Cultivating Immortality: Starting from Ferrying Passengers

Chapter 9 Temporary Cave
After unloading the goods, the caravan manager greeted everyone and prepared a spiritual meal. Although it was just ordinary spiritual rice and spiritual food, Fang Jingxuan enjoyed it very much.

Who doesn't like free food? Tuo Yuan also found some food specially prepared for the pack animals, so he had a delicious meal.

After the man and the beast finished eating, they had free time for the rest of the time.

Sunjiabao is not big, and there are only twenty or thirty cultivators living here. The majority of the residents are ordinary people. With Sunjiabao as the core, there are about 70,000 to 80,000 ordinary people living around it.

Most monks are awakened from mortals. The proportion of monks whose parents are both monks is very small, because the higher the realm of the monk, the more difficult it is to give birth to offspring.

Moreover, the children born from the union of two monks do not necessarily have spiritual roots, so ordinary people are the foundation of this world.

The rules of the Baishan area stipulate that monks cannot attack mortals easily and cannot slaughter innocent people.

Of course, regulations are regulations, and each case needs to be analyzed specifically. If a cultivator is really determined to kill thousands of people at once, it won't take much effort, as long as he can bear the consequences afterwards.

But most monks would not do this. After all, mortals are not a threat to monks, and only monks can anger them.

Unless one is a cultivator practicing the path of demons, ghosts, or corpses, and needs a large number of mortals as nourishment, he will be fearless and kill indiscriminately.

However, once this kind of cultivator is discovered, everyone will want to kill him, so he currently hides himself and dares not reveal his whereabouts at all.

Fang Jingxuan took Tu Yuan for a stroll around Sunjiabao. The main industry here is the refining of spiritual ores.

In the large industry of refining equipment, they can only get the most basic benefits. It is a labor-intensive industry with meager profits and the potential to lose money at any time.

The market here mainly sells various refined metal spiritual materials, most of which are of first-grade low quality.

Spiritual materials of slightly higher grades were also not sold very cheaply, which completely blocked Fang Jingxuan's idea of ​​trading back and forth between the two places.

In the end, Fang Jingxuan didn't buy anything, just took a stroll and returned to the gathering place.

Fang Jingxuan, who just browsed but did not buy anything, followed the group back to Hongyefang and finished his work for the day.

Today, I earned one low-grade spirit stone from transporting goods, and spent one low-grade spirit stone to buy Water Five Flowers. The two offset each other, forming a perfect balance.

Oh no, I also got a free meal, so I did gain something today.

Fang Jingxuan felt that his day was not wasted, so he happily took Tu Yuan back to his courtyard.

Don’t eat dinner, have two meals a day, and don’t eat after noon. This is the traditional virtue.

Of course, Fang Jingxuan would never admit that he was short of money and couldn't afford to eat dinner. He was just conservative.

When the curfew bell rang, Fang Jingxuan began to meditate as usual.

In the small quiet room, a small jade tree and the remains of a golden cicada both emitted flickering light with Fang Jingxuan's breathing.

At the same time, the two phantoms of Fang Jingxuan's natal spirit in his sea of ​​consciousness were also slightly absorbing the mist in the sea of ​​consciousness to make themselves more solid.

Early the next morning, Fang Jingxuan woke up from meditation and looked at the panel again. He found that the points had not increased. He shook his head and got up to prepare breakfast.

There is still a lot of pork belly left from yesterday, so I don’t have to go out to buy groceries today.

It is a pleasure to make fire and cook, and do everything by myself.

But while eating, Fang Jingxuan was also thinking about whether he should recruit a mortal servant to do these trivial tasks?
My time should be used for more valuable things. But recruiting mortals to work in Hongyefang requires guaranteeing them and paying a living fee, which is not cost-effective.

Well, I'd better earn some spirit stones first and redeem my master's magic weapon before thinking about these trivial things.

After eating and drinking, Fang Jingxuan took Tuyuan out of the market and swam to the middle section of Qinghe River.

Fang Jingxuan was not planning to transport the goods today. Although a low-grade spirit stone would be nice, he had his own things to do now.

He steered Tuoyuan and moved forward quickly on the Qing River. The Qing River was very wide and ordinary cultivators would not come here for no reason.

"I remember there's a fairly large tributary that curves deep into the dense forest. Perhaps there's a waterfall and a pool there. If that's the case, it would suit my needs."

Fang Jingxuan was thinking in his mind that the main reason he came out today was to find a temporary cave for himself.

After Fang Jingxuan accepted the beast taming knowledge from Huo Cang yesterday, he became interested in the method of refining water-type spirit pets recorded in the jade slip.

From now on, before a method of concealment is found, Tuyuan's growth rate should not be too fast. Tuyuan has more than enough defense but insufficient offensive means. Now it is time to refine a new offensive spirit pet to make up for its shortcomings.

Just refining a spirit pet takes a long time, at least three months, and even half a year may not be enough.

In this case, the rented courtyard in Hongyefang would not be suitable.

Because Fang Jingxuan had to go out to ferry passengers and earn spirit stones, and the small courtyard he rented was only guarded against gentlemen but not villains. If someone really wanted to sneak in, he would have no way to deal with it.

Therefore, Fang Jingxuan did not place any valuable things in the courtyard. All his assets were carried with him in the storage bag.

Fang Jingxuan directed Tuyuan to turn into a tributary and then move forward along this tributary.

This tributary is surrounded by primeval forests filled with miasma, and strange roars can be heard from time to time, which sounds quite scary.

Nowadays, there are few people and a lot of land in the Baishan area. The main reason is the harsh environment and too few spiritual veins.

Without spiritual veins, cultivators cannot practice normally, so they are unwilling to stay for a long time.

Without the protection of cultivators, and relying only on mortals, they will sooner or later be devoured by monsters and wild beasts. Therefore, places like this desolate wilderness without spiritual veins have always been sparsely populated.

Monks will try their best to squeeze into places with spiritual veins, but in places without spiritual veins, no matter how beautiful the scenery is, monks are unwilling to come.

This is why those independent cultivators would rather live in a shack near Hongyefang than live in a big house in the wild.

After walking and stopping for a while, Fang Jingxuan spent more than half an hour and finally arrived at a remote waterfall.

This place is about a hundred miles away from the main stream of Qinghe River, and there are no spiritual veins around it. In the eyes of those cultivators, it is really a poor and barren place.

However, in Fang Jingxuan's eyes, this place is very suitable, just right as his temporary cave and secret base.

Carrying Tuyuan, Fang Jingxuan walked to the front of the waterfall. The waterfall was not big, with a drop of only about twenty meters, and the pool below was not deep either, only about ten meters.

"Although it's generally in line with the rules, it still needs some careful modification, otherwise those slit-mouthed catfish larvae might escape."

Fang Jingxuan stared at the pool in front of him, a thoughtful look in his eyes. He wondered if the spiritual pet refined from the larvae of the split-mouthed catfish blessed by [Moonlight Jade Dew] could reach the level of a first-grade low-grade spiritual beast?
(End of this chapter)