Gou Dao Changsheng: Starting from the Reincarnation of a Demon Cultivator

Chapter 417: Chess moves, favors exchanged for treasures

Gu Jiushang looked at Hongdie's resolute back, admiration appearing in his eyes.

If we put ourselves in their shoes, even if our spiritual roots were the same, how many cultivators at the age of thirteen or fourteen could have the same mentality as Hong Die?

Gu Jiushang asked.

“In one year, even though she has a top-grade water spirit root, she has only reached the second level of Qi training.

What are the chances of achieving something you'd recognize?"

"Approval?"

Fang Yi's lips curled slightly.

Immediately, the magic power was slightly inhaled and exhaled, and water vapor rose and turned into a water mirror.

The scene of Hongdie activating Changling's magic weapon to destroy her appearance appeared in the water mirror.

"It's just a casual move...

It was just a few bottles of Wuying Cold-Removing Ointment that were exchanged for the monks.

The Wuying Cold-Removing Ointment is very valuable, but that is only possible thanks to the Hanling Secret Realm.

For me, it only costs one or two hundred spirit stones.

If I can cultivate a mid-level Dao foundation, it will be of great help to my future plans for the Examination Pavilion and even Xuanyang Mountain..."

Fang Yi waved his sleeves and threw a storage bag into Gu Jiushang's arms.

"Although Li Wuhui is about to advance to the late stage of foundation building.

But between him and me, we are just using each other and having interests connected, and neither of us is sure to defeat the other.

If I could cultivate a mid-level Dao foundation myself, it would be much easier in the future..."

"What about the cauldron? Are you going to give up like that?"

Gu Jiushang showed doubt on his face. The top-grade water spirit root contained the meaning of water nourishing all things.

Among the spiritual roots of the same level with the five elements, he is the most suitable candidate for the cauldron.

After losing the Red Butterfly, it may not be possible to encounter a cauldron of this quality again within sixty years.

"The candidate for Dinglu?"

Fang Yi shook his head slightly. After seeing Hong Die's sober expression, he gave up the idea.

To practice the third-level technique [Yin Yang Harmony Technique], if you want the cauldron to be helpful in condensing the golden elixir, you need to be at least in the late stage of foundation building.

Or it could be a special spirit that provides additional benefits to the dual cultivation method.

Or maybe Xie Lingyun and Xie Hongdie practiced the Double Cauldron Method, their spirits and energies were in harmony, and their magical powers were connected.

But this makes it even more difficult...

It is unknown how many spiritual objects will be consumed to train two female cultivators in the late stage of foundation building, which will simply slow down the speed of cultivation, and there is no absolute certainty.

Fang Yi shook his head slightly.

"Brother Gu, the effort and reward are not proportional. The risk is too great. It would be better to let Hongdie practice on her own and see if there are any unexpected gains."

"Also, the origin of that package of drawings is unknown. It must be secretly connected to She Yuzhang. I wonder which hidden cultivator it is.

Now I am determined to buy Wuying Quhan Cream.

Although it’s unlikely that he will find the second-grade, top-grade Five Flame Cherry Spirit Tree, Senior Brother should still pay attention…”

The Five Flame Cherry Spirit Tree contains a gentle fire energy and the quality of the spiritual wood is average.

It is not as fast as cedar and fir, but its growth rate far exceeds that of the same level, which makes it easier to cultivate.

Its quality is not as solid as that of spiritual objects such as blood sandalwood and black nanmu, and it can be used to refine high-quality magical instruments.

Before Fang Yi used it to refine the Five Cherry Cold-Removing Ointment, it was mostly used as an auxiliary material for refining magical instruments and as low-grade talisman skin for drawing second-level talismans.

In the entire Dayun Xiuxian Kingdom, even if there is occasional cultivation, no family force will waste spiritual objects to cultivate the Five Flame Cherry Spirit Tree to the second-level upper grade.

Fang Yi pondered for a moment, took out a jade talisman from his sleeve, and flew out of the cave.

……

"Master, please wait a moment. I have something important to report..."

Gu Jiushang waved his hand to stop Fang Yi and handed him a jade slip.

"Master, you have been away from Qingzhi Tower for a long time.

Even though I issued decrees from time to time, many cultivators in Fengling Immortal City began to provoke Qingzhi Tower...

I can't reveal my cultivation level, relying solely on Fellow Daoist Fan is not a long-term solution..."

Fang Yi pondered for a moment, then swung his sleeves, and with his magic power, he cast out several jade talismans again.

"It just so happens that after Li Chenzi came, the Xiaoyuan Territory's dark market came to an end.

Senior Brother Gu and I returned to Qingzhi Tower together. I want to see which old fellow has become interested in Qingzhi Tower..."

Fang Yi's eyes were deep.

With his medium-grade spiritual roots and the cultivation level of the middle stage of foundation building.

Even if he advances to the late stage of foundation building, there will be no other forces to help him, unless he does not care about being watched by the Jindan Zhenren and exposes his true identity.

Otherwise, he would just be an ordinary cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building in Xuanyang Mountain.

But Qingzhi Tower is different.

With the development of Qingzhi Tower, the shortcomings of spiritual medicine in Xuanyang Mountain were constantly being made up.

He also has a relationship with Xia Zhengbai, the son of Jiuqu Zhenren of Fengling Fairy City.

This also means that the sect's minor Qi-cultivating practitioners, foundation-building masters, and even great cultivators in the late foundation-building stage were all transferred to the front line of the beast tide, Sudu Mountain.

The reason why Fang Yi can still sit back and plan for Xiaoyuanling.

Qingzhi Tower was also the foundation for him to seize the position of the head of the Kaogong Pavilion and then plot to seize power in Xuanyang Mountain.

Throughout the Dayun Immortal Cultivation World, Xuanyang Mountain, Bishui Pavilion, Tiandaowu, and the White Bone Demon Sect stood tall...

Many rare spiritual objects were almost completely looted by all the major sects.

To disturb Qingzhi Tower is to shake Fang Yi's path.

……

One month later.

Xuanshen Pavilion.

"Hongdie, you mean that Master Yin Gu left a decree the day before he went into seclusion.

Ask you to come to Xuanshen Tower to buy elixirs?"

Wearing a green gauze dress and a jade bracelet on her wrist, the graceful Qingning had a hostile look on her face.

Before Fang Yi went into seclusion, he only communicated with the foundation-building master in the market town.

She also learned this news from the Black Soul.

Now that a female cultivator at the second level of Qi training had come to Xuanshen Tower with Fang Yi's token, saying that Fang Yi had other plans, a hint of hostility surfaced in Qingning's eyes, but then quickly suppressed it in her heart.

His eyes swept across Hongdie's creamy skin, and finally he looked at the centipede-like scar on Hongdie's face with disgust.

She shook her head slightly and reached out to take the token from Hongdie's hand.

No matter how much his master's taste changes, he will not look down on such a female cultivator with low cultivation and ugly appearance.

Qing Ning pondered for a moment, a distant and polite smile appearing on his face.

"Since Master has given the order, and Junior Sister Hongdie holds Master's token, I can give you the elixir in Xuanshen Tower at cost price.

However, you can only purchase three bottles of each spiritual medicine per year. If you purchase more than three bottles, you must purchase them at the original price..."

"Thank you, Senior Sister Qing Ning..."

Hongdie felt relieved and immediately took out more than ten spirit stones from her storage bag.

With the discount, her spirit stone pressure can be reduced a lot.

After leaving the cave, Hongdie found a job in Xiaoyuanling where she used water-attributed magic power to refine spiritual objects.

Although life was hard, she felt relieved after confirming that Fang Yi had completely let go of her.

For a quarter of an hour, he looked at Qing Ning, who was wearing jewels and had a look of disdain on her face.

Hongdie thanked him again and took the elixir.

This kind of life was originally within her reach, but she has no regrets.

On the path of cultivation, there are female cultivators who rely on their good looks, like dodder, and rely on male cultivators.

There are also female practitioners who give up everything just to have a clear thought and maintain the most basic dignity.

……

Fengling Fairy City, Qingzhi Tower.

The bamboo shadows in the garden are swaying, the lotus pond is sparkling, and koi are swimming freely.

In the quaint stone pavilion, Fang Yi and Xia Zhengbai sat on either side of a stone table.

The aroma of tea filled the air. Fang Yi picked up the jade pot and poured a cup of spiritual tea for the handsome monk in a dark green brocade robe.

"Fellow Daoist Xia, I have invited you here this time because I do have a favor to ask..."

Fang Yi gave a bitter smile, revealing his cultivation level of the fourth level of foundation building.

“To be honest, fellow Daoist, after I broke through the middle stage of foundation building, I was limited by my foundation. Even though I practiced hard in seclusion, my cultivation level has not improved at all for many years.

The spiritual medicine skills, hampered by the divine consciousness, have also reached a bottleneck..."

Xia Zhengbai frowned slightly, and scanned with his spiritual sense, and saw that Fang Yi's aura was the same as it was a few years ago, with almost no change.

Medical practitioners are good at handling elixirs, and in order to improve their cultivation, they inevitably have to swallow elixirs.

Now Fang Yidu is suffering from the accumulation of poison, his magic power is not pure enough, and he is trapped in a bottleneck.

Over the past few decades, he has had a pleasant cooperation with Qingzhilou. Both Xiaoquhansan and Wuyingquhan Cream have been of great help to Fenglingwei.

Because of this, Xia Zhengbai was valued more by his father, True Man Jiuqu, and he also knew many secret forbidden laws in Fengling Fairy City.

He hesitated for a moment and then spoke.

"Fellow Daoist Fang, there's no need to be secretive.

Xia thought you were here to try to copy the Wuying Quhan Ointment from the Xiaoyuanling dark market...

We have been friends for many years. If you need anything, just ask me if I can help you..."

"Succulent and fragrant..."

Fang Yi said that when he returned to Qingzhi Tower this time, he would immediately invite Xia Zhengbai.

Gu Jiushang got the news that there were some Suhexiang left in the storehouse of Fengling Fairy City.

“I heard that True Man Jiuqu had a disciple in his early years who was good at the art of incense.

I wonder if there are any remnants of Suhexiang left in Fengling Fairy City...

The spiritual fragrance nourishes the mind, and Fang needs to borrow the power of the Suhe fragrance to break through the bottleneck of foundation building.

Brother Wangxia, please help me!"

"Suhexiang? Fellow Daoist Fang, where did you get this information?"

Xia Zhengbai paused in his movements and looked at Fang Yi deeply, with an unreadable look in his eyes.

He refused.

“To be honest with you, Fellow Daoist Fang, we still have some inventory in the warehouse of Suhexiang Immortal City.

But this spiritual incense involves a wide range of people, so it is really not easy to give it to fellow Taoists..."

Fang Yi was certain in his heart that there really was such a fragrance in Fengling Fairy City.

Gu Jiushang only found out that in the early years of Jiuqu Zhenren, one of his disciples who was good at the art of incense passed away.

He had also refined Suhe incense, but he never thought that even after his disciple had passed away for sixty years, there were still some Suhe incense left in the fairy city.

……

Fang Yi smiled bitterly.

"Brother Xia, it's not that I don't know what's good for me, but as a second-level mid-grade spiritual doctor.

Fang knew his own situation best. His consciousness was stagnant, and he had to use Suhexiang to nourish it...

Otherwise, over time, there will be no possibility of breakthrough in this cultivation..."

Fang Yi would not give up on the upgrading of the Yellow Scaled Dragon Spirit Puppet, which was his biggest trump card.

He slapped his storage bag, and a bronze token engraved with the word "Xia" flew onto the stone table.

"Brother Xia, you saved Fellow Daoist Yang back then, and he said he owed me a favor.

Today, Fang wants to use this favor and only asks Suhexiang for help..."

"This……"

Xia Zhengbai frowned. This favor was promised by him personally, and he even left a token of his gratitude.

If he flatly denies it, it will deal a huge blow to his own prestige.

But the Suhexiang left in Fengling Fairy City is of extraordinary quality.

If it is handed over to Fang Yi, not to mention his father, Jiuqu Zhenren, it will be difficult to explain to the other fake Dan Zhenren in the Immortal City.

"..."

"..."

The garden was silent, with the occasional sound of swaying bamboos.

After a while, Xia Zhengbai sighed and looked at Fang Yi.

"Friend Fang, do you really have to be Suhexiang?"

(End of this chapter)