Immortality begins with upgrading buildings

Chapter 76 The Changes in the Fishpond and the Chicken Coop

Ten days later.

On a deserted island near Zengtou City in Yunyuze, with a soft "snap," more than ten water mirrors around Ji Yuan shattered instantly, turning into thousands of water droplets that scattered to the ground.

Seeing this, Ji Yuan couldn't help but rub his temples as well.

He then raised his hand and retrieved the bronze mirror, a high-grade magical artifact, that Xu Fugui had given him.

The mirror is called the Mysterious Mirror.

Just as Grandpa Xu said, once used, it can project a mirror-like image.

Ji Yuan also used this as a reference to successfully comprehend the second level of the "Canglang Sword Manual" - the Mirror of Overlapping.

However, the final move of this mirror stacking technique, which aimed to transform all the mirrors into water arrows, was always just short of success.

But it's almost over. We've already gotten past the hardest part. All that's left is to keep trying and keep practicing.

He looked up at the sky; it was almost time.

He raised his right hand, and from the nearby reeds, a reed suddenly transformed into a dark blue flying sword, which instantly slipped into his sleeve.

He took a step forward, and a flash of blue light appeared on his boots.

The next second, he appeared on the surface of the water.

Before he could land, the Thunder Falcon Boat appeared on its own and carried him straight to the lakeside cabin.

It's such a short distance, Ji Yuan hasn't flown away, and there's no need for him to. It's fine to just return by boat as usual.

To avoid being seen by others and having to be called "senior" again.

As soon as he got home, Ji Yuan heard the splashing sound coming from the fishpond in the backyard. He went in to take a look and saw a grass carp in the early stage of the first tier flicking its tail, which caused several spirit fish nearby to dart around in a frenzy.

Looking at the 10 early-stage Tier 1 spirit fish in the [fishpond], Ji Yuan also showed a satisfied smile.

Ten days ago, after leaving Zengtou City, he first went to the nearby Tai'anfang.

After disguising himself, he first sold 11 jin of cold iron sand at the Baibaolou in Tai'anfang, earning 220 spirit stones.

He then sold the White Water Flying Sword at the Hundred Treasures Pavilion and instead purchased a superior flying sword—the Azure Fu Sword, which excels in disguise, assassination, and is extremely fast.

Before leaving, he asked one more question, inquiring if there were any superior magical artifacts more suitable for sneak attacks, such as flying needles.

I never expected it to actually exist!

So he sold the original Deadly Needle, plus the set of mid-grade magic weapon-level throwing knives he got from the Qin family.

The Deadly Needle is too low-level to keep up with Ji Yuan's late-stage Qi Refining combat skills. As for throwing knives, once you have the high-grade throwing needle, you won't need them anymore.

In a life-or-death struggle, being able to launch a sneak attack even once is already considered extremely good.

If it doesn't work the first time, the other party won't give you a second chance.

The superior flying needle is called "Spirit Water Needle". Its effect is that it can hide and dissolve in water, and then suddenly appear and strike, giving the opponent a fatal blow.

This was a perfect match for Ji Yuan, a water-based cultivator, so he spent another 85 spirit stones to acquire this high-grade magic weapon.

Ji Yuan hadn't forgotten about the talisman pen either.

He sold his low-grade talisman brush and instead purchased a mid-grade talisman brush, named the Crimson Sand Flowing Brush.

This slightly increased his success rate in drawing talismans, and finally allowed him to attempt drawing first-tier high-grade talismans.

In this way, the magical artifacts on Ji Yuan's body were greatly enhanced.

He possesses several high-grade magical artifacts, including the Azure Flying Sword, the Thunder Falcon Boat, the Water-Dividing Dragon Spear, the Spirit Water Needle, the Hundred Fish Shield, and the Bewildering Mirror.

If it were any other Qi Refining Stage 7 cultivator, just breaking through that one level would have cost them all their savings.

Therefore, the vast majority of cultivators at the seventh level of Qi Refining are still using mid-grade magic artifacts.

If you save up spirit stones to buy them, then you have to use those spirit stones for cultivation.

Going out to fish or do other errands, even something like the No. 18 shop, relying on its late-stage Qi Refining cultivation to trade between various markets... all of these will incur losses.

Only those cultivators who have been immersed in the seventh level of Qi Refining for many years, or those who have been in the eighth level of Qi Refining, are able to replace their mid-grade magic artifacts with high-grade magic artifacts.

Even so, it would be considered good if they had one or two high-grade magic artifacts.

But what about fate?

Having just broken through to the seventh level of Qi Refining, he already possesses a total of six high-grade magic weapons!

In addition, there are 3 mid-grade magic artifacts.

And battle flags like the Yin Ghost Flag.

After replacing the ritual implements in Tai'anfang, Ji Yuan rested for a night in the lakeside cabin and then went to Zengtou City the next day.

This trip was to buy spirit fish.

For Ji Yuan, who was in the late stage of Qi Refining, half-spirit fish were no longer of interest; if he were to buy, he would buy spirit fish.

However, when it comes to spirit fish, you can only buy some early-stage first-tier spirit fish, and you have to buy herbivorous spirit fish, because these spirit fish are relatively gentle, do not eat meat, and are not very aggressive.

If you buy some carnivorous spirit fish.

keep?

It's more likely a case of raising poisonous insects.

The small fishpond in Ji Yuan's backyard is a natural Gu pool.

If it's a mid-stage first-order cultivator, one or two are manageable, but if there are too many, even Ji Yuan, a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator, won't be able to suppress them.

Therefore, the herbivorous spirit fish in the early stage of this tier are the most suitable. The cost price of such spirit fish is about 10 spirit stones. But once they advance to the middle stage of the first tier... the starting price will be more than 30 spirit stones.

Ji Yuan bought 10 of these spirit fish in one go, and also bought 10 half-spirit fish.

The fishpond is right here; buy as many as you can.

Next up is the [Chicken Coop]. Previously, Ji Yuan had slaughtered all the green and yellow chickens in one go. This time, when he returned and found the chicken cultivator again, he was no longer satisfied with just half-spirit chickens.

If you're going to buy one, you should buy a monster like the Red-crested Chicken, or rather, a spirit chicken!

However, the chicken cultivator was not very effective, or perhaps there were simply few such demonic beasts near Yunyuze.

Most of them are water-type monsters.

So the chicken cultivator searched several nearby markets and only managed to find three red-crested chickens for Ji Yuan.

Fortunately, these three are finally hens.

If it can lay eggs, then everything is fine.

The eggs laid by a spirit rooster are far superior to those of a half-baked green-yellow rooster.

Each spirit egg contains more spiritual energy than a spirit stone.

However, these chicken demons need to eat some demon meat every day, which adds to Ji Yuan's expenses.

But compared to the gains, this expense is nothing.

He put another spirit pig back into the pigpen.

Although my cultivation level has improved, I cannot stop refining my body.

Ji Yuan walked around his backyard, and during that time he caught the male red-crested rooster and put a small bottle of its blood in it.

Looking at the rooster that had completely lost its spirit, Ji Yuan glanced at the three energetic hens and finally sighed, "Brother Chicken, that's enough."

As for what Du Wanyi had mentioned earlier, there would be a gathering to welcome Ji Yuan to join the Water Dragon Sect Mutual Aid Association... Ji Yuan remembered this, but didn't urge her.

He didn't know who to contact, so he could only wait for Du Wanyi to contact him again.

Unexpectedly, instead of Du Wanyi, they encountered someone else...

It was already noon the next day when a middle-aged, overweight man at the sixth level of Qi Refining knocked on his door.

"Greetings, Senior Ji."

The fat man gave a proper bow.

Ji Yuan asked with a smile, "What brings you here, Manager Wu?"

This shopkeeper, Wu, partnered with someone to open a shop in Zengtou City, and business was quite good. In the past, Ji Yuan would often go to his shop to sell some blood essence or water essence.

Sometimes I also buy talismans from him.

Over time, the two became acquainted.

The former fellow Daoist Ji is now Senior Ji.

This made Manager Wu quite emotional. "It's like this," he said, "I wonder if Senior Ji has cultivated any new blood essences recently?"

"Blood in semen?"

Since returning from Qingbo Pond, Ji Yuan hasn't sold any more, so he has more than half a jin (250 grams) left on him.

"Yes, I don't know what's happened at the Water Dragon Sect lately, but the demand for this blood essence has increased, and the price has naturally gone up as well. So I came specifically to ask Senior Ji if you have any left?"

Manager Wu spread his hands and said, "Our shop is really short of supplies lately."

Each time Ji Yuan went to sell, he would only sell a few ounces.

One tael of blood essence costs 20 spirit stones, and even half a jin would only amount to 100 spirit stones.

The profit is so small... it's not worth it for Manager Wu to make the trip himself. So collecting blood essence is just a pretense; making friends is the real purpose.

"Oh? How many spirit stones are one tael of blood essence now?"

(End of this chapter)