In the early morning, the sky turned white.
The autumn water after the rain fills the air with the aroma of vegetation and earth, making it quiet and peaceful.
Occasionally, the cool autumn wind blows by, causing some of the dead leaves to form small tornadoes. The dead leaves are spinning inside and flowing with the wind, just like people struggling with their destiny.
Su Fan was sitting cross-legged in the training room in the thatched cottage, practicing Hunyuan Gong.
Ever since his realm cultivation broke through the middle stage of foundation building, the massive accumulation of spiritual energy made Su Fan feel desperate.
No wonder there is a saying that monks who break through to the foundation building stage can reach the sky step by step.
From the early to the middle stage of foundation building, it was already difficult. Unexpectedly, after breaking through to the middle stage, facing the late stage of foundation building would be like a natural chasm.
The vast majority of people in the world of cultivation will never be able to break through to the realm of foundation building in this life. Even if they are lucky enough to reach the stage of foundation building, they will jump from a small pit into a bigger pit.
Even if you reach the golden elixir and Yuanying in the future, you will still have to face the test of heavenly tribulation.
Su Fan had witnessed the Heavenly Tribulation, and that kind of power that could destroy heaven and earth, at least the thought of it still made him frightened.
The road is hard, like walking on thin ice.
Thinking of this, Su Fan sighed.
The evil skill is still fast. In just a few days, he saved him decades of hard work.
The price is just to kill some monks. With his current strength, if he wants to scheme against people, even in the late stage of foundation building, he will not be able to escape his attacks.
It just so happens that it is during the war, and the corpses of the foundation-building monks on the front lines are everywhere, including those of Jindan Daoist.
Anyway, no one will notice anything if they devour their flesh and blood.
If one day he is lucky and allows him to swallow the flesh and blood of a True Lord Nascent Soul, then he will reach the sky in one step and break through to the late Golden Core stage.
What if...
As soon as this idea came to mind, the "Purple Heart Mysterious Water Jade Pendant" on Su Fan's chest suddenly shook.
A cool breath rushed from his chest to the Purple Mansion Sea of Consciousness between his eyebrows, and spread to his limbs and bones.
Su Fan was agitated and recovered from his manic mood in an instant.
This is inner demon...
so close……
Su Fan couldn't help but shiver and felt his scalp was numb.
The inner demon moistens everything silently, can become invisible, and change in countless ways.
Once the evil thoughts are planted, they become deeply ingrained and difficult to eradicate, making them increasingly self-righteous.
Su Fan could only guard against the slightest mistakes and polish his Taoist mind as much as possible in order to recognize his true self and avoid being infected by inner demons.
But the desire is hard to fill, and the most difficult thing to guard against.
He touched the "Purple Heart Mysterious Water Jade Pendant" on his chest. After all, it was a top-quality soul-purifying device. I was grateful for having it today.
Su Fan took a deep breath, stood up from the ground, and walked out of the thatched cottage.
Now the cave has been newly decorated by him, with a kitchen, a naan pit, a grill, etc., which is similar to his previous cave.
At this time, he saw two delicate and pretty girls walking in from outside the cave. Seeing him, they quickly saluted to him.
"Meet Uncle Master..."
Su Fan waved his hands to them and said with a smile: "You go and do your work. You don't need to be greeted when you come over in the future..."
These two little girls were the disciples who were ordered to serve her.
Originally, the two of them were going to live in the cave a lot, but Su Fan didn't want anyone to disturb his life, so he asked them to come over every three days.
In fact, the two of them came here for nothing. They could get good deeds by hanging around here for a day, which can be said to be a good job.
Su Fan has been in "Jiuxingfang" for more than a month. During this time, he has been living in seclusion.
He did not participate in the management of the city. Apart from staying in the cave to practice hard every day, he would go to the sect's workshop to make utensils, and he had no sense of existence.
Many of the sect's qi training disciples didn't even know that such a foundation-building master uncle was here.
Moreover, he was kind-hearted and never acted like a master. The Qi training disciples stationed in the camp had a good impression of him.
Now that he is an inner disciple of Huoyundao Palace, Su Fan has changed from his previous arrogance and become very low-key.
Anyway, he has entered the inner gate, and now he is plucking the wool of Huoyun Dao Palace, focusing on the long and steady flow.
The days ahead are long and there is no rush.
The elder of the Foundation Establishment Deacon in Fang City gradually lost his guard. Sometimes when he met him by chance, he could even chat with Su Fan cordially.
Managing such a large market naturally involves a lot of oil and gas.
It can be said that even if you are really not greedy for anything here, others will not believe you.
Seeing that Su Fan had no idea of competing for power and gain with him, the other party was very satisfied. Not only did he care for Su Fan every month, he would also share part of his black income with Su Fan.
Of course Su Fan had to accept it, otherwise he would not be able to sleep well.
After Su Fan finished explaining, he left the cave. Every time the two girls who served him came, Su Fan would avoid them and go to the workshop to make tools.
Watching Su Fan's back disappear at the end of the tree-lined path, the two girls quickly ran to the kitchen and took out a jar of iced juice from the refrigerator.
They came to Su Fan's study, sat down at the kang table, and drank refreshing iced juice comfortably.
This was a benefit Su Fan gave them. Every time Su Fan left, the two of them couldn't wait to take it out and drink it to their heart's content.
The two drank for a while, then whispered to each other's ears.
"Senior Sister, why does Senior Uncle have to go out every time we come here..."
"You ask me, I'm going to ask who is going to ask, if this little girl is having sex..."
"Ah...senior sister, what are you talking about? I...how could I..."
"Oh...this uncle is a very nice person. It would be nice if he was more handsome..."
"You're still saying that me, senior sister, you are the one who is showing off..."
"Damn girl, what are you talking about... It's a pity that even if I show off, my uncle can't see it..."
Su Fan didn't know that as soon as he left, the two female hooligans started to use him as the topic, chatting excitedly about tigers and wolves.
He came all the way to Fangshi and walked into the tool-making workshop.
"Hello, uncle..."
"Meet Uncle Master..."
Seeing Su Fan coming, the disciples in the workshop paid tribute to him one after another.
He smiled and nodded at them, then came outside a workshop.
This room is a high-end tool making workshop, and there are only three in the entire city.
The advanced tool-making workshop is equipped with a top-grade fire gathering formation, which only foundation-building monks are qualified to use.
At this time, a person walked out and saw Su Fan and quickly saluted him.
"Greetings to Uncle Master, you came early enough today..."
Su Fan smiled and said, "It's pretty clean inside..."
"Don't worry, uncle..."
This man's name was Sun Yong. He was not only sweet-tongued but also eloquent. He was the kind of person who was particularly good at making trouble. He got close to Su Fan within a few days of his arrival.
Su Fan's attitude towards such people, as long as they don't bully the good and fear the evil, praise the superior and disdain the inferior, he doesn't reject them at all.
It is human nature to follow others' opinions, and it is also people's most natural psychological reaction. There is nothing to blame.
Regarding Sun Yong's behavior, most of the young disciples in Huoyun Dao Palace were extremely disdainful, thinking that he was a flattering villain.
But Sun Yong didn't care at all, and instead sneered at the contempt of other disciples.
Although Su Fan would not reject such people who had ambitions written on their faces, he would never regard them as one of his own.
He had seen too many people like this in his previous life. No matter where they were, they were always at home. As long as they were not worthless idiots, they would usually do well in the end.
Sun Yong is smooth and sophisticated in dealing with people, and he still works so hard. The most important thing is that he can be humble and open-minded.
For such a person, no matter what you think of him, his future will not be too bad.
People like Sun Yong can be used, and they are indeed very easy to use, but they will never be reused.
Since someone came along and used it smoothly, he took care of it appropriately and sent him to help him with some tasks or run errands when nothing happened.
Now Su Fan is not like before, staying in the tool making workshop every day and racing against time to make tools like crazy.
Instead, he comes only once every three days, and only refines two or three spiritual weapons each time. The rest of the time is spent mostly studying and pondering with the jade slips, or summarizing the gains and losses of the weapon making.
In particular, he spent a lot of time studying the insights and experiences summarized by the seniors of Huoyundao Palace.
Although he relied on the game panel and the loopholes in the rules of the front-line weapon making workshop, it only took him a few months to brush up the data of the weapon making skills to the "established" level.
Moreover, he also gained the ability to refine mid-grade spiritual weapons, and his progress was astonishing.
But even though no one could find fault with the spiritual weapon he refined, it still felt like something was missing.
Just like the products produced by automated assembly lines in previous generations, they are almost all the same. Compared with hand-carved things, they have no personality and charm at all.
In fact, the Tao of Qi requires accumulation and a solid foundation step by step. Each stage brings different experiences and insights.
But now Su Fan was like being spoon-fed, having his head filled with knowledge about the art of weapons, without any slow process of understanding.
To put it bluntly, it was too fast.
The situation at that time was special. He didn't have that time at all, so he could only use the convenience of the workshop to flash data like a race against time.
He was afraid that after passing this village, there would be no such shop.
The situation today is no longer the same as before, and Su Fan has enough time to figure it out and understand.
So what Su Fan is doing now is to slow down and spend some time every day to understand and explore the true meaning of the weapon path bit by bit.
Facts have proved that although his weapon-making skills have not improved much during this period, every spiritual weapon he refines now is somewhat different.
How should I put it? It’s just a little more agile, not like before.
Su Fan walked into the tool-making workshop and saw that the room was spotless, and the fire-gathering magic circle was polished. It looked like it was wiped with hands, rather than carrying a cleaning talisman to deal with errands.
He nodded with satisfaction, took out the "Red Phoenix Cauldron" from the ring, and placed it on the fire-gathering array with a clang.
Sun Yong, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but smacked his lips. His uncle was so strong. He had tried to pick up this giant cauldron before, but it didn't move at all.
He secretly guessed in his heart that the giant cauldron like Uncle Master must weigh at least one or two thousand kilograms.
"Start the formation..."
After hearing Su Fan's call, Sun Yong, who was thinking randomly next to him, quickly stepped forward and activated the fire gathering formation.
There was a "boom".
Light blue flames instantly shot up into the sky, enveloping the "Red Phoenix Cauldron" and burning fiercely.
Su Fan threw some rare weapon refining materials into the cauldron, then turned his head and looked at Sun Yong behind him.
"You come and smelt the materials..."
Sun Yong was stunned immediately. This was the first time that his uncle had let him get started.
For a qi training disciple, there is no chance to use the high-grade fire gathering formation, and he has never smelted such rare weapon refining materials.
After listening to Su Fan's words, Sun Yong suddenly became excited.
After a month of hard work, I finally got the recognition of my uncle, and now the opportunity has come.
"Hurry up and smelt..."
Sun Yong was excited and walked over quickly. He took a deep breath and then began to smelt the materials seriously.
Su Fan looked at the fire intensity of the fire gathering formation, then looked at Sun Yong's operating techniques, and then walked aside with confidence.
As expected of a disciple of Huoyun Dao Palace, Sun Yong has a very good foundation in weapon Dao.
Moreover, it was the first time he used the high-grade fire-gathering formation method to smelt rare weapon-refining materials, which also made him extremely serious in the smelting process.
In fact, Su Fan didn't care even if the smelting of this batch of materials was wasted.
Although he does not participate in the management of Fang City now, as long as he wants to use any training materials, the foundation-building deacon elder will respond to his request.
Such a big Huoyun Dao Palace can still fall short of him.
Su Fan walked to the side and sat down cross-legged. He took out a jade slip and placed it on his forehead, and began to figure out and study the skills and understanding of the seniors of Huoyun Dao Palace.
Today, Sun Yong was asked to smelt materials, and his attitude became even more positive.
During lunch, he went to the canteen at the station and helped Su Fan pack his favorite spiritual food into food boxes and bring them to the workroom.
No matter what, having a trouble-making person by your side will really make you feel at ease.
In the evening, Su Fan left the tool-making workshop and as soon as he walked to the main street of Fangshi, he heard someone calling him.
Su Fan looked back and found Tang Fei walking towards him.
"Why did you come here today..."
He remembered leaving a lot of evil spirit bones for Tang Fei before leaving. How long had it passed?
"Senior brother, all the evil spirit bones in my hand have been sold out. I can only go to your place once..."
"What……"
It's only been a few days, isn't this guy doing wholesale?
Although Su Fan didn't say anything, Tang Fei was sensitive to Su Fan's thoughts and quickly explained.
"Senior brother, this time I contacted a few people from the Super Immortal Sect through a friend's relationship. Although I offered to share some profits with them, the price did not drop much..."
After listening to Tang Fei's words, Su Fan patted him on the shoulder.
"Junior brother, you can do it. I read you right..."
This guy is really good at twisting and turning, and he has opened up the door to several super immortal sects. Now the sales of evil spirit bones are probably going to take off.
Fortunately, he still has a lot of inventory. Even if the broken bones are sold out, there are still those complete bones that have not been moved.
When the time comes, smash them all and go out for takeout.
In any case, Su Fan's evil spirit bones have created an unknown amount of profit for him.
Especially now that Tang Fei is helping him out, he doesn't have to worry about anything, he is just a hands-off shopkeeper.
Seriously, this is just making money.
Moreover, now that Su Fan was an inner disciple of Huoyun Dao Palace, he was completely different from the other newly joined disciples.
At least before these new disciples died, he would definitely not have to fight on the front lines.
Nowadays, in this small and anonymous city, I don't have to do anything or say anything, and there are still people waiting on me every day, so my life can't be said to be more comfortable.
"Let's go, come to my place, let's have a drink tonight..."
Tang Fei followed Su Fan to his cave. The two little girls hadn't left yet and were sitting at the kang table in the study, chatting happily.
They got a little carried away talking and even forgot the time.
It wasn't until Su Fan and Tang Fei entered the yard that they realized what they were doing. They quickly cleaned up and ran out of the house in a panic.
"Uncle Master, we..."
Su Fan had such a bad ear. He also heard a few words about the topics the two girls were talking about.
He couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, are all the female cultivators of the Super Immortal Sect so unrestrained? They dare to say all kinds of cruel things.
"You guys go back..."
After Su Fan finished speaking, he walked into the house, and the two girls left the cave as if they were running away.
Tang Fei followed him into the room and sat down opposite Su Fan, looking at him with a half-smile.
"Senior brother, you have a good life here..."
Su Fan was very angry at him and scolded him with a smile: "Don't think too much. Those two little girls come here once every three days to help me clean up the cave. Nothing will happen..."
Tang Fei chuckled and pointed at Su Fan.
"Senior brother, I didn't say anything, so you explained it first, and then, why does this matter? Who doesn't have a few good friends..."
After listening to Tang Fei's words, Su Fan shook his head.
He found that Huoyun Dao Palace was in chaos. Everyone looked quite serious, but they might be playing some tricks behind their backs.
(End of chapter)
