Chapter 352 Qiandan Pavilion
And it is not easy to cultivate to this point.
Without the aid of elixir, Xiao Lin's cultivation speed is very slow, which makes Xiao Lin understand why so many foundation-building cultivators cannot enter the late stage of foundation-building in their entire lives, let alone the great perfection of foundation-building.
Breaking through the bottleneck between the late stage of foundation-building and the great perfection of foundation-building is also called small elixir. This process is the process of completely liquefying the mana in the dantian, which is much more difficult than the bottleneck of the middle stage and the late stage.
From the fact that the bottleneck of the great perfection of foundation-building is described as small elixir by cultivators, we can imagine the difficulty of this process.
It can be said that among a hundred foundation-building cultivators, only about 10% can finally enter the great perfection of foundation-building, that is, about ten, and among these ten great perfection cultivators, it is very good if one can finally condense the golden elixir.
If there is no third-level elixir to assist cultivation, with Xiao Lin's current cultivation speed, if he wants to enter the great perfection of foundation-building, even if it goes very smoothly, according to his own estimation, it will take at least a decade.
If there are some unexpected situations during this period, this time may be postponed to about a hundred years. If it really takes a hundred years to enter the great perfection of foundation building, Xiao Lin will be over 150 years old by then.
The success rate of forming the pill will be very low, and there is a high probability that the pill will fail.
This result is unbearable for Xiao Lin. Therefore, although he has not yet gathered the recipe for refining the cold pill, he still wants to buy some third-level spiritual pills to make a transition and improve his cultivation as soon as possible.
Thinking of this, Xiao Lin went to the city after leaving the inn. Although the Ice and Fire Fairy City is large, covering an area of at least two or three hundred miles, it is not divided into inner and outer cities like other fairy cities.
In the center of the Ice and Fire Fairy City, there is a mountain hundreds of feet high, and on this mountain, there are huge shops built one after another.
In these days, Xiao Lin inquired very clearly that the shops on the Iron Furnace Peak are all top shops in the entire Southern Territory, and these shops have even opened in other farther places.
As soon as he arrived at the foot of the mountain, Xiao Lin saw the sign of Sihaiju. What surprised Xiao Lin was that Sihaiju was definitely the best store in other fairy cities, but here, it was only at the lowest foot of the mountain.
But this scene made Xiao Lin even more surprised, which meant that there must be a lot of good things in those large stores above, and there might be third-level elixirs.
Of course, if it is possible, it would be best to gather all the elixirs for the cold pill.
But Xiao Lin also understood that his idea was basically unlikely to be realized.
Walking around a wide winding mountain road, Xiao Lin walked towards the mountain. This Ice and Fire Fairy City was also like other fairy cities. It was under a powerful ban on flying. Even a late-stage foundation-building cultivator like Xiao Lin could only walk step by step.
So in this Ice and Fire Fairy City, the cultivators walked like ordinary mortals, relying on their legs, but the speed of the cultivators was still much faster.
"Qiandan Pavilion?" When he was almost halfway up the mountain, Xiao Lin saw a shop. On both sides of the shop door were two huge alchemy furnaces, simple and exquisite, and they were made by masters, and they were lifelike.
The name of this shop also attracted Xiao Lin's attention. It was named "Qiandan", so it must be a shop specializing in selling various elixirs.
You know, for some large shops, they usually take a multi-category approach, that is, selling various items, including various materials, talismans, magic tools, and even some shops sell various monster eggs.
The spirit beasts tamed by the cultivators are actually monster eggs hatched through secret techniques, so that they are controlled by the cultivators' souls at birth, so that they can assist the owner in attacking and improve the cultivators' own combat power.
But there are also some large shops that are specialized in selling. Such shops usually maximize their business in a certain aspect. For example, shops like "Qiandan Pavilion" can be seen from the name and the pair of alchemy furnaces at the door that they must be specialized in spiritual medicine and elixir.
Most of the cultivators who come and go in front of these large shops on Tielu Peak are cultivators at the high level of Qi Refining and the foundation-building stage.
The items sold in such large shops are probably fine products, and many of them are even unique craftsmanship, which can be said to be unique.
But the prices of the items they sell are naturally much higher than some ordinary magic tools and talismans on the market. After all, you get what you pay for.
Xiao Lin walked into the "Qiandan Pavilion."
As soon as he entered the hall, one of the pretty women standing not far away walked towards Xiao Lin with a smile.
Xiao Lin sensed it and knew that the cultivation level of this pretty girl was the eighth level of Qi Refining, which could be considered a high-level Qi Refining cultivator.
Such a cultivation level was rare as a waiter in the several fairy cities in the Tianlu Mountains, but it was not uncommon in this Ice and Fire Fairy City.
Xiao Lin had also seen the dangers of the Tianhan Mountains. Even if a foundation-building cultivator entered it, he had to be careful and deliberately avoid some dangerous places. For a Qi Refining cultivator, it was naturally even more dangerous.
Even if they formed a team to go to the trial, there was a high chance of being wiped out. After all, there were a large number of true-level monsters living in the Tianhan Mountains. Even if the Qi Refining team went to the trial and encountered a true-level monster, it would be dangerous.
"Senior, do you want to buy elixirs?" The pretty girl came to Xiao Lin with a smile on her face, and with it came a strong fragrance of flowers.
"I do want to buy some elixirs that can improve my cultivation." Xiao Lin explained his purpose directly.
"Then please go to the private room with me to discuss in detail?" After understanding Xiao Lin's purpose, the pretty girl smiled and said.
Xiao Lin nodded, and then the pretty girl made a "please" gesture to Xiao Lin, and then walked upstairs first.
After going up to the second floor, the pretty girl did not stop, but took Xiao Lin directly to the third floor. When they arrived at the third floor, Xiao Lin realized that the layout of the third floor was a bit special.
The private rooms here seemed to be built against the mountain wall, with a stone staircase in the middle. Every few feet on the stone staircase, there was a private room. The door heads of the private rooms were all built with mahogany, which looked elegant and luxurious.
The pretty girl took Xiao Lin up the stairs, and after walking more than ten feet, they entered a private room called "Lan Yue".
After entering the private room, Xiao Lin smelled a strong incense aroma, which instantly calmed his mood. At this time, Xiao Lin also saw that there was an incense burner in the middle of the private room.
There was a faint green smoke floating from it, and it was obvious that the smell of incense came from this.
Inside the incense burner, there was a round table and two chairs. Behind it, near the wall, there were two bookshelves, one of which was full of books, and the other was filled with some porcelain.
"But I don't know what your name is, senior?" After Xiao Lin sat down, the pretty girl asked with a smile.
"My surname is Xiao." Xiao Lin replied.
"So it's Senior Xiao. I am the lobby manager of Qiandan Pavilion. My surname is Qiu and my name is Hongyu. You can call me Hongyu."
"So it's Miss Hongyu." Xiao Lin nodded, as a greeting.
"Since the senior's cultivation is in the late stage of foundation building, I think you want to buy some third-level elixirs, right?" Qiu Hongyu looked at Xiao Lin and asked with a smile.
Hearing this, Xiao Lin was a little surprised: "Miss Hongyu actually saw Xiao's realm at a glance?"
In the world of cultivation, it is difficult for low-level cultivators to see the realm of high-level cultivators. Usually, they can only roughly sense the realm of the other party through induction, and as long as the other party's realm exceeds their own realm by more than one small realm.
It is basically impossible to judge. Qiu Hongyu is only the eighth level of Qi Refining. Maybe she can sense the realm of Qi Refining Nine Level or even Qi Refining Great Perfection cultivators, but for foundation building cultivators, theoretically, it is impossible to judge.
In her perception, foundation building cultivators are like a deep pool of water, and it is impossible to see the depth at all.
Of course, in the world of cultivation, this is not an absolute thing. Some cultivators who specialize in the secret art of spiritual eyes can also sense the realm of other cultivators across realms. There is another possibility, that is, through some magic tools that sense breath, they can also roughly judge the cultivation of the other party.
In Xiao Lin's opinion, Qiu Hongyu's ability to see his cultivation realm at a glance was largely related to these two reasons.
Hearing this, Qiu Hongyu smiled slightly, and then said in an unfathomable way: "Since our Qiandan Pavilion specializes in selling various elixirs, we naturally have to observe the customer's realm first, so that we can recommend the corresponding elixirs."
"Oh, but I wonder if your pavilion has any elixirs suitable for Xiao's cultivation?" Seeing that Qiu Hongyu was very secretive about how to see his realm, Xiao Lin was also very tactful and did not continue to ask. Besides, the purpose of his visit was not to find out such an insignificant secret.
Instead, he wanted to buy some elixirs for the period of cultivation before the opening of the Dutian Xiaohan Realm.
"Senior, you are joking. Since our Qiandan Pavilion specializes in the business of elixirs, how can we not have elixirs for sale? I heard you say before that you seem to want to buy some elixirs that can improve your cultivation?"
"That's right."
"Then you have come to the right place. A few days ago, the great alchemists of our Qiandan Pavilion just made a batch of excellent elixirs and just arrived at the pavilion. I just don't know what quality of elixirs you want to buy?"
"Quality?" Hearing this, Xiao Lin was a little confused. Although he himself was not a great alchemist, he was a real alchemist and had some experience in alchemy. However, he worked behind closed doors and did not care too much about the quality of the elixirs.
He had also made some inferior elixirs with mixed spiritual energy and impure spiritual energy from the Five Elements Elixirs he made himself, but Xiao Lin used them to feed the Soul Devouring Fire Gu and never took them.