Cultivating Immortality: Starting from Ferrying Passengers

Chapter 47 Idle daily life
[Real name: Fang Jingxuan]

[Cultivation: Qi Refining Level 3 (31/600)]

Fang Jingxuan looked at the attribute panel and nodded with satisfaction. Today's practice actually increased his performance a bit.

Fang Jingxuan was certain that it was the result of this practice, because after he finished setting up the stall, his cultivation progress was thirty points.

It seems that after changing to a new fellow practitioner, my practice speed has increased by two to three times.

Originally, it would take three to five days of meditation to increase one’s spiritual progress a little bit, but now, just meditating for one night can bring a little bit of progress.

Although the degree of fluctuation of this data still needs to be verified, the efficiency has been substantially improved and this cannot be faked.

Thinking of this, Fang Jingxuan secretly regretted that if he had known that the change of fellow practitioners would be so great, he would have gone to borrow money.
Well, forget about borrowing money. It’s too radical. Don’t let the interest accumulate and you can’t pay it back. You’ll have to tear yourself apart and sell yourself on the black market. That’ll be the end of you.

Fang Jingxuan was quite satisfied with the current situation. Now he had found a very suitable fellow practitioner of [Qianling Suibai], so the only one left was a fellow practitioner of [Wuxiang Chantui].

If I exchange the item of [Formless Cicada Shell] for a top-grade item, wouldn't I be able to increase my cultivation progress by two points for every day of meditation?

If you calculate it this way, I will be able to advance to the middle stage of Qi Refining in less than a year.

The day I originally planned was five years.
No wonder when I saw the He family's cultivation seed that day, he was so young, but he was already a cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining. Judging from this, his cultivation speed should be many times faster than mine.

It turns out that there is a world of difference between practicing with resources and practicing without resources.

Fang Jingxuan thought of other geniuses, and the arrogance in his heart was dampened a little, but he still felt a little proud.

I am getting better now. With my cultivation level at the initial stage of Qi Refining, I can use a top-grade fellow practitioner of the first rank. But can an ordinary Qi Refining cultivator at the initial stage in an ordinary foundation-building family have such treatment?
After a few moments of self-indulgence, Fang Jingxuan regained his composure. He put the Tongchan Transfiguration into the storage bag, while the Wanshou Hanbai was left in the quiet room.

Although the storage bag can hold the [Wanshou Cypress], this cypress is a living thing after all and cannot stay in the storage bag for a long time.

If the time is short, it's fine, but if it goes on for a long time, [Wanshou Hanbai] will also die.

It is best to let this cypress get some sun and fresh air every day, so that it can grow stronger.

However, this would make it a problem for Fang Jingxuan to place the cypress tree when he went to ferry people across the river.

Now in this rented courtyard, Fang Jingxuan didn't bother to set up defenses, because all his valuables were on him, and other cultivators would not be able to find anything valuable even if they wanted to steal.

But things will be different from now on. With this Hanbai, Fang Jingxuan will start to worry about how to prevent thieves.

After admiring the cold cypress for a while, Fang Jingxuan tidied up and began to practice drawing talismans.

After the two silent notes were made, Fang Jingxuan rested for an hour at noon, and in the afternoon, he began to practice the body refining technique.

After soaking in the essence of the spiritual wood for an hour, Fang Jingxuan finished his body training and had a simple dinner. After drawing a silent note, Fang Jingxuan began to meditate and practice.

On the second day, I continued this rhythm: meditating, drawing talismans, eating, exercising, drawing talismans again, and meditating again.

Tuoyuan is also a homebody. He is a turtle and prefers quietness to movement. Since Fang Jingxuan doesn't go out, he can stay at home even more. He eats and sleeps every day and doesn't seem bored.

This cycle repeated itself over and over again, and in the blink of an eye, half a month had passed, and Fang Jingxuan had hardly left the courtyard.

Until this day, Fang Jingxuan looked at the sky. The moon was bright today and it was time to collect the moon dew.

So that night, Fang Jingxuan used [Wanshou Hanbai] instead of [Jade Green Cypress] for the first time and began to collect the Moonlight Jade Dew.

This time, the effect was completely beyond Fang Jingxuan's expectations. Afterwards, looking at the nearly fifty drops of Moonlight Jade Dew, Fang Jingxuan was somewhat shocked. Although he had been mentally prepared beforehand, a five-fold increase in power was too much.

Thinking back to when he could only count the days of Yu Lu every month, Fang Jingxuan felt as if he was in another world.

How can I use up these fifty drops of Moonlight Jade Dew? Haha!
"I really want to stay at home all the time, practice every day, and feel the gradual growth of my cultivation. Who can understand this kind of comfort?"

Fang Jingxuan muttered to himself. If conditions allowed, he really wanted to stay at home and practice, but unfortunately the current conditions did not allow it.

Seeing that his spirit stone reserves had officially fallen below the 100 mark, Fang Jingxuan had no choice but to stop practicing and start thinking about how to make money.

It's impossible for him to come out only when he is at the end of his rope and has no spirit stones left. That style is not something Fang Jingxuan can accept.

Moreover, compared to before, Fang Jingxuan felt that the rate at which he was consuming spirit stones was increasing rather quickly.

Ten kilograms of spiritual wood essence were gone in half a month. As Fang Jingxuan's body refining progressed, the spiritual wood essence required for each body refining was more than the previous one.

At the beginning, it was three liang at a time, then four liang, five liang, and now, it has to be one jin at a time.

The talisman paper, spiritual ink, cinnabar and other items required for the talisman are also a considerable expense. Fang Jingxuan is currently only proficient in one kind of talisman, which is the silent note, but he can't draw it, which results in the current expenditure of spiritual stones being insufficient to cover the expenses.

There is also Tuyuan's food. In addition to the spiritual rice, Tuyuan also has to eat ordinary fish and shrimp to fill his stomach, and these all need to be bought with money.

As for the more trivial things, such as the firewood burned during physical training, the incense candles needed for practicing martial arts and meditation, and the various spices and seasonings used in cooking, these may seem insignificant, but when added together, they are also an expense.

Living in the market town, everything has to be shipped in from outside, so the price is naturally higher. A low-grade spirit stone may look very strong, but once it is broken into pieces, it is just a waste of time.

"Well, let's get rid of the things I don't need first, especially the Jade Cypress. I'll replace it with Spirit Stones so it doesn't take up space in my storage bag.

Over the past month, I have unknowingly accumulated more than a hundred silent notes. If I sell them all, it will be more than a hundred low-grade spirit stones.

No wonder I spent money so quickly, a large part of it was spent on making talismans, but it was all worth it, and my understanding of drawing silent notes has become more profound."

Fang Jingxuan was thinking about this in his mind while looking at the attribute panel. He saw the following displayed on it:

[Cultivation: Qi Refining Level 3 (132/600)]

[Talisman: Silent Note: 35/100]

[Physical Training Technique: Qingmu Health Training, Current Level, Qingmu Skin: 33/100]

This is the result of Fang Jingxuan's practice over the past month. With the help of new fellow practitioners and Yuehua Yulu, Fang Jingxuan's practice progress has advanced by leaps and bounds, directly increasing by 100 points.

And his proficiency in making silent notes has also increased to thirty-five. Compared with the state when he just started, Fang Jingxuan feels that the silent notes he makes now are not much different from the products on the market.

The progress of the final body-refining technique is also good, but the changes are not very obvious now, so we need to wait a little longer.

After reading the summary, Fang Jingxuan was quite satisfied. Now it depends on whether the silent note can be sold at a good price.

Your future happy life depends on it.

Thinking of this, Fang Jingxuan took Tuoyuan, whose size had grown even bigger, out of the door and headed straight to the market outside the city.

(End of this chapter)