The Path to Immortality

The next ten days.

Fang Ping's life became regular. He came to the formation hall on time every day, cut the jade, meditated to restore his mana, and continued to cut the jade until he got off work in the evening.

By picking up scraps every day, he harvested dozens of waste jades and scraps with varying degrees of defects.

He could sell them for about two spiritual stones at the market.

Well, the one spiritual stone handling fee required for entering and leaving the market must be deducted...

With continuous practice, Fang Ping's skill in cutting jade became more and more skillful, and the progress was obviously faster than expected.

Tomorrow, he only needs to come for another half day to complete this chore.

"Next, I can get another two and a half months of practice time."

For more than ten consecutive days, the anxiety of not making any progress in cultivation was greatly relieved with this good news, which made Fang Ping calm down a lot.

The next day.

Just after noon, Fang Ping finished cutting the last piece of jade.

After finding the inner sect formation hall disciple in charge and getting the receipt for completing the task, he no longer hesitated and went straight to the general affairs hall.

This time Fang Ping was lucky. The person in charge of the general affairs hall was not Deacon Zhao, but another relatively easy-to-talk Deacon Liang. He successfully completed this chores and received 20 sect contributions.

When he walked out of the general affairs hall again, Fang Ping felt a long-lost sense of relief.

He took a deep breath and went straight to the courtyard where the outer sect disciples lived.

Close the door, meditate, and practice!

The mana of the Five Elements Sutra continued to run through the meridians in the body, continuously refining the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, allowing Fang Ping's cultivation to start growing again.

"This feeling of constantly improving strength is really good!"

After making up for the practice he owed today, Fang Ping couldn't help but sigh subconsciously.

Then, he wanted to get up and continue to refine the pill, but then he remembered that the first batch of materials for the Bigu Pill had been refined.

These pills must be sold first before continuing to purchase materials for refining the pill.

For the outer disciples of Luoyang Sect, there are two places to sell the elixirs.

One is to go to Luoyunfang last time, and the other is to the exchange meeting held by the outer disciples of Luoyang Sect from time to time.

Both places have their advantages and disadvantages.

Selling elixirs at the exchange meeting can show the identity of the apprentice of the alchemy, expand the network of people, and attract some business by the way, which will also have some invisible conveniences for entering the inner sect in the future.

However, the Bigu Pill is too basic, and the disciples of Luoyang Sect are not short of this thing, so the sales are probably limited.

Moreover, Fang Ping is not even in the middle stage of Qi training now, so it may not be a good thing to spread the news so early.

He thought for a moment and planned to wait until his strength improved and he mastered the refining methods of several elixirs before going to the exchange meeting.

"In this case, let's go to Luoyunfang."

In order to avoid being bumped into by Lu Shan and Mingyulou again, Fang Ping was extremely careful when he went out this time.

Before dawn, he hurried down the mountain.

………

Entered Luoyunfang again.

In order to avoid suspicion, Fang Ping did not go to Dan Ding Fang this time, but changed to a Dan Dao shop with an equally good reputation.

"Shopkeeper, do you accept elixirs in your shop?"

Fang Ping asked.

Seeing the business coming, the shopkeeper smiled and stood up and said: "Our shop does accept elixirs. I wonder what kind of elixirs this Taoist fellow wants to sell?"

"Bigu Pills!"

Fang Ping put out the elixirs he had made by himself.

Hearing that it was just this most basic elixir, the shopkeeper was inevitably a little disappointed.

But as a businessman, he still maintained a minimum of enthusiasm: "My Taoist fellow, I wonder if you can let me test the effect of the elixir?"

This is the proper procedure, Fang Ping naturally did not mind, and made a gesture of please help yourself.

The old shopkeeper randomly took two bottles of Bigu Pills, checked them a little, and showed a satisfied look: "The quality is acceptable, the price is one bottle of one spirit stone, how about it?"

"Yes."

Fang Ping finalized the deal very straightforwardly.

Afterwards, he purchased another 100 sets of materials for the Bigu Pill in one go.

Originally, Fang Ping was a little hesitant about whether to try to refine the other two basic pills recorded in [The Beginning of the Alchemy].

But he changed his mind and decided that the most urgent task now was to use the profits to feed back his own cultivation.

After he was promoted to the third level of Qi training and thoroughly understood the method of refining Bigu Pills, he would try to refine other pills.

So he gave up this idea for the time being and turned to the trading area of ​​the market.

Because the goal was clear, it was not worth spending another spirit stone to rent a stall. Fang Ping wandered around the trading area for a while and finally caught two poor guys. He sold four bottles of inferior Bigu Pills with a buy one get one free strategy.

A net profit of 15 spirit stones was obtained!

Looking at the crystal clear spirit stones in the storage bag, Fang Ping was in a good mood and turned to leave the market.

………

If it was to refine a brand new pill, Fang Ping would need to spend more time.

But if you repeatedly refine the Bigu Pill, there are few skills that can be summarized and improved. It is more about repeating mechanical work and practicing until you become proficient.

In this way, Fang Ping spends much less time on the alchemy than expected.

In addition to daily practice, there is still some time left.

It is fine to practice and refine the pill for a short time. Once it lasts for a long time, it is actually quite boring and hard.

Another cultivator may choose to relax and enjoy the little time left.

He may even give up because of his poor qualifications and hopelessness of building a foundation, and run to the secular dynasty to live a carefree life early.

But Fang Ping finally came through and got a great opportunity. Naturally, he was unwilling to be a Qi training cultivator for his whole life.

Knowing that his four spiritual roots were insufficient, he could only choose to work harder.

The remaining time was also used by him to figure out the small five-element spells in the early stage of Qi training, so that he would not have the realm and alchemy skills but no power to protect the way.

In this secluded life, the season came to midwinter.

The weather near Cangyue Mountain gradually became colder.

Many of the lush trees withered and died, giving people a bleak and murderous atmosphere.

But the mood of the outer disciples of Luoyang Sect was not affected by the solar terms, but gradually became more expectant and excited.

The reason was that the twice-yearly training resource distribution day, which was in winter and summer, was finally coming!

This morning, many outer disciples got up early and gathered outside the courtyard.

The several deacons in charge of distributing resources seemed to understand the disciples' mood and came early.

Seeing the deacons appear, the eagerly waiting disciples immediately rushed up.

The scene was a little chaotic, and after being scolded by several deacons, they lined up honestly.

Fang Ping arrived at a moderate time, lined up in the crowd, and received his own cultivation resources.

Outer disciples in the early stage of Qi training can receive ten spirit stones, three Ningyuan pills, and ten catties of green bamboo spirit rice each time.

Outer disciples in the middle stage of Qi training can receive twenty spirit stones, a bottle of Ningyuan pills, and ten catties of black blood spirit rice each time.

For outer disciples, this is indeed a resource that cannot be ignored, enough to practice with all their strength for one or two months.

However, there are many places for cultivators to use spirit stones.

After receiving spirit stones, many outer disciples are reluctant to use them all for cultivation, but will accumulate some to purchase instruments, materials and daily expenses.

In this way, this amount of cultivation resources seems to be not that much.

Spirit rice