Chapter 108: Going against the decision of our ancestors “Look at you, a…
"Look at you all! Your Daoist hearts are unstable and you're so frivolous. Don't you know that when you cultivate Dao, you shouldn't be happy with material things or sad with yourself?" Taoist Priest Qingchenzi pointed and smiled at Xu Hui. "This little girl is quite good. She's open-minded and naturally has a fulfilled mind."
Everyone looked at her with surprised expressions.
Xu Hui: ...
She suspected that the Taoist priest saw the worthless vitality and deliberately ignored her.
"Master, you haven't told me what the others got yet," she quickly changed the subject, not wanting to endure those surprised or suspicious looks.
"Oh, that's one of my protectors, who can protect you in life-or-death situations," Taoist Priest Guqinzi said with a smile.
Everyone's eyes lit up. Even though they couldn't get the 'God of Heaven and the Protection of the Spirit of Words', it was worth the trip to have the protection of Taoist Master Qingxinzi.
Everyone bowed and thanked him with sincere gratitude.
The Taoist priest was satisfied and said, "You are a good kid. Those who have received the blessing, please remember to come back and fulfill your wish later."
Xu Hui suddenly felt that the 'God of Heaven and Protection from the Spirit of Words' were not worth much and could not compare to the protection from the Taoist priest.
After all, the former requires fulfilling a vow, and it is unknown what price to pay, so it will not be easy anyway.
The latter has almost no cost, at least for her. After all, she only paid a ball of vitality that could be easily drawn, and picked up a big bargain!
So this time, she was sincerely grateful that her luck was not so good and she didn't have to worry about restoration.
Ah ha, another day of getting something for nothing! Happy!
After being teleported back from Taoist Qingshizi's courtyard, Wan Moxiao enthusiastically invited them to participate in his wine tasting competition. "For convenience, I have put the batch of wine in the warehouse. Miss Wei San, please come with me to choose."
"Just call me Mu Yan," Wei Mu Yan immediately agreed with a smile.
Lei Hong brought Wan Moxiao over to say goodbye to them. Mu Yuan also said hello and left with the mysterious girl.
Xu Hui accidentally glanced and found that there seemed to be strange lines on the back of her hand. She couldn't help but look closely, but it seemed like she was seeing things. There were no lines at all. It was clearly white and tender skin.
"What's wrong?" Wan Moxiao noticed that she was distracted and asked.
"Oh, nothing," Xu Hui thought about it and didn't take it to heart.
The three of them discussed the route and decided to visit venue No. 18 first, and then go to the Wanjia Arena in venue No. 9.
The reason is very simple. The largest booth in venue No. 18 was booked by Yuyang City. They directly booked a booth that was 500 meters long and 600 meters wide, specifically for selling various accessories.
Yuyang City is located in the center of Yuyang Mountain. It is a medium-sized city. In addition to monks, the residents there are miners and students.
Yuyang Mountain is composed of 72 mountains of different heights. The highest ones soar into the clouds, with no end in sight, while the lowest ones are thousands of meters high. It is truly a mountain range with deep valleys.
Due to the terrain, the spiritual energy here flows out from one or several vortex points, and other places are barren.
Therefore, apart from Yuyang City at the spiritual energy vortex point, there are only a few small cities that are still inhabited, such as Yuyin City, Yuxu City, Yuhuan City, etc. The population is not large, and they are basically composed of cultivators and miners.
The cultivators stayed here because there was an astonishing amount of magnolia mine in the Yuyang Mountains, which was also the only magnolia mine in the world of cultivation. This was a very practical and relatively rare ore in refining equipment.
Magnolia Ore has a magical function. After adding it, it can ignore the basic properties of magic tools and can be used by all monks.
For example, a magic weapon is specially refined for cultivators with earth spiritual roots, but its defensive properties are better than other magic weapons of the same level. Other cultivators want to buy it, but they cannot use it because they do not have earth spiritual power, which is quite a pity.
But after adding magnolia ore for refining, magical changes will occur. By inputting the spiritual power of other five elements, this magic weapon can also be activated, but it is not as handy as the earth spiritual root.
In this way, when monks choose magical instruments, they do not have to stick to the same spiritual roots, but can choose according to performance.
After adding magnolia ore, the input of spiritual power will emit a faint magnolia fragrance, so it is named magnolia mine.
The discovery of the unique use of the magnolia mine was an inevitable accident.
Back then, the female cultivator named Qiu Haitang did not come for the Magnolia Mine, but for the Magnolia Mine's associated mineral, Moonstone. This is a very beautiful mineral with a light blue color and a thin layer of moonlight covering the surface, like the essence of the moon.
The accessories made of it have a soft light effect when worn.
Yes, that’s right, it’s that hazy yet clear and natural feeling.
Just imagine, a beautiful girl, with a faint glow, walks towards you, smiles at you, and the atmosphere is instantly full!
Who says that only modern people pursue that kind of atmosphere and romantic beauty?
Those who practice Taoism are more advanced. They don’t need lighting or angles. Just wear accessories made of moonstone and they will instantly turn into a female fairy with extraordinary temperament. Tell me if you are tempted or not!
The female cultivator named Qiu Haitang particularly likes this kind of jewelry that has no other use except to make her look beautiful.
At that time, everyone was busy pursuing immortality, and they spent a lot of time dressing up their female cultivators. Some of them also spent money to buy a few beautiful magical instruments that were both beautiful and practical.
But she was a poor and independent cultivator. Not only was her cultivation level not high, her talent was also average. She had no family to support her, and the spirit stones she earned on a daily basis were not enough for her cultivation. She had to save up again and again to buy a practical magic weapon, and in the end she could only choose one that was cost-effective, easy to use but ugly.
But love of beauty is natural. After knowing the wonderful uses of moonstone, she wanted to mine it herself and make more beautiful jewelry for herself.
In those days, basic refining methods could be easily purchased on the streets. She didn't practice refining magic, but turned the ore into jewelry, so she only needed to consider the aesthetic issues.
At that time, Yuyang Mountain was not called Yuyang Mountain. It was changed to this name after the discovery of the Magnolia Mine. At that time, this place was a remote and barren land, and there was not even a spiritual power vortex point.
In fact, the vortex points that came later were also spiritual power release points specially created by the aristocratic families to facilitate mining.
Spiritual power is born in the center of the mountain, but under the entire Yuyang Mountain, there is a thick layer of spiritual stone, hundreds of meters deep. Except for a few cracks that allow a little bit of spiritual power to leak out, the rest of the place is completely isolated.
The Absolute Spirit Stone is extremely difficult to dig, and spiritual power has no effect on it. It is also indestructible and immune to all metals.
The monks had no way out, and ordinary miners were even less able to dig. Later, physical cultivators used stone knives made from absolute spirit stones to chisel out the dirt bit by bit, relying purely on brute force, which was quite laborious.
Then, several large-scale complex formations were set up to convert and transmit the spiritual power, and finally a spiritual power vortex was brought out to supply several cities.
If the Absolute Spirit Stone is not needed, no one will waste time and energy to touch it.
In fact, the Absolute Spirit Stone is not rare in the world of cultivation. There is a vast pile of rocks in the southwest, which is mainly composed of mountains of Absolute Spirit Stones. Some are as big as mountains, and some are only the size of a thumb.
I don't know why it was formed, but if I need it, it's much faster to pick some up than to let the physical cultivators smash them.
Besides, the Absolute Spirit Stone has very few uses in the world of cultivation. Apart from being used to build some secret rooms and prisons, who needs such a thing without any spiritual power!
Therefore, Yuyang Mountain was truly a barren land back then, and such places are usually the habitats of large ferocious beasts. Because human cultivators are unwilling to come, their safety factor is very high.
At that time, Begonia was only at the third stage of Qi Refining, but there was a spiritual beast at the Foundation Establishment stage here.
For the sake of beauty, she is willing to take risks, which is truly courageous.
After some effort, she brought back a large amount of moonstone from Yuyang Mountain. Since she was already there, she might as well collect more and make some jewelry, which might even sell for some money.
She believed that she was not the only one who loved beauty, and others were just too lazy to take action.
In fact, people who dare to think and act will never have bad luck.
Qiu Haitang really seized the business opportunity. The jewelry she made with moonstone sold out in less than half a month.
Not only did she make back her losses on Yuyang Mountain, she also earned more than double the money. This was because the jewelry was relatively simple. If it had been refined more beautifully...
For the next three years, she traveled back and forth between mining and selling jewelry. After making her first fortune, she hired a few female cultivators with good aesthetic tastes who were also independent practitioners to work with her.
Gradually, mines appeared in Yuyang Mountain, and the mines became deeper and deeper.
Qiu Haitang also gathered about a hundred people under her. In order to manage them, she also made clear division of labor. In today's terms, it has become a large-scale enterprise.
As the enterprise grew bigger and bigger, the pace of mining gradually spread inward, and finally one day, the Magnolia Mine was discovered.
At first, no one noticed what its function was, and there was no introduction to this mineral in the mineral encyclopedia.
No one took it seriously, thinking it was just an ordinary stone.
Later, one time when Begonia was refining a piece of jewelry, she found that the blue color was very special, so she thought of grinding it into powder and using it as pigment.
You know what, jewelry with magnolia ore is really beautiful, showing a light blue color of the sky, and with the soft light effect of moonstone, it looks hazy and dreamy.
It also has a light magnolia fragrance that lasts for a long time. Female cultivators who like this scent are even willing to pay a higher price to buy it.
So they started digging magnolia ore to use as pigment.
How to say it, all coincidences are inevitable!
Among those female cultivators, some could refine magical instruments, and they refined accessories just to make money or for their hobby. Since she liked the color blue, she added magnolia ore powder to dye her new magical instrument.
The magic weapons she refined were of course in line with the needs of her own spiritual roots.
By chance, the magic weapon fell into the hands of someone else, and was able to use it.
But that person's spiritual roots were completely different from hers, and she was immediately shocked by his extraordinary talent!
This female cultivator named Yang An thought about it and thought that the magic weapon was average in every aspect except that it had magnolia ore added to it, so she gave it a try.
Sure enough, the effect is completely different with or without adding magnolia ore!
This discovery is so unexpected, it’s as shocking as if you have unearthed a spiritual mine, right?
But the question is, after discovering the treasure, will you take it for yourself immediately, or will you analyze it ideally and decide to find someone to cooperate with?
Yang An didn't choose either of them, she made a bold decision!
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