Chapter 5: Tribulation Cultivation

His father, Zhou Qiankun, was a secular warrior with a natural talent for martial arts. It was said that he was also a world-famous figure in the secular world.

But this was the world of immortal cultivation. There were many cultivators in Fengmingwu Market. A natural warrior might be able to fight against low-level cultivators, but facing cultivators above the middle stage of Qi training, he had almost no power to fight back.

After recognizing this fact, in order to survive in the market, Zhou Qiankun had to follow a team of cultivators and do some rough work such as exploring the way, setting traps, and transporting the corpses of monsters.

He could barely get five or six low-grade spirit stones a month.

You can imagine the dangers involved.

And his income, after deducting the occasional cost of recuperation from injuries and the two low-grade spirit stones a month for rent outside the market, was not much left.

As for why Old Xu mentioned him, it was simple.

It was because his grandson did not have spiritual roots and could not practice immortal arts, so he thought of Zhou Changwang's father and hoped to teach him martial arts.

After all, no matter what, this is also a skill.

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Take four green beetles home at night.

As usual, my father did not come back.

Although he was worried, he had no way to deal with it.

Fortunately, he knew that his father had worked with that team of casual cultivators for four or five years. The leader was a casual cultivator of the fifth level of Qi training named Zhao Heng. He was always cautious and strong, and he had not come back for ten days or half a month. He thought his safety was guaranteed.

Then, Zhou Changwang took out a knife, peeled off the shell, and took out the insect meat inside.

The insect meat was in clumps, white and crystal, and it seemed as if there was a flash of light, which made him unable to resist.

After simply cooking it, Zhou Changwang ate it with ordinary rice, and was pleasantly surprised.

It was so delicious.

The most important thing is that the spiritual energy contained in it was aroused the moment it was eaten, flowing through his body, but it did not dissipate quickly like the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, making his stomach always warm.

After eating four pieces of insect meat in a row, he felt extremely satisfied and fulfilled.

Even his spirit was greatly restored.

He did not dare to hesitate.

Zhou Changwang hurried back to the room to practice the Five Elements Technique and absorb and refine the spiritual energy of the insect meat.

The originally scarce spiritual power was also quickly replenished with the operation of the technique.

Five Elements Technique +1

After practicing once, he felt that the spiritual energy of the spiritual insect meat in his body had not been completely refined and absorbed.

So he operated it again without stopping.

Five Elements Technique +1

Cultivation +1

Seeing the value change on the panel, Zhou Changwang showed a look of surprise on his face.

The cultivation level has increased.

Although, it has only increased from (21/100) of the second level of Qi training to (22/100).

But he could indeed feel that his spiritual power had become stronger.

"If I could eat a bite of spiritual insect meat every meal, it would be very beneficial to my practice.

If I add spiritual rice as the staple food, my spiritual power will recover even faster."

Zhou Changwang was looking forward to it, but sighed.

Who would have thought that he, who had already started to cultivate immortality, was still worrying about three meals a day?

"This cultivation of immortality requires magic, wealth, companions and land. Among them, wealth is the most important.

And wealth, here, is spiritual stones.

I must earn spiritual stones as soon as possible to maintain my practice."

Zhou Changwang frowned slightly.

Without spiritual stones, his practice speed would be too slow.

Not to mention the increase in cultivation, just the speed of spiritual power recovery is a major obstacle to his progress in magic.

"Ah..."

Suddenly, a scream was heard.

This voice, panic, pain, but stopped abruptly in an instant.

"It's Jie Xiu!"

Zhou Changwang's face changed.

He knew that this was the outskirts of Fengmingwu Market, the order was chaotic, and there was no market guards to protect it.

If it was daytime, it would be fine, those robbery cultivators would still be cautious and dare not attack recklessly, but at night, once they were targeted, they would be in danger of death.

He clearly remembered that his previous life came back late and was targeted by robbery cultivators. If the other party hadn't seen that he was just a small spiritual farmer and didn't have much money, he would have been in danger.

He was nervous, and after feeling that there was no movement outside for a long time, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"This world is really more dangerous than I thought.

In addition to cultivation, I must have the power to protect myself as soon as possible."

Thinking in his heart, the first thing he thought of was naturally the only offensive spell he mastered, Gengjin Finger.

"Although this Gengjin Finger is only a spiritual plant spell, it is used to kill insects, and the attack range is only about ten feet, but its power is not weak.

At the entry level, it can kill green beetles with hard shells. If it reaches the proficient stage, the power will definitely increase a lot, and even the attack range will be improved.

It should barely be used as my current self-defense method."

This is actually a helpless move.

He only had this one attack spell that he had learned.

Of course, he could learn other spells. As a person with five elements spiritual roots, he could learn almost any five elements spell as long as his realm was high enough.

But.

It cost money!

A basic spell cost five spirit stones or more, and a slightly more powerful spell cost dozens or even hundreds.

Now that he was penniless, he had almost no choice.

It just so happened that he had enough spiritual power in his body at this time.

So, he began to practice spells.

As for the fact that it was not suitable to perform in the room?

He didn't care about it.

It was just a low-level spell like Gengjin Finger, with a small fluctuation range and little movement, and it would not attract other people's attention.

The mind mobilized the spiritual power, sketched out runes, and then combined them into the rune structure of the Gengjin Finger spell.

Buzz~!

A slight spiritual energy fluctuation occurred.

Gengjin Finger +1

But Zhou Changwang did not really cast this spell, but wanted to slowly disperse it.

This is not easy.

Because the spell is formed, the structure is already very stable, and if you want to disperse it, you need a strong control ability.

"Not good..."

Suddenly, Zhou Changwang's face changed, and he hurriedly moved forward.

His figure suddenly retreated until he retreated to the door of the room.

Puff!

The spiritual light of Gengjin Finger exploded.

A small pit was directly blown out on the ground.

"Sure enough, the idea is good, but it is not so easy to implement it."

Zhou Changwang's face turned slightly pale.

He originally thought that after the spell was successfully cast, he would disperse the spell, perhaps saving some spiritual power, so as to cast more spells and increase proficiency...

Now it seems that it is not feasible.

At least, he does not have this ability now.

Fortunately, the proficiency of this spell has been increased, which can be regarded as a successful casting.

That's the noise...

After a long pause, he breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that no one was attracted.

Then, he continued to cast the spell.

This time, he didn't dare to act rashly, but cast the spell step by step.