Chapter 27: Exchange

"So that's how it is. Many thanks to you both for the explanation."

Wang Yu was shocked upon hearing this, realizing that he shouldn't have used spirit stones to assist his cultivation at all, but fortunately, he had only used a dozen or so, so he thought the problem shouldn't be too big.

At the same time, Yu Bintian turned his gaze to Madam Yin, but the old woman said: "I don't have medicine that increases cultivation, but I do have two protective talismans I obtained by accident. If you are willing to exchange..."

"Protective talismans are relatively rare, but I still want to exchange for pills that increase cultivation." The old man was a bit tempted, but after thinking about it, he shook his head.

"Then there is no way. Whenever Fellow Daoist Yu changes his mind, you can come to me to exchange at any time, even if you only use spirit stones." Madam Yin replied with a smile.

"Fellow Daoist Yu, I have two mid-grade Mind-Condensing Pills rewarded by the clan in my early years that can be exchanged, but they have been stored for a bit too long, so I cannot guarantee their medicinal properties are as they were, and I also need to add some spirit stones." At this time, the young Huang man and the young woman beside him discussed it and suddenly said this.

"Mind-Condensing Pills, I have heard of them. They are prepared from several types of spirit herbs and have amazing auxiliary cultivation effects. Can you let me take a look first? Of course, you two can also verify these packets of Dust-Cleansing Powder." Yu Bintian was overjoyed and hurriedly signaled the thin man behind him to send the wooden box on the table over.

The Huang man took a small white porcelain bottle from his wife's hand and also handed it to Gao Qi, who walked over.

Both sides verified it and found no problems. Immediately, the old man paid a few more spirit stones, and the exchange was successfully completed.

"I recently obtained a piece of Soul-Nurturing Wood. If I find someone to make it into a magic artifact to carry with me all year round, it has the miraculous effect of calming the mind and nurturing the soul. I want to exchange it for items that can treat soul exhaustion." Madam Yin then spoke, taking out a long strip-shaped item wrapped in red cloth from her sleeve. After opening it, it was a pitch-black branch the thickness of a finger.

"Soul-Nurturing Wood is just a spirit material; finding an artifact refiner is probably more costly than buying this item. Although I don't have medicine, I have a Rejuvenation Talisman..."

A moment later, Madam Yin used the Soul-Nurturing Wood to exchange for the monk's Rejuvenation Talisman and a dozen or so spirit stones.

Then, the Huang youth took out a piece of Cold Ice Jade, which was exchanged by Madam Yin for two talismans. Afterward, he took twenty spirit stones and bought the monk's three bottles of low-grade Spirit-Gathering Liquid directly.

Wang Yu watched these scenes from the side and felt very envious, but unfortunately, he had no spirit stones at all. What he could take out was probably only the Four Beasts Diagram cultivation method.

"Brother Wang, have you thought about it? Do you want to take out that body-refining technique for exchange?" Yu Bintian waited for the others to finish exchanging, and seeing that Wang Yu had not spoken, finally asked him with a smile.

"The body-refining technique can be taken out for exchange, but can I exchange it for your set of Qi-observing techniques?" Wang Yu pondered in his heart and asked cautiously.

"Of course you can, but my Qi-observing technique is a bit of a chicken rib to use, and it is very difficult to comprehend. If you can't learn it, you can't blame me." Yu Bintian was a bit surprised upon hearing this, but said without hesitation.

"If I can't learn it, that is my own business. I need some time to organize the body-refining technique diagrams. Can we exchange tomorrow night?"

"Haha, of course no problem. Brother Wang, come here again tomorrow night, and I will exchange the Qi-observing technique with you." Yu Bintian agreed immediately.

"Brother Wang, I and Fellow Daoist Huang are also very interested in your body-refining technique. Can we exchange it together?" The monk saw this scene, touched the iron headband on his head, and also put forward an exchange request.

Selling to one is selling, and selling to two is also selling.

Wang Yu naturally would not refuse. After some conversation with them, they made verbal agreements separately. He exchanged for a Mind-Condensing Pill and a Jin Guang Talisman from the Huang youth, and exchanged for three bottles of low-grade Spirit-Gathering Liquid and five spirit stones from the monk.

Although Wang Yu could not tell from the expressions of the others whether this exchange was a profit or a loss, what he exchanged for were things he could use at the moment, so he was quite satisfied in his heart.

Afterward, everyone drank another cup of tea offered by the servants and bid farewell one after another.

On the way back, Wang Yu spent some loose silver to find a crew member to send a stack of white paper and brush and ink. After arriving at his residence, he began to silently draw the little people diagrams of the "Wolf Running Diagram" in his room.

Although he had no drawing foundation, after turning on the overclocking mode, it was not a big problem to draw the charm of the four styles of the Wolf Running technique.

He never thought about taking out all sixteen styles of the Four Beasts Diagram. He thought that Yu Bintian's Qi-observing method probably also had a backup plan, which was why he didn't propose to exchange for magic arts and cultivation methods from the monk and the Huang youth.

The next night, Wang Yu left the room with a stack of drawings. When he returned to his residence, he placed the few extra items on his body one by one on the table.

A thin, light yellow book, four small bottles, three white and one green, a talisman, and five crystal-clear, white spirit stones.

After Yu Bintian and the others tried the effect of the four styles of the "Wolf Running Diagram" slightly, they successfully completed the exchange.

That talisman was the "Jin Guang Talisman" used by the Huang Shi City Lord, and the book was the Qi-observing method exchanged by Yu Bintian.

The four porcelain bottles contained Spirit-Gathering Liquid and Mind-Condensing Pills respectively.

He first followed the method told by the monk, poured a drop of Spirit-Gathering Liquid from the white porcelain bottle, applied it directly to his brow, then sat cross-legged, released his divine sense, and began to breathe.

After a while, he opened his eyes, and a satisfied expression appeared on his face.

The amplification of this low-grade Spirit-Gathering Liquid was somewhat similar to Yin Spirit Liquid, which could increase the efficiency of breathing spirit energy by about one time.

But according to what the monk said, Spirit-Gathering Liquid could be used daily, and each bottle of Spirit-Gathering Liquid could be used for more than a month, which was enough to cope with his cultivation in the short term.

Wang Yu pondered this, took the green porcelain bottle, poured out a pink pill, pinched it in his hand, and sniffed it under his nose. It was fragrant.

It was exactly the mid-grade Mind-Condensing Pill!

He swallowed the pill in one gulp and continued to sit and breathe.

After the pill's effect took hold, Wang Yu felt that the range of his divine sense was greatly expanded. As long as he operated the Yin Water Art, the spirit energy sensed in a large area nearby was all attracted by the cultivation method, rolling and gathering into his body, making the meridians everywhere in his body feel a "full" expansion for the first time, forcing him to speed up the operation of the cultivation method.

It is worthy of being a mid-grade spirit medicine!

Wang Yu was pleasantly surprised, threw everything behind him, and greedily breathed. He could clearly sense that after every breath, the magic power in his body increased by a thread.

Time passed bit by bit, and in the blink of an eye, it had been more than a stick of incense. He still didn't feel any fatigue in his spirit, but he couldn't care about thinking about anything else, still intoxicated in this cultivation where the magic power in his body was soaring.

Several days later.

Wang Yu's eyes were slightly closed, one hand was pinching a spell, and he was silently chanting incantations. In front of him was the opened yellow book.

In his divine sense sea, the magic art imprint pattern composed of four light yellow spirit patterns was quietly floating.

Wang Yu suddenly opened his eyes, and the same magic pattern imprint pattern flashed and disappeared in the depths of his pupils.

"Qi-observing Technique"

At this moment, in his eyes, everything around him had a faint yellow halo, even the air was shrouded in yellow light. But when he raised an arm and looked at it, his heart tightened.

He saw that the arm in the yellow light was emitting a faint blood light, two inches high, curling and uncertain, appearing unusually dazzling in the yellow light.

He lowered his head and realized that not only his arm but his entire body was shrouded in this blood light.

Is this blood Qi?

Wang Yu clicked his tongue in wonder, feeling that the magic power in his body was continuously being consumed. He immediately pinched a spell again, and the magic art imprint in his divine sense sea dissipated silently, and everything in his eyes returned to normal.

Interesting!

I just don't know if it's easy to use at night. If it's useful, wouldn't it be equivalent to wearing an "infrared night vision device"?

But according to the book, this Qi-observing magic art can not only observe human blood Qi but also check some simple concealment magic arts. However, if the cultivation of the person being checked is too high, or if they have a corresponding breath-restraining technique, this Qi-observing technique will probably be useless.

Wang Yu didn't know what he thought of, took the yellow book in front of him into his hand, and quickly flipped to a certain page.

On the page was printed a spirit pattern diagram composed of four yellow spirit patterns.

Wang Yu stared at the spirit pattern diagram and fell into deep thought.

Although Yu Bintian said that this magic art was extremely difficult to comprehend, compared to the Firefly Technique on the animal skin, this magic art spirit pattern could be comprehended under normal circumstances. Even after opening the overclocking synchronization mode, it only took half a day to fully comprehend it.

When he condensed the corresponding magic art imprint, he also felt unusually smooth. After only trying a dozen times, he succeeded in condensing it in his divine sense sea.

It seems that the reason he couldn't comprehend the Firefly Technique normally back then was really just because of the original magic art. Actually, his comprehension was not too bad.

If the Firefly Technique were comprehended through normal magic art classics, it should be much easier.

But the power of the original Firefly Technique he learned was also far stronger than described in "Magic Art Introduction". Could this also be because of the original magic art?

Just as Wang Yu was confused, the whole room suddenly shook violently, and at the same time, chaotic footsteps came from the corridor outside the door, as if someone was walking quickly.

He was stunned, hurriedly put the things on the table on his body, and was about to push the door to see what was going on, when suddenly a grim old man's voice came from above the ship:

"Ordinary people, stay in your rooms and don't move around. Those with magic power, all gather on the deck. This ship has encountered the Yin Qi tide that only happens once every ten years on the Chishui River. We need everyone on the ship to overcome this difficulty together. If any cultivator dares to hide and not come out, I will personally take action to expel you from the Iron Arrow and let you fend for yourself."

This voice was exactly that of Feng Lao from the Vanshen Sheli, his tone strong and completely refusing to be rejected.

After Wang Yu finished listening, he was surprised. To be able to make this late-stage Qi Refinement cultivator face such a formidable enemy, one can see the strength of the danger encountered this time.

What is the Yin Qi tide? Could it be related to Yin spirits?

Numerous thoughts flashed through his mind quickly. He quickly checked his own situation, then grabbed the iron-refined long knife on the head of the bed, pulled open the door, and rushed out. ===== CHAPTER 28 =====