Chapter 221 Yuanying Ceremony

The backyard of the teahouse.

A separate box.

Chu Ning met with the deputy leader of Haoyue Pavilion.

"Three bottles of Soul Nourishing Pills, in exchange for this Green Spirit Crystal with fellow Daoist."

Chu Ning took out three medicine bottles, each containing ten pills.

The deputy leader of Haoyue Pavilion's eyes lit up. The Soul-Nourishing Pill was definitely a good thing for those in the late Jindan stage.

For a Jindan cultivator, the stronger the soul, the higher the probability of breaking through to the Yuanying stage.

After all cultivators enter the late Jindan stage, they will begin to constantly look for ways to grow their souls. They will not start to form a fetus until they feel their souls are strong enough.

In fact, as long as you enter the late stage of Jindan, you can try to form a baby, but the failure rate will be very high.

If we talk about the transition from foundation building to golden elixir, generally speaking, every cultivator in the late foundation building stage has a 20% chance of success. Add to that various elixirs and treasures, and this probability will continue to increase. So the original chance of forming a baby is less than 10%.

The path of cultivation taken by many cultivators is to raise their realm to the later stage as quickly as possible, and then slowly develop horizontally, because the breakthrough of each small realm means an increase in lifespan.

In a limited lifespan, no cultivator would be like Chu Ning, who would take each step extremely steadily and even spend a lot of time on cultivating the various arts.

"Fellow Daoist Chu, your reputation as a genius alchemist is well-deserved." The deputy leader of Haoyue Pavilion smiled at Chu Ning.

Chu Ning was not surprised when his identity was recognized. Although he rarely left Xiyue Sect in the past two hundred years, as a senior figure of a faction, it was no exception for him to know some of his information.

"I have made this deal. I wonder if Fellow Daoist Chu has any more Soul Nourishing Pills?"

Jin Cheng looked at Chu Ning and took out three green spirit crystals from his storage bag.

"Fellow Daoist Jin really gave me a surprise, but I only have five bottles of Soul Nourishing Pills."

Chu Ning has eight bottles of soul-nourishing pills on him, but he will not trade them all. Although the Qingling Crystal is also a treasure, a treasure like the Qingling Crystal that only has a single function is not very easy to trade.

To put it bluntly, this Green Spirit Crystal can only be traded to someone who needs it. If I didn't have two puppets, this Green Spirit Crystal would be useless in my eyes.

"Two Green Spirit Crystals in exchange for five bottles of Soul Nourishing Pills, what do you think, Fellow Daoist Chu?"

Jin Cheng pondered for a moment. Compared with the treasures given by the other people, he was most satisfied with this soul-nourishing pill.

The Green Spirit Crystal is of no use to him. He has not made any puppets and does not know how to make one.

The cost of upgrading a puppet to the late Jindan stage is enough to create another late Jindan cultivator.

"make a deal."

Chu Ning nodded, and the two exchanged what they needed and smiled at each other.

Back in the hall, Xu Ruobing asked in a voice transmission: "Did you get it?"

"Um."

Chu Ning was quite satisfied with getting two Green Spirit Crystals. As long as his luck was not too bad, he could at least allow one puppet to break through to the middle stage of the Golden Core.

The transaction will continue.

This time, many Jindan cultivators came well prepared. Each of them took out the treasures they wanted to trade, and some even took out several items.

Chu Ning traded several treasures successively, all of which had nothing to do with cultivation.

A jade slip of notes left by a formation master, three materials for setting up the formation, and a recipe for brewing wine. It was not that Chu Ning chose these three items, but in the competition with others, only these few items were successfully traded.

"You have both formations and brewing recipes, do you have that much energy?"

When Xu Ruobing saw the items that Chu Ning had sold, there was confusion in his eyes. These items had nothing to do with the improvement of his realm, especially the wine recipe. Chu Ning was the only one who expressed interest in it.

Three wine tasting recipes.

A spiritual wine that is helpful to the soul of a Jindan cultivator.

It sounds like the actual price is extremely high, but any monk who knows how to make wine will know that this recipe is useless.

There are spiritual wines in the world of monks, and they are also helpful to monks. Some spiritual wines can improve the cultivation of monks after taking them.

The materials used to brew spiritual wine are the same as the medicinal materials used to refine elixirs.

But the disadvantage of spiritual wine is that it is not as effective as elixirs and needs to be taken for a long time.

One thing that all cultivators recognize is that if spiritual wine is to have the same effect as elixirs, then the materials needed to brew the spiritual wine are no cheaper than those needed to refine the elixir.

Spiritual wine has a bigger flaw, which is that it takes time to ferment. It only takes a few months to refine the elixir, but it takes several years or even decades to brew a jar of wine.

Even though spiritual wine has so many flaws compared to elixirs, there is one thing that spiritual wine has that elixirs cannot compare to.

Pills can cause drug resistance, but spiritual wine will not, and spiritual wine can even balance the drug resistance caused by long-term use of pills.

Therefore, spiritual wine became a supplement besides elixirs. For example, Xu Ruobing often took first- and second-grade spiritual wine during the Qi Condensation and Foundation Establishment stages because Xu Ruobing had the conditions.

However, the Xu family will not brew the third-grade spiritual wine. Instead, they will choose to use the medicinal materials for brewing wine to refine pills.

Xu Ruobing didn't understand. Chu Ning was only in the middle stage of the Golden Core now. Shouldn't he work hard to break through to the late stage of the Golden Core? "Isn't this cheap? I bought it for free."

Chu Ning smiled and made an excuse. His family knew his own business. If there was no opportunity, it would probably take him another hundred years to break through to the late Jindan stage.

Since he couldn't make a quick breakthrough without having to worry about his lifespan, he had to become the first in every realm and elevate each small realm to the extreme.

However, he bought the recipe not because he really wanted to make wine, but because he was the only one interested in it at the scene, and the transaction price was not high.

A day passed.

Most of the monks at the scene took out the treasures they wanted to sell, and a small number of them were like Chu Ning, who just came to see if there were any treasures that needed to be purchased, and did not intend to sell the treasures.

"If you fellow Taoists have no more treasures to share, then I will declare this treasure sharing session over."

The old man who first threw out the idea looked at everyone with a smile. As he spoke, a man in the left corner stood up.

"I have a treasure related to the soul. I wonder if any of you here are interested?"

The man looked around the room, and Chu Ning narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at the man.

"Because of the special nature of this treasure, I will not display it in front of you. If you are interested, you can come to my box to discuss it in detail."

The private room at the back of the teahouse was restricted by an array formation, and the consciousness of a Jindan cultivator could not break through. After hearing the man's words, the interest of several cultivators who originally had interested looks on their faces waned a little.

"I'm interested."

Chu Ning stood up with a smile. When everyone in the lobby saw Chu Ning standing up, their expressions were a little strange. During this one-day and one-night sharing session, this person had been to the box no less than ten times.

You are not just interested, you are interested in any treasure.

In the box.

The man stared at Chu Ning silently for a moment. This time, only Chu Ning came in, and the man had no more choices.

"This fellow Taoist has practiced the Soul Control Technique?"

After a while, the man spoke in a deep voice. Chu Ning shook his head: "No, I'm just purely interested."

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Revealing your needs before a transaction is the stupidest thing to do, as it means the buyer can rip you off.

If any other cultivator came in and said this to Chu Ning, the man would definitely not believe it, but considering Chu Ning's behavior at the sharing session, this is indeed possible.

There was a trace of regret in the man's eyes. After three breaths of silence, he said, "Whether you are just curious or have a need, if the item you bring out does not satisfy me, this transaction will be cancelled."

“It’s natural.”

Chu Ning nodded, and the man didn't say anything more. He took out a palm-sized crystal glass ball from his storage bag.

Inside the glass ball, there were black mists surrounding it.

Chu Ning looked at the man deeply. He finally understood why the man did not take out the glass ball in public.

This glass ball stores the souls of thousands of cultivators, and there are dozens of souls of cultivators in the foundation-building stage.

Is this the monk who massacred an entire area?

"This is the soul of the dead monk that I collected on the battlefield during the domain war."

The man explained, and Chu Ning curled his lips inwardly. He didn't believe what he said.

If the soul in this glass ball is completely absorbed by the Soul-Capture Bracelet, the power of the Soul-Capture Bracelet will increase by 10%.

"I can't eat so many souls. I'm so sorry."

However, Chu Ning still rejected the deal.

This person is definitely a bloodthirster. Maybe he is taking revenge by killing the entire family of his enemies, or maybe he is just being cruel and killing people to extract their souls.

But for Chu Ning, no matter what the situation was, he would not trade with the other party.

He is not a saint and will not punish this person, but he will not make a deal with him either, because this deal may make the other party taste the sweetness and continue to slaughter monks and extract their souls.

In his previous life, he had always supported the view that buying and selling are the same crimes. There would be no harm without buying and selling. Although this statement is somewhat absolute, if buying and selling are the same crimes, it will definitely reduce crime.

The man looked a little gloomy. He put the glass ball back into the storage bag and walked out of the box silently.

Chu Ning and the man returned to the lobby. The sharing session was coming to an end and everyone left. Chu Ning noticed that the man was the first to walk out of the teahouse.

Xu Ruobing and Chu Ning went straight back to the Feng family after leaving the teahouse. Many Jindan cultivators came to this celebration, but ordinary cultivators were only arranged to stay in the city. Only Jindan cultivators with origins and backgrounds could live in the Feng family's guesthouse.

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Two days later.

The celebration begins.

Above Fire Phoenix City, clouds of nine colors are seen, auspicious mists are swaying, flutes and drums are shaking the air, and divine sounds are ringing.

In the Feng family's temporary celebration square, the Jindan cultivators took their seats one by one. The banquet was filled with spiritual wine, delicious food, and all kinds of rare delicacies.

Chen time.

Above the clouds, a golden light suddenly appeared, like a sharp sword splitting the sky, and the faces of all the monks below turned pale.

There was also a hint of fear in Chu Ning's eyes. This was the pressure from a Nascent Soul expert.

Although he had met the Nascent Soul senior from Xiyue Sect several times, that senior had never shown his imposing power. When they were hunting down Yue Yaotian, the Nascent Soul expert from Xuantian Sect did show his imposing power, but it was quickly resolved by the senior from Xiyue Sect.

Therefore, this time he truly and thoroughly felt the horror of a Nascent Soul master.

The golden light split the nine-colored clouds, and an extremely dazzling golden light shot directly onto the platform.

The audience fell silent for a moment.

After a dozen breaths, the golden light dissipated, revealing Feng Ange's true face.

Feng Ange, wearing a long golden dress with flying hair, stood on a high platform, exuding an aura of looking down on the world.

His eyes were cold as he swept across the high platform. Wherever his sight went, the monks did not dare to look him in the eye.

Feng Ange's breath stagnated until his eyes fell on Chu Ning, but he quickly recovered. Apart from the two parties involved, only one person noticed this scene.

Xu Ruobing, who was sitting next to Chu Ning, had a puzzled look in her beautiful eyes. If she had seen correctly, when Senior Feng looked at the table, there seemed to be something strange in his eyes.

Did she see it wrong?

(End of this chapter)