After hearing this, Lu Changan finally understood that his true identity had been known to the Wufu Chamber of Commerce.
Wufu Chamber of Commerce and Crescent Chamber of Commerce have an antagonistic relationship, and it is inevitable that there will be internal influences between them.
The Crescent Chamber of Commerce investigated Lu Changan's true identity, and this matter was not considered a top secret in the chamber of commerce.
"Wu knows a senior talisman master named Lu and Chang'an. He is also from the world of cultivating immortals in the Liang Kingdom. But what is the goal your chamber of commerce is pursuing?"
Lu Changan said calmly.
"That's right! It's that Master Lu."
Xia's famous music is shining and stunning.
"Young Master Xia, wait a moment, I'll ask that friend to come out and see you."
After Lu Changan finished speaking, he stood up and walked out of the main hall where guests were greeted.
About ten breaths later.
A tall, tall, quiet and gentle young man in white clothes walked into the hall.
Xia Mingqu was slightly startled, with a smile on his face, he stood up and saluted:
"I am not only famous for Xia's music, but I have long admired Master Lu Fu's name."
"Young Master Xia is ridiculous, Mr. Lu only has a small reputation in the Liang Kingdom, and not many people in the Jing Kingdom's immortal world know him."
Lu Changan responded politely.
"this……"
Not far away, Xia Wenyue looked at the indifferent and peaceful man in white, and couldn't help but stayed for a moment, looking at a loss.
For a moment, she couldn't connect the slightly greasy-faced middle-aged man in her memory with the handsome and refined man in white in front of her.
"Aunt Wenyue, I will take fellow Daoist Lu to see the clan leader first."
Xia Mingqu said to her.
"okay……"
Only then did Xia Wenyue react, her face as pale as snow turned a light red, and she lowered her head and responded.
Lu Changan and Xia Mingqu walked out of the hall side by side.
"Master Lu Fu, I heard that you have a spiritual pet mount, which is a mysterious water turtle with earth-level bloodline?"
Xia Mingqu looked curious and asked with a smile.
Lu Changan's nickname of "Turtle Talisman Master" was widely spread in Liang State, partly because he raised Xuanshui Turtle, which grew extremely slowly.
"Just in time, let you come out and get some air."
Lu Changan waved his sleeves and waved in the direction of the deep pool.
Poof! Wow!
A dozen breaths later, a large dark green turtle leapt out of the pond, causing a surging blue water wave.
Lu Changan smiled lightly, and his body fell on the back of Xuan Shui Turtle, standing with his hands behind his back, facing the wind and waves.
"Young Daoist Lu's demeanor is like that of a god."
With envy in his eyes, Xia Mingqu took Lu Changan and flew to the center of the Qingshawan tribe.
Along the way, the female cultivator from the Xia tribe whom I met couldn't help but look at the man in white who was riding a turtle.
"Cousin Famous Songs, who is this?"
A dignified and beautiful female cultivator in blue came flying towards her. Her eyes flashed with brilliance. From a distance, she saw an extraordinary man in white on the big turtle.
"Sheng Lan, you actually know each other..."
Xia Mingqu was a little embarrassed. Lu Changan's identity information was currently only known to a few senior officials of the Xia clan.
He secretly sent a message and explained the situation to Xia Shenglan.
"Miss Shenglan."
Lu Changan nodded and said hello.
He remembered that when he saved this girl, he had never seen such a bright light in her eyes today.
"Wu Fan...Lu Changan..."
Xia Shenglan's eyes were wide open and she was stunned for a long time, watching Feng Shen's handsome figure in white go away on a turtle.
…
Qingshawan Xia family hinterland.
Water curtain cave, waterfall pouring.
This place is the area with the strongest spiritual energy in the world of the Xia clan, reaching the level of quasi-third-level spiritual veins.
"Wufu Chamber of Commerce, is there a skilled pulse master who can mediate spiritual veins and cultivate spiritual pulse levels?"
Lu Changan thought to himself.
Five years ago, when Lu Changan first came to Shuiliandong, the aura environment here was a little worse than it is now.
Of course, for the fake Dan real person, this difference is of little significance.
Most of the fake elixirs in the world of immortal cultivation cannot improve their level, and they only need to maintain their cultivation level without declining.
Therefore, some fake people will choose to start a family, have time to take care of secular affairs, or pursue hedonism.
There are only a few fake elixirs who have not given up on the road and seek further slim opportunities.
"Friend Lu Dao, please come in, the clan leader is waiting."
Xia Mingqu stood guard outside the Water Curtain Cave and did not go in.
In a stone palace in Shuiliandong, Lu Changan once again met the Xia clan leader, Xia Hongyu.
"Haha, Fellow Daoist Lu is very good at disguise, but Mr. Xia was mistaken before."
Xia Hongyu is a monk who is good at maintaining health. He is over two hundred years old, but he has a handsome face, fair skin, and only his hair is slightly gray.
If you get up close and personal, you can feel the aura of vicissitudes of life in him.
"It's just a fluke. Lu is just relying on a disguised foreign object, which is not fair."
Lu Changan was neither humble nor overbearing, and sat down under Xia Hongyu's reception.
During this meeting, Xia Hongyu felt like treating each other as equals, and personally brewed a pot of spiritual tea.
Lu Changan knew that a powerful late-stage Foundation Establishment master, possibly a quasi-third-level talisman master, could fully afford such treatment.
"Friend Lu Dao, this is your second-level spiritual contract."
Xia Hongyu took out a spiritual contract and showed it in front of Lu Changan.
Phew!
Immediately, a handful of flames ignited, burning the second-level spiritual contract of the Wufu Chamber of Commerce into ashes.
Lu Changan was slightly moved, Xia Hongyu did this to show his sincerity.
The spiritual contract signed that year was somewhat forced by circumstances.
By burning this spiritual contract, the Xia clan gave up their greatest means of restraint.
"Fellow Daoist Lu, you have stayed in Qingshawan for many years and have never left. Are you willing to become a worshiper of the Xia clan in Qingshawan? Don't worry about the salary. Please refer to the most senior alchemist of Wufu Chamber of Commerce. You can put forward any conditions."
Xia Hongyu spoke in a gentle tone and cast a kind look.
"Then let's talk about the specific obligations of making offerings. The main purpose of Lu's coming to your place is to take refuge and practice..."
Lu Changan said bluntly.
The salary can be appropriately lower, but you should not be subject to too many restrictions, nor should you spend too much energy on drawing talismans and refining elixirs.
Half an hour later, Lu Changan and Xia Hongyu negotiated terms.
From then on, Lu Changan became a worshiper of the Xia clan in Qingshawan, mainly refining some high-quality talismans and giving guidance to apprentices.
As for his original duty of refining alchemy, Lu Changan would make some at will when he was in a good mood.
The general helmsman of the Wufu Chamber of Commerce has recently trained a second-level alchemist, Qing Zhuang, and no longer relies heavily on Lu Changan in this regard.
In terms of treatment, the Xia clan promised to provide Lu Changan with a high-grade spiritual dojo, second-grade spiritual rice, animal food and other supplies, and the spiritual stone salary was increased several times.
"If Fellow Daoist Lu gets used to living on Qiu Feng Island, I will ask the formation master of the Chamber of Commerce to unblock the spiritual veins, invest in spiritual stones, and transform your dojo into a second-level high-grade environment."
Xia Hongyu suggested.
"Then I'll bother the clan leader." Lu Changan did not refuse the kindness.
Although spiritual veins can be cultivated and improved, they do so very slowly.
In a short period of time, in order to upgrade the spiritual veins of Qiufeng Island to the second-level high-grade, the spiritual veins of one or two other dojos in Qingshawan must be sacrificed.
In the past, Lu Changan cooperated with the Spirit Gathering Formation and invested some spirit stones to enjoy a high-grade spiritual vein environment.
Save money now.
If combined with the Spirit Gathering Array and invested in spirit stones, the spiritual energy environment in the local area can be improved by half a level.
Especially the bottom of the pool is connected to the earth's veins, and the aura of heaven and earth is more active. This is where black water turtles and rock rats often stay.
Even if the aura environment of Qiufeng Island is upgraded to a higher level, it is still not enough for the unscrupulous practice of the True Pill Monster.
Fortunately, the Earth Rock Rat is proficient in escaping from the ground and can absorb the spiritual energy from the mineral veins everywhere underground. It can even go to the hinterland of Qingshawan to absorb the richer quasi-third-level spiritual energy.
Anyway, the Earth Rock Rat has a lifespan of five to six hundred years, and it has just become a third-level demon. Lu Changan does not expect it to improve quickly.
It is not unusual for a true elixir cultivator or a third-level demon of this level to have a small realm stuck for hundreds of years.
…
Xia Hongyu personally sent Lu Changan out of the Water Curtain Cave.
Xia Mingqu, who was standing outside, had a strange look in his eyes.
The patriarch's importance to Lu Changan exceeded his expectations.
"Lu Changan's disguise and his secret technique of 'Dongxu True Eye' were able to deceive me back then. His person is even more extraordinary than the information collected from Liang Guo..."
Returning to Water Curtain Cave, Xia Hongyu answered Xia Mingqu's doubts in a calm tone.
Lu Changan stepped on the big tortoise and returned to the Qiufeng Island mansion with his original identity.
Not having to live with a mask all year round, Lu Changan felt relaxed and suddenly enlightened.
"I've met Senior Lu."
Medicine boys Xia Mingcheng and Xia Wenyue changed their names and were more respectful than before.
Obviously, they learned about Lu Changan's true identity from other channels.
"No gift."
Lu Changan glanced at the thin girl with her head lowered and eyebrows furrowed in smoke. Her face was as pale as ever and she looked frail.
Lu Changan recalled his previous conversation with Xia Hongyu, who mentioned Xia Wenyue.
Xia Hongyu learned from the intelligence that Lu Changan was not only good at maintaining health, but also dabbled in medical skills, and was good at warming and treating underlying diseases.
"If Fellow Daoist Lu has some free time, I hope he can check on Wen Yue's condition."
At that time, Xia Hongyu just mentioned it casually and didn't seem to have much hope.
Seeing Xia Wenyue again at this moment, Lu Changan felt moved.
However, he thought that Xia Wenyue had rejected his kindness once, and his interest in it was greatly reduced.
…
In the blink of an eye, two and a half years passed.
Unknowingly, Lu Changan had been coming to Jingguo to cultivate the world of immortality for seven or eight years.
His age has also crossed the important threshold of one hundred and fifty years old.
At one hundred and fifty years old, for other foundation-building monks, there is little hope of forming a pill in this life.
In the future, body functions will begin to decline, and the success rate of pill formation will drop significantly.
Of course, there are no absolutes in the world of immortality, and nothing is impossible.
Those monks who cultivate their health skills, prolong their lifespan and maintain good physical condition, and then take high-quality life-extending pills, and even form pills in later years, have appeared in every era.
If the opportunity is unfavorable, taking the legendary spiritual objects of heaven and earth can directly extend your life by a decade, or even rejuvenate your youth. There are many records in ancient books.
"Master Lu Fu, Xia Wenyue passed out."
On this day, Lu Changan was checking the growth of medicinal materials in the medicine garden, and the medicine boy Xia Mingcheng hurriedly came to report.
"Collapsed again? Did you give her any pills?"
Lu Changan was not surprised by Xia Wenyue's fainting, it had happened almost once or twice every year during the years he had been stationed on Qiufeng Island.
This woman's body is yin and cold. She has been sick since she was a child and can only barely maintain her cultivation.
Lu Changan originally thought that this situation would be improved after her cultivation level improved.
As a result, after Xia Wenyue reached the late stage of Qi refining, her condition did not reverse, but the coldness in her body became even worse.
"After taking the medicine, her condition was a little abnormal this time. She didn't wake up for a long time."
Xia Mingcheng added.
"Where was she unconscious?"
"At the pharmacy."
Lu Changan couldn't help but think deeply.
In the past two or three years, there has been internal turmoil within the Wufu Chamber of Commerce, with the Xin family competing for power.
The external trading industry has been suppressed by the Crescent Chamber of Commerce.
The relationship between the Xia clan and the Xin family dropped to a freezing point after Xia Shenglan came back.
Later, the Xia clan accidentally found evidence that the Crescent Chamber of Commerce was supporting the Xin family, and there was an overt or covert struggle.
The Xin family admitted that they received help from the Crescent Chamber of Commerce, but it was a normal transaction and they did not betray or betray the interests of the Chamber of Commerce.
Internal and external strife, coupled with the spread of wars in neighboring countries, brought more instability. The Chamber of Commerce inevitably suffered casualties from fighting, resulting in a shortage of medicine.
Xia Wenyue follows the path of a pharmacist.
In terms of medical skills and pharmacology, he is the first person among the younger generation. He prepares a large number of medicines for the family, so it is inevitable that he has been a little busy recently.
…
Not long after, Lu Changan followed the medicine boy to a pharmacy near the alchemy room.
In the pharmacy, a weak girl wearing a light blue smoke gauze skirt and eyebrows like indigo fainted on the ground.
Chen Yuluoyan's face was sickly pale, and his lips were blue and trembling slightly.
Lu Changan stretched out his hand and covered her smooth forehead, feeling a chill like frost.
Lu Changan frowned slightly and held her slender wrist, which was as cool as jade. He could clearly see the transparent light blue blood vessels under the crystal skin.
"The cold air erodes the meridians and organs, and over time, the disease becomes terminal."
Lu Changan came to a preliminary conclusion.
Under such symptoms, Xia Wenyue could barely maintain his cultivation, study medicine, and take care of the common things on the island, which was beyond his expectation.
If it were any other monk, his meridians would have been blocked long ago and he would have become a disabled person.
Lu Changan used Changqing's magic power to dissolve the cold air condensed in Xia Wenyue's body.
During this process, he discovered that Xia Wenyue had a deep hidden disease in her belly button.
"Could it be that the root of the disease was brought from the mother's womb?"
Lu Changan speculated.
Half an hour later, Lu Changan dispelled the stagnant cold air in Xia Wenyue's body.
At this time, the girl was coughing in a coma, sweat broke out on her forehead, and her body temperature began to rise.
"Um?"
Lu Changan was about to let go of his hand when he suddenly noticed that the cold air began to slowly grow in Xia Wenyue's body again.
Where does the cold air come from?
Lu Changan felt puzzled. He pinched the girl's slender wrist with two fingers, faintly feeling the coolness coming from the bones.
"The cold has been stagnant for so many years, wouldn't her bones be..."
Lu Changan inspected Xia Wenyue's skeleton and found out again that he had expected it.
The girl's bones were as slender as jade, with a sense of crystal clearness. Although there was a sense of coolness, the expected coldness did not hurt the bones.
This coolness makes people calm and clear, which is different from the cold and cold air accumulated in the body.
No root cause of disease was found in the bones.
Lu Changan used his spiritual consciousness to bless Changqing's magic power and inspected the girl's upper body, up to her head.
"There is a chill in my soul..."
If it weren't for Lu Changan's powerful spiritual consciousness and his meticulous inspection, he would have almost overlooked it.
A hint of coldness surged through Xia Wenyue's soul and consciousness, as if it could freeze his consciousness.
"Han Soul... Jade Bone... Is this some kind of innate Taoist body?"
Lu Changan tried hard to recall the memories of his previous life.
Finally, the "Cold Soul Chalcedony" recorded in an ancient book was consistent with some of Xia Wenyue's symptoms.
The innate Tao body, also known as the innate treasure body, is an innate constitution that is independent of the spiritual root.
Lu Changan had very little contact with him in his previous life. In this life, he only heard that "Tuoba Jin", the genius of the Liang Kingdom, had an innate treasure body and later reluctantly formed a golden elixir.
"Xiao Ming, you go and do your work first. Wen Yue's condition is more serious and she still needs to be cared for with magic power."
Lu Changan waved his hand and told the medicine boy Xia Mingcheng to retreat.
According to the records in the ancient book of his previous life, only those possessors of an innate Taoist body such as "Hanso Chalcedony" could survive and develop if they were born in female cultivators.
And before you succeed in cultivation, you must try your best to conceal it from the outside world, otherwise it may lead to death.