Chapter 177: Gathering Intelligence

Crack!

In front of Li Qing, the branch of the spiritual willow had completely turned into a dead branch. When the wind blew, it broke crisply.

This branch of the spiritual willow had been drained of all the spiritual wood essence, becoming the same as an ordinary dry willow branch.

Li Qing opened his eyes, and there seemed to be a flash of green in his pupils.

"Huh! No wonder even the children of the Liu family rarely practice this precious wood body refining technique. The path of physical cultivation is time-consuming and resource-consuming. This statement is really true!"

Li Qing looked at the withered spiritual willow branch on the ground, as if he saw fifty spiritual stones wasted, and he felt a little distressed.

The spiritual willow branch worth fifty spiritual stones had just been sucked away by him to nourish his body.

It was indeed useful. Li Qing could sense that his body was indeed a little stronger, and his blood and qi were more vigorous.

You should know that since he became a martial arts master, the strength of his physical body has basically not been improved.

This means that his body has reached the extreme in the mortal world and cannot be improved by any ordinary means.

And he has just practiced this newly acquired body refining secret technique. After consuming a spiritual willow branch, his physical strength finally ushered in a long-awaited improvement.

Although the increase is small, with Li Qing's control over his body, he can clearly sense that his body has become stronger again.

"It's too expensive. Fifty spiritual stones only increase this little bit." Li Qing sighed again and again.

However, Li Qing overlooked one thing. His original master-level physique was already very strong, comparable to the physical cultivation in the early stage of Qi Refining.

To continue to become stronger on this basis, the resources required will naturally increase.

The practice of "Baomu Refining Body Art" is divided into three levels, corresponding to the three small realms of Qi Refining Early, Qi Refining Middle, and Qi Refining Late.

If he cultivates to the third level, he can fight against the cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining just by relying on his physical body.

And if he adds his already good physique, this superposition is definitely not as simple as one plus one equals two!

"It seems that I have to put the search for high-year spiritual wood in the cultivation plan in the future, focusing on magic power and supplementing the physical body, so that I can have more self-protection means."

It can be expected that in the future, when fighting with others, both sides' magic power will be exhausted and close to exhaustion, then I, who still have a strong physique, will definitely have a great advantage.

Coincidentally, in this way, the physique he has trained for so many years in the secular world is not a waste.

After roughly determining his future cultivation direction, Li Qing quickly became satisfied and directly roasted two spiritual fish for himself as a reward.

Now he is already a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi Refining, and he has a certain ability to protect himself.

Next, Li Qing set his sights on Tianhefang Market.

"But the trade fair for the scattered cultivators will be held next month, so it's better to wait for another month."

Just like that, another month passed.

Li Qing followed him to the mine again, and now the accumulated spiritual stones in his hands finally broke the 2,000 mark!

With the middle-grade spiritual stone, Li Qing now has 2,134 spiritual stones.

After entering the middle stage of Qi Refining, Li Qing's mana has increased a lot, and he can use the Night Star Mining Pickaxe for a longer time.

So his income has continued to rise. As his wealth has increased, Li Qing has become more low-key, trying to reduce his presence as much as possible.

Developing silently is the kingly way!

After returning from the spiritual stone mine, Li Qing slept leisurely, and then visited and made friends with other scattered cultivators while quietly waiting for the arrival of the trade fair every six months.

During this period, Li Qing had already heard a lot of news about Tianhefang City from several scattered cultivators who were responsible for escorting goods for the Liu family.

In a courtyard in the Jiazi area.

"There is no way. Spirit fish are living things and cannot be put into storage bags. The restaurant opened by the Liu family in Tianhefang City must ensure that the spirit fish delivered are fresh."

"It is obvious that if they are slaughtered on the spot and then immediately put into the storage bag, the spiritual energy in the spirit fish meat will not be lost. The Liu family must do this. Fellow Daoist Li, don’t you think this is a waste of effort!"

The person who spoke was named Chen Xin. He was a talkative cultivator with a cheerful personality. He was about five or six years older than Li Qing.

He was more active, so the task he chose was not a spirit miner or a spirit farmer, but a person who helped the Liu family deliver goods.

The Liu family opened a restaurant in Tianhefang City. Every once in a while, he needed to work with others to deliver the Liu family’s specialty lake willow fish and some spiritual wine, spirit rice and other spiritual food to the restaurant.

However, the Liu family pays great attention to the reputation and quality of the restaurant. They always keep spirit fish in the restaurant. This not only raises the price of spirit fish, but also allows the immortal cultivators who come to watch and enjoy.

"Haha, after all, fresh spirit fish can always be sold at a higher price, and it is also a unique landscape to watch in the restaurant." Li Qing casually said a few words of his own opinion.

Upon hearing Li Qing's explanation, Chen Xin nodded as if he had realized something, and then suddenly said:

"That makes sense. No wonder the dishes in the restaurant are so expensive. A spiritual food made of spiritual fish costs thirteen spiritual stones, and those people in Tianhe Market are flocking to it."

"I didn't expect that there is such a trick!"

"But I won't be a sucker. If you want to eat spiritual fish, you can buy one for six spiritual stones and cook it a few times. It will still taste delicious."

Chen Xin said a lot. After listening, Li Qing just smiled and shook his head.

The reason why the spiritual fish sold by the Liu family in Tianhe Market can be sold so expensively, in addition to this trick, there are of course many other reasons.

For example, the land price in Tianhe Market, the manpower of their spiritual fish transportation, and the spiritual chefs hired in the restaurant, etc., are naturally all included.

But if we really want to say that the most profitable industry of the Liu family in Tianhe Market is still another shop that does array and talisman business.

Among the four most outstanding cultivation skills, the Liu family is best at formations, and there are more than one formation master in the family who can set up a second-level formation.

Many people, for safety reasons, will set up such a formation for their caves or territories.

Don't think this is a one-time deal. Once the formation is set up, every few years, due to changes in the terrain, yin and yang, the five elements, or other reasons, there will occasionally be minor problems or omissions.

In this way, the formation masters of the Liu family have a job again, helping people maintain and repair the formation, and can also earn a sum of spirit stones.

With such huge profits, plus the Liu family backed by the big tree of Tianhe Sect, life is so comfortable.

Compared with other cultivation families without much background, the situation is really much better.

However, even such a prosperous cultivation family will eventually face many ups and downs!

"I heard that the female cultivators serving in Lingfeng Tower in Tianhefang City are so beautiful that they are so beautiful that they can make fishes sink to the bottom of the water, geese fall to the ground, and the moon hide in shame. I wonder if you have ever seen them after visiting Tianhefang City so many times?" Li Qing suddenly brought up this topic.

Chen Xin, who is a chatterbox, immediately took up the topic.

"Hahahaha, I didn't expect that you, Li Daoyou, look simple and honest, but you think about this kind of thing all day long!" Chen Xin laughed and pointed at Li Qing.

"Speaking of which, the female cultivators in the Lingfeng Tower are indeed more beautiful than each other. I once took a look at them from a distance. It was really...tsk, tsk, tsk!"

"But that kind of brothel is not something that casual cultivators like us can go to. It's really too expensive."

"If you really need that, fellow Daoist Li, I suggest you marry a few mortals from the Liu family as wives and concubines. If you can give birth to one or two children with spiritual roots, you can get a reward!"

"We cultivators should not care about the status of marrying into the family."

"I plan to help the Liu family send spiritual fish for a few more years, and then save enough spiritual stones, and then marry a few beautiful wives and live a peaceful life."

As he said this, Chen Xin made a sighing expression, as if he had seen his life in the next few years.

His situation is somewhat similar to Li Qing's. He has poor aptitude and started practicing Taoism at a relatively late age. He is the kind of casual cultivator who can see the end of his path at a glance.

It is already the best luck to be able to cultivate to the late stage of Qi Refining in one's lifetime.

As for the plan of building a foundation in the future, it can only be said to be wishful thinking.

This is the sadness of most casual cultivators in the world of cultivating immortals.

Knowing that there are many realms in the future, they can never appreciate the scenery of the higher level in their lifetime.

Qi Refining Stage is their beginning and their end.

After a lifetime of hard pursuit of the immortal path, it is ultimately a waste of time.

Li Qing was silent for a while, and then he was ready to find out if there was any safer way to Tianhefang City.

However, the next moment, outside the courtyard of the Jiazi District, there were suddenly exclamations.