Chapter 310 Insect Pill

Yuan Ming frowned and continued forward. He saw another shocking scene.

In an alley beside the avenue, a headless corpse lay horizontally. The blood that flowed out had dried up. Not far away from it stood a bare-chested bearded man, exuding the aura of the early stage of foundation building. He was cursing:

"Who the hell killed someone and didn't clean up the body. He just threw it in front of someone else's house. Do you have any sense of public morality?"

Yuan Ming saw that he was cursing with confidence. The nearby cultivators were not surprised. Some even didn't bother to look back. They couldn't help but have some new understanding of the chaos here.

However, as he entered the inner city, the situation improved a lot. Although the pedestrians and cultivators on the road were still full of murderous aura, at least no one dared to fight in the street.

Soon, Yuan Ming looked for a place to rent a house in the inner city. He wanted to rent a house to settle down.

Unexpectedly, the yellow monk in charge of renting the house quoted a price that surprised him greatly.

"Six hundred a year for a house in the inner city? Why don't you go and rob it?" Yuan Ming shouted angrily.

He has a lot of spirit stones on him now, but that doesn't mean he can let anyone rip him off. You know, the house price in Xiaohu City is only one or two hundred spirit stones. How can this broken place be more expensive than there?

Unexpectedly, facing Yuan Ming's anger, the yellow monk smiled and said, "Senior, please calm down. There is a reason why the price is high. The inner city area is protected by the city lord himself. No one is allowed to take action here. Not only is life convenient, but the public security is also very good. If you don't have enough spirit stones, I can also recommend you a few houses in the outer city. Although the price is cheap, the public security is not good. To be honest, there was a riot in the city not long ago. Many monks living in the outer city suffered. Some of them are like you, and they are also in the foundation-building stage."

Yuan Ming was speechless. Recalling what he saw and heard on the way into the city, he didn't say anything more and gritted his teeth to accept the price.

Seeing this, the monk in yellow immediately handed over a jade slip with the location of the vacant houses in the inner city. Yuan Ming took it and looked at it, but frowned again.

"Why are there only two left?"

"There is no way. Many people living in the outer city are trying their best to move to the inner city. There are only two places. You came at the right time. They were just vacant yesterday." The monk in yellow explained.

Yuan Ming had no choice but to not ask what "just vacated" meant. He directly chose one of the relatively secluded ones. After taking out the spirit stone and handing it over, he took the key and the token indicating the identity of the resident from the monk in yellow, and turned around and left.

After renting the house, Yuan Ming went to the store selling elixirs in the city without stopping.

This store, called Chunfengtang, is far inferior to Qingmulou in Xiaohu City in terms of scale and decoration. There are only a few kinds of elixirs for the foundation-building period, but the price is more than half higher than that of Qingmulou.

This scene made Yuan Ming regret why he didn't buy more elixirs when he was in Dajin and Zhao.

"From your looks, you've just arrived at the Black Wind Desert, right? This place is far from the Central Plains. There are bandits everywhere in the Black Wind Desert. If you're unlucky, you'll encounter deadly black winds. Therefore, it's extremely inconvenient to transport supplies, and the prices are naturally not comparable to those in the Central Plains. Xiansha City is located on the edge of the Black Wind Desert, and the price of elixirs is relatively cheap. If you go deeper, the prices there are more expensive." A young clerk in the store came over and said.

Yuan Ming also thought of this and began to secretly calculate his current wealth.

Although he still had tens of thousands of spirit stones on him, he no longer had the stable income from the Lingxiang Shop. If he wanted to continue to maintain a relatively good cultivation environment, he didn't know how long it would take to eat up all the money he had.

"If you think the elixirs are expensive, there are some cheaper ones in there. You can take a look." The young clerk suddenly blinked and said.

Yuan Ming was startled and waved his hand to let the clerk lead the way.

The young clerk took Yuan Ming to the innermost part of the store, where there was a counter with more than a dozen gray and black medicine bottles on it.

Yuan Ming scanned the area with his spiritual sense and showed a surprised look on his face.

The pills in these medicine bottles were very different from those outside. Not only were they much smaller, but their outer skin was also extremely rough and gray, which even made people doubt whether they were pills or mud balls.

However, the spiritual energy fluctuations emitted by these pills were extremely strong, comparable to the Xuejing Pills he had eaten before.

The most important thing was that the prices of these pills were very cheap, with a price tag of more than 100 spirit stones, and no more than 200 spirit stones at most.

"What kind of pills are these?" Yuan Ming took a medicine bottle and gently opened the cork, and a sour and pungent strange smell came out.

"These are insect pills." The young waiter said.

"Insect pills?" Yuan Ming looked at the waiter.

"The Black Wind Desert is hard to grow grass, and transportation to the Central Plains is not convenient. The underground mineral deposits are very rich, but spiritual herbs and medicines are extremely scarce. Fortunately, there are countless insects and monsters here. The alchemists in the Black Wind Desert learn the alchemy method of the Northern Desert, using local materials to make medicine with insect cores, and make these insect pills." The young man explained.

"Insect core? Could it be something similar to demon pills? As far as I know, there are few demon pills in the bodies of level 2 demon beasts. Only when demon beasts reach level 3 will demon pills be born. These insect pills of yours are not made from level 3 demon insects, right?" Yuan Ming was puzzled.

"Of course not. The strength of a level 3 demon beast is comparable to that of a Jindan-stage cultivator. How could it be possible to hunt them in large numbers? The environment of the Black Wind Desert is special. Even if the demon insects here are level 1, they will have insect cores in their heads. As for why insect cores are born, I am not very clear. I heard that it was the influence of the black wind." The young man said.

"In the head..." Yuan Ming thought about it after hearing this.

The Black Wind Desert looks barren, but it is rich in underground minerals. The demon insects here do not have to worry about spiritual power to replenish their spirits. The black wind blowing in the desert has a great impact on the soul. In this special environment, the demon insects have been using demon power to protect their souls for many years, so it is not surprising that insect cores are formed in their heads.

"Senior, don't look at these insect pills because they are not good-looking. In fact, the spiritual power contained in them is extremely rich, almost twice that of the same level of pills, and when you really take them, you will find that the taste is not as bad as it looks and smells." Seeing that Yuan Ming did not speak, the young man thought that he was resisting the insect pills, so he said quickly.

"Oh, these insect pills are so effective? But you sell them so cheaply. There must be some drawbacks to these pills, right?" Yuan Ming asked with a smile, shaking the medicine bottle in his hand.

"Senior, you have a keen eye. To be honest, the pills made with insect cores as raw materials, although the medicinal power is extremely strong, they also contain the remaining thoughts of insect monsters, which will have a certain impact on cultivators. However, as time goes by, the remaining thoughts of the monsters will gradually disappear. As long as you don't take a large amount in a short period of time, there will not be any major hidden dangers." The young man said with some embarrassment.

"I see." Yuan Ming said casually, and understood in his heart.

If the influence of the insect pills is really not great, with the efficacy of these pills, they will never be sold so cheaply.

"If you are worried about the remnant of the demon insect, you might as well try this rock beard pill. The insect cores used in this batch of insect pills are all taken from the body of the rock beard insect, and they are refined by special means. The remnant contained in them is half a percent less than similar pills. The quality is excellent, which is suitable for people like you who are first exposed to it." The waiter picked up a black medicine bottle and said.

Yuan Ming weighed it in his mind for a moment, but finally under the strong sales of the waiter, he only bought one bottle as a trial, and chose a few ordinary pills to try the rest.

After purchasing the pills, he returned to the rented house. Seeing that this cave house was simple, it had all kinds of furniture and the decoration was neat and clean, and his depressed mood improved a little.

He did not rush to practice, but first carefully checked the house. After confirming that there were no traps or hidden hands left by others, he specially arranged the Five Elements Illusion Array outside, and then he was relieved.

He sat cross-legged on the bed, took out the bottle of Yanxu Pill he bought, poured out a pill and placed it in his palm. After hesitating for a long time, he made up his mind and put the pill into his mouth with his eyes closed.

What he didn't expect was that the Yanxu Pill melted instantly as soon as it entered his mouth, turning into a fragrant liquid medicine, which even tasted a little sweet, making people salivate.

As the liquid medicine entered his stomach, Yuan Ming suddenly felt a cool feeling ripple from his abdomen, running all the way to his limbs. The feeling was as refreshing as drinking a bowl of iced herbal tea at noon in the dog days of summer.

Then, Yuan Ming felt an extremely strong medicinal power merging into his body. He hurriedly practiced the skills and intensified his practice while the medicinal power was dissolving.

It didn't take long for him to complete a cycle. Although his magic power didn't increase significantly, the speed of practice was indeed a little faster than before.

But at this moment, Yuan Ming suddenly felt a pain in his eyebrows, and then a noisy sound like insects came from his ears.

At the same time, a very thin black mist suddenly appeared in his sea of ​​consciousness, slowly enveloping his soul.

Yuan Ming's consciousness became hazy, and he felt that he seemed to have turned into a black insect lurking in the sand, echoing the chirping of his companions from time to time.

But after a moment, this feeling suddenly dissipated, and Yuan Ming returned to normal.

He rubbed his eyebrows, looked at the Yanxu Pill placed beside him, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Relying on Yanxu Pill to practice, the speed is fast, but he has to endure the erosion of various emotions in refining his willpower every day. If he takes this insect pill to practice, in the long run, I am afraid that the realm of his soul will be affected.

Yuan Ming shook his head, put away the Yanxu Pill, and decided not to take this medicine for the time being.

He tried other pills and found that the pills here were very normal in effect except that they were extremely expensive, so he was a little relieved.