After the farce last time, Wen

Xing could no longer survive in the East City Market. It was too embarrassing. However, his alchemy skills were still very powerful and he was very famous in the Qi training period. So he would not die. He could just sell the pills to the merchants. At most, the price would be lower and he would suffer some losses. This was the punishment he deserved. There

was no news about Wen Xing for two consecutive months. The next time we heard about Wen Xing, it was from the Zhongxing Sect's Nalan family's wanted bounty.

"We were all deceived by Wen Xing. He is not as honest as he seems. He hooked up with Nalan Yan of the Nalan family for the Five Elements Golden Fruit of the Nalan family."

"Do you know the Five Elements Golden Fruit? It is a treasure that can help people form a golden elixir."

"I know the Five Elements Golden Fruit. One appeared during the Centennial Celebration of our Yunzhong City a few years ago. It is said that someone offered one million spirit stones but was unwilling to sell it. It appeared at an auction of the Nascent Soul level, and even the details of the transaction were kept secret."

"Can the Five Elements Golden Fruit be included in the Nascent Soul auction?"

"Of course. Which Nascent Soul ancestor doesn't have a few descendants? Those descendants may not have very good qualifications. The Five Elements Golden Fruit can be refined into the Five Elements Golden Pill, which can help the Foundation Establishment cultivators increase the probability of forming a golden pill by 50%. How crazy is that?"

"Then the Nalan family must be crazy, right?"

"Of course the Nalan family has gone crazy. Not only did they use the power of the Zhongxing Sect to search for Wen Xing, they also offered a reward of 200,000 spirit stones."

The vendors in the big market were talking about it, and Lin Jiang soon learned the whole story. The Zhongxing Sect Nalan family had a treasure called the Five Elements Golden Fruit Tree. It took two hundred years to produce a Five Elements Golden Fruit. It was the most important treasure of the Nalan family. With this treasure, the Nalan family could continuously produce Jindan cultivators and maintain the prosperity of the family.

And Wen Xing abducted Nalan Yan and instigated Nalan Yan to steal the Five Elements Golden Fruit. As for whether it was planned a long time ago or it was a temporary idea, it was unknown.

In short, the Nalan family was furious, and through the relationship of the Zhongxing Sect, they hunted down Wen Xing in an all-round way, and also issued a reward in Yunzhong City, asking those bounty hunters to hunt down Wen Xing, with a reward of 200,000 spirit stones.

This matter has become big news in Yunzhong City. Everyone is discussing this matter. Wen Xing has become their target. After catching Wen Xing, whether he will be handed over to the Nalan family is hard to say. The Five Elements Gold Fruit is worth more than 200,000 spirit stones, and more than one million.

"The guards are coming."

"Why are there so many people?"

Just as everyone was discussing, someone suddenly saw the Yunzhong City guards coming. They blocked everyone in the middle.

"The Taoist friends whose names I read out please come out. We have something to ask you."

"This sir, I don't know why you have mobilized so many people."

"It's about the casual cultivator Wen Xing. You don't have to worry. I just want to understand it. I won't take you to the prison. I'll ask here. The first one below, Lin Yu, please stand up..."

A captain of the guard team said with a list. The first name was Lin Jiang. Lin Jiang came out. The Yunzhong City guards must be at least in the late stage of Qi training. The captain is already in the foundation building stage. He is a casual cultivator in the Qi training stage. He can't run away at this time.

A total of more than ten people were called out. They were all independent practitioners and vendors who had a good relationship with Wen Xing. Lin Jiang cooperated very well and followed one of them to the side.

The man asked about Lin Jiang's relationship with Wen Xing, and Lin Jiang told him the truth. He and Wen Xing were not very familiar with each other. It was just that Lin Jiang was gentler and helped Wen Xing with some small things, so Wen Xing was also better to him. It was really a courtesy.

"Then do you know when Wen Xing left Yunzhong City and how he left?"

"I don't know. I have been in the city for the past few months. I set up a stall during the day and practiced and drew talismans at night. I rarely go out."

Lin Jiang said again, and this time he didn't tell the previous conversation.

Wen Xing seemed to trust him very much. Last time, he even asked Lin Jiang to help him escape, but Lin Jiang resolutely refused. Lin Jiang didn't know how he escaped now.

Wen Xing offended a lot of people. In Yunzhong City, no one dared to do anything to him. If he left the city, he would definitely die, so he must have used special means to leave, but Lin Jiang really didn't know.

The guards asked a few more questions, and when they saw that Lin Jiang couldn't get any useful information, they let him go. Most of the other vendors did the same, and the guards returned empty-handed. As soon

as the guards left, everyone started talking about what was wrong. Logically, what Wen Xing had done shouldn't be worth the guards mobilizing so many troops. After all, a Nalan family was nothing to the Zhongxing Sect, but everyone was at the bottom of the Zhongxing Sect, so how could they know any secrets? They were just making random guesses.

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The Yunzhong City guards had been investigating Wen Xing for more than a month, but there was still no news. It was as if this person had never existed in the world, and slowly, he was forgotten.

After all, Yunzhong City, with a population of one million, never lacked new things, and had already attracted everyone's attention to other places. Lin Jiang had long since stopped caring about this matter.

Lin Jiang's current focus is on cultivation and saving money. He has set himself a small goal, which is to build a foundation before the age of 200.

Cultivation is from easy to difficult. It took Lin Jiang more than ten years to practice Qi from the seventh to the eighth level. It took Lin Jiang more than twenty years to practice Qi from the eighth to the ninth level. He also needs to practice Qi to perfection at the ninth level before he can practice the foundation in seclusion.

Lin Jiang is not worried about the foundation-building pill. After selling the Qingyan Pill, he still has more than 50,000 spirit stones left. After killing Mo Lin and the others, Jiang Feng and He Yunwei and his group, the spoils obtained are very valuable. There are tens of thousands of spirit stones alone, and there are still a lot of supplies that have not been sold. The total value of all is estimated to be no less than 100,000.

The price of foundation-building pills in Yunzhong City is between 20,000 and 30,000, but Lin Jiang knows his qualifications. He plans to buy two or three foundation-building pills in preparation, so that he can be sure to break through the foundation-building period.

In addition to the need to change to a cave with rich spiritual energy when breaking through, as well as other expenses, Lin Jiang still lacks a little money, but he has time. He is now balanced in income and expenditure, and can save a little money every year. After accumulating for a few decades, it is almost enough.

After two hours of stall setting up, Lin Jiang returned to his home. As soon as he entered the house, the two sand sculptures rushed over and nudged Lin Jiang in a flattering way. Lin Jiang took out two pieces of dried meat from his storage bag and threw them to them.

After the incident with He Yunwei, Lin Jiang's closeness to the big and small sand sculptures was upgraded to a higher level. After all, they were comrades who lived and died together, so Lin Jiang would let them out at home. Although he couldn't let them spread their wings and fly, it was better than carrying them in the spirit beast bag.

After eating about a pound of dried meat in two or three bites, the big and small sand sculptures still felt it was not enough and rubbed against it again.

"Okay, okay, okay, I'll give it all to you. We've finished eating today's meat, and we'll buy more tomorrow,"

Lin Jiang said. The cost of raising the two sand sculptures is much higher than before. Lin Jiang also upgraded the dried meat he gave them. Now it's all made from first-grade high-quality monster meat. One spirit stone can only buy about 15 kilograms, which is almost a day's ration for a sand sculpture. In this way, the cost of raising them every year has reached 700 to 800 spirit stones.

No wonder the Lin family's worshiper, who was in the foundation-building period, was unwilling to raise them. It was too expensive. It was just that Lin Jiang was stubborn. But after raising them for decades, they had already developed feelings for each other, and Lin Jiang was reluctant to throw them away.

After having fun with the sand sculptures for a while, Lin Jiang walked into the house. As soon as he entered, Lin Jiang immediately felt refreshed. This was because Lin Jiang had arranged the latest second-grade spirit gathering array.

The effect of the second-order spirit gathering array is much stronger than the first-order one. It can absorb more spiritual energy, and its ability to refine spirit stones has also been greatly improved. Lin Jiang glanced at the eye of the array. The thirty spirit stones put in in the morning had turned gray. With a light pinch, the spirit stones became powder.

"Thirty spirit stones a day, nine hundred a month, tens of thousands a year, I can't afford to practice."

Lin Jiang sighed, and once again felt his poverty. He normally draws three first-order high-quality spirit talismans a day. If he sells them all, he can earn twenty-five or six spirit stones. In a year, he only earns about nine thousand spirit stones, which is more than enough to pay rent and daily practice, and there are still a thousand spirit stones left.

But if he wants to increase the expenses of this spirit gathering array, Lin Jiang is a little stretched, so Lin Jiang can only put ten spirit stones in the spirit gathering array a day, so there will be some deficit in a year, which needs to be made up from other places.

"Spirit stones are only spirit stones when they are on you. They are only resources when they are used. You have to concentrate your resources to do something, preferably to highlight your strength."

Lin Jiang thought to himself. He lacked a sense of security, especially when the real murderer behind Mo Lin had not been found. He was somewhat eager to improve his strength.

Improving strength is nothing more than the self and external objects. The self is the cultivation, but due to Lin Jiang's limited qualifications, even if he invested more resources, it could not be immediately converted into strength. Lin Jiang preferred external objects.

But Lin Jiang was equipped with flying swords and inner armor, which were of high quality. The spiritual talisman reserves also returned to normal. Lin Jiang slowly focused his attention on the big and small sand sculptures playing outside.

"I have been raising the big and small sand sculptures for decades. They have already reached the peak of the late stage of the first order, which is equivalent to the state of great perfection of the human Qi training period. However, they are still a little short of breaking through the order. I don't know how many resources are needed to train them to the early stage of the second order."

Lin Jiang hesitated. The second-order Aurora Falcon is very powerful and can definitely become one of Lin Jiang's trump cards, because it is almost difficult to have a second-order beast pet in the Qi training period, unless it is those second-generation cultivators, who are given by the elders of the family. When encountering ordinary enemies, he only needs to release the big and small sand sculptures, and he will basically win.

Even if he encounters the foundation-building period, it is easy to escape with the speed of the big and small sand sculptures. The second-order Aurora Falcon in the Lin family also died when it encountered those late-stage foundation-building worshipers.

"Go and inquire when you have time. If it is not very expensive, then invest in the big and small sand sculptures."

Lin Jiang finally made a decision. As long as the investment is within his tolerance, then Lin Jiang is willing to invest in the big and small sand sculptures to let them break through the second order as soon as possible.