Longevity begins with an old woman

Chapter 1
Qinghe Sword School
Baihefang
wooden bridge street

The sky was gloomy and drizzling.

On the muddy street, a group of low-level Qi practitioners wearing old Taoist robes were stretching their heads and shrinking their heads to watch the excitement.

"Xu Mu, why haven't you moved away? Do you have to do it?"

Followed by a few of his subordinates, Guanshi Liu, with dark eyes, stared at a middle-aged man with slightly gray hair in the yard, and said coldly.

"Liu Guanshi, can you give me some time, my wife is going to give birth soon!" Xu Mu said with a smile.

"Your wife has nothing to do with us when she gives birth, and she's not our seed!"

Behind Guanshi Liu was a short, fat man with triangular eyes and said jokingly.

Several other people laughed loudly.

Xu Mu's blood rushed to his face in an instant.

He clenched his fists slightly, and almost rushed forward to fight the opponent desperately.

"I also ask the steward to help me. When I have the spirit stone, I must make up all the difference!"

After a moment of anger, Xu Mu took a deep breath, calmed down, opened his fists lightly, and his tone became calm.

He himself could die.

But he died?
What about the wife who is about to give birth?
At his age, with a family and a family, even death is a luxury.

"Help? How can I help? Everyone is like you, should I still be in charge? If you don't have a spirit stone, get out of here right away! If you still let me see you after an hour, don't blame me for being rude!"

Guanshi Liu snorted coldly, shook his sleeves, turned around and left with the people.

Xu Mu gritted his teeth, but he didn't even dare to say a harsh word.

As for 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi?

Or save it!
He is over 60 years old this year, and in another 30 years, the grass on his grave will probably be three feet high.

Xu Mu returned to the house dejectedly, and began to pack his things.

His wife, Ye Yingying, came out of the bedroom with a big belly.

Her fair and pretty face was full of guilt.

"It's all my fault. If I hadn't been infected with wind evil some time ago and spent all my savings, our family wouldn't be unable to pay the rent!"

Xu Mu smiled wryly and shook his head.

"It has nothing to do with you. Now the rent is rising three times a day. Even if we can survive this time, next time, next time, we will be evicted sooner or later!"

Recently, the Qinghe Sword Sect and the Soul Refining Demon Sect went to war. In order to collect war resources, the family responsible for managing Fangshi continued to squeeze the people below.

I remember that when he first moved to Muqiao Lane, the monthly rent was only two low-grade spirit stones, but now, it has risen to ten yuan, a full five-fold increase.

It's likely to go up again this month.

Although he is an alchemist, his income is not high, and he only has more than ten low-grade spirit stones in his account a month.

After deducting living expenses and self-cultivation consumption, the remaining spirit stones simply cannot afford the high rent.

During the recent period, it was barely maintained almost entirely on previous savings.

As for Ye Yingying's illness last time, it could only be regarded as worse, and the time of leaving was brought forward by a few months.

After reassuring his wife, Xu Mu continued to pack his things, but couldn't help laughing at himself.

"I didn't expect that I, a dignified time traveler, would get so mixed up that I couldn't even afford to support my wife. I'm probably the most useless one among all time travelers!"

That's right!

Xu Mu is not from this world.

His soul is a college student in the twentieth century.

It's just because I asked the goddess to go to the hotel, and I was too excited when I was doing business, so I accidentally traveled to this mysterious world of cultivating immortals, and possessed a middle-aged old cultivator.

Originally, he still wanted to struggle a bit, so it's up to me to decide what to do.

But soon he was pressed to the ground by reality and rubbed hard.

Everyone in this world can practice, but there is a huge gap in talent between practitioners. Xu Mu is the kind of person with the lowest talent, and belongs to 90.00% of the [-]% of people in this world.

As a result, I only practiced the third level of Qi when I was over 60 years old.

If he was born in a secular world full of turbid qi, he may not be able to produce a sense of qi in his whole life.

But he even hopes to travel to the secular world.

Maybe with the knowledge of the previous life, he can still look like a human being, unlike now, he is said to be a cultivator, and he is not as good as a dog.

Feeling his mediocre aptitude, Xu Mu simply gave up his longing for longevity. Through the introduction of the matchmaker, he met Ye Yingying, whose father had just passed away, who was equally talented and helpless.

The two became husband and wife, and they planned to live an honest life, have children, and cultivate offspring. If they can live up to their old age, then thank God.

It's just that they didn't expect that the leak in the house happened to be rainy, and not long after they got married, they caught up with the battle between the Qinghe Sword Sect and the Soul Refining Demon Sect, so that they couldn't even survive.

Speaking of which, Ye Yingying hasn't had a good day since she followed him, and Xu Mu feels ashamed when she thinks about it.

The two packed up their things, and Xu Mu helped Ye Yingying out of the yard.

"Prince Xu, remember to come back often when you have time!"

"There's nothing I can give you, so I'll give you some newly bought fruits, so your wife can eat more!"

"Take care, maybe we will go over to be with you after a while!"

Some neighbors in the neighborhood who were fairly familiar came out to see them off.

Xu Mu politely returned the greetings one by one!

"Hey! I don't know when this battle will end!"

Looking at Xu Mu's back that kept going away in the drizzle, everyone couldn't help feeling a little sad.

Muqiao Lane itself is already on the outskirts of Baishifang City. If you can't even afford to live here, you can only go to the shantytowns on the outskirts.

The sewage was flowing there, the stench was everywhere, and it was said that there were evil spirits haunting it, and people often died for no apparent reason.

Xu Mu is not good at fighting, and he is bringing his wife who is about to give birth. This parting, I am afraid that it will be difficult to see each other again.

Everyone couldn't help but sigh in their hearts!
……

Baishifang
Shanty town

On the dilapidated streets, in the air that has just rained, there is the fragrance of soil and a faint stinky smell.

Holding an oiled paper umbrella, Xu Mu supported Ye Yingying, and followed a rogue-looking man in green clothes into the alley.

"Then, here it is! One spirit stone for one month, sign it if you want!"

The man pinched his nose, pointed to a dilapidated house next to him and said.

He is a shantytown man who is in charge of renting a house.

Xu Mu asked Ye Yingying to wait outside the door, and walked in by himself.

There are four rooms in the house, a bedroom, a kitchen, a living room, and a utility room.

The walls of the house are all made of bluestone, which looks quite solid and should be able to withstand two spell attacks.

The roof is made of poplar wood and mud tiles, and there are thick spider webs on the corners of the walls. The furniture in the room is only a wooden bed, covered with a thick layer of dust.

The air is filled with the smell of rot and mildew, and no one has lived in it for a long time.

But after Xu Mu saw it, he could only grit his teeth and nod.

He has seen several places nearby, and they are basically the same, but this one is at least in a good location.

After signing the contract and handing over the Lingshi, this place became the new residence of the couple.

"Looking at how happy you are handing over the spirit stones, let me remind you one last thing, try not to go out at night, I don't want to collect the corpses for you two next time I come here!"

After finishing speaking, Yaren turned around and walked along the corner, and walked away quickly, as if he didn't want to stay here for a second.

Yaren's words made Xu Mu's heart suspend inexplicably, but he had no choice but to live here.

After tidying up, Xu Mu asked Ye Yingying to stay in the house, while he brought some small gifts and visited the neighbors in the neighborhood one by one.

Mainly to inquire about the situation here, so as not to commit any taboos.

As he expected, all the people living nearby were poor monks like him, but there were also some murderous people who looked powerful.

For example, one of the twin brothers, their faces were as pale as paper, their eyes were cold, and their bodies carried a strong bloody aura.

When Xu Mu knocked on the door to visit, the two only opened the door a crack, gave him a cold look, and closed the door.

And this one glance made Xu Mu's scalp numb and his whole body cold.

"These two are probably monks who make a living by fighting. If you can avoid provoking them in the future, it's better not to provoke them as much as possible." Xu Mu reminded himself secretly.

But there are also some good ones, such as a young couple who live next door to him, and an old alchemist who lives at the entrance of the alley.

After returning home after the visit, Xu Mu and Ye Yingying talked about the situation in the alley, and asked her to lie down and rest.

On the other hand, he left the bedroom and came to the clean utility room, ready to start refining the elixir.

He is an alchemist, and all sources of life come from pills.

Alchemist can be said to be the most profitable of all professions, but also the most money-burning.

Although Xu Mu has passed the initial stage of burning money, he is still far from making a lot of money.

There are only two kinds of pills that he can refine now, one is Bigu Pill and the other is Qi Ju Pill.

Bigu Dan is the most common kind of elixir, the effect is that one pill can keep you from being hungry for three days.

of course,

Varies from person to person!

For someone like Xu Mu, one bigu pill can last up to one day!
Generally, when cultivators go hunting or practice in seclusion, they will prepare some for convenience.

If you are a relatively wealthy practitioner, you will take Bigu Dan as a regular food.

Although practitioners can eat ordinary food, there is often a lot of turbidity in ordinary food. If they eat it for a long time, it will stay in the body and seriously affect their cultivation.

Qi Gathering Pill is a kind of elixir to assist in cultivation. After taking it, it can increase the speed of spiritual energy condensing of the practitioner in a short period of time.

Although Qi Ju Dan is much more expensive than Bigu Pill, it is very popular among practitioners because it can assist in cultivation.

What Xu Mu wants to refine now is the Bigu Pill. As for the Qi Gathering Pill, although he can refine it, the failure rate is frighteningly high, and he is still in the stage of burning money for the time being.

He first took out the medicinal materials from the storage bag, and after careful inspection, he took out the most precious alchemy furnace in all his belongings.

The pill furnace is about three feet high, with three legs and two ears. The overall color is brass, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, like a fat man. Many mysterious runes like tadpoles are engraved on the furnace body.

When he couldn't pay the rent back then, he thought about selling the pill furnace.

But in the end rationality prevailed over impulse.

Because that is tantamount to drinking poison to quench thirst.

He has only cultivated Qi to the third level, and he is not good at fighting. If he loses the source of life of alchemy, he will only have a dead end.

After setting up the alchemy stove, Xu Mu took out a few pieces of green spiritual wood like uncut jade from the storage bag, and placed them under the alchemy stove.

He squeezed a formula with both hands, and the spiritual power surged in his body, "Puff!"A fist-sized orange fireball appeared in front of him.

"go with!"

As soon as Xu Mu's formula changed, the fireball landed on the spirit wood and quickly ignited the spirit wood.

Then he crossed his fingers, and quickly pinched a few spells to cast a new spell.

boom!
The flames on the spirit wood rose violently, turning into several fire snakes like living creatures, wrapping the alchemy furnace and preheating the inside and outside of the furnace at the same time.

The spell he used to control the flames was called Fire Control, and it was a first-level fire spell that all alchemists must learn.

Whether the Fire Control Technique is powerful or not has a great influence on the success of the pill.

Xu Mu has practiced for many years, and he has already cultivated the fire control technique to the level of proficiency, and it is estimated that he will be able to complete it in a few years. As for the masters, masters, and even the extraordinary realm, it cannot be achieved by simple practice.

The fire control technique is not only Xu Mu's alchemy method, but also his strongest combat method. After performing it, he can control the flames, form a fire snake and a fire bird, and attack the enemy.

As for the offensive weapons used by most practitioners, Xu Mu had them before, but he sold them to help Ye Yingying see a doctor some time ago.

After the preheating of the alchemy furnace was completed, Xu Mu began to put medicinal materials into it one by one, and at the same time activate the formation runes on the alchemy furnace to sense and control the changes in the medicinal materials inside.

When the medicinal materials were completely melted, he began to use the fire control technique to increase the temperature of the flame.

Although Bigu Pill is the most common elixir in the cultivation world, it is still very cumbersome and troublesome to refine.

However, it is precisely because of the trouble that alchemists are extremely rare and profitable for him.

The busy refining process lasted all night.

Sensing that the medicinal properties of the medicinal materials in the alchemy furnace had stabilized and began to settle and shrink, Xu Mu's hands were as quick as phantoms, and he quickly pinched out the formula for collecting the alchemy.

Boom!

The furnace lid was opened, and the medicinal fragrance was pungent, and round, yellow pills flew out from inside and landed in his palm.

"It's a pity, all of them are of lower-middle quality!"

Xu Mu checked, with a look of disappointment on his face.

He did not know how many times he had refined Bigu Pill, and the chance of failure was not high, but the quality could not be improved.

Alchemists divide the same pill into low grade, middle grade, top grade, and extreme grade according to its quality, among which the low grade is the worst and the extreme grade is the best.

Under normal circumstances, fifteen low-grade Bigu Pills can be exchanged for one low-grade spirit stone, twelve or three pills are needed for middle-grade ones, ten pills are needed for high-grade ones, and five pills are enough for top-grade ones.

The ultimate Bigu Pill is not only expensive, but also has a huge profit, and is also very easy to sell.

Practitioners eat Bigu Dan, one is to supplement the consumption of the body, and the other is to avoid residual turbidity in the body.

Low-grade, middle-grade, and high-grade foods all have turbidity in them, it just depends on the amount, only the top grade will not have it, and it can be eaten in large quantities for a long time.

"I don't dare to think about the top grade, but I will be satisfied if I can refine a little top grade!"

Just as Xu Mu was about to meditate to recover his spiritual power, his wife suddenly screamed from the bedroom.

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