Aspiring to the Immortal Path Chapter 10: Secret City
In fact, spiritual dissipation is only a small part of the reason. The spirit of the stone monster is difficult to gather and it is difficult to eliminate it.
The real reason is that all the essence of the largest piece of jade has been absorbed by the condensed stone coat, and it is impossible to refine soft jade at all. If you remove the largest piece, the rest will be small. The refining loss itself is high, so the quantity of soft jade will inevitably decrease.
"That's not bad. One party is five thousand, and four is twenty thousand." Wei Tianchong rubbed his hands and said, "Now my puppet is invincible!"
He laughed and started imagining the scene of him taking the puppet and sweeping across all directions.
Tang Jie said angrily: "You still want to use them all? This side is five thousand! You can only make a third-grade puppet in total, and half a piece is too much. Keep the rest, I have another Useful."
Wei Tian rushed and said, "Why don't you just give me half a yuan? At least you can give me a whole yuan. At worst, I'll just calculate the money for you."
Tang Jie said: "It's not that I'm reluctant to give it to you, but soft fragrant jade is a top-grade spiritual material that can be used by even seventh- and eighth-grade puppets. It's too wasteful to put it on a third-grade puppet. Keep some for future use. Good. Moreover, soft jade itself is soft, and using too much will only reduce the puppet’s own sturdiness."
"Okay then." After hearing what Tang Jie said, Wei Tianchong could only agree.
Shi Meng came up and said, "Where's me?"
Looking at his calm expression, Tang Jie also smiled: "How are you doing with the secret method of turning three corpses that Luo Yue taught you?"
"That secret method is too difficult to practice, and it is harmful to the body and has little effect. I don't like it."
"I'll give you half a prescription, but you have to practice the secret method of turning three corpses. I will need you to do me a favor in a few days."
"How can I help?"
"You will know when the time comes."
While talking, the three of them had put away all the jade stones, and then left Xiema Lake and returned to the Ayi people.
Due to what happened before, the Ayi people now treat Tang Jie and the others with great respect, and some Ayi people took the initiative to offer gifts as a sign of friendship. Tang Jie and the others were not polite. They didn't rob them themselves, but they didn't push out the benefits. Relying on the offerings, everyone made a small fortune before going to Shouwang River, and they also had much more money.
Then everyone headed to Shouwang River together.
The motorcade headed west, and soon after passing Xiema Lake, they saw a small town, which is Wangchuan Town.
After Wangchuan Town and further ahead is Goda Mountain, which is the origin of the Zijin vein.
Geda Mountain was originally a barren area, so barren that no trees even grew, only dirt bags all over the mountain, hence its name. It was not until the later discovery of a purple gold vein that Goda Mountain became lively. With the arrival of a large number of miners, Wangchuan Village, which was originally just an ordinary village, developed and became Wangchuan Town.
The discovery of purple gold veins not only brought wealth to this land, but also brought bloodshed and fighting.
The area around Goda Mountain was originally the land of Xiao Yuan Zong, a small sect in Li State, and did not belong to Qijue Sect. After all, although the six major sects rule the world from afar, they cannot let the small sects have no place to stand. In fact, they only occupy the best resource producing areas, and most of them are distributed to the small sects, and then the small and medium-sized sects Sect management, paying tribute every year.
Due to jealousy of the rich output of the purple gold veins, and due to the rules set by the six major sects, the Qijue Sect secretly encouraged other sects to attack Xiao Yuanzong and plunder wealth, and staged one human killing after another here. . In the end, Xiao Yuanzong could not resist the huge pressure and was forced to petition the Qijue Sect, willing to hand over the mineral veins to the Qijue Sect and only receive half of the income every year.
For this half of the income, Xiao Yuan Zong has to send someone to supervise it every year. Perhaps it is because of Xiao Yuan Zong's lax supervision that a certain amount of purple gold flows out every year.
This is also something that big factions often do. Many shady things are not convenient for you to do yourself, so you let others do it.
The Rutian Mie Sect plays this kind of role, otherwise how could the Xiyue Sect tolerate them until now.
When the convoy came to the town, it was quite busy because it was a big market day. But Tang Jie and the others don't care about this. There won't be what Tang Jie and the others want on the open market. Only the secret market can get the purple gold.
And if you want to visit the secret city, you will eventually have to fall on the caravan.
When he arrived, Tang Jie had already greeted several caravan stewards from the Ayi tribe and learned that the secret market would not open until evening. So I wasn't in a hurry. I just strolled around the town during the day and found a place to refine the jade stone.
According to Tang Jie's point of view, selling the raw stone directly is actually better than refining it. After all, the largest piece can't be refined into anything. However, considering that he was participating in the secret market by borrowing the identity of the Ayi tribe, cheating people like this would only bring trouble to the Ayi tribe, so it was okay in the end.
Refining the raw stone is not complicated, it belongs to the material refining in the tool path. Tang Jie has been at the gold forging platform for three years and has done nothing else but extract materials, so refining the raw stone is a piece of cake for him.
Two hours later, all the jade stones were refined, and dozens of soft fragrant jade pieces of different sizes were obtained. Tang Jie estimated that they were about 4.2 square meters.
Soft fragrant jade is white in color and looks soft, not like jade but more like white mud. Unlike other materials that need to be refined with fire, it can be fused by just putting them together.
This kind of thing is adsorbent to jade, so it cannot be stored in a jade box, but can only be placed in a metal box. This is also its biggest shortcoming, which is that it only absorbs stones. Therefore, although it has strong recovery ability, its defense ability is relatively low, and it is only suitable for puppets mainly made of stone.
Of course, if not, it would be worth more than five thousand.
Wei Tianchong’s puppet this time is made of obsidian as the main material. Obsidian is a tougher stone than purple sand. Its hardness is comparable to gold and iron, but its weight is lighter. This means stronger defense and less consumption. It means that the psychic ability is worse than purple sand.
The result of poor spirituality is that it is difficult to exert the power of the formation, and at the same time, the requirements for the controller are higher.
But these two shortcomings are not a problem for Tang Jie and Wei Tianchong. The former has Tang Jie, who has already reached the fourth-level formation. It can be said that there is no problem in making a third-level war puppet. The latter has the black water soul technique, and Wei Tianchong is capable enough to control it.
After the refining was completed, Tang Jie took out half of it and gave it to Wei Tianchong. Wei Tianchong was overjoyed. As long as there was Zijin, this third-grade puppet would be more powerful than ever.
As night fell, the secret market that Tang Jie and Wei Tianchong had been waiting for finally arrived.
What surprised Tang Jie and the others was that the secret market was not actually in the town, but in a manor outside the town. This is the property of the Evil Jiao Gang, and the entire secret city is actually secretly controlled by the Evil Jiao Gang.
Tang Jie and the others followed several stewards from the Ayi tribe to the manor. The place was already brightly lit, and there were two burly men standing at the door of the manor. Although they looked mighty, they were actually mortals.
However, behind the ordinary appearance, Tang Jie still felt the subtle fluctuations and peeks of spiritual energy inside.
This is normal. The secret market is a place where prohibited items are sold, and most of the prohibited items are actually related to cultivation resources. If the Poison Dragon Gang could open a secret market here, Tang Jie would never believe it if there were no immortal cultivators.
After entering the village, Tang Jie and others discovered that there was a cave inside. The manor is huge and full of stalls. Those things that were usually invisible were openly displayed at this moment, with prices clearly marked, and more people were wandering around, looking for items they liked.
The Ayi people had things they wanted to buy, so Tang Jie and the others separated from them and wandered around the market by themselves, seeing many new and interesting things along the way.
"Tang Jie, look." Shi Meng pointed at a person walking by not far away.
The cultivator has a yin-yang face, with the bridge of his nose as the center, the left half of his face is indigo, and the right half of his face is purple-red, which looks quite permeable.
Tang Jie whispered: "Don't point, it's rude. That's a casual cultivator."
In addition to the caravans, most of the people in this secret city are casual cultivators.
Rogue practitioners have no sect or sect. They usually rely on cultivation methods they don’t know where to get. There are all kinds of weirdos in cultivation.
There are those who have just entered the spiritual spring in their fifties; there are those who are big and round, more like warriors than monks; there are those who are deformed due to cultivation and have a weird and terrifying appearance; of course, there are also those who are gorgeously dressed ~ IndoMTL.com ~ and have a big belly and are both businessmen and monks...
Shi Meng and the others had been in the academy for four years and had almost no chance to interact with casual cultivators. This was the first time they saw so many casual cultivators. Many things completely subverted their previous concepts, and they were immediately confused.
Wei Tianchong saw a cultivator from a distance and pointed: "Tang Jie, look, there's a toad coming!"
I followed Wei Tianchong and saw a person walking from a distance. He was short and fat, and his face was covered with sores. He looked extremely disgusting. No wonder Wei Tianchong called out a toad. .
But Wei Tianchong's voice was obviously a little louder, and the short fat man actually heard it.
At this moment, he looked up at Wei Tianchong and shouted: "Seeking death!"
As he spoke, he pointed his hand, and a green liquid shot towards Wei Tian.
Wei Tianchong was about to resist, but Tang Jie grabbed him and swerved to the side. The green liquid hit the air and fell to the ground. There was only a "crack" sound, and it actually eroded the hard floor. Got to be full of potholes.
"Poisonous?" Wei Tianchong's expression changed.
Tang Jie said: "Fellow Taoist, my young master just said something rude. It's his fault. But it's too much to do something cruel for this matter, right? For the sake of my young master causing trouble first." Come on, I won’t argue with you, let’s just let this matter go. After all, this is the territory of the Evil Jiao Gang. If we really fight, it won’t be good for anyone.”
The short fat man was obviously also concerned about the power of the Evil Dragon Gang. He glared at Tang Jie and Wei Tianchong fiercely, then waved his sleeves and left.
Wei Tianchong curled his lips: "Why are you so arrogant?"
"Shut up." Tang Jie shouted angrily: "You're causing trouble right now!"
Wei Tianchong knew what he was doing was wrong, so he could only mutter: "Hey, I am your young master after all. Do you want to talk to the young master like this?"
Tang Jie ignored him and went to the stall to find what he needed.