After securing the Foundation Establishment Pill at auction, his father, Liu Shihao, began secluded cultivation in the courtyard, preparing to break through to Foundation Establishment. Ninth Great-Grandaunt Liu Qiuju and Zhao Yushan stayed in the courtyard to guard him.
Purple Forest Market was built atop a third-tier spirit vein, and the quality of its spiritual energy far surpassed that of Peach Blossom Mountain. It was more than sufficient for a breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment realm. Safety within the market was also relatively assured, so many rogue cultivators chose to come here to enter seclusion and attempt their breakthroughs.
Since a cultivator needed at least three months to break through to Foundation Establishment, Grand Elder Liu Qiusheng extended the courtyard's lease by another six months.
While they waited for his father, Liu Shihao, to break through to Foundation Establishment, none of the Liu Household's cultivators sat idle!
Grand Elder Liu Qiusheng and several other elders busied themselves searching for a suitable storefront. They planned to open another Peach Blossom Pavilion in Purple Forest Market as a base for the lineage there.
Liu Changxu returned to his busy life of cultivation. The very night he returned to the courtyard after the auction, he eagerly swallowed a Bone-Forging Pill.
What Liu Changxu had not expected was that the pain of taking the Bone-Forging Pill would far exceed anything he had imagined.
After swallowing the Bone-Forging Pill, Liu Changxu began circulating the Primordial Unity Body-Tempering Art. At first, every bone in his body ached, tingled, and itched. Then intense pain set in, and his body temperature soared. He felt as though all his bones and muscles had been set ablaze, nearly making him pass out.
Liu Changxu gritted his teeth and struggled to endure, continuously circulating the Primordial Unity Body-Tempering Art.
The Bone-Forging Pill truly lived up to its name. The agony was like being tempered in a raging fire!
Liu Changxu could only persevere through sheer willpower!
Meanwhile, under the effects of the Bone-Forging Pill, impurities were gradually expelled from every bone in his body. His bones grew denser and harder and began to shine with a jade-like luster. His muscles and internal organs also benefited greatly from the pill!
As time slowly passed, Liu Changxu finally endured the terrible pain to the end! Now his bones and muscles felt wonderfully light and relaxed, and his body had become even stronger!
Liu Changxu could not help thinking, This bottle of Bone-Forging Pills was well worth buying. In the future, whenever I come across pills like these, I must buy them.
Over the following days, Liu Changxu continued crafting talismans and refining pills whenever he was not cultivating.
In talisman crafting, Liu Changxu could now make upper-grade first-tier talismans, though his success rate was low-only twenty percent.
In pill refining, Liu Changxu had also made considerable progress. His success rate for lower-grade first-tier Qi Refinement Pills had reached thirty percent.
After producing a batch of talismans and pills, Liu Changxu prepared to sell them.
Liu Changxu visited several pill shops to offer his wares, but seeing his young age and the low grade of his pills and talismans, none of the shops would buy them.
Liu Changxu had no choice but to return to his old trade, setting up a stall in Purple Forest Square within Purple Forest Market.
Purple Forest Square was enormous, spanning a full five li. Purple Forest Market had built it specifically for cultivators to set up stalls. A cultivator only needed to pay two low-grade spirit stones to the Azure Cloud Sect cultivators managing the square to run a stall for one day.
Many cultivators therefore chose to sell all kinds of spiritual goods at stalls, where prices were somewhat lower than in the shops. As a result, Purple Forest Square was bustling.
Liu Changxu also enjoyed coming here to buy spiritual goods he needed.
That morning, Liu Changxu came to the square and found an empty spot. He took an animal hide from his Storage Bag and spread it on the ground, then laid out the talismans and pills he had made and waited for customers.
To the left of his stall was a beautiful middle-aged female cultivator wearing a blue Cultivator Robe. She was at the sixth level of Qi Refinement, and her stall mainly sold materials from a Golden-Eyed Unicorn Bull: blood essence, beef, hide, and bones. She also had some spirit herbs and spiritual materials.
The stallholder to Liu Changxu's right was an elderly late-stage Qi Refinement cultivator with a snow-white beard. He sold a little of everything: cultivation technique jade slips, talisman paper, talisman ink, spirit rice, spirit fruit, spirit herbs, and more. His ten-year-old grandson was there helping him run the stall.
As he ran his stall, Liu Changxu soon became acquainted with both stallholders!
The middle-aged female cultivator's surname was Zhang, and she was a rogue cultivator. Her husband was also a late-stage Qi Refinement rogue cultivator and had organized a small Demon Hunting Team of just a few people. Her husband went out to hunt demons and gather herbs, while she handled selling their goods at the stall.
The couple had a son and a daughter, both about Liu Changxu's age, so she was astonished to see him running a stall at such a young age!
She was especially astonished when she heard that Liu Changxu had made all these talismans and pills himself! She took such a liking to him that she practically wanted to marry her daughter off to him, leaving Liu Changxu unsure whether to laugh or cry!
The elderly cultivator's surname was Li. His son and daughter-in-law both worked in shops in the market, while he brought his little grandson along to run a stall and earn some spirit stones.
The talismans and pills Liu Changxu had made were of good quality and relatively inexpensive, so they sold out in just half a day.
Before leaving, he bought two hundred jin of Golden-Eyed Unicorn Bull beef from the female cultivator surnamed Zhang. From the elderly cultivator surnamed Li, he bought two hundred sheets of middle-grade first-tier talisman paper, one hundred sheets of upper-grade first-tier talisman paper, and three bottles of talisman ink.
However, the elderly cultivator surnamed Li made a suggestion: he was willing to buy the pills and talismans Liu Changxu produced, though the price would have to be a little lower!
Liu Changxu thought it was an excellent suggestion! He had wanted to sell to the shops in the first place, but none of them had been willing to buy! The elderly cultivator's proposal was exactly what he had hoped for! The two agreed that the elderly cultivator would buy the pills and talismans Liu Changxu made from then on!
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