Chapter 66 Handyman Task
Just now he looked kind to Yu Bao, but as soon as he returned to the bamboo house, Lu Xiaotian's face suddenly darkened.
The reason why he chose to live in this barren mountain with thin spiritual energy was because he considered the several spiritual objects in his body and the need for frequent alchemy refining, and did not want to fall into the eyes of interested people. After all, whether it is feeding the ice silkworms with centuries-old red ice mulberry leaves, the herbs needed for frequent alchemy, or refining a large amount of animal spirit pills to enhance the leopard's strength.
Once Yu Bao stays nearby for a long time, he will definitely notice something is wrong.
I didn’t expect this money gift to be so shameless and unscrupulous. He actually sent Yu Bao here clearly to force him to submit. It would have been fine if he was just an ordinary monk.
But once he showed something was wrong, it would be easy for Qian Dali, a foundation-building monk, to punish him.
“We can only hope that Yu Bao will stay nearby for a while and then leave, otherwise we have to find another way.” Lu Xiaotian calculated this.
In the following days, like an ordinary monk, Lu Xiaotian opened up several spiritual fields and sowed a lot of spiritual grass seeds. Then he tried to make several furnaces of "Qi Condensing Pills", but because Yu Bao was watching from the side and could not concentrate, several furnaces of the pills were all wasted. I just made a few batches of animal spirit pills and gave them to leopards.
In addition to alchemy, Lu Xiaotian also took on several chores in the Miscellaneous Hall to earn spiritual stones. Yu Bao was also consulted on many questions.
"Could it be Uncle Qian's illusion? Lu Xiaotian is just an ordinary monk and didn't show anything strange. Uncle Qian is really a weirdo." Yu Bao saw Lu Xiaotian flying on the spirit crane as usual He went to other places where he was working as a handyman, muttering to himself.
But at this time, Lu Xiaotian, who was sitting on Linghe's back, felt his heart sink to the bottom. He underestimated the patience of the foundation-building monks. Maybe Yu Bao just gave the money as a gift for an idle chess piece that was of little use. After all, the foundation-building monks had no use for many things in the past. Just taking out some of them would be enough for Yu Bao to replace them. He works hard. For a whole month and a half, he behaved like an ordinary monk. He only made a few batches of pills, and then relied on the previous Qi Gathering Pills to practice. It's just that the sixth level of Qi refining consumes a lot of Qi gathering pills, and the remaining ones are not enough to sustain the subsequent cultivation needs.
Now there is a method for refining the Qi Condensing Pill, but Yu Bao has been peeping at the side, but he cannot continue to refine the pill as before. Otherwise, refining dozens of furnaces of pills in a month would be a waste. Any fool can see there's something wrong with him. After all, the spiritual grass needed by others to make elixirs cannot be matured in the barrier with spiritual stones like he can. It is already a very high frequency to be able to refine more than a dozen furnaces of elixirs in a year.
"It seems that we have to think of other ways." Lu Xiaotian thought to himself, otherwise Qian Dali has a life span of about three hundred years, and he can afford to delay it for a few years. If he is delayed because of these few years, If you fail to practice and miss the best time to build a foundation, you may never be able to build a foundation in the future.
“Hey, Junior Brother Lu, we’re here to collect the handymen again.”
Linghe just stopped at the door of the Miscellaneous Hall, where Luo Kang was responsible for allocating the handymen to other disciples. Then he saw Lu Xiaotian and said hello with a smile. Lu Xiaotian has taken on many tasks with him in the past month and a half, and Lu Xiaotian, who has a calm temperament, has completed them well.
There are also risks involved in running errands in the Miscellaneous Hall. For example, last month, a disciple in the Qi Refining Stage managed the spiritual herb garden for a Foundation Establishment Master Uncle, causing a rainbow spirit grass to suffer great damage to its spiritual energy, which angered the Foundation Establishment Master. Uncle Master Lei Lei was so angry that he not only severely punished the unlucky Qi Refining disciple, he even went to the Hall of Miscellaneous Workers and cursed him. But it frightened several fellow apprentices in the Miscellaneous Hall.
The tasks arranged are done well, and their lives will naturally be more comfortable. Lu Xiaotian has a good record, so Luo Kang is more familiar with Lu Xiaotian than other monks.
"Senior Brother Luo, do you have a long time, stable position, and don't have to run back and forth every day to do errands? Even if you eat, sleep and practice in a handyman place, there will be no problem. I run back and forth every day, just rent Linghe's spirit stone is a big expense." Lu Xiaotian got off the Linghe and asked. Naturally, his purpose was not to work somewhere, but to get rid of Yu Bao's troubled eyeliner.
"How long, how long?" Luo Kang said.
"A year and a half is no problem." Lu Xiaotian said.
"Okay, let me look for it." Luo Kang took out a book that recorded the chores of Lingxiao Palace.
"Well, in the Linglian Peak region, Master Qin planted a piece of Yunlin fruit. The fruit will take ten years to mature. However, this fruit is very popular with all kinds of demon birds. Due to the prohibition of consuming spiritual stones due to the mountain guard, There are too many. So Master Qin needs manpower, let alone one year, he can do something in ten years, as long as he is responsible for driving away some of the spirit birds in Lingxiao Palace, but the matter is quite complicated. Cumbersome, at least required The three disciples took turns, guarding the orchard all the time. The last one who was punished was because of a moment of negligence, and a few Yunlin fruits were eaten by the demon bird. Master Qin was punished and sent down the mountain. Now there is a person There is a shortage of spiritual stones, do you want to go? The spiritual stones are still very generous."
Luo Kang looked at Lu Xiaotian and said, Lu Xiaotian is calm and determined. If you do this. Live, quite suitable.
"The reward is indeed generous, but the work is too cumbersome. You always have to keep an eye on the orchard, which affects your practice too much." Lu Xiaotian shook his head and refused directly.
"Well, Uncle Hu, a master in the Lingyin Peak Domain, wants to build a red yu magic weapon. Red yu needs to be repeatedly tempered from a large amount of yu ore. The more you work, the more you gain, but as long as you can endure hardship, it costs forty or fifty yuan a month. There are also spiritual stones, but they are quite dull.”
Similar to a secular blacksmith, Lu Xiaotian also shook his head.
“In the end, only the mining work is left. It’s equally hard work and more rewarding, but the ones who are a little bit oily usually go deep into the underground caves, often without seeing the light of day for ten days or even a whole month. Very few monks can endure it. This loneliness." Luo Kang shrugged and said, "You are really difficult to take care of today."
"What kind of mines are there?" Lu Xiaotian asked with a thought when he heard that he was about to go deep into the cave.
“Our Lingxiao Palace has been established for tens of thousands of years. Naturally, we control a wide variety of mineral deposits, including black iron ore, black copper mine, hematite ore, and tungsten ore, which are used to refine weapons. There are Lingshi mines nearby, including Baixiaoshui Lingshi mine, Gukou Daojin Lingshi mine, and Heishuizhai mine further away.”
Luo Kang warned, "Junior Brother Lu, don't say I didn't remind you. Mining is also a lot of work, and the spiritual stones exposed on the ground have long been mined. Only by going deep into the mines can we mine the spiritual stones. The mine has been mined for at least a thousand years, and there are countless holes in it. If you are unlucky, you won't be able to mine enough ore, which will waste your time. I gave up the idea of hiding the spirit stone as soon as possible. I could only carry the storage bag distributed by the supervisor when entering the mine. Usually some of the brothers who went into the mine complained so much that they gave up after a while. . And there may be life dangers inside.”
(End of this chapter)