Chapter 230 Chapter Two Hundred and Thirty Questions How to offer birthday gift?
The prudent monk was silent when he heard this, and spoke again after a long time: "He holds a birthday banquet every year, called birthday celebration, but it is actually to make money. Who in the outer sect has not known it all these years? In this way, there are still many disciples who go there every year, so they must have something to ask for.”
“Fortunately, although Dai Shitong is greedy for money, he is also trustworthy, and three or five disciples are killed by him every year. It cannot be faked if you introduce it to the Jinxia Peak.”
“After we present this beast bell flower and enter the Jinxia Peak, we won’t have to worry about it every year.”
The remaining disciples all nodded, hoping that this birthday gift would stand out in the birthday banquet and help them escape from the sea of suffering as soon as possible.
Zhao Shun sat quietly in the teahouse hall, but his spiritual consciousness was always paying attention to the situation in the private room.
After talking with these people, I found out that they are all outer disciples of the Yuheng Sect. Although they have established a spiritual foundation at the age of fifteen or sixteen, in a first-class sect like Yuheng, It can only be regarded as unremarkable.
The Dai Shitong in their mouth should be the grandson of the elder in the sect. Although his talent is very ordinary, the elder Zhenying only has such a legacy of blood, so he takes care of him more on weekdays and attracts him to his family. The peak where you are is giving you guidance on practice.
Dai Shitong has a greedy temperament. He holds a birthday banquet every year in the name of celebrating his birthday and sends out invitations to the outer disciples, secretly and openly trying to get them to come with gifts. Then he promised that he would choose the most satisfactory one among the birthday gifts and let the gift giver enter the Jin Ai Peak where the elder was. Although he was an outer disciple, he had many more cultivation resources than others, which naturally moved people. .
Zhao Chun believed that as a first-class sect, the Yuheng sect had its disciples acting haphazardly, and even Elder Zhenying might not be able to protect them. What Dai Shitong did probably did not shake the foundation of the sect, so he was not disciplined.
With this in mind, Yu Heng's disciples in the elegant room also revealed the purpose of their trip during the conversation.
It turns out that the animal bell flower has special effects. Eighteen kinds of auxiliary medicines can be combined with this material to make a pill called ringing pill. After the monsters and spirits take the ringing pill, their walking movements will be accompanied by The bell rings softly, but it can be silent only by standing still.
In terms of effectiveness, this flower is not as useful as many elixirs that enhance cultivation and are beneficial to practice. However, the beast bell flower only grows in the wild and ancient lands, and has never been seen in other lands. Although it has a strange effect, it is extremely rare, so the price has always remained high.
And this beast bell flower has a strange fragrance. If it is not made into a wooden box with a kind of spiritual material called smoke wood, the medicinal properties will gradually dissipate and weaken, or even disappear.
When these people came out on this trip, they made an appointment with someone to buy a wooden box of smoke and wood in the city to ride on the bell flowers.
At this point, Zhao Chun's eyes turned, and a person walked in at the teahouse door. After chatting with the waiter for a few words, he was led to the private room where Yu Heng's disciples were.
"What, but the wooden box has been made?"
The man was dressed as a businessman, wearing a turban on his head. While talking, he took out a square wooden box from his wide sleeves and said with a smile: "I have never failed in my work. Well, it is the best smoke wood."
The steady monk took it as instructed. After checking that there was nothing, he calmed down a little and said in pain: "That's it. According to the previously negotiated price, five hundred low-grade spiritual jade.”
The man in Lunjin was noncommittal. After rolling his eyes, he finally agreed, took the spiritual jade and counted it carefully.
With the wooden box in hand, the woman with phoenix eyes carefully took out a small white flower. The petals were slightly closed and had begun to wither. After she put it in a wooden box made of tobacco wood, the smell in the elegant room instantly dissipated, and her eyes relaxed.
Fu Fu complained softly: "It should have been delivered two days ago, but it was late today, which caused the medicinal properties of the beast bell flower to lose a lot."
The man in Lunjin Hearing this, his face changed, and he left a sentence: "How fast can you ask for smoke wood with five hundred low-grade spiritual jade? Why not do like fellow Taoist Cao of the noble sect, and use two thousand low-grade spiritual jade, so that Bitian Pavilion will be there day and night. Are you going to make a silk cage?" Then he waved his sleeves and left. "Fellow Taoist, wait a minute!" The prudent monk raised his thick eyebrows, his expression became serious, and asked: "You said someone in the sect purchased a silk cage from Bitian Pavilion?"
" So what.”
"Fellow Taoist, do you know why he bought this thing?"
The man in Lunjin smiled scornfully and said proudly: "Don't you know that these people are from Yuheng? What else can a Qiu Si cage be used for?"< br>
This time he waved his sleeves and left without being stopped, because the faces of the Yu Heng disciples in the elegant room had already changed greatly, and they looked at each other speechlessly.
Zhao Chun took a sip of the spirit tea and must have understood the function of the dragon silk cage. This thing is made of silk tanned from the sinew skin of the dragon snake, and then the cage is woven with silk. In the world of cultivation, it is often used to trap a person. A spiritual beast called a spring leaf bird is placed in a cave and can sing music to calm the mind and clear the air.
However, taking into account the beast bell flowers purchased by these people, Dai Shitong is probably more interested in things like spiritual beasts and spirits.
"Senior brother, if someone finds a spring-leaf bird, how can we raise money for this birthday banquet?"
"Don't be impatient, and you don't know whether the other party has prepared it for the birthday banquet." Although the steady monk said this, he already knew that these words were just useless comfort. The birthday banquet was coming soon, and the person who customized the silk cage was a disciple of the Yuheng sect, and it also matched Dai Shitong's preferences. The purpose of that person was naturally self-evident.
A few people were silent for a moment. If they are not allowed to enter the Golden Misty Peak this year, they may not be able to find anything like the beast bell flower next year. After all, Dai Shitong has no shortage of various supplementary elixirs and pills. He and others can only choose from Use your strength on the sidelines to win over others.
When I felt desperate, there was a knock on the door of the private room. When I opened the door, I saw a rather cold-looking female nun standing outside the door. She did not wear any rings and wore plain robes.
"Is there something wrong, fellow Taoist?" The steady monk saw that her breath was calm and he couldn't tell her specific cultivation level. She must be much better than himself, so he also showed some respect when asking.
"I have something to present as a gift to the birthday banquet." After Zhao Chun condensed his essence, he no longer needed to practice sword-wielding, so he put Gui Sha away, and his aura became less fierce than that of sword-wielding practitioners, becoming calmer and gentler.
Zhao Chun got straight to the point and said what she meant. Yuheng's disciples didn't know the identity of this person, but they were moved by what she said, so they welcomed her into the private room with doubts and doubts and asked:
< br>“I wonder if you have anything to offer my friend?”
However, Zhao Shun just took out a drawing from his armband, on which there were sketches of birds, lynxes and other beasts.
"Fellow Taoist, are you joking? How can you present such a crude picture as a birthday gift?" When a disciple saw it, his face immediately fell and his tone was angry.
"The birthday gift is not the drawing itself." Zhao Shun put his hand on the painting and said: "I have some knowledge of the art of puppet refining. I got this picture by chance. The puppet beast in it is different from what you usually see. It is very It has an inherent appearance, but can transform into many kinds of beasts on its own. It is lifelike and looks like its real body. It is absolutely difficult to tell the difference with the naked eye."
"If I refine the puppet in the picture, it will be like that. You can offer this as a birthday gift."
Whether it is a humanoid puppet or an animal-shaped puppet, the more similar its shape is to the real body, the more expensive it will be. If it is true as Zhao Xuan said, it is difficult to tell with the naked eye. To such an extent, it might really make Dai Shitong happy.
Second update to follow
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