Shen Lian had a look of shame on his face, and said bitterly: "Senior Brother, this is absolutely unacceptable. Tang... If Senior Uncle Tang wants to find Senior Uncle Shen, he should go to the alchemy room. Senior Uncle Shen is usually there."

Tang Ning had been in the Herbal Medicine Department for decades and had many contacts with everyone in the Medicinal Medicine Department. Most of them were acquaintances, but she had never met the Foundation Establishment Monk in person. At most, she had only heard about it from others.

"Senior Brother Shen, you and I have known each other for decades, so why bother with this mere title! I have already been to the sect's alchemy room. Senior Brother Kexu from your department left the alchemy room yesterday, so I want to trouble you to take me there. Cultivation cave."

"In that case, please come with me!" Shen Lian said, flying away with his flying sword, and he had mixed feelings in his heart.

I think back when they first met, Tang Ning was just a fifth-level Qi Refining disciple, and at that time he was already a seventh-level Qi Refining monk. Now that Tang Ning has successfully built the foundation, he is still stuck at the ninth level of Qi Refining. Really? It can be said that fate plays tricks on people.

Tang Ning followed, and about half an hour later, she arrived in front of the cave door.

Shen Lian said: "This is Master Xu's cave."

"Thank you, Senior Brother Shen." Shen Lian smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly, did not answer, and left with Fei Jian.

Tang Ning waved his hand, and a transmission note flew through the thick fog into his cave. Not long after, a man with a round face walked out of the cave.

"Senior Brother Xu, I'm Tangning from the Intelligence Department. I'd like to ask you something. I heard that Senior Brother Xu is very good at refining alchemy. I want to buy some Vitality Pills from him to help me practice. I hope that Senior Brother will give me some." Tang Ning took the initiative and said.

Xu Wenyuan smiled and said: "Junior Brother Tang, you're welcome. Let's deal fairly. You give me the spirit stone and I deliver it. It's not a gift. I don't know how many Vitality Pills Junior Brother needs."

"Well, just give me twelve bottles first!"

Xu Wenyuan's eyes lit up, and he never thought that this monk from the Intelligence Department, who had never been masked and had never been masked, turned out to be a small rich man. He said with a smile: "Junior Brother Tang, please come with me! "

The two of them entered his cave one after the other.

"When did Junior Brother Tang build the foundation? It should be not long ago!"

"Yes, I just built the foundation a few days ago."

Xu Wenyuan took out twelve small black porcelain bottles from the cabinet in his main room and handed them to Tang Ning: "These are my spare elixirs. Since Junior Brother Tang is here, I will save you from a wasted trip. Junior Brother, please come back next time." To buy Vitality Pills, you can go to the Xiuyuan Peak. There is a wooden house with a sign from the Pill Department. It specializes in selling Foundation-Building Monk Pills. If you need spiritual weapons, formations, spiritual talismans, etc., you can also buy them. Buy it on that mountain. There are several shops there that specialize in selling the things we need as foundation-building monks. It can be considered a small market!"

"Oh? I didn't know that." Tang Ning took the porcelain bottle and randomly checked a few bottles. Seeing that each bottle contained thirty pills, she took out two high-grade spiritual stones from the storage bag and handed them to Xu Wenyuan.

Xu Wenyuan took the Lingshi and exclaimed: "Hey! High-grade Lingshi, this is rare. Our Xingang Ling Mine does not produce high-grade Lingshi."

Tang Ning didn't expect this, so she didn't make any secrets at the moment and said truthfully: "My wife gave this to me. She is originally from Xingang. Due to fate, she was accepted by a Xuanmen outside Xingang. This spiritual stone was hers a few years ago. It was left behind when you came to Xingang to look for me."

"Junior Brother Tang is such a blessed person!" Xu Wenyuan looked at him with envy after hearing this, as if he were looking at a pretty boy who was just eating soft food, which made Tang Ning feel quite unnatural.

"Twelve bottles of pills totaling 17,000 spiritual stones." Xu Wenyuan took out thirty middle-grade spiritual stones from his storage bag and handed them to him.

Tang Ning put away the elixir and spirit stone, thanked him, left his cave, and flew back to his own cave.

The gap between every major realm in the world of cultivation is an insurmountable gap between heaven and earth. Although there is only a thin line between the foundation building period and the perfection of Qi refining, the difference cannot be recorded in terms of Tao.

The spiritual power in the Qi Refining disciple's body still exists in the form of Qi, while the spiritual power in the Foundation Establishment monk's body has been transformed into liquid. The difference in spiritual power between the two is like that between a river and the sea.

Therefore, the spiritual power contained in the second-level elixir is greater than that of the first-level elixir, and the difference is also huge.

It is no exaggeration to say that the spiritual power contained in the Vitality Pill is almost ten times that of the Wanling Pill.

Therefore, there is also a huge disparity in price between the two.

The Wanling Pill only costs ten spiritual stones, but the Vitality Pill costs fifty spiritual stones. This is still within the sect. If it is in major cities, it cannot be obtained without sixty spiritual stones.

And elixirs are an indispensable cultivation resource for monks. Monks cannot do without elixirs during their practice. No matter how tight they are, they have to squeeze out some blood to buy elixirs. Otherwise, they can only rely on absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to refine them.

The results of four years may not be as good as the results of taking pills for one year.

The reason why Tang Ning was able to stand out among her peers in the sect and catch up from behind was that her financial resources were an indispensable part.

The strength of a sect mainly depends on its financial resources. The disciples of those large sects generally go further in their spiritual path than those of smaller sects. The reason for this is not only their own qualifications, but more importantly, their financial resources.

There is a lack of elixirs, talismans, magical implements and other cultivation resources.

Take Qian Yizong as an example. After Tang Ning was promoted to Foundation Establishment, his monthly salary increased to five hundred spirit stones, and he had nothing else. What could five hundred spirit stones do? It was just ten vitality pills, not even the most basic cultivation pills.

If you can't supply anything, how can you compete with the disciples of those great sects?

Not to mention that there are many other expenses besides elixirs to practice a religion.

He didn't know about other sects, but he knew a thing or two about the Taixuan Sect where Ruru belonged. All disciples' monthly practice pills were provided free of charge.

Foundation-building monks can receive a minimum monthly salary of five thousand spirit stones, plus additional subsidies from departments.

All disciples will be given a high-grade spiritual weapon, several spiritual talismans, and a set of formations as soon as they establish a foundation.

And after he established his foundation, the only spiritual weapon he had, the Cangmu Ruler, was the reward he received from the competition.

After returning to the cave, Tang Ning set up a small cloud and mist array around it, and worked hard for several hours. The hubs of the array were carefully constructed. After placing the spiritual stones, the small cloud and mist array took effect, and a steady stream of clouds and mist were generated on the array platform.

Cover the surrounding area of ​​his cave.

The sect is relatively safe, so no one will arrange a killing formation. At most, they will set up an illusion formation around the cave. Like Lu Xingxian and Kong Fanxing, the caves are also surrounded by cloud and mist formations.

It is mainly used to remind others that this is private territory and please take a detour. Any place shrouded in mist within the sect is the location of someone else's cave.

Three days later, while Tang Ning was meditating in the cave, suddenly the central disk in the storage bag on his waist trembled. He opened his eyes and picked it up, only to see a transmission note flying into the cave.

At one point on the array, he took the transmission talisman into his hand and injected spiritual power into the talisman. He only heard a man's voice ringing in his mind: Chen Lin, the director directly under the Secret Academy, paid a visit.

People in the direct department of the Secret Academy, shouldn't they contact Lu Xingxian if they have anything to do? Why should they contact themselves?

Tangning was a little confused. When she left the cave, she saw a tall man with a thick beard waiting at the door.

"Senior Brother Chen, I don't know if I can come to the shelter to ask for advice?"

"I learned that Junior Brother Tang successfully established the foundation, and the Secret Academy sent him a set of cultivation techniques." Chen Lin took out a note and handed it to Tang Ning. It read: Tang Ning, a disciple of the Information Department, has extraordinary qualifications and tireless practice.

You can go to the second floor of the Tibetan Sutra Pavilion to select a set of practice exercises.

The seal of the Secret Academy is stamped below.

"Thank you, Senior Brother Chen."

"You're welcome, Junior Brother Tang." Chen Lin took out a storage bag and said, "This is your salary for this year and I have brought it with you. I will go to the courtyard to collect it later."

"Thank you."

After Chen Lin finished explaining, she turned into a ray of light and left. Tang Ning looked at the article in her hand, thought for a moment, and turned into a ray of light and left, walking all the way through the mountains and ravines to the library pavilion.

When the disciples on duty at the Library Pavilion saw him, they quickly came to greet him and bowed: "Uncle, I don't know if I have any instructions for you when you come to the Library Pavilion."

Tang Ning handed him the articles: "This is the article of the Secret Academy."

"Uncle, please."

Tang Ning walked towards the second floor. Halfway there, she suddenly remembered something and turned around and asked, "Is there a secret recipe for elixirs on the first floor of this Buddhist Scripture Pavilion?"

"Yes, uncle." The disciple replied

"Please look for it for me. I want all the prescriptions. I'll come downstairs to get them later."

"yes."

When crossing the last wooden step, the whole person seemed to have passed through a layer of water curtain, and his eyes suddenly opened up.

Tangning had been here once before and knew it was a space magic circle, so she wasn't too surprised. The Nuo Dazhu Pavilion could not be seen to the end at a glance, and there were only two or three figures moving in the room.

Tang Ning came to a row of bookshelves and flipped through the books. There were a variety of exercises in the bookcases. He spent half a day choosing them, but there was nothing he particularly liked. Each exercise has its own merits.

It wasn't until he came to a bookstore marked with ancient ancient books and opened a book called Shenyouyizhuanjue that he felt quite satisfied.

Opening the first chapter of this exercise, I saw it reads: All things in heaven and earth are born, transforming into yin and yang, and divided into male and female. The male carries yin and faces yang, and the female carries yang and faces yin... In one thought, he can travel thousands of miles in an instant.

Yun Lingxiao, along with creation, goes upstream to the Gate of Freedom, downstream to the Wilderness of Nine Heavens, and back and forth to Wuji. This book is a book about the art of cultivating spiritual consciousness, which can strengthen spiritual consciousness and expand the sea of ​​consciousness.

In the world of spiritual practice, most of them are supernatural powers and techniques. The practice of spiritual consciousness is rare and very rare. Tang Ning came here twice and flipped through so many books on techniques. This was the first one he encountered.

Techniques related to cultivating the Book of Divine Consciousness.

But the biggest problem with this first-level divine movement skill is that it is not perfect. It only has the first three levels of exercises. Each level corresponds to a realm. It only describes the cultivation method to the golden elixir realm. The following is

there is none left.

Logically speaking, it is enough for the current Tang Ning.

But what to do after that? It will not be easy to switch to other methods of spiritual consciousness at that time. Monks can choose a variety of techniques to practice, but generally they can only choose one method.
Chapter completed!