In the southern part of the Eastern Continent, there are Ten Thousand Mountains, and within those continuous peaks, countless rare treasures are hidden.
Furthermore, due to the abundance of spirit veins, Immortal Cultivation Sects of all sizes are entrenched here.
Among the Ten Thousand Mountains, Mount Huang is occupied by the Profound Heaven Sect, with Heavenly Capital Peak as the Sect center.
Its vast territory and strong power make it the foremost among all Sects.
Resources in the Ten Thousand Mountains are abundant, and the Sect, in order to allow its Disciples to focus on Cultivation.
Established four great Markets at the foot of Mount Huang: Changxin Market, Bi Shui Market, Ziying Market, and Yunlai Market, with each great Market having several smaller Markets.
In each of the four great Markets, there are three Foundation Establishment Cultivators and one Golden Core true person presiding.
Additionally, each Market has four stewards managing various affairs.
Most people in the Markets are rogue Cultivators who rely on taking various missions from the Task Hall to earn Spirit Stones and obtain various Cultivation resources.
The Markets are also divided into the outer area and the inner city. The inner city has large spirit gathering arrays and defensive arrays set up by the Profound Heaven Sect's powerful figures.
Therefore, it is both safe and suitable for Cultivation, a place that rogue Cultivators yearn for.
However, the Spirit Stones required are also quite substantial, as maintaining and operating the two large arrays daily requires a large amount of resources.
Most rogue Cultivators still live in the Slum outside the Market, paying one lower-grade Spirit Stone per month.
There are no spirit gathering arrays, no large defensive arrays, only tall city walls and patrol teams to ensure the basic safety of the tens of thousands of wooden and stone houses in the Slum.
In a wooden house near the well in the southeast corner of the Changxin Market, the twenty-six-year-old rogue Cultivator Lin Feng was refining a batch of Pill of Abstinences.
As the medicinal fragrance wafted from the furnace, Lin Feng's hand seals became faster and faster.
Buzz.
"Done."
Lin Feng's eyes lit up, and he opened the dark Alchemy furnace.
Using spiritual energy to take out the Pill of Abstinences from the furnace, Lin Feng counted a total of ten.
"Smelling this fragrance, looking at this color, these are definitely High Grade Pill of Abstinences."
"Not bad, not bad, next month's rent and spiritual food are settled."
Lin Feng was happy in his heart, carefully recorded the refining process, and compared it with previous records.
Seeing that there were no issues, he put the last portion of spirit plants for refining Pill of Abstinences into the Alchemy furnace in order.
Soon, another batch of High Grade Pill of Abstinences was produced.
He divided the twenty High Grade Pill of Abstinences into four small porcelain bottles and put them into his storage bag.
Adding the fifteen bottles of Medium Grade Pill of Abstinences refined before, there were a total of nineteen bottles.
One lower-grade Spirit Stone can buy five bottles of Medium Grade Pill of Abstinences, so fifteen bottles are three.
High Grade Pill of Abstinences are one and a half per bottle, so four bottles are six Spirit Stones.
Not bad, not bad, this time I can finally buy some spiritual rice to eat. I'm one step closer to eating meat!
However, the Spirit Stones left by the original body are all spent. I still need to buy refining Materials, and the Alchemy furnace can probably be used five or six more times, then it will have to be replaced. Alas.
Relying on refining Pill of Abstinences has only just managed to solve the problem of food and clothing. If I want my Cultivation to improve further, I can't just refine Pill of Abstinences.
Thinking of this, Lin Feng focused his attention and looked at the panel that only he could see, his eyes filled with anticipation.
[Name: Lin Feng]
Lifespan: 26/80
Spirit Root: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth
Realm: Qi Condensation Stage Three (85/100)
Cultivation Method: Hun Yuan Technique Early Stage (90/100)
Technique: Cleaning Technique Entry Level (70/100)
Fire Control Art Mastery (80/100)
Water Control Art Entry Level (30/100)
Skill: First-Order Alchemist (Pill of Abstinence 980/1000)
Achievement Points: 9 points/10 points (Can be used for corresponding Cultivation Method Realm, technique, technique entry level)]
"Refining for so long, only nine achievement points."
Lin Feng was a bit disappointed at first, but then he thought, with his current success rate, refining another batch would max out the achievement points.
He cheered himself up and took out the Introduction to Pills left by the original body from his storage bag, studying it carefully.
This book was written a thousand years ago by a powerful Alchemy expert based on his Alchemy experience, using commonly used pills in the Cultivation World as examples.
It explains in detail the compatibility of each Pill Formula, the properties of spirit plants, and their interactions.
Many of the contents within can help beginners avoid many detours.
A copy can be bought at the Lingyao Pavilion for only twenty lower-grade Spirit Stones.
It wasn't until the moon was high in the sky and Lin Feng felt a dull ache in his head that he put away the book, sat cross-legged, and began to Cultivate.
The advantage Cultivators have over ordinary people is that after overthinking, they can use meditation and Cultivation to replace sleep.
An hour and a half later, Lin Feng finished his meditation feeling refreshed.
He drew a basin of water from the water tank, washed his face, tidied his clothes, closed the door tightly, and headed towards the inner city of the Market.
Today is the Market's big gathering, so I have to go early, otherwise I won't get a good spot to set up a stall.
I wonder whose family nearby cooks meat every few days. It's a pity they only stew it, but it smells quite good, after all, it's Demon Beast meat.
If I were to cook it, hehe, I'd fry, stir-fry, boil, deep-fry, and roast it, doing each one!
Lin Feng swallowed his saliva as he thought.
He hadn't eaten meat for over half a year.
The current Lin Feng is not the previous Lin Feng. His core changed half a year ago.
The original body died from an accidental furnace explosion while attempting to refine a second-order Clear Spirit Pill. The current Lin Feng is from modern times, an ordinary hardworking person.
As an ordinary hardworking person, he lived the 996 life year after year, day after day, reaching forty in a daze, with no house but a car, living a relatively smooth life, his only hobby being cooking.
After seeing off his parents who worried about him, his life became even more uneventful.
If you ask what the old couple worried about, it was, of course, that he hadn't married and had children.
Don't misunderstand, he was physically and mentally healthy with a normal sexual orientation. He just felt his family's conditions were average, an ordinary rural family, an ordinary job, and no great wealth to inherit. He himself looked ordinary, with no particularly outstanding features. Whether to marry or not depended on fate, and it wasn't his fault that fate hadn't arrived.
Perhaps Heaven saw he was too laid back, so it let him come here.
This is actually a world of Immortal Cultivation! He can Cultivate and also has the skill of Alchemy.
Although his talent is not good, he has a cheat – the panel.
As long as he accumulates ten achievement points, he can choose to gain entry level in the corresponding Cultivation Method Realm, technique.
It seems like a minor advantage, but for the current Lin Feng, being able to easily gain entry level is already ahead of 60% of rogue Cultivators.
At dawn, Lin Feng walked towards the inner city, facing the morning dew.
Lin Feng was not the only one on the road. Everyone was hurrying, working hard for their livelihood and more Cultivation resources.
Although they were the lowest-level Cultivators, they also had their own hopes.
As the crowd moved quickly, Lin Feng soon entered the inner city.
Whoosh~
Lin Feng took a deep breath and slowly exhaled.
"The inner city is indeed the inner city. The air here is more than just a little better than in the Slum."
"The air is full of spiritual energy. If the inner city is like this, I can't imagine how dense the spiritual energy is within the Profound Heaven Sect's Sect."
"It seems I need to work harder. When I earn enough Spirit Stones, I want to live in the Inner Sect too."
"Are you going or not! If not, move aside, don't block the way, bumpkin."
Just as Lin Feng was in a daze, a dissatisfied voice came from behind him.
"Hehe, sorry, First Brother, I'm going now, I'm going now."
Lin Feng quickly moved aside and said with a smile.
Lin Feng was not afraid of trouble, but he didn't seek it out. This time, he was blocking the way, and the burly man who spoke looked difficult to provoke, and his Realm was also above his own.
"Hmph."
The burly man snorted coldly, ignored Lin Feng, and pulled the cart full of Demon Beast corpses away.
Looking at the cart piled high with Demon Beast corpses, Lin Feng's eyes lit up slightly, and his throat instinctively bobbed.
Meat, it's all meat.
Lin Feng's steps couldn't help but follow the cart loaded with Demon Beasts towards the Market.
Fortunately, there were many people at this time, and everyone was walking in the same direction, so it wasn't that conspicuous.