Old Five is a Goose.
Chapter 537 I Didn't Move
Mo Wuji said lightly, "There are many things you don't expect."
Mo Wuji didn't want to associate with someone like Chen Jushan. It was mainly because he wasn't Mu Rongxiangyu's husband, and he didn't have any good feelings for Mu Rongxiangyu. If he was really Yan Ye, or had even a little bit of affection for Mu Rongxiangyu, Mo Wuji would have returned the punch that Chen Jushan used to seriously injure Mu Rongxiangyu.
Even if Chen Jushan was unhappy with Mo Wuji, there was nothing he could do.
The fog outside the main hall appeared a little strange, and Mo Wuji could feel the danger within it. After setting up the protective array for the main hall, he immediately found the best location in the hall to set up a small protective array, while also constructing a concealment array within the protective array.
In such a dangerous place, there was no need to be polite.
Seeing Mo Wuji find a good spot in the main hall, set up a protective array and a concealment array, and then enter it, the others followed suit.
Although the main hall was large, more than two hundred people simultaneously searching for a spot quickly divided up all the space in the main hall. Some of the weaker cultivators could only stay near the array gate at the entrance of the main hall.
Gu Zizjian walked up to Mu Rongxiangyu and said, "Xiangyu, before, my strength was really not enough to stand up for you. I originally said I would take a share and give it to you later, but I didn't expect that I wouldn't have to do it."
Even if Mu Rongxiangyu's emotional intelligence was poor, it wouldn't be so poor that she couldn't figure this out. She looked at Gu Zizjian indifferently and said, "Then thank you, Senior Brother Gu."
After saying this, she directly placed a concealment restriction on the location she occupied. Even though Chen Jushan was not in Mo Wuji's eyes, and was even very afraid of Mo Wuji, Chen Jushan was not afraid of her. Moreover, she always felt several divine senses faintly surrounding her. Once Mo Wuji wasn't here, she was afraid that she would be divided up by others in an instant.
Therefore, after Mo Wuji chose a location, she immediately chose a location next to Mo Wuji's.
Seeing that Mu Rongxiangyu didn't say much to him this time, a trace of gloom appeared in Gu Zizjian's eyes. He didn't continue to waste words, and also placed a concealment restriction on the spot he chose.
Mo Wuji couldn't find a way to leave this place for the time being, and neither could other cultivators.
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As soon as Mo Wuji entered the concealment restriction, he took out Immortal Marrow Crystals and began to cultivate. He soon discovered that the cultivation speed with Immortal Marrow Crystals was indeed very fast. Unfortunately, he had too few Immortal Marrow Crystals, only a little more than three hundred. Even if all these Immortal Marrow Crystals were used up, it might not be enough for him to enter the mid-stage of Mysterious Immortal.
Since there was no way to leave here for the time being, Mo Wuji could only sigh and stop cultivating, taking out a pile of Grade 5 Immortal Spiritual Herbs and beginning to refine pills.
More than a month later, Mo Wuji put away his pill furnace with a somewhat unpleasant expression. His Grade 5 and Grade 6 Immortal Spiritual Herbs were almost used up. He could now refine Grade 5 Top-Grade Immortal Pills, but in more than a month, he had consumed nearly a thousand Grade 6 Immortal Spiritual Herbs, and only refined Grade 6 Low-Grade Immortal Pills. It was still the easiest Grade 6 Immortal Rain Pill to refine. There was still a long way to go before he could refine Grade 6 Top-Grade Immortal Pills.
As for refining Grade 7 Immortal Pills, that was too far away...
Since learning pill refining and opening up his own Pill Dao, Mo Wuji had not encountered any difficulties in advancing his Pill Dao. It was just that when advancing from a Grade 4 Pill King to a Grade 5 Pill King, he consumed more. But that was not as much as the consumption to advance to a Grade 6 Pill King. Moreover, he couldn't be considered a Grade 6 Pill King yet.
Mo Wuji thought of his cultivation path. Before advancing to Celestial Immortal, his cultivation path was smooth sailing. The most difficult thing was actually when he was opening up his meridians. After the meridians were opened, he never encountered any bottlenecks in his cultivation again.
If he had to say a bottleneck, it was that his resources were always not enough. As long as he had enough resources, he could advance to a higher level.
It was because of this idea that he was careless when he advanced to Celestial Immortal, and didn't even prepare any Crossing Calamity Pills. As a result, he almost failed to advance to Celestial Immortal. Or rather, if he hadn't been lucky and encountered the Three-Eyed Vulture that framed him, he would have already failed.
After that, he prepared a large number of Immortal Pills and resources for each advancement. Even when he advanced to Mysterious Immortal, he used six Top-Grade Crossing Profound Pills at once. It could be said that if he wasn't a Pill King himself, who could take pills like him? If it were another cultivator, they would be directly stuck at Golden Immortal. Or they would work hard to prepare and collect Crossing Profound Pills.
Thinking of this, Mo Wuji became vigilant. The first time he encountered a problem when advancing to Celestial Immortal was overcome by him, but he didn't pay attention to it. And afterwards, because he was a Pill King, each advancement came naturally. In fact, there was a huge hidden danger in this. It was so difficult for him to advance to Mysterious Immortal, so how should he advance to Grand Essence Immortal or even Immortal King?
Was it really enough to have enough cultivation resources?
This time, when impacting the Grade 6 Pill King, the same problem as when advancing to Celestial Immortal reappeared, which was a wake-up call for Mo Wuji. He discovered that whether it was his cultivation path or his Pill Dao path, it would stagnate to a certain extent, and then become more and more difficult.
Advancing to Mysterious Immortal required six Crossing Profound Pills, how many Grand Essence True Pills would be needed to advance to Grand Essence Immortal? Ten or a hundred? Then what about advancing to Grand Zenith Immortal, Grand Luo Immortal?
Mo Wuji didn't even dare to think about it. Even if he used a basket of pills, what if he succeeded in advancing? As a pill refiner, Mo Wuji knew better than anyone else about the side effects of pills.
Pills would form pill toxins, and taking too many pills was not a good thing. It would even converge the spiritual meridians and weaken the spiritual roots and comprehension.
Whether it was due to insufficient Immortal Spiritual Herbs or insufficient cultivation that he failed to advance to Grade 6 Pill King, Mo Wuji didn't want to try again. To use nearly a thousand Grade 6 Immortal Spiritual Herbs to advance to Grade 6 Pill King and still fail, it was estimated that no pill refiner except those who were extremely wealthy would be so extravagant.
He used less than three hundred Immortal Spiritual Herbs to advance to Grade 5 Pill King, and nearly a thousand to advance to Grade 6 Pill King and still failed. So how many Grade 7 Immortal Spiritual Herbs would be needed to advance to Grade 7 Pill Emperor? Don't say thousands, just a thousand would be enough to bankrupt an ordinary sect.
And the gap between a Grade 7 Pill Emperor and a Grade 6 Pill King was not comparable to the distance between a Grade 6 Pill King and a Grade 5 Pill King. The difficulty might be hundreds or thousands of times greater.
Mo Wuji sighed. He had spoken too broadly before. No wonder Pill Emperors were so rare and so precious. It turned out that the difficulty of advancing to Pill Emperor was simply beyond his imagination.
After cleaning up a little, Mo Wuji walked out of the concealment array.
As soon as he came out, Mo Wuji was a little stunned. He knew that there were more than two hundred and thirty people in this main hall, but now there were only twenty people in the main hall.
Where were the others? Mo Wuji's spiritual sense penetrated out, and the fog outside was still there?
"Senior Brother Mo, you've come out of seclusion." A young cultivator of medium build and ordinary appearance saw Mo Wuji come out and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.
Mo Wuji asked doubtfully, "Fellow Daoist Zuo, why are there only these people? Where are the others?"
Mo Wuji knew Zuo Yixian, he was from the Eternal Ying Immortal Domain, and a very good person. The main reason he was able to obtain more than fifty Grade 7 Immortal Spiritual Herbs was because Zuo Yixian stood up to help him speak.
"The fog here will dissipate after a period of time. The others left after seeing the fog dissipate," Zuo Yixian quickly explained.
"Then why are you still here?" Mo Wuji was even more puzzled. He could understand why Mu Rongxiangyu didn't leave. Mu Rongxiangyu had the Seven Chapters of the Luo River Book, and she didn't dare to leave alone at all. He didn't quite understand why the others didn't leave.
Zuo Yixian waved his hand, and the rest of the cultivators gathered around. Then he said to Mo Wuji, "These are all cultivators from our Eternal Ying Immortal Domain. Except for some people who followed Gui Yi of the Supreme Dao Sect, there are also some who stayed behind and are willing to follow me. I was thinking of saying hello to you after you came out of seclusion, but I didn't expect that the fog would dissipate and then quickly return. Afterwards, this fog still dissipates sometimes and recovers sometimes. None of those who left have been able to come back. We are fortunate that we haven't left yet, otherwise, maybe we wouldn't be able to come back either."
Mo Wuji instantly understood what Zuo Yixian meant. If Mu Rongxiangyu didn't leave because she didn't dare to leave alone, then Zuo Yixian didn't leave because he was worried that he would be in seclusion and not know that everyone else had left. He was here to protect him.
Mo Wuji patted Zuo Yixian on the shoulder and said, "Thank you, I, Mo Wuji, have made this friend. I still have some face in the Spiked Corner Immortal Ruins, and I also opened a small pill store in the Spiked Corner Immortal Ruins called the Heavenly Secrets Pill Pavilion. If Fellow Daoist Zuo needs any help in the future, go to the Heavenly Secrets Pill Pavilion to find me."
Hearing Mo Wuji's words, Zuo Yixian said excitedly. No matter what Mo Wuji's background was, Mo Wuji's performance had already let Zuo Yixian know that even his father, Zuo Qianwei, the City Lord of Peng Hai Immortal City, might not have Mo Wuji's reputation in the Spiked Corner Immortal Ruins. Making friends with a friend with such a strong background, wouldn't that be great for him?
"Everyone, don't worry. Others can walk out, and I can take everyone out. Staying here is indeed not a long-term solution. Let me take a look first," Mo Wuji said to the surrounding cultivators again with cupped fists.
After saying that, Mo Wuji walked to the location of the array gate. Before he opened the protective array, he saw that the fog outside was receding like a tide.
Some corpses of dead cultivators appeared on the ground. From those clothes, Mo Wuji could see that many of these dead cultivators were those who had shared the Immortal Marrow Crystals with him before. Now they had all turned into corpses.
Without exception, the rings on these cultivators' bodies had disappeared.
"Brother Mo, the fog here is like this. It will recede after a period of time, and then it will come back soon," Zuo Yixian saw that Mo Wuji was observing the outside and walked up to him and said.
Because Mo Wuji had made him a friend, he directly changed his address to Brother Mo. Being able to make a big brother who crushed a Nine Star genius was also an honor for him, Zuo Yixian.
"I didn't move... I didn't move..." Another staggering figure rushed over from a distance, exactly the same as the guy Mo Wuji had seen before.
Mo Wuji was already prepared this time. Before this guy's vitality completely disappeared, he took a step forward, and the divine sense of the Storage Meridian directly protected the cultivator's about-to-collapse primordial spirit, while the vitality meridian also sent a little vitality over to stabilize this guy's little life.
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