Plants vs. Cultivation

Yuquan Market.

This market was founded by Yuquan Zhenren, who is a great Jindan monk. With him in charge, Yuquan Market has been able to develop steadily for hundreds of years.

Now Yuquan Market has become the most prosperous large market in this area.

However, there have been rumors recently that Yuquan Zhenren failed to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm and has died. Of course, many people sneered at this.

Because a few years ago, a Jindan monk, who must have heard this rumor, wanted to come to Yuquan Market to make trouble, and was finally killed by a terrifying sword light.

After this incident, no one believed this rumor.

"I don't know if there is any external alchemy here." A middle-aged man on the street of Yuquan Market swept his eyes across the shops on both sides of the street.

Wherever the middle-aged man passed, countless people gave way and cast awe-inspiring eyes at the same time, because he was a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building.

This level of cultivator is definitely a master in Yuquan Market.

And this middle-aged foundation-building cultivator was Gu Mo who had used the secret art of disguise. Of course, Gu Mo only disguised his figure and face, but did not use the art of concealing his cultivation.

Revealing the cultivation of the middle stage of foundation-building can reduce a lot of unnecessary troubles.

In fact, at the beginning, Gu Mo chose to restrain his breath and disguise himself as a Qi-refining cultivator, but who would have thought that he would meet several robbery cultivators on the way. Seeing that Gu Mo's cultivation was low and he was alone, they wanted to rob Gu Mo.

It must be said that the real world of immortal cultivation is indeed full of dangers. It is not like the sects, even if there is competition, there is still a bottom line because of the sect's laws.

After dealing with those robbery cultivators, Gu Mo changed his strategy and stopped concealing his cultivation realm. Sure enough, the road was very safe, and no more blind robbery cultivators appeared.

"It should be here."

After walking for a while, Gu Mo stopped in front of a tall building. The name of this building was Treasure Building. Even if Gu Mo came here for the first time, he knew what business this building was doing when he saw this name.

"Please come in, senior!"

The attendant in charge of reception in the Treasure House felt the fluctuation of Gu Mo's undisguised mid-stage foundation building aura, and hurriedly bowed to lead Gu Mo into the building.

Gu Mo glanced at the attendant leading the way in front. The other party was not an ordinary person, but a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage. Although he was only in the early stage of Qi Refining, the fact that the Treasure House could use a cultivator as a welcoming attendant was enough to show the strength of the Treasure House.

"Hello, fellow Taoist!"

After entering the Treasure House, a foundation building cultivator soon came up to greet him enthusiastically. According to the other party's self-introduction, this person was the person in charge of the Treasure House.

After exchanging pleasantries with the other party, Gu Mo directly stated his purpose of coming here. Buying the external alchemy technique was Gu Mo's main goal of coming here, and everything else had to be put aside.

"Fellow Taoist, do you want the external alchemy technique?"

Hearing Gu Mo's request, the foundation building cultivator looked a little surprised. After all, Gu Mo was only in the middle stage of foundation building, and to practice the external alchemy technique, at least the cultivation of the late stage of foundation building was required, and it would be better to be the great perfection of foundation building, to be considered safe.

In addition, if you want to practice the art of external alchemy, you must have a 3rd-level demon pill. This 3rd-level demon pill is the most important.

"Why? Isn't there any in the Treasure House?" Seeing the other party's reaction, Gu Mo asked.

"External alchemy, my Treasure House does have it. I'll ask someone to get it now." The foundation-building cultivator said, and asked the attendant to bring a jade slip.

Gu Mo took the jade slip and scanned it with his spiritual sense, confirming that it was indeed an external alchemy technique. Of course, Gu Mo could only see a small part of the content in the jade slip. Only by removing the restrictions on the jade slip could he read the whole picture.

"I wonder how much this external alchemy technique costs?" Gu Mo asked the most critical question.

Gu Mo now has more than 200 medium-grade spirit stones and tens of thousands of low-grade spirit stones, as well as several high-grade magic tools and some 2nd-level pills. If these spirit stones and materials are used to buy an ordinary 3rd-level technique, it is definitely not enough, but the price of a special 3rd-level method like external alchemy is not too expensive.

After all, the most expensive thing about practicing the art of external alchemy is not the practice method, but the 3rd-level demon pill.

"5,000 low-grade spirit stones."

The foundation-building cultivator quoted a price. 5,000 spirit stones is definitely an unimaginable amount of money for some Qi-refining cultivators. Even some newly promoted foundation-building casual cultivators rarely have 5,000 spirit stones on them.

But 5,000 spirit stones to buy a 3rd-level external alchemy technique is very cheap.

Since the price is right, Gu Mo did not hesitate to choose to take it directly. After paying 5,000 low-grade spirit stones, Gu Mo took the jade slip that unlocked the ban and left the Treasure House.

Watching Gu Mo leave, the foundation-building cultivator in the Treasure House took out a communication jade talisman and sent a message.

Soon, in the villa in the center of Yuquanfang City, an old-looking foundation-building great perfection cultivator looked at the information in the communication jade talisman in his hand, and a gleam of brilliance flashed in his eyes.

He is the actual ruler of Yuquan Market, and also the registered disciple of Yuquan Zhenren back then, Hua Daoliang. The so-called Yuquan Zhenren created this market, which was simply created by him under the name of his master.

However, after the market was established, Hua Daoliang brought most of the benefits of the market to Yuquan Zhenren, and then Yuquan Zhenren personally came to the market to confirm this matter.

No matter what realm the cultivator is in, the thirst for resources is the same. The benefits that a market can bring are definitely not a small amount.

You don't need to worry about it yourself. Just put your name on it and you can get a large amount of spiritual stones. Even a Jindan master like Yuquan Zhenren will be tempted.

With Yuquan Zhenren's personal endorsement, the development of the market has entered the fast lane. Although most of the market's income needs to be paid to Yuquan Zhenren, the remaining amount is enough for Hua Daoliang to quickly break through.

As time passed, Yuquan Zhenren finally prepared to try to take that key step. After leaving a voice transmission to Hua Daoliang, he disappeared.

This was also the last voice transmission that Hua Daoliang received from Yuquan Zhenren. After that, Hua Daoliang inquired from many sources, but there was no information about his master Yuquan Zhenren.

The disappearance of Yuquan Zhenren, the pillar of the business, made Hua Daoliang feel a huge pressure. The profits earned by this market every year were so much that many Jindan monks were very jealous. However, due to Yuquan Zhenren's strength, no one dared to get involved. But if they knew that Yuquan Zhenren had disappeared, these people would definitely come to rob him as soon as possible.

Although Hua Daoliang tried hard to hide the information of Yuquan Zhenren's disappearance, there were still rumors in the market. After all, Yuquan Zhenren had not appeared for many years. This was a fact. Not long after the news came out, a Jindan cultivator was attracted.

Knowing that the situation was critical, Hua Daoliang used the trump card left by Yuquan Zhenren without hesitation and killed the Jindan cultivator, which temporarily calmed the matter.

But there was only one trump card that could kill a Jindan cultivator in seconds. If another Jindan cultivator came next time, Hua Daoliang would be unable to resist.

Unless Hua Daoliang could enter the Jindan realm, even the weakest fake elixir or external elixir, with the formation of the market, he would not be afraid of other Jindan cultivators.

But the reason why he was only a registered disciple of Yuquan Zhenren was naturally because of his average talent. With the resources earned from the market, Hua Daoliang piled up his cultivation to the great perfection of foundation building, but it was almost impossible to go further.

Moreover, his life span is approaching the end. If he dies, the younger generations in his clan will not be able to protect this market.

Just when Hua Daoliang was full of worries, he received a message that a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building bought a set of external alchemy technique in the treasure building.

Ordinary cultivators will not buy external alchemy technique unless they are preparing to practice this technique.

To practice external alchemy technique, you need to prepare a 3rd level demon pill, which means that the cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building is likely to have a 3rd level demon pill.

The combat power of 3rd level demon beasts is not weaker than that of orthodox golden elixir cultivators, and even their physique and innate spells are not comparable to those of human cultivators. Therefore, it is difficult to kill 3rd level demon beasts, and some 3rd level demon beasts, knowing that they are defeated, will directly explode their demon pills and perish together with the enemy.

This also makes it extremely difficult to obtain 3rd level demon pills.

Hua Daoliang has been looking for a 3rd-level demon pill for these years. In his situation, there is no hope of breaking through the golden pill, and there is no hope for fake pills, but he can still become a foreign pill cultivator by using the technique of external pills.

As long as he can become a foreign pill cultivator, he can prolong his life for hundreds of years, and at the same time he can completely control the market formation and no longer fear the covetousness of the golden pill cultivators.

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It’s just that 3rd-level demon pills are rare. Even if someone has them, they won’t sell them. After all, a 3rd-level demon pill is a foreign pill cultivator. Only a fool would sell a 3rd-level demon pill.

Hua Daoliang was ready to take all his belongings to the auction house in Xiancheng to try his luck if he couldn’t buy a 3rd-level demon pill.

But who would have thought that the surprise came so suddenly, a person in the middle stage of foundation building was suspected to have a 3rd-level demon pill, which was simply a chance from heaven.

Of course, Hua Daoliang's opportunity should be a disaster for the cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building, but the world of immortal cultivation is like this.

"Someone is following me now?"

Gu Mo frowned. After leaving the Treasure House, he found that he seemed to be followed. He knew that the world of immortal cultivation was not peaceful, but Gu Mo did not expect that he would encounter such a bad thing when he went out to buy things for the first time.

Ignoring those who were secretly following him, Gu Mo rented a cave in the market and prepared to comprehend the art of external alchemy. If it was suitable, then Gu Mo would directly start to sacrifice the fake pill.

This time, the incarnation went out with the fake pill, so that after obtaining the art of external alchemy, he could sacrifice the fake pill as quickly as possible and become a fake pill cultivator.

In this way, even if he showed his wealth in the market and encountered a peeper, Gu Mo would not be afraid. Now it seems that this arrangement is really used.

As for whether the secret peeper would take action in the market, Gu Mo was not worried about this.

Safety is a big factor in whether a market can prosper. Only a market that can provide security for cultivators will attract people.

Therefore, any market will kill cultivators who dare to take action in the market without hesitation.

"You rented a cave house. Are you going to practice here for a while?" Hua Daoliang received the news and frowned slightly. It would be difficult for him to take action if the target did not leave the market.

This is his market, which can provide him with a lot of income every year, especially after the disappearance of Yuquan Zhenren, the income of the market belongs to him alone.

If Hua Daoliang takes action in the market, as long as the news is leaked, the reputation of this market will be completely gone. Without credibility, the decline of the market is only a matter of time.

"Keep watching, report any actions of the target in time." Hua Daoliang issued an order, and he did not lack patience to wait.

The cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building has not yet reached the late stage of foundation building. Hua Daoliang is not worried at all that the other party will sacrifice the third-level demon pill into an external pill.

Even when the foundation is fully built, it is the safest to perform external elixir refining. There is still a considerable risk of failure in the late stage of foundation building. As for the middle stage of foundation building, there has never been a case of a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building who can successfully refine external elixir.

Market cave.

Gu Mo took out the jade slip of external elixir technique he had just obtained, probed into it with his spiritual sense, and began to read the contents. Then Gu Mo's eyes showed astonishment.

90% of the content of this external elixir technique is about how to deal with the third-level demon pill, such as how to remove the residual soul of the demon beast hidden in the demon pill, how to refine the demon power in the demon pill, etc.

After all, the compatibility between human cultivators and demon pills is extremely poor. If you want to successfully refine the demon pill into external elixir, you need to do a lot of preparation.

Different external elixir techniques have different methods of dealing with demon pills. Some high-level external elixir methods will deal with demon pills more thoroughly, and the success rate will be higher when refining.

The external alchemy technique that Gu Mo got was of a relatively common type, but Gu Mo didn't need to deal with the fake pill in his hand at all, because this was what he condensed himself, and the power of the fake pill was the same as that of the incarnation.

Therefore, Gu Mo directly abandoned the first 90% of the content of the external alchemy technique in his hand and turned directly to the final sacrifice and refining method.

The strength of the external alchemy method only depends on the treatment methods of the first 90% of the demon pills, and the final sacrifice and refining method is basically no different.

"So that's it, it doesn't seem to be very difficult." After reading the sacrifice and refining method of the external alchemy technique, Gu Mo suddenly understood it in his heart.

Since the sacrifice and refining of the external alchemy method is not very difficult, Gu Mo did not hesitate and started to sacrifice and refine it directly.

After a few hours, Gu Mo looked at the fake pill in his dantian, and a trace of confusion appeared on his face. The sacrifice and refining of this fake pill was so smooth that Gu Mo even doubted whether he had made a mistake.

According to the introduction of the jade slip, it is necessary to go through many levels to perform external pill refining. However, as soon as Gu Mo started to refine the fake pill in his hand, the fake pill entered the Dantian of Gu Mo's incarnation smoothly.

There was no obstacle during the period, as if the fake pill originally belonged there. Well, it seems that this is not wrong. This fake pill was born from the Dantian of the incarnation, and now it has just returned to the Dantian of the incarnation. Although it is not the same incarnation, the two have the same origin, so it is no problem to regard them as the same incarnation.

Of course, after the fake pill entered the Dantian, there were some changes. For example, at this moment, Gu Mo felt as if there was a mountain pressing on his Dantian, and the heavy feeling slowed down the spiritual power in Gu Mo's body.

That was because Gu Mo's physique was unable to bear the weight of the fake pill. If the power of the fake pill was not the same as the power of the incarnation, if it were replaced by other mid-stage foundation-building cultivators, even if they succeeded by chance, their bodies would be crushed by the weight of the demon pill.