Yuantian Pidao

Chapter 98: Magic Mastery
Time passed quietly and it was December. At this time, the long-lasting summer heat finally subsided, and the continuous rain finally dissipated, which made many people who were worried about floods feel relieved.

During these two months, the Taiping Sect developed in an orderly manner, providing Jiang Chen with some spiritual objects every month for his practice. Some of these spiritual objects were searched by the Taiping Sect disciples from rivers, mountains and forests, and some were obtained through exchanges.

Although spiritual sand is the common exchange item in the cultivation world, gold and silver are not completely worthless to practitioners, especially for cultivators in the inspiration period, not to mention warriors. It is precisely because of this that as long as you find the right place, you can also exchange gold and silver for spiritual objects, but the exchange rate is very high, the so-called one ounce of gold for one penny of sand.

Of course, due to the overall environment, it is often very easy to exchange spiritual sand for gold, but it is more difficult to exchange gold for spiritual sand. In fact, the exchange rate is sometimes even higher.

With the support from the Taiping Sect and the resources he had received from the Yuling Sect before, Jiang Chen practiced without distraction.

In the river, a lone boat drifted with the current. Jiang Chen sat at the bow, holding a fishing rod in one hand and supporting his head with the other. His body was slightly tilted, his eyes were half-closed, and he seemed to be wandering in the sky.

At this time, the river was surging, the sound of the water was gurgling, and the wind was whistling. It seemed that everything was moving, but there was a turtle and snake lurking in his heart. He suppressed his mind and there were no waves. It took him two months to successfully transform the original martial arts secret method of turtle and snake into his own soul secret method.

Once this method is mastered, the turtle and snake will guard the mind and no distracting thoughts will arise. This makes Jiang Chen feel as if he has divine help when practicing, and he can always maintain the most focused posture.

At a certain moment, a cold wind blew and light snow fell from the sky. This was the first snow of the year.

As time passed, the snow fell heavier, but Jiang Chen still did not wake up. Invisible true energy flowed through his body, turning into silk threads and weaving into clothes, shielding him from all wind and snow.

Just as the heavy snow dyed the river bank a light white, the fishing float sank and Jiang Chen finally opened his eyes.

"The Qi Si technique has finally been perfected."

Holding the dragon fishing rod and struggling with the fish, Jiang Chen felt happy.

Catching a spirit fish is a happy event, and achieving a breakthrough in magic is also a happy event. When these two things happen together, it is double happiness.

Although the Qi Si technique is only a basic spell, it is still not easy to master it. In addition to the strong soul of Jiang Chen, the help of the Turtle and Snake Guarding the Heart is also very important for him to practice it to perfection in the early stage of Qi training.

The emergence of dragon fishing rods has invisibly accelerated this process. As long as you can keep your mind focused, fishing is also a form of practice.

With a splash, the big fish swung its tail, creating an undercurrent that was about to overturn Jiang Chen's boat. As Jiang Chen continued to reel in the fishing rod, the big fish under the water began to struggle frantically.

Seeing this, Jiang Chen breathed a sigh of relief and calmed the turbulent boat.

"You took my bait and you still want to leave? There is no such good thing in this world."

With his energies flowing, Jiang Chen pulled the large fish, which had been hiding underwater, out of the water. It resembled a catfish, about a meter long, with tiger-like stripes all over its body and a mouth full of sharp teeth, looking quite ferocious. "It turned out to be a tiger-striped catfish. No wonder it's so strong."

"Okay, okay, today's weather is just right for me to use you to cook a fish hot pot with pickled vegetables. It seems to be good."

Seeing the true form of the spirit fish, Jiang Chen was even happier. Although the spirit fish was ferocious, the spiritual energy it contained was quite rich. Even for a Qi-cultivating cultivator, it would be of great benefit if he ate it. At this time, he had already opened twenty-nine orifices, and if he ate this spirit fish, he might be able to open thirty more orifices.

"The weather is really strange right now. The heat was lingering for a long time, and now it's snowing heavily in the blink of an eye."

After collecting the spirit fish, Jiang Chen stood at the bow of the boat and looked at the snow falling all over the sky. A dark light flashed in his eyes. This was the Yin Spirit Eye.

After paying some price, the skinny monkey successfully brought out a large number of Yin Yuan Stones from the deep mountain canyon. The place was full of Yin energy. Although no real mineral veins had been produced yet, a lot of Yin Yuan Stones had indeed been produced.

According to the assessment of Taiping Sect, if all of them are mined, they can probably obtain Yin Yuan Stones worth between one thousand and two thousand spirit stones. However, mining is quite difficult and requires a lot of manpower and material resources. However, this is nothing for Taiping Sect. As a local snake, Taiping Sect is not short of people.

In order to ensure safety, Jiang Chen even asked the two old men, Black and White, to go there in person to take charge. The Yin Yuan Stone, which was worth one or two thousand spirit stones and was mined sporadically, was naturally not in the eyes of big families like the Lu family. They not only had their own spirit caves, but also controlled the spirit sand mines in Qingyuan County. However, for those small cultivation families and individual cultivators, it was also a considerable fortune.

Generally speaking, the value of inferior spiritual objects is mostly below one hundred spirit stones, while the price of first-level spiritual objects varies depending on their type, ranging from several hundred, and a few rare ones can cost over one thousand.

From this point of view, the value of this batch of Yin Yuan Stones is still not low. Of course, the premise of all this is that this batch of Yin Yuan Stones can be mined, and ordinary cultivators basically do not have this ability.

"Strangeness often means something is unusual. This aspect requires the Taiping Sect to prepare early. It is better to do some useless work than to be completely unprepared when the time comes."

In order to prepare for a rainy day, Jiang Chen had an idea in his mind. The various abnormalities in Qingyuan County now made him involuntarily think of the end of the world. At that time, there were also various unusual visions, but the people had been stable for too long and had no sense of crisis. They just watched some strange and exciting things and did not make any corresponding preparations, which eventually led to a tragedy on earth.

In fact, in order to deal with possible floods, the Taiping Sect had actually prepared a batch of supplies. However, the rain later dissipated and the flood disappeared. However, many people in the business guild responsible for this matter complained. After all, the Taiping Sect also spent a lot of money to prepare this batch of supplies.

"It's time to go back. I hope the world can remain peaceful for a while longer."

Jiang Chen's interest was gone and he no longer had the heart to fish. Chaos did represent a step to success, but for him now, a stable environment was the best because he still needed time to accumulate more experience.

After returning to Muyu Island, Jiang Chen immediately had the tiger-striped catfish cooked and had a sauerkraut fish hotpot with the snow scene. With the energy provided by the tiger-striped catfish, he began to attack the 30th acupoint in the evening.

Time waits for no one, and all these abnormalities have given him a sense of urgency.

(End of this chapter)