Black Mudan also guessed what Yuan Fang was going to do. She made her own food, opened the two food boxes, took out the wine and food one by one and placed them on the table.
In the hotel lobby, Yuanfang slapped the receipt on the counter and asked, "Is this real or fake?"
The shopkeeper understood it as soon as he took it and handed it back, "Really, the dark-skinned woman just paid the money."
After taking the receipt back, Yuanfang turned around and left without saying a word, his eyes flickering and he muttered in his heart, is this okay?
He found that he had been tossing and tossing in Nanshan Temple for several years before he could save a few hundred gold coins. He might as well do it like this and figure out what was going on. If appropriate, this would be a way to make money!
Feeling hot, he quickly returned to the house, walked to Niu Youdao, bowed his head and whispered in his ear: "Master Dao, it's true."
Niu Youdao glanced sideways, a little speechless, and found that Yuanfang was a bit petty in his work, as if he had never seen money. Didn't he want to imitate Yuan Gang? How could a mere thousand gold coins make you abandon the person you were protecting and run away?
Is money or people more important?
After the dishes were laid out and the wine poured, Black Peony took out a small porcelain bottle and sprinkled a little white powder on each dish to test for poison.
Yuanfang reached out and took the small porcelain bottle from her hand, put some on her finger, licked it with her tongue, tasted it, and returned it to her after confirming that it was okay.
Niu Youdao couldn't help laughing, forgetting that this person was an expert in medicine, and pointed to Black Mudan at the "Record of Strange Beasts" lying aside.
Black Peony immediately brought it and offered it with both hands.
Niu Youdao took the "Record of Alien Beasts" in his hand, flipped through it, and found the one with the picture album of the Golden King Bear, and handed it to Yuan Fang, "Take a look."
What are you looking at? Yuanfang was suspicious. He held it and looked at it, and his eyes were startled.
Niu Youdao stretched out his hand and motioned for Black Peony to sit across from him, and asked at the same time: "Black Peony is a nickname, right?"
Finally willing to talk to him, Black Peony refreshed and sat across from him in a polite manner. He nodded and said with a smile: "It's a nickname, and it's also a real name. I didn't know who my parents were when I was a child. As long as I can remember, I knew that I had always been
Wandering on the streets, she grew up black and was called Hei Yatou. Later, when she met her master, she was called Black Peony."
Niu Youdao made a sound and asked: "Who is your master?"
Black Peony: "A casual cultivator with no family or sect, when he took me out to sea to collect spiritual herbs, he was robbed and killed. I escaped into the sea and luckily escaped."
Niu Youdao raised his chin, "Are you single?"
Black Peony: "I used to be blind, and I was with a man, but then that bastard dumped me in order to climb a high tree. Now I am working with a few like-minded brothers."
Realizing that there was hatred in his tone, he raised his glass and made a toast to cover it up.
Niu Youdao drank a cup with him. At the same time, he glanced sideways at Yuanfang next to him and found that Yuanfang's expression was wrong. He was secretly amused.
Black Mudan put down the wine glass and motioned to the table of dishes, "Sir, try to see if it suits your taste." At the same time, he stood up and sat next to Niu Youdao so that he could help pour the wine.
Niu Youdao picked up the chopsticks and took a few bites, then asked: "What kind of cultivation level are you, and what kind of cultivation level are your brothers outside?"
"My cultivation has reached the foundation-building stage, otherwise I wouldn't dare to find you, sir." Black Peony held a pot and filled the wine for him, then tried to ask, "I don't know your name, sir."
"Xuanyuan Dao." Niu Youdao explained himself with a smile, and then pointed at Yuan Fang, who looked ugly, "His name is Jin Wei."
After provoking the enemy of the Song family, especially the one who killed Song Long, the Yan envoy, both of them changed their names to the outside world. Yuanfang did not correct his name at all. In the past, Nanshan Temple called him Xiao Jin, and Jin Wei's name was chosen by Yuanfang himself.
Yuan Fang felt that Yuan Gang's name was very strong, so he thought his own name could not be worse, so he called him Jin Wei.
Black Mudan smiled and said: "I just heard that Brother Jinwei called me Master Dao. It turns out that this is the origin. Then I will also call you Master Dao from now on. I wonder what kind of master you are?"
Niu Youdao said with a smile: "I am a casual cultivator just like you."
Black Peony's expression changed, then she looked soothed and said with a smile: "Impossible."
Niu Youdao asked strangely: "Why is it impossible?"
Black Peony: "It's not easy for casual cultivators to get some money. There are a few who are willing to stay at the Yaoyue Inn for ten gold coins a day, and the Taoist Master looks so young and handsome, with his entourage around him..." He glanced at Yuanfang,
Shaked his head.
Yuanfang had already closed "Alien Beasts", sat aside, grabbed the wine glass and took a sip to calm down his shock.
Only now did he realize that he was actually something that many people wanted to kill. Only then did he realize that his hair was regarded as a treasure by practitioners and could be used to weave it into invulnerable defensive soft armor. It was a shame that he dared to show that hair before.
Come on, just thinking about it makes me break out in a cold sweat.
Niu Youdao glanced at him sideways, knowing full well, and smiled at Black Mudan: "Aren't you a casual cultivator?"
Black Mudan knew that he meant that she had not spent ten gold coins to move in. "It's different. I spent money to move in because I wanted to find Master Dao."
Niu Youdao said with great interest: "What do you want from me?"
Black Mudan didn't believe that he didn't know. If he really didn't know why she was being used like this, he secretly encouraged himself and finally told his purpose, "I want to create a sect and get rid of this status as a casual cultivator."
Niu Youdao: "This is a good thing, but does it have anything to do with me?"
Black Mudan asked: "I think Taoist masters should know the conditions for establishing a sect. It doesn't mean that we are not casual cultivators if we say we are not, nor that we belong to a sect just because we say we are a sect."
Niu Youdao nodded: "First of all, this sect must be recognized by the spiritual world before it can establish a sect in the spiritual world, but it cannot be recognized by everyone, so the spiritual world recognized nine highly respected masters of the Nascent Soul stage as notaries.
, for example, the owner behind the Star Picking City is one of them. Only if you get the notarization of the names of these nine people can you be qualified to open a sect! And to get this notarization, you need to prove that you have the strength and financial resources to start a sect.
Qualifications also require introductions and guarantees from other sects, I’m not sure what I’m saying is right?”
Black Peony nodded: "What Master Dao said is absolutely correct. We are not among the top ten masters of the Dan List. We do not have the prestige recognized by the world. We cannot directly obtain the notarization by name, so we can only go through the normal channels."
Niu Youdao smiled and asked: "I wonder how many of these conditions you have met?"
Black Peony: "We have proven our strength by ourselves. We have completed the thirty tasks on the Evil Demon's Crooked Path List. Now we only need financial resources and sect introduction."
Niu Youdao knows that the so-called evil demons and crooked lists refer to people who have broken the rules of the spiritual world, or people who have done too many bad things and caused public outrage. They will list their names in public gathering places for monks like Star Reaching City to encourage the world.
Monks go to eradicate and defend the rules of the spiritual world.
As for those who want to establish a sect, you can't just say that you have the strength to do so. You have to prove yourself. If you want to establish a sect in the practice world, you must first prove that you are willing to defend the rules of the practice world, right?
Well, there are a bunch of bad guys’ names on the list, it’s up to you.
I won’t force you to do anything, just go and solve whatever you think is easy to solve.
In total, there are thirty tasks. Kill twenty of them. You can also find out the whereabouts of the other ten bad guys and report their hiding places. The poster will notify the corresponding enemies of those bad guys to deal with them. Of course, if you are willing to kill those thirty at the same time, you can
Even better, it definitely counts as you completing the task.
Niu Youdao clicked his tongue and said: "It is not easy to complete thirty tasks." Thinking about it, you can tell that it is not easy, whether it is dangerous or not, how much time and energy it takes to get rid of the status of casual cultivators.
It’s pretty hard work.
Black Mudan said with a slightly gloomy expression: "In order to complete these thirty tasks, more than a dozen of our brothers died, and now there are only a few of us left. After paying such a high price, we must pay both the dead and the living.
An explanation.”
Niu Youdao raised his glass to his lips and said slowly: "That means there are difficulties in other aspects."
Black Peony looked at him with a hint of hope, "As for proof of financial resources, we can figure out a way to pay the basic application fee of 10,000 gold coins ourselves. Currently, we still lack a recommended sect, and there is a fine of 100,000 gold coins that we cannot afford."
In fact, this fine of 100,000 gold coins is not imposed on the sect applicants, but on the recommended and guaranteed sects. In the world of spiritual practice, establishing a sect is a serious matter, and it is not a child's play. You can't just play it if you want.
If you want to play, you can stop playing, so you can't vouch for others casually.
If you are recommended and guaranteed, you must be responsible. No one in the newly created sect is allowed to withdraw from the sect within three years. Any problems will be solved internally. The general meaning is that if a sect does not even have basic self-management capabilities, why would you create a sect? Create a sect.
Come and play?
If something like this happens, the sect will be deemed to have been automatically dissolved and will no longer have the sect qualifications, and the guarantor will have to pay a fine of 100,000 gold coins to Piaomiao Pavilion. The so-called 'Piaomiao Pavilion' is not the name of a place or thing. To put it bluntly, it is
An organization that represents the spiritual practice world and maintains the rules of the spiritual practice world.
Under such rules, which sect would easily vouch for someone? Those who have a good relationship with you will not agree to this and cause trouble for themselves. Those who are willing to introduce and guarantee you are already doing their best, and those who are a little more conscious will give out 100,000 yuan first.
When you give gold coins to others, you can't let the guarantor take the risk for you, right? You can either use the money as a deposit for others, and then return it to you after it expires and it is allowed by the rules, or you don't expect to pay it back and just use it as a gift to ask for help.
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At this point, how could Niu Youdao not know what she meant.
Loose cultivators are indeed the most embarrassing group in the world of spiritual practice. If you want to join another sect, a normal sect will not easily accept some random outsiders who have become monks out of self-protection, unless you are really beneficial to this sect.
But most people with such strength disdain them, so why find a sect to restrain themselves?
The crux of the matter is that each cultivation sect has formulated rules through the cultivation world alliance of 'Piaomiao Pavilion' to protect their own interests. The euphemistic name is to prevent disturbing the normal life of ordinary people in the world, and to prevent monks from competing for profits with the people.
No monks are allowed to do business directly or indirectly among the people. If anyone is found, he will be severely punished and no mercy will be given lightly.
This rule, which seems to be fair to all monks, has been affected by various factors and has almost cut off the income path of casual cultivators.