Chapter 36: The dilemma of the casual cultivators, exploring the sea moon at night

Wei Zhong woke up from his training and sighed:

"I didn't expect that this training would take half a year."

Looking at the panel:

【Name: Wei Zhong】

[Cultivation: Foundation Building Level 12 (%)]

[Kung Fu: Spring and Autumn Water Refining Technique·Mastery (51%); Health-preserving Kung Fu·Mastery (88%)]

【Shouyuan: 116/240】

【Magic:
Master of Invisibility (43%)
Master of Breath Control (1%)
Cloud-flying Technique - Grandmaster (1%)
Throwing Technique: Grandmaster (11%)
Geng Swordsmanship·Master (68%)】

For half a year, Wei Zhong's cultivation and practice of magic went hand in hand.

Among them, he only practiced the Breath-Concealing Technique and the Cloud-Flying Technique. After unremitting efforts, both of them were successfully improved to the master level.

What surprised Wei Zhong was that after the Breath-Concealing Technique was upgraded to the Grandmaster level, it also developed a special feature, which is that it can resist the detection of spiritual consciousness.

Thinking about the day when he was discovered by Lu Yibin in the mine, it was probably the power of his spiritual consciousness.

There was also the Cloud-Flying Technique, which brought about a change that Wei Zhong could not explain.

Wei Zhong couldn't help but sigh: the way of magic is mysterious and wonderful beyond words.

The grandmaster-level cloud-flying technique is no longer about flying in the clouds, but about directly controlling the spiritual energy to fly, and there is a vague illusion of teleportation.

This has greatly improved Wei Zhong's escape speed. As for how fast it is exactly, we have to compare it with other foundation-building cultivators to know.

However, the improvement in his cultivation was somewhat unsatisfactory. Wei Zhong understood that the further he progressed, the more difficult it would be to improve his cultivation.

My own talent has become a huge disadvantage here.

No wonder Jindan is so rare. Ordinary cultivators cannot even touch the door of promotion without great opportunity.

But fortunately Wei Zhong is different.

After taking a top-grade Qi-nourishing Pill, Wei Zhong shook his head:
"At this moment, the Qi-nourishing Pills have truly become sugar beans to me. If I want to further rapidly increase my cultivation, I will need to purchase Qi-combining Pills that match the foundation-building stage.

In this way, there is a spiritual land outside and elixir inside, which takes care of both inside and outside. "

The second-level winemaking inheritance I got from Hu Yang also includes a recipe for spiritual wine that can enhance cultivation. I haven't had time to collect the spiritual herbs in the recipe these days, so I won't be able to brew it in the future and I don't know how effective it will be.

Wei Zhong finished his training and walked out of the cave, then he walked towards the square on the spiritual energy in the air. He needed to enrich himself before exploring Haiyue Lake.

After a while,
Wei Zhong held a second-level magic sword with a twitching expression, and said to the shopkeeper in front of him:
"Could you please give me a cheaper price?"

The Taoist monk opposite shook his head:
“Please don’t embarrass me, this price is already the lowest price I can offer, there is really no way to lower it any further.

If you were a guest of our sect, you could get a discount, but..."

Wei Zhong waved his hands, looking helpless.

'After I was promoted to the foundation-building stage, I have a clearer view of the true face of the Qingmu Sect. In order to exclude dissidents, they actually came up with this guest official system, which is really squeezing the living space of independent cultivators everywhere.'

I had no choice but to take out the spirit stone.

"purchase!"

A moment later, Wei Zhong left here wearing a second-level magic robe and carrying a second-level magic sword.

It is not possible without spending spirit stones. Magical weapons are an indispensable part of a cultivator's strength.

Although Wei Zhong always relies on magic in fighting, magical weapons can also be useful at times.

Looking at the heavy magic sword in his hand, Wei Zhong sighed.

"The blade is black and looks very bad. It is a magical sword that ordinary people would not choose."

The reason why Wei Zhong bought this sword was to deal with the Taoist Candle's Fiery Stone Scissors.

Although we cannot believe all of Li Haowen’s words, the fact that he owns this pair of precious scissors should be true.

So Wei Zhong specially bought a thick heavy sword, so that he could at least resist a few more attacks from the magic weapon during the fight.

Wei Zhong was walking through the market, with a trace of heartache on his face. Two second-level magic tools cost Wei Zhong more than 4,000 low-grade spirit stones. This was of course due to the slightly higher price of the second-level magic robe, but it was enough to show its value.

With such a high price, it’s no wonder that there is no second-level magic weapon among the trump cards of Liu Neng and his three companions.

Perhaps there is also a reason why the spiritual power of the Qi Refining cultivators is too weak to perfectly activate the second-level magic weapon.

Wei Zhong shook his head and went to Lingdan Pavilion to buy Qi-inducing pills.

After asking around, he learned that the price of a low-grade Qi-combining pill was 300 spirit stones, and a medium-grade one was 500, but they were limited in quantity. As for the high-grade ones, they were not sold to casual cultivators like Wei Zhong.

"Well, it's the guest authority again. Wei Zhong can only say that Qingmu Zong is playing a trick."

After buying a few bottles of pills, Wei Zhong went to the task entrustment office. There were already many messages below the spiritual land task he posted.

But all those mentioned were first-class spiritual places. Wei Zhong took a quick look and memorized a few that were barely acceptable. He planned to choose from among them if the matter at Haiyue Lake was not feasible.

After returning to the courtyard and refining the magic weapon, Wei Zhong checked himself and found that he had made sufficient preparations.

'Let's go explore Haiyue Lake.'

Haiyue Lake where the Li family is located is located to the north of Qingmu Sect, which is not far away. With Wei Zhong's speed of escape, it took less than half a day to arrive there.

'This master-level cloud-flying technique has an astonishing speed, and consumes more spiritual energy than before.'

He found a secluded corner, entered the cave, and took out the elixir he had just bought to restore his spiritual power.

After taking a low-grade Qi-combining pill, Wei Zhong immediately discovered that its effect was much better than that of the Qi-nourishing pill. After tasting the mid-grade pill, Wei Zhong frowned.

Although the middle grade is better than the lower grade, the improvement is far less obvious than the Qi-nourishing Pills taken during Qi Refining. Thinking about its price, he felt relieved.

It was already late at night when I finished making the adjustments. I had no idea how much time had passed during my practice, let alone day or night.

Wei Zhong headed towards the Li family’s base in the dark.

In the dead of night, a few spots of light could be seen sporadically below, and most of the Li family's land was shrouded in darkness.

The mortals have taken advantage of the night to rest, and the monks have immersed themselves in cultivation. Only the night watchmen or night watchmen carry torches and shuttle through the alleys of the courtyard.

The two tallest second-level spiritual islands were pitch black, without any light.

As far as Wei Zhong knew, the island with the second-level medium-grade spiritual vein had been occupied by Taoist Zhu alone, and was used for his own cultivation.

The inferior second-grade spiritual vein islands were used as bases for cultivating spiritual creatures, where various spiritual creatures were planted, and the Li family was prohibited from practicing here.

All members of the Li family were forced to retreat to other first-level spiritual islands.

"It's really overbearing for one person to occupy two spiritual islands."

Wei Zhong flashed and rushed to the spiritual island where Master Zhu was.

It suddenly stopped mid-air, and Wei Zhong keenly noticed the ripples of spiritual energy in front of him.

"It's a formation, but it doesn't seem to be of high quality, far inferior to the one from Qingmu Sect."

In Mangyuan Prefecture, the art of formation is not outstanding, as can be seen from the fact that Qingmu Sect only has three halls: Alchemy, Equipment, and Magic.

Cultivators who understand the art of magic arrays are extremely scarce, especially the independent cultivators, who are in a terrible situation. Most of them can only make some illusion arrays to deceive mortals.

Wei Zhong was surprised to find that there was a formation covering the entire island.

However, Wei Zhong did not sense any threat from it. It was probably just a warning formation.

Looking at the formation that looked like an eggshell, Wei Zhong frowned slightly.

A sudden inspiration came to my mind.
【Cloud-flying Technique - Grandmaster】

With a flash, Wei Zhong had already traveled into the formation, leaving only faint ripples in the air, but did not trigger the formation's alert.

Wei Zhong finally understood what the grandmaster-level Cloud-Leaping Technique brought. It was not teleportation, but extremely fast travel with a hint of evasiveness.

It was as if an invisible hand had opened a passage, allowing Wei Zhong to quickly pass through it, and then smoothed it out naturally.

This grandmaster-level technique is indeed extraordinary. Perhaps it can also be used to avoid some less powerful offensive spiritual techniques.

(End of this chapter)

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