Chapter 164 How to Gain Merit
"Huh~"
Chu Chen wiped the unnecessary sweat from his forehead and smiled with satisfaction.
After working hard for nearly an hour, he opened up two new medicine fields in the Class A No. 1 cave.
All the spiritual medicines in the original cave were moved to this cave, and the Qingxuan vine was replanted.
"The spiritual energy of the Class A No. 1 cave is several times higher than that of the Class B cave in Canglanfang City. The Qingxuan vine can save some spiritual stones by growing in this environment."
Chu Chen looked at the Qingxuan vine in the medicine field and made an assessment.
The Class A No. 1 cave has abundant spiritual energy and a relatively good environment. Next time he buys spiritual objects and improves the environment of the medicine field, he can buy fewer spiritual objects.
A rough estimate shows that he can save about 4,000 low-grade spiritual stones at a time, and a total of 1,080 medium-grade spiritual stones.
"Not bad."
Chu Chen did not dislike it, and saved as much as he could.
For him now, there are too many places where spiritual stones are needed.
For example, buying foundation-building spells.
Although Chu Chen has made up his mind to exchange merits for three skills such as Xiantian Yiqi Sword Art, these three skills are more like skills and secrets rather than spells.
It is not that the Dharma Transmission Hall cannot exchange foundation-building spells, but few foundation-building real people exchange foundation-building spells from the Dharma Transmission Hall.
Chu Chen has asked Real People Qingyun that exchanging foundation-building spells from the Dharma Transmission Hall is far less cost-effective than buying foundation-building spells from the outside world.
The Yunshui Sect restricts the spread of foundation-building skills within its sphere of influence, but does not restrict the spread of foundation-building spells.
For most foundation-building spells, the difference between merit exchange and spiritual stone purchase is not much.
But merits are rare, and exchanging merits is a loss.
"Going to Wanbao Chamber of Commerce to buy foundation-building spells is another huge expense."
Wanbao Chamber of Commerce is a famous chamber of commerce in the Qingzhou Xiuxian world. It is powerful and its business is spread all over the Qingzhou Xiuxian world. There are shops in major markets such as Canglan Market and Chiyan Market.
Wanbao Chamber of Commerce makes a living by selling talismans, magic tools, elixirs and other items. It also sells various spells, including foundation-building spells.
It is even said that outside the radiation range of several forces such as Yunshui Sect, Wanbao Chamber of Commerce also sells foundation-building skills, but the price is very expensive, often thousands or tens of thousands of medium-grade spirit stones.
Chu Chen wants to go to Wanbao Chamber of Commerce to buy a defensive spell to make up for his own lack of defense.
If possible, he also wants to buy a defensive magic tool.
"In addition, buying spiritual medicine for refining elixirs is also a considerable expense."
After staying in Yunshui Peak for a month, Chu Chen collected information from all parties and finally found a way to brush merits.
He planned to refine second-grade elixirs and sell them to Yunshui Sect in exchange for merits.
Yunshui Sect is not famous in the Qingzhou Xiuxian world for its alchemy skills. There are many alchemists in the sect, but there are only two alchemists who can refine elixirs above the second grade.
One of them is a foundation-building master who has only heard of his name but never seen him. Han Yuanhao and others call him Brother Chen.
The other one is the head of the Liu family, a foundation-building family affiliated with Yunshui Sect.
After all, to refine second-grade elixirs, one must condense spiritual fire. Cultivators below the foundation-building stage have never condensed spiritual fire, so they naturally cannot refine second-grade elixirs.
The second-grade elixirs of Yunshui Sect are basically made by these two people, which can barely meet the needs of the cultivation of the foundation-building masters, but there are still vacancies.
In order to fill the gap in second-grade elixirs, the Foreign Affairs Hall issued a long-term task, which can be exchanged for merits with second-grade elixirs.
"The Five Qi Pill Sutra records a second-grade elixir called Heqi Dan, which can increase the cultivation of cultivators in the early stage of foundation-building. It is most suitable to be used to exchange merits.
And the difficulty of refining is relatively low, and the spiritual medicine required for refining can be purchased from Wanbao Pavilion."
Chu Chen had already chosen the second-grade elixir to be refined, but the spiritual medicine for refining Heqi Dan was relatively expensive.
Whether it is to buy foundation-building spells or spiritual medicine, the spiritual stones required are not a small number.
"Buying spiritual medicine, the spiritual stones cost too much, it is more cost-effective to grow it yourself."
Chu Chen thought about it and decided to open up another medicine field to grow the spiritual medicine needed to refine the Qi-combining pill.
He only needs to buy a batch of spiritual medicine first to understand the medicinal properties of the spiritual medicine, so that he can try to refine the Qi-combining pill in advance in his dream.
When the spiritual medicine he planted matures, he will refine the Qi-combining pill in the outside world. By then, Chu Chen will have also reached a very high level of proficiency in the Qi-combining pill.
He did it as soon as he thought of it. He immediately opened up another medicine field and went to Wanbao Pavilion to buy enough spiritual medicine seeds to plant.
Buzz~
A magic power was cast, activating the Qiankun Huansha Formation and covering the three medicine fields.
The little white mouse stayed in the medicine field to take care of the Qingxuan vine and other spiritual medicines for Chu Chen.
After doing all this, Chu Chen went to the quiet room to practice.
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In a blink of an eye, half a year passed, and nothing major happened in Canglanfang City.
Canglan Market is located in the hinterland of Hanbei Country, far away from the disputed places such as Dayan Country, so there won't be too many problems on weekdays.
Even if someone makes trouble in the market, most of them are some Qi-training casual cultivators who are blinded by greed. Chu Chen doesn't need to take action, the market law enforcement team can solve it.
Chu Chen has been practicing in the cave, or refining Qi-combining pills in the dream world.
Occasionally, he will go to the Dan Pavilion as "Zhou Qin", on the one hand, to make pills to earn spirit stones, and on the other hand, to guide Sun Bingwen and make him a first-class alchemist as soon as possible to repay the cause and effect of Qingxuan Vine.
This day.
Peng Zhoudao came to visit Chu Chen again.
Speaking of Peng Zhoudao, it is quite interesting. He wanted to get Chu Chen's support and visited Chu Chen several times, offering many rare treasures.
Once, he even brought a charming female cultivator, saying that this female cultivator was good at some kind of beautiful woman skill and joyful method, and wanted to give her to Chu Chen as a maid.
Chu Chen refused sternly.
Who was he? How could he be confused by a mere beauty trap?
Cough.
Chu Chen admitted that he was tempted for a moment, but he had too many secrets, such as the existence of the immortal fruit and the Qingxuan vine, so he did not allow a maid to follow him.
The maid lived in the cave for a long time, and if she was not careful, she might discover his hidden secrets.
However, this time Peng Zhoudao did not come to seek Chu Chen's support.
"Uncle Ye, this is the detailed account of the market this year."
Peng Zhoudao presented a jade slip, which recorded the accounts of the entire market.
This included the income from the leasing of many caves and shops.
"Three thousand two hundred medium-grade spirit stones."
Even though Chu Chen had expected it, he could not help but be shocked when he saw this number.
The entire market has so much income just by renting caves and shops.
It is conceivable how much spiritual stones Yunshui Sect can earn every year.
"Unfortunately, 95% of this spiritual stone must be handed over, and I can only keep half."
Chu Chen felt a little regretful, but he did not want to keep it all for himself.
Again, if he was not afraid of Yunshui Sect's demon-killing order, he could take this spiritual stone and run away.
Although 3,200 medium-grade spiritual stones are a lot, it is not enough for him to take such a big risk.
He can get the same value of spiritual stones by living peacefully for 20 years.
Moreover, he does not need to set his sights on this spiritual stone. Being in the market, as a guardian real person, he can use other methods to obtain spiritual stones.
Such as the tribute from Peng Zhoudao and various forces in the market.