Chapter 318: A Small Shock
No matter how serious the situation is, life must go on.
Ningfang seemed very peaceful, as if it was not affected by the closure of the door.
As a seriously injured soldier, Gu Dan had almost nothing to do and was instead more free than ever before.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Gu Dan often went to the library to read Taoist classics.
Because of his identity as a member of the Law Enforcement Hall, it goes without saying that he can get internal discounts when purchasing the spells collected and compiled by Ning Fang himself. Ordinary classics that do not involve complete immortal arts can be borrowed for free, but they cannot be taken out of the library.
In a sense, he is actually one of the superior people in the Immortal House. Compared with the group of immortal seedlings in Ning Yuan who are severely exploited by the Immortal House, his treatment is unimaginable.
Although status does not represent absolute strength, the advantage of having status is that there are many conveniences that others can see or even cannot see!
If it weren't for this, there wouldn't be so many people trying so hard to join the Law Enforcement Hall, because strictly speaking, the Law Enforcement Hall is a place that only looks at combat power.
Compared to the "special skill" required by Lingzhen Hall, there is no doubt that the Law Enforcement Hall is simpler, more transparent and direct, and also provides great convenience for Gu Dan.
The mountain of books is vast, but Gu Dan is eager to read them.
All kinds of knowledge about the way of immortals are constantly nourishing his knowledge.
Something in this world that can be known but cannot be taken away is called knowledge.
Gu Dan did not borrow too many books about the Qi training realm. With the Qingmu Liquid as a guarantee, the Qi training realm was just a natural thing for him.
The difference between spiritual roots not only affects the speed of cultivation, but also affects the breakthrough!
The possibility of success in building a foundation for a person with a natural spiritual root is almost 100%, and there is no need for any external aid, let alone any life-threatening ordeal - this is the real superior person, do you know what it means to be favored by heaven! It can be said that as long as time and spiritual energy are given, it is difficult for a person with a natural spiritual root to fail to build a foundation. Gu Dan does not need to worry about this at all. As time passes slowly, he will naturally become stronger.
People can live forever and have unparalleled talent! As the saying goes, how can you lose when a flying dragon rides on your face! Gu Dan only needs to walk normally and safely, and there will be a smooth road.
What's more, Gu Dan's requirements for himself are not that low.
Either don't do it, or do it to the best of your ability.
Since he has already achieved immortality and has no worries about his life span, he naturally wants to hone himself to the ultimate limit. Only with a solid enough foundation can a tall building be built!
Be it Qi training or foundation building, or even the highest realm of transformation that has been heard of so far, these are not his end points in Gu Dan's eyes.
Ordinary people only look at the moment, that's because life is limited. If you don't fight for the short moment, your whole life will be gone in the blink of an eye.
If the total length of life is a rope, and the key nodes that affect the course of life are the nodes on the rope, how many "nodes" can an ordinary person encounter in his or her lifetime?
If you don't seize the opportunity, your life will be gone.
But he has no such worries. As long as the node exists, he will have countless opportunities to peek.
This is also the reason why he never rushed to the Xiantian realm. The Xiantian realm will not run away, but he is indeed getting stronger every day! If this doesn't disappear, I will grow too! Now that the node of the general trend has arrived, Gu Dan is still polishing himself slowly, calm and not disturbed by external things.
Three months passed like this, and Gu Dan also learned several techniques suitable for cultivators in the middle stage of Qi training. For example, the rejuvenation technique is a magical technique for healing injuries, which is more suitable for learning by those with wood-attributed spiritual roots, and can be said to be a professional match.
In addition, he also learned a number of Taoist techniques with strong auxiliary properties, such as the Flash of Spiritual Light, the Turtle Breathing Method, the Wind Control Technique, the Dust Cleansing Technique, etc. These techniques do not require high spiritual energy, but the effects are very practical, and the cultivators who have used them all say they are good!
Compared to the real offensive magic that consumes huge amounts of spiritual energy in one strike, these things can bring real improvement to Gu Dan. After all, even a full-strength attack in the late stage of Qi training may not be able to beat his punch at this time.
Moreover, he has a lot of time, so there is no need to worry about biting off more than he can chew. Sooner or later, he will finish learning all the magic arts of Ning Fang. Now is just the beginning.
What really surprised Gu Dan was that the five immortal houses that had been in turmoil had maintained sufficient restraint after three months, and had not directly started a war between the parties, but were still at the level of verbal arguments! However, even though he was in Ningfang, Gu Dan could sense that something was different after all.
The most obvious change is that more people come to the Tibetan Book House to buy immortal arts! In the past, the Immortal House itself did not encourage the monks to fight each other. On the contrary, the Immortal House was the one that hoped for a stable situation. As long as it could develop steadily, the Immortal House would naturally continue to suck the blood of the lower-level monks to grow and become stronger. What's the point of fighting? Just go and farm!
Therefore, even the price of magic arts is often several spirit stones, especially for magic arts that are really lethal, which start at ten spirit stones. It is obvious that they don't want to sell them. If you are really rich, you have to suffer this loss and you can buy it if you want.
This is also the reason why Gu Dan is too lazy to buy anything. He doesn’t want to be a sucker.
And there are very few masters who buy immortal arts, almost none.
The Grand Masters once took root in the mortal world, and some had their own channels to find things. It was fine even to exchange with Grand Masters of the same generation. No matter how powerful the Immortal House was, it could not prohibit private transactions.
Besides, the immortal arts were not developed by the Immortal House itself, so why can't the cultivators trade them on their own? As long as they don't buy from the Immortal House and then sell them, and then get caught red-handed, it's fine.
The real unlucky ones are actually the group of immortal seedlings.
And they were not the immortal seedlings of Ning Yuan’s generation, but the group of immortal seedlings who joined the Immortal House a decade or twenty years earlier, almost not long after the Immortal House was established!
Oh, no, now they should not be called immortal seedlings, most of them have reached the middle stage of Qi training, but that is just the middle stage of Qi training, neither going up nor down, stuck there, still unable to escape the dilemma of the bottom level.
If one wants to advance to the later stage of Qi training, it will take at least thirty to forty years. During this period, one must live frugally and save money to accumulate spirit stones for purchasing a cave dwelling.
They are actually the "backbone" of Xianfang and the real victims.
After the bombings in the other five immortal palaces, they were the most confused.
After being exploited for more than 20 years, they finally made it through half of the life, but suddenly realized that the Xianfang trick didn’t work anymore, and it was most likely that it stopped working when they had almost saved up all their savings.
He holds dozens or even hundreds of spirit stones in his hands, has no hope of a cave dwelling anymore, and still has a contract of more than twenty years to bear. How unlucky he is!
The key point is that this group of people have no background, and their own strength is not enough to be put on the table. They are the silent majority in the Immortal House.
The only way left for them by the Immortal House is to complete the contract and then purchase a cave. After that, they will be glorious free monks, and except for paying a "maintenance fee" for the Immortal House formation every year, they will be free.
But now even this road has been proven to be a dead end.
People can indeed harvest one crop after another, but the Immortal House is so small that there will always be a time when there is no room to sell the crops in the caves. However, everyone thinks that they cannot be so unlucky.
But they probably hadn't thought that this thing wouldn't last even a hundred years.
So, under the personal witness of Gu Dan, these monks who had already heard the news came to the library in silence with gloomy faces to buy one immortal art after another.
Some people even stopped growing spiritual rice and started practicing in the mortal areas with all their strength. It didn't matter if the spiritual energy was thin. Anyone who wanted to buy a cave could buy one. Anyway, the savings from the past twenty years were enough for them to pay for the spiritual stones that would need to be distributed to the Immortal House in the next few years. They directly started a mode of living off the savings and improving themselves at the same time.
This kind of overdrawing on the future and expanding current options would undoubtedly be a "desperate" move if it happened in a stable period.
But as the saying goes, times have changed.
At the moment, this choice is extremely wise! It has only been three months, and some smart people have come to their senses.
No matter when the bomb explodes, the fuse has now been lit and there is almost no room for relaxation.
Either you reshuffle the cards and let a large number of people die to make room so that this game can continue; or you die yourself and put an end to it all without having to suffer this torture anymore.
Today’s calmness is not because everything is over. On the contrary, it is the calm before the storm, which makes people breathless.
“It is said that in the era, an individual is just a small wave, but aren’t waves made up of people?”
Being there and witnessing the gradual changes in the mortal area with his own eyes, Gu Dan became more and more enlightened.
Everyone wants to gain a foothold in the times and make a living for themselves.
People are not real waves, they think and then try to move around.
As the waves turned and moved, they became more and more violent, affecting the surroundings until they triggered a tsunami! Gu Dan was not the only one who noticed this.
The changes within Ningfang were naturally noticed by the upper echelons.
Some spiritual fields were abandoned - oh no, it can’t be called abandoned, just that no one takes care of them.
Once the spiritual rice is planted, people just stop caring about it. Why would they diligently go there every day to practice the Little Cloud and Rain Technique a few times?
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As for the harvest?
It’s okay to have it or not, it depends on Lingdao’s own efforts!
While recuperating in Lingzhen Hall, Gu Dan could hear Qian Qiancheng cursing every day, scolding the group of cultivators for being ungrateful. The Immortal House had given them the opportunity to practice, but they did not know how to repay the Immortal House wholeheartedly, and even ignored the spiritual fields that they were supposed to cultivate!
If this continues, how can Lingzhentang achieve its goals?
How would he get his year-end bonus? But no matter how much he yelled, the group of cultivators who were already in the middle stage of Qi training spoke in a nice tone and refused to go to farm.
For those who failed to reach the target harvest, they would naturally use their previous savings to pay the spiritual stones. This did not violate the rules of the Immortal House in any way, and there was no reason for the Immortal House to find any excuse to teach them a lesson.
After all, strictly speaking, the group of monks were just spending their own savings. It didn't make sense that they couldn't spend their own savings, right? But what was the reason behind this? Only they knew it in their hearts! In addition to spiritual rice, talismans suddenly became popular.
Even when Gu Dan was recuperating, Lin Cheng, who had been his neighbor in the mortal area for a few days, came to him secretly and asked him if he would sell his blood.
The price of Grandmaster's blood has increased a lot now. You are recovering from your injuries anyway, so why not sell your blood to earn some spirit stones?
In response to this, under Gu Dan's gloomy face, Lin Cheng somersaulted out of Lingzhen Hall.
"Magic skills are snapped up, talismans are hot-selling, spiritual stones are spent like crazy, and spiritual fields are barren"
Gu Dan shook his head.
It has only been three short months, and the five immortal houses outside have not even had time to really affect Ningfang, but the atmosphere inside Ningfang has already become somewhat different.
If this goes on, won't Ning Fang be the first to collapse?
There is no need to worry about these things, he is just a spectator.
Amidst all the bad news, there is also some good news.
Even though he was staying in the mortal level area, Gu Dan had already been promoted to the sixth level of Qi training!
For more than eight years, he hadn't taken any medicinal pills, hadn't been to any blessed places, and had reached the sixth level of Qi training!
Only one level away from reaching the true late stage of Qi training. At this stage, most cultivators have already begun to plan how to advance to the foundation-building stage.
This is the confidence that Qingmuye brought to Gu Dan! The 50,000-year-old Qingmu Huasheng Jue not only did not disappoint him, but its effectiveness even far exceeded his expectations.
I really don’t know what kind of surprise the Qingmu Huasheng Jue will bring him next time when he reaches a million years old.
However, there is still a long way to go before he can live to a million years old. The good news is that a considerable amount of life span is earned every year. It seems that the Xia Dynasty, billions of miles away, is still promoting the medical clinic system very well.
As time goes by, my own strength continues to increase!
The only thing that made him feel bad was that because the workshop was closed, he could no longer try to refine the acquired Qi.
Otherwise, if it explodes again, it will be hard to explain.
Fortunately, there are immortal classics to fill this emptiness. Gu Dan is also happy in it. He lives his own life and does not care about the serious situation in the outside world at all.
finally.
The eighty-eighth year of Xianlin is coming.
When Gu Dan was touring the mortal area, he could clearly see that each plant of spiritual rice in the spiritual fields was like a pearl and was emitting a moving luster.
It’s time to harvest the spiritual rice.
This also means that another year in the Immortal House has passed.
The difference is that among the spiritual fields, there is a spiritual field where the spiritual rice grows extremely lushly, far surpassing the surrounding fields.
Even the numerous rice ears almost bent the rice stalks.
Such a strange sight naturally attracted many people's attention and they were extremely shocked.
Looking at the owner of the spiritual rice field, he was just a young cultivator who had just been promoted to the second level of Qi training. How could he grow the spiritual rice so luxuriantly? This was the first "huge harvest" visible to the naked eye since the establishment of the Immortal Square, and it was only in one spiritual field!
Amid countless astonished gazes, Ning Yuan's spiritual rice fields were harvested.
After Qian Qiancheng, the elder of Lingzhen Hall, weighed it personally, he was almost shocked.
Two stone and three dou.
The yield of the rice fields is more than double that of the surrounding rice fields.
This is very abnormal!
(End of this chapter)