Seeing Zhang Ling's expression subtly change and his silence, the white-robed cultivator seemed to guess what he was thinking and explained with a smile:
"Senior! The spiritual veins on both Celestial Pillar Peaks have reached the level of mid-grade spiritual veins. Cultivating in these cave dwellings is much faster than in ordinary spiritual veins. That's why the cost of the cave dwellings is so high, but it's definitely worth it!"
Hearing this, Zhang Ling frowned. By this time, Zhang Ling had already examined all the white dots.
"This one then!" Zhang Ling pointed without expression at a white light on the seventh level.
"Okay, Senior, this cave dwelling costs one thousand five hundred and sixty spiritual stones! The usage period is ten years." Seeing that Zhang Ling really wanted to rent an expensive cave dwelling, the white-robed cultivator was extremely happy and quickly said.
"This is the restriction token for the cave dwelling. With this token, you can freely enter and exit this cave dwelling. I hope Senior will keep it safe." The cultivator smiled and took out a bronze token, handing it to Zhang Ling.
Zhang Ling put away the token, and with a wave of his hand, he took out a pile of spiritual stones. Then, without saying a word, he turned and walked out of the pavilion.
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The cultivators living on the two Celestial Pillar Peaks can be said to be the most core cultivators in the entire Azure Water City. And the cave dwellings here are rented for a minimum of ten years.
More than half a day later, Zhang Ling was walking on the left Celestial Pillar Peak. Observing these two Celestial Pillar Peaks up close, their imposing manner was even more extraordinary. Each one was three to four thousand feet high, with the upper half completely hidden in the clouds, looking like two pillars supporting the sky.
Zhang Ling used his Wind Control Technique, sprinting up the steps one by one. After a quarter of an hour, he arrived at the seventh level, which also had many cave dwellings.
Soon after, Zhang Ling arrived at the bottom of a low slope covered with green bamboo. On a stone wall of earth and rock, there was a dark cyan stone door. This was his cave dwelling for the next period of time, and the area within ten miles around here was his cave dwelling range.
Zhang Ling took out the bronze token and injected a little spiritual power into it. Immediately, a flash of light appeared on the token, followed by a flash of cyan spiritual light, which shot towards the cave dwelling's stone door.
With a series of muffled clicks, the cave dwelling door opened.
Zhang Ling entered and looked around. Inside were several stone houses. The earth fire room he had requested was also there, as well as two spirit beast rooms, a meditation room, and a resting stone house, all fully equipped.
On one side of the cave dwelling, there was also a spiritual field about one mu in size, with some spiritual plants growing on it. Zhang Ling was first delighted and checked it out, but they were all low-level spiritual herbs. Among them, Yellow Tooth Rice, a spiritual rice used to refine辟谷 pills, occupied most of the spiritual field.
These low-level spiritual herbs were not planted by those white-robed disciple attendants but were obviously left behind by the previous resident cultivators. The value of these low-level spiritual herbs was at most enough to exchange for twenty or thirty spiritual stones.
Zhang Ling then entered the resting stone house, lay on a large wooden bed, put his hands behind his head, and began to think wildly.
This cave dwelling was indeed as described in the jade slip, not only relatively secluded but also had a medicine garden.
What made him even more satisfied was that the spiritual energy here was extremely abundant, basically reaching the level of a mid-grade spiritual vein. The meditation room was also equipped with a spirit gathering array, which was the most spiritually dense place in the entire cave dwelling.
Meditating inside, Zhang Ling estimated that his cultivation speed could be accelerated even further. His previous cave dwelling was several levels worse compared to this one.
Having spent thousands of spiritual stones to obtain this place, Zhang Ling felt it was quite worthwhile! He had originally planned to cultivate in Azure Water City for a period of time.
In addition, the cave dwelling also came with a powerful array restriction, but even so, he was still not at ease.
Outside the original array restriction, he also set up his Six Armor Bewildering God Array. Only in this way could it be truly considered safe.
Zhang Ling re-planned his upcoming cultivation plan, his mind filled with thoughts. Thinking and thinking, he unconsciously fell into a dream.
For more than half a month, he had been bumping around on the Flying Cloud Boat, and he also had injuries from meridian damage, so he was indeed a bit tired.
The next day at noon, Zhang Ling woke up and began to busy himself non-stop. First, he set up the array, and then he began to manage the medicine field, picking all the low-level spiritual herbs.
He planted various spiritual herbs that he needed to facilitate the ripening of spiritual herbs for alchemy.
Then he went to the market. When he returned to the cave dwelling, he only had two or three hundred spiritual stones left in his hand. After wandering around Azure Water City for most of the day, Zhang Ling collected a lot of spiritual herbs. What was gratifying was that all the other auxiliary spiritual herbs needed for the Jade Bone Pill were collected.
In the following period, Zhang Ling was busy refining the Jade Bone Pill, which was not easy to refine.
Until a month later, Zhang Ling entered the earth fire room, threw out a cyan pill furnace, placed it on the earth fire array, and cast more than a dozen hand seals. A red light lit up on the ground, and then seven or eight arm-thick flames shot out from the mouths of several dragon head stone statues.
Watching the pill furnace rotating in the flames, Zhang Ling patted his storage bag. On a stone table next to him, there were more than a dozen jade bowls, some bottles and jars, and other things. These objects contained powders and spiritual liquids of various colors.
These were all the auxiliary spiritual herbs needed to refine the Jade Bone Pill. He had already condensed them and was ready to condense the White Jade Ganoderma lucidum before refining the pills.
He took out another jade box emitting a cold air, which contained a three-inch-sized White Jade Ganoderma lucidum, emitting a layer of white light.
This was a White Jade Ganoderma lucidum with more than three hundred years of medicinal age, which he had previously exchanged from Snow Moon Tower. After being催生 by his mysterious little bead, he had grown many White Jade Ganoderma lucidum.
A mass of yellow spiritual power held the White Jade Ganoderma lucidum and threw it into the pill furnace, releasing his divine sense power to control the earth fire to refine it.
After such a busy effort, for several days, the door of the earth fire room was closed. Until the tenth day, Zhang Ling walked out with a tired face.
With a flash, he sat down at a table in the hall, holding a cyan porcelain bottle in his hand, which contained two milky white pills. It was the Jade Bone Pill that could repair meridians.
Refining this pill consumed a lot of rare spiritual herbs. The consumption alone was worth four to five thousand spiritual stones. Even the three-hundred-year-old White Jade Ganoderma lucidum was used up. He opened the furnace more than thirty times and only managed to refine two Jade Bone Pills. The pill formation rate was pitifully low.
If it were other alchemists, whether they could refine it at all was still unknown.
His alchemy skills were certainly not outstanding, but he had refined pills many times. He was not as good as a true alchemy grandmaster, but he was only stronger than most alchemists.
From this, it can be seen how difficult the Jade Bone Pill was to refine. But for Zhang Ling, he was satisfied to be able to refine the Jade Bone Pill.
After refining the pills, Zhang Ling first entered the stone house and slept for a whole day. When he woke up again, his spirit had recovered well.
Then he entered the meditation room and began to take the Jade Bone Pill.
