He tried to activate the restraint, and the iron-tailed scorpion let out a painful hiss, its tail stinger dropped, and its body trembled slightly.
Shen Long stopped activating the restriction, and the Iron-tailed Scorpion felt better.
He took out a piece of animal meat as big as the mouth of a bowl and threw it into the pool.
This is the meat of the Tuishan Beast. The skin of the Tuishan Beast was sold for spiritual stones. The meat was divided among everyone, including Shen Long.
The iron-tailed scorpion smelled the smell of blood, moved towards the meat, came to the meat, clamped the meat with both pincers, tore off a small piece of meat, and put it in its mouth.
In less than half a quarter of an hour, it had eaten the piece of meat.
Shen Long took out another piece of animal meat and threw it into the pool for the iron-tailed scorpion to eat.
Not long after, the iron-tailed scorpion devoured the piece of meat.
Shen Long exited the Yuling Pagoda, sat cross-legged on the stone bed, took out a Qi Nourishing Pill, and swallowed it.
The elixir melted in his mouth, and not long after, a spiritual energy rose in his abdomen. He quickly used his kung fu to guide this spiritual energy to gather towards his Dantian.
Two months have passed, in the martial arts garden, in a certain secret room.
Shen Long stood in front of a sand pit, muttering something in his mouth, and a white light slowly lit up in his right hand.
After a while, he flicked his wrist, and a foot-long white ice pick flew out and sank into the sand pit. There were dozens of white ice picks stuck in the sand pit, and the temperature in the room was relatively low.
Shen Long released a red fireball and smashed it into the sand pit, and all the ice picks disappeared.
He wiped his sweat and took out a cyan spirit beast bag from his arms, which he had captured from the last time he killed the Qi Refining monk.
He patted the spirit beast bag, and a ray of yellow light flew out. It was the Iron-tailed Scorpion. The Iron-tailed Scorpion's body surface glowed with yellow light, and it burrowed into the sand pit. At a glance, it was impossible to spot it.
After a period of training, Shen Long can already command the Iron-tailed Scorpion to do things. With just a thought, the Iron-tailed Scorpion will act according to his orders.
A gray-white tail thorn suddenly flew out of the sand pit and hit the stone wall. There was a muffled sound and there was a shallow mark on the surface of the stone wall.
Shen Long commanded the Iron-tailed Scorpion to hide in the sand pit and use its tail sting to attack suddenly, training it to attack the enemy.
I heard that the Yuling Sect had a more advanced insect-repelling technique, but Shen Long didn't understand it, so he could only train the iron-tailed scorpions in his own way.
Iron-tailed scorpions are not picky eaters and don't eat much. Shen Long currently has more than 400 spirit stones, so raising an iron-tailed scorpion is not a problem.
More than half an hour later, Shen Long put the Iron Tail Scorpion back into the spirit beast bag, put the spirit beast bag into his arms, opened the door and walked out.
When walking out of the martial arts garden, Shen Long saw Qin Qing and Qin Tianhe walking towards each other. They were smiling, as if they were having some happy event.
"Fellow Daoist Qin, you have advanced to the third level of Qi Refining, congratulations!"
Shen Long's eyes fell on Qin Tianhe and he congratulated.
Qin Tianhe is currently eight years old and has the third level of Qi refining, which is very good for a casual cultivator. Shen Long is only at the fifth level of Qi refining.
Qin Qing hunted monsters for Qin Tianhe to practice. After Shen Long's parents disappeared, he had to work to support himself. His salary was pitiful and his cultivation speed was far slower than Qin Tianhe's.
"Thanks to my grandfather for buying me the Qi Refining Pill."
Qin Tianhe said modestly that Qin Qing made a lot of money and bought five bottles of Qi Refining Pills for Qin Tianhe. Qin Tianhe took one Qi Refining Pill every few days, which made his cultivation speed much faster.
"Even if you have the Qi Refining Pill, it's pretty good to have the third level of Qi Refining at such a young age."
Shen Long praised.
"You are so complimentary, Fellow Daoist Shen. Tianhe still needs to learn more from you."
Qin Qing said this with a proud expression on his face.
Qin Qing was very happy to see Qin Tianhe's progress.
After chatting for a while, Shen Long walked down the mountain, while Qin Qing and Qin Tianhe walked into the martial arts garden.
He came to the square where casual cultivators set up stalls and walked around to take a look.
"Come here and take a look. We finally got the purple-striped fire-worm eggs."
A rough man's voice sounded,
"Purple-striped fire centipede!"
Shen Long's heart moved and he quickly walked over and came to a stall.
The stall owner is a burly man in green shirt with a sinister face. He has the eighth level of Qi Refining. There are many things on the stall. One of the cyan wooden boxes contains dozens of purple insect eggs. The insect eggs all emit weak fluctuations of fire aura.
"Some time ago, someone discovered two late-stage first-order purple-striped fire centipedes in the depths of the Qingzhu Mountains. They killed more than a dozen Qi Refining monks. They had great magical powers. I was lucky enough to find a purple-striped fire centipede and killed it. It got some insect eggs, thirty spirit stones per insect egg, no two prices."
The big man in green shirt said.
Shen Long glanced at the eggs and lost interest. According to the records on the list of strange insects in the world, the purple-striped fire crawler lays less than ten eggs each time, and it is impossible for a purple-striped fire crawler to have dozens of eggs in its body.
They sold the information about the purple-striped fire crawler to the Chen family. The Chen family sent out experts to kill the purple-striped fire crawler, and also killed a late-stage Qi-refining monk, which showed how powerful the purple-striped fire crawler was.
This matter has also become a topic of discussion among the monks in the city after dinner. Some people probably thought it was profitable, so they got some eggs of fire-attribute spiritual insects and sold them as eggs of purple-striped fire crickets.
Most casual cultivators are not very knowledgeable, and it is difficult for them to distinguish whether insect eggs are true or false.
Destroying someone's wealth is like killing one's parents. Shen Long saw that the man in green shirt was a liar, so he turned around and left without intending to expose him.
He walked around and took a look. After a while, he quickened his pace and came to a small stall. The owner of the stall was Huang Xiuyun.
"Huang Fairy, you have made a breakthrough, congratulations!"
Shen Long felt that Huang Xiuyun's aura was much stronger and congratulated him.
"Fellow Daoist Shen, do you want to buy spiritual wine? I think it's cheaper."
Huang Xiuyun said enthusiastically.
"No, I just passed by a stall and someone was selling purple-striped fire-worm eggs. Why don't you go and take a look? With the help of purple-striped fire-worms and snow-crystal spiders, your strength has improved a lot."
Shen Long said casually.
"I specially bought a book introducing the list of strange insects in the world. The purple-striped fire-worm will not lay more than ten eggs at a time. The purple-striped fire-worm eggs he took out are fake. It's fine as long as you know, don't say it's me. Yes, the Snow Crystal Spider hasn't hatched yet!"
Huang Xiuyun said via voice transmission.
"It can't be a dead egg! It hasn't hatched for so long!"
Shen Long asked curiously.
"It's not a dead egg. It still has some vitality. It's just very weak. I don't believe it won't hatch."
Huang Xiuyun said seriously.
One hundred spirit stones was not a big sum to her, and it didn't matter even if she was cheated. But she didn't want to believe that she had been cheated, so she had to hatch the eggs.
Shen Long nodded. If Huang Xiuyun took out the eggs for sale, he would buy the eggs, but Huang Xiuyun had no such plan at the moment.
Huang Xiuyun never hatched the eggs, but Shen Long directly bought them. Even a fool knew there was something wrong.
After chatting for a while, Shen Long left. He wandered around the square and returned to his residence.
He entered the Spirit-Restoring Tower, released the Iron-tailed Scorpion from the spirit beast bag, and let it move freely. He left the Spirit-Restoring Tower and sat cross-legged on the stone bed to practice.