On the night of his promotion, Yu Lie didn't know everything that happened in the Dao Palace and Dao City.
Because Luo Sen and others lacked channels for understanding, after they returned to the compound, they were only surprised by Yu Lie's exit, but they also did not bring back any news for Yu Lie.
Until the next day.
Yu Lie went to work at the elixir shop, and unexpectedly found that there were a lot more Taoist disciples coming to the shop. Compared with a year ago, he relied on the name of "Tao Zhong" to make friends and win over more disciples.
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And every time a Dao Palace disciple enters the door, they will bow or nod to Yu Lie first: "Congratulations, Boss Yu!"
Among the first few people, Yu Lie thought they were congratulating him on his store business, until Deng Luogu walked over in a hurry, holding a basket in his hand.
Before the other party reached the threshold, he got fat:
"Ah! Congratulations to Fellow Daoist Yu, congratulations to Fellow Daoist Yu!"
When Yu Lie saw this man, he smiled and said, "It's Brother Deng. Why are you so happy? Brother Deng has brought big business to Pindao?"
He easily took the bamboo basket Deng Luogu was holding and handed it to the Taoist boy beside him.
Yu Lie accepted the gift so naturally that Deng Luogu couldn't react. However, when the man walked in and looked inside the shop, he found that there were so many customers in the shop so early in the morning, so he understood.
"It seems that I'm not the only one who came here to 'rebuild the relationship'."
Deng Luogu secretly regretted in his heart: "If I had known that this guy had been dormant for a year or two, he should have come over earlier to light the cold stove."
Immediately, Deng Luogu took out the Tao Palace Thousand Persons List updated last night from his arms. Yu Lie glanced at it and immediately found his name and the comment "worthy of the Taoism" added after his name.
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His mind turned over and over again, and he instantly understood why the store's business was so good today.
Luo Sen and Miaom, who were taking care of the shop, also walked over one after another to entertain the customers. They also saw the rankings placed on the table.
Although the two women didn't pay much attention to this kind of thing in the past, they both aspired to get into the Dao Palace, so they naturally understood the weight of the list.
And although only the top 100 on the list are eligible to obtain inner disciples in advance, which is equivalent to the status of Taoist officials.
But in fact, any Taoist disciple who can be on the list and stay on it for a long time will most likely be accepted as a disciple by the Taoist priests in the palace once he or she becomes a Taoist official, or even before he becomes a Taoist official.
Because the Taoist priests in the palace are busy with their affairs, retreats are often calculated on a yearly basis, and they do not pay attention to the Taoist disciples in the palace all the time. Moreover, the number of Taoist priests is limited after all, and there are even fewer of them who need and are willing to accept disciples.
The purpose of selecting a thousand people from the hundreds of thousands of Taoist disciples in the palace is not only for the Taoist disciples to see, but also for the Taoist priests in the palace to see, so that the Taoist priests can choose their disciples.
When Taoist priests recruit disciples, they basically only focus on the list of thousands.
It can be said that if they fail to enter the thousand-person list, the Taoist disciples will not even be qualified to enter the eyes of the Taoist priests in the palace.
Yu Lie naturally knew this, but his attitude towards his re-appearance on the list, apart from being a little surprised at first, became normal after that, and his words and deeds were not awkward and deliberately concealing it.
This made Deng Luogu and others see it, and they all secretly whispered in their hearts: "Good guy, is this the 'Tao seed' that can lie dormant for a year or two and become a blockbuster again?! The character is really good!"
Involuntarily, everyone including Luo Sen and others outside the store looked at Yu Lie with a sense of admiration.
But in fact, Yu Lie just doesn't like the things on the list now.
He has been busy on the Purple Mountain of the Purple Flame Taoist Temple for so long, and for this transformation, the other party provided free medicine. After he is promoted to a Taoist priest, there is a high chance that he will become a disciple of the Purple Flame Taoist Priest.
In addition, Yu Lie followed the advice of Zi Zhu Nu Dao and currently only plans to practice cultivation and not practice magic.
As a result, most of the small rewards on the list, inner disciple status, etc., no longer apply to him.
Naturally, Yu Lie was too lazy to care too much about these unused benefits. Instead, he disliked the fact that it might cause some trouble for him.
It was precisely with this thought that Yu Lie welcomed the guests in the shop, even more calmly, which made some Dao Palace disciples who came with the idea of entering into a business feel a little ashamed of themselves.
The end.
Yu Lie originally just came to the shop to show his face, but he was busy until noon before he finished entertaining the famous group of people who came today.
But Deng Luogu's fellow has not left yet.
After getting acquainted with the shop, this guy got bold enough to send a message to Yu Lie again, trying to trick Yu Lie into selling semen to him. He also said that with Yu Lie's current level and reputation, a drop of semen would be worth it.
Ten drops from ordinary people are priceless!
When Yu Lie heard these remarks, he felt vaguely strange. He didn't know whether Deng Luogu was praising him or secretly hurting him.
"Brother Deng, Pindao has something to do this afternoon and is no longer in the shop."
Yu Lie held up his hands towards Deng Luogu who was still sitting in the shop and saw off the guests: "Brother Deng, if you like our shop, you can sit down, but Pindao can no longer entertain him in person. I'm sorry for that."
Hearing this, Deng Luogu stood up from his chair. He put down the tea cup in his hand and quickly replied: "I don't dare, it's Deng who is disturbing me."
But the guy still didn't take the initiative to say goodbye. Instead, he tugged on his beard and sighed heavily: "That's all, even if we can't do Brother Yu's business, it's still worth it to help Brother Yu spread the word."
After finishing speaking, Deng Luogu handed over a gold-red invitation card from his sleeve.
The invitations are made of gold and hollow, depicting figures of ladies, strong men, enchanting girls and fairies flying into the sky with their necks crossed, creating a feeling of enchantment and allure.
Yu Lie received it in his hand and immediately felt the fragrance. He turned the invitation over and found the word "Acacia" on it.
Before he could ask, Deng Luogu took the initiative and said:
"Brother Yu, please don't get me wrong. Deng is not here to pimp this time. He is the big steward in the building. He loves to make friends with outstanding disciples in the palace. I asked Deng to help me make some connections."
After a pause, the man continued in a low voice: "The big steward is new to the city and has not a deep foundation, so he is especially good at wooing us disciples who have just entered the palace. Even if Brother Yu doesn't want to get too involved, he just wants to go there."
You can also gain some benefits by meeting, so don’t miss it..."
While thinking about this matter, Yu Lie nodded prevaricatingly and sent Deng Luogu away.
After thinking about it carefully, Yu Lie had no idea of meeting the chief steward of Hehuan Building.
It should be noted that the other party is just an old bustard and a Taoist official. Now that the rest of him is already a disciple of the Taoist palace, there is no need for additional contamination of karma.
However, Yu Lie also secretly pondered: "The land of Acacia is often a secret meeting place, where fish and dragons are mixed together, and there are many eyes and ears. It may be useful one day... and it's just a matter of saving some face."
Immediately, he summoned Song Danqing and asked him to represent him, carrying invitations, letterheads, and a batch of free elixirs, to visit the madam, which might open up more sales for the shop.
Yu Lie himself only used respectful words in his letter, explaining that his cultivation was not yet stable, so as not to make the other party think he was being neglected.
And if the madam was resentful just because Yu Lie didn't come to visit in person this time, then Yu Lie realized that he should keep a distance from that person to avoid being plotted against.
Every chore is taken care of.
Yu Lie hurriedly ate with Luo Sen and others in the shop, accepted the other party's questions, and was shocked in person.
Especially Luo Sen and Miao Mu, although both of them knew that Yu Lie was busy with cultivation matters recently, no one knew the specific details because Yu Lie kept it secret.
Therefore, now that it is known that Yu Lie has completed the third transformation of a Taoist disciple, and neither of them has officially entered the Taoist palace, whether it is Luo Sen or Miaomu, the two people look at Yu Lie in addition to surprise and shock.
becomes more complex.
After Yu Lie left, the two women felt depressed.
They were busy working in the shop with their own thoughts, but they all thought of the same thing:
"If you don't join the Taoist Palace, the gap between you and him will only become wider and wider."
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The other side.
As soon as Yu Lie left the shop, he called out Bage, straddled his back, and let Bage carry him back to the mountain gate of the Taoist Palace.
He didn't want to return to the courtyard to continue practicing, but he wanted to personally report good news to someone, or "report a bad news" to someone.
This person is his current nominal future master, Zi Zhu Nu Dao.
Yu Lie relied on the salamander heart given by the other party to successfully survive the seven orifices of the heart, so naturally he did not have to pay back the money he owed the other party for the heart.
It didn't take more than a quarter of an hour for Yu Lie to land outside Zishan. He let Ya Ba fall on his shoulders and walked closer to the Amethyst Taoist Temple again.
After not coming for many days, Yu Lie was surprised to find that the fog on Purple Mountain seemed to be much thicker than the last time he came here. And until he walked to the Purple Crystal Taoist Temple, no sharp spiritual consciousness fell on him.
on the body.
Yu Lie stood still and looked at the Amethyst Taoist Temple with its door closed. He hesitated for a moment whether he should knock on the door to avoid disturbing the other party's retreat.
But he thought to himself: "Just knocking on the door, it shouldn't disturb her practice, as long as she doesn't wander around."
Immediately, Yu Lie took out the token from the Purple Mountain and sent a request to the other party to see him. He stepped forward, used the token to knock on the door of the Taoist temple, and knocked gently.
As a result, with just a slight knock, the door of the Taoist temple opened on its own. As usual, the Purple Candle Female Taoist didn't seem to have banned the Taoist temple.
Yu Lie was confused: "Aren't you in retreat?"
Immediately afterwards, a strong aroma of wine suddenly surged out from the Taoist temple and penetrated into his nose, shocking his spirit.
“Gah!
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Ya Ba, who was standing on Yu Lie's shoulder, sneezed so hard that his feathers all over his body exploded.
Seeing Crow Ba's reaction, Yu Lie realized that this guy didn't practice poisoning skills after all. In order to prevent it from inhaling too much poisonous gas during the meditation, or from belching when it encountered some poison, he stuffed Crow Ba into the pig.
In the bag.
After a few hesitations, Yu Lie rolled up his sleeves and walked cautiously into the Amethyst Taoist Temple.
The further inside the Taoist temple, the richer the aroma of the wine became, and the texture seemed to be good. After a few sips, Yu Lie felt that the true energy in his body was ready to move, as if he was breathing in high-quality spiritual energy.
This made Yu Lie secretly whisper in his heart:
"It seems that my cheap master is not only a poor man, but also an alcoholic."
When he reached the atrium, he found one after another large wine jars, roughly arranged in the manner of the Nine Palaces and Bagua. There were as many as thirty-six of them, but they were already twisted and twisted at this moment.
Although he had warned himself in his mind early not to run around, Yu Lie could not help but move over after smelling the extremely rich scent of spiritual wine in the air.
He was ready to make calculations: "This is the atrium, where I used to work. It doesn't count as trespassing if I come here. And whoever cultivates will not stay in the secret room, but stay in the atrium carefree."
Cautiously and impatiently, Yu Lie walked to the nearest wine vat. He reached up and took a peek inside the wine vat.
A scene that disappointed him appeared. In the wine vat as big as an ox, there were only a few drops of wine hanging on the wall.
Yu Lie looked to the side and found that the other statue was the same.
One statue, two statues, three statues...eighteen statues, nineteen statues.
Yu Lie walked in a circle towards the center of the wine urn formation, and then jumped onto the wine urn, stepping on the edge of the wine urn and jumping inside.
As a result, all the wine jars in front of him were sucked dry, which made Yu Lie's desire to steal wine more than half cool.
Fortunately, when Yu Lie ran to the center, he still found the wine in the wine vat in the center. It was no longer just a few drops, but a layer. If he looked at it, he could see it as deep as a finger.
If it were scooped up, it would probably be able to hold an ordinary-sized drinking gourd.
But here comes the problem again. Thirty-six wine jars as big as cows only have so much wine left. If he takes the last remaining bit, wouldn’t it be easy to expose the matter of stealing wine?
Of course, it's also possible that he took some of the remaining "leftovers", and the Zi Zhu Nu Dao and others who were drinking in the temple wouldn't care at all.
After hesitating for a moment, Yu Lie saw that his door had also been knocked and walked in. Thinking of testing it, he simply raised his hands in the courtyard and shouted:
"Taoist Priest Zi Zhu and the rest of the juniors are here to visit."
"Disciple Yu Lie, please see the Taoist Master!"
He shouted several times and looked around the rooms in the temple to see if anyone was there. As a result, the entire Taoist temple was still silent and lifeless as always, as if he was the only living thing.
But suddenly, Yu Lie's eyes moved and fell on the wine vat in the center, and he found another living creature.
As he was shouting, he saw a small, crystal white insect hanging on the inner wall of the wine vat. It was as big as a grain of glutinous rice, in the shape of a strip of meat, with a mouth and eyes, like a silkworm, but petite and cute.
It seemed to be shaken by Yu Lie's cry, and it fell into the thin wine liquid from the inner wall of the wine tank.
Then suddenly, an indescribable rich aroma of wine splashed out of the wine vat.
boom!
Yu Lie stood outside the wine vat, overwhelmed by the aroma of the wine, his head was dazed and his whole body was in a state of ecstasy.
After quite a while.
Only then did he come back to his senses, staring closely at the white flesh worms floating in the residual wine, and said in surprise:
"If you are addicted to alcohol, put water in a vat and mix it with insects to make a fine wine with a fragrant aroma that makes it difficult to extricate yourself...
Could this thing be the rumored wine worm? Taoist priest and the others are using this worm to make wine?!"
Yu Lie's heart suddenly started beating loudly.
Rare things like wine worms are good things and are useful for cultivation!