Chapter 9: Selling the Precious Law of the Second Layer of the Dharma Gate

  The female cultivator's face twisted in distaste as soon as she heard Wang Guang's words. "You little brat, if I give you an inch, you'll take a mile. If you want me to help you return this crystal stone, fine! But it'll cost you 500 crystal stones. Anything less, and I won't go with you."

  "Wu Liang Tian Zun, since you've made up your mind, I won't ask for anything more." Wang Guang curled the corner of his mouth and didn't say anything else. In fact, what the other person said was quite right; after all, she was just a customer. Since ancient times, no one had ever heard of someone buying goods and then escorting the merchant back home with their money.

  "This brother, I think it's better this way." Just as Wang Guang was worried that he would be robbed of the large amount of crystal stones he was carrying back to the inner gate, a female merchant stepped forward and said: "Since you need to provide a treasure for this sister, no matter what, you'll need some materials. I think it's better if you buy some materials here before returning, that way the danger will be relatively less."

  Upon hearing this suggestion, Wang Guang thought it was reasonable too, but who knew what the female merchant was thinking? Therefore, he also stopped speaking and simply nodded his head in agreement.

  Hundreds of colorful gems, and a large amount of purple aura. In just a short while, under the sales pitch of the female merchant, Wang Guang spent almost all the crystals on his body. If he hadn't wanted to save some crystals to buy some rare items from other merchants, he would have probably let this female merchant swindle away all the crystals on his body.

  The female cultivator beside him didn't know what he was thinking, and let Wang Guang spend all the crystal stones without worrying that Wang would run away with them. Finally, after agreeing on a delivery time and a communication token with the female cultivator, they dispersed. With only over a hundred crystal stones left, he wandered around some merchants, but didn't find anything that caught his interest.

  After wandering around for more than a few hours, he refused to join teams eighteen times and avoided being lured by pyramid schemes three or five times. It was indeed lively. "The more people there are, the livelier it is, much more interesting than those inner sect disciples who spend their days meditating and practicing internal energy, discussing scriptures and philosophies. There's no gossip to spread, nor any rumors or news."

  Being cooped up in such a confined space all day, ordinary people can't bear it. It's just that Wang Guang was used to being alone and practicing by himself when he was wandering the jianghu, sometimes for three to five years, sometimes for seven or eight days, so he could adapt to this situation.

  After wandering around and finding that there was nothing that could move his heart, Wang Guang returned to the inner gate with the help of Bai Li Liu Guang.

  This time after returning to the inner gate, he directly eliminated the task of refining Xuan Yin heavy water and handed over the Xuan Yin net and more than a dozen drops of Xuan Yin heavy water. Now that he has the crystal stones obtained from selling the Ba Li Liu Guang artifact, those crystal stones for refining Xuan Yin heavy water are no longer in his eyes.

  Ten sets of Hundred Miles Flowing Light were successfully refined in just two days. For this, he also made a record of the method to upgrade the rank of this treasure, planning to hand it over to that female Qi cultivator together with other things. However, before that, he added two blue gemstones to his own set of Hundred Miles Flowing Light, which increased the speed by more than twenty kilometers although the consumption of spiritual energy was a bit greater when activated.

  Once again, after arriving at the outer gate of the Qi Practitioners' gathering place, Wang Guang soon met that female Qi Practitioner. The ten sets of artifacts and jade slips were traded away, unexpectedly he received another order. Only this time, the customer had changed.

  The female cultivator was very satisfied with the ten sets of magical treasures that Wang Guang had traded for. These ten sets were all different in shape, some resembling diamonds, others like rhombus-shaped pillars, and some like pearls. The colors were also varied, including red, pink, purple, black, and seven or eight other colors.

  After the transaction was over, Wang Guangyang wanted to leave, but unexpectedly, that female merchant appeared out of nowhere.

  "Senior brother, please slow down, little sister wants to buy some Hundred Miles Flowing Light from you." The female merchant patted the treasure pouch at her waist, indicating that she had enough money. "Lately, many cultivators have joined our sect for no apparent reason. I see that many of them don't even have the ability to use decent magical artifacts or flying swords, and they don't like using paper birds as a means of transportation either. That's why I thought of your kind of artifact with very low requirements."

  "Wanli Tianzun, this senior sister is really straightforward." Wang Guang shook the dust off his hand and looked around, discovering that the number of new Qi-refining cultivators gathered here had increased by three to five times compared to three days ago. And these were only the ones gathered at the mountain gate for various transactions; as for those who formed teams to venture out, there must be even more. "I suppose these newcomers to the sect are very envious and interested in going in and out of Qingming. A set of magical treasures for 80 crystal stones, one transaction every seven days, what do you think?"

  "Senior brother, I'll say my suggestion, listen to how it is." The female merchant slightly furrowed her brow and said in a low voice: "Within ten days, you provide me with one hundred sets of Bai Li Liu Guang, each set with seventy-five crystal stones. This way, I can also earn a bit more. It's also considered compensation for not being able to fight against the demon beast, what do you think?"

  "A set of eighty crystal stones." Wang Guang raised an eyebrow, the stubbornness he had developed from his days wandering in Jianghu still hadn't changed. "For every ten sets of magic treasures you buy from me, I'll buy a hundred strands of Purple Yuan Qi from you. How about that? The materials for refining magic treasures will be purchased at normal prices from you, and only when you don't have them will I look for other merchants to buy from. We're both not easy to get along with, so let's make it mutually beneficial - I'll let you earn money, and you can let me earn money too. After all, refining magic treasures is extremely difficult."

  The female merchant next to him couldn't help but roll her eyes when she heard this. This was still the first time she had seen a businessman who haggled over prices like this, but thinking about it, after all, he was an inner sect disciple, and if she really angered him and he refused to trade, then she would lose out big time, so she gave up on the idea of continuing to haggle.

  "It's all right, a practitioner who wants to cultivate to the point where he can freely ride the flying sword and enter the blue sky, even if there are enough spiritual pills and crystal fruits to absorb, it can't be done in less than three to five years. I made this deal with him, and at least for three to five years, the income will not decrease by half. Moreover, the barrier between the two worlds has mysteriously disappeared, and more and more people in the mortal world will seek immortality and practice the Tao. Those who can come to the Qi Sect should also be numerous." The woman merchant calculated with her fingers and soon had a rough result.

  Wang Guang didn't care whether the other party had thought it through long ago or came up with it on a whim. He only knew that in a short period of time, he wouldn't be lacking in crystal stones, but instead would accumulate a large amount of crystal stone reserves for future use.

  He rummaged through the female merchant's body and took all her gems, then spent all his crystals to buy the Purple Energy. After that, Wang Guang threw out the Hundred Mile Flowing Light and wrapped himself in it before returning to the inner gate.

  In the following year or so, Wang Guang's life was extremely regular. Every day he sat in meditation to practice his internal energy, and then used gemstones to refine the Hundred Miles Flowing Light, a very obscure treasure. Every ten days, he would make thirty to fifty sets of Hundred Miles Flowing Light to trade with female merchants, using the money obtained to buy gemstones to continue refining the treasure, and part of it was used by him to purchase large quantities of Purple Air and Moonlight, relying on these two heavenly treasures to purify his increasingly dense internal energy.

  Time has not made his magic weapon unpopular, but on the contrary, more and more people have flooded into the Qi Men Sect, causing the magic weapon to be in short supply. Although some inner sect disciples have also discovered this business opportunity and produced the Hundred Miles Flowing Light for sale, Wang Guang's magic weapon has not only not decreased in price, but has even increased. After all, some inner sect disciples do not value these crystal stones very much, and they only refine this magic weapon to collect crystal stones when they are lacking. Moreover, there are those who have a stronger gaze, aiming at tens of thousands or more crystal stone tasks, let alone refining magic weapons is not something everyone has the talent for. With one careless move, even a Qi Men practitioner on the verge of condensing a Golden Elixir can ruin a low-grade magic weapon. As a result, the price of Hundred Miles Flowing Light has risen bit by bit.

  On this day, Wang Guang sat cross-legged on the exclusive training ground of the inner gate cultivators, transporting his spiritual energy. After a year of hard work, without absorbing crystal stones or taking elixirs, he actually raised the "Grand Heavenly Cycle Golden Elixir Guiding Technique" to the second level.

  Although he is not the strongest in terms of magical power among his peers, he is absolutely the one with the purest magical power. After all, other inner door practitioners at this stage are not like him, swallowing more than a dozen or even more purple yuanqi to purify their magical power every day, nor will they use the effect of moonlight to purify their magical power. On the one hand, many newly promoted inner door disciples did not notice these things, on the other hand, most low-level practitioners went to practice Taoist magic and divine arts early on. As a result, time is relatively tense, and many tasks that they think are unimportant are temporarily abandoned.

  When his Fa Men cultivation reached the second level, his overall Fa power suddenly surged by seven or eight times. As a result, Wang Guang spent over a thousand strands of Purple Energy to temper his Fa power after his recent promotion, making it one or two times purer.

  A misty aura of Fa power wandered through the 24 meridians and 300-500 acupoints in his body. Although he had already reached an extremely high level with this second-layer Fa gate, it still took him half a time unit to complete one cycle. However, once he advanced to the third layer, using the second-layer Fa gate to transport Fa power would save at least three to five times the amount of time compared to now.

  "Boundless Heaven Venerable, it seems I should go out and take a walk." As the fist-sized ball of cyan smoke in front of him no longer contained any Moon Flower Refining after that, Wang Guang absorbed this mass of spiritual energy back into his dantian with one breath. Feeling the spiritual energy flowing vigorously inside his body, his meridians and acupoints gradually solidified, and he was relatively satisfied in his heart. "This second layer only lacks accumulated spiritual energy; when three to five months pass and the Zhou Tian no longer increases spiritual energy, entering the third layer will be effortless. If I didn't constantly purify the spiritual energy inside my body, I would have probably already cultivated this set of techniques to the third layer by now, and at that time, I could also cultivate some Daoist arts. However, spending time enduring loneliness to purify spiritual energy is much easier than when condensing the Golden Dan later."

  Thinking of the top disciple of Nei Men he saw on the back mountain about seven or eight months ago, Wang Guang felt that his choice was still correct.