Chapter 22: Forging Equipment Makes Three Generations Poor, Refining Elixirs Ruins a Lifetime

Lingtai Market, Baixiang Building.

Although it was wartime, there were still many cultivators who went to Baixiang Building to get drunk and relieve their sorrow. The lights in the rooms of all sizes were bright, and people could be seen swaying vaguely.

There was a female cultivator with revealing clothes and good looks on both sides of the entrance of Baixiang Building. As soon as Su Ming and Wang Ming arrived at the entrance, the female cultivator greeted them with a smile.

Wang Ming was born a beggar. He came to Guiyuan Sect to practice for nine years. Most of the time he stayed in the sect to practice. He had never experienced such a scene, and his face turned red.

Under the guidance of the female cultivator, Su Ming and the other person sat down in the private room on the third floor.

Not long after the two sat down, the female cultivator walked in with a professional smile, bent down and handed Su Ming a thin menu.

Opening the menu, the spiritual food recorded in it cost at least 20 to 30 spiritual stones. Just ordering a few dishes would cost more than 100 spiritual stones. The consumption was not something that ordinary Qi-refining cultivators could afford.

However, for Su Ming, a foundation-building cultivator, a few hundred spirit stones were just a small amount of money, so he naturally would not be stingy. He ordered six or seven dishes in a row, which made Wang Ming feel distressed.

Before the spiritual food came, Wang Ming also told Su Ming about what had happened in the past nine years.

"You are so lucky, not only did you join the Refining Hall, but you were also accepted as a registered disciple by Elder Zhou Yan..."

Su Ming said with a smile after listening to Wang Ming's experience.

The other party is indeed a rare thunder-type spiritual root cultivator with extremely high talent. Not long after he was sent to Guiyuan Courtyard, he completed the Qi into the body and officially embarked on the road of cultivation.

It only took a year and a half for Wang Ming to successfully cultivate to the third level of Qi Refining and become an outer disciple.

And because of his qualification of thunder-type spiritual roots, he was valued by the head of the Refining Hall, Zhou Yan, a middle-stage Jindan cultivator, and accepted him as his registered disciple, and entered the inner sect directly.

Among the hundred arts of cultivating immortals, the four arts of alchemy, weapons, talismans and arrays are the most widely involved, and are also the four avenues that cultivators in the world of cultivating immortals have studied the most deeply.

With the support of the Jindan cultivator, Wang Ming's cultivation in the sect is naturally a long way to go. After nine years of cultivation, he has reached the seventh level of Qi Refining and is also a first-level middle-grade weapon refiner.

Although most weapon refiners specialize in fire-related skills, this is not always the case. In addition to the most common fire refining method, there are also many other weapon refining methods in the world of cultivating immortals, such as water refining and earth refining.

Wang Ming was able to cultivate the weapon to the first-level middle-grade while taking into account cultivation. Obviously, in addition to his excellent cultivation talent, his aptitude in the art of weapons is also very good.

Recalling his own cultivation journey, Su Ming was a little emotional.

He practiced at the age of ten. At the age of nineteen, even with the help of the River Map and Luoshu, he had just broken through to the middle stage of Qi Refining, and he had just started to dabble in the art of talismans.

However, Su Ming did not envy the other party. The aptitude is determined by heaven, and how far a cultivator can go depends on himself.

Xu Yang, who was born in the same family as Wang Ming, is the best example.

What about the water element spiritual root talent? Now he has turned into a handful of yellow soil and buried by Su Ming in a beautiful valley in Jingzhou. There is not even a person to burn incense.

"My nephew can have what he has today, all thanks to Uncle Su's support in the past. Otherwise, I am afraid that I will not be able to become an immortal in this life, and I can only live my life in the mortal world..."

"After practicing to the late stage of Qi Refining, my nephew wanted to find Uncle Su, but I didn't expect to learn from Master that Uncle Su had heard the Tao and built his foundation, and successfully broke through the barrier, and had become a disciple of Elder Fang..."

Wang Ming stood up and bowed respectfully, his eyes full of longing.

He is also a cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining at this time, no longer a mud leg back then, and naturally knows what the four words "hearing the Tao and building the foundation" mean.

From Zhou Yan, Wang Ming learned that Su Ming was just a pseudo-spiritual root talent, but he had a fearless heart of Taoism and full of courage. He dared to break through the life and death barrier of foundation building without the help of elixir.

Finally, he learned the truth and built his foundation, and successfully became a disciple of Jindan Zhenren, completing a double leap in cultivation and status.

Such deeds made Wang Ming, who had been struggling in the mortal world for many years, admire Su Ming from the bottom of his heart, and regarded Su Ming as his own practice model, which was why he was so excited to see Su Ming again.

Looking at Wang Ming with a hint of fanaticism, Su Ming laughed a little.

From Brother Zhou Xun, Su Ming naturally knew that Zhou Yan, the Jindan Zhenren, had also thought of accepting him as a disciple, but he had already become a disciple of Fang Yuechan, and the matter was left unresolved.

As Zhou Yan's registered disciple, Wang Ming knew that it was not surprising that he learned the truth and built his foundation.

Su Ming just didn't expect that he could still have admirers.

"The road to immortality is long, I'm just walking in front of you..." Su Ming shook his head, not feeling that he was anything great.

"Let's not talk about that. Let me ask you, as a Jindan disciple, although you haven't formally become a disciple of Elder Zhou, you should have no shortage of cultivation resources. Why are you so shabby as to set up a stall in the market?"

Su Ming changed the subject and asked why Wang Ming would set up a stall in the square, and what he sold were some low-grade magic tools, which was really inconsistent with his qualifications and status.

Normally, inner disciples would sell talismans and magic tools directly in the store. Although the price was not high, it was efficient and didn't need to worry.

Generally, only those outer disciples with low qualifications would choose to set up stalls. After all, without the support of resources, these disciples' cultivation speed was really pitifully slow. If they earned more spirit stones to buy pills, their cultivation speed would be faster than hard practice.

But Wang Ming's qualifications were high, and setting up a stall would waste his cultivation time, which was a completely unprofitable behavior.

Speaking of this, Wang Ming scratched his head a little embarrassedly, and said with a chuckle: "Isn't it because I consumed too much spiritual stones to break through the first-level middle-grade weapon refiner last month? I'm a little short of money, so I want to sell the magic tools I made before to make up for the loss..."

"As a disciple of Elder Zhou and a disciple of the weapon refining hall, your monthly salary is much higher than that of your peers. How can you lack these low-level weapon refining materials?"

Hearing this, Su Ming's eyes flashed with a trace of doubt.

When he practiced making talismans, although he suffered a lot of losses at the beginning, he was able to break even after breaking through the first-level middle-grade, and even earned a lot of spiritual stones.

Talking about this, Wang Ming's face suddenly became bitter, and he looked at Su Ming with a complicated look and asked:

"Uncle Su should not have been exposed to the art of refining, right?"

"Practicing talismans occupies most of my mind, so naturally I don't have time to be distracted..." Su Ming nodded and said.

Wang Ming showed a look of "as expected" and said softly: "Master uncle has never been exposed to the art of refining weapons, so it's not surprising that he has some misunderstandings about this art, but has Master uncle ever heard a saying?"

"What saying?" Su Ming asked with some curiosity. He really knew nothing about refining weapons.

"Forging weapons will make you poor for three generations, and refining pills will ruin your life!"

Wang Ming almost squeezed out these ten words through his teeth.

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