Chapter 187 Good Times, Bad Times, Kidnapping

Cangxing Island.

As the super-large island closest to the open sea in the Seven Stars Sea, everything on the island is so busy.

Even the immortal cultivators who appear to be high and mighty in the eyes of outsiders are just ordinary members who have lived their entire lives here.

They still have to run around for food, clothing, housing, and transportation, but their situation is different from ordinary mortals who can only face the loess and turn their backs to the sky.

Unless they are dedicated to climbing the great road to seek the so-called immortality, and need to use their own lives to win that glimmer of heaven, otherwise as long as the immortal cultivator is willing to settle down and live a stable life, even if it is only in the early stage of Qi refining, to ensure food and clothing for himself and his family, There is no problem in living a life equivalent to that of an ordinary small landowner.

In fact, the number of the latter is the majority in this vast world of immortality.

After all, even if they become immortals, most people are still ordinary people.

After the age when they know their destiny, the casual cultivators who have given up hope of continuing to climb the path to immortality are becoming more Buddhist than the other.

This kind of attitude of being content with poverty and enjoying life is actually somewhat consistent with the legendary realm of freedom.

It's the morning market at this moment, and some shops in the market have begun to take off their boards, and the lively atmosphere of the day has begun to take shape.

On the only road leading from Fangshi's living area to the commercial area, many low-level casual cultivators have arrived pushing their own snack carts.

"Boss Sun, please have a bowl of wontons!"

At one of the wonton stalls, a rough-faced male cultivator in the middle stage of Qi Refining sat down carelessly, then waved his hand and shouted to the owner of the wonton stall. At the same time, he took out two fried cakes bought from the next stall with his other hand. meat pie.

"Come on!"

Boss Sun is an old monk who is over seventy years old. His cultivation level is not high. Like the rough male cultivator, he is in the middle stage of Qi refining.

After he passed the age of knowing his destiny, he gave up his obsession to continue climbing the great road. However, he did not have the talent to make alchemy and draw talismans, so he spent money to learn the most basic cooking skills and lived in casual cultivation. A food stall has opened here in the district.

There are many immortal cultivators like Boss Sun, and it is precisely because of their existence that the city of the immortal cultivator world has a touch of human fireworks, which soothes the hearts of the monks who have returned exhausted physically and mentally.

"Hey, Boss Sun, don't be so picky."

Seeing Boss Sun pouring a small amount of MSG and pepper noodles into the bowl, the rugged male cultivator immediately screamed.

"Isn't it that we come to your place to eat because other places use ordinary MSG as inferior, but you use spiritual MSG here? How much umami flavor can I taste with just this little amount?"

"You don't understand! If you put too much, it will be painful!"

When Boss Sun heard this, he rolled his eyes and thought, "You don't know what you're talking about?"

The price of Ling MSG is more than ten times that of ordinary MSG. If I sprinkle a little more for you, my business will lose money!

"Come on, come on, Xiao Wu, please use it slowly!"

After a while, Boss Sun brought over a large bowl of wontons.

Looking at the steaming wontons and the spiritual energy floating out of the bowl, Xiao Wu suddenly moved his index finger.

He ate the fried crispy meatloaf in a few mouthfuls, and then drank the soup in a slurp.

"fresh!"

After taking the food, Xiao Wu immediately let out a sigh of relief, attracting the attention of many diners at the nearby stalls.

Then when they saw the weak spiritual energy floating in the bowl, they suddenly looked envious and felt that the food in their hands no longer tasted good.

Although the other person's bowl of wontons only contained MSG that exuded spiritual energy, but rounding it all off, what he ate was also a spiritual meal!

After eating and drinking, Xiao Wu said with emotion: "If I wanted to eat such delicious food before, I would have to go to a restaurant in the market and spend dozens of taels of silver to have the talented chefs cook me two dishes. Okay, now we just need to pour in a little bit of MSG..."

"Isn't that right? I heard that major restaurants in the city have begun to lay off employees. A few days ago, a chef apprentice came to the old man and asked me about the price of the breakfast. It seems that it won't take long. Let's There will be several stalls opened by apprentice chefs on this street," Boss Sun said while working.

"I'll have to try it then."

Xiao Wu smiled, then took out some money from his pocket, put it on the chopping board, and said, "Nuo, clear the account for this month's meals!"

Boss Sun took a closer look and said with a smile: "Xiao Wu, are you getting rich? You used to hesitate and hide when I asked you to settle accounts. Why are you so straightforward in giving me money now?"

"You don't know?"

Xiao Wu said in surprise: "A few days ago, the Venus Chamber of Commerce store released news that it had improved the formula of the Spirit Tempering Pill and reduced the cost of the Spirit Tempering Pill. Now the Venus Chamber of Commerce's Spirit Tempering Pill has the same effect, but the price is only seven percent of the previous price. It’s done.

I bought a bottle and tried it, and it was pretty much the same as what they advertised. This way, I have a lot of money on my hands, and I can clear my account. "

"Qi Cheng... I haven't practiced for a long time, and I don't pay as much attention to this thing as before."

Boss Sun paused, then weighed the money in his hand, and said with a wry smile: "Why didn't I catch up with you at such a good time..."

If he could enjoy the Spirit Tempering Pill at 70% price when he was young, he would have the resources to practice and climb to a higher realm.

Even if you still can't build the foundation, you can still have some extravagant hopes in the later stages of Qi refining.

What a pity, what a pity...

Boss Sun smiled bitterly, then threw the two pieces of silver into the cash box.

There are many examples like Boss Sun and Xiao Wu among the lower-level cultivators.

After learning that the price of the Soul-Tempering Pill had dropped significantly, many old people expressed their feelings, while the young people were even more excited.

After all, they are the direct beneficiaries.

Being able to buy the Soul-Tempering Pill at a lower price means that they can go one step further on the road of cultivating immortals, gain stronger power and a longer life.

This is a temptation that every young and energetic cultivator cannot resist, and even some old people who are about to give up hope have decided to fight again and strive for a second spring.

But compared to the carnival of the lower-level cultivators, the low-priced Soul-Tempering Pill launched by the Venus Chamber of Commerce made the forces in the surrounding seas that also run the Soul-Tempering Pill business uncomfortable.

Because they found that the Soul-Tempering Pill launched by the Venus Chamber of Commerce is not only low in price.

There are also a lot of them.

It's like they will never be sold out!

You know, even for forces like them that have thousands of low-level alchemists, the number of Soul-Tempering Pills they produce every day is limited, but compared to the huge group of independent cultivators, their Soul-Tempering Pills can be said to never have to worry about selling.

So they often raise the price with various reasons, such as problems with raw materials, alchemists collectively taking sick leave due to food poisoning, cargo ships being hijacked by monsters at sea, etc.

Don't be unconvinced.

There are plenty of people who will buy if you don't buy!

But the situation is different now.

Because the price is only 70% of the previous price, the Soul-Tempering Pills of the Venus Chamber of Commerce soon ushered in a rush to buy. Many people, with the mentality of missing out on this village, spent a lot of savings to stock up as many pills as possible for backup.

But no matter how many people come, the Venus Chamber of Commerce can always come up with enough Soul-Tempering Pills.

Some forces even specially allocated a sum of money to buy all the Soul-Tempering Pills from the Venus Chamber of Commerce stores on their territory, hoping to hoard them and make a fortune by buying low and selling high during the period when the Venus Chamber of Commerce cannot supply Soul-Tempering Pills.

However, within two days, the shelves of the Jinxing Chamber of Commerce were filled with Soul Tempering Pills again. After repeated attacks, these forces lost all their money!

After learning from their mistakes, these forces quickly stepped up their efforts to infiltrate the Jinxing Chamber of Commerce. Some even used their own undercover agents at all costs.

They were determined to get the improved Soul Tempering Pill formula of the Jinxing Chamber of Commerce.

After all, in the eyes of many forces, it was very impressive that the Jinxing Chamber of Commerce had so many Soul Tempering Pills, but it also required a large number of low-level alchemists to refine the pills. As long as there were more people, there would be loopholes, giving them an opportunity to take advantage of it!

However, after several months of tossing around like this, the leaders of many forces only got the news that the improved Soul Tempering Pill was jointly developed by Master Huaizhu and her husband Master Zhang.

As for what the formula was.

No one knew.

Because the refining of this new Soul Tempering Pill had never been done by these low-level alchemists.

Even after they checked the purchase records of the Venus Chamber of Commerce, they did not find any different spiritual medicines on the purchase list.

Now these forces are emo.

Looking at the crowded shops under the Venus Chamber of Commerce, all the forces felt that their hearts were bleeding!

Seeing him make money is more painful than losing money!

The leaders of these forces do not know.

Times have changed.

The Venus Chamber of Commerce has abandoned the backward small workshop production method and transformed into industrialized production of elixirs.

At least this is the case with the Quenching Pill.

The power of industry is strong.

Even if the craftsmen of small workshops have good skills and work hard, their production efficiency cannot catch up with the industrialized production line.

For example, now that Zhang Wei has successfully synthesized the Quenching Pill.

He only needs half a month to assemble a Quenching Pill production line, and after it is put into production, it can replace thousands of primary alchemists working non-stop.

If we can find some high-level refiners to help, the construction speed of these production lines can be even faster.

And Zhang Wei has built 30 such production lines!

It is equivalent to more than 30,000 alchemists refining the Soul-Tempering Pill day and night, and the number of Soul-Tempering Pills produced every day reaches 300,000!

This number and production efficiency are beyond the reach of all the junior alchemists trained by other forces even if they vomit blood!

Of course, these alchemists have an advantage over spiritual chefs.

That is, they will not be laid off.

Even if they cannot refine the Soul-Tempering Pill, these junior alchemists can also refine other pills to continue to generate income for their own forces.

In the world of cultivating immortals, treasures such as pills, instruments, and arrays will never worry about sales.

It is just that craftsmen will not starve to death in years of famine.

Unless Zhang Wei and Huaizhu can continue to conquer the chemical synthesis methods of other pills and incorporate other pills into industrial production to further reduce the living space of low-level alchemists, these people will always live a comfortable life.

But Zhang Wei and Huai Zhu will not continue to focus on these low-level elixirs.

They will try to conquer those higher-level elixirs next!

After all, the reason why they engage in chemical synthesis and alchemy is to mass-produce those high-level cultivation resources that are not easy to obtain.

If they put their energy on these low-level elixirs for the sake of making money, it would be putting the cart before the horse and would not be good for their own cultivation.

But having said that, Zhang Wei and Huaizhu also proved the success of the chemical synthesis alchemy method with practical actions. If this technology is not fully utilized, it will only be used to produce low-level elixirs such as quenching spirit pills. The elixir would be such a waste.

But the research and development of a mere first-level mid-grade elixir took several years of energy from two high-level monks, him and Huaizhu. The development of higher-level elixirs would probably take even more time.

Just two monks, Zhang Wei and Huaizhu, are too busy.

so……

"Chemistry is a basic natural science that studies the composition, structure, properties, transformation and applications of substances at the atomic and molecular levels..."

Deep in Venus Island, in a spacious and bright classroom that was temporarily built, Huaizhu was giving lectures to a group of carefully selected alchemists, while Zhang Wei was leading another group of students in another classroom to conduct some Basic experiments.

He has no intention of being self-conscious.

After all, chemical synthesis and alchemy are different from the cheats of many fellow time travellers. It is a science.

If he wants to bring out its true value, he must recruit enough scientific researchers...comrades, so that everyone can communicate with each other and work together!

Of course, Zhang Wei would not be so stupid as to share this technology openly and selflessly.

This is not how you seek death.

Therefore, every alchemist who enters this place is at least a third-level alchemist. They know the basics and have signed a spiritual contract, and are brought in after placing restrictions in their souls.

"If we continue at this rate, it won't take a few years for these people to come out and help me develop the industrial preparation of Lei Yuan Dan..."

In Huaizhu's cave, Zhang Wei, who was in his second body, shared vision and thought with his main body, and saw the students who were diligently following behind him taking notes, and felt an unprecedented sense of satisfaction.

Although he is still a bit petty at present, what he does is truly advancing the progress of this era in the world of immortality.

To be proud, he calls himself a man who changed the world.

Human needs include material needs and spiritual needs.

After material needs are met, people will urgently want spiritual satisfaction.

But now, Zhang Wei is satisfied.

He was happy and enjoying it.

Dong dong dong————

Suddenly, the restrictions in the cave were triggered. Zhang Wei used his spiritual thoughts to take a look and discovered that it was a female cultivator named Wu Xiang from the Venus Chamber of Commerce.

The other party comes from a family within the Chamber of Commerce. He has grown up in the Jinxing Chamber of Commerce since he was a child, and he and Huaizhu are still junior sisters.

It's just that the relationship is not that good.

Moreover, Zhang Wei remembered that he had never interacted with Wu Xiang.

What is the other person doing here?

After Zhang Wei thought about it, he used his electromagnetic power to distort the surrounding light, causing his unobservable second body to actively reveal his figure. This appearance was exactly the image of the "Son of Huaizhu" that Zhang Wei had always used before.

Then he stood up and walked out of the cave, asking: "I have met senior Wu Xiang. What can I do for you, senior?"

"You are Zhang Zijie. We haven't seen you for so many years and you are now so old?"

Wu Xiang said politely, but there was a different kind of coldness in his words.

Then he waved his hand and said: "Come with me. Your parents want to see you for something. Let me come and pick you up."

"Um?"

Zhang Wei was startled.

Master Huaizhu and I are looking for me?

How come I don't know?

There is something wrong with this Wu Xiang.

But Zhang Wei did not directly let his body bring Huaizhu back.

After all, if this kind of thing is not caught, there is nothing the other party can do if they insist on denying Zhang Wei, and the existence of his second body will also be exposed.

In addition, the strength of his second body is not weak, and the magic weapon is stored in the Heavenly Doulei Yuanzhu, so he is not afraid of Wu Xiang and Zhang Wei who are in the middle stage of the golden elixir.

So he pretended to agree and allowed Wu Xiang to take him away and left the scope of Venus Island.

After leaving Venus Island, Zhang Wei said with hindsight: "No, this is not the way to find my father and mother! Where on earth are you going to take me, senior Wu Xiang?"

Wu Xiang sneered and said: "As expected of that woman's son, he is quite smart. If it were other disciples who have been practicing hard for many years and have not been exposed to the outside world, they would have screamed in fear."

Zhang Wei asked: "Are you an undercover agent sent by other forces?!"

Wu Xiang shook his head and said disdainfully: "Of course not. I was born in the Venus Chamber of Commerce and grew up in the Venus Chamber of Commerce. My foundation is better than that of a wild boy like you!"

Zhang Wei frowned and said: "What do you want to do?!"

"What?"

Wu Xiang smiled coldly and said: "Of course the real owner of the Venus Chamber of Commerce is back!"

"The real owner?"

Zhang Wei was confused.

Wu Xiang reminded: "Of course it's Senior Brother Tianqu!"

Zhang Wei was shocked: "You are from Tianqu!"

Well, the love triangle has turned into a love triangle!

"right."

Teacher Wu Xiang shouted angrily: "That woman took away everything from Senior Brother Tianqu, even his heart! Why! What good is she? Even if she is a married woman, he still treats her Your shabby mother never forgets you!"

With that said, Wu Xiang released the golden elixir's pressure, intending to vent his anger on Zhang Wei.

However, what she responded to was an extremely small fist!

"roll!"

boom----

The air exploded instantly, and the aura of the female cultivator in the middle stage of the Golden Core was shattered. The originally bulging chest was directly dented by Zhang Wei's small fist.

Whoosh————

Wu Xiang was knocked down from the sky by Zhang Wei's punch, and then fell into the sea, splashing a big wave.

However, Zhang Wei also jumped directly from the sky, and the whole person turned into a straight five-colored lightning and rushed into the bottom of the sea. Wu Xiang, who had not yet stabilized his body, stepped into the bottom of the sea!

"Puff————"

A large mouthful of blood spurted out, and Wu Xiang looked at the young man bathed in the terrifying five-colored thunder and said in shock: "How... How is it possible?! You... You are a Golden Core?! No, you are not Zhang Zijie, you are his father!"

The Golden Core female cultivator who reacted immediately activated several talismans in her hand.

A golden net instantly enveloped Zhang Wei's body. At this time, a small green sword flew out from the surging mud and sand. Judging from its power, it was also a fourth-level primary magic weapon.

However, Zhang Wei just shook it lightly, and a five-color lightning shield bounced it away.

"What?!" Wu Xiang said in shock.

The thunder transformed by magic power alone bounced her magic weapon away?

What a joke!

Wu Xiang's face changed, and then she activated a jade pendant on her chest again, and then released her divine thoughts to disturb Zhang Wei's soul.

And the jade pendant magic weapon was obviously a special magic weapon that had an amplifying effect on divine thoughts. The divine thoughts of the middle stage of the golden elixir were amplified by the jade pendant, and it was comparable to the power of the late stage of the golden elixir.

However, it was still not enough in front of Zhang Wei.

At the moment when Wu Xiang released her divine thoughts, two black holes appeared in front of her eyes, swallowing a large piece of her divine thoughts!

"Puff————"

Wu Xiang's soul was injured and he vomited blood again.

How... How could it be possible...

I am in the middle stage of Jindan and he is in the early stage. How could I be the one who was injured in the competition of divine thoughts!

Seeing that all her methods failed, Wu Xiang couldn't believe it in her heart, but she still immediately activated a long-treasured teleportation talisman and disappeared from the spot in an instant.

"Want to escape?!"

Zhang Wei's eyes condensed, and under the five-color thunder flashing all over his body, he forcibly broke free from the mana chain on his body that was as binding as a fourth-level primary magic weapon.

Then the divine thoughts turned into tentacles and quickly swept across a radius of seven or eight hundred miles, and soon found the fleeing Wu Xiang.

Zhang Wei took a step forward, and performed space teleportation more than ten times in a row, and came directly behind the frightened Wu Xiang.

"What?"

Wu Xiang looked at Zhang Wei behind her in shock.

It was fine that Zhang Wei's divine thoughts were far superior to hers, but he actually found herself who had escaped thousands of miles away with the teleportation talisman in an instant!

Is this a golden elixir or a Nascent Soul?

But Wu Xiang would not sit still and wait for death. The moment he found Zhang Wei, he immediately released his own life magic weapon to resist Zhang Wei's attack.

It was a small green flag, releasing a light full of vitality, turning into an energy shield to block the female cultivator.

Judging from the energy fluctuations, this is also a fourth-level mid-grade life magic weapon.

But you want to stop me with just a fourth-level mid-grade magic weapon?

Zhang Wei stretched out his hand and the five elements of Yang thunder instantly surged out of his body, forming a five-color thunder seal in the deep sea!

Small Five Elements Tiandu Thunder Seal!

Fall!

Boom! ! ! ! !

As if a five-color meteorite fell down, Wu Xiang's green flag did not even last for a breath and broke directly, while the small five elements Tiandu Thunder Seal, which only weakened the next layer, went straight to the body of the golden elixir female cultivator who was still hoping for luck!

"Woo-ah---"

The body of this Jindan female cultivator was like a flattened rag doll, sinking directly into the mud and sand on the seabed.

The terrifying power of Zhang Wei's Five Elements Heavenly Capital Thunder Seal caused the surrounding seawater to vibrate constantly, and the sea surface within a range of dozens of miles above was boiling.

Slowly, the sea surface returned to calm.

Zhang Wei grabbed Wu Xiang's head, which was trapped in the mud and sand, and then took out several of his magic weapons that specialized in the soul.

The sound of the soul resounded through the seabed, and soon the soul and divine thoughts of this Jindan female cultivator were shaken by the power of these three fourth-level magic weapons, and the defense of her soul was greatly reduced.

At this point, the true picture of the electromagnetic avenue in Zhang Wei's eyes emerged.

"Um---"

Wu Xiang's eyes suddenly widened, and she looked at Zhang Wei in front of her with horror. Under the invasion of Zhang Wei's electromagnetic divine thoughts, she soon bled from all seven orifices, and her eyes were filled with scarlet.

Her soul and body were severely damaged and she could not resist Zhang Wei's electromagnetic thoughts. Soon, all her memories of the past few years were dug out by Zhang Wei!

However, compared with the foundation building and purple palace, Wu Xiang, as a Jindan cultivator, was obviously more resistant. She just fainted and was not directly turned into a fool by Zhang Wei's electromagnetic thoughts.

After reading the other party's memory, Zhang Wei murmured: "So that's it..."

As he guessed, the Jindan female cultivator named Wu Xiang in front of him was indeed in a love quadrangle with Tianqu, Huaizhu and Chen Tao.

Tianqu and Chen Tao liked his master Huaizhu, while Wu Xiang liked Tianqu and had sex with him dozens of times.

However, every time Wu Xiang wanted to further confirm the relationship, she was rejected by Tianqu, claiming that it was just for cultivation.

Damn, scumbag.

But Wu Xiang was like possessed, his heart was tied to Tianqu, even if the other party betrayed Jinxing Island, he still couldn't forget it.

A few years ago, when his master Huaizhu held the Yuanying Ceremony, he put Tianqu into the treasure house of Jinxing Island as an insider, helping him to quietly take away a treasure collected by Jinxing Island!

Now, Tianqu has found Wu Xiang again and asked her to bring him, the "son of Huaizhu".

As for the purpose, he didn't say it, but Wu Xiang was too lazy to ask, and agreed without thinking, and then waited for half a year before he and Huaizhu had the opportunity to separate.

Then he immediately attacked himself, planning to go to a place called Qianyun Island and hand himself over to Tianqu hiding there.

"Good guy, still a love brain, but this Qianyun Island seems a little familiar." Zhang Wei touched his chin and thought.

After a while, he remembered that this was the place where Guo Yang took him to earn extra money when he was short of money after breaking through the fake pill.