Chapter 28: Golden Scale Demon Skill and Five Elements Hidden Spirit Technique

  In an inn in Hei Wu Fang City.

  Wang Chen and several others sat around a table dividing the spoils! This time's loot was quite abundant, with six out of seven people's storage bags present, it could be said that they had reaped a rich harvest! Just the spirit stones alone were over 4,000, and when adding various magical instruments and materials, the total value was close to 7,000 spirit stones!

  Seven thousand spirit stones can roughly buy seven top-grade spiritual artifacts. This is a huge sum of money for a Qi Refining stage cultivator.

  Wealth and honor are hard to come by indeed!

  But the greatest credit should go to Wang Chen, without his support, it would be good enough to survive, not to mention gaining so much! However, Wang Chen was not so arrogant and greedy, insisting that an equal split would be best!

  It's not that Wang Chen is self-proclaimed noble, but rather due to circumstances. On the one hand, Wang Chen has the cheating technique of the symbol, so he naturally won't lack spiritual stones, and spiritual stones are just a matter of time; on the other hand, these few people have good character, Shi Tong doesn't need to be mentioned, and Shi Tian's love for Shi Tong is not exaggerated, it can be seen that Shi Tian values relationships. The cultivator couple is also okay, they didn't flee in battle and even helped fight against the enemy!

  It's better to sell personal feelings and have many friends and roads. One good man with three helpers is just this principle!

  Wang Chen insisted on dividing it equally, and the others wanted Wang Chen to take the lead. Suddenly, they felt a bit awkward. After thinking for a moment, Wang Chen said: "Since Shi Ge and Zhang Shu and Zhang Shu's hearts are in one place, how about this? I'll choose some items first, and the remaining items will be yours. The spiritual stone will be divided equally among us, okay?"

  Three people think it's reasonable, so they don't insist. Wang Chen continued to select, the law instrument Wang Chen didn't need urgently, so he chose a turtle shell-shaped high-quality defensive law instrument, and then observed the jade slip.

  Several things on the jade slips were quite troublesome, such as refining elixirs and refining instruments, all of which seemed to have been obtained through murder and robbery. Wang Chen looked at each of the jade slips one by one, shaking his head repeatedly.

  "Huh? Golden Scale Demon Skill, the demon skill manual found in the ancient cultivator's storage bag..."

  Wang Chen finally found something interesting. It turned out that the monk who transformed into a monster was actually practicing this kind of demon-refining technique. However, when this technique was discovered in the ancient monk's storage bag, it had already been incomplete for some time. The black-robed monk's forced practice had weakened its power greatly, not to mention its many drawbacks, or else Wang Chen wouldn't have been able to kill him so easily!

  This technique, Wang Chen did not want to practice, but inside it records that when this technique was discovered, there was also an unknown material "bone" in the storage bag, with mysterious symbols carved on it, which could not be discerned as what thing, and it was found by several people in the Gu Xiu Dongfu. After inquiring in all directions, the black-clothed cultivators did not find anything, so they gave up!

  Wang Chen pretended to be nonchalant and continued to look at other jade slips, but secretly decided to take away the unknown bones! However, this time Wang Chen really encountered a surprise. In a yellowed jade slip, he found a Five Elements Hidden Spirit Technique.

  The five elements are interdependent, and the heavenly garment is seamless!

  This is the outline of the Five Elements Hidden Spirit Technique, which can only be cultivated by five-element spiritual root cultivators. It has the effect of hiding one's breath and concealing one's cultivation. This method is based on the principle of mutual generation and restraint of the five elements. If it weren't for the five-attribute spiritual root cultivators, it would be impossible to cultivate!

  Even so, there are many other restrictions on this decision: First, after using the law force with all one's might, the effect of hiding one's cultivation will be invalid. Second, the hidden effect is not very good, Wu Xing Yin Ling Jue has nine layers, and only the first three layers are in Yu Jian, the first layer can only hide from cultivators of the same level, and it is only possible to deceive higher-level cultivators when reaching the third layer.

  Wang Chen quietly took it away at a glance! After finding the Five Elements Hidden Spirit Technique, Wang Chen's thoughts also faded, and he stopped after taking some materials for practicing his body and some unknown materials from the ancient cultivator.

  Wang Chen took his share, and the others began to divide up the remaining spirit stones. However, since Wang Chen's portion was a bit small, the three of them insisted on giving him an additional 200 spirit stones as compensation. Wang Chen had no choice but to accept.

  After that, the three of them divided up the Ling Stones and remaining materials. However, although Shi Tong didn't contribute much, he still got a small share! So Shi Tian probably got 10,000 Ling Stones, Zhang couple got 17,000 Ling Stones, Shi Tong got over 1,000 Ling Stones, and Wang Chen got over 2,000 Ling Stones.

  After the distribution, everyone had a delighted expression. Although Wang Chen took the items first, he only took away one top-grade artifact, and they thought that Wang Chen did this to avoid making them look bad, intentionally leaving most of the artifacts and spirit stones for them.

  The three were very grateful to Wang Chen, and their communication became much more cordial. Shi Tong was even more shy and kept staring at Wang Chen.

  Just then, Wang Chen thought of his own confusion and asked, "Three fellow Taoists, I've seen that although your cultivation is higher, why is your breath unstable and feel so empty?"

  Shi Tian smiled wryly and said, "Wang Daoist friend, most of us scattered cultivators rely on elixirs to improve our cultivation. We're struggling to survive from day to day, how can we afford to hone our skills?"

  Shi Tiandao: "Isn't that so? Although individual cultivators are free, they really can't compare to the disciples of a sect in these aspects. What methods do sects have for stabilizing their cultivation?"

  Shi Tian paused for a moment and continued, "However, this is not a problem either. After everyone's cultivation reaches the 9th layer of Qi Refining, there will still be a long time before reaching the Foundation Establishment stage. By then, there will be enough time to lay the foundation and prepare for entering the Foundation Establishment period!"

  Wang Chen nodded slightly upon hearing this, but in his heart he thought to himself that it was no wonder his foundation-building skills were more profound than those of other cultivators at the same level.

  "But this time, there's another gain from the danger!" Shi Tian looked at everyone with a mysterious smile, and the others also showed interested expressions. Shi Tong even pulled on his brother's arm, curiously asking: "Brother, what other gains are there?"

  "This time, I had a narrow escape and gained some insight. I estimate that in a few days, I can break through to the 9th layer of Qi Refining!" Shi Tian chuckled and said to Wang Chen: "Wang fellow practitioner will probably also break through to the late stage of Qi Refining. Here is an annotation for breaking through to the late stage of Qi Refining that we bought before!"

  Shi Tian handed over a jade slip, and Wang Chen couldn't wait to take a look.

  The main characteristic of the middle stage of Qi Gong is the formation of a vortex, and the later stage of Qi Gong is to make the vortex rotate continuously. As it rotates, the vortex continues to expand, compressing the spiritual energy until it forms a liquid-like Fa power! At this point, you have reached the foundation-building period!

  Therefore, the key to breaking through to the later stage of Qi Gong is to form a cycle with the funnel-shaped air swirl. The funnel-shaped air swirl rotates continuously from one side of the large mouth, then moves to the lower part of the funnel, and finally overflows from the lower part and returns to the top on the outside. This is a continuous cyclical process that compresses the spiritual energy through rotational pressure, ultimately approaching liquid state!

  However, different qigong methods have different sizes and rotation speeds of the qi vortex. Generally speaking, the higher the level of qigong, the larger the qi vortex during the qi cultivation period, and the purer the spiritual energy, the easier it is to compress into a liquid state, and the easier it is to reach the foundation-building period!

  Wang Chen gently put down the jade slip, and he also made up his mind. After chatting with everyone about their cultivation experiences for a while, Wang Chen bid farewell to the crowd and found an inn to stay in. The prices of inns in Hei Wu Fang City were indeed expensive, with even the cheapest rooms costing 50-60 spirit stones per month. However, since Wang Chen was not short on spirit stones, he stayed in a relatively better room, which cost 120 spirit stones per month!

  After tidying up his own house a bit, Wang Chen started strolling around the entire street.

  Just a few steps out of the door, an old man came up and said, "Immortal master, do you need a guide? I've been here for decades and don't know any unknown places!"

  "Ah", Wang Chen looked at him with a hint of skepticism, this old man didn't have any spiritual energy fluctuations, clearly he was an ordinary person, it was normal for him to earn some small change by guiding cultivators, there were many similar cultivators in the Flowing Clouds City.

  But whether or not they can earn spirit stones is another matter, encountering a slightly better cultivator might give them one or two spirit stones, but encountering ruthless ones would result in a severe beating and soul extraction, which is also the pitiful state of these people without spiritual roots, who have yet to live a happy life in the mundane world.

  "Lead the way!"

  The old man carefully led Wang Chen on a stroll.

  "This is Luo Yunzong's Tingyu Xuan, where there are many precious instruments and elixirs inside, but the price is a bit more expensive!"

  "This is one of the largest streets, Master Xian, look around, there are stalls set up by monks everywhere, and occasionally even high-ranking monks come here to find good stuff"

  "This is the secret market of the foundation period, and it's said to have a deep background! Therefore, every time the secret market opens, it attracts many seniors from the foundation period. This is something I only found out after staying here for a long time..."

  ……

  The old man is indeed a veteran here, knowing so much. Not only ordinary trading places, but also various secret markets and foundation period trading places are all familiar to him!

  After walking for more than two hours, Wang Chen arrived beside a pavilion!

  "Master Xian, this is the secret market location for Qi Refining stage cultivators. Inside, there are continuous auctions of items, many of which are rare treasures that are hard to find in the outside world!" He glanced at Wang Chen and, seeing no unusual reaction, continued speaking.

  "Immortal Master, if you want to go in, I can introduce you!" The old man said with a nervous heart, he had introduced Wang Chen and the Secret Market would also give him two pieces of spiritual stone as an introduction fee!

  "Ah!" Wang Chen was also very interested in this secret city, so he nodded and followed them over. At the entrance of the attic stood two stout middle-aged men, who came forward to greet Wang Chen as soon as they saw him approach, "Immortal Master, hold on to your mask, someone will naturally receive you inside!"

  Wang Chen took the mask, pinched it gently with his right hand, and observed it with his divine sense. To his surprise, he found that it had an isolating effect on the divine sense, but this isolation was not very strong. If one's divine sense was powerful enough, they could still quietly penetrate through the mask.

  Satisfied, Wang Chen nodded and put on the mask before entering the attic. Before going in, Wang Chen also threw three pieces of spiritual stone to the old man.

  After Wang Chen went in, a stout middle-aged man threw two spirit stones to the old man, "Old Huang, you've had a good harvest today!"

  Old Huang took over the Ling stone and carefully collected it. He was also happy, "It's been a long time since I've had such a good harvest. Next time, please have a drink with me!"

  "Haha, forget it, Old Huang has said this many times before, but never actually invited anyone..."