Chapter 44: The Sutra of the Immortals
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On this day, Yu Zhen came again to the White Tiger's place, wanting to confront it. The two had been facing each other for over a month and had already formed a habit.
Who would have thought that this time, when they arrived here, they found that the White Tiger was actually injured. The snow-white tiger skin was covered with bloodstains. This time, it saw Yu Zecheng not as majestic and powerful as before, but with his head lowered and body crouched, his voice low and deep.
Yu Ze Cheng looked at the White Tiger, which was now at its weakest. He couldn't help but pick up the fire talisman, but looking at the White Tiger's dejected posture, his heart softened and he didn't release any aura, slowly retreating to avoid the White Tiger.
Yu Ze Cheng's unintentional movement actually dodged a disaster. Injured animals are the most ferocious. The White Tiger saw Yu Ze Cheng yielding and slowly turned around, abandoning the Lingzhi on the ground, walking away like a distant traveler, roaring once every kilometer, returning to the mountains.
Yu Ze Cheng saw the White Tiger leave, then walked to the Lingzhi's place, looking at the Lingzhi on the ground. He didn't have the patience of the White Tiger to wait for it to mature, so he immediately picked it and hurried back to Shanzhu City. Yu Ze Cheng couldn't tell what kind of Lingzhi this was, but it was definitely a precious medicinal material. Having no other choice, Yu Ze Cheng brought the Lingzhi to Huazhu Lou, looking for Yaxiang, hoping she could help him solve his doubts.
Yu Ze Cheng arrived at the Rouge Tower, and as a guest came to the door, Yu Xiang naturally had to come out to accompany him. She smiled and spoke warmly, but in her eyes was a hint of annoyance.
The two sat down, exchanged a few pleasantries, and then Yaxiang opened the boundary, isolating others, saying impatiently:
"What are you looking for? I'm sleeping. Lack of sleep is the enemy of beauty, if it's nothing important, I'll punish you."
Yu Ze Cheng hastily presented the spiritual medicine, and Ya Xiang's slender hand shook slightly. The spiritual medicine flew into her hands, and she performed several incantations on it with both hands before taking out a jade box from the Qian Kun bag and storing it inside. She then put the jade box away in the Qian Kun bag as if it were her own thing, without paying any attention to Yu Ze Cheng's expression.
After everything was settled, Yaxiang continued:
"What a pity, this is a 120-year-old Biyun Lingzhi. If it were to be used after another 30 years, its efficacy would increase by more than double. You picked it with your bare hands and didn't put it in the jade box immediately, so too much time has passed and its efficacy has dissipated by half. I can only give you ten low-grade spirit stones for it."
Yu Zhen was overjoyed and nodded in agreement, for this could be exchanged for ten spirit stones, which was equivalent to a thousand taels of gold, enough for his own cultivation for a month.
Yu then hastily took out the two ore stones again, and Ya Xiang accepted them one by one, looked at them for a few moments, and said:
"This is a purple copper ore, worth three lower-grade spirit stones. This is an inscribed stone, worth one spirit stone."
After finishing speaking, he took out a Qiankun bag, took out seven Ling stones from it, and handed them to Yu Zecheng, saying:
"Deducting my appraisal fee, I'll give you seven low-grade spirit stones."
Wait, wasn't it supposed to be fourteen spirit stones? You're shortchanging me by half all of a sudden, this is too expensive. Yaxiang's expression changed, as if she had seen through Yu Zecheng's thoughts, and said:
"What? You think the price I offered is too low? I'm only deducting half, if someone else gave you two spirit stones it would be considered generous. Besides, the price I quoted is the normal price, I'm not making a profit from it, am I supposed to sacrifice myself for you?"
"You're a loose cultivator, you don't know anything, you don't understand, and yet you complain that I'm paying too little. If you have the ability, go buy a Spiritual Grass Compendium or a Mineral Collection yourself, appraise it yourself, and then I'll give you two more spiritual stones."
Yu Ze hastily shook his head and said:
"Not expensive, not expensive, Yaxiang sister, little brother has never said anything. Right, Yaxiang sister, where can I buy the Lingcao Daquan and Kuangshi Quanji that you mentioned?"
Yaxiang smiled and said:
"You wouldn't know even if I told you, it can be bought in the immortal practitioner markets of every country."
Yu Zhen Cheng listened and asked:
"Immortal Practitioner Street Market? What's that?"
Yaxiang said:
"The Immortal Practitioner's Market is like a mortal market, it belongs to the transaction market of immortal practitioners. The basic currency is spirit stone. Everyone in the Immortal Practitioner's Market trades with each other, selling their own unnecessary magical instruments, spiritual medicine, secret recipes and techniques, etc., to buy the necessary items for cultivation."
The largest scale of the Immortal Practitioner's market is called a "墟", with tens of thousands of people trading, and each state has only one or two places. The next level is called a "场", and ordinary markets are just ordinary "坊市". You can buy anything there.
"Ah, I just so happen to have a copy of the Immortal Record here. This is a special edition exclusively for the disciples of our Miao Hua Sect, an internal circulation record. If this were to be sold outside in the market, it would be worth 4,000 spirit stones. Today, I'm feeling generous and will sell it to you at cost price, 2,000 spirit stones. However, looking at your appearance, I doubt you can afford it."
Yu Ze Cheng said:
"Can I take a look? I'm paying rent. Please, Yaxiang sister."
Yu Ze Cheng then became a messenger before killing the price method, starting a linguistic battle. After bitter pleading and grinding, Ya Xiang said:
"Alright, alright, why are you being so stubborn? One hour for four pieces of spirit stone, take it or leave it."
After finishing speaking, he opened the Qiankun bag again and took out a thick book. Yu Ze Cheng looked at this bag and said:
"Yaxiang sister, how many spirit stones does this Qiankun bag cost in the market?"
Ya Xiang replied:
"Yours is the cheapest Qian Kun bag, usually costs six Ling stones. Mine is high-end goods, worth two hundred Ling stones. I'll lend you the book, remember to return it in an hour, take your time reading it, and I'll come pick you up later."
After finishing speaking, Ya Xiang disappeared, leaving a thick book in Yu Ze Cheng's hand. Yu Ze Cheng was in the boundary, no matter what he did, people around him would think it was normal, avoiding unnecessary troubles. Yu Ze Cheng sat on the chair and began to flip through the book.
This book is not large, with a thick black lacquer exterior. It measures about one foot in length, half a foot in width, and three inches in thickness. The outer cover is made of the skin of some unknown spiritual beast. On the surface are three large characters: "Floating Tower Records". Next to these large characters are several lines of smaller text: "Spirit Grass Compendium", "Mineral Collection", "Spirit Beast Record", "Introduction to Magical Tools", "Miao Hua Sect, 236th Edition", "Compiled by: Miao Yu True Person".
These few words are incredibly vivid and give off an ethereal feeling, as if they're about to float away. Yu Ze Cheng was so captivated by these words that he sat there in a daze for half a day before finally coming back to his senses.
Time was precious, he slowly opened the book, the first page was a sheet of snow white, nothing was there, Yu Zecheng was stunned for a moment, then discovered that this book began to absorb his true yuan, as his own true yuan poured in, the snow-white pages began to appear with text, at the top an empty square frame, below were four golden characters, like an index.
Then below this are lines of text, Page 1: Ling Shi, Page 2: Xuan Tie, Page 3: Ling Zhi, Page 4: Zi Tong, Page 1327: Tian Qing Cao...
As Yu Ze Cheng's gaze swept down, the text also changed. The dense book catalog finally had a total of 13,000 pages after it was all revealed, showing how much knowledge this book contained.
Yu Ze Cheng cast his gaze onto the index image, this thing only needed him to send the images of spiritual grass, immortal medicine, mineral and exotic beasts into it, then the book would automatically search.
Yu thought for a moment, then mentally visualized the image of the Biyun Lingzhi he had just picked. He sent it out with his true yuan and tried to transmit the image into the index image. Suddenly, the small frame displayed the shape of the spiritual medicine he had picked, followed by text below:
"Bìyún líng zhī, page 2128."
Yu Huacheng tried to turn the page, but there was no place to turn the page. This book only had a few pages, and Yu Huacheng hadn't figured it out yet. The book automatically turned the page and entered the second page. On top of the image, it read "Page 2128, Biyun Lingzhi".
The book originally had five pages, the first page was an index directory, the second page showed spiritual medicine and herbs, the third page showed mineral materials, the fourth page showed spiritual beasts and demons, and the fifth page showed magical instruments and spiritual elixirs.
The second page is divided into two parts, the left part is a pattern of Ganoderma lucidum, which is several times larger than the one taken by Yu. The right side is text, an introduction to this Ganoderma lucidum.
Yu Ze's gaze suddenly focused, and the Lingzhi pattern slowly materialized, projecting a holographic image on the book, just like a laser virtual image, extremely realistic, completely identical to the real thing. The text on the right transformed into a voice of speech, appearing in his own cognitive sea.
"Bright cloud lingzhi, a type of spiritual herb that is non-toxic and can be consumed directly. It is often used as a raw material for alchemy. The sprout of the lingzhi takes 100 years to emerge, it takes 100 years for the sprout to grow into a large one, it takes 100 years for it to transform into a mushroom shape, and it takes 100 years for the mushroom shape to transform into its true form."
This spiritual medicine contains a large amount of water-based true yuan. For more than 360 years, the water-based true yuan of the lingzhi will transform into bihai true yuan, at which time it will be surrounded by clouds and mist, with a blue color rushing to the sky, hence its name as bicloud lingzhi.
This lingzhi is an essential ingredient for Qiankun Dan, Bihai Huaxue Dan, Qingkong Wanli Yun, and Tianlu Zhuanxin Dan. There are 327 known medicinal dan drugs that can be used, including: Jiuhua Yulü Wan, Fengqing Yunhai Dan...
Origin: Found in various major mountain ranges, often formed at spiritual energy gathering points, commonly found under green pines or growing on cliffs.
The guardian beast of this lingzhi is mostly a lion-tiger type of monster, note that if it is Feng Huo Shi, Nie Lin Jiao, Gui Jiao Ma, or Du Yan Xi, it means that the spiritual medicine has mutated into Qing Yun Lingzhi (page 2643).
This ganoderma lucidum is taken in the following way, when it is ripe, it cannot be touched by human hands, and should be picked up with a jade instrument. It is suitable to store it in a spiritual medicine jade box. The picking method is as follows...
This lingzhi can be transplanted and cultivated. Before transplanting, the original soil must be cleaned up, and Sanjiangshi (page 393) is ground into powder as the base soil. Mix Yuanyuan Dan water (page 126) and water it. Note that after transplantation, at the seventh time, water with Qixing liquid (page 230), at the twenty-first time, water with a drop of Liuli paste (page 9324), and at the ninety-sixth time, ...
"This Lingzhi, after 360 years of formation, is worth 800 spiritual stones. After 660 years of formation in the Bi Hai Da Cheng, it's worth 2000 spiritual stones. For those over 1000 years old, we need to discuss the price separately. This price is the basic price for the 268 markets and 27 trading grounds under the Miao Hua Sect."
As the words in the sea of recognition are interpreted, the three-dimensional Lingzhi is slowly changing, with seeds sprouting, growing into a mature emerald green, gradually unfolding before Yu Ze Cheng's eyes, and suddenly Yu Ze Cheng understands this emerald cloud Lingzhi even more.
Lingzhi is slowly changing, showing its appearance when it was picked. The pattern feels the fluctuation of Yu Ze Cheng's gaze, and the image freezes instantly. On top, it displays that the time limit for transforming into a mushroom is 120 years, with a value of 20 low-grade spiritual stones.
It seems that Yaxiang did not deceive herself. She picked it up with her own hands, and the medicinal properties had already decreased by half. To give herself ten spiritual stones was a high price indeed.
