Purple Mist Dao Master

Chapter 735 - 448 Cultivation: Realm 8!

"It’s really expensive!"Ding Xiang walked out from the ’North Mansion’, observing the ’Yellow Character·Divine General’s Courtyard’ that Yan Chuan had rented for 550 taels of essence stones, and he genuinely couldn’t see anything extraordinary about it.

Lu Yuru was even more tongue-tied: "I spend at most one or two hundred taels of essence stones on cultivation each month."

In Golden Talisman City, the ’Divine General’s Courtyard’ is divided into four levels: Heaven, Earth, Xuan, and Huang. The rental price for a Yellow Character Courtyard is 20 taels of essence stones per day, 550 for a month, and 6400 for a year. If purchased, the maximum ownership is 70 years, requiring 40 Primordial Pills.

Yan Chuan rented the lowest tier, just such a small courtyard, that the monthly rent was almost half a year’s cultivation cost for her alone?

This is too much!

"Indeed quite a bit," Yan Chuan also complained.

First Rank Divine Generals who have the qualifications and connections to refine ’Primordial Pills’ are already considered to have an above-average income among their peers. The theoretical profit from refining a single ’One-Pattern Primordial Pill’ each month is about 3000 taels of essence stones, but due to multiple layers of deductions, the actual income may approach 3000 taels at most, or perhaps not even earn 1000 taels.

So, a First Rank Divine General with an above-average income, working hard for a month, barely earns enough to rent a ’Yellow Character·Divine God’s Courtyard’ in Golden Talisman City.

How can the average Divine General afford such rent?

"As the broker introduced, those who rent the Divine General’s Courtyard usually opt for short-term rentals, either a month or a year, while others, tight on funds, rent just a few days to make a breakthrough."

"Moreover, small families, sects, and tribes around Golden Talisman City, with Innate Divine Generals but lacking strong foundations and cannot build places like the Divine General’s Courtyard, can only spend money to cultivate in the city. Not only Innate Divine Generals, but also elites within families, sects, and tribes are sometimes brought here as gifts and opportunities."

The Divine General’s Courtyard relies on various Innate Divine Generals, making a daily profit through daily, monthly, and yearly rentals, earning massive amounts of essence stones.

As for buying and selling, it’s too rare.

On one hand, the real estate prices are too high, easily 40 Primordial Pills, valued at 400,000 taels of essence stones, and few can afford it outright.

On the other hand, the 70-year ownership limits people’s mindsets, clearly spending the money to buy a house but not fully owning it, causing concerns about passing it on to descendants.

Instead of calling it a ’purchase,’ it’s more like a 70-year long-term lease, with slight price reductions.

According to the broker, daily, monthly, and yearly rentals are easy to lease, but this one is the hardest to close a deal.

Yan Chuan laughed: "If Golden Talisman City supports mortgaged home loans and installment payments, while clarifying the details of the 70-year property rights, they might be able to sell a few courtyards."

Regarding real estate marketing, Golden Talisman City or the Four Families and Three Sects still have much to learn from big capitalists of the previous world.

Too inferior!

70-year property rights?

Even a dog wouldn’t buy it!

Of course, this is in this life, referring to the ’Divine General’s Courtyard.’

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"In the coming days, I ask the two of you to stay either in the courtyard or the North Mansion, until I familiarize myself with Golden Talisman City, and confirm that the Fu Family and Blood Shadow Temple can’t uncover my true identity, then you can explore the city," said Yan Chuan.

Ding Xiang replied, "I have no issue."

Lu Yuru also nodded, "Neither do I."

Thus, the three of them settled temporarily in Golden Talisman City.

Familiarizing themselves with the environment, managing businesses, earning essence stones, honing martial arts, and so on, there was no rush; it had to be done gradually.

After renting the Divine General’s Courtyard, Yan Chuan’s first task was to set up the ’Five Elements Sky-Supporting Array’ and close the doors to visitors, focusing solely on cultivation within the courtyard using the ’Five Elements Release Origin Array.’

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"In stillness, there is brightness; in motion, there is soaring; when qi rises, form follows; when intent moves, spirit is firm, spirit leads the qi, form follows the rising qi. Train the form to be strong, refine essence to be solid, cultivate qi to be vigorous, train the spirit to be light, consolidate form and qi as roots for mastering motion, and gather spirit and energy as a foundation for soaring."

Golden Talisman City, inner city, Divine General’s Courtyard.

Yan Chuan utilized true qi that flowed from the Dantian to the ’Yin Qiao Store’ and then to the ’tailbone’. It then split into two paths ascending along the spine, through the fourteenth vertebra on both sides at the ’Rattle Gate’, then further up through the shoulders, back, and neck, reaching the ’Yuzhen Pass’, known as the ’Reverse True Energy Through Three Passes.’

Then the true qi ascended over the top of the head at Baihui, dividing into five paths as it descended again, meeting the body’s energy meridians, then re-converging into the Dantian, entering the orifices and returning to their origins. Going through such a cycle, the body felt nourished like heavenly dewdrops, while the true qi in the Dantian seemed to be mist-like purple qi, leisurely and free.

Nine Yang Divine Skill!

Mist-like Purple Qi!

Originating from the "Innate Skill", tracing back leads ultimately to the "Purple Mist Divine Skill". Upon reaching a certain level of proficiency, it can nourish the four limbs and the entire body, as well as dissolve and resist various alien species’ true power, which is the foundation of the "Nine Yang Divine Skill".

First, cultivate qi.

Second, operate the spirit.

Built upon this foundation, what follows is the earnest cultivation of Nine Yang True Qi—

"First comprehend the stance of advance and retreat, then explore the roots of movement and stillness, advancing only after crouching, retreating immediately upon achieving balance, taking stillness as the origin, although the body moves swiftly, the mind remains calm. The intricacy of stillness should understand the subtle exchange between internal and external breaths. Thus, shape and qi becoming dominating can traverse freely, spirit concentrating and energy gathering can elevate and soar. Traversing freely pertains to the horizontal and vertical of force. Elevating soars relates to the depth and subtlety of qi."

At sunrise, Yan Chuan sat cross-legged facing the rising sun, adopting the Five Hearts Facing the Sky posture, mind fixed on the Dantian, then visualizing the sunlight transforming into nine fire dragons entering through Baihui, both Yongquan of the feet, and both Lao Gong of the hands, converging into a fireball in the Dantian. Then visualizing the fireball gradually expanding, to rejoin with the universe. Afterwards, gradually shrinking back into the Dantian, in this manner expanding and contracting, true qi advances.

As the sun set and the moon rose.

When the moon just climbed up, Yan Chuan continued cultivating, the fire dragon turned to a water dragon, the fireball transformed into a waterball.