The sun rises and the moon sets, and it goes back and forth.

In a blink of an eye, it has been a month since Xu Xian became a disciple of the outer courtyard.

In this month, Xu Xian completely adapted to the rhythm of life in the outer courtyard. He practiced in the morning every day, went up the mountain to work, and then continued to practice, breathing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

His originally thin body is much stronger, but now he looks like a little beggar who has lost his temple before. The amount of spiritual energy in his body is probably twelve.

One level of Qi training, one step away from the mountain, and only one step is taken.

The outer courtyard will distribute some disciple benefits every month. For example, the outer courtyard disciples can receive three Qi Gathering Pills, three Qi Carving Pills, and one low-grade spirit stone. If you make a merit or get a reward, there will be additional rewards.

This is pretty good. Even if you are just spiritual roots, as long as you work hard down-to-earth, at least you will have no problem at least to the first level of Qi refining.

But the problem is not that simple.

Xu Xian has come into contact with some innocent disciples from the outer courtyard. They think so, thinking that they are down-to-earth and slowly practicing, and feel that one day they will be able to make a name for themselves, join the five sects, and become true disciples of the sect.

But Xu Xian calculated that even if he got the benefits and rewards from the outer courtyard every month, he would only have ten Qi Gathering Pills, ten Qi Hehe Pills, and two low-grade spirit stones per month.

This is the best situation. At most, these things can increase the speed of cultivation by less than double.

Even if it doubles and puts it on yourself, it will take six years to reduce it by half in twelve years.

After six years of cultivation from scratch to the first level of Qi training, it is considered to be a middle-level and upper-level level in the outer courtyard.

But when practicing, it also focuses on energy and physical strength. The harder it becomes. The first level of Qi refining is so laborious, so how can we improve the second level of Qi refining? It may be possible that if you give twenty years, you will not be able to break through from the first level of Qi refining to the second level.

So Xu Xian didn't blame the seventh uncle of Mu Zong for not accepting him as his apprentice.

The spiritual roots are too poor. Even if you pay a huge price, you can't cultivate much. If you are Xu Xian himself, you are willing to teach those top-grade and top-grade spiritual roots. Taking care of the waste of time is simply a waste of time.

If someone practices for a year, it is equivalent to more than ten years of cultivation for himself. If the elixirs and spirit stones are added, the cultivation speed will be even faster.

The outer courtyard is actually a "tool person". He works hard and exchanges some cultivation resources. If he is lucky, he will reach the first level of Qi refining or even the second level of Qi refining. If he is not lucky, he will just spend time in vain.

Unless you are lucky and get better resources, you can cross the third level of Qi Refining Realm before you are forty and reach the fourth level, so that you can extend your lifespan, and you will be like a cicada and snake, and you will be reborn.

Only in this way can we make an exception, join the five sects, and become a true disciple of the immortal sect, otherwise it will be a mirror and a water moon after all.

After receiving the pill, Xu Xian tried it. It was indeed effective. The speed of absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was indeed doubled. Moreover, the Heqi Pill can stabilize the spiritual energy in the body and reduce loss.

Good stuff, but too few.

The remaining elixir Xu Xian was useless and put them in the porcelain bottle that Yang Xiu gave him. This bottle has a special function to prevent the loss of the elixir's properties.

On that day, Xu Xian went to the medicine field as usual, and he didn't come back until the sun set.

However, he did not return to his disciple's dormitory, but waited in an uninhabited place. When it was dark, Xu Xian covered a piece of black cloth that had been prepared before on his head, wrapped his forehead, eyebrows and face in black cloth, leaving only his eyes exposed.

Then Xu Xian ran to a forest and dug out a cloth bag he had hidden a few days ago under a tree.

The inner three layers are open, and the outer three layers are several spiritual herbs inside.

Xu Xian is already very familiar with common spiritual herbs. He can memorize the years and grades, even the medicinal properties of some spiritual herbs. Xu Xian also searched through the books in the book cabinet and learned a lot.

Xu Xian has his own ideas about the future path of cultivation. The path of cultivation is difficult and dangerous, but he also knows it is difficult. Xu Xian is not so anxious about joining the five sects, and it will be a natural thing. What he needs to do now is to step into the first level of Qi training as soon as possible.

It is the stupidest thing to practice honestly. I know that I am not a talented person. I just focus on being down-to-earth, but just a waste of time.

Sometimes, if you want to achieve your goals, you can only find another way.

There are more than 3,000 disciples in the outer courtyard, and some of them can see through the essence of the problem like Xu Xian. To put it bluntly, they are restless. They will try their best to obtain all cultivation resources within their ability.

In this way, something is born.

Outer courtyard ‘Ghost Market’.

A market that only exists at night is a place where barter is made.

Xu Xian also heard it by chance from someone else. Today, this is his first time. First, he went there to gain a lot of knowledge, and second, he also saw what was in the ghost market in the outer courtyard.

Xu Xian's temperament has always been stable, so naturally he has made enough preparations.

The spiritual herbs in this cloth bag were secretly detained this month. After studying the medicinal field files in the past few years, Xu Xian found that the total number of spiritual herbs in the ten acres of medicinal fields was about tens of thousands, and a part of them was damaged for various reasons every month, with about dozens of them.

In this matter, Xu Xian did his homework and took good care of the medicinal field. With such extraordinary efforts, he reduced the loss of the medicinal field by 50% this month.

But in the file reported, Xu Xian still reported the losses according to the previous proportions. In this way, the dozen additional spiritual herbs became the items in his pocket.

He is definitely not the only one who does similar things. The reason why the errands in the field of medicine is so tempting is that it is also the key to deducting some spiritual herbs every month. In addition, Xu Xian analyzed that it is impossible for the chief manager of medicine of medicine to know.

To put it bluntly, as long as it is not too much and not caught in the current situation, people are too lazy to pursue it and turn a blind eye.

Of course, if you are unlucky and are discovered by the pharmacy manager, there is no mercy to tell you. The consequence is that you will be twenty years old and lose the pharmacy. If the circumstances are serious, you will directly abolish your cultivation and expel it from the sect.

There are precedents for this.

Even so, Xu Xian did not hesitate about this matter. If he gave up because of fear, then why would he cultivate immortality?

More than a dozen spiritual herbs are Xu Xian’s capital. If he can get some useful things in the ghost market, it will be no loss.

The location of the ghost market is located in an extremely remote stone mountain on the back mountain of the outer courtyard. It is very close to the mine cave. There are no trees, flowers and plants on the mountain. Everything you see is full of strange rocks, and it looks like a hideous giant beast under the night.

There is an abandoned mine cave in the shade, and no one is approaching it on weekdays, so it becomes the best place in the ghost market.

Xu Xian carefully observed the surroundings while going up the mountain.

When I arrived at the place, I could indeed see a hole in the dark. After entering, I walked in the dark for more than ten meters, and there was a light in front of me. Then I looked at it and suddenly realized.

There were several braziers on a large open space, and the flames were crackling. Dozens of people gathered around, in groups of three or five, each of them quietly. Even if they were talking, they would talk in a low voice. The sound was weak and they were all like ghosts. No wonder they were said to be a ghost market.

Few people followed Xu Xian's arrival.

There are rules for ghost markets in ghost markets, that is, only barter and never explore the other party’s identity. Whoever breaks the rules will attack them in groups.

There are often disciples who die in the outer courtyard, which is not new.

Xu Xian was careful and took a little effort to investigate carefully. In the ghost market, if you want to barter things, you can take the initiative to put out the objects.

Don't worry, no one dares to snatch it here.

If you want something, you can also write a name in rag to show it. If someone happens to have such a thing and wants to sell it, you can further discuss it.

Obviously, this ghost market is quite mature.

The first time I came to this place, Xu Xian was curious about everything. Some people sell elixirs here, all of which are Qi Gathering Pills and Qi He Qi Pills. These two are similar to spirit stones and can be used as currency. You can change these three things if you want.

The difference is that the spirit stone has the greatest value, followed by two elixirs.

Some people sell weapons, but they are not ordinary and secular weapons, but special metals are added with spiritual charm, but Xu Xian doesn't need them at the moment.

What he wants is secret books about alchemy.

Xu Xian had long thought about it and said that elixirs are the most reliable auxiliary items to improve the speed of cultivation. With his spiritual root qualifications, if he does not have stable elixirs to take, his greatest achievement is to cultivate the second level of Qi training at the age of about fifty.

This is the ceiling.

Maybe your luck is outrageous. Before the age of sixty, you can reach the third level of Qi refining, but if you want to break through the first hurdle of Qi refining, you can't even think about it.

But it would be different if there was a stable pill.

At least at this stage, Xu Xian couldn't imagine that other ways could speed up his cultivation.

There are still many things in the ghost market, which are all kinds of strange secrets of martial arts, including mortal martial arts and immortal skills.

I don't know where these guys got them.

For example, Xu Xian stopped in front of someone at this moment and looked at a very broken wooden slip on the ground, with several ancient seal scripts written on it.

"The Small Way to Slave Ghosts".

This thing is definitely not a martial art within the Five Elements Sect.

The stall owner was very alert and kept staring at Xu Xian. Or he was nervous no matter who came. After all, anyone with a discerning eye could tell that this thing was a traitor.

Xu Xian shook his head and walked away.

In fact, he was very interested in this little trick of fighting ghosts, but no matter what trick he practiced, he had to have a major premise.

He has excellent cultivation.

If Xu Xian had a Qi refining layer now, he might have bought it, but he didn't even have a Qi refining layer. Even if he had a magic method, he could only watch it and it was useless.

Walking around, Xu Xian stopped in front of him at this time.

From the outside, Xu Xian is calm now, no different from others, but in fact, Xu Xian's heart is beating faster at this moment.

Because he actually found an alchemy book.
Chapter completed!