Of course, it's not that Su Ziyan wanted to hide the truth from the old man deliberately, but he wanted to be mysterious so that others couldn't grasp him.
It will make others afraid of you, so that others will think that you have the support of a strong tree and dare not do anything to you.
Su Ziyan bowed to the old man and said, "Senior, these are 1,200 spirit stones. Please take a look."
When the old man saw the man in front of him taking out so many spirit stones at once, he was certain in his heart that this man must be a member of a certain family who came out to gain experience, otherwise he would not have brought out so many spirit stones.
After confirming the number of spirit stones, he took out two black tokens and handed them to Su Ziyan. "My friend, do you know the functions of these two tokens?"
Su Ziyan took the two tokens, looked at them, nodded, bowed to the old man to thank him, and left the thatched hut.
He looked left and right and walked towards the towering mountain in the middle.
Not long after, Su Ziyan arrived at a huge restriction.
He took one of the tokens and inserted it into the restriction in the gate. Then the restriction covering the gate opened a hole big enough for one person to pass through.
He walked in, put away the token floating in front of him, stood at the foot of the mountain and looked up, and found that the mountain was extremely steep and rocky. Mortals could not climb up at all and could only sigh in despair.
There are many rocks protruding from the surface of the mountain, and many trees and weeds growing tenaciously in the cracks of the rocks. They are extremely green, and many birds are playing and playing among them.
Su Ziyan looked up and saw that the top of the mountain was almost shrouded in clouds and mist, so he could not see the scenery above at all.
He was just about to use the light body technique to move forward when he was stopped by a voice. He looked over there and found that it was a cultivator at the seventh level of Qi training.
Su Ziyan looked at the monk and became alert.
The man was wearing a white and green robe, with his long hair casually draped behind him. He didn't look very old, probably in his early twenties.
The young monk looked at Su Ziyan with a smile and did not feel embarrassed because the man in front of him was wary of him.
"Fellow Daoist, do you want to go to the mountain?" the young monk said to Su Ziyan with a very kind look.
Su Ziyan hummed and didn't say much. He looked at the cultivator in front of him and remained very vigilant.
These were his previous habits when he was begging. Only vigilance can make him feel more secure.
When the young man heard Su Ziyan's "hmm", he was also a little curious. He didn't expect that the man in front of him could rent a cave in the middle of the mountain.
You know, the cave here requires a lot of spirit stones. However, the man in front of you is only at the fourth level of Qi training. Where can he get so many spirit stones?
But he did not continue to ask, but smiled at Su Ziyan and said, "In this case, I wonder if you need me to take you up there. Don't worry, I won't charge you too many spirit stones."
Su Ziyan said calmly without thinking, "Thank you for your kindness, Daoyou. You don't need to worry about it. With my cultivation level, it is easy to climb this mountain."
The young man heard Su Ziyan's direct words and did not insist. "In that case, I will not bother you any more." He stepped aside and said, "Fellow Daoist, please go ahead."
Su Ziyan didn't say much, he just used the light body technique and started to move left and right from a not-so-steep part of the rock wall, and climbed up along the protruding rocks.
The young man named Li behind him was still standing there. He looked at Su Ziyan's figure moving forward, and the expression on his face slowly changed. A sinister smile appeared on his face, and he muttered to himself, "What a vigilant guy. I just wonder if he will be so lucky next time." After that, he flew away on his sword.
Su Ziyan moved up all the way, avoiding some trees that blocked his way one by one. When his spiritual sense detected a cultivator's cave, he took a detour.
More than an hour later, he stood in front of a cave on the top of the mountain. There was nothing extra on either side, only a small stone platform about ten feet long protruding outside.
At this moment, there was a purple restriction in front of him. After a while, he took out the token of the cave restriction and shot a beam of magic power towards the token.
The token instantly turned into a black light and shot into the restriction with a whoosh. The restriction immediately rippled and slowly disappeared.
He walked in, picked up the token floating at the entrance of the cave, and walked into the cave. The restrictions at the entrance of the cave returned to their original state in a flash.
Su Ziyan didn't pay attention to the changes behind him. At this time, he was standing in the hall of the cave, looking around.
In addition to the main hall, the cave also has five other side rooms, including a bedroom, a training room, a medicine garden, an alchemy room, and a spirit beast room.
He practiced his skills and felt it, and found that the spiritual energy here was indeed much richer, at least several times stronger than the place behind the mountain where the ruined temple was.
While he was observing the newly rented cave, the shopkeeper of Danding Pavilion in the market town was listening to the report from the maid with a gloomy face.
Unexpectedly, the two disciples sent out both died. It was not known whether they were killed by the monk who came to buy the elixir, or were discovered and killed by the law enforcement officer.
However, the shopkeeper believed that the two disciples were killed by the law enforcers, and did not think that they were killed by the monks who came here to buy elixirs.
After all, Su Ziyan's cultivation was still too low. Facing two cultivators of the same level, let alone counterattacking, it would be considered good enough if he could even save his life.
After a while, he waved his hand to signal the maid to stop reporting, and said in a deep voice, "Behave yourself these few days. When any law enforcement officer comes to ask, just say you don't know. Otherwise, it will bring trouble to this pavilion. Do you understand?"
"Also tell the other disciples not to go out and talk nonsense. Otherwise, I will personally destroy their cultivation."
The maid took the order and retreated, while the shopkeeper thought and murmured to himself, "That little guy is lucky, otherwise, hum!" He slapped the table under his hand with his left hand, and the whole table wailed and turned into debris scattered on the ground.
At this time, Su Ziyan sat in the hall for a while, then went into the bedroom. He took a shower and had a good sleep.
Su Ziyan woke up three days later. He went to the training room and decided that he must improve his strength, otherwise he would not even be able to protect himself.
This time he was in seclusion, he planned to advance his cultivation to the fifth level of Qi training, and he would not come out until he had advanced.
The later stages will come slowly. After all, the road must be taken step by step and it is impossible to reach the sky in one step, so start with what is in front of you.
After thinking it over, Su Ziyan began to swallow pills and started to practice. As he continued to practice, time passed. As time changed, more than eight months had passed.
In Su Ziyan's training room, he closed his eyes with a serious expression and practiced his martial arts. After a while, a snapping sound was finally heard from Su Ziyan's body.
The spiritual energy around gathered towards Su Ziyan's body like a whale sucking water, and then poured into Su Ziyan's body. As he practiced the Great Circulation of Qi, the spiritual energy flowed through his meridians before gathering in his dantian.
He slowly opened his eyes and exhaled a breath of white turbid air. He stood up and stretched. Suddenly, a crackling sound of bones came from Su Ziyan's body.
"I don't know how long it took to reach the fifth level of Qi training."
"Forget it, let's go for a walk outside first," Su Ziyan said slowly with an expressionless face.
When he walked to the entrance of the cave, he suddenly found a sound transmission note. He was a little surprised, because he didn't have any friends here, so how could there be a sound transmission note?
Could it be that I have been in seclusion for a year, so the deacon in the Condensation Stage here sent a sound transmission note to urge me to hand over the spirit stones?
He shook his head and reached out to grab the sound transmission note. The sound transmission note flew towards Su Ziyan. He reached out to catch it and scanned his spiritual sense into it.
After a while, his spiritual consciousness withdrew from the sound transmission note, and the note immediately turned into ashes in a burst of fire.
He lowered his head and thought. This sound transmission note was not sent by the old man in the thatched hut, but left by a monk in this mountain.
Because he was in seclusion at the time, the cultivator had no way to meet him, so the cultivator could only leave a sound transmission note to tell Su Ziyan what was going on.
And this sound transmission note told Su Ziyan about an auction that would be held in a while.
Su Ziyan thought about it. According to the records he had seen, an auction was not a simple conference, and the items exhibited were also relatively precious.
What you cannot buy in some stores may be what you need at the auction, so every auction is extremely lively.
Many people wanted to enter the auction, but because of their wealth or cultivation level, many cultivators could not even enter the auction door.
Otherwise, if cultivators who don't even have the qualifications enter, the venue will not be able to accommodate so many people. Those who have spirit stones will not be able to enter, and the cultivators who enter will not have spirit stones. How can the auction be held then?
So the organizers of the auction came up with an idea. They set up some charging areas or observation areas at the entrance of the venue to allow those qualified monks to enter.
The cultivators who enter in this way are all qualified to participate in the auction, because cultivators with spirit stones will not care about the charging standards at the door and will be able to pay the fees.
Therefore, this has invisibly raised the status of these auctions, and every auction is described as crowded with people.
The items displayed and auctioned at the auction are also very expensive. Generally, there are not many cultivators who can buy them. Those who can bid for the items are either cultivators with high cultivation or disciples from families or sects.
But there are still many monks who are willing to go to the scene to see the true appearance of those items and see who will auction those things so that they can go out and brag about it to others.
But the most important thing is that there are many cultivators who want to try their luck. If they come across something that others don't need, and they have just enough spirit stones, they can at least bid for it.
Maybe I can buy something at the auction, which will be of great help to my cultivation.