Longevity, Starting From Raising Chickens

Chapter 222 Independent Cultivator Gathering Place

Quiet room.

The green smoke ignited by the 'Dong Shen Ning Ling Incense' rose straight up, condensing and not dissipating.

Sitting cross-legged on the 'Qing Ling Jade Futon', Wang Ba took a gentle breath, and the wisp of green smoke poured into his nose leisurely.

Then Wang Ba let out a long, white breath.

After a while, Wang Ba slowly opened his eyes, showing satisfaction and regret:

"This spirit stone is well spent. Not only can it refine mana again, but it can also speed up the movement of mana..."

"It's a pity that there are too few."

This cave spirit condensing incense was specially bought from Wen Yong with spirit stones.

It is very beneficial to practice.

The price is quite high, one stick of incense costs about three or four Middle Grade spiritual stones.

Originally, even if Wang Ba took the spirit chicken essence every day, it would take more than ten or twenty years to reach the middle stage of Foundation Building. It was by relying on precious cultivation resources such as the 'Dong Shen Ning Ling Fragrance' that he was able to quickly accumulate mana.

This method has no other disadvantages, except that it consumes a lot of spiritual stones.

Of course, as the current cash cow of the Shanli Singing Club, Wang Ba said, even if Wen Yong bought the Dong Shen Ning Ling Xiang from someone else, and the cost was not low, Wen Yong would not accept his spirit stone.

But Wang Ba was determined not to owe any favors.

After all, he had a stake in the singing club and owed favors. How could he have the nerve to take more when the dividends came.

What's more, since the two started working together, Wang Ba has been quite satisfied with what Wen Yong has done. Not only has he never revealed Wang Ba's identity, but he has also been extremely generous when distributing dividends.

Although he knew that the other party did this because he wanted to keep his cash cow, Wang Ba was really embarrassed to take things from the singing club for nothing.

In particular, he also knew that over the years of cooperation between the two, the spiritual stones Wen Yong had earned were actually far less than what he had earned.

Because the cost of making spiritual chicken essence is just spending money to purchase chicken feed and spiritual materials for preparing the treatment solution. Other than that, it only consumes more time.

After all, even if his refining speed is fast, there is an upper limit to the number of spiritual chickens he can process every day.

He would be able to make about one or two bottles of Spirit Chicken Essence even if he did nothing for the whole day.

Both he and Bu Chan would keep some of it to supply their own practice first, and then sell the excess.

Even so, he would release twenty or thirty bottles every three or four months.

It’s just that the more you earn, the more you spend.

After 1989, with the dividends, I purchased spiritual beasts, purchased training resources, and spent a lot of money on the second floor of Linglong Ghost Market to buy a set of incomplete small Rank Three defensive formations and two sets of 'teleportation talisman formations'. , he spent 77,888 yuan of his savings, and only had nearly 10,000 Middle Grade spiritual stones left.

It's not like he became floating just because he had a spiritual stone.

The main reason is that the incomplete Rank Three defensive formation and teleportation talisman formation are too friendly to people like him who have always had no sense of security.

It goes without saying much about the Rank Three defensive formation, everyone knows it.

The teleportation talisman array can lay down a formation disk in a fixed place. As long as you are within the coverage of this formation, you can use the teleportation talisman to quickly return to the vicinity of the formation disk.

Of course, this coverage is a bit useless, with the array as the center, it is about 200 miles.

Wang Ba placed one directly at home, and also placed one in a hidden mountain ravine not far from Baiyunping, about 180 miles away from home.

In this way, if something dangerous happens, he and Bu Chan can escape in time.

It's a pity that these three items were obtained from a monk whose sect was destroyed and had to sell off his sect's heritage. Even if he wanted to buy a few more sets, they were gone.

He stood up leisurely and walked out of the quiet room used for practice.

As usual, he took time to go to the chicken coop and quickly processed hundreds of Rank One chickens one after another.

But before he could refine it with the Spirit Chef Law Weapon, he suddenly felt something in his heart.

Faintly aware of a movement coming from outside.

"Um?"

His eyes were electric, as if they penetrated an extremely long distance.

"Telephone?"

Wang Ba looked puzzled and made a move.

Soon, a transmission note was put into the formation barrier and fell into Wang Ba's hands.

"Wen Yong?"

Looking over, Wang Ba's face suddenly showed a hint of surprise.

"Okay! The Rank Two weapon refiner has already arrived in the Yan Kingdom, and is now heading to the area where the Zhenling Palace is located. I am afraid that he will be able to reach the vicinity of Baiyunping in three to five days at most."

Wang Ba was delighted.

Rank Two weapon refining masters need to accumulate a lot of refining experience to become successful. They are very rare in the Yan Kingdom and are basically controlled by a few major sects.

Especially in the Zhenling Palace in the far north of the Yan Kingdom, its supreme elder is also the only Nascent Soul True Monarch in the Yan Kingdom. Zhang Daobai is an extremely rare Rank Three weapon refiner.

As for Rank Four, not only does it exist in Yan State, but also in almost all the surrounding small countries.

The reason is also simple. In a small country, low-end resources are still available, but when you reach Rank Three, they become tight.

There is basically no need to think about Rank Four resources. They are almost all in the hands of top forces such as Da Chu, Da Yan, Da Qi, and Da Jin.

Without sufficient resources for training, no matter how talented a monk is, it is impossible to be promoted. Therefore, among small countries, the top monks who are proficient in various arts are Rank Three.

There are occasional exceptions, but they are few and far between.

In most cases, many of the Law Weapons in the hands of monks from small countries were dumped by big forces.

This can also be regarded as a means for big forces to exploit and suppress monks from small countries.

In this regard, although Wang Ba is not a weapon refiner, he has heard a lot of relevant insider information from Wen Yong.

However, Wang Ba was still full of expectations when he thought that the Law Weapon, the Rank Two spiritual chef he had longed for, could finally be refined.

It's really because refining the spirit chicken essence is too time-consuming.

One bottle of essence needs to process approximately one thousand Rank One Low Grade spirit chickens.

And if it is changed to Rank Two Spirit Chicken, not only the effect of Spirit Chicken Essence will be greatly improved, but the number of Spirit Chickens that need to be processed will also be greatly reduced.

In this way, it can be regarded as saving time and increasing production, which is simply the best of both worlds.

But although he was a little happy and a little impatient, he still calmed down the waves in his heart.

I endured my patience, processed and refined the spiritual chicken on hand, and finally got half a bottle of spiritual chicken essence.

After tidying up, the defensive formation was opened.

Strided out.

And the moment he walked out, the power of Yin Shen also quietly started to rotate.

In the eyes of outsiders, he once again transformed into 'Zhao Wei'.

He has a handsome face and looks to be in his forties.

Even in the perception of others, his mana aura and divine soul aura are similar to those of an ordinary Foundation Building in the early stage.

This is also a change that quietly occurred after the power of Yin Shen grew stronger.

This change is not recorded in the "Yin Shen Great Dream Sutra" and "Shen Meng Fa".

According to the records in the exercises.

Normally, the power of Yin Shen can only blind the five senses, and is easily seen through by the divine sense.

Even if the "Yin Shen Great Dream Sutra" enters the second level, it is the same. It just has the ability to invade the opponent's soul and change the cognition.

But now, even if the other party scans it with his spiritual consciousness, he can only feel a middle-aged monk with an extremely ordinary aura in the early stage of Foundation Building.

The effect is much better than the "Lightless Technique" taught by Zhao Feng.

Wang Ba vaguely guessed that it was related to the faceless statue in the Lingtai temple.

Over the years, as his Yinshen power has progressed, the contours of the faceless statue's face have deepened slightly.

It's just a pity that I still can't see the specific appearance.

Of course, the current power of Yin Shen can only maintain such an effect without taking action. Once the magic power is used, it will be difficult to hide it from others.

At this moment.

"Hey! Senior Zhao, I don't see you coming out often."

As soon as he walked out, Wang Ba saw a skinny old man with three long beards and greeted him with a smile.

"Haha, after practicing for a long time, I still need to come out and take a breath."

Wang Ba also smiled and nodded.

It seems that there is no difference from the ordinary Independent Cultivator.

And Wang Ba's eyes also glanced around as a habit.

This is a typical gathering place for Independent Cultivators where the distribution of ‘spiritual veins’ is the main influencing factor.

Surrounded by mountains and rivers.

Houses of different styles, either exquisite or rough, are scattered irregularly on this hillside.

It can be seen that there are many houses closely arranged together in order to occupy a spiritual vein underneath.

Most of these are Qi Refining Realm monks with little strength or financial resources.

You can also see people like him using formations to encircle a large area of ​​land.

In fact, for various reasons, Foundation Building monks will look for places with high-grade spiritual veins nearby when they have spare energy, and then circle a large piece of land.

No one would say anything about this kind of thing.

They are all Independent Cultivators, each based on his or her own abilities.

Unless it goes too far, someone will stop it. Under normal circumstances, a simple value is followed - the strongest comes first.

And among the Independent Cultivators, the Foundation Building monks are undoubtedly the strongest.

However, among the many Foundation Building Independent Cultivators here, Wang Ba is still very low-key. He occupies a small place and only occupies a rare Rank Two Middle Grade building here. He has always been reclusive.

And many Foundation Building monks occupy a lot of spiritual veins, and the area is much larger than him.

It was already evening, and some monks were talking outside in twos and threes.

Occasionally, monks would set up a stall in front of their house, mostly selling ordinary talismans and low-quality elixirs for bartering.

There are many monks hanging the corpses of low-grade spiritual beasts.

Full of life.

There are even some Foundation Building monks' settlements near the middle, where a very small street has been built with shops and stalls, and there is a faint prototype of a market.

And those who do good deeds are indeed called so.

It was also named ‘Chongzhifang City’.

This means that they, Independent Cultivators, are like insects living in the cultivation world.

Full of self-deprecation and helplessness of low-level monks.

This was slowly formed after Wang Ba arrived.

Of course, it has nothing to do with Wang Ba, mainly because the invasion of the Kingdom of All Gods led to the transfer of a large number of sect monks, and the Independent Cultivators here gradually formed out of the need for transactions.

Wang Ba didn't leave in a hurry, but went to Chongzifang City for a walk to see if there was anything new.

But after walking around for a while, he didn't encounter anything that made his eyes light up.

He didn't feel disappointed at all. After all, he had been working with Wen Yong for several years and had seen a lot of good things, and he couldn't even use a lot of them.

With his current high level of vision, I am afraid that only Rank Three items can make him take a high look.

We walked to the only Lingcha Tea House in Fang City.

It's a small place with only seven or eight small tables.

The environment is really average.

Wang Ba didn't care. He ordered a pot of Rank One Middle Grade spirit tea, took a few sips, and then pricked up his ears to listen to the chatter of the monks in the teahouse.

Every once in a while, he would come here to sit.

It’s not that the tea is good, it’s mainly that you don’t lose touch with the current environment.

Although these Independent Cultivators are at the bottom, they can see things from different angles because of this.

From their chats, we may be able to learn about the latest situation in Yan Kingdom.

"Senior Zhao is in good health!"

"Senior Zhao is here to drink tea again?"

Several Qi Refining Realm monks who were chatting noticed Wang Ba, stopped their conversation immediately, and stood up to salute Wang Ba politely.

Wang Ba smiled and waved his hand in an easy-going manner: "You can chat and don't worry about me."

There are a lot of people in the Independent Cultivator gathering here, but there are only a few monks in the Foundation Building. Although Wang Ba is low-key, almost no one knows him except the new monks.

Everyone knows that this 'Senior Zhao' has a gentle personality. He mostly does hard training and only comes here to drink tea occasionally.

There were almost no disputes or dissatisfaction with other monks.

Therefore, even if he saw Wang Ba, he was not too nervous. After hearing this, they all sat down and started chatting in low voices.

The teahouse is a place where everyone exchanges information. As long as it is not too loud, there is no need to worry about disturbing others.

Wang Ba then sipped tea and listened to the monks whispering.

There are all kinds of strange things in the conversations between these people.

From sharing experience in refining Rank One Low Grade elixirs, to trivial matters such as a local Independent Cultivator learning from others when they went out to fight Rogue Cultivators, only to be killed in reverse.

For example, an Independent Cultivator went out and met a Cave Mansion left behind by a Foundation Building monk, and obtained a lot of elixirs and Law Weapons. However, he did not expect that the Foundation Building monk was a demon cultivator, and there were many hidden things in the Cave Mansion. The vicious organization, Independent Cultivator, was directly recruited, and he died of repeated injuries not long after he managed to escape, leaving only the anecdote of a beautiful Taoist monk.

Some people are concerned about those pills, while others are concerned about where the beautiful Taoist monk is now.

This is probably a common problem among people and has nothing to do with their cultivation level.

Even Wang Ba couldn't help but stop drinking water and pricked up his ears to listen.

But soon, his hand holding the tea cup stopped.

"Have you heard? The monks from the Xuli Sect who went to the Wei front this time suffered a lot of losses. It is said that even one of the Gold Core Perfected Beings lost their lives."

"What? Even the Gold Core Perfected Being is dead?"

The monks around him suddenly exclaimed.

The person who spoke was quite satisfied with the effect of his words and said proudly:

"I heard this from a senior. The Suli Sect suffered a lot this time, and a lot of Foundation Building cultivators also died. I estimate that after they come back this time, they will not dare to attack our Independent Cultivator again. Take action."

Someone immediately expressed his hatred and said:

"Okay! Great! The people of the Suli Sect are the most cruel to the Independent Cultivator. They relied on Sulifang City to suck our blood. Some Fellow Daoists were even sold to the demon sect in the west. This time The loss was heavy, but it can be regarded as relieving the hatred in our hearts!"

"That's right, let me tell you, the arrival of the Kingdom of All Gods is not necessarily a bad thing. It is said that there are no sects in the Kingdom of All Gods. Except for some divine envoys, everyone has equal status and resources are equally distributed. It is not like these sects. The door is sitting on our heads, making us shit and piss ourselves."

A monk with a grimace couldn't help but said.

In the eyes of the sect monks, this kind of rebellious statement was recognized by many monks.

"Yes, if the Kingdom of All Gods calls, we will be the first to lead him!"

"None of the sect monks are good!"

Wang Ba listened to the words of these Qi Refining Independent Cultivators and secretly shook his head.

If status was truly equal, resources would be equally distributed. He had searched the souls of the Yinshen lineage monks and knew that this was not actually the case.

The normal cultivation of Incense Dao monks is very difficult. Although there is demand for resources, there are not many.

Instead, you need to continuously expand your territory, spread followers, and collect incense for those gods, so as to get feedback from the gods and quickly improve.

Therefore, for monks of the Incense Path, cultivation resources are far less important than the competition for believers.

Moreover, the upper limit of Incense Dao monks is also deeply restricted by the gods.

If you really become a cultivator of the Incense Path, you may have no choice but to follow the path of the gods until death, and you will have to contribute to the gods throughout your life.

But even if he said these words, they would have no meaning.

Rather than saying that they recognized the Kingdom of All Gods, these people were deeply oppressed by the sect forces and even more disgusted with the sect forces.

The monk at the other table heard the chat among these people and immediately interjected:

"The losses suffered by the Xuli Sect this time were not too big. The Zhenling Palace suffered a heavy loss. Three Gold Core Perfected Beings died at once. It is said that they died in the process of chasing the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Gods. It is estimated that everyone in the Zhenling Palace has died. I’m going to cry to death.”

"Three people died?! Oops! Then its reputation as the number one sect in the Yan Kingdom is probably in jeopardy!"

Someone said in shock.

"Haha, don't you think Zhang Daobai is gone? Even if all four remaining Gold Core Perfected Beings in Zhenling Palace are dead, as long as Zhang Daobai is still there, it will still be the largest sect in the Yan Kingdom."

"Zhang Daobai? Didn't that old immortal say that when Da Chu sent people to recruit him last time, he was too injured to go?"

"Do you believe this? He has been injured for decades! He is just lying to you and Da Chu."

An old monk with gray beard and hair sneered.

"Ha! Don't say that. Anyway, I'll be happy no matter how many people from these sects die, it would be better if they all die!"

A monk with a broken arm and a terrible scar on his face gritted his teeth and said with hatred on his face.

Obviously there is an unforgettable tragic past.

Feeling the deep resentment of the monks around him towards the sect's power, Wang Ba actually felt the same way.

After all, although he has experienced Dongsheng Sect and Tianmen Sect, he has always been the one being exploited. In fact, he is not much different from these Independent Cultivators.

It's only now that I feel more comfortable.

But at this moment, a monk's words made Wang Ba's heart suddenly lift.

"Speaking of them all dead, I have some news. I don't know if it's true or not. Do you know about the demon sect in the west? Someone sneaked in, and guess what happened?"

"There is not a single monk in this demon sect, the whole place is empty!"

In the first chapter, the spiritual stones given by Wen Yong should be 1,000 spiritual stones. I made a mistake in my calculation and have changed it for everyone to know.

Also, thank you all for your understanding.

Thanks to Feng Er Chuchui for the 600-point reward and book friend 20230402184543854 for the 500-point reward!

(end of this chapter)