Chapter 240 Arrangements
"Hey, buddy, do you have Liu Dabian's book?"
A middle-aged Qigong practitioner casually browsed through the bookshelf. There were a lot of books on it. He asked the waiter a little impatiently.
The waiter in green clothes and a small hat came over and smiled apologetically: "You are looking for Liu Sanbian's books, right? Yes, yes, the most popular one right now is "The Dream of the Yellow Millet", and there are also "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" and "The Jade Girl's Heart Sutra", all written by him."
He lowered his voice and said, "Dear guest, the Jade Girl Heart Sutra tells the story of a female cultivator of the Hehuan Sect who had to practice dual cultivation with others to improve her cultivation in order to save her true love husband. It's very exciting and interesting..."
The middle-aged cultivator's eyes lit up, "That's it!"
"'The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl' is also good. It tells the story of a cow demon and a saintly girl from a righteous sect. The painting skills are amazing..."
"Take them all."
The middle-aged Qigong practitioner waved his hand and said proudly.
This kind of novel is not worth much, basically you can buy one for two or three Qingyun Fu coins.
The waiter quickly wrapped up the two books and handed them over, "Dear guest, thank you for the two spiritual stones."
"Um?!"
The middle-aged cultivator's eyes widened. He angrily yelled, "How dare you sell this crappy book at this price? Do you take me for a fool?"
The clerk in green clothes and a small hat looked aggrieved, "Dear guest, Liu Sanbian is now too famous. Everyone in Qingyun City knows him. His books are also selling very well. Every bookstore now charges this price."
He complimented again: "A generous guest like you can afford two spirit stones."
The clerk was experienced, and when he saw the other party coming up, he took the book directly without asking the price. This kind of person has a rough personality, and the other party will be embarrassed if you compliment him.
Sure enough, although the middle-aged cultivator felt a little painful, he was too embarrassed to refuse, so he had to force himself to take out two spirit stones.
He held the book in his hand and cursed: "If it's not good, I won't come to buy books from you again..."
Outside the Jade Book Hall, Gao Xian watched the scene inside quietly.
After the sutra discussion meeting at Changle Tower ended, he discovered that the spiritual light of humanity had once again experienced a surge.
The joy of earning the spiritual light of humanity by lying down made Gao Xian lose the energy to make the elixir.
He worked hard to make pills every month, and only earned 70,000 to 80,000 Dao Lingguang. Of course, after deducting all the costs, he could still earn 7,000 to 8,000 Lingshi.
For a foundation-building cultivator, this is a huge sum of money.
Gao Xian had ninety high-quality spirit stones in his possession, and he had no where to spend them, so he couldn't help but feel a little lazy.
These two days he concentrated on studying the Five Elements Qigong Method, so he temporarily stopped refining the elixir to give Danniu a break.
Gao Xian came out this time mainly to help Daniu buy some body-refining pills.
Zhou Ye could handle it properly if he was given the task, so he just took the opportunity to go out for a walk.
Since arriving in Qingyun City, he has never gone out for a walk.
The huge Qingyun City has a total of 169 districts. Each district is like an independent small city with a wall outside and a law enforcement team inside to manage it.
According to Zhou Ye, except for a dozen or so blocks in the southern area which were relatively chaotic, other blocks were relatively safe. At least no one dared to mess around during the day.
Gao Xian left Anshanfang and walked around the two nearby neighborhoods. He found that it was indeed prosperous and lively, and the order was also good.
At least the cultivators were very relaxed, and no one looked at the people around them with a wary look.
The buildings are all planned very neatly, especially those facing the street, most of which are ancient and have a calm temperament refined by time.
Gao Xian found the Vajra Pill in the pharmacy. Each imitation pill cost fifty spirit stones. He bought twenty pills for Daniu, enough for Daniu to use for a year.
The talent of the great man in cultivation is average, but he is diligent and hardworking. The body-building exercises such as Hunyuan Jinshen Jue are relatively simpler.
As long as you invest a lot of cultivation resources, you can make rapid progress.
Today, Daniu has reached the fourth level of Qi training and entered the middle stage of Qi training.
Daniu has followed him for so many years, working diligently and down-to-earth, so Gao Xian still admires Daniu very much.
Even though he is slightly inferior in ability, he is more loyal and honest. He is much better than old man Zhou Ye.
So many pills can be refined every month, in fact, 90% of the work is done by Daniu. Helping Daniu buy the diamond pill is nothing.
Gao Xian thinks he is pretty nice to other people. He can't be called kind, but at least he is not mean.
After buying the pills, he walked along the long street and happened to pass by the Yu Shu Tang.
Gao Xian watched outside for a while, and his book sold more than 20 copies. It can be seen that it is very popular.
He felt embarrassed when his pen name was exposed. After all, those paintings were not worthy of being displayed in a formal setting.
However, as he made a sensation at the Buddhist conference and his book became a best-seller, he felt that it was all worth it.
Sure enough, people still need to be famous.
Even if a celebrity urinates in the street, it can cause a sensation. The influence brought by this kind of fame can bring huge profits with a little manipulation.
Especially in a place like Qingyun City, people exchange information more through word of mouth.
It is difficult to become famous, but once you become famous, the value of your fame will far exceed that of the traffic stars in your previous life.
The only regret of Gao Xian is that he cannot get any royalties no matter how many books he sells. Fortunately, a book will be circulated among many people and can repeatedly bring out the spiritual light of humanity.
He doesn't have the ability to control piracy now, and he also needs to promote his products, so he doesn't need to worry about these pirated booksellers for now.
When he becomes the master of the Golden Pill, all those guys who sell pirated copies will have to pay him back their money! Gao Xian returned home and gave the Golden Pill to Daniu.
Da Niu was very excited. His accumulated wealth was barely enough to buy the Vajra Pill, but he just couldn't bear to do it.
Unexpectedly, Gao Xian still thought about him and bought it for him. Compared with the value of the King Kong Pill, Daniu felt that Gao Xian's appreciation touched him more.
Gao Xian comforted him and told Daniu to practice well. He would not start refining the elixir until the Qingyun Dharma Assembly was over.
As his alchemy skills improved, he became more and more adept at refining low-level elixirs such as Deer Horn Powder and Tiangui Dan.
It takes more than three hours to make a furnace of pills, enough to make three thousand pills.
The large amount of pills refined during this period is enough to sell for three or four months.
One day in mid-August, Gao Xian saw that the spiritual light of humanity on the Fengyue Treasure Mirror continued to grow and instantly exceeded 800,000.
Gao Xian couldn't help but feel happy. If the spiritual light of humanity grew normally, it might reach 800,000 before the Qingyun Dharma Assembly, or it might not.
Now it's almost a month ahead of schedule, which gives him a lot of extra time.
There was nothing to hesitate about. All the spiritual energy of 800,000 people was invested in the Taizhen idol god.
The Mirror of Love and Lust was shining with golden light, and Sister Lan in a long red dress emerged from the mirror.
Gao Xian's spirit was slightly stimulated, and he was closely connected with Sister Lan.
Countless golden lights were released from the place where their souls were combined, and the essence of the Five Elements Qigong suddenly emerged from the depths of Gao Xian's consciousness.
Gao Xian naturally understood the essence of these things without anyone explaining them, and mastered the subtle changes of the Five Elements Qigong Method.
His mind and soul practiced the Five Elements Qigong together with Sister Lan, and at the same time activated the Great Five Elements Gong.
This process lasted for a full twelve hours.
Gao Xian opened his eyes, he activated his spiritual consciousness to draw on the magical power of his spiritual orifices, and naturally, powerful magical power responded.
In just twelve hours, his Great Five Elements Kung Fu had clearly advanced to a higher level, and his magic power had become even more pure and powerful.
Generally speaking, the magic power of a Qi-cultivating practitioner is like Qi, while the magic power of a foundation-building practitioner is like water.
This is a description of the state of mana, and it also vividly illustrates the difference in mana between the two levels of Qi training and foundation building.
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When one reaches the Golden Elixir level, the magic power he circulates is pure, condensed and thick like mercury.
Gao Xian is still far from the Golden Core realm, but when he circulates his magic power now, he can faintly feel that the magic power carries a hint of heavy aura.
Well, it's like adding milk powder to water. It is naturally much worse than mercury, but it has a more viscous texture than ordinary water.
After opening the Fengyue Baojian, Taizhen Idol God jumped from expert to master. The next upgrade requires 1.6 million spiritual lights.
Gao Xian didn’t know how long it would take for so many people to accumulate spiritual light.
The big sales of several novels this time were all driven by accidental factors. As the coverage of novels becomes wider and wider, the increase in human spiritual light will definitely be less and less.
The advantage is that these books can provide humanitarian spiritual light for a long time, but they are not very stable and cannot be clearly counted like elixirs.
Taizhen Idol God was upgraded to the master level, which increased his spiritual awareness by more than 30% again, and the spiritual awareness sensing radius reached 1,500 steps.
The radius of spiritual consciousness sensing increased by 400 steps, which is a very significant increase.
The strength of spiritual consciousness at this level must have far exceeded that of the two Jindan Zhenren, Shui Yuying and Yun Taihao.
For practitioners, whether mobilizing the body or mana, spiritual consciousness is always the foundation.
With his current spiritual power, he can easily protect his own soul when facing Shui Yuying's Xuanming Soul-Capture Hand.
Including Shui Yuying's Xuanming Shadowless Sword, he can use his powerful spiritual sense to sense the changes in the Xuanming Yin Qi, thereby locking the position of the Xuanming Shadowless Sword.
On the other hand, his powerful spiritual awareness allows him to mobilize his magical power more finely and enhance the power of his spells and magical tools in all aspects.
This increase is difficult to quantify accurately. Gao Xian felt that, just like the Qiankun Wheel, four hundred feet per breath was almost reaching its limit.
No matter how powerful one's spiritual consciousness is, the Wheel of Heaven and Earth cannot move faster. It can only be activated more calmly and controlled more precisely.
Gao Xian's observation of the battle between the two Jindan people showed that their speed was only about three hundred feet per breath.
If he adds the electric halo, his speed will definitely surpass those two Jindan Zhenren.
This means that when facing a Jindan Zhenren, he can still maintain his mobility advantage, which is very, very important to him.
The powerful spiritual consciousness can also avoid being interfered with and controlled by the Jindan Zhenren.
At this point, he is at least qualified to fight against a Jindan Zhenren.
Gao Xian looked at the Five Elements Qi Combination Method again, and it was still marked at the end with (Taizhen Ou Shen) without any more detailed explanation.
After flipping through the Fengyue Baojian, just as Gao Xian had expected, the positive Five Elements Kung Fu had been elevated to a higher level.
Great Five Elements Skill (Variant): Based on the power of the positive and negative five elements, it refines the body, mind and soul. (556/20000 Proficiency)
Gao Xian had a complicated feeling. Promoting Taizhen Idol God would improve the Great Five Elements Kung Fu, which was a great thing.
That is, more and more human spiritual light is needed to upgrade Taizhen Idol God, and Taizhen Idol God will reach the ceiling after two more upgrades!
No matter what, with his current strength, he will have no problem winning the Qingyun Dharma Assembly.
Even if Yun Qiu Shui comes on stage, he can still fight.
Gao Xian thought of the sharpness of the Zixiao Cloud Light Sword, and felt envious again. Using a sword is really cool!
He took out the sword-nourishing jade. After nurturing the Lingxi Sword for a month, there was no substantial change, except that it felt a little more agile.
It seems that before the Qingyun Dharma Assembly, it is impossible for the Lingxi Sword to recover to the third level.
Gao Xian took out the third-level spiritual fruit he had snatched and wondered whether he should go look for Yun Qiu Shui.
With Yun Qiushui's vision and knowledge, he might recognize this thing. The key is that Yun Qiushui is generous and will not think about this little thing of his.
However, Yun Qiushui also has a problem, he is a bit too talkative! This guy doesn't seem to know what it means to keep a secret...
The upgrade of Taizhen Idol God and the Great Five Elements Kung Fu made Gao Xian feel very confident and he didn't want to bother with it before the Qingyun Dharma Assembly.
It won’t be too late to ask Yun Qiu Shui about these things after the Dharma Assembly is over.
In the following time, Gao Xian took the time to practice, mainly to familiarize himself with the newly increased spiritual consciousness in the Heart Temple, and the changes after the Great Five Elements Gong was upgraded...
At nine o'clock in the morning on September 19, Gao Xian and Yun Qiu Shui took a car to the sword-testing arena.
At this time, the sword-testing arena was filled with people, and it was as lively and noisy as a market.
Gao Xian was a little surprised that there were so many people at the Qingyun Dharma Assembly. Yun Qiushui explained, "A few days ago, it was a battle between Qi-training cultivators, which attracted a large number of cultivators to watch. Today is a battle between foundation-building cultivators, so there are even more cultivators to watch.
"The minimum entrance fee is ten spirit stones per person, and there are at least 50,000 to 60,000 people here. There are also bankers and gamblers, and the Water Department made a lot of money this time..."
Gao Xian asked curiously, "Isn't Qingxuan Zhenren the head of the Water Department? Will she come too?"
Yun Qiushui said: "She should come for the final battle."
He patted Gao Xian on the shoulder and said, "Brother Gao, are you confident that you can win the championship?"
Gao Xian asked back, "Brother, didn't our sister arrange everything for us?"
Yun Qiushui was stunned for a moment, then he understood. He laughed and said, "That's really not the case!"
While the two were talking and laughing, Li Feihuang was staring at Gao Xian with a gloomy face not far away. She tightly grasped the Red Phoenix Sky Wing Sword and silently said fiercely: "Gao Xian, don't meet me!"
(End of this chapter)