Living in the world of cultivation

In the early morning, the sky was white.

The autumn water after the rain made the air smell of grass and soil, quiet and peaceful.

Occasionally, the cool autumn wind blew, driving some of the dead leaves to form small tornadoes. The dead leaves spun inside and flowed with the wind, just like people's fate that they could not struggle against.

Su Fan sat cross-legged in the practice room in the thatched cottage, practicing the Hunyuan Gong.

Since his realm cultivation broke through the middle stage of foundation building, the huge amount of spiritual energy accumulated made Su Fan feel desperate.

No wonder there is a saying that when cultivators break through to the foundation building stage, they ascend to heaven step by step.

It is already difficult to go from the early stage of foundation building to the middle stage. I didn't expect that after breaking through to the middle stage, facing the late stage of foundation building is like a natural chasm.

Most people in the world of cultivation will never be able to break through to the foundation building realm in this life. Even if they are lucky enough to reach the foundation building stage, they will jump from a small pit into a bigger pit.

Even if they reach the golden elixir and Yuanying in the future, they will still have to face the test of heavenly tribulation.

Su Fan had seen the heavenly tribulation before. The power that destroyed the heavens and the earth still frightened him when he thought about it.

The road was difficult and he was walking on thin ice.

Thinking of this, Su Fan sighed.

The evil skill was still fast. In just a few days, he saved himself from decades of hard work.

The price was just to kill some cultivators. With his current strength, if he wanted to plot against someone, even if he was in the late stage of foundation building, he would not be able to escape his attack.

It happened that it was during the war, and the corpses of the foundation building cultivators on the front line were everywhere, even the Jindan Zhenren.

Anyway, swallowing their flesh and blood would not make people notice anything.

If he was lucky one day and swallowed the flesh and blood of a Yuanying Zhenjun, wouldn't he be able to ascend to heaven in one step and break through to the late stage of Jindan.

Then if...

As soon as this thought came into being, the "Purple Heart Mysterious Water Jade Pendant" on Su Fan's chest suddenly shook.

A cool breath rushed from his chest to the purple sea of ​​consciousness between his eyebrows, and spread to his limbs.

Su Fan shuddered and recovered from his manic mood in an instant.

This is the inner demon...

It was a close call...

Su Fan couldn't help but shudder, and his scalp felt numb.

The inner demon is a thing that moistens things silently, can be invisible, and can change in a myriad of ways.

Once the evil thoughts are planted, they are deeply rooted and difficult to remove, and they become more self-righteous.

Su Fan can only prevent it from happening and polish his heart as much as possible to achieve recognition of his true self and not be stained by the inner demon.

But desires are hard to satisfy, and people are most hard to guard against.

He touched the "Purple Heart Mysterious Water Jade Pendant" on his chest. After all, it is a top-grade spiritual tool. Today, thanks to it.

Su Fan took a deep breath, stood up from the ground, and walked out of the thatched cottage.

Now the cave has been newly decorated by him, with a kitchen, naan pit, grill and everything else, which is similar to his previous cave.

At this time, two pretty girls came in from outside the cave, and when they saw him, they bowed to him.

"Meeting Uncle Master..."

Su Fan waved at them and said with a smile: "You go and do your work, you don't need to greet me when you come here in the future..."

These two little girls were ordered to serve her disciples.

Originally, the two were going to live in the cave, but Su Fan didn't want anyone to disturb his life, so he asked them to come every three days.

In fact, the two came and nothing happened. They could get good merits by staying here for a day, which could be said to be a good job.

Su Fan has been in "Jiuxingfang" for more than a month, and he has been living in seclusion during this period.

He does not participate in the management of the market. Every day, he stays in the cave to practice hard, or goes to the sect's workshop to make tools. He has no sense of existence at all.

Many Qi training disciples of the sects didn't even know that there was such a foundation-building uncle in the station.

Moreover, he was kind and never acted like an uncle, so the Qi training disciples in the station had a good impression of him.

Now that he was an inner disciple of Huoyun Dao Palace, Su Fan changed his previous arrogant style and became very low-key.

Anyway, he had already entered the inner sect, and now he was taking advantage of Huoyun Dao Palace, and he was focusing on the long-term.

There were many days to come, so there was no need to rush.

The foundation-building deacon elder in the market gradually lost his guard. Sometimes when he met him occasionally, he could chat with Su Fan cordially.

Managing such a large market, there was naturally a lot of money involved.

It can be said that even if you really didn't covet a penny here, others would not believe you.

Seeing that Su Fan had no intention of competing with him for power and profit, the other party was very satisfied. Not only did he care about Su Fan every month, but he also took out part of the black income to share with Su Fan.

Of course Su Fan had to accept it, otherwise people would not be able to sleep peacefully.

After Su Fan finished his instructions, he left the cave. Every time the two girls who served him came, Su Fan would avoid them and go to the workshop to make tools.

Watching Su Fan's back disappear at the end of the tree-lined path, the two girls hurried to the kitchen and took out a jar of iced juice from the refrigerator.

They came to Su Fan's study, sat down at the kang table, and then drank the refreshing iced juice comfortably.

This is the benefit Su Fan gave them. Every time Su Fan left, the two of them would be eager to take it out and drink it to their heart's content.

After drinking for a while, the two of them whispered to each other.

"Senior sister, why does the uncle go out every time we come here..."

"You ask me, who should I ask, is this little girl in heat..."

"Ah... Senior sister, what are you talking about, I... How could I..."

"Alas... this uncle is a nice guy, if he was a little more handsome..."

"You're still talking about me, you're the one who's being coquettish..."

"You silly girl, what are you talking about... It's a pity that even if I'm coquettish, uncle can't see it..."

Su Fan didn't know that as soon as he left, the two female hooligans started to talk about him excitedly.

He came all the way to the market and walked into the weapon workshop.

"Hello, uncle..."

"Greetings, uncle..."

Seeing Su Fan coming, the disciples in the workshop saluted him one after another.

He smiled and nodded at them, then came to the outside of a workshop.

This room is a high-level weapon workshop, and there are only three in the entire market.

The high-level weapon workshop is equipped with a top-grade fire gathering formation, which only foundation-building cultivators are qualified to use.

At this time, a person walked out from inside, saw Su Fan and saluted him quickly.

"Greetings, uncle, you came early today..."

Su Fan smiled and said, "It's clean inside..."

"Don't worry, uncle..."

This man is called Sun Yong. He is not only sweet-mouthed, but also eloquent. He is the kind of person who is particularly good at dealing with things. He came up to Su Fan a few days after he came.

Su Fan's attitude towards such people is that as long as they are not bullying the good and fearing the evil, flattering the high and trampling the low, he will not reject them.

Fawning on the powerful is human nature, and it is also the most basic psychological reaction of people. There is nothing to blame.

For Sun Yong's behavior, most of the young disciples of Huoyun Dao Palace are extremely disdainful, thinking that he is a flattering villain.

But Sun Yong doesn't care at all, and instead sneers at the contempt of other disciples.

For such people who write ambition on their faces, although Su Fan will not reject them, he will never treat them as his own people.

In his previous life, he had seen too many such people. No matter where they are, they are like fish in water. As long as they are not useless straw bags, they can often get along well in the end.

Sun Yong is smooth and sophisticated in dealing with people, and he works so hard at ordinary times. The most important thing is that he can bend down and put his face on the line.

Such a person, no matter what you think of him, his future will not be too bad.

People like Sun Yong can be used, and they are indeed very convenient to use, but they will never be reused.

Since someone came up and was convenient to use, he would take care of him appropriately, and send him to help him with his work or run errands when he had nothing to do.

Now Su Fan is not like before, staying in the weapon workshop every day and making weapons frantically against time.

Instead, he comes once every three days, and only refines two or three spiritual weapons each time. The rest of the time is mostly spent studying and pondering with jade slips, or summarizing the gains and losses of this weapon making.

In particular, he spent a lot of time studying the experience and insights summarized by the predecessors of Huoyun Dao Palace.

Although relying on the game panel and the rule loopholes of the front-line weapon workshop, he only took a few months to brush the data of the weapon making skills to the "successful" realm.

Moreover, he also had the ability to refine medium-grade spiritual tools, and his progress was astonishing.

Although the spiritual tools he refined were impeccable, he always felt that something was missing.

Just like the products produced by the automated assembly line in the previous life, they were almost all the same. Compared with hand-carved things, they had no personality and charm at all.

In fact, the way of tools requires accumulation and accumulation, and the foundation must be laid step by step. Each stage has different experiences and understandings.

And Su Fan is now like being crammed, with his brain filled with knowledge of the way of tools, without any process of slowly understanding.

To put it bluntly, it was too fast.

The situation at that time was special, and he didn't have the time at all. He could only use the convenient conditions of the workshop to frantically brush data.

He was afraid that if he missed this village, he would miss this shop.

The situation now is no longer the same as before, and Su Fan has enough time to figure out and understand.

So what Su Fan is doing now is to slow himself down, spend some time every day to experience, and explore the true meaning of the way of tools bit by bit.

Facts have proved that although his weapon-making skills have not improved much during this period, every spiritual weapon he has refined now is a little different.

How to say it, it is just a little more agile, unlike before

Su Fan walked into the weapon-making workshop and saw that the room was spotless, and the fire-gathering array was polished to a shine. It was obvious that it was wiped by hand, not with a cleaning talisman.

He nodded with satisfaction, took out the "Red Phoenix Cauldron" from the ring, and put it on the fire-gathering array with a "bang".

Sun Yong, who was standing next to him, couldn't help but smack his lips. The master's uncle was really strong. He had tried to take this huge cauldron before, but it didn't move at all.

He secretly guessed in his heart that the master's uncle's huge cauldron must weigh at least one or two thousand pounds.

"Start the formation..."

Hearing Su Fan's call, Sun Yong, who was thinking about it next to him, hurried forward to start the fire-gathering formation.

With a "bang".

The light blue flames instantly shot up into the sky, enveloping the "Red Phoenix Cauldron" and burning fiercely.

Su Fan threw some rare refining materials into the cauldron, then turned his head and looked at Sun Yong behind him.

"You come to smelt the materials..."

Sun Yong was stunned for a moment. This was the first time that his uncle had asked him to do it.

For a Qi training disciple, there was no chance to use the top-grade fire gathering formation, and he had never smelted such rare refining materials.

After listening to Su Fan's words, Sun Yong suddenly became excited.

After a month of hard work, he finally got the recognition of his uncle, and now the opportunity has come.

"Hurry up and smelt..."

Sun Yong was shocked and hurried over. He took a deep breath and began to smelt the materials seriously.

Su Fan looked at the fire of the fire gathering formation, and then looked at Sun Yong's operation method, and then walked aside with confidence.

As a disciple of Huoyun Dao Palace, Sun Yong's foundation in weapon is very good.

And it was the first time to use the top-grade fire gathering formation to smelt rare weapon refining materials, which also made him very serious in the smelting process.

In fact, even if the smelting of this furnace of materials wasted, Su Fan didn't care.

Now, although he does not participate in the management of the market, as long as he wants to use any weapon refining materials, the elder who is in charge of foundation building will respond to his requests.

Such a big Huoyun Dao Palace, can it still lack him a little bit.

Su Fan walked over to the side and sat cross-legged. He took out a jade slip and placed it on his forehead, and began to ponder and study the experience and feelings of the predecessors of Huoyun Dao Palace.

Today, Sun Yong was asked to smelt materials, and his attitude became more positive.

At lunch, he went to the canteen of the garrison and helped Su Fan pack his favorite spiritual food in food boxes and bring them to the workshop.

In any case, having such a good person around you will really make you feel comfortable.

In the evening, Su Fan left the weapon workshop and just walked to the main street of the market when he heard someone calling him.

Su Fan looked back and found that Tang Fei was walking towards him.

"Why are you here today..."

He remembered that he left a lot of evil spirit bones for Tang Fei before leaving. How long has it been?

"Brother, the evil spirit bones in my hands have been sold out. I can only come to you..."

"What..."

It's only been a few days. This guy is not doing wholesale, right?

Although Su Fan didn't say anything, Tang Fei was sensitive to Su Fan's thoughts and quickly explained.

"Brother, this time I contacted several people from the Super Immortal Sect through a friend. Although I gave them some profits, the price didn't drop much..."

After listening to Tang Fei's words, Su Fan patted his shoulder.

"Brother, you are good, I didn't misjudge you..."

This guy is really capable. He actually opened up the channels of several Super Immortal Sects. Now the sales of evil spirit bones are likely to take off.

Fortunately, he still has a lot of inventory. Even if the scattered bones are sold out, there are still those complete bones that have not been moved.

When the time comes, all of them will be smashed and sold out.

In any case, Su Fan's evil spirit bones have created a lot of profits for him.

Especially now that Tang Fei is helping him to toss outside, he doesn't have to worry about anything. He is just a hands-off shopkeeper.

To be honest, this is purely making money lying down.

Moreover, Su Fan is now an inner disciple of Huoyun Dao Palace, which is completely different from other newly joined disciples.

At least before all these newly joined disciples died, he would definitely not have to fight on the front line.

Now he is hiding in this market under an assumed name, not to mention that he does not have to do anything, and there are people serving him every day, so his life is so comfortable.

"Let's go, come to my place, let's have a drink in the evening..."

Tang Fei followed Su Fan to his cave, and the two little girls had not left yet, sitting at the kang table in the study and chatting happily.

They chatted a little and even forgot the time.

It was not until Su Fan and Tang Fei entered the yard that the two reacted, quickly packed up, and ran out of the house in a panic.

"Master, we..."

Su Fan's ears were so sharp that he also heard a few words of the two girls' conversation.

He couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. Are all the female cultivators of the super immortal sect so unrestrained, and dare to say anything fierce and lewd?

"You guys go back..."

Su Fan walked into the house after he finished speaking, and the two girls hurriedly fled out of the cave.

Tang Fei followed him into the house, sat down opposite Su Fan, and looked at him with a smile.

"Brother, you are living well here..."

Su Fan was amused by him, and laughed and scolded: "Don't think about it, those two little girls come to help me clean up the cave once every three days, nothing happened..."

Tang Fei laughed, and he pointed at Su Fan.

"Brother, I haven't said anything, but you explained it first. Besides, what's the big deal about this matter? Who doesn't have a few lovers..."

After listening to Tang Fei's words, Su Fan shook his head.

He found that Huoyun Dao Palace was too messy. Everyone looked very serious, but who knows what tricks they were playing behind the scenes.