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In the past, in Daliang, you couldn’t buy secret techniques even if you had money. But in Jilongdao, you could practice secret techniques as long as you spent money.
Looking up at the three-story wooden building and feeling the heavy white jade coins in his arms, Chen Mu couldn't help but feel his blood boiling.
At this moment, Chen Mu looked at the wooden building of the Sutra Academy and felt like he was looking at a big golden egg shining with golden light!
“If I could learn all the secret techniques of this Sutra Academy…” Chen Mu’s eyes lit up and he strode into the wooden building.
……
"A white jade coin."
Behind the counter at the door, an old man in his fifties with gray hair but rosy and smooth skin on his face like a baby spoke softly.
Chen Mu, who had just entered the room, was stunned.
What do you mean?
The old man glanced at Chen Mu: "New here?"
"One hour of reading the sutras in the Sutra Transmission Institute costs one white jade coin."
"Oh oh oh..." Chen Mu hurriedly took out the money.
This sutra-teaching academy charges on time? It is indeed a sutra-teaching academy, very particular!
Chen Mu became more and more looking forward to the secret method inside.
"The unity of spirit and soul is on the first floor."
"The sensory aura is on the second floor."
"Go and select the secret scroll first, then come to me to receive the jade slip of true meaning."
The old man put away the white jade coin and spoke skillfully and calmly.
Chen Mu bowed to express his gratitude and walked excitedly into the first floor lobby.
……
The hall is octagonal in shape, surrounded by a circle of corridors.
The middle is open and transparent from top to bottom, and you can see the top of the wooden building by looking up.
There is a transparent crystal orb inlaid there, which projects natural light like skylight downwards at all times.
Chen Mu came to a bookshelf with a brown wooden board hanging next to it.
"The secret method of unity?"
Chen Mu became interested and walked over to watch.
At a glance, I saw the scriptures belonging to Bai Yang Zhen Jie.
There was also a thin wooden label hanging on the scroll, with two lines of words arranged vertically on it - Baiyang Zhenjie, Sixty White Jades.
Turning his head to look at the rows of scriptures with labels on the bookshelf, Chen Mu had a strange expression on his face.
"Why do I feel like I'm shopping in a supermarket in my previous life?"
Soon he became excited, this was a secret method, there were so many in front of him to choose from. He wanted to empty this place!
He put down the Bai Yang Zhen Jie, picked up a scripture next to it, grabbed the wooden label and took a look at it - Three Yuan Secret Seal, one hundred and twenty white jades.
Chen Mu: “…”
So damn expensive!
He read several scriptures in succession and found that the secret method of combining spirit and soul, except for Bai Yang's true solution, was priced at less than eighty white jade coins!
"If it weren't for the slow speed of Bai Yang Zhen Jie's cultivation, it probably wouldn't cost only sixty white jade coins." Chen Mu couldn't help scratching his head: "Fortunately, I can gain experience."
"The secret method of unity is the foundation. If it is not expensive, it would be abnormal." Chen Mu understood.
……
He walked around the hall and the corridors.
It was discovered that in addition to the secret techniques, there were also a large number of scriptures and books related to planting.
After all, this is the lower courtyard of Jilongdao, a base for growing yellow sprout rice and various medicinal herbs. It is natural that there are such books.
After wandering around for a while, Chen Mu went to see the secret method of jade planting.
Pulling out the outermost jade secret technique, Chen Mu first looked at the label on the wood chip - Sand-containing technique, sixty white jades.
Chen Mu: “…”
"There are definitely good and bad jade seed secrets, and the good ones are naturally more expensive."
Chen Mu put down the Sand-containing Technique and pulled out another scripture - Qingyao Thousand Silk Technique and one hundred white jades.
Unconvinced, he took out another scroll - the art of pulling machines, one hundred and sixty white jades.
Chen Mu: “…”
How can it be so expensive?!
He checked and selected again and again, and finally found that the cheapest one was the sand-containing technique.
Chen Mu looked helplessly at the scriptures filling the bookshelf.
The secret method was right in front of him, but he couldn't afford anything better!
……
After struggling for a long time, Chen Mu finally had to come to the door with a book on the art of holding sand.
"Sand-containing Technique?" The old man with gray hair glanced at Chen Mu and said calmly, "Sixty white jade coins."
Chen Mu touched the white jade money in his arms and asked cautiously, "Can it be cheaper?"
The old man with gray hair couldn't help but widen his eyes.
Bargaining in the seminary?
He looked at Chen Mu with emotion: "You are the first person to bargain here, you are really brave."
"Can it be cheaper?" Chen Mu looked happy.
"No!" The old man with gray hair glared at Chen Mu.
Chen Mu looked around and found that there was no one around, so he approached the counter carefully.
"Then you will record 40 white jade coins on the account, but I will give you 50." Chen Mu whispered, "I can save, and you can earn."
The old man with gray hair looked at Chen Mu in disbelief.
"roll!"
……
After a long while, Chen Mu left the Sutra Hall empty-handed and with a helpless look on his face.
Even the worst book of shady tactics could reduce his assets by half.
It is harder than climbing to the sky to learn all the secrets. He is not afraid of hard work, but he is afraid of having no money!
Looking back at the three-story wooden building, this is not a big glowing golden egg, it is a black hole that swallows up white jade coins and can never be filled!
"This is just to buy the secret books."
"I want to hire someone to teach me later."
"I finally saved up some money, but in the end I had to give it all to Jilong Road Lower House!"
……
A courtyard on a low hill.
After finishing his daily tidying up of the yellow sprout rice fields, Chen Mu sat by the well to practice.
He recited the mantra silently in his mouth and practiced it for half an hour.
During the tea break, Chen Mu looked at the tranquilizing pills drying in the shade under the wooden shed and calculated how much money he could make.
But as he calculated, Chen Mu couldn't help but look unhappy.
This is the third day since returning from the Sutra Temple.
Thinking about those expensive secret scriptures, Chen Mu couldn't help feeling annoyed.
You have to pay the House of Commons to buy the secret book.
You also have to pay the lower house to attend classes and ask for advice.
All the shops in Tongtianfang belong to the lower house, and the lower house makes the profit regardless of the business.
Even if I can sell the Tranquilizing Pills, but... no matter how much I earn, I have to hand it over to the Jilong Road Lower House!
"Exploitation at every level is going to squeeze us lower house disciples dry!" Chen Mu was filled with grief and indignation.
When he was preaching in the Sutra Academy before, he thought that the Jilong Dao branch was good. They would actually give lectures and teachings to these disciples for free.
Now he finally understood. It was just a trial class. And it was a trial class with tempting sugar coating.
If the cultivation process is explained to you clearly, would you not buy secret methods or ask for advice on cultivation experience?
The Sutra Transmission Institute holds the secret techniques and controls the teaching staff. If the disciples of the lower institute want to make further progress, they can only pay money.
"I've been working for you for free for twenty years, and you still want to continue squeezing me dry?" Chen Mu felt very aggrieved.
For three days in a row, he seemed listless in everything he did.
"I practiced honestly. I spent money to buy secret methods and asked for advice on how to practice."
"But you guys are stumbling at every step. You don't want to teach me, you just want to raise the price and cheat me out of my money!"
"Good! Very good! You forced me to do this!"
Chen Mu's face was filled with grief and anger, and black smoke filled his hands.
puff!
Seven or eight secret scriptures appeared.
These are all supplementary volumes of the Jade Seed Secret Method.
It was he who asked Shang Huan to collect them, and it only cost him three white jade coins in total.