Chapter Fourteen: The Unshakeable Body, The Mysterious Seal Formation

  The young master lost his smile, he also thought it was impossible. Dan Master is a respected and admired profession, even if only refining the primary spiritual elixir of entry-level Dan Masters, would not fall to the point of selling herbs on Freedom Street. Especially from the voice can be heard, the person in front of him is relatively young, if already a Dan Master, naturally has influence willing to recruit and cultivate.

  "Even if you're not a Dan master, you're no ordinary person," the young nobleman said with a smile. "I'll take this 'Nine-Petaled Orchid'. Consider it a token of our friendship. Lai Feng, pay him."

  The guard who was wielding the Wind Xuan Ling Snake responded with a sound, took out a small purse from his bosom, retrieved a round coin that shone with golden light, and placed it on the bluestone slab.

  "Wing Tiger Coin!" Next to him, Li Lao Hu, the owner of stall No. 96, stared with wide eyes and a shocked face.

  One Winged Tiger Coin can be exchanged for ten Swift Leopard Coins, which is equivalent to one hundred Pale Wolf Coins.

  Xu Yang was somewhat surprised. One Winged Tiger coin was enough for a family of three to live comfortably for a year, with no worries about food or clothing. The other party had paid such a high price for the Nine-Petaled Orchid, which seemed a bit too much.

  It's not that the nine-petaled orchid is bad, it's just that this particular one only has three colors, which makes its grade a bit too low. Even if it had one more color, its value would increase tenfold or even a hundredfold.

  "This orchid is only worth fifty canglang coins," Xǔ Yáng said calmly, looking up, "Young master bought it with a winged tiger coin, what a loss."

  Young Master Haha smiled: "It's nothing, just consider us friends. My name is Li Wang, and I live in the north of the city. Don't feel like you owe me a favor, business is mutually beneficial, and we're both getting a fair deal."

  As he spoke, Young Master Li Wang took a step forward, and the two guards followed closely behind.

  Li Laohu, the butcher next door, had already rolled his eyes and gazed at Xu Yang's half-face exposed under her straw hat, feeling both envy and jealousy.

  Xu Yang put away the golden Wing Tiger coin and started packing up his stall.

  "Damn it, what a dog's luck." Li Lao Hu cursed in a low voice. He had been busy for a month and hadn't even made a single Xun Bao coin, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of frustration.

  To know from start to finish, the young man with a bamboo hat only said one sentence "Why bother being sarcastic", and then ignored him, as if he was just a clown who had been talking non-stop all along. The Winged Tiger coin was like a ruthless slap in the face of Li Lao Hu.

  Xu Yang went to the money house and exchanged that Winged Tiger coin for one hundred Cang Lang coins. The clinking sound of the coins in his pouch made him feel a sense of substantiality, which also calmed his mind quickly.

  Xu Yang then returned to Freedom Street and bought several things he had already looked at, spending over a dozen Cyan Wolf Coins before heading home.

  "Brother, you're back?" The time had already reached noon, and Xu Yu softly called out, "It's time to cook..."

  "I bought some grains and cut a few pounds of beast meat," Xǔ Yáng said lightly, "Hmm", and said, "Little sister, here are fifty Qīng Láng coins, you take them to use." He shook his hand and threw a beast skin wallet to Xǔ Yú.

  Xu Yu took the pouch and responded casually, only reacting after a breath: "Wh-what? Fifty Silver Wolf Coins?"

  Xu Yu hastily opened the pouch and found that it indeed contained fifty coins with wolf heads engraved on them. She was shocked: "Brother, where did you get so much money?"

  Xu Yu's expression was one of shock and fear, as if Xu Yang had done something terrible. Xu Yang couldn't help but laugh, but soon felt touched by his little sister's concern for him.

  Xu Yang rubbed his nose, turned around and faced away from Xu Yu, saying: "What are you thinking about? I brought some medicinal herbs back from the Giant Python Mountains, selling them earned me this money."

  Xu Yu believed her brother, but she still handed the purse back to Xu Yang: "Brother, you must need money for your cultivation, so it's most suitable for you to take this."

  Hearing his ten-year-old sister's sensible words, Xu Yang let out a sigh and turned around to hold Xu Yu's thin small hand: "Listen, brother promises that in the future he will earn more money, we won't have to worry about it again."

  Xu Yu's bright eyes looked at Xu Yang, and under the latter's insistence, she finally accepted the animal skin pouch.

  "Uh, okay..." Xǔ Yú held the money bag and walked to the head of the bed in small steps. She hid the money bag in the bedside cabinet and sat on the bed, muttering to herself, "I need to go to the rice shop to buy a bag of rice, I'll buy it from Luo Cang's store, they give generous quantities; also need to go to the fabric store to buy two bolts of cloth, for brother to make clothes..."

  Seeing ten-year-old Xu Yu counting on her fingers, planning the expenses of this small family, Xu Yang's eyes became somewhat moist. He let out a long sigh and quietly walked out of the house.

  "The necessary materials are all ready, let's start... Within ten days, the Huoyun Taoist sect's ascetic team will return to Lin Yuan City, and the people of Qimen Taoist sect will also learn about the annihilation of the ascetic team soon. Before that, I must first have the ability to protect myself."

  Xu Yang's face was solemn, he measured the length and width of the dilapidated courtyard with his feet, silently calculating the position, and finally dug a one-foot deep hole at each of the eight positions.

  "Brother, what are you doing?" Xǔ Yóu walked out of the house and saw Xǔ Yáng digging a hole, and hastily asked.

  After putting down the last shovel of soil, Xu Yang stood up and said: "Xiao Yu, bring the engraving knife from inside the house."

  The clever Xǔ Yóu didn't ask any more questions and quickly walked back into the house, taking out the engraving knife that her brother had bought this time.

  Xu Yang half-knelt on the ground, placing eight pieces of pale yellow peach wood boards, each half a foot square, on the ground, and drew fine red lines on them with a vermilion brush.

  A wisp of fragrance, eight pale yellow wooden boards, all had already depicted mysterious and strange patterns. Xu Yang gently let out a breath, took over the engraving knife, and began to carve along these trajectories.

  This is one of Xu Yang's prepared trump cards, the Xiao Xuan Forbidden Array!

  That young master named Li Wang misjudged Xu Yang's identity, and Xu Yang not only knew how to refine pills but also had knowledge of forging instruments and refining talismans that far surpassed his contemporaries.

  Refining elixirs, crafting artifacts, and refining talismans require not only knowledge but also precise control over the mysterious energy and immense mental power. Xu Yang, who came from a later era where the mysterious energy was scarce, had long been accustomed to extracting it from the dry heavens and earth. In terms of controlling the mysterious energy, he could be considered one of the strongest in his class, even surpassing some mystics.

  As for spiritual power, this mysterious power, Xu Yang didn't understand it very well either. However, after crossing over, his spiritual power became much stronger, perhaps due to the fusion of souls.

  With these conditions, Xu Yang, although just a Xuantu, already has the ability to set up this Human Stage Formation.

  Xu Yang's arranged Small Mysterious Forbidden Array can make all the mysterious scholars within its range unable to use any mysterious powers! Even a master of the mysterious at the level of a mysterious teacher will be affected.

  Xu Yang recalled that the first Xuan Shi he killed was Hong Xi, who had lost his Xuan Li and was as weak as a toothless tiger, allowing Xu Yang to deliver the fatal blow.

  The last stroke of engraving was completed, and Xu Yang turned the starry sea, pouring a stream of mysterious energy into the profound symbol trajectory.

  A faint light flashed, and the eight peach wood boards lit up one after another, as if they had come to life, resonating with each other.

  "How beautiful!" Yu exclaimed in surprise.

  Xu Yang smiled slightly and buried the eight activated runes in the pre-dug holes.

  The last piece of peach blossom wooden board was buried, and Xu Yang took out a wooden sign engraved with the word "Forbidden" from his pocket, and infused Xuan Neng into it.

  In an instant, the entire courtyard was enveloped in a faintly discernible sealing power. Xu Yang and Xu Yu had not yet developed their spiritual energy, so they couldn't feel this sealing power. However, if a cultivator were to enter, he would be shocked to discover that his proud spiritual energy seemed like stagnant water, having lost all sensation.

  Xu Yang withdrew the Xuan energy from the "Jin" character wooden sign, and instantly the sealing power dissipated. This wooden sign was the starting hub of the Small Xuan Sealing Array.

  At noon, she ate rice and fragrant game meat. Xu Yu savored every bite, exclaiming how delicious it was, with her small mouth covered in grease.

  "Slow down, I'm not competing with you," Xuyang said with a smile, now more and more like an older brother. "There will be even more delicious food later, and I'll make sure to fatten you up nice and plump."

  Xu Yu's small mouth was full of rice and meat, and she muttered unclearly, then devoted herself to the business of devouring her meal.

  Xu Yang got up after eating his fill.

  "Although I now have the Small Xuanjin Formation, it is still not enough to defeat a Xuan Master. Last time, I was able to kill Hong Xi purely because he was too careless," Xu Yang's eyes gleamed, "So, I want to cultivate a secret method that strengthens my body and enhances my close combat skills."

  "Tianpeng Transformation" enhances speed, "Mangniu Jing" enhances strength, and "Xiangwang Dali Shentong" both enhances strength and physique... After searching through the strange skills and secret techniques in his mind, Xu Yang helplessly discovered that although the divine skills were good, they also required a sufficient foundation to cultivate. With his current mid-stage Xiantu realm strength, even the lowest requirement of "Mangniu Jing" was quite difficult for him.

  Moreover, practicing "Mangniu Jing" can strengthen the punching power, but the physical defense ability has not been significantly improved. For Xuyang who urgently needs to improve his anti-strike ability, "Mangniu Jing" is not the best choice.

  Finally, Xu Yang's mind was fixed on a defensive mysterious technique.

  "Rock-solid physique!"

  This is a purely defensive Xuan technique that reinforces the physical body, requiring Tu Ji Xuan practitioners to cultivate it. As for Xu Yang, who has achieved balance in all eight levels, he naturally wouldn't lack Tu Ji Xuan energy.

  This "Boulder Body" technique, although it is only a lower-grade human-tier mystic art, it is the starting chapter of an even more powerful defensive mystic art, that is the heavenly-tier upper-grade mystic art, "Adamantine Unbreakable Body"!

  However, cultivating this mysterious skill requires some medicinal herbs to assist, among which the most important one is a low-grade spiritual medicine "Chi Xiu Root", although its value can't compare with that of the rare spiritual medicine "Three-colored Nine-petaled Orchid", but low-grade spiritual medicines are still low-grade spiritual medicines after all. Chi Xiu Root at least costs twenty Silver Wolf Coins to buy.

  Moreover, in a place like Freedom Street where the good and bad are mixed together, it's really too difficult to buy a truly high-quality spiritual medicine. Xu Yang's gaze had already turned towards the north of the city.

  There is the largest trading floor in Lin Yuan City, Qian Bao Pavilion!