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Chapter 472 Journey
Walking on the streets of Shangtong Immortal City, Lu Ang looked left and right, preparing to find some larger stores to purchase some supplies for the sect.

However, as he watched, he discovered something was wrong.

What's wrong is not the surrounding shops, but the pedestrians on the street.

The last time I came, although these pedestrians were dressed differently and had different body shapes, the weapons they displayed were basically the same. The most common were swords, followed by knives, spears, brushes, whisks, and Buddhist beads. They all had very distinctive ancient styles.

Now, the magic weapons carried by many newcomers have changed greatly. Some carry long rifles on their backs, some have long colorful metal cans the size of Coke hanging around their waists, some have silver-white talking balls floating around them, and some wear completely transparent glass-like helmets on their heads...

The style suddenly became modern, no, post-modern!
This already cyber city becomes even more punk, making it difficult for people to distinguish between fantasy and reality.

It's only been a few years. How come there has been such a big change? Is it because of the impact of technology output overseas?

It seems that these weapon-refining masters are still very dedicated and innovative. Once they open their minds, these new magical weapons immediately become popular.

Come to think of it, throwing talismans, offering flying swords, shooting poison nails, arranging flags... these traditional ways of using magic weapons are indeed a bit fancy. It would be better to give everyone a spirit stone rifle and play a game of line shooting, turning the high-risk battle into a complete competition of financial strength.

There are even more copies on the technological side of the Xianlian Sect, but now the sect is not open to the outside world. If one day the sect's disciples start traveling around the world, perhaps the integration of the Qi Refining concept will become even more intense!
By then, beyond-visual-range sniping, artillery plowing, drone inventory, large-scale spiritual interference... will all become a reality.

After thinking about it, Lu Ang walked into a very impressive-looking "Linggong Wanbao Pavilion" on the roadside, which seemed to specialize in selling magical instruments.

Lu Ang walked in and asked the waiter who came to greet him, "I came to Shangtong Fairy City many years ago. How come there seem to be many new magical instruments on the street after not seeing them for a few years? What's going on?"

After seeing Lu Ang's cultivation, the fellow in the foundation-building stage immediately nodded and said, "Senior, you have asked the right person! These new magic tools came from the Mo Sect. It is said that a fairyland in the outer sea discovered a unique secret realm, and some of the tools produced there gave them inspiration."

"As you know, the Mo Sect's puppet refining technique is first-rate in the entire cultivation world. When others saw the Mo Sect doing this, they naturally followed suit and bought up a large number of artifacts from the secret realm and began to imitate and transform them, making many new magical instruments."

"Many of these new magic weapons are indeed ingeniously designed and much easier to use than previous ones. Many people have used these magic weapons to achieve miraculous results in sect battles or when hunting monsters outside, turning defeat into victory. There are also many things that make people live much more comfortably when they are out, so they don't have to sleep in the open air."

"We have a lot of these magical instruments at home, too. For example, this portable cave is very popular in our house. It looks only ten feet square, but when you throw it out and unfold it, it is eighteen square meters in size, enough to accommodate more than ten people! It is orange in color, and has a formation engraved on the outside to repel insects and beasts. As long as you don't enter the territory of some powerful monsters, you can sleep well all night without any worries."

"The key is that this kind of portable cave house does not consume expensive void materials. Even casual foundation-building cultivators can afford it. This month alone, my family has sold more than 8,000 cave houses! It has received rave reviews!"

"Of course, a senior cultivator like you naturally doesn't need this kind of simple stuff. My master craftsman is currently developing a portable sect based on this portable cave! It is expected to be able to accommodate tens of thousands of people after it is unfolded, and is most suitable for sect competitions and military battles."

"There is also this kind of Five Smoke Thunder, which is also a very popular escape magic weapon in my family. As long as you pull it out here and throw it, it can instantly produce a large amount of Five Luo Bewitching Smoke to confuse people's five senses. I know that this thing does look similar to the third-level Five Luo Bewitching Talisman."

"But this Five Smoke Thunder can be used in the later stages of foundation building! And we have tested that the speed of smoke generation is more than three times faster than that of the Five-Luo Bewitching Talisman! You know, when using this thing to escape, every second counts. A little faster or slower may mean the difference between life and death!"

"It's also selling very well. We just started selling it last month, and we've sold over 5,000! No one has returned any. Senior, would you like to buy a few for your juniors?"

"Hmm... maybe I misunderstood. Please forgive me, senior. We also have Nascent Soul-level magic weapons! Please wait for a moment, senior. I will go and invite the shopkeeper!"

The waiter tactfully stepped back. After a while, a muscular man with a strong smell of fire and smoke still on his body came down from upstairs.

Judging from his aura and the fire power still surging in his body, Lu Ang knew that this was a weapon refiner in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul stage.

The big man was very polite and introduced himself first: "I am the shopkeeper of this store and one of the top three weapon refiners in the store. I have passed the Mo Sect's fourth-level intermediate weapon refiner qualification examination. I am good at various offensive magic weapons. I wonder what you would like to buy?"

"I want a batch of first- and second-level magical instruments that can be blood-refined and communicated with each other. I want all kinds of weapons and armor." Lu Ang was really worried about the players. "I also want first-, second-, and third-level magical instruments for alchemy, refining, and spiritual cooking."

The big man frowned and thought for a while before saying, "The price of Xiuxian Baiyi's magic tools is very transparent. I have a lot of stock at home and can supply customers now. However, the blood refining magic weapon is a bit troublesome."

Seeing Lu Ang's puzzled expression, he explained, "Generally speaking, only magic weapons of level three and above with abundant spirituality need blood refining. Connecting the magic weapon's spirituality with one's own spirituality can greatly increase the power and control of the magic weapon. Each blood refining will also consume a lot of blood essence, and it will take a long time for the cultivator to recover."

“Once a blood-refined magic weapon is damaged, the user will also suffer great harm. Some sword cultivators who have completely blood-refined their swords into their lifelong magic weapons have died once their swords were broken. Therefore, generally speaking, a cultivator will not blood-refine too many magic weapons, only two or three at most.”

"It is not difficult to add a blood refining function to a first- or second-level magic weapon. It is nothing more than investing more spiritual materials to increase the spirituality, which is more expensive. However, the consumption of the user's blood and essence will also increase greatly. Otherwise, it will be difficult for the two to have a spiritual fusion, and it will be impossible to achieve the effect of the blood refining weapon being able to communicate with each other as if they were using one's arm."

"The consumption of a large amount of blood essence will greatly damage the user's body, and will most likely damage the vitality, which will have an impact on the user's lifespan, and may even affect the user's subsequent training and promotion. It is really not worth it to spend such a price just to temporarily increase the power of the magic weapon by 20% or 30%. "

There are still these tricks? No wonder I haven't seen anyone blood-refining low-level magic tools. The robbers in the border areas of humans and demons often rob magic tools and sell them, and they are not afraid of being found.

But it doesn’t matter. Players can be resurrected, so what does a little consumption of energy and blood matter?

So Lu Ang waved his hand and said, "No problem. I need 50,000 of each of the first and second order. I'll make them all into flying swords. I want the kind that can be used by any spiritual root. I can pay a deposit of half the price first. How about that?"

"Ah?" The shopkeeper was stunned. He was not a fool. He would not make money from spiritual stones. He nodded immediately and said, "Of course. What about the magic tools for cultivating the hundred arts? How many do you need?"

"Give me 5,000 sets of each." Lu Ang said, "And your portable cave, the second-level one, give me 10,000 sets too. Calculate how many spirit stones you need in total."

The shopkeeper calculated quickly and gave a number immediately. Lu Ang nodded, took out a few high-quality spirit stones, and settled the deal.

Low-end stuff is cheap. When you add up the total price of so many things, it’s not even as expensive as a ticket on the Dream Travel Flying Boat!
I went to several shops that specialize in selling materials and bought a large number of first-, second-, and third-level spiritual herbs, spiritual flowers, and spiritual grains, as well as first-, second-, and third-level spiritual gold and spiritual wood commonly used in the art of refining puppets, to help the sect disciples develop life skills later. There was nothing I could do about it. Although the Fairy Lotus Island was full of spiritual energy, for some reason, there were no spiritual gold veins underground. There were only thick spiritual stone veins, like meridians on flowers and leaves, extending in all directions, supporting the lotus shape of the entire island.

For fear that the entire island would collapse, no one dared to open a mine on the island to avoid damaging the spiritual veins. Therefore, the most that could be done on the island was to develop agriculture, and other large quantities of materials had to be supplied by other spiritual islands.

Since the sect was newly established, there are not enough trustworthy and powerful disciples. The major spiritual islands in the Sea of ​​Tears are still divided between humans and demons, and the entire supply system has not yet been established, so these things can only be purchased from outside.

Fortunately, Lu Ang had plenty of spirit stones on hand, so it wouldn't hurt to buy some for them.

After wandering around for a few more days, checking for omissions and buying everything that might be missing from the sect, making the mountain of spirit stones in the ring a little shorter, Lu Ang returned to the Menglv Flying Boat.

After walking around the ship and having a good meal and drinks in the buffet restaurant, Lu Ang went to the performance hall on the eighth floor again and found the temporary friends he had met before.

According to them, the genius from Mo Sect had already boarded the flying boat yesterday with his guardian elder.

They heard that although this genius of Mo Sect was only a natural spiritual root, he possessed a very special talent that allowed him to operate hundreds of magical instruments or puppets at the same time. Mo Sect also equipped him with the best magical instruments and puppets. His actual combat ability was extremely powerful, and he was a popular player competing for the top ten in this genius competition.

His guardian elder is also a powerful puppeteer at the peak of the Return to Void realm and one of the most powerful men in the Mo Sect. He has been active in the world of cultivation for tens of millions of years and is very famous.

Of course, these guardian elders are only in the open, and it is unknown whether there are any more in secret.

Including the Taoist Lord from the Eastern Emperor Territory, a rough calculation shows that there are already seventeen Return to the Void on the flying boat. I really don’t know what tricks those demon disciples and half-demons can come up with in the face of such a righteous group.

With a lineup like this, I might not dare to cause trouble on the flying boat!
After looking at the itinerary, the flying boat will pass through eight large and small fairyland, stopping at each for half a month. Including the travel time, it will take almost a year for the flying boat to reach the Ten Thousand Buddha Realm.

One cannot help but sigh at the vastness of the world of cultivation. If one really wants to make the earth glow with golden light and shrink the distance into an inch, one does not know how hard it would be to follow this path.

The eighty high-grade spirit stone ticket for the Dream Journey Flying Boat was indeed not collected in vain.

Looking at this huge route map, Lu Ang suddenly had an idea! How the hell did I forget about him!

There is also Fu Pingbo who ran all the way to Shenzhou with me from the outer sea. I left him at the beach... Yes! Guanhai Area! Donglin Xiancheng!

It was agreed that he would come to the sect to serve as the dean of the Water Academy. After so many years, I don’t know how he is doing.

This person knows some of my secrets, so I can't keep him out. What if he's caught by some random person, and his soul is searched, and he discovers my secrets? Wouldn't that be very embarrassing?

It’s a pity that the route of this Dream Travel Flying Boat does not pass by the sea, but travels entirely inland. I can only wait until I finish watching the Tianjiao Competition and then make a special trip to the sea area.

This guy seemed to have natural spiritual roots and had cultivated to the golden elixir stage. He could be considered a little genius in some way. Unfortunately, his sect was broken up and he didn't have much foundation. He was far behind the geniuses from the big sects on the Menglv Flying Boat.

This is the difference between a casual cultivator and a sect disciple! One needs to fight for his life, while the other has his entire life arranged for him, with no shortage of wealth, friends, Dharma, or land.

After sighing for a while, Lu Ang returned to his room and continued his daily practice.

The road to becoming an immortal is long, and everyone is striving for the great path, so you can’t appear to be too lazy.

After a boring and monotonous training, the Dream Journey Flying Boat finally left Shangtong Fairy City and started another journey.

The itinerary after that was also very peaceful. He ate every day, watched a play, chatted with others to increase his knowledge, and then went back to practice. Lu Ang lived a very regular life every day.

During that period, at most the geniuses of two sects suddenly met. The young men were full of enthusiasm and argued with each other and said some harsh words, but they did not fight. After all, the flying boat was not a place for fighting, and there were elders watching around, so no one dared to take direct action.

There are also some gossips, such as a genius from a certain sect fell in love with a fairy from another sect and was spending a lot of money to pursue her, but was miserably rejected.

For example, a certain sect has had a grudge against another sect for a long time, and this time the geniuses of the two families have accumulated enough anger and are ready to settle the feud during the competition.

For example, the elder of a certain sect and the elder of another sect were fellow Taoists when they were young, but now they belong to different families and are thousands of miles apart in normal times. However, this time they meet again after a long separation, and perhaps their old love may be rekindled.

For example, the largest handicap in this Tianjiao Competition is jointly organized by the Miscellaneous School of Confucianism and the Daxiangguo Temple of Buddhism. They have an excellent reputation and hope that everyone will give their full support. Every bet can be guaranteed to be paid on the same day.

……

Lu Ang did not want to gamble with spirit stones. Although he could go back and ensure that he would not lose, the Brahma Sect also had Mahayana masters. What if they were able to see through the time fluctuations and came to him?
He couldn't take such a big risk for a few spirit stones. He just wanted to broaden his horizons and see the fun.

Finally, after drawing another lottery, five golds, and eleven silvers, the flying boat was only three fairy realms away from the Ten Thousand Buddha Realm.

On this day, Lu Ang had just finished his training and was about to go out for dinner, but he noticed that the view outside the window seemed a little strange.

The original blue sky and white clouds turned all black!

(End of this chapter)