Fairy cage

"It seems that we should adapt to the local customs."

Yu Lie sighed softly.

In the past ten years, he has sorted out and studied the methods of this world. Perhaps because of the difference between heaven and earth, many methods of cultivation in the mountain and sea world are either ineffective here or lack support and cannot be used.

Therefore, Yu Lie had to endure and accumulate true energy to lay a foundation for himself first, so as not to fall into the rut of people in this world when practicing directly according to the methods of this world. The more he practices, the more inhuman he becomes.

Now that he has received the reminder from the classics, the true energy in his body has also accumulated and finally broken through the barrier of the first layer of Qi Refining. In the future, he can rely on the true energy he has practiced hard as a "seed" to practice the strange methods of this world without losing his humanity.

Yu Lie's eyes flickered, and he recalled the steps of cultivating the skills he practiced again in his mind.

This method, or most of the methods in the Five Zang Temple, require the consumption of blood and food during the Qi refining process to feed their spiritual roots, so that they can quickly complete the cultivation of Taoism and build a foundation in their limited lifespan.

And it is not only the Qi refining method, but also the various spells in the Five Zang Temple, which also need to be refined into the spiritual roots by killing demons, forming runes, or demon patterns, so that they can really master the spells and reach perfection.

In short, the cultivation of this world cannot escape the word "taking food".

This is exactly why Yu Lie felt that this Taoism and the Shanhai Realm's method of taking food for health preservation are extremely similar after he came into contact with this world's methods.

"Ordinary people can only nourish their spiritual roots and get promoted by killing demons and turning them into blood and food. But I have supernatural powers to help, so it doesn't have to be so cumbersome."

He thought and narrowed his eyes slightly.

Suddenly, Yu Lie lowered his head, and his eyes paused for a long time on the words "spiritual root food spiritual root" on the book in his hand.

After a long time, he smiled, held the book, moved all the books into the thatched house, took out a sickle, put on the fire clothes, walked into the medicine field, and began to harvest sunflowers.

He has been planting sunflowers for more than half a year this season, and it can be harvested a long time ago, but because he is about to break through, he has never done it.

This species can absorb geothermal heat and condense flames in the field. After harvesting, it is a good material for alchemy and refining, and it is also a kind of medicinal material for maintaining the alchemy fire on the mountain.

When walking in the wild, holding a sunflower in your hand is much better than holding a torch, and it is not afraid of wind and rain, and can avoid demons. It can be said to have many wonderful uses.

Now that Yu Lie's cultivation has broken through, these sunflowers will naturally be harvested and sold into spirit stones as his nourishment for worldly cultivation.

The sound of sickles harvesting rang out in the medicinal fields.

Along with it, there were also bursts of baby cries. The strange faces on the sunflowers all showed painful expressions. After landing, they also curled up their petals and wrapped themselves up, shrinking from the original size of a bowl to the size of a fist.

The rooster Dahong fell to the side. When it saw Yu Lie suddenly cutting flowers, it walked around. It seemed that because it had been taking care of these sunflowers for a long time, this stupid chicken had developed feelings and was a little reluctant.

However, the stupid chicken did not hinder Yu Lie. Instead, it picked up the sunflowers on the ground and piled them up one by one, forming a shape like a pile of firewood, helping Yu Lie.

After half a day of hard work, the Danhuo shriveled and entered the night.

Yu Lie finally cleaned up the sunflowers in the three acres of medicinal fields. Even though he had been training his body a lot in recent years, he suddenly felt sore in his waist and back.

"Very good!" Yu Lie was delighted as he looked at the empty fields and the piled-up fields.

He took out his storage bag from his sleeves and filled most of the sunflowers in one go. Because the storage bag was not big, the rest could only be divided into the second batch and then moved to the market of Wuzang Temple for sale.

Since Yu Lie had already decided to practice in the world, he did not delay any longer. After ordering Dahong to look after the house, he walked towards the Wuzang market under the fading light of the Dan Fire on the mountain.

After a while.

Yu Lie came to a place that looked like a slum. Even at night, there were still many people here. Or it was because it was night that people nearby did not dare to leave the area illuminated by the Dan Fire at will, so they would come to this market more often to stroll around.

Yu Lie randomly chose a spot, placed the cut sunflowers on the spot, shook his straw hat, and shouted:

"The best sunflowers! Just harvested, fresh."

His shouting immediately attracted the attention of many people.

There were also people managing the market who wanted to collect the stall fee when they saw the new stall owner, but when they saw the outer disciple token hanging on Yu Lie's waist, they walked away with little interest.

The Wuzang Market is not only for Wuzang Temple disciples to trade, on the contrary, Wuzang Temple disciples are only a small part of the customers.

The real people who come and go are the independent cultivators and wealthy families in the Wuzang Temple area.

Medicines, skills, spells, magic tools, all kinds of practitioners at the foot of the mountain can exchange what they have here, and there are also people who do flesh and blood trade.

For example, not far from where Yu Lie was setting up his stall, there were women with no hair on their heads, standing in a row on the street in front of everyone, waiting for someone who was destined to meet them.

These were the disciples of Pi Rou Temple who had come down from the mountain to train. They were always seen in the major markets of the Corpse Guarding Country.

Yu Lie also heard from Zhu Long, a fellow villager, that in the villages, towns and villages at the foot of the mountain, there were even disciples of Pirou'an who were experiencing the world of mortals, and they often caused harm and replenished their essence.

"How much does this batch of sunflowers cost?"

"One spirit stone and ten plants, the larger the quantity, the better."

Yu Lie relied on his status as an outer disciple of Wu Zang Temple to set up a stall without charging stall fees. The casual cultivators or wealthy merchants who came and went also gained a little more trust because of this status. In addition, the sunflowers in his hands were indeed just harvested. Fresh.

It didn't take long for him to sell out a bag of sunflowers.

It was still dark when he ran back and forth again and sold out all the medicinal materials in the field.

Yu Lie was not in a hurry to leave the market. He sat cross-legged in an empty stall and counted his sunflowers:

"Ten, twenty, thirty...one hundred and twenty-two, one hundred and twenty-three!"

He was delighted with the result of tapping it. From three acres of sunflowers, he earned more than a hundred spiritual stones. Such a harvest was considered a handful in the entire Wu Zang Temple!

"After ten years of working in the field, it's not white. The skills have become more and more familiar." Yu Lie sighed in his heart, and then cursed secretly:

"But of these spiritual stones, it would be great if I could get thirty of them!"

The medicine field was not given to Yu Lie for free. He had to pay a rent every quarter for farming. For example, some seeds and so on were also borrowed by Yu Lie from the medicine hall of Wu Zang Temple, and he had to pay them back with spiritual stones afterwards.

In total, if he could get 20%, that would be a huge achievement!

There was even a whole year when Yu Lie had zero income from spiritual stones, and even paid for them.

Therefore, the outer disciples and handyman disciples may sound like they are disciples, but in reality they are no more than tenant farmers and slaves, with no future.

It is 100% impossible to turn over by relying on manual work such as farming. If you want to stand up in the temple, the only way is to increase your cultivation and become an inner sect!

Yu Lie touched the bulging storage bag in his sleeve, his eyes flickering:

"If you want to use Master Dao as a sharecropper, there is no way! Master Dao will quit!"

He did not plan to repay the land rent or planting money for the spiritual stones he harvested this time, but simply planned to abscond with the money.

As for the reason, it was not because he was too greedy for wealth, but because the practice method he adopted was completely different from that of others in this world. Yu Lie was worried that if he continued to stay in the temple of the five internal organs, he would be targeted accidentally.

Especially if you reveal your true identity, you will most likely be targeted by people from the Alchemy Immortal Sect who keep this world captive!

Yu Lie carried the spirit stone in his arms, packed up his bedroll, and quietly walked into the shops selling charms, spells, and elixirs in the market.

Except for the fact that the magic weapon was too expensive and he couldn't afford it now, he had a little bit of everything else.

As a result, he spent all the spiritual stones he earned tonight in the market, and also put in a lot of his past savings.

When he was about to walk out of the market, Yu Lie, who looked like an old farmer, couldn't help but look back at the five internal organs market and cursed secretly:

"You're so inhumane! You really answered those words. You can't even think about taking out half of the spiritual stone with all the money you make in the temple."

After buying the things, Yu Lie returned to his medicine field.

He also had the rare grace to take down the feed bucket from the window edge, placed it in front of Rooster Dahong, knocked the bucket, and said generously:

"Eat! Eat your fill."

Yu Lie himself lay on the chair and drank the spiritual wine he bought from the market. After a luxurious drink, he fell asleep directly on the chair.

Dahong was so surprised that he finished all the beans in the feed bucket. He fluttered a few times and was so full that he couldn't fly to the recliner, so he could only stand with his belly full and vigilantly standing by the chair to watch for Yu Lie.

Until the elixir fire faded.

It was late at night again, and Yu Lie had just had a full sleep and opened his eyes leisurely.

He stood up neatly and put on a pair of night clothes. Even the glowing red rooster's comb on Da Hong's head was wrapped in black cloth.

After finishing the matter, he asked Dahong to stand on top of his head, and like thieves, he headed towards the main peak of the Five Internal Organs Temple.

Soon, the main hall of the Five Internal Organs Temple vaguely appeared in front of Yu Lie's eyes.

But his goal tonight is not to get into the hall.

Even though he has made a breakthrough in cultivation and has figured out the shortcuts to practice in this world, he is still just an early Qi refining person.

Not to mention entering the main hall, even if he was wandering on the main peak and caught by other outer disciples on duty, he might not get any favors.

The destination of Yu Lie's trip is behind the main peak, that is, under the alchemy fire and the dark place under the lamp.

Its terrain is a deep stream, damp, cold and dark, not illuminated by the elixir of fire. There are frequent rumors of being haunted and breeding monsters.

After many years of inquiring and visiting places, Yu Lie discovered that although the rumors of this place being haunted were not false, there had never been any powerful ghosts breeding there.

Not to mention the disciples in the temple, even a man in his prime can walk back and forth on the edge of a deep stream just by relying on his strong energy and blood.

Kaka!

Yu Lie used the rope and quickly descended to the bottom of the stream. He jumped lightly and heard the sound of dead branches being trampled under his feet.

But he took out a night vision charm and lightly touched his eyes, and he could see clearly that the bones beneath his feet were gray and white.

Yu Lie raised his eyes and saw that what appeared in front of him and Dahong were piles of bones and corpses.

Skeletons and shriveled human heads were thrown to the ground casually, like rotten fruit.

As Yu Lie walked forward, his feet would often sink into the pile of bones. The bones could directly cover his knees. The deeper he went, the deeper he was. He might be buried.

So he changed direction and tried to walk along the rock protrusions and move forward in a circle.

After a while, he came to the place where the bones were most densely packed.

A ghost head willow hidden in the mist also appeared in his eyes.

The branches of the willow were like human hair, thin and dense, entangled randomly, and occasionally wriggling like a snake.

Fruits that looked like human heads hung at the end of its branches like lanterns. There were many of them, but they were as small as a baby's head and not mature.

Yu Lie walked closer and his eyes changed slightly.

Because a crazy and cold roar kept coming from the ghost head willow:

"Save me, save me!"

This voice was like a devil's voice filling the brain, enough to make the disciples in the late stage of Qi training go crazy on the spot, trapped here, and dance wildly to death.

But fortunately, thanks to Yu Lie's main body and spirit, although his soul is low and has no power, his texture is tough, comparable to the immortal's soul.

Let alone this level of mental influence, even if the other party can make a Jindan cultivator go crazy, he will not blink an eye.

However, just after he finished talking, he took a few steps closer, and a hissing sound came out of his mouth, and goose bumps appeared all over his body.

Because the sound of crying became clearer and clearer in his mind, it had reached the point where it could drive a foundation-building cultivator crazy.

Yu Lie looked over at this time and saw three wrinkled and twisted human faces on the main trunk of the willow, all of which had their eyes closed and were in great pain.

The wailing seemed to come from the three faces, one after another.

This made Yu Lie mutter in his heart: "Such a strange thing can exist in such a mass grave, most likely it was planted by Wu Zang Miao and raised specifically."

This thing is obviously of great origin and great opportunity. Whether it is trying to save the other party or cutting it down, it will undoubtedly bring great benefits.

But at the same time, the danger is also great. Yu Lie doesn't want to touch the other party at all now, lest he accidentally alarm Wu Zang Miao.

He lowered his head and searched carefully among the pile of bones and corpses, and whispered to the rooster above his head:

"Dahong, you have sharp eyes. If you see a corpse with a good upper body, remind me."

Not long after.

Yu Lie's eyes lit up. He stepped on the rotten limbs and flesh, and dragged out a corpse wearing the robes of an outer disciple. Its appearance was intact, and the head and spine were not damaged.

Yu Lie held the other party with joy on his face.

He closed his eyes slightly, and the corn-sized spiritual root on his head immediately jumped out, and then it seemed to come alive, squirming and trembling, and fiercely inserted into the back of the corpse's head.

Buzzing, a shriveled and dull spiritual root was pulled out of the corpse by Yu Lie's spiritual root...