Standing under the porch of his small courtyard, Gao Yuan looked around quietly.
More than two months have passed, and except for the walnut tree next to the well, this small courtyard has not changed much.
When I went out last time, the branches of this old walnut tree were still bare, but now many buds have sprouted from it.
After wandering around the courtyard for a while, he stepped into the house.
Since dust-proof charms were posted everywhere in the house when I went out, even though no one had lived in it for more than two months, the various furniture was still clean and tidy.
He fetched a bucket of water from the well in the courtyard and poured it into the pot to heat it. Gao Yuan sat down on the Taishi chair in front of the desk in the side hall and went through the things he had to do on his return to the city one by one in his mind.
The first thing is to get rid of the unused items in the storage space.
In addition to the 641 primary crystallized magic cores, there are also six top-level Qi-training realm magic weapons including the Huangyan Shield, as well as three Qi-training realm elixirs such as Qi-Building Pills.
These things have become completely useless to him now. It would be a pity to just throw them away, but leaving them in the storage space takes up space.
They are just some Qi-training realm items, so selling them in the outer city is not eye-catching. Even if the price is discounted, selling them all should be worth 500 intermediate spirit stones, right?
The second thing is to purchase various items, mainly the materials for the body refining elixir recorded in the Jade Slip of the Cultivation Technique.
Blood ginseng, green flower, magic silver grass, second-level monster elixir and spiritual blood, these are the main ingredients listed in the elixir recipe.
Among them, he has collected a lot of demon elixirs and spiritual blood of second-level demonic beasts. The information about blood ginseng is also recorded in the "Common Low-level Materials Illustrated Book", but he doesn't have any of the 'Bi Linghua' and 'Demon Silver Grass'.
clue.
However, since they are not included in the "Common Low-level Materials Illustrated Book", I think these two should be second-level materials corresponding to the Kaiyuan Realm. The chance of being able to buy them in the medicine shops in the outer city is not high, and maybe they will be found in the '
In the Exile's Camp!
The next step was to make the skin of the second-level talisman. After upgrading the ice shield technique into the ice spell and completing the practice, he obtained the method of making the second-level diamond talisman through deduction. He spent a lot of time thinking about it.
As a Kaiyuan realm talisman, the production method of the second-order Vajra talisman is much more complicated than that of the first-order Vajra talisman.
In addition to the spiritual pattern itself becoming more complicated, it also involves the suppression and smelting of the vitality of heaven and earth. Therefore, the requirements for the materials for making second-level talismans have also increased a lot.
Talisman paper and cinnabar obviously cannot meet this requirement, so just like the demon-suppressing talisman he used before, the second-level talisman requires the use of talisman skin and the spiritual blood of second-level monsters.
He has no shortage of second-level spiritual blood. If he kills a second-level monster in the wild forest, he can collect tons of spiritual blood. The most important thing is the talisman skin.
This is not something that can be used just by peeling off the monster skin and cutting it. It also needs to go through many complicated processes!
Naturally, he doesn't know how to do these processes. In other words, if he wants to use the power of Fuhai tactics like in the Qi training realm, the first thing he has to solve is the source of the talisman skins.
As for the third thing, it is to try to collect information about the alchemy furnace.
At first, Gao Yuan didn't take this thing seriously. In his opinion, it was just a large stove. When preparing to make elixirs, he could just pick up a stone with his fingernails and pinch it.
It wasn't until he began to study the elixir recipe that he discovered the important role of the alchemy furnace in the alchemy process.
The refining of elixirs is an extremely complex and delicate work. The whole process can be roughly divided into three steps: calcining impurities, smelting medicinal properties, and condensing into elixirs.
The process of alchemy also involves the continuous and stable output of flames, the gathering and infusion of the vitality of heaven and earth, and the precise control of the power of true energy.
A good alchemy furnace can take care of the first two things with the help of the magic circle engraved in it. The alchemist only needs to concentrate on controlling the true energy.
And if there is no alchemy furnace, it does not mean that alchemy cannot be made. As long as three people cooperate tacitly and are responsible for one thing, the role of the alchemy furnace can be replaced. This is why many alchemists will train several apprentices.
But if someone like Gao Yuan has neither helpers nor an alchemy furnace, then if he wants to make an alchemy, he has to deal with three things at the same time without making any mistakes.
Whenever there is a mistake in the elixir refining process, which affects the quality of the elixir, it is the best result. It is a normal phenomenon that all the medicinal materials are destroyed and no particles are harvested!
Even an experienced alchemy master can hardly guarantee that he will not overturn if he fights alone without the assistance of a good alchemy furnace!
Because of this, if Gao Yuan wants to steadily pursue the path of body refining, a high-quality alchemy furnace cannot be obtained. He does not expect to buy it directly from the outer city, but just holds out the hope to see if he can find clues to the alchemy furnace.
!
Just like the materials for alchemy, the source of the alchemy furnace probably has to be found in the 'Exile Camp'!
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Gao Yuan walked out of the elixir store with a depressed look on his face. What a scam. The purchase price was less than half of the selling price!
When he thought of the fat shopkeeper's stupid face, he felt very angry.
113 Qi-nourishing pills, 126 Heqi pills, and 45 Qi-boosting pills. Based on the original purchase price, their value is as high as 3821 lower-level spiritual stones!
Although he was ready to break his bones as the buyer and seller changed positions, the bid of the pudgy shopkeeper was too low.
He was only willing to give out 15 intermediate spirit stones and wanted to take all these elixirs. When Gao Yuan went out, he even threatened that the price would be reduced to 14 intermediate spirit stones next time he came over. He was sure to take it.
face.
After leaving the elixir store and walking for a while, Gao Yuan finally came back to his senses.
When he was talking to the young woman surnamed Wang before, he had heard her talk about a family that couldn't pay the rent and was kicked out of Qingliang City by the Administrative Palace on the grounds that they had no fixed residence.
Could it be that this short melon-like shopkeeper thought I was this kind of person, so he kept the price low?
The more he thought about it, the more likely it was. After all, normal monks didn't have enough elixirs to cultivate themselves, so how could they sell it to takeaways?
What's more, he sold it all together, and in the eyes of the other party, he probably continued to use the spirit stones to help him when he encountered difficulties.
At this time, he had arrived at the entrance of a magic weapon shop, so he shook his head to clear these trivial matters from his mind, and turned straight in.
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After wandering around several nearby streets for more than two hours, as expected, Gao Yuan didn't even see the shadows of the 'Demon Silver Grass' and 'Bi Ling Flower', let alone the clues to the alchemy furnace.
The sales of magical artifacts were not smooth either. Each store seemed to have negotiated a deal, and the prices they offered were lower than the last.
Take the Huangyan Shield as an example. As a first-class magical weapon, he spent a full 80 intermediate spiritual stones to buy it in Qingyuan Town!
In these magic weapon shops in Qingliang City, the selling prices of magic weapons of the same level basically fluctuate at this price.
But when the shopkeepers of these stores heard that Gao Yuan was selling, none of them offered more than 50 intermediate spiritual stones!
Depressed, Gao Yuan simply stopped selling and went straight to the Service Hall, intending to get rid of the batch of primary crystallized magic cores first.
As for the elixirs and magic weapons, I have to visit Su Qing later. She has lived in Qingliang City for many years and has a wide network of contacts. I can ask her to handle them on my behalf.
The crystallized magic core was sold very smoothly. The Service Hall had a special window to purchase it, and the price was very stable.
The person in charge of the acquisition of crystallized magic cores was a somewhat wealthy middle-aged man. Although he was a little surprised that Gao Yuan took out more than 600 crystallized magic cores at once, he did not express any more.
After careful inventory and confirmation, a price was quoted for a total of 11,412 lower-level spiritual stones in accordance with today's acquisition standards.
Gao Yuan did a mental calculation and found that the average price was approximately 18 lower-level spiritual stones. This price was quite fair, so he nodded to confirm that there was no problem.
Seeing this, the rich middle-aged man put these inspected crystallized magic cores into the counter, then turned around and groped under the counter for a while, and quickly ordered a bunch of items and pushed them in front of Gao Yuan.
They are one each of 'Dang Bai Ling' and 'Dang Ten Ling', 4 intermediate spiritual stones and 12 low-level spiritual stones!
Gao Yuan took stock of it, then put it into the storage space, nodded to the middle-aged man, and left.
After leaving the gate of the service hall, Gao Yuan's heart suddenly palpitated. It was a feeling of being watched, as if there was a pair of eyes staring at him in a hidden corner!
This feeling was very strange and had no reason. It was like a sixth sense, but Gao Yuan did not ignore it this time.
Because he had this feeling twice before when he was wandering around the shops in the city.
"Am I being watched?"
He felt a little strange in his heart. In the six months since arriving in Qingliang City, he had not stayed in the city for half of the time.
Even during the two months he was in the city, he lived in seclusion and rarely interacted with anyone.
The only people who knew that he had settled in Qingliang City, apart from the Mei family, were a few people from Su Qing's team and the family of a young woman named Wang who lived next door to him, but it seemed that these three parties had no need to keep an eye on him!
Needless to say about the Mei family, no one knows about his promotion to the Kaiyuan realm. If the Mei family wants to deal with him, they can just arrange for someone from the Kaiyuan realm to come over.
The same goes for the young woman surnamed Wang and her family. The two of them can only be considered acquaintances, not even acquaintances. Why are they staring at me without any grudge?
Could it be related to Su Qing? Gao Yuan's heart was moved, and then he remembered the mysterious disappearance of the other team members and Su Qing's visit to him a while ago.
Could it be that something went wrong while they were searching for their companions? Gao Yuan wondered in his mind.
Under the flash of lightning in his mind, his feet kept moving.
While walking leisurely on the stone road as if strolling, he secretly observed everything around him by looking at the shops on the roadside.
But after all, he had not received professional training. Although his spiritual sense was keen, he had been paying attention for a long time and found nothing unusual.
After hesitating in his heart, he decided to go to Su Qing to find out the situation first.
Firstly, it was because of the friendship between the two parties who had been together for more than ten days, and secondly, because we were now in Qingliang City.
Although it is only an outer city, it is still heavily guarded.
Not only are every street guarded by law enforcement teams led by monks from the Kaiyuan realm, but there are also the city lord's mansion and major Hunyuan families in the inner city.
Not to mention ordinary Kaiyuan Realm monks, even if what happened in Qingyuan Town happened again and the so-called 'sower' Meng Du took it upon himself to leave here alive is a matter of two opinions.
Therefore, although Gao Yuan felt something strange, he was not too worried and headed straight towards where Su Qing's team was stationed.