Zhao Di called the Ling Dan medicine with extremely strong medicinal effects after being cultivated by Xiao Ding "Super Dan".

  The spiritual power contained in the "Super Pill" is truly astonishing. During the Qi Refining stage, fifth layer, it took Zhao Di a whole day and night to refine an ordinary Clear Spirit Pill, while refining a Super Clear Spirit Pill would take seven days and seven nights. Moreover, that Super Pill seemed to be particularly effective in breaking through the bottlenecks of the Qi Refining stage. Every time he felt his cultivation had reached a bottleneck and was about to break through to a higher level, taking a Super Pill would allow him to advance smoothly and effortlessly.

  At this almost non-stop cultivation speed, and with hardly any time wasted on bottlenecks, in just over three years, his cultivation soared from the fifth layer of the Qi Refining stage to the eleventh layer, making him a high-ranking Qi Refining stage cultivator.

  At this time, Zhao Di felt that the Flowing Clouds City was no longer suitable for him to continue his cultivation. He needed to change places and continue cultivating. This place had already been chosen in Zhao Dis heart. Next, he spent almost a year preparing for this aspect.

  Since Zhao Di was fifteen years old and entered Liuyunfang City, he had unknowingly stayed in it for six or seven years. During this period, although he never left the city, he also gained a deeper understanding of the Xianxia world of Jin Yan Guo through rumors and hearsay.

  In recent years, the cultivation world of Jin Yan country seems to be getting more and more turbulent. There have been many cases of lone low-level cultivators being secretly killed for their wealth, and even some small families and minor sects being exterminated overnight. Although such things have happened before, they seem to be getting worse in recent years. Rumors say that the cultivation world of neighboring countries is also experiencing similar turmoil, and its somehow related to the struggle between orthodox and demonic cultivators. In short, the current Jin Yan countrys cultivation world, especially for low-level cultivators, has a sense of insecurity.

  Although Zhao Dis cultivation has improved extremely quickly, the means of preserving his life and saving himself have not become richer. Previously, he had always stayed within the Flowing Clouds City, which was fine. Now that he needs to leave the city, he must make some detailed preparations.

  Especially since he has a high-ranking spirit stone and the Qian Kun treasure tripod, without any means, isnt he prepared to be killed and robbed of his treasures at any time?

  Try to be low-key, and you wont attract the attention of foundation-building monks or above, but you must have the ability to protect yourself in front of high-ranking monks in the refining stage.

  The simplest and most useful thing is to get a few good magical tools, but the refining of magical tools is also a very profound profession, just like refining elixirs and making talismans. Without two or three years of experience, its probably very difficult to make one or two good magical tools.

  Liuyunfang City also sells various ready-made magic tools, but most of them are medium and low-grade magic tools. Occasionally, there will be one or two high-grade magic tools, which are snapped up by some "noble" cultivators in the Refining Qi stage, with prices reaching as high as 700 to 800 or even over 1,000 spirit stones. Although Zhao Di is not short of spirit stones, he doesnt dare to buy any either.

  In his previous life, Zhao Di, who was a poor student, thought that one of the most painful things in the world was not having money to spend. Now, Zhao Di thinks that having money but not daring to spend it is equally painful.

  Although the low-grade artifact is cheap, Zhao Di can no longer see it and can only use a mid-grade artifact for now. When Zhao Di dressed up as a Dou Peng cultivator, he had bought two mid-grade artifacts. One was an all-purpose copper ring that could both attack and defend. The other was a black shield called Xuan Wu Shield, which was actually a pretty good defensive artifact, each costing him one middle-grade spirit stone.

  Apart from these two magical tools, Zhao Di also picked up his old trade - talisman-making again.

  After reaching the 11th level of Qi Refining, Zhao Di found that learning intermediate-level Qi Refining techniques such as "Fire Snake Technique", "Golden Shield Technique", "Wooden Armor Technique" and "Earth Spike Technique" became especially easy. With sufficient spiritual energy, he only needed to comprehend them slightly, and after a certain number of attempts, he quickly grasped them roughly, and it would only take some time to practice before he could use the techniques proficiently.

  Having mastered the intermediate magic, its time to try making intermediate talismans. This time, Zhao Dis attempt at making intermediate talismans can be described as crazy. Without considering the cost of materials like talisman paper and dan sand, there was no need to worry about failure. Moreover, whenever he felt his spiritual energy was a bit insufficient, he would extravagantly use high-grade spirit stones to meditate and recover his energy. As a result, Zhao Di only needed to continuously release magic and make talismans non-stop. In this intense practice, after experiencing thousands of failures, Zhao Di finally managed to raise the success rate of making intermediate talismans to around 20%, also obtaining over a hundred various intermediate talismans. Apart from that, occasionally in the marketplaces, there would be a few high-grade talismans for sale at prices reaching as high as twenty or thirty spirit stones each, which Zhao Di also extravagantly purchased a few of.

  With these talismans, Zhao Di felt that he should be able to protect himself, but it was still not enough. Given his increasingly cautious nature, having a few more tricks up his sleeve was also necessary.

  Before he left Liuyunfang City, it happened to be the time of the triennial Flowing Cloud Mountain Trade Fair.

  This conference is mainly aimed at high-ranking cultivators in the Qi Refining stage and foundation-building initial-stage cultivators. Therefore, the organizer will take out quite a few good things. Zhao Di was really looking forward to this trading conference, he planned to still disguise himself as an ordinary cloak cultivator, after attending the trading conference, follow the crowd of people who dispersed together to leave Liuyunfang City.

  Its likely that at the time, the area around Flowing Clouds City was frequently visited by cultivators coming and going. Those thieving cultivators who specialized in targeting lone cultivators to steal their treasures could only temporarily avoid the area.

  Unfortunately, the auction house indeed had many good items for sale, such as high-quality artifacts, but they were all sold through public bidding, and the final prices were even higher than usual. Even Zhao Di, who was disguised, did not dare to participate in the bidding.

  It is said that on the last day of the Trading Conference, there will be an auction specifically for Foundation Building cultivators, and the items to be auctioned are all spiritual medicines and artifacts that can only be used during the Foundation Building period. It is also rumored that a top-grade artifact will be among the items up for auction. However, this auction is only open to Foundation Building cultivators who have qualified to participate, and Zhao Di doesnt even have the chance to go in and take a look.

  Although they didnt get to bid on the popular items provided by the host, it was clear that during the trading session, many high-ranking cultivators set up stalls, and even a few foundation-building cultivators also set up shop. Zhao Di didnt miss a single stall and eventually managed to buy several things as he had hoped.

  One of them was a medicinal pill beneficial for his future cultivation - the Marrow Cleansing Pill. This type of pill was rarely sold in the market, but this time there were several stalls selling it, and Zhao Di didnt let the opportunity slip away, buying two or three pills from each stall.

  Another item was a scale armor, and the stall owner was a senior from the foundation-building period. The senior said that he had hunted down a first-class upper-stage demon beast, the fire-swallowing python, and found that its abdominal scales were particularly hard, and ordinary knives and swords could hardly pierce them, but they were also light and soft, so he made this scale armor on a whim. If worn on the body, it can defend against some ordinary knife and sword attacks, and the price is 100 spirit stones, which is equivalent to the price of an ordinary mid-grade artifact.

  The monks all have defensive magic tools and defensive shields that are more effective at protecting the whole body, so this scale armor didnt sell for a while.

  Zhao Di saw this thing and liked it very much, without hesitation he bought it. For him, this was a lifesaver, the most effective way to deal with sneak attacks.

  The last item also came from a Foundation Establishment cultivator, a pair of light and soft boots made from the feathers of several avian demon beasts. It was an artifact that could increase the speed of walking and running by nearly half when worn. For a Foundation Establishment cultivator, this artifact was really useless. After all, they could freely cast the Flight Technique and were usually flying around in the sky, so these boots had almost no use. But for Zhao Di, who was about to embark on a long journey, these boots were very useful, and he boldly spent 200 spirit stones to buy them, giving them a nice name - Hundred Feather Boots.