"Yipintang?"
Liu Yuan had indeed never heard of the best place for disciples with foreign surnames mentioned by Elder Ren.
"It's not surprising that you have never heard of Yipintang," Ren Youtang began to explain to him in detail.
In the main peak, talented disciples with foreign surnames will appear from time to time. However, after entering the foundation building stage and the golden elixir stage, the increasingly expensive cultivation resources have become a bottleneck. If you want to maintain the progress of cultivation, you often need the support of the forces behind it. Keep investing. This is not something that most disciples with foreign surnames can bear.
Therefore, the Ren family and the Mu family will always pay attention to those young disciples with foreign surnames who stand out from the crowd, and absorb them into an organization. This organization does not conflict with the main peaks, but is a loose, semi-public existence. This is the origin of Yipintang.
As long as he is recognized and absorbed into the First Grade Hall, he will naturally no longer have to worry about cultivation resources. Although it may not be as good as those core disciples of the Mu family and the Ren family, it is not much different.
Of course, these preferential treatment are not in vain, and the two major family forces have their own reasons for spending these extra resources. Disciples with foreign surnames are actually trained as "retainers" of the clan. If there is a need in the family, they must obey orders and cannot disobey orders.
Moreover, this subordinate relationship is higher than the obligations to the major peaks.
When Liu Yuan heard this, Zhenluo's heart gradually became cold. There really is no free lunch in the world.
Although for other disciples with foreign surnames, being a retainer of a wealthy family is a good destination, and what Ren Youtang said is true. But Liu Yuan doesn't like to be bound by this kind of master-servant relationship. What he wants is to practice freely, even if this road is much more bumpy.
So when Liu Yuan declined Yipintang's invitation, Ren Youtang thought he had heard wrongly. He was a little angry. He had good intentions to help, but he didn't expect that the other party wouldn't appreciate it.
"You should think about it when you go back. Young people should not act on impulse."
Ren Youtang still gave him a chance to regret.
"go back?"
Where to go back? Where is the secret place that was promised?
Liu Yuan thought to himself, if I don't agree with you, I won't be allowed to enter the secret realm? Is this the fair elder Tian Qing talks about?
"This... do you know that Tianqing's token belongs to the Ren family?"
Liu Yuan remembered that Tianqing's moving token did have a symbol with the word "Ren" on it.
"In principle, the tokens distributed by the family," Elder Ren emphasized the words, "can only be used by disciples in the clan. Unless a clear master-servant relationship is established, do you understand?"
Master-servant relationship?
Liu Yuan felt angry in his heart, so that was it.
He calmed down and said word by word in a stable tone, "There is no need to go back and think about it. You can be sure now that I refuse to join Yipintang."
…
The peaks of Lingtian are still towering into the clouds, and the wind is roaring in the sky. The Tianshu Peak behind Liu Yuan is getting further and further away, and his heart is getting colder and colder.
He doesn't complain about Tian Qing. Maybe she herself doesn't understand the many rules and restrictions in the family. He doesn't complain about any elder. They just act impartially.
So who should be blamed?
Just blame yourself for not being strong enough.
Liu Yuan secretly clenched his fists, inspired his spiritual power and began to speed up his dive.
…
Two days later, Liu Yanshi appeared in front of Liu Yuan's cave as usual.
"Have you ever heard of the Secret Realm Trial?" Liu Yuan inquired while giving him a "beauty treatment."
"I'd better let you know, it's pretty quick. But I sincerely advise you to forget it immediately," Liu Yanzhi said with an expression that he had known better. "The secret realm is played by the disciples of the aristocratic family. It can make us Those with foreign surnames who enter are all mortals in the small secret realm, and they have been plundered all over the years."
"Unless you become their watchdog, right?" Liu Yuan's dissatisfaction has not yet completely subsided.
"You are right to say that," Liu Yanshi smiled awkwardly, "Actually, to tell you the truth, our Liu family has always been a lineage of retainers of the Ren family."
"Then...don't you want to enter the First Grade Hall?"
"Do you even know about Yipintang?" Liu Yanshi jumped up in shock, even interrupting Liu Yuan's "beauty" Qi transfer.
His expression darkened again, and he said dejectedly, "To tell you the truth, the place our Liu family originally arranged for me to go was actually this First Grade Hall."
"Are you going then?"
"Of course I don't want to. If I go, I will be loyal to the Ren family for life." Liu Yanshi raised her head, her eyes sparkling again, "I just want to practice freely and pursue the beauty of the world. No matter where I go, I will always be there." No regrets.”
"right!"
Liu Yanshi's generous declaration also touched Liu Yuan's heart. They both felt like confidants, and couldn't help but clasp their hands and laugh. The laughter passed through the cave and resounded throughout the valley.
In the next few days, Liu Yan met him more frequently and completely trusted Liu Yuan. He even tried his cultivation on the Lingzhu in front of Liu Yuan.
It can be seen from the Jian Lingzhu that at this time Liu Yanshi's cultivation has broken through the first level of foundation building and reached the early stage of the second stage, which is much higher than Liu Yuan's initial stage of the first stage. Because he had already stayed in the Great Consummation Stage of the Qi Refining Stage for a long time before breaking through the Foundation Establishment, he was able to break through again in a short period of time.
And his spiritual root level is the upper level of the earth level, second only to the heaven level. It can be said that he is extremely talented. And it is not an ordinary five-element attribute. The color of its lines can be seen in the Spirit Appraisal Pearl, which is a coquettish pink, which is amazing.
"You have a supernatural spirit root, right? What is the attribute of pink?"
"I've been like this since I opened my spirit. Even the seniors in the clan can't say anything famous," Liu Yanshi said proudly, "So, the Liu family still values me very much. As long as my future cultivation progress can catch up with those disciples of the aristocratic family, , you will have the confidence to refuse the clan’s arrangements.”
A few days later, when he was tested again, Liu Yuan found that his cultivation speed was actually higher than Liu Yan's knowledge.
According to the level of Liu Yanshi's spiritual root, his spiritual energy absorption speed is about twice that of Liu Yuan's. However, although Liu Yuan's split body is not the same as the main body, it is 70% faster, which makes up for this gap a lot. Moreover, the newly cultivated natal soul ants are also absorbing the spiritual energy and feeding Liu Yuan back through the soul returning technique, which is faster than Liu Yanshi.
Since neither of them had any secrets to hide, Liu Yuan also told the whole story about his split cultivation, but he did not mention the enlightenment of the soul ants. This was beyond his knowledge, and even he himself was not sure yet.
"It is a great blessing for you to cultivate the clone so early, but you must be careful of the distraction," Liu Yanshi, who still has some knowledge after all, solemnly reminded.
Liu Yuan felt awe-struck. Ren Jingzong also mentioned this issue. It seemed that he should take it seriously.
After that, as usual, Liu Yuan helped Liu Yan to "beautify" the Qi crossing, and the latter took Liu Yuan to practice and compare, and both of them gained something.
Another month passed, and the Yin Marrow business operated in Baibao Pavilion received its first month's revenue. Since the price was slightly lower than the market price, and the quality was not bad at all, more than a hundred pieces of high-grade Yin Marrow were sold this month, and the business was booming. . According to the average price of five hundred yuan, the profit was more than fifty thousand spiritual stones.
The moment Liu Yanshi told Liu Yuan, he was really a little lost.
"I didn't expect that you actually hoarded hundreds of Yin Essences, and sold them for more than 50,000 yuan this month. After excluding the 40,000 yuan cost you purchased, and then deducting hundreds of spiritual stones for store rent and puppet shopkeeper fees," Liu Yan beamed with joy. He helped him calculate, "Then there will be a net profit of 10,000 spirit stones every month."
He never thought that Liu Yuan had dug all his vaginal marrow himself, and the cost was zero. This month he got 50,000 spirit stones all at once.
"It stands to reason that I should give you a share," Liu Yuan said, feeling a little regretful that he didn't tell him about the mineral vein. He divided out a large pile of spiritual stones.
"Please stop mentioning it." Liu Yanshi quickly waved her hand charmingly to refuse, and he touched his increasingly smooth face, "Having said that, I should owe you a huge favor."
He pushed away Liu Yuan's pile of spiritual stones and took out something from his arms.
"I have been planning this thing for more than a month, and I finally got it," Liu Yanshi looked at the bottle in his hand and sighed, "This bottle of calming pill can be considered as repaying half of your favor."
