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The next moment, a layer of dark blue Yin Fire wrapped around Shi Ling's body. He immediately fell to the ground and let out a painful growl, not because his endurance was poor, but because the pain caused by the dark blue Yin Fire was too great, and was not something Shi Ling could endure.

As Shi Ling clenched his fists tightly, he felt as if the flames were a sharp blade cutting his own flesh. It was so painful that beads of sweat rolled down his forehead.

However, this kind of pain that an extraordinary person could endure was actually tempering Shi Ling's body at an astonishing speed. One could see that the muscles, which had expanded due to the explosive strength of his fleshly body, started to shrink at this moment, as if they were being compressed, causing the toughness of his body to soar.

From his point of view, the pain that Shi Ling had endured was nothing at all. Immediately, he flew to a stone table at the side and laid down, his gaze looking at the moonlight in the sky. He estimated that it would be dawn in four hours, and when that happened, the flames on Shi Ling's body would automatically extinguish.

Bai Xiaosheng's eyes closed and he fell asleep on the stone table. At the same time, Shi Ling, who was lying on the ground, had already fainted.

"..."

Very soon, on the morning of the second day, when the sky had just turned white, Shi Ling's fingers moved as he laid on the ground. He opened his eyes, stood up, and rubbed his head with one hand.

At this moment, Shi Ling walked up to Bai Xiaosheng. When he saw that this fellow was still sleeping soundly, he immediately became furious. He picked him up and said, "Hey, Bai Xiaosheng!"

Bai Xiaosheng's eyes widened, and then he screamed: "Ah, what, what! An earthquake? A fire? The Celestial Tribulation has begun?

Soon after, he saw Shi Ling stare at him with a look of disdain. Bai Xiaosheng could not help but let out a dry cough, realizing that he had lost his composure. He immediately asked, "Have you finished cultivating?"

Shi Ling shrugged his shoulders and said, "The flames have already disappeared. I would like to ask, what are your next training courses?"

It was only after listening to Shi Ling's explanation that Bai Xiaosheng realized it was already morning. He then said, "Alright, stand far away. I'll test the results of your night of cultivation."

Upon hearing this, Shi Ling retreated more than ten steps and asked, "Can we go here?"

Bai Xiaosheng nodded, "Next, you just need to stand still."

The next moment, Bai Xiaosheng used an invisible force of his will to control a stone the size of a bucket to fly up, and smashed it towards Shi Ling, causing Shi Ling's pupils to constrict. Although the strength of his physical body was already strong enough, he was not arrogant enough, as he felt that he could ignore the attack of such a huge stone with just his physical body. He immediately wanted to resist, but at this moment, Bai Xiaosheng suddenly said, "Just stand there and don't move!"

When Shi Ling heard this, he put his hand down and looked at the stone falling towards him. It was an instinctive reaction. He lifted his hand and placed it in front of him.

Dong. Shi Ling was hit by the attack, and he was forced back several steps. His hands, which were used to resist, became numb from the impact! The force from the last strike was not small. If it was an ordinary body refining second level cultivator, he would probably have been smashed into a serious injury.

Shi Ling's face turned red as he stared at the falling stone. Then, he turned to look at Bai Xiaosheng, who was flying towards him, and asked, "What kind of test is this?"

Bai Xiaosheng looked down and said, "He fell back seven steps! "It seems like this night's training has not produced much effect after all!"

Only now did he realize that after being hit by the large rock, he had only been forced back seven steps. Moreover, when he looked at his own hands, although they had been hit at the beginning, they had become numb, but after a period of time, they were fine again. Such a terrifying physical defense was not something that even an ordinary body refining fourth level expert could achieve.

Immediately, he looked at his hands in a daze, and revealed an excited expression behind, saying: "Wow, Bai Xiaosheng, what's going on?" How did my toughness increase by so much? "

Bai Xiaosheng laughed disdainfully, saying, "Is that considered a lot? Just look at that rock, even if it dies, it would only weigh around two hundred kilograms. Previously, you were about twenty meters away from it, and at the speed of impact, you crashed into it with a speed of ten meters per second. Under these conditions, you were actually forced to take seven steps back before stopping. "

He wanted to say that his back hurt just by standing and talking. Of course, he would not say it out loud, as he still had to rely on him to guide his cultivation in the future.

At this time, Bai Xiaosheng said, "Let's go."

"Where are we going?" Shi Ling asked.

Bai Xiaosheng said, "Go out and find some cultivation resources to assist you. Otherwise, with your rate of growth, you might not have much success even after a few hundred years."

The corner of Shi Ling's mouth twitched. "If you don't mock me, will I die?"

However, upon hearing Bai Xiaosheng's reminder, Shi Ling suddenly said, "Oh right, I remember now. I was just about to go buy cultivation resources today."

Bai Xiaosheng glanced at him and said, "Do you have a special place to buy it?"

Shi Ling nodded. "I was going to take you outside to find it myself, but since it's already prepared, I'll let it go. At the very least, I'll have to wait for your strength to come up before I can take you out."

"..."

After that, Shi Ling first went to the service department and asked for a day's leave from the overseer before heading to the pavilion. Although Shi Ling's strength had risen by now, he was still a janitor after all, and many things were not left for him to do as he pleased, so it was necessary to go to the overseer for a day's leave.

When he looked up, he would realize that this pavilion had a total of seven floors. The entire structure was shaped like a cone, and was made up of several high-strength crystals. The area it covered was the size of a football field.

In this place, there were a lot of people coming and going here every day, and regardless of the disciple's rank, they would basically all appear here. This was because in this place, as long as you paid them, they would be able to exchange for a lot of cultivation resources.

Shi Ling looked at the signboard, which had the words "Myriad Treasures Pavilion" written on it in bold and forceful characters.

In the past, when he was still an official disciple, he had visited this place with some 'friends' to purchase cultivation resources. Later on, he had been demoted to a janitor and had basically never set foot in this place again, while his' friends' had now become inner sect disciples. They had a private immortal's manor that could guard a city and enjoy wealth that countless mortals could not enjoy.

At this moment, Shi Ling couldn't help but smile. Now that he had returned, even though his former colleagues were nobles, he was still in the janitor's circle. The contrast between them was really hard for him to accept.

When Shi Ling walked into the pavilion, he saw goods placed on shelves. This place gave people the feeling that it was a merchant market of the mortal world, and any sect disciple could choose anything they wanted inside.

At the same time, Bai Xiaosheng was following beside Shi Ling. Due to some special reasons, other than Shi Ling, basically no one else could see Bai Xiaosheng. Therefore, no one would pay attention to him flying around this place.

All of a sudden, Bai Xiaosheng shouted, "Damn, are we really going into the junkyard? No matter what, it was a pile of useless things. Look at this golden orchid, only fifty years old and its medicinal properties had been diluted. Furthermore, its leaves were already withered yellow. How dare it sell something like this! Damn, he actually wanted 180 gold coins! Why the f * ck didn't he just snatch it? "There is also this Tier 1 Pure Yuan Pill. It is not smooth on the surface, and is even rough on the surface. Not only is its quality lacking, it also doesn't have a sufficient amount of weight. Damn it, it actually costs fifty gold coins!"

Previously, he thought that this fellow seemed to be someone who had seen the world. Why was it that he was so fussy about money? Furthermore, he was belittling all of the treasures that could only be found by chance and not sought for.

He then sighed and said, "This is the first floor of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion. There are plenty of goods here and they are of decent quality. However, the real treasures can only be bought on the floors above."

Bai Xiaosheng immediately said, "Then why don't you go up and buy them? Why don't you stay here and look at these trash?"

Shi Ling snappily replied, "Do you think anyone can go up there?" Other than the disciples from the top sects and the disciples from the big families, there are not many people who have the money to buy things there. "

When Bai Xiaosheng heard this, he immediately understood what was going on. To put it bluntly, Shi Ling was short on money, so he could only linger at the lowest level since he couldn't afford anything good.

At this time, Shi Ling arrived in front of a region filled with sparkling and translucent beads. From the size of a grain of rice to the size of a pearl, there were some that looked like pigeon eggs. Bai Xiaosheng said, "Why haven't the seven emotions and six desires been dispelled? Am I not afraid of Qi deviation when I use it for cultivation? "

Shi Ling said, "If you want to get rid of all your emotions and desires, you have to go to the Wishing Pavilion to find someone else to spend money. Of course, it's not like there are none that can help you get rid of the pure Wishing Spirit Beads, but that's only on the third floor and the price is very high. At least, I can't afford it right now."

The 'All Knowing Scholar' could not help but twitch his mouth and say, "Your sect really knows how to do business."

The price was ten gold coins, and the price was fifty gold coins. Finally, there was the high-grade Spirit Orb, which was the size of a pigeon's egg, for a price of one hundred gold coins. Shi Ling immediately took twenty high-grade Spirit Orbs.

Bai Xiaosheng said, "Why only twenty? In your future training courses, you will definitely use this thing many times! I suggest you buy more. "

Shi Ling said, "I want to as well, but the problem is that I still have to buy some other things. Although there aren't many high-grade spirit pearls, it costs me 200 gold coins, and I only have 2,430 gold coins. If I were to buy anything, it would be completely wasted, so of course I'd save a lot of money."

As he said this, Shi Ling sighed again, and two words came out of his mouth, "So poor!"

When he returned to the sect, he originally thought that two thousand gold coins would allow him to enjoy life freely. However, when he came to buy cultivation resources, he discovered that the prices of the things here had increased by so much.

Bai Xiaosheng did not say anything else, quietly watching on. In the following period of time, Shi Ling bought another thirty one-time use talismans, which cost him 300 gold coins, three Tier 1 pills and Spirit Cleansing Pills, which cost him 100 gold coins, a Star Origin Fruit seedling, 400 gold coins, and a special petri dish specially designed to nurture the seedlings of Star Origin Fruits, which cost him 500 gold coins.

After spending all his money, Shi Ling's income was reduced to half, leaving him with only 930 gold coins.

After all, this was money that he had risked his life for, and he immediately sighed. Previously, Shi Ling had wanted to buy a storage ring, but Bai Xiaosheng later on said that the storage ring had the ability to store objects, so Shi Ling had not bought it, otherwise, Shi Ling's money would have been cut in half.

However, at this moment, the corner of Shi Ling's eyes turned towards the entrance. He saw a beautiful figure entering the pavilion, and at that moment, more than 90% of the gazes in the hall were focused on that figure.

"Wow, look! That's senior Yunqian. I didn't expect to see her today. She's so pretty."

"If senior sister Yunji can give me a glance, I would be willing to jump off a building with you."

A lot of people started talking among themselves. Only Shi Ling's expression changed, and he turned around to leave.

Back then, she was famous for being a great beauty. There were many suitors, and they lined up to please her, just for the sake of smiling at her. Of course, Shi Ling was one of them.

Until today, Shi Ling would never forget the scene of him confessing to her in public and then being rejected by her, which was as awkward as it could possibly be. Now, like Chen Lu, she had already become an inner disciple of the sect, guarding a city for the sect, and she was a terrifying existence ranked in the top ten of the Heavenly Rankings.

Meeting an acquaintance was naturally awkward, and Shi Ling naturally did not want to be seen by her. At this moment, all he wanted was to hide as far away as possible. However, at this moment, a gentle and beautiful voice sounded out, "Shi Ling!"

When Shi Ling heard someone calling for him, he immediately ran away without even looking back. It was as if he had a guilty conscience, but at this moment, a figure suddenly appeared in front of him. A guard with a sabre expressionlessly looked at him and said, "Young master, our family's young miss is here to invite you!"

When Shi Ling saw the person before him, the corners of his eyes twitched. At the same time, Yun Zhi Qian walked over with a sweet smile and said, "Shi Ling, long time no see."

At this moment, Shi Ling turned around with a smile that didn't reach his eyes. He looked at the exceptionally enchanting lady dressed in white and said, "Long time no see."

Yun Zhiqian came to him and said, "Am I that scary? Let you run the moment you see me? "

The corner of Shi Ling's eyes twitched as he said, "Uh, um, I just suddenly remembered something important, that's why I wanted to leave."

It was the uniform worn by the janitor disciples of the sect. Although it looked clean, it was old, and Yun Qiaoqian said, "I've been in closed-door training for two years and have only recently come out. I heard from them that you've been demoted to a janitor from the sect, is that true?"