On this day, Li Xiuyuan closed the shop early, hid under the eaves of the backyard and cooked a pot of dragon meat, and added a magical elixir bought from Yuqiong Pavilion, hoping to reach the seventh level of Qi refining.
The old man who had not been seen for a long time seemed to smell the aroma in the small courtyard. When Li Xiuyuan was holding his chopsticks and was about to take action, he pushed open the door of the small courtyard.
Li Xiuyuan was stunned, holding a pair of chopsticks in a daze, thinking that if I waited for you to send me a sign today, wouldn't I not have to do business?
I couldn't help but admire the master's carelessness, actually forgetting the most important thing about his apprentice.
"Master, have you forgotten that my bookstore is opening today?" Li Xiuyuan turned around, took a pair of bowls and put them on the table, looking at the old man and asked.
The old man said calmly: "I'm going to go out in a few days. I'm making preparations for this. I really can't take care of your affairs at the moment."
"Master, where are you going? Can you take me with you? Even if I light a fire and make tea for you every day?"
When Li Xiuyuan saw that the old man was leaving Tianyu City, he couldn't help but feel a little panicked. He had no one to rely on except the old man here.
"My departure will not affect your practice here." The old man said calmly: "I have here all the cultivation techniques from your Qi refining period to the foundation building period. Your bookstore has been opened, plus the wine you brewed. ....."
Li Xiuyuan looked at him blankly, and after a while he murmured: "Master has earned back the money for decorating the shop today. If you are doing it for the spirit stone, you don't have to go out and work hard."
The old man picked up the wine glass in front of him and fell silent, saying: "I have a reason to go, which is to take the students of Tianxiang Academy to experience in a foreign land that borders ours..."
Li Xiuyuan was startled. After looking at him for a long time, perhaps to ease the atmosphere, Li Xiuyuan took a piece of meat to the old man and said softly: "Is it dangerous?"
The old man nodded silently, shook his head and said: "As long as a war does not break out, there will be no danger to life."
Li Xiuyuan didn't even think about it, and asked in a solemn voice: "What does Tianxiang Academy have to do with the master? If the master has to come forward in person, are all the elders in Tianyu City dead?"
"You can't say that." The old man responded Shen: "I am the elder of Tianyu City, and I cannot shirk this matter."
"This Tianxiang Academy is really powerful. It is believed that the elders of the Fusion Realm in Tianyu City can personally take action."
Li Xiuyuan laughed: "I want to tell the master some good news. Yuqiong Pavilion is cooperating with me... In the future, our master and apprentice will be considered rich people in Tianyu City, and the master will not have to go out and work hard every day. "
"They are interested in your wine?" the old man asked incredulously: "Although I haven't drunk it yet, but you have taken the trouble to brew it, so I think it's good."
Li Xiuyuan looked at him and said, "I won't sell a single bottle of the wine sold through the cooperation. I will leave a bottle for the master... I only sell the most common wine here?"
The old man looked at him and smiled with satisfaction: "That's very good. At least you won't let some thoughtful people miss you."
Li Xiuyuan looked at him and said calmly: "Master, come back before leaving and get some wine to drink on the way."
Seeing that the old man had no objection, Li Xiuyuan continued: "I also explained to him the origin of the wine. I will not admit that I made this wine, and the master does not have to be afraid that it will cause us trouble."
The old man calmed down his excitement and looked at Li Xiuyuan with a strange look in his eyes: "What's better, even if they auction ten thousand spiritual stones for one man, no one in Tianyu City will suspect you of coming to your bookstore. "
Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said: "I just sell the words I ordered. Buy a banner and get a bottle of wine. One hundred spiritual stones will get a jar of wine."
The old man trembled, frowned and said, "Do you really dare to ask for it?"
After Li Xiuyuan thought for a while, he said: "It is my principle not to sell it cheaply. Today, Yuqiong Pavilion took a piece of calligraphy and counted two thousand spiritual stones... If you find it too expensive, you don't have to buy it."
In his opinion, the wine-making materials he bought in Tianyu City were much more expensive than those in Ding'an City. They were full of spiritual rice, and they had to be bought with immortal spiritual stones.
At present, the shop is like Ding'an City, and he would rather leave it alone than sell it... The longer it remains, the more expensive it can be sold.
The old man raised his hand and stopped him from continuing. He shook his head and said, "Did they buy your An because of the cooperative winemaking?"
Li Xiuyuan smiled and said: "That guy Feng Ruyu told me that she wants to use this calligraphy as a store, and she won't sell it for any amount of spiritual stones."
"Oh?" The old man looked at him and laughed: "It seems I have to go to the front shop tomorrow to take a closer look. Do you want someone to make another sign?
Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said, "No need, I made one myself, it's okay."
"That's good. You have to rely on yourself for everything. It seems that you have suffered a lot in the lower world." The old man said with a smile: "If you continue like this, you won't have to worry about the teacher's state of mind in your future practice."
Li Xiuyuan nodded slightly and suddenly turned to ask: "Master, if I see the spiritual fruit being auctioned by others in Yuqiong Pavilion, can I buy it back to break through the realm?"
The old man fell silent, lowered his head and pondered for a long time before replying: "If you rely on spiritual fruits and elixirs to break through during the Qi Refining and Foundation Building stages, then how will you go about your practice in the future?"
"Thank you, Master, for the reminder." Li Xiuyuan sighed and said, "Fortunately, I asked Master first, otherwise I might have swallowed the spiritual fruit after getting it in Yuqiong Pavilion..."
In his opinion, with his cooperative relationship with Yuqiong Pavilion, it should be too easy to buy some spiritual fruits.
The old man looked at him and smiled: "Cultivating immortals is the same as your previous cultivation. It is best not to rely on external forces to break through. Only breaking through naturally is the best."
"This meat is good. Was it given to you by someone from Yuqiong Pavilion?"
In the old man's opinion, among the dragons in the city, only Yuqiong Pavilion put them up for auction.
Li Xiuyuan said softly, "This meat is no longer of much benefit to the disciples. It can at most increase some physical strength."
The old man pointed at Li Xiuyuan's head and said seriously: "This opportunity comes as it comes. There is no need to force it or avoid it."
Li Xiuyuan's heart moved and he said sincerely: "Master is leading the team this time. What are the realms of the disciples sent by Tianxiang Academy?"
The old man smiled bitterly and said: "I think the worst case scenario is to send someone from the late Yuanying stage to the early stage of divine transformation. No matter how mediocre you go there, you will only die."
Li Xiuyuan was a little disappointed and said in a daze: "It seems that I really have no chance."
Thinking about going to the Shura battlefield in the future, the enemies he faces are not much different from the ones he faces now. The difference is that one is in the sky and the other is underground.
Could it be said that foreign lands are also connected to heaven and earth, or are they two different places with the same name?
The old man shook his head and said decisively: "The foreign land is too far away, and it is not a place you can go to now."
Li Xiuyuan nodded and said softly: "It won't be long before I step into that place."
The old man thought he was talking about the Endless Fire Realm, and he laughed and said: "Don't be anxious about this, wait until I come back, and wait until you break through to the foundation-building realm."
Next, the master and the apprentice had a quiet dinner. Because of the opening of the shop, the old man was in a good mood and ate an extra piece of meat and drank two more bowls of soup.
Until the moon reaches the zenith, Cai Ren always goes to his room to rest.
It was only then that Li Xiuyuan remembered that in his hurry, he had forgotten to ask whether all the practitioners who ascended from the Shura Heaven Realm ended up in this Heaven Realm.
If so, he can wait until he reaches a higher level to find the old Taoist priests, masters and others who have ascended and left.
...
Tianyu City, No. 47 Tianjie, the spring rain is as thin as a thread.
Sure enough, as Li Xiuyuan expected, the old man just walked around the small shop on the roadside in the front yard early in the morning and left in a hurry, without even having time to praise his disciple.
It has been nearly a month since he ascended from the Demon Realm to Tianyu City. Li Xiuyuan went from a human monk in the early stages of distraction to the sixth important realm of Qi Refining by chance.
He went from being a monk in the lower world who was swallowed by a black dragon to becoming a small shopkeeper on the Heavenly Street of Tianyu City in the upper world in just one month. He woke up in one night and was in heaven and earth.
After brewing a pot of tea in the meditation store, Li Xiuyuan took out the books the teacher had placed in the living room and began copying quietly.
Since there is no way to break through the realm quickly, you might as well stay quiet and copy various collections and become a knowledgeable immortal cultivator.
It was already past half time, and before he could finish copying half of the book in his hand, Feng Ruyu hurried in.
"Little shopkeeper, it seems you are going to get rich."
Feng Xiaoyu looked at him with a smile and said: "We at Yuqiong Pavilion have agreed to cooperate with you. Let's try brewing in three tanks for the first time. How about it?"
Li Xiuyuan, who was holding the pen and swiping the brush, did not stop, but pointed to the teapot on the table and said with a smile: "You pour the tea yourself. I will finish copying this page and then talk to you."
"Where is your master? Why haven't I seen anyone else since I came here twice?"
Feng Ruyu looked around the shop, looked at him and asked
"If you had come an hour earlier, you might still be able to see him. I don't know where he is now."
Li Xiuyuan looked at her and said with a smile.
"When I learn that you want to cooperate with our Yuqiong Pavilion, will your master support you?" Feng Ruyu asked.
Li Xiuyuan looked at her proud look and couldn't help but said: "I am his disciple. As long as I want to cooperate with anyone, the master will support him."
Feng Ruyu glared at him, put a ring on the table, and said seriously: "This is the material you need to make wine. As long as the effect satisfies us, we will continue to cooperate."
Li Xiuyuan took the space ring, put it in his hand and felt it carefully, then looked at her and asked blankly: "This is ten thousand years old. It seems that you are really rich."
Feng Ruyu was so angry at his appearance that he laughed: "You don't even look at where this place is. If it weren't for such a magical medicine, how could you make those monks who refine the void and combine the body obediently take out the spiritual stones to buy it?"
Li Xiuyuan put away the ring and said with a smile: "Give me five days, you can spread the word first..."
"You don't have to doubt our Yuqiong Pavilion's ability to do things. We have people who will release the news. You just need to brew the medicinal wine at the designated time."
Feng Ruyu chuckled as she poured tea into the cup.
Li Xiuyuan sighed, looked at her and replied: "Tomorrow, someone will send me some wine jars, both large and small. I will pay for the required expenses..."
"Are you ready to start selling wine?" Feng Ruyu opened his mouth and looked at him and asked.
"That's almost it." Li Xiuyuan looked at her and replied, "You can't keep here and sing about the empty city strategy, right?"
...
It was almost time, and someone finally stepped into the deserted bookstore.
Li Xiuyuan looked up and saw several young monks, young men and women much older than himself.
I originally thought that the young monks in Tianyu City would be very different from those in the lower realm, but after seeing them, I realized that except for the difference in spiritual energy on their bodies, there was actually no difference between heaven and earth from the people in the lower realm.
And after listening to a few people muttering softly, I realized that these young monks were just wandering around while taking shelter from the rain.
Since he was idle, Li Xiuyuan didn't bother to get up to greet him. He held a cup of lukewarm tea, looked at the rain curtain outside the store, smiled, and reached out to pour Feng Ruyu a cup of hot tea.
I saw a young man with a round face, just like the fat boy back then. With his hands behind his back, he put his face to the wall and looked carefully.
There were two women in white and red skirts beside him, and they seemed to have read the meaning of the banner on the wall.
After looking at it for a while, the round-faced young man said to the woman in the red dress behind him: "Xun'er, don't tell me, in such a shabby place, this painting has some charm."
