After recovering, Lu Ming walked out of the teleportation array and carefully looked at the surprisingly large hall he had just arrived. He saw that this hall was very strange. It was a very large cylindrical room with a diameter of about thirty feet from left to right and a height of four.
It is five feet high, and the surrounding green rock walls are inlaid with light red crystals, and there is a thin layer of white sand on the ground, making the entire hall look clean and tidy.
But when he raised his head, he was shocked to find that there were white stalactite pillars hanging upside down from the roof of the hall, and they were densely packed everywhere. This was actually a rare stalactite cave, which had only been slightly modified.
formed into what it is today.
There are three passages evenly distributed around the hall. The middle one and the left passage are respectively engraved with the word "Qi" and the word "Dan" in ancient characters. The rightmost passage is empty.
No signs are displayed.
At this time, the huge hall was empty except for Lu Ming, which seemed particularly uncoordinated. Lu Ming hesitated for a moment, then raised his feet and walked towards the passage on the left that was engraved with the word "Dan".
This passage was not long at all. After walking along the passage for more than ten steps and turning a corner, Lu Ming saw a slightly larger room appearing at the end of the passage. There was a long table in this room, and there was a
The red-faced old man stood by the table, looking at Lu Ming with a smile on his face, with a hint of enthusiasm and peace in his expression.
Behind the table, there were several shabby shelves standing against the wall, filled with various cauldrons, raw materials, and some miscellaneous strange items that Lu Ming had never heard of before.
Before Lu Ming could speak, the old man spoke up with a bright smile: "This little friend, you look very ugly, it must be your first time here! There are fewer and fewer newcomers coming to this damn place now.
Come on! I've long been tired of seeing all those dead-faced guys. It's great to have a younger newcomer here!" The old man shook his head and said, with a bit of amusement and a hint of depression on his face.
appearance.
Lu Ming sent out a breath to test, and when he was more than half a foot away from the opponent, he suddenly felt that his breath disappeared silently like a stone sinking into the ocean!
This is definitely an existence that is not lower than the foundation building stage. He hurriedly saluted: "Junior has met senior. It is indeed the first time for this disciple to come to the transfer hall. Please give senior some advice!" Lu Ming kept his posture very low.
"If you don't understand anything here, just ask me. Besides, my surname is Qian, so you can call me Uncle Qian or Mr. Qian. I don't want to say that my predecessor is older than my predecessor, I don't like to hear this the most!" The old man felt uncomfortable.
Lu Ming seemed to be very concerned about asking him to change his title.
"Then..., disciple, just obey your orders!" Lu Ming hesitated for a moment, then agreed, feeling that the other party was really a bit weird.
"That's right. Now let's talk about the purpose of this." Mr. Qian said with a teachable expression.
"This disciple is looking for some formulas related to elixirs. I looked at the book and wanted to study the method of refining elixirs." Lu Ming tried his best to make his words tactful and roundabout, not wanting to attract this person's attention.
"Recipes and books for alchemy? Just go up the stairs!" To Lu Ming's surprise, the old man had no intention of questioning him. He casually took out a black token and issued a spell, and spoke behind him.
In the open space between the shelves, a stone staircase leading to the roof appeared out of thin air.
Lu Ming was overjoyed to see it and quickly walked to the stairs. Just as he was about to go up, Mr. Qian suddenly showed a cunning look and looked at Lu Ming with a smile.
"Viewing the collection of books on the second floor costs one low-level spirit stone per hour. The originals are not allowed to be taken away from here. If you want to copy the contents, you will need to pay an additional copy fee of ten spirit stones per copy." Before Lu Ming could step up the stairs.
, Mr. Qian’s voice appeared behind Lu Ming.
Lu Ming's body stagnated and stopped. Hearing this rule, Lu Ming was confused, because he had already understood that there was no need to hand over spiritual stones or anything like that.
"Hey, you don't have to hesitate. This is my rule. If you don't want to go up, that's fine. You can just go back." Mr. Qian still looked at Lu Ming with a smile on his face and said.
The fee charged by the old man is too high, and his heart is too dark! Not to mention the cost of copying ten low-level spiritual stones, even the browsing fee of one spiritual stone per hour, will also make many cash-strapped disciples.
Had to stop looking at it.
You know, in the Qingyun Sect, a low-level disciple can only earn dozens of spirit stones through various tasks in a year! Taking into account the various daily cultivation consumption and expenses, how much can he actually save?
There are only a few pieces of spiritual stones!
Although Lu Ming had a strange look on his face when he wanted to understand the reason, he did not stop any longer because of Qian Lao's words. Instead, he threw back a low-level spiritual stone without looking back.
After reaching the old man's hand, he quickly climbed to the second floor.
"Haha, not bad! He was not frightened by such a charge. It seems he is still a small fortune. Haha, it looks like he has another small fortune to make!" The old man who called himself Uncle Qian saw Lu Ming like this.
As he made a bold move up the stairs, he could not help but narrow his eyes into a crescent shape with joy. He wiped the spiritual stone on the corner of his clothes a few times, then put it in front of his eyes and took a closer look. His iron-rooster face was undoubtedly exposed, and
The approachable look he saw at the beginning was completely different, and he looked completely like a miser.
At this time, Lu Ming suppressed the depression in his heart and calmed down a little before taking a closer look at the things on the second floor.
I saw four long and tall bookshelves placed along the surrounding walls on the second floor, with two identical bookshelves placed in the middle, which seemed somewhat coordinated.
But when Lu Ming walked along several rows of bookshelves, he couldn't help but be disappointed. On those bookshelves, he saw only twenty or thirty yellowed old books, a few bundles of tattered bamboo slips, and two pieces of jade whose original color could no longer be seen.
Tube, I felt very disappointed and couldn’t help but think of Mr. Qian’s evil smile as his scheming succeeded!
"How can the majestic Qingyun Sect be so shabby? How can these be the secret library of the great sect of cultivating immortals? They are clearly the shabby library of a poor scholar's family." Lu Ming was immediately shocked by the scene in the room.
After letting out a long breath, Lu Ming calmly walked to a bookshelf, then casually pulled out an old book and started reading it carefully.
"The two forms of yin and yang are born from the extreme, the two forms are born from the four images, the four images are born from the eight trigrams, the stem is the sky, the stem is the top, the stem is the bottom, Yuan Henry is pure..." After reading the previous sentence, Lu Ming frowned and closed the book in his hand.
, couldn’t help but feel extremely disappointed!
Lu Ming still didn't give up and walked to another bookshelf. There was a thick volume on it. It looked like it had been turned over many times. He still picked it up and looked at it. He saw that it read:
"Eat pork liver to nourish the liver, eat soybeans to nourish the kidneys..." Seeing this, Lu Ming couldn't stand it anymore!
"Is this teaching people how to maintain their health?" Lu Ming's face turned livid. This kind of book is not bad. If it were placed in the world, it would be a good book to take care of the body and strengthen the body. But how could it be put here?
In a hall where the Seven Great Immortal Sects are not allowed to pass on their merits, this is obviously just trying to make up for it!
Thinking of this, Lu Ming felt his heart ached for the worthless spirit stone at that moment!
Now that the spirit stone had been spent, Lu Ming simply read through all the books here, even the pieces of paper hidden in a corner. However, the more he looked at Lu Ming's face, the uglier he became, turning as black as pig liver.
"Bang bang!" Lu Ming picked up a book that he had just finished reading. It was another boring book. It was just for children. Lu Ming depressedly banged the book on the bookshelf to vent his depression.
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"Little friend, an hour is about to pass. If you continue to read, you will need to add more spiritual stones." While browsing on the bookshelf against the west wall, Mr. Qian downstairs shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Just these rubbish books. Books that were just rubbish in the Lu family actually cost such a high price for spiritual stones?" Lu Ming was a little dissatisfied and was about to go downstairs when he saw a few more books placed on the two bookshelves in the middle.
The jade slip looked so inconspicuous, he stopped and turned to the two bookshelves. He took out a low-level spiritual stone from his arms and threw it at the old man Qian downstairs.
"Hehe, that's right, the spirit stone has been received, you continue to read." Qian Lao downstairs put the caught spirit stone in front of his nose and sniffed it, then stuffed it into his arms with a smile.
Lu Ming no longer paid attention to this old man. The previous good impression of him was completely wiped out. He was clearly a money slave.
When he came to the two bookshelves in the middle, Lu Ming no longer read them carefully as before, but roughly doubled them, then threw them away and read another book if they were no longer useful.
However, on another bookshelf, as the road names continued to flip through the bundle of jade slips, the expression on his face also changed from gloomy to clear. After flipping through the bundle, Lu Ming put the bundle of jade slips back.
In the same place, he sighed softly.
Some of the jade slips on this bookshelf gave Lu Ming some insights, but the elixirs introduced above are all the most basic, useful for those below the ninth level of physical training, but are no longer useful to Lu Ming now.
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In this way, Lu Ming put his last glimmer of hope on the last jade slip, which was torn and yellow. This was his last glimmer of hope. He hoped that he would not return empty-handed and that he would be worthy of the two low-level spiritual stones!
Lu Ming picked up the two yellowed jade slips that were inconspicuously placed in the corner. A thick layer of dust fell on them. Lu Ming blew them, and the thick dust floated around. This jade slip was also gone.
I don't know how long it has been stored here, but no one has touched it for a long time.
Lu Ming wiped the jade slip, and the words on the yellowed jade slip were blurred. Only a few blurry strokes could be seen faintly, and it was difficult to see clearly what the words were.
Holding this jade slip, Lu Ming felt inexplicably excited. He had a vague hunch that this was definitely worth the two spiritual stones. This time, it was worth it!