In the courtyard, Li Hejun was lying on the imperial chair, listening to the maid report the accounts.
Lintao Pavilion's business has been booming recently. If we just look at the store's spiritual stone flow, it can even be compared with several old stores in the port area.
But she also knew that everything was just a mirror.
If the Chengde Chamber of Commerce really stops supplying goods, Lintao Pavilion will immediately be knocked back to its original shape. This is the result of having no foundation. Even if we find other suppliers later, our business will inevitably be greatly affected.
But so what?
As long as my master likes it, that's fine.
Thinking of this, Li Hejun sighed inadvertently, took out a withered bronze mirror, looked at the beautiful face with youthful beauty in the mirror, and paused while taking the beauty pill.
The expression is a little melancholy and a little sad.
"Sir, I am already forty-one years old. It has been half a century since we first met. People say seventy years are rare in life. I really don't know how long I can stay with you."
At this time, there were footsteps in the direction of the front door, and the maid came to tell the master that he had brought back a woman.
"Bringing a woman with you again?" Li Hejun was not surprised. After all, she knew her master's temperament very well. Rather than saying he was a pervert, it would be better to say that he was completely yellow.
He ordered the maid to call out the two concubines who were meditating in the room. Li Hejun also stood up from the Taishi chair and called another maid to brew a pot of spiritual tea in advance. Apart from lust, his only hobby was Just drinking tea, just buying spiritual tea leaves will cost at least a hundred spiritual stones every month.
After a while, two figures appeared.
Lu Zhong led Yu Feng'er into the courtyard.
Looking at the disgraced Yu Feng'er, Li Hejun almost couldn't help laughing. If it weren't for the fact that this person had a stunning appearance and a figure that no ordinary person could cultivate, and was wearing a robe that shone with light, she would really have wanted to. I thought my master was having a lot of fun and picked up a maid from nowhere.
"Xia He, Qiuxiang, you two help her freshen up." Lu Zhong ordered.
This woman is worthy of being the head of the Yu family. She really doesn't have a finger in the spring water. She doesn't even know how to tidy up her appearance. If he hadn't given her a few cleansing charms on the way, she might have looked even more embarrassed.
"Master, let me do it." Li Hejun covered his mouth and said.
With that said, he took Yu Feng'er's hand and pulled him towards the side room.
Yu Feng'er was a little at a loss. The majesty of the family head that she had pretended to be before was nowhere to be found. Her mind was blank at the moment, and she was taken to the side room without any resistance.
The private room is not big and smells of rouge and gouache.
This is the place where Li Hejun lives daily. On the dressing table are Yunxia gouache that has just been transported from China, and ice and snow hibiscus paste from northern Xinjiang. There are several sets of brand-new dresses hanging on the hangers next to them, all of which are carefully sewn by famous tailors. It is made with magic circles such as "avoiding dust" and "avoiding summer heat".
There were so many luxurious things in the small wing, which made Yu Feng'er stunned.
You know, due to the decline of the Yu family over the years, the finances are already extremely tight and distressed. She wants to take the lead in setting an example for the family, so except for this fancy dress that decorates the facade, she can only wear ordinary clothes when going out on weekdays. For those gouache rouges that are said to be extremely effective, you can only use ordinary cosmetics.
Noticing her gaze, Li Hejun secretly felt strange.
The person in front of me looked like he was from a high family, so how could he show such an expression?
"Sister, come here, let me change your clothes."
Seeing that she didn't speak, he started to take action.
Yu Feng'er was startled, and then she realized what she was doing. She screamed and backed away:
"Ah, no!"
Seeing that Li Hejun's expression was wrong, she quickly explained: "Don't get me wrong, I don't mean anything else. It's just that this robe is a little special. I want to use it to cover the breath of the ice spirit body. If you don't have any cultivation, if you come into contact with those breaths, Even the soul will be frostbitten."
As he spoke, he opened his clothes slightly.
The next moment, an astonishing chill swept through the room.
Li Hejun felt as if he was in a cave of ice, and his whole body seemed to be frozen.
Fortunately, Yu Feng'er knew the truth and quickly covered up the robes, so that the three people in the room were not hurt. Then, as if remembering some bad memories, she said with a somewhat dark expression: "You saw it too, right? Bingso Spirit Body That’s it, the ice spirit energy is exuding all the time, and it must be banned, so you really can’t change your clothes.”
"It's really hard, sister..." Li Hejun held her hand, expressing his understanding, and smiled, "In this case, I can only dress up again."
"Yes." Yu Feng'er nodded without expressing any objection.
In the courtyard, Lu Zhong put down a storage bag.
It came from that demon cultivator, and it contained a lot of things, most of which were needed by the demon cultivator. In addition, there were some elixirs and mines of unknown origin, as well as boxes of sealed goods. It was also stained with blood, plus more than 10,000 spiritual stones.
"The harvest is pretty good, at least higher than the three Taoist priests from Huayiguan."
When he thought of the storage bags of the three people, Lu Zhong felt a little angry. He took a look at the foundation-building cultivators. Apart from the spiritual objects produced in the Longtooth Crypt, there were only some elixirs and talismans. The expected skills There is no secret technique, and the total of everything is not enough for even a thousand spiritual stones. If it were not for three drops of profound spiritual milk, then he would even lose his pants after a battle.
Take a sip to calm down a little.
Lu Zhong was thinking about his future plans.
On the way, he had reached an agreement with Yu Feng'er, and the terms were mutually beneficial.
The Chengde Chamber of Commerce invited Lu Zhong to become a guest minister of the Chamber of Commerce in exchange for 20% of the net profit. He was mainly responsible for resolving some fierce conflicts, such as trade disputes, and also came forward to speak out.
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Generally speaking, Lu Zhong definitely did not suffer a loss, but rather took advantage of him.
After all, ordinary guest ministers can only receive a fixed monthly salary every year, and at most they can receive multiple dividends. There is no one like him who can directly distribute net profits.
"When the business of the Chengde Chamber of Commerce gets back on track, I won't have to worry about my cultivation resources anymore, and I can temporarily stop making talisman formations. I just need to practice from time to time to make sure I'm not sloppy, and then I can focus my energy on it. All focus on refining elixirs and improving one’s own strength.”
Lu Zhong has already thought about it. When he has the ability to refine the spirit liquid of creation, he will spend a lot of money to buy a spiritual vein, or directly borrow the spiritual vein from his family to solve the problem of his inability to improve quickly and the Jade Vein Skill. On the second floor, it is difficult to collect elixirs for cultivation.
While I was thinking, a gust of fragrant wind came over me.
Li Hejun came back with Yu Feng'er who was dressed and dressed. Although the appearance of the two of them was far beyond ordinary people, after all, Yu Feng'er, who had been nourished by immortal spiritual energy for many years and had a lot of cultivation, was slightly better.
Seeing that there were tears in the corners of Yu Feng'er's eyes, and her expression seemed a little wrong, as if she was avoiding her gaze, Lu Zhong couldn't help but turned to Li Hejun and said, "What did you do to her?"
"Fellow Daoist Lu, I have nothing to do. I just asked my sister to relieve me and relieve a lot of depression in my heart." Yu Feng'er explained first.
"Oh, that's good."
Seeing this, Lu Zhong said no more.
It's just that the relationship between the two of them was good enough to be that of sisters.
That's all, it's useless to think too much.
Then he added: "What do you think about it? This person in my family is a business wizard. If she is the big manager, it will be easy to run the Chengde Chamber of Commerce to its former state."
As soon as these words came out, the two women blushed at the same time.
When Li Hejun heard the words "this is my family", he couldn't help but wonder what Lu Zhong meant by this, whether he meant it like a mortal couple, or it was just a slip of the tongue.
On the other side, Yu Feng'er hesitated for a long time, then timidly responded: "No problem."
What's going on?
Lu Zhong thought to himself that women really had deep minds. He probably had to use that mind-reading skill to know what was going on in their heads.
"Then it's decided. I still have things to do, so you two can talk first."
"Yes, sir!" Li Hejun bowed and saluted.
When Lu Zhong disappeared in the backyard, he covered his mouth with a smile on his face, clapped his hands together, and then gave Yu Feng'er a teasing look.
The latter blushed to the root of his neck and lowered his head shyly.
…
Half a month later, a pair of pulse quenching materials from the Great Zhou Tian Pian was delivered.
This was the reward agreed between Lu Zhong and Yu Feng'er. It was different to have a chamber of commerce that was responsible for collecting resources. It would be much easier for ordinary people to collect resources that were difficult for ordinary people to buy even if they had spiritual stones.
On the same day, Lu Zhong asked Xia He to prepare the medicinal soup and prepare to start practicing the second level of Jade Vein Gong.
The pulse quenching prescription in the Great Zhoutian chapter is indeed made up of the addition of seven elixirs that are three hundred years old or above. The spiritual energy emitted is like a surge. When you soak it in, you will feel the power of the medicine coming like a torrent.
"Hiss, the power of this medicine is really outrageous!"
Lu Zhong did not dare to delay and hurriedly started the Jade Vein Kung Fu method.
For fear of wasting even the slightest bit of medicinal power.
The whole person turned red again, even faintly glowing red, and the hot medicinal power poured in one after another, and began to temper the Great Zhoutian Meridian over and over again, making it tougher and denser, able to withstand the true energy load. Higher and higher.
Just like the Xiao Zhou Tian Pulse Quenching Prescription, the Da Zhou Tian Pian Pulse Quenching Prescription also has side effects.
Not only does it exist, it is even more intense.
At this moment, the Yang Qi was rising, and an indescribable feeling of heat came over me.
Lu Zhong originally wanted to call his concubines to help solve the problem, but seeing how intense the feeling was, he decided to endure it. Otherwise, if he really called his concubines in, they would not know whether they would escape alive.
Taking human lives to practice martial arts clearly exceeded his bottom line.
And Lu Zhong's bottom line has never been as flexible as the devil.
He continued to practice until the first time he added water, and he could clearly feel that the strength of his meridians had increased significantly.
To illustrate with Chi Yang's swordsmanship, the number of cuts increased once again.
This is a good thing.
Because the increase in the strength of the meridians also means an increase in the speed of cultivation.
"Why are you still standing? After adding water, hurry out and don't stay here!" Seeing that the maid still didn't go out after adding water, Lu Zhong couldn't help but scolded her.
At this time, I felt a chill coming over me.
Suddenly he regained his consciousness and realized that the maid standing outside was clearly Yu Feng'er.
"Fellow Daoist Yu, what are you doing?"
"I'm not a good wife, you'd better get out."
Yu Feng'er didn't expect that Lu Zhong actually had such a principle. His cheeks turned red with embarrassment and he whispered a secret, "I... I am still a virgin."
Are you kidding me?
Unless Zhang Hai was a eunuch, how could she still be a virgin after thirty years of marriage?
Lu Zhong looked unbelieving.
Seeing that she didn't believe it, Yu Feng'er blushed so much that she bled, and tried her best to explain: "My body is an ice soul spirit body. Fellow Taoist Lu also knows that. If there is no pulse-quenching prescription to support me at this time, I am afraid that fellow Taoist will definitely not be able to bear it in his heart." With a charming meaning, the one before...Zhang Hai, not to mention with my concubine, even if he touches his skin, he will be stimulated by the ice spirit, and his heart will suddenly become like a sage. Where, where can anyone do that? idea?"
"What you said seems to make sense!" Lu Zhong couldn't refute.
He now fully understands the power of Bingpo's spiritual energy.
Without the help of the pulse-quenching prescription, my heart would really be as flat as a mirror at this moment.
The medicine was unbearable, so Lu Zhong no longer refused.
…
At dawn, Lu Zhong came out of the medicinal bath room.
With the help of Yu Feng'er, he absorbed not a single bit of the medicinal power of the pulse-quenching prescription in the Great Zhou Tianpian, and gained great benefits from this. His cultivation speed increased by one thousandth compared to before taking the medicinal bath. It was something he didn't expect at all.
Don't underestimate this improvement.
If Lu Zhong tempers the medicinal bath a hundred times, the effect will be reflected in the improvement of the cultivation speed, which is a full 10%. Coupled with his previous improvement, then the cultivation speed alone will be as good as the three spiritual root qualifications. Monk.
"Perhaps the ice soul aura plays a big role!"
Lu Zhong thought silently, and then walked towards the door.
Today is the day when Master Dongbu starts his classes. Learning alchemy is a major event on the road, so he cannot miss it.
When the footsteps faded away, Yu Feng'er poked her head out.
Thinking back to last night, she couldn't help but feel weak. In order to save face at dawn, she forced herself to go out. At this moment, she couldn't help feeling regretful, but now she had to hold on to the wall and walk out to save face.
While walking, feel your own cultivation.
"I never imagined that medicinal baths would be so beneficial to me!"
Yu Feng'er was secretly shocked.
She became an ice soul spirit body, which allowed her to practice to the perfection of the Qi refining stage before she was thirty years old. She was also a famous genius at that time, but the bad thing was also the ice soul spirit body, which caused her to delay Unable to build the foundation, several passes ended in failure. If it were not for the protection of the Foundation Establishment Pill every time, plus a large amount of rare elixirs to recuperate the body, I am afraid that I would have died in the pass.
But now, there is a strong urge to build a foundation in my heart.
Yu Feng'er understood that this was the opportunity she had longed for!
…
Dongbulu.
As soon as Lu Zhong got out of the car, someone greeted him.
"Brother Lu, long time no see!" A middle-aged man in colorful clothes walked over with two servants.
The middle-aged man's name is Lu Zhongzheng, the second son of a branch of the Jindan family. In order to be able to support himself in the future, he studied alchemy under his tutelage and became acquainted with Lu Zhong.
"I've met fellow Taoist Lu, shall we go in together?" Lu Zhong smiled and cupped his hands, extending his hand to indicate.
"Let's go together."
On the way, Lu Zhongzheng asked for advice: "Brother Lu, I wonder what your understanding is about the 'structure and effect of medicinal spiritual energy' that the teacher talked about in the last class?"
If you want to go far in the path of alchemy, you can't just concentrate on refining alchemy.
The alchemists outside are basically "Yeluzi" alchemists. They have mastered the refining of one or two types of elixirs either by relying on the unexpected alchemy inheritance or by relying on the crude alchemy skills passed down by their family sects. Methods and imperfect partial alchemy theories allow them to get involved in alchemy. However, if they are asked to refine new elixirs, they usually have to pay a lot of money to learn them.
But serious alchemy masters like Dongbulu were different.
If you have the way, you know what it is, and you also know why it is so.
A serious alchemist, after a series of studies, as long as he has the correct elixir recipe, can use his own knowledge to figure out the elixir refining method step by step. After several low-cost trials and errors, he can usually succeed. New elixirs can be refined smoothly.
Moreover, only this kind of alchemist can do the innovation of elixir prescriptions.
"The structure and effect of medicinal spiritual energy. I only have a rough understanding of this. This is how I understand it. In a series of medicinal spiritual energy of the same basic nature, the law that causes the properties of medicinal spiritual energy to change is called..." Lu Zhong said his Understand and speak without reservation.
The relationship between the two can be described as mutually beneficial.
In terms of theoretical understanding, Lu Zhong is slightly better thanks to his past life memory, while Lu Zhongzheng is better at blending and transforming medicinal spiritual energy. His ideas are often surprising, and he often achieves the goal of medicinal spiritual energy with extremely high transformation and generation efficiency. output.
A person like this is enough to be called an alchemy genius.
After exchanging experiences with him, Lu Zhong would obviously gain more.
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There is another chapter in the evening, roughly before midnight
