Chapter 104: Do you have cultivation techniques

"Damn it, it's not some Spirit-Connecting Profound Fruit, what are you getting excited about? You made me happy for nothing." Xia Daoming said irritably.

Ding Chushan rolled his eyes upon hearing this, feeling so depressed he almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.

This Profound Mist Green Glass Fruit is not only one of the medicinal ingredients for refining Foundation Establishment Elixirs, but if consumed directly, there is a high probability that a second-layer cultivator will directly skip the third layer of Qi Refinement and become a fourth-layer Qi Refinement cultivator, that is, a mid-stage Qi Refinement cultivator, or even possibly the fifth layer.

If he had this fruit, he wouldn't have ended up in this state!

But now, a mere martial artist casually took out such a fruit that even cultivators would be jealous of, and didn't even take it seriously. This really dealt a heavy blow to the heart of Ding Chushan, a cultivator who felt very superior.

"By the way, help me see if this is one?" Just as Ding Chushan was suffering a blow and almost vomiting blood, Xia Daoming took out another box, which contained a string of red Vermilion Fruits shrouded in clouds and mist.

"Vermilion, Vermilion Mist Fruit!" Ding Chushan exclaimed.

"It seems it's called Vermilion Mist Fruit, no other name!" Xia Daoming said with a disappointed expression.

Seeing Xia Daoming's disappointed expression, Ding Chushan finally couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood!

The Vermilion Mist Fruit is also one of the medicinal ingredients for refining Foundation Establishment Elixirs; although its value is not as high as the Profound Mist Green Glass Fruit, he couldn't stand that the person took out a whole string of them, more than ten!

"This Xu Shixiong Jiao, I already told him, low-level cultivators aren't scary; as long as the strategy is appropriate, a Great Wu Shi can handle them!

Why didn't he listen and deal such a heavy hand to you! Could it be that even with your four limbs broken, you could still cause some trouble?

By the way, Little Ding, are you okay? Can you hold on?" Xia Daoming asked with concern as he saw Ding Chushan spit out blood.

Hearing this, Ding Chushan felt a wave of bloodiness rush up his throat and almost spat out another mouthful of blood, but in the end, he swallowed it back down.

"I'm fine, I'm fine." Ding Chushan forced a smile.

"It's good that you're fine, let's continue." Xia Daoming breathed a sigh of relief and continued to ask: "By the way, I have some spirit rice; for adults like us, if we insist on eating one or two bowls of spirit rice porridge every day for three to five months, do you think it's possible to reopen the eight extraordinary meridians and step onto the path of cultivation?"

"Pfft!" The old blood that Ding Chushan had swallowed back down finally sprayed out wildly.

Who the hell is actually a cultivator here?

I've been hoeing the ground in the Spirit Saber Sect every day, bitterly practicing the "Small Cloud and Rain Technique," and casting rain for the spirit fields, yet I haven't been able to eat a few meals of spirit rice in a year, and you're telling me that you, a mortal martial artist, eat spirit rice porridge every day for three to five months? Is there any justice in this world?

"This Xu Shixiong Jiao, this Xu Shixiong Jiao, Little Ding, are you okay?" Xia Daoming started nagging and showing concern again when he saw this.

"I'm fine!" Ding Chushan gritted his teeth, his expression ferocious.

Originally, he had a strong desire to live, but now, after being hit by Xia Daoming repeatedly, he didn't really want to live anymore.

"It's good that you're fine, then tell me, is eating spirit rice porridge every day really useful?" Xia Daoming brought up the old topic again.

Ding Chushan took several deep breaths before opening his mouth again: "If a child starts eating spirit rice from a young age, the probability of cultivation will likely increase significantly, but it's still impossible for adults.

The main function of spirit rice is that after cultivators eat it, they don't need to specifically meditate to practice qi, and their true qi and magic power can be gently replenished and increased; although it's very subtle, long-term consumption leads to accumulation. Moreover, spirit rice can subtly improve a person's acquired physique and even cultivation roots,"

"Then besides some rare spirit herbs and spirit elixirs, are there any other methods?" Xia Daoming asked.

"It is said that if martial arts are practiced to the Grandmaster realm, there is a glimmer of hope to use powerful strength to break through the barriers of the eight extraordinary meridians, thereby stepping onto the path of cultivation!" Ding Chushan thought for a moment and replied.

"What? Martial arts practiced to the Grandmaster realm can use powerful strength to break through the barriers of the eight extraordinary meridians and step onto the path of cultivation! Why didn't you say so earlier!" Xia Daoming stood up abruptly in excitement upon hearing this.

Breaking through barriers, he is good at that!

Ding Chushan stared at Xia Daoming, dumbfounded.

Did this guy get water in his brain?

That is a Martial Arts Grandmaster!

How many are there in the entire Great Liang Kingdom?

Which one isn't a big shot who shakes one side!

It is rumored that even a Foundation Establishment ancestor wouldn't dare to underestimate a Martial Arts Grandmaster.

Moreover, even if one becomes a Martial Arts Grandmaster and breaks through the barriers to step onto the path of cultivation, it is only a glimmer of hope.

Now it's better; this guy seems very certain that he can become a Martial Arts Grandmaster, and is also very confident that he can break through the barriers and step onto the path of cultivation!

"By the way, do you have cultivation techniques?" Soon, Xia Daoming asked with anticipation.

Since there is hope to step onto the path of cultivation, naturally, he must find a way to obtain cultivation techniques and prepare in advance.

"No." Ding Chushan replied without hesitation.

"Aren't you a cultivator? How could you not have cultivation techniques?" Xia Daoming asked, puzzled.

"I have cultivation techniques, but I have no way to pass them to you. There are two ways to pass on techniques in the cultivation world; one is to observe the charm secret maps; the other is for powerful cultivators to use their spiritual sense to perform the method of empowerment, directly passing the profound cultivation techniques into your brain.

Charm secret maps are important items of the sect; I rarely even have the opportunity to observe them, so how could I be qualified to carry them with me." Ding Chushan explained.

"Cultivation is indeed extraordinary; one starts with charm secret maps upon entry, while martial arts only require observing charm secret maps at the Great Wu Shi realm." Xia Daoming frowned slightly, thought for a moment, and asked: "Then is there any way to get charm secret maps?"

"Low-level charm secret maps should be for sale at the immortal market near Mount Wannuo, but the price is not cheap." Ding Chushan thought for a moment and replied.

"The price is not cheap? Then how much silver is needed?" Xia Daoming asked boldly.

He is, after all, the boss behind the scenes in Li Cheng, confident in his financial strength.

"It cannot be bought with worldly silver. In the cultivation world, to buy anything, one generally needs spirit stones, or equivalent spirit elixirs, spirit herbs, spirit rice, etc., to exchange." Ding Chushan looked at Xia Daoming, feeling quite contemptuous of this country bumpkin, but on the surface, he was still very honest and well-behaved.

"Then how much spirit rice or Vermilion Mist Fruit is needed to exchange for one?" Xia Daoming asked.

Ding Chushan felt like vomiting blood again.

He forgot that this guy is an upstart whether in the mortal world or the cultivation world, far from what he can compare to.

"I don't know." Ding Chushan replied very aggrievedly.

What status does he have in the cultivation world? How could he be qualified to covet cultivation techniques and secret maps.

"I almost forgot, you are just a low-level Qi Refinement cultivator!" Xia Daoming patted his forehead and dealt a fierce blow.

Ding Chushan's tears flowed silently into his stomach.

However, Xia Daoming was not wrong; Ding Chushan was indeed the lowest-level figure in the cultivation world.

Even though Ding Chushan was very cooperative and told everything he knew, the information he could provide was still very limited, and much of it was hearsay, so he didn't know if it was true or false.

But at least Ding Chushan was a person from the cultivation world and knew much more information than Elder Ji Yuanzhen Yuanzhen.

After a "heart-to-heart talk" with him, Xia Daoming finally got a glimpse of the mysterious cultivation world.

As for Ding Chushan, he didn't make things difficult for him.

He gave him a quick end.

After all, he was a cultivator, and Xia Daoming still didn't understand many of their methods.

Locking him up for a few days was fine, but if locked up for a long time, it was hard to guarantee there wouldn't be any slips, so it was better to just "send him away."

Anyway, with Xu Zhiyuan helping to take the blame, it had nothing to do with him.

After "sending away" Ding Chushan, Xia Daoming stood in the backyard, watching the sunset gradually fall behind Mount Yuncui, his heart surging, unable to calm down for a long time.

Having lived for so many years, this was the first time he had encountered a cultivator, and even old-generation Great Martial Masters like Elder Ji Yuanzhen Yuanzhen and Liang Jingtang had only encountered a cultivator for the first time in their long lives, leading Xia Daoming to naturally think that the number of cultivators in the Great Liang Kingdom was as precious and rare as the giant pandas in his world.

As a result, after a "heart-to-heart talk" with Ding Chushan, Xia Daoming finally understood that he was too naive.

The world is bustling, all for profit; the world is jostling, all for profit.

Cultivators are no exception.

The reason they hadn't encountered cultivators for so many years was that Mangzhou had once been destroyed by a great war, leading to the exhaustion of spiritual energy, and there were almost no spiritual veins, so very few cultivators would come to this "poor place" of Mangzhou to be active.

Especially since Li Cheng was close to the Cangmang Mountains, where monsters appeared, poisonous miasma was dense, and it was even rumored that powerful monster cultivators were entrenched in the depths, so even fewer cultivators were willing to come to Li Cheng to be active.

In reality, in some states of the Great Liang Kingdom where spiritual energy is abundant and spiritual veins are more widely distributed, the traces of cultivators are not rare.

According to Ding Chushan, Muzhou, where Mount Wannuo is located, is a state where spiritual energy is relatively abundant and spiritual veins are more widely distributed.

In Muzhou, there are not only cultivation sects but also cultivation families.

The Spirit Saber Sect is just a medium-sized cultivation sect in the Great Liang Kingdom.

And he was just one of the many outer disciples of the Spirit Saber Sect; usually, besides practicing, he would hoe spirit fields for the sect and cast clouds and rain for the spirit rice.

"Fortunately, cultivators don't look down on Li Cheng and rarely come here to be active, otherwise how would it be my turn to possess a spirit well and a spirit fruit tree!"

Thinking that a spirit well could irrigate dozens of mu of spirit fields without needing cultivators to cast clouds and rain. Even because of the irrigation from the spirit water in the spirit well, spirit rice, which usually takes two or three years to harvest a season, could be harvested twice or even three times a year.

Xia Daoming seemed to see a piece of spirit rice with glowing light before his eyes, his heart couldn't help but burn, and he couldn't wait to roll up his sleeves and turn that spirit field in the cave upside down, then sprinkle seeds.

"An innocent man is guilty of his own treasure! If it's really as Ding Chushan said, my strength is still too weak; it seems I must go to the Cangmang Mountains as soon as possible to find the Transforming Dragon Fruit and become a Grandmaster." Soon, Xia Daoming's burning heart calmed down, and he began to think about entering the mountains to pick the Transforming Dragon Fruit.

Just as Xia Daoming was thinking, Ji Wenli walked over and whispered: "Master Xia, the old master and Master Liang said they have something to see you about."

Now, the backyard where Xu Zhiyuan lived had become Xia Daoming's private key area.

Ji Wenli was a Ji Clan disciple assigned by Elder Ji Yuanzhen Yuanzhen to be Xia Daoming's attendant.

This woman had a calm and steady personality, was loyal, and had a proper appearance with long legs.

Originally, Xia Daoming wanted a man, but Elder Ji Yuanzhen Yuanzhen insisted that female relatives like Wenyue and Lian'er would live in the backyard in the future, so a man wouldn't be appropriate.

Xia Daoming thought it made some sense, so he agreed.

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