Longevity: Never leave the mountain until you are invincible

Years pass by, and it’s time to pay the rent once a year.

Looking back at the Yunshui Sect office, Chu Chen smiled bitterly in his heart: "The Yunshui Sect is really dark. The price of the cave has actually increased. Buying a third-class cave now costs 20,000 low-grade spiritual stones."

After paying the rent, he asked casually.

Unexpectedly, the price of Dongfu in Chiyanfang City actually increased a bit.

When he rented the cave a year ago, he only needed 18,000 low-grade spiritual stones to purchase a third-class cave. Two years later, the house price had increased by another 2,000 low-grade spiritual stones.

Buying a third-class cave is a long way off.

In the past two years, Chu Chen has been in the stage of balancing his income and expenditure. The income from setting up a stall basically covers his training needs and rent, but there are not many spiritual stones left.

Chu Chen still only had more than a thousand low-grade spiritual stones in his hands, which was far away from the 20,000 low-grade spiritual stones.

certainly.

This is related to the fact that Chu Chen has not yet started selling fireball charms.

Chu Chen has already been able to draw the fireball talisman in the dream world, but the success rate of drawing it before was not very high, so he has not yet drawn the fireball talisman outside the dream world.

"Fortunately, the rent hasn't gone up."

The rent has not increased this year, but it is expected to increase soon.

"Living in the city is not easy!"

In fact, compared with the low-level casual cultivators in Fang City, Chu Chen's life was pretty good.

Normally, with his income from running a stall, if he saves a little, he can have a lot of spirit stones left in a year. It's just because Chu Chen has to buy talismans, spirit rice, spirit gathering pills, etc., it costs too much, so he doesn't. It can save spiritual stones.

The Lingzhihu husband in Fang City is really miserable. He has worked hard for a year to farm, and the harvested Lingmi is sold to Yunshui Sect, which is barely enough to pay for the rent of a fourth-class cave, so he can barely survive.

This was despite Ling Zhifu working hard day and night to cultivate the land. If he slacked off a little and didn't collect enough spiritual stones, he might be expelled from the cave.

Therefore, many Lingzhifu moved to the shantytowns sold by the gray-robed Taoist priests and rented caves in the shantytowns. The Lingshi needed were much less, and they could save a lot of Lingshi.

At first, most Lingzhifu were waiting and watching, worried that the Yunshui Sect would take action to rectify the shanty town.

But as time went by, Jianyun Shuizong had no intention of taking care of these shantytowns.

All the spiritual masters couldn't wait to move to the shantytowns. Many even spent all their savings to buy cave houses in the shantytowns.

"I always feel that Yunshui Sect is going to make a big move."

Chu Chen had a vague guess in his heart.

Yunshuizong did not rectify the shanty towns at this time, perhaps because it felt that leeks were not enough.

How can one or two leeks be as good as cutting a large wave of leeks?

"Fellow Daoist Qin, I have been waiting for a long time."

Back at the cave, Taoist Xuancheng was waiting at the door with a pot of spiritual wine.

Spiritual wine is similar to ordinary medicinal wine. The monks mix various spiritual medicines with various spiritual waters according to secret recipes, seal them for months or years, and ferment them.

Taoist Xuancheng is good at brewing spiritual wine. The cold spring nectar he brews has a unique taste. It has a sweet and long aftertaste and can also increase the monk's magic power.

In Chiyanfang City, it is quite popular, with a price tag of ten low-grade spiritual stones per pot.

It is precisely because of this craft that Taoist Xuancheng can live a comfortable life in Chiyanfang City.

"Fellow Taoist Xuancheng, is there cold spring nectar in your hand?"

Chu Chen's eyes lit up when he saw the specially made wine flask in Taoist Xuancheng's hand.

This kind of special wine pot is only used by Taoist Xuancheng to hold cold spring nectar.

Taoist Xuancheng smiled and said, "If you have important matters to discuss with fellow Taoists, naturally you don't dare to neglect them."

"That being the case, why don't we discuss it in detail at Feihong Residence?"

Chu Chen's expression changed and he immediately invited.

"Fellow Taoist, be happy!"

The smile on Taoist Xuancheng's face became even wider.

Feihongju is a restaurant in Chiyanfang City. There is a spiritual chef in charge. The spiritual food cooked can also nourish the monk's body and increase his mana.

The two of them went to Feihong Residence together, and Chu Chen spent more than a dozen low-grade spiritual stones to set up a table of spiritual delicacies.

In the private room, Chu Chen and Chu Chen were eating and drinking while talking about the recent events in Fangshi.

The atmosphere in the elegant room quickly heated up as the glasses were exchanged.

Seeing that Taoist Xuancheng never mentioned the purpose of looking for him, Chu Chen happily chatted with Taoist Xuancheng and asked about some things that he didn't know.

Over the past year, under Chu Chen's deliberate management, he got along well with Taoist Xuancheng.

From Taoist Xuancheng's mouth, I learned many secrets.

Taoist Xuancheng couldn't help it and broke the deadlock: "I have a business here. If it succeeds, I can earn a lot of spiritual stones. Fellow Taoist, are you interested in participating?"

"what business?"

Chu Chen's expression remained unchanged and he asked.

"Fellow Taoist, have you ever heard about the fifth-class caves that have opened outside Fang City in the past two years?"

Taoist Xuancheng sold a pass.

There are only four levels of caves rented and sold in Chiyanfang City. In the shantytowns that have arisen outside of Fang City, the caves among them are jokingly called fifth-level caves due to environmental problems.

"Have heard a little bit."

"This business is related to these caves. Several Taoist friends and I plan to purchase all the remaining fifth-class caves and then sell them to those spiritual cultivators at a higher price."

Taoist Xuancheng lowered his voice and said mysteriously.

"..."

Chu Chen was speechless for a moment, calling him a good guy in his heart.

Isn't this just real estate speculation?

Taoist Xuancheng asked: "Fellow Taoist, are you interested in participating?"

"To be honest with you fellow Taoist, I also want to participate. However, I have been trying to refine the fireball talisman recently. It costs a lot of money. I am a little nervous and I am really powerless."

Chu Chen looked helpless and annoyed.

This business was not reliable no matter how you looked at it.

First, the "fifth-level cave" in the shantytown was at risk of being demolished at any time. Once problems occurred with the spiritual stones invested by Taoist Xuancheng and others, they might be wasted.

Moreover, the real estate speculators would not have a good death!

This kind of business was inherently harmful to others and not beneficial to oneself, and it was very easy to offend those spiritual plant husbands.

If any spiritual plant husband was not happy and attacked from behind, he might be caught by mistake and lose more than he gained.

He did not need to get involved in this matter.

"That's a pity. You missed a chance to make a fortune."

Taoist Xuancheng saw that Chu Chen's expression did not seem to be fake, and felt sorry for Chu Chen.

The two continued to chat for a while, and after sweeping away the spiritual food and cold spring nectar, they ended the party and said goodbye.

"I wonder how many unlucky people will be this time?"

Looking at Taoist Xuancheng who left in a hurry and seemed to be looking for partners, Chu Chen shook his head.

After returning to the cave, he immediately entered the quiet room to practice.

A meal of spiritual food, plus a pot of cold spring nectar, he stored a lot of spiritual energy in his body, which must not be wasted.

He practiced the Changsheng Gong, and the spiritual energy in the void gathered and poured into Chu Chen's body.

After two years of practice, with the support of spiritual rice, spirit gathering pills and the spiritual energy of the cave, he had already reached the peak of the seventh level of Qi training.

Tonight, he just broke through the eighth level of Qi training.

Boom!

Chu Chen's breath seemed to break through a bottleneck, and suddenly rose to a higher level. The sound of the spiritual energy surging in his body was like a rolling river.

Qi training eighth level, done!

Chu Chen struck while the iron was hot, and practiced the Changsheng Gong several times in a row to stabilize his own cultivation.

After a long while.

He just opened his eyes.