But she didn't care anymore.

Anyway, when business was booming before, she had already made a fortune and had already achieved this year's revenue target ahead of schedule.

In the second half of the year, she plans to temporarily stop the talisman business, focus on practice, and first reach perfection at the ninth level of Qi refining.

One night, she lay in Ni Kun's arms and told him her plans for the second half of the year. At the end, she said apologetically:

"Before the ninth level of Qi refining is completed, I can only get together with Ni Lang once a month..."

"It doesn't matter. As monks, we should put cultivation as our top priority."

Ni Kun gently stroked her tender skin and chuckled:

"When you reach the ninth level of Qi refining, I will give you a surprise."

Mei Jingshu's beautiful eyes were blurred, and a soft hum escaped her nose. Her mind was so dizzy that she didn't think about it at all. She just followed his words and murmured:

"Then I'll be waiting for your surprise..."

Ni Kun chuckled and said in her ear:

"Since the next time we get together will have to wait until January, sister must let my little brother have fun tonight. Sister, please..."

Hearing his whisper, Mei Jingshu's pretty face turned redder and redder. She gave him an annoyed look and rolled her eyes at him, but she still obeyed him. She pushed herself up, kissed his chest gently, and then moved her way down.

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Early the next morning, Ni Kun, who was having fun, sent Mei Jingshu away and started practicing again in high spirits.

I don’t know how long it will take to practice.

Soon more than two months passed, and with the help of the self-refined jade pill, Ni Kun was able to achieve success and smoothly advanced to the ninth level of Qi refining.

【Ni Kun】

Life span:30/240.

Kung Fu: Qing Emperor Sutra of Immortality [Nine levels of Qi refining, practice progress: 0%.]

Technique: Spirit Rain Technique...Hundred Flower Pill [Proficient], Wood Spirit Puppet Escape [Proficient]

Supernatural powers: Withering Twins [Dacheng], Dao Miao Tianyin [Introduction], Six Paths of Demonic Heaven [God-eating Heavenly Ghost (skilled), Youquan Xuehai (skilled)]

Variety: Alchemy [Proficient].

Potential points: 5.

After advancing to the ninth level of Qi Refining, Ni Kun's life span increased by another twenty-five years as expected, and his ultimate life span reached two hundred and forty years.

As for the monks who have completed their foundation building, their lifespan is only this long.

In addition, after such a long period of practice and understanding, Ni Kun's "Wood Spirit Puppet Escape" has also been promoted to the "Proficient" level. After using the Wood Spirit Puppet as a substitute for death, the distance of random teleportation has increased from the "entry" level of ten feet.

At twenty feet.

Other magical powers have not changed much.

After all, it is too difficult to practice magical powers.

If you rely solely on your own understanding and practice of magical powers other than "natal magical powers", it will take decades or even hundreds of years of unremitting practice to achieve greater improvement.

If you only practice it for a year or two, it will be great if you can make some slight progress.

However, the power of these two top-quality magical weapons, Qingyun Bell and Qinglong Whip, has been greatly improved after Ni Kun's long-term sacrifice. It's just the properties of foreign objects such as magical weapons, which Light Green has been too lazy to show - it only contains "green".

I am interested in the spiritual weapon with "potential point".

Advancing to the ninth level of Qi Refining is certainly worthy of a small celebration.

Unfortunately, today was not the day of his monthly gathering with Mei Jingshu, so Ni Kun left the courtyard alone for the first time, planning to go shopping in the market and have a meal in a restaurant.

He felt sorry for Mei Jingshu's difficulty in making money, and was reluctant to let her go to a restaurant to waste spiritual stones.

But he himself had no such concerns.

Without it, if you have money, you can afford to spend it.

Speaking of which, his current assets are no longer 100,000 spirit stones, but are gradually approaching 120,000.

After living in Xianfang for four or five months, he consumed so many materials and refined so many elixirs, but his net worth rose instead of falling. This was because he asked Zhao Xiulin to take a large number of magic tools, magic talismans, and elixirs for consignment in the shop.

Cash was gradually realized, and after excluding the expenses of alchemy, a net profit of more than 10,000 yuan was made.

If Ni Kun is willing to reveal his identity as an alchemist and sell goods without any worries, his net worth will rise even faster.

But doing so is bound to cause big trouble.

If the four major families find out about a wild alchemist with no background, they will use any means to force him to join a certain family, plant a ban on him, and use him as an alchemy machine.

Therefore, Ni Kun never sold the elixirs he refined that he could not use, but gave them to Zhao Xiulin and put them on consignment in a store under the name of the Xianyin Sect.

Although the shops under the name of the Xianyin Sect are now actually controlled by the four major families, with Zhao Xiulin's background, as long as she does not take over power and do nothing, and does not violate the fundamental interests of the four major families, she can earn some pocket money by selling some magic pills.

Money, the four major families will not do anything to her.

Ni Kun left the residential area and came to the shopping area. He saw people coming and going on the street. Lottery cultivators in various costumes were all over the street. He didn't feel more depressed than before - more than two weeks had passed since the Dulongling Golden Elixir Secret Realm incident.

It's been a month, and there are casual cultivators flowing into the Immortal Square every day. The impact of the death or disability of hundreds of Qi-refining casual cultivators has now been gradually smoothed over by time.

Having stayed at home for four or five months without leaving the house, Ni Kun was dazzled by the bustling city and was stunned for a while. Then he smiled to himself, put his hands behind his back, and merged into the crowd of people on the street. While strolling around, he habitually looked at the streets.

At the stall, the desire to pick up leaks is once again on the cards.

It's a pity that after walking around for a long time, I only found loneliness.

There was no result in picking up the leaks, but Ni Kun was not disappointed either.

Anyway, on the way to Chihuang Country, he also visited many casual repair shops and markets, and he was already used to finding nothing.

Despite this, he still held out some hope of finding the leak.

Picking up missing treasures is of course a small probability event.

But as long as it is not an absolutely zero-probability event, then as long as you insist on visiting the market several times a year in the long years to come, you may get lucky once in a while.

Of course, the premise is that you can live that long.

In this regard, Ni Kun is even more confident.

At the ninth level of Qi refining, he can have a life span of 240 years. When he builds the "Flawless Dao Foundation", how much more life span can he increase?

He also has the ability to save his life.

If even he cannot live forever, the other monks should all have short lives and die young.

After finishing shopping, Ni Kun went to the "Zui Xian Lou", the first famous building in Jiulian Xianfang, and ordered a table of good wine and food, and started eating and drinking happily.

When eating and drinking in a restaurant, in addition to enjoying delicious food, you can also enjoy gossip.

After all, no matter in the mortal world or the world of cultivators, restaurants, teahouses, and brothels are all places where gossip is spread widely.

So Ni Kun gathered his spiritual energy while eating and drinking, listening to the conversations of the restaurant diners, and filtering out useful information.

In fact, no one will discuss the real secrets in public.

If the information can be discussed loudly by the diners in the restaurant without covering up, and without fear of being heard by others, there is no confidentiality at all, and the authenticity is very doubtful.

But it is a kind of fun after all, and Ni Kun, who has been at home for too long, also enjoys this kind of fun.

After listening for a while, Ni Kun also heard a lot of rumors that were not true or false.

For example, an unknown Qi-refining casual cultivator accidentally fell into a secret realm where the world and the earth were self-generated while venturing deep into the Jiulian Mountains. He benefited greatly from it and his cultivation level increased dramatically.

A certain rich and beautiful female cultivator's Taoist companion died in the Dulongling secret realm. Several casual cultivators competed fiercely for people and wealth, and even agreed to fight at the Immortal Square Fighting Stage. But in the end, the female cultivator brought her with her.

Married into the Zeng family as a concubine...

A talented girl came out of the Han family. The ancestor of the Han family intended to send her to the Xianyin sect to practice. However, the girl loved swordsmanship and wanted to go to the main continent to join the Tianjian Sect to learn swordsmanship. She even planned to sneak out, but she ended up leaving the family.

He failed and was suppressed into the ancestral hall to face the wall and reflect on his mistakes.

Several young men from the four major families who had close friendships traveled together. They got into a dispute over a beautiful female nun and got into a fight. In the end, in order not to hurt the brothers' feelings, they killed the female nun and made them into corpse dolls for the brothers to enjoy together.

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The new boss, Zhao Xiulin, has been firmly manipulated by the four major families. After taking office for four or five months, she has not dared to make any move to seize power. She only hides in the boss's house every day to practice hard, and occasionally sells some elixirs to survive.

Master Zhao, the Fairy of the Immortal Yin Sect, who has an unusual temperament, is not a good womanizer and has not shown any respect to men. A handsome casual cultivator who did not want to work hard came to recommend himself, but Master Zhao beat him half to death and threw him out of the fairy workshop...

Well, there is really a lot of gossip about Zhao Xiulin, which makes Ni Kun overjoyed.

After listening to the messy gossip for a while, Ni Kun sifted out two pieces of news from among the many rumors that might have a certain degree of truth.

First, at this year's big auction, there may be a "top-quality foundation-building pill" that can increase the success rate of foundation-building by 50%. This rumor is so well-founded that it even has the origin of the top-quality foundation-building pill.

Ni Kun was half convinced and half doubtful.

The second is that there may be "inspection envoys" from the Xianyin Sect coming to Jiulian Xianfang this year.

The last time the Shangzong's inspection envoy came was more than a hundred years ago, when an old Jindan demon of unknown origin went crazy and openly attacked and plundered the fairy house. Therefore, the Shangzong sent a Jindan Realm true disciple to patrol and arrest him.

Since that time more than a hundred years ago, even ten years ago, when the previous head of the square died in Jiulian Mountain, the Sect has not sent any more inspection envoys.

There were many speculations about the purpose of Shangzong's inspection mission, but no one could tell the reason.
To be continued...