Lin Heng's eyes narrowed slightly. Could it be that the Mirror Person could not refine the Water Spirit Mother he had imagined?
Thinking about it, that made sense. The Water Spirit Mother was in his own hands, currently being used by him for refinement.
How could a consciousness-formed Mirror Person refine a virtual thing out of thin air?
With a turn of his thoughts, Lin Heng tried having him circulate the "Azure Emperor Spirit Devouring Art," while he himself continued refining the Water Spirit Mother.
What was astonishing was that this time, it really happened just as he had expected.
The Mirror Person closed his eyes, and spirit energy crystals began to appear around him.
At the same time, Lin Heng also felt the three spirit wheels inside his body begin to spin faster, while the meridians throughout his body started converging toward new acupoints.
The faint sense of turbulence was enough to prove that the Azure Emperor Spirit Devouring Art was being deployed and used.
Holy shit? He was really cultivating, autonomously opening up the Fourth Spirit Wheel!
Was this how the Dream-Making Mirror was supposed to be used? Combining the false and the real could actually achieve double the cultivation effect.
What kind of concept was this!
It meant that as long as he specified the cultivation content in front of the Dream-Making Mirror in advance, the Mirror Person's cultivation results could feed back into reality itself.
Time flowed by quietly, lasting four and a half days.
The Water Spirit Mother had already been completely absorbed by him, and his body had gradually undergone changes as well.
His skin became fair, his muscles well-proportioned, and his whole person seemed to have shed his mortal bones and been reborn.
He stood up and stretched his muscles and bones, crackling sounds ringing out all over his body.
Hah!
Water Element Body Minor Completion!
At the same time, his cultivation had also directly reached Qi Refining Fourth Layer during this process.
However, the Fourth Spirit Wheel had not yet been fully opened up.
Lin Heng opened his eyes, a faint smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.
The effect of the Dream-Making Realm had exceeded expectations. Even if he stopped cultivating now, the Mirror Person would still be tirelessly opening up the spirit wheel for him.
After the Water Element Body reached Minor Completion, the permeability of his flesh strengthened, which in turn made the process of absorbing and refining spirit energy crystals required to open up a spirit wheel even easier.
The pores of his skin seemed to have been completely soaked in water, harmonizing with the spirit energy in the air, so throughout the entire process he had not felt too much intense pain.
"Thank heaven and earth! Refining the Water Spirit Mother to cultivate the Water Element Body first really was a wise move. This way, I don't have to worry about the sharp pain caused by opening up a spirit wheel."
Lin Heng was overjoyed. This was entirely an unexpected delight.
However, he soon calmed down from his excitement.
The Water Element Body was only at Minor Completion. After this, it still had to go through the Great Completion stage before ultimately reaching Great Perfection.
Minor Completion was merely the easiest step in a three-stage leap. The Water Spirit Mother was a thing that could be encountered but not sought.
If he relied entirely on the water elements mixed within spirit energy to cultivate, even after another hundred years, he might not necessarily be able to cultivate the Water Element Body to Great Completion.
Then, thinking that there were still the four side categories of Gold Element Body, Wood Element Body, Fire Element Body, and Earth Element Body, he suddenly felt that before him lay a broad, boundless road.
"Since I'm already here, I might as well settle in. The Dream-Making Mirror, the Five Elements Spirit Root, and Heaven-Defying Comprehension have already raised my speed to the extreme!"
"What I need next is resources, an incomparably vast sea of resources!"
If he wanted resources, the most important point was fortune.
As a villain, he did not think his fortune could surpass the original protagonist's.
But that did not mean he had no way to plunder the original protagonist's fortune.
As everyone knew, as the original protagonist, Ye Tian held a script of many wives and much fortune. In other words, aside from fortune tilting toward opportunities, another portion of it had been spent on the female leads.
And now, not only had he intercepted Jiang Caiyan and activated a hidden bond, he had also taken Senior Sister Yun Yao, who should have belonged to him.
In less than a month, Ye Tian had painfully lost two female leads. With one side waning as the other waxed, he refused to believe Ye Tian could keep holding on to his fortune forever.
"Tsk, ah~" Lin Heng walked to the window and stretched lazily. Listening to the endless stream of noise from the street, he murmured, "Today, I need to find a place to sell my things."
Far away, five hundred li from Swallow Cloud City, Zigu.
Two figures swept past at high speed, finally stopping in front of a cave.
Sun Hao was covered in sweat and soft all over, collapsing straight to the ground.
Only after gasping in a great mouthful of air did he ask, "Father! What's that woman's background? She was really too terrifying..."
Sun Daoya leaned against the stone wall, not caring about his rather immortal-boned, Daoist-aired long beard, and directly took out a medicinal pill from his storage ring and stuffed it into his mouth.
Only after quite a while did his complexion recover.
Just now, they had encountered a woman dressed in a red robe in Zigu, only to unexpectedly be beaten up by her on the spot.
She had been shouting the two words "Wang Envoy," leaving them utterly confused.
"Who knows where that madwoman came from!" Sun Daoya cursed loudly. "This woman's strength is above mine. If she hadn't had no intention of taking our lives, otherwise we father and son would have been buried here today!"
The red-robed woman they spoke of was precisely Yun Yao.
"But... Father, we've already searched Zigu for three days. Could that thief have already left Zigu?"
"Right now, we're almost at the edge of Zigu. Another three hundred li southwest and we'll be at Swallow Cloud City."
Sun Daoya thought for a moment, then said, "Fine, then we'll go straight to Swallow Cloud City. The aura on that boy's body has been covered up, and the tracking method can no longer locate his trail, but I estimate that thief should also be heading straight for Swallow Cloud City."
"The Bureau Chief of the Justice Bureau once said that a Dynasty Special Envoy would go to Swallow Cloud City to attend an Auction Feast. We father and son might as well go try our luck too."
"Good!"
After briefly resting and reorganizing, the two could only change their plan and head for Swallow Cloud City.
Yun Yao, on the other side, was the same.
She had entered Zigu before Old Man of Black Mountain and discovered some people who had been killed by Lin Heng.
Through the badges on those people's chests, she could only obtain the information "Wang Envoy."
Lin Heng had accidentally been stained with a little blood, which directly caused his already faint aura to collapse and scatter, so her tracking technique lost its effect as well.
She had originally thought Lin Heng had encountered trouble, which was why she searched along the seven-hundred-li depth of Zigu.
By chance, she ran into the father and son, Sun Daoya, and had originally wanted to go forward and make some friendly inquiries. In the end, the two of them turned and ran like thieves.
With no other choice, she chased them down and questioned them carefully.
After learning that they knew nothing at all about "Wang Envoy," she finally let the two go.
"It's good as long as you're alive... Junior Brother, you really do know how to stir up trouble!"
"Did you go to Swallow Cloud City? I remember Second Senior Sister's family is there..."
Yun Yao murmured softly, then rushed toward Swallow Cloud City.
Time flowed on leisurely, and night quietly descended.
Lin Heng wandered around for half a day and finally found a treasure pavilion of neither great nor small scale.
It was named "Moonview Tower."
Three floors, a ring-shaped structure, occupying a vast area, and at this moment it was brightly lit.
Figures moved densely within the building, and clamorous, noisy sounds filled the ears.
"This place isn't bad."
Lin Heng nodded slightly and walked straight toward the third floor, but was stopped on the spot by an attendant.
"Guest, the third floor isn't a place for treasure hunting. If you're looking for treasures, you can take a good look around the first and second floors."
"No. I'm not here to buy things, but to sell things."
"Sell things? If you want to sell things, you can go find those stallholders."
Lin Heng shook his head slightly. "No, they can't swallow it. The things I want to sell can only be accepted by your public house with enough nerve. Let me go meet your shopkeeper."
As soon as these words came out, the attendant immediately grew curious and said solemnly, "Sir, you aren't boasting, are you?"
"I don't have the leisure to play around with you. If you can do business, lead the way. If you can't, I'll go next door. Don't regret it when the time comes."
"Fine... Follow me for now. After we reach the third floor, you'll have to wait while I report to the shopkeeper."
The third floor was where Moonview Tower stored many heavy goods, and they would not easily let sellers enter.
Moonview Tower specialized in the business of buying back and selling treasures. Aside from the public house's stalls and counters on the first and second floors, most of the rest were individual traders renting space.
As long as one sold something in Moonview Tower, one needed to take out ten percent of the transaction price as an intermediary fee.
This ten percent intermediary fee could be understood as a guarantee fee, to prevent both buyer and seller from going back on their word after the transaction.
Treasure hunting and selling goods involved profits and losses. If there were no rules standing upright, chaos would definitely break out.
Not long after, the attendant walked out from the room and made an inviting gesture, saying respectfully, "Guest, please come inside. The shopkeeper has agreed to let you enter!"
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