"What did I say wrong just now? Why did he leave?"
The brown-robed monk had a gloomy face and stared at Zhao Lin's back coldly.
"My subordinates think there is no problem. This person is too cautious."
Brother Fanlinggen said cautiously.
"No, maybe we've exposed something somewhere."
The brown-robed monk sighed, "It's a pity that we only missed getting on the ship with such a good opportunity."
Two monks on the boat also came down, and one of them asked: "Deputy Hall Master, do you want to follow?"
The brown-robed monk shook his head slowly, "We have all shown our faces, let's go back and bring another group of people over..."
"so close!"
Zhao Lin twitched his lips, put away the ultrasound, and walked into Fangshi as if nothing had happened.
Judging from the conversations of several people, it is very likely that they are from the Li family in Sanshan County.
If you accidentally get on a pirate ship, your trip may be disastrous.
…
In the afternoon of the next day, Zhao Lin arrived in Hanchi County.
When I walked into my residence, I felt relaxed and said to myself, "I'm finally home!"
After working hard for many days, I felt a little hungry. I took out the small cauldron from the cabinet in the main room and poured the rice into it for cooking.
After the rice was cooked, Zhao Lin ate the spiritual rice while thinking about the gains and losses of the trip.
This mission to collect spirit beads was much more dangerous than the last trip to Yinfeng Valley, and the enemies he faced were also more ferocious.
But blessings and misfortunes come together, and the rewards are even richer.
Fortunately, only monks in the Qi Refining Realm participated in this task, and the dark environment of the seabed could give full play to their advantages of hearing and smell.
Overall, there is no problem with my choice.
After eating, Zhao Lin boiled a pot of water and made himself spiritual tea.
Since he had a lot of money, he gradually developed the habit of drinking tea, which can not only improve his cultivation, but also calm his mind and make it easier to entertain the occasional guests.
Tuk-tuk-tuk!
There was a knock on the door outside the courtyard.
Zhao Lin was curious. He had just returned to the county. Who got the news so quickly?
He stood up and walked outside, opened the courtyard door, and saw Director Zhou, Elder Wu, and Elder Nie standing outside the door.
"See the Head Court, two elders."
Zhao Lin saluted and greeted, thinking about the three foundation-building monks coming to visit, what is the origin of this?
After a moment's thought, I guessed the general reason. It should be that he killed fourteen underground monks, and the "dongchuang incident" happened.
"Zhao Lin, are you convenient now?"
Zhou Zhangyuan said and glanced into the yard.
"It's convenient, please come to the head of the court, please to the elders!"
Zhao Lin led the three people into the inner hall and poured each of them a cup of spiritual tea.
"This tea is good. Not many disciples of Lingdao Academy can afford to drink Lingcha."
Elder Wu picked up the teacup and took a few sips, then said with a half-smile.
"Last time, I earned some spiritual coins from my mission, so I imitated my senior brother and drank tea. In fact, I don't understand the tea ceremony, so I'm just chewing peonies."
Zhao Lin laughed at himself.
"I made a lot of money on the last mission, will I make more this time?"
Elder Nie had something to say.
Zhao Lin had basically determined the purpose of the three people's visit and replied: "Regarding this mission, the disciple wanted to report to the elder tomorrow..."
"It doesn't matter."
Zhou Zhangyuan waved his hand to interrupt and fixed his gaze on his face, "Zhao Lin, what was the result of your mission to Chiwei Island this time?"
Zhao Lin sorted out his manuscript and recounted the entire journey to sea, including the specific details of the fight.
"You really killed fourteen Earthly Dark Sect monks!"
The three people in charge of Zhou Yuan couldn't help but sigh after hearing this. Although they had known Zhao Lin's results for a long time, they still felt incredible when these words came out of his mouth.
"As far as I know, the Underworld Sect is good at water warfare. Most of the monks who go out to sea are at the proficiency level of Water Moon Slash. How did you kill them?"
Zhou Zhangyuan did not mince words and directly asked the questions in his mind.
"This junior is proficient in martial arts and can swim in the water without using waterbending skills. He has also practiced an assassination technique and can launch surprise attacks at the bottom of the sea."
Zhao Lin used the same rhetoric.
Zhou Zhangyuan and the two elders Wu and Nie looked at me and I looked at you, and they were silent for a while.
Zhao Lin attributed the reason to martial arts. They had no way of judging, but they were just a little confused. Why was martial arts so powerful?
Although Zhou Zhangyuan was dubious about Zhao Lin's words, he did not continue to ask further. Any further questioning would turn into an interrogation.
He immediately laughed and said, "Chu Hongtian, the owner of Chiwei Island, wrote me a letter specifically to praise your performance."
"Zhao Lin, you have given face to our spiritual master!"
Zhao Lin quickly said humbly: "The dean has given me the award."
I was also a little confused. It was just a mission. Is it worthy of a special letter from the island owner?
Zhou Zhangyuan saw the doubts in his heart and said seriously: "The location of Chiwei Island is very important. Our sect and Di An Sect have been fighting openly and secretly."
"However, due to the apparent relationship between sects and the pressure from sects outside the territory, there will not be a high-intensity war at present. The two sides can only send Qi Refining Realm monks to fight for it during the execution of the mission."
"Among the Diyin Sect monks you killed this time, two of them were very powerful. They killed many disciples of our sect in the past. It can be said that they have made great achievements."
Zhao Lin didn't say anything, but he thought to himself: Should I reward myself for more good deeds?
Elder Nie suddenly said: "Zhao Lin, I still said what I said before, you should focus on cultivation now. If you want to do the task, you will have a lot of time, do you understand?"
Elder Wu also said: "You have missed a lot of homework these days. Please find time to make up for it as soon as possible."
Zhao Lin bowed his head and said: "Disciple, listen to the two elders."
"Okay, that's it. We won't disturb you as soon as you come back."
After a few words of explanation, Master Zhou left Zhao Lin's residence with the two elders.
Zhao Lin took the three people to the door and then secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Three days passed in a flash.
Zhao Lin returned to the same days as before.
Listen to scriptures and practice Taoism every day, meditate and practice Qi, and strive to improve your cultivation.
After this mission, he felt that his strength was still not strong enough.
In a head-to-head confrontation, it would be difficult to defeat monks such as Qingchi and Yamauchi who have also mastered master-level spells.
If you want to stabilize the pressure on monks of the same level, you must break through to the fifth level of Qi refining and push your spells to the first level of perfection.
In the early morning of this morning, the "Kongzui point" on Zhao Lin's left arm suddenly beat non-stop, and the spiritual energy in the meridians seeped into it.
He knew that this meant that he was not far away from breaking through the spiritual orifice, and he couldn't help but be very happy.
At this moment, there was a soft sound outside the door.
Zhao Lin opened the door and saw a message paper crane on the ground.
The letter was sent by the Good Merit Hall, telling Zhao Lin that the good deeds for the mission of collecting spiritual beads had been calculated and he could go and collect the good deeds.
Zhao Lin smiled slightly, thinking that he was about to break through the spiritual aperture and receive a reward for his good deeds. It would be a double blessing.
Zhao Lin roughly calculated the reward for this mission twice.
The heads of fourteen Earthly Dark Sect monks are worth 2,800 good deeds, and the combined spirit beads can be worth more than 300 good deeds.
As for the spiritual stones, the spiritual beads can be exchanged for more than two thousand yuan.
The seized eyebrow swords, naginata, and locking bags can also be exchanged for spiritual stones. It is hard to say what is in the locking bags. Even if the eyebrow swords are only sold for materials, they are still worth two to three hundred spiritual stones.
There must be eleven eyebrow knives and thousands of spiritual stones.
There is also the first-grade spiritual bead on Shanuchi's body, which is worth two hundred good deeds, plus a thousand spiritual stones.
A rough calculation shows that the reward this time is at least 3,000 good deeds and 7,000 spiritual stones.
With this windfall, it is enough to support his practice for a year and upgrade all his spells to the perfect level.
Zhao Lin came to Shanggong Hall and was warmly received by Manager Hu.
"Junior Brother Zhao is really amazing. In all the years I have been in the Good Merit Hall, no monk in the Qi Refining Realm has ever been able to earn so many good merit rewards at one time."
Manager Hu brought Zhao Lin to the palace, took out the Xingyuan pen, and he moved the pen like flying as he praised it repeatedly.
Zhao Lin smiled and said nothing. After the other party finished recording, he took a look at the body-illuminating stone and was surprised.
The number of good deeds turned out to be 4,300, which was 1,000 more than he had calculated.
Checking the records, I found that in addition to the spirit beads and the heads of the Di An Sect monks, I was also rewarded with a thousand good deeds.
These one thousand good deeds were specially awarded by the island owner Chu Hongtian. The reason was that the killing of fourteen Di An Sect monks greatly frustrated the arrogance of the Di An Sect and defended the spiritual pearl resources of Chiwei Island.
The total amount of spiritual stones is 8,500 yuan, with almost no discount.
Zhao Lin understood clearly that this Island Master Chu was showing his favor to him.
Time passed by quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was the day of the small meeting of the third hospital.
Last year's small meeting of the three hospitals was held in Dongyang County in Juyan Prefecture, and today it was Hanchi County's turn.
When deciding on the candidates for the fight, Elder Wu directly named Zhao Lin.
Some of the third-year disciples were dissatisfied, "Although Junior Brother Zhao is strong in combat, he can't use martial arts this year. Why send him to play?"
Elder Wu did not explain, "If any of you are not convinced, you can have a fight with him."
As a result, three disciples came on the stage in a row, but they were all easily defeated by Zhao Lin without even moving their feet.
A few days later, the Lingdao Temple from Xiniu Prefecture and Juyan Prefecture came to visit.
After learning that Zhao Lin was selected as a candidate for fighting in Hanchi County, the heads of the two prefectures raised objections: Aren't they not allowed to study martial arts, swordsmanship, and physical education?
Zhou Hongfang promised that Zhao Lin would never use martial arts, and the two leaders agreed with hesitation.
When it came time to fight, Zhao Lin really had no martial arts skills at all. With his extraordinary magic skills, he defeated the two disciples of the Spiritual Dao Academy without any ability to fight back, and easily won the first place.
At this point, the concept that Zhao Lin is a magic genius has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, which is exactly the effect he wants to achieve.
The end of the year is approaching, and it’s time to go back to my hometown to visit relatives...
(End of chapter)
