Cultivating Immortality: Starting from Ferrying Passengers

Chapter 35: Blockade Released
Three days later, in the dead of night, Fang Jingxuan was in the courtyard, carefully connecting with his natal spirit in his sea of ​​consciousness and collecting the moonlight and jade dew.

As the jade dew condensed on the emerald tree gradually increased, Fang Jingxuan's natal star [Thousand Spirit Cypress] in his sea of ​​consciousness also gradually dimmed from its original agility.

After a long time, Fang Jingxuan let out a long sigh and quickly used a small water control technique to collect the jade dew condensed on the jade tree into a jade bottle.

One drop, two drops, three drops.
Fang Jingxuan counted carefully and finally counted a total of thirteen drops.

"Sure enough, as my cultivation level increases, the power of my innate magical power, [Moonlight Jade Dew], is also increasing. When I was at the second level of Qi Refining, I could only collect ten drops at a time, but now I can collect thirteen drops."

Fang Jingxuan was very satisfied with the result. With other conditions remaining unchanged, he was able to collect more Yuehua Yulu, which was obviously due to his improved cultivation.

It seems that [Spur of the Mood] must be the same, but I haven't had the opportunity to verify it recently.

As these thoughts flashed through his mind, Fang Jingxuan looked at the jade bottle in his hand with a look of delight on his face. Thirteen drops of jade dew! He had never been so rich before.

In addition to the five drops left for Tu Yuan, he could keep eight drops for himself. Based on the fact that one drop of Jade Dew could increase his cultivation progress by two points, that would be sixteen points, which could reduce his hard training by one and a half months.

By this calculation, it actually only takes me two years to reach the fourth level of Qi Refining?

Thinking of this, Fang Jingxuan was a little excited. He had reached a higher level in just over two years. He could be considered a genius.

After collecting the Jade Dew, Fang Jingxuan was in a good mood. Having hope for the future was better than anything else.

So he turned around and went back to the quiet room, solemnly took out a drop of jade dew, poured it into his mouth, then took out the things he had with him, and began to meditate seriously.

Early the next morning, Fang Jingxuan woke up from meditation, and the first thing he did was to check his cultivation progress and see how much it had improved.

[Cultivation: Qi Refining Level 3 (9/600)]

Yes, with one drop of jade dew and three days of practice, the progress of cultivation has increased by three points, and it is about to break through double digits.

It's such a pleasant feeling to be able to make little progress like this.

Fang Jingxuan came out of the quiet room, came into the courtyard, and began to clean the animal pen for Tuoyuan.

Although Tuoyuan is quite intelligent, it is unable to do some detailed work and can only rely on Fang Jingxuan to serve it.

Fang Jingxuan picked up a large brush and scrubbed Tuoyuan's back all over, then applied soap nuts on it. After all these moves, Tuoyuan hummed in comfort.

After a long time, Fang Jingxuan felt relieved when he saw the brand new Tuoyuan. No one would want to ride on a smelly beast of burden.

After finishing all these, it was already noon and time for lunch.

Fang Jingxuan took out spiritual rice and dried meat from his storage bag, mixed them with some spiritual vegetables, cooked a large pot of rice porridge, and finally gave most of it to Tu Yuan.

One man and one turtle, eating the spiritual porridge with relish. This kind of extravagant life is enough to make others call it luxury.

Spiritual rice is so expensive nowadays. Fang Jingxuan dares to eat it like this. He really doesn't know how to live. He also keeps a companion beast like this, which is even more intolerable.

But Fang Jingxuan thought it was okay. If he had food to eat but didn't eat it, that would be hard on him.

After dinner, Fang Jingxuan asked Tuoyuan to wash the dishes and pots. As a water-type spirit beast, it could control water, so washing the dishes and pots would not be too difficult for it.

Fang Jingxuan walked into the quiet room and began to practice the configuration of talismans. It has been more than a month now. More than a dozen talisman papers have been scrapped and a lot of spiritual ink has been consumed. If you only count the spirit stones, it would take more than twenty low-grade ones.

Fang Jingxuan's life was simple now. He meditated at night, practiced talisman formations for an hour during the day, and in the evenings, he cooked himself in a large pot, took a medicinal bath, and practiced the Qingmu Health Training. His days were regular and fulfilling. If it weren't for the steady decline in the number of spirit stones in his pocket, Fang Jingxuan would have wanted to continue living like this.

After buying the essence of spiritual wood, some talisman paper and spiritual ink, Fang Jingxuan now has more than 130 low-grade spiritual stones.

This amount of spirit stones seems okay, but it is not enough to spend. According to Fang Jingxuan's consumption level, it will be gone in four or five months at most, so Fang Jingxuan feels a little uneasy.

However, I also asked Lao He to keep an eye on Chu Yunshen, and whenever he goes on a mission, I will definitely follow him.

After witnessing Chu Yunshen's methods, Fang Jingxuan felt that following him was the safest option.

Fang Jingxuan concentrated his mind and calmed his breath, and focused his weak spiritual consciousness on the talisman paper on the table. He dipped the foxtail talisman pen in the spiritual ink in his hand and gently drew lines on the talisman paper.

With his spiritual sense monitoring, each stroke was made steadily, until a complete talisman configuration was successfully depicted, Fang Jingxuan slowly withdrew his hand.

It’s done. Fang Jingxuan frowned with joy. He could finally complete the drawing of a talisman.

In this way, he has taken another step closer to the state of connecting the eighteen talisman structures required for his first talisman.

Fang Jingxuan admired his masterpiece carefully. He held up the talisman paper and looked at it again and again, unable to let it go.

Making talismans can train your spiritual awareness, earn you money, and give you a high social status in the market, so it's worth investing some money.

In the future, I will make some talismans when I have nothing to do, and sit at home to collect fees from the ferry routes. This is the beautiful life.

Fang Jingxuan made this plan for himself for the next ten years. Within ten years, he would become a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi Refining. His public identity would be a respected talisman maker, and secretly he would become the manager who controlled seven or eight ferry routes.

From now on, any porters at the dock who solicit passengers for ferries will have to pay themselves a fee.

To complete the transformation from Xiangzi to Tiger Lord, you can't just pull a rickshaw for the rest of your life.

Five days later, Fang Jingxuan came back from outside, exhausted, and said to Lao He:
"I have a feeling something's not right. The blockade is about to be lifted, and the scale of smuggling has become very large. This time I went there, at least ten porters followed me. It doesn't seem like a good thing."

As Lao He counted the goods that Fang Jingxuan smuggled in this time, he said:
"It's better to unlock it. It's been sealed off for almost two months, and these independent cultivators can't stand it anymore. Besides, the spirit stones they have are not unlimited. They will soon dry up, and there won't be much left to squeeze out."

Fang Jingxuan sighed and said helplessly:
"I thought I had found a way to make a fortune, but after just two attempts, I couldn't continue. Why is it so difficult to make money?"

Lao He laughed and said calmly:

"It's good enough to just get a piece of the pie. Your connections and relationships can only reach this level. If you want to make a lot of money, you either need to be extremely brave or have great connections. You don't have either, so why are you complaining?

Compared to those independent cultivators who have no connections and can only be blocked, you are doing okay.

The masters of the market didn't want to cause chaos, so this level was just right. It didn't cause any serious damage, which would make the independent cultivators want to escape, but it also made a lot of money. After two months, these independent cultivators were penniless again. "

Fang Jingxuan couldn't help but spit. "What the hell? Why do I feel like casual cultivators are just like pigs and sheep, ready to be slaughtered?"

After Lao He finished counting the goods, he glanced at him and said:

"You just realized it. Okay, stop complaining. This time you can get 80 low-grade spirit stones. You can focus on ferrying goods in the future. There will be opportunities like this in the future."

(End of this chapter)