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Border City, a name that sounds somewhat desolate, is actually not so.

Standing outside Border City, besides the somewhat mottled and weathered city walls, this place is bustling with activity. Numerous beast-drawn carriages and flying beasts come and go in a constant stream. Most of the people coming and going are carrying weapons, exuding a powerful aura.

Compared to ordinary mortal cities, cultivator cities possess something indescribable.

Mo Wuji, carrying his alchemy equipment, walked into Border City's gate. According to the information he had gathered, besides the Traceless Sword Sect, there were also more than ten sects around Border City, including the Nine Spirits Sect, Thunder Cloud Sect, and Thousand Leaves Alliance.

The Traceless Sword Sect was not the strongest among these sects, and that was why Yin Qianqin had told Mo Wuji to avoid offending people as much as possible.

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 tavern's waiter, the North Water Tavern was very close to the Border City Immortal Training Pagoda.

Although it was a cultivator city, Mo Wuji found that the facilities of the North Water Tavern were far inferior to the Skyfall Tavern where he had stayed in Luo River City. Fortunately, this tavern also accepted gold coins, otherwise Mo Wuji really wouldn't want to stay here. He only had a hundred spirit stones on him, and he heard that they were still low-grade spirit stones.

These hundred spirit stones, besides his remuneration as a guest alchemist, were mainly obtained from Traceless Sword Mountain.

What made Mo Wuji slightly satisfied was that this tavern had a dedicated pill refining room. For guests staying here, the pill refining room wasn't necessarily for refining pills; it could be used for raising beast pets, forging weapons, or other purposes.

Mo Wuji wanted this dedicated pill refining room not for refining pills, but for refining medicinal liquid. He had even brought his alchemy equipment. Mo Wuji's plan was to refine medicine at night and go to the Border City Immortal Training Pagoda during the day to open up his meridians, which would be the most time-saving.

After placing his belongings in the tavern room, Mo Wuji didn't immediately go to see the Immortal Training Pagoda. Since Yin Qianqin said that the Immortal Training Pagoda had a lightning training room, it definitely had one. The first thing he did was to buy medicinal herbs to prepare for refining meridian opening medicinal liquid. He only had a few bottles of meridian opening medicinal liquid on him, and these few bottles were simply not enough for him.

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As a cultivator city, and with Mo Wuji buying the lowest-level medicinal herbs, he didn't spend much effort. In just two or three hours, he had purchased all the medicinal herbs by evening, buying thirty portions this time.

Refining meridian opening medicinal liquid was already commonplace for Mo Wuji. Although refining this kind of medicinal liquid didn't require cultivation to be enhanced, Mo Wuji was now at the fourth level of Meridian Opening, and his energy was far better than before. In one night, he refined about fifteen bottles. Adding the seven bottles he had originally, he now had a total of twenty-two bottles of meridian opening medicinal liquid.

When the sky was just beginning to brighten, Mo Wuji stopped refining medicine and meditated in place for two hours. After not sleeping all night, and only cultivating for two hours, Mo Wuji was still full of energy.

After a simple breakfast, Mo Wuji headed to the Border City Training Pagoda with his twenty-two bottles of meridian opening medicinal liquid.

With this opportunity, Mo Wuji decided to open up his meridians to the maximum, and then go back to slowly cultivate.

For cultivators, opening up meridians is something done during the Meridian Opening stage. Once one advances to the Spirit Building stage, the meridians in the body are basically fixed and can no longer be opened up. Unless one abandons their cultivation and starts over. Even an idiot probably wouldn't do such a thing.

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In Mo Wuji's view, Border City was a cultivator city, and the Border City Immortal Training Pagoda was the most famous place in Border City, so the plaza in front of the training pagoda must be huge.

At least it should be much grander than the Star River Imperial Capital Plaza. But when Mo Wuji arrived outside the Immortal Training Pagoda, he realized that this Immortal Training Pagoda Plaza was far smaller than the Star River Imperial Capital Plaza. The only thing that was shocking was the five large golden characters floating outside the plaza: Border City Immortal Training Pagoda.

Because the plaza was slightly small, coupled with the large number of people coming and going, it seemed particularly lively. In the middle of the plaza was a tall pagoda that was nearly forty or fifty zhang high. Because the pagoda body was wide, it made the pagoda look a little bloated.

Mo Wuji, having seen high-rise buildings on Earth, didn't think much of a pagoda that was forty or fifty zhang high.

Walking closer to the edge of the pagoda, Mo Wuji saw a huge sign hanging at the pagoda entrance. The sign detailed the prices of various training rooms. Here, Mo Wuji not only saw the Five Elements training room that Yin Qianqin had mentioned, but also the Sword Training Room, Gravity Room, Floating Room...

Whether imaginable or unimaginable, it seemed like they had it all. But when Mo Wuji saw the prices behind these training rooms, the initial excitement was reduced by more than half. The cheapest training room here cost more than ten spirit stones per day. The expensive ones even required more than a hundred spirit stones, especially the Sword Training Room, which cost three hundred low-grade spirit stones for one day of training.

Mo Wuji quickly scanned these training rooms, and he soon found the Lightning Training Room.

When Mo Wuji saw the price of the Lightning Training Room, he suddenly gasped. It wasn't calculated by the day, but by the hour. The price for each hour was twenty low-grade spirit stones, which meant that the spirit stones on him could only allow him to cultivate in the Lightning Training Room for five hours, or ten hours.

After hesitating for only a few seconds, Mo Wuji resolutely walked into the Immortal Training Pagoda.

If he were alone, he would definitely continue to risk searching for the Six-Legged Lightning Crocodile. But now he was with Yan'er, first, he didn't have time to look for the lightning crocodile, and second, he didn't want to take risks when he had a choice. Spirit stones could be earned. He was now at least a Rank 2 Human Pill Refiner, and he also had a batch of pills with him, which could be used to exchange for spirit stones.

"I want to cultivate in the Lightning Training Room for one hour..." Mo Wuji carefully took out twenty spirit stones and placed them in front of the window for paying spirit stones.

He remembered an article he had once learned, which had a sentence: 'Warm two bowls of wine, and have a plate of aniseed-flavored beans.' Then, he laid out nine copper coins.

Mo Wuji suddenly deeply understood Kong Yiji's mood at that time. Just like Old Kong's nine copper coins, the twenty spirit stones he laid out were very precious to him.

"The Lightning Training Room requires a deposit of one hundred spirit stones. After you go in, we'll calculate how many spirit stones you used based on how long you cultivate for, and we'll return the excess to you," said a machine-like voice from behind the window.

"A deposit is needed?"

Seeing Mo Wuji dazed, a man next to him said, "Brother, is this your first time cultivating here? Here, deposits are always required. You can apply for a jade card and store a certain number of spirit stones in the jade card. In the future, you can just use the jade card for cultivation."

Mo Wuji quickly thanked him and took out all one hundred spirit stones from his package. Fortunately, he had exactly one hundred spirit stones left, otherwise he would have to return the way he came.

After paying one hundred spirit stones, the window quickly handed Mo Wuji a jade card, and at the same time, a cold voice came, "Insert the jade card into the groove at the entrance. When you come out, take the jade card back to exchange for spirit stones or pay the difference."

"Can you lend me three spirit stones, friend? I only have ninety-seven spirit stones, and it's not enough for the deposit. Don't worry, I'm just cultivating for an hour. After I come out and receive the deposit, I'll wait for you here to return your spirit stones," a slightly immature voice sounded in Mo Wuji's ear. Mo Wuji turned his head and saw a thirteen or fourteen-year-old, handsome young man looking at him expectantly.

Obviously, this young man had just seen him paying spirit stones and thought that he had spirit stones on him.

Judging from Mo Wuji's experience, this young man was probably really short of three spirit stones, because his eyes were very eager. If he had spirit stones on him, Mo Wuji wouldn't mind lending him three spirit stones. Unfortunately, Mo Wuji really didn't have any spirit stones on him, so he said apologetically to the young man, "I'm really sorry, I happen to only have one hundred spirit stones."

As soon as he said this, Mo Wuji immediately saw several disdainful glances.

A look of disappointment appeared in the young man's eyes. Obviously, he also thought that Mo Wuji was making an excuse. He turned his longing gaze to the surrounding area, but no one said anything.

"I'll help you with these three spirit stones," a slightly magnetic voice sounded, and then three spirit stones were sent into the young man's hands.

This was a young man. Even Mo Wuji had to secretly praise how handsome this man was. Not only was he handsome, but his voice was also magnetic. Even if one didn't look at his face, just looking at his pair of slender, fair hands would arouse the secret admiration of countless women. If he were on Earth, he would be another guy who could make a living with his face.

Beside this handsome man was also a beautiful woman. The woman's gaze swept over Mo Wuji, with a hint of contempt.

Mo Wuji shook his head. He didn't care about this matter. He looked at the jade card in his hand, which read Lightning Training Room One.

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