Volume 1 Chapter 2 Worry-Free Five Elements Stone

  Fortunately, Feng Ruo had never expected such a good thing to happen to him, otherwise he might have vomited three liters of blood under the persuasion of this little miserly brother. To know that the snow silkworm set requires at least 100 low-grade five-element stones to purchase, and a white crane plus a seal ring that can hold the white crane's rest requires 80 low-grade five-element stones.

  "Oh, right, Fang Ruo, I have to go out and take care of some things recently. Can you help me keep an eye on the mulberry garden and the rice field?" Kong Fei suddenly spoke up.

  "What?" Feng Ruo was so angry that he almost fell off the mulberry tree, and he knew that this kid came over with no good intentions. Take care of the mulberry field for him? Wouldn't he be exhausted to death?

  "Hey! Feng Ruo, don't be in a hurry to refuse. The reward is a fire-attribute five-element stone. How about it? Look at that broken sword of yours, can't even cut through green bamboo. If you had a five-element stone to strengthen it, even if you encountered a low-level spiritual beast, you wouldn't be helpless!" Kong Fei said with a smile, seemingly not afraid of Feng Ruo's refusal.

  "Alright! How long do I need to take care of it?" Feng Ruo fell silent for a moment, but still had no choice but to compromise. Although he really hoped to get the White Crane Mount or the Snow Silkworm Set, compared to those, he even more hoped to obtain a Five Elements Stone.

  The Five Elements Stone plays a crucial role in the world of cultivation. Not only can it be used to trade for most cultivation items, but it can also be used to repair damaged weapons and equipment. More importantly, the Five Elements Stone can enhance the properties of various weapons and equipment, which is known as refinement and strengthening! If it's a high-level Five Elements Stone, there's even a certain probability of mutation occurring!

  It can be said that at least 30% of the power of a cultivator comes from the Five Elements Stones, in other words, this cultivation world is also the world of the Five Elements Stones!

  The types of Wuxing stones are generally only five: metal, wood, water, fire and earth. However, in legend, there are also wind and thunder, these two extreme attributes.

  The level of Wuxing Stone can be divided into seven levels: low-grade, lower-grade, middle-grade, upper-grade, extreme-grade, immortal-grade and divine-grade. The low-grade is the most common, followed by the lower-grade, middle-grade, and upper-grade. As for the extreme-grade, immortal-grade and divine-grade Wuxing Stones, they only exist in legend.

  Low-grade, inferior five-element stones are distributed in many places within the Seven Realms. They can even be found within the bodies of some spiritual beasts and demons, although the probability is extremely low. Perhaps not even one five-element stone would appear among tens of thousands of spiritual beasts.

  As for the middle-grade five-element stones, it is said that they can only be found in a specific place. Unfortunately, even someone as knowledgeable as Kong Fei isn't too clear about it.

  But the Five Elements Stone that Feng Ruofei hoped to get was only the lowest grade, just as Kong Fei said, he really needed a handy weapon, and using the Five Elements Stone to strengthen that poor long knife with many notches was undoubtedly the most suitable.

  "Time won't be too long, just one season!" Kong Fei said lightly.

  "What? One season?! No way, that's too long! If it were like that, at least two five-lined stones would be needed!" Feng Ruo refused without hesitation, jokingly. One season was a full ninety days, and the reward was only one five-lined stone. Although he really wanted to get the five-lined stone urgently, he couldn't do it this way. After all, raising Snow Spirit Silkworms was a very time-consuming thing. The eighteen Snow Spirit Silkworms would definitely make him busy for a long time, and he still had important things to do!

  "Hey! I'm not having a choice either?" Kung Fu master, who was also quite stingy, seemed to think the condition was too harsh and smiled awkwardly: "It's just that all my five-element stones were used to buy this Snow Silkworm Cloak, now I only have one left. How about I owe you that one? Don't worry, Brother Qu said we'll definitely make a fortune this time!"

  "Qu Yun? That scoundrel?" Feng Ruo muttered to herself, "Alright! Just this once, and you must first give me that Wu Xing stone!"

  It's not good to be too pushy, to be honest, this Kong Fei is actually quite good among all the three generations of disciples he knows, although he's a bit stingy, but still worth socializing with. Unlike others, who either completely ignore him like air or always hold an extremely disdainful attitude towards him, like that swindler Qu Yun.

  "Alright! No problem!" Kong Fei exclaimed with great joy, and casually took out a bead the size of a longan from his storage waistband. The bead was entirely fire-red in color. At the same time, he also untied the Qian Kun bag from his waist and handed it over together with the bead. This Qian Kun bag was used to hold Ling Sang leaves. In fact, the space within the storage waistband was several times wider than that of the Qian Kun bag. Moreover, whether taking out items or putting them in, it was extremely convenient, especially during battles when it had a huge impact.

  So, apart from poor devils like Fang Ruo, basically no cultivator would treat the Qian Kun bag as a treasure.

  He also handed over some matters that needed attention, and Kong Fei drove the white crane away. As he watched his figure disappear, a hint of contemplation flashed in Feng Ruo's eyes.

  Feng Ruo naturally knew that Kong Fei was going to do something, which was to go out and hunt low-level spiritual beasts under the leadership of the cunning merchant Qu Yun, and then sell them in the market. The snow silkworm cloak was obtained in this way.

  Feng Ru actually also wanted to join this hunting activity, because this is the only way he can get the Five Elements Stone, and it's also the only way he can get his mount White Crane and Snow Silkworm suit. After all, he was just a miscellaneous servant, and Qingyun Sect could tolerate him staying on Qingyun Mountain was already very good, those superior treatments he didn't have the qualifications to obtain.

  Even if it's just hunting the lowest-level spiritual beast, Fang Ruo doesn't have that ability. Don't look at his past battlefield career where he honed his skills, but in this cultivation world, nothing is as it seems. At the very least, his treasured steel long knife can't even cut through a single ordinary bamboo stalk, let alone hunt those low-ranking spiritual beasts.

  So Fang Ruo was dreaming of using a five-element stone to refine and strengthen his long knife, of course, the best choice would be to get a sword, even if it's just a low-level one-product, it would be hundreds of times stronger than his fine steel long knife. He had once seen Kong Fei cut down over a dozen dark green bamboo trees with that one-product sword, using only a light and effortless slash.

  Unfortunately, that sword is even more expensive than the Snow Silk set, and Feng Ruo can only imagine it in her heart.

  "But it's okay, I finally got an attacking five-element stone, which should be enough to meet the standard for hunting low-level spiritual beasts!" Feng Ruo thought with some emotion. Among the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, gold and fire are attacking attributes that can be used to refine and strengthen weapons, while wood and water attributes have slightly weaker attacking properties but also have some defensive and healing properties. As for the earth attribute, it is completely defensive in nature, and these three attributes are mostly used to refine and strengthen various equipment sets.

  After the sun went down, Feng Ruo finally barely finished picking the eighteen Snow Spirit Silkworms' second day of spiritual mulberry leaves needed, and even with his strong physique, he was somewhat exhausted.

  Facing the strong mountain wind, Feng Ruo rushed towards his simple bamboo shed in the back mountain. He was the only one living here, while other Qingyun Sect disciples had their own residences elsewhere. However, since this place was close to Qingyun Sect, there were no low-level spiritual beasts roaming around.

  When Fang Ruo returned to the bamboo shed, the mountain wind had gradually increased, and the "whirring" sound echoed in the valley, as if it were the howling of thousands of evil spirits. Adding to that was the pale white moonlight, which made one's scalp feel numb.

  It's said that this mountain wind has caused Fang Ruo a lot of suffering, and it's unknown what kind of strange thing is hidden in the mountain wind, which contains an extremely cold air that can penetrate all clothing and blow into the bone marrow, causing unbearable pain.

  However, it was precisely because of the extremely cold and gloomy mountain wind that the elder of Qingyun Sect broke the rules to give Feng Ruqing the first layer of the Qingyun incantation's mental method. After all, ordinary mortals were simply unable to withstand the chill of the mountain wind. With this mental method, although he was not able to effortlessly display some magical powers like Kong Fei and those others, it was enough for him to resist the mountain wind!

  "I hate eating rice cakes!" Some resignedly sat on the ground with their knees bent, while Feng Wu muttered to himself and took out another qiankun bag from his bosom, which contained a year's worth of food, also known as rice cakes.

  This thing is made from fragrant glutinous rice, but for some reason, this rice cake is extremely unpalatable. When you put it in your mouth, it's like chewing on a soft, wrinkled, and stubborn piece of cowhide that you can't even bite into! What's even more unbearable is that the flavor of this "cowhide" is terrifying, to the point where every time I eat it, I feel extremely depressed and want to curse my fate.

  But Fang Ruo didn't have a choice, because he was starving! In this Qingyun Mountain, even if he wanted to hunt for some wild game, it was impossible. As for eating tree bark, that was even more out of the question. He asked himself, how could his teeth be harder than that long knife?

  Of course, this rice cake is not without its benefits. In fact, once you swallow a piece, you don't need to eat anything else for the whole day. Many times, Feng Ru has wondered if those Taoist practitioners have a serious tendency towards self-mortification.

  With great difficulty, he swallowed that piece of rice cake, and soon, Feng Ruo's body, which had been exhausted, was completely restored.

  At this time, Feng Ruo carefully took out the low-grade fire-attribute five-element stone. The dragon-eye-sized five-element stone was constantly flashing with red light, and when held in his hand, he could clearly feel a warm and gentle breath of air.

  But this is just the surface of the five-line stone, to activate its true power, it must be guided by law, fortunately, after this period of cultivation, Feng Ru's body has gained some law power, although it is not enough to drive the Snow Silkworm suit, but activating a low-grade five-line stone is still no problem, this is also why he is so eager to get a five-line stone.

  One hand grasped the low-grade Five Elements Stone, and Feng Ruo was about to take down the long knife behind his back and place it flat on his knee. Only then did he urge the technique, sending that pitiful bit of spiritual energy from his dantian into the Five Elements Stone.

  As the law force entered, the low-grade five-element stone began to gradually brighten with a flame-colored light, and its surface temperature also rapidly rose. Fortunately, Feng Ru had already protected his left hand with law force, otherwise he would have been scalded at this time!

  At this time, the light on the surface of the five-line stone is getting stronger and stronger. Through this light, you can see a burning flame inside, which is the true essence of this five-line stone.

  Feng Ru was already drenched in sweat, his entire face twisted in agony. The little spiritual energy he possessed was almost depleted, and it would be exhausted in just this short moment!

  "With a 'hiss', a small flame, about the size of a finger tip, suddenly appeared in front of Feng Ru, this flame looked extremely delicate and seemed to have several more lively sparks than ordinary flames."

  As the flames appeared, the body of that five-element stone also turned to ashes with a "bang". Seeing this scene, Feng Ru couldn't afford to be slow and immediately sent his long knife into the flames.

  Almost simultaneously, a dazzling flame flashed before his eyes, and the blade of the long knife was completely enveloped in flames. In just a few breaths, the blade began to shrink gradually until it stopped at about one-third of its original size.

  After all this was done, those flames suddenly wilted and then went out in a gust of mountain wind!

  "It's done!" Feng Ruo couldn't care less about the body that had become incredibly heavy, and immediately ecstatically took out the refined long knife, now a short knife, and carefully examined it under the pale moonlight.

  The length of this short knife can't even reach one foot now, and the width has also shrunk a lot. As for this point, Feng Ruo could understand it, after all, the material of his long knife was too ordinary, and that five-line stone, even if it was the lowest grade, could completely refine the long knife, so after removing many impurities, it wouldn't shrink, that would be strange.

  But what made Feng Ruo's heart bloom with anger was that this short knife looked extremely sharp, and under the pale moonlight, a cold light could be seen slowly flowing, and in his daze, he even had an illusion that this short knife could absorb even the intangible moonlight.

  "Hey! This short sword can be considered a divine weapon even in the mortal world. Let's call it 'Moon Reflection'!"