Lu Zhong expressed the question in his mind and received Tan Shihe's answer.
"To be honest, there is a spiritual elixir in the clan right now, which will mature within the next three to five years. Therefore, the entire clan needs to concentrate its efforts to protect it. However, we cannot waste other foundations because of this. We can only vigorously recruit guest ministers."
A casual cultivator like Lu Zhong, who was born in a sect and was skilled in the art of making talismans, usually had a guaranteed character, so he became the most desired guest candidate for many families.
Fearing that Lu Zhong would not agree, Tan Shihe paused and added: "Don't worry, fellow Taoist Lu, our Tan family is a trustworthy Jindan family in Jingyang. We have never broken our promises. This only needs to be done before You can find out by asking outside, but I wonder what your thoughts are?"
"This..." Lu Zhong would not listen to anyone's words, so he said: "I'll think about it deeply, whether I agree or not, I will give you an answer in three days."
"That's great!" Tan Shihe cupped his hands and smiled.
Then the two of them talked for a while. In order to leave a good impression on Lu Zhong, he even shared a lot of cultivation experience, which benefited Lu Zhong a lot and solved many doubts in his mind.
When the food started to be served, Tan Shihe said goodbye and left.
Looking at the eighteen delicacies on the table, Lu Zhongguang moved his index fingers just by smelling them.
Since Zhenshi Fang is a food boat, the dishes are naturally related to water. Whether it is the steamed spirit fish belly with spirit grass juice or the milky white bone fish soup, they are all carefully prepared.
While eating and thinking, Lu Zhong decided to go to Jingyangfang City to inquire about it after eating.
The Tan family's condition of teaching flying talismans is indeed extremely tempting.
As a type of second-level talisman, the sales volume of this talisman is also very good. If you can successfully master it, although you cannot use it as an opportunity to form an elixir and gather the necessary spiritual objects required to form an elixir, you can use it to ensure that you can successfully form an elixir. Cultivation to the late stage of foundation building.
Soon I was full of wine and food.
After eating this spiritual meal, Lu Zhong felt that his cultivation had improved a lot.
After refining the spiritual energy he had eaten, his cultivation, which was still somewhat unstable, suddenly became more stable.
He has clearly understood the training goals of the foundation building period from the classics.
Different from the Qi refining stage where the focus is on the meridians and the expansion of the Dantian as a secondary goal, the Foundation building stage focuses on the main Dantian and the secondary meridians, and continuously expands the narrow Dantian through the operation of exercises. There is only one goal, and that is to make the Dantian expand. The true energy in his body expanded from a small puddle to a sea of true energy step by step.
When you arrive at a teahouse, you only need to let out a little breath to get a warm reception.
"Senior, regarding the information you want about the Tan family in Jingyang, I have already sorted it out for you. Could you please take a look at it." The shopkeeper of the tea house who was buying and selling the news bowed and presented a jade slip, which recorded the information Lu Zhong desired information.
Lu Zhong stretched out his spiritual consciousness tentacles and quickly finished reading the content.
As long as the information on the jade slips is not forged, there is nothing false about what Tan Shihe said.
According to the information, the Tan family planted a "Fire Binding Golden Flower" thousands of years ago. This flower has the effect of assisting in elixir formation. Although it is not as good as the elixir-forming treasure "Golden elixir", it can still have half the effect of the latter. , which can increase the chance of forming a pill by 10%. If you put it outside, it will definitely be a treasure that will make people break their heads and fight for it.
It was precisely because the flower was about to mature that the Tan family began recruiting guest officials seven years ago to enhance the family's strength.
At the same time, a talented monk from the Tan family, Tan Luoyun, who had completed the late stage of foundation building, also entered seclusion.
As expected, the Ninghuo Golden Flower was given to this person.
If successful, the Tan family will have another golden elixir.
"This is the heritage of the Xiuxian family!" Lu Zhong sighed silently in his heart.
The Tan family planted the Golden Flower of Ninghuo Bin thousands of years ago to ensure the continuous rotation of their own golden elixir. The average cultivating family does not have such courage, and it requires the whole family to reach a consensus to achieve this.
"Since you have such courage, I think your credibility will not be bad..."
Lu Zhong decided to inquire for another two days. After all, he still had to be more cautious. If he didn't hear too many bad things about the Tan family, he would accept the guest's invitation and serve in the Tan family for five years.
Five years is actually nothing to a foundation-building monk.
After making a decision in his heart, he looked at the shopkeeper who was waiting aside. He looked calm but was actually heartbroken, and threw a bag of spiritual stones in his hand to him.
Since he is already a foundation-building monk, he still needs to have the necessary magnanimity.
Otherwise, why would people use jade slips to record information? Wouldn't it be better to just make a copy?
Without stopping, he came to Jingyang Auction House again.
Now that he has a lot of spare spirit stones, his cultivation has reached the foundation building stage.
Then, it’s time to take a spiritual weapon to protect yourself.
This time he didn't need to reveal his presence, and a beautiful female cultivator came out to greet him. She appeared so quickly that Lu Zhong couldn't help but wonder in his heart whether there was a Qionghua Sect Foundation Establishment who was secretly watching.
However, he did not rashly explore his spiritual sense. After all, this was an extremely impolite behavior.
What if there is a golden elixir ancestor hidden in the crowd, or a Yuanying old monster, wouldn't it be over?
After declining the other party's acknowledgment, Lu Zhong, led by the disciples of the Qionghua Sect, arrived at a box that was much wider than the last time. Not only were seasonal fruits and candied cakes placed in it, but there was also a pot of fragrant brew. It can be seen that the auction house treats monks of different levels differently.
Looking at the glazed mirror facing the auction table, it was obviously different from the previous box.
In comparison, the area in front of him could obviously protect privacy. Lu Zhong tried to use his spiritual sense to explore, but found that it seemed as if he had hit a wall and could not penetrate as easily as ordinary objects.
"The Exotic Land Development of Vegetable-Growing Skeletons"
In this way, no matter what he does in the box, it will not be noticed by the outside world.
Sit down and eat and drink when you need to.
Lu Zhong was not polite at all. After all, the things here were supposed to be wool from sheep. The item he bought from the auction house was enough for the auctioneer to arrange this kind of box a hundred and eighty times.
On the way, he suddenly remembered that he still had a pulse-protecting pill, so he called the maid and asked if he could participate in the auction. After all, it was worth more than ten thousand spiritual stones, so logically it was possible.
A confirmation reply was soon received, and the auction house was willing to add it to the auction items, but the order of appearance must be placed at the end.
Lu Zhong had no objection to this.
After chatting for a while and grooming Li Hejun, the auction started soon.
The host on stage this time was not the gorgeous female cultivator, but a fresh and refined Qionghua Sect disciple, which made Lu Zhong secretly wonder whether this girl was also a kind of commodity.
Various auction items appear in turn.
Among them, the Foundation Establishment Pill is naturally inevitable.
But now and then, Lu Zhong, who has now successfully established the foundation, has completely lost interest in it.
Out of boredom, a new auction item appeared on the stage.
"A piece of bamboo-patterned silver and iron ingot recently produced in the Linan Valley Mine can be forged into a spiritual weapon embryo by the hands of a famous master. It is definitely the best choice for cultivating one's own spiritual weapon..."
When Lu Zhong heard this, he immediately became interested.
But when he thought that he still had a spiritual ring that had not yet been transformed into a spiritual weapon, and that after a large number of essences had been poured out, there were still no signs of transformation, he immediately gave up the idea of participating in the bidding.
You can't bite off more than you can chew, so it's better to concentrate on yourself.
Furthermore, not all foundation-building practitioners can have spiritual weapons to protect themselves.
Due to the difficulty in cultivating spiritual weapons, their production has always been very rare, and it goes without saying that it is difficult to obtain. The way true cultivators usually obtain spiritual weapons is through sect or family inheritance.
Therefore, some spiritual weapons are also called "inherited spiritual weapons".
After all, spiritual weapons are different from magical weapons. Spiritual collaterals are cultivated inside. As long as they are not seriously damaged, they can still be restored through cultivation. Therefore, they are not purely consumables like magical weapons.
While thinking about it, the price of bamboo-patterned silver iron ingots reached a high of 30,000 spiritual stones.
"Fellow Taoist, I am the patriarch of Jingyang Binhe, can you give me some face?" A bidder reported his identity and was prepared to make a side kick to deter competitors.
Unexpectedly, he kicked the iron plate.
"It turns out it belongs to the Binhe Yuan family! Well, you Yuan family always complains about paying tribute every year. Now you actually have enough money to buy bamboo pattern silver and iron ingots. From next year, the amount of tribute the Yuan family will pay will be Paid!" A soft voice came from a box in the venue.
This conversation left many people in the room confused.
At this time, someone who was not afraid of the Yuan family's revenge revealed the identity of the person who spoke out later. She was Fairy Luohua who managed family affairs of Qionghua Sect, and everyone couldn't help laughing.
Lu Zhong in the box couldn't help but smile when he heard this.
"Is this like shooting yourself in the foot?"
The episode passed quickly, and the auction continued, but the usual side-stepping behavior was obviously much less than before. It was obviously because of the consideration of following in the footsteps of the Binhe Yuan family.
Just when Lu Zhong was looking sleepy, the desired bidding item finally appeared on the stage.
What he didn't expect was that this spiritual weapon actually had some connection with him.
"Qingyangjian, this spiritual weapon was originally owned by a small sect in the Lanyue area. The treasure was covered in dust for a long time, but it was finally found by someone who was destined to see it again."
When Lu Zhong heard this, he couldn't help curling his lips.
He said it so nicely, but didn't he actually dig the grave of the founder of Qingyang Sect?
He knew that this thing was originally owned by Patriarch Qingyang.
After all, when we were in Qingliu Ruins in the past, whenever the birthday of Patriarch Qingyang came, the Qingyang Gate would publicize the deeds of the Patriarch, and this Qingyang Mirror was mentioned in it.
Appraiser, bronze mirror.
Seeing this, Lu Zhong couldn't help but think to himself: "It seems that founding a sect is not always a good thing. If the disciples and disciples are unfilial and fail to run the sect, the bones of the ancestors that have been buried for hundreds of years will be dug up." The possibility of coming out and seeing the light of day again.”
"... After identification, the Qingyang Jian is a low-grade spiritual weapon with its own magical power of 'breaking the illusion'..."
As soon as the host said this, it immediately caused a sensation in the audience.
The magical power of destroying illusions can definitely be regarded as a powerful magical power. As the name suggests, it has the effect of destroying illusions. Although it is impossible to really detect everything, it is definitely useful for detecting hidden people or dealing with illusionary formations. A first-class treasure, you will definitely not lose money if you get it.
Lu Zhong was also excited when he heard it, and wished he could take a picture immediately.
He doesn't know the formations now, and what he fears most is that someone will use the formations to design him. If he accidentally falls into the illusion formation, he will really fall into a place of no return.
If you can have the Qingyang Mirror to protect you, the problem will naturally be solved.
After bragging about the advantages and disadvantages of Qingyangjian, the female cultivator Qingli changed the subject.
She sighed, which made many monks in the audience wish they could hold her in their arms and feel pity for her.
"...Unfortunately, due to being eroded by Yin Qi underground for many years, the power of the Qingyang Mirror is now at a loss. Therefore, it must be cultivated for a long time before it can regain its new look."
Haha, it was really just unearthed.
After Lu Zhong heard this, he cursed in his heart.
I don’t know how those Qingyang survivors felt when they saw their ancestor’s relics being auctioned.
Soon, Qingli, a female cultivator, said a number that made Lu Zhong feel toothache.
"The starting price of the Qingyang Jian is fifty thousand spiritual stones, and each increase in price must not be less than one thousand!"
Hearing this, Lu Zhong secretly sighed at his good luck.
"Tsk, tsk, no wonder that Kang Shaoqing wanted to forcefully buy my spiritual ring!"
Recalling the past events of Yanlingshanfang City in his mind, he couldn't help but think of Huang Shuyuan, whom he had known for a long time, and Bai Xiaohan, who had fallen in love with her one night.
The former should not be doing too badly at this time, after all, he is still a Talisman Maker. And the latter is probably hiding in some remote corner now, living her ideal stable life.
Seeing that the price of Qingyangjian had been pushed up to 75,000 spirit stones, Lu Zhong touched his storage bag and couldn't help but reveal a wry smile, secretly sighing that he really had a meager fortune.
However, he is not discouraged. The people currently bidding are all members of the sect family. It is basically impossible for the spirit stones used to be produced by themselves. Most of them have the idea of taking them back for information.
There seems to be no one with Lu Zhong's status as a casual cultivator.
When I think about it this way, I suddenly feel much more balanced.
He sipped the spiritual tea and rubbed the catkins.
Nine times out of ten, life will be unsatisfactory, just drink tea and watch.
Soon, the bidding results came out.
Contrary to everyone's expectations, the final winner was not the person in the box, but was bid away by a mysterious monk sitting in the hall below the venue.
"No, is it possible that things will turn out to be so bloody? Are they really taken away by the Qingyang survivors?" Lu Zhong almost spit out his tea. He has read three thousand volumes of storybooks since he was a child. It's not like he has never thought of this possibility. .
Now it seems that it is really possible.
"Logically speaking, what follows is a plot involving killing people and seizing treasures. Do you want to follow?"
Tapping his knuckles on the table, Lu Zhong thought for a while and gave up on this tempting idea.
Killing someone to seize the treasure was just a matter of desperate need for resources. Since he had been a guest for five years and could be taught how to make a flying talisman, there was no need to put himself in danger.
"Well, after three to five days, it would be okay to retrace the scene and follow the past to see what happened."
Lu Zhong was going to take this opportunity to test whether there were any new changes in the gray fog space after he broke through to the foundation building stage. If so, he must discover it in time to avoid repeating the scene in the Xiao Yuangu Mine.
