Longevity Begins With Gu Refining

Chapter 20: A New Cave Abode

"I'll call you Jiu Bao."

Jiu Bao was different from Cao Bao. It was chubby like a small winter melon, white with a tinge of red.

After eating a Jade Water Lotus Seed, it became even rounder. If it wanted to go to another place, it had to roll instead of crawling.

He had to find a chance to get more spirit ginseng.

The increase in cultivation was also a big deal. When he tested the Grass Spirit Butterfly that day, he felt that his spirit energy was insufficient.

He went down the mountain and bought ten low-grade spirit stones worth of spirit ginseng. Chen Qing asked for a wine gourd and took the spirit ginseng he bought to the wine jar in the shop to brew wine.

There was one advantage to brewing wine with the Wine Gu that ordinary brewing methods could not compare to. It required a very short time and the quality was very high.

This was the uniqueness of the Wine Gu.

After putting the spirit ginseng into the wine jar, Chen Qing raised his hand and summoned the newly contracted Wine Gu to brew the wine.

When the Jiu Bao flew into the wine jar, a large amount of spirit energy was extracted from Chen Qing's body. As the Jiu Bao flew around the wine jar, Chen Qing could feel the spirit energy in the wine jar rising.

The temperature of the wine jar fluctuated. It was boiling hot and cold at times.

As for the spirit ginseng, it was visible to the naked eye that it was beginning to dry up, and its essence was seeping out.

A quarter of an hour passed slowly. Clear wine appeared in the wine jar, mixed with the spirit ginseng residue.

Chen Qing felt the changes in the spirit energy in his body. It was almost completely dried up.

During this time, he also absorbed the spirit energy of four spirit stones.

Next time, he could not buy ten low-grade spirit stones worth of spirit ginseng. The spirit energy consumption was too much.

He opened the wine outlet at the bottom of the wine jar and filled the gourd with wine. Chen Qing estimated that it was about one catty and six taels.

It seemed that it was not easy to make money with the Wine Gu.

He estimated that it was only about five or six spirit stones a day. The spirit energy consumption was still relatively high.

Of course, the most troublesome thing to make money with the Wine Gu in Carefree Mountain was not this, but the source of the spirit ginseng.

This thing was not necessarily something that could be bought.

Chen Qing was able to buy it because he was wearing the clothes of the Spirit Plants Hall Master.

Carrying the wine gourd, Chen Qing paid the bill and returned to his cave abode. After drinking two mouthfuls of spirit ginseng wine and feeling that his body was full of spirit energy, he began to cultivate seriously.

In the evening, Chen Qing opened his eyes. "My cultivation improved again.

"The speed of circulating Qi during cultivation is about twice as fast as usual."

"A full day of cultivation requires about one kilogram, which is about twenty spirit stones."

"However, in addition to cultivating every day, I also need to go on duty and rest. Actually, I only have half a day to cultivate, which is about 10 spirit stones."

"I brew it myself, which saves on labor costs. It only costs about five spirit stones a day."

"This cost is really not small."

"But I can barely afford it now."

"At this rate, it will take me about a year and a half to reach the fourth layer of Qi Refining."

"After the spirit ginseng is grown, we should be able to save a lot of money."

"Raising wine Gu to the stage of butterfly transformation can raise it by another portion."

Chen Qing checked Bao Jiu's growth progress. A shriveled Jade Water Lotus Seed had increased its progress by three points.

There were about thirty of them, enough for him to advance to rank six.

It was better to buy the materials to upgrade to rank seven himself. It was too obvious to check the inventory every few days.

Now, he had more than 1,200 low-grade spirit stones left, which should be enough for him to reach the Ninth Revolution.

These few days, Chen Qing checked the progress of the spirit field development as usual and returned to his cave abode to cultivate.

Yu Qingshuang seemed to be avoiding Chen Qing these few days. She practiced her sword every day.

Three days later, Ye Yuntian sent a War Hall disciple to invite Chen Qing to take a look at his new abode.

In truth, it had already been a long time.

Cultivators did not need so much time to open up a abode.

During dinner, Chen Qing picked up a small cabbage, "Senior sister, my new abode is about to be completed, do you want to take a look?"

Yu Qingshuang said angrily, "That is your home, not mine, why should I go?"

Chen Qing said, "I am a man, I don't know what to do at home, I don't have any senior sisters that I am familiar with."

"Women know more about these things after all."

Hearing this, Yu Qingshuang said, "That's fine. As cultivators, we don't care about worldly affairs. I'll go with you."

Walking on a stone path with Yu Qingshuang, there was an ancient pine ahead.

At the foot of the pine, an old man with long hair grabbed a grub excitedly, "Hahahaha, my Gu 'er is so strong, it must be about to advance!"

"Don't be afraid, master will help you turn into a butterfly!"

The old man peeled off the skin of the grub, his hand was covered in protein.

"Ah, the butterfly transformation failed again."

"Such a pity."

"But it smells so good."

Chen Qing looked at the old man's clothes, they looked familiar, "He is also a Carefree Mountain disciple?"

Yu Qingshuang said, "I saw him a few years ago, he was only around thirty years old then, in order to turn a Gu into a butterfly, he sold his wife and children, he went crazy after his family was destroyed."

Chen Qing asked, "Didn't any heretical cultivators kill him to steal his Gu?"

Yu Qingshuang said, "This is a Gu worm that can destroy families. If I give it to you, do you want it?"

Chen Qing thought to himself, I really want it, any Gu worm was similar to him in terms of difficulty, "I definitely don't want it, bad luck."

"Also, how can a Gu worm be more important than a wife."

Yu Qingshuang snorted, "Sweet words."

At a cliff halfway up the mountain, after crossing a long metal bridge, Chen Qing came to his new abode.

This was a platform above the cliff, the platform was about half an acre in size, at a corner of the platform, there was an ancient pine with twisted roots.

The most amazing thing was that on the other side of the ancient pine, there was a natural spring water flowing out of a teacup sized karst cave.

A large iron door stood in the middle of the platform. Pushing the door open, there was a living room inside. Copper lamps in the shape of red-crowned cranes hung on the walls.

The room was spacious and could accommodate dozens of people.

On the left side of the living room, there was a corridor that led to the wine cellar. The first room on the right was the kitchen.

Further back were four guest rooms.

Behind the living room was a bedroom and two cultivation rooms.

Chen Qing reached out and touched the stone bed behind him. "We still need to get two praying mats. Senior Sister, what do you think?"

Yu Qingshuang said seriously, "Do you know that the entire sect is trying to match you and me?"

Chen Qing nodded. "I know."

Yu Qingshuang continued, "Then do you know that they want to tie you to the war chariot of Carefree Mountain?"

Chen Qing nodded. "I know."

Yu Qingshuang sighed. "If you were outside, you could earn tens of thousands of spirit stones a year. Carefree Mountain only gave you 8600 low grade spirit stones, aren't you dissatisfied?"

Chen Qing said, "Look at the location of this abode, it is surrounded by the senior brothers of the War Hall. Clearly, this is a very safe place."

"And I enjoy this kind of safety."

"Living is the foundation of everything."

However, someone like her, who had been grounded at home all this time, would not understand these things.

(End of chapter)