. At least eight more acupoints needed to be opened before he could enter the second level of Qi refining.
Taking eight acupuncture points as one layer, there are nine layers in total during the Qi refining period.
It is not easy to open acupuncture points. From the first level of Qi refining to the ninth level of Qi refining, if you are talented, you may be able to complete it in a few years. If you are not talented, it will take decades. No matter how talented you are, you will not be able to build it in your lifetime
base.
Li Yu didn't think his talent was that good. With normal practice, it might take a long time to reach the second level of Qi Refining, so he eagerly hoped to meet the enchantress for the second time so that he could use his sharp tongue to win over her.
Gather some more wool there...
It's a pity that Li Yu has no way to contact the evil witch, so he can only wait for her to come to him.
At noon, Jiang Li walked in from outside and asked Li Yu to go to the dining hall to eat with him.
The food at Baiyunguan was very light. Li Yu took a steamed bun with cabbage and tofu. He always felt that everyone around him was looking at them. At a certain moment, he finally couldn't help but turned around and asked Jiang Li: "Do you feel that they are there?"
Looking at us?”
Jiang Li coughed lightly and said, "Maybe they are envious of your success in gathering energy..."
Li Yu didn't go out for the past three days. He didn't know that he was already famous among the disciples in the Baiyun audience, but it was not because of his success in gathering Qi, but because of other things...
Li Yu was engrossed in eating when a gust of fragrant wind suddenly blew around him.
He turned his head and saw a young and beautiful woman walking towards him.
This woman is very familiar to Li Yu. Her name is Zhou Zixuan. Because of her outstanding appearance, she is very famous in Baiyun Temple. She can be said to be the flower of Baiyun Temple. She has countless suitors around her on weekdays and she also has the strength of the first level of Qi refining.
Li Yu had a good impression of her. The several times Chen Ming wanted to attack him and Jiang Li, she was the one who stopped him. If it hadn't been for her, he and Jiang Li would have suffered more losses at the hands of Chen Ming.
.
Seeing her standing still beside him, Li Yu took the initiative to ask: "Senior Sister Zhou, is something wrong?"
The disciples of Baiyun Audience have not worshiped in Kunlun, and they do not need to address each other as brothers and sisters. Those with a normal relationship can just call them by their first names. Those with a closer relationship can also call them brothers and sisters.
Senior Sister Zhou smiled and said: "It's like this. There is a mission with rich spiritual coins, and we also need a companion who is in the Qi Refining Stage. I wonder if Junior Brother Li is interested?"
Things in the world of immortality cannot be purchased with secular gold and silver. Spirit coins are the currency of the world of immortality. If you want to buy elixirs, magic weapons, exercises, etc., you need spiritual coins, which can be purchased from Elder Sun.
There is only one way for Li Yu and others to obtain spiritual coins, which is to undertake some tasks in the temple.
Although Li Yu needed the spirit coins very much, he did not agree directly. Instead, he asked first: "What is the mission?"
Senior Sister Zhou smiled and said: "Yesterday, a member of the Communist Party of China came to the temple and said that the new house at home was haunted and asked us to help exorcise the ghosts. He offered a lot of incense to the temple. The reward for this mission is one hundred spirit coins. The mission is completed.
After that, I can give Junior Brother Li twenty spirit coins."
Li Yu has already rebuilt his world view and knows that there are demons and ghosts in this world. Some powerful demons can even compete with the top immortal cultivators. However, this is the territory of the Taoist sect. No matter how powerful the ghosts are, they dare not make mistakes.
At best, they are just some lonely ghosts who can't even hurt anyone. They can be easily solved by the cultivation during the Qi refining period.
Generally speaking, this kind of small task of exorcising ghosts only requires one person. Two people are safer, and three people are a bit redundant. After all, one more person means one more spiritual coin.
There is absolutely no need for Senior Sister Zhou to find Li Yu for this kind of task. This is purely to take care of him.
Li Yu couldn't refuse others' kindness, nor could he get into trouble with spirit coins. Besides, the spirit coins given in this mission were really amazing, so he nodded and said, "Thank you, Senior Sister Zhou, I'll join."
Senior Sister Zhou said happily: "That's great. This task is very urgent. Without any further delay, we will set off immediately."
Li Yu thought for a while and said, "Senior Sister Zhou, can you add one more person? I want to be with Jiang Li. His spiritual coins will come from my reward."
Of course he would not forget his good brother about this good thing of earning spiritual coins. In order not to affect the interests of others, he could only earn less for himself.
Hearing that Li Yu invited Jiang Li, Senior Sister Zhou agreed without hesitation, and said generously: "Junior Brother Jiang will go too, that would be great, I can give each of you fifteen spirit coins...
"
Jiang Li had no objection to Li Yu's decision. The two went back to their rooms to tidy up, and then came to the entrance of Baiyun Temple, where Senior Sister Zhou was already waiting for them.
Next to Senior Sister Zhou, there was a figure standing, it was Chen Ming.
As the two most beautiful people in Baiyun Temple, Li Yu and Jiang Li walked side by side, which was a sight that made people's eyes light up. Senior Sister Zhou took the initiative to greet them and said with a smile: "Junior Brother Li, Junior Brother Jiang, you are here..."
Chen Ming's eyes widened and he said in disbelief: "Are they the other two companions that Junior Sister Zhou mentioned?"
Senior Sister Zhou said: "Don't worry, Junior Brother Li and Junior Brother Jiang's rewards will come from my spirit coins, and Senior Brother Chen's fifty spirit coins will not change."
Although Chen Ming was a little angry, it was hard to say anything. The task was shared by two people. As long as it did not affect his interests, Zhou Zixuan could bring as many people as he wanted. One more person would give more help.
But he originally regarded this mission as an opportunity to be alone with Junior Sister Zhou, but he didn't expect that she would actually bring two eyesores with her, and they were the two people he hated the most in Baiyun Temple...
Li Yu had already gathered his energy. Chen Ming had nothing to say to him. He looked at Jiang Li and said to Zhou Zixuan: "Junior Sister Zhou, it's not me who said that. Li Yu is fine. Jiang Li hasn't gathered his energy yet. Take him with you."
Go, what else is it if you are not causing trouble?"
Jiang Li glanced at him and said calmly: "Who said I didn't gather energy?"
After the words fell, his body slowly floated up, at least three feet above the ground. Chen Ming stared at this scene in shock, and said in shock: "You, you have gathered energy too!"
He looked at Jiang Li and then at Li Yu. They had both entered the Qi refining stage. He might not have a chance to take revenge. If he provoked them again, he might be beaten again.
Chen Ming was so angry that his back molars were almost broken, and he growled in his throat: "You two really deserve to die..."
[ps: Thanks to the book friends "Be a layman~", "Xishangque" and "Changshisir" for the rewards, "Ai'er Sky" for the 10,000 rewards, and other book friends who rewarded, collected and voted. I have saved a few manuscripts. But not much, new books are updated twice a day.]