Chapter 68: Qingyu Pill

"Fellow Daoist Song, I heard last time that you wanted to go to Mount Bai Long. I don't know if you still want to go now." After seeing Song Qingming, Xu Cheng Ziyan did not beat around the bush and asked him directly.

"I am also very curious about the Mount Bai Long marketplace. I heard that there are quite a few good things there. If I have time, I still want to go there. I don't know why Captain Xu is asking this?"

Seeing Xu Cheng Ziyan directly mention Mount Bai Long, Song Qingming was also very puzzled in his heart. He did not know why she suddenly asked about this matter.

Back then, after Song Qingming obtained the specific location of the Mount Bai Long marketplace from Xu Cheng Ziyan, he had always had a plan to go to the Mount Bai Long marketplace to inquire about news of Foundation Establishment pills.

It was just that after experiencing the demonic cultivator incident, Song Qingming also knew the dangers near the Fuyun Mountain Range and was much more cautious in his actions. Before he had enough understanding of the Mount Bai Long marketplace, he did not rush to go there rashly.

"It's like this. I heard some news that the Mount Bai Long marketplace will hold a grand event in a month, and there will be many second-grade spirit items for sale at that time. I came here to ask Fellow Daoist Song if you are going to the Mount Bai Long marketplace. If you can, I would like to ask you to help me buy some elixirs." Xu Cheng Ziyan paused slightly before carefully stating her intention to Song Qingming.

"I don't know what kind of elixir Captain Xu needs. Can you tell me first?"

Hearing that Xu Cheng Ziyan wanted him to help purchase spirit elixirs, Song Qingming felt that this matter seemed somewhat unusual, so he could not help but want to ask more clearly.

"What I want to ask you to help me buy is a second-grade spirit elixir, Qingyu Pill. The value of this pill is not low. I originally planned to go to Mount Bai Long myself, but unfortunately, I have to lead a team to perform a mission tomorrow and really cannot spare the time. That's why I came to ask Fellow Daoist Song."

Qingyu Pill was a second-grade low-quality elixir that had the effect of regulating the spiritual energy of the meridians in the body. Using one such spirit elixir when a cultivator was at Foundation Establishment would more or less have some auxiliary effects.

Although Qingyu Pill was not a very expensive item among second-grade elixirs, because this pill had the effect of assisting cultivators in Foundation Establishment, it could be said to be an item that every cultivator who wanted to reach Foundation Establishment had to compete for. It had always been a very rare spirit item in the marketplace.

Even for the wealthy Xiaoyao Sect, there were not many stocks of this pill. Once an alchemist refined this pill and it entered the sect's Merit Pavilion, it would be exchanged away in a few days.

Xu Cheng Ziyan wanted to purchase this pill, certainly also in preparation for Foundation Establishment. If she could obtain a Foundation Establishment pill, plus the assistance of the Qingyu Pill, the probability of Foundation Establishment would certainly increase somewhat.

Xu Cheng Ziyan had been cultivating to the ninth layer of Qi Refining for almost five years, and her cultivation was very solid. Plus her three-spirit-root aptitude, in Song Qingming's view, although the probability of Xu Cheng Ziyan's Foundation Establishment was not as good as a two-spirit-root cultivator like Gao Yuyao, she also had about a forty percent chance of succeeding in Foundation Establishment at once.

Perhaps in a few years, Song Qingming would have to call Xu Cheng Ziyan Senior.

"Since I have already owed Captain Xu a favor, if I have this opportunity to pay it back, I will naturally not miss it. It's just that I don't have many spirit stones on me. The elixir Captain Xu wants to purchase is estimated to be at least three hundred spirit stones. I don't know how to solve this problem."

Hearing that Song Qingming had already agreed to this matter, Xu Cheng Ziyan's eyes flashed with brilliance, and she smiled and took out a storage bag and handed it to Song Qingming.

"There are three hundred spirit stones in here. If it's not enough, you can help me pay for it first. After you come back, I will return it to you. Do you think this is okay?"

"Giving me so many spirit stones, aren't you afraid that I will take the spirit stones and not come back?" After taking Xu Cheng Ziyan's spirit stones, Song Qingming joked.

After hearing this, the smile that had been hanging on Xu Cheng Ziyan's face suddenly disappeared. Then she opened her eyes wide and looked at Song Qingming seriously and said:

"We have known each other for almost two years. Of course, I trust Fellow Daoist Song's character very much. Besides, Qinghe County is not too far from Guiyunfang, and it's not too troublesome to go there. If Fellow Daoist Song doesn't come back to find me, then I can only go to Qinghe County to find you."

Hearing Xu Cheng Ziyan's answer, Song Qingming could not help but feel a chill flow through his body, and he smiled bitterly helplessly. Sure enough, Gao Yuyao had already sold his identity completely.

After handing the spirit stones to Song Qingming, Xu Cheng Ziyan led the eleven guards to perform missions in the Fuyun Mountain Range the next day. A few days later, Song Qingming also quietly left Guiyunfang lightly.

Walking on the road, Song Qingming could not help but shake his head. He really did not expect that he had just owed Xu Cheng Ziyan a favor, and it was time for him to repay it in just a few days.

However, the reason he chose to agree to Xu Cheng Ziyan was not entirely because of this matter.

Originally, he also planned to go to the Mount Bai Long marketplace, but he always felt that his fighting ability was average and it was not very safe to go there alone. He wanted to wait another year or two, until he broke through to the late stage of Qi Refining, before going to Mount Bai Long.

Now that he had accidentally obtained the Thunder Tiger puppet beast and improved his fighting ability quite a bit, he also had the confidence to go to Mount Bai Long alone. Even if Xu Cheng Ziyan did not come to find him, at most half a year later, he would choose to go to Mount Bai Long.

The Mount Bai Long marketplace was about two thousand li away from Guiyunfang. At the walking speed of a Qi Refining cultivator, a round trip would take at least half a month. Going there was not an easy task for Song Qingming.

After Song Qingming's multi-party understanding over the past year, he also understood some specific information about the Mount Bai Long marketplace and had some confidence in his heart.

The Mount Bai Long marketplace was ostensibly established by several Foundation Establishment independent cultivators of the Wei Kingdom. In fact, the reason they could establish a marketplace near the Fuyun Mountain Range to compete with Guiyunfang for benefits was also supported by Golden Core cultivators behind the scenes.

Among the several Foundation Establishment loose cultivators who established the Mount Bai Long marketplace, one of them, a Foundation Establishment loose cultivator named Lin Yutang, was the sixth disciple of the Wei Kingdom loose cultivator Jin Dan Chen Jinliang. It was said that the true owner behind this marketplace was precisely Chen Jinliang, the Jin Dan cultivator who had been famous in the Wei Kingdom for hundreds of years.

It was not easy for loose cultivators to lack resources to cultivate. High-tier loose cultivators who could cultivate were all people with excellent talent and luck. There were at least tens of thousands of loose cultivators in the entire Wei Kingdom, and there were only two Jin Dan loose cultivators.

These two people, one was the genius loose cultivator Li Xianyun who formed a Jin Dan in less than a hundred years, and the other was this veteran Jin Dan cultivator Chen Jinliang who had formed a core for more than three hundred years.

After leaving Guiyunfang, Song Qingming walked west for two days and slowly entered a hilly area. Unlike the flat terrain of Guiyunfang, there were hills of different heights everywhere.

This place could almost be considered to have left the sphere of influence of Guiyunfang and entered a relatively chaotic place in the north of the Wei Kingdom.

This area also bordered the Fuyun Mountain Range and was considered a place in the northwest of the Wei Kingdom where various forces were intertwined. It was very normal for various independent cultivators, bandit cultivators, and even demonic cultivators to appear here.

Song Qingming also encountered quite a few cultivators coming and going along the way, but this place was mixed with fish and dragons, and he was really not very daring to contact those cultivators casually alone.

Walking cautiously, after eight days, Song Qingming finally saw a tall spirit mountain towering into the clouds. The mountain peak had already been inserted into the white clouds and became one with the white sky.

"Looking at the situation, this should be Mount Bai Long."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 69 =====