Longevity starts with learning

The extremely short-lived noise dissipated, and the flickering light of the sword also subsided.

Chu Mu stood in the dense forest, his blade stained with blood and his clothes clean.

In front of him, two corpses were covered in bruises and died with their eyes open.

"Why bother."

Chu Mu shook his head and whispered, the path to immortality was close at hand, but he died at the door.

Greed without absolute certainty will pay a price.

The blade was sheathed. Chu Mu didn't care about the blood of the corpse at all. He stretched out his hand and groped carefully on the corpse, not missing any part.

After groping for it, Chu Mu didn't count it, and stuffed it directly into his arms regardless of whether it was useful or not.

After looking around to make sure there was nothing unusual, Chu Mu then dealt with the corpse in front of him.

If someone is killed, the body must be destroyed and all traces of it must be destroyed!

With a surge of strength, he kicked a big hole in the ground with several kicks. He raised his foot like a ball and kicked the two corpses into the hole. After burying them for a while, Chu Mu clapped his hands and left.

"One, two, three, four..."

In the cave, Chu Mu could not hide his excitement as he counted the broken spirits one by one.

Two small cloth bags, a total of fifty-two broken spirits!

Chu Mu's heart trembled, fifty-two, a total of fifty-two broken spirits!

He earns eight broken souls a month, so he has to work for more than half a year!

Chu Mu took out his small bag of spirit stones. In three months, there were a total of twenty-four broken spirits!

Altogether, there are seventy-six broken spirits in total!

Converted, it's equivalent to seven and a half low-grade spiritual stones!

One spiritual stone is the spiritual root aptitude test, and three spiritual stones are the first-level cultivation techniques.

He can still have three and a half low-grade spiritual stones left!

Chu Mu suppressed the excitement in his heart, put away the spirit stones, and carefully sorted out the other trophies.

Except for the spirit stones, everything else is a mess of worldly stuff and nothing useful.

Chu Mu looked around his cave, pondered for a moment, and then stood up decisively.

He simply packed up a package and appeared in the dense forest along another tunnel exit. Under the night, he quickly disappeared into the darkness.

After a night of trekking, when the morning sun rose, Chu Mucai appeared outside the Jade Emperor Valley.

The mine is not far from the Jade Emperor Valley. The reason why it took so long was mainly because Chu Mu was worried about being intercepted and killed, so he made a big circle.

After all, according to Chu Mu's opinion, there are so many miners in the mine, and the Jade Emperor Valley is the closest gathering place for immortal cultivators nearby.

If a cultivator with evil intentions only needs to find a place to ambush along the way, then he must ambush him accurately.

Although I don’t know how likely it is, I still have to take precautions.

Being able to reach Yuhuanggufang City safely is the best outcome.

After more than three months, Chu Mu also stepped into the Jade Emperor Valley again.

But this time, it's not the same confusion as before. I have a spiritual stone in my pocket, and I have a certain understanding of the world of immortality. All I have to do is... officially enter the path of immortality and become a true immortality cultivator!

Although three months had passed, Chu Mu remembered the Jade Emperor Valley clearly.

Entering the Jade Emperor Valley, he went straight to the shop where the spiritual root qualifications were tested.

The Jade Emperor Valley is very big, but Chu Mu has been wandering around the Jade Emperor Valley for nearly ten days and only saw this one shop that deals with testing spiritual root qualifications.

Obviously, this is a monopoly business, at least as far as the Jade Emperor Valley is concerned.

The store is not on the main street of Yuhuang Valley, but in the back streets and alleys on the southwest side.

Although it is inconspicuous, there are signs and guidance at the intersection of the main street and the back street, just like the advertising signs of later generations.

I have to say that the commercial atmosphere in the Jade Emperor Valley is still extremely strong.

Walking among them, if it weren't for the constant reminder of the surging energy all over his body, Chu Mu would sometimes even feel that he had arrived at an ancient tourist town in his previous life!

"Brother, are you going to test your spiritual root qualifications?"

As soon as Chu Mu reached the intersection, a tall and thin man came over and muttered quietly.

Chu Mu took two steps back without leaving a trace: "Senior, what are you doing?"

"The person who tests the spiritual root aptitudes in Fangshi is just trying to trick newcomers like you. Let me give you a test. How about five broken spirits?"

The man made a five sign and looked around, as if he was afraid of being discovered.

Chu Mu was a little moved. He was in a dilemma. Before he could say anything, he saw the expression of the man in front of him change, and he pretended to distance himself from him.

"Wang Mazi, what are you doing?"

Immediately, Chu Mu heard a scolding and saw a middle-aged man in armor striding over.

Chu Mu's pupils shrank slightly and he quickly looked away.

This armor is the logo of the Jade Emperor Valley Law Enforcement Team.

There is no doubt that this middle-aged man is the immortal cultivator of the Jade Emperor Valley Law Enforcement Team.

"Where is it? Aren't you afraid that the newbie can't find a place, so why don't you take the initiative to help?"

"Captain Li, why are you here on the street? I haven't seen you for a long time..."

Wang Mazi's face was full of flattery. If Chu Mu hadn't been able to vaguely sense the aura of cultivation that belonged to an immortal cultivator, Chu Mu would have even thought that this was some secular bastard who had come to him.

"Hmph, Wang Mazi, you'd better restrain yourself. There are rules in Jade Emperor Valley. You'd better know clearly what you can do and what you can't do!"

"The little one knows, the little one knows..."

Wang Mazi responded repeatedly, not daring to say more.

Immediately, the man looked at Chu Mu: "Are you a secular person who has just entered the world of immortality?"

"yes."

Chu Mu bravely spoke out.

"After entering the Qi Training Realm, if you want to live and stay in the Jade Emperor Valley, remember to go to the Back Valley to report and get a copy of the Jade Emperor Valley's rule book!"

"The spiritual root test is in the back street. Go there by yourself. Don't listen to these people's nonsense. If you break the rules of the Jade Emperor Valley, it cannot be solved by a few broken spirits!"

After saying that, the man's attention turned to Wang Mazi again, and he scolded Wang Mazi, who was stunned for a while.

Seeing that this unreasonable disaster did not affect him, Chu Mu naturally would not linger. After saying goodbye, he immediately left.

As for saving five broken souls... Chu Mu was a little moved, but he wasn't stupid enough to go against the odds and commit a crime.

What's more, the rules in the Jade Emperor Valley seemed to be far stricter than he imagined.

"Measuring the attributes of spiritual roots, a spiritual stone."

When you enter the store, you are greeted by a brief sentence.

A middle-aged man sat leisurely behind the counter without raising his head.

Chu Mu pursed his lips, took out ten broken spirits that he had prepared long ago, and placed them on the counter.

The middle-aged man glanced at the ten broken spirits on the counter and disappeared.

Immediately, the middle-aged man raised his hand and waved, and a metal disc appeared in the middle-aged man's hand.

Immediately, the metal disk floated into the air, and finally flew straight to Chu Mu's head. A flash of white light appeared. Before Chu Mu could feel it, the white light went out and the metal disk disappeared.

"The four attributes of pseudo-spiritual roots are five points for the fire element, four points for the metal element, one point for the water element, and one point for the earth element."

"If you want to practice martial arts, choose the fire attribute."

The man spoke lazily, and then waved his hand to signal Chu Mu to leave.

Chu Mu hesitated for a while, and finally couldn't help but ask: "Senior, I dare to ask, what does this mean?"

The man glanced at Chu Mu: "A broken spirit."

Chu Na gritted his teeth, took out another Broken Spirit, and placed it on the counter.

"The world of cultivating immortals divides spiritual root qualifications into heavenly spiritual roots and earthly spiritual roots..."

"Except for the heavenly spiritual roots and the mutated spiritual roots, the rest are all mixed with multiple spiritual roots. It is necessary to distinguish which spiritual root is the main one among the monks..."

"Then... I dare to ask the seniors, the younger generation's spiritual root qualifications are five points in the fire element. If the two attributes of the earth and spiritual roots are opened in half, wouldn't it be..."

"You really know how to think!"

The man chuckled and seemed to be interested: "According to common sense, it seems that this should be the case."

"But spiritual root qualifications are not based on common sense."

"It's destined!"

"The so-called points are also a general term. It just means that the total number of spiritual root qualifications at each level is set as ten points."

"Instead of saying that the ten of the false spiritual root can be equal to the ten of the earth spiritual root!"

"Your five points, compared to Di Linggen's five points, is not a concept."

"The more complex the spiritual root qualifications are, the more it will have a huge negative impact on the induction, absorption, and even refining of the cultivator's spiritual energy."

"This impact is almost multiplied."

"If you count your pseudo-spiritual root qualifications by ten, then the earthly spiritual roots would be one hundred, or even two or three hundred, and the heavenly spiritual roots would be in the thousands!"

"Juniors have learned a lesson."

Chu Mu bowed respectfully.

"You're quite interesting too, I'll give you a piece of news for free."

The man smiled. He was obviously no more than middle-aged, but he still called me "old man".

"Senior, please enlighten me!"

Chu Mu bows again.

"Go and buy the Immortal Cultivation Technique. Don't listen to those people's nonsense. Just buy the most basic Fire Elemental Technique, Fierce Fire Technique."

"Others, don't bet your own path to immortality!"

Chu Mu was confused, but the man didn't accept the money anymore, but explained directly.

"There are all kinds of exercises on the market, and you kid can't even afford a full set of them."

"You can only buy one level of skills and one level of skills. Are you sure that the level of skills you buy will definitely have subsequent skills? Rather than just one, two, three or four levels of incomplete stuff? You Can you be sure that there are no flaws in the technique?"

"There are too many techniques in the world of immortality. Some have been passed down by ancient monks, some have been passed down from various places, and some have been discontinued..."

"There are even some immortal cultivators who have created their own techniques, but without knowing the disadvantages, they spread them out. Maybe they let other immortal cultivators experiment on them, maybe..."

"The sources of the exercises are too complicated, and many shops don't care about them. They just sell the exercises to make money. If you buy the wrong ones, whether there is a problem with the practice, or it is incomplete and needs to be transferred to other exercises, it is not an ordinary trouble."

Chu Mu's heart trembled, and he quickly said: "Junior has learned a lesson!"

"Okay, it's all said and done, go ahead and do whatever you have to do!"

The man waved his hand, his expression that was smiling a moment ago has now returned to indifference.

Chu Mu bowed respectfully and left silently.

Back on the street, Chu Mu thought about what the man had just said, and couldn't help but feel a little nervous. Even this basic cultivation technique might be tricked...

In this world of immortal cultivation, the rules seem to be quite strict. Is there no rule against counterfeiting?

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