Lonely Immortal

However, Zhang Zhiwen remained calm and walked from table to table, picking up a few jade articles that seemed to have spiritual energy. Unfortunately, he did not gain anything after walking around.

Since there was nothing he wanted, he turned around and left. The maid chased him again, wanting Zhang Zhiwen to take a closer look, but what else was there to see?

Afterwards, Zhang Zhiwen went to some other small treasure pavilions, but the results were similar. There was nothing he needed. It seemed that jade articles and jewelry with spiritual energy were probably very rare. Perhaps only the treasure pavilion of the Chamber of Commerce could have them.

But if he wanted to go to the treasure pavilion of the Chamber of Commerce, he must not reveal his identity. Moreover, even if he found it now, the price would definitely not be low. He walked around the treasure pavilion outside. Even ordinary jade articles were priced at dozens of silver leaves. As for the good jade articles, they all required gold leaves to buy. He did not have so much money on him now, so he had to find a way to get money.

But how to get money? Ten or twenty silver leaves, that's not too difficult, just take out the hidden medicinal materials and hand them over to the Foreign Affairs Hall, then you can get them, but the problem is that good jades are often sold for gold leaves, and he can't hand over all those medicinal materials to the Foreign Affairs Hall at once, otherwise it will inevitably arouse suspicion, and the only thing Zhang Zhiwen can think of is to refine pills for money.

In the Foreign Affairs Hall, he has seen such tasks, the refined pills are much more valuable than the medicinal materials themselves, such as Yiqi Pills, one can be rewarded with twenty copper coins, while the herbs used to refine Yiqi Pills can only be rewarded with less than ten copper coins, this reward is directly doubled.

This is still a low-grade pill, if you refine a medium-grade pill, the reward will be multiplied several times, and he happens to have a lot of ten years of medicinal materials in his hand, if you use them to refine a medium-grade pill, you can easily get a high reward.

But it is not so easy to refine a medium-grade pill. It is easy to fail in the process, which will cause great losses. Moreover, even if he refines it and hands it over to the Foreign Affairs Hall, the Foreign Affairs Hall will naturally know that he can refine a medium-grade pill. The medicinal materials needed to refine a medium-grade pill are not a small number, and he will be suspected at that time.

So, after thinking about it, Zhang Zhiwen found that it was unrealistic for him to get a high reward from the Foreign Affairs Hall. This road would not work.

But if he sold pills privately, it would be very dangerous. Once discovered, the Chamber of Commerce would definitely not let him go. He might be able to fight with masters like Li Mohuan, but what if a group of such masters came, plus the hall master, elders and president? Then he would definitely die.

Moreover, the Chamber of Commerce would definitely not be soft-hearted towards traitors, so even if Zhang Zhiwen escaped by chance, the Chamber of Commerce would definitely want him. At that time, he would really be surrounded by enemies and have nowhere to go. He didn't want to get things to that extent.

After thinking about it, Zhang Zhiwen didn't have any good solution for a while, unless his strength was improved to the second level of Qi Refining, or even the third level of Qi Refining, then he wouldn't have to worry about these problems at all, and he would have enough ability to protect himself.

It's not that Zhang Zhiwen is too cautious, but this world is so dangerous. He has been wandering for many years, how could he not know?

Now he is in a dilemma. If he doesn't improve his strength, he can't get more money quickly, and if he can't get more money quickly, he can't improve his strength.

However, Zhang Zhiwen was not too anxious. The improvement of cultivation can't be solved in one or two days. For the time being, he will learn the book given by Lin the Medicine Craftsman first, and he can also refine some pills later, which will be very useful for refining medium-quality pills in the future. He can't always rely on collecting herbs to make a living.

With the decision, Zhang Zhiwen began to study the art of refining medicine with peace of mind.

Afterwards, Zhang Zhiwen studied the art of refining medicine alone in the room for seven consecutive days, and the practice of the key to longevity was not delayed. Although the progress was extremely slow, it was better than no progress.

In seven days, he basically finished learning the book given by Lin the Medicine Craftsman, and then learned the method of refining elixirs in the Changsheng Sutra. He first learned the things in these books, and then went back to refine pills, starting from the lowest-level pills, such as Yiqi Pills, which took him another seven days.

After more than half a month, Zhang Zhiwen had already refined a lot of low-grade pills, but he had not refined any medium-grade pills, because ordinary medicinal materials were easy to obtain, he went to the pharmacy to buy some, and the price was not high, but the medium-grade pills were different, he did not dare to try easily, and another thing, refining medium-grade pills requires a medicine furnace, unlike low-grade pills, as long as the medicinal materials are crushed, they can be made with some ordinary methods, such as honey, calcination, air drying, frying, etc. These methods are quite simple, and it is easy to learn after trying a few times.

But the refining of medium-grade pills is very different. It requires a medicine furnace, and the techniques are much more complicated. There are very strict requirements for the control of the temperature, humidity, refining time, etc. If you are not careful, all the medicinal materials in this furnace will be scrapped.

However, during this time, Zhang Zhiwen was not idle. He handed in all the refined low-grade pills to the Foreign Affairs Hall, which could get some rewards. Although the reward money was small, the Foreign Affairs Hall had a record of Zhang Zhiwen refining low-grade pills. At that time, if Zhang Zhiwen wanted to hand in the medium-grade pills, it would not be so abrupt.

As for private transactions, Zhang Zhiwen would not try it easily, because the risk was too great. He would rather spend more time and accumulate more money step by step, and he would not take that risk.

However, Zhang Zhiwen still planned to try to refine the middle-grade pills today. After all, he had already refined a lot of low-grade pills, and he felt that the time was almost ripe.

These days, he was either in the house, or went to the pharmacy to buy medicine, or went to the Chamber of Commerce's Foreign Affairs Hall to hand in tasks, so today was his first time going out in these days.

As soon as he came out, he found that the atmosphere outside was a little wrong. Many unidentified people from the underworld came to Wuping County. Most of these people wore hats to cover their faces, and were dressed in black, carrying knives or swords. There were also these mysterious people from the underworld in the past, but not as many as now, which reminded Zhang Zhiwen of the wanted list.

It should be because the killers on the wanted list came to Wuping County, and these knights followed them. They wanted to take the heads of those killers to gain fame and fortune. In the martial arts world, this is not uncommon, and most knights naturally don't like to reveal their identities, otherwise it will be quite troublesome for the killer organization to think about them, so it is normal to hide their identities.

But Zhang Zhiwen couldn't figure out why those killers came to Wuping County? Is there something big going to happen in Wuping County?

However, Zhang Zhiwen didn't think much about it. These were not what he could think of. He still honestly made medicine to make money and bought something with spiritual energy as soon as possible, so that the strange green fruit could mature quickly.

But Zhang Zhiwen was also a little wary. After all, the Jianghu was in chaos, and some people took advantage of the situation and even framed the killers. He was a linen apprentice, which was a good way to attack the other party. He was not necessarily afraid of those people who plotted against him, but he did not want to cause unnecessary trouble. So he simply got a set of clothes and dressed himself up as a mysterious Jianghu swordsman. However, he did not even have a decent knife, so he could only make do with a hatchet. However, in order to avoid people seeing the clues, he wrapped the hatchet with black cloth, so that it looked like a real person when he carried it on his back.

Now, his cultivation has improved, and he is no longer as thin and frail as he was a month ago. In addition, the Changsheng Sutra strengthened his body, and he was much taller and thicker. He looked just a little shorter than the average swordsman. Walking in the crowd, almost no one suspected that he was just a twelve-year-old boy.

After finishing all these, Zhang Zhiwen went to the market to buy a medicine furnace. This medicine furnace is sold everywhere. It is not a rare thing. Zhang Zhiwen bought one for one silver leaf. As for the price of one or two gold leaves, he couldn't afford it.

However, there is nothing special about that kind of medicine furnace. It is just better quality and more durable. It doesn't help much for the success rate of medicine refining. Whether the refining is successful depends entirely on the skill of the alchemist. A good alchemist can make good medicine with a broken furnace, just like a person who can write can write with a dry branch.

Of course, at a certain level, the medicine furnace will naturally be useful. For example, the same alchemist, using different medicine furnaces, the top-grade pills produced will definitely be different. That level is not what Zhang Zhiwen can achieve now, so he didn't buy any good furnaces, just a similar one.

This medicine furnace was very small, only a square inch in size, and it was more than enough to put in the package, so Zhang Zhiwen took the medicine furnace out of the city.

Along the way, he was very cautious. After all, Wuping County was not peaceful at the moment, and he didn't know when people would stare at him. He had actually felt this atmosphere all the way here. Fortunately, his outfit didn't make people interested in staring at him, because it was too ordinary and such outfits could be seen everywhere.

When he came to the outside of the city, Zhang Zhiwen naturally sped up. He didn't want to waste too much time.

But as soon as he passed through a forest, he heard the sound of fighting in front of him. He couldn't help but stop, restrain his breath, and hide behind a big tree.

This skill of restraining breath was learned from the Changsheng Sutra. The Changsheng Sutra is best at restraining breath. Because in the author's opinion, the leakage of human energy is a waste of energy. It is best to shrink like a turtle day by day without leaving any trace. This is the way to keep healthy. Zhang Zhiwen agrees with this, which is also in line with his style of always keeping a low profile.

So let alone other things, Zhang Zhiwen is still quite confident in this method of restraining breath. Sure enough, he hid behind a big tree and no one found him, and he had already seen clearly who those fighting were.

Those people were none other than Yan Ling and Wang Kun. I don't know how these two groups of people who almost never meet got together and started fighting here.