After practicing Soul-Condensing and Spirit-Guiding Art until late at night, Li Yuan stopped practicing and got up from the futon to stretch his muscles.
There is Iron Wall Body Refining Manual Second-Order and Beast Skin Scroll on the table. I read it through the last time I bought it from the Li Family Rogue Cultivator stall, but I have never practiced it formally.
Li Yuan sat back at the table, unfolded the volume, and began to guide the spiritual power according to Cultivation Method's operation route.
The Iron Wall Body Refining Manual Second-Order version has the same number of steps as the First-Order version. It's just that the Second-Order is much more refined. The spiritual power is split into dozens of thin streams, which are injected into the Skin Membrane layers and bone gaps in different parts, and are penetrated and reinforced layer by layer.
First-Order Iron Wall Body Refining Art has practiced to Perfection, and the physical body is very familiar with this method of spiritual power operation. As soon as the spiritual power is introduced into the meridians, the body automatically cooperates, and the bones and Skin Membrane Spiritual Qi Channels are unobstructed, with almost no need for additional guidance.
The connection is extremely smooth.
After the first operation cycle, Li Yuan can feel the difference between Second-Order and First-Order.
The spiritual power has penetrated deeper into Skin Membrane. It no longer just stays on the surface, but drills down along the lines of the texture, penetrating into the extremely thin gap between Skin Membrane and the muscles. The same goes for the bones. The spiritual power penetrates from the bone surface into the bone, about 20% deeper than it was at First-Order.
[Iron Wall Body Refining Manual(Second-Order): Entry Level(0/200)]
Entry Level.
Li Yuan collected Cultivation Method, put away the volume of Iron Wall Body Refining Manual, and then took out Second-Tier Iron Wall Pill from the storage bag.
The dark gray pill is extremely heavy when held between the fingers, with a rough texture on the surface, and the compacted force inside can be felt through the pill body.
Medicinal Pill did not melt immediately after entering the abdomen, but sank to the bottom of the stomach and paused for two breaths, then suddenly exploded.
A heavy medicinal power gushes out of the belly, not along the meridians like ordinary Medicinal Pill, but directly poured into the body.
Li Yuan There was a dense feeling of soreness and swelling all over the bones at the same time, Skin Membrane the surface became tight and hot.
Qi and Blood is being consumed violently.
Li Yuan is also practicing continuously when the medicine washes away the physical body. At this time, the body needs a large amount of Qi and Blood to cooperate with repair and remodeling. Every inch of Skin Membrane and bones that have been penetrated by the medicine are consuming Qi and Blood at an extremely fast speed to complete the strengthening process.
For an ordinary Foundation Establishment monk, this level of Qi and Blood consumption would not last long, and it would take about one stick of incense to stop and recover.
But Li Yuan has multiple Qi and Blood-like Permanent Affix running at the same time.
The power of the medicine was rampant in the body for nearly half an hour, and Li Yuan's Qi and Blood remained above 80%, without falling to the point where it was necessary to stop and recover.
Hours later, the medicinal power of the first Iron Wall Pill was finally completely absorbed by the physical body.
Li Yuan moved his fingers.
The touch of my fingertips is different from before. When I press the tabletop, I can clearly feel that the skin is thicker and tighter, and the joints are also harder than before.
Medicine-Refined Strong Body's Affix is also working. Body Refining Pill medicine leaves no impurities and its power is absorbed cleanly by the body, with no residue to be discharged.
More importantly, Li Yuan found that while Iron Wall Pill's medicinal power strengthened Skin Membrane's bones, it also had a weak auxiliary effect on other parts of the body. Meridian walls, organs, and muscles, which were not within the scope of Iron Wall Body Refining Manual's main focus, were also slightly washed away by the aftermath of the medicinal power.
This part of the medicinal power does not take the path of Iron Wall Body Refining Manual, but penetrates along the operation channel of Nameless Body Refining Technique.
Nameless Body Refining Technique takes the path of uniform strengthening of the whole body, without focusing on any one place. Spiritual Qi Channels is spread all over the body. After most of Iron Wall Pill's medicinal power is consumed on the main path, the remaining small part spreads to all parts of the body along the channels that Nameless Body Refining Technique has opened, producing a thin layer of comprehensive strengthening effect.
Not a huge amount, but something is better than nothing.
Li Yuan also took the second Iron Wall Pill, and continued to use Iron Wall Body Refining Manual Second-Order to guide the operation of the medicine.
In the next few days, Li Yuan's schedule is very full.
During the day, when dealing with market affairs, go to Management Office to go through the transaction records and entry and exit books, and then Alchemy.
The price of Medicinal Pill was still rising during the war. Meridian-Repairing Pill increased by 30% compared with half a month ago, and Qi-Gathering Essence Pill increased by 20%. Li Yuan produced two furnaces of Meridian-Repairing Pill and one furnace of Qi-Gathering Essence Pill, all of which were shipped out, and the number of Spirit Stone returned to the market was considerable.
After the multi-purpose distraction is made permanent, Li Yuan can refine elixirs while using another line of consciousness to practice the Iron Wall Body Refining Technique or the Concentrating Soul Guiding Technique, and the third line is hung on the spiritual pulse monitor.
Do three things at the same time without interfering with each other.
Alchemy and Cultivation Method, Cultivation Method simultaneously monitor the spiritual veins, and the daily efficiency has more than doubled than before.
Another layer of hidden worries has begun to appear in Kefang City's business conditions.
Traveling Merchant is missing.
After the Qishui Sect stronghold fell, although Dark Abyss Society hid back to the dark side, his activities in Liang Province intensified.
Although there are not many large-scale conflicts, the news that Devil Cultivator often appears outside Fang City makes Rogue Cultivator, a businessman, more and more cautious. On the trade road from Yunyang Marketplace to Wulin Marketplace, in the past, a group of Traveling Merchant could be seen every two or three days, but now one group only comes every seven or eight days.
The velocity of material circulation has dropped significantly.
Most of the Rogue Cultivator in the market are afraid to go out and gather in the market to consume their stocks. The inventories of several material stores are shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye, and several Alchemy auxiliary materials have been out of stock for several days.
Li Yuan noticed this trend and began to consciously stock up on more materials that were difficult to replenish within the range that he could purchase.
This morning, Li Yuan was in the stone house, Alchemy, when Spirit Vein Monitoring Line heard a familiar scent approaching from the direction of the entrance to Fangshi.
Ji Huaiyuan.
Li Yuan put down the fire control on Pill Furnace, got up and walked towards the entrance of Fangshi.
Before reaching Management Office, Ji Huaiyuan had already entered Fangshi and was heading towards the stone house along the main street.
The two met halfway.
Ji Huaiyuan is not in good condition.
His face turned yellow, his breath was weaker than when we last met, and he could vaguely feel the suffocation of his meridians on his left shoulder, as if he had not fully recovered after being injured.
"Fellow Daoist Li, I've kept you waiting for a long time." Ji Huaiyuan cupped his hands with an apology in his tone.
"What happened?"
Ji Huaiyuan smiled bitterly.
"I left home half a month ago and met Devil Cultivator. Foundation Establishment Middle Stage on the way."
"A fight started?"
"I had no choice. The other party was stuck in the road and just made a move." Ji Huaiyuan said, "I beat the leader away, but I was also hit, and two meridians in my left shoulder were severed. At that time, I didn't dare to continue on the road for fear of meeting someone else on the way, so I had to go back home to recover."
Li Yuan looked at his left shoulder.
"Is it restored now?"
"It's 70% or 80% done, there's still a little bit left to go." Ji Huaiyuan moved his left arm, and his movements were a little stiff.
"We can't delay it any longer. Delaying Fire Fiend Stone's matter for too long is not good for anyone. He came here without recovering from his injuries."
"I, Lineage, have accepted the order now, otherwise I will suffer a big loss."
"There's no rush." Li Yuan said, "The things have been kept for you."
The two returned to the stone house, and Li Yuan took out all two batches of Fire Fiend Stone from the storage bags and placed them on the table according to quality.
When Ji Huaiyuan's eyes fell on those Fire Fiend Stone, his originally yellow face became a little more energetic.
He reached out and picked up a piece of high-quality Fire Fiend Stone, looked over it several times, and then used his spiritual consciousness to probe inside.
"Better than I expected." Ji Huaiyuan put down the piece Fire Fiend Stone, then picked up the second piece and looked at it.
"The proportion of fire evil is very uniform, and the penetration depth is sufficient. Fire Fiend Stone of this quality can be used to refine Fire Element Law Artifact. The compatibility requires almost no additional adjustments."
"High-quality products cost four yuan, medium-quality products cost six yuan, and low-quality products cost three yuan." Li Yuan reported the number. "The low-quality product Fire-Attribute Spirit Qi is too much, and Artifact Refining Dao is not suitable. I plan to use ordinary channels to sell it."
Ji Huaiyuan nodded and did not raise any objection to the low-grade ones. He took away all the high-grade and medium-grade ones and settled Spirit Stone on the spot. The price was increased by 30% according to the previously agreed Purple Fiend Stone standard. The total price of ten Fire Fiend Stone was not a small sum.
"Is the subsequent output stable?" Ji Huaiyuan asked.
"The seepage channel has been stabilized. A batch is released every seven to ten days, and the number is similar to this time."
"Okay." Ji Huaiyuan put away Fire Fiend Stone and said, "I plan to stay in Fangshi for a few more days when I come here, and I will take it away when the next batch comes out. The road home is not smooth, so it is better to skip a trip."
"Okay, there are available rooms in the city."
Not long after Ji Huaiyuan left, Wang Ting'an also came.
"Fellow Daoist Li, I heard that someone from the Ji Family came to receive the goods?" Wang Ting'an asked directly after entering the door.
"I just left. I collected all the ten yuan Fire Fiend Stone."
Wang Ting'an's expression changed slightly, obviously he was calculating the score in his mind.
According to the share ratio, Wang Family will get 30% of the ten Fire Fiend Stone. The converted Spirit Stone amount is higher than the total value of the pure Fire-Attribute Spirit Ore produced by the Fire Mine in one month.
"Young Daoist Li, I have an idea."
Wang Ting'an sat down at the table, his tone much more proactive than before.
"My family also has a small mining site in the southwest of Fang City. It is also of fire attribute. The quality is worse than the current one, and the output has not been very good. If I can also access it..."
"What conditions?"
"I give you the right to use the mine. It's the same as the previous one. I'll mine the mine and you can connect it and set up the formation." Wang Ting'an paused after speaking, "But it's divided into three Mineral Vein Dao. The output of Fire Fiend Stone has been changed from three-seven to four-six."
Wang Si and Li Liu.
10% more than before.
Li Yuan thought for a while.
The addition of a Fire Mine means that the supply of Fire-Attribute Spirit Qi will be more abundant, and the intersection area will be larger after being connected to Fiend Ore. The total output of Fire Fiend Stone will further increase. If you give up one more component in exchange for a larger output scale, the total income will only be higher.
"Okay."
After Wang Ting'an left, Li Yuan left Fangshi that afternoon to see the new mine.
The location is southwest of the previous Wang Family Fire Mine. The two mines are separated by a low stone hill and are not far apart in a straight line.
Mine Tunnel is very shallow and the cavity is small. The quality of the vein is indeed worse than the previous one. The concentration of Fire-Attribute Spirit Qi is low and the direction is not regular.
But for Vein-Guiding Technique, poor quality is not a problem, the key is location.
Li Yuan used his perception to scan the underground Deep Layer and confirmed the relative positions of the three Mineral Vein Dao.
Li Yuan used his perception to scan the underground Deep Layer and confirmed the relative positions of the three Mineral Vein Dao.
Fiend Ore is in the east, Wang Family, the previous one Fire Mine is in the middle and west, and the new mine is in the west. The three mines are arranged in a diagonal line underground, Deep Layer, and the distance between two adjacent mines is within 20 feet.
Li Yuan decided to first connect the new mine point with the first Fire Mine, and then connect the entire channel to the Fiend Ore system.
Vein-Guiding Technique cast.
Spiritual power is sent from the fingertips into the end of the vein of the new mineral point, slowly seeping along the surface of the vein, guiding the direction to shift bit by bit.
If you don't finish it that day, you'll have to do it again the next day.
On the evening of the second day, the end of the vein of the new mine point passed through the stone layer and connected with the end of the vein of the first Fire Mine deep underground.
After the two Fire Mines were connected, the flow rate of Fire-Attribute Spirit Qi immediately changed. Although the quality of the new mineral point was low, after the spiritual energy flowed into the first Fire Mine, the overall concentration of Fire-Attribute Spirit Qi increased at the intersection, and the speed of penetration into the direction of Fiend Ore also increased.
Li Yuan in turn connects the second Fire Mine to Fiend Vein.
Three Mineral Vein Daos are connected two by two, forming a triangular connected network underground.
Li Yuan stayed in Intersection Zone for a while, and after confirming that the flow of spiritual power after the three meridians were connected was stable and there was no rejection or disorder, he withdrew from Mine Tunnel.
It was already dark when we returned to the stone house.
Li Yuan sat down at the table, went through today's business flow and Mineral Vein Dao's changes in his mind, then sat cross-legged on the futon and continued practicing.