Return to the Valley of the Wind, Cultivation Workshop.
Outer area, Ganlu Pavilion.
Xuanzi Cave No. 16, in the quiet cultivation room.
Gu Qing sat cross-legged on the lotus in the spiritual spring, holding a dark red scabbard in his hand. The jade-skinned skeleton that seemed to be a foundation-building cultivator was thrown aside in the spiritual mist.
"This scabbard really has some tricks up its sleeve."
Gu Qing's eyes flashed with light.
The reason why he spent 20 yuan of mid-grade spiritual stones at that stall to purchase this suspected foundation-building skeleton was naturally not because there were so many spiritual stones that there was no place to spend them, and he was not deliberately seeking to make himself uncomfortable.
Gu Qing put down the dark red scabbard, picked up the skeleton with his spiritual consciousness, and suddenly stretched out his hand to crush the jade joints of the skeleton's forearm.
Click!
The fine bone fragments scattered in all directions, but before they fell into the spiritual spring, they were captured by Gu Qing with his spiritual consciousness and hung in front of him.
"Sure enough." Gu Qing spit out two words. He looked at the skeletal forearm with only a layer of jade skin broken into pieces with an indifferent expression.
The bone marrow of this skeleton has been exhausted, and there is nothing in the jade-like joints. I don’t know if someone has tampered with it to extract the marrow, or it could be said that this skeleton has come over a long period of time, and the marrow in the joints is empty. Has dried naturally.
"This stall owner is a real female businessman."
Gu Qing remembered the price quoted by the previous stall owner.
If he really followed the stall owner's quotation and spent a hundred yuan of mid-grade spiritual stones to buy back such a junk, I'm afraid the buyer would be so deceived that he would vomit blood and immediately turn around to ask for an explanation.
"After defrauding me of twenty pieces of mid-grade spiritual stones, this stall owner must have immediately packed up his stall and moved to another place to continue deceiving others, right?"
Gu Qingru guessed.
He shook his head expressionlessly, channeling his bloody spiritual power, and repeatedly reached out to crush the skeleton inch by inch, trying to find anything valuable in it, but he failed until everything on the skeleton except the head was crushed. After removing the parts, I still haven't found anything of value.
He waved his hand to scatter the jade bone fragments, grabbed the skeletal head in his hand, and looked at the flickering soul mark between the eyebrows of the head.
"Sir, do you want to wait for me to invite you to come out, or do you want to come out on your own?" Gu Qing said something as if talking to himself.
There was no movement in the flickering gray soul mark, as if Gu Qing was really just talking to himself.
Gu Qing saw this.
His eyes flashed.
Immediately, his consciousness turned into countless filaments, lingering on the gray consciousness mark, trying to forcefully peel off the soul mark regardless of the consequences.
[Fellow Taoist, wait! 】
A weak cry sounded at this time.
Gu Qing's consciousness was thin and his movements were stagnant. He quietly looked at the jade skull and the gray soul mark between his eyebrows.
I saw that the gray mark of divine consciousness trembled slightly, and immediately revealed an illusory palm-sized figure.
This palm-sized figure has white beard and hair, but his face is as handsome as a young man. He should be the remnant soul of a monk with good looks. At this moment, he is standing precariously in the air, cupping his fists and saluting Gu Qing.
[I, Chu Hai, a monk from the Chu family in Ningyang County, Xuanwu Kingdom, have met this fellow Taoist. Previously, Chu was plotted by his enemies and his body was destroyed. He could only temporarily store a ray of soul to build a foundation for the remains of his fellow Taoist. Therefore, I am being cautious and hope fellow Taoists will forgive me. 】
'Not a remnant soul? This guy is still alive...
Gu Qing's eyes were a little strange.
He could sense that the cultivator who claimed to be Chu Hai was still alive, not a remnant soul attached to the bones after his death.
After being stared at by Gu Qing with a somewhat strange look for a long time, Chu Hai was obviously a little flustered. From time to time, he raised his head and showed a friendly smile to Gu Qing, but he never continued to speak.
Gu Qing thought for a moment.
He said: "It turns out to be Taoist friend Chu Hai! I am Lin Changqing, a casual cultivator traveling in the mainland. I have long heard that the Chu family of Xuanwu Kingdom is famous in Ningyang County. Now when I see Taoist friend Chu Hai, his demeanor is really extraordinary! Please come back Chu
Fellow seafarers, please go to the storage bag to rest for a while. See you later. "
Said.
Without waiting for Chu Hai's response, Gu Qing took out an empty storage bag and stuffed the jade head left behind by the skeleton into it.
'What to do with this guy? Are you going to destroy him directly, strip out the pure soul power, and devour him? Or should we keep this person and see if we can get any benefits from this person in the future?
Gu Qing's eyes flashed slightly.
There's no rush.
Leave him alone for now.
Gu Qing took the dark red scabbard again.
'This scabbard seems to have three sections of ban, but I don't know what will happen after these three sections of ban are released.
The dark red scabbard feels slightly cold to the touch, and when held in the hand, it seems to be holding on to a piece of thousand-year-old black ice. Other than that, there is nothing special about it. The reason why Gu Qing was able to discover that it is extraordinary is because The dark red traces on it made some kind of power throb deep in his soul.
'What is this dark red trace that can arouse the throbbing of the snow's divine will? Gu Qing's eyes fell on the dark red traces of the scabbard, and then moved to the deep scabbard. "The first section of the ban on this scabbard can be broken within ten days."
Gu Qing stood up and walked out of Cave No. 16 Xuanzi.
He came to the front hall of Ganlu Pavilion, found a red-clothed maid, paid ten low-grade spiritual stones, stuffed a communication talisman in it, and ordered the red-clothed maid to wait until Lei Wanjun was free. When He sent the mountain gate, he immediately contacted him with this communication talisman.
The waitress in red readily agreed.
Although she didn't know why Lei Wanjun came to the Xianhe Sect's gate, she had heard of the name Lei Wanjun. He was the great elder of the Jinyang Sect. It was said that he had been in seclusion for many years and had reached the level of fake elixir.
After returning to Cave No. 16 of Xuanzi, Gu Qing took out the streamer array on the lotus in the spiritual spring of the meditation quiet room, and immediately entered the stone tablet space and broke the first section of the scabbard.
Cultivation is mostly boring.
The first priority of a monk is to endure loneliness.
As the second-in-command of the Shanin Sect and a fourth-level alchemy monk, Tong Zhengxuan has always believed in these two sentences and practiced them consistently, never slacking off. Thanks to this, he is now only three hundred and fifty At the age of two, he already had the cultivation level of the fourth level of the Dan Formation Realm.
These days.
Tong Zhengxuan was a little irritable.
A familiar quiet room.
Dark, dead, cool, full of spiritual energy.
Tong Zhengxuan's consciousness sensed everything familiar around him, but his restless heart was constantly churning. At a certain moment, he suddenly opened his eyes.
In his eyes, there was a bright golden light, shining through the darkness, like two powerful suns, suddenly jumping out of the darkness.
"well!"
Tong Zhengxuan sighed.
He whispered to himself: "Hehuan Dao and the Blood Sea Demon Sect are so high up there that they want to make me, the Shanyin Sect, a pawn that offends the Dao First Sect and many immortal sects and monk families. It's really a good plan! I'm afraid this time If our Shanyin Sect takes over Ye Country, the day when Taoism will be overthrown is not far away! Poor Master, he actually thinks this is an opportunity to rise. Don’t you hear that there is a saying that is widely circulated in the world? Are all bones withered?"
Tong Zhengxuan's brows furrowed.
He thought about the matter carefully and decided to persuade his master again.
At this time.
Tong Zhengxuan noticed something.
He suddenly raised his eyes and looked outside the cave.
Immediately, his figure flashed and turned into a phantom, quickly leaving the quiet room, and in the blink of an eye, he came to the courtyard built outside the cave.
Dark clouds gathered in the sky.
The setting sun in the sky shines through the gaps in the dark clouds, and the golden afterglow shines on the courtyard through the shelves covered with fruits as crystal clear as purple jade, giving it a sense of warmth.
An ordinary old man in black robes stood beside the stone table with his hands folded, his face full of wrinkles, his expression was dull, almost as calm as an ancient well.
"Master."
Tong Zhengxuan took one step forward and reached the other side of the stone table. He held his fists in a respectful salute.
When the old man in black robe heard this, his expression moved slightly.
He turned sideways and glanced at Tong Zhengxuan intently for a few times. He looked at Tong Zhengxuan until he felt a little uneasy in his heart, and then slowly said: "Zhengxuan, come, accompany the ancestor to the game." chess."
"yes."
Tong Zhengxuan responded briefly.
On the chessboard, black and white chess pieces are arranged vertically and horizontally.
There was a breeze blowing, and the branches and leaves on the shelves in the courtyard swayed, and soon there was a shower of rain. The cold raindrops fell on the chessboard, about ten feet in the air, but they evaporated instantly like falling on a red-hot iron. It turned into white gas and disappeared invisible. The scene was very strange.
The old man in black robe holds a white piece in his hand.
He glanced at Tong Zhengxuan, and an undetectable smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: "In the blink of an eye, Zhengxuan, you have been forming elixirs for more than 150 years! It's true that time is like running water, and hurriedness waits for no one. Let's Although the Shanin Sect has grown a bit over the years, it is still a small sect after all, and now we are fortunate to have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in front of me, Master."
Tong Zhengxuan frowned: "Master, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but also a once-in-a-lifetime risk."
The old man in black robe waved his hand.
He dropped a piece and said nonchalantly: "Being a chess piece naturally involves risks. Master, I have decided to seize this opportunity to make the Shanin Sect reach the sky in one step, so that the Shanin Sect will grow stronger in my hands, Master." To a level that far exceeds that of the founders of the past generations, and to completely glorify the lintel of the Sanin Sect!"
Tongzhengxuan was about to speak but stopped.
He also dropped the black piece in his hand.
The black-robed old man was silent for a while, and then continued: "Master, I have reached the end of my life. I should lead the Shanin Sect to fight. Zhengxuan, you are different. Now that you are in your prime, after this game of chess, you will Take some of the elite disciples within the sect and go to the secret base of our Sanin Sect in Beizawa."
The chess game ended quickly.
Tong Zhengxuan lost.
The old man in black robe had already left.
He left a few words.
"On the first day of the next month, ancestor, I will go back to Fenggu with my fellow Taoists from Hehuan Dao, the old guy who suppressed Ziyun Sect, and the two juniors from Xianhe Sect and Jinyang Sect. Regarding this matter After that, the Sixth Grade Four-pole Moon Fighting Formation can be set up. Before that, Ancestor, I have a few things to tell you, Yu Zhengxuan. Zhengxuan, you brought me, an elite disciple of the Shanin Sect, to Beize. After that, we need to remain anonymous and no longer behave in the same flamboyant manner as before. In addition, we are not allowed to use the name of the Sanin Sect for the time being, and try to avoid using the secret techniques of our Sanin Sect..."
Tongzhengxuan sat alone at the stone table in silence.
After a long while, he took a deep breath and stood up.
'The ancestor warned me like this, could it be that he still regards me as a fledgling Qi-refining cultivator? Tong Zhengxuan gave a bitter smile. He looked at the setting sun that was covered by dark clouds on the horizon and flicked the ball in his hand.
A white light broke away from Tong Zhengxuan's hand and shot away.
puff!
In an instant.
The whole world seemed to be stagnant, and the curtain of rain falling like a waterfall was cut off. This white light instantly spanned an unknown distance and hit the large dark clouds gathering on the horizon.
The dark clouds dissipated quickly like snow under the blazing sun.
A circle of azure sky appeared from where Tong Zhengxuan's white light landed, and spread towards the surroundings at an extremely fast speed.
A few moments.
The dark clouds on the sky have faded away.
The long sky is like a wash, reflecting the earth that has been watered by showers. Under the afterglow of the crimson golden setting sun, the green onion branches and leaves on the shelves in the courtyard are particularly fresh. Strings of crystal-clear fruits like purple jade grow among the green onion branches and leaves. , hanging with clear water drops.
Tong Zhengxuan closed his eyes slightly and said:
"Zhengxuan, please remember your master's teachings."
