Taoist cultivation begins with being a miner

Holy crap! These magical items are just weird. If someone used this thing in broad daylight, wouldn't that be incredibly offensive?

I can't even imagine it.

Finally, Lu Yan looked at the strange statue, which seemed to be made of iron. Its body was like that of a normal person, but its mouth and ears were very large.

Not knowing what this was, Lu Yan could only click to learn more.

"The devil is whispering"

The statue of the Gu Heart Demon contains the Gu Heart Demon's power. By infusing the statue with the target's aura and then whispering to it, the target will believe what is said. (Note: This only applies to targets at the same Qi Refining stage or below.)

Friendly reminder: No matter how false a statement is, people will start to believe it if repeated too often. Rumors may stop with the wise, but only with the wise, since most people in this world are fools.

After reading the description of the statue, Lu Yan pondered for a moment. This thing was quite a good one.

Lu Yan came up with a way to get rich.

Lu Yan first refined the statue, then took Steward Li's hair and let the statue absorb his aura.

Then he whispered in the statue's ear, "I borrowed five spirit stones from Lu Yan a while ago, and I promised to pay him back today."

Fearing it wouldn't work, Lu Yan repeated it three times.

Meanwhile, Manager Li, exhausted from being tormented by Manager Liu's partner, began to rest.

Suddenly, I heard whispers in my ear.

"I borrowed five spirit stones from Lu Yan a few days ago, and I promised to pay him back today."

I borrowed five spirit stones from Lu Yan a few days ago and promised to pay him back today.

I borrowed five spirit stones from Lu Yan a few days ago, and I promised to pay him back today.

Words are slowly merging with memories, falsehoods are disappearing, and lies are turning into reality.

As soon as it was light, Lu Yan went to the mine to condense the mid-grade spirit stones for this month.

Nothing else happened in the morning; Lu Yan mined and fed the chickens at the same time.

During the lunch break, Manager Li called Lu Yan to a secluded spot and handed him a small bag.

"Manager Li, what's going on?" Lu Yan pretended not to know.

"Lu Yan, thank you for lending me those fifteen spirit stones a while ago. Now that I have some money, you can keep them."

Lu Yan: !!!

I remember I said five dollars, how did it become fifteen dollars?

Could it be because I said it three times?

Yes, that must be it. Saying it three times is equivalent to borrowing it three times, so three times five equals fifteen.

Although Lu Yan was very shocked, he still accepted the spirit stone.

There was no other way. Last month, all the spirit stones I had were used to buy materials and pills for making talismans. In addition, this time I spun the Demon Character Wheel again, and I only have less than one spirit stone left.

With these fifteen spirit stones, my month will be much easier.

He happily hid the spirit stone, then glared at the other two stewards with hostility.

……

"I remember I borrowed fifteen spirit stones from Lu Yan, but I've forgotten where I spent them." Back in his chair, Manager Li racked his brains but couldn't come up with a solution.

"I'm not that old, so why is my memory so bad?" In the end, Manager Li fell into deep self-doubt, unable to find anything amiss in the whole situation.

Instead of borrowing from his two close friends, Steward Zheng and Steward Liu, he went to borrow from Lu Yan, whom he didn't even know well. And Lu Yan actually had fifteen spirit stones, which he lent to him. How much trust did that require? How outrageous was that?

With his health fully restored and fifteen spirit stones in his pocket, Lu Yan's mining speed increased considerably.

When evening came, Lu Yan went home as usual. He had originally planned to take advantage of Manager Zheng and Manager Liu, but after thinking about it carefully, he decided against it.

Putting aside the question of where he got so many spirit stones, his secret would be exposed the moment they started talking.

These fifteen spirit stones are enough for me to use for a while.

Then Lu Yan took out the Qi and Blood Beads. It was too late yesterday, so today was a good day to try them out.

Swallow the Qi and Blood Beads, then guide the Qi and Blood within the beads throughout your body, allowing your cells to absorb and refine them, gradually strengthening your body.

After two hours, Lu Yan discovered that he had only refined about one percent of the spirit stones. The refining process was very slow, even slower than when he absorbed the spirit stones himself, and the effect was not ideal.

Lu Yan frowned. If he could refine it at this speed, then the Qi and Blood Bead would be somewhat useless. Was there another way?

After thinking for a while without any clue, Lu Yan stopped thinking about it. Exhausted from a day's work, Lu Yan could no longer hold on and fell into a deep sleep.

The next morning, Lu Yan got up and went to work, starting another tiring day.

He swung his iron pickaxe, the tip clanging against the mine wall.

While working, Lu Yan felt something was wrong. He then looked inside his body and was surprised to find that his body was involuntarily refining the Qi and Blood Beads.

The Qi and Blood within the Qi and Blood Bead were being absorbed and digested rapidly through its own labor, and in just a few quarters of an hour, it had already surpassed the two hours of refining it had done the previous night.

Sure enough, the method I used yesterday was wrong. These Qi and Blood Beads and Spirit Stones are fundamentally different, so the absorption methods are naturally different as well.

Spirit stones need to be absorbed through quiet meditation, while these Qi and Blood beads need constant movement.

Having obtained the correct cultivation method, Lu Yan swung the iron pickaxe with even greater speed and power.

I must say, this Qi and Blood Bead really suits my identity as a miner.

To be honest, with my Qi and Blood Beads and my egg-laying rooster, if it weren't for the fact that being a miner doesn't offer much of a future, I would really like to mine for the rest of my life.

Lu Yan worked hard mining for a day and dug out a total of sixteen baskets, two more than usual. If the minerals here weren't so hard, he could have dug out more than twenty baskets.

Looking inside his abdomen again, he found that one-fifth of the Qi and blood beads had been refined, and his physique had been significantly strengthened.

Making money and cultivating oneself can go hand in hand, and Lu Yan is full of motivation for a time.

Although his strength had improved, Lu Yan was more tired than usual that day, and went straight to sleep after returning home.

It took five days to refine the entire Qi and Blood Bead, and then I took another one to continue mining. During this time, I received four spirit stones as payment.

By the tenth day of this month, the rooster's spirit egg had taken shape, but nearly one-fifth of the second blood and qi bead in his body had not yet been refined, so Lu Yan had no choice but to work for another day.

At this point, Lu Yan was already able to mine seventeen baskets of spirit ore every day, a remarkable improvement.

Looking at the nearly twenty spirit stones on the table, Lu Yan felt confident.

First, purchase some talisman paper and spirit ink to begin your talisman-making career. While accumulating the five types of talismans, learn new talismans to enhance your talisman-making skills.

After collecting a hundred talismans, Lu Yan decided to sell them in the market.

I didn't dare sell it in my own market, since quite a few people there know me.

A talisman maker without any backing or connections is practically a walking lamb in this world.