Spring passes and autumn comes, half a year flies by. During this half-year period, Crescent Town was very peaceful, the demon never appeared again, and the mortals and the female cultivators of the Sun and Moon Sect also returned to normal.
Farmers carrying hoes began to harvest, and merchants also began to walk along the streets, creating a bustling scene.
Haoyue Shengji and other female cultivators learned about Chen Yuan's alchemy talent at some point. They often used various methods to obtain three- and five-star elixirs from Chen Yuan. In order to advance quickly, some even used a beauty trick.
However, Chen Yuan is a stubborn man who doesn't care about beauties. He only wants spiritual stones and various materials.
In order to practice, the female cultivators had to spend a lot of spiritual stones to buy elixirs such as Qi Gathering Pill Huanglong Pill from Chen Yuan.
Although he got the pill he wanted, Chen Yuan also got a resounding name: Greedy Yuan.
There is no way, the Yin-Yang Cauldron consumes too much spiritual stones. If Chen Yuan wants to improve his cultivation and the level of the magical weapon, he must follow the female cultivators. It is just a not-so-pleasant name, no big deal.
In the past six months, Chen Yuan's level has not improved, but he has improved a lot in terms of combat experience, elixir refining and talisman production. Even if he does not use the Yin-Yang Cauldron, there is a certain chance of refining a three-star elixir. The medicine is gone.
Hanyue Shengji took a fancy to Chen Yuan's talent and asked Chen Yuan to find a disciple with the talent of alchemy among the many female cultivators of the Sun and Moon Sect.
Chen Yuan himself is only a low-level monk at the fifth level of Qi Refining. He doesn't want to miss the future of others even if he has the intention to recruit disciples.
However, among the female cultivators, there is indeed one who has a good talent for alchemy. This person is Xiao Taohua, the maid of Holy Fairy Haoyue.
Chen Yuan is unwilling to accept disciples, but it does not mean that he cannot pass on the alchemy technique.
It has to be said that Xiao Taohua's alchemy talent is really good. In just one month, since she can refine pure one-star elixirs, she can occasionally refine two-star or even three-star elixirs.
You know, Chen Yuan's elixir star level was improved through the Yin-Yang Cauldron. His alchemy talent can be said to be a complete mess. Compared with Xiao Peach Blossom, it is simply a sky and a place.
Seeing that Xiao Taohua's talent in alchemy was so good, Hanyue Shengji forced Chen Yuan to pass down the talisman technique, saying that the wealth should not flow to outsiders. Since Xiao Taohua has become Chen Yuan's disciple in name, Chen Yuan should pass on everything.
Chen Yuan did not think that he had the ability to recruit disciples and taught Xiao Taohua the art of alchemy and talismans, just because he had nothing to do recently.
If it weren't for the cave of the ancestors of the Sun Moon Sect, he might have left long ago. He always had a hunch that the peace in Yueya Town for half a year was abnormal. The Blood Demon Sect suffered a big loss and should take revenge. However, they didn't show up for half a year. It really makes people have to think about their intentions.
In the end, what was supposed to come came, and what shouldn't have happened happened.
One day, a group of strangers came to Yueya Town. They were not members of the Blood Demon Sect, but a group of casual cultivators.
The casual cultivators seemed to be very familiar with the Sun and Moon Sect. After checking into the inn, they sent someone to invite Holy Lady Hanyue.
"No, absolutely not. The Patriarch's Cave is the private property of the Sun and Moon Sect, how can it be shared with you."
Inside the inn, Holy Lady Hanyue was furious. Since the seven casual cultivators wanted to share the ancestral cave with the Sun and Moon Sect, how could Saint Lady Hanyue agree as the current controller of the Sun and Moon Sect.
"Shengji, you have to understand that it is not us who want the treasures in the cave, but the eldest prince. We are just doing things for the eldest prince. Any treasures we get belong to the eldest prince. You don't want you to be Let the moon gate disappear completely."
Among the seven casual cultivators, a middle-aged foundation-building stager who called himself Qicai Sanren looked at the Hanyue Holy Lady with deep meaning.
Now the situation of the Daqi Dynasty has completely changed. Since the ninth prince was imprisoned by the old emperor, the eldest prince has taken control of the situation of the dynasty. However, if he wants to seize the throne of the emperor, with his current strength, he cannot fight with the old emperor. main counterbalance.
In order to improve his own strength, the eldest prince has won over various factions in the world, and naturally he is also very interested in the secrets of each faction.
The Blood Demon Sect became the confidant of the eldest prince, so the Yin Sha Sect disappeared. Although the Sun and Moon Gate did not completely disappear, it still stood on the edge of the cliff.
With the current strength of the Sun Moon Sect, let alone the eldest prince, they would not be able to compete with even the seven people in front of them.
"Holy Princess Hanyue, you have to think carefully. The extent of offending the eldest prince is beyond the control of the seven of us. We only give you three days to think about it. After three days, regardless of whether the Sun Moon Gate agrees or not, we will enter the cave. . There is a time when the eldest prince wants something he cannot get."
The words sounded like a negotiation, but in fact an ultimatum was given.
After leaving the inn, Hanyue Shengji went directly to Chen Yuan's residence. She wanted to hear Chen Yuan's opinion. Now, perhaps the only person the Sun Moon Sect can turn to is Chen Yuan.
"Promise them. Since there are soldiers crossing the river coming to our door, why should we take risks?"
Han Yue Shengji already understood what Chen Yuan said, but she was still worried: "The treasures in the cave were left by the ancestor to the Sun and Moon Sect. If they get them, I will be the sinner of the Sun and Moon Sect. "
"Do you have no confidence in your ancestor, or do you have too much confidence in the seven people?"
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Three days later, Qicai Sanren and other seven people, accompanied by Hanyue Shengji, entered the Sun Moon Gate Patriarch's Cave.
The cave was halfway up a mountain called Crescent Mountain. Chen Yuan Haoyue and others did not go in. According to Chen Yuan, the cave at this time had become a murder pit. After entering, it would only make them passive.
Three days later, Hanyue Shengji suddenly returned with injuries all over her body, and told Chen Yuan that she had brought the colorful Taoists to the outskirts of the small space and inspired the cave formation to control them.
"What should we do next?" Han Yue Shengji asked Chen Yuan regardless of her injuries. She really didn't want to see the treasures left by her ancestors being stolen by outsiders.
"Wait. Wait quietly. Wait until someone comes out of the cave. Of course, it is possible that no one will come out, because they have died in the cave. If no one comes out after three months, we will not be able to enter the cave again. Not too late."
It was another three months of boring waiting time. During this period, in addition to teaching Xiao Taohua alchemy, Chen Yuan had mastered another skill, which was cooking.
Although the monk could live without food and would not starve to death without eating a morsel of food for a year or two, he really missed Liu Muyun's cooking.
He had been to restaurants and taverns in small towns. Although the taste was good, it was not as perfect as Liu Muyun's.
In order to satisfy his appetite, he began to learn to cook. Unexpectedly, his cooking skills were pretty good. Although it was not very delicious, at least he cooked it by himself.
Cooking, practicing, and finally tutoring Xiao Taohua.
Chen Yuan's life in Crescent Town is pretty good, satisfying and not boring. If you can live here forever, it would be a good destination. But his heart told him that he had to rush to Zhongzhou, because only by getting there could he get in touch with the avenue faster.
On this day, Biyue Shengji suddenly came over: "Stop cooking, three months have passed, and none of the seven people have come out of the cave. Sister Hanyue wants you to hurry up and get out of the cave."
Calculating the time, it was indeed time to leave. He would leave this town after the matter at the Sun Moon Sect's ancestral cave was resolved.
Outside the Ancestral Cave, Han Yue Haoyue and a dozen other female cultivators were holding swords in their hands, with serious faces, as if they were about to engage in a life and death battle, waiting quietly for Chen Yuan to arrive.
"Are you all going to enter the cave?" Chen Yuan asked.
"Yes, we swear to protect the ancestor's treasure to the death." The female cultivators swore firmly and could not be refuted.
"You should leave a foundation for the Sun and Moon Gate."
Chen Yuan's words seemed simple, but they revealed a crisis. Although Hanyue Shengji was very confident in the cave left by her ancestor, no one could guarantee that the seven people including Qicai Sanren would really encounter accidents in the cave.
If everyone from the Sun Moon Sect is allowed to enter the cave...
The Sun and Moon Gate may really disappear completely.
In the end, Biyue Xiaotaohua and more than a dozen female cultivators were left behind, and only Chen Yuan, Han Yue, and Haoyue entered the cave.
The cave is very simple and different from ordinary caves. There is a slowly flowing underground river, and there are various flowers and plants planted on the river bank. You can even see butterflies and rabbits among the flowers and plants.
To be able to carve out such a cave with the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers in the mountain, the founder of the Sun Moon Sect must have been a woman who knew how to live.
The beautiful scenery did not last long, and something different appeared in front of me.
By the river, a man was stabbed multiple times and died unwillingly. Because the body had not been completely decomposed for a short period of time, it had already attracted many mosquitoes.
Hanyue Shengji remembered that this person was one of the seven people, and his strength was probably at the seventh level of Qi Refining.
This man's head was facing the entrance of the cave and his feet were pointing into the cave. He was obviously hacked to death on the way to escape. Who was the person who hacked him to death?
Maybe it would be his companion, or maybe some other unknown person.
Shengji Hanyue was very familiar with the cave, so it didn't take long for a few people to arrive inside the cave, which was still the periphery of the small space.
"Going in from here is the small space left by the ancestor. There are three layers of protective formations outside. I took the colorful Sanren and others into the first layer of formations and then left. If we want to enter, we must break the formations. . And your pure Yang essence and blood can only be used after breaking through the third layer of formation. It is the key to opening a small space."
Standing outside the formation, Chen Yuan Sanren fell into hard thinking.
Because the Sun Moon Sect was destroyed at such an untimely time, Han Yue's master did not leave any method to crack the formation, so if they wanted to obtain the treasure, they had to crack the formation themselves.
After Hanyue brought the colorful Sanren here that day, the reason why he was injured and left was because of the formation.
If she didn't know a little bit about the formation, she might not be able to escape safely from the formation.
None of the three were good at the formation method, so they could only break the formation forcibly based on Hanyue Shengji's scattered memories.
