Chapter 56.
[Five Elements Technique (Fourth Level): 197/400]
The biggest problem Wang Chen was currently facing in his cultivation was precisely that his realm of strength was no longer able to fully match the fully elevated level of his spells.
When he faced the wolf beast possessed by the evil spirit last night, he cast the Fire Crow Art three times in a row at full strength, and his dantian mana was depleted by half, and his ability to sustain a fight was obviously insufficient.
Although it was said that this problem could be solved by taking a Qi Recovery Pill.
But in the midst of an intense battle, it might not be possible to spare the time to take the elixir.
Moreover, it took time for the Qi Recovery Pill to take effect.
Furthermore, medicines were three times poisonous, and low-grade elixirs also had the presence of elixir poison.
Therefore, no matter how good the pills are, they are not as reliable and safe as having a solid foundation.
Therefore, Wang Chen decided to reduce the frequency of skill proficiency swipes, freeing up more time to practice the main technique.
As soon as possible, he would advance to the fifth level of Qi Practicing!
Actually, Wang Chen’s cultivation speed was already very fast.
Even if he followed a step-by-step approach, it would only take him two months at most to reach the top of the fourth layer.
In less than five months before and after, without relying on external forces such as pills and spiritual materials, he had completed a small realm breakthrough at the middle level of Qi cultivation.
A heavenly talent might not even be able to do so!
However lurking in the deepest recesses of his heart, a lingering sense of crisis made Wang Chen want to go even faster!
In addition, he had also cultivated the Heavenly Dragon Vajra Technique to the peak of the first layer.
Wang Chen wanted to try to accomplish the first breakthrough of this body refining technique without consuming Heavenly Energy.
If it didn’t work then add more.
As for practicing the Heavenly Dragon Vajra Corrective Technique, Vajra Ghee was undoubtedly an indispensable supplementary material.
It had to be bought and purchased!
“This Yin Qi Bead’s containment and purity are not very high.”
Shopkeeper Jin appraised the Yin Qi Bead that Wang Chen had taken out and said, “I can only offer a maximum of four hundred and twenty lower spirits.”
The value of a Yin Qi Bead was determined by the size and dimensions of the bead, the amount of Yin Qi it contained, and its purity.
The quality of this Yin Qi Bead that Wang Chuan had scored last night was obviously not as good as the one from last time.
He said to Wang Chuan sincerely, “Fellow Daoist, this is a one-bite price, no more bargaining!”
Wang Chen thought for a moment, “I want to exchange it all for Vajra Ghee, then you give a discount.”
The gold shopkeeper smiled bitterly, “Vajra ghee has been selling very well lately, the supply from Tianlong Temple is a bit tight, and the price has risen to twelve spirit stones a bottle.”
Although it was said that no more bargaining could be done, but still after some bargaining, Wang Chuan finally exchanged this Yin Qi Bead for thirty-eight bottles of Vajra Ghee.
After completing the transaction, Wang Dust originally wanted to pat his butt and leave.
But he suddenly had a change of heart and asked tentatively, “Shopkeeper, do you know what happened last night?”
The branches of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce had opened all over the Mountain and Sea Realm and were extremely powerful.
The news was naturally extraordinarily well-informed.
Although Wang Chen was well aware that news also belonged to commodities here.
Wanting to dig out useful information from this shrewd shopkeeper’s mouth without shelling out spirit stones.
That was almost impossible.
But there was nothing to be gained by not asking, what if the other party suddenly lost their wits or had a brain fart?
However, Shopkeeper Jin’s IQ was online, and he smiled at Wang Dust.
Wang Dust, who couldn’t take advantage of the situation, shrugged his shoulders.
I’m not going to be able to do that.
As a result, Wang Dust was just about to get up when the gold shopkeeper raised his hand to stop it.
He raised a short, thick finger and said, “One for one, you tell me how you got your Yin Qi Bead and I’ll tell you what happened last night.”
“One for one!”
Wang Dust immediately replied, “My Yin Qi Bead was dropped from smashing the evil beast.”
The source of this Yin Qi Bead of his was bright and honorable, neither stolen nor black goods, there was nothing unseemly about it.
Revealing the source and exchanging information with the other party was not a problem at all.
In order to prove that he wasn’t being credulous, Wang Chen also described the appearance of the evil beast.
“Indeed.”
After listening, Boss Jin nodded and said, “Then I can tell you that this evil beast you encountered last night was controlled by the Mist Puppet Lump.”
Mist Puppet Lump!
In Wang Chen’s mind, an account from the “Evil Sneak Sermon” instantly surfaced.
The Mist Puppet Lump belonged to the “Grievance” level of evil spirits, which was equivalent to the Zifu level of cultivators.
However, the abilities of evil spirits were strange, and the grievance level was already very powerful.
Even a Purple Mansion level practitioner would have to retreat when encountered by a Grievance level evil spirit, not daring to confront it head on.
Mist Puppet Lumpy is good at hiding and controlling puppets, it is able to control hundreds and thousands of evil beast puppets, hunting cultivators within the “fog area” created by itself.
The Mist Puppet Lump starts off as a gray grudge level evil spirit, and can reach the strongest black grudge level.
“The one that invaded the outer gate area last night should be a white grudge level fog puppet.”
Boss Jin said meaningfully, “You were lucky that you didn’t encounter the Giant Puppet Beast, otherwise ……”
Although Boss Jin stuck in his words, Wang Chen fully understood what the other party meant.
He immediately recalled the giant monster that was bombarded by lightning!
“Is that Mist Puppet Lump related to the Gray-eyed Pirate?”
It was always unlikely that a White Grudge level Mist Puppet Lumpy would somehow suddenly break into the heavily guarded land of the mountain gate.
And Yunyang Sect’s greatest enemy was undoubtedly the Gray-eyed Pirate who had resurfaced time and time again!
Gray-eyed Pirates believed in powerful evil spirits, and it was normal for them to be able to drive grievous level evil spirits.
To be honest, the fact that the Yunyang Sect collectively referred to the remnants of the Three Eyes Sect as the Gray Eyed Pirates made it easy for people to underestimate these difficult evil cultivators, thinking that the other side was just a stream of bandits and strong beams.
In fact, I’m afraid that the trouble that the Gray-Eyed Pirates had brought to the Yunyang Sect would not end easily.
Even though not long ago, the Yunyang Sect had won a glorious victory.
Wang Dust felt that his sect had been slapped in the face last night!
In response to this question from Wang Dust, Boss Jin smiled but did not answer, reaching out to pick up the tea on the desk.
His meaning was clear – it was time to recharge.
Count the birds!
Wang Chuan already knew the answer, there was no need to inquire about it and make a fool of himself.
Leaving the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, he circled around the city again.
Got his hands on a batch of fresh demon beast meat.
The price of demon beast meat had in turn dropped quite a bit, so Wang Chen bought some more.
However, the spirit stones in his storage bag were spent in a flowing stream.
In contrast, purchasing door panels and sleeping beds, tables and chairs didn’t cost a few broken spirits.
These ordinary everyday items were very cheap in the Immortal Cultivation World, where skilled craftsmen abounded.
And in the process of shopping.
Wang Chen realized that a large number of loose cultivators had appeared in the city.
Many inns had put up signs saying “full”.
Business was booming!
On top of that, there were also a lot of cultivators dressed as farmers and spiritual planters.
They were obviously frightened by the evil spirits that had suddenly invaded last night and came here to seek security.
After all, Cloud Mountain City possessed a city guard formation, as well as a double-digit number of Purple Mansion Supremacists in attendance.
The problem was where Cloud Mountain City could accommodate so many foreign cultivators!
Wang Chen chose to go home.
The first thing he did after going back was to perfect the tunnels and secret chambers, digging deeper and deeper down some more.
When he arrived at his home gate, the moment he stepped into the small courtyard.
A warning sign sprang up in his heart.
The hairs of sweat on his entire body stood up abruptly!