Chapter 54: Booming Business

Cheng Yunqi had just inserted the flags when a sturdy Miao man immediately came over. He also had red hair, so he must be a disciple of Red Wood Ridge.

He handed over a long-handled golden melon hammer stained with black dirty water and said:

"Little Daoist master, my hammer was contaminated by the black mud of the Hundred Barbarian Mountain demon people. Now the magic power operation is not smooth when driving it. See if you can refine it clean."

Cheng Yunqi took it. It was extremely heavy in his hand, and many golden characters were engraved on the melon hammer, but at this time, under the contamination of the foul-smelling dirty water, the spiritual light was dim.

This is a dirty method extremely good at by the Southern Wilderness Demon Sect. They take the blood of black snakes, gray foxes, long-bearded rats, three-legged jackals, purple water toads, etc., and mix them with some Yin stones and rotten grass, and refine them into poisonous liquid with secret methods, which is called Corrosive Spirit Water. Whether it is a talisman or an artifact, once contaminated, its power will be greatly reduced. If it is sprinkled directly on a person, they will peel a layer of skin if they don't die.

Corrosive Spirit Water is the name used by Southern Wilderness people. The Miao border side sees this Corrosive Spirit Water as rotten and smelly as mud, so it is contemptuously called black mud.

Whether it is the current great war or the daily confrontation, this kind of thing is the most troublesome and disgusting thing for Miao border people. What they hate is not only the corrosive spirit efficacy of black mud, but also because the Southern Wilderness Demon Sect sees profit in this method, not only not eliminating those Yin objects, but also raising them in large numbers to take blood.

It is precisely because of this that the Miao border side naturally has a way to survive, which is for thunder or fire cultivators to use thunder and fire, these two supreme Yang objects, to burn away the stains on the surface of the magic artifact. This has requirements for the quality of thunder and fire and the caster, which must both remove the dirt and not damage the body of the thing.

However, because of the inheritance of Red Wood Ridge, there are more fire cultivators on the Miao border side and fewer thunder cultivators.

At this moment, the Miao man asked, "Does the little Daoist master use fire method or thunder method?"

Cheng Yunqi naturally replied that he used the fire method.

After saying that, he let the Miao man wait a moment, then scanned his eyes around, saw the straw mat used for resting on the ground of the thatched hut, picked up the straw mat and hung it up as a door curtain, separating the Miao man outside.

Seeing Cheng Yunqi hang up the door curtain, the white dog immediately guarded outside the door curtain, looking around.

"Little Daoist master, what are you doing?"

Cheng Yunqi took the Red Wood Ridge Miao man's weapon, smiling and saying, "Uncle, I am sent by Green Dragon Temple, and this stall is also Green Dragon Temple's stall. Can I still swallow your things? Don't worry, I have some secret recipes here, guaranteed to clean the dirty things on it."

The Miao man was suspicious, but thinking about it, it was also true. Sent by Green Dragon Temple, even if the thing was broken, there would be compensation.

However, he was still uneasy and exhorted, "This golden hammer of mine is cast from Yaoshan gold. Although it is hard, it cannot withstand fire refining. Don't hurt my thing when you burn the black mud. If you can't refine it, don't force it. I'll go find someone who uses thunder method, okay?"

Cheng Yunqi nodded with a smile, only letting him wait outside with peace of mind.

Cheng Yunqi sat in the hut, operating the fire element magic power in his body to summon flames. He now considered his fire control technique exquisite, and a small flame floated from his fingertips, the tongue of fire carefully approaching the dirty water on the surface of the hammer, ensuring that it only burned the dirty water and not the golden hammer.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle——".

The dirty water sizzled, and a string of fine bubbles appeared on the surface, and a foul-smelling odor diffused.

Cheng Yunqi counted the time. It took a cup of tea's time to burn away a piece of dirty stain the size of a small finger nail.

So he put away the flames, re-operated the magic power, and the color of the flames at his fingertips also changed to gold.

It was exactly the Sun's Bing Fire.

He repeated the old trick, slowly bringing the Sun's Bing Fire close to the stains on the golden hammer. At this time, the black stains melted rapidly like ice and snow meeting the sun, and then turned into wisps of black smoke rising. The black smoke that left the surface of the golden hammer was quickly burned into nothingness by the Sun's Bing Fire, never to be seen again, and even the foul-smelling odor was burned clean.

Cheng Yunqi took a look. Using this Sun's Bing Fire to deal with dirty things was ten times faster than the flames produced by ordinary fire element magic power.

This is the natural aversion of Sun's Bing Fire to filth.

So Cheng Yunqi changed to using Sun's Bing Fire to burn. In less than half an hour, this golden melon had already been restored to its original state, with no dirt on the surface. Moreover, Cheng Yunqi discovered that when this golden melon hammer was refined, besides using the Yaoshan gold mentioned by the Miao man just now, it was also mixed with many other miscellaneous things. These miscellaneous things could match Yaoshan gold when first used, but the quality was not as good as Yaoshan gold, and now they had decayed, becoming flaws on the golden hammer, better to have none than to have them.

He simply did a good deed to the end, burned away some truly useless miscellaneous gold with Bing Fire, and quenched the golden hammer.

Afterwards, Cheng Yunqi lifted the door curtain and saw the Miao man turning around in front of the stall.

Cheng Yunqi handed over the golden melon hammer with a smile and said, "Uncle, try injecting magic power again to see the effect."

Seeing the golden melon hammer shining with golden light, bright and dazzling, the Miao man was deeply convinced of Cheng Yunqi's craftsmanship. After taking it, he tried to inject magic power, only to see the restriction on the golden melon hammer shining. He was surprised to find that the magic power was now even smoother than before the weapon was contaminated. He was shocked and kept asking Cheng Yunqi how he did it.

Cheng Yunqi waved his hand and smiled without saying a word.

The Miao man felt he had spoken out of turn and stopped asking, thanking him repeatedly.

And Cheng Yunqi took a booklet from a wooden shelf in the thatched hut and handed it to the Miao man.

The Miao man naturally knew the rules. He took the booklet, picked up a pen, and filled in the date, sect, name, and effect in the four columns: December 4th, Red Wood Ridge Gonggong Village, Guai Xi Yin, Grade A. Cheng Yunqi bowed to the Miao man.

The Miao man picked up the golden melon and was about to leave, but his footsteps paused again. He stood in front of the stall and suddenly shouted loudly,

"Everyone, everyone! This little Daoist master from Green Dragon Temple has truly exquisite techniques. Not only did he refine the filth on my hammer, but he also had an extra quenching, and now the magic power operation is even better. Everyone can come and try!"

Seeing this, Cheng Yunqi was somewhat surprised, but he also stood up, came to the side of the Miao man, and bowed to all sides.

Everyone was moved upon hearing this, because the previous stall owner of Green Dragon Temple had been missing for two days, and everyone's artifacts were more or less contaminated by black mud, so after hearing the Miao man's shouting, they came over one after another, and Cheng Yunqi naturally refused no one, letting everyone queue up.

He now eats Qi with the contemplation method. Although the Heart Mansion is not yet open and the stored magic power is not much, he cannot cast high-power magic spells, but the advantage is that the process of converting spiritual power into magic power is continuous, so it is extremely convenient for him to cast this kind of small technique with little consumption.

As Cheng Yunqi refined three or five magic artifacts, his reputation gradually spread, and more people came, so some people found that the flags inserted in front of this stall were not only refining filth, but also drawing talismans, so they immediately asked Cheng Yunqi to draw talismans, just drawing fire talismans.

Cheng Yunqi smiled and agreed. He knew that Red Wood Ridge mostly cultivated Yang fire methods, while Hundred Barbarian Mountain mostly cultivated Yin water methods, so the fire talismans here were the most popular, which was also the reason why he received this order arrow.

Seeing someone asking Cheng Yunqi to draw talismans, some people who were queuing to refine filth were not in a hurry, and hurriedly wanted to see, asking Cheng Yunqi to draw talismans first, and they could wait.

Cheng Yunqi smiled and agreed again. The material money for drawing talismans was naturally not paid by the stall owner himself by Green Dragon Temple. There were talisman paper, talisman ink, and talisman pens in this hut.

Cheng Yunqi didn't need to avoid people when drawing talismans. People who didn't understand the legal intent would find the talisman patterns useless. He sat down at the table and chair in front of the door curtain and began to draw talismans.

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He drew a Yang Fire Demon-Breaking Talisman, which was most useful for dealing with the demons of Hundred Barbarian Mountain.

Cheng Yunqi finished it in one go and handed it to the person who asked for the talisman. He said

"This fellow Daoist can try it. This talisman doesn't count as money; I'll pay for it myself."

Cheng Yunqi told him the method of use: pinch the head of the talisman with your fingers, inject fire element magic power from the head of the talisman, chant the edict, and throw the talisman paper.

The person nodded upon hearing this. Naturally, one has to test the talisman before using it, otherwise, if the power is too great or too small, it will be fatal on the battlefield.

He took the talisman paper, looked left and right, and took a fancy to a stone in the middle of the river.

He jumped onto the stone, faced the downstream river surface, pinched the talisman paper, and chanted the edict,

"The scorching sun patrols the sky, the fire track opens the way, go!"

He threw the talisman paper, and immediately saw:

The talisman paper ignited in mid-air, instantly spraying two fire dragons, shooting far into the air, at least seven or eight zhang away!

It was like the legendary sun chariot passing through the sky, leaving behind tracks that lingered for a long time.

The heat wave radiated to both sides of the small river. The river water near the bank was frozen, but at this moment, it melted instantly, and the snow on both banks turned into water, revealing shrubs and grass.

And the direction the flames shot was the clean lake surface, empty, not knowing its power.

Both banks were quiet.

This workshop of theirs was prepared for first-realm downstream cultivators, and they were all people who had been struggling for a long time in the first-realm downstream.

According to reason, the people sent by Green Dragon Temple should also be at this level, but looking at this fire talisman, it didn't look like the power of the downstream at all!

"Daoist, I want five!"

Someone broke the silence.

"Seven!"

"Two! Two will do!"

Both banks suddenly became lively. ===== CHAPTER 55 =====