The abandoned cannon fodder girl's path to immortality

Chapter 172: Inquire about information
Immediately afterwards, Chen Jinshu traded twenty taels of Qingning tea for a recipe for Five Flavors Wine from Senior Brother Sun, as well as fifty low-grade spirit stones.

"Senior brother! Now that I have obtained the recipe for the wine, I still need to go to Shuiyue Pavilion to sell the spiritual medicine. I wonder what your next step is?" Chen Jinshu asked Du Yi after putting the things away.

"Junior sister, please make yourself at home! Senior brother Sun and I will have another short get-together!"

"Then I shall take my leave!"

Chen Jinshu nodded, gestured to Senior Brother Sun, and then headed towards Shuiyue Pavilion.

Besides selling the few acres of spiritual herbs she had just harvested, she also wanted to investigate information about that insect cultivator from her senior brother at Shuiyue Pavilion.

Although more than two years had passed since the last appearance of the insect cultivator, Chen Jinshu still remembered that face.

A moment later, she arrived at Shuiyue Pavilion. The senior brother who greeted her was the same one as before, but this senior brother looked somewhat dejected. She wondered if the matter of the feed had had too much of an impact on him.

Or perhaps it's the recent case of the fallen monk.

"Senior brother looks a bit worried!"

"Junior Sister has come to trade spiritual herbs? If you had come a few days earlier, we might have been able to get the original price, but now the price is a bit lower," the senior brother who received her said with a slight sigh.

"Is it because of the fallen demon cultivators in the sect?"

"Junior sister is wise! After a fallen demon cultivator appeared in the sect, the number of cultivators coming and going to the market has dropped sharply. Now, the business of Shuiyue Pavilion is not as prosperous as before."

"I wonder what the market price of spiritual herbs is like now?" Chen Jinshu was still quite worried about how many spirit stones he could get for the spiritual herbs he sold at this time.

"Although it's half a percent lower, it's still slightly more than the price charged by the Sect Affairs Hall. Other shops don't even have prices as high as mine. Junior Sister won't lose money trading here."

"Alright! Let's make the deal here." Chen Jinshu nodded upon hearing this, and since he still had something to ask the other party later, he readily agreed.

A moment later, Chen Jinshu completed the transaction. The amount of spirit stones she received was a few hundred less than before, but it didn't matter much to her.

After spending another third of the spirit stones on elixirs, Chen Jinshu immediately asked, "I wonder if Senior Brother has had any news from the Insect Valley recently?"

"Insect Valley? Why is Junior Sister so concerned about this Insect Valley?"

"Senior brother, you may not know this, but my junior sister was almost killed by these insect valley cultivators back then. If it weren't for the timely intervention of our clan elders, the consequences would have been unimaginable!" Chen Jinshu said, his face showing some resentment, and a faint chill emanated from him.

"So that's how it is. Last year, some dishonest disciples from Insect Valley sent me spirit fertilizer containing insect eggs, which resulted in me being fined spirit stones for several months. These Insect Valley cultivators are truly hateful!" A fierce glint flashed in the senior brother's eyes, revealing his extreme dissatisfaction with Insect Valley.

"That's right. Junior Sister almost lost everything back then. This time it's a combination of old and new grudges."

"But since last year, there has been much less trading of spirit fertilizer in Insect Valley, and each transaction is subject to multiple inspections. It has been three months since the last one."

“It’s already been three months. Does Senior Brother know anything about Li Chenliang from the Insect Valley?” Chen Jinshu said, handing ten spirit stones to the senior brother in front of him.

"Junior Sister, you're too kind. Li Chenliang has come to see me off several times. He doesn't look very well, and his cultivation is still at the peak of the late Qi Refining stage. He's probably still planning to take the Foundation Establishment Pill." After accepting the spirit stones, the senior brother's face showed a smile.

He likes these sensible junior brothers and sisters.

Hearing that Li Chenliang of the Insect Valley was still at the peak of Qi Refining, Chen Jinshu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as the opponent has not yet reached the Foundation Establishment stage, she will have a chance to make a move.

"Senior brother, do you know if there will be any Foundation Establishment Pills being auctioned in the market recently?" Chen Jinshu asked after thinking for a moment.

She remembered that the sect distributed Foundation Establishment Pills only once every few years, with only five or six pills available each time. If Li Chenliang wanted to establish his foundation, he would definitely come to the auction to bid, and then she would have the opportunity to follow him and make a move.

"The sect should be sending out Foundation Establishment Pills this year. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, it should be in about six months. As for the auction of Foundation Establishment Pills in the market, that's even more of a pipe dream."

"If you hear any news about Li Chenliang in the future, please let me know, Senior Brother." Chen Jinshu took out fifty spirit stones and a communication talisman containing her spiritual essence.

"Don't worry, junior sister! If he comes again, I'll send you a message immediately!"

After exchanging words for a while, Chen Jinshu did not linger and headed straight for the sect while the market was still bustling with people.

When she arrived at the sect entrance, she saw that there were four more senior brothers guarding the entrance than usual, all of whom were at the early stage of Foundation Establishment.

A demon-revealing mirror floats above the main gate, and every disciple who wants to enter the sect must be examined.

"The sect is terrified of these fallen demon cultivators."

Chen Jinshu sighed and immediately walked towards the entrance. After being checked, he rode the Gale Gourd and flew towards the Ink Plum Garden.

This time, she plans to focus on alchemy and obtain the first-grade high-level alchemist certificate as soon as possible. This way, she can sell the high-grade spiritual pills she has refined in the Affairs Hall instead of having to come to the market.

……

Ink Plum Garden.

After placing the red berries he bought for the Yinshan Sparrow below its nest, Chen Jinshu went to the Spirit Plant Space.

"Five kinds of spiritual fruits, each with different properties. Aren't they the Five Elements Spiritual Fruits? This wine recipe is quite extraordinary."

Chen Jinshu had a feeling that if she were to brew a magical wine using this recipe, it might surprise her.

"There is one Jade Lamp Fruit of the Wood Attribute left, and the Fire Dragon Fruit of the Fire Attribute is not yet ripe. There are quite a few Spirit Fruits of the Water Attribute."

These water-attribute spiritual fruits were shrub berries that I obtained from my master. They have a very high yield, like water berries. They are light blue in appearance and taste somewhat similar to blueberries, but sweeter.

She bought some metal-attribute and earth-attribute spiritual fruits from the market, including Red Gold Fruit and Mystic Stone Fruit.

"Let's use the Flame Spirit Fruit and Wood Kernel Fruit we bought to brew it. The Jade Lamp Fruit is precious, we can't let it go to waste like this."

This was her first time brewing wine, and she was a complete novice. She might have ruined it by using high-value spiritual fruits.

She took some moon spirit honey, and after consuming it, she immediately began studying the wine recipe.

The lotus petal birthmark on her forehead quickly absorbed the Moon Spirit Honey, releasing a faint power of enlightenment that allowed her to gradually find the knack for brewing the Five Flavors Wine.

"Take the Five Spirit Fruits, pound them with a stone, but do not rub or crush them to destroy their original flavor. Rinse them with spiritual water..."

Half an hour later, she figured out the whole process, took a small jar of pickled vegetables, and then added the spiritual fruit pulp, juice, and spiritual medicine one by one according to the recipe.

After confirming that the steps were correct, he immediately took some spiritual soil, moistened it, sealed the mouth of the urn with a thickness of three fingers, and then hid it under three wooden spirit peach trees.

"Once it's ready on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, we can taste the wine!"

Following the method, Chen Jinshu refined about ten more jars. She had many senior brothers and sisters, and she would definitely send one jar to each of them when the spirit wine was brewed.

With that in mind, she brewed ten more jars.