Immortality and cultivation: Heaven rewards diligence, and success is inevitable.

Jiang Shi, holding the second-grade low-level spirit talisman, arrived at a house with a courtyard, led by a maid.

The room contains an array that accelerates cultivation speed. Although it is not as fast as the array of the Qingyun Sect, it is much faster than the outside world.

Jiang Shi instructed the maid not to enter the room, and then went inside.

Jiang Shi put the second-grade spirit talisman stone into his storage bag and did not look at it for the time being.

He needs to cultivate quickly to digest the spiritual food and wine he just ate.

A night passed, and Jiang Shi opened his eyes.

His cultivation has broken through, and he has now reached the sixth level of the Qi Refining stage.

I'm not far from the late stage of Qi Refining.

Jiang Shi felt that as long as he cultivated the Golden Spirit Technique to perfection, he would be able to break through to the seventh level of the Qi Refining stage.

After breaking through his cultivation level, Jiang Shi spent another week consolidating his cultivation.

Jiang Shi practiced diligently inside the house.

His little maid was talking to someone else.

"Yujing, are you really going to spend the rest of your life with this old man?" A lively and lovely-looking girl asked Jiang Shi's maid, Liu Yujing, with a distressed expression.

The two women are cousins ​​who grew up together.

However, the one speaking was Liu Yue's biological daughter, Liu Xueyao, while Liu Yujing was only from a collateral branch of the family.

As members of a collateral branch of the family, they were born without freedom.

They were either used as tools for the life force or used for marriage alliances to win over others.

"Sigh, I just don't want to, but there's nothing I can do," Liu Yujing said with a worried look on her face.

"However, Master Li seems to be an ascetic. It's been a week now, and he still hasn't come out of seclusion. Staying by his side might be a good thing."

The two girls were talking about Jiang Shi, while Jiang Shi was examining the second-grade spirit talisman inheritance.

[Watch the inheritance of a second-grade spirit talisman]

[Learned a second-grade spirit talisman - Water Lock Technique]

[Grade 2 Water Lock Talisman: Beginner (0/500)]

After reading it only once, Jiang Shi had already mastered the basics of second-grade spirit talismans.

He has now become a certified talisman master.

The status of a Spirit Talisman Master is quite high, no less than that of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

However, Jiang Shi cannot reveal that he has already mastered the basics so quickly.

We'll have to wait another year to talk about it.

If it were exposed directly, it would be too shocking, and even a Golden Core cultivator would be alarmed.

The first year of this ten-year spiritual contract was for his learning.

We will not force him to make a second-grade spirit talisman in the first year.

This year, he only needs to deliver a mid-grade first-rank spirit talisman.

After a year, Jiang Shi will have finished fleecing the Liu family, and then simply change his appearance and run away.

That spiritual contract couldn't stop him, who had already mastered the "Hundred Illusions and Thousand Faces Technique".

This skill can also alter spiritual consciousness and deceive spiritual contracts.

This is also why he signed the spirit contract so decisively before.

[Proficiency +1]

Jiang Shi began to try making second-grade lower-level spirit talismans.

With only a beginner-level, second-grade talisman-making skill and a success rate of one in ten, he failed many times.

However, Jiang Shi didn't care about the failure rate; each failure would increase his proficiency.

Three days later, Jiang Shi walked out of the house.

At this point, he had already broken through to the minor completion stage of the second-grade spirit talisman.

[Second-grade Water Lock Talisman: Minor Success (8/1000)]

He currently has five second-grade low-level water lock talismans in his storage bag.

He's added another card to his hand.

Now he is no longer afraid of cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining. He is afraid that few people can defend against the water-locking talisman at the early stage of Foundation Establishment.

Unfortunately, this is a talisman for trapping enemies, not for attacking.

"Master Li, you've emerged from seclusion," Liu Yujing said respectfully, though somewhat reservedly.

She was still a little scared. She didn't know Jiang Shi's personality, and they hadn't met many times in the past few days.

"I'm going out for a walk. You stay here," Jiang Shi instructed in a deep voice.

"But... the patriarch instructed me to stay by your side at all times," Liu Yujing said, her voice trembling slightly.

She dared not offend Jiang Shi, but she had no choice but to listen to Liu Yue.

"This can also be considered a form of surveillance," Jiang Shi thought to himself.

After all, the two had only known each other for a short time, so Liu Yue was bound to be wary of him.

Liu Yue was originally a rogue cultivator, and he single-handedly created the entire rogue cultivator market.

To be able to establish a market for independent cultivators under the jurisdiction of the three major sects, Liu Yue must have been extremely cautious.

For independent cultivators, carelessness means death.

Since that was the case, Jiang Shi no longer refused.

He strolled out, with Liu Yujing following behind.

After leaving the Liu family's residence, patrol guard Zhou Ping and several other guards followed.

"Senior, where are you going?" Zhou Ping asked with a smile.

"You brat, do I need to tell you where I'm going?" Jiang Shi said, feigning anger.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Ping's expression changed instantly, and he said in great fear:

"Senior... I didn't mean that. Lord Liu just instructed me to protect your safety."

Zhou Ping lowered his head, looking terrified.

"Did you find the spirit wine I asked you to find?" Jiang Shi knew that everyone had their own difficulties.

Zhou Ping had no choice but to obey orders.

So he stopped making things difficult for Zhou Ping and changed the subject.

"Got it, got it. Quickly bring the spirit wine to the senior." Zhou Ping nodded and instructed the guard beside him to bring over a wine gourd.

"Senior, please take a look."

Jiang Shi took the gourd of wine, opened it, and smelled a fragrant aroma of wine. He could feel his magical power increasing slightly just from smelling it.

Only then did he smile and nod in satisfaction.

"Not bad, not bad."

"I'm glad you like it, senior." Seeing Jiang Shi smile, Zhou Ping finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Previously, Jiang Shi was just a senior figure on the street, whom he respected. But now, Jiang Shi has become someone Liu Yue values ​​highly.

Zhou Ping then developed a sense of awe towards Jiang Shi.

Jiang Shi put the wine gourd into his storage bag, and then conjured up a thousand spirit crystals out of thin air and handed them to Zhou Ping.

He had no reason to take advantage of a guard; they were all low-level cultivators.

After Zhou Ping took it, Jiang Shi led Zhou Ping and Liu Yujing to stroll around the market for independent cultivators.

"Young Zhou, have you ever seen any rare metal-type herbs or treasures in this market for rogue cultivators?"

The cultivation speed of the Golden Spirit Technique is slow, and even with the acceleration formation, progress is still slow.

If one can find rare and precious metal-based materials, one can quickly succeed in cultivation.

"Gold-type rare treasures are quite rare," Zhou Ping said thoughtfully.

Because metal is generally used as a material for refining weapons, and not much of it can be used directly for cultivation.

"I've never seen this before since I became a guard."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Shi knew that what Zhou Ping said was true; he had not been able to find it during this period of time either.

Just as the two were talking, a person walked past Jiang Shi face to face. Jiang Shi was shocked, but his expression remained unchanged.

He continued talking to Zhou Ping with a blank expression, but the topic had shifted to the spirit wine.

"Manager Lin actually chased after us. It seems he must have used some tricks beforehand."

That person was none other than Lin Feiyu, the steward of the Qingyun Sect's miscellaneous courtyard.