Chapter 116 The realm of the great road, eternal appearance
“Pfft~”
Vaguely, there seemed to be the sound of some barrier being broken.
Song Jie’s aura suddenly began to rise upwards, and the spiritual power in his body was like trickling water, swimming among the meridians.
After these spiritual powers travel around the meridians, they merge into the Dantian, strengthening the spiritual power in the Dantian.
About a quarter of an hour later, Song Jie’s rising momentum slowly stopped, and his breath gradually became stable.
After exhaling a long breath, Song Jie suddenly opened his eyes.
In an instant, two rays of light seemed to burst out from his eyes.
“Finally reached the sixth level of Qi refining stage!”
A look of joy appeared on Song Jie’s face.
It has been sixteen years and three months since I traveled through time and came to this world.
His cultivation realm finally broke through to the sixth level of Qi refining stage…
Compared to those monks with less spiritual root attributes, this cultivation speed can be said to be quite slow.
Probably slightly faster than an ordinary Four Spiritual Roots cultivator.
“It took me almost two years to reach the third level of the Qi Refining Stage to the fourth level of the Qi Refining Stage.
“It took me almost five years from the fourth level of Qi Refining Stage to the fifth level of Qi Refining Stage.
“It took me a full eight years from the fifth level of the Qi Refining Stage to the sixth level of the Qi Refining Stage…
“I don’t know how much time it will take for the next breakthrough.”
Song Jie sighed softly, then with a thought in his mind, he opened the properties panel.
[Name: Song Jie]
[Shougen: 44/90]
[Spiritual Root: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water]
[Realm: Sixth Level of Qi Refining Stage (1/100)]
[Exercise: Changchun Gong (Dao 10000)]
[Spells: One Yang Finger (Dacheng 1793/2000), Dragon Claw Hand (Dacheng 1793/2000), Ten Thousand Sword Art (Dacheng 1854/2000), Qingming Nether Fire (Transformation Realm 5321/10000)]
[Movement Technique: Lost Tracking Step (Perfection 2321/5000)]
[Supernatural power: none]
[Skills: Alchemy (Level 1): Rejuvenation Pill (Dacheng 1564/2000), Fu Ling Pill (Dacheng 1589/2000), Mi Shen Pill (Dacheng 1546/2000), Chongmai Pill (Dacheng 1047/2000), Xuanyang Dan (Dacheng 1974/2000), Xuanyin Dan (Dacheng 1752/2000), Yuanyang Dan (Skilled 124/300), Bigu Dan (Xiaocheng 549/600)]
[Skill points: 14052 (can be used to improve the proficiency of kung fu, spells, body skills, magical powers, and skills)]
“In the blink of an eye, I am already forty-four years old, and time is really not forgiving.
“Fortunately, eight years ago, I spent my skill points to upgrade Changchun Kung to the highest level of the Great Dao.
“Otherwise, I should be a greasy middle-aged uncle now.”
Because Changchun Gong itself has the effect of delaying aging, Song Jie looked like a young man under thirty years old eight years ago, when he was thirty-six years old.
It was that year that Song Jie’s Changchun Kung Fu reached its highest level of proficiency, granting him the ability to stay beautiful forever.
This discovery let Song Jie know that if you practice the martial arts to the highest level, you can obtain a special ability.
In order to raise the proficiency of Changchun Gong to the highest level, Song Jie also consumed more than 7,000 skill points.
His idea at that time was to speed up the improvement of some cultivation levels.
Anyway, the skill points were of little use for the time being, so he kept some of them for emergencies, and the rest were used to improve the proficiency of Changchun Kung Fu.
In this way, without realizing it, he was promoted to the highest level, and unexpectedly gained the ability to keep his appearance forever.
After the proficiency of Changchun Kung was raised to the highest level, Song Jie also figured out the proficiency classification rules of the attribute panel.
From the first practice, when the proficiency reaches 100 points, you can break through to proficiency.
After you are proficient, continue to accumulate proficiency to 300 points, and then you can break through to Xiaocheng.
After completing the skill, continue to accumulate proficiency to 600 points, and then you can break through to mastery.
After mastering it, continue to accumulate proficiency to one thousand points, and then you can break through to Dacheng.
After reaching great success, continue to accumulate proficiency to 2,000 points, and then you can break through to perfection.
After reaching perfection, continue to accumulate proficiency to 5,000 points, and then you can break through to the realm of transformation.
After the transformation, continue to accumulate proficiency to 10,000 points, and then you can break through to the great road.
And the great road is the highest realm.
Once the proficiency reaches the level of Da Dao, it will not continue to increase.
“For spells and body skills, Qingming Youhuo is the closest to the avenue.
“In terms of skills, they are far behind.
“Judging from this, the next person to break through to the Great Dao realm should be Qingming Youhuo.
“I don’t know if Qingming Youhuo will have any special abilities after its proficiency is raised to the Great Dao.”
Although Song Jie had more than 14,000 skill points, Song Jie still did not choose to spend the skill points to improve the proficiency of Qingming Youhuo.
For him, whether the proficiency of Qingming Youhuo is upgraded to the Great Dao will not bring about a qualitative change for him.
Even if Qingming Youhuo’s proficiency reaches Da Dao, he will gain a special ability, but this ability is probably related to alchemy.
At present, Song Jie has not encountered any bottlenecks in alchemy, so he is not in a hurry to improve his proficiency in Qingming Youhuo.
The same is true for those elixirs. Even if the proficiency of elixirs is raised to a higher level, it is nothing more than refining higher quality elixirs and selling the elixirs at a higher price.
But currently Song Jie’s demand for spirit stones is not that much, and his current income from spirit stones is enough for his daily expenses.
Therefore, after careful consideration, he decided to accumulate these skill points and use them in key places.
He had a hunch that when he reached the seventh level of the Qi Refining Stage and went to Yunmiao City to seek development, he might need to use a lot of skill points.
“The proficiency of Xuanyang Pill is about to reach the next stage. When the proficiency of Xuanyang Pill reaches perfection, we should be able to refining high-quality elixirs stably.”
At present, Song Jie’s proficiency in the elixirs he sells daily is all at Dacheng. Most of the elixirs he refines are of high quality, and occasionally he can refine some high-quality elixirs.
However, not all of the first-grade elixirs sold by Song Jie are of high quality.
Superior and high-quality elixirs are certainly more effective and can be sold at higher prices, but not all monks need such high-quality elixirs.
Most monks only need low- or medium-quality elixirs, which are enough to meet their needs.
Song Jie has counted the sales of elixirs of different qualities and found that low- and medium-quality elixirs are the most popular among monks.
On the contrary, not many monks buy high-quality elixirs.
Especially high-quality elixirs, because of their relatively high prices, the fewest monks buy them.
Usually those monks who are above the seventh level of Qi refining stage will choose to buy higher quality elixirs.
These monks who are above the seventh level of the Qi Refining Stage are rare in Xinyuefang City.
Therefore, when Song Jie usually refines the first-grade elixir, he will deliberately control the quality of the elixir to meet the market demand.
Although he can sell high-quality elixirs at low prices, doing so will disturb the market price, which will not benefit him much. On the contrary, it will offend his peers.
“The proficiency of Yuanyang Dan is still at the proficient level. I don’t know what Daoist Huangfu has been busy with in the past ten years, but there is no news at all.”
When God Huangfu commissioned him to refine a first-grade Yuanyang Pill, he refined a total of fifty pills for God Huangfu.
Later, all the remaining forty-five fire-bathing dolphin glands were refined into first-grade Yuanyang Pills. Since then, no first-grade Yuanyang Pills have been refined.
The main reason was that the effect of this grade of Yuanyang Pill was so incredible that Song Jie did not dare to put it on the market, so he did not continue to refine this pill.
Moreover, Huangfu God has not appeared once in more than ten years, and no one has helped him go to Shiwanda Mountain to retrieve the glands of the fire dolphin.
Even if Song Jie wants to refine it, he lacks raw materials.
Currently, Song Jie’s storage bag still contains forty-five first-grade Yuanyang Pills that he refined back then.
Over the years, Song Jie has earned nearly 150,000 spiritual stones through the operation of the store.
Of course, this is the total income, before deducting various costs.
If the cost of medicinal materials and labor costs are deducted, there will be about 100,000 spiritual stones left.
Including shop rent, house rent, weekly spiritual food, and some daily expenses, these various things add up to more than 50,000 spiritual stones.
Especially spiritual food is the bulk of the expenditure.
Since the store’s operation has been on track, Song Jie has gone to Lingshan Pavilion to eat spiritual food almost once a week, consuming at least sixty spiritual stones each time.
Over the years, Song Jie has consumed more than 40,000 yuan of spiritual food at Lingshan Pavilion, and has directly become a VIP customer of Lingshan Pavilion.
It is precisely because of the uninterrupted spiritual food every week and the Changchun Gong that has broken through to the realm of the Great Dao that Song Jie has broken through from the third level of the Qi Refining Stage to the sixth level of the Qi Refining Stage in these fifteen years.
This shows how difficult it is for monks with five-attribute spiritual roots to improve their cultivation.
If it were an ordinary monk, he would have chosen to lie down and die, just like the original owner.
All in all, after deducting daily expenses over the years, Song Jie has earned less than 50,000 spiritual stones.
For ordinary monks in the Qi refining stage, this amount of spiritual stones is definitely a large amount.
Many low-level monks may never earn so many spiritual stones in their lifetime.
After Song Jie got so many spiritual stones, the first thing he did was buy a storage bag.
But storage bags are only sold in big cities like Yunmiao City. Ordinary markets do not sell such high-end products.
Because most monks in the Qi Refining Stage cannot afford it, there is no market, and naturally there is no sale.
In order to buy a storage bag, Song Jie also found some connections a while ago, and then asked someone to buy one from Yunmiao City.
This storage bag cost him a total of 33,000 spiritual stones. The storage bag itself was worth 30,000 spiritual stones, and the remaining 3,000 spiritual stones were equivalent to errand purchasing fees.
In Yunmiao City, the cheapest storage bag costs 10,000 spirit stones, which is the price of one spirit crystal.
A storage bag priced at the price of a piece of spiritual crystal has the smallest storage space, with a capacity of only about three dendrobiums.
The storage bag that costs three spiritual crystals has a capacity of ten dendrobiums.
If the measurement unit used before Song Jie’s time travel was used, ten dendrobiums would be one cubic meter.
Just a simple comparison, you can find that buying a storage bag with three spiritual crystals is obviously more cost-effective.
Song Jie happened to have so many spirit stones, so he directly chose a storage bag with a capacity of ten dendrobiums.
After having this storage bag, Song Jie immediately put all his belongings into the storage bag, and suddenly felt much more relaxed and convenient.
The price of the ease and convenience was that Song Jie’s spiritual stones were instantly reduced a lot, with only more than 15,000 spiritual stones left.
“There are still about thirty-five years until the opening of the Tongtian Secret Realm.
“That is to say, within thirty-five years, I will reach the tenth level of the Qi Refining Stage…
“It took me eight years to break through from the fifth level of the Qi Refining Stage to the sixth level of the Qi Refining Stage.
“The breakthrough from the sixth level of the Qi Refining Stage to the seventh level of the Qi Refining Stage is estimated to take no less than eight years.
“The further you go, the longer it takes to break through the realm of cultivation.
“At this rate, in thirty-five years, I probably won’t be able to reach the tenth level of the Qi Refining Stage.
“It seems that we have to think of some way to speed up the improvement of our cultivation.
“If you continue to practice so slowly, you won’t be able to catch up with the Secret Realm of Heaven.
“Building the foundation of Heavenly Dao… alas~”
Song Jie sighed softly, put away the attribute panel, and looked at the dim sky outside.
Dang even got up to wash up, had a simple breakfast, and then went to the yard to practice spells and body movements for a while.
After practicing the spells and body movements, I sat cross-legged and meditated for a while and practiced Changchun Gong.
After Changchun Gong broke through to the realm of the Great Dao, Song Jie not only speeded up his practice, but his spiritual power recovery speed also increased a lot.
In addition, in recent years, the meridians have been broadened a little through Chongmai Dan, making the spiritual power flow more smoothly.
Not long after, Song Jie’s spiritual power returned to its best condition.
When I went out with Golden Horn, who had only grown up a little, he still looked cute.
After so many years of getting along with each other, Song Jie had already taken off the beast ring around Jin Jiao’s neck.
Now even if Song Jie asks Jin Jiao to leave him, Jin Jiao won’t want to.
After all, every time Song Jie went to Lingshan Pavilion to eat spiritual food, he would bring Jin Jiao with him.
He didn’t treat Golden Horn badly just because it was his pet beast.
Moreover, Song Jie made alchemy almost every day. Jinjiao was a unicorn alchemy beast, which could absorb the impurities produced in the alchemy furnace when the alchemist was refining alchemy.
With Song Jie by his side, with good food and drink, and a suitable training environment, Jin Jiao was naturally unwilling to leave.
After these years of practice, Jinjiao’s cultivation has reached the fifth level of the Qi Refining Stage.
Under normal circumstances, the speed of cultivation of monsters will be slower than that of monks.
Even if Golden Horn is a luck beast, with the blessing of luck, its cultivation speed will not be too fast.
But even so, Jin Jiao’s cultivation level is about to catch up with Song Jie’s.
This also gave Song Jie some sense of urgency.
What a shame it would be if his cultivation was overtaken by the pet beast he had raised since childhood.
Especially this pet beast doesn’t seem to have grown up much.
……
Being familiar with the road, Song Jie soon brought Jin Jiao to the entrance of the Alchemy Pavilion.
Before he could enter the door, he saw two young men with almost the same appearance walking out of the Alchemy Pavilion.
When the two teenagers saw Song Jie, their eyes lit up, their faces were filled with joyful smiles, and they said in unison:
“Good morning, godfather~”
Song Jie nodded with a smile, and then asked with some confusion: “The store has just opened, what are you going to do?”
(End of chapter)