Chapter 72: 072 Change_l
Translator: 549690339
Su Yu peered inside to find a plainly dressed young woman with two daughters being driven out of the yard, her face streaked with tears, the two girls frightened and hiding behind their mother.
Inside the house, the scent of a rice dish cooked with Spirit Rice wafted out, as an irritable male cultivator cursed while eating his food.
The male cultivator’s na was Wang Hong, a seventh layer Qi Refinent cultivator, and he was quite handso. He likely had consud age-halting pills or Beauty Enhancent Pills to keep his youthful appearance since he looked like a man in his thirties despite being nearly sixty.
The young woman was nad Xue Yingxiang, a fifth layer Qi Refinent cultivator.
She also seed to have taken age-halting pills, because she was not even forty yet she still looked like a young girl. She was quite beautiful, and two of her features were particularly outstanding. Among all the won Su Yu had t, she was the most eye-catching.
So Su Yu took a second look.
The two girls behind her were very young, the youngest was not even ten, and the elder one was just eleven.
He had witnessed such scenes of ‘dostic violence’ many tis before.
It’s said that ‘a wise judge cannot settle a family quarrel,’ and Su Yu, not wanting to ddle in others’ business, only watched briefly before returning to his own yard.
“Rent for the Spirit Fields has skyrocketed.”
“Rent in the Immortal City has skyrocketed.”
“The entry fee for the city has risen from one lower-grade Spirit Stone to two.”
Su Yu thought back to the tumultuous topics discussed recently in Baiyue Immortal City. The sudden increases in costs had caused great hardship for many low-level cultivators in the city, with complaints and grievances stirring like a pot of boiling dumplings.
The most obvious change was that the custor flow in the city’s various markets had noticeably decreased these past few days.
Yet market prices for items like pills, talismans, formations, and magic artifacts, along with their materials, had risen by ten to twenty percent.
This was not the doing of the city’s Loose Cultivators.
Instead, it was the result of major powers purchasing goods in bulk. Today, the Baiyue Immortal City’s main hall had again given Su Yu a mission list, twice as long as the previous one.
“Righteous and demon sects are battling in the Eight Demon Ridge, causing significant losses for several forces. The injured cultivators are uncountable; Baiyue Immortal City must be the sa.” Su Yu rembered the situation Ke’er had described and frowned slightly, wondering when this situation would finally end.”
For him, the decreased custor traffic and sales in the city were counterbalanced by the additional orders from the main hall and the Yu Family’s new lists, which could potentially double his profit.
However, for ordinary loose cultivators, this was an unforeseen catastrophe.
Take, for example, his cursing neighbor, Old Wang.
The rental costs for the Spirit Fields suddenly surged by thirty percent; the Immortal City’s Temple was truly sucking their blood. This increase in rent alone would force many cultivators who relied on the fields for their livelihood to work all year round for the temple, essentially as unpaid laborers.
As for canceling the lease…
Unless you had prepared to leave Baiyue Immortal City, the issue wouldn’t simply be a matter of canceling the lease.
The grass isn’t always greener on the other side. After leaving Baiyue Immortal City, without any practical skills, life out there might not be any better than what they had here.
As his thoughts drifted, Su Zhi ca to mind, and he couldn’t help but worry.
He had no idea how she was doing.
Could she have been involved in this Righteous and Demon Sects conflict at the Eight Demon Ridge?
“Maybe I’ll write a letter to ask.” Su Yu penned a letter, paying the Yunjian Sect a few spirit stones to have it delivered back ho.
Yu Qianqing had decided to leave the Yunjian Sect. Shortly after returning to Baiyue Immortal City, she headed back to her sect. It would probably take her so ti to sort out her affairs.
Upon returning to his yard, Su Yu entered the secret chamber beneath his house.
Ever since returning to the Baiyue Immortal City from the Su Family, Su Yu began collecting the materials required for advancing his magical puppet. As the core material of the dragon crocodile puppet was a mid-tier rank two, it wouldn’t be difficult for the Dao Body puppet to advance to a mid-tier rank two as well.
All it required was so ti to devour and refine the materials, bit by bit.
Whish!
In the secret chamber, Su Yu invoked a ntal command and summoned the
Dao Body puppet from his Dantian. After rging with the puppet spirit, the Dao Body puppet was like a nascent magical artifact that could be stored within his Dantian for nurturing.
It could even devour materials to advance.
The nascent puppet spirit could gradually improve and enhance itself by devouring materials.
Su Yu moved the Dao Body puppet to one side, and it began devouring the mineral essence and refining the minerals, little by little, that Su Yu had taken out from a Qiankun Bag.
Su Yu himself sat cross-legged, fully focused, and in solitude, he continued today’s cultivation.
He had accepted an Alchemy task from the Hall of Truth, which required him to refine five hundred second-grade lower-tier pills in half a year. All the materials were provided by the Hall of Truth, a total of five hundred portions, in the sa proportion as the previous task.
Upon completion, Su Yu would be able to earn five hundred contribution points.
Plus, he would have leftover alchemy materials.
Currently, the Alchemist lineage Su Yu was cultivating was still the second-grade lower-tier Alchemist lineage that his family had bid for him. Therefore, Su Yu planned to accumulate so contribution points to see if he could exchange for a second-grade top-tier Alchemist lineage from the Hall of
Truth.
According to what he knew, the cost of a second-grade top-tier Alchemist lineage in the Hall of Truth was about one thousand five hundred contribution points.
Which was equivalent to fifteen thousand inferior Spirit Stones.
Very expensive.
But to Su Yu, it was worth it.
Because anywhere else, unless it appeared in an auction, he had no way of purchasing a second-grade top-tier Alchemist lineage.
This task given by the Hall of Truth, he could casually accumulate enough contribution points in a few years.
When the ti cos, gain a free, second-grade top-tier Alchemist lineage, it would be a great bargain.
Another month later.
Yu Qianqing finally returned to Bai Yue Fairy City and joined Wutong Dan Pavilion to learn Alchemy under Su Yu. With just one furnace of five top-quality second-grade lower-tier pills, he completely won the heart of this ‘forr Yunjian Sect Inner Sect Disciple’.
From then on, the round-faced, sowhat plump beauty alchemist Yu Qianqing looked at Su Yu with an extra touch of fanaticism and worship, like the most devoted fan believer.
It was difficult to refine top-quality pills. Even her forr master, an Elder of the Inner Sect Dan Pavilion of Yunjian Sect who was a second-grade top-tier Alchemist could not guarantee to refine top-quality pills every ti.
Not to ntion, such a terrifying number as five top-quality pills in a single furnace!
But Su Yu could!
This is like a newly educated dical apprentice eting a master healer, how could she not be convinced and serve him wholeheartedly.
Ti slowly passed by.
A day, five months later.
In the secret chamber under the courtyard.
Su Yu’s body was overflowing with earth elent mana, countless spiritual energy from the heavens and the earth gathered and entered his body, refined into his own mana by the Mystic Heavy Earth Technique.
As the proficiency on the panel increased for Mystic Heavy Earth Technique, it was accumulating bit by bit.
From ninety-nine point nine percent, it moved towards a hundred percent.
About two quarters of an hour later.
“Buzz! ”
Naturally, when the proficiency accumulated to a hundred percent, completing the seventh level of the Mystic Heavy Earth Technique, Su Yu’s earth elent mana imdiately transford, advancing from the seventh stage of Qi Refinent to the eighth.
In just about a year, the Mystic Heavy Earth Technique had again improved.
A little over an hour later.
The fluctuations in the earth elent mana on Su Yu’s body finally cald down. He stopped cultivating, slowly opened his eyes, and exhaled a hot breath: “Hoo.”
The feeling of this breakthrough.
So comfortable.
Feeling the eighth stage of Qi Refinent earth elent mana in his body, su Yu’s eyes condensed as he murmured: “With the Cultivation Technique Green Wood Year Ring Skill at the ninth stage of Qi Refinent, the speed of practicing this earth elent technique is really fast!”
Green Wood Year Ring Skill, from the first level of Qi Refinent to the ninth, took nearly thirty years.
But Mystic Heavy Earth Technique, from the first stage of Qi Refinent to the eighth, only took less than three years.
Su Yu pondered: “In that case, would it be just as fast to practice other attribute techniques?”
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