The road is vague

Chapter 43: Yamashita Market
The disciples in the training hall quickly adapted to the life of higher-level disciples.

Li Mo planned to have a good rest and start practicing again after his injuries were healed, so he came to the front of the hall and took a look at the daily rotation tasks and temporary commissioned tasks of the second-year disciples.

After learning about the nature of the second-year disciples' daily rotation tasks and temporary commissioned tasks, he walked all the way towards the Lingmumen market at the foot of the mountain.

Compared with the rotation tasks of first-year disciples, the nature of the daily rotation of second-year disciples has undergone some changes.

First of all, the spirit stone salary for the task and the contribution to the master have increased.

Secondly, they tend to be more inclined towards management positions. For example, the disciple who was in charge of the kitchen in the training hall was a senior disciple who took on daily rotation tasks.

Finally, daily rotation tasks will no longer be mandatory, but disciples who do not accept rotation tasks will need to pay a fine of two spirit stones to their master every month.

Comparing the inflow and outflow, it is not a small number.

As for temporary commissioned tasks, they are varied.

The vast majority of missions require one to stay away from the sect for a period of time and run errands all over Muzhou. Some missions are also somewhat dangerous. The mission rewards are proportional to the time, experience, and danger of the mission, usually around five or six spirit stones. There are also some missions that can reach seven or eight spirit stones, depending on the specific mission process.

About an hour and a half later.

Li Mo came to the market at the foot of Qingming Mountain.

In front of the entrance gate of the market town, there are several wanted posters hanging, and several disciples from the Law Enforcement Hall are patrolling to ensure order here.

Unfortunately, he did not master the magic for long-distance travel, nor did he have any magical tools with related functions, nor did he have a spirit beast mount, otherwise the travel time would be greatly shortened.

This market is the external market of Lingmu Sect, and is also one of the two largest markets in Muzhou. Every day, independent cultivators and cultivators from other sects come here to visit. There is no problem with safety, and there is no need to worry about being targeted by evil cultivators with ulterior motives.

"It's really lively."

Li Mo walked on the streets of Fangshi and couldn't help but exclaimed.

The area of ​​this market town is not very large, but there are quite a lot of people coming and going, and it has become a small peaceful city.

There are many stalls on both sides of the road in the market, selling everything from snacks to materials for monks. Li Mo was amazed when he saw this scene.

He saw it with his own eyes.

A vendor selling candied haws was actually having a good chat with a vendor selling talismans, talisman paper, and spiritual ink. It was really a case of you making your money and I making my spirit stones. There was no boundary between mortals and cultivators.

The legends of some monks are often exaggerated by these grassroots vendors, and then known to ordinary people in remote areas, gradually evolving into myths.

Li Mo stopped in front of a stall that only had a few metal blocks the size of fingernails.

He looked at the particles curiously.

"Fellow Daoist, do you want to buy iron essence and copper essence?"

Li Mo suddenly understood after hearing this.

He already knew from the "Lingzhao Sword Manual" that iron essence and copper essence are the basic materials for refining magical instruments, and are generally suitable for refining low-grade and medium-grade magical instruments.

The silver essence that Jiujiang Thunder Dragon Zhou Tai had gone to great lengths to refine was a higher-level basic material.

"How many spirit stones?"

Li Mo naturally wouldn't buy it, he just wanted to familiarize himself with the price.

"Haha, these are all market prices. One coin of iron essence costs ten spirit stones, and one coin of copper essence costs twenty spirit stones. No cheating, quality guaranteed."

It takes a lot of time and energy to extract iron and copper essences from massive amounts of pig iron and bronze. During the refining process, the temperature of ordinary flames is not high enough, and spirit stones need to be added to form the so-called spirit fire. Naturally, the price of these refining materials will not be too low.

Li Mo nodded and walked towards the next stall without saying anything more.

That's it.

After strolling around for nearly an hour, Li Mo finally had a preliminary idea of ​​the prices of various basic materials for cultivators.

In particular, he inquired about the prices of various elixirs in detail many times.

The fundamental factor that determines the price of elixir lies in its age. At the same time, the specific price will also vary due to different categories and medicinal properties.

Generally speaking.

When a magical medicine is over a hundred years old, its price will instantly increase.

The price of spiritual medicines under a hundred years old often drops by more than ten times. In the eyes of cultivators, they are almost in the seedling stage. Only cultivators in the Qi training stage will use them as auxiliary spiritual medicines for refining spiritual pills.

In contrast.

If the age of a spiritual medicine reaches more than a thousand years, its price will increase dramatically compared to those spiritual medicines that are seven or eight hundred years old, but it will still be priceless.

As for the hundred-year-old red essence ganoderma in his hand, strictly speaking, it should be a spiritual medicine that is about one hundred and eighty years old.

However, the overall price of Chijingzhi is not high.

Therefore, after comprehensive comparison, Li Mo estimated that its price should be around two hundred spirit stones, but he has not yet decided specifically how to deal with this spiritual medicine and plans to consider it for a while.

Then he stopped in front of an inconspicuous stall.

The stall owner was a monk who looked to be in his thirties. He was wearing a crane cloak and holding a book in one hand, reciting silently, looking as if he was immersed in it. In front of him, there were more than a dozen strange and bizarre things.

Li Mo opened his spiritual eyes and identified it carefully.

A dozen pieces of magical instrument fragments, three red spiritual fruits, a large piece of broken wood, two incomplete jade slips, and some unknown dried mushrooms. It was really a hodgepodge.

However, Li Mo was extremely interested in the three red spiritual fruits and the inconspicuous piece of rotten wood. He carefully examined them with his spiritual eyes and found that there were indeed strands of spiritual energy flowing inside the red spiritual fruits, which might be the ingredients needed for some kind of elixir.

After carefully identifying the rotten wood, he determined that it was a piece of wood struck by lightning!

The so-called lightning-struck wood refers to the wood left behind from large trees destroyed by lightning.

The reason why he was so interested was that after studying the many lightning avoidance methods recorded in the "Piao Miao Box", he concluded that with his current level of cultivation, the only possible method was the lightning-struck wood shelter method.

As described in the book.

After a hundred years, the tree will gradually have a chance to give birth to a hint of spirituality. God is merciful and the thunder will usually not hurt twice at the same time. Therefore, making an umbrella-shaped prop out of the wood struck by spiritual lightning can greatly weaken the power of the thunder.

But this method of deceiving the heavens can only be used once.

Even if there is another spiritual lightning-struck wood in the future, it will be of no use.

The key now is how to judge whether this lightning-struck wood had any spiritual power during its lifetime?
Li Mo continuously gathered the magic power in his dantian into his eyes, and used all his strength to operate his spiritual eyes, trying to observe every detail of the lightning-struck wood.

According to the main practice of Lingmu Sect, "Eye of the True Spirit", in addition to the level of cultivation, the most important factor that determines the strength of the spiritual eye is the continuous and in-depth observation of various things with spiritual power. Only through accumulation over time can one gain insight into all things.

Sudden.

Li Mo noticed a trace of strange spiritual power flowing through the lightning-struck wood. He was immediately overjoyed. This lightning-struck wood actually had a spiritual flavor!
"Boss, how much are these three wild fruits and this piece of broken wood?"

The stall owner put down the book and glanced at Li Mo.

"Those three spiritual fruits are Nine-flavor Red, used to mix with other spiritual fruits to brew spiritual wine, each one costs twelve spiritual stones. This spiritual flavor lightning-struck wood can be made into a blank for a high-level evil-repelling magic weapon, just add gold essence, which costs five hundred spiritual stones."

Failed to pick up leaks.

He was a little embarrassed, nodded and left.

There is one thing that Li Mo did not forget, which is to find clues about the Piaomiao Demon Pill needed to refine the elixir.

According to the recipe, Piaomiao Yaodan has three characteristics.

First, the demon pill will be born during the Qi training period, second, the demon pill has the property of lightning protection, and finally, there are mysterious Taoist patterns inside the demon pill.

Ordinary mountain spirits and water monsters will have to wait until at least the foundation-building stage before they can gradually produce demon pills based on their different talents.

Naturally, there would be no demon pills for sale at the ordinary stalls on both sides of the street.

Li Mo came to a medicine shop. There were many customers inside. Various kinds of medicine were placed in the display cabinets. The plague-avoiding pills, blood-replenishing pills, sleeping pills, and qi-gathering pills that Li Mo was familiar with were also for sale here.

After taking a quick look at the prices, he went to the materials area.

He skipped over some spiritual medicine seeds, spiritual medicine seedlings, and commonly used high-quality hundred-year-old spiritual medicines, and saw more than a dozen demon pills.

But after he looked at it carefully, he was a little disappointed.

These are all ordinary demon pills and do not have the various characteristics of the ethereal demon pills.

So he went to another medicine shop, but still couldn't find the so-called Piaomiao Yaodan. It was not until 3 p.m. that he confirmed that Piaomiao Yaodan was not an ordinary material that could be found on the market. Only then did he leave the Lingmumen market and return to his master's sect.

the next day.

Ma Ling found Li Mo early in the morning and said that she was going to Shangfeng County to carry out a letter delivery mission. She would need to spend a spirit stone to take a flying boat to the county town, and then rent a horse from the local Tianming Division to travel. She would return in seven or eight days at the shortest and more than ten days at the longest.

Li Mo asked about the mission reward, and he could get seven spirit stones.

However, it costs two spirit stones to take the flying boat back and forth, and she has to pay a spirit stone fine at the end of the month for not taking on the daily rotation tasks, which makes her feel a little distressed, so she plans to seize the time this month to carry out two similar tasks and see if there are any opportunities in the process.

"be careful on the road!"

"Do not worry."

After Ma Ling left, Niu Li and Yang Guang knew that Li Mo needed to rest for a while to recuperate, so they didn't come to disturb him. So Li Mo came to the Alchemy Hall.

There are not many inner disciples in the Alchemy Hall, only about sixty or seventy people.

There are only about thirty people who can be called alchemists, and most of them have already established their foundation.

Follow the rules.

Every year, the Alchemy Hall selects one or more talented and persevering disciples from the Training Hall to enroll. However, some of these people will choose to join other halls in the future, while others will travel around. There are usually only sixty or seventy disciples who reside in the Alchemy Hall permanently, and about half of them are responsible for looking after the sect's spiritual fields every day.

Li Mo came here this time for the thing that he is most concerned about at this stage.

That is to find the recipe for the Qi Gathering Pill.

Qi Gathering Pill is the most commonly used auxiliary medicine for disciples in the Qi training stage. After taking it, the speed of practice can be greatly improved. However, except for a very small number of people, ordinary disciples will not waste it in this way. Even if they obtain Qi Gathering Pill, they will use it in the critical period of breaking through the bottleneck.

"Master Chen."

"Ah."

After Chen Rong learned the purpose of Li Mo's visit, she gave him some advice.

"The third, thirteenth, and twenty-third days of every month are the days when alchemists exchange their experiences. Qi Gathering Pills are the basic recipe for Qi Condensation cultivators and are very easy to obtain. During normal times, you can also come here to tend to the public spiritual fields. Not only will you be exempt from the fines for missing your daily rotation, but you can also earn spirit stones, sect tribute, and the opportunity to participate in the sect's public alchemy..."

Chen Rong slowly explained the rules of the Alchemy Hall, and Li Mo nodded frequently.

(End of this chapter)