Mortal: From a Chaotic Star Sea to a True Immortal

The Crimson Flame Old Monster truly lives up to his reputation as a Core Formation cultivator.

The jade slips contain a vast number of rare and precious materials, cultivation techniques, and other jade slips available for trade.

However, most of the cultivation techniques are demonic secret methods, which are somewhat strange and evil.

Seeing Wei Fang staring intently at the jade slip, the two women didn't want to disturb him and simply sat down quietly.

After a while, Wei Fang came to his senses and said to the two women, "I have marked a few things in this jade slip. No matter what Sect Master Wang can exchange for this inner core, these few things are indispensable to me."

After Wei Fang finished speaking, he returned the jade slip to Wang Yuan and the two women began to drink their tea.

Wang Yuan examined the items and her expression turned somewhat grim, but then she heard Left Envoy Fan say, "Fellow Daoist, you have indeed calculated things very carefully. Even we would hardly be able to make any extra profit from the value of these items. We have indeed been busy for you this time."

"Why did you say that, Left Envoy Fan?"

Upon hearing this, Wei Fang said, "I originally intended to use this inner core to refine some elixirs for those at the Refined Realm after I reached the peak of Foundation Establishment and attempted to break through to the Core Formation stage. This inner core is compatible with my cultivation method, so I didn't originally plan to sell it."

"It's just that the Miaoyin Sect didn't leak my information before, and I did them this favor. That's why I had no choice but to take out this inner core when I heard that the Miaoyin Sect might have offended a late-stage Core Formation cultivator because of me."

"Speaking of which, the successful transaction has inadvertently brought the Miaoyin Sect into contact with the Crimson Fire Old Monster, something that couldn't be bought even at a high price."

After a moment's thought, Wang Yuan said, "That's fine then. At least we've given that Crimson Flame Old Monster an explanation. Consider this a celebration of your great progress in cultivation. However, since you refuse to show yourself and reveal your whereabouts, I, Wang Yuan, must obtain this inner core first..."

"It's alright."

Wei Fang put the inner core into a bottle and handed it to Wang Yuan, saying calmly, "Since I have come to the Miaoyin Sect, I trust Sect Leader Wang. You may take this inner core."

"Even if that old monster Crimson Fire reneges halfway through, I, Fang, will not be able to blame anyone else for not reaping any harvest."

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They agreed that Miaoyin Sect would exchange the items in half a month, and soon after, Wang Yuan and the other two women took their leave.

After watching them leave, Wei Fang returned to his cave and ignored them.

They summoned the red fire dragon from the edge of a small pond that had been specially created for it.

A crimson figure suddenly leaped out of the pool and pounced on Wei Fang in the blink of an eye.

He held it in his arms and carefully groomed it. This Crimson Fire Dragon was now five zhang long, but its innate supernatural ability allowed it to change its size.

This was Wei Fang's first time raising a spirit beast.

To this end, he even went out of his way to buy several books on raising spirit beasts and studied them carefully back in his cave.

Over the past twenty years, the Crimson Fire Dragon has been nourished by the residual blood energy of its mother and has achieved a cultivation level of the upper level of the second tier.

This is equivalent to a cultivator who has reached the peak of the early stage of Foundation Establishment.

Dragon-type spirit beasts are much stronger than other spirit beasts, and when they unleash their full power, they should be comparable to those in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

However, such rapid growth also consumes a huge amount of resources.

The Spirit-Feeding Pills, made from the essence and blood of the Crimson Fire Dragon combined with more than ten kinds of spiritual herbs, are now all gone.

For the next period of time, it could only honestly practice its internal energy cultivation.

After playing and frolicking with him for half a day, Wei Fang continued his cultivation.

The pills I had prepared were all used up. Reaching the late Foundation Establishment stage and the pseudo-core stage is no longer something that can be achieved quickly through meditation, ascetic practice, and taking ordinary pills.

In the days that followed, Wei Fang devoted himself to making talismans.

This skill is the ultimate test of mental and spiritual power, especially the drawing of intermediate-level talismans, where even the slightest carelessness can lead to failure.

This had a significant effect on Wei Fang's spiritual training.

Through years of drawing talismans, Wei Fang has become able to draw talismans at the intermediate level, but the high failure rate is a major headache for him.

The complete collection of talismans in his hand was obtained by exchanging it within the Luo Yun Sect.

It includes methods for drawing talismans from beginner to advanced levels.

However, this is only one person's opinion. Of the more than forty types of talismans, the lowest level is the most numerous, with twenty-three types.

The intermediate level comes next, with seventeen types. The high level comes next, with only one type.

Besides some common Five Elements spells and talismans, there were several secret talismans that Wei Fang found particularly interesting.

Intermediate-level players possess Water Escape Talismans and Earth Escape Talismans.

The intermediate and advanced levels even have a method for creating a secret escape technique called "Shadowless Escape".

This talisman requires the wings of a level-five demon beast, the Star-Spotted Beast, as the material, along with the essence blood of more than ten other level-five demon beasts, to be mixed and drawn.

Once activated, it can instantly travel nearly a hundred miles away.

If this talisman is activated in water, it can reach a distance of over two hundred miles.

Even ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators would lose sight of their target for a moment.

Although Wei Fang was extremely envious, he had not yet refined this talisman.

He is far from meeting the requirements in terms of both materials and refining experience.

But he had already started collecting materials, so the day when he could successfully refine it was not far off.

As the days went by, Wei Fang became increasingly busy.

During this time, Wang Yuan came once and handed over the items exchanged for the inner core to Wei Fang.

In addition, they obtained the Snow Spirit Water Heavenly Fire Liquid and Dust-Reducing Pill that Wei Fang had asked Miaoyin Sect to collect earlier, which were related to Core Formation.

Wei Fang spent nearly four thousand spirit stones to buy this.

However, there has been no news yet about those pills that can greatly advance the cultivation of late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators to perfection.

Wei Fang sighed helplessly, realizing that he currently lacked the energy to delve into alchemy.

Four years have passed since spring turned to autumn, and Wei Fang is now approaching forty years old.

However, due to his cultivation of the Wood Flame True Technique and his infrequent fighting, he still looks like he's in his early twenties.

She wore a white robe, her hair was tied with a wooden hairpin, and her cheeks had become a little rounder.

He exhaled another breath of spiritual energy onto the talisman on the table, picked it up, examined it, clicked his tongue twice, and then put it into his storage bag.

"This Shadowless Escape Talisman truly lives up to its mid-to-high level. If it weren't for that flash of inspiration half a month ago, I still wouldn't have been able to succeed. I never expected to suddenly get the urge to successfully draw a second one. It's really exciting! All those materials I used for the previous failures weren't wasted after all."

After packing his things away, Wei Fang decided to go for a walk down the mountain.

In the past few years, apart from sending a congratulatory gift when Wang Yuan of Miaoyin Sect gave birth to a daughter and held a celebration, Wei Fang has been studying miscellaneous subjects in his cave.

The birth of Zi Ling made him ponder whether this world was a fictional world from a book or an anime.

Wei Fang was genuinely confused about this; over the years, he felt that both existed, yet there were subtle differences.

In the end, Wei Fang simply stopped thinking about it.

Making talismans and raising spirit beasts are both very costly for him, and even with the increase in the success rate of making talismans, he can only barely make a profit in the end.

The resources needed to nurture the little dragon and the materials consumed in the previous failed attempt to refine the Shadowless Escape technique were both causing him considerable financial pain.

Now, four years later, the Crimson Fire Dragon has reached the peak of the second-tier upper level and can enter the third level at any time.

I do need to sell the few hundred low- and mid-level talismans I have left and exchange them for some spirit stones.

These talismans were crafted over the past year. Although there are many of them, eight or nine out of ten are low-grade, mid-to-high level Five Elements magic talismans.

There are only a few dozen mid-level talismans. And among them, only one is an Earth Escape Talisman.

Like the Shadowless Avatar, it is one of Wei Fang's most treasured possessions, and he doesn't intend to sell it.

These are worth at most around three thousand spirit stones.

Even after deducting costs, there is still a loss of three percent.

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