Phi-Fic Chapter 659: The 3rd Level of Taoism
Chapter 659: The 3rd Level of Taoism
Xu Changshou changed his mind and decided to buy some damaged leather. For fur, the most important requirement is completeness.
Many robes require a piece of leather.
If there are incomplete or partially damaged, a complete vestment cannot be made and only assembled vestments can be made. Assembled vestments are much cheaper.
For Xu Changshou, it doesn’t matter whether it is incomplete or not. He will cut it into pieces even if he buys a whole one.
"You have to make sure you get something incomplete."
"Yes, bring a few more."
"Hold on!"
Shopkeeper Ji left the reception room and quickly returned. He took out a storage bag and threw it to Xu Changshou.
"These are all broken leathers. You can choose for yourself."
"it is good!"
Xu Changshou opened the storage bag and took a look inside.
Then open the storage bag with the mouth facing down and pour out everything inside.
There were more than ten pieces of skin, some of which were rotten in the middle, some were cracked in the middle, some had only half left, and some had less than half left.
As the saying goes, wind follows the dragon and clouds follow the tiger. These more than ten skins are all the skins of demon cultivators, mostly the skins of tiger demons, leopard demons and wolf demons.
Xu Changshou looked around and picked out two relatively complete and larger pieces of skin. Then he looked at Shopkeeper Ji and said, "Shopkeeper Ji, how much do you sell these damaged pieces of skin for?"
"Forehead……"
Shopkeeper Ji hesitated for a moment, then smiled and said, "Usually it's 30% off the regular price. Seeing that you're sincere, I'll give you 40% off."
"40% off..."
Xu Changshou frowned slightly, but he was very happy in his heart.
In his hands, these skins, compared with the intact skins, at most had a few fewer talismans cut into them, but the price was much cheaper.
For example, the skin of a tiger demon costs 18,000 yuan each, but with a 40% discount, it can be bought for just over 10,000 yuan.
However, this kind of damaged leather is not easy to sell. Xu Changshou feels that the price can be lowered.
So he said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Ji, I want two more. How about you give me a 50% discount? 60% is too expensive. Yours are incomplete."
"Fifty percent off...if it's fifty percent off, we'll lose money. Forget it, give it to a friend and I'll give you a fifty percent discount."
"Okay, thank you!"
Xu Changshou bowed and picked up a leopard demon skin and a smaller wolf demon skin.
These two pieces of skin were smaller than the previous two. Xu Changshou was running out of money and didn't dare to choose a bigger one.
"Have you chosen?"
"Okay, how much will you give me?"
"The tiger skins are all 18,000 each. These two tiger skins are 18,000 for you. The leopard skin is 16,000, so you will get 8,000. The wolf skin is 12,000, so you will get 6,000. The total is 32,000 spirit stones."
"it is good!"
Xu Changshou nodded and readily sorted out 32,000 spirit stones.
After collecting the leather, Xu Changshou left the fur shop.
Taking a look at his storage bag, Xu Changshou's heart was filled with bitterness.
At this time, he only had more than 5,000 spirit stones left.
Wealth has reached its lowest point.
However, Xu Changshou was not in a hurry and bought what he needed.
The Yuanling Pills are enough to last for two years. I don’t have to buy pills in these two years and can save some money.
After returning to his residence, Xu Changshou started to cut the leather without saying a word.
All four pieces of skin were cut into the size of talismans, and in the end, four hundred and eight pieces of skin were obtained.
Assuming there are 400 tickets, each worth 900 medium-grade spirit stones, if all are sold, Xu Changshou can earn 360,000.
The cost price was close to ten to one, so I made a lot of money.
It is more cost-effective to buy damaged leather.
Two years later, Xu Changshou had used up all his pills, but by then, he had already sold three hundred Wind-Tuan Talismans.
Adding the money earned from hard labor in the past two years, his wealth has accumulated to 310,000.
He left ten thousand yuan and used the remaining three hundred thousand yuan to buy three hundred Yuanling Pills.
Four years later, the Yuanling Pills were used up again. At this time, Xu Changshou had eaten 560 Yuanling Pills. At the same time, his wealth accumulated to 500,000.
He needed a total of one thousand Yuanling Pills to cultivate from the middle stage of the Nascent Soul to the late stage of the Nascent Soul. Xu Changshou calculated and bought another 4,400 Yuanling Pills, spending 440,000.
There were only 60,000 medium-grade spirit stones left, and all the money was spent again. However, fortunately, Xu Changshou finally managed to collect enough pills.
Although all the money I earned was spent over the years, it was converted into cultivation.
Another five or six years passed.
Xu Changshou's cultivation reached a bottleneck, and at the same time, his wealth accumulated to 600,000.
But he failed to break through and was stuck in that realm.
"Go sell enlightenment pills."
On his day off, Xu Changshou went to the inner city to buy the Enlightenment Pill, and then came back to find Li Ziyao.
"Senior Sister Li, I need to ask for leave."
"Ask for leave?"
Li Ziyao was a little surprised after taking a look at Xu Changshou. It had been twelve years since they took over the Three Thousand Miles construction project. During these twelve years, Xu Changshou had never asked for leave and had been fully present every month.
I can’t believe that such a hardworking person would suddenly ask for leave.
"I'm about to break through, so I need to ask for leave." Xu Changshou said with a smile.
"So you're about to break through. I'll give you a month off."
"Thank you, Senior Sister Li."
The laborers working here have no holidays, only days off. If they want to break through, they can ask for leave at any time.
The most important thing for a cultivator is to break through the realm, and any request for leave must be approved.
……
After leaving Li Ziyao's dojo, Xu Changshou went directly into the city.
If he wanted to break through, he had to find a safe place, and his original residence definitely wouldn't work.
My original residence didn’t even have a decent protective formation. It would be troublesome if my practice was interrupted.
Xu Changshou did not return to his own temple either. It was too far away and it would waste a lot of time going back and forth.
In the inner city, there is a place specifically for monks to break through, which is the post station.
The largest post station in the city is called Feilong Post Station. It is very expensive, costing one hundred medium-grade spirit stones a day.
Although it is expensive, it provides security. Each of their residences is not only rich in spiritual energy, but also has a solid formation that even a Divine Transformation cultivator cannot blow open. Of course, ordinary people do not dare to cause trouble at Feilong Station.
Those who come to live at Feilong Inn are either relatively wealthy people or cultivators who are about to break through.
There are tens of millions of cultivators in Mudong Divine City. Every day, there are cultivators who break through their realms. Most of those laborers choose to break through at Feilong Station.
For safety reasons, Xu Changshou paid three thousand medium-grade spirit stones in one go, which was enough for him to live for a month.
After returning to the room, taking a shower and changing clothes, Xu Changshou sat cross-legged and took the enlightenment pill.
"Om..."
After taking the enlightenment pill, Xu Changshou felt that the great Dao of the heavens descended into his body, and thousands of Daos were chanting, giving him a feeling of enlightenment.
In an instant, the clouds cleared and the sun came out, and Xu Changshou comprehended the third level of Taoism.
As expected of an enlightenment pill that cost 10,000 medium-grade spirit stones, its effect was so overwhelming that it allowed him to break through the level in an instant.
Click!
The next moment, the spiritual energy in Xu Changshou's body began to boil and was about to break through...