Cursed Mountains and Seas

Chapter 344 Shocking News! The Kanli Jiji Pill, a Martial Dao Immortal Technique
Seeing that the other party had fallen for the trap so easily, Wang Cheng couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth slightly:
"People these days are really naive. They even believe little tricks like 'I am Qin Shi Huang.' Very good, very good."

Fuyao, I've decided that you're family.

When you get old, I'll develop health supplements and sell them to you!

"No, it seems the Immortal Scoundrel has lived much longer than me."

However, the situation outside the Five Sacred Mountains Coin was completely different from the scene of scumbags ruling the world that he had imagined.

Beneath a withered tree whose bark had been gnawed away, the thin girl named Fuyao saw the four words "A ruler's word is law" written on the ledger with unwavering resolve and sharp wit, without even a trace of guilt.

He nodded silently, genuinely feeling:
"With his considerable abilities, how could 'Mr. Duobao' possibly be after my paltry sums? He would never lie to me."

Moreover, the situation on my side is really…

咕噜 咕噜
She rubbed her rumbling stomach and glanced back at the thousands of emaciated refugees following her.

A pair of bright eyes, which appeared unusually large due to prolonged hunger and malnutrition, narrowed slightly.

Biting his slightly chapped lips, he muttered to himself:

"The world is in chaos now, and everyone is struggling to survive. If we don't attack the prefectures, where will we find so much wealth to collect?"

Even if you find the burial goods in the ground, you still need to pay many times the price to buy even a little bit of supplies.

Compared to this kind of unstable "windfall," I would much rather do business with others steadily, exchange goods and services, and survive this cannibalistic and chaotic world.

Fortunately, this Five Sacred Mountains Coin, which I was born with and which I "carried with money in my mouth," is inhabited by a powerful demon. Perhaps this time, I really can escape from this desperate situation.

So, she consciously picked up a pen and wrote in the ledger:
"Mr. Duobao, Fuyao is eager to help you get out of the seal as soon as possible, and also needs a sum of money to save your life."

But after buying the last batch of supplies from the big spenders, I had already spent all the money I had scrambled (crossed out) picked up.

However, I also seized a [Kanli Jiji Pill] used by martial arts cultivators for cultivation. Can I use this as a sacrifice?

I know this isn't a particularly precious elixir; it can only assist someone at the peak of the Refining Essence stage in the Pure Yang Realm of Life Fire to break through to the second level of the Refining Qi and Blood stage, the [Corpse Guarding] Realm.

However, Fuyao doesn't dare to covet the gold, silver, and Wuzhu coins in your treasury right now. Could you help me exchange them for some food for emergency use?
As long as we can overcome this difficulty, we will surely be richly rewarded in the future!

Unlike Wang Cheng, Fuyao did not enter the Five Sacred Mountains Coin's pocket in her true form.

Even while writing with his mind, his other hand always gripped the hilt of the knife at his waist.

Even though the knife had been polished to a gleaming shine by its owner, it still exuded a chilling, bloody smell. Countless heads had been severed from it, and its ferocious aura was terrifying.

Clearly, there was no safe haven around Fuyao where she could completely feel at ease.

She was clearly not pretending to be poor; she was genuinely poor!
Just keeping the thousands of refugees under her command alive had exhausted all her strength.

Even if they seized the pills, they couldn't bear to eat them. Their martial arts cultivation on the path of life cultivation had reached this point entirely thanks to the support of the Five Sacred Mountains Coins' "risk-free business".

If one hadn't cultivated to the peak of the corresponding middle-grade [Corpse Guardian Realm], where one's internal organs were already divinely connected, allowing for easy digestion of tree bark and grass roots, and even the ability to sustain life by "eating wind and drinking dew" by opening one's mouth to drink the northwest wind.

They might have already starved to death.

"The [Kanli Jiji Dan] used in martial arts cultivation?"

This was the first time Wang Cheng had heard of this unfamiliar name, so he naturally didn't know what this kind of pill was in essence.

Based on his understanding of the outside world, he subconsciously assumed it was another kind of immortal elixir similar to the "Five Organs Returning to True Nature Pill".

Regardless of whether we eat it or not, just being able to see another one of the thirty-six immortal elixirs is already worth the price of admission.

Besides, all the other party wanted was some grain.

In any case, the Donghai Kingdom not only grows high-yield crops itself, but also imports grain from Champa, Siam and other places in Southeast Asia and hoards it in large quantities. A little grain is just a drop in the ocean.

Wang Cheng pretended to be very knowledgeable and wrote down a single character with an air of aloofness:

"can."

With the consent of both holders, the treasury of the Five Sacred Mountains Coin and the Four Seas Coin was immediately and seamlessly transferred.

The 625 shi of rice stored in the Sihaitongbao Treasury for emergencies has disappeared. Under normal circumstances, this amount of rice would have been enough to feed two thousand people for a month.

Wang Cheng raised his hand and a red pill in a porcelain bottle appeared in his palm. Qihu Keju glanced at it and saw its information.

[Rare Goods: Kanli Jiji Dan]

Value: The Five Sacred Mountains Coins were worth approximately 500 taels in their original location, while the Four Seas Coins were worth approximately 5,000 taels in their original location, a difference of 4500 taels.

Formula: 3 qian of Coptis chinensis (to clear heart fire), 1 qian of cinnamon (to warm kidney water), and 2 qian of cinnabar (to calm the mind). Five pills can be made in one dose.

Effects: The union of the kidneys and heart enhances life cultivation.

One method is to consume the pure Yang life fire at the peak of the first stage of the Refining Essence realm, and combine it with external and internal cultivation methods to advance to the intermediate-grade Corpse Guarding realm.

Both can assist in the cultivation of life skills during the corpse-guarding stage, greatly increasing the cultivation speed.

This is the orthodox path of cultivation for immortals. The medicine has no side effects, and at the highest level of cultivation, it can achieve the effect of physical immortality.

When Wang Cheng saw the description of this rare and valuable commodity, his heart skipped a beat.

"Orthodox cultivation, with no side effects from elixirs? Isn't this Fuyao a scumbag immortal?"

When he first met Xian Zha, he was deeply impressed by him.

Rare find: Immortal Scum
The combination of human destiny and all things in nature.
"Neither born nor die, not belonging to the six realms, nor entering the netherworld."

This string of descriptions is clearly not a good thing.

The ethereal, fairytale-like image of a beautiful sea in the morning and a desolate mountain in the evening, which had been a stereotype in the past, was shattered on the spot.

This also made Wang Cheng deeply suspicious and wary of the so-called "elixir of immortality," "cultivation of both body and mind," and even "immortality."

Turns out he was right.

Afterwards, the Rejuvenating Immortal entered Wang Cuiqiao's womb with the help of the [Five Temples Divine Hidden Flower], a secret elixir of immortality, indicating that the elixir of immortality itself has a high probability of having a backdoor. Therefore, Wang Cheng was extremely cautious about both the [Five Organs Returning to Truth Pill] and the [Red Elixir].

Even if I had the complete set of materials, I wouldn't just give them to my master to eat, for fear that I might accidentally fall into some kind of trap set by someone outside the wall.

However, he was surprised to discover that ordinary herbs could be refined into pills that could assist in cultivating life force and achieve a transformation of the physical body. He was overjoyed.

"The key issue is that these raw materials are very common in the world inside the walls and are not worth anything. If I have the formula, can't I refine them myself and then resell them back to China?"

Why didn't those alchemy masters of the past develop a prescription? What a waste of the alchemical heritage!

But the last line of annotation he saw ruthlessly shattered his illusions.

[Note: This is a unique medicine that is born from one or more of the six heavenly essences and grows only in specific regions.]

The world within the walls has vanished in six days. Even if the name is the same, it has no effect without Dao Qi.

The dream of becoming a cult leader in elixirs was shattered just as it began.

At this moment, Fuyao also received over six hundred bushels of genuine, white rice. Her large almond-shaped eyes shone brightly, and she was too excited to express herself.
"A cheat code! Mr. Duobao is indeed my destined cheat code!"
"If I could feed my refugees white rice every day, how could I not make a name for myself in this chaotic world?"

Then, without waiting, he continued writing in the ledger:
"Mr. Duobao, you have lived for a long time, so you should know that since the great changes in the world, the external alchemy method of the Feathered Immortal era, which is based on [ingestion] and pursues the cultivation of both body and mind, is no longer viable."

Although the thirty-six kinds of immortal medicines can cultivate both body and mind, making one powerful and without any weaknesses, they all produce "immortal poison." Once you take them for the first time, you will want to take more, and the higher your cultivation level, the more you need to take.

Once the medicine is stopped, not only will cultivation stagnate, but the six ancient energies will also corrode the cultivator, gradually driving them mad, causing them to lose their minds and become scum of the immortals.

Therefore, from now on we will only cultivate this Life Cultivation Immortal Method, using Qi and Blood Martial Arts to suppress evil spirits and scum of the immortals.

However, this also resulted in all martial arts cultivators, regardless of gender, having large bellies, and there was never enough food to eat, including Fuyao.

If there's still grain in your treasury, I'll take as much as I can. If there's not enough money, I'll immediately go and rob (crossed out) gather it up!

Wang Cheng's expression was strange.

"Judging from your tone, Fuyao should be a girl, and you've already written 'steal' several times, right? You didn't think that if you crossed it out in time, it wouldn't show up on my end, did you?"

This guy seems a bit slow-witted.

Then his gaze was fixed on the three words "Human Immortal Technique":

"The cultivation method of human immortals? She didn't cultivate the Feathered Immortal, which was abandoned by the world and replaced by the Three Officials and Gods in ancient times."
It sounds like our Shinto has also embarked on a completely new path.

This is completely different from the attitude of the Rejuvenating Immortal, who views mortals as resources for cultivation; they don't seem to be in the same group.

Wang Cheng looked deep in thought.

Now he knows three paths of cultivation:
"We in China follow the path of gods and spirits, cultivating only our inner nature; the immortals outside the wall follow the path of immortality, cultivating both nature and life."

This person, who was also outside the wall, followed the path of a martial arts immortal, focusing solely on cultivating life force.

In this world, mountains are yang and water is yin. The underworld is nowhere to be found, and yin and yang are mixed together. The world outside the wall in the depths of the vast ocean simultaneously produces immortal medicine, endless evil spirits, and immortal scum.

The world itself seems to fit perfectly with these three paths.

I've always suspected that something extraordinary happened in this world long ago, which led to this strange situation.

Now, this has been confirmed by the words of Fuyao, the owner of the "Five Sacred Mountains Coin".

This is the first time I've learned that the Ascension to Immortality Technique is essentially an external alchemy method.

Seeing these three paths, I feel that I'm starting to see a breakthrough in creating a completely new method for cultivating both body and spirit.

Wang Cheng didn't rush around. He immediately started asking all sorts of questions, trying his best to maintain the image of a senior expert.

Anyway, it's already been delayed for a year, so a few more days won't make a difference.

Let's digest this information first, and then we can try to get more information from each other later.

Fuyao seems a bit naive and easily deceived, but she might easily use that life cultivation method without any repercussions as a reference to restart the path of cultivating both body and mind.

"However, the initial plan needs to be changed. As the only source of goods from outside the wall, we can't let Fuyao die so easily."

Having made up his mind, Wang Cheng, the "portable grandpa" with the golden finger, wrote:

"Seeing how pitiful you are, I will make an exception and grant you new privileges."

Then, Fuyao saw new handwriting appear in the ledger:
"Ding!

Your world trading system is now active.

You can exchange your unused items for supplies from the treasury; prices are market-driven, and appraisal services are also provided.

The functions are self-explanatory.

Overjoyed, Fuyao sincerely thanked him:
Thank you.

Mr. Duobao, you are truly a conscientious merchant.

Wang Cheng remained aloof and did not reply.

He only silently thought to himself:
"Of course it's ethical, it's just making a huge profit of ten times the price."

If I could exchange cheap agricultural and industrial products for Fuyao's unique resources, I could siphon all the wealth, elixirs, and cultivation techniques from the outside world to my own.

Having the Five Sacred Mountains Coins in her hands might actually be a good thing. She'll have both the regular income and the windfall—a win-win situation!

He leaped out of the money-making trap again and held the medicine bottle up to his eyes.

"On another note, since one can use this pill to reach the [Corpse Guarding] realm of life cultivation as long as one cultivates to the point of pure Yang life fire."

"Then who should take this first pill?"

(End of this chapter)