Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

Wolf Head Mountain Immortal City was small in scale, only about a dozen miles in circumference.

Although the city was quite bustling, with shops lining the streets and many cultivators, most were Qi Refining cultivators. Even Foundation Establishment cultivators were not numerous, and Core Formation cultivators were even harder to find. The items sold everywhere were mostly of Spirit rank.

Because Zhang Yuanjing's disciples were all below the Foundation Establishment stage, he needed to purchase a large quantity of various auxiliary herbs for refining Foundation Establishment Pills, Spirit Gathering Powder, Bitter Essence Pills, and Beast King Pills. He could cultivate the main herbs himself, but it was more cost-effective to buy the auxiliary herbs with spirit stones, otherwise he wouldn't have enough time.

Therefore, as soon as he entered the Immortal City, he entrusted Liu Jinglong with buying a map, while he himself went to browse the shops. He was generous with spirit stones for anything needed for alchemy, buying everything he needed. Because Zhang Jun was still at the seventh level of Qi Refining, he also purchased a batch of medicinal materials for refining Hundred Spirit Pills.

Originally, he also wanted to exchange his unused middle and low-grade spiritual weapons, as well as the corpse of a Pseudo-Core Howling Moon Wolf, the horns, hide, bones, and tendons of a Pseudo-Core Thunder Horned Ox, and a large number of Spirit Awakening realm spirit beast materials seized from Guo Yuqing, the Six Heroes of Deer Head Mountain, Pei Yunxiu, and others, for spirit stones. However, seeing the situation here, he knew that taking these things out would definitely cause trouble, so he had to give up.

He also visited several shops selling spirit talismans and bought more than a dozen pseudo-talismans and low-grade middle and low-grade talismans, preparing them for his three disciples.

After leaving the city, a Foundation Establishment中期 cultivator followed him. He had white hair and was very old, and it was clear at a glance that his lifespan was running out.

Zhang Yuanjing was currently disguising his cultivation at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, so it was no wonder this person dared to follow him, but he didn't know what this person's purpose was. If he wanted to intercept and kill him, relying on this person alone was obviously not safe. He pretended not to notice and just kept walking forward.

After he flew out of the Wolf Head Mountain area, the person following behind him sped up and chased after him, shouting, "Fellow Daoist, please stop. I am Du Qiyou from the Shaking Yuan Sect, and I want to make a deal with you!"

Zhang Yuanjing stopped his flying sword and turned around to ask, "What kind of deal?"

Du Qiyou caught up, first made a bow, and then asked, "What is your name, Fellow Daoist?"

Zhang Yuanjing said, "This humble Taoist's surname is Zhang."

Du Qiyou smiled and said, "Greetings, Fellow Daoist Zhang. I saw that you bought a lot of medicinal materials. I wonder if you still need any?"

Zhang Yuanjing asked with an unhappy expression, "Fellow Daoist Du has been following me? I wonder what you want to do?"

Du Qiyou quickly waved his hand: "Fellow Daoist, please don't misunderstand. How could Du do such a taboo thing? The truth is that this Wolf Head Mountain Immortal City was jointly built by my Shaking Yuan Sect and several other sects. Each of our sects sent a person to serve as a deacon in the city. Because you bought a lot of items, several shops reported the situation to the Deacon Hall, and that's how Du knew."

Zhang Yuanjing's expression softened slightly, and he said, "I see, then I have misunderstood Fellow Daoist Du. I wonder what kind of deal Fellow Daoist Du wants to make?"

Du Qiyou looked around and said, "This is not the place to talk. Why don't we go to a lake island in front to talk?"

Zhang Yuanjing shook his head: "Let's just talk here. I have a companion who is waiting for me to return."

Du Qiyou gave a dry laugh and said, "Since that's the case, let's talk here. I see that you only buy materials and don't buy ready-made pills. You must be proficient in alchemy?"

Zhang Yuanjing said calmly, "That's right."

Du Qiyou asked again, "I wonder what pills you can refine?"

Zhang Yuanjing asked back, "Fellow Daoist Du wants to refine pills? What pills do you want to refine?"

Du Qiyou hesitated for a moment and asked, "Can you refine Bitter Essence Pills?"

As soon as Zhang Yuanjing heard this, he knew that this person had seen him purchase some auxiliary herbs for refining Bitter Essence Pills, hence this question.

He could only refine Spirit Gathering Powder, a Foundation Establishment realm pill. However, pills of the same level have similarities in refining techniques, and with his soul breaking through and becoming stronger, he could actually succeed in refining Bitter Essence Pills after only a few attempts.

So, he nodded and said, "I can refine them."

Du Qiyou was overjoyed when he heard this, and asked, "Can you refine top-grade pills?"

Zhang Yuanjing looked him up and down and asked, "Fellow Daoist wants to use top-grade Bitter Essence Pills to break through the bottleneck of the middle stage of Foundation Establishment?"

Du Qiyou nodded quickly: "You guessed right. If it weren't necessary to have top-grade pills, Du wouldn't have dared to come and trade with you."

Zhang Yuanjing said: "Fellow Daoist knows that if you want to refine top-grade Bitter Essence Pills, you need at least six hundred years old bitter ginseng grass. If the spirit grass is not old enough, no matter how superb your alchemy skills are, you can't make bricks without straw!"

Du Qiyou smiled bitterly: "I naturally know this. Thirty years ago, I managed to obtain a stalk of eight hundred years old bitter ginseng grass and asked an alchemist in the Immortal City to refine pills, but not a single top-grade pill was produced. If you can refine top-grade Bitter Essence Pills for me, I will naturally reward you handsomely!"

Zhang Yuanjing asked, "How will you reward me?"

Seeing that Zhang Yuanjing did not answer whether he could refine top-grade pills, but only asked about the reward, Du Qiyou couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. He carefully said: "The reward naturally depends on what you need. I can afford spiritual weapons, spiritual talismans, and spirit stones. I wonder, can you refine top-grade pills?"

Zhang Yuanjing smiled: "As long as the medicinal materials meet the age requirements, it is not difficult to refine top-grade pills. The key is what reward you can give!"

Du Qiyou gritted his teeth: "What reward do you need? Spiritual weapons, spiritual talismans, spirit stones? Or something else?"

Zhang Yuanjing pondered for a moment and said: "This humble Taoist likes to collect some strange spiritual plants. I wonder if Fellow Daoist Du has any?"

Du Qiyou hesitated and said: "I wonder if nine-leaf yellow hibiscus grass or tiger tail grass will do?"

Zhang Yuanjing smiled and shook his head: "These are just ordinary spiritual grasses. Although they are precious, they are not strange."

Du Qiyou racked his brains and spoke of several other types, but they were either too low in grade or too common, and none of them pleased Zhang Yuanjing. If it were someone else, they would probably think that Zhang Yuanjing was deliberately making things difficult and would have left in anger long ago.

However, Du Qiyou had finally found a cultivator who claimed to be able to refine top-grade Bitter Essence Pills, and he was like a drowning man grabbing a life-saving straw. How could he give up? After thinking about it, he took out a golden spirit fruit and asked with hope in his eyes: "This fruit is called Golden Scale Fruit. It is very peculiar, but it can only be eaten by demon beasts. Fellow Daoist Zhang, take a look, will this fruit do?"

Golden Scale Fruit! As soon as this fruit came out, it immediately awakened a deep and unforgettable memory in Zhang Yuanjing's mind.

Probably no one knows this thing better than him! Back then, if Wu Yuankui hadn't given him a Golden Scale Fruit, where would the current Zhang Yuanjing be? He would probably have turned into a pile of bones in the tomb decades ago.

"Fellow Daoist Zhang?"

Zhang Yuanjing smiled casually and said, "The power inside this fruit is tyrannical, and it is indeed not something that cultivators can consume. Where did Fellow Daoist get this fruit from?"

Du Qiyou said: "I exchanged this from the Zhu family cultivator in Fanyu State, three million miles to the north. I originally wanted to feed it to my spirit beast."

Sure enough, it's Fanyu State!

Zhang Yuanjing pondered for a moment and said: "This fruit barely meets my requirements. How about this, I want to go to the place where this fruit grows to investigate and see if I can find a neutralizing medicine to make a pill that cultivators can use. I wonder if Fellow Daoist has a map to Fanyu State?"

Du Qiyou quickly said: "Yes, yes. The Zhu family of Fanyu State is a cultivation family with Core Formation cultivators. Many cultivators go there, and I have a very detailed map."