Within a year or two, Xu Dao also brought Su Jiu and three others to the Baichuan Water Dock.
On the one hand, this is to give the three people benefits so that they can enjoy the various benefits of the Erhai Dao Palace Mountain Gate. On the other hand, it is also to allow the three people to act as his eyes and ears in the water dock and look after his property.
As for the property Xu Dao bought in Shuiwu, it is naturally related to Fu Lu.
He opened another Talisman Shop directly in Shuiwu. The business he was responsible for was the same as before. It was mainly used to sell the spells drawn by Xu Dao himself, as well as the spells drawn by others by buying low and selling high, making a profit from the price difference.
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It's just that in the Hundred Ships Water Dock, there are hundreds of Taoist priests in the foundation-building realm, and there are even more casual Taoist monks coming and going. As a result, there are more shops in the Hundred Ships Water Dock than in Wudu City, for making weapons and drawing talismans.
, those who set up the formation, burned thatch and made cauldrons, invited immortals Fuluan, asked for divination, and planted yarrow, etc.
And because many shops are opened by Taoist priests, these Taoist priests are all more advanced than Xu Dao, and there are not a few who have practiced Taoism for hundreds of years. Even if Xu Dao has an unmarked urn in his hand, others have their own unique tricks and secret recipes.
This resulted in the Talisman shop he opened not being able to make as big a name as it was in Jiangzhou City. It just had a firm foothold and could earn him some Talisman money every month to make up for his expenses, but he also had to save some money.
Not much money for talismans.
Having said that, although he cannot compete with those veteran Taoist priests who have been around for many years, he is rare and valuable among the new Taoist priests who have been promoted in the past fifteen years.
This is all because after others were promoted to Taoist priests and worshiped in Taoist palaces, not to mention buying their own properties, they still had to go out and do business in person every month in order to earn talisman money.
This is because even though the Taoist priests in the Erhai Taoist Palace receive a monthly salary, the salary of a new Taoist priest has already reached an astonishing one thousand talisman, making it unimaginable for Qi Refining Taoist disciples.
But this talisman money is barely enough for the foundation-building Taoist priests to use for daily practice, and it is difficult to even maintain their dignity.
Not to mention that all the new Taoist priests are in the stage of vigorous advancement. When they spend lavishly on spiritual food elixirs and study magic books, their expenses are even greater than those of the old Taoist priests.
This means that except for the direct descendants of Wuzhao, most new Taoist priests have to work hard and are far less comfortable and comfortable than Xu Dao opening a shop.
Among them, Xu Dao had a property in Shuiwu. In order to win over and make friends with other Taoist disciples, he specially set aside several rooms and arranged them into elegant rooms for the new Taoist priests to stay, chat, and eat some spiritual tea.
Drinking and moving around.
On weekdays, Xu Dao also makes a lot of friends. When he meets older people, he calls him "Taoist brother" and when he meets his peers, he calls "Taoist friend". Over the past year or two, he has actually met a lot of new Foundation-building Taoist priests, who can be regarded as
Taking root in the Erhai Dao Palace, you are no longer alone.
This day.
Xu Dao was sitting on a terrace on the top floor of Fu Shop. In front of him was the misty gray-blue Erhai Lake, and behind him was a woman with white hair and red eyes.
He put the back of his head against the other person's body, lying on his back with a soft pillow, and was flipping through a Taoist book in his hand.
The words "Taoist Priest of Dengcao" are written on the yellow book cover, and the content inside tells the story of a certain Taoist who traveled around the world, slaying demons and subduing demons and ghosts.
As he was reading roughly, a voice suddenly sounded in Xu Dao's ear: "Teacher, is a Taoist priest here?"
The speaker gave him a gentle push, and a white tail swept past Xu Dao's body, snatching away the pornographic book in his hand and hiding it somewhere unknown.
Xu Dao was not upset that the book was suddenly taken away. He stretched his body, stood up from his knees, rubbed the furry white tail of the woman behind him, and said:
"Since there are fellow Taoists coming, Jiu'er should prepare some high-quality spiritual tea."
The woman serving him was none other than Su Jiu, who had been following Xu Dao for a long time. As for the other party calling him teacher just now, it was not Xu Dao who intentionally asked him to call him that way.
But after Xu Dao became a Taoist priest in the Taoist palace, he was qualified to accept Taoist boys and Taoist disciples as students and let them enter the Taoist palace to practice. Of course, because his qualifications and cultivation were not high enough, he could not recommend him to enter.
There are not many students in Daogong, only three.
Xu Dao was not like other newly promoted Taoist priests who needed to sell student places to earn talisman money. He was too lazy to actually recruit disciples and got caught up in chores. He simply pocketed the three men under his command and gave them all a
Student status.
Chen Wan and Lao Sha were extremely grateful, and still called him "Master" as his diners, hawks and dogs.
The little fox girl Su Jiu, for some reason, turned to calling Xu Dao as "teacher" and became more and more comfortable with it.
Before Su Jiu could go down, the sound of footsteps came from the stairs again.
Whoosh, Su Jiu hid the white tail between her buttocks tightly so as not to be exposed to other people's eyes.
Her white tail was very fluffy and difficult to grasp with one hand. I don't know how she did it. She hid it so tightly in the blink of an eye that even Xu Dao who was nearby did not react.
Before anyone arrived, the laughter came first: "Haha, I wish you a happy life!"
When Xu Dao heard the voice, he was a little surprised and quickly walked over to greet him.
There was a flash of green light on the stairs, and a thin-faced Taoist priest appeared in front of him. He was holding a strip bag behind his back and was looking at the terrace scenery with interest.
This person was none other than Taoist Zhuang Bufan, who had been friends with Xu Dao for a long time. However, after leading Xu Dao and others to get familiar with the Taoist palace, the other person went into seclusion not long after, and has not left seclusion for a year.
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Now that the other party came to find him on his own, Xu Dao was immediately surprised.
Xu Dao hurriedly walked away and bowed his hands in greeting: "I've met Brother Zhuang Dao."
Zhuang Bufan returned the greeting, then waved his hand casually and said, "Sure enough, I heard from other fellow Taoists that fellow Taoist Xu has been living a good life in recent years. It's really good to see him today."
"Not only have we set up an industry, but we also have student helpers. Every time we come to Shuiwu, we only need to eat tea and check the accounts."
Zhuang Bufan looked at Xu Dao jokingly and said, "It's a coincidence that you came here to check the accounts these days, otherwise I wouldn't have seen you today, and we would have to wait a little longer."
The thing Xu Dao was looking at just now was not an account book, but a yellow book. He didn't take the other person's words, just made a haha and left.
After chatting for a while, Su Jiu left and came back again, bringing tea in her hand. After setting everything up, she respectfully stepped down, leaving the terrace to Xu Dao and the others.
Xu Dao hadn't seen each other for many days, but now the other party suddenly came to the door. Guessing that the other party probably had something important to do, he took the initiative to say:
"I don't know, brother is here today, but is there something urgent?"
Zhuang Bufan put down the tea in his hand, pondered for a moment and then nodded, saying: "Exactly."
When the person saw Xu Dao asking, he simply stopped talking in circles and said seriously: "I have now reached the perfection of Ningsha. Do you know this, fellow Taoist?"
Xu Dao replied: "Congratulations to Brother Tao. Brother Tao, you have completed one hundred and eighty years of practice. You just need to collect Gang Qi to step into the realm of Gang Refining!"
As he said this, he couldn't help but have a look of envy in his eyes.
After one or two years of accumulation, Xu Dao's Taoism has not grown much, but has been spinning in circles. This is not only because he is consciously laying a solid foundation and polishing his true energy, but also because he currently has
Without heavenly materials and earthly treasures, one cannot quickly improve one's cultivation level.
Therefore, whether it is immortality or martial arts, Xu Dao's cultivation is only fifty or sixty years old. Compared with Zhuang Bufan, he is only one-third of the other person, and he has to envy him.
And once the opponent successfully collects Gang Qi and integrates it into his own magic power, he will become a powerful monk with a name in the Taoist Palace, and his status will rise sharply.
But when Zhuang Bufan listened to Xu Dao's words, there was no look of pride on his face. Instead, he was quite emotional, even a little bit sad.
The man sighed and said, "There is no need to be envious of my Taoist friends. The end of my Taoist practice is just to practice Gang. However, I don't have such a bright future as my Taoist friends."
Xu Dao understood what the other party was talking about. According to his understanding, the spiritual roots planted by this person when building the foundation were only ghost-level spiritual roots, not golden elixir-level spiritual roots. This person was able to practice smoothly all the way to the realm of refining.
It is rare. After refining Gang, the potential will naturally be exhausted and there will be no possibility of qualitative change.
Although he understood this, Xu Dao would not say it stupidly. He just raised his hand and signaled the other party to continue talking.
Zhuang Bufan said: "Let's not talk about forming pills, let's talk about refining Gang. It requires picking the Gang Qi above the nine heavens and refining it into the Yin God and the magic power. This thing is very rare and valuable. The difficulty of picking it is dozens or even ten times that of the evil Qi.
Hundreds of times. Because I was too greedy when condensing evil spirits, I chose an uncommon evil spirit. For this time of practicing Gang, all the Gang Qi in the Tao Palace cannot be used by Poor Tao, so I have to go out to collect Gang Qi on my own.
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"At any rate, after more than a year of inquiring, Pindao already knows which kinds of Gang Qi can be used by Pindao. One of them is called 'Wind, Thunder, Fire and Rain Gang'."
"This Gang Qi can only fall from the sky during thunderstorms. If you want to collect it, you must go deep into the rolling thunder clouds and follow the thunder and fire. It is difficult for me to survive in the thunder for a long time, so I just want to
Find someone who protects the way to help me collect Gang Qi."
At this point, Xu Dao has completely understood. The other party should be planning to ask someone from him to be the protector and help him collect Gang Qi.
To be honest, Xu Dao was a little moved.
Although there are certain risks in assisting the other party to collect Gang Qi, in this way, you can closely witness the methods of others collecting Gang Qi, and even observe the process of refining Gang, which will be of great help to Xu Dao's future refining.
Moreover, this matter can deepen the relationship between the two. When the other party becomes a Taoist priest, Xu Dao will also have a backer in the Taoist palace.
The only thing that made Xu Dao hesitate was that although he had not left Erhai for a year or two, practicing in a low-key manner and avoiding disputes, he still could not be sure that the Wuzhao tribe had given up its plot against him.
Although Zhuang Bufan was the Taoist priest with whom he had the deepest friendship, the fact that the other party asked him to travel far away to collect Gang Qi still made Xu Dao worried that there might be fraud involved.
Fortunately, when he thought about it carefully, he found that this was not necessarily the case.
First of all, although Taoist priests who are proficient in thunder techniques and can withstand the power of thunder in the Erhai Taoist Palace are not uncommon, those people are either from the Thunder Edict or are related to the Thunder Edict. Like Xu Dao, they belong to the master-disciple lineage.
However, there are very few Taoist priests who are good at thunder magic.
In addition, since the two of them were friends, the other party would probably come to him because of his own thoughts. Xu Dao would not reject him outright. Instead, he would not ask for much in terms of remuneration because of the favor.
And Xu Dao thought that he had been practicing hard for a year or two, and it was time to go out and get some fresh air.
However, he suppressed the urge to agree to the other party. Instead, he handed over his hand and said straightforwardly:
"Brother Taoist's request, I dare not neglect, but I would like to ask Brother Taoist to give me a few more days for me to consider it. After all, it is not convenient for me to be too far away from the Taoist Palace."
Taoist Zhuang Bufan was startled, but he immediately remembered Xu Dao's identity and the feud between Xu Dao and Lei Zhao, and immediately chuckled: "It's because I didn't think well, Taoist monks should consider it carefully."
After roughly talking about the matter, Xu Dao promised to give the other party an accurate answer in three days. He needed to take a good look at the other party during these three days and make some preparations.
Zhuang Bufan had no objection to this, and explained that there were still at least two months until the thunderstorm-prone period, and he could wait for the first half of the month so that Xu Dao would not be in a hurry.
Although I couldn't get accurate words from Xu Dao, Xu Dao's attitude was good, which really benefited Zhuang Bufan a lot.
The two chatted for a long time, and after eating four or five cups of tea, the other party left the shop happily and asked Xu Dao to make a decision and send someone to inform him.
When Zhuang Bufan left, Xu Dao no longer wanted to read the book. He told Su Jiu and others to collect information related to Zhuang Bufan and "Wind, Thunder, Fire and Rain Gang", not only in the market.
To inquire, you can also inquire about information in his name from the Taoist priests who come to the Talisman Shop.
If the news is true and there is nothing wrong with it, Xu Dao will prepare to go out for a walk, see the world and get some fresh air.
Regardless of whether he finally agreed or not, he had to start preparing for the trip first.
Xu Dao immediately left the Baichuan Water Dock, walked around a few times to make sure no one was following him, and then returned to the cave. As soon as he returned to the cave, he immersed himself in his mind and instilled his consciousness into the inner world.
In the dark, light spots jumped out.
After one or two years of cultivation and development, the size of Xu Dao Nei Tiandi has expanded a lot, and it is already more than six feet tall, which is exactly the same height as the dragon body, exactly the same.
At this time, in the inner world, there are densely packed scale soldiers who are squatting and sleeping, numbering over ten thousand. There are twenty-eight tooth generals, arranged among them, each commanding a group of scale soldiers.
These are already the maximum number that Xu Dao can support. Twenty-eight of them have been given spiritual powers through the altar, while a few of the scale soldiers have been given spiritual powers.
And on some of the tooth general scale soldiers, there are twisted and weird runes flashing, making the aura of the two very different from before.
This is what Xu Dao has to prepare for. He has the greatest confidence for this trip and a killer move!