The country of Sang is located on the border of the Central Territory of the Great Abyss. There is a Nascent Soul Sect force in the country, which is controlled by two early Yuanying sects.
Due to the fortune divination of "lucky stars shining high", Lu Changan slowed down his travels here.
About half a month.
As a traveling businessman, Lu Changan received his first mission.
There are dozens of spiritual veins distributed in the Ivy Mountains, dotted with large and small immortal cultivating families.
Among the rugged and winding mountain roads.
A middle-aged businessman with a sallow complexion, carrying a large suitcase and cage on his back, was travel-stained.
To the left and right of him were a green-armored guard and an inconspicuous yellow-haired native dog.
Woof!
The native dog at his feet suddenly barked softly and looked at the other side of the mountain.
A roaring sound broke through the air.
A five-foot-long magic weapon, the spirit boat, staggered past the sky.
"Father, we still have twenty miles to reach Heishafang City."
On the spirit boat, Tao Wenjun was half-kneeling, with a pale face and gradually losing his magic power, controlling the flying boat under his feet.
"Wenjun, don't force yourself. You are at the sixth level of Qi refining, and it is very difficult for you to control a high-grade flying boat. When you get to Fangshi, you only need to convey the news..."
Tao's father struggled to open his eyes, his hall was black and blue, and he was as angry as a gossamer as he explained his funeral affairs.
Tao Wenjun had tears in his eyes, his magic power and consciousness were approaching the limit. The speed of the flying boat was getting slower and slower, the shaking became more obvious, and it looked like it was about to fall at any time.
Tao Wenjun gritted his silver teeth tightly and was about to forcefully activate the blood essence again, when he glanced at the wandering businessman on the mountain road below from the corner of his eye.
As if she had grasped a life-saving straw, she felt so happy that she controlled the flying boat to land on the middle-aged traveling businessman.
"Senior, does this senior have any elixir for sale that can heal wounds and overcome disasters?"
Tao Wenjun landed as the flying boat landed. Her delicate body was unsteady and her hair was messy. She wanted to stand up and salute, but she fell to her knees weakly.
"Wenjun, don't be gullible..."
Tao's father felt uneasy when he saw the unfamiliar trio of traveling merchants. At this moment, the two of them had almost lost their means of protection. If they encountered bad people...
Tao Wenjun also realized this and felt a chill in his heart.
puff!
At this time, Tao's father vomited out a mouthful of black and bruised blood and passed out.
Lu Changan glanced at the beautiful, pale and helpless young woman, then stepped forward to explore Tao's father's injury.
"The internal organs are severely damaged, evil spirits are lingering, and the spirit and essence are depleted..."
Lu Changan pondered for a moment and took out a suet porcelain bottle from the cage (large storage bag) behind his back.
"This is a second-grade, top-grade rejuvenation pill."
He first fed Tao's father the healing elixir, then stretched out his green palm and patted him on his back.
Soon, a cold, dark mist floated over Father Tao's body.
After waiting for a while, Tao's father, who took the rejuvenation pill, looked much better, his heartbeat was steady, and he was out of danger.
"Thank you, senior, for helping me, I..."
Tao Wenjun's tense heart finally relaxed, and he bowed with gratitude on his face.
Through the treatment just now, she saw that this traveling merchant was an expert in the foundation-building stage and was proficient in medicine and pharmacology.
Otherwise, a second-level elixir alone would not be able to stabilize Father Tao's condition so quickly.
"It doesn't matter, Lu is a traveling businessman who just happened to meet me. The girl only needs to pay for the elixir and healing costs, and it's an equal transaction."
Lu Changan waved his hand and said humbly.
Tao Wenjun was startled and looked at the middle-aged traveling businessman with a sallow face and a shrewd smile. The halo of being an expert in his heart was shattered.
She pursed her lower lip and swallowed the words of gratitude that came from her mouth, such as "I have nothing to repay, I would like to be a cow or a horse in the next life, and weave grass rings...".
Then we discussed business.
Tao Wenjun took out the spiritual stones, valuable magic weapons, and elixirs from the storage bag, but he showed a bitter and embarrassed expression.
The exorcism treatment from the foundation-building doctor, coupled with the second-level high-grade elixir, could not compensate for the empty supplies in her and her father's storage bags.
In desperation, Tao Wenjun almost took off his robe and used it to offset some of the spiritual stones, but it was still not enough.
"Senior Lu, if you add Ye Feizhou, can it be enough to compensate?"
At the critical moment, Tao's father woke up and said in a bitter tone.
"Can."
Lu Changan nodded. Although it was only a first-level high-grade flying boat, its value was much higher than that of a magical weapon of the same level.
Tao Wenjun hesitated to speak. Ye Feizhou was not owned by the father and daughter, but was an asset of the family.
Because the family was in trouble, her father ran away with her and called for reinforcements. During the breakout process, she was attacked by gangsters again, and the situation was full of dangers.
After the transaction was completed, Lu Changan dusted himself off and prepared to say goodbye and leave.
"I sincerely ask you, senior, to help our Tao family. Once this is done, our foundation-building ancestor will be greatly grateful."
Father Tao, supported by his daughter, bowed and begged.
"I disappoint you two. As a traveling merchant, Lu will accept some transaction commissions, but he will not participate in the battle between the various forces."
Lu Changan declined apologetically.
"Senior Lu! This crisis for our clan is not a family dispute, but a demon lurking within the clan, breaking out in the family's forbidden area and wreaking havoc. It also coincides with a hostile evil monk taking advantage of the situation..."
Tao's father explained anxiously.
…
"Oh? A demon is lurking?"
Lu Changan thought it was an ordinary transaction entrustment, but he didn't expect that the matter was not simple.
Back then, when he used the teleportation channel to reach the forbidden area of the Central Abyss, Lu Changan encountered some demonized monsters.
Including the demonic Stone Heart Dragon that I once hunted, it was also considered one of them.
In the world of immortality in the Great Abyss, especially in the middle realm, demons are not unfamiliar things.
The root of all this comes from the ancient forbidden land of the Central Territory, and the endless demon abyss at its center once sealed many monster giants.
Every few years, the demonic tide will leak out of the endless demonic abyss, and some demons and monsters will escape from it and cause chaos in the abyss.
It is said that before Fairy Zixia and True Lord Yunlan became Taoist couples, their senior brother who had loved each other died in the chaos caused by demons in the Central Region.
"What kind of cultivation aura does the monster that appears from the Tao family have?"
Lu Changan sounded cautious and asked for the specific reason.
"The aura of the monster is stronger than that in the general foundation-building stage, and it should not be in the core-formation stage. However, there is more than one monster, otherwise our clan will have a large formation to protect the clan, and the two foundation-building ancestors will not bring about the disaster of annihilation."
Father Tao recalled thinking.
He kept an uncertain detail. When he left, the presence of monsters raging in the clan seemed to be increasing.
"Okay, you two stay here while Lu goes over to take a look."
Lu Changan made some calculations and concluded that the Tao family's monsters should be remnants of history.
It is difficult to completely eliminate the chaos caused by demons in the past, and some remnants remain, which are ghosts and monsters that have no climate.
This kind of situation happens occasionally in various places in the Central Region.
In addition, on the eve of the start of the demonic tide, the remnants of demons lurking everywhere will also be ready to move.
Lu Changan simply boarded the newly traded flying boat and headed to the Tao family land.
Among the clouds, Lu Changan tried to predict the next demonic turmoil. The secret was unclear, perhaps because the information medium was insufficient.
"Probably not."
Lu Changan thought to himself, "In the past, most of the demon disasters in the Central Territory occurred about a decade after the opening of the Ancient Nether Palace."
Many high-level monks speculate that the demon disaster may be related to the Ancient Nether Palace.
Because every time the entrance ticket to the Ancient Nether Palace is opened, magic crystals need to be paid.
A great Nascent Soul monk once warned the monks in the Central Region: exchanging magic crystals to enter the Ancient Nether Palace may bring uncontrollable and unknown risks to the Demonic Abyss in the forbidden area of the Central Region.
Faced with the opportunity and temptation of the Ancient Youdian Palace, the major powers in the Central Region did not take it to heart.
First of all, every time the demons in the Central Territory experience chaos, they are generally controllable, and some scarce materials will be brought in disasters. The strongest of the demons who escape are often no more than mid-fourth level, and they have a murderous temperament and a spiritual spirit.
A little less intelligent than monks of the same level.
Secondly, every time the demons cause chaos, very few of the top-level Nascent Soul Lords fall, mainly due to the loss of pill-forming and middle- and lower-level monks.
Even in certain eras, the demonic rebellion was extremely powerful and fled in all directions, radiating to all major areas of the Great Abyss and being shared by the entire Great Abyss world of immortality.
…
After a while, Lu Changan arrived at the Tao family's land and indeed sensed three demonic auras.
The Tao family's second-level formation was in dilapidated condition, and the monks were either injured or fleeing.
Those demons had green faces and fangs, their limbs were shaped like jackals, and were filled with demonic aura. The strongest one among them was faintly approaching the fake elixir level.
After a series of killings, these demons wandered around the clan's territory, searching for the scent of survivors in the ruins of buildings.
"It doesn't seem to be a pure monster scent."
Lu Changan took a quick look and felt that there was a strong curse and yin in the demonic aura, which made people tremble and feel uneasy.
Woof!
The big yellow-haired dog at his feet had a layer of khaki halo all over its body, passed through the nearby mountains, blended into the earth, and disappeared.
call!
Soon, a storm of yellow sand and dust filled the sky in the Tao family land.
The three demons noticed something and ran away in horror, but were soon wrapped in yellow sand and became petrified and unable to move.
After a burst of howling ghosts and wolves, it suddenly stopped.
Flying sand rolls into the sky.
Lu Changan took the three mottled magic cores and noticed the gloomy ghostly energy surrounding them.
"Ghost aura? Could it be that there is a real murderer behind this demon..."
Lu Changan's expression was calm and he asked the green-armored guards to kill several evil cultivators who were secretly hiding nearby and spying on them.
At this time, Diyanjun had something to gain, and he smelled some clues through the hidden ghostly aura.
After a cup of tea.
Diyanjun escaped for a hundred miles underground and went deep into a dark underground mine.
This mine is bottomless and has been dug for hundreds of years. It is a vein left by the Tao family and previous generations of owners.
Deep in the mine, numerous bones are buried, the yin energy and resentment are thick, and will-o’-the-wisps float.
"The third-level demon dog dares to kill my subordinates!"
Among the abandoned mineral materials, a silver-white skeleton burning with purple will-o'-the-wisps made a horrifying scream.
The ghostly pressure emitted by this ghost seems to have reached the peak of the middle stage of the third level, approaching the major repair of the core formation, but it is a bit unstable.
"That's great. I just lack a third-level ghost pet!"
The silver-white skeleton stood upright, and the purple ghost flames around its body expanded, turning into a ten-foot-tall ghost. Each of its arms held a bronze ghost weapon.
Whoosh!
The third-order early-stage dog demon in the distance turned into an afterimage that was difficult to capture with spiritual consciousness, and it expanded several times in the pupils of its eyes in an instant.
"wrong!"
A terrifying aura of demonic power caused the ghost flames of silver-white skeletons to float and howl in terror.
"Ah! The majestic fourth-level demon king actually——"
The 10-foot-high surging ghostly fireworks shrank and shattered in an instant; the silver-white skeleton was caught by a sharp claw as big as a cattail fan, and there was a crisp "click" sound.
After a while.
A middle-aged traveling businessman arrived at the place quietly.
The big khaki dog's paws imprisoned a dim purple fire remnant, like a flickering candlelight.
At its feet was a pile of broken bones, including two ghost magic weapons and a rusty storage bracelet.
"Third-level ghost cultivator, possesses space storage props, the origin seems not simple."
Lu Changan took the trophy presented by the big yellow dog.
In addition to ghost magic weapons, there are also some items in the storage bracelet, but most of them have lost their spirituality due to unknown reasons.
In addition, there are several jade slips recording the inheritance related to ghost ways.
One of the complete ghost methods is called "Five Curses and Resentful Spirits Sutra", which requires collecting resentful spirits to increase the power of ghosts and curses.
"Such a harvest is not worthy of the good omen of 'lucky stars shining brightly'."
Lu Changan's face remained calm as he put away the loot and space storage items.
This kind of harvest has been encountered in the past few years of travel, so it is not unusual.
Given the level he was at, the harvest that could be considered a good opportunity had to be at least Nascent Soul-level opportunity resources.
Later, Lu Changan searched for the remnant soul of this lurking ghost cultivator.
"It turned out to be a ghost cultivator who had recently transferred to another cultivator..."
Searching the soul of a ghost cultivator is more difficult. Lu Changan cannot obtain the complete memory, but he also knows the general origin of the ghost cultivator.
This ghost cultivator was a late-stage Zhendan cultivator of the Yuan Ying sect of Sang Kingdom during his lifetime, and had failed to conceive a baby once.
Due to the limitations of his qualifications, the first step of conceiving a baby, "breaking the pill into a baby", failed, but he was lucky enough to save his life and most of his cultivation.
After there was no hope of conceiving a baby, the son rebelled from the sect and turned to the ghost method he had captured.
The ghost method he majors in comes from the affiliated forces of the "Huangtian Ghost Palace", the ruler of the Northern Territory, and is expected to reach the level of the fourth-level ghost king.
Once you become a ghost cultivator, your lifespan will be greatly extended, far exceeding that of humans and ordinary monsters.
However, the cost is also huge.
If you turn to the ghost realm, you will not be able to enter reincarnation, which means there will be no next life.
Secondly, it is much more difficult for ghosts to become immortals than for normal monks, and they will suffer greater damage when faced with the thunder of transcending tribulation.
Lu Changan owns the [Nine-Seal Monument] and has no interest in the path of ghost cultivation. He only uses it as a normal reserve and for understanding.
From this point of view, this harvest is greatly reduced. The most valuable thing is the bronze bracelet of the space storage prop.
"Huh!"
In the second half of the soul search, Lu Changan obtained a memory fragment.
As a ghost cultivator, even if he was in the late stage of pill formation during his lifetime, it would be difficult for him to have any secrets that would disturb Lu Changan.
However, there is a clue in the memory of this ghost cultivator that is extremely useful to Lu Changan.
Because he had attacked the Nascent Soul during his lifetime, this ghost cultivator had collected Ying Ying resources, and there was a clue to a superior Ying Ying spiritual object in his memory.
Not only that.
Such a superior infant-forming spiritual object is extremely suitable for Lu Changan's wood type.
You must know that the [Ziwu Qingfeng] that Lu Changan extorted from Tianluo Patriarch was a superior infant-forming spiritual object, but it was not of the wood type.
"The wooden knotted infant spiritual object is in the hands of the first family of the Sang Kingdom, the Black River Castle."
Lu Changan's heart skipped a beat.
If he can get such a suitable spiritual object for birthing, his preparations for birthing will be significantly strengthened!
The probability of conceiving a baby will approach the extreme!
This ghost cultivator was unable to obtain such a baby-forming spiritual object during his lifetime, and the attributes were not perfectly matched, so he gave up.
However, this matter is much less difficult for Lu Changan.
The No. 1 family in the Sang Kingdom does not have the Nascent Soul True Lord sitting in charge, and the strongest one is in the late stage of pill formation.
However, this aristocratic family is related by in-laws to the Supreme Elder of the Tiancan Sect, the only Yuanying sect in Sang Kingdom.
…
That night, Lu Changan disappeared in the area around Tao's house.
As for the reward for killing the demon, Lu Changan did not ask the Tao family for it, which was regarded as a good relationship.
The Tao family monks suffered heavy casualties and the family land was destroyed. It was hard to say whether they could hold on to the family business.
Lu Changan smoothly eradicated the evil cultivator who was hostile and spying on the tribe, in return for harvesting the opportunity clues.
Hello.
During the rest of his travels, Lu Changan made an exception and changed his identity, secretly investigating the information of "Black River Castle" in Sang Kingdom, including clues about the birth of spiritual creatures.
The information is beneficial to Lu Changan.
The supreme elder who is related to the "Celestial Canker Sect" in Heihe Fort and is already in his twilight years, and his lifespan even exceeds a thousand years.
Nowadays, this True Lord Yuanying takes a back seat in the sect.
Based on the available information, it is estimated that such wood-type baby-forming spiritual creatures were planted in the forbidden medicinal garden of Heihe Fort to increase and cultivate their medicinal properties.
"Heihe Fort has a quasi-fourth-level formation, as well as various hidden restrictions. It will be difficult to take it by force or sneak into it. If it is done, it will alarm the Yuanying sect of Sang Kingdom."
Lu Changan thought about it for a long time and had some calculations in his mind.
With gentle and kind eyes, he looked at Lord Diyan who was chewing the remains of his prey beside him, and gently stroked the hair on the latter's head.
If we want to take the initiative in this transaction, Diyan Lord, who is good at earth escape and is a fourth-level demon king, is a key.
Lu Changan was in no hurry to take action.
This trip will last for several years, so I will stay in Sang Country for a while and take pictures slowly.
…
Two months later.
The border of the Immortal Realm of Sang Kingdom.
A ray of Nascent Soul-level escaping light, like snow-white silk, streaked across the sky with dazzling white marks.
Until a certain moment, the white clouds slowed down and hovered over the surrounding mountains.
"Fellow Daoist Xuancan, have you lost traces of that person?"
There were two people standing on the white cloud light. The dark-skinned old man who spoke was none other than the ancestor of Heihe Castle, Master Heihe in the late stage of pill formation.
The other person is an old man with white eyebrows who has cultivated Nascent Soul. He is wearing a dark green robe and looks gloomy.
On the withered white palm of Zhenjun Xuancan, there was a jade bottle floating inside, which contained a drop-shaped dark green aura.
"That person has not exceeded the aura tracking range of [Fengchun Withered Vine]. However, his escape speed is extremely fast, no less than that of an old man. Even if he is not the Nascent Soul Lord, he still has a powerful spiritual bird mount."
The dark eyes of Zhenjun Xuancan glowed with a mysterious luster, and he quietly maintained the calculated sense of "Xuancan Nine Lives".
This mysterious art not only contains the divination technique of seeking good luck and avoiding bad luck, but also possesses the ability to track things beyond common sense.
Upon hearing this, Master Heihe quickly calmed down and sighed:
"That's it! I troubled fellow Taoist Xuanchan this time, and I didn't expect to be able to recover [Fengchun Withered Vine]. I was just blackmailed by that person and forced to make a deal. I didn't even know his identity, which was very disturbing.
Annoyed.”
Based on Master Heihe's understanding of this True Lord Xuancan, these words just don't want to be pursued, and they are extraneous.
After all, as the oldest Nascent Soul cultivator in the surrounding area, Zhenjun Xuancan is nearly 1,100 years old. He has always acted prudently and will not take risks easily.
The reason why he was following him before was because he suspected that the target was a monk below Yuan Ying who was seeking to obtain Ying Ying resources. However, because of his outstanding magical powers and the supplement of special spiritual pets, he suffered a hidden loss.
"Although that person succeeded in forcing the deal, fellow Taoist Heihe did not suffer a loss."
"The trading item that person gave is enough to buy the [Fengchun Withered Vine]. He should not be an evil monk, and he does not want to be an enemy of the Sang Kingdom."
True Lord Xuancan stroked his beard and smiled lightly, becoming somewhat interested in the mysterious monk who threatened Black River Castle and forced a trade.
In addition, there is also a trace of fear.
During the previous tracking process, he had an intuition of destiny in his practice of "The Nine Lives of Black Silkworms": If he continued to pursue, the dangers would be unpredictable.
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Three years later.
A middle-aged man with sallow complexion, dusty and with a reserved expression, stepped into the sphere of influence of the Alchemy Alliance.
"After traveling for more than six years, I finally arrived at my final destination."
Lu Changan exhaled slowly. The magic power in his body was dark and the Evergreen Golden Pill was dead, but in fact it had been condensed to the extreme.
Three months ago, Lu Changan turned 379, and his cultivation level had basically reached the peak of the late Jindan period.
In the past six years, Lu Changan traveled to most of the cultivation areas in the Central Region as a traveling merchant.
During this period, it is not limited to buying and selling transactions, but occasionally accepts entrustments to accumulate good and eliminate evil.
Killing ghosts, slaying monsters, suppressing bandits, telling fortunes... things you can do casually and earn rewards and resources.
The life of traveling is more colorful than the hard work of sects, and you meet all kinds of monks or other creatures.
During this process, there were insights and accumulations, and there were also unexpected gains.
Among them, the "Spring Dead Vine", a wooden spiritual object tied to the baby, is the biggest surprise of this trip.
"Now that we have arrived at the Alchemy Alliance, you can take a rest."
Lu Changan took some time off, and an invisible breeze passed over his body, also passing by the green-armored guards and yellow-haired native dogs on the left and right.
The aura of wind and dust dissipated from the three bodies.
Lu Changan put away the boxes and cages behind him, as if all traces of dust had been washed away, his whole body was light, his mind was peaceful, and he was not surprised by favors or humiliations.
Lord Diyan and the green-armored puppet bowed to their master, and the light flashed before being put away by Lu Changan.
During the final journey, Lu Changan flew alone to the hinterland of the Alchemy Alliance.
The Alchemy Alliance is composed of nine fragmented immortal kingdoms.
Among them, there are four Immortal Cultivation Kingdoms with Nascent Soul influence, and their strength may be similar to Liang Kingdom, or even stronger.
The strength of the other five countries is similar to that of the Jing Kingdom in the Eastern Region of Daqing.
Each of these large and small immortal-cultivating kingdoms is inconspicuous individually in the Central Territory, but the "Alchemy Alliance" formed together is a great neutral force that cannot be ignored in the Central Territory of the Great Abyss.
In this area, there are many alchemy sects, and the alchemy path has a long and splendid inheritance. There are many monks from outside the central region who come to commission alchemy.
Lu Changan is one of them.
Nine years ago, at the Nascent Soul Exchange Meeting in Yuntian Fairy City, he reached an agreement with Master Le - to refine a genuine Yinghua Dan.
This is the last link of Lu Changan's journey to the Central Region for many years and his journey to the Nascent Soul.