Cultivating Immortality: Starting from Ferrying Passengers

Chapter 34: Trying to Refine the Body
Mo Guinong's plantation is located in a corner of the market town. It is a remote place with few people and not much spiritual energy, so generally not many people come here.

However, this plantation covers an area of ​​about seven or eight acres, and the rent paid to Hongyefang every year is also not small, which is also the largest expense of Mo Guinong.

But if he could save the rent and let Mo Guinong grow crops outside the market, he would definitely not be willing to do so, because the security outside is poor, and the fruits are often not yet ripe before they are attacked by waves of thieves who steal them.

It is common to end up with nothing harvested after a year, and the year's work is in vain.

Therefore, Mo Guinong would rather pay a large sum of rent and enclose land in the market for planting. Even though the security in the market is good and there are formations protecting it, his harvest will not be reduced at all.

Fang Jingxuan brought Tuo Yuan here and knocked on the door.

After a few breaths, a little boy of seven or eight years old came out. He looked at the huge Tuo Yuan and said timidly:

"Senior, are you here to see my grandfather? He's out for something and won't be back for an hour."

Fang Jingxuan looked at the child and found that he had some similarities with the old man Mo Guinong. It turned out that he was his grandson.

Old Man Mo kept coming to buy manure, and he didn’t even know he had a grandson.

"I'm here to look for your grandfather. In that case, I'll wait here for a moment. You can go in."

The other party was a child, and the plantation was full of valuable spiritual plants. Fang Jingxuan didn't want to go in, as it was not a good idea, so he decided to wait at the door for a while.

The child nodded, went in and closed the door, while Fang Jingxuan waited outside with Tu Yuan.

But after a while, the child came out again, this time with a set of tea sets, and came to Fang Jingxuan and said:

"You are a guest. Grandpa taught me that I should be hospitable. I have brewed a pot of spiritual tea for you. Please enjoy it while you wait."

After saying that, he poured a cup of tea for Fang Jingxuan.

Fang Jingxuan didn't expect that this child was so well-educated. He was completely different from other cultivator children he had met before.

He took the teacup, sniffed it, and asked without drinking:
"What's your name?"

"My name is Mo Jianxin, and I'm eight years old."

Fang Jingxuan nodded and thanked him. Then Mo Jianxin left the tea set outside and returned to the garden.

About half an hour later, Mo Guinong came back. He saw Fang Jingxuan from a distance and came up to say hello.

"A rare guest, a rare guest. How come you have time to come to my place today, Brother Fang?"

Fang Jingxuan did not keep the secret and said bluntly:
"Lao Mo, I came here this time to buy you some spiritual wood essence for my body training. I recently acquired a new body training technique. We'll be interacting more often in the future."

"Hey, this is a big customer, no problem, come with me."

Hearing Fang Jingxuan's words, Mo Guinong's face was full of smiles. Fang Jingxuan wanted to cultivate his body, which meant that he would be a stable big client of his in the future, so he had to serve him well.

Mo Guinong led Fang Jingxuan into the garden, and Fang Jingxuan was holding the tea set in his hand.

When Mo Jianxin saw his grandfather return, he stepped forward and told him what had just happened. After receiving the praise, his little face was very happy.

"Brother Fang, this spiritual wood essence is made by taking the heart of a hundred-year-old tree and blending it with the essence of the juice of wood-type spiritual plants. On the market, one low-grade spiritual stone is worth one jin. We are old acquaintances and will have dealings in the future. How about I give you one jin and three liang for one low-grade spiritual stone?"

Mo Guinong started to quote, Fang Jingxuan thought for a moment and then smiled:
"That was the price before. Now that the market is closed, how many people will buy this spiritual wood essence? I guess you have a lot of it, so why not make it cheaper? One low-grade spiritual stone costs two kilograms!" "Two kilograms? I'll lose a lot of money then. I have a lot of expenses, too. Rent, spiritual fertilizer, spiritual stones for formations, and spiritual-inducing potions. None of them are free. Brother Fang, you have to let me break even."

"Hehe, let's talk business. Hundred-year-old wood heart is not valuable. What's valuable is the spiritual plant juice. These are the ones you have the most in your plantation. One low-grade spiritual stone is worth two kilograms. I'm not kidding."

After several struggles, Mo Guinong was defeated. It was indeed as Fang Jingxuan said, his spiritual wood essence was now very difficult to sell.

Everyone is starving, so who would want to buy the essence of the spiritual wood?

Finally, Fang Jingxuan took out five low-grade spirit stones and returned with ten kilograms of spirit wood essence. After Fang Jingxuan left, Mo Guinong wiped away the depressed look on his face and laughed out loud.

Returning to his own courtyard, Fang Jingxuan took out a large vat, burned firewood underneath, boiled a vat of hot water, and then walked in naked.

To practice Qingmupi, one must first take a medicinal bath. The body-building exercises are roughly the same, except that the materials used in the medicinal bath are different.

When the hot water boiled and Fang Jingxuan felt a little hot, he took out the spiritual wood essence he had just bought and poured about three or two ounces of it into the jar.

The originally clear water instantly turned emerald green after the essence of the spiritual wood was poured into it. At the same time, a fresh fragrance of grass and trees rolled out.

"For the first time practicing, three ounces is just right. As your body training progresses, you can add a little more."

After Fang Jingxuan pondered secretly, he closed his eyes, recalled the exercise route of "Qingmu Health-preserving Exercise", and began his first attempt.

Tuo Yuan, who was not far away, looked at Fang Jingxuan boiling himself in water, with a hint of doubt in his big eyes.

An hour later, the emerald green spiritual wood essence had become very clear, and Fang Jingxuan also ended his first medicinal bath practice.

He stood up from the tank, staggered out, put on his clothes, and then carefully sensed the changes in himself.

The skin seems to be a little tougher than before, but the difference is not big, to the extent that it cannot be noticed without careful perception.

Forget it, let’s see how the property panel is displayed.

Then, Fang Jingxuan opened the attribute panel, and saw the words displayed on it:
[Real name: Fang Jingxuan]

[Age: twenty-three]

[Cultivation: Qi Refining Level 3 (6/600)]

[Physical Training Technique: Qingmu Health Training, Current Level, Qingmu Skin: 1/100]

Huh? I got it right from the start, and was detected by the attribute panel. Am I really a genius at body training?
Fang Jingxuan was a little shocked. According to Wei Tong, it would take at least five or six days to get started, and to reach a different level, it would take half a month.

But this was my first time to practice body training, and I got the hang of it and gained progress points.

Could it be that this attribute panel can also help consolidate one's realm?
If that’s the case, will the realm decline that Wei Tong mentioned happen to me?

Even if you think about it so deeply, if you are not afraid of the decline in your body refining level, you can avoid the dilemma of constantly investing resources in consolidation.

Then, after practicing a body-refining technique, you can just ignore it and practice a new one. Doesn't this mean that you can practice body-refining techniques indefinitely?
By the time I cultivate each Dharma body and stack them up, wouldn’t I have to spend countless spirit stones?
Thinking of this, Fang Jingxuan felt both pain and happiness in his heart.

(End of this chapter)