Jingru regards the sect as her family and doesn't care about her origins, but the Sun family will never disown her as a young lady. Of course, there is no need to pay the bill when eating in her own restaurant.

But in a small town, the Sun family opened an inn and a restaurant, so they were really rich and willful.

Gu Wuyou's understanding of wealthy families has reached a new level.

The four of them left the restaurant and went straight to the human tooth market.

Yes, there is a human tooth market in this town at the foot of the Miaoyin Sect Mountain. As mentioned before, the town is small but well-equipped, because in any case, it is a vassal of the sect's headquarters, and its safety is sufficiently guaranteed.

The scale is limited mainly because Miaoyin Sect is a small sect.

It can also be seen that the monks are not opposed to slavery in the secular world.

Of course, the monk must not be familiar with the market either.

So when Gu Wuyou spent only a few hundred taels of silver to buy twenty slaves, Yingying realized that there was no need for Jingru to invest more.

You must know that in order to ensure the maximum safety of his sister, Gu Wuyou is very selective. He does not want those with disabilities, those with crooked eyebrows, and those who are too stupid or too smart. However, even so, the average number of slaves does not exceed 20 taels.

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After buying the slaves, a large group of people went to find the shop again.

This time the cost is much higher. The annual rent for a decent shop starts at two thousand taels, and the rent must be at least three years.

This made Lu Xuan very sad. The freedom of a living person was only a fraction of the rent. It was indeed an evil old society!

The next step is to help Gu Pan move and teach the guys how to make soap...

By the time everything is done, it will almost be dark.

Before returning to the mountain, Gu Wuyou gave a final speech. He simply warned the slaves to be loyal to the master's family and to sacrifice their lives to protect Gu Pan at critical moments. Of course, sweet dates must also be given. If they do well, they will be rewarded heavily. They will never be treated badly.

…

Five days later, Lu Xuan successfully broke through to the Juyuan stage.

As usual, he came to Gu Wuyou to show off... No, it was to teach him experience.

Gu Wuyou was carrying two buckets of water and walking on the mountain road with ease, while Lu Xuan kept talking beside him.

"Are you inspired?" Lu Xuan asked.

"Yes." Gu Wuyou said, "You have to throw it away when comparing goods. Comparing people with others will kill you."

"Oh, you are so stupid! The cyclones in the qi training period are made up of true qi, right? If you observe carefully, every strand of true qi is a stubborn donkey, and it is ineffective at all to rush around. You have to teach them to obey the traffic flow.

Rules, when everyone is obedient, you give an order, and with a puff, they transform into Yin-Yang fish!"

Gu Wuyou: "There was a puff, where are you getting the acupuncture?"

"Yeah, it's just like getting an acupuncture. It's just a shiver."

"It's so simple." Gu Wuyou smiled bitterly, "But I can't see what a cyclone looks like at all. How can I smooth it down?"

Lu Xuan: "You can't see the cyclone clearly?"

Gu Wuyou shrugged.

Also observe carefully...the mind is not the eyes, how can one observe?

The so-called "intention guarding" is certainly not a figment of imagination, but it is definitely different from what you see with your eyes. It is more like a general feeling without details. Gu Wuyou has consulted Master Yuqing, at least when it comes to Qi training and Yuan gathering.

In the lower realm, monks cannot achieve the so-called "subtlety".

Lu Xuan can see clearly, of course, because of his innate spiritual body.

That night, Gu Wuyou meditated as usual.

At a certain moment, he opened his eyes and glanced around the room. Chen Yu and himself were also practicing cross-legged, while Zhou Ji and Beiwan were creating using the light of the Sun Technique...

"Senior Brother Zhou." Gu Wuyou said softly.

Zhou Ji turned to look at him.

Gu Wuyou: "Senior brother, are there any spiritual stones? Lend me one."

"Yes, yes." Zhou Ji frowned, "But why do you need the spirit stone? It is best not to use external objects during the Qi training period."

A monk consumes a lot of resources throughout his life, such as heavenly materials, earthly treasures, elixirs, and spiritual stones. In a sense, spiritual stones are equivalent to naturally produced "returning pills" that can quickly replenish mana. Whether it is daily practice or recovery after casting a spell,

plays an important role.

However, before Juyuan, which is the period of Qi training, the monk community does not advocate the use of spirit stones, because a large number of examples prove that using foreign objects during this period will affect the final achievement.

As for the foundation building period...you can't use it even if you want to.

In fact, it is difficult to absorb spirit stones during the Qi training period. This thing cannot be eaten directly. It is not the same thing as elixirs after all.

Gu Wuyou had a strange expression: "My little brother... seems to have made a breakthrough."

"impossible!"

Zhou Ji suddenly raised his voice, waking up a cup of wine that had been addicted to "composing lyrics", and also brought Chen Yu back from a state of tranquility. The latter felt agitated. It was uncomfortable to be disturbed during his practice. In serious cases, he might even become possessed.

"Ah, brother, I was reckless, I'm sorry." Zhou Ji clenched his fists at Chenyu.

Chenyu shook his head and said nothing, but looked at Gu Wuyou.

Gu Gu also stared at Gu Wuyou with bright eyes: "Junior Brother Wuyou just said that you made a breakthrough?"

Gu Wuyou hesitated and said, "Maybe so."

A cup: "If it is, it is, if it is not, it is not. What does it mean that it should be?"

Gu Wuyou spread his hands: "This is the first time a big girl has boarded a sedan chair. I don't know what she looks like in the Juyuan Period."

Cup: “How do you feel?”

Gu Wuyou thought for a while: "It's empty, lonely and cold."

Zhou Ji and Beipi looked at each other with shock on their faces.

Zhou Ji turned his hand over, and a milky white, round stone appeared in his palm. The shape and size were about the same as an egg.

This is the legendary spirit stone.

Spiritual stone is naturally generated, but it is definitely two different things from coal.

Zhongtiandi is beautiful and transformed, containing the purest spiritual power, which can directly supplement the monk's mana. How can such a magical and tall thing be transformed from the corpses of animals and plants through some chemical reaction like coal?

Monks, as well as Taoist priests in the past, believe that it is something that comes out of nothing. Didn't the Taoist ancestor say, "Everything in the world is born from existence, and everything is born from nothingness."

Buddhism, which has become extinct in China, has another point of view.

Buddhism teaches that all living beings are equal. There are three thousand worlds in a grain of sand, so what is the difference between the world and the living beings? In the middle-earth world where all things are born, the magic power must be at least at the level of the Buddha, right? The Buddha has relics, and the world is natural.

There can also be.

The spiritual stone is the relic of the Buddha in this world!

Otherwise, why are spiritual stones often round?

Yes, most of the spirit stones are oval, and occasionally other shapes can be seen. In the spirit stone veins, they are scattered and not connected together.

Of course there are large pieces of spiritual stone, which will be cut and distributed later, but the overall shape before cutting is still... an egg.

Zhou Ji handed the spirit stone to Gu Wuyou.

Gu Wuyou held the spirit stone in his hand and closed his eyes in concentration.

After about a stick of incense, Gu Wuyou opened his eyes.

Zhou Ji stretched out his hand to grab the spirit stone, inserted his true energy into it and swept it, and he knew it in his heart. At least half of the spiritual power contained in the spirit stone was gone. It is impossible for a monk in the Qi training period to absorb it so fast. So...

"Junior brother has really made a breakthrough!" Zhou Ji's face was full of disbelief.

Naturally, I won’t doubt the judgment of my “good partner” Zhou Ji, but...

"To gather energy in four months, isn't this too ridiculous?"

Zhou Ji: "How long did it take for you to break through to Juyuan?"

He opened his palms and put his thumbs away: "Four... years."

They are all four, but unfortunately the units are very different.

"I have three and a half years." Captain Zhou sighed, "Compared with Junior Brother Wuyou, both of us will die of shame."

Chenyu sniffed: "I haven't even finished building the foundation yet, so I'm going to be even more shameless..."

"It's different." Gui Gui shook his head, "Foundation building within half a year is considered excellent, and it takes less than one year to pass. Moreover, the cyclone has not been established before the foundation building is completed, so there is no formal practice. Practicing Qi to Ju Yuan has little to do with talent.

, mainly depends on the effort.”

Zhou Ji: "Yes, senior brother, I think we should spend less time composing music and lyrics in the future and meditate more."

Ju Yuan to Dan Dan actually mainly depends on hard work.

How do you say that?

Most people's efforts are not up to the level of talent.

Foundation building requires talent and opportunity, because it is created from scratch, from an ordinary person to a monk. If you are not talented enough, you will not be able to see the sex light, or you will not be able to do the so-called concentration into the Qi Cave and use the sex light as your foundation.
To be continued...