Chapter 280: Peak of Foundation Building

The Treasure Pavilion was cold and quiet, with no one paying attention.

The business in the store was getting worse and worse.

Now, the Treasure Pavilion had accumulated no less than 20,000 "Explosive Flame Talismans"!

The previous hot scene never appeared again.

Even if Gu Chen reduced the price and sold it at a big discount, each "Explosive Flame Talisman" was only sold for 25 low-grade spirit stones, but no one came to buy it.

The balance of supply and demand was broken. There was no demand from cultivators nowadays, so it was useless to supply more.

In such a situation, Lin Mu also felt a headache and was helpless.

Now the demons were slaughtering cultivators wantonly, and even cultivators in the late stage of spiritual silence could hardly protect themselves.

As for the cultivators in the foundation-building stage, going to the misty forest was almost a one-way trip, and they would die without a doubt.

In such a situation, no one dared to go to the misty forest again.

Although hunting demons made money, life was more important.

The demon race has now sent out a large number of level 7 demon beasts, and ordinary cultivators are not arrogant enough to fight against level 7 demon beasts.

As for the Jindan stage cultivators, because of the human-demon agreement, they dare not easily get involved.

Once a human-demon war breaks out, no one can bear such serious consequences.

No one dares to go to the Misty Forest anymore, and the talismans are no longer useful, so naturally no one comes to the Treasure Pavilion to buy them.

Under such circumstances, even the sales of jade slips in the store have dropped sharply, and only a few can be sold every day.

No one knows how long this situation will last.

As long as the demon race slaughter does not stop, the business of the Treasure Pavilion will not be able to recover to its former popularity.

In fact, in Linwufang today, the Treasure Pavilion is not the worst one.

Many small shops have closed down.

In Linwufang, shops are precious, and the monthly rent is a considerable expense.

Now that monsters cannot be hunted, the sales of various items have declined to varying degrees.

Small shops cannot make enough money to pay the rent, so losses are inevitable.

Baibao Pavilion has been bought by Lin Mu, so there is no need to worry about the rent, but it is not a long-term solution.

There are only a few large shops in Linwufang, such as Qianbao Pavilion. Because the shops sell a wide variety of goods, the sharp drop in sales of a certain kind of goods will not hurt the store's foundation, and the impact on the shop itself is not too great.

Having said that, as long as the demons do not stop slaughtering, even Qianbao Pavilion will not have as good business as before.

It is surprising that the demons' slaughter came out of nowhere.

Linwufang is now full of rumors, and people are in panic.

No one knows what happened that made the demons do this.

Many Jindan-stage cultivators are also in a state of confusion.

Although the relationship between the demons and cultivators has never been too friendly, it is also tepid and peaceful.

For this slaughter, the demons sent out Jindan-stage cultivators, which shows how serious the situation is.

Some people have said that it may be because the cultivators hunt monsters too frequently, especially in the past two years, the cultivators have used talismans extensively, and hunted many monsters, but the cultivators themselves suffered very few casualties. Originally, hunting monsters was tacitly agreed by both parties and was based on mutual benefit. Now that the balance has been broken, the monsters have torn their faces and expelled the cultivators.

Some people also said that some cultivators went to the important place of the monsters and stole important treasures of the monsters, which aroused the anger of the monster elders. Therefore, the monsters issued a massacre order and killed the cultivators to vent their anger.

Some people also said that the monsters have been silent for hundreds of years and have been accumulating strength just to go to war with the cultivators. This massacre is just a warm-up. Everything has just begun, and the crisis is still to come.

There are all kinds of speculations, and each one is worrying.

If they can no longer hunt monsters, many sects will be severely hit.

After all, hunting monsters has a long history, and many sects have become dependent on it. Now that they can no longer hunt monsters, many sects also feel very exhausted. Some far-sighted sects have already begun to consider transformation.

This turmoil actually did not have much impact on Lin Mu.

He has always been self-reliant. He grows and refines all the elixirs and medicines by himself, and has no reliance on hunting monsters.

Moreover, the current sluggish business in the store is not a bad thing.

Lin Mu has always suffered from not having time to practice hard. Now that he has some free time, he plans to practice hard.

The 400-acre spiritual field on the lake island has already matured, and the 18,000 materials harvested have not yet been refined.

The 80-acre spiritual field in the Xuanyue space has also harvested 3,600 materials for refining Shuiyundan.

All these materials need to be refined.

After Lin Mu discussed with his mother and Yunmeng, the three of them left Linwufang and returned to the lake island, leaving only Gu Chen to guard the store. Now the business in the store is not satisfactory, and Gu Chen alone is enough to take care of everything.

Before leaving, Lin Mu went to Wufangju again and learned that Guyun was still in seclusion to heal his injuries, so he left a message for Luan Cai, asking her to tell Guyun that he needed to be in seclusion for a while, and they would celebrate together after he came out.

Although both of them were injured during this time of collecting herbs, they gained a lot.

Lin Mu collected hundreds of thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, and Gu Yun also collected dozens of them. One thousand-year-old spiritual herb is worth at least 300,000 spiritual stones. The two of them harvested no less than tens of millions of low-grade spiritual stones!

However, Lin Mu was not sure how to use these thousand-year-old spiritual herbs.

No matter what kind of pills he could refine into fifth-grade spiritual herbs, he was not able to control them now.

The fourth-grade blood-staining flower was the main ingredient for refining the Hehe Hemostatic Pill. Lin Mu also harvested a lot of blood-staining flowers, but if he wanted to refine the Hehe Hemostatic Pill, he still had a long way to go. Although he could barely refine it with his current alchemy level, the success would inevitably be unsatisfactory. Instead of wasting spiritual herbs, it would be better to wait until his alchemy level improved before refining it.

As for the Chongling Pill needed by Yinxin, it was far beyond Lin Mu's level.

Chongling Pill was a fifth-grade spiritual pill, and even the high-level alchemy of Hanbing Fairy might not be able to refine it.

Yinxin only has more than 20 years to live, and Lin Mu has no confidence that he can refine the Chongling Pill before his death.

Lin Mu can think of many ways to refine the Chongling Pill.

One is that he can break through to the Jindan stage, and then his alchemy level will be greatly improved. If he works hard, he will have the hope of refining a fifth-grade elixir. After all, his spiritual consciousness is far superior to that of the cultivators of the same level. Even Gu Yun's spiritual consciousness cannot match him. Once he breaks through to the Jindan stage, his spiritual consciousness will definitely be outstanding among the cultivators of the Jindan stage. The most important thing in alchemy is spiritual consciousness and fire control. If he can improve his fire control level, it is not impossible to refine the Chongling Pill.

The second is to ask the Ice Fairy for help. The Ice Fairy is like ten thousand years of ice, which has never melted. No one can guess what she is thinking. Lin Mu doesn't know whether she is on the side of Shi Weihan or Yinxin. If she had listened to Yu Shiweihan, Lin Mu would never have dared to give her these thousand-year-old elixirs. However, it was hard to say. When Lin Mu went to visit Yinxin that day, he saw Fairy Hanbing flying out of Yinxin's cave, and he couldn't help but imagine what the relationship between the two was like.

If at that time, neither he nor Fairy Hanbing could refine Chongling Pill, Lin Mu had one last plan.

That is, to ask Master Wushuang for help.

Master Wushuang is the number one person in Tianxiao Realm, and few people can ask him for help on weekdays.

But Lin Mu is willing to try his best.

With his life-long friendship with Gu Yun, this matter is not completely hopeless.

Master Wushuang loves Gu Yun very much. If Lin Mu asks Gu Yun for help, Gu Yun will surely not refuse.

With this plan, Lin Mu said goodbye to Luan Cai, and then left with Lin's mother and Yun Meng.

The three of them fled very fast, and returned to the island in the middle of the lake in one or two hours.

Back at the lake island, Lin Mu exchanged greetings with his father and disciples, all with smiles on their faces.

Because the business in the store was not good, Lin Mu asked the disciples to stop making talismans and go back to their houses to practice.

Afterwards, Lin Mu discussed with his parents and planned to refine the third-grade elixir immediately so that his parents could continue to practice in seclusion.

Lin's father and mother did not refuse too much, and took the third-grade elixir refined by Shitou back to their house to practice.

Lin Mu left Shitou outside to continue refining the elixir, and then took Yunmeng back to the wooden house, set up a ban, and brought her into the Xuanyue space. Yunmeng still had a lot of Shuiyundan left, so Lin Mu asked her to practice in the hut.

In the Xuanyue space, the spiritual energy was extremely rich. With Yunmeng's qualifications, if she was equipped with the third-grade Shuiyundan, her cultivation would be able to advance by leaps and bounds in the near future.

Yunmeng is now at the peak of the middle stage of Lingji, and is only one step away from the late stage of Lingji.

Yunmeng entered the hut to practice, while Lin Mu refined Shuiyundan outside.

Lin Mu spent half a year refining 3,600 materials in the Xuanyue Space, and then used them up. A total of 3,000 bottles of Shuiyun Pills were refined. This number of Shuiyun Pills is enough for Yunmeng to practice hard for several years. After handing the pills to Yunmeng, Lin Mu left the Xuanyue Space.

The Xuanyue Pendant needs to absorb moonlight to slowly advance.

Nowadays, if it is not necessary, Lin Mu will stay outside to let the Xuanyue Pendant absorb the essence of the moon.

After refining pills outside for a period of time, the Xuanyue Pendant can also absorb a lot of moon essence. When it enters the space to practice hard, it can also reduce a lot of pressure on the Xuanyue Space.

Alchemy is extremely boring and tedious. It is nothing more than repetition, and it needs to be extremely serious.

After Lin Mu and Shitou's alchemy level has greatly improved, they dare not relax at all.

With the speed of the two people's alchemy, it only took more than a year to refine all 18,000 materials.

A total of 15,000 bottles of third-grade pills were refined!

The third-grade elixir has excellent efficacy, and Lin Mu only consumes five or six hundred bottles a year.

Fifteen thousand bottles of third-grade elixir are enough for five people to practice for five years.

Lin Mu took out four thousand bottles of third-grade elixir for Shitou, kept four thousand bottles for himself, and gave the remaining seven thousand bottles to his parents.

Shitou smiled and took four thousand bottles of elixir back to his house to practice hard.

After taking these third-grade elixirs, he was very confident that he could reach the peak of the foundation-building period!

Lin Mu handed over the affairs outside to his father and Shitou to take care of them when they had time, and then he plunged into the Xuanyue space.

This time, he wanted to concentrate on his practice and completely retreat!

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Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, five years have passed.

On the island in the middle of the lake, four hundred acres of third-grade spiritual medicines have matured again!

Lin's father, Lin's mother and Shitou have come out of retreat, and the three of them are collecting spiritual medicines with dozens of disciples.

After years of hard training, thousands of bottles of elixirs have been used up, and Lin's father and mother's cultivation is already very close to the peak of the foundation-building period.

Shitou's cultivation has made great progress and has reached the peak of the foundation-building period!

Five years have passed outside, and ten years have passed in the Xuanyue space!

On this day, Lin Mu and Yun Meng walked out of the wooden house at the same time and came out of retreat together.

Both of them had a faint smile on their faces, and were inexplicably happy.

After ten years of hard training, Lin Mu's cultivation has also reached the peak of the foundation-building period!

Yun Meng advanced rapidly and also reached the peak of the spiritual silence period!