Chapter 68: Green Jade 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 Ziyan didn't beat around the bush and asked him directly.

"I am also very curious about the Mount Bai Long market. I heard that there are many good things there. If I have time, I still want to go there. I wonder why Captain Xu is asking about this?"

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

Back then, after Song Qingming obtained the specific location of the Mount Bai Long market from Xu Ziyan, he had always planned to go to the Mount Bai Long market to inquire about the news of the Foundation Establishment Pill.

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

"It's like this. I heard some news that the Mount Bai Long market will hold a grand event in a month, and there will be many second-tier spiritual items for sale. I came here to ask Fellow Daoist Song if you are going to the Mount Bai Long market. If you can, I would like to ask you to help me buy some elixirs." Xu 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 Ziyan wanted him to help purchase spiritual elixirs, Song Qingming felt that this matter might not be simple, so he couldn't help but want to ask more clearly.

"What I want you to help me buy, Fellow Daoist, is a second-tier spiritual elixir, the Green Jade Pill. This pill is not low in value. I originally intended to go to Mount Bai Long myself, but it's a coincidence that I have to lead a team to perform a mission tomorrow, so I really can't spare myself. That's why I came to ask Fellow Daoist Song."

The Green Jade Pill is a second-tier low-grade elixir that has the effect of regulating the spiritual energy of the meridians in the body. Using one such spiritual elixir when a cultivator is establishing a foundation will more or less have some auxiliary effect.

Although the Green Jade Pill is not a very expensive item among second-tier elixirs, because this pill has the effect of assisting cultivators in establishing a foundation, it can be said to be an item that every cultivator who wants to establish a foundation must compete for, and it has always been a very rare spiritual item in the market.

Even for the wealthy Carefree Sect, there is not much stock of this pill. Once an alchemist refines this pill and it enters the sect's Merit Pavilion, it will be exchanged for nothing in a few days.

Xu Ziyan wanting to buy this pill must also be preparing for Foundation Establishment. If she can obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill, plus the assistance of the Green Jade Pill, the probability of Foundation Establishment will definitely increase a bit.

Xu Ziyan has been cultivating to the ninth level of Qi Refining for almost five years, and her cultivation is very solid. Plus her three-element spiritual root aptitude, in Song Qingming's view, although Xu Ziyan's probability of Foundation Establishment is not as good as a two-element spiritual root cultivator like Gao Yuyao, she still has about a 40% chance of successfully establishing a foundation at once.

Perhaps in a few years, Song Qingming will have to call Xu 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, and the elixir Captain Xu wants to buy 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 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, and I will pay you back when you come back. 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 Ziyan's spirit stones, Song Qingming joked.

After hearing this, the smile that Xu Ziyan had been wearing on her 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 Guiyun Market, 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 Ziyan's answer, Song Qingming couldn't help but feel a chill, and he smiled bitterly helplessly. Sure enough, Gao Yuyao had already sold his identity to the bottom long ago.

After handing the spirit stones to Song Qingming, Xu Ziyan led the eleven-man guard to the Fuyun Mountain Range to perform a mission the next day. A few days later, Song Qingming also quietly left Guiyun Market with light luggage.

Walking on the road, Song Qingming couldn't help but shake his head. He really didn't expect that he had just owed Xu Ziyan a favor, and it hadn't been a few days before it was time for him to pay it back.

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

Originally, he also intended to go to the Mount Bai Long market, but he always felt that his combat ability was average, and it was not 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, which improved his combat ability a lot, he already had the confidence to go to Mount Bai Long alone. Even if Xu Ziyan didn't come to find him, at most half a year later, he would also choose to go to Mount Bai Long.

The Mount Bai Long market is about two thousand li away from Guiyun Market. At the pace of a Qi Refining cultivator, a round trip would take at least half a month. Going there is not an easy thing for Song Qingming.

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

The Mount Bai Long market was ostensibly established by several Foundation Establishment rogue cultivators in the State of Wei. In fact, the reason they could establish a market near the Fuyun Mountain Range to compete with Guiyun Market for benefits was also supported by Golden Core cultivators behind the scenes.

Among the several Foundation Establishment rogue cultivators who established this market, one of them, a Foundation Establishment rogue cultivator named Lin Yutang, was the sixth disciple of the Golden Core rogue cultivator Chen Jinliang of the State of Wei. It is said that the true owner behind this market is the Golden Core cultivator Chen Jinliang, who has been famous in the State of Wei for hundreds of years.

It is not easy for rogue cultivators to lack resources to practice. Rogue cultivators who can cultivate to a high level are all people with excellent talent and luck. There are at least tens of thousands of rogue cultivators in the entire State of Wei, and there are only two Golden Core rogue cultivators.

These two people, one is the talented rogue cultivator Li Xianyun who formed a Golden Core in less than a hundred years, and the other is this veteran Golden Core cultivator Chen Jinliang who has formed a core for more than three hundred years.

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

This place is almost considered to have left the sphere of influence of Guiyun Market and entered a relatively chaotic place in the north of the State of Wei.

This area also borders the Fuyun Mountain Range and is considered a place where various forces are intertwined in the northwest of the State of Wei. It is normal for various rogue cultivators, bandit cultivators, and even demonic cultivators to appear here.

Song Qingming also encountered many cultivators coming and going along the way, but this place was mixed with fish and dragons, and he was really not very willing to have too much contact with those cultivators alone.

After walking for eight days with trepidation, Song Qingming finally saw a tall spiritual mountain towering into the clouds. The top of the mountain had already been inserted into the white clouds, becoming one with the white sky.

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

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