Meng Zhou had no psychological burden at all after confiscating all the wealth that Du He had used to build his foundation.

As the boss of Heshengtang, this is the retribution he deserves.

When he arrived at the stall area, Meng Zhou sold Du He's three high-grade magical artifacts and a large storage bag for a total of 88 medium-grade spiritual stones. Adding the spiritual stones among them, he unexpectedly gained 228 medium-grade spiritual stones.

Meng Zhou's spiritual stone reserve reached a new high, all of which were replaced with medium-grade spiritual stones, totaling 853.

However, this feeling of wealth did not last long, and Meng Zhou once again clearly realized his poverty.

Returning to Zhang's courtyard, when Zhang Wei came back, Meng Zhou immediately called him for questioning.

"Can you get me a set of second-level spell books?"

Zhang Wei thought for a while and said: "I can only get the general ones, those related to specific practice methods, or some that are more special."

Meng Zhou nodded: "Just the regular ones...how many spiritual stones are needed?"

Spells related to practice methods, or some special spells, may be relied on by those possessing forces as their foundation, and there will be more restrictions on their spread.

But Meng Zhou really doesn't care about this. There may be many additional threshold restrictions to practice and master.

On the contrary, those that are conventional and universal are actually the most universal and easiest to use. Otherwise, they would not be "regular and universal" at all.

Zhang Weidao: "A hundred medium-grade spiritual stones will suffice."

Meng Zhou nodded, this is indeed not expensive.

I also find it interesting at the same time.

This is probably the characteristic of knowledge.

Before it spreads, its value is far higher than that of real objects such as pills and magic weapons of the same grade. The greater possibility is that you will not get it if you ask for it!

But once it spreads, from one to two, from two to four, from four to eight, it gradually becomes less valuable.

But the knowledge is still the original knowledge, without any loss.

Even in the process of spreading, it has been practiced and summarized by more people, and it has become more complete than at the beginning.

Its real value is obviously increasing, but the price has dropped, and the threshold has become lower and lower.

Meng Zhou asked again: "Can you get me a second-level top-grade robe?"

After a pause, Meng Zhou emphasized:

"It's best if it's a new product that has just been refined without anyone else's hands... Well, it doesn't have to be so fancy, it just needs to have the basic functions of the robe."

Zhang Wei was shocked when he heard this, looked at Meng Zhou carefully, and then reminded:

"Senior, even if it has the simplest effect, such a robe is worth at least ten high-grade spiritual stones."

That's one thousand middle-grade spiritual stones.

When Meng Zhou heard this, his breath froze immediately.

Seeing his expression, Zhang Wei knew what he was thinking and carefully suggested:

"You have just entered foundation building now. High quality is actually a burden. Can you transition to the second-level mid-level first?"

After hearing this, Meng Zhou waved his hand and said, "Forget it then."

His current physical strength, energy, and blood are fully utilized, and the defense is not necessarily much worse than the second-level mid-level robe. It is also more convenient and convenient for concealment.

In this case, why waste the spiritual stone?

He nodded to Zhang Wei and directly took out many spiritual stones, including medium-grade spiritual stones and low-grade spiritual stones. The quantity was quite large.

But for the price of a hundred middle-grade spiritual stones, one is not much, but one is not too much. It is a price for a newly-minted foundation builder who is living in poverty and poverty.

"Then I'll bother you!"

Meng Zhou asked Zhang Wei to put the spirit stones away and did not make any more demands for the time being.

He also understood that the more than 750 middle-grade spiritual stones in his pocket seemed to be a lot, but in fact they were not many.

You still have to save some money and avoid unnecessary expenses if you can.

…

Zhang Wei took Meng Zhou's spirit stone and immediately went out to Hexin Tower without waiting until the next day.

It didn't take long before he returned with a foundation-building monk. The foundation-building monk personally handed a jade slip to Meng Zhou.

After the jade slip was handed over to Meng Zhou, and after Meng Zhou confirmed that it was correct, he didn't wait any longer, gave it a fist and left.

Meng Zhou thanked Zhang Wei for his hard work, but did not say anything about giving him extra compensation.

According to the rules of Hexin Tower, he has a share of the hundred middle-grade spiritual stones.

And if he does more business like this, his status in Hexin Building will also rise, so he will naturally not need any additional remuneration.

Meng Zhou returned to the quiet room and sat cross-legged.

His spiritual consciousness scanned the contents of the jade slip and carefully comprehended the twelve conventional second-level spells contained in it.

As mentioned in the preface, second-level spells are fundamentally different from first-level spells.

First-level spells only involve the use of mana. Although spells are difficult and easy, their power also varies.

But as long as the practitioner has talent and is willing to study hard, he can practice difficult and powerful first-level spells even in the early stages of Qi training.

But second-level spells are different, and the use of mana is only part of it.

There is also a more core part involving spiritual consciousness and even the strength of the soul, which is a hard threshold.

Without the secret method of soul refining, the growth of ordinary foundation-building monks in this area can only increase slowly with the improvement of their cultivation level. Only when their cultivation level reaches a certain stage can they practice the corresponding spells.

A second-level low-grade spell that can be learned in the early stages of foundation building.

[Flying Escape Technique], [Armor Shield Technique], [Object Control Technique], [Shape Transformation Technique]

A second-level mid-level spell that can be learned in the middle stage of foundation building.

[Transformation Technique], [Wall Penetrating Technique], [Cloud and Rain Technique], [Hefeng Technique]

A second-level high-grade spell that can be learned in the later stages of foundation building.

[Burning River Technique], [Thunder Drop Technique], [Qi Watching Technique], [Soul Shock Technique]

After briefly reviewing the twelve second-level spells, Meng Zhou not only had a clearer understanding of the abilities of these twelve spells.

By inferring these spells, we can roughly imagine the capabilities of the monks in the middle and late stages of foundation building.

This also made his mentality more calm and practical. Although his foundation building was extraordinary, he had just built the foundation now. Let alone the later stage of foundation building, he was just a little bird that couldn't walk yet.

Even the monks in the middle stage of foundation building have an absolute advantage over themselves.

Meng Zhou finally focused his attention on four second-level low-grade spells.

Without thinking too much, he figured out the order of study.

Learn the art of flight first, then the art of transformation, then the art of armor and shield, and finally the art of controlling objects.

Flying Escape is a spell that almost every new Foundation Builder must learn. This is a key to the ability of Foundation Builder monks to far exceed those of Qi Training monks.

For Meng Zhou, it allows him to continue to maintain his speed advantage.

When practicing Qi, his speed is far higher than that of his peers.

Now that the foundation is being laid, this good tradition will naturally continue to be maintained.

As the saying goes, nothing is indestructible, only speed is invincible.

As long as I am fast enough and danger cannot catch up with me, I will always be invincible.

The reason why the art of transfiguration is used as the second practice spell is because there is no other art to choose from.

In fact, among the four second-level low-grade spells recorded on the jade slips, except for the flying escape technique, the other three spells are all identical and substituted by Meng Zhou.

The effect of the object-controlling technique is basically the same as the effect of the crane-controlling hand martial skill after being gifted. The effect of the hand is replaced by mana spells.

If the level of mastery is not enough, it will not be as useful as your own innate abilities.

The effect of Armor Shield can be perfectly replaced by the power of Qi and Blood.

Of course, he would not refuse the opportunity to acquire an additional layer of armor, but now his priority of practicing it would naturally be lower.

As for the transformation technique, in Meng Zhou's opinion, it is similar to an upgraded "compressed package" of many first-level spells.

During the Qi training stage, there are many spells such as flying arrows, water arrows, fireballs, firebirds, water snakes, and wind swords. The mana simulates a certain shape and makes it manifest obvious attributes.

, if you want to master it, you have to practice it carefully one by one.

But now, a second-level transformation technique can solve everything.

This spell is not very effective in battles at the same level, and it is difficult to achieve decisive results.

But it can greatly improve the comprehensiveness of a monk. He can throw a fire ball, water ball, wind knife, fire bird, water snake, etc. at a glance.

Facing opponents at the same level, it is indeed not powerful enough, but for monks at a lower level, just this one spell can pretend to be all-powerful.

In fact, due to the overall physical improvement brought by the talent of fourteen martial arts, and the familiarity with swordsmanship brought by sword control, this spell is not necessary for Meng Zhou.

However, when there are no more and better choices, he doesn't mind learning, just to enrich his skill library.
To be continued...