Chapter 43 Settling in Montenegro

During the past few days in Heishan, Zhang Zhixuan also inquired about some information.

Baibao Pavilion is a relatively large store in Heishan Market. The owner of the store is Wang Songhe, a foundation-building cultivator. The old cultivator is Wang Songhe's third son Wang Lianke, and the girl is Wang Kelian's youngest daughter Wang Zixuan.

Sitting back and eating is not a solution. Baibao Pavilion is also a store with a good reputation. Zhang Zhixuan agreed to join Baibao Pavilion without much hesitation.

Baibao Pavilion has six floors. The first floor is the hall for receiving guests. The second floor recycles various spiritual herbs, spiritual medicines, magic tools, talismans and other cultivation resources. The third floor is where spiritual pills are sold. The fourth floor sells magic tools and talismans. The fifth floor is the bedroom where the cultivators in the store live. The sixth floor is used to receive foundation-building cultivators and store the most precious treasures.

As for the place for refining tools and pills, it is not too far from the store.

At the foot of the Black Mountain, there are more than a dozen fire eyes. Ancestor Liang used these fire eyes to build more than a dozen alchemy rooms and weapon refining rooms, which were rented out to cultivators in the market, earning a lot of spiritual stones every year.

Because of the huge number of elixirs and magic tools refined by Baibao Pavilion, three of the fire eyes were rented all year round. One was used to refine tools, and the other two were used to refine spiritual pills.

There were only three alchemists in Baibao Pavilion, including Zhang Zhixuan, and the leader was Wang Songhe's third son Wang Lianke.

Wang Lianke was a second-level upper-grade alchemist, and his level was probably not as good as Zhang Mengquan of the Zhang family. He actually did not have a good talent for alchemy, and the reason why he could become a second-level upper-grade alchemist was more due to the accumulation of experience over the years.

He is already eighty-eight years old this year, and for a cultivator in the Qi training stage, he is already half of his age.

For cultivators in the innate stage, there is no increase in lifespan at all, but the bones are stronger.

However, once they reach the Qi training stage and start to refine the spiritual energy to nourish the body, they will be free from all diseases, strengthen their foundation and nourish their vitality, and their life span will be extended by one Jiazi compared to ordinary people.

Some Qi training monks who are good at health preservation may even live to be over 150 or 160 years old, which is almost once in 10,000 years in the mortal world.

Once a Qi training monk builds a foundation, not only will his magic power increase greatly, but his life span will also increase by another two Jiazi. A normal foundation building monk has a normal life span of more than four Jiazi, and can live for about 240 to 250 years.

And when a foundation building monk opens up the purple mansion, his life span can be extended by another three Jiazi, 180 years, and the normal life span is more than 400 years.

When a purple mansion monk forms a golden elixir, his life span can be extended by another five Jiazi, 300 years. The life span of a golden elixir monk often has some health preservation methods. As long as he has not been seriously injured and his vitality has been depleted, it often exceeds 800 years.

After a Jindan cultivator refines the Nascent Soul, the flesh body is nourished by the Nascent Soul's spiritual energy, and it is difficult to decay even after thousands of years. For them, the most important thing is to survive three heavenly tribulations. As long as they survive one heavenly tribulation, their life span can be increased by 500 years.

After passing three tribulations and becoming a late Nascent Soul, if the cultivator can successfully refine the Yuanshen, they can refine some immortal spirits and open up a temporary cave paradise in the mortal world, and live there for another thousand years.

After completely refining the immortal spirits, the Yuanshen cultivator will be called by the upper realm, leave this world, and ascend to the upper realm.

For an outstanding cultivator to ascend to the upper realm, it usually takes about 3,000 years, which happens to be the time when the Yuanshen cultivator's life span is almost over.

Although Wang Lianke's father was a foundation-building cultivator, he was not valued by his father in his early years because of his poor spiritual roots. He did not have many immortal cultivation resources, and his life was tight, only slightly better than that of ordinary casual cultivators.

But he was lucky. Although he experienced some setbacks when he was young, he was able to live safely to his old age.

His elder brother, who had better spiritual roots, disappeared thirty years ago in the desolate and dangerous Nanhuang Mountains.

Now, Wang Lianke has become a good second-level alchemist because of his rich experience, and has become his father's most important right-hand man.

Even the big industry of Baibao Pavilion is under his complete control.

One of the three earth fire eyes is used entirely for refining tools, another is used by Wang Lianke, and the remaining one is used by Zhang Zhixuan and other two alchemists.

The conditions in the alchemy room are good, and the alchemy furnace inside is better than Zhang Zhixuan's. It is a second-level superior alchemy furnace, and there is earth fire for free use.

Zhang Zhixuan has refined hundreds of furnaces of spiritual pills, but this is the first time he uses earth fire to refine pills.

The magma drawn from the earth fire is not only hotter, but also more stable, and the effect is far better than the flame burning in Xuanyang wood.

After several failures, Zhang Zhixuan mastered some tips on refining elixirs with earth fire and began to refine elixirs for Baibao Pavilion.

With the addition of Zhang Zhixuan, another alchemist Guo Zifeng also felt a lot more relaxed. The two of them only needed one hour a day to complete the tasks of Baibao Pavilion, and the rest was free time.

Days passed by, and Zhang Zhixuan either refined elixirs or practiced, and spent more than half a year safely.

During this half year, Qingchan's cultivation level advanced to a higher level and had entered the late stage of Qi training.

Moreover, Qingchan practiced the art of hiding Qi. If it were not for the foundation-building cultivators to check, it would be difficult to find the abnormality of her cultivation level. She was just fifteen this year, her body had grown up, and she looked a little older. The age of cultivators has always been mysterious, and she didn't look as eye-catching as before.

Even so, she spent most of her time in the cave, either taking care of the spiritual fields in the cave or learning to make talismans.

A cultivator, except for the core disciples of a large sect, must always learn a hundred arts of cultivating immortals to earn spiritual stones to support himself and exchange for various immortal resources.

After years of detailed observation, Zhang Zhixuan has confirmed that Qingchan has a water spirit root in his body. With this spirit root, he is not suitable for dealing with spiritual fire every day, so Qingchan is destined to have no chance to become a popular profession such as alchemist and weapon refiner.

In the end, Qingchan chose to make talismans. First of all, compared with alchemy and weapon refinement, the initial investment of talisman makers is smaller, and the two can easily afford it.

Secondly, Qingchan learns spells very quickly. Generally, cultivators who practice spells quickly are more likely to become talisman makers than others.

In recent months, Zhang Zhixuan spent thirty spirit stones to buy a second-level medium-quality talisman pen for Qingchan.

Every ten days, three spirit stones are spent on consumables such as talisman pens and cinnabar. After several months of practice and dozens of spirit stones, Qingchan finally made his first spirit talisman.

This is a first-level upper-quality calming talisman.

A first-level spirit talisman does not have much mana in it, and it is impossible to exchange spirit stones. Although this level of talisman is relatively rare in the mortal world, it is of no use to cultivators.

However, this is also a good start. With this good start, as long as Qingchan continues to invest, he will eventually make a higher-grade talisman until the day of harvest.

During this period, Zhang Zhixuan only passively received information from the surrounding area and did not actively inquire about the news of the Wu brothers.

However, after more than half a year, Zhang Zhixuan also made some friends who practiced casual cultivation, and the news was a little more informed. As long as there was any news of any disturbance in the market, he could quickly find out.