The original repairer

Entering the Poison Pond Fairy City, I saw that the city roads were wide and flat, with shops lining both sides and a constant stream of traffic, presenting a prosperous scene.

Shi Chen hired a cultivator in the early stage of Qi Refining to tour and explain the Poison Pond Fairy City, and asked him to take him to familiarize himself with the main places in the city, such as the Law Enforcement Patrol Hall, the City Affairs Office, the market, the Alchemy Building, the Weapon Shop, the Restaurant, etc.

Under his guidance, Shi Chen went to the brokerage office under the City Affairs Office and rented a cave in the city for a period of six months, with a monthly rent of fifty low-grade spirit stones.

The environment of the cave is not ideal. There are many independent cultivators in the early stage of Qi training living nearby. They quarrel over trivial matters all day long, making the cave seem a bit chaotic.

The cave area where Shi Chen lived was a street with thirty caves on both sides. Each cave was rented by cultivators with varying numbers of residents.

The cave house contained three wooden houses and a small courtyard, a situation he was quite satisfied with. The streets and alleys seemed bustling with activity, with constant fighting and scrambling, indicating that there were no major conflicts here, and no high-level cultivators had set foot there.

Shi Chen's purpose in coming here was to investigate the markings on the monster hides to see if they had any luck, not to earn spirit stones for business. He didn't have a job refining pills, but simply wandered around the Immortal City every day, gathering information from restaurants. If he came across the main ingredient for the Foundation Establishment Pill and the price was right, he would buy it.

This fairy city is huge, with a radius of about fifty miles. Flying with a sword is not allowed in the city, but fortunately there are animal carts for transportation.

It has been more than a month since he came to the Poison Pond Fairy City. He has become familiar with most of the cultivators near the cave. Several brothels, seeing that Shi Chen is generous and never stingy, have introduced business to him, introduced fellow Taoists to him, and even came to inquire about his situation.

Shi Chen smiled but said nothing. If pressed, he would just say that he was here for sightseeing and wanted to see the scenery of the Poison Pond Fairy City.

During this period, he also learned a lot of information about the Thousand Poison Pond.

The Thousand Poison Pond's mist is inescapable. A cultivator in the Qi Refining stage can remain within it for an hour, provided they don't inhale it. After that, remaining within the mist will cause them to fall into a coma, and the mist will slowly invade their bodies. The higher their cultivation level, the longer they can remain within the mist. Once, a Jindan cultivator searched for spiritual objects within the pond. He fell into a coma after a day and was rescued by a cultivator in the early stages of Qi Refining. He remained in a coma for three months before waking up.

Cultivators entering the Thousand Poison Pond area usually form groups of two or more, planning a route to search for spiritual objects. The first person enters the mist, and after a certain period of time, the second cultivator enters, quickly searching for the first cultivator along the way to prevent the previous cultivator from becoming unconscious in the mist.

Cultivators who had been hanging around the Thousand Poison Pond for a long time rarely entered alone. To be safe in the misty area, one needed to form a team. Shi Chen didn't have any familiar cultivators here, so if he wanted to form a team for safety, trust would be a huge test.

In the middle of the Thousand Poison Pond is a deep water cave, thirty feet wide and unknown how deep it is. It is an underwater cave with countless large and small holes on the cave wall.

Having gathered a lot of information and gained a better understanding of the Thousand Poison Pond, it was time to explore it firsthand. After leaving the Poison Pond Immortal City, he summoned his flying sword and flew away. Within half an hour, he had reached the misty area of the Thousand Poison Pond.

The water mist filled the air, completely covering the Thousand Poison Pond. Looking down from the air, one could see the vast fog below, covering a large area of mountains, forests and bamboo fields, and even part of the Mingsha River was obscured by the fog.

Shi Chen controlled the flying sword to land at the edge of the mist, put it away, and looked around.

The road connecting to the Poison Pond Fairy City only reaches the edge of the water mist. Teams of monks gather on both sides of the road. Three or five monks set up stalls with signs saying they are selling items, and there are also merchants who are buying them.

Without forming a team with anyone, Shi Chen wanted to test the toxicity of the water mist first to see if it was really as the legend said.

He held his breath and walked into the mist. After entering three meters, he could no longer see anything outside ten meters. His body was immersed in the mist, and he could feel the mist clinging to his skin, slowly seeping into his body, and a slight tingling sensation came over him.

He walked forward about ten feet, found a place under a tree, sat down cross-legged, and found that he felt no discomfort.

After half an hour, I took my first puff of the mist. The mist went through my nostrils and into my body, starting from the nasal tubes. I felt a tingling sensation, and everywhere it went, I felt a tingling sensation.

Shi Chen felt that with his current level of cultivation, he would be numb if he inhaled three breaths of mist. If he held his breath, the mist would penetrate his skin and he would be numb in about an hour.

He tried to practice qigong to resolve the problem, and it seemed to have some effect, with the numbness in his body gradually decreasing.

Shi Chen couldn't help but think: his own cultivation method is the Qi Refining Technique. If this method is useful, among the many cultivators here, isn't there a single one who practices the Qi Refining Technique? It shouldn't be that a cultivation method can eliminate the numbness.

After practicing for two quarters of an hour, he could clearly feel the numbness slowly dissipating, but he couldn't be sure if it had any effect on the coma. He had been in the mist for over half an hour. A full cycle of practice would take an hour and a half, which was insufficient time. So Shi Chen stopped practicing, stood up, and walked back out of the mist area.

After walking out of the mist area, the body still felt a little numb. If I didn't use internal energy to dissolve it, it would take about four hours for the numbness to disappear naturally.

After returning to the cave in the fairy city, he used his internal energy to dissolve the numbness in his body within half an hour.

Shi Chen looked at the sky and decided it was not a good time to enter the Thousand Poison Pond again today, so he had to practice in the cave. After practicing the Qigong technique for one week, he found that his body contained a large amount of five elements of spiritual energy, and the effect of his practice was five times higher than usual.

Tomorrow he would practice in the water mist for one week to see if it was as he guessed: the water mist in the Thousand Poison Pond had the attributes of the five elements.

To be on the safe side, it is necessary to hire a monk to go in and look for Shi Chen one and a half hours after he enters the water mist, in case he faints in the water mist and no one rescues him.

The next day, Shi Chen brought a female cultivator to the misty waters of Thousand Poison Pond. This woman was Shi Chen's neighbor. After observing her for over a month, he found her kind and friendly to the neighbors. She offered to make talismans in exchange for resources. The night before, when Shi Chen explained his intentions, she readily agreed. Shi Chen offered ten spirit stones as a reward, but after a long period of debating, she finally agreed to accept the money.

Many monks came in and out. Although the fog covered a large area and monks could enter the fog from anywhere, most monks chose to enter the water mist area from the main road entrance of the fairy city.

The monks who enter the water mist area are mainly looking for spiritual objects, such as green poison frogs, lapis lazuli bamboo, purple mist grass, mist flowers, gray spiritual mushrooms, etc. There are quite a lot of spiritual medicines and materials here.

Higher-level cultivators would journey to the Thousand Poison Pond to search for the Five Spirit Pearls, a specialty of the Immortal City. Adding Five Spirit Pearls to crafting artifacts, medicine, or talismans would increase their effectiveness by one or two levels, and could also be used in puppetry and formations.

The price of Five Spirit Pearls is relatively high. Low-quality Five Spirit Pearls cost one hundred low-grade spirit stones, and they are in short supply.

Shi Chen and the female cultivator next door agreed that she would enter the water mist an hour and a half after Shi Chen entered it, and search within a distance of thirty feet from the entrance.

He held his breath and walked for thirty feet, then found a quiet big tree, sat cross-legged under it, and began to practice the exercises.