Chapter 60: Beauty Ends

One morning three months later.

Li An finally walked out of the stone chamber where he had been in seclusion.

The scenery in the valley was quiet, the birds were chirping, and everything was growing, a scene of joy and prosperity.

A thought came up.

He sensed a group of ants moving one meter away, a rose flower slowly opening three meters away, and leaves falling in the wind four meters away...

Five meters!

This was the limit of his current perception.

It was very short, but Li An was already very satisfied.

Moreover, he looked inside the life seed and felt even more strange.

After he condensed his spiritual consciousness, a faint golden vein appeared on the green life seed.

It was like a golden stem.

Moreover, as the life seed grew, his spiritual consciousness also slowly grew. Although it was very small, Li An still noticed it.

This made him more hopeful.

It should be noted that it is extremely difficult to enhance spiritual consciousness. Generally speaking, for foundation building and core forming cultivators, it is only possible to enhance spiritual consciousness by improving their realm or obtaining rare soul treasures.

And now, the life seed can actually slowly enhance spiritual consciousness, which shows its extraordinary ability.

In fact, Li An's current understanding of the life seed has completely changed.

The life seed is more like a tree that is completely connected to his life. When the life seed grows, all aspects of him will also grow accordingly.

Spiritual roots, life span, cultivation, recovery ability, spiritual consciousness...

The only disadvantage is that it is slow.

You have to endure.

Fortunately, Li An has enough patience.

"The remaining three crystal cores must be sent to Gu Hong when possible..."

He whispered, but he was not busy. In the past few years, he has also maintained communication with Gu Hong and learned that they have settled in Baihu City and her fellow senior brother has a good foundation there.

"It's time to renew the spirit stone for the second-level magic array..."

At the same time, he looked at Quyue Valley and couldn't help but have a headache.

Now he is spending more than he earns. Making second-level talismans, buying the molten gold liquid of the Iron Tree Technique, collecting the poison of the Cold Yin Finger... plus this second-level magic array.

He felt like he couldn't bear it anymore.

There were only 20 or 30 spiritual stones left in the storage bag.

He was so poor that he was peeing blood!

"It's time to sell some of the things in my hands..."

He immediately left the Cuiyue Valley and went to the Liuyang River Market.

After changing his appearance, he sold all the first-grade spiritual medicines he had obtained from the Yunhuan Mountains in the Liuyang River Market, including a second-grade spiritual medicine - Qianling Vine.

He had a total of four second-grade spiritual medicines, namely the Dark Light Lotus, the Purple Soul Grass, and two Qianling Vine obtained from the storage bag of the Soul-seeking Horse-faced Man.

Only one Qianling Vine was enough.

Of course, if there was no shortage of spiritual stones, Li An would not sell them, and these things were also strategic materials.

But now his financial resources really couldn't hold up.

These things earned him more than 1,600 spiritual stones, which could barely solve the urgent problem.

After replenishing the spiritual stones for the second-level magic array of Cuiyue Valley, he returned to Qingyang Market.

"The income from making talismans is limited, not enough..."

He thought about it, and then decided to start another sideline.

Now he has two options, array and alchemy.

If alchemy is successful, the income will grow quickly, after all, this is the first profession among the hundred arts of cultivating immortals.

Now he has Gu Songxi's alchemy experience, and he is not short of alchemy furnaces-the first time the demon cultivator came to his door, he killed the demon cultivator, and there was a good first-grade alchemy furnace in his storage bag.

But Li An shook his head and rejected it.

Alchemy requires a high level of comprehension. Although Li An's spiritual roots have improved a lot now, he has no experience, and it will definitely take a lot of time to accumulate.

"I can only choose array."

In his previous life, he practiced array and successfully changed a mid-level array into a high-level array some time ago.

There are also similarities between the art of formation and the art of talisman. Both of them use certain standard patterns to obtain power that does not belong to oneself.

He did it as soon as he thought of it. He went directly to the formation store to buy a lot of materials.

In the first month alone, he made two sets of low-level formations, and then asked the store manager Long Tao to help sell them.

Long Tao was already middle-aged. He was ostracized in the outer sect and was exiled here. It would be difficult for him to return to the sect in this life, so he was very happy about this kind of thing. After all, Li An would give him a share.

So, when selling formations, he first promoted Li An's.

Two sets of low-level formations sold for 180 spirit stones, and Li An gave him 40.

In the second month, Li An began to try intermediate formations and made one set of intermediate formations and two sets of low-level formations.

Such progress surprised Long Tao. He had only heard that Li An was a talisman master before, but he did not expect that Li An was also very accomplished in formations.

But he didn't think much about it. Everyone in the sect knew that Li An had killed the Soul-demanding Horse-face with a set of second-level magic arrays. It was normal for Li An to have some knowledge of arrays.

Moreover, the higher the level of Li An's array making, the more commission he would get!

...

"With divine consciousness, making talismans and arrays is like having divine help!"

In the talisman shop, Li An raised his sore neck, rubbed it, and circulated his spiritual power for several circles to relieve the pain in his cervical spine.

After several hours of hard work, Li An still didn't feel tired mentally, but was quite excited.

His success rate in making runes and arrays has greatly increased!

The main reason is that there will always be mistakes in controlling things such as talisman pens and array materials with the naked eye and touch.

Once the divine consciousness comes out, no matter how subtle the changes are, they cannot escape his perception.

So the spiritual power is more accurate.

"If I make a little more money, I can try to make second-level runes..."

He saw hope. During this period, he stopped making second-level runes, practicing the Iron Tree Technique, and the Cold Yin Finger.

No money, no money to buy materials.

…

In the blink of an eye, another two years passed.

"Two second-level inferior blasting runes and two mysterious shield runes have been refined!"

"The Iron Tree Technique is finally complete! The Cold Yin Finger is almost there..."

That morning, Li An got up and stretched his body with a satisfied smile on his face.

Two years of hard work finally got what he wanted.

Moreover, his practice did not fall behind, the seventh level of Qi Refining was complete, and he could prepare to impact the eighth level of Qi Refining.

He read the recent letters.

Gu Hong brought her master to Baihu City, and it seemed that she had some unpleasantness with her fellow brothers. In the end, she set up her own business and was still working hard to extend her master's life.

The letter also mentioned that life in Baihu City was not easy, but fortunately she was an alchemist and could still make a living.

Li An wrote back a letter, telling her that a friend from the inner sect of Xuanyang Sect had found the trace of Yuanhun Beast in the Spirit Beast Mountain Range. Li An would continue to pay attention to it. If he succeeded in hunting it, he would find a way to get the crystal core.

He was not worried that Gu Hong would ask Xuanyang Sect for confirmation. First, he knew that Gu Hong trusted him. Second, for such things, the discoverer would definitely keep it secret, just like Gu Hong did at the beginning. So it was normal that he could not get any news from Xuanyang Sect.

Xuanyang Sect had been quite calm. Tan Qingxue still wrote letters, but the frequency was much less. Every time she wrote, she would send some second-level talisman paper or materials with the letter.

Based on the calculation of those talisman papers and materials, Li An knew that she had almost no savings for herself, and most of the spirit stones were given to Li An.

Li An sighed lightly. If Tan Qingxue could break through the foundation, he would prepare one for her when he prepared the foundation pill in the future.

But Tan Qingxue's talent was limited to the late stage of Qi Refining, and she could no longer reach that ceiling.

She was over seventy years old!

The beauty will eventually grow old. If we meet again, even with the beauty pills, her wrinkles will be hard to hide, and she will no longer be the same as before.

The Dao is ruthless. Li An's mood was only slightly rippled, and then calmed down.

From the beginning, his heart was frozen, and it was because he saw the possible death today.

In his previous life, he had experienced too many times of helplessness. He practiced alone until he formed a pill. His former wife and even his children left one by one...

That kind of pain and that kind of worldly sins were really too heavy, which would make his Dao heart fall.

In addition, Tan Qingxue also mentioned a small matter. Mu Qingwan's husband failed to break through the foundation for the third time, and his life span was greatly reduced. Now he has begun to look for ways to prolong his life.

Mu Qingwan gave birth to a daughter, who is 21 years old this year. Her spiritual roots are the same as Mu Qingwan's back then, and she is a middle-grade yellow-grade wood element.

Li An didn't care too much about this.

He was a little suspicious. Was he too neurotic back then? So many years have passed, and Xuanyang Sect has been very stable...

Is the Soul-Seeking Horse-Faced Sect really dead?

In recent years, even the demon cultivators in the northern part of Dali have been gradually eliminated, and their momentum is not as strong as before.

If this is true, it would be fine.

That day, he walked out of the market as usual and wandered around.

He was not aimless, but he had developed a habit since he started making talismans in recent years, and he would check the protective formation of the market every once in a while.

Only the Foundation Establishment cultivators stationed there knew the basics of the protective formation, but Li An had been studying it and had roughly figured out the details of the formation.

In the entire market, only he could do this, and he had a deep understanding of the formation and could observe it for a long time.

"Huh?!"

But today, when he walked to a cornerstone in the north of the city, he suddenly frowned.

Under a willow tree a hundred steps away from the cornerstone, the soil had been turned over!

He saw that there was no one around, so he walked over and his mind moved.

"Demonic energy!"

His face changed. There was a wooden box buried in the mud. In the wooden box, there was a rolling demonic energy mixed with a large number of forbidden talismans.

Li An immediately thought of the first time the market was attacked...

The same old trick? !

His heart suddenly tightened!

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