No hope for eternal life

During the period of full-scale training, Mu Changsheng would only pause for a while when he needed to change the medicinal bath.

After a month and a half, Mu Changsheng finally ended his retreat.

In the medicine barrel, Mu Changsheng slowly opened his eyes and exhaled a breath. His face had a complicated expression, including happiness and disappointment.

What made him happy was that he had made breakthroughs in both his cultivation and body refining realms. His cultivation had reached the middle stage of the foundation building realm, and his body had reached the iron bone realm.

The disappointment was because his original plan was to break through to the late stage of the Foundation Establishment Stage, but now things have gone against his wishes.

Therefore, Mu Changsheng is now facing a rather embarrassing situation. Both his cultivation and physical body are in a neither good nor bad state. If he can't even get into the top ten in the county examination, how can he talk about the county examination? What's more, Mu Changsheng also wants to try the palace examination.

"How can everything be as we wish? This is already very good." Mu Changsheng comforted himself in his heart.

Although there were still seven days left before the county examination, Mu Changsheng had to suspend his practice because he had to prepare for the county examination in the near future.

Mu Changsheng walked out of the medicine barrel, put on his clothes, and began to prepare the talisman liquid. Obviously, what he needed to prepare was the talisman. Now his cultivation and physical realm could not make any breakthroughs in a short period of time, so he could only rely on the talisman.

Among the spiritual items that Mu Changsheng asked his father to buy before, except for the spiritual grass, the rest were things needed to refine the Mountain-Breaking Talisman.

Mu Changsheng already had five spirit-summoning talismans in his hand, which were enough for the time being. What he lacked now were a large number of mountain-breaking talismans.

It took Mu Changsheng two days and two nights to draw a total of one thousand sets of Broken Mountain Talisman Liquid, and he got three hundred and seven Broken Mountain Talismans. It can be seen that with Mu Changsheng's breakthrough in cultivation and practice makes perfect, his success rate in drawing Broken Mountain Talismans has broken through to 30%.

Mu Changsheng put all the Mountain-Breaking Talismans into a storage bag separately so that it would be more convenient to take them out.

"This should be enough." Mu Changsheng murmured to himself. If it was not enough, he could still refine more. Besides, the county examination would be held in Qihua City, so it would be convenient to buy raw materials.

Afterwards, Mu Changsheng walked out of the house and saw his parents waiting for him in the courtyard. They must have guessed that it was time for him to come out, so they were waiting for him.

When Mu Yanggu saw Mu Changsheng walking out of the room, he took the initiative to ask: "Are you confident?"

"I can't guarantee it, but I'm somewhat confident." Mu Changsheng said with a smile.

Mu Yanggu nodded slightly, and did not ask any more questions. He just said, "Don't forget to say goodbye to Mr. Yang before you leave."

"Don't worry." Mu Changsheng agreed without hesitation. He would have done so even if Mu Yanggu didn't say it.

Chen Wanru, who was standing by, stepped forward and handed Mu Changsheng a bundle, saying, "This is what your mother prepared for you. Take it with you on your journey."

Although Mu Changsheng has reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, in Chen Wanru's eyes he is still like a child, and she is afraid that Mu Changsheng is not well prepared.

Mu Changsheng did not refuse and directly put the bag into the storage bag.

"Dad, Mom, goodbye." Mu Changsheng bid farewell to his parents formally. He would probably be gone for several months.

After bidding farewell to his parents, Mu Changsheng walked out of the house and saw Mu Xun swinging a hammer in the sword-making shop. He took the initiative to invite him and said, "Let's go and bid farewell to Mr. Yang together."

"Okay." Mu Xun agreed, returned the sledgehammer to Mu Qunxian, and walked straight out of the sword-making shop. He carried a storage bag with him, and everything he needed to prepare had already been prepared. Even his cultivation had already broken through to the late stage of foundation building.

After Mu Changsheng and the other two walked away, Mu Qun first looked up at their backs and couldn't help but sigh: "It's still good to be young."

Mu Changsheng and the other person walked all the way to the gate of the former school. There had been no classes for nearly two months, and some weeds had grown outside the gate. It seemed that Yang Wuque did not take care of it on a regular basis.

Mu Changsheng knocked on the door twice, and then he heard Yang Wuque's voice: "Come in."

Mu Changsheng pushed the door open and walked in, followed closely by Mu Xun.

"Hello, sir." Mu Changsheng and the other man bowed in unison.

"Are you going to take part in the martial arts test?" Yang Wuque took the initiative to ask.

"Yes." "Yes." Mu Changsheng and the other person answered respectively.

Yang Wuque nodded gently and said slowly: "The current royal family of the Divine Wind Kingdom, that is, the Feng family, is quite benevolent in governing the country. If you can take advantage of this martial arts test and seek an official position in the Divine Wind Kingdom, it will be a long-term solution."

After saying that, Yang Wuque took out three talismans, two of which were one green and one silver. Mu Changsheng was very familiar with them. They were the Qingshen and Shenxiao talismans!

Yang Wuque gave the Qingshen Talisman and Shenxiao Talisman to Mu Changsheng, and the remaining yellow talisman to Mu Xun, and then said to Mu Xun: "This talisman is called Huangzhong, it is for you to protect your body and life. Usually keep it close to your body, it will automatically protect you when there is danger. During the competition, you need to put this talisman in the storage bag, otherwise the referee will definitely judge you as cheating."

"Student has made note of it." Mu Xun bowed heavily. He had been outside before and knew that people's hearts were treacherous, and that Qi Refining cultivators rarely went out, so Foundation Establishment cultivators were also at the bottom of the society outside. Now that he had something to save his life, he felt confident.

Yang Wuque then instructed Mu Changsheng, "I won't say much about how to use it. As I said before, cultivators don't practice to fight for power. Use it as little as possible."

"Student will remember this." Mu Changsheng bowed deeply. At this moment, he was so touched that he could not express it in words. Because Mu Changsheng came here today, in addition to saying goodbye, he also wanted to borrow the talisman. It was just that he didn't know how to ask for it all the way. He didn't expect Yang Wuque to take out the two Qingshen talismans on his own initiative.

“Also, don’t think that you can do whatever you want with the life-saving talisman. In the Shenfeng country alone, there are many cultivators who can break those three talismans.” Yang Wuque warned the two again.

"Students should remember this." Mu Changsheng and the other two said in unison. Mu Changsheng particularly agreed with this. Sha Tongmo, the prefect of Nansha County, has the cultivation level of the Spirit Transformation Realm. Who knows how many big figures there are above Sha Tongmo.

"There's more." Yang Wuque handed a storage bag to Mu Changsheng and said vaguely: "This is your share of the spirit stones."

Mu Changsheng understood immediately after hearing what he said. It should be the first batch of income from the gold and silver stone mother mine. He took it and quickly used his spiritual sense to check the storage bag. He found that it was full of medium-grade spirit stones. A rough count using his spiritual sense showed that there were more than 30,000 pieces. It was worthy of being the gold and silver stone mother mine. The value of the first batch alone far exceeded all the income from the gold and silver stone essence.

"Thank you, sir." Mu Changsheng thanked him sincerely. Although he still had more than 3,000 medium-grade spirit stones left, he was practicing body and talismans at the same time, and the spirit stones were consumed like water, so they were not enough. Therefore, Yang Wuque's batch of spirit stones came just in time, and he immediately had a plan in his mind for the newly acquired spirit stones.

Mu Xun, who was standing by, didn't know the details, but he could guess the general idea and didn't say much.

All that needed to be said and done had been done. Yang Wuque waved to the two and said, "Go ahead. What the future holds will depend on you."

Hearing this, Mu Changsheng hurriedly bowed again and said, "Sir, I have another request."

"Go ahead." Yang Wuque said calmly.

Mu Changsheng said respectfully: "As the saying goes: One should not travel far away while one's parents are still alive. This time I am away from home, but I am worried about my parents at home. I would like to ask you to take care of them."

Yang Wuque thought Mu Changsheng would make some additional requests, but he only asked him to look after his parents. He nodded with satisfaction and assured, "I dare not say anything absolute, but as long as I am alive, I will definitely keep your parents safe."

"Thank you, sir." Mu Changsheng thanked him again. With Yang Wuque's words, he no longer had any worries.

Afterwards, Mu Changsheng and Mu Xun bid farewell to Yang Wuque and left the school.

Mu Changsheng took the initiative to invite Mu Xun and said, "How about going to Qihua City together?"

Mu Xun only had defensive talismans but no offensive talismans. Perhaps it was because Yang Wuque had no more offensive talismans on hand. Mu Changsheng took the initiative to invite Mu Xun, thinking that it would be safer for Mu Xun to follow him.