Do not die

Meng Zhou had no intention of taking any additional auxiliary elixirs. He just followed the current progress and practiced step by step. He was still more than fifty days away from reaching the peak of the ninth level of Qi training.

In addition to daily practice, he also had a lot of free time. Meng Zhou had no intention of continuing to practice new martial arts and spells.

Because these things will soon become useless as his cultivation goes further.

Spending time here is a waste.

Meng Zhou's plan was to devote all his spare time and energy to exploring and exploring the professional system.

On the one hand, as he has perfected the knotting skills, he can knit a rope into the effect he wants to achieve at will. Looking at the professional system that once seemed like watching flowers from afar, suddenly changed. It has to be clear and transparent.

In addition, there is another important reason why he is willing to invest a lot of energy and time in this area.

When he was in Nuanyun Valley, Chu Zheng had given him two jade slips, one of which contained nine complete or incomplete inheritances of second-level professionals.

One contains the foundation building experience compiled by the association.

In addition to many common sense contents, there are two other points that Meng Zhou paid attention to.

One point is applicable to all practitioners, a method to increase the success rate of foundation building and improve the quality of foundation building.

The primary stage is to deeply understand the characteristics of the basic skills practiced;

The intermediate stage is to fully grasp its essence and true meaning;

The advanced stage is to break out of the existing stereotypes of the basic skills and make new interpretations of its characteristics;

The ultimate stage is to create a brand new skill.

In this regard, Meng Zhou achieved the ultimate pinnacle.

Not only did he create a technique that suited him, but he also built a larger and more complete framework system.

Another point is only for professionals.

The general idea is that if you can complete a breakthrough from the first level to the second level in your professional level when you pass the test and build the foundation, some proficient professional skills may be internalized into a kind of bloodline ability and innate talent.

It is not only more powerful, but also more consistent with the practitioner. It does not require deliberate practice and can progress with the growth of the practitioner.

Meng Zhou was immediately interested in this.

After coming to Qinglinfang, he often went out.

In a short period of time, he became a regular customer at Xiangming Tower. Not only did he go to listen to the "Daily News", but collecting all kinds of information related to foundation building was also a top priority.

He also had a deeper understanding of this point mentioned in the jade slips.

Building the foundation is originally a super promotion of ordinary life, building the foundation of the true avenue and seeking the true starting point on the road.

The entire Qi training stage can only be regarded as a warm-up preparation.

Completing the leap from the first level to the second level of professional level at this time is equivalent to building it into the foundation of the Dao and becoming part of the foundation of the Dao.

There are many actual cases that confirm this, the most common of which is the improvement of the talent of alchemists and weapon refiners in controlling flames.

And the changes this brings to practitioners are not limited to refining alchemy and refining weapons. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a reshaping of their bones.

Meng Zhou already has special advantages in professional training. Of course he will not let such a good thing go. If he does not maximize his use, it will be a failure of his own abilities.

He will now focus on the Talisman Master.

If he is not a rope knotter and cannot use the rope knotting method to complete the Talisman Array, according to the growth path of a general Talisman Array Master, even if there is a plug-in that can upgrade his skills after accumulating enough experience, the efficiency will only be the same as that of his previous Talisman Maker. The growth along the way is considerable.

Moreover, a lot of energy must be expended to find suitable leveling materials.

Because the number of talisman masters is much less than that of talisman makers, and most of them cooperate with the weapon refiners to draw talisman formations on the rough embryos of the weapon refiners. If he wants to quickly improve the level of the talisman formations, he must try to be as low-key as possible. This is really not easy. Easy thing.

But now, this has become a very simple thing for him.

All you need is a rope, nothing else needs to be prepared.

With the speed at which he can tie ropes with both hands, and while ensuring the sustainability of his spirit and mana, he can complete 15 repetitions per minute, which adds up to 900 experience points per hour.

With all his strength, it only took about half a day for Meng Zhou to master the "Spirit Gathering Talisman Array" and "Earth Power Talisman Array" which were still at the level of Dacheng.

In the remaining time, Meng Zhou also mastered a new "shielding talisman array" and practiced it to perfection.

Then, Meng Zhou spent another two days learning and mastering the three practical talisman arrays of "Defense Talisman Array", "Concealment Talisman Array" and "Confinement Talisman Array", and mastered them all to perfection.

His level as a Talisman Master has also reached the pinnacle of the first-level profession.

"First level of Talisman Master 100/100"

Then, Meng Zhou transferred a lot of time and energy after practicing to a new field.

Refining weapons.

For Meng Zhou, more accurately, it should be called "making instruments" or "making instruments".

He first spent a few days studying the inheritance of the second-level weapon refiner recorded in the jade slips.

Among them, most of the content is about how the refiner should control the flame and complete the refining of various materials through the control of the flame.

This is both the threshold and the core.

But for Meng Zhou, these are unnecessary.

He only focuses on the guidance and integration of different spiritualities of different materials after completing the refining and purification of materials, and finally achieves the effect desired by the refiner.

For Meng Zhou, this was not difficult to understand.

It feels like a senior high school student flipping through an extracurricular reading book for junior high school students who has never been exposed to it. It has the freshness of gaining a lot of new knowledge, but everything is within the scope of one's own understanding.

After selectively absorbing the essence, Meng Zhou recalled in his memory the appearance of the rattan utensils he saw in Granny Bai's shop that day, especially the two pairs of rattan armors.

What is certain is that my current mastery of hundreds of rope knotting techniques and my level of understanding of the rope knotting master have far exceeded the level shown by Granny Bai back then.

She was able to combine knot making with tool making through long periods of trial and error.

Everything she can do will only be easier for me now.

…

The fourth day of the journey to making weapons is the eighth day of the second lunar month.

Meng Zhou sat cross-legged in silence, staring at a rope spirit in his hand that could change in thickness and length according to his wishes, and was now almost as thick as his little finger.

He reviewed the plan in his mind again, breathed out gently, and slowly moved his hands and fingers.

What he wants to try to weave is a first-class, high-grade wooden defensive weapon called the "Turtle Shell Wood Spirit Shield".

Yes, his first attempt was to reach the first-level high-grade, instead of starting from the first-order low-grade in a step-by-step manner.

For him, becoming a weapon master is not climbing a mountain. He does not need to start from the bottom of the mountain and climb up.

Soon, with the movements of his hands and fingers, the original thin rope gradually took on a shape, like a tortoise shell that was growing in size, and the spirituality in it flowed like water as he weaved and manipulated it.

As he tied the last knot on the handle, the spirituality flowing on the rope-woven tortoise shell formed a closed loop, and a "tortoise shell wood spirit shield" was formed.

Meng Zhou grasped the tortoise-shell wood spirit shield and tried to wave it casually. There was no air obstruction, as if it was integrated with himself.

The hand holding the turtle-shell wood spirit shield gently sent out a little mana. The spirituality on the turtle-shell wood spirit shield was stimulated, and a layer of misty green light appeared on the surface of the shield.

He increased the output of mana, and the green light of the armor broke away from the armor and shot in the direction of his mind, like a fast-moving shield wall to block the virtual attack in his mind.

He loosened his grip and tried to command it like a magic weapon. The turtle-shell wood spirit shield moved up and down around him like a chick.

Apart from a slight delay in feedback and greater mana consumption, there are no problems.

Finally, he reached out and made a move, and the turtle-shell wood spirit shield returned to his hand again. He swallowed mana, and a huge cyan light shield enveloped his entire body.

Meng Zhou played a perfect flying arrow talisman that could easily break through the defense of a first-level mid-level magic weapon. A flying arrow turned into a stream of light and hit the light shield.

Like an egg hitting a stone, the flowing light flying arrow was smashed into pieces, and the light shield did not move at all.

Meng Zhou pressed his hand against it again, harder and harder, until he exerted the power of his first-order perfect body to the extreme, and the cyan light mask began to deform.

Yes, deformation, rather than being propped up directly until it breaks.

This shows that in addition to sufficient strength, this cyan mask also has a certain degree of toughness, which can use deformation to dissipate part of the external force.

It is not as strong and brittle as ordinary aura light shields. Once the attack it endures exceeds its defense capability, it will shatter like glass.

Finally, Meng Zhou mobilized the energy and blood from his whole body to his fist, and the air around his fist seemed to be distorted for an instant.

Then he punched it fiercely, and the cyan light shield finally made a soft "pop" sound, and a hole as big as a fist was punched out, and then it began to gradually disintegrate.

Meng Zhou judged in his heart: "The characteristics of the turtle-shell wood spirit shield are perfectly reflected. In addition, the quality of the rope spirit itself has surpassed the category of first-class high-grade. This is already a first-class defensive magic weapon."

Meng Zhou looked at the personal information and there was already new content.

[Skill: Getting Started with Turtle-shell Wood Spirit Shield 10/50]

[Occupation: First level of tool maker 5/100]

Meng Zhou untied the last knot of the tortoise-shell wood spirit shield. With a slight shake, the tortoise-shell wood spirit shield disappeared and turned into a thin rope only a meter long.

He was about to continue weaving to gain experience, but suddenly his heart moved, and he took out the remaining five first-order high-grade wood spiritual materials in the jade volute.

At the beginning, he prepared twenty-five portions of first-grade high-grade wood spiritual materials for Bai Ya, and she consumed twenty portions.

Because it could no longer meet her needs for the next step of growth, she stopped eating it, and the last five servings were left.

He held one of the spiritual materials in his hand and silently felt the spirituality distributed in it. He also relied on the keen touch of his palm to feel the wooden texture of this wood-based spiritual material.

At a certain moment, the power of qi and blood in the body gently stirred up and inhaled, and entered the spiritual material through the palm of the hand, and then closed it as soon as it was released.

The next moment, he let go of his hand, and the original complete wooden spiritual material was shattered into wooden fibers thinner than toothpicks.

This is not difficult for any martial arts master.

What really shows his ability is that the spirituality sealed in the wood-type spiritual materials is still completely sealed in the wood fibers, and has not been lost and dissipated when the entire spiritual material is broken.

This is because at the moment when he exerted his strength, he accurately grasped the flow and distribution of spirituality in this wood-type spiritual material, and accurately wedged his own strength into it.

Meng Zhou combined ten of these soft wood fibers into one strand, and three strands into a rope.

About an hour later, without destroying the spirituality of the spiritual material, he turned a piece of wood spiritual material into a rope containing wood spirituality.

As soon as he got his hands on it, Meng Zhou felt the spiritual distribution within it.

But compared to Sheng Ling Bai Ya, she feels a lot more unfamiliar and rough.

He has used Bai Ya to tie ropes nearly a hundred thousand times, and he is confident that he can manipulate it arbitrarily and accurately through the knotting method. However, he can only feel roughly the long rope in front of him.

He began to use this rope to knit it into a turtle-shell wood spirit shield.

Soon, Meng Zhou felt the difference.

Weaving with Shengling Baiya is like drinking a glass of silky and mellow dairy products, which makes both body and mind happy.

And knitting with this rope is like drinking a glass of industrial waste water. Not only does it make you physically uncomfortable, but you also have various psychological problems.

Moreover, the spirituality contained a lot of impurities. Drawing on the purification ideas from the weapon refining techniques, he used the knotting method to soften and train it.

Judging from the appearance, in the process of weaving the turtle-shell wood spirit shield, he would always bend the rope back and forth to weave it into other shapes and then unravel it.

"Oh, this step was wrong..."

As soon as he finished knitting one step, Meng Zhou felt that it was spiritual and did not unfold exactly as expected.

He untied the knotted rope, took a step back, and knitted it again.

"Yes, it is like that!"

Meng Zhou nodded and began to continue knitting.

This kind of "repentance" happens not just once or twice, but frequently.

Sometimes it is not even a step or two of repentance, but a dozen or so steps of repentance.

"The process is reversible. This should be the biggest advantage of this tool-making method compared to conventional tool-making methods, right?"

Using flames and refining furnaces, the entire refining process is irreversible, and there is no such thing as "repentance."

Refining waste is refining waste. If you make a wrong step, all your previous efforts will be wasted and it will be difficult to continue. You must prepare materials and start over.

And even if it is the same material, as long as it is not the original one, it is still very different.

Each one is slightly different. When all the main and auxiliary materials are put together, the difference is too big to be ignored. This is why even the most powerful weapon refiners and alchemists cannot guarantee a 100% success rate.

But using the braiding method avoids this problem. If you make a wrong step, you can go back and start over.

And as you try again and again and become more familiar, the possibility of making mistakes becomes lower and lower.

In comparison, ordinary weapon refining requires the use of many auxiliary materials in order to adjust the spiritual state of the materials. However, with this braiding method, only one rope is needed to "consistently", which is not so important.

These are all advantages.

However, the shortcomings are also very prominent.

A conventional weapon refining master, even a first-level weapon refining master, as long as he has the corresponding inheritance, can basically handle all types of materials and refine all types of magic weapons.

However, through the method of knotting ropes, he could only control the spirituality in wood-type spiritual materials, and he could only make wood-type magic weapons.

The limitations are also very obvious.

However, for Meng Zhou, this was enough.

After about two hours, he finally succeeded in weaving a turtle-shell wood spirit shield again.

After some verification, this tortoise-shell wood spirit shield is a satisfactory first-order high-grade magic weapon.

Meng Zhou played with it for a while, then put it back into the jade volute, along with four other first-grade high-grade wood spiritual materials into the jade volute.

This attempt not only successfully verified his suspicions, but also gained a first-level high-grade defensive magic weapon. He also gained +20 experience, which was twice as much as using a rope spirit to weave a turtle-shell wood spirit shield.

This shows that this kind of stumbling success is still more rewarding than the smooth success.

But after this verification, Meng Zhou gave up trying to continue knitting with ordinary wood spiritual materials.

The reason is simple, it takes too much time.

Using the rope spirit to weave, you can successfully weave a tortoise-shell wood spirit shield in twenty minutes, three per hour, +30 experience.

As the number of knittings increases, the level of mastery increases. From entry level to initial success, and then to minor success, the speed becomes faster and faster, and the efficiency of harvesting unit experience becomes higher and higher.

Four days later, his mastery of the wooden defensive magic weapon, the Turtle-shell Wood Spirit Shield, reached a perfect level, and his level as a weapon maker reached "First Level 90/100" with just this one magic weapon.

After that, Meng Zhou spent another eight days learning and mastering the weaving method of two first-level, high-quality wooden magic weapons, and reached a perfect level.

A python whip can attack the magic weapon and strangle the enemy like a python.

A pure futon, minoring in magic tools.

After successfully mastering this futon-making method, Meng Zhou made one for himself. Not only did he sit cross-legged on it when practicing, but he also sat on it when he repeatedly learned the method of knitting and making utensils.

You can't see anything in a short time, but the effect is very obvious after one day. Your mental and physical state is more relaxed, but your harvest has increased by nearly 20% without realizing it.

This is because under the influence of this special futon, his physical and mental state is better maintained, and he is slowly recovering at any time.

And when Meng Zhou mastered the three methods of making magical instruments to a perfect level, the instrument maker also reached "First Level 100/100".

[Skills: Perfect Tortoiseshell Wood Spirit Shield, Perfect Python Whip, Pure Futon]

[Occupation: First level of tool maker 100/100]

…

February 20th.

[Realm: Nine levels of Qi training 65/100]

It took eighteen days to push a new profession to its first-level limit.

Meng Zhou gave himself a half-day vacation, walked out of Ruyiju, and wandered around Qinglinfang.

Five days ago, on February 15th, Qingxuan Sect held another treasure auction in Hexin Building.

Both the people participating in the auction and the items put on the auction stage were much larger than the first time.

The number of third-level items with the highest value was nearly twice that of the first auction, and each item fetched a sky-high price.

The most talked about Foundation Establishment Pill, after an astonishing nine were sold in the first auction, this time it directly broke the double-digit record.

A total of fifteen pills were auctioned, and the lowest price, an ordinary foundation-building pill, still fetched a high price of two hundred medium-grade spiritual stones.

These days, the smell of foundation-building breakthroughs often comes from Hexin Tower. Regarding the foundation-building breakthroughs, people have gone from being rare to seeing them to not being surprised.

During the half day that Meng Zhou was out wandering around, he witnessed the birth of two new foundation builders.

Many people say that this is Qingxuan Domain’s accumulation after eighty years of accumulation.

And on the day after the auction ended on February 15th, Hexin Building was already preparing for the auction half a month later, that is, on February 30th.

Open the door to contact the auction items delivered by various forces, and identify which ones are qualified to be included in the next treasure auction.

Many monks have already noticed that according to this trend, the prices of similar items will become lower in the future.

For example, if there are only a dozen or so Foundation Establishment Pills, they won't be sold unsold, but the lowest price will definitely fall below two hundred mid-grade spiritual stones.

But as long as the monks are qualified to participate in the competition, they are still actively participating in the competition.

Because the first batch of monks who successfully built the foundation of Hexin Building have already begun activities in the square.

Watching those guys who were originally at the same level as myself, have now risen to another level.

"There is no practice of Qi in communication, but only the foundation of making friends."

When we meet again, we used to be friends with each other as equals, but now we have to respectfully call each other senior with fists in hands.

Not only has the reputation and status changed, but the connections and resources that were previously inaccessible and dare not be counted on have taken the initiative to open their doors to them. The benefits are like running water. There is no need to attract them at all, the initiative just keeps coming.

With such a solid role model, who wouldn’t be jealous and eager to try?

What Meng Zhou saw in the market was an atmosphere in which almost everyone was a little superior.

He didn't really like this kind of atmosphere.

Therefore, Meng Zhou didn't go shopping much. He wandered around several places and purposefully purchased more than ten kinds of spiritual herbs and elixirs with a total of nearly 5,000 low-grade spiritual stones, and then ended his half-day relaxation.

When passing by Xiangming Tower, Meng Zhou turned around and went in.

About half an hour later, Meng Zhou came out of Xiangming Tower.

In his storage bag, there were nine more anecdotal notes related to foundation building.

From the first time he came to Xiangming Tower, he had a long-term mission with Shopkeeper Lu, which was to ask him to pay more attention to such books for him.

As long as there are no duplicates, no matter what the content is, he will guarantee a minimum price, and if there is special value, he can flexibly increase the price.

This fully mobilized shopkeeper Lu's enthusiasm. He had come to pick it up three times before, including this time, which was already the fourth time.

There are more than forty notebooks in total. Although most of them are like the absurd imagination of some Qi-training monks who have failed to establish a foundation, after mutual confirmation, there are also some contents that make him feel bright after reading them.

The nine copies received this time are generally of high value.

According to shopkeeper Lu, at the treasure auction five days ago, two of the monks who successfully bought fifteen foundation-building pills had come to Xiangming Tower for tea, and one of them was a regular customer.

These two people successfully built the foundation the day before yesterday and yesterday respectively.

Xiangminglou also took the opportunity to gain some fame. He didn't even take any action, but he got several high-value foundation-building notes.

Of course, what he sold to Meng Zhou were transcribed copies. They were not unique copies. They were of the same nature as what others sold to him. This is how this kind of knowledge is. In the process of dissemination, it will inevitably spread more and more. open.

…

After returning to Ruyiju, Meng Zhou once again abandoned all the distractions outside and meditated behind closed doors.

This time, Meng Zhou devoted all his time and energy after practicing to alchemy.

Of course, his alchemy is also different from traditional alchemy. Instead of saying it is alchemy, it is more appropriate to call it making alchemy.

Using knotting skills to perfectly reproduce or partially reproduce the skills of making talismans, formations, and refining weapons, while Meng Zhou's understanding of knotting became more and more profound, his understanding of various professions also increased. Getting deeper and deeper, getting straight to the essence.

In the final analysis, it is all a kind of mobilization and utilization of spirituality for one's own use.

According to people's different needs and purposes, it manifests into various forms for people to use.

This kind of spirituality is either between heaven and earth, or in various spiritual materials.

To refine and purify it again, it means that it is “outside”, it is all outside oneself.

Under such reflection, Meng Zhou's understanding of spiritual practice became clearer.

“The essence of profession, whether it is alchemy or weapon refining or anything else, is the way for practitioners to explore the understanding and application of spirituality outside the body;

In contrast, the essence of spiritual practice, from Qi training to foundation building to elixir formation, is the recognition and application of the spirituality within the body, and the ultimate sublimation. "

And the avenue is everywhere.

Both outside and inside the body.

No matter which side you focus on, it is not advisable.

Only when the two go hand in hand, and make progress both internally and externally, is the right path.

With this understanding, it took only two days for Meng Zhou to become familiar with the alchemist's inheritance in the jade slips.

Just like the inheritance of the refiner, he put aside a lot of the control skills and refining skills of different flames. He only looked at the process of using the spiritual essence in different spiritual herbs and elixirs to finally combine them into the desired elixir.

…

February 23rd, early morning.

Meng Zhou sat cross-legged on a clean futon and placed spiritual fruits and spiritual herbs in front of him.

Under the control of his mind, the rope spirit became much thinner than the little finger. The ten fingers intertwined, pulling and twisting the rope.

Soon, a net bag like a bird's nest was formed.

He grabbed a purple and red spirit fruit on the far left with his magic hand and put it into the net bag that just touched the rope.

Moderate size and tight fit.

Because this net bag was tailor-made by him for this spirit fruit, every arc is completely consistent with its shape.

With a gentle pull, the opening was closed, and the Purple Vermilion Fruit was completely wrapped in the knotted net bag.

In this way, Meng Zhou filled the strange knotted net bag one by one with spiritual fruits and spiritual herbs in a certain order.

It formed a strange line, with bulges at regular intervals.

But this line did not continue to be connected in series. After filling in about a quarter of the material, the string in the hand suddenly turned ninety degrees and extended in another direction.

After all the spiritual fruits and spiritual herbs laid out in front of him were filled into the knotted net bags, Meng Zhou just finished tying the last knot and put it into the designed position.

Spread flat on the ground, a strange rope structure with a standard "ten" shape appeared in front of him.

As the last knot falls into place, spirituality forms a perfect closed loop and begins to flow.

With the spiritual flow on the knot, the spiritual essence of the spiritual fruits and spiritual herbs wrapped in the knotted net bag also began to flow.

They are passed on one by one and merged one by one.

Finally, these spiritual essences from different sources were all injected into the four green spiritual fruits at the intersection point in the center of the cross knot.

With the continuous influx of spiritual essence, it has already exceeded the limit that the four green spiritual fruits can bear.

Without the restrictions of the rope net bag, the four spirit fruits would have been unable to bear it long ago and would have self-destructed from within. However, now they are all forcibly suppressed inside the four spirit fruits.

In order to grasp the changes, Meng Zhou once again used the power of Qi and blood throughout his body to stimulate his spiritual consciousness and look directly at the changes inside the four spirit fruits.

The fully integrated and debugged spiritual essence precipitated little by little inside the four spiritual fruits, growing little by little from the size of a grain of rice, like mung beans, peas, broad beans...

Starting from the very end of the knot, as the last spiritual essence of the object wrapped in the knotted net bag is lost, the bulges shrivel up one by one.

Starting from the four ends and ending with the four green spiritual fruits in the center, the spiritual flow in the knot also completely stopped at this moment.

Meng Zhou untied the last knot and shook it gently. The complex rope structure disappeared and returned to a thin rope only a meter long.

This is an ability that only Rope Spirit has. Other ropes cannot fall apart with just a shake.

On the ground in front of him, apart from the remnants of some spiritual fruits and spiritual grasses that had lost all their spiritual essence, what attracted his attention the most were of course the four central ones that were as big as pigeon eggs, milky white mixed with light green elixirs.

It is said to be an elixir, but there is no trace of artificiality in its appearance. It is like the core growing from a spiritual fruit. It is how it should be by nature, without any pyrotechnics.

Meng Zhou picked one up with his hand and felt the rich vitality that had been completely realized in it.

He did not rush to take it, but adjusted his condition until his mana, energy, blood, and body and mind were restored to their best condition, then he raised his head and swallowed one.

The elixir entered his abdomen, and under the crushing force of his tyrannical body, the rich vitality exploded in his body, was quickly absorbed by his body, and dispersed into his limbs, bones, and bone marrow meridians.

When the last trace of the medicine was absorbed by the body, Meng Zhou felt that his body was full of vitality and he felt more than ten years younger.

Click on the current personal status and look directly at the life span item.

[Life span: 52/137 years]

The life span was increased from 127 years old before taking the pill to 137 years old, an increase of ten years.

"This is the only effect of the first-class quality life-extending pill!" Meng Zhou thought to himself.

Life-Extension Pill, a first-level high-grade elixir, is one of the most difficult to refine among first-level elixirs.

However, Meng Zhou chose it as a stepping stone to a new profession, and successfully started it in one go. The effect is comparable to the first-level quality life-extending pill.

Meng Zhou looked at the remaining three longevity pills and thought for a moment. Since there was no spirit-sealing jade bottle, he could only put them into the spirit-sealing box.

Generally speaking, you can only take one life-extending pill of the same grade, and the effects cannot be superimposed.

But my method of making elixirs is not made in a furnace, there is no smoke and smoke, it is really grown from spiritual fruits, so the effect may be different.

However, Meng Zhou resisted the temptation to continue taking it because he wanted to save this opportunity until the production of the first-order longevity pill was completed.

In addition to the increase in lifespan, there are also new changes in "skills" and "occupations".

[Skill: Life Extension Pill Initial Formation 30/100]

[Occupation: Alchemist Level 1 15/100]

"I gained 80 experience points. I made four life-extending pills. In other words, I can gain 20 experience points for each pill I make.

Then, Meng Zhou took out more spiritual fruits and spiritual herbs and knitted them together again.

It took an hour, but a new branch line was added based on the previous one, from four ends to five ends, and the life-extending pills finally harvested also became five.

Experience +100, the skill of making longevity pills is directly promoted from the initial level to the small level.

"Shouxian Dan Xiaocheng 30/200"

At the end of the day, Meng Zhou's skills in making longevity pills reached the level of a master. He could open ten branch lines at the same time and make ten pills at the same time, gaining +200 experience in one go.

When his mastery of the Life Extension Pill was still before the master level, the improvement in ability was more reflected in the increase in efficiency, and he could open more branch lines at one time.

When his skills in making longevity pills reach the master level, he will be able to more accurately grasp the spiritual essence of each spiritual fruit and each spiritual grass, and can achieve more precise control without any waste.

In other words, he can use 80% of the raw materials to make 100% of the qualified products.

And if he honestly uses so many materials recorded in the recipe, he can get a finished product with a value of over 120%.

Meng Zhou's choice was to reduce the materials and ensure that the quality of the elixir remained the same as before Dacheng.

After becoming a master, in addition to being more proficient in mastering and opening more branches, the bigger change is reflected in his deeper understanding of the essence of spirituality.

He no longer needs to follow the elixir recipe records completely, he can make appropriate adjustments and replace some of the ingredients in the elixir recipe with other spiritual fruits and herbs, but in the end he can achieve the same effect.

It is precisely because of this that the large amount of spiritual herbs and elixirs he purchased in the past few days and some of the remaining spiritual fruits from Baiguoyuan's party supported his consumption of elixir making and leveling in the past two days.

…

The next day, February 24th, morning.

Meng Zhouyi woke up early and went out for a trip. He visited several places and spent 10,000 low-grade spiritual stones to purchase a large amount of spiritual fruits and spiritual grass for his subsequent elixir-making and leveling needs.

Meng Zhou was thankful that he had enough spiritual stones in reserve. Although these two expenses were huge, they were not too taxing and could still be sustained.

As for selling the hundreds of fine life-extending pills hidden in the jade volutes to raise funds, Meng Zhou never even thought about it.

Even if there is more than ten times the return, it is impossible for him to use it for profit, just like it is impossible for him to sell magic weapons such as the tortoise-shell wood spirit shield made by the knotting method.

Although their value is huge, their specialness can be seen through at a glance in the eyes of well-informed monks.

He didn't want to cause too many troubles, he just wanted to build the foundation safely.

Everything has to wait until the foundation is established.

In the past, even in Qinglinfang, it would not be so easy to raise so many alchemy materials.

But it is different now. Under the operation of Qingxuan Sect, Qinglinfang has already become the center for the flow and trading of resources, spiritual stones, and personnel in the entire Qingxuan Domain.

The little material he bought didn't even make a splash.

Therefore, Meng Zhou prepared the materials without spending too much energy.

After returning to Ruyiju, he continued to prepare the longevity pill.

In the afternoon, Meng Zhou took a step closer to mastering the longevity pill, advancing from master to perfection.

At that moment, a steady stream of experience and knowledge poured into his mind and became part of his instinct.

When everything is over, Meng Zhou's mastery of the longevity pill has entered a new stage.

The longevity elixir in my memory has changed from a fixed spiritual fruit elixir to a fluid and ever-changing spirituality.

He took out a large number of spiritual fruits and herbs from the jade volute, none of which were the varieties recorded in the longevity elixir recipe.

He is skilled in knotting, stuffing, and wrapping.

About an hour later, twelve branch lines spread out in the house.

As the last knot was completed, the spirituality flowing on the knot closed the loop, and the spiritual essence on the twelve branch lines began to flow like water.

Under the observation of spiritual consciousness, it is like turning on special colorful light and shadow effects.

The flow is flickering and the flow is endless.

When everything stopped, twelve life-extending pills appeared in his eyes.

Their sizes are almost the same.

The colors are each subtly different. In addition to all containing rich green, some are milky white, some are a little crystal clear, and some are slightly pink.

Each one is unique.

Looking at them, Meng Zhouyi hesitated for a while, but finally, he mustered up the courage to pick one up and swallow it.

Soon, the feeling of rich vitality exploding in the body hit my heart again.

"Lifespan +8."

Meng Zhou swallowed another one.

"+6."

"+4."

"+2."

"The fifth one, well, it's no longer effective."

Meng Zhou took five first-level life-extending pills of perfect quality in a row. The first four pills added a full twenty years to his life span, but it was not until the fifth pill that it completely failed.

[Life span: 52/157 years]

【Life Extension Pill Perfect】

[Alchemy Master Level 1 91/100]

Then, Meng Zhou spent another four days to learn and master the preparation methods of two other first-level high-grade elixirs, and mastered them all to a perfect level.

Pei Yuan Dan, one pill can save several months of work in the later stages of Qi training.

The Realm Breaking Pill can ignore bottlenecks. As long as the cultivation level reaches the peak of the sixth level of Qi Training, one can forcefully break through the realm and advance to the later stage of Qi Training. It is also effective for breakthroughs by monks at the seventh level and eighth level of Qi Training.

[Skills: Perfection of Life-Extension Pill, Perfection of Peiyuan Pill, Perfection of Breaking Realm Pill]

[Occupation: Alchemist Level 1 100/100]

And with the weapon maker and alchemy master all reaching the limit of the first level, and the inheritance of the second level alchemy master being incomplete, Meng Zhou only took half a day to complete the digestion.

The whole process is smooth and easy, no more difficult than puncturing a layer of window paper.

The two newly-achieved professions of Alchemist and Alchemist disappeared and merged into "Alchemy Master Level 1 99/100", which was only one step away from the Level 1 limit.

Meng Zhou thought for a while, took out several kinds of spiritual fruits and herbs, and filled them into carefully woven net bags one by one, just like the steps for making elixirs.

Finally, he prepared a first-grade high-quality wood spiritual material in the same manner and filled it into a newly knitted huge net bag.

Then, as the last knot comes together, the spiritual loop closes and begins to flow.

The spiritual energy in the spiritual fruit and spiritual grass began to converge into the wood spiritual materials.

They originally wanted to join in the fusion, but because they were too different, they failed to fuse together. Instead, they turned into a special spiritual knife, which continuously washed, refined, cut and reshaped the wood spiritual materials. .

In the process, their spiritual differences disappear little by little.

While changing the other person, you are also being changed by the other person.

While reshaping the other party, you are also being reshaped by the other party.

Finally, after repeated collisions and washouts, the two parties finally fit together perfectly, and the flowing spirituality completely stopped.

Meng Zhou shook off the knot, revealing a special flying sword with natural wavy curves.

It has no handle, only sharp points and dovetail-like double blades.

This shape was not the product of Meng Zhou's precise control. He just conceived a rough shape.

As for what happens in the end, it is the natural product of spiritual collision.

Meng Zhou tried to control it after using mana to sacrifice, but due to the inherent flaws of the wood spiritual material, its power was not stronger than the two first-level high-grade flying swords he already had.

But the comfort and fit during operation far exceed those of the original two flying swords.

And as he used the method of making alchemy to take out a flying sword, the alchemy master also successfully took the last step and reached the first level limit.

[Alchemy Master Level 1 100/100]

Use elixirs as utensils and use utensils to create elixirs.

In the eyes of laymen, they think that this is the function of refining the elixir into a magical weapon, which has the power to attack and kill, and at the same time, the magical weapon has the characteristics of the elixir.

This is certainly one aspect.

But like Meng Zhou, the methods of making elixirs and utensils were completely mixed into one, and the methods of making elixirs and utensils could be used to make elixirs.

Making utensils and elixirs no longer sticks to formalities, it is all done in one thought, which is also the way to make elixirs.

Meng Zhou took out the jade slip of professional inheritance and looked through the nine inheritances one by one.

"talisman maker, formation master, talisman formation master, pass."

"Alchemy master, weapon refiner, alchemy master, pass."

"Pharmacist, come on."

"The only two left are the puppet master and the beast master."

As he checked them out one by one, Meng Zhou focused his attention on the two professions of puppet master and beast master.

Looking at them, Meng Zhou looked a little amused.

It seems that he has never dabbled in these two professions, but in fact, it is the least difficult for him to master them.

As Meng Zhou's mind changed, the rope spirit Bai Ya in his hand turned into a very thin thread.

He moved the thin thread with the fingers of his hands, twisting and twisting it. After a while, a vivid and lifelike grasshopper appeared in his palm.

Staring at this straw grasshopper lying on the palm of his hand, Meng Zhou's thoughts suddenly drifted back to Baiyue Bay of Jade Lake, as if yesterday had reappeared.

And under his gaze, a faint spiritual light began to flow on the strings that made up the straw grasshopper, and it continued to circulate like running water. It was like the muscles and blood of a living body.

As these spiritual radiances flowed through the grasshopper's entire body, the grasshopper, which had been lying motionless in his palm, began to move a pair of slender antennae.

Then, it really came to life, crouching and jumping, from his palm to the ground, beating everywhere in the room.

The vigorous activity of the straw grasshopper woke up Bai Ya from her deep sleep. As soon as she woke up, she screamed in shock:

"Uncle, have I turned back into a grasshopper?"

"Ah, why am I moving? I can't control it at all!"

Meng Zhou comforted him: "Don't be afraid, Yaya, I'm the one controlling it. You just need to cooperate with me."

[Introduction to Straw Grasshopper 1/2]

[Puppet Master Level 1 1/100]

This was the first time for Meng Zhou to see someone with so little upgrade experience.

It only took him about three hours to master the art of weaving grasshoppers from straw to perfection.

The effect of this is that unless it is caught and completely dismantled, it is impossible to find out that it is a fake.

Not only can it jump and jump, but its spiritual fluidity, which flows like water, embodies the real breath of life.

[Puppet Master Level 1 34/100]

Try again every week to weave a new golem creature.

He still did not refer to the creatures in the Puppet Master's inheritance, but only absorbed the true essence and charm.

The rope spirit became much larger under his will. As his hands knitted, a huge puppet creature appeared in the room from its limbs lying on the ground like a 3D print.

It took Meng Zhou a full two hours to complete this huge creature, which was six meters long between its head and hips, and was one or two meters tall when lying on the ground.

polar bear.

This was the creature he was most familiar with in his two lifetimes combined. In order to create the white bear's cold body, he carefully studied the white bear from the inside out.

Even a detailed and comprehensive dissection was performed.

As he finished tying the last knot, the spirituality on the rope that formed the white bear began to flow like water, and the cycle continued.

The white bear, which was originally dead, seemed to be loaded with a life system. Its abdomen began to rise and fall slightly, and it exhaled and inhaled from its nose, just like a real sleeping white bear.

The only flaw is the color.

Under Meng Zhou's control, the spirit around the giant straw bear responded. It opened its eyes and woke up from a deep sleep, turned over and sat up, crawled twice in the house, and then lay down on the ground again.

It's not that it doesn't want to move around, it's just that the room is too small and its body is too big.

Any bigger movements would alert others.

【Straw White Bear Begins 50/100】

This self-created white bear puppet gives you +100 experience once completed.

Meng Zhou started a new round of leveling.

With the improvement of proficiency, the time to complete a complete knitting is getting shorter and shorter. As the level of puppet master improves, Meng Zhou's understanding of the profession of puppet master is also increasing.

“Let spirituality circulate like water, and use it to simulate a set of artificial life systems, making dead things come alive like living things.

Compared with the directions of alchemy, weapon refining and talisman formation, this is indeed a completely new direction. "

Three days later, Meng Zhou's mastery of the straw white bear was perfected.

From color to appearance to breath of life, everything is the same as a real white bear.

Only when used with real swords and guns will the secret be exposed, because it cannot display the ice power of a real white bear, and relies only on the brute force and some wood abilities given by the material itself.

[Puppet Master Level 1 92/100]

Meng Zhou followed suit and created two straw puppets, "Cang Bear" and "Red Bear", which were second only to the white bear in familiarity, and successfully reached perfection on the sixth day of March.

The Puppet Master also took this final step to reach the first level limit.

At this moment, a wonderful change occurred in the personal information.

First, a new profession was added.

[Beast Master Level 1 80/100]

Then, after only staying for a short period of time, the new "Beast Controller" and the "Puppet Master" who had just reached the first-level limit disappeared at the same time, and were replaced by a new profession called "Spirit Controller".

[Spirit Master Level 1 75/100]

When Meng Zhou saw this, he was first surprised, and then overjoyed.

Meng Zhou had already understood the profession of beast master.

Its core essence does not lie in "controlling the beast", but in establishing a contract connection with another life and maximizing its development and utilization.

As early as Baiyue Bay, Bai Ya had concluded a contract with herself.

From this perspective, he had already touched the core essence of this incomplete second-level inheritance long before he came into contact with it.

But the only thing that troubles Meng Zhou is that except for this core point of commonality, there is nothing else to learn from.

He didn't even know how to train and improve this ability.

Of course, there is another way, which is to find a suitable monster, make a contract with it, and then use it to train the beast master's abilities.

But this is a reversal of priorities.

Fortunately, there is still a layer of connection between the puppet master and the beast master. There is a composite professional who combines the characteristics of the two, similar to the talisman master and the alchemy master.

When the puppet master has reached the first level limit and has already touched the core essence of the beast master, he can directly skip the step of beast master and become a spirit master.

Now, he doesn't need to worry about what a beast master should do. He only needs to bring the spirit master to the first level limit, and then everything about the puppet master and the beast master will be backward compatible with him.

It's like after he became an Array Master, he didn't need to deliberately learn everything about the Array Master, and he already understood everything related to the Array Master.

As for the method of improving the spirit control master, Meng Zhou quickly mastered it after some exploration.

He knitted the rope spirit into a small grasshopper again and let it lie in the palm of his hand.

Then, Meng Zhou sat cross-legged in meditation, closed his eyes and purified his mind.

The next moment, he felt a spiritual light and bumped into it.

In an instant, his vision changed, and Meng Zhou found himself lying on a plain, and at the end of the plain were five giant pillars.

He was stunned for a long time before his mind adjusted and he completed the "translation" of what he saw and felt. Only then did he clearly realize that he had turned into a little grasshopper, lying in the palm of his hand.

With a thought in his mind, he jumped out of his palm and moved freely around the house.

The small room suddenly became so big in this field of vision, like a vast world.

"How about using a body like this to spy and investigate?"

Now this experience made Meng Zhou naturally develop many associations, not even limited to grasshoppers, but also flies, mosquitoes, dragonflies and the like.

But soon, he gave up these thoughts.

These just look cool, but their practicality is really questionable.

For a Qi-training monk, using such a method is simply a way of flirting with a blind man.

But for the foundation builder who has the ability to detect spiritual consciousness, it seems too useless.

No matter how lifelike it looks, it is difficult to escape the gentle sweep of divine consciousness.

Therefore, a more reliable application is to control a battle puppet such as a white bear or a red bear in this "first-person" way.

But of course it doesn't matter if I'm in my own house now, I'll be happy as long as I can.

In order to control a grasshopper to run around and jump through such a long period of inhuman experience, the level of the spirit controller is steadily improving.

…

March 12.

The position of Spirit Tamer has reached the first level limit.

Since then, the inherited jade slips presented by Chu Zheng have been completely digested by Meng Zhou.

In the next two days, Meng Zhou did not practice any new skills, leaving his body and mind in a rare state of relaxation.

The bits and pieces of information about foundation building collected from various sources, as well as the various anecdotal notes obtained from Shopkeeper Lu of Xiangming Tower, were his only pastime in his spare time.

…

March fifteenth.

In the early morning, Meng Zhou woke up and checked his current situation. (See the author’s statement for details)

Before walking out of the room, Meng Zhou did some careful cleaning and put all his personal belongings into storage bags. Some special items were put into jade volutes, such as the pure and clean bags made with rope knots. futon.

After leaving Ruyiju, Meng Zhou went straight to Hexin Tower.

After the capital verification was completed, Meng Zhou walked through the corridor and found himself in the auction house again.

He looked around and found that the seats on the first floor were much more compact than the first time.

Sitting in the crowd, Meng Zhou waited quietly.

Not long after, the auction started again.

The person who presided over the auction was still the skinny old man whom he had met the first time.

He didn't waste any time and took out the first lot. It was still so powerful that it exploded.

"The third-level fine gold-forming elixir is guaranteed to be 50% true. Even if it fails, at least it can be guaranteed to be a fake elixir.

If your foundation is deep enough and your preparations are sufficient, you will have great confidence in forming the elixir. Taking this elixir can also improve the quality of your true elixir.

The starting price is 500 high-grade spiritual stones, and each increase in price must not be less than ten high-grade spiritual stones! "

After a moment of silence, the monks gathered on the second and third floors began to bid wildly.

Meng Zhou, who was sitting on the first floor, watched silently like the other qi-training monks.

As the auction process progressed, one treasure after another was sold at a heart-stoppingly high price, and the grade of the auction items also dropped little by little, from the third level to the second level, top grade, and middle grade.

Finally, it was the auction of the Foundation Establishment Pill again. All the Qi Practitioners looked shocked and switched from spectator mode to combat mode.

The first high-quality foundation-building pill was placed on the stage, and in the end, it was sold with 430 medium-grade spiritual stones.

Five high-quality foundation-building pills were auctioned in a row, and the one with the lowest price also fetched a high price of 390 medium-grade spiritual stones.

Looking at all this, Meng Zhou's eyes flashed and he felt incomprehensible.

Having had a lot of personal experience in making pills, he has changed from a layman who just watched the excitement to a true insider.

Therefore, he knew very well that as long as they mastered the resources required for the Foundation Establishment Pill, it would not be difficult at all for those second-level alchemists to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill.

One refining is a furnace. Due to the different skills of each person, a furnace can have as few as three or five grains and as many as more than ten grains.

Shooting more than a dozen at one time may sound exaggerated, but to Qingxuanzong, it is probably just the result of one blast.

While thinking about it, the exquisite Foundation Establishment Pill on the stage has turned into an ordinary Foundation Establishment Pill.

The first one was sold for 226 medium-grade spiritual stones.

The second one, the third one...

Meng Zhou did not wait and see for too long. After the fourth was sold for 204 medium-grade spiritual stones, he finally participated in the competition for the fifth ordinary foundation-building pill.

When the bidding reached around one hundred and seventy medium-grade spiritual stones, and everyone was still bidding for one or two, Meng Zhou directly shouted "200", killing the battle directly.

When the old man knocked down the gavel and put the elixir into his bag, Meng Zhou didn't wait any longer, he stood up and left.

Some people around him looked at him with different meanings.

However, his approach is not an exception. Almost all the Qi-training monks who have won the Foundation Establishment Pill make this choice. Everyone knows what to do.

As soon as he entered the corridor, a waiter who had been waiting there introduced Meng Zhou into a room.

A middle-aged man pushed a jade bottle in front of Meng Zhou and said, "Friends, you can check it out first."

Meng Zhou took the jade vase, uncorked it, and saw a light green elixir the size of a pigeon egg lying inside.

As soon as the cork was opened, a fragrant aroma hit the nostrils.

This aroma seemed to have spirituality. After entering his nostrils, it rushed left and right. The magic power in his body was aroused by it and he was eager to try. It was like a naughty child whose instincts were stimulated and wanted to overturn his body.

Meng Zhou quickly corked the bottle and nodded: "No problem!"

The middle-aged man smiled and nodded in response.

Meng Zhou asked again: "Do you have any arrangements for your retreat, my place of retreat?"

The middle-aged man said: "There are twenty-eight second-level quiet rooms in my building. Seven of them have been selected. You can choose any one from the remaining twenty-one quiet rooms."

Meng Zhou nodded, this can be regarded as a hidden benefit for those who get the Foundation Establishment Pill first in the same batch. They can have more choices.

Because although these twenty-eight quiet chambers are all at the second level, the quality of the spiritual energy is still slightly different, and there is also the problem of attribute bias.

In addition, there is a more metaphysical consideration, that is, which quiet room has more successful passers, the most favored.

On the contrary, even if the quality of spiritual energy is better, everyone will avoid it.

Meng Zhou thought for a while and said: "My accumulation is still lacking. I need to prepare for a longer time before officially serving the Danchong Pass. Is this okay?"

The middle-aged man was slightly startled when he heard this.

These days, he has also received many monks, but he was the first to ask this question.

He didn't dare to promise to agree. If the other party stayed in Hexin Building for three to five months and stayed there, the superiors might not do anything to the other party, but he would be in trouble.

So, he asked: "Is half a month enough?"

Meng Zhou nodded: "That should be enough."

"Can."

The middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief. If it exceeded this limit, he would ask the superiors for instructions. Now, he directly agreed.

So, Meng Zhou paid the other party a total of 20,000 low-grade spiritual stones.

…

"Just this one."

Under the leadership of the middle-aged man, Meng Zhou selected the one he liked among the twenty-one spare quiet rooms.

The spiritual energy of this quiet room is obviously much richer than that of other quiet rooms. It is even of higher quality than those quiet rooms that already have owners and closed doors.

Meng Zhou estimated that it had reached the level of a second-level medium spiritual land, which was more than enough for monks in the middle stage of foundation building to practice for a long time.

Meng Zhou saw the middle-aged man beside him hesitating to speak and asked curiously: "What's the matter? Is there a problem?"

The middle-aged man coughed slightly and told the truth: "There were three monks who chose this quiet room to pass the test before. Without exception, they all failed."

Meng Zhou suddenly realized that none of the others chose this quiet room because of bad luck.

In this case, he accepted it without hesitation.

He had no such taboo and strode in.

The middle-aged monk opened his mouth and was about to say something, when the stone door of the quiet room in front of him was shut tightly with a bang.

From this moment on, unless the people inside come out in person, or the monks in the late stage of foundation building attack, no one can force their way in.

[Name: Meng Zhou]

[Life span: 52/157 years] (Life Extension Pill + 30 years)

[Status: full of energy]

[Realm: Ninth level of Qi training: 90/100]

[Exercises: Water Nourishing and Moisturizing Body Perfection, White Bear Cold Body Perfection]

【Skill:

Fourteen martial arts skills are perfected (details omitted)

The breath gathering technique is perfect, the master of Feihong technique: 330/960, the eight medicine masters are perfect (the details are omitted)

The four elements of the talisman are perfect (the details are omitted)

The spirit-gathering talisman array is complete, the earth power talisman array is complete, the shielding talisman array is complete, the defensive talisman array is complete, the concealment talisman array is complete, and the confinement talisman array is complete

Perfect swordsmanship

The rope knot is perfect

The tortoise shell wood spiritual shield is perfect, the python whip is perfect, the pure futon is perfect

The longevity elixir is complete, the yuan pei elixir is complete, and the realm breaking elixir is complete

The straw woven grasshopper is perfect, the straw woven white bear is perfect, the straw woven gray bear is perfect, the straw woven red bear is perfect]

[Contract Oath: Rope Spirit Level 1: 100/100]

【Profession:

Knot Master Level 1: 100/100

Talisman Master Level 1: 100/100

Level 1 Alchemist: 100/100

Level 1 Spirit Controller: 100/100

Pharmacist level one: 100/100]

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This chapter has been updated to a total of 15,000 words. The reason why it is not divided is that old readers who are familiar with me should be able to feel that I am more accustomed to writing long chapters, so that I will focus more on the plot itself, and once I consider dividing Chapter, I have to consider how to bury the hook at the end of each chapter. At this point, my skill is really not good. It not only consumes effort, but also wastes pen and ink, making the plot intermittent and dragging.

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