No hope for eternal life

Mu Changsheng handed Mu Yanggu a storage bag and explained: "That's what I use to practice mystic arts, and these spirit stones are also temporarily lent to me by Mr. Yang for mystic arts practice."

Mu Changsheng had to tell a little lie, otherwise he couldn't explain the source of the spirit stone. As for the matter of the gold and silver stone mother mine, Mu Changsheng decided not to tell his parents for the time being. After all, it was a serious matter, and the fewer people who knew about it, the safer it would be.

Mu Yanggu took the storage bag and took a look at it. He was shocked again to find that there were thousands of medium-grade spirit stones in it.

After hearing Mu Changsheng's explanation, Mu Yanggu's gratitude towards Yang Wuque immediately welled up, and he secretly swore in his heart that he would return these spirit stones to Yang Wuque no matter what. If Mu Changsheng failed to return them, he, as a father, would return them on his behalf.

At the same time, Mu Yanggu praised Mu Changsheng and said, "Your idea is very thoughtful. The people in the town are gossipy. We can't buy these spiritual objects in the town. It's better to buy them in Qihua City."

"Hehe." Mu Changsheng touched the back of his head. He thought so too. Besides, Mu Yanggu had reached the peak of the foundation building stage and could travel much faster than him, so he could save some time.

"Okay, then I'll set off now." Mu Yanggu set off immediately. Since it was related to Mu Changsheng's practice of the secret technique, he was even more anxious.

"Go ahead, and be careful on the road." Chen Wanru warned.

After Mu Yanggu walked out of the house, he first stopped at the sword-making shop next door and directly took out five medium-grade spirit stones and returned them to Mu Qunxian. Although it was a bit of a loss to use medium-grade spirit stones to repay the debt, Mu Yanggu thought that the extra money could be regarded as interest.

Seeing this, Mu Qunxian was not polite and took the spirit stone casually, saying jokingly: "Wow, Brother Mu is rich now and is using mid-grade spirit stones."

"Brother, please don't laugh at me. I just happened to pick a third-grade spiritual medicine and sold it for spiritual stones, so I have the spiritual stones to pay you back." Mu Yanggu smiled and shook his head. He didn't dare to say that the spiritual stones came from Yang Wuque, so he could only make up a lie.

Mu Xun, who was swinging a hammer at the side, saw the middle-grade spirit stone, and a dark light flashed in his eyes. He would not believe that he had just picked up a third-grade spirit medicine.

At Mu Changsheng's home, Mu Changsheng said to Chen Wanru again: "Mother, the master asked me to go to the secret pavilion in the town to have a look, and I'm going there now."

Without the help of spiritual objects, Mu Changsheng cannot practice the Nine Transformations of the Physical Body for the time being. This is a good opportunity for him to choose a secret technique that he wants to practice.

Hearing that it was Yang Wuque who instructed this, Chen Wanru naturally did not object and quickly said, "Go quickly and be sure to listen to Mr. Yang."

Mu Changsheng immediately walked out of the house and headed towards the secret pavilion on Qinyu Street.

As the name suggests, Qinyu Street was named to commemorate the most outstanding ancestor of the Qin family, Qin Yu. The Qin family was the largest family in Qingliu Town, a well-deserved powerful family. The secret pavilion was also the property of the Qin family.

Standing in front of the secret pavilion, Mu Changsheng felt quite emotional. In just one night, his life had taken a major turn. He could even step into this secret pavilion at will.

After expressing his feelings, Mu Changsheng officially stepped into the door of the secret chamber. Naturally, there was a receptionist inside to greet him, but the other party recognized Mu Changsheng's identity at a glance. After all, the town was not big, and the cultivators had excellent memories.

"Hello, what secret technique do you want to buy?" The receptionist asked mechanically. He didn't think Mu Changsheng was someone who could afford a secret technique. He thought to himself, "What a bunch of poor fellows. They don't even have enough spiritual stones for cultivation. How can they have the spare spiritual stones to buy a secret technique?"

"I'll just take a look at it myself first." Mu Changsheng responded casually. He hadn't even seen a few secret techniques, so naturally he didn't know what to choose. He came here today to select carefully.

The receptionist heard this and thought to himself, "As expected," he said casually, "You can go to the third floor as you like. Only members of the Qin family can go to the fourth floor."

After saying this, the receptionist no longer paid any attention to Mu Changsheng. The secret techniques on the bookshelf were all extremely simplified versions, and he was not worried that the other party would learn them secretly.

Mu Changsheng had long heard that the higher up the secret pavilion one went, the higher the grade of the secret arts. The first floor had the lowest grade of secret arts, the second floor had grade two, the third floor had grade three, and the fourth floor had grade four. However, he was not qualified to go up to the fourth floor.

At the same time, the secret techniques here are divided into two categories: combat and auxiliary. Mu Changsheng decided to take a look at the first floor first. He walked to the combat bookshelf, picked up a simple book and started reading.

Fireball: Transform soul into fire, condense the fire into a ball, and attack one point...

Water bullet technique, wind knife technique...

After reading one first-grade secret technique after another, he did not feel the desire to practice it. In response to this, Mu Changsheng smiled bitterly. After seeing the mountain-destroying power of the Divine Sky Talisman, this lowest-level first-grade secret technique was really unbearable to look at.

So, Mu Changsheng decided to go directly to the third floor to see what the third-grade secret technique looked like.

The number of secret arts on the third floor is much less than that on the first floor, which also represents the relative rarity of third-grade secret arts.

Mu Changsheng started by looking at the offensive secret arts. The third-grade secret arts on the third floor were the best secret arts he could access for the time being. Thinking of Yang Wuque's suggestion, he decided to choose a secret art to practice first.

Therefore, when Mu Changsheng looked at each secret technique, he was extremely careful and analyzed and compared them seriously, hoping to find a secret technique that he liked.

Fire Essence Burning Heaven: Refining Qi into Fire, after refining it a hundred times, you will get a breath of Fire Essence Qi. When Fire Essence gathers, it can have the power to burn the sky...

Shui Yi Na Yuan, Wu Zhuo Sword Technique, Tu Long Hao Xiong...

Within two hours, Mu Changsheng read all the third-grade attack secret techniques. Whether from the name or the description of their power, they were indeed much more powerful than the first-grade secret techniques.

But even though Mu Changsheng read the introductions to more than a dozen third-grade secret techniques, he didn't feel excited at all. He always felt that these secret techniques seemed to be missing something. Perhaps it was because he had seen the ninth-grade secret technique such as the Nine Transformations of the Physical Body, so these seemed boring to him.

However, thinking of Yang Wuque's instructions, Mu Changsheng still had to choose the secret technique. He was undecided for a moment and turned to look at those auxiliary secret techniques.

The so-called auxiliary secret arts generally refer to the techniques of refining instruments, refining pills, array formations, talismans, etc. Although these secret arts are called auxiliary secret arts, there are also some powerful means among them.

In addition, a certain level of talent is required to practice those special secret techniques.

For example, in the art of alchemy, one needs to use countless spiritual medicines to practice. If one does not have enough talent, even if one has spiritual stones to buy more spiritual medicines to practice, it will be difficult to save the situation.

However, Mu Changsheng needed a lot of spiritual medicines to assist him in cultivating his physical body, so he didn't have any extra spiritual medicines to practice alchemy. Therefore, Mu Changsheng decisively gave up alchemy.

After putting the secret book called Alchemy Strategy back on the bookshelf, Mu Changsheng took out another secret book called: The Fundamentals of Talismans.

Seeing the words "Basics of Talismans", Mu Changsheng's mind seemed to flash with lightning, and he stood there in shock. He suddenly understood why he always felt that something was missing. That day, he used the Divine Sky Talisman to directly destroy a mountain of rain, which shocked him deeply and left an indelible impression in his heart.

Mu Changsheng immediately began to carefully read the book of basic talisman techniques in his hand. As the name suggests, this is an entry-level talisman technique. In addition to teaching monks how to use talismans, it also includes the inheritance of seven first-grade talismans, six second-grade talismans, and four third-grade talismans.

After Mu Changsheng finished reading every word in the book, he slowly closed the secret book in his hand and closed his eyes slightly. He was already certain in his heart that the art of talismans was what he was interested in.

However, problems also followed. The art of talismans was similar to alchemy. It not only required talent, but also consumed a lot of resources to practice. He already had the Nine Transformations of the Physical Body, which was a big resource consumer. It seemed a bit inappropriate to have another one.