Chapter 66 Thunder Tiger Puppet Beast
In the Good Merit Pavilion of Guiyunfang, Song Qingming was holding several immortal cultivation books in his hands with a focused look, reading with great interest and tirelessness.
During the two months of this mission, Song Qingming got a lot of information from Xu Ziyan that he didn't know before. Now he knows that the good merits obtained by the Feiyun Guards from performing missions can not only be directly exchanged for spiritual stones in the Good Merit Pavilion, but also for various spiritual objects on the second floor of the Good Merit Pavilion.
In the Good Merit Pavilion of Guiyunfang, a lot of spiritual objects and various books have been accumulated over the past few hundred years. These spiritual objects are the accumulation of Guiyunfang for thousands of years. Some of them, such as the introduction of various monsters and spiritual medicines in the Floating Cloud Mountains, are the information that Feiyun Guards of all generations have continuously explored and summarized and entered into the Good Merit Pavilion.
Some of the cultivation manuals and magic tools are obtained by the monks stationed in Guiyunfang from killing foreign enemies and wanted bandits. There are also some materials such as elixirs, spiritual talismans, and spiritual medicines that Guiyunfang deliberately put in the Good Merit Pavilion to reward those who have made contributions to the market.
However, items related to the inheritance of the core skills of Xiaoyao Sect will not appear in the Good Merit Pavilion of Guiyunfang. Song Qingming and other Feiyun Guards can only enter the second floor of the Good Merit Pavilion to exchange some not particularly expensive first-level spiritual objects.
As for the third floor of the Merit Pavilion, which contains more valuable spiritual objects, only disciples of Xiaoyao Sect can enter. It is said that there are many second-level spiritual objects needed by foundation-building cultivators.
Thanks to Xu Ziyan, who takes good care of his subordinates, Song Qingming has learned a lot of useful information in the past two months and avoided many detours.
It has been half a year since he left Qinghe County. After joining Feiyun Guard, he went deep into the Floating Cloud Mountains twice and accumulated a lot of experience in dealing with various monsters.
With sufficient preparation, he made a lot of talismans in his spare time while performing the mission in the camp this time. Now Song Qingming does not need spiritual stones urgently.
So he simply used all his merits to exchange for various immortal cultivation books on the second floor of the Good Merit Pavilion.
After flipping through a formation book in his hand, Song Qingming put the other books back on the bookshelf, picked up this formation book and walked to the management monk at the staircase on the second floor of the Merit Pavilion.
The person who manages the second floor of the Good Merit Pavilion is an old man with a relatively simple appearance. Looking at the formation book that Song Qingming put on the table, the old man narrowed his eyes and smiled at Song Qingming and asked: "Song Xiaoyou, do you want to burn this book or just borrow it?"
"No need to burn it, just borrow it for two days, directly mortgage it with merits, and return it after two days."
In the more than half a month since he came back to rest, Song Qingming has basically been immersed in the second floor of the Merit Pavilion. Even the Xiaoyao Sect monk who manages here is very familiar with him.
Although there are many books and skills here, they are not precious things. Most of them can be found in the market as long as you are willing to spend some time.
The martial arts books on the second floor of the Good Merit Pavilion were also allowed to be burned and taken away by the Feiyun Guards, but the number of merits required for burning and borrowing was several times different. Although Song Qingming also wanted to burn these books and bring them back to the family in the future, he was really powerless at the moment.
Song Qingming could only earn more than 20 merits for completing a mission. In the past half month, he had borrowed five or six books from the Merit Pavilion, which had already used up a lot of merits. There was really not much merit left to burn and take away.
With these books to accompany him, the studious Song Qingming soon became addicted to them, and even his plan to go to the Bailongshan Market was temporarily shelved. Time passed quickly, and soon more than two years had passed.
In the past two years, in addition to following the Feiyun Guards to the Fuyun Mountains to perform missions, Song Qingming hid in the Merit Pavilion of Guiyunfang to study various books on cultivation techniques.
After Song Qingming had the mysterious Yuxuan Sutra, he naturally looked down on the more ordinary techniques in the Merit Pavilion, but the various skills and classics in the Merit Pavilion were of great help to him now.
It took more than two years for Song Qingming to use the special ability of the incomplete map to continuously study the classics and refine them. Not only did he improve his formation level to the middle grade, but he also successfully refined several low-level magic tools and became an ordinary low-grade refiner.
In more than two years, Song Qingming's cultivation has also been steadily moving forward. Relying on the fast method of making talismans, he has no shortage of elixirs and spirit stones for cultivation. Now he is not far from the late stage of Qi Refining.
This day, after Song Qingming left the Feiyunwei garrison, he hurried to Guiyun Mountain behind Guiyunfang. The spiritual energy on Guiyun Mountain is much better than Guiyunfang at the foot of the mountain.
Guiyun Mountain is a third-level spiritual mountain. Many caves have been opened on the mountain for the monks living in the market to practice. However, in order to save some spiritual stones, Song Qingming has lived in the Feiyun Guard Station when he returned to Guiyun Square for repairs in the past two years, and did not rent a cave here.
After arriving outside a cave on the mountainside, Song Qingming released a sound transmission talisman from outside the cave, and soon the talisman passed through the restriction at the entrance of the cave and flew into the cave.
"Fellow Daoist Song, please come in quickly." Not long after, a familiar voice came from the cave.
After entering the cave, seeing Xu Ziyan meditating in the cave, Song Qingming hurriedly bowed and saluted.
"I'm sorry to disturb Captain Xu's practice. Please forgive me for being rude."
Xu Ziyan smiled and waved her hand, saying, "You don't have to think too much. I'm not in seclusion. I'm just practicing daily. What's the matter with you coming to me today?"
"I do have something I want to ask Captain Xu for help. If this can be done, I will thank you generously."
The reason why Song Qingming came here to ask Xu Ziyan for help was that when he was borrowing books in the Merit Pavilion in Guiyunfang, he unexpectedly learned a piece of news from the old man who was guarding the Merit Pavilion that made him very excited.
The old man was a veteran Qi-refining cultivator of Xiaoyao Sect. He had been on duty in the Merit Pavilion for more than ten years and was familiar with the big and small things that happened in the Merit Pavilion on a daily basis.
Song Qingming unexpectedly learned from the old man that a precious middle-grade puppet beast had recently been added to the third floor of the Merit Pavilion. After spending a spirit stone to inquire about it in detail, he learned that this puppet beast was the thunder tiger puppet beast on Feng Laogui, who had dealt with him that year.
After a battle with the demon cultivators in Fuyun Mountain Range a few years ago, Feng Laogui unfortunately fell into the hands of the demon cultivators. Later, Liu Xingfeng came to support and repel the demon cultivators, and then Feng Laogui's storage bag also fell into the hands of Feiyun Guard.
Originally, the Feiyun Guard monk died while performing a mission, and Feiyun Guard was looking for the descendants of this monk to provide compensation and exchange storage bags.
It's a pity that Feng Laogui has no relatives and descendants in Guiyunfang. Guiyunfang sent monks to explore for several years and finally found only a few of his mortal relatives.
Facing these mortals, Guiyunfang naturally could not return these spiritual objects to them, and could only use some secular gold and silver for compensation for the time being.
After all, the spiritual objects used by cultivators are useless to mortals without power, and will cause trouble for them for no reason. However, Guiyunfang also made a promise to Feng Laogui's relatives that if any of their descendants have spiritual roots and successfully ascend to immortality within a hundred years, they can come to Guiyunfang's Good Merit Pavilion to exchange for a spiritual object compensation.
After several years of tossing and turning, Feng Laogui's storage bag finally fell into Guiyunfang's Merit Pavilion, including the Thunder Tiger Puppet Beast in his storage bag.
This Thunder Tiger Puppet Beast is also the best treasure on Feng Laogui's body, and its value is not inferior to the top-grade flying sword he uses.
After listening to Song Qingming slowly talking about this matter, Xu Ziyan finally understood Song Qingming's intention.
"Fellow Daoist Song came here this time to ask me to go to the third floor of the Merit Pavilion to help you exchange the Thunder Tiger Puppet Beast, right?"