Border Town, a name that sounds a little bleak, is actually anything but.
Standing outside the Border City, other than the city walls being somewhat mottled and vicissitudes, this place was surprisingly bustling. Numerous beast carriages and flying beasts flowed endlessly. Most of the people coming and going carried weapons on their backs and carried a powerful aura around them.
Compared to ordinary mortal cities, cultivation cities had an extra something that was hard for people to say.
Mo Wuji walked into the gates of Border City with his pill refining equipment on his back, based on what he had enquired about, there were more than a dozen sects around Border City such as the Nine Spirit Sect, Thunder Cloud Sect, and Thousand Leaves Alliance, in addition to the Traceless Sword Sect.
The Traceless Sword Sect was not considered the strongest sect amongst these sects, and it was because of this that Yin Shanyin had urged Mo Wuji to offend as few people as possible.
The Border City had a large flow of people and there were many restaurants and inns. Mo Wuji quickly found a place to stay, the North Water Tavern. According to the fellow at the restaurant, the Bei Shui Restaurant was very close to the Border City Immortal Refinement Tower.
Despite being a cultivation city, Mo Wuji realised that the facilities of the Bei Shui Tavern were far inferior to the Tian Luo Tavern where he had stayed in Luoshui. It was a good thing that this tavern also charged gold coins, otherwise Mo Wuji wouldn’t really want to stay in. The spirit stones he had on him only added up to a hundred, and I heard that they were still lower grade spirit stones.
These one hundred spirit stones were mainly what he got at the Traceless Sword Mountain, apart from his guest dan master remuneration.
What made Mo Wuji slightly satisfied was that this restaurant had a specialised dan room. For guests staying in, the Dan Room was not necessarily meant to be used for alchemy, raising beast pets, smithing weapons, or other uses were all fine.
Mo Wuji didn’t want this specialised Dan Room for alchemy, he wanted it for refining medicinal liquid, he had even brought out the refining equipment. Mo Wuji’s intention was to refine pills at night and go to the Border City Immortal Refining Tower during the day to open up his veins, this would save the most time.
After placing his things in the restaurant room, Mo Wuji didn’t go to look at the Immortal Refining Tower first, since Yin Shanyin said that the Immortal Refining Tower had a Thunder Refining Room, then it must have one. The first thing he did was to go and purchase medicinal materials to prepare for the refining of the Vein Opening Pill Liquid. He only had a few bottles of Vein Opening Pill Liquid on him, and these few bottles of Vein Opening Pill Liquid were simply not enough for him to use.
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Border City being a cultivation city, and Mo Wuji having to purchase the lowest level medicinal materials, so he basically didn’t have to put in much effort, and after only spending two to three hours, he had already purchased all of the medicinal materials by evening, and this time, he had purchased thirty portions.
Refining the Vein Opening Medicinal Liquid was already considered a family affair for Mo Wuji, although refining this medicinal liquid did not require cultivation enhancement, Mo Wuji was now at the fourth level of Vein Expansion, and his energy was far better than before. In one night’s time, he had refined around fifteen bottles. Together with his original seven bottles, there were a total of twenty-two bottles of Vein Opening Medicinal Liquid on him at the moment.
When the sky dawned, Mo Wuji stopped refining the medicine and meditated and cultivated in place for two hours. After not sleeping all night, just cultivating for two hours, Mo Wuji was as refreshed as ever.
After simply eating something in the morning, Mo Wuji headed to the Border City Cultivation Tower with his twenty two bottles of Vein Opening Pill Liquid.
This time, with this kind of opportunity, Mo Wuji decided to open his veins to the maximum before going back to slowly cultivate.
For cultivators, opening up the meridians and spirit complexes was a matter of the Vein Expansion Stage, and once they advanced to the Spirit Building Stage, the spirit complexes in their bodies were basically fixed and would never be able to be opened up again. Unless one wasted their own cultivation and then did it again. Even an idiot would probably not do such a thing.
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In Mo Wuji’s opinion, Border City was a cultivation city, Border City Immortal Refinement Tower was the most famous place in Border City, and the plaza of the Refinement Tower must be huge in size.
It must at least be much more imposing than the Star River Imperial Capital Square, and only after Mo Wuji arrived outside the Immortal Refinement Tower did he realise that this Immortal Refinement Tower Square was nowhere near as big as the Star River Imperial Capital Square. The only thing that was shocking was the five big golden characters suspended at the periphery of the square, Border City Immortal Refinement Tower.
Because the square was slightly smaller, coupled with the fact that there were a lot of people coming and going, it made the place seem extraordinarily lively. In the middle of the square was a tower that was nearly forty to fifty feet tall, and because of this tower’s wide body, it made the tower look a little bloated.
Mo Wuji was used to seeing tall buildings on Earth, a forty to fifty feet tall tower was really nothing to him.
Approaching the edge of the tower, Mo Wuji saw a huge sign hanging at the entrance of the tower. The price of each cultivation room was written exhaustively on the sign, where Mo Wuji not only saw the Five Elements Cultivation Room that Yin Shanyin had mentioned, he also saw the Sword Refinement Room, Gravity Room, and Floating Room ……
Whether it was something that could be thought of or not, this one seemed to have it all. When Mo Wuji saw the prices behind these cultivation rooms again, that initial excitement subsided for the most part. The cheapest cultivation room in this place would cost more than ten spirit stones per day. The expensive ones even required more than a hundred, especially that sword cultivation room, which actually required three hundred lower grade spirit stones for a day of cultivation.
Mo Wuji hurriedly swept through these cultivation rooms roughly, and he quickly found the Thunder Refining Room.
When Mo Wuji saw the price of the Thunder Refining Room, he immediately sucked in a breath of cold air. It wasn’t calculated in terms of days, but in terms of hours of spirit stones. The price for each hour was twenty lower grade spirit stones, which meant that the spirit stones he had on him would only be able to allow him to cultivate in the Thunder Refinement Room for five hours, which was only ten hours.
After only a few seconds of hesitation, Mo Wuji resolutely walked into the Immortal Refinement Tower.
If he was alone, he would definitely continue to venture out in search of the six-legged thunder crocodile. Now that he had Smokey with him, one simply didn’t have the time to search for the thunder crocodile, and secondly, he didn’t want to risk his life when he had a choice. Spirit stones were something that could be earned, he was at least a second grade Human Pill Master now, and he had a batch of pills with him, these could be completely exchanged for spirit stones.
“I’m going to go to the Thunder Refinement Room to cultivate for an hour ……,” Mo Wuji said as he carefully took out twenty spirit stones and placed them in front of the window where the spirit stones were handed over.
He remembered an article he once learnt, which had this line, ‘Warm two bowls of wine and ask for a dish of fennel beans.’ Then he discharged nine big coins.
Mo Wuji suddenly deeply appreciated Kong Yiji’s feelings at that time, just like Old Kong’s nine big coins, these twenty spirit stones he discharged were just as precious to him.
“Bet one hundred spirit stones for the Thunder Refinement Room, how long you go in to cultivate, how many spirit stones will be counted, any more will be refunded to you.” A machine-like voice behind the window said.
Still need a deposit?
Seeing Mo Wuji’s bewilderment, a man beside him said, “Brother’s first time coming here to cultivate, right? All deposits are required here. You can apply for a jade token and then deposit a certain amount of spirit stones in it, and in the future, all you need to do to cultivate is to use the jade token.”
Mo Wuji hurriedly thanked him and took out all the hundred spirit stones inside his parcel. Luckily, he had exactly one hundred spirit stones left, otherwise would would have had to return the same way.
After handing over the hundred pieces of spirit stones, the window place soon handed Mo Wuji a jade token while a cold voice came out, “Insert the jade token in the groove out of the doorway, and when you come out, bring the jade token back to exchange it for the spirit stones, or make up the spirit stones.”
“Can this friend lend me three spirit stones, I only have ninety-seven spirit stones on me, the deposit is not enough. Don’t worry, I’m only cultivating for an hour, after I come out and collect the deposit, I’ll wait here for you to return your spirit stones.” A slightly childish voice rang in Mo Wuji’s ears, Mo Wuji turned around to see a teenager who was about thirteen or fourteen years old, with a clear brow was looking at him with an expectant face.
Obviously this teenager had just seen him handing over his spirit stones and thought that he had them on him.
From Mo Wuji’s experience, this teenager should really be lacking three spirit stones as his gaze was eager. If he had spirit stones on him, Mo Wuji would not mind actually lending the other party three spirit stones. Unfortunately, Mo Wuji indeed did not have any more spirit stones on him, he somewhat apologetically said to this teenager, “I’m really sorry, I happen to only have a hundred spirit stones on me.”
After saying this, Mo Wuji immediately saw several disdainful gazes.
A disappointed expression appeared in the teenager’s eyes, clearly he also thought that Mo Wuji’s were words of excuses. He turned his longing gaze to the surroundings, where no one spoke much.
“I’ll pay for these three spirit stones for you.” A slightly magnetic voice rang out, and then the three spirit stones were delivered to the teenager’s hands.
This was a young man, it was Mo Wuji who had to secretly praise this man for his good looks, not only was he handsome, his voice was also magnetic. Even without looking at his face, just looking at his pair of slender white palms would cause countless women to secretly admire him. If it was placed on Earth, it would be another guy who could rely on his face to eat.
Beside this handsome man was a beautiful woman, whose gaze swept from Mo Wuji with some slight contempt.
Mo Wuji shook his head, he didn’t care about this matter, and looked at the jade token in his hand, which read Thunder Refining Room 1.
