After Chen Ping handed over the soul-drawing whip to Jia Zhongshou, he agreed that Jia Zhongshou would bring it back to the city lord's mansion in Tianhai City after completing the re-forging and upgrading of the magical weapon. Chen Ping could pick it up by himself.
Chen Ping's next stop is Senluozhou. On the way back, he will pass through Tianhai City, so he can pick up the goods on the way.
After Jia Zhongshou left, Chen Ping continued to practice the "Lost Soul Eagle Beast Control Technique".
Even though there are thousands of forks in every small step, in the end, one and a half months after the first practice, all three parts of the method have been practiced to the 'getting started'.
The gap was successfully filled.
The bridge is opened.
Just talking about the speed of getting started, this is probably the slowest time Chen Ping has ever practiced magic.
Fortunately, you only need to get started, and you don’t need to worry about the subsequent content.
He wrote the contents of the missing part on the talisman paper, and after nightfall, he went to Xu Liang's cave again.
When Chen Ping first arrived, a person happened to walk out of Xu Liang's cave courtyard.
The man's face was dark and he was cursing:
"Damn it, I've been studying my art for more than half a year, why don't you say it's wrong? Liar, damn it. Who do you show to me every day by showing off the arrogance of an expert? Damn it."
Chen Ping said nothing.
Wait for this person to leave before stepping forward. After getting in touch with Xu Liang in the cave, Chen Ping didn't talk nonsense and communicated directly with his spiritual consciousness:
"The missing part of the spell has been completed. I wonder if Fellow Daoist Xu has prepared what I need?"
"If I remember correctly, it was only a month ago that my fellow Taoist came to ask for the spirit eagle, right?" Xu Liang's voice was neither sad nor happy.
Over the years, he has met many monks who claimed to have completed the missing parts of the spell, but after final verification, the conclusions reached were invalid.
For a monk like Chen Ping who had only studied for more than a month, Xu Liang didn't have much expectations.
Chen Ping said nothing.
He just used spiritual power to send the animal skin in.
No amount of words can compare to personal verification.
There followed a long silence.
Until a pinging sound came, breaking the feeling of silence. The sound seemed to be the sound of a cup being knocked over.
Then Xu Liang appeared at the door of the cave in an instant.
He looked at Chen Ping with an expression of shock mixed with ecstasy.
Breathing seemed very rapid.
After being stunned for a moment, he quickly made a gesture of invitation: "Fellow Taoist, please come inside."
Xu Liang in front of the cave had white hair, a long white beard fluttering in the wind under his chin, and his clothes were slightly sloppy. This image was beyond Chen Ping's expectation. Chen Pingyuan thought Xu Liang should look like a young monk.
Of course, what surprised Chen Ping even more was that his intuitive feeling from the two previous visits to see Xu Liang was that Xu Liang should be the kind of monk who doesn't think highly of others. Unexpectedly, Xu Liang, who was at the ninth level of the Golden Core, actually made a serious invitation gesture.
But none of this matters.
Chen Ping did not move:
"No need, you and I have never known each other, and we don't need to know each other in the future. I will solve Fellow Daoist Xu's confusion, and Fellow Daoist Xu will just give you something of equal value in exchange. We will not owe each other anything in the future."
Chen Ping didn't want to communicate more with Xu Liang, nor did he want to know about Xu Liang's beast control.
She was even less interested in listening to him talk about his Taoist companions.
The less you know about other people's gossip, the safer you are.
He's just here to make a deal.
Xu Liang didn't seem to expect that Chen Ping actually refused his invitation to come into the room for a slow chat, and he obviously paused.
After a moment he said:
"That's fine. But fellow Taoist has helped me a lot, and I won't treat you badly. Remember, what you are asking for is the Snow Falcon Beast Control Technique, right? Fellow Taoist, wait a moment."
Xu Liang turned around and quickly returned to the cave.
After a while, he appeared at the door of the cave again, holding a huge and thick book in his hands.
Xu Liang lowered his head and glanced at the book in his hand, caressed the cover of the book, his eyes filled with soft light, and finally wrapped it with spiritual power and slowly sent it to Chen Ping:
"This book collects the most precious essence of beast-controlling spells in a sect. Fellow Taoists, please cherish it."
"My original sect has been destroyed. It is inconvenient to describe the twists and turns to fellow Taoists, but fellow Taoists should be careful not to say that this book comes from me. It is best not to show it to others. No one knows about this book these years. Every time outsiders ask for it, I write the beast-controlling spells on the spot, also to avoid others’ covetous intentions.”
Chen Ping did not touch the book directly, but wrapped it with spiritual power and put it directly into a separate storage bag.
Xu Liang originally wanted to remind him about caution, but when he saw Chen Ping's action, he stopped talking.
Chen Ping collected the books:
"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Xu, for reminding me. I also ask Fellow Daoist Xu to keep it a secret. Don't mention that I filled in the missing content of Fellow Daoist's spell."
"Don't worry, fellow Taoist. I don't know who you are." Xu Liang said politely.
Chen Ping clasped his hands, turned around and disappeared into the night.
Looking at the direction where Chen Ping disappeared, Xu Liang was slightly absent-minded, and then quickly returned to the cave, activated the formation and took out the animal skin scroll given by Chen Ping.
Summoning the third-level spirit eagle, he immediately practiced the Lost Soul Spirit Eagle Beast Control Technique. Time passed quickly. When he saw the color of the spirit eagle's brass pupils gradually changing, he cried with joy.
I burst into tears for a while.
The voice was trembling:
"Master, it's been one hundred and sixty-one years and two hundred and three days. My disciple Deng Xinxiu finally found a solution."
"Master, do you know how my disciple has lived for so many years? I don't want to wake you up all the time, and I don't want to know what happened one hundred and sixty-one years ago? Why do those white-bearded Taoists want to kill the master?"
"In the main hall that day, my disciple only heard the fierce dispute between you and the group of white-bearded Taoists. I only heard your roaring 'no' and 'are you really just doing it to seal the demon world?' Is it really just for the human world?'. I only heard an old man with a white beard roaring, 'You can get what you want today, and you can get what you don't want, it's not up to you.'"
"The disciple only heard a few words. The disciple wants to know what happened that day. Over the years, the disciple has secretly inquired about a group of monks who are willing to sacrifice their lives to block the passage to the devil world. Are those white-bearded old men the sponsors of these imprisonments? But Why do they want to kill you, Master? Or has Master discovered some secret? Disciple wants to avenge Master."
"revenge!"
Xu Liang's face was filled with tears, and his eyes were cloudy and filled with fierceness. The body trembled with the roar.
…
The other side.
Chen Ping returned to the inn, activated the formation, and then took out the large book he had exchanged.
After confirming that there were no mechanisms or poisons, I started to take a closer look.
Not a word on the cover.
Opening the book, you will see that the entire book is made of talisman paper.
It looks like ordinary talisman paper, but it must have been specially processed. The fonts on it are clearly visible without any trace of fading.
The entire book is also very well preserved, with not even a small curl.
Chen Ping continued to turn over the pages and couldn't help but be overjoyed.
…what a good thing!
The entire book contains more than a hundred beast-controlling techniques, and they are basically rare beast-controlling techniques that are not easily available on the market.
It contains three levels of spiritual beast control techniques: second, third, and fourth levels, each of which takes up one-third of the page.
Among the third-level spiritual beasts, there is the snow falcon beast control technique that Chen Ping needs.
These beast-controlling skills are extraordinary for any sect, especially the fourth-level beast-controlling skills, which are often preserved by many small sects as sect-suppressing treasures.
OK.
Worth it, totally worth it.
With this beast control technique, even if there are other rare spiritual beasts that want to be controlled in the future, they no longer need to bother to find resources.
And it can last until before becoming a god.
Chen Ping chuckled.
This trip to Tianhai City was worth it.
He once again couldn't put it down and flipped through the nameless book for a while. After careful examination, he discovered that there were traces of processing in the lower left corner of almost every page. Generally speaking, many sect internal books will have the sect's own imprint on this location.
But all the information at this location in the book has been erased.
It seems that Xu Liang does not want to expose his origins.
But wasn't it rumored that Xu Liang became a casual cultivator after the sect was destroyed?
What is there to hide in this information?
Chen Ping turned to the cover again, and after careful inspection, he discovered that the cover had also been processed. It should be that the name-related information in the origin book had been erased.
He remembered Xu Liang's reminder.
It seems that Xu Liang's life experience is not simple. You need to be more careful when using this book in the future to ensure that it is not exposed.
The next day.
When the white fish belly appears in the east, Tianhai City begins a day of excitement, and the noise is endless.
At the same time, a figure quietly walked out of Xiuxian City, and then turned into a golden light and disappeared into the vast forest.
This person is Chen Ping.
In fact, he originally wanted to live in Tianhai City for a while.
When he set out from Lingxiao Sect, he only brought more than 1,600 high-grade spiritual stones with him.
There have been a lot of cost overruns in the past two years.
The three formations alone consumed more than 1,200 high-grade spiritual stones. Of course, the use of one of the formations in the magic weapon caused some of the spiritual stones to be over-consumed and needed to be replaced, which contributed to the consumption of some spiritual stones.
In addition, during the period, he also bought Xuanyuan Dan for body refining, which cost 870 high-grade spiritual stones. Various other elixirs, books and other property also cost more than 200 high-grade spiritual stones.
For this purpose, he even used the top-quality spiritual stones given by Xiyue, which were originally used as reserves.
The current financial situation makes his Senluozhou and his party seem a little stretched, and they may not have the money to buy the evil spirit pills if they find them.
So he originally wanted to stay in Tianhai City for some more time and continue to draw some talismans in exchange for spiritual stones.
But after getting Xu Liang's beast-control register, he felt that it would be dangerous if Xu Liang revealed that he had taken the register.
He didn't understand Xu Liang and had to guard against him.
Moreover, there are demon cultivators in Tianhai City, which means that there may be demons secretly there. The war is imminent, and a sect with obvious characteristics such as Tianhai Lingyuan Sect can easily be plotted and sabotaged by the demon clan.
Staying in Tianhai City is no longer a wise move.
He needs to find a small immortal city that is too small to enter the eyes of the demons and has no value in planning. Stop to draw talismans for a while, and then continue eastward to Senluozhou.
All the way to the northeast.
…
Tianhai City.
More than ten days after Chen Ping left Tianhai City, someone approached Xu Liang's cave, originally wanting to see if Xu Liang had released any new redemption tasks.
But they found that Xu Liang had gone and the building was empty.
Judging from the cave, it was not a temporary departure, because everything in the cave had been cleaned up, which meant that it was probably a permanent departure.
The news spread like wildfire in Tianhai City. You must know that Xu Liang has lived in Tianhai City for decades.
Never left.
"Xu Liang left?" In the city lord's palace, Jia Zhong listened to the visitor's report and stood up immediately.
"Yes, he must have been away for more than ten days. I don't know the specific reason. Some people think that he left in frustration because he didn't get what he asked for. Some people think that he may have gotten what he wanted. ." The visitor recounted the news he had heard from the public.
"Did he get what he wanted?" Jia Zhongfa laughed dumbly and shook his head.
He put on the thick animal hair robe, walked out of the city lord's mansion, and quickly came to Xu Liang's cave, only to find that Xu Liang's mansion had been taken over by the housekeeper, and there were some monks like him watching the fun outside.
"Isn't it possible that someone really filled in the missing content of that magic spell for him?"
"It's impossible. How many years have passed. In recent years, few people have taken up this task. The few beast control masters who have been pondering this method are still in Tianhai City, claiming that they have not seen Xu Liang recently. .”
"Don't tell me, I saw Xu Liang more than ten days ago. He seemed to be in a good mood. At that time, I was wondering why he didn't have a donkey face. Now it seems that he really got what he asked for. .”
"No way, I think he left in despair."
"..."
Jia Zhongfa shook his head.
He just felt sorry for Chen Ping.
Once Xu Liang left, there was basically no hope for the beast control skills Chen Ping needed.
He shook his head and went to the inn where Chen Ping was staying.
I thought about telling Chen Ping.
When I arrived at the inn, I discovered that the private room where Chen Ping had lived for several months had also been closed.
"Little friend, where is the guest who lives in this private room?" Jia Zhong called to the waiter who was passing by.
"That senior left the store more than ten days ago." The waiter replied.
Ten days ago?
Jia Zhongting hesitated when he heard this time, and then shook his head, feeling that what he thought was impossible.
Turn around and leave.
…
After Chen Ping left Tianhai City, he cautiously headed northeast along the forest.
In order to avoid straying into other people's magic weapons again, he hurried slower and walked more often in inhabited places. Inhabited places are less likely to become battlegrounds for Jindan level monks.
Just a month later, Chen Ping unexpectedly encountered a small Immortal Cultivation City with very good spiritual energy on the edge of a sea area.
In the Piaomiao Continent, the continent where the Tianhai Lingyuan Sect is located and the Senluo Continent where Chen Ping is going belong to the extreme east zone of the Piaomiao Continent.
Senluo Continent is further east.
There is a sea between the two places.
The small Immortal Cultivation City that Chen Ping encountered at this moment was called Haohan City. It was located on the edge of the sea, backed by the surging sea, steep cliffs and scorched rocks.
The aura here is really good.
But it may be due to the cliff terrain and no sect occupying it. Instead, a not too big Xiuxian City is located here.
Chen Ping went to the city to inquire about it, and found that there were only more than 2,000 people in the entire Xiuxian City. Because Xiuxian City is very small, and because it is built on a cliff with its back to the sea and the streets are not wide, it seems that Xiuxian City is very lively.
The one with the highest cultivation level is the city lord, who has only reached the sixth level of foundation building.
There are only two foundations in the entire Xiuxian City.
Such an Immortal Cultivation City is generally not worth the plots of the demons, or in other words, even if there are demons coming to plot, they will not be too high-end demons. After all, there are only two mid-stage foundation establishments in the city.
This kind of Xiuxian City is the most suitable place for Chen Ping to stay and draw talisman for a period of time.
Chen Ping immediately spent a lot of money (seven low-grade spiritual stones a month) to rent a house with good spiritual energy in the city, arranged the formation, and moved in.
In order to deceive others, he adjusted his cultivation level to the ninth level of Qi training, and wore a first-level high-grade robe that matched his cultivation level outside the high-grade robe.
The ninth level of Qi training is neither high nor low.
That is, it is not easy to be bullied.
Not too eye-catching.
But even with the cultivation of the ninth level of Qi training, on the second day after Chen Ping moved into Haohan City, he first received an investigation from the demons, and then received a personal visit from the city lord.
"Do you, Fellow Daoist Chen, be interested in joining my City Lord's Mansion? Become a guest of my Xia family?" After some pleasantries, the City Lord inquired about Chen Ping's identity and then opened his invitation.
It stands to reason that a newly arrived casual cultivator like Chen Ping is not suitable to be introduced into his family.
What if they are from hostile forces?
What if there is something wrong?
But Chen Ping can also understand the adventure of the city lord. This city of cultivating immortals is not the only one in the city. There is another family that builds foundations and cultivates immortals to compete with it.
The city lord probably didn't want the other family to seize the opportunity. As for Chen Ping, if he really becomes a guest minister, he will probably be secretly guarded by the city lord.
"Thanks to the city lord's love, I will not stay here for a long time, and I am too old to serve as a guest. But the city lord can rest assured that since I will not join the Xia family, I will naturally not join other families." Chen Ping smiled and said.
The city lord was exposed and smiled awkwardly.
"Then I won't disturb Fellow Daoist Chen. Coming to this vast city is fate. As the home of the city lord, my Xia family, if Fellow Daoist Chen needs anything later, just come to the Xia family and let me know." The city lord said politely.
"Thank you City Lord." Chen Ping naturally knew that these were just polite words, but the etiquette was still in place.
After the city lord left, Chen Ping took out the fu ink and demon crystal, and started to think about the optimization of the fu ink.
(End of chapter)
