Chapter 255 Take the blame again
In the northern part of Jing Kingdom, in a stone temple on a hidden peak in the Black Mist Mountains.
Pangbrowed, yellow-haired, gray-robed Elder Wang, sits cross-legged to recuperate his injuries.
"not good!"
His complexion changed suddenly, and he took out a colorful picture scroll of a purple-robed Taoist from the storage bag.
Chi~
The portrait of the Taoist on the scroll, purple flames flashed, green smoke rose, quickly dimmed, and turned into a dead gray.
It's like a birthday picture.
"How can this be?"
Elder Wang was stunned. After a brief shock, his emotion was not anger, but complete coldness.
Wordless panic and anxiety.
The escape speed of the Nascent Soul is several times that of the same level.
It is often necessary to be in the Nascent Soul stage, with higher cultivation or supernatural powers, in order to destroy them.
As for the Nascent Soul, it is difficult to keep the spirit body Nascent Soul, speed is not a level.
Unless the top Zhendan Daxiu teamed up to lay out an ambush, cooperate with the treasure of the soul, and Lihuo Shangren rashly fell into it.
The possibility of the latter is unlikely, it is difficult for the monks of Zhendan to ambush the Yuanying stage with keen senses.
In this case, it takes a lot of work, and the movement is definitely not small, and the news can be easily obtained afterwards.
Elder Wang actually knows that there is another possibility... that is the failure to seize the house!
Lihuo's Nascent Soul is weak, if he seizes the body and repairs it, such as attacking Elder Wang, it may fail.
But the Nascent Soul will not be destroyed, and it can still retreat.
Unless the robbed Dan Jie Daxiu has a powerful mind and soul, and his means are far above Elder Wang.
"Master's plan is to seize the early stage of the true alchemy at most, and will not overhaul the late stage of alchemy..."
Elder Wang looked gloomy and shook his head in denial.
No matter what the situation is, it is not something that the Lihuogong team, which is now defeated, can fight.
"Fenger!"
Elder Wang thought of something, and immediately took out a soul lamp from the storage bag.
The soul lamp, flickering flames steadily.
Hoo!
Elder Wang breathed a sigh of relief, the worst did not happen.
If the old and the young are all destroyed.
Lihuo Palace may really have no hope of rising again.
"I am the only one who knows about Master's death. This matter must be concealed as much as possible. How long can it be delayed..."
Elder Wang knew that if the monks in the Lihuo Palace team knew the truth, it would be a blow to morale and people would be easily scattered.
Fortunately.
Shangli Huo's plan to possess Wang Feng was only known to his grandparents.
Find the murderer?
Never act rashly!
At most, the investigation can only be done in a low-key manner, without publicity or seriousness.
Otherwise, you may dig your own pit and bury yourself.
"When a horse reaches a cliff, it must be reined in."
Elder Wang took a deep breath, suppressing the thought of going to the bottom and avenging the Supreme Elder.
For today's precarious Lihuo Palace, if you can't hold it back, you will surely perish.
To take revenge, I'm afraid I'll have to wait until the day Lihuo Palace is revived.
Actually, deep in Elder Wang's heart, there is a key object of suspicion.
That man's luck is astonishing, his fighting skills are terrific, and he hates Lihuo Palace extremely.
Its real fire and magic flame, the first among all countries, has the effect of restraining the spirit body Nascent Soul!
…
In the secret room of Autumn Wind Island.
One person and one mouse stared wide-eyed, looking at the storage ring that broke the restriction.
The space inside the storage ring is not much larger than ordinary storage bags.
After all, it is a space prop, which needs to be blended with rare space treasures to create it.
There were fewer items in the storage ring than expected, but the spiritual aura exuded from it and the sense of oppression made Lu Changan overjoyed.
"Thousand-year soul-cultivating wood!"
A piece of floating green spiritual wood immediately attracted Lu Changan's attention.
This is a legendary spirit wood, and it is a rare spirit wood of the soul path, which is even rarer than the spirit wood of the same level.
Lu Changan originally considered using the third-grade top-grade Tongling Bamboo as the embryo of the natal magic weapon in the future.
The soul-cultivating wood in front of me is as high as the fourth rank, which is a better choice.
Lu Changan took out the thousand-year-old soul-nourishing wood, and his soul was inexplicably comfortable, as if being flowed by a hot spring.
Even, even the possession of the second life and the loss of soul power have been reduced by a few points.
Just this wood alone made Lu Changan overjoyed, making this trip worthwhile.
"Two Nascent Soul level magic weapons!"
Lu Changan later discovered a magic weapon that emits powerful spiritual pressure.
The magic weapon is exclusive to monks above the alchemy stage.
Divided into low-grade, medium-grade, high-grade, and best-grade.
There is a huge gap between the magic weapons of each rank, the requirements for mana and spiritual consciousness.
Among them, the low-grade magic weapon is suitable for the initial use of fake pills and real pills.
The use of fake pills consumes a lot and is difficult to last.
Medium grade, suitable for the middle and late stages of Zhendan.
Top-grade and top-grade magic weapons are generally used in the junior and middle stages of Nascent Soul.
Unless the magic power is deep and the spiritual consciousness is strong, stronger magic weapons can be used across grades, and the consumption is quite large.
Above the magic weapon is the spiritual treasure.
Lingbao, corresponding to the level of Huashen and above, is basically extinct in the world of cultivating immortals.
Even if they appear occasionally, most of them are imitations, or broken spirit treasures or fragments of spirit treasures.
The two treasures in Li Huo's storage ring are a blue braided rope and a purple gourd.
The magic weapon of braiding rope is a high-grade magic weapon. It was used by Master Li Huo in the previous battle, and it turned into a nimble Thunder Snake Whip, which almost entangled Lu Changan.
Purple gourd is the ultimate magic weapon of the fire element, and it is very valuable for the initial stage of the Nascent Soul.
Master Lihuo did not use a stronger gourd magic weapon for two reasons:
First, his original goal was to capture Lu Changan alive and investigate the secrets.
Secondly, it is already very difficult for a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage to be able to control the braided rope of a top-grade magic weapon.
Although the spiritual consciousness is enough, the magic power is far short.
If it is not sacrificed and cultivated for many years, and there is residual mana from the original, it will be difficult to control it with other magic weapons.
"The main medicine of the knot pill, the Seven Star Swan Moon Grass!"
"Not bad, not bad! The ingredients for the Congealing Crystal Pill are all together..."
"Hey! Little diversion talisman!"
Among more than ten third-order talismans, Lu Changan found two special talismans.
Its material is not like ordinary talisman paper, it has a texture of jade, except for the complicated runes, there are traces of translucent silver streaks on the surface.
Speaking of little shifters.
Li Hai, Liang Shaotian's eldest disciple, escaped through this talisman when he was in front of the Qingming Secret Realm, and Mr. Wang was hunted down by the Demon Cult.
Small diversion symbols are generally third or fourth order.
For higher grades, the word "small" will be removed.
Right now, the two small diversion talismans have reached the third-rank top grade. In theory, they can escape from the hands of Daxiu in the late stage of alchemy.
However, the small diversion talisman also has certain shortcomings. It is suitable for running, but it is not suitable for chasing enemies.
Because it is a space-type talisman, it is unstable. It cannot control the distance by itself, and the accuracy of the direction is not enough.
For example, the enemy ran out five or six miles, and used the small diversion charm to escape dozens of miles in an instant.
Coupled with the inaccurate direction, it is chasing farther and farther.
"What a brilliant refining technique!"
Lu Changan observed these two small shifting symbols and sighed.
There are too many types of talismans, and every talisman teacher spends his entire life only proficient in some talismans.
The small moving talisman is a talisman that Lu Changan failed to conquer in his previous life, mainly due to the lack of opportunities to practice his mobile phone.
Talisman masters go up from the third rank, and the materials are too scarce, whether it is talisman embryos, talisman brushes, or spirit ink.
Small diversion symbols require space materials, which are several times more demanding.
In his previous life, Lu Changan managed to become a third-rank top-rank talisman master, and he was not outstanding among the same rank.
In this life, I have re-walked the way of talismans, cultivated and enlightened treasure talismans, and confirmed the two phases, so that I have more skills and experience.
"There are more than 20 bottles of elixirs of the third and fourth ranks, half of which are for healing and cultivation. It seems that they are preparations for seizing the house and rebuilding."
"Twenty or thirty samples of third- and fourth-tier medicinal herb spirits and ores."
"There are more than a dozen high-grade spirit stones, hundreds of middle-grade spirit stones...a total of more than 200,000 low-grade spirit stones."
Lu Changan guessed that this was not all of Lihuo Shangren's property.
If it were him, he would not put all his belongings on a foundation cultivator.
In case of encountering a strong enemy, the Nascent Soul can escape easily when it leaves the body, but the body in the foundation-building stage cannot escape.
Even so, this is Lu Changan's biggest gain in this life, and even in his third life.
Just a top-grade magic weapon is worth more than ordinary true alchemy monks.
It's a pity that even if Lu Changan, the ultimate magic weapon, is promoted to the real pill, he won't be able to control it in a short time.
Moreover, the purple gourd magic weapon should be one of the magic weapons of Lihuo Palace's Zhenzong clan, obviously stolen goods.
"Fourth-order soul-nourishing wood, small shifting talisman, seven-star Xuanyue grass, space storage ring... Enough is enough, and you can't be too greedy."
Lu Changan sorted out the loot, handed some suspicious items to the rock rat, and took them to a farther place for destruction.
The ground rock mouse was rewarded with dozens of middle-grade spirit stones and a third-level spirit fruit, and escaped happily.
…
In the secret room, Lu Changan pondered for a moment, and then entered the fourth Nine Seal Monument to check the huge memory fragments of Master Lihuo.
Half a month later, Lu Changan shook his head.
Those memory fragments are too fragmented, there is no classification association, and the useful memory is less than one ten thousandth.
This may be the reason why Jiuyinbei swallowed the Nascent Soul, smashed it into particles, and disrupted the reorganization.
However, Lu Changan still found clues from it.
In a certain memory fragment, at an unknown location, Master Lihuo closed an underground palace and killed a group of warriors.
The Lihuo Shangren at that time was not injured, and it should be the back road left many years ago.
In addition, from Wang Feng's superficial memory, it is known that Master Lihuo gave some important resources of inheritance to Elder Wang.
Elder Wang is the current manager of Lihuo Palace. If there is no commitment of strategic resources, how can he retain those monks who were injured and retreated.
Among them, "wealth" ranks first.
If you have enough "wealth", the latter three are not difficult.
This is also the reason why Lihuo Palace still has a chance to rise after losing the spiritual pulse dojo.
"That's all! If I can't do karma and transform Venerable Lihuo into the reincarnation of the previous life, I don't have the right to get involved in more. Otherwise, I will be too greedy and easily miss big things."
Lu Changan no longer insisted, and in the future, he will focus on cultivation and skills, and no longer spend a lot of time deliberately screening the huge and disorderly memory fragments.
…
Half a year has passed.
The shadow of the soul of the second life possessed by Lu Changan has dissipated.
In the Nine Seals Tablet, the white-bearded old man of the second generation engraved and painted it. Now it is dead silent, and under the nourishment of the soul, it begins to light up slowly again.
Lu Changan estimated that it would actually take less than ten years.
The ten-year light is on, that is the early stage of foundation establishment.
Now in the late stage of foundation establishment, the soul has grown a lot.
Looking at the current trend, at most four or five years, it will be able to light up again.
Before the possession of the second life disappeared, Lu Changan made talisman embryos from the top-grade third-grade ghost-tong bamboo, and drew eight third-grade treasure talismans.
The remaining half of Tongling Bamboo was obtained in Wang Feng's storage bag.
Because he got the fourth-order soul-cultivating wood, Lu Changan didn't have too many worries and didn't have to save.
Because the material is the third-grade top-grade spiritual bamboo, the eight treasure talismans refined this time performed exceptionally well, and two high-grade third-grade talismans were refined.
The remaining six cards all start from Tier 3 mid-tier, and are basically high-quality products.
An ordinary talisman is equivalent to a spell strike by a monk of the same level, but its power is not as powerful as a magic weapon controlled by a monk of the same level.
Therefore, the talisman is less dangerous to the same level; when encountering a powerful monk of the same level, it is even a little scraping.
Unless the quantity wins.
The high-quality talisman is different. It is equivalent to a full blown blow from a monk of the same level, and the threat is significantly increased.
"That day, the eight treasure talismans consumed in the fight against Lihuo Daoist just made up for the gap. And the quality has been improved to a higher level!"
In the secret room, Lu Changan has more than sixty treasure talismans at the same time.
The eight cards in the center are all made of third-order high-grade spiritual bamboos, with great potential!
According to previous experience, it is not a problem to develop all the accumulations into the third-level top-grade, or even the top-level.
Two of the talismans are themselves top-tier third-tier, and one day in the future, they may be expected to develop into fourth-tier!
"Based on my current cultivation base in the foundation-building period, I can hardly feel any progress in accumulating third-tier mid-to-high-grade treasure charms!"
Lu Changan reckoned that after the pill was formed, the third-level treasure talisman would be nourished by the evergreen mana, and the effect would be more obvious.
In addition, more than half of the treasure talismans were originally made from the second-level high-grade spiritual wood, and after being cultivated to the third-level low-grade, there is basically no progress.
After all, the grade of raw materials is holding back.
Unless one cultivates to a very high level, such as attaining Nascent Soul, Transforming God, at that time, accumulating low-grade treasure charms may have the effect of "turning petrification into gold".
…
Another two or three months passed.
Lu Changan will be one hundred and sixty years old.
At this moment, there is less than half a month left for Lu Changan and Wang Feng's last treatment agreement.
In the past half a year, Lu Changan paid attention to the intelligence of Lihuo Palace through the "Infernal Gate".
As a result, there was no news of Lihuo Zhenren's fall, and the outside world seemed to know nothing about it.
It is not difficult for Lu Changan to imagine: the current leader of Lihuo Palace suppressed this news to avoid disturbing the morale of the army.
Most of the monks on the bright side of Lihuo Palace were controlled by Wujianmen, and no one tracked down Wufu Chamber of Commerce or Qingshawan.
Lu Changan was not surprised by this.
If the only Nascent Soul True Monarch in his power falls in a strange way, how dare he seriously investigate and take revenge?
If you didn’t pack your bags and run away, it was a conscience discovery.
Even if Li Huo Gong has someone to suspect, Lu Chang'an will still rank low.
Li Huo Palace used to rule a country, and made many enemies.
Lu Changan has no enmity with Lihuo Palace, and even has a good relationship with the sect's disciples Song Wenshu and Wang Feng, at least on the surface.
Mr. Wang went out for half a year, collecting supplies, looking for the body, and contacted many monks.
Lu Changan has been meeting Mr. Wang for several years. If he had malicious intentions, he would have taken action on him long ago. Why wait until now?
As for seizing the house, there is even less motivation.
Shangren Lihuo is the root of the heavenly spirit, achieving the Nascent Soul.
How could he fall in love with Lu Changan, an old and mediocre wood spirit root?
Even if you don't care about qualifications and age, the attributes of spiritual roots are not suitable.
Therefore, unless Li Huo Gong has God's perspective, or Lu Changan has a halo of hatred, he will be listed as the most suspicious target.
"The attitude of Lihuo Palace depends on whether Wang Feng dares to come for the last treatment."
Lu Changan sat firmly on the Diaoyutai.
The little leader of Wujianmen, helping to collect information, can confirm whether Wang Feng went to Xiancheng alone.
He now has a lot of cards to save his life, and he has a small diversion talisman. The Zhendan Daxiu who is not afraid of getting hurt will come to his door.
Seeing, the agreed time is getting closer.
"Mr. Lu, there has been no sign of Wang Feng around Yunyan Fairy City recently."
On this day, Xing Peng emerged from the shadows in the house and reported recent information.
"It seems that Wang Feng may have some doubts, or out of caution, he dare not go out casually."
Since Wang Feng will not come to Xiancheng, Lu Changan naturally does not have to attend the appointment.
…
Two days later.
An unexpected guest came to Qiufeng Island to visit Lu Changan.
"Fellow Daoist Lu, this is something that Mr. Wang entrusted me to deliver."
Shen Bixin wore a woman's skirt and a green gauze in a bamboo hat, covering her aging face that had grown deeper with time.
Through the green gauze, Lu Changan faintly saw a pair of jet-black eyes and the outline of beautiful facial features.
"Oh? Fellow Daoist Shen has seen Mr. Wang?"
Lu Changan took over a sealed jade box.
Shen Bixin's arrival this time is actually within reason.
After Song Wenshu died in battle, Shen Bi cherished his flesh and blood in his heart and was regarded as the widow of Lihuo Palace.
Wang Feng initially sought medical treatment with Shen Bixin as the intermediary.
"I haven't seen it before." Shen Bixin said calmly, "That night, there were more of these things on my bed. There was also a note, Mr. Wang left a message, and I asked my wife to help pass it on."
"Thank you fellow Taoist Shen for a trip."
Lu Changan gave him a warm reception.
Although the two were old friends in the past, it is not easy for Lu Changan and the present widow to communicate in depth.
He kept his courtesy and sent Shen Bixin out of the mansion.
Backing back to the room, Lu Changan broke the jade box's restriction after investigating.
Inside the jade box, there is a middle-grade spirit wood of the third rank.
There is a letter pressed on the bottom.
"...Wang broke his promise and couldn't come to the Xunxianfu Inn for the appointment. I hope fellow Taoist Lu will forgive me. The other half of the Tongling Bamboo was accidentally lost by Wang, so he used this complete third-order spiritual wood as compensation. The favor owed back then is still there. efficient."
In the letter, Wang Feng expressed his apology and put an end to the transaction between the two.
The letter also mentioned: Wang Feng received the treasures of heaven, materials and earth given by his grandfather, even if he was not treated once, it would not affect its foundation.
Lu Changan pondered for a moment. Judging from the content of the letter, Wang Feng's reaction seemed normal.
Out of caution, he didn't dare to go out casually, so he asked someone to write a letter, telling Lu Changan that he couldn't come to the appointment.
If Wang Feng loses news of this, Lu Changan suspects that this person may be wary of him.
At the same time, this letter may not be without temptation.
After thinking about it, Lu Changan took out a pen and paper, and replied a letter.
"Thank you, Mr. Wang, for your reward, Lu deserves it..."
Very conventional greetings, expressing recognition and appreciation for Mr. Wang.
At the end of the letter, Lu Changan gave his sincere blessings;
"May Mr. Wang achieve the Immortal Golden Elixir as soon as possible, and revive the Lihuo Palace!"
The most important reason why Lu Changan didn't deal with Wang Feng that day was because of Master Li Huo's wish.
Revive the Palace of Lihuo, cultivate Golden Core monks, find a stable mountain gate spiritual vein, and see the hope of returning to the peak.
Secondly, Wang Feng and Lu Changan have no enmity.
Killing him will not bring any benefit, nor will it reduce the risk, and it will also affect Lu Changan's fulfillment of Master Lihuo's wish, to end the cause and effect, and to obtain the reincarnation past life.
After writing the letter, Lu Changan summoned the Rock Rat.
Shen Bixin was not flying fast, and the rock mouse took the letter over and asked him to help pass it to Mr. Wang.
Lu Changan believed that Shen Bixin, as the widow of Lihuo Palace, was stationed in Jing Kingdom first, and there must be a way to communicate with her husband's sect.
…
Two months later.
On the northern border of Jing State, in a large courtyard in Xiuxianfang City.
Wang Feng was slightly moved after reading the letter in his hand, especially the sincere blessing at the end.
"You Daoyou Lu has a noble character, he spared no expense of energy, and helped me repair the foundation of my hidden wounds. I...have a little doubt about him?"
Wang Feng felt guilty in his heart.
The Supreme Elder died in Lihuo Palace, only he and grandpa know about it.
Before, he didn't doubt what Lu Changan himself did.
It's just a guess: Is it possible that Lu Changan was bribed?
For example, providing intelligence information and cooperating with the behind-the-scenes setup to kill Lihuo Shangren's Nascent Soul.
In his mind, Lu Changan was at best an accomplice, so he became wary of him.
"Grandpa's analysis is correct, the biggest suspect is Liang Shaotian!"
Wang Feng's eyes flashed fiercely.
Afterwards, Lihuogong bought Liang Shaotian's whereabouts during that time through Tianzhi Building.
The answer is that Liang Shaotian is recuperating from his injuries.
Elder Wang believes that retreat is just a cover!
As long as Liang Shaotian didn't show up in public during that time, he couldn't be cleared of his suspicions.
One year before the man on the fire died.
Liang Shaotian led a team to attack the team in Lihuo Palace, causing casualties, and had a fight with Lihuo Master.
Shangli Lihuo's injuries were even worse, making things worse. How could Liang Shaotian let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?
"Liang Shaotian!"
Wang Feng secretly made up his mind that when he achieves the Immortal Golden Elixir and is promoted to Nascent Soul in the future, he will avenge his master and eradicate the Demon Cult.
He is an earth spirit root, with better aptitude than Liang Shaotian's high-grade spirit root.
Liang Shaotian's conditions for forming alchemy were not ideal, so he only formed the upper reaches of true alchemy.
Compared to him now, he has become the only golden elixir seed in the sect, the Nascent Soul seed, cultivated with the maximum resources.
With the full support of his grandfather, as long as he achieves the Immortal Golden Elixir, he will be able to catch up with Liang Shaotian in the future!
(end of this chapter)