After leaving the cultivation technique pavilion, Lu Tao went to the place that sells pills.
After learning more, Lu Tao discovered that the pills were extremely expensive.
A low-grade ninth-rank item costs 100 taels, a mid-grade item costs 200 taels, and a high-grade item costs 500 taels.
For each level advancement, the cost of the elixir increases tenfold.
Cultivating with elixirs is definitely much better than using potions or blood-nourishing medicines. The refining process is faster, and the effects are stronger. In other words, the cultivation level will improve faster.
This is the difference between having money and not having money during cultivation.
Those with money can improve their cultivation faster and make money even faster, while those without money can only linger at low levels and cannot move forward.
If pills had been sold in Dafeng Town before, Lu Tao felt that his cultivation speed would have been even faster.
As for now.
He certainly wouldn't treat himself unfairly.
I directly purchased the eighth-grade mid-level pill, Hunyuan Bone Tempering Pill, at 500 taels per pill. I bought twenty pills, spending 10,000 taels in total.
Lu Tao originally planned to buy the pill formula and medicinal materials and refine the pills himself.
Unfortunately, the pill formulas at Dan Pavilion are too expensive.
Eighth-grade pill formulas sell for hundreds of thousands, while seventh-grade formulas sell for millions.
Lu Tao couldn't afford it.
At the same time, Lu Tao also bought some ninth-grade pills, mainly for use in the Skin Refining and Blood Refining realms, as well as some detoxification pills.
Afterwards, Lu Tao went to the herbal medicine shop and bought some herbs, not for himself to refine pills, but for the big black dog.
The prescription I got from the Three Wolves Gang can enhance the Black Dog's strength.
Now that we've arrived in Mufeng City, it's only natural that we should also improve the big black dog's strength.
On the way, Lu Tao inquired about things that could make spiritual herbs grow and develop quickly. He learned that there was a kind of spiritual liquid that could do this, but it was quite expensive and only available at auction houses, with a starting price of 100,000 taels.
Upon hearing this, Lu Tao immediately abandoned his idea of going to the auction house.
I'm out of money.
Five hundred thousand taels of silver, but after one trip, only a little over ten thousand taels remained.
Money really doesn't last long.
Of course, it doesn't matter. For him now, with a high-grade cultivation technique and good cultivation resources, his cultivation speed will not fall behind.
Even if the qualifications cannot be improved temporarily, the impact will not be significant.
Lu Tao dealt with his own affairs one after another.
Soon, Lu Tao and He Zongming arrived at a blacksmith shop, intending to have the blacksmith help them forge a piece of gold-threaded soft armor.
Of course, the blacksmith shop did the forging of the iron rings, but he did the final step of threading the rings himself.
Making iron rings is very troublesome, as they are not only small but also numerous.
For an ordinary blacksmith, it would take at least three months to forge such a piece of gold-threaded soft armor.
However, it's not so troublesome for blacksmiths who have cultivation.
Especially for blacksmiths at the Blood Refining Realm, the process of twisting iron wire into a ring with the power of blood and qi is very simple, as is threading the ring.
Moreover, Lu Tao's golden silk armor was only missing the chest section; the rest was intact.
They need to make even fewer iron rings.
Ding ding ding...
In the blacksmith's shop, the other blacksmiths were constantly hammering iron wire and making iron rings.
To ensure the upgrade of the Golden Silk Armor, Lu Tao heated it until it was red-hot, then removed the iron rings from the other parts one by one, and then rearranged and re-threaded them.
This scene left everyone else stunned and utterly bewildered.
But Lu Tao didn't offer an explanation, and they didn't press him further.
The blacksmith shop had readily available iron wire, and there were many blacksmiths, so it didn't take long. With the guidance of other blacksmiths, Lu Tao completed the simple production of the golden silk soft armor in just one hour.
This gold-threaded soft armor can protect almost the entire body, from the knees to the neck.
【Golden Silk Soft Armor: 0/10 (Ordinary golden silk soft armor, which can withstand attacks from ordinary swords and blades, but is easily broken and has very weak defense. Do not entrust your life to it for protection.)】
"Huh, this time the things we make don't need to be upgraded from the rough ones."
The things we made before, whether knives, arrows, or chopsticks, were all upgraded and improved from the lowest quality.
The gold-threaded soft armor made this time mostly uses the same iron rings as before, and the rest are also made by blacksmiths, so the quality won't be too low.
Since the golden silk soft armor could be upgraded, Lu Tao naturally didn't need any further processing; he simply paid and left.
The blacksmiths were left behind, looking at each other in bewilderment.
He Zongming also looked puzzled, but he wisely refrained from asking further questions.
"Let's go back to Tianyun Inn."
On this trip, I did everything I was supposed to do. Except for not having enough money to auction off the spirit liquid at the auction house, I accomplished everything else. It was a very fruitful trip.
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"Hmm, this person looks familiar, like I've seen him somewhere before."
As Lu Tao was buying sesame cakes at a stall not far from Tianyun Inn, he suddenly heard a muttering voice beside him. Lu Tao subconsciously looked over and his eyes narrowed instantly. "Cai Xuan, it's you."
Lu Tao never expected that he would encounter the son of his father's killer by such a coincidence.
Three years ago, the family of three lived happily in Dafeng Town. The father, Lu Wenchang, was getting better and better at blacksmithing and even bought a cultivation technique.
They thought the family of three would continue to be happy like this, but one day, the father had an accident while he was out and was beaten to death.
The person who beat the father to death was Cai Zhiyong, another blacksmith in Dafeng Town.
Cai Zhiyong claimed that the two had a verbal altercation and that he accidentally killed Lu Wenchang.
But it's obvious to everyone that Cai Zhiyong felt threatened by Lu Wenchang. Lu Wenchang's blacksmithing skills had improved too quickly, seriously threatening his business.
Finally, Cai Zhiyong's family was driven out of Dafeng Town by the town mayor, which ensured that Lu Tao and his mother were not completely eliminated by Cai Zhiyong.
Unfortunately, her mother became depressed after her father's death and eventually passed away a year later.
This also caused Lu Tao's temper to become increasingly irritable.
...
"It's you? Lu Tao, what are you doing in Mufeng City?"
Upon hearing Lu Tao call his name, Cai Xuan instantly recognized him. "I heard you've been making axes for the Axe Gang. How come they let you go?"
Cai Xuan is 1.7 meters tall, five or six years older than Lu Tao, with dark skin and slightly curly hair.
Lu Tao said calmly, "The Axe Gang has been wiped out."
"I see. You're lucky then, you managed to escape the Axe Gang's control." Cai Xuan said Lu Tao was lucky, but his words were full of sarcasm.
Lu Tao smiled slightly: "I destroyed it."
Upon hearing this, Cai Xuan paused for a moment, then scoffed, "Haha, how is that possible? You? A mere early-stage Skin Refining cultivator can wipe out the Axe Gang?"
"Wrong, he's not at the early stage of skin refining, but at the early stage of bone forging."
Standing in front of Cai Xuan was another young man, around twenty years old. Judging from his clothes and appearance, he was clearly from a wealthy family, and Cai Xuan seemed to be his follower.
Judging from the smell of alcohol and rouge emanating from the two, Lu Tao guessed that they had just finished visiting a brothel.
"Impossible, how could he possibly be in the early stage of Bone Forging?"
Cai Xuan subconsciously retorted, but then realized that his young master would not lie to him on this point. Immediately, Cai Xuan looked at Lu Tao with a stiff expression, "You are at the early stage of Bone Forging? How is that possible? Half a year ago, I heard people say that you were only at the early stage of Skin Refining. How could you suddenly become at the Bone Forging realm?"
"Oh? Such a big improvement in half a year? That's interesting."
The young man next to Cai Xuan immediately showed strong curiosity and looked at Lu Tao, saying, "Brother Lu Tao, right? Let's get acquainted. I am Han Guanyu."
Lu Tao glanced at Han Guanyu indifferently, picked up the sesame seed cakes he had bought, and left, leaving only the words, "Tell your father to eat well during this time. In a while, I will go and see him off."
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