I Built A Family Of Immortal Cultivators

Chapter 15: Formation Books

After a night of refining his energy, Lin Qing broke through his spiritual roots the next morning. Both his water and wood spiritual roots reached the upper grade.

[Water Spiritual Root: Upper Grade 16/50000]

[Wood Spiritual Root: Upper Grade 5/50000]

After breaking through his spiritual roots, Lin Qing didn't immediately feel the changes in his aptitude. Instead, he looked at the number 50,000 behind the Goldfinger panel and couldn't help but wipe away his sweat.

This Goldfinger is really exhausting.

While having breakfast and consuming spiritual rice, Lin Qing felt something different. The speed at which he absorbed spiritual energy from the spiritual rice was almost twice as fast as before. He had previously estimated that after upgrading his water and wood spiritual roots to the upper grade, his aptitude should be similar to those with four spiritual roots. But now it seemed that it was probably even higher, slightly higher.

After finishing breakfast, his practice further confirmed this idea.

After upgrading his water and wood spiritual roots to the middle grade, the speed at which he absorbed spiritual stones had increased by 20% compared to when he had five spiritual roots. Now that they were both upper grade, it could be said that the overall improvement was about 60%. Generally speaking, the cultivation speed of those with four spiritual roots is half that of those with five spiritual roots. But now, he was not only faster than half, but slightly higher than those with four spiritual roots.

According to his previous estimation, it would take him at least four years to break through to the sixth layer of Qi Refining, relying on pills and spiritual stones. But now, it seemed that it wouldn't take that long.

Having already practiced for over a year, he would be able to break through in about a year and a half, at most two years.

Thinking about what would happen after the breakthrough, Lin Qing felt a sense of joy. He also thought about Li Qingyu. In the next year, she would be able to break through to the fourth layer of Qi Refining at most. This was mainly due to her taking care of the shop and making formations for him on weekdays. Otherwise, it could have been one or two months faster.

After finishing his cultivation, he temporarily decided not to make formations today. According to his expectations, the Triple Water Formation shouldn't be difficult to make. However, after a year had passed, he still hadn't succeeded in making it. It felt like something was missing in certain places. Lin Qing had been thinking about this recently.

Now wasn't a good time to make formations. He needed to calm down and maybe he would have some insights.

Replacing Li Qingyu to let her cultivate, Lin Qing sat in his shop, watching the cultivators passing by outside. His thoughts returned to the events of the past year.

Due to the information he had obtained from Fellow Daoist Li, Lin Qing had occasionally visited him while practicing in seclusion. He also heard a lot of news from Fellow Daoist Li.

During this year, Fellow Daoist Li's material shop business had been increasing month by month, with the number of customers doubling in the previous month. The amount of materials had also doubled accordingly.

Reaching this level in just a year was something that neither Lin Qing, Fellow Daoist Li, nor the cultivators in Qingmuji had expected.

Qingmuji had now gathered a large number of cultivators, and the shops were already scarce. According to Fellow Daoist Li, at its peak, more than 200 cultivators would come to Qingmuji in a single day.

Hearing this number, Lin Qing was greatly surprised. More than 200 people coming in a day was a huge scale for Qingmuji, which only had a hundred cultivators residing there.

The Immortal Market was not an ordinary market for mortals. The more people there were, the better the business. Immortal cultivators were usually very busy, either cultivating or searching for resources. They rarely had time to buy things, and it was common for them to not leave their homes for ten days or half a month. But now, there were 200 cultivators coming to Qingmuji in a single day, which meant that there were even more future cultivators among them.

With so many cultivators pouring into Qingmuji, it was natural that they weren't just strolling around. It was said that the number of demonic beasts in the nearby Yandang Mountain Range was increasing, and there were even rumors that some cultivators were killing three demonic beasts in a day, earning as much money as they had in the previous six months. These cultivators entered Qingmuji to hunt demonic beasts or sell materials.

Although Qingmu Market is small, it is still a market where materials can be sold. As for going to other markets, the nearest one is still two hundred miles away. And Xuan Yu Fang, which is above Qingmu Market, is a thousand miles away. Who would have the time to go there?

Faced with so many cultivators who came for the demonic beasts, Lin Qing could only intensify his cultivation. As for him going to hunt the demonic beasts? That was absolutely impossible. He didn't lack spirit stones at all now. Currently, his main focus was to digest the spirit stones as soon as possible.

So he didn't take any measures to increase the sales of formations or anything in his shop. He sold them as he pleased, but the prices had increased significantly.

Xuanmu Formation, a set of fifteen spirit stones. Falling Rock Formation, a set of twenty-seven spirit stones.

It wasn't that Lin Qing wanted to raise the prices, but everyone else was raising them.

The talisman shop, the pill shop, the magic tool shop, and so on, except for the material shop, the shops in Qingmu Market had all raised their prices to do this rare business. In this situation, Lin Qing couldn't afford not to raise his prices.

Although these shops had raised their prices, there hadn't been any reports of anyone's business declining. On the contrary, it was better than before.

As for Lin Qing's own shop, the formations were sold out as soon as they were put out. Lin Qing could only sell them twice a month, otherwise he would be disturbed to death on normal days.

In theory, the increase in demonic beasts might be temporary, but it had been over a year now and there was no sign of it decreasing. This made people suspect whether the increased spiritual energy in the Yan Dang Mountains near Qingmu Market had attracted the demonic beasts. And in this situation, there would only be more demonic beasts, not fewer.

Therefore, the shops in Qingmu Market were in high demand now. The management had already increased the rent by twenty percent, and it was said that there would be other measures soon.

Regarding this, Lin Qing had a feeling that everything was about to change. He had come to Qingmu Market at the age of thirty-six and had been here for fifteen years. In the first fourteen years, there was almost no change. But in this year, everything in Qingmu Market had started to change.

Having lived here for so long, Lin Qing still had some feelings for Qingmu Market. But in the face of uncertain changes, he couldn't help but have some other thoughts.

"Shopkeeper, do you have any formations for sale?"

While Lin Qing was contemplating, a cultivator approached and asked.

Lin Qing pointed to the sign in his right hand, which said that formations would be sold on the fifteenth of every month. Today was only the seventh, so naturally there were no formations available.

Upon hearing this, the young cultivator didn't leave, but instead approached Lin Qing.

Lin Qing looked at him, not fearing this Qi Refining third-layer cultivator at all. He was currently at the Qi Refining fifth-layer, and he had a medium-grade defensive magic tool and a large number of talismans. Even a Qi Refining mid-late stage cultivator would have to think twice before being presumptuous in front of him.

"Shopkeeper, I wonder if you buy formation books?" the cultivator asked as he approached.

Upon hearing this, Lin Qing was greatly surprised. Formation books were not easy to sell. It was purely luck that he was able to buy the initial explanation of a formation. And now this cultivator was saying that he had formation books, and in Qingmu Market of all places. Lin Qing couldn't help but be skeptical.

"Don't make fun of me," Lin Qing said.

"Shopkeeper, I'm not lying. I really have formation books!" the cultivator said, raising his voice when he saw that Lin Qing didn't believe him.

(End of this chapter)