Chapter 108 Farewell

Seeing that Han Yunzhi was unwilling to give him a concession, the thin monk argued,
"No, Miss Han. The price of beast blood has been rising recently. If you don't give me a discount, I will lose money on this talisman."

Han Yunzhi didn't buy his tricks and immediately hit back,
"That's even worse. Don't you think that if the price of beast blood goes up, won't the price of your talisman also start to go up? Why don't you keep the talisman and sell it when the price goes up?"

The thin monk couldn't win against Han Yunzhi, so he murmured,
"I only have a few spirit stones to turn around, how can I possibly do something like hoarding goods?"

"Then you can ask your neighbor Widow Ding to borrow some spiritual stones. I heard she thinks highly of you."

"Hey, sister Han, please don't talk about that woman. She tried every possible means to lend me spiritual stones, but she actually wanted me to borrow more and more, so that I can marry her when I can't pay her back. Please don't harm me."

"Humph, you are a poor talisman maker, yet you look down on Widow Ding. Sister Ding is much richer than you. One of you makes talismans, and the other hunts beasts. You complement each other perfectly. You can earn more spirit stones in the future. What's wrong with that?"

"Hey, so the little girl doesn't know anything. How do you think her husband died? Hey, you still won't understand even if I tell you too much. I still want to live a few more years."

After a long argument, the thin middle-aged monk finally bought twenty-six talisman papers for two spirit stones and left muttering.

The little girl happily put the spiritual stone in her arms, and when she saw Mo Juren, she immediately lost her dignity as the stall owner, blushing and shyly saying,

"Mo... Fellow Daoist Mo, it's you! Why are you here?"

Mo Juren slowly approached and smiled at Han Yunzhi.
"Nothing, I just came to see you when I passed by. I didn't see you guys when I came here a few days ago."

"Oh, my brother was busy practicing a few days ago, and Old Man Bai also had to retreat, so I helped them do some things and stopped for two days."

"Really? If you set up a stall every day like this, how can you have time to practice?"

"Practice at night. Practicing in the market town has more abundant spiritual energy than outside. We stall owners have a special place to stay, so we don't have to pay spiritual stones every day like you do when you rent a practice room."

"I see. The spiritual energy in this market is indeed quite good. It is a good choice to stay here and practice."

"Friend Mo, do you also want to move into the market like us? We can introduce..."

The little girl said with a bit of joy, then she thought of something and pouted her lips and said,

"...I'm overthinking. An alchemist like you will be welcomed everywhere. How could you possibly live the life of a casual cultivator like us?"

"Haha, an alchemist, I guess so." Mo Juren said without comment.

There are six arts of cultivating immortals: making talismans, refining tools, refining pills, forming battle formations, taming beasts, and planting spiritual plants. The two he is more familiar with are refining pills and planting spiritual plants.

But apart from using secular methods to prepare some Huanglong Pills and the like, he had not yet started to come into contact with the real alchemy methods of the cultivation world.

However, based on his experience in making pills and medicines, he thought that alchemy would take a lot of time to practice, so he asked,
"By the way, Fellow Daoist Yunzhi, can you help me buy some pill recipes in this market? Ordinary ones, beginner ones, anything will do."

For some reason, Mo Juren just wanted to take care of this little girl's business.

Although I got some alchemy tools from the Taoist Lingdan, without the real elixir recipes, it would take a long time for me to figure it out on my own. It would be better to buy some recipes directly. Even the simplest one, the Qi-replenishing pill, can start my own alchemy.

"A pill recipe? It seems that only the Spiritual Pill Pavilion in this market may have it. However, Taoist Guangkun is a tyrant, so it is definitely not worth buying from him." "Oh, no problem. I just want to learn more and compare my alchemy skills. If you can help me buy one or two pill recipes, I will definitely thank you, Taoist Yunzhi."

Han Yunzhi pouted her lips, thought for a moment, and then agreed.

"Well, wait for me, I'll be back soon."

Then he ran away in a gust of wind.

When Mo Juren saw the fully stocked stall, he realized that he had to become a temporary stall owner again.

Fortunately, not long after, the little girl came back in a hurry and told Mo Juren,
"The Spiritual Pill Pavilion has the recipes for the Bigu Pill, the Body Refining Pill, and the Qi Recovery Pill. Do you need them, Brother Mo?"

The Body Refining Pill is just a low-level body refining pill, which should not be as good as his Essence Nourishing Pill, so Mo Juren planned to buy two kinds of pills, the Bigu Pill and the Qi Restoring Pill.

The prices of these two kinds of pill recipes were eighty and two hundred spirit stones, which were indeed very expensive, but Mo Juren gritted his teeth and gave Han Yunzhi three hundred spirit stones to help buy them.

The little girl came back happily with the prescription. It turned out that after some bargaining, she finally sold it for sixty and one hundred and fifty.

This pill recipe is also in the shape of a jade slip, but Han Yunzhi explained that the jade slip is divided into two parts. One part is the description of material ratios, which can be seen for a long time.

The other part records the detailed changes and alchemy techniques from the process of making materials to pills. This part can only be viewed once and then disappears, which means that a pill recipe can only be passed on to one person.

Mo Juren was speechless, but after thinking about it, he felt it was normal. If anyone could make an elixir by just giving the ratio of materials, this recipe would have been sold everywhere and worthless.

He took a quick look at the jade slip of the pill recipe and quickly confirmed that it was correct and put it in his pocket.

With an expert like Han Yunzhi who is well versed in the rules of the market taking action, Mo Juren really saved himself a lot of trouble.

This time he certainly couldn't get something for nothing, so he offered to give her 20% of the spirit stones as a thank you.

Han Yunzhi blushed at first and said she didn't need it, but when Mo Juren suggested using the Yellow Dragon Pill as a pledge, she excitedly accepted it.

As the saying goes, once is new, twice is familiar. Mo Juren then asked Han Yunzhi to help him buy two bottles of Tongmai Dan, which is commonly used by cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining.

He even bought the book "Five Elements Basic Spells" for only ninety spirit stones.

Before a better pill than the Yellow Dragon Pill is refined, I'm afraid I'll need these pills to assist in cultivation.

And having this book of spells will be of great help in improving one's strength.

So a total of more than five hundred spirit stones were spent this time. Mo Juren gave away his last bottle of twelve Yellow Dragon Pills as a thank you gift, which made Han Yunzhi so happy that she almost danced with joy.

Mo Juren was also very happy. After all, if a stranger like him suddenly spent a large amount of spirit stones, it would definitely attract the attention of someone with ulterior motives and cause a lot of trouble.

Seeing Han Yunzhi's flushed face and excited look, Mo Juren asked,
"Fellow Daoist Yunzhi, do you really need to improve your cultivation? Look how happy you are."

(End of this chapter)