Chapter 102 Luck
“Fellow Taoist, walk slowly. Welcome to buy elixirs next time~”
Song Jie sent away the last customer of the day with enthusiasm.
Then he took a deep breath.
“Huh~ I finally sold out all the elixirs.”
Looking at the empty stall, Song Jie couldn’t help but reveal a satisfied smile.
As the news spread that he could refine first-grade inferior rejuvenation pills and rejuvenation pills.
Many customers who are not interested in aphrodisiac elixirs also come to buy elixirs from me.
After all, it is an elixir refined based on the recipe of the Alchemy Cauldron Sect. Many monks will want to buy a bottle to see the effect.
If the effect satisfies them, they will naturally come back to buy again.
So recently, Song Jie has been slowly increasing the production of Rejuvenation Pills and Fuling Pills.
Each time, two or three more bottles will be refined, so that when the shop opens later, two or three more alchemy apprentices will be recruited.
You can devote yourself wholeheartedly to refining the first-grade elixir.
After cleaning up the stall, he touched the heavy spiritual stone in his arms.
Today, these forty-two bottles of elixirs brought him a total of eighty-eight spiritual stones.
Counting his original spiritual stones, there are currently a total of 993 spiritual stones.
He was about to break through a thousand spiritual stones.
So Song Jie planned to go to Lingshan Pavilion tomorrow to have a spiritual meal and celebrate in advance.
“Sister-in-law, I have something important to do later, so I will go back first.”
After saying goodbye to Li Caiwei, Song Jie went home directly without going to the Spiritual Medicine Studio to buy medicinal materials.
After all, I have to go out to eat spiritual food tomorrow. I can wait until I finish eating the spiritual food before stopping by to buy alchemy ingredients.
Being familiar with the road, Song Jie returned home in a short while.
“Now that the application period is over, you can practice spells and body movements for half an hour, and then meditate to restore your spiritual power.
“When the spiritual power is fully restored, I guess fellow Taoist Huangfu will be here soon.”
Song Jie nodded, and immediately threw the three-piece stall set into the kitchen, and then went to the courtyard to practice spells and body movements.
……
As night falls, a full moon quietly climbs into the sky, casting a soft silver glow.
Song Jie finished practicing the magic and body skills, recovered his spiritual power, and even had dinner, but he didn’t see Huangfu God coming to see him.
“Fellow Daoist Huangfu, is there any temporary situation?”
Song Jie muttered.
He was about to take out the Lingyin Yujue and send a message to God Huangfu.
Suddenly, a knocking sound was heard outside the courtyard door.
“Fellow Daoist Song, I’m here, let’s go.”
After hearing this, Song Jie immediately stepped forward and opened the courtyard door.
Huangfu God grinned at him with a playful smile.
“Fellow Daoist Huangfu, should we set off directly like this? Do we need to bring anything?”
This was Song Jie’s first time preparing to enter Shiwanda Mountain, and he felt somewhat nervous.
At this time, he was already wearing silver scale soft armor that had been repaired as before, and he was also carrying several bottles of pills.
There are power-charging pills and barrier-breaking pills that I purchased from Bao Dan Tower.
There are also Mishen Pills, Rejuvenation Pills, and Fuling Pills that he refined himself.
Even the Chongmai Pill and the Black Wind Order were brought along.
Bring these two items mainly just in case.
If he accidentally gets separated from Huangfu God, the Black Wind Order can protect him from being robbed by Jie Xiu.
If you are unlucky, you will be attacked by monsters and injured, resulting in blocked meridians.
Chongmai Dan can also help him open blocked meridians.
In short, Song Jie brought almost all his inventory with him.
God Huangfu chuckled, shook his head and said, “You don’t need to bring anything, just set off.”
After saying that, Huangfu Shen grabbed Song Jie’s shoulders and grinned.
“Fellow Daoist Song, get ready, we’re leaving now…”
Song Jie was stunned, not quite understanding what Huangfu Shen wanted to do.
Let’s go, why are you grabbing my shoulder?
Before Song Jie could think about it, the next moment, he knew why God Huangfu wanted to grab his shoulder.
Because he flew.
In an instant, he found himself stepping on a thin cloud of smoke, and below was the familiar Xinyuefang City.
The Xinyuefang City shrouded in night, with twinkling lights, is quite shocking when viewed from a high altitude.
Song Jie felt the wind whistling in his ears, and the scenery beneath him moved backwards rapidly.
In a short while, he had already flown out of the boundary of Xinyuefang City and sped towards the distance.
Song Jie couldn’t help but ask: “Fellow Taoist Huangfu, this is…”
“This is a spell that allows monks to fly in the air.
“Fellow Daoist Song will be able to learn a spell like this when his cultivation level improves in the future.
“It’s quite convenient when you’re on the road…”
Huangfu Shen laughed, with a hint of indifference in his voice.
“The art of soaring into the clouds and riding on the mist?”
Song Jie couldn’t help but have infinite yearning in his heart.
He has always felt that people who cultivate immortality should be like this, relying on the virtual to control the wind and soar in the nine heavens.
After traveling through time for so long, he finally felt like cultivating an immortal for the first time.
Compared with now, he felt like he was a charlatan who made a living by refining alchemy.
Although it was through the help of others that he was able to soar in the clouds, it was indeed a pleasure for Song Jie.
He couldn’t help but think, what kind of cultivation level is Huangfu God? What level of cultivation do I have to reach before I can soar into the clouds and ride the mist like Huangfu God?
Also, why does a big boss like Huangfu Shen have to find him to make elixirs? With the opponent’s cultivation level, he should be able to find an alchemist many times more powerful than himself.
Even finding a second-level alchemist is not a problem.
Why should it be me?
Regarding Huangfu God, Song Jie actually had many questions in his mind.
From the first time they met, when Huangfu Shen asked him to help keep the storage bag, Song Jie felt very puzzled.
For such a boss-level person, there should be many ways to keep storage bags.
But the other party chose to let me, a newbie, help keep it, so he wasn’t afraid that he would accidentally lose the storage bag? Just as Song Jie was enjoying the pleasure of flying in the clouds and riding in the mist, he was thinking about the questions in his heart.
There was a sudden feeling of weightlessness.
Before he could react, his feet had already stepped on solid ground.
Song Jie suddenly swayed a little on his feet and almost lost his balance.
Subconsciously, Song Jie looked around and saw a deep and dark mountain forest in front of him.
The trees are densely packed with lush branches and leaves, almost covering the sky, giving people a feeling of depression and crisis.
He took a deep breath, the fresh smell of earth and leaves in the air.
Faintly, he seemed to hear the cry of a strange bird coming from the dense forest ahead.
“Fellow Taoist Huangfu, is there a hundred thousand mountains in front of you?”
God Huangfu nodded and said with a smile: “Exactly… once you reach the Shiwan Mountain, you can no longer fly in the clouds and mist.
“If it attracts the attention of those big monsters deep in the mountains, it will be somewhat troublesome.
Song Jie nodded to express understanding.
Immediately, he followed Huangfu Shen and walked along the winding mountain road towards the Shiwan Mountain.
The fallen leaves under their feet rustled under their feet, accompanied by the calls of strange birds in the distance, creating an atmosphere that was both mysterious and eerie.
The two walked through the dense woods, with vines and branches blocking their path from time to time.
Song Jie carefully avoided these obstacles while not forgetting to pay attention to his surroundings.
From the moment he stepped into Shiwanda Mountain, he always felt that there seemed to be unknown dangers hidden everywhere.
Especially at night, the light in the mountains and forests was dim. Even if Song Jie focused his spiritual power on his eyes, he could not see too far away.
An uneasy feeling suddenly came over me.
Vaguely, Song Jie felt that there seemed to be countless scarlet eyes staring at the two of them in the dark forest around them.
Song Jie couldn’t help but rub his clothes with his hands, wiping off the sweat on his palms.
He looked around, trying to find those eyes hidden in the darkness.
But he saw nothing but dense foliage and dim light and shadow.
Huangfu Shen seemed to notice Song Jie’s nervousness, and immediately smiled and said: “Fellow Daoist Song, there is no need to be nervous, this is just the outermost edge of Shiwan Mountain, even if you encounter monsters.
“Those are relatively weak monsters and cannot threaten us.”
Song Jie laughed, slightly relieving his nervousness.
“It’s my first time coming to Shiwandashan, so I’m inevitably a little nervous.”
The last time he left Xinyuefang City, he and Li Caiwei went to the black market together.
At that time, he was just outside the edge of Shiwanda Mountain, feeling the atmosphere of Shiwandashan, and felt the dangerous atmosphere.
But now he entered the Hundred Thousand Mountains directly, and his feeling was completely different.
He always felt as if he had been targeted by a terrifying monster, and a dangerous aura surrounded him.
If he hadn’t seen the relaxed and contented face of Huangfu Shen next to him, Song Jie might have simply run away from the mountain.
The two of them just kept going deep.
while walking……
Suddenly, Song Jie felt that the surroundings seemed much quieter.
The chirping of insects and the calls of strange birds that originally filled my ears slowly began to weaken and became faintly audible.
“Fellow Daoist Huangfu, do you feel that it’s a little quiet around here?”
Song Jie’s mood, which had calmed down a little, couldn’t help but become nervous again.
God Huangfu still smiled like an old god and said: “Because we have entered the territory of a monster beast that is probably at the seventh level of Qi refining stage.
“So it will be relatively quiet here, and Fellow Daoist Song does not need to panic.”
The seventh level of the Qi refining stage…
Song Jie thought to himself.
Unknowingly, they had penetrated so far that they had reached the territory of the seventh-level monsters in the Qi Refining Stage.
“Then if we enter the territory of the monster beast directly, won’t we be attacked by it?” I remember that monster beasts have a strong sense of territory and will actively attack monks who enter their territory. “
“It doesn’t matter, Fellow Daoist Song just feels at ease.
“The premise for a monster to attack a monk is that it thinks it is a hunter, so it will attack.
“If it realizes that it is prey, how dare it attack us.”
“I see……”
Song Jie nodded thoughtfully.
When I set up a stall on weekdays, I never heard my customers say this.
On the contrary, those customers are all dangers that describe the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
Especially Shiwandashan at night is twice as dangerous as during the day.
Many monsters like to sleep during the day and are active at night.
That’s why Song Jie was so cautious, and would always alert Huangfu God if he noticed anything was wrong.
God Huangfu smiled slightly and said: “Let’s keep walking. Not far ahead, we should be at the activity area of the fire-bathing dolphin.
“A few days ago, I saw several fire dolphins there.
“At this hour, those fire dolphins must be out and about again.”
Song Jie nodded.
According to the description in the colored book he read, the fire dolphin is a monster that likes to be active at night.
They especially like to vent their accumulated lust under the moonlight.
Thinking of this, Song Jie suddenly asked: “Fellow Taoist Huangfu, have you been in this Hundred Thousand Mountains these past few days?”
“Hahaha… There are rumors recently that a juvenile luck beast appeared in Shiwan Mountain.
“I just had nothing to do, so I came to join in the fun.”
“Luck beast?”
When Song Jie heard Huangfu Shen’s unusual statement, there was a trace of doubt in his eyes.
If he guessed correctly, the luck beast mentioned by God Huangfu should be the auspicious beast that Miao Tong mentioned to him last time.
But, why do they have different names? Before Song Jie could ask, God Huangfu smiled and said, “It’s the auspicious beast that you monks in Xinyuefang City call it.”
“Is there a difference between an auspicious beast and a lucky beast? Why does fellow Taoist Huangfu call it a lucky beast instead of an auspicious beast?”
Song Jie immediately raised his question.
God Huangfu said with a smile: “Of course there is a difference, and the difference is huge.
“The appearance of auspicious animals often heralds prosperity and prosperity, and is regarded as a good omen.
“The luck beast is more related to personal luck and destiny.
“They can be closely connected with the monk’s luck and can affect the monk’s destiny to a certain extent.
“To put it simply, auspicious beasts can affect the rise and fall of a force, but luck beasts can only affect a monk’s personal luck.
“That’s the difference between the two…”
“So that’s it.” Song Jie asked thoughtfully: “Then how did fellow Taoist Huangfu determine that it was a beast of luck and not a beast of auspiciousness?
“Could it be that the luck beast was caught by fellow Taoist Huangfu?”
Huangfu Shen shook his head.
“That’s not true. Luck beasts usually have the innate ability to seek good fortune and avoid evil. It is not an easy task to catch a luck beast.
“Friend Daoist Song may not know that the appearance of auspicious beasts is usually accompanied by strange phenomena in the heaven and earth.
“Moreover, even the auspicious beasts in their infancy have considerable cultivation strength, which is not something that the monks in the Qi Refining Stage can covet.
“According to my estimation, there are only a few auspicious beasts in the entire Yunmo Continent.
“So, I dare to say that the thing that haunts the Shiwan Mountain must be a luck beast.
“Many monks in the Qi Refining Stage, and even those in the Foundation Establishment Stage, who don’t understand these things, regard the Luck Beast as an auspicious beast.
“This cannot be blamed on their ignorance, but on some small forces trying to show off their rich heritage.
“They all like to brag to others about how many auspicious beasts they have raised, but in fact, they are all lucky beasts.
“But monks who don’t know what’s going on may just believe it.
“Over time, many monks have developed a wrong understanding and mistakenly regarded the luck beast as an auspicious beast.”
After listening to Huangfu Shen’s words, Song Jie suddenly felt that his knowledge had increased a lot.
Immediately he praised: “Fellow Taoist Huangfu is not only profound in cultivation, but also has such broad knowledge. I really admire him.”
“It’s not that you have advanced cultivation, it’s just that you’ve been to more places and you’ve seen more.”
Huangfu God waved his hand nonchalantly, changed his voice, and said with a mysterious smile:
“I wonder if Fellow Daoist Song is interested in the Luck Beast?”
(End of chapter)