"Oh, I am somewhat interested in these puppets. They are good things to give to my apprentice to save my life. I don't know what Master Tianjing plans to exchange for them?" Another monk who seemed to be quite young, twirled his chin with his hands.
The long-bearded one said.
"Haha, what I am trading for is relatively rare. It is something called a "soul stone" in ancient times. A soul stone is exchanged for a puppet beast. These puppets were all made by ancient monks. It is estimated that this
There is no such high-level puppet in the world anymore." Master Tianjing said calmly.
"Soul Stone?"
Upon hearing this extremely unfamiliar name, all the monks present looked puzzled.
They had never heard of this thing before, it was really unfamiliar.
When Master Tianjing saw this, he seemed to have expected it. He put one hand into the storage bag, and a green crystal stone the size of a thumb came out of his palm.
A quick glance at the crystal revealed that it was similar to a wood-attributed spirit stone. The person sitting there discovered with a quick glance that the crystal was not emitting the wood-attributed aura that monks are familiar with, but a kind of coldness.
Extremely inexplicable fluctuations.
"Perhaps some fellow Taoists have this thing in their hands, but they don't recognize it. I happen to have a piece here. Fellow Taoists, you can identify it first." The old Taoist held the crystal in his hand and said slowly:
"Eh! It's a bit weird, a bit like the power of the ghost, but it is much purer than the power of the ghost." A demonic monk who was surrounded by black energy asked in surprise.
"I don't know what is contained in this crystal stone, but it is definitely not an ordinary soul energy. Otherwise, how could I be willing to trade these puppets for such a stone." Master Tianjing was also very straightforward and replied directly.
"Oh! That's true." The demonic monk was sensible and did not continue to ask.
But when Bai Ran saw the crystal clearly, the face under the mask suddenly changed drastically, and his eyes flickered at the same time.
If he read correctly, this "soul stone" is clearly the "Yinming Beast Crystal" he collected from the Yinming Land. Of course, the name "Beast Crystal" is just the name of the natives of the Yinming Land.
The real name among ancient monks seems to be the so-called "soul stone".
"This Master Tianjing not only brought out so many puppets, he also wanted to collect many "soul stones" at the same time. Thinking that many of the puppets seen in Xutian Temple had these soul stones hidden in them, it seems that this person...
." Bai Ran began to think thoughtfully.
However, apparently very few people noticed this 'soul stone'. After a while, only one monk hesitantly took out a piece and stepped forward to replace it with a beast puppet.
After Master Tianjing asked a few more questions, he saw that no one came up again. Although he had expected this, he still couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.
Just when he was about to put away the remaining puppet beasts, another person suddenly stood up and walked over. This made the old man feel refreshed, and he looked at the visitor with some surprise:
"Fellow Taoist, do you also have a soul stone?"
The person who came forward was Bai Ran, who had finally made up his mind. He turned his palm silently, and a green spar appeared in his hand.
However, this crystal is about the size of an egg, and a cloud of cold air that is almost visible to the naked eye emanates from the crystal, which is far from comparable to the crystals taken out by the veteran.
Master Tianjing was shocked at first, and then he was ecstatic, but he couldn't help but said with a smile on his face:
"Fellow Daoist, this soul stone is so big, it's really rare. Let's do it this way. Fellow Daoist, just pick two of these puppets and take them. A poor Taoist will not let you suffer a loss."
"Two?" After hearing this, Bai Ran chuckled and shook his head.
"Why, there are too few Taoist friends! I wonder how many friends you plan to exchange for?" Master Tianjing asked kindly without being angry.
"Shall I exchange this soul stone for all the remaining puppets of my fellow Taoist?" Bai Ran said calmly.
"In exchange for six! Don't you think you are too greedy, fellow Taoist?" Upon hearing this, the old Taoist frowned for a moment and said with some dissatisfaction.
"Hehe! You should be very clear whether you are greedy or not. This soul stone is not just about its size. Besides, for such a big soul stone, for a real person..." Bai Ran stared at Tianjing, still not finishing his words.
He suddenly stopped talking.
When Master Tianjing heard this, his face changed slightly, he looked at Bai Ran deeply for a few times, and then he was silent for a while and said:
"Okay, such a large soul stone is indeed rare. I am in urgent need of this thing. I will exchange it as the Taoist friend said."
Hearing what the old Taoist said, the other monks in the attic were surprised for a while and couldn't help but stare at the egg-sized crystal in Bai Ran's hand.
You should pay more attention to something that can be exchanged for several rare puppets at once.
Bai Ran didn't look surprised and directly handed over the spar, then bowed his head slightly, flicked his sleeves on the table, and all six puppet beasts disappeared.
However, what the other monks didn't notice was that Bai Ran moved his lips slightly a few times when he lowered his head. Master Tianjing's eyes flashed, and a look of surprise flashed across his face.
At this time, Bai Ran had already walked back to his seat with the puppet.
Next, Master Tianjing announced that the exchange meeting was over, and many monks went downstairs to leave. Bai Ran and three other people also left the Jinglong Pavilion among them.
When the three of them left the attic, no one said anything, but when they crossed two streets and were a little further away from the attic, the Fire Dragon Boy spoke angrily.
"Two fellow Taoists, I have another appointment. I won't be with you two."
"Brother Lan, if you have something to do, just go and do it. The residence I'm waiting for is not far away, and there are plenty of opportunities to get together again." Lu Luo said with a smile.
"Well, then Lan takes his leave!" The fire dragon boy said without being polite. After saying hello to Bai Ran, he walked to another street.
"This fellow Fire Dragon Taoist is really a wonderful person!" Bai Ran looked at the boy's retreating back and suddenly said with a smile.
"Fellow Taoist Lan has always maintained the appearance of a boy because he accidentally ate a strange weed when he was young. But he is forthright and forthright, and he is one of the few foreign fellows he can befriend. He is also the only one in the Ancient Sword Sect.
An elder who is friendly to our Luoyun Sect."
Bai Ran raised his eyebrows after hearing this, but thought in his heart:
"From what I heard, the other elders of Gujian Sect don't think bad of Luo Yun Sect."
"By the way. What are Junior Brother Bai's plans next? Now go back to your residence and rest for a while, or go shopping elsewhere." At this time, Lu Luo looked around and asked.
"I need to buy some special materials, and I plan to go to a few nearby markets alone. Maybe there will be an unexpected harvest." Bai Ran said directly without any intention of hiding it.
"Just in time. I also plan to go to the auction house to send something for auction. Then Junior Brother Bai and I will be separated here for the time being." Lu Luo heard Bai Ran's intention of acting alone and agreed without any objection.
So, Bai Ran and Lu Luo immediately broke up here and went their separate ways.
...Several markets in Tiantian City are very large, at least many times larger than those of the three sects of Yunmeng Mountain.
Bai Ran was walking on a street in Fang City, west of Tiantian City, and kept looking at the shops on both sides.
The words Bai Ran and Lu Luo said about purchasing materials were not lies.
He does plan to purchase some rarer talisman-making materials and prepare to refine some high-grade talismans.
Although he has many spirit animal skins and spirit blood left over from those days, refining high-grade talisman paper and high-grade cinnabar naturally requires the assistance of other raw materials.
This also allowed him to make preparations in advance for refining the spirit summoning talisman that he had already intended to do in the future, and strive to improve his talisman-making skills to a higher level.
Although the soul-dropping talisman has not been carefully studied, the power of the soul-dropping talisman mentioned on the bone fragment is really extraordinary. It can save his life at a critical moment, so Bai Ran naturally refuses to let it go easily.
However, the difficulty of refining this talisman is not ordinary complicated and difficult, far exceeding the ordinary five elements talisman.
In this way, in order to increase the success rate, in addition to improving his ability in making spells, he must replace his spell-making pen.
The original talisman-making pen should have been eliminated long ago.
Unfortunately, Talisman-making materials are easy to buy, but satisfactory Talisman-making pens are hard to find.
Among the first two shops in the market, there were also a few selling talisman-making pens. Some of them even sold rare top-level talisman-making pens. But after looking at them, they just shook their heads and left.
These talisman-making pens may be enough for making ordinary high-level talismans, but they are obviously not enough for drawing secret talismans such as spirit-dropping talismans.
Talisman-making pens are a kind of spiritual weapon that can only be used by talisman-making masters, so they are not very common. Even if they do exist, they are mostly of low and middle grades.
Because for a Talisman Maker, if he does not have enough mana, forcibly using a high-end Talisman Making Pen will not only fail to increase the Talisman Making Rate, but will increase the chance of failure.
As for the Talisman Makers, because they were distracted from practicing the Talisman Making Technique, most of them were not very advanced, and nine out of ten were still hovering below the foundation building stage.
There are only a few full-time Talisman Masters who can form elixirs in the entire Tiannan Immortal Cultivation World.
As for the Nascent Soul Talisman Maker, as far as Bai Ran knows, there seems to be no such perverted guy.
Most of them are old monsters who have reached the Nascent Soul stage, and some old monsters also practice talisman making skills on their own. They are not specialized talisman makers.
The talisman-making skills of these Nascent Soul monks are also very different. Basically, they specialize in one or two high-level talismans that are useful to them. However, because of the scarcity of high-level spiritual animal skins and high-level animal blood, they naturally cannot practice more.
The success rate can be imagined.
This has led to the strange phenomenon that high-level talismans are sometimes much more expensive than top-level magic weapons in the world of immortality. The five-element magic talismans in high-level talismans are just that, and the power of most high-level spells is not as powerful as the magic weapon.
powerful.
As a result, as soon as the monks form the elixir, they will basically give up on continuing to practice the Five Elements Spells.
However, this does not mean that advanced spells are really useless at all.
As far as Bai Ran knew, there were many powerful Five Elements spells that even the Nascent Soul Stage monks would not dare to block once they were cast.
However, these spells are not only difficult to practice, but also very cumbersome and troublesome to perform even if they are understood and mastered.
If you have this time, you might as well just use magic weapons to attack.
However, Bai Ran heard vaguely from other monks that the Mulan people's magicians seemed to have broken through this limitation. They had developed many powerful "spiritual arts" that could be performed instantly.
Allowing low-level magicians to defeat ordinary monks without using magical weapons or talismans.
When high-level magicians use magic weapons in conjunction with spiritual skills, they are even more powerful. There is no doubt that they can defeat monks of the same level.
This will allow several major forces in the south of the world to join forces to fight against the Mulan people. They can only protect themselves and cannot truly defeat the opponent.
Ever since the Nascent Soul was formed, Bai Ran had the self-awareness to start studying some of the most superficial advanced spells. He was able to comprehend three or four types of spells. Of course, the speed of casting them was appalling. I believe that he must really use these spells in the fight.
, unless there is a turtle shell that the enemy cannot break, he will have been killed by monks of the same level seven or eight times before he has cast even half of the spell.
However, when facing the enemy, suddenly using high-level talismans in conjunction with magic weapons is really sharp. If you throw out twenty or thirty high-level attack talismans in one go like those low-level talismans, let alone a monk of the same level, you will be a Nascent Soul.
Later, when the monks saw him, they could only flee immediately.
After all, this is equivalent to being attacked by dozens of Nascent Soul monks. Even if the monks' skills and protective magic weapons are attacked, they will never be able to survive as long as their cultivation is limited to the Nascent Soul phase.
But such an attack is just a thought. One attack consumes tens of thousands of spirit stones. No one dares to attack with such luxury.
Moreover, high-end talismans are priceless in the world of immortality, and most high-end talismans are of a auxiliary nature.
Bai Ran was thinking as he walked on the streets of Fangshi, constantly looking at the larger magic weapon shops and grocery stores on both sides. Generally, only large shops could sell top-level talisman pens.
You don't need to ask those smaller shops. In all likelihood, they won't sell such off-the-beaten-path magic weapons, let alone top-level ones.
Maybe there might be some treasures hidden in some small shops, but Bai Ran was willing to waste his time looking for them one by one. Otherwise, there were so many shops in Khotan Tiancheng, and he just wouldn't do anything. He didn't have ten days, and it was impossible to do them all.
Read it once.
In addition to Bai Ran, there were also other monks going in and out of the shops on both sides of the street, buying and selling what they wanted with different expressions.
Most of them are foundation-building monks, and occasionally a few alchemy-building monks appear.
As for the monks in the Qi Refining Stage, apart from the monks from Tiantian City, there are very few outside Qi Refining Stage monks.
Bai Ran once again concealed his cultivation to the middle stage of the pill formation, so although there were many monks he met on the road, they were only looked at with awe by those in the foundation stage. As for the pill formation monks, the ones they didn't know each other were just.
It's all just swept away.
In this way, Bai Ran didn't attract too many people's attention and slowly walked around one large store after another.
When Bai Ran came out of an attic disappointed again, more than half of the day had passed unknowingly.
Looking at the darkening sky and the moonstones that started to light up one after another in various shops, Bai Ran hesitated a little.
He was thinking in his mind whether it was time to go back to his residence, or whether he should check out the two houses before going back.
But at this moment, a burst of noise came from not far ahead, as if someone was having an argument, and some monks nearby gathered around curiously.
Bai Ran frowned, immediately put his hands behind his back, turned around expressionlessly, and planned to go back to his residence.
But before he could take two steps away, an evil voice was heard very loudly.
"Why, are all you Luoyun Sect monks such scoundrels? You break something and want to leave without paying for it?"
"It's not that I won't pay, it's just that I just bought other things, and I really don't have so many spirit stones. And this one is just a junior and intermediate Fire Cloud Talisman. How can it cost three hundred spirit stones? It's at most one hundred.
The amount of spirit stones is enough to reach the sky. Besides, didn’t I stake my sect’s token here? When I got back to the inn, I borrowed some spirit stones from other sect members and then came back.” Another younger man’s voice was also a little angry.
retorted loudly.
Bai Ran's figure who took two steps away suddenly paused. The man's voice sounded familiar to him, as if he was someone he knew in the Luoyun Sect.
Bai Ran touched his chin, and after thinking for a moment, he turned around and walked towards the store where the commotion came from.
No matter who it is, let's take a look and talk about it. After all, he is now one of the three elders of Luoyun Sect, so it's really not easy for him to just walk away pretending not to know.
After a while, Bai Ran saw from a distance that there were more than a dozen monks watching in front of a small grocery store, and there seemed to be several monks confronting each other inside.
One of them was tall and handsome in black clothes, with an angry look on his face. He was Huo Yunfeng Sun Huo whom he had seen at the sword trial competition.
We haven’t seen each other in just twenty years. The face of this young man named Sun Huo has not changed much, but his cultivation has improved a lot. Opposite him are three local monks with unkind faces. They look like this
The shopkeeper and clerk of a shop.
At this time, a monk in the middle who looked like a shopkeeper with a short beard rolled his eyes and said to Sun Huo:
"It's a worthless sign. What's the use of it? What if you don't want this token and return to Luoyun Sect immediately after you go back? I really can't chase you all the way to Xi Country. Stop talking nonsense, since
If you don’t have any spiritual stones, take out the contents of the storage bag and give them to me.
The mortgage is here. As for the Fire Cloud Talisman, do you think it is an ordinary mid-level Talisman? It is the work of our Talisman Master from Tiantian City. How can it be compared with the ordinary Fire Cloud Talisman? It is already cheap for you to charge you three hundred spirit stones.
.Are all the Luoyun Sect monks poor?"
After saying this, the shopkeeper glanced at the wooden box held by the waiter on the side, with a look of regret on his face, as if he had really suffered a big loss.
"Okay! This thing belongs to you. You can say whatever you want. You can also say that an ordinary Fire Cloud Talisman was refined by the Talisman Maker Master." Upon hearing this, Sun Huo laughed angrily.
stand up.
"Why, can you tell whether it is a talisman made by a master? Or do you really not want to compensate for the loss of our store? Then don't blame me for notifying the city's law enforcement envoy." The shopkeeper sneered and threatened rudely.
After hearing this, Sun Huo's face turned white and red.
When the law enforcers from the Nine Nations Alliance arrive, they will know who they will favor without asking.
Moreover, this matter is really unclear. It seems that this loss is really inevitable!
His face was gloomy for a while, then Sun Huo stamped his feet and suddenly slapped the storage bag on his waist.
Immediately, a dozen talismans of various colors appeared in his hand, most of which were low-level talismans of the primary, middle and lower levels.
"Although these talismans are not of high level, they are enough to temporarily hold up two to three hundred spirit stones." Sun Huo said through gritted teeth.
When the shopkeeper heard this, his face softened and he said:
"That's pretty much it!" Then he stretched out his hand to pick up the talisman.
"Hey, this one isn't right!"
Before the shopkeeper could get the talisman in his hand, Sun Huo glanced at the talisman in his hand, his expression suddenly changed, he stopped his hand, and immediately took out a half-broken piece of yellow talisman paper from the talismans, and then handed it over again.
passed.
"Hmph! You are still so nervous about a piece of blank talisman paper that is torn like this? Your Luo Yun Sect is really poor." After the shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, he said with a sarcastic look. Then he raised his hand again with one hand.
The first time you grab it, you have to grab those talismans.
But at this moment, a figure flashed in front of him, and a person suddenly intervened between the two of them and took the talismans.
Sun Huo was startled, and the shopkeeper hurriedly took a few steps back and shouted angrily:
"Who is it and what do you want to do?"
"Why don't you do it! I just heard you say what happened to our Luoyun Sect over and over again. Can you tell me again in front of Bai?" The monk who intervened said coldly and expressionlessly.
After saying this, an astonishing aura was released from his body, and huge spiritual pressure dropped from the sky. The expressions of the nearby monks suddenly changed so much that they couldn't help but take a few steps back. Some monks with lower cultivation levels immediately felt that before they could stand firm,
He felt like a mountain weighing down his body, and he half-knelt on the ground.
The two alchemy monks who happened to be passing by were a little better, but after a flash of their bodies, one of them looked even more frightened and said: