Cultivation World 9: You can practice

In a small room in the underground palace, a strange fire was burning in the alchemy furnace.

The elixir liquid inside gradually took shape, and after a while, the lid of the furnace was opened, and ten top-grade pills were ready.

After mastering the method, refining the elixir became a dull and tedious task. Xie Yunsui held up his head and directed the ten pills to jump into the wooden bottle beside him, then turned around and threw a handful of spiritual plants into the cauldron.

After refining the Huiling Pill, I started to refine the Xiaohuan Pill. After the Xiaohuan Pill was finished, I also had all the herbs I collected when I was walking in the secret realm in the past few months, so I just refined them all in one go.

Xie Yunsui was distracted while refining the elixir, but he was wondering if Xiaoxi was hungry today. He hadn't been able to cook a good meal at noon, and the beast meat in his hand was almost gone. Why not find a chance to go out and catch a monster beast?

I didn't know how many furnaces I had refined, but suddenly I heard a voice:

[Energy harvesting in progress, please keep up the good work.]

Xie Yunsui paused as he was taking the medicine, feeling puzzled, and entered the Wanjie Shop.

"Energy harvesting?"

The Wanjie Shop was being very frugal with words again, so Xie Yunsui tried to find out the reason himself, only to find out that he had just refined a furnace of Xuan-grade pills without realizing it, which were also top-grade pills.

When the pill was completed, it seemed that a wisp of spiritual energy was absorbed by the Wanjie Shop. Judging from the half given to Xie Yunsui, this wisp of spiritual energy was quite a lot. Judging from the numerical value, it was equivalent to ten crystal cores in the apocalyptic world.

"In this world, I can not only gain energy from trading, but also from alchemy?"

[Alchemy is a form of cultivation. The spiritual energy you gain from cultivation can naturally be absorbed by the Myriad Worlds Shop.]

Xie Yunsui thought for a moment before realizing that it was the energy he gained from cultivation that was given half to the Wanjie Shop, instead of Xiao Wan giving it to himself.

Xie Yunsui was a little surprised for a moment: "I can practice in this world?"

Except for the Western Fantasy Town world where he can upgrade, it seems that he cannot gain energy by improving his own strength in other worlds.

Thinking about it afterwards, I can understand it.

The Western Fantasy World has its own upgrade system, just like the deserted island world, with certain data. By doing various things, you gain experience and upgrade.

This system can only be used in the Western fantasy world. In other worlds, such as modern society, the so-called upgrade is to pass various exams and certificates, and store everything learned in the brain, which will not be reflected externally.

In later worlds such as the apocalypse and the orc world, you can use the power there, but you cannot upgrade like in the Western fantasy world.

But now in this world of cultivation, there is another upgrade system: Qi training, foundation building, golden elixir, Nascent Soul... until the tribulation period.

Before, Xie Yunsui subconsciously used energy simulation, but in fact he could practice it on his own!

Wanjie Shop was very direct: [Yes.]

It’s a pity that he doesn’t have a set of cultivation techniques from this world, so he can’t try it out immediately.

However, since refining pills is considered cultivation, he should just practice more...

Xie Yunsui immediately left Xiaowan Space and began to refine the pill seriously. He looked through the inventory and found that there were not many spiritual plants, so he refined the yellow-level fire spirit pill first.

In a short while, ten top-grade pills were ready.

Xie Yunsui looked at it and asked suspiciously: "Why didn't I receive any energy?"

Wanjie Shop: [Your level has reached the Golden Core Stage. You cannot obtain spiritual energy by refining yellow-level pills.]

Xie Yunsui: "..."

No wonder I couldn’t trigger Xiao Wan’s energy collection after refining so many pills before.

Xie Yunsui suddenly realized that it was like playing a game. If a level 30 player fought a level 10 monster, the experience gained would be minimal. He could only fight high-level monsters.

Yellow-grade elixirs correspond to Qi training and foundation building. If he has already reached the Golden Core stage, he should start from the Black-grade elixirs upwards.

He then refined two more batches of Xuan-level pills, and indeed, he received energy again.

"Can't this energy enter my body directly? Does it have to go through you?" Xie Yunsui had a new question.

When the spiritual energy was generated, he really wanted to keep it for himself, but he had no way.

[You don't have a body, so you can't store spiritual energy.]

He seemed to hear Xiao Wan's slightly speechless pause.

Xie Yunsui: "..."

Yes, I forgot that my soul was captured by Xiao Wan after I died.

He seems to have a body now, but it is just a body that Xiao Wan has specially solidified using black technology so that its owner can communicate with intelligent creatures in various worlds. In essence, he is just a ghost.

What should he do? He couldn't grab a body and take over it like the evil ancestors in this world. He could either open a shop and save energy, or practice twice as hard.

Xie Yunsui's excited heart calmed down.

As for opening a store, he currently does not have a suitable address, so he can only choose the latter.

Ling Xiyuan and Qingwen came back in the evening, and as soon as they saw Xie Yunsui, they told him the good news.

"Today, disciples from the Qingyan Sect came and bought up all the high-grade elixirs on the stall." Ling Xiyuan said, handing him a Qiankun bag. "These are the spirit stones they gave me. I've tested them and they're sufficient, with some to spare."

Because I actually exchanged a few spiritual plants with others today, the amount of high-grade pills was a few less.

The Qingyan Sect disciple named Guo Si didn't seem to care about these spirit stones at all, and gave them the Qiankun bag containing the spirit stones.

Qing Wen said, "That guy is so arrogant. As soon as he arrived, he said he wanted to buy all our high-grade pills, even ignoring the fact that we had already ordered a few pills from someone else. He's extremely overbearing."

She yelled anxiously: "We almost got into a fight!"

Xie Yunsui glanced at the little bee. He hadn't received any message from the little bee all day, so there should have been no conflict.

"How did you solve it later?"

Qing Wen stuck out his tongue and turned to look at Ling Xiyuan: "Brother really understands you. He said you definitely won't be intimidated by me."

Ling Xiyuan smiled and explained in a gentle voice, "I told him that we are honest and that we cannot sell him the pills that have already been ordered, so he just asked for the remaining ones."

Qingwen added: "But he didn't ask how much we ordered. Hahahaha, as long as Brother Xie has the medicine, we can still sell it."

Xie Yunsui laughed: "What if he finds out we're still selling high-grade pills and comes looking for trouble?"

Ling Xiyuan said, "This is easy to do. Just don't display the top-grade pills on the stall. We can trade privately."

Guo Si didn't know that Xie Yunsui was the one who refined the top-grade elixir. Ling Xiyuan and others didn't say anything, and Zhu Ming, who had left, also kept his mouth shut and didn't mention it. These people outside just thought that Xie Yunsui was prepared before entering the secret realm.

They used the excuse that they had a batch of medicines ordered, but no one knew how much had been ordered, and they took advantage of the information gap.

Xie Yunsui looked through the inventory. This batch of yellow-grade medicines were all top-grade, and there were not many high-grade ones left.

"The disciples of Qingyan Sect are wealthy and powerful. Moreover, they have been staying in the underground palace all the time and basically never travel in the secret realm. It is not necessarily that they are short of high-grade pills." Xie Yunsui suddenly thought: "Did they say that we are forbidden to sell high-grade pills anymore?"

Ling Xiyuan suddenly realized: "Although he didn't say it explicitly, he gave me a warning look before leaving. I'm afraid that's what he meant."

He said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I thought it was a big order, so I..."

"It's okay. I just don't have many top-grade yellow pills left." Xie Yunsui said in a relaxed manner.

Ling Xiyuan misunderstood: "Are you not in good shape for alchemy today?"

Xie Yunsui pursed his lips and smiled, shook his head, and took out a bottle of pills.

"Top-grade pill?!" Qingwen exclaimed, and then realized something and covered his mouth suddenly. He looked left and right, only to find that they had set up a protective formation and no one outside could hear them talking.

She said in surprise: "Xie, brother, you are really a genius in alchemy!"

Ling Xiyuan was also happy for him, and his self-blame also dissipated a lot: "This top-grade pill is not easy to sell in the secret realm. After leaving the secret realm, you can take it to the auction house. It should be able to fetch a good price."

"Okay." Xie Yunsui agreed, "Then we'll finish off this batch of people and won't sell any more high-grade pills."

So that they won’t be targeted by the people from Qingyan Sect.

It just so happened that he didn't want to spend time on refining yellow-level elixirs, so it would be better not to collect spiritual plants.

Anyway, he has other things to sell. Several people have come to ask about space gourds, so he will make another batch later.

In the evening, in order to reward Ling Xiyuan and Qingwen for their hard work, Xie Yunsui cooked all the remaining monster meat and made three dishes and a soup.

While eating, the formation outside the door was triggered. Ling Xiyuan sent out his spiritual power and said, "It's Zhu Ming."

"Just in time, ask him if he knows about the situation of Qingyan Sect."

As Zhu Ming walked in, he was immediately overwhelmed by the aroma of food: "You guys... still love to eat so much."

Qing Wen was familiar with him, so he immediately said bluntly, "Did you choose to come here during our meal time to eat for free?"

Zhu Ming smiled and sat down around the pot: "Hey, can you give me a bowl?"

Xie Yunsui handed him the bowl he had used before: "Whatever you want."

Ling Xiyuan, who always acted as the person who spoke to the outside world, finally got down to business: "What's the matter with you coming to see us?"

Zhu Ming picked up a piece of fried pork with sansho pepper and said, "I went out with some brothers a few days ago. I just came back today and found that someone came to inquire about you."

"From the Qingyan Sect?" Xie Yunsui asked.

"You know now?" Zhu Ming wanted to flatter himself, but he was too late.

Xie Yunsui then said, "They sent people to buy up all my top-grade pills today."

Zhu Ming said, "That's right. They were asking about your background. When I went back, my brothers came to question me, and I just said that you were from Hengwu Pavilion, and that Xianyou Xie was a casual cultivator who used to wield an ordinary sword. I didn't say anything else."

Xie Yunsui nodded: "Thank you very much."

Zhu Ming heaved a sigh of relief: "Perhaps they know you don't have any background, so they are so overbearing and bought up all your medicine."

"Speaking of which, we're still curious. They don't lack high-grade pills, so why would they buy up all our pills?"

"Oh? Don't you know? This time, the Qingyan Sect brought a lot of alchemy disciples here. They're using the free spiritual plants from the secret realm to improve their skills." Zhu Ming drank a mouthful of soup and told them all the information he had learned from his family. "They all exchanged low-grade and low-quality elixirs for spiritual plants. Although the exchange rate was not much, one low-grade or two low-quality elixirs for one herb. Before you came, fellow cultivators could only exchange with them."

"There are spiritual plants everywhere in the secret realm. It would be a waste not to pick them. Everyone has exchanged them for others. Until you took out the top-grade pills, even a fool would know who to choose. Everyone exchanged their spiritual plants for you, leaving them with none. Those who cultivated the pills stopped practicing for a few days and reported it to the leading disciple He Hongzhuo."

Xie Yunsui understood that the Qingyan Sect had spent a huge sum of money to buy out all of his top-grade pills so that their own alchemy disciples could focus on their techniques, hoping that he would no longer compete for the spiritual plants that made yellow-grade pills.

He Hongzhuo?

The name sounds familiar. It seems that he is a cannon fodder villain who prevents the protagonist Xie Yan from returning to the sect in the later period.

If he gets involved with the protagonist, he will have to stay away from him even more.

"Oh, right." Zhu Ming took out the corpses of two monsters from the space gourd and said, "I hunted two monsters this time. Wouldn't you like to eat them? I'll bring them back."

All the parts that could be used for refining equipment had been removed, leaving only pieces of meat.

Xie Yunsui was just wondering whether he should leave Xiaoxi for a few days to go hunting, when Zhu Ming came to him.

"Thank you." Xie Yunsui took out a bottle of top-grade Huiling Pill and gave it to him as a thank you gift.

Zhu Ming confiscated them: "Luckily you gave me the space gourd before, otherwise I would have no place to put these back. It's just a matter of convenience."

"Take it. If you have any animal meat later, bring it to me." Xie Yunsui insisted.

Zhu Ming refused twice, but accepted it with a smile.