Chapter 45: Ways to Make Money

But soon, Mo Juren encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation.

With the magic power gained from exorcising evil spirits in his body as a guide, he could have absorbed spiritual energy and practiced his skills at a faster speed. However, the spiritual energy that could be attracted from the outside world was too little, and there was no time to replenish the void created by the spiritual energy from all around being introduced into his body.

Mo Juren thought about it and found out the reason.

It must be the place where the Jinguan Temple is located, the purity of the spiritual energy is too low!

Under the painstaking management of Master Jin Guang, the Jin Guang Temple has become a popular and bustling temple.

However, because there are too many mortals, the aura of heaven and earth here is extremely mixed, so the spiritual energy is very poor.

The concentration of spiritual energy here may not even be comparable to that of Shenshou Valley. After all, Shenshou Valley is also considered a tranquil place among the Qixuanmen.

No wonder those who practice Taoism like to practice in high mountains, valleys, caves and blessed places far away from mortals. It turns out that this is the inevitable result of pursuing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Thinking of this, Mo Juren stopped practicing his martial arts.

He used the Sky Eye Technique to take a look at himself, and sure enough, a line of Dharma light extended from his Qi sea, clearly indicating his cultivation level of the first level of Qi Refining.

This is too inadequate. With this level of cultivation, even the golden light cannot compare to it!

Fortunately, there is another way.

Mo Juren flipped his hand and took out a bottle of medicine, which was the "Yellow Dragon Pill" that he had prepared in the Qixuan Sect before.

Mo Juren swallowed one without hesitation. The bitter pill transformed into spiritual energy in his stomach, which was much thicker than the spiritual energy from the outside world.

He hurriedly practiced his skills and absorbed it.

However, since it was his first time taking the pill, his power was limited, and most of the spiritual energy contained in the pill dissipated and was wasted.

In fact, normally speaking, swallowing pills is not just about absorbing the spiritual energy in them. More importantly, it is about using the medicinal power in them to harmonize one's own cultivation process and speed up the acquisition of spiritual energy from the outside world. This is the way to maximize the value of the pills.

Just absorbing the spiritual energy contained in it and giving up all the medicinal power would be a loss.

Fortunately, Mo Juren had plenty of this stuff. The ones left by Han Li and the ones he refined himself totaled more than ten bottles and hundreds of pills, enough for him to practice.

In this way, Mo Juren took three bottles of Huanglong Pills in succession within three days, until the medicinal power of the thirty pills accumulated in his body and could not be dissipated. He was about to suffer from pill poisoning and could no longer produce much spiritual energy.

Mo Juren then stopped practicing, and his cultivation level was forcibly raised to the third level of Qi Refining, at least on par with Jin Guang.

But the strange thing is that as his cultivation level improved, the capacity of the Qi sea in his body did not increase.

The upper limit of mana is still the same as before, but now it is full, making Mo Juren feel more at ease than ever before.

From then on, you no longer need to convert the evil energy captured during body refining into magic power. You can focus on opening up the acupoints and speed up the progress of body refining.

He did it as he thought. Taking advantage of the quietness here and no one disturbing him, Mo Juren took another essence-nourishing pill and began to gather his energy to refine his body.

The fourth level of Xiangjia Gong, the last acupoint of refining the flesh is the 30th one, located on the lower back, where it connects to the coccyx, and one must be extremely careful. Moreover, because the potency of the Yangjing Pill has decreased, Mo Juren has not been ready to break through this barrier. At this time, with the cooperation of the Dharma and body, while using the evil spirit to attack the acupoints, and the magic power to repair the meridians, the 30th acupoint was successfully opened, and finally the fourth level of refining the flesh was completed, breaking through to the fifth level of refining the organs.

After achieving a breakthrough in his physical training, Mo Juren was in so much pain that he was sweating profusely, but he still stood up happily, shaking his whole body, and his joints began to crackle from the pressure.

Feeling his perfect cheetah-like muscles and his agile body full of explosive power, Mo Juren rushed out of the window with one effort.

When I arrived at the courtyard, it was already night and no one was around.

So Mo Juren danced with the sword in the yard, without using any magic power, and practiced the moves of the Blinking Sword.

The soft steel sword in his hand was as fast as the wind, with strong force, tricky angle, and no trace. With the strength of his physical body alone, he was able to achieve the effect of a martial artist in the state of transformation attacking with a sword.

Mo Juren was extremely satisfied. He used his shadowless body skills silently and in a few flashes he jumped down from the back of the hill where the Jinguang Temple was located, stepped on the rocks, and found a clear spring in the mountains and took a refreshing bath.

These days, Mo Juren has been concentrating on practicing in the backyard, while Jin Guang has been busy entertaining wave after wave of pilgrims in front of the temple.

He has been entrenched in this place for many years, and has done a lot of things like defrauding gold and silver and cutting leeks. He is very skilled at it, and the various tricks he uses to deceive people are different for each person.

In the temple, he received almost all the wealthy families and guests who could be invited from the foot of the mountain. Some wanted to donate incense oil to build the temple; some said it was difficult to have a child and wanted to show their piety; some said their house was haunted and wanted to ask for talismans and perform rituals; what's worse, there was even a patron who told a widow that her dead husband didn't want to come back at night. He asked for more money from everyone.

Jin Guang's little mouth seemed to be greased with oil. He told lies one after another, and he always exaggerated everything when he was trying to deceive people. He was not afraid of being exposed afterwards. It seemed that he really intended to make a big profit and then run away.

Mo Juren could sometimes hear clearly this way of making money from behind thanks to his hearing, and he felt it was both interesting and ridiculous, making people laugh and cry.

Three days later in the morning, Jin Guang couldn't wait until dawn, so he asked Mo Juren to move. The two of them hurriedly left the Jin Guang Temple and went to the Maoxiang Valley deep in the barbarian territory.

The big package he carried with him became a little sweller, and it was obvious that he had a good harvest these days.

Horses could not travel on the mountain roads, so Mo Juren's two horses were left at Jinguang Temple, and Jinguang exchanged them for gold from a wealthy family at the foot of the mountain.

Fortunately, this barbarian land on the border was not controlled by the six major imperial officials of the Yue court, so it was easy to find a family willing to buy horses.

The proceeds from selling the horse plus the original gold and the silver collected by Master Jin Guang were worth more than one hundred taels of gold. At last, there was hope of raising the five hundred taels of gold needed to redeem the storage bag.

Two men were walking on a mountain path, one carrying a wooden box and the other carrying a large package. They were extremely conspicuous and were seen as fat sheep by many robbers.

Fortunately, with the Cloud-winged Bird leading the way, it is easy to avoid these small troubles in advance.

Along the way, the two talked about various experiences in the world of immortal cultivation.

Mo Juren's situation is that of a typical independent cultivator, with neither a master nor any resources.

In the path of cultivating immortals, in addition to personal conditions such as talent, aptitude, understanding and opportunity, objectively speaking, the four major elements of "wealth, companion, method and place" are more important.

Wealth refers to all the resources needed for cultivation, including spiritual stones, elixirs, magic tools, and treasures;
A companion is a like-minded companion, friend, fellow student, master, or apprentice.
The method is the practice method, elixir recipe, secret technique, formula, and inheritance;
The land is a blessed place to settle down, fairy mountains, magical caves, and various places for cultivation with abundant spiritual energy.

These are basically controlled by the immortal sects and family forces. It is very difficult for independent cultivators to obtain these conditions.

(End of this chapter)