In the secret realm of the plain, Chu Yin had left, and Xu Wen was deep in thought.
Before Chu Yin left, he told Xu Wen two pieces of news, one good and one bad.
The good news is that he actually found the whereabouts of Lao Du.
The other party hid in an underground casino in Qingfeng City and worked as a janitor for others.
One of Chu Yin's friends was a frequent visitor to a certain casino, and he recognized him as soon as he went back and forth.
Knowing where this poisonous snake is is indeed good news, but another piece of news greatly reduces this good news.
Qiu Yunchang has reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining and is starting to build the foundation. He is using the retreat place where Ruan Cishan usually resides.
In order to help him build the foundation, the Ruan family worked hard and even gave up such a place.
Different from the general breakthrough realm, foundation building takes much longer. It can take a few months at the earliest, and it may take half a year if it is longer.
For such a long time, it was impossible that there would be no people to serve, so the news slowly spread.
Of course, it is estimated that Qiu Yunchang and others have no intention of hiding anything.
When he thought that the other party was attacking the Foundation Establishment, even though he already had the Foundation Establishment Pill, Spirit Milk, Dragon Bone Ring and other items on his body, Xu Wen still felt a lot of pressure.
Qiu Yunchang's foundation-building seeds can't be said to be 100% foundation-building, but the probability of success is definitely above 80%, or even as high as 90%.
And once the other party successfully builds the foundation, unless Xu Wen stays by Li Xiuning's side at all times, otherwise...
Foundation building and Qi refining are two completely different levels. After foundation building, the essence, energy, and spirit have been embodied, and you can see your own body and all things outward, which is far beyond the ability of Qi refining monks.
Even the Qi Refining Dzogchen monks are, under normal circumstances, far from being the match of the monks in the early stages of foundation building.
Xu Wen originally had two things on his body, the Green Scale Sword and the Yang Lei Zi, which could harm the foundation-building monks.
But Yang Leizi has already been consumed by the ghost cultivator, and the activation of the Green Scale Sword takes too much time and mana, and is almost useless in a head-on fight.
This was the truth. Although it was extremely difficult, Xu Wen still suppressed the anxiety in his heart and began to think carefully about how to deal with it...
Time passed little by little, and at a certain moment, the Zhiyuan Sect Outer Disciple Token on his waist suddenly lit up.
The only person who can contact him through the token outside Qingfeng City is Li Xiuning, who left the imprint of mana on his token.
After many years, the master finally came back at this critical moment!
With excitement in his heart, he immediately took out the token, and Li Xiuning's voice came out:
"Xu Wen disciple, I have arrived outside the Xishan ruins. If you receive news, you can come out and meet me."
Li Xiuning's voice sounded a little tired, as if she had stopped running around all the time this year.
Without thinking much, Xu Wen immediately packed up and ran outside the Xishan ruins.
After wandering around for half an hour, the fog suddenly dissipated, and the familiar Hengjue Mountains came into view.
Yun used his mana to activate the token, and after a while, Li Xiuning dropped from the sky with a man.
"Master, you are...this is..."
Very different from the high-spirited person a year ago, Li Xiuning now looks very haggard, and his magic power is a bit weak.
And the middle-aged man behind him was even more like this. His eyes were frighteningly bright, but his energy and blood were seriously lacking.
It seemed that a seriously injured and dying man had used some tiger-wolf medicine to stimulate his full life potential and could barely hold on for a breath.
"It's a long story, this is the Foundation Building Pill promised to you!"
Handing over a jade bottle, Li Xiuning pointed at the middle-aged man and asked Xu:
"This is your senior brother Zuo Mingyue. He could have returned to Qingfeng City a long time ago, but he has been running around for your senior brother this year..."
Xu Wen and Zuo Mingyue greeted each other. This was the first time their senior brothers had met.
Just looking at appearance, Zuo Mingyue looks more like Li Xiuning's master.
But Li Xiuning looks young, but is actually over a hundred years old.
After the foundation is established, the cicada sheds and the snake is released. Compared with the long life span of 360 years during the foundation building period, a hundred years is only equivalent to an ordinary person's thirty years old, which makes them look young.
Zuo Mingyue is in her fifties. She was the disciple he took in when he went out twenty years ago. He was originally a woodcutter, but he has cultivation qualifications and is quite good. He has the three spiritual roots of earth, wood and fire.
"Now that the injury is finally stabilized, I will take him out to find him!"
Li Xiuning briefly recounted his experiences this year, and then Xu Wen slowly figured out the whole story.
It turned out that not long after returning to Qingfeng City, he asked someone to refine a batch of Foundation Establishment Pills. After excluding the reward, he still had two Foundation Establishment Pills left.
One was left for Xu Wen, and the other was left for Zuo Mingyue to take.
Although Zuo Mingyue has good qualifications, she entered Taoism too late and does not meet the age requirements of the Zhiyuan Sect. She has always been an outer disciple, and her resources are far inferior.
Even though I have been working hard to catch up, I have not been able to achieve great perfection in refining my Qi until recently.
At his age, he only had one or two opportunities to attack the Foundation Establishment Pill. This time Li Xiuning got a Foundation Establishment Pill, so naturally he had to give it a try.
Unfortunately, things went against his wishes. Not only did he fail to advance, but he also suffered serious losses due to his forced breakthrough.
If Li Xiuning hadn't been there to protect him, he would have died on the spot.
If only one of the three treasures of essence, energy, and spirit is in loss, the problem is not big. As a foundation-building monk, Li Xiuning always has a solution.
But when he lost all three treasures, the problem became very difficult. He had to agree to an extremely harsh condition to stabilize his injury.
"The disciple is incompetent and has made the master suffer!"
Listening to Li Xiuning talk about this year's experience, although it was an understatement, the bitterness and frustration were so deep that it was impossible to express them in words. Zuo Mingyue immediately knelt down heavily on the ground and thanked her with a trembling voice.
I woke up to Xu Wen again
With a wave of his sleeves and lifting Zuo Mingyue from the ground, Li Xiuning sighed and said:
"Chi'er, you are my disciple. If I don't think about you, who will?"
The master-disciple inheritance is the closest relationship in this world after Taoist couples, and it is much deeper than blood kinship.
A good apprentice can not only bring glory to the sect, but also be a great help to the master.
But if you meet a disciple who is not so lucky, like Zuo Mingyue, the master will also be greatly implicated.
Zuo Mingyue's injury is only initially stable, and the three treasures of essence, energy, and spirit are extremely unbalanced, and he is still far from being cured.
Li Xiuning brought him to the Xishan ruins this time just to see if he had a chance to find one or two treasures to make up for the loss of his energy.
However, the Xishan ruins are very mysterious and will forcibly separate foundation-building monks and Qi-refining monks. Li Xiuning cannot directly help Zuo Mingyue much.
In his current situation, if he encounters an opponent with ill intentions, he will most likely die.
Li Xiuning called Xu Wen because he wanted him to help this senior brother.
Seeing the sadness on Li Xiuning's face, after thinking for a moment, Xu Wen gently flicked the storage bag on his waist with his left hand without leaving any trace, and transferred the inner elixir of the demon fox from the black jade ring to the storage bag.
When Li Xiuning told some of the spiritual objects that Zuo Mingyue might use, he pretended to be surprised and let out a soft sigh, saying in a deep voice:
"Master, this disciple also has some opportunities at the Xishan Ruins this time. Do you think this thing can heal senior brother's injuries?"
(End of chapter)
