"Master Lu Fu, we can talk about the business slowly. Drinking tea is the most important thing now."
Gao Xuan rolled up his sleeves, stood up from his seat, and took the initiative to lift the teapot and pour tea for Lu Zhong, "You're welcome. If Master Lu Fu hadn't come this time, I wouldn't be allowed to drink the Yunxi Spring Tea."
Afterwards, the two of them stopped pretending. You had one cup and I had one cup, sharing the spiritual tea.
Lu ** drank four cups, which was equivalent to two months of hard training.
After this experience, he finally understood why some of the monks in this book could make great progress just by drinking tea every day.
Only through personal experience can we know that this is not the nonsense of the author of the book, but is clearly a portrayal of their boring life, but the monks who read the book cannot understand it.
"What a good thing, but it's a pity that each person is only allowed to entertain once..."
Gao Xuan put down the empty tea cup with a look of unfinished expression on his face.
After drinking the spiritual tea, it was time to talk about business.
"What's your decision, fellow Taoist?" Gao Xuan looked at Lu Zhong.
Lu Zhong already had the answer in his mind and said bluntly: "I wonder how Lu can become a guest of Wanfa Pavilion?"
"This is simple." Gao Xuan didn't mention the book, as if it had never happened. He turned over his hand and took out an amber token with water and fire cloud patterns engraved on the surface and placed the token with the word "Ke Qing" around it.
on the desktop.
After clearing his throat, he began to explain the specific matters.
"Regarding the position of guest minister of Wanfa Pavilion, according to the rules set by the pavilion, with Lu Daoyou's current mid-level Qi refining cultivation level, he can only temporarily serve as Amber Guest Minister. The regulations for this level should be a contribution of 100 points per year. Amber Guest Minister should make at least 100 points per year.
Three shots are required, and the contribution points for additional shots will be calculated separately."
"As for the specific use of the contribution points, in addition to using them to exchange for the skills and spells of this pavilion, fellow Taoists can also exchange them for spiritual stones at a one-to-one ratio, or after accumulating enough contribution points, you can choose like this
Officially join Wanfa Pavilion."
"Do fellow Taoists have any doubts about this?"
Lu Zhong shook his head. This was the same as what he knew and he had been mentally prepared for it.
"If not, fellow Taoist can accept this amber token. This will be regarded as assuming the position of guest minister of this pavilion. Later, when fellow Taoist is needed to take action, this pavilion will issue a notice in advance."
Hearing this, Lu Zhong accepted the amber token.
After chatting with Gao Xuan for a while and exchanging some insights on cultivation, he said goodbye and left Wanfa Pavilion.
…
In the evening three days later, Lu Zhong arrived at the outskirts of Youyun Valley.
Seeing that the sky was about to get dark, for safety reasons, he did not choose to continue deeper into the valley. Instead, he found a hidden cave to rest for a night, so as to avoid the most dangerous period of the wilderness and wait until tomorrow's sunrise before releasing the hunter.
The spirit rat is looking for a spirit.
The location of the cave is good. It is located on a cliff more than ten feet above the ground. There is an ancient pine tree covering the entrance of the cave.
Such a hidden cave is extremely difficult to discover from the outside.
If Lu Zhong hadn't happened to fall on the ancient pine tree with his light body technique, he wouldn't have been able to find it.
He pinched it to detect malicious intent, just in case there was something with malicious intentions hidden in the cave. Seeing that there was no feedback in his heart, he sat cross-legged on the flat ground and closed his eyes to rest, preparing to sit like this until sunrise.
The mountain wind howled at night, and the sound was transmitted into the cave one after another.
Recalling that a large number of mortal monks died here, it is inevitable to think of the sound of ghost cries.
"There can't really be a ghost, right?"
For the sake of caution, Lu Zhong chose to take out dozens of exorcism charms, and used the three techniques of Condensing Breath, Concealing Traces and Watching Qi one after another, and then stared blankly at the green night outside, just in case any ghosts really broke in suddenly.
Under the moonlight, Youyun Valley looks even more eerie than during the day.
In particular, the will-o'-the-wisps floating in the air, affected by the extremely rich Yin Qi here, became brighter and brighter amid the rising and falling gray mist in the valley, as if they were really alive.
Then dark clouds covered the moon, and it was already midnight before I knew it.
At this time, two spiritual lights suddenly appeared in the field of vision.
Judging from their movements, they should be two monks, both in the middle stage of Qi Refining.
For some reason, he felt that one of the slender figures looked familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before.
The two jumped and jumped along the ruins of the valley, and finally landed in a ruins.
"Why are these two people running out at night?" Lu Zhong muttered in his heart, while secretly raising his vigilance.
In order to avoid being discovered by the two people not far away, he used the two skills of holding his breath and hiding to the extreme, and then lay down at the entrance of the cave to observe the movements of the incoming people, hoping to know their purpose of coming here.
"Could it be that he came here for the treasure left by evil cultivators?" Lu Zhong guessed in his mind while looking at it.
After the evil cultivator in Youyun Valley was destroyed, rumors have been circulating among the people.
According to rumors, Lu Ya, the leader of the evil cultivators of Youyun Valley, had long discovered the spirit stone veins in the valley, and had been secretly sending his cronies to mine them. After he was killed by the Jinhong Sect's Foundation Establishment, the mined spirit stones were not transferred.
He left and is still stored in a hidden place in the valley to this day.
There are several versions of similar rumors in Yanlingshanfang City.
It's just that the content of the treasure has become a peerless skill that can directly reach the true immortal, or a foundation-building elixir that can achieve 100% success in foundation-building.
What's even more outrageous is that there are actually people who swear that Lu Ya once imprisoned a female cultivator who looked like a fairy in Youyun Valley. If someone can rescue her, he can win the beauty's heart and so on.
Lu Zhong scoffed at this rumor, thinking that he had read too much into this romance book.
In the ruins, the two started talking.
"If I remember correctly, the hidden entrance should be near here. I'll leave it to fellow Taoist Fang next." A somewhat familiar female voice floated over in the night wind.
Lu Zhong was a little surprised when he heard this. Is there really a treasure left by evil cultivators here?
"Put it on me! Fellow Daoist Bai, please stand aside and let me take a look first." A confident man's voice sounded.
Immediately afterwards, he turned over his hand and took out a compass and began to chant the incantation.
Lu Zhong looked at it from a distance and found that the starting method of this person's spell was the same as the Qi Watching Technique, but the subsequent seals were very different. It looked more like the Kanyu Technique used by the Formation Master.
"Oops, I won't be discovered, right?"
His heart tightened, and he stepped up his use of the two techniques of Concentrating Breath and Disappearing.
"Huhuhu..."
At this time, a gust of mountain wind roared past.
The bright moon, which was originally shrouded in dark clouds, also emerged from the heavy clouds, and wisps of clear moonlight fell, completely revealing the faces of the two people in the camp, and Lu Zhong was so shocked that he almost bit his own tongue.
"How could it be her!"
Isn't this Bai Xiaohan? Why did she appear here, and the man in brocade clothes next to her? Lu Zhong remembered that this man was a casual cultivator like himself, his surname was Fang Yunjing, and he had been setting up stalls in the stall area all year round.
People make a living by setting up simple magic circles.
"Strange, how come these two people appear here?"
Lu Zhong watched intently, becoming more and more confused.
"Found it, it's here! Hey, something seems wrong..." Fang Yunjing stopped his movements and was about to turn around, when he felt a pain in his neck, followed by a spinning sensation.
Watching the headless body gushing blood and falling to the ground, Bai Xiaohan kept smiling.
Lu Zhong, who had witnessed this scene completely, was so shocked that he could not speak.
incredible!
Could this be Bai Xiaohan’s true face?
I originally thought that the two of them came here to find the treasure left by the evil cultivator in the room, but I didn't expect that I guessed wrong from beginning to end. This was clearly her trick to trick Fang Yunjing out, and then carry out the murder and seize the treasure.
Once again, he gained a new understanding of the sinister human nature of people in the world of cultivation.
After some searching, Bai Xiaohan took away Fang Yunjing's storage bag and all his valuables.
After doing this, she even chanted a spell to condensate a fireball, then flicked it onto the corpse with her slender fingers, completing the steps of destroying the corpse and erasing traces with great proficiency.
Then Bai Xiaohan left.
For the sake of caution, Lu Zhong chose to stay where he was until the white fish belly appeared on the horizon, and then he came down from the cave where he was hiding.
Arriving at the ruins, he looked at the ashes on the ground and fell into deep thought.
Shaking his head, Lu Zhong used the technique of lightening his body, and after a few beats he disappeared.
…
A remote place in Youyun Valley.
Lu Zhong waved his Chinese medicine hoe and dug out a long green vine.
"There are three knots on the surface of the green jade vine, which means that this vine is at least thirty years old. It can be used to refine Baicao Dew. According to the market price, it can be sold for at least thirty-five spiritual stones."
After collecting such a magical medicine, he still couldn't be happy.
The scene last night is still playing over and over in my mind.
At this time, there was a rustling sound of grass blades.
"There's someone!" Lu Zhong noticed immediately.
Alone in the wilderness, even if he was thinking about something, he was always paying attention to the movements around him. His eyes moved away from Youyun Valley, and two figures appeared in his field of vision.
They are a man and a woman, both of whom are in the middle stage of Qi refining.
"The environment here is good, and the location is remote. I think this is the place to choose!" A plump female cultivator said coquettishly. She already touched the waist of the male cultivator with her with one hand, trying to undress him.
"Don't worry, this place is not safe!" The male cultivator said this, but the movements of his hands gave him away.
"..." Lu Zhong.
It turned out to be a pair of wild mandarin ducks.
But, in a place like this... is it really good?
At least as far as he could see during his soul searching, there were traces of at least three kinds of monsters here. From the thin monster aura still permeating the air, it could be seen that their activities here were very frequent.
Seeing that the two of them didn't look like they were rich, Lu Zhongcai didn't have any interest in having sex. After all, it was better to practice this kind of thing personally.
So, I turned around and wanted to leave.
"Ah!" A scream came from behind.
Lu Zhong was startled, put on a defensive posture, and looked in the direction of the two people behind him.
A nearly ten feet tall monster that looks like a dace carp but is actually made up of countless rotten branches. Its moss-covered body has no visible facial features and limbs. It moves like a squirming maggot and appears quietly. At this time, it has emerged from its black hole.
A bright green beam of light shot out of his mouth, piercing the pair of wild mandarin ducks like skewers.
"When exactly..."
There was a wave of excitement in Lu Zhong's heart. He remembered that he had been observing his surroundings with his Qi-gazing technique, but even though he was cautious now, he didn't notice when this beast appeared.
"Has it been lurking here all along, or has it eluded the detection of the Qi Watching Technique?" His thoughts tended to the latter.
There is a special mention in the book on the spell experience of the qi gazing technique. The talents of certain types of monsters are similar to the breath gathering technique. They can use this to avoid the detection of the qi gazing technique. Maybe this one is the one in front of you.
Lu Zhong's breathing gradually became rapid as his eyes passed over the monster chewing the two bodies.
No wonder he was excited, it was because the monster in front of him was too valuable.
As for monster beasts whose talent is breath gathering, their hides are excellent materials for making robes. The effect of inscribing the "breath gathering" array on them is excellent, and they are usually made into expensive mid-grade robes.
Immediately, he made a decision in his mind.
While it was still eating, Lu Zhong drew out the Golden Sword and moved slowly.
Be careful and get closer.
…
The distance was less than thirty feet, and the monster beast seemed to sense something and began to become restless. The branch-like growths on its body stood up and rubbed together, making bursts of rustling noises.
After a few breaths, it suddenly stopped eating and raised its head.
The black hole-like mouth was twisting, as if looking around.
Seeing that it was about to "look" at him, Lu Zhong decided not to continue lurking no matter whether he would be exposed.
He took a deep breath and pinched the sword with his left hand.
"Whoosh!" The sharp blade cut through the air.
Under the control of the sword formula, the golden sword shot out like an arrow from the string.
At the same time, Lu Zhong generated a magical wind that surrounded him, and the robes he wore were also flashing with spiritual light. It was obvious that his wind-avoiding magical power had been activated.
As the last dharma sound fell, he suddenly began to accelerate, and spider web cracks appeared on the ground under his feet.
"Tap, tap, tap!"
In just three ups and downs, Lu Zhong had already rushed in front of the monster.
While it was spitting out a beam of light to deflect the golden sword, a blue light began to appear in its hand, and it soon condensed into a magic sword.
In the blink of an eye, nine swords were slashed out in succession, and a large number of "branches" were cut off.
What makes Lu Zhong feel strange is that even though he has already slashed seven feet deep into the monster's body, almost cutting it through, the last sword still didn't feel like it was piercing into the flesh. It felt exactly like a sword to him.
It's cutting down tree stumps.
Rolling to avoid the beam of light swept by the monster, Lu Zhong quickly retreated using the skill of lightening his body.
During the process, quickly chant the incantation.
Since it was a demonic beast without flesh and blood, and there were no materials on it that could be used to make robes, he naturally had no need to hold back and use spells, so he opened a distance and directly used the Clear Yang Fire Rain Technique to kill him.
A burst of fireball bombs roared, and twenty-seven fireball bombs bombarded each other in turn.
The unknown monster howled several times and was buried in the scorching sea of fire.
In the vision of the qi-watching technique, the blood-red color representing the demonic aura is rapidly dissipating.
At this time, Lu Zhong let out a light sigh, opened the protective cover of the small earth spirit ring on his right hand, jumped into the blazing fire, and picked up a gleaming green crystal.
Jumping out of the fire again, he looked at the crystal he had just picked up with a curious look on his face.