Chapter 6: Practicing Qi Transactions with Profound Yin and Heavy Water

  "Golden Elixir?" As soon as he heard this, Wang Guang's heart began to beat faster. He had known about the existence of Golden Elixir since becoming a Qi Refining Master, and its incredible power. Today, suddenly hearing that it was possible to purchase Golden Elixir, his mind was filled with astonishment. If he could buy Golden Elixir, he would definitely seek out secret methods to use it to rapidly increase his strength, and even directly condense the Golden Elixir wasn't impossible.

  "How many crystal stones for one golden elixir?" After taking a deep breath and forcibly calming his mind, Wang Guang shook off the dust from his hand and asked in a low voice.

  "Due to the sudden disappearance of the barrier between the spiritual world and the mundane world, a large number of immortals have flooded into this world, causing prices to rise. The current price is 10 million crystal stones for one low-grade Golden Elixir." The woman looked at Wang Guang with a serious expression: "If you are willing to wait for ten or eight years, I suppose the price will drop to 7 or 8 million crystal stones. This choice is yours, not mine."

  "Boundless Heaven Venerable!" Upon hearing this, Wang Guang's mouth twitched involuntarily. He had initially thought that the Golden Elixir might be a bit pricey, but he hadn't expected it to be so exorbitantly expensive. Ten million crystal stones - if piled together, they would probably form a small mountain! It was likely that only a major sect could afford such an amount; for someone like him, gathering ten million crystal stones would be impossible unless he stumbled upon another crystal stone vein or plundered the treasure trove of some sect.

  "This price is quite expensive." He sighed and stopped talking about it, and after leaving contact information with the two Qi practitioners, he took out a paper bird that had been reduced to the size of a palm, and after infusing it with magic, he jumped on it and let the paper bird take him back to the mountain peak where the inner door disciples were.

  He returned the paper bird, and Wang Guang picked up the Xuan Yin net and continued to sit by the side of the pool, starting to refine the Xuan Yin heavy water. Dozens of Qi practitioners continuously refined the water here, but the pool did not decrease. It was clear that there were enough springs below to replenish the lost water.

  Perhaps it was because he had become more skilled, or perhaps it was because the spiritual energy within him had become purer, but this time, in just two and a half short periods of time, he managed to condense a single drop of Profound Yin Heavy Water. Seeing that there was still plenty of time, he condensed another drop of Profound Yin Heavy Water before putting away the Profound Yin Net and returning to his dwelling. After resting for a bit and eating some dried rations, without lingering too long, he took out the jade bottle in preparation to collect the moon's essence.

  Seven or eight days passed in a flash, and every morning Wang Guang would sit in his room to practice his internal energy and increase his own magical powers. In the afternoons, he would condense the heavy water of Xuan Yin, at night he would condense the moon's essence, and in the early mornings he would absorb the purple air of Zi Yun. This way, every day was busy and exhausting, with barely any time to rest.

  Perhaps it was the effect of the Moon Flower and Purple Jade's aura refining his magic, but as time passed, he found that his speed in purifying the Profound Yin Heavy Water increased, and the amount of magic consumed also decreased. When he had collected fourteen drops of Profound Yin Heavy Water in his web, he could refine a new drop within an hour.

  "It's time to trade some Purple Energy." Recalling the huge gain after absorbing six strands of Purple Energy at once, Wang Guang's body involuntarily trembled slightly. This was excitement.

  It turned out that a few days ago, after trading for the purple energy, he swallowed the six strands of purple energy along with the strand he had absorbed into his belly the next morning. The seven strands of purple energy flowed through the meridians and into the dantian qihai, quickly merging with his spiritual power. This alone made his spiritual power suddenly purer by more than thirty percent.

  After handing over the task to Qing Xuan, he rode the flying bird and flew towards the outer door disciples' mountain peak. About an hour later, he came again to the gathering place of the practitioners. Here is the same as seven or eight days ago, those who should argue are still arguing, and those who should fight are still fighting. If there is any change, it is that there are more people, and the proportion of new practitioners has increased by three to five times compared to before.

  Ignoring the surrounding merchants, Wang Guang took out a piece of agarwood from his bosom and lit it. A wisp of blue smoke drifted out, but only for a short period of dozens of breaths, when the woman who had traded with him last time squeezed in from outside the crowd.

  "Wanli Tianzun, I've seen fellow Taoists." After Wang Guang made a show of bowing and paying respects, he directly took out over 40 long crystal stones from his bosom and tossed them to the woman, saying: "Leave one crystal stone to exchange for pearls and precious stones, and exchange all the rest into Ziyun's aura."

  "Do you want to refine the law treasure? I see that your law power is not high, can you succeed in cultivating the law treasure?" The female cultivator nodded and quickly took out the purple energy that Wang Guang wanted. Then she took a large package from a small sachet on her waist, selected it for a while, and handed a string of pearls to Wang Guang.

  "It doesn't matter, I was just casually asking. If this jewelry isn't suitable for you, you can choose whatever you want." The woman saw Wang Guang's unexpected gaze and couldn't help but secretly laugh to herself. She knew that Wang Guang was surprised because of the hundred treasures pouch in her hand.

  To know that this treasure pouch is not something that ordinary people can use, even the cheapest one, without three to five thousand crystal stones, it's impossible to get. Many inner door cultivators, even after becoming a golden elixir, only have a low-level treasure pouch at most. Of course, there are also some powerful ones who directly possess storage rings, but the reasons and differences can't be explained in just a few words.

  Wang Guang didn't respond, just nodded to show he understood. This time, when selecting jewelry and pearls, he remembered a magical treasure from a rare book he had read a few days ago on the way here. The magical treasure was not time-consuming to refine and was very easy to make. Although this magical treasure was extremely rare and few people knew about it, after successful refinement, it would be of great use to him at his current stage.

  According to the requirements of the treasure, Wang Guang quickly selected seven or eight crystal-clear blue sapphires from the package. These seven or eight blue sapphires were generally the same size, and even the edges around them were not much different. The magic power inside was walking in a circle, extremely easy, and the loss was not too great.

  "Wanli Tianzun, isn't that crystal stone enough to cover the price of these gems?" He hadn't communicated with cultivators for a long time, so he didn't know the specific price, which was why he asked.

  "That's enough. Fellow Taoist, you have no idea that these gems are quite expensive in the real world, but in the Cultivation World, they're actually very cheap." The woman smiled and said to Wang Guang. In fact, she didn't take advantage of Wang Guang, on the contrary, she even threw in an extra gem. She did this just to try to rope in this inner sect disciple as a permanent customer.

  "It's time to part ways." After putting a few gems into the leather pouch at his waist, he infused spiritual energy into the paper bird. Once it had transformed into a size of about one zhang (3.33 meters), he jumped onto it and controlled it with his mind to return to the inner sect residence.

  All the way, he didn't idle around, but instead took out a thread of purple energy to swallow into his dantian qihai, thereby purifying his own magical powers. By the time he arrived at the mountain peak where the inner disciples lived, more than 40 strands of purple energy had all been swallowed by him. This suddenly purified his internal magical powers by more than half.

  However, the more refined his internal force was, the weaker the effect of the Purple Energy became. Although it didn't lose its effect entirely, the amount of refinement made him feel that it wasn't worth it.

  "Let's not think about this nonsense anymore, the purer the spiritual power, the better. The crystal and the divine horse are just illusions, one's own spiritual power is the true way." With this thought, the regret in his heart disappeared completely.

  Once again when refining the Xuan Yin Heavy Water, he suddenly discovered that his consumption of time had increased. Today, refining a single drop of Xuan Yin Heavy Water actually took him almost three hours.

  "Yesterday's spiritual power was not as pure and profound as today, but even so, it only took up more than a few hours. But how can the time difference be so great today?" As he spat out his spiritual power to temper the Xuan Yin net, he secretly pondered in his heart.

  It wasn't until the first drop of Xuan Yin heavy water was refined that he had a little discovery. It turned out that the operation of the method in the Xuan Yin net was still the same as before, but the number and intensity of the Xuan Yin net's movements were almost twice as much as yesterday. After that drop of Xuan Yin heavy water entered the Xuan Yin net, Wang Guang suddenly understood where the difference lay when he watched this treasure with all his heart and soul.

  "Wu Liang Tian Zun, I didn't expect the power of this Xuan Yin web to be related to the Xuan Yin heavy water in such a way. Hehe! It seems that the records in the Taoist scriptures are still lacking in many ways. If one only believes in and follows the Taoist scriptures, they might miss out on some good things in the future." His fingers were entwined with the silver silk duster as he suddenly recalled an ancient saying: "Reading ten thousand volumes is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles. Only by personally trying some things can one know where they are the same and where they differ from what was recorded by their predecessors."

  Received the Xuan Yin net at the foot of the mountain, went to the place where the jade slips were provided for free, took a jade slip, and then described the relationship between the Xuan Yin heavy water and the Xuan Yin net that he had discovered. Afterwards, still not feeling relieved, he suddenly poured all the knowledge of the Taoist scriptures he had mastered into this jade slip. Fortunately, pouring in knowledge did not consume much mental energy, nor would it consume too much magical power, so it was settled in just a few breaths.

  "What a pity, it's only a low-grade jade slip. Not even the knowledge I currently possess can be fully stored in it, what's the point of keeping it?" Looking at the thumb-sized jade slip in his hand, Wang Guang felt extremely disappointed. "Forget it! At this stage, if I were to get killed, that would just be my bad luck. Don't even think about having another chance to awaken memories and reincarnate, let alone re-cultivate a Daoist connection. Storing knowledge is also useless." Thinking of this, he didn't hesitate and directly crushed the jade slip into powder.