Linggen Civil Engineering only wants to build roads

Fang Chen had obtained another piece of information about the market caravan.

And his longing for the Spirit Eye of the Gale Wolf grew even stronger.

"Alright, I wonder if you accept materials from demonic beasts here?" Fang Chen suddenly asked after a few casual words.

"Monster materials? Do you have monster materials here?" Upon hearing this news, Fu Yunzi was overjoyed.

"Fellow Daoist, please wait a moment."

A short while later, Fang Chen emerged from the back room of the courtyard, carrying a pair of cyan wolf claws, which were the materials from the Gale Wolf's demon beast, the Gale Claws.

He placed the claws of the Gale Wolves in front of Fuyunzi and said, "Fellow Daoist, what do you think of this material?"

Fang Chen had collected nine pairs of wolf claws like these, but he had only taken out one pair so far.

Fu Yunzi held the wolf claw in his hand and examined it carefully. "The material is excellent, and the wind spirit energy is very abundant. It's really good."

"How much do you think I can sell it for, fellow Daoist? Don't laugh at me, fellow Daoist, I don't have a single spirit stone here. I just had some good luck a while ago and hunted down a Gale Wolf. Now I'm living off the claws of that Gale Wolf."

Fang Chen continued to play the victim, while Fu Yunzi spoke sincerely.

"Normally, if you were to personally take your Swiftwind Claw to the market, you could sell it for seven or eight spirit stones."

The market caravans don't buy these items; only the nearby cultivation families who refine artifacts will accept them, and they'll only offer five spirit stones.

"I could only give you three spirit stones originally, but since we've just met, I'll offer you a discount and give you the higher price of four spirit stones. How about that?"

Four spirit stones?

The back-and-forth movement reduced it by half!

Fang Chen was helpless in this regard, as he was so far away from the market.

If he could refine magical artifacts using materials from demonic beasts, the profits would multiply. Unfortunately, all he has now is the talisman inheritance left by his master.

"Alright then," Fang Chen thought, seeing that Fu Yunzi was quite sincere, so he sold the wolf claw of the Gale Wolf first.

"Four spirit stones in total, fellow Daoist, you've made a small fortune. May I ask what kind of spiritual materials or treasures you wish to purchase?"

"I need blank talisman paper. Do you have any?"

Upon hearing that Fang Chen needed blank talisman paper, Fu Yunzi tentatively asked, "Could it be that you are a talisman master, fellow Daoist?"

"He's hardly a talisman master; he just wants to refine basic talismans as a means to an end."

Talismans are easy to learn but difficult to master. It's manageable for independent cultivators to learn beginner-level talismans, but once they reach the intermediate or advanced level, the difficulty increases dramatically, becoming almost as difficult as alchemy or weapon crafting.

"That's impressive, but unfortunately I only have five stacks of spirit talismans here. Each stack contains twenty blank talisman sheets and is worth one spirit stone. If you need more, I can bring you more next time," Fu Yunzi said quickly.

One hundred blank talisman papers, plus the nine swift wolf hides from before.

Fang Chen calculated carefully that it was enough to push his Golden Knife Talisman proficiency to the perfect level.

"Okay, then bring more next time, the more the better. I'll buy all of these."

"What about your spirit stones, fellow Daoist?"

"No rush," Fang Chen said, taking out a pair of Gale Wolf claws under Fu Yunzi's questioning gaze.

"The second one?"

Is that enough?

"That's enough, that's enough," Fu Yunzi said repeatedly.

"So you have three spirit stones left. Is there anything else you want to buy?"

"I didn't expect you to charge four spirit stones for these Gale Wolf Claws," Fang Chen said with a smile.

"If you're going to help someone, help them to the end," Fu Yunzi said with a simple and honest expression.

Fang Chen then looked at Fu Yunzi's goods and saw a mid-level spell called "Rock Wall Technique." He was overjoyed; it was an earth-based defensive spell, just right for him.

Just as Fang Chen was about to purchase this intermediate-level spell, Fu Yunzi spoke up.

"Fellow Daoist Fang, I won't lie to you, but when it comes to things like the inheritance of spells, the higher the level, the better it is to avoid buying such manuals."

"Why?" Fang Chen asked, puzzled.

"For example, beginner-level spells and basic inheritances can be understood by reading the manuals. However, as spells progress to intermediate and advanced levels, they become increasingly complex, and most cultivators simply cannot even get started."

Therefore, it is still necessary to spend a lot of money to purchase the specially made jade slips for transferring skills from those major sects and families.

"If Fellow Daoist Fang needs it, I can bring a jade slip next time."

Fu Yunzi looked completely sincere.

Fang Chen, however, had the control panel in hand and wasn't afraid of anything, so he asked, "How many spirit stones does this manual cost?"

"Exactly three pieces."

"What about the jade slip for transferring skills?"

"At least ten dollars as a minimum."

"Then I'll buy this manual and give it a try," Fang Chen said, pretending to be helpless as he picked up the intermediate-level spellbook.

Fu Yunzi wanted to persuade him again, but he had no choice but to put his hand down.

After the transaction was completed and they chatted for a while, Fuyunzi took his leave.

During their final casual conversation, Fang Chen learned that this Fu Yunzi had come from the Zheng family in the west. The Zheng family was a famous cultivation family in the west, with a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator in charge, and the family also had a spiritual eye site.

Fu Yunzi usually frequents that area.

If Fang Chen hadn't been building a road to the west, we really wouldn't have run into him.

Watching Fu Yunzi's departing figure, Fang Chen couldn't help but smile, "What an interesting fellow."

In this way, Fang Chen acquired one hundred blank talisman papers and a mid-level spell.

He secretly calculated that it would take a full five achievement points to learn this intermediate-level spell, but he had no choice but to learn it.

In the world of cultivation, defense and offense are the two most important aspects for cultivators. Whether it is talismans or spiritual artifacts, offensive and defensive talismans and spiritual artifacts are one-third more expensive than other talismans and spiritual artifacts of the same grade.

If a higher-level Gale Wolf were to attack, he could use a large number of Golden Knife Talismans to supplement his offensive capabilities.

Defense is ineffective; basic defensive talismans have no effect, and there are no materials available for intermediate defensive talismans.

In the end, Fang Chen chose to learn defensive spells, and coincidentally, the Earth Spirit Technique also provided a boost to defense, so he got two benefits at once.

"Looks like I'll have to recruit some more young men," Fang Chen thought to himself.

Child labor was forbidden in the previous life, but Fang Chen used child labor exclusively in the cultivation world.

However, as he continued his road-building project, his three little apprentices' proficiency in petrification increased rapidly. Practice makes perfect, and Hao Yun, who started out, can now cast petrification four times a day.

In the time that followed, Fang Chen began testing the spiritual roots of the children in Qingshan City.

However, the children from the aristocratic families had already completed the tests last time.

Now, Fang Chen intends to test the children of his laborers.

When this news came out, everyone was in disbelief.

These impoverished people never imagined that the opportunity to cultivate immortality would fall into their laps. They thought that allowing them to become martial artists was already an immense blessing, and now their children were even given the chance to embark on the path of immortality.

The powerful clans, however, did not believe that children from the lower classes could become immortals like their own.

After all, even becoming a martial artist is difficult for them.

In reality, becoming a martial artist and having the spiritual root aptitude for cultivating immortality are two completely different things.

In the end, a nine-year-old boy with a runny nose was officially accepted as a disciple by Fang Chen, ranking fourth among them.

This little snotty fellow also had a very peculiar name, Er Lengzi, but when Fang Chen took him under his wing, he also changed his name to Xu Li.