Chapter 169 Funeral
Lingxiao Gongfang City was full of people coming and going as always, and several restaurants were also full of recreational drinkers.
"Have you heard that a strange thing happened in our Lingxiao Palace that has not been seen in a thousand years?" In a restaurant with quite good business, at the wine table by the window, a man in luxurious clothes The young man deliberately showed off his authenticity.
“What’s strange?” several drinkers at the same table asked one after another.
“The guy named Lu Xiaotian who obtained the most Foundation Establishment Pills last time he entered the Scarlet Forbidden Land has not yet succeeded in Foundation Establishment.” The gorgeous young man smiled happily, “Lu Xiaotian, do you know? He was originally a casual cultivator in Wangyue City, and he entered Lingxiao Palace with me. He was bad enough. I had offended him at the beginning. After hearing the news that he came out of the Bloody Forbidden Land, I was shocked. I didn't expect that he was really bad. Dozens of Foundation Establishment Pills were all gone. It was a waste of those elixirs if it had failed. If it had been me, I would have succeeded several times.”
The young man in fine clothes said that he was both lucky and sad at the same time.
"It's just you? You're only at the eleventh level of Qi Refining now. If you want to build the foundation, I'm afraid you'll have to wait a few years, and you need the foundation building pill." Although a young drinker next to him was talking to Huafu The young man knew each other, but the friendship was obviously not very strong. He immediately questioned , "But even if you reach the thirteenth floor, I'm afraid you may not be able to obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill by then. Besides, Lu Xiaotian hasn't come out yet, and his retreat may not be over yet."
"Half a Year Time, no matter how slow it is to build the foundation, it will be too early It’s done, why wait until now? If he succeeded, he would have come out to show off. Only if he failed, he would remain silent. Maybe this kid failed to build the foundation and left the Lingxiao Palace with his tail between his legs. Maybe.”
The young man in colorful clothes said with disdain, if he had succeeded, he would have held a big banquet for all his relatives and friends, and spread the word, and other new foundation-building monks in Lingxiao Palace would celebrate, big and small, he entered the spirit world. I have been in Xiao Palace for more than eight years, and I have many friends. He knew all the monks who were building foundations in the nearby peak regions, not to mention Lu Xiaotian who was also in the Qinglian Peak Region.
"Looks like I have to disappoint you. I don't have to leave Lingxiao Palace with my tail between my legs." A faint voice sounded from the corridor of the stairs.
The young people in colorful clothes looked around and saw a slightly youthful-looking young man in Tsing Yi emerging from the stairs. The powerful spiritual pressure coming from his body was clearly that of a foundation-building monk, and judging from his tone, it seemed that he was coming from an evil person.
“Senior, I’m on top. I’m ignorant and offensive to this junior. Please forgive me, senior.” The face of the young man in colorful clothes suddenly turned pale. He knelt on the ground and begged Lu Xiaotian for help. forgive. Although he had not seen him for eight years, he could still tell from the brows of the ordinary-dressed young man in front of him that the person in front of him was Lu Xiaotian whom he had just made fun of. Thinking of the verbal offense just now, cold sweat broke out on the forehead of the young man in fine clothes. At this moment, he was filled with regret and without caring about the shame, he reached out and slapped himself in the face.
"Senior! The juniors are criticizing the seniors behind their backs for no reason. Please punish them."
The other people also looked worried and uneasy, and they all apologized to Lu Xiaotian. Although The Foundation Establishment monks cannot punish them for no reason in the market, but the premise is that they must be reasonable. Now they are not only criticizing others behind their backs, but also being caught. They will suffer losses wherever the lawsuit goes. Besides, the backers behind them are far worse than a foundation-building monk. Even if Lu Xiaotian doesn’t do it himself, there will be many people willing to help.
Lu Xiaotian also didn’t expect that here he would meet Guo Yun, the son of an aristocratic family who had joined Lingxiao Palace together. Although he didn’t have the slightest affection for Guo Yun, he didn’t have so much time to waste at this time. For such a boring person, there is still business at hand at this time. He waved his hand impatiently and said, "Okay, get out."
Guo Yun raised his head with a look of disbelief on his face. He didn't expect Lu Xiaotian to let him go so easily. Others were somewhat surprised.
"Do you need me to say it a second time?" Lu Xiaotian's face turned cold when he saw that several people were still here.
"Yes, junior, get out of here right away." Guo Yun and others happily escaped from the restaurant as if they were being pardoned.
“These guys are really lucky to meet such a good-tempered senior foundation builder.” Other Qi Refining monks discussed privately.
Lu Xiaotian's eyes swept around the restaurant, and his eyes fell on a table in the corner, where a drunk man with a sloppy beard and smell of alcohol walked over and sat down and said, "This must be Alchemist Zhang Yang."
Lu Xiaotian didn’t know anyone, so he certainly wouldn’t come to this restaurant for no reason. After he walked around Lingxiao Gongfang City, he did not find a suitable alchemy furnace. Alchemy furnaces are not mass-produced like weapons. Every monk needs weapons, but not every monk needs an alchemy furnace.
He doesn't like the alchemists, but he doesn't like the alchemists. The entire Lingxiao Palace heard that there was only one senior alchemist and only a dozen intermediate alchemists. There are only a few dozen junior alchemists. With so few alchemists, alchemy furnaces naturally do not have as much demand as spiritual weapons and magic weapons. So getting the right alchemy furnace is actually much harder than getting the right weapon.
He asked around around, and only heard that there was a junior alchemist named Zhang Yang. It seemed that something had happened recently. The rate of making pills was too low, and he had spent more than a dozen furnaces of pills in succession. medicine. No one asked him to make elixirs anymore. Zhang Yang spent all day in the market getting drunk. So he came over with the attitude of giving it a try.
"You want to ask me to make elixirs? You have found the wrong person. No one will believe me now, and I can't make elixirs. Oh, I am still a foundation-building expert, so rude." "After a long while, Zhang Yang opened his eyes with hazy eyes, smiled confusedly, and said this, but he didn't have much respect for Lu Xiaotian. " Of course I'm not here to make elixirs for you. Although I don't know what happened to you, I don't want to care about it. However, since you can no longer make elixirs, do you have any thoughts about selling the alchemy furnace? ”
"I want my alchemy furnace, dream!" Hearing Lu Xiaotian's words, Zhang Yang stood up and shouted loudly, then poured the wine bottle into his mouth, but failed to pour out even a drop of wine, Zhang Yang grabbed it in his hand The wine bottle was shaken a few times. It was empty and naturally there was no sound. So he shouted, "Man, hurry up, serve me the wine."
A middle-aged man dressed as a shopkeeper, in the middle of Qi refining, walked up to the restaurant and first saluted Lu Xiaotian, and then looked not very good. He looked at Zhang Yang well and said, "Zhang Fellow Taoist, you owe me thirty-seven yuan of low-grade spiritual stones on credit. You are running a small shop. Do you think you should settle the bill first?” "?" Zhang Yang was furious when he heard this.
"I don't dare to question Daoyou Zhang like this, but the store really can't afford credit. Since Daoyou Zhang can afford it, please settle the previous account first." The middle-aged shopkeeper said calmly.
Zhang Yang reached out and checked the storage bag. It was empty. Even some alchemy materials had been sold out. He couldn't help but sit back slumped.
"Here are forty spiritual stones. Use the extra few to make some wine for him." Lu Xiaotian placed forty low-grade spiritual stones on the table.
"Yes, I must respect the instructions of seniors." The middle-aged shopkeeper quickly said humbly, secretly thinking that he didn't know what the relationship between senior Zhuqi in front of him and Zhang Yang was. Fortunately, he was polite to Zhang Yang before, otherwise he would not be able to afford it if he was blamed by Senior Zhuqi. Lu Xiaotian nodded, got up and walked downstairs.
“Wait a minute, fellow Taoist!”
“Have you figured it out?” Lu Xiaotian stopped. Naturally, he just put down dozens of spiritual stones and wanted to give them to Zhang Yang. I have a good impression, but I don't have much hope. Seeing that Zhang Yang's attitude had relaxed a little, he was naturally a little happy.
"This is not the place to talk. Fellow Taoist, please come with me." Zhang Yang sighed and led Lu Xiaotian directly out of the restaurant, turned a few corners, and came to a small dilapidated courtyard.
There is still the smell of some spent elixirs in the small courtyard, ranging from Peiyuan Dan to Yuanqi Dan.
“How do you look at my alchemy furnace?” Zhang Yang took out an alchemy furnace that was all black and crystal clear, like black jade, from his storage bag.
"An alchemy furnace made of Haolong Stone? With your level as a junior alchemist, there is no reason why you can't refine elixirs with such a good alchemy furnace." A trace of surprise flashed across Lu Xiaotian's face. This kind of alchemy furnace is extremely rare and is the best among alchemy furnaces.
“With my normal level of alchemy, there is absolutely no problem in refining the elixir. But in order to obtain this alchemy furnace, I spent nearly five years. I finally got this furnace, but I was accidentally plotted by others, chased by them, escaped into a thousand-year ice cave, and suffered frostbite in my lungs. Now my sensitivity to firepower has been reduced to the extreme. After a while, I may lose it completely. Strength." Zhang Yang had a trace of hatred and pain on his face.
Lu Xiaotian was speechless for a while. An alchemist who lost his ability to sense firepower would be worse than an alchemist.
Zhang Yang said bitterly, "If you can swear a poisonous oath and kill that person for me, I will give you this alchemy furnace for free, without taking a penny. And I will give it to you now."< br>
“I can’t agree to your request. In fact, I don’t really want your alchemy furnace. No, if I spend some time, I can definitely find some weapon refining materials and have someone make one for me." Lu Xiaotian shrugged. Although Zhang Yang's experience was unfortunate, he was not such a nosy person. He is never soft on his enemies, but he will not easily kill an entire family just for an alchemy furnace.
"You don't want to know who your opponent is. The opponent is just a cultivating family in the secular country's Qi refining period. With your strength, you can destroy the opponent with just a raise of your hands." Zhang Yang said quickly.
"I am not a person with a strong sense of justice, and I don't want to get involved in such grudges that have nothing to do with me. I can't help you with your request." Lu Xiaotian shook his head and started to leave.
"Wait a minute." Zhang Yang shouted from behind.
"Is there anything else?" Lu Xiaotian said with a frown.
"Then let's change the deal. I was originally from the Yue Kingdom. I left my homeland after embarking on the path of cultivating immortals. It has been more than forty years ago. I originally had a son. If you can go to the Yue Kingdom Come and see if there are any descendants of Linggen in my family. If there are any, take them back to Lingxiao Palace and accept them as your disciples. You can also take care of me." Zhang Yang suddenly lost his temper. road.
"What if your family is unwilling? You have experienced it yourself, the road to becoming an immortal is not easy." Lu Xiaotian said, he was not willing to do things that were difficult for others.
"Let it go, if they don't want to, forget it." Zhang Yang sighed.
"Why don't you do this yourself?"
"The cold has penetrated into my internal organs, and there is no cure. Even if there is, I don't have the ability now." Zhang Yang smiled bitterly. .
"If they have spiritual roots, I can take them to Lingxiao Palace, or let them practice on the mountain where I am, but I don't plan to accept disciples yet, please think about it." Lu Xiaotian thought about it in his heart Suddenly, the mission of going out for training this time has been chosen by the team of monks in front of a more lively place nearby. There are some remote places left, and the Yue Kingdom in Zhang Yang's mouth is close to the Northern Liang Kingdom. It’s not too much trouble to go there.
"This, okay. Being able to get Gu Fu, a foundation-building monk, is considered a blessing." Zhang Yang thought for a moment, then stretched out his hand, and the black alchemy furnace floated in front of Lu Xiaotian, "If you take a sip After agreeing, I had some doubts. It seems that you are a man of your word. I will leave it to you for my funeral."
It turns out that the previous one was just a test. Lu Xiaotian smiled after hearing this. Of course, if he agrees directly, this will happen. A temptation is not necessarily a temptation. For this person, what he most wants to take revenge on is to entrust his funeral affairs. It was none of his business, Lu Xiaotian took the pill furnace and left directly.
Qingyue Peak is located in the northeast corner of Qinglian Peak Domain. It is relatively remote and has moderate aura distribution. In fact, Lu Xiaotian does not have many requirements for the richness of spiritual energy. The spiritual energy he needs for practice is basically obtained directly from absorbing pills. After all, with his qualifications, it was too slow to absorb spiritual energy directly from the air. At this speed, it is estimated that he will have to wait until the year of the monkey to advance to the next level of cultivation.
But at this time, at the foot of Qingyue Peak, there was a young disciple guarding there respectfully. Lu Xiaotian, who was flying with a sword in the air, looked familiar. Then he landed. At first glance, it was suddenly Luo Kang, who had taken good care of him when he was a handyman. Next to Luo Kang, there was a young girl of fifteen or sixteen years old. Although she was not stunningly beautiful, she was also a young girl.
"Lu, Uncle Lu!" Luo Kang saw Lu Xiaotian's face was happy at first, and then he saluted quickly.
"Why are you here? Who is this?" Lu Xiaotian asked.
"This is my cousin, He Liping. Yes, I want to send her to take care of Uncle Lu. She can take care of Uncle Lu's food and daily life. She can do odd jobs or anything like that." Luo Kang looked at Lu Xiaotian flatteringly.
(End of this chapter)