Chapter 99: The Money-Gathering Point of the Sutra Library

Jade slip books seem to be simpler and faster than those paper books and bamboo slip books. There is a special catalog jade slip for jade slip books. Just stick this catalog jade slip between your eyebrows and scan it with your spiritual sense to check all the jade slip books.

Unfortunately, all the jade slip books have neither the elixir recipes that Wu Yan needs nor the martial arts books he wants. Except for a jade slip related to puppetry, Wu Yan didn't find anything useful for him.

Finally, there are only three Jinque books on the shelf under the wall. These three Jinque books are all about martial arts. One is a wood-attributed Qi refining period martial arts, one is a wind-attributed Qi refining martial arts, and the last one is a very strange body refining technique similar to the physical training of ordinary warriors. Wu Yan took a rough look and found that they were all useless.

As for the things placed under the other wall, Wu Yan was not very interested in them. There were only some raw materials and crude instruments. Finally, Wu Yan held the four bamboo slips and walked to the front of the old man surnamed Qian in the middle.

"How is it? Brother Wu, did you get anything?" When the old man surnamed Qian saw Wu Yan coming out with a pile of bamboo slips in his hand, his eyes narrowed into a line with a smile, but he still asked Wu Yan knowingly.

"Brother Qian, is this really the Sutra Pavilion of our sect? Why are the things collected here either antiques that can't see any use, or useless things?" Wu Yan placed the pile of bamboo slips on the table in front of the old man surnamed Qian and asked while rubbing his nose in frustration.

"Haha, Junior Brother Wu, in fact, the Yin-Yang Hall also has some advanced techniques and formulas, but they are not in the Sutra Library, but in the Master's Zhenxu Cave. Only those disciples who have made special contributions to the sect have the opportunity and qualifications to choose. Here, the collection is naturally some more common techniques and formulas. What, Junior Brother Wu, do you want to copy the contents of these four bamboo slips?" The old man surnamed Qian was afraid that Wu Yan would regret it, so he quickly picked up the bamboo slips in front of him and looked at them and asked with a smile.

Wu Yan thought for a while and said, "Senior Brother Qian, I want to ask, can't the fee be lower?"

"Hmm? Less? No, no. In principle, it costs fifteen spirit stones to copy one copy, ten spirit stones are the cost of the book, and five spirit stones are the cost of the blank jade slip. If all four are to be copied, it will cost a total of sixty spirit stones. Are you ready? I want to copy." The old man surnamed Qian looked at Wu Yan and asked with a smile.

"Wait, this, this is too expensive, right? Wait, let me see if I have enough spiritual stones!" Wu Yan took out his storage bag with difficulty, looking like he didn't bring enough spiritual stones.

The old man surnamed Qian rolled his eyes and laughed, "Let me take a look. Well, let's do this. You just need to copy these three scrolls, and this scroll of ink bamboo will be given to you. Anyway, this scroll has been here for hundreds of years, and no one has read it. It just happens to be a piece of debris that needs to be cleared. In this case, you only need to pay three copies of the spiritual stones for the jade slips. How about it?"

The old man surnamed Qian looked at Wu Yan with an expression that he had made a lot of money. Wu Yan pondered for a while, then picked up the ink bamboo scroll again, looking embarrassed. In fact, what he wanted most in his heart was this scroll, but what he didn't expect was that this scroll was the most worthless scroll in the eyes of the old man surnamed Qian, and it was a scroll that was about to be cleared out.

"Well, then please, Senior Brother Qian, please copy it for me."

After hearing what Wu Yan said, the old man surnamed Qian quickly pulled out three blank jade slips from under the desk and began to copy them.

"Okay, take it!" While Wu Yan was dumbfounded, the old man surnamed Qian quickly copied the jade slips and put them in front of Wu Yan, looking at Wu Yan with an expression that he was not going to pay him soon.

Wu Yan rubbed his nose and had to take out 45 spiritual stones from the storage bag in frustration, and handed them to the old man surnamed Qian with great pain. He just remembered that the contents of these three pill recipes were not too much, and they could actually be copied into one jade slip. In that case, he could save the cost of the jade slip of ten spiritual stones and only need to pay 35 spiritual stones. Who would have thought that this treacherous old guy would copy it without even giving him a chance to distinguish.

Wu Yan picked up the jade slip, put it on his forehead and scanned it. Sure enough, it was a complete copy of the pill recipe, and the words "Qian Yan Copy" were written at the end of each jade slip.

Seeing this name, Wu Yan almost laughed out loud. This old guy, his name is just like him, an old guy who is obsessed with money, and his name is Qianyan.

"By the way, Senior Brother Qian, I want to ask, why are there so few recipes for pills in our sect's Sutra Pavilion?" After Wu Yan put the three jade slips and the scroll of ink bamboo slips into the storage bag, he asked Qianyan curiously.

Qianyan was probably in a good mood because he had just earned a lot of spiritual stones from Wu Yan, so when Wu Yan asked him questions, he didn't show any impatience, but explained to Wu Yan in detail.

"Junior brother Wu, in fact, any cultivator who has a little knowledge of the world of cultivating immortals should know this question? Think about it, the raw materials needed for this elixir are all very rare treasures from heaven and earth. These things are extremely precious. Which one doesn't have to grow in the spiritual land for thousands of years? Moreover, the quantity is limited, and the more you use, the less it will be. However, the number of immortal cultivators has not decreased, or even reduced. There is also an increasing trend. If this continues, as time goes by, these heavenly materials and earthly treasures will naturally become less and less rare, and they will become more and more precious. Even many of them are completely extinct. Without those heavenly materials and earthly treasures, there is no source of alchemy raw materials. What is the value of those elixirs? In addition to the conflict between the Heavenly Demon Sect and the Immortal Sword Sect more than a thousand years ago. The war led to the death of many powerful monks, and many precious elixir prescriptions of the Zhengdao sect were also lost. After all, our Xiuzhen sect is also from the lineage of the Immortal Sword Sect. At least there are still some. In other places, even these are not available. Woolen cloth."

After listening to Qian Yan's words, Wu Yan nodded suddenly and finally understood what was going on. Indeed, taking the ink bamboo slip in his hand as an example, it was not because the sources of the eleven elixir ingredients recorded on the slip could not be found, which led to the ancient Five Elements attributes. Is the Foundation Building Pill extinct in the world of immortality?

"Since Junior Brother Wu wants to make elixirs, do you want to buy some more raw materials from Lao Chan? Do you want a good alchemy furnace? Lao Chan has everything here!" Qian Yan noticed that Wu Yan was silent and thought he was thinking about refining elixirs. He couldn't bear it. I started to introduce it enthusiastically.

"Are they those cauldrons? Those are not very good, so forget it." Wu Yan suddenly thought that his affairs were completed and it was time to leave here.

"Senior Brother Qian, there is no need to buy a cauldron furnace. We have a good alchemy room and alchemy furnace in Five Elements Peak. I can just use that when I go back. There is no need to buy a special alchemy furnace." Wu Yan saw Qian and listened to him. When he saw that the cauldrons on the shelves were not in good condition, he was about to take out something and show it to him. He quickly cupped his hands towards Qian Yan, turned around and left the Sutra Pavilion, and appeared in the passage back.

Qian Yan was muttering something unwillingly. Wu Yan walked faster and faster. Soon, Wu Yan appeared again at the place where he had just entered.

The disciple under Elder Lei was still guarding him. When he saw Wu Yan coming out, he didn't say anything nonsense and let him out directly.

Soon, Wu Yan left the Yin Yang Palace, walked to the end of the square, and appeared in front of the gate of the Deacon House. He glanced inside and saw that there were still many disciples coming in and out. Wu Yan did not intend to wade into the muddy waters of that mission, so he had no intention of going in to take a look. Instead, he turned and walked towards the outside of the valley. After preparing to leave the valley, he took out the magical weapon and flew directly back to the Five Elements Peak.

At this time, three disciples with evil expressions walked out of the deacon courtyard. Only one person walking at the front shouted: "That boy, stop right here!"

Wu Yan looked back and couldn't help but frown. The man walking at the front was no stranger to him. This person is none other than Zhuge Ji, the steward of the Deacon House. He was walking towards Wu Yan with an unkind expression on his face. Behind him, there were two more people, both of whom were true disciples of the Dzogchen realm in the Qi refining stage.

Wu Yan seemed to have seen these two people somewhere. After thinking about it carefully, he had some vague impressions. They seemed to be two of the batch of disciples who stood out from the Cultivation Ceremony and became the true disciples of the Cultivation Sect.

One seems to be named Lei Chuang, and the other is named Zhao Wugui. Judging from the marks on their chests, they are both Huolingfeng disciples.