Spring goes and autumn comes, and three years have passed quickly.
In Lingfu Pavilion, Han Changming sat cross-legged on the wooden bed, his body covered with a layer of light yellow glow.
Not long after, the yellow glow on his body dissipated and he opened his eyes.
"It still doesn't work. It seems I need to go out and move around." Han Changming said to himself.
As early as a year ago, Han Changming had advanced to the seventh level of Qi Refining. However, since then, no matter how hard he practiced or how much he took medicinal pills, his cultivation had not improved at all. The spiritual water could still play a big role at the beginning, but later the effect became worse and worse.
Obviously, Han Changming has encountered a bottleneck.
All cultivators will encounter bottlenecks. For those with good spiritual roots, there are very few bottlenecks. Some evildoers don’t even have any bottlenecks. Cultivation is as simple as drinking water and eating. They will naturally advance to the next realm.
Han Changming has three spiritual roots, so it is normal for him to encounter bottlenecks.
As early as a year ago, Han Changjing had advanced to the seventh level of Qi Refining.
All cultivators will encounter bottlenecks, but it is hard to say when exactly they will encounter them. Those who are lucky will encounter them after they have reached a high level of cultivation. Those who are unlucky will encounter bottlenecks very early and they will find it difficult to resolve.
Han Changming has an uncle who is fifty years old and is still at the fourth level of Qi Refining.
The time to resolve a bottleneck varies from person to person and there is no fixed time.
Han Changjiong encountered a bottleneck when he was at the fifth level of Qi refining, and it took him seven years to resolve it. Han Dehai encountered a bottleneck when he was at the seventh level of Qi refining, and it took him two years to resolve it. Han Debiao encountered a bottleneck when he was at the eighth level of Qi refining, and it took him ten years to resolve it. Han Delei spent twenty years to resolve the bottleneck.
The Han family has a special monster hunting team which is fully equipped. There are people who specialize in finding out the whereabouts of monsters and making hunting plans based on the number and magical powers of the monsters.
Han Changming can tell Han Deling to follow the monster hunting team to hunt monsters.
Before that, he had to buy several powerful magical weapons and second-level talismans.
During these three years, Han Changming accumulated a large amount of spirit stones by selling talismans. There were more than four thousand spirit stones in his storage bag.
During this period, Han Daohe came to see him. Han Changming gave Han Daohe a thousand spirit stones and a second-level water escape talisman. Han Daohe refused again and again, but he couldn't resist Han Changming and accepted it.
He took a large amount of spirit-nourishing pills, and his spiritual awareness was stronger than that of the ninth level of Qi Refining. Perhaps he had taken too many spirit-nourishing pills and developed drug resistance. Now when he took the spirit-nourishing pills, his spiritual awareness had hardly increased.
As such, he has switched to using the Nourishing Spirit Incense.
Han Changming can control three first-level magic weapons at the same time, but not for long.
A strange hissing sound came from his waist, and a spirit beast bag on his waist began to move restlessly.
He slapped the spirit beast's bag, and a purple light flew out of it.
This is a purple scorpion about half a meter in size, with a pair of purple wings and a golden stinger.
From a distance, the purple scorpion looks like a huge purple crystal.
Amethyst Flying Scorpion, ranked 52nd on the List of Strange Insects of Heaven and Earth, feeds on spirits and poisonous plants, and can confuse people's minds.
At the exchange meeting three years ago, Han Changming used spiritual water to exchange for a ghost-faced scorpion egg.
At the beginning, Han Changming placed the spirit insect eggs next to the spirit gathering stone, allowing the spirit insect eggs to slowly absorb spiritual energy and hatch.
Half a year has passed, and there has been no movement from the spirit insect eggs.
Han Changming threw the spirit insect eggs into the spirit water to soak. As a result, the golden eggs slowly turned purple. After hatching, the ghost-faced scorpion turned into amethyst flying scorpion.
The Amethyst Flying Scorpion is ranked higher than the Ghost-faced Scorpion. The Amethyst Flying Scorpion is also a poisonous insect, but it feeds on spirits and poisonous plants. Han Changming used spiritual water to feed it at first, but it was of no use. It likes to devour the spirits of monsters and poisonous plants.
Poisonous plants are rare, but fortunately the spirits of monsters are relatively common. Live by the mountain and eat by the mountain, live by the water and eat by the water. There is nothing else in the red algae sea, but there are many low-level monsters.
The spirits of monsters can be refined into magical weapons, transformed into human form and used to attack. The higher the grade of the spirit of the monster, the more expensive it is.
The Amethyst Flying Scorpion is a first-level spiritual insect that can devour first-level monster spirits. Eight or ten monster spirits are nothing, but its appetite is huge. Every time it eats, it needs dozens of first-level monster spirits. Moreover, its appetite is growing, and it is becoming more and more picky about food. It will not eat monster spirits that are too low in grade.
If he hadn't raised two alligator turtle beasts and a purple crystal flying scorpion, Han Changming would have been able to accumulate more spirit stones.
The Amethyst Flying Scorpion let out a strange hissing sound and flew into the air, appearing a little irritable.
Han Changming took out a palm-sized black gourd, uncorked it, and dozens of green light balls as big as eggs flew out.
The black gourd is a first-grade intermediate-grade magical weapon, the Hundred Souls Gourd, which is specially used to hold the spirits of monsters.
The Amethyst Flying Scorpion flapped its wings and pounced forward like a starving ghost.
The green ball of light was no match for the Amethyst Flying Scorpion. The Amethyst Flying Scorpion easily devoured all the spirits of the monsters in a matter of seconds.
The Amethyst Flying Scorpion seemed unsatisfied and flew around the house, making a strange hissing sound from its mouth.
In more than two years, it devoured the spirits of hundreds of first-level monsters and dozens of poisonous herbs that were more than ten years old, and they were all of the lower quality first level.
Han Changming sighed softly and said to himself, "Sooner or later, you will eat me out of money."
He pulled open the cork, and a fist-sized green ball of light flew out. It could be vaguely recognized that it was the spirit of a demon crab.
The Amethyst Flying Scorpion flapped its wings and instantly pounced in front of the demon crab's spirit. It bit the spirit and swallowed it up in no time.
After devouring the spirit of the demon crab, it was finally satisfied. It landed on the ground and lay there motionless.
Han Changming took out a small black grass and threw it on the ground.
The Amethyst Flying Scorpion opened its bloody mouth and swallowed the black grass, letting out an excited hissing sound and running around the house.
Han Changming played with it for a while and then put it back into his spirit beast bag.
Walking out of the room, Han Changming discovered that Han Dehai and Han Changjiong's rooms were covered with spiritual light, perhaps they were practicing or making talismans.
After leaving Lingfu Pavilion, Han Changming went straight to Bailian Pavilion.
Lingfu Pavilion was not far from Bailian Pavilion. Not long after, he appeared in Bailian Pavilion.
Bailian Pavilion is doing okay business just like before.
After saying hello to the clansmen in the hall, Han Changming went to the second floor.
Han Debiao was talking to Han Deling. They looked solemn, as if they were talking about something important.
"Fifth uncle, seventh aunt."
Han Changming showed a sincere smile on his face and greeted them.
"It's Changming! Are you here to see fifth brother?" Han Deling said with a smile.
"No, my nephew has encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation, and I plan to go out with Aunt Qi to hunt monsters. Aunt Qi, can you take me with you when you hunt monsters?" Han Changming asked with some anticipation.
Han Deling frowned and said, "Have you encountered a bottleneck? What a coincidence. A large number of low-level monsters appeared at the junction of the Red Algae Sea and the Green Carp Sea. I was just about to take people to hunt them! You're one of them."