Mortal Cultivator

[Xuji Baicaotang], Wang Lu walked into the shop, and a servant sat behind the counter.

"Dear guest, what do you need?"

Seeing Wang Lu walk in, the servant stood up and asked.

"Do you have any elixirs or spiritual objects that can enhance the soul, spiritual seeds?"

Enhance the soul? The servant looked at Wang Lu as if he was an idiot. If there were such things, everyone would become an alchemist, but he still smiled and replied: "Uh... Hehe, sir, we don't have such things here."

Wang Lu didn't feel disappointed when he heard it, as he had expected it in his heart.

"Then give me three top-grade Qi-cultivating pills."

"Sorry, sir, we don't have top-grade Qi-cultivating pills recently."

The servant bowed his head and smiled.

Wang Lu walked out of the shop, Xuji Baicaotang, and looked at the three stars marked on the plaque. It was a shop of a third-grade alchemist. This was the plaque provided by the Shui family to prove the identity of the shop. He had seen hundreds of shops like this, but only a dozen of them reached the third grade.

He went to the shop that sold the top-grade Qi-cultivating pills before, Tang's Pill Pavilion. This was the only 6th-grade pill shop that Wang Lu had seen.

As soon as he entered the shop, he saw the same servant from last time.

"Three top-grade Qi-cultivating pills."

Wang Lu took out 195 spirit stones and said to the servant.

"Okay~" The servant put away the spirit stones and trotted to the back hall.

Wang Lu was waiting, and at this time a young man in white also walked into the shop and walked directly to the back hall. The servant just came out.

"Hello, Third Young Master." The servant saw that this man didn't even bother to give the pills to Wang Lu, so he hurried to greet him.

The young man waved his hand and said impatiently: "How many top-grade Qi-cultivating pills are there in the pill shop? Take them out!"

"Third Young Master, didn't the master not allow..."

"Take it or not?!" The young man glared, and the servant instantly wilted.

"Yes, I'll give it to the Third Young Master right away."

The two of them exchanged a few words, and the servant ran back to the back hall. After a while, he ran out with another pill bottle. The young man took the pill bottle and frowned.

"Huh? Why are there only 4 pills!?"

"Uh... that guest bought three pills." The servant pointed at Wang Lu.

The young monk glanced at the other pill bottle in the servant's hand, frowned and snatched it.

"Go tell him that my Tang family doesn't sell top-grade Qi-cultivating pills!" The young man said loudly.

Wang Lu, who was watching the show on the side, saw that the fire was burning on him, and he had to speak up, clasping his fists: "Daoyou, I have already paid the spirit stone."

"Who is your Daoyou?" The young man glanced at Wang Lu coldly, then glanced at the servant, and said coldly: "Give him back the spirit stone!" After that, he turned around and left, as if he didn't want to stay here any longer.

Wang Lu didn't say anything more after hearing this. This person's robes were probably at the level of a top-grade magic weapon, and his cultivation level had also reached the 8th level of Qi Refining. For the time being, he was not someone he could mess with.

After the young man left, the servant ran over with a bitter face.

"Senior, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the third young master must have been stimulated, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

The servant apologized repeatedly. Although Wang Lu was very young, he still called Wang Lu "senior" and bowed to him, and returned the spirit stone to Wang Lu.

"No problem." Wang Lu took the spirit stone and did not make things difficult for the servant.

After leaving the store, he went to several medicine stores in a row, but there was no top-grade Qi-cultivating pill.

After asking around, he found out that the younger generations of each family wanted to break through after their training, and all of them were taken away by different young masters and young ladies from each family. It is said that they were all small families affiliated with the Shui family.

Wang Lu walked on the street and walked towards Wanbao Pavilion. Now he could only go to Wanbao Pavilion to take a look, because Wanbao Pavilion was opened by Wanbao Commercial Bank, and Wanbao Commercial Bank did not belong to any force in the Black Water Mountains, but came from the continent outside the Black Water Mountains. As for what it was called, Wang Lu did not know.

All the way to Wanbao Pavilion, Wang Lu walked into the store.

Elder Huo was still sitting in the hall, and many cultivators were buying things in the lower floors.

Seeing Wang Lu coming, a servant at the 4th level of Qi Refining came running to greet him. This time, Wang Lu successfully bought the Qi Cultivation Pill.

"Boy, I forgot to ask, which family are you from?" Wang Lu was about to leave when Elder Huo suddenly spoke.

"Um... Senior Huo, I am a casual cultivator."

"Oh?! A casual cultivator?" Elder Huo, who was sitting upright, stroked his beard and did not ask any more questions. If he was a casual cultivator, he must have obtained an opportunity from a senior. He understood the ways of the world and did not ask any more questions.

"Since you are a casual cultivator, I'm afraid you don't know about the Qingling Competition yet?"

"Qingling Competition?"

...

The two talked for a long time, and Wang Lu finally knew why all the young masters and young ladies from various families came back.

It turns out that the young master of the Shui family has successfully established his foundation. The Shui family will officially open a sect in 5 months, and will hold a sect opening competition. They will give out 10 foundation-building pills of different grades as rewards.

One of them is of the best quality, 2 are of the highest quality, 5 are of the middle quality, and 2 are of the lowest quality.

The top ten can not only obtain foundation-building pills, but also become core disciples of the Shui family sect, which is a generous reward.

However, after Wang Lu knew the whole story, he didn't care much about the competition. He would not participate. After knowing his talent for alchemy, he was not interested in participating in any competition to fight hard.

Speaking of foundation-building pills, he suddenly asked: "By the way, Senior Huo, do you have any medicinal materials for refining foundation-building pills?"

"Medicinal materials for foundation-building pills? I don't have any here. I do have many foundation-building pills, but they are all of the lowest quality. The materials for foundation-building pills are only available in the medicine gardens of the Shui family and several other families. By the way, why are you asking about this? Can you still refine foundation-building pills?"

"I just wanted to find out. In that case, I'll take my leave. Thank you for your answer."

Wang Lu bowed respectfully and left.

Of course, he had to refine the best foundation-building pills himself, but it was still early, so he didn't care too much.

Back in the cave, Wang Lu began to practice.

...

Spring went and autumn came.

Three years passed.

His cultivation reached the perfection of Qi Refining. Because he fell into a bottleneck in the middle, he went out for training for a long time before finally breaking through to the perfection of Qi Refining.

Although he had always been cautious and changed his identity in the market, and even went to each store, he was still targeted by some idle casual cultivators.

Fortunately, he was a rich cultivator because of his alchemy and space, so he bought a lot of life-saving things, which gave him many more means to save his life outside.

Qingling City, Wang's Alchemy Pavilion.

A young man sat in the back pavilion, with a handsome face and resolute eyes. This man was Wang Lu. He had bought a shop in the city, which provided him with a little more cover for collecting spirit stones.

"Collect."

The young man waved his hand, and ten pills flew into his hand, a sixth-grade Huiyuan Pill, 1 top-grade, 7 top-grade, and 2 middle-grade.

Looking at these pills, his heart was also moved. Because he was possessed by someone else's body, his soul power was very strong, which also made him very talented in alchemy.

But not only that, in the past three years, he also discovered another big secret, that is, the ancestral black bead actually has the effect of enhancing spiritual consciousness.

He once tried to take the black bead out of his body, and the distance of spiritual consciousness would be much shorter, and the efficiency of alchemy would plummet by more than 50%, and that was his true level!

Wang Lu now only felt fortunate that there had been no people with spiritual roots in the Wang family in the past few hundred years, so it was his turn to enjoy them, otherwise he didn't know what his fate would be.

While lamenting the power of the black bead, he also became more low-key and did not dare to reveal too much of his background. If this kind of thing was leaked, it would definitely be a hunt and robbery.

Wang Lu stood up and put the refined pills into the bottle. A pill recipe appeared in his hand. The pill recipes in the cultivation world are easy to make, but unfortunately the materials are strictly controlled, especially for breakthroughs in the great realm.

"Now I can even refine the 6th grade Huiyuan Pill, and the 5th grade Foundation Building Pill is no problem, but where can I get the materials?" Wang Lu muttered to himself.

Holding the pill recipe of the Foundation Building Pill in his hand, he was a little worried. With the blessing of the black bead, his pill refining level can be said to have reached the peak of the Black Water Mountains.

No longer thinking about it, he took out a mask and put it on his face. Now he is wearing top-level treasures, the pills he eats are top-grade, and the magic tools he uses are also top-grade.

As soon as the mask was put on, he instantly changed into another face, his face wrinkled, his hair began to turn gray, and even his figure became similar.

He walked out to the front hall.

"Master Wang Dan." A servant bowed to Wang Lu who came out and said respectfully.

"Yes." The old man transformed by Wang Lu made a hoarse voice, and then Wang Lu walked out of the shop.

The appearance outside has not changed much, but it is built more like a city, and it is also renamed Qingshui City, which belongs to the Qingshui Sect of the Shui family, and it is still glorious.

"If I can't get the materials for the foundation-building pill, how can I build the foundation? Do I really use the inferior foundation-building pill?"

Wang Lu can get everything, but the top-grade foundation-building pill is difficult to get. Each family will only release the inferior foundation-building pill to the market to maintain the base of casual cultivators. During this period, he also went to some black markets, but except for some foundation-building pills, there are no materials for refining. The price is much higher, but the quality is all inferior.

And the foundation is the foundation of the great way, and it cannot be sloppy.

He naturally would not easily make a decision to use the inferior foundation-building pill, but fortunately, it is only the materials for the foundation-building pill. Although each family is strict, there is always a chance to get it.

"Alas, I heard that the Shui family has an old ancestor who is in the late stage of Jindan. I can't go to the Shui family to trade. If I am caught and forced to do hard labor, it will be a bit bad." Wang Lu frowned and thought.

Although he can make pills, he has always been cautious and dare not be too exposed outside. He only disguised himself as a third-grade alchemist and looked old and frail, just for fear of being caught.

He also tried to get the old man Huo of Wanbao Pavilion to sell the high-grade pills he made.