"In the past two years, although I haven't had enough time to cultivate, the pressure of life and death, as well as the occasional encounter with rare and precious materials, have made my cultivation progress quite fast."
"I'm not far from breaking through to the eighth level of Qi Refining now, so I should focus more on my cultivation. There's no rush to make talismans; I have enough resources to support my breakthrough. Besides, I don't expect much sales from the new store opening, so I can put that aside for now."
A thoughtful look flashed in Lin Xiuyuan's eyes, then his brows furrowed slightly, revealing a hint of worry. He said, "We need to think of a way to neutralize this poison. We'll go to Lin'nan County and see if there's any method that can do so."
Lin Xiuyuan took the words of that short old man very seriously that day.
I had been paying attention to this before, but I didn't expect the situation to be so much more serious than I had imagined.
He initially thought it was just impure magic power that had some impact, but he didn't expect the impact to be so great, delaying his breakthroughs in the Great Perfection and Foundation Establishment stages. Lin Xiuyuan needs to be extremely careful to find a solution, otherwise he may have difficulty achieving Foundation Establishment.
Lin Xiuyuan took this matter to heart, making it his top priority, and then slowly entered a state of cultivation, hoping to achieve the eighth level of Qi Refining as soon as possible.
As expected, business was only so-so when the new store opened.
On average, only one customer visits every few days. Moreover, this place is located in a small town, and most of the residents are Qi Refining stage cultivators, whose purchasing power is quite low.
It's estimated that it will take time and time for the store's business to improve.
Seeing this, Lin Xiuyuan had no choice but to personally make a trip to Linan County to sell the remaining talismans each month to the merchants' shops in the city in batches, and take the opportunity of entering the city to look for a way to resolve the poison.
However, such methods are quite unorthodox, and cases like Lin Xiuyuan's are rare, as his cultivation level is almost entirely built up through the accumulation of elixirs.
Furthermore, the methods for resolving erysipelas are quite mysterious and the level of the techniques is relatively high. Therefore, in addition to the fact that such methods are relatively unorthodox, they are also extremely rare.
For several months in a row, Lin Xiuyuan got nothing.
However, as time went on, Lin Xiuyuan persisted in visiting many shops and alchemists, and eventually found some clues.
Lin Xiuyuan spent more than a year finally learning two methods to resolve the poison, but they were not entirely satisfactory.
"The first method requires switching to a different cultivation technique, but my cultivation level is already high now. Wouldn't switching take several years? Besides, that technique isn't very advanced, it's about the same as the Everlasting Spring Technique. It even requires a lot of rare and precious materials, some of which I've never even heard of... I can't find them anywhere, so it seems to be a rather ancient method."
Lin Xiuyuan frowned and sighed, decisively abandoning this method.
As for the other method, it is a pill formula called the Qi Refining Pill, which can remove pill poison. As for its effect, the alchemist who sold the pill formula did not know, because he was not capable of refining it...
The Refining Essence Pill is a high-level pill formula, and the main ingredients involved are of a very high quality, which is simply beyond Lin Xiuyuan's current ability to obtain.
Purchasing with spirit stones would be an astronomical sum even for a Foundation Establishment cultivator, let alone for him. Even the most common spiritual herbs in a pill formula require tens of thousands of spirit stones to start…
These are basically pill formulas for the Golden Core or even Nascent Soul stages...
However, Lin Xiuyuan ultimately spent over ten thousand low-grade spirit stones to purchase the pill formula, just in case. He wanted to continue searching for other methods, so he wouldn't end up with nothing.
Besides that, there is some good news.
As one of the major cities of Changguo, Lin'nan County is home to many cultivators. Every ten years, it holds a large-scale auction, which is divided into two levels: a Grade B auction for those below the Foundation Establishment stage and a Grade A auction for those above the Purple Mansion stage.
It is said that at top-tier auctions, even Nascent Soul stage monsters occasionally appear. The items up for auction are extremely rare and of exceptional quality, causing quite a stir and generating numerous rumors.
However, Lin Xiuyuan was not qualified for the Class A auction, but the Class B auction made him somewhat hopeful.
Once every ten years, there are naturally many good things, such as Foundation Establishment Pills, which are auctioned every time, attracting countless families to bid. Occasionally, even mid-grade Foundation Establishment Pills will appear.
Rare treasures of various grades will also appear frequently, such as cultivation techniques and magical artifacts.
There might be some methods related to erysipelas up for auction.
Coincidentally, the next auction will be held in seven years.
There is ample time for Lin Xiuyuan to gather spirit stones.
"That's fine. I'll accumulate spirit stones while continuing to search for a way to neutralize the pill poison. There's no rush for now. My cultivation can still steadily improve. I estimate that I'll only encounter significant obstacles from the pill poison when I reach the Lesser Perfection realm."
A year later, with the help of medicinal resources, Lin Xiuyuan successfully broke through to the eighth level of Qi Refining.
At this point, more than two years had passed since Wanlin Pavilion opened.
Wanlin Pavilion sells high-quality talismans and pills, which has earned it a good reputation and boosted its business.
However, due to the small size of the city, the residents are mostly low-level Qi Refining cultivators with limited purchasing power, resulting in a certain amount of unsold inventory every month.
Every few months, he would make a trip to Linnan County. But Lin Xiuyuan was happy to do so, as he could also use the opportunity to search for a way to cure the poison.
Their purchasing power is low, partly due to the fact that they are all low-level cultivators, but also due to the terrain.
Unlike Beihefang City, which is located in the southern border region where conflicts break out extremely frequently and venturing into the wild is inherently risky, even life-threatening...
That cultivator wouldn't dare to step out into the wilderness without carrying at least ten or eight talismans and a complete set of spiritual artifacts.
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