The twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhao Zhen
After Zhao Qianan woke up in a daze, he was still in a state of confusion.
He always felt that he had something to do, but he couldn't remember it.
"What's the matter?" He walked around the room until he saw the note on the table.
There are several things to do today written on it.
"Since when did I become like a scholar and use notes to record things?" He patted his head, feeling incredible.
Taking the note, he looked at it one by one. One of them read: "Send a pot of spiritual plant to Cuizhu Garden."
"What is this?" He racked his brains and suddenly remembered that this was the order from Mr. Yang Xiaolang.
"It seems that I was rewarded with fifty spirit stones!" He suddenly became excited.
As the manager of the medicine garden, he has several kinds of potted plants in his room.
After choosing one that was easier to feed and putting it in his storage bag, he put on his coat and hurried out.
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Yang Zhen came to Cuizhuyuan again near noon and saw a pot of spiritual plant placed under the rockery at a glance.
The style of the flowerpot is different from the ones nearby, and it is obvious that it has just been delivered.
He walked over, took out the futon, and sat down cross-legged in front of the flower pot.
After a while, he had a rough idea of the conversation between the visitor and Zhao Qianan last night.
"Token?" Yang Zhen stroked the stone chain on her wrist: "He is really impatient. He is going to take risks himself!"
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That night, Asahi Peak
Chaori Peak, which has the only third-level high-grade spiritual vein, is not only the training place for the ancestor of the Zhao family's Zifu, but also the location of the family's most important spiritual plant garden.
A variety of precious medicinal materials are grown here, including the main ingredients for refining the Foundation Building Pill, such as purple-faced monkey flower, chalcedony mushroom, and heavenly spirit fruit. There are also other spiritual plants with various uses, such as the second-level soul-nourishing plant. Grass, the Tianyuan Fruit that prolongs life, the Phoenix-spotted Sword Bamboo that can be used to make second-level high-grade flying swords, etc., are all good things that can attract plundering outside.
The most precious one among them is a purple cloud flower.
Purple Cloud Pill is an essential elixir for foundation-building monks to attack the realm of Zifu, and Purple Cloud Flower is the most important ingredient of this pill.
This kind of flower lasts for up to 500 years and needs to be planted in a place facing the rising sun to absorb the purple mist of the morning every day. Over time, the purple energy gathers, until the spiritual grass grows flowers like purple clouds, which is considered mature.
The Zhao family also obtained one by chance and have been carefully maintaining it for four hundred years.
However, planting purple cloud flowers violates the laws of the Yunxiao Sect.
The Yunxiao Sect has always had such a rule. The strength of the family determines the upper limit of the elixir you can refine. For example, the Foundation Establishment family is never allowed to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill, and similarly, the Zifu Family is not allowed to refine the Ziyun Pill.
If someone from these families needs a spiritual elixir to be promoted to Foundation Establishment or Purple Mansion, he or she must exchange a large amount of contribution points directly with the sect, or use a smaller amount of contribution points to apply for bidding qualifications, or compete with the Zifu Jin under the supervision of the sect. For transactions involving the Dan family, the latter sect will charge a heavy handling fee.
In short, you cannot secretly refine it yourself, and even privately growing the main ingredients of these elixirs is not allowed.
Therefore, for a Zifu family like the Changshan Zhao family, this purple cloud flower cannot be seen in the light.
Of course, compared to secretly mining the Kongming Stone Mine, the crime of planting purple cloud flowers is not serious. If the sect finds out, the most likely thing is that the flower will be turned over. In addition, some incidental punishments, such as suspending Zhao Beiqing from the post of Yunzhou Inspector, or prohibiting Patriarch Yunjun from continuing to borrow the sect's spiritual veins, etc., are also possible.
Although such a punishment would not bring the Zhao family to ruin, it was something the Zhao family was unwilling to bear.
Therefore, this purple cloud flower has been closely guarded by the Zhao family. Only the Supreme Elder and a few core figures in the family know about it, and even Zhang Hejing does not know about it. There is also a self-destruction formation set up next to the flower. Once an outsider breaks in, they would rather destroy it than leave any evidence.
But tonight, someone sneakily touched it.
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Zhou Yuan is a very conceited person.
The aptitude for dual spiritual roots is only one Jiazi and he is already in the late stage of foundation building. Zifu is almost a sure thing.
He can also endure hardships very well. For more than two years, he traveled to more than a dozen counties for investigation, went deep into various wild and dangerous places, and came into contact with people from all religions. This was completely unimaginable behavior for the high-ranking monks in the sect.
However, he succeeded and successfully found the traces of the Taoist Yi.
This allowed him to partially wash away the shame he suffered a few years ago.
He still doesn't understand how Yi, who was in Shaozhou at that time, noticed that someone was following him and disappeared without a trace. But he knew clearly that he must have accidentally slipped up somewhere and alerted him.
Knowing one's shame and then being brave is what leads to these years of sleepless searching.
According to the beggars at Baiyun Temple, the iron pillar he was looking for tonight had a close relationship with Taoist Yi, and they had been together for more than half a year. For such a long time, it is difficult to say that Yi has not revealed anything. Maybe this iron pillar is the key to finding Master Yi in the vast land of Xu!
Thinking of this, he secretly clenched his fists and felt high in fighting spirit!
As for whether he would be discovered by the Zhao family, he was not worried. This possibility was very small.
In the entire Zhao family, the only person whose cultivation level is higher than his is Zhao Beiqing.
But it is impossible for the ancestor of the Zi Mansion to cast his spiritual consciousness on Chaori Peak all night long. According to what he has heard these days, this Master is probably having sex in his junior sister's room!
It is even more impossible for the remaining foundation-building elders. Maybe some of them have a higher level of cultivation than him, but his ability to sneak around, break through barriers and break into formations is not something he can boast about. He really has never seen anyone who is better than him.
He seemed to blend into the night, turning into a stone or a dwarf tree. Even if you were standing next to him, it would be extremely difficult to find where he was.
In the blink of an eye, he had appeared several hundred meters away, blending into the darkness.
Just walking around like this, he avoided all possible traps and surveillance, and had arrived in front of the mountain protection formation of Asahi Peak.
The formation was just operating regularly at this time, and such protection and vigilance capabilities posed almost no threat to him, not to mention that he still had the Zhao family's token.
He took out a piece of black iron from his arms, which looked exactly like Zhao Qian'an's token yesterday. This is a replica he made overnight after returning home last night, using the formation information recorded on the jade stone.
Xuan Tie Ling aimed at the formation, and soon a fan-shaped gap that was as tall as a person appeared. He stepped in, as if strolling in a courtyard.
Continuing the previous sneaking and hiding, he walked another dozen miles on the mountain road, and finally came to a medicinal garden exuding the fragrance of vegetation.
According to the information he has inquired about in the past two days, this is the Zhao family's spiritual plant garden, and the iron pillar should be here.
He took out the token again and pointed it at the protective formation of Lingzhi Garden.
The formation opened, he smiled slightly and walked in.
The consciousness spread out everywhere and began to look for someone's residence.
Suddenly, his expression froze and he looked towards the hillside in front of the medicine garden.
There, two people were standing.
A tall and thin scribe, and a graceful woman.
"Master Nephew Zhou, you are so entertained tonight!"
The scribe smiled and joked, but his eyes were as cold as frost.
