Fairy cage

After passing through the door and leaving the pharmacy where he worked, Yu Lie came to a bookstore under the Qianlin Chamber of Commerce.

This bookstore is on the same floor as the pharmacy, just one to the east and one to the west. They are far away from each other and a little far away.

Stepping into the store, the shelves of bookshelves immediately appeared in Yu Lie's eyes. A Taoist boy who was sweeping the dust in the bookstore saw them and immediately walked to Yu Lie respectfully.

When he saw Yu Lie wearing the Qianlin Chamber of Commerce's standard Taoist robe, the Taoist boy called out: "Taoist priest, do you want to buy ordinary books in our store, or do you want to check out the exercises and spells? Please come with me to the private room. There is a quiet place exclusively for people from the chamber of commerce and our distinguished guests.”

This is not the first time that Yu Lie has come here. More than two months ago, he would often come and hang out in this bookstore after work.

It is precisely for this reason that Yu Lie had several options for the spells he wanted to buy early in the morning.

He was too lazy to be polite to the Taoist boy in the shop. He nodded and said, "Pindao is here to purchase spells. Please call the shopkeeper out and I will discuss it with him directly."

The Taoist boy heard this and responded quickly. He led Yu Lie to the private seats in the bookstore and trotted aside.

Soon.

A middle-aged Taoist disciple in his thirties stepped out from the deeper part of the bookstore. When he saw Yu Lie, he felt familiar to him, but he couldn't remember who Yu Lie was for a while.

Yu Lie stood up, cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper, Pindao is here today to contribute some business to you. Are the wind and thunder spells that Pindao asked about a few times ago now in stock?"

Originally, there were thousands of Taoists in the workshop. Although this bookstore was not the best, there were quite a lot of people coming and going because of the affordable prices. The shopkeeper should not have remembered Yu Lie's identity.

However, the high-quality wind-controlling method in Yu Lie's hands was purchased from this bookstore last time, so the bookstore owner's impression of Yu Lie was much deeper than that of an ordinary new customer.

A look of surprise immediately appeared on the face of the bookstore manager. After thinking for a while, he recalled Yu Lie's surname: "This person's surname is Yu. He is a new Taoist disciple who works in a pharmacy within the Chamber of Commerce. He joined the Chamber of Commerce not long ago."

As his thoughts turned, the shopkeeper smiled softly on his face, clapped his hands, and said in surprise: "I haven't seen you for a few days. I wonder where Yu Daoyou went to make a fortune? Or is it because the tasks in the pharmacy are too heavy, so I come here on weekdays? No effort at all?"

Yu Lie didn't answer, just smiled and waited for the other person to take out the things.

While the shopkeeper of the bookstore was chatting with Yu Lie, he also put his hands into his sleeves, tinkering with them, and frowned in thought on his face.

Suddenly, several creaking sounds were heard.

The bookkeeper's sleeves were arched, as if there were mice squirming in them. But the next moment, what emerged from the sleeves of the bookstore shopkeeper were not mice, but several fat flying insects.

This flying insect is pure white, like a feathered silkworm. It does not look ferocious, but it looks chubby.

This bug is one of the characteristics of this bookstore, and its name is "Bookworm".

It is a kind of spiritual insect raised through the refining method of Gu. It can be used to organize books and store exercises. It can write down a exercise like a human being without missing a word, but for the exercise The bookworm couldn't understand a word of the content.

The shopkeeper called out the three bookworms in one breath, raised his hands to Yu Lie and said:

"Fellow Taoist, these are the three oldest bookworms in the store. I vaguely remember that the skills you need are available, but you still have to ask them about the specific ones."

Let me tell you that the shopkeeper of this bookstore is not worried about whether Yu Lie is really buying it or just coming here to compare prices. He made a magic trick and opened the soundproofing and sight-proofing formation in the booth where Yu Lie was sitting, and then politely withdrew, leaving only Yu Lie alone with the three bookworms.

When Yu Lie saw the shopkeeper exiting, he nodded towards him in surprise.

By the way, the last time he came here, he didn't have this kind of treatment. To ask about spells, he had to personally go to the Taoist boy in the store. After a lot of effort, he got in touch with the bookstore shopkeeper. After thoroughly confirming his purchase intention, the other party paid for it. Out of the bookworm.

But this time when I came here, the shopkeeper immediately let the bookworms out to entertain them, and even called out three of them to keep him company. His attitude was not a little bit better than last time!

This made Yu Lie secretly say: "This person may have recognized the Zhenqi Daoxing in me."

In just about two months, his and Miaomu's Taoist practice had grown by several years, and it was caused by taking drugs and was not stable, so the true energy escaped. In the eyes of a Taoist with a little bit of discernment, the Taoist practice was not as long as the years of the Taoist practice. It can be seen clearly at a glance.

It was precisely because of this that Yu Lie did not insist on breaking into the pharmacy just now, so as not to be seen by Rosacea and others and expose his cultivation level prematurely.

Indeed, as Yu Lie expected, after the bookstore manager politely left, he muttered in surprise:

"This person seems to have just joined the Chamber of Commerce this year. He is a new Taoist disciple, and his skills have increased by several years in just a few months. Regardless of whether he has some adventure, or is just like this, this person is definitely not An ordinary person."

Thinking about it, the bookstore manager narrowed his eyes slightly again:

"By the way, the last time this person came to the bookstore, he was looking for a suitable high-level spell. Could it be that he really has mastered a high-level spell? I just don't know which side of the high-level spell this person has mastered... …”

Many people in monasticism have secrets, so they pay special attention to their privacy, especially when it comes to exercises.

The reason why Yu Lie came to this shop to buy spells was because when this shop traded spells, he always talked to the bookworm face to face.

Although this move makes haggling and negotiation difficult, it can ensure that even the staff within the bookstore cannot know the name of the spells purchased by the customers. They can only identify the spells sold through the number of spiritual stones received. Which grade is it?

Of course, whether it is true that even the bookstore shopkeeper and bookstore owner don't know is still a question worthy of further investigation. However, compared with buying spells in other stores, the confidentiality of this store is undoubtedly much higher, and the signboard has not been smashed yet.

Yu Lie sat alone in the elegant seat, and immediately felt the silence in his ears. He glanced at the thin mist rising around him, and then looked at the three bookworms left in front of him.

The three bookworms were all white, and their wings were flapping. Although they were insects, they had white-haired faces that looked like mice. Their eyes also revealed an aura of being well-educated and old.

They each squeaked weakly, signaling Yu Lie to quickly tell them which exercises and spells they wanted to buy.

Yu Lie pondered, and immediately said: "Protect the way and survive, a medium-level body protection spell, of the nature of vegetation."

He did not ask the bookworm to bring out the wind and thunder spells like he had just asked the bookstore shopkeeper, but instead asked about the body protection spells related to flowers, plants and trees.

squeak.

Among the three fat bookworms, two were motionless. The one in the middle rubbed its paws and immediately fluttered its wings. A burst of pale powder fell from its wings and transformed in mid-air. It became words and runes one after another.

The names of the grass and tree exercises flashed in front of Yu Lie, and then they condensed on the categories of spells, and finally settled on nearly a hundred medium-level spells. Quite a few.

Yu Lie stared closely at the names and vocabulary of these spells. He pondered and said again: "It is better to take a broad range of materials."

The words that transformed in front of him squirmed and changed again, and the number of flashing spell names decreased a lot, leaving only twenty or thirty spells.

"Those related to alienated plants are better."

Another condition came out of Yu Lie's mouth. After only two selections, there were only seven spell names left in front of him. The first one was called "Five Pig Grass Mud Rolling Body Protection Technique". 》spell.

Yu Lie stretched out his finger and tapped it gently. The bookworm shook its plump body, as if blowing a breath, and lines of small words appeared next to it.

"This spell is taken from the five pigweed. If practiced properly, it can grab the underground soil and form mud and stone armor..."

This spell involves five pigweeds, which Yu Lie has never encountered before, and the effectiveness of the spell does not seem surprising. After taking a closer look, his eyes moved and fell on several other plant-based body protection spells.

In the elegant seat, Yu Lie frowned after looking at it for many times. He found that the medium-level plant-based body protection spell that he could see was too expensive to practice, and it was not within his reach now. Touched.

So as a last resort, Yu Lie sighed softly and retreated to the next best thing, looking at the lower-level body protection spells again.

He is still just a Taoist boy in the last rank, so it is better not to be too ambitious.

After similarly sifting through the inferior spells, Yu Lie examined them carefully, and his eyes suddenly showed joy.

His eyes fell on a spell called "Wandering Sword of Grass and Trees".

This spell is a bit novel. Although it is classified as a body protection spell, its function is like the word sword in its name. It is not an ordinary spell that creates a true energy barrier to protect the body.

This technique is to summon a sword made of grass and wood that can move around the body through the plants that are kept or the materials that are carried with them. Once there is any disturbance, it can fend off the enemy on its own, which is quite sensitive.

Therefore, this spell is not a passive body protection spell, but an active one. Therefore, its price is considered high among lower-level spells, close to the price of medium-level spells.

But the disadvantage of this thing is that as a body protection spell, no matter how timely its reaction is, it cannot cover the Taoist's whole body.

Taking the last Taoist disciple as an example, for every five years of Taoism, he can support one sword of grass and wood walking beside him, for every ten years of Taoism, he can support two swords, for every fifteen years he can support three swords, and so on.

Once the number of enemies or the number of sharp weapons used to kill the Taoist exceeds the number of swords used to protect the body, it will be impossible to react and effectively protect the body.

In addition, if you want to rely on this spell to actively kill enemies, it is not impossible.

However, the killing effect is related to the vegetation sword carried. The power is limited and the attack is insufficient unless other spells are added.

Thinking about this, Yu Lie gently kneaded in the formation, and there were tiny wind blades in his fingers, flowing around his fingers softly, cutting the air.

It is said that his superior wind control spell is taken from the Wind God Winged Lizard, but it is not just a spell that can only be used for travel. It can also control the air flow, condense the wind blade, and turn it into a sharp weapon to kill.

However, the effect of this wind blade is only incidental to the wind control spell. Its effect and value are far less than its lifting effect, so Yu Lie has not used it much.

Yu Lie was thinking in his eyes at this moment:

"But if the wind blade is blessed in this grass sword spell, the walking speed of the grass sword will be greatly increased, and it can better resist the enemy. Moreover, the wind blade has a physical object as a sustenance, and the grass sword has a wind blade as a blessing. The two complement each other, and the killing effect will be greatly increased, and the power will exceed the effect of one plus one!"

After thinking about it, he felt even more joyful.

When a monk chooses a spell, he does not just choose one based on its power. He must also consider the difficulty, cost, and most importantly, the degree of compatibility between the spell and himself.

This "Wandering Sword of Grass and Trees" is undoubtedly a spell that is very compatible with Yu Lie.

With the blessing of superior wind control skills, Yu Lie estimated that the effect of "Herbage Sword" could at least reach the level of a medium spell. And while out hunting in the jungle, Yu Lie happened to get a lot of materials that could be used to practice this spell.

This is because this spell does not have high material requirements. What stands out is the effect of "cutting grass into soldiers and wood into swords". Any flowers, plants and trees with a little spiritual energy can be used to refine grass and wood swords. , it can be refined at will even if it is damaged.

If it is a great achievement, the Taoist can even turn flowers into knives and grass into swords at any time. In a short period of time, he can control the flowers, plants and trees around him to protect his body and fend off enemies.

At this moment, Yu Lie no longer looked at other protective spells. After some final consideration, he made up his mind:

"That's it!"

Yu Lie flipped his palm, took out seventeen spirit stones from his sleeve, and placed them on the table with a bang.

The spirit stone was exposed. When the three old bookworms saw it, they immediately became energetic and radiant. They squeaked up and down, and when they wanted to, Yu Lie continued to take out the spirit stone and bought other spells. , if you want to ask or see anything, feel free to ask.

But immediately afterwards, Yu Lie did not conduct another screening, but directly called out a name to the three-headed bookworm.

The second spell he wants to buy is a killing spell. For a Taoist, this type of spell is undoubtedly the most critical and must be done with caution.

Therefore, Yu Lie had set his sights on the target very early, so he could just come over and buy it directly today.