Chapter 22 Spiritual Beast Mountain Range

Returning to the residence.

Li An was still a little depressed.

He actually got himself into a trap...

"Tan Qingxue's personal contribution points are estimated to be no more than 4,000 points, which is definitely much less than Sun Lin..."

"She is no match for Sun Lin in the Futang, so she can only use other methods."

"Second-grade spiritual medicine can easily be exchanged for thousands of contribution points, but going to the Spirit Beast Mountain Range... is more or less risky."

In fact, Li An has paid attention to the news of the Spirit Beast Mountain Range. Since the battle at the Spirit Plant Mountain, the Hundred Beast Sect has not disturbed the Xuanyang Sect headquarters again, and the Spirit Beast Mountain Range has returned to normal and is no longer as dangerous as before.

Many disciples with low cultivation have poured into it and have gained a lot. In the past year, it has rarely been heard that there are disciples who were injured or killed there.

Going to the Spirit Beast Mountain Range, as long as you don't go to those dangerous places, plus your own experience, Li An can almost ensure his own safety.

But he is more risk-averse. After all, he is living well in the Fu Hall, and he has a long life. He can break through step by step. How wonderful it is...

However, after displaying the newly applied fine talisman pen and talisman paper, Li An was still quite happy.

The fine talisman pen is made of special white jade and spirit wolf hair, and a simple flying bird rune is engraved on the pen.

Using a fine talisman pen will make the perception and description of the Great Dao more accurate!

And there are a total of seventy fine talisman papers, each of which is as white as snow, delicate and heavy, and is made after many processes.

-Originally, even a first-level middle-grade talisman master only issued twenty talisman papers every month, and the extra fifty were bought by Li An for two spirit stones.

After all, it is necessary to make more preparations to go to the Spirit Beast Mountain Range!

"Going to the Spirit Beast Mountain Range, opportunities are not important. The key is to be able to retreat safely when encountering danger."

Li An has an idea.

"Cold Rain Talisman, an upgraded version of Cold Wind Talisman, a control rune that can slow down the enemy's movement speed to a greater extent!"

"Speeding Talisman, can temporarily and significantly increase running speed, very good for escaping!"

"In addition, you can also refine some Earth Sinking Talisman and Thorn Talisman! They are all helpful for saving lives."

Holding the heavy fine talisman pen, he carefully concentrated his mind, and operated the Super Sensing Technique to the extreme. Every subtle change of the brushstroke became very clear in his eyes.

He began to use the pen, and the spiritual ink outlined one avenue symbol after another on the snow-white talisman paper.

The first talisman paper was only halfway drawn before it was damaged.

However, Li An was not discouraged, this was already very good!

He drew and wasted fourteen pieces of talisman paper in a row, and finally drew a speeding talisman on the fifteenth one!

"Speeding Talisman, the effective time is only three minutes, one is not enough!"

Li An was quite happy.

Three minutes can do a lot of things in battle, but when escaping, the distance you can escape is not that far.

He continued to draw talismans.

…

That night, he used up seventy pieces of talisman paper and drew a total of three speeding talismans!

The success rate was far less than one in ten.

The price of a first-level medium-quality talisman like the speeding talisman was about one spirit stone per piece. Even if all of them were sold, it would only barely break even!

This was thanks to his experience in his previous life. If it were someone else, the success rate would be even lower, and the cost would be far greater than the gain, and they simply couldn't afford it.

It's no wonder that Tan Qingxue felt that Li An's application for fine talisman pens and talisman paper was a waste of effort.

"It will take a little longer to get familiar with it at the beginning, but it won't be difficult to improve the success rate later..."

Li An was already quite satisfied. His current spiritual root sensitivity was good enough to break even at the beginning.

After doing all this, he continued his "iron sand bath"!

In half a year, Li An's skin had faded and regenerated countless times.

He could already enter the iron sand calmly without feeling any pain!

He picked up a piece of iron sand and saw that it had become almost as smooth as a bead.

"The first batch of iron sand is almost used up."

Li An whispered, and at the same time took a dagger next to him - not a star dagger, but an ordinary iron dagger.

He grabbed the dagger and held it tightly. There was no blood on his hand. Instead, there was a sound like metal friction in the palm of his hand. The dagger was directly pressed by his palm and the blade was bent!

"The first level of the Iron Tree Technique, the 'iron skin' is basically refined!"

He was very satisfied!

At the same time, he looked inside and saw that the third leaf in the Dantian was completely stretched out.

In another half a year, the third level of Qi training will be complete, and then the fourth level of Qi training will be impacted!

...

The next day, Li An went to the Refining Hall to find Wang Dazhu.

"Brother An, you may have to wait for a while for the silver sand you want... This kind of thing is too difficult to collect."

Wang Dazhu's body became more solid, his skin was dark and red, and his blood was very vigorous.

Besides, he was about to break through to the fifth level of Qi Refining.

Li An entrusted Wang Dazhu to help refine the spiritual silver sand, the second level of the Iron Tree Technique, which was necessary for training the flesh.

"It's okay, Dazhu, how is the storage bag going?"

"Here, I asked Master Yu to refine it... I only charge the cost price, twenty spiritual stones."

Wang Dazhu took out a brand new storage bag and handed it to Li An.

Li An took the storage bag, checked it, and was very satisfied!

The low-level storage bag can hold items of one meter square, which is enough for Li An.

--The storage bag is more convenient to use and store items. He is now refining the first-level middle-grade talismans. If there are too many, it will be easy to be discovered if he carries them on his body.

"Okay, Dazhu, thank you!"

Li An immediately took out twenty spirit stones from his bag and handed them to Wang Dazhu, and gave him ten flame talismans, saying, "Dazhu, some gifts, please pass them on to Master Yu for me."

Wang Dazhu grinned, "Okay, Brother An, Master Yu said that if you have any needs in the future, just tell him."

In the past two years, Li An has privately purchased iron sand for body refining in the weapon refining hall many times. After each low-priced purchase, he would give Wang Dazhu some extra talismans to let him honor Master Yu.

So he was very popular with Master Yu.

After all, after bypassing the sect, Li An bought cheaply and Master Yu sold at a good price.

There is no middleman to make a profit.

Of course, the sect has a clear ban on such things, but it is normal to turn a blind eye to private matters.

The main reason is that this situation will not be rampant. Generally, only acquaintances who have established a trusting relationship dare to conduct such transactions. Small matters will not affect the overall interests of Xuanyang Sect.

...

After wearing the storage bag, Li An felt much more comfortable. He finally didn't have to carry a bag everywhere.

The star dagger, several bags of spiritual rice, dozens of first-grade low-level flame talismans, earth shield talismans, cold wind talismans, and three speed talismans were all put into the storage bag.

…

After having the storage bag, in the next few days, Li An bought 300 pieces of talisman paper in the talisman hall trading office, spending as much as 12 spiritual stones!

His crazy behavior naturally attracted the attention of other people in the talisman hall.

But on the seventh day, when Li An sold the remaining 31 pieces of fine talisman paper at a low price at the trading office with sunken eyes and a depressed face, everyone laughed.

This situation is normal. There are always some disciples who overestimate their abilities and think they are geniuses who can achieve success in one fell swoop.

But only after spending a lot of spiritual stones and energy can one recognize oneself.

Obviously, Li An is such a person.

"You haven't slept well recently?"

That day, after the lecture, Tan Qingxue frowned and looked at Li An, "I told you a long time ago that it's too early for you to draw a first-level middle-grade rune now."

She also heard about Li An's situation, and couldn't help sighing in her heart, and began to doubt Xu Qiuhui's evaluation of Li An at the beginning. Sister Xu was so smart, how could she have misjudged him?

Li An was so eager to take risks, how could he be calm?

"Senior sister is right... Li An is greedy for credit, I didn't expect it to be like this."

Li An also sighed.

"Have a good rest today, and go to the Spirit Beast Mountain Range early tomorrow morning!"

Tan Qingxue gave an instruction, but she doubted her decision in her heart. Maybe she shouldn't ask Li An to go with her?

...

The next morning.

Li An got up early in the morning and waited at the door for the gathering.

Soon, Tan Qingxue came over with a man and a woman.

The female disciple was Cao Zhirou, who had taught Li An one-on-one when he first entered the Futang. Li An also knew the man, whose name was Jiang You, who was also from Tan Qingxue's school.

Tan Qingxue had a great talent for Fudao, but her personality was relatively simple, and her ability to deal with people was obviously not as good as Sun Lin's.

Five of the seven first-level middle-grade Fu masters in the sect were closer to Sun Lin.

"Qingxue, Li An doesn't have to go, right?"

Seeing Li An, Jiang You frowned slightly.

He and Cao Zhirou were both at the fifth level of Qi training, and were first-level middle-grade Fu masters, but what about Li An?

Third level of Qi training, a first-level low-grade Fu master...

He was dragging the team down too much.

Li An also hoped that Tan Qingxue would agree immediately, and he couldn't help but sigh that Brother Jiang was really a good person.

Tan Qingxue had also doubted before whether it would be useful to ask Li An to go together.

But a few days ago, she wrote a letter to Xu Qiuhui, explaining that she had decided to go to the Spirit Beast Mountain Range to look for the second-grade spiritual medicine. She only received a reply from Xu Qiuhui last night.

In the letter, Xu Qiuhui agreed with her calling Li An, praising her for finally growing up, being mature, and being able to think about things...

In addition, she also told her in the letter that if she encountered danger, she must listen to Li An's advice... Obviously, Xu Qiuhui was still worried about her.

This made Tan Qingxue doubt herself a little.

Is there something wrong with her vision, or is Li An hiding his shortcomings in front of her?

"It doesn't matter, more people and more strength, let's go!"

She decided to take a closer look!

Li An: "..."

Immediately, the four of them left the Futang.

Leaving from the outer gate, heading north, passing the North Mountain Gate, there is a lush mountain range.

The mountain range is majestic, vast, and endless.

It is said that there may even be Jindan-level beasts growing in this mountain range, but they are generally in the deepest part of the mountain range, and basically no one has seen them.

The disciples of Xuanyang Sect usually only practice in the outer areas. There are usually spirit beasts in the Qi training stage here, so they are not impossible to deal with.

Walking along the rugged mountain road, they soon entered the dense forest. The air was faintly filled with the smell of rotting leaves and bird and animal feces. When the four people passed by, wild rabbits in the forest jumped out and birds flew away from the treetops.

"According to the information we received, someone has seen a first-level perfect black needle giant ape many times in the northwest mountains. The black needle giant ape is very spiritual and usually grows with second-level spiritual medicine. When it reaches the first level, it swallows the spiritual medicine and advances."

Tan Qingxue introduced: "Let's go to several places where the black needle giant ape has appeared to explore."

Hearing this, Li An couldn't help but frown secretly.

First level perfection is equivalent to the peak of human Qi training. This level of spirit beast can only be dealt with by at least foundation building cultivators. Tan Qingxue is only at the sixth level of Qi training. Where does she get the confidence?

Could it be that she has other backups?

Li An was ready. If the situation was not right, he would evacuate directly!

After all, although Xu Qiuhui had some feelings for him, it was far from enough for him to risk his life for Tan Qingxue.

…

As they went deeper into the forest, they encountered more and more spiritual medicines along the way, but most of them were not of good quality. Several people looked down on them, but Li An accepted them all and collected them all and put them into the storage bag.

After all, although these spiritual medicines were not worth much, they were quite useful to Li An. He could pass them on to Zhao Xian and ask the pharmacist in the medicine hall to help make medicine for body training.

In response, Cao Zhirou and Jiang You shook their heads. Li An was really born into a poor family and had never seen the world.

"Hey, a first-grade spiritual medicine!"

In the evening, Li An shouted in surprise beside a dead tree stump.

Tan Qingxue and others surrounded him instantly.

"A first-grade tree Ganoderma lucidum actually grows among a pile of miscellaneous spiritual grasses." Cao Zhirou looked complicated.

"I didn't notice it, but this guy got a bargain..." Jiang You felt a little sorry.

They saw this from afar, but no one came.

Only Li An, who wanted the miscellaneous spiritual grass, was lucky enough to encounter the tree ganoderma...

The tree ganoderma is worth about twenty spiritual stones!

Li An happily put the tree ganoderma into his storage bag, silently thanking himself for practicing the super sense technique.

His sense of smell, hearing and vision are far superior to ordinary people, so he can effectively avoid some spiritual beasts along the way and smell the smell of spiritual medicine in advance.

"Let's rest here first and go to the black mulberry forest tomorrow."

Tan Qingxue spoke, and the four of them set up camp and built a temporary shelter with branches.

While busy, Tan Qingxue couldn't help but look at Li An.

Today they encountered several ferocious spiritual beasts, but Li An rarely took action, but gained the most.

Is this guy really hiding his abilities?

In fact, in the eyes of Cao Zhirou and Jiang You, Li An's behavior was very normal. He was the weakest, so he fought the least. As for the large harvest, it was purely luck...

But because Xu Qiuhui mentioned it again and again, Tan Qingxue had a preconceived idea, and she couldn't help but think in this direction.

Moreover, with this thought, she couldn't help but recall Li An's performance today...

The first time he encountered the third-level Qi training tiger, Li An was the one who was the most forward, but suddenly stopped and let Cao Zhirou meet him.

The second time, a fourth-level Qi training wild boar rushed out, and Tan Qingxue and the other two were affected, but Li An was far away and did not participate in the battle.

The only time Li An took action was when he encountered two first-level Qi training snakes. At that time, the two snakes were mating... Li An stepped on them all to death.

She suddenly felt that there seemed to be something wrong with Li An!

I was actually deceived? !

If Li An knew what she was thinking, he might be stunned. Who is the problem? ?

If you think from this angle, normal people will be considered abnormal, right? ?

"We have to keep watch separately, Li An, you and I will keep watch for half the night!"

After the temporary residence was built, Tan Qingxue suddenly spoke.

Li An frowned imperceptibly. What does Tan Qingxue want to do?

In Li An's opinion, Tan Qingxue is not as mature as Xu Qiuhui because of her good talent in talismans and she has not suffered too much.

She is still relatively simple-minded, of course, to put it bluntly, she is stupid.

Sometimes, it is not easy to guess the thoughts of such a fool... and she is also easy to cause trouble.

"You are the weakest, I am the strongest, the strong and the weak are on duty, isn't it okay?"

Seeing that Li An did not answer, she asked again.

Li An: "..."

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