Chapter 307: Spirit Stone Crisis, a Big Thunder

After seeing Qian Qiancheng off, Gu Dan returned to the simple and narrow cave and opened the package.

There was a ball of black ointment inside. I leaned over and took a sniff. It had a strong medicinal aroma that went straight to my lungs. It was indeed not an ordinary thing.

He took a sip with his fingers and tasted it lightly.

A slightly bitter feeling burst out in the taste buds, and then the medicinal power began to spread and reach the whole body, the speed was many times stronger than ordinary earthly healing medicines.

Even though Gu Dan was physically fine, his spirits were slightly lifted.

Just as Qian Qiancheng said, this ointment is definitely not an ordinary product. It is very effective in healing wounds and even uses magical medicine.

"However, compared with Qingmu Liquid, the gap is still quite large."

After taking a quick taste, Gu had already made a judgment in his worried mood.

No magical medicine can compare to Qingmuye.

If it weren't for the fact that excessive use of Qingmu Liquid could easily kill people, it would probably be able to compete for the strongest healing medicine.

"Unfortunately, due to the current situation, it is not convenient to 'cash in' the Qingmu Liquid. I will look for an opportunity to exchange it for some spiritual medicine seeds. If the Qingmu Liquid can also be effective for them, that would be great."

Gu was worried but had something in mind.

Accumulate in secret, develop silently, gain a firm foothold, and then seek other things! After all, the immortal that Qingpingzi said came to the world has not been seen so far, only the Buzhou Mountains are in full swing. Gu is still worried and still has a trace of doubt in his heart, and dare not do anything fancy to be liquidated in the future.

"Friend Kong, are you in the cave?"

Not long after Gu Dan came back, another voice was heard outside.

"Where do I get so many acquaintances?"

With a slight frown on his brow, Gu Dan still opened the door of the cave.

The person standing outside the door was his temporary neighbor, Lin Cheng.

The last time we met, I wanted to sell Gu Dan the 'Experiences in Spiritual Rice'!

But today, Lin Cheng was smiling apologetically. Where was his confidence like before? "Fellow Daoist Lin? What's the matter?"

When he saw Lin Cheng, Gu Dan's expression naturally fell.

Not only had he only met this person once, but he also wanted to cheat him out of money, so naturally he didn't need to be nice to him.

After all, Kong Zhai's temper is not that good. He dares to fight with even the foundation-building cultivators. If he keeps a friendly face, it will only make him look bad.

"I heard that Fellow Daoist Kong was appreciated by the Master of the Huang Dynasty?"

Lin Cheng stared at Gu Dan for several times, and sensing that the aura fluctuations on his body were quite drastic and weak, he was certain that the man with burning flesh and blood was not the same person as him.

"So what?"

Gu Dan asked calmly.

"Haha, I came here specially to congratulate Fellow Daoist Kong."

Lin Cheng laughed dryly, knowing that he had left a very bad first impression on the other party. He took out a small package from his pocket with a painful heart and said, "We are neighbors, so this little bit of spiritual rice is just a token of my brother's kindness."

Seeing that the other person had a gray beard and looked 20 or 30 years taller than him, yet he could still call himself his younger brother without any shame, Gu Dan was quite impressed.

"In that case, thank you very much for your kindness, Mr. Lin."

Gu Dan took the small bag of spiritual rice without any hesitation and was about to return to the cave.

"Hey hey hey, fellow Taoist, please stay!"

Seeing that Gu Dan was about to leave, Lin Cheng shouted hurriedly.

"Um?!"

Hearing those five words suddenly, Gu Dan's face changed. He turned around and stared at Lin Cheng with a bad expression, "Fellow Daoist Lin Cheng, do you have any advice for me?"

Calling out the full name directly showed bad intention.

"Friend Kong Dao, please don't misunderstand me. I have something to say to you from the bottom of my heart!"

Lin Cheng knew very well that getting so close would easily cause hostility, but if he didn't build a relationship now, it would probably be his turn if he waited for some time, so he didn't care about that anymore.

"Really?"

Gu Dan looked up and down at Lin Cheng. No matter how he looked at it, this guy didn't look like a leopard. His expression eased a little.

"Some things are not convenient to say outside, can we talk inside?"

Lin Cheng pointed at his cave and said carefully: "I have absolutely no ill intentions!"

"I hope you have something to say."

This time, Gu Dan did not refuse. He wanted to see what kind of medicine was hidden in the gourd.

After the two of them walked into the cave together, the door slowly closed.

After the gate was completely closed, Lin Cheng said, "Friend Kong Dao has just arrived in Ningfang. How much do you know about Ningfang?"

Gu Dan just looked at him without saying anything.

Having made himself look bad, Lin Cheng could only bite the bullet and continue, "As Daoyou Kong has seen, Ningfang looks like a whole, but it is actually divided into three areas.

The worst one among them is the mortal level area where we are.

The cultivators who live here are probably the lowest level in Ningfang. Not only is the spiritual energy here the thinnest, but the opportunity to earn spiritual stones is also far less than in the yellow-level area.

Only true immortal seedlings and cultivators with no real ability would settle here, otherwise they would definitely try their best to move out! Of course, Fellow Daoist Kong was appreciated by the head of the Huang Dynasty Hall, so he didn't have to spend decades of hard work to accumulate a fortune. He jumped out of the cage in one day. This is Fellow Daoist Kong's strength and luck, which others can't envy."

Having said this, Lin Cheng sighed.

"What exactly do you want to say? There's no need to beat around the bush. Just say what you want to say."

Gu Dan waved his hand, not wanting to listen to his long speech any more, and spoke bluntly.

"Let me put it this way, fellow Daoist, do you know how much spiritual stones an ordinary cultivator earns in a mortal area each year?"

Lin Cheng asked.

“Not sure.”

Gu Dan shook his head slightly. He hadn’t really found out about this.

"On average, about ten."

Lin Cheng did not keep the secret and said directly: "Ten spirit stones, if you calculate it based on one spirit stone per month for a yellow-level cave, after working hard for a year, you can only rent the lowest-level yellow-level cave for ten months!"

Gu Dan looked at him expressionlessly, waiting for his next words.

"But if you want to rent out a yellow-level cave, you have to rent it for at least three years. This is why the Grand Master had to sign a five-year contract. In five years, as long as you don't spend money recklessly, you can rent a lower-level yellow-level cave for three years, and then find another way, or practice diligently for three years.

But the question is, where do the spirit stones come from? The monks make them themselves! As time goes by, the monks become stronger and stronger, and they can make more and more spirit stones, but the price now is almost the same as before, which is undoubtedly unreasonable! "

Lin Cheng said with a rather excited expression.

There are no spiritual mines in the Buzhou Mountains.

All the spiritual stones here are made by the cultivators themselves absorbing spiritual energy, which is then infused into special jade stones.

It’s just that the Xianfang has a monopoly on the right to produce spirit stones. Spirit stones that are not officially certified are not recognized at all, and naturally cannot be displayed in public for use.

"You mean, spirit stones have actually been depreciating? It's just that Ningfang has been suppressing it, so it hasn't leaked out?"

Gu Dan understood a little bit.

"That's right! It's great that Fellow Daoist Kong can understand this truth."

Lin Cheng said quickly: "I have inquired, only cultivators in the middle stage of Qi training are able to make spirit stones by themselves. A skilled worker who has mastered the method can make one in about half a month. In a year, it is much better than farming.

For a cultivator in the late stage of Qi training, it only takes seven days to make a spiritual stone. If there is a spiritual gathering array or something to help, it will be even faster! As for a cultivator in the foundation building stage, I dare not even think about it!"

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Today's artificial spirit stones cannot be used directly for cultivation. In most cases, they can only be used as a kind of material and energy and are given monetary value.

But the problem is that the output of spirit stone currency is constantly increasing as one's cultivation level improves, while the real producers, that is, those in the mortal area, still have the same output and harvest.

The consumption channels of abundant artificial spirit stones have not increased, the output has increased, and the consumption has remained unchanged, so they should depreciate in any case, which corresponds to the increase in income in the ordinary areas.

But there was none! The result was that the extra spirit stones were deliberately piled up.

"After all, spiritual stones need to be condensed by cultivators. Wouldn't it be better if there are too many of them and we don't need to condense them?"

Gu Dan said.

"What are you saying? Why do the standard spirit stones of the Immortal Square count as spirit stones? Will those cultivators in the middle and late stages of Qi training be so obedient? Who would be willing to work hard for a whole year to produce spirit stones that they can produce themselves instead of working for Ningfang?"

Lin Cheng sneered and said, "Nowadays, when buying things from the Immortal House, you still use standard spirit stones. But in private transactions, most cultivators use homemade spirit stones. For the same immortal art, standard spirit stones can only sell for ten, while homemade spirit stones can sell for twelve. The effect is almost the same. Which one will you choose, brother Kong?"

After hearing this, Gu Dan naturally understood.

Since the Immortal House has no shame, the cultivators are not obedient subjects either. Sooner or later, the hole will be filled.

The problem with the currency of artificial spirit stones is that, in theory, every cultivator can produce them on their own, and the higher the level of cultivation, the more they can produce, but the productivity at the bottom cannot keep up.

Unfortunately, artificial spirit stones are not suitable for cultivation and have great hidden dangers. Unless one does not plan to break through the foundation in this lifetime, one will definitely not absorb them.

If it is not absorbed, the artificial spirit stone can only be used as various materials for cultivating immortals.

But there is a limit to the use of immortal cultivation materials. No one would use ten spiritual stones to grow an acre of spiritual rice, right? That would be directly out of pocket! The difference between standard spiritual stones and homemade spiritual stones is just a certification from an immortal workshop, and a cultivator condenses it himself! Now I can still play, simply because Ningfang still has the core competitiveness, the cave!

As long as all the caves have not been sold out, it will be enough to be used as a means to recycle and distribute standard spirit stones.

Because of the difference in spiritual energy concentration, it will always drive later cultivators, even if they know that anyone who wants standard spirit stones is a fool, they have to bite the bullet and accept them, otherwise they will have to stay in the mortal area for the rest of their lives.

If we dig deeper into the root cause, it is because the strength of the cultivators is constantly growing, but the corresponding consumption is difficult to increase - they cannot even use all the arts of cultivation, so where are there really so many places to consume spirit stones?

Ning Fang has tried to find ways to solve these problems over the years, such as delving deeply into the art of refining equipment and formations, and manufacturing flying boats for sale, in an attempt to use up the excess spirit stones. However, it is still at the initial stage, and there has not been much progress.

What really limits them is not the lack of methods, but the inability to find the corresponding materials to complete it.

In the foreseeable future, unless consumption and production can reach a balance, homemade spirit stones will surely increase in number until they completely crush pressed spirit stones.

And will the cultivators who have already purchased the cave dwelling still take another look at the standard spirit stones and be oppressed by the Immortal House in vain?

Only those unlucky fairy seedlings, as the lowest level of labor, were severely sucked and exploited.

Now, I am afraid that there are not enough immortal seedlings, so the oppression of the Grandmaster is getting more and more severe. From the initial five-year contract to the ten-year contract signed by Gu Dan, I heard that they are now discussing a fifteen-year contract. Ha, a normal person must be at least 40 or 50 years old to practice to become a Grandmaster. If you are far away, it will take many years to catch up. As a compromise, let's calculate it as 60 years old.

The Grandmaster came to Ningfang at the age of 60, worked for Ningfang for 15 years, and then began to cultivate normally. He was already 75 years old, and still had low-grade spiritual roots. How much time would he have left to find a way to break through the foundation? It was hard to say whether he would have the opportunity to cultivate to the late stage of Qi training!

"Even if I know this, what's the use?"

Gu Dan asked.

This bomb can still operate if it doesn't explode. If it really explodes, I'm afraid no one in the entire Ningfang can withstand it.

"As you can imagine, this matter is too big. Although everyone knows the truth, they can just muddle through as long as they don't lose out."

Lin Cheng chuckled.

"However, since you are going to the Law Enforcement Hall, if you don't know about this, you may lose a lot of money."

Lin Cheng said again.

"oh?"

Gu Dan raised his eyebrows slightly.

"For example, the salary of the Law Enforcement Hall is definitely paid in the form of standard spirit stones. But if you really use the standard spirit stones for yourself, you will lose a lot. If you use them to exchange for self-made spirit stones, not only will the effect remain the same, but the quantity will increase. The only difference is that you can no longer openly buy things in the Immortal Square."

Lin Cheng said: "If Brother Kong needs to sell standard spirit stones, you may as well come to me. I will definitely give you a fair price without cheating!"

Good fellow, this guy is actually a middleman! "Then what good will this do for you?"

Gu Dan was actually a little interested. Ningfang was far from being as peaceful as it seemed.

"What you said, isn't connections also a benefit?"

Lin Cheng said sincerely: "The Law Enforcement Hall has a good income. If you are willing, it is just equivalent to a trade, but your net worth will increase by several percent! To be honest, this is almost an established rule in the market, but everyone knows it.

I just saw that you had just arrived, so I came over to talk to you."

"I see."

Gu Dan nodded slightly.

"Then I won't bother Brother Kong."

Lin Cheng said goodbye and left without further aggrieved.

"Spirit Stone Crisis. This is a huge bomb buried for me!"

Gu Dan thought about it carefully but couldn't find a solution.

For monks, worldly things such as gold and silver are almost useless.

As materials for cultivating immortals, artificial spiritual stones will not depreciate in theory - but since their development does not match reality, there is really nothing that can be done about it.

We can only trust in the wisdom of future generations and hope that this bomb does not explode on us.

"There is actually such a thing in cultivating immortals!"

(End of this chapter)