Chapter 319 The First Monk
After a moment, Li Congren withdrew his respectful etiquette. The action just now seemed to be a tribute to the passing ancestor of the Mu family.
Mu Changxiu was frightened, and turned around to take a look: Mu Bingyun had indeed expired, and passed away with a peaceful expression.
After the grief, Mu Changxiu sent a message to tell him that preparations for the funeral had been made in advance.
“Master Li, did Grandpa Lu come here just now?”
Mu Changxiu asked in a tight tone.
It is absolutely unusual for Li Congren, a fake Dan, to be treated with such respect.
Although Mu Bingyun is considered half an elder, she is not enough to make Li Congren lower his attitude so low.
The two young men from the Li family in Xuemei Mountain also looked at their grandfather curiously.
“Perhaps, only Aunt Bing knows.”
Li Congren shook his head and looked directly at Mu Changxiu indifferently, making the latter feel embarrassed that his thoughts had been read.
In the Feiyue Lake Mu family, Mu Bingyun is the last monk who has a deep connection with Changqing Zhenren.
When Mu Changxiu was a teenager, he was led by his mother to meet Chang Qing, and he even received a meeting gift from him.
Following on, there is no communication.
Nowadays, the Mu family is declining day by day, and crises are looming.
Mu Changxiu was eager to see the real cultivator who left legendary stories in the world of Liang Guo’s immortal cultivators.
Li Congren has a middle-grade spiritual root and has similar qualifications to him, so why can he form a fake elixir?
This is not only due to financial resources, but also the opportunity help brought by Treasure Hunter in the early stage.
More than a hundred years ago, Lu Changan, who was in the foundation-building period, went to Jing State to take refuge, and he owed Li Congren a favor.
Many years later, Changqing Zhenren, who returned to the Liang Kingdom, deliberately stayed one night in Xuemei Mountain, which frightened the hostile "Dongmen Family" and came to apologize and turn enemies into friends.
That night, in addition to Lu Changan, those who stayed overnight at Xuemei Mountain were also Zhang Tianfeng, the current helmsman of Jinyun Valley!
Since then, the Li family of Xuemeishan has not only resolved the troubles, but also gained a great reputation in the surrounding areas. The development of its chambers of commerce and industries has become increasingly smooth.
Before Li Congren was promoted to False Alchemy, there were as many as ten foundation-building monks from the Xuemei Mountain Chamber of Commerce, including several worshippers.
Due to this layer of protection and the alliance with the Beast Control Zhou family, Xuemei Mountain itself has a good foundation, which allowed Li Congren to obtain crystal condensation pills and pill-forming spiritual objects.
This is not Mu Changxiu's speculation. The context of relevant deeds has been stated in biographies such as "Evergreen Legend" and "Xuangui Travels".
Especially "Evergreen Legend" is highly praised: the biography believes that Lu Changan is expected to become the "No. 1 Loose Cultivator in the Liang Kingdom". Later, he fled to the Feng Yuan Kingdom, either to keep a low profile or to avoid powerful enemies, and voluntarily gave up such false reputations. .
…
In the cave, Mu Changxiu asked again and again, suspecting that Li Congren was hiding something.
“Little brother Changxiu, please don’t force this matter.”
Li Congren frowned slightly and his tone became more serious, which frightened the latter and made him bow repeatedly.
Mu Changxiu sighed bitterly, knowing that he couldn't force it, and he was just taking a chance.
He was unwilling to give in: the friendship between Changqing Zhenren and Feiyue Lake was severed from his own generation.
That day, Li Congren and his two young descendants were guests at the single-family guest house on Yuexin Island.
“Grandpa, you asked someone to compile a biography of Chang Qing without his permission. Would he be unhappy if he knew about it?”
One of the girls in the purple skirt is Li Congren's favorite granddaughter. Her sparkling black eyes reveal her curiosity about the legendary figure.
It turns out that the mainstream versions of "Evergreen Legend" and "Xuangui Travels" in the world of immortality were compiled by Li Congren.
“Ahem! Some of the biographies circulating on the market at that time smeared Chang Qing. Grandpa, I was protecting his image as an old man. I believe Grandpa Lu will not blame him.”
Li Congren coughed lightly and explained.
He didn't lie. A few unpopular men of letters actually smeared Grandpa Lu for being as cowardly as a tortoise and running around.
Or perhaps depict Grandpa Lu as an infatuated person and write an unpopular harem romance novel.
The biographies compiled by him correct the historical truth!
Describes Lu Changan as an extraordinary man who is indifferent to fame and fortune, has high integrity and is not harmed by beauty.
The so-called running away is to assess the situation in a low-key manner, look far-sighted, and finally have the last laugh.
Even if there are occasional romances, it is because all the fairies are conquered by the charm of Changqing Zhenren and are willing to become passers-by in his legendary life of cultivating immortals.
“More than fifty years…”
In the guest room, Li Congren looked up at the moon, feeling sad. Thinking back to the last time I met Grandpa Lu, it was a decade ago.
In the eyes of the world, Master Changqing has disappeared from the world of immortal cultivation in Liang for more than fifty years.
There are only some inaccurate rumors. Some say that he was buried in the vast sea of sand, while others say that he took refuge in Feng Yuan Kingdom and will come back when the war is over.
Now, ten or twenty years after the Demonic War ended, Master Changqing still has not returned.
Phew!
The lights in the house suddenly went out, and a cool breeze blew out of thin air.
Li Congren felt a chill in his heart and his body became cold.
After the strange wind passed, there was a transmission note in his hand.
After listening to the content of the transmission notes, Li Congren looked overjoyed.
Stay until late at night.
He flew away from Yuexin Island alone and sneaked into the Jade Villa by the lake.
Jade Villa is the place where the lower-class members of the Mu family practice.
When Lu Changan and Li Erqing were young, they hibernated here for many years.
Especially the ancestor Erqing, who married here and gave birth to many descendants.
In the small courtyard by the lake, there is a Changqing Zhenren that belongs to his youth and is still well preserved.
Li Congren took a deep breath and sneaked into the former residence of Changqing Zhenren.
…
From the outside, Changqing’s former residence is dark and silent.
Stepping into the small courtyard, Li Congren found that the house was lit with lights.
Zhiah!
The door of the study room opened automatically, and sitting in front of the desk was a man in white who was as quiet as jade and as handsome as a scholar.
It is the familiar figure whose appearance remains unchanged in Li Congren's memory.
“Unfilial junior Li Congren, please pay your respects to Grandpa Lu.”
Li Congren floated into the study and bowed.
At this time, he noticed that on the back of Grandpa Lu, there was a female cultivator in a green skirt wearing a veil, bringing the brewed tea.
The female cultivator in green clothes has an ordinary appearance, elegant manners, and a profound aura of magical power, which Li Congren cannot tell clearly. She is probably a true alchemy female cultivator.
Lu Changan raised his hand, motioning for Li Congnen to take a seat, and looked at him with a smile:
“Yes, with your qualifications, you can cultivate fake elixirs, and you are worthy of being Er Qing’s most valued grandson.”
In fact, Lu Changan plotted against the Peacock Saint fifteen or sixteen years ago. When he came to Liang Kingdom, he discovered that Li Congren had formed a fake elixir.
Looking at the huge number of monks in the world of immortality, it is not common for middle-grade spiritual roots to form fake elixirs, but it is not an exaggeration.
In the eyes of the Great Master of Danjie and Yuanying Zhenjun, it is even less worth mentioning.
Unless he has low-grade spiritual roots and forms a Nascent Soul, he can be considered a child of luck.
“He is smart and stupid, and has not been able to form a true elixir. I am ashamed of myself for Grandpa Lu’s guidance and care.”
Li Congren spoke sincerely, with a somewhat regretful tone.
At that time, I saw the majesty of the real elixir monks in Xuemei Mountain, and realized the huge gap in the strength and status between the fake elixirs and the real elixirs.
At that time, he made a wish. If he had hope of forming an elixir in the future, he would definitely try to form a true elixir.
It’s a pity that I didn’t take the last half step after all.
“Haha, Congren’s achievement is that he is the first descendant of Li Erqing. You are good at running a family. If there is no true elixir in this generation, there may not be one in the future.”
Lu Changan had previously calculated that the Li family’s luck in Xuemei Mountain was much better than that in Feiyue Lake.
Even though Li Congren succeeded in making false elixirs and his family became so prosperous, the Xuemei Mountain lineage was still on the rise.
Of course, for this type of immortal cultivating family, the birth of true alchemy monks is basically the ceiling, and it is difficult to break through.
After chatting for a while, Lu Changan asked Li Congren about the situation in Liang Guo’s immortal world.
Meanwhile, the woman in the green skirt also asked questions, and Li Congren answered them in detail without asking about the former's identity.
Lu Changan didn’t want Fairy Niyue to know about Xing Peng’s relationship.
Li Congren runs the Chamber of Commerce, including some cross-immortal business, and is better informed than ordinary monks.
Through Li Congnen, Fairy Niyue learned about the situation of the Xuanyin Pavilion Mountain Gate in the past.
The former mountain gate was occupied by the Jiedan Sect that moved from the original Feng Kingdom and belonged to the Jinyang Sect camp.
This sect is powerful and even more powerful than Jinyun Valley.
It is almost impossible to get back the old mountain gate in Niyue Fairy's lifetime.
Lu Changan asked about the current situation of the Peacock Saint.
Li Congren muttered: "The peacock demon girl is still being detained in Jinyang Sect. The Valley of the Beast King is not threatened, and she is not willing to use sincerity as a bargaining chip. And killing this woman will not do any good to Jinyang Sect..."
Hearing this, Lu Changan smiled knowingly.
The current situation of the Peacock Saint is very embarrassing.
You can’t go back and you can’t die.
With his magic power banned, he is unable to practice, and his cultivation will even slowly decline.
"However, the 'True Monarch of Wanhe' in the Beast King Valley sent someone to intercede privately, and perhaps gave the Jinyang Sect a promise of benefits, so that the peacock demon girl can operate in a small area at the Jinyang Sect's mountain gate, become a maid, and do something like a servant. A living. Life is a little easier than before..."
“Become a maid?”
Lu Changan was initially worried that the Peacock Saint would have some freedom and might escape.
Later on, I learned that not only was the Peacock Saint’s magic power imprisoned, but her feet were also hinged and locked, which was refined by the Nascent Soul Master himself.
Once you try to leave Jinyang Sect, the restriction will occur, and life will be worse than death.
Many guests from the Jinyang Sect would even go to the outer mountains to admire the grace of the Peacock Saint who had been reduced to a maidservant.
The Peacock Saint endured the humiliation silently and remained silent.
If Lu Changan goes to Jinyang Sect to visit, he can see the Peacock Saint, but he is not allowed to come in contact with her.
Lu Changan speculated that the Jinyang Sect was worried that the Beast King Valley would really unify the surrounding countries in the future, and would not dare to really harm the Peacock Saint.
In this way, we leave room for maneuver in the future and avoid targeted liquidation and retaliation.
The same sect is defeated and relocated, but if it is targeted by the high-level officials of Beast King Valley, the difficulty will be completely different.
…
Half an hour later, Li Congren bowed to leave with a rosy complexion.
Before departure.
Li Congren bought relatively affordable third-level talismans and third-level low-grade puppets from Lu Changan.
Lu Changan asked him two things.
First, Li Congren had better take care of the Mu family to the best of his ability.
The friendship between Lu Changan and the Mu family gradually ceased.
However, Li Erqing's lineage is closely related to the Feiyue Lake Mu family.
Without Feiyue Lake, there would be no Xuemei Mountain today.
Lu Changan had previously calculated that after Mu Bingyun's death, the Mu family's future fortune would be very poor, and there was even the possibility of annihilation.
Secondly, during the funeral, Li Congren was asked to do it for him and give an orb as a meeting gift to Qifeng’s descendants.
Lu Changan was happy that his adoptive father's descendants had bumped into each other and established a family in the world of immortality.
And that Qi Feng has been taking care of Xiaogui Peak, including Guan Qiaozhi's mausoleum. Lu Changan appreciated this character and perseverance and decided to reward him.
The orb given by Lu Changan can slightly speed up the practice before forming the elixir. At the same time, it has a slow warming effect on the root bones and reduces the probability of damaging the foundation.
“Lu Lang, tonight...are we spending the night in your former residence when you were young?”
The Niyue Fairy curled up and approached from behind. Her fragrance was elegant and her voice was gentle, like the sound of a clear spring.
Many years ago, Fairy Niyue was shocked when she learned the identity of "Lu Wugui".
From now on, when she saw Lu Changan's true face, she accepted it happily, and their friendship became deeper.
“Tonight, I will play music at Benzhen’s former residence in memory of him.”
Lu Changan laughed.
Hearing this, the woman in the green skirt in front of her transformed into a colorful feathered dress. Her veil faded away, revealing her peerless appearance. Her beautiful fairy figure was dancing in the moonlight in the courtyard.
Immediately afterwards, a guqin floated in the air, emitting faint fairy sounds as deep as the valley.
Lu Changan was in a trance as he listened to the music and enjoyed the dance, as if he had returned to the Qi Refining Period more than two hundred years ago, where he relied on others and was cautious.
At that time, he never thought that one day in the future, he would revisit his old residence and let the first fairy of Liang Kingdom sing, dance, and play the harp and flute for him.
Early the next morning, the former residence in the small courtyard by the lake was silent without a trace.
Except for Li Congren, no one in the entire Feiyue Lake clan knew that Master Changqing had visited his former residence last night.
…
In the next two days, Lu Changan did not attend Mu Bingyun's funeral.
He did not want the outside world to know the exact news of his return.
A few days later.
The two of them took the magic weapon chariot and arrived at Wuye Town, a gathering place for casual cultivators on the southeastern border of Liang Kingdom.
Wuye Town is a newly built large-scale city. It is located at the rear of the Demonic Battlefield and on the border of Liang State. It is relatively convenient to go to Feng State and Wangyue Fairy City.
To the east is a dangerous and unpredictable poisonous gas swamp, with poisonous and strange beasts emerging in an endless stream. It is ten times more dangerous than the flying sand chasm in Feng Yuan Kingdom, and it is very dangerous for Zhendan monks to cross it.
On the other side of the endless swamp is the boundary between the two religions, which is far away.
In recent years, with the Liang Kingdom's number one casual cultivator "Zhenren Wuye" sitting in town, and escaping from the demonic war, Wuye Town has expanded rapidly, absorbing a large number of casual cultivators, and its scale is no less than that of some fairy cities.
It's just that the scale of the spiritual veins is inferior and cannot accommodate too many real people.
Wuye Town is built around the mountains. On the top of the central peak, there are several caves standing, shrouded in clouds and mist, which are the residences of the upper-level controllers of Wuye Town.
“Master Fairy, the center of the induction formation fluctuated for a moment, and soon returned to normal. I suspect that there may be unknown monks who hide their identities and invade illegally..."
In the second cave on the left, an elder of the district mayor who was in the late stage of foundation building came in to report.
“The formation fluctuates, what color of light is it as a warning?”
In the front garden of the cave, a beautiful woman in her late forties sat lazily leaning on the railing, wearing a dark green dress, with a plump and undulating figure.
“It seems to be five colors.”
The mayor said unsurely.
“Five colors…just for a moment?”
Shi Xianzi's eyes cleared up, her casual posture was no longer the same, and her expression became serious.
For monks who quietly sneak into the city without verification, the formation in the city will be sensitive.
There will be various reactions depending on the color.
The Qi Refining Stage is one color, the Foundation Establishment Stage is two colors... The fake elixir is just three colors for the real person.
If five colors appear, it is the highest alert, which means that you are at least a true elixir level or above.
However, there was only a momentary reaction, and the visitor might have left at once, or evaded the formation induction and sneaked into the Nightless City.
"You step back first, I will report this matter to Mr. Jiang."
Shi Manrong spoke calmly and sent the mayor away.
At this time, she looked at the rock landscape not far away from the corner of her eye. There was a rat demon as big as a puppy sitting cross-legged on it. It looked ordinary.
The mayor and mayor who reported it earlier did not notice the rat demon standing about ten feet away.
"It's you…"
Shi Manrong couldn't help but be startled. The clever eyes of the rat demon closely overlapped with a certain image in his memory.
Being able to break into her cave as if she were in a deserted place, it was impossible for an ordinary third-level rat demon to do so.
Shi Manrong glanced outside the cave with his spiritual consciousness and saw a man and a woman sitting in the Zhike Pavilion.
“Hey! Mom, where did the mouse come from?”
A clean and delicate young man in white came over and looked curiously at the rat demon on the rock.
"Xiaochuan, there are guests visiting outside the door. Please welcome them in without disturbing others."
Shi Manrong ordered.
"okay."
The young man in white took a token and came outside the cave.
The two people in the pavilion are a man in white and a female cultivator in green.
The nun in a green skirt wears a veil, covering the lower part of her nose, and her appearance is ordinary.
That gentle and quiet man in white made the young man a little startled.
This person's image and temperament are among the few among the male cultivators he knows, and he has an inexplicable sense of affinity.
The mana of the two men is so dark that it is difficult to tell whether it is true or not.
“The younger generation is studying with Xiaochuan, and is ordered by my mother to take you two to the cave as guests.”
The young man in white is in the middle stage of Qi refining, and he bows his hands.
“Xiaochuan, your mother is Shi Xianzi? The formation master of Wuye Town?”
Lu Changan couldn't help but ask.
“Yeah.” The boy in white nodded.
Lu Changan didn’t think much about it, and later prepared a meeting gift for Shi Xianzi’s son.
Time has changed.
After so many years of no contact, even if they are Taoist lovers, their relationship will fade, let alone a casual fling.
Even if Shi Manrong gets married and has children, in Lu Changan's eyes, it is still in line with common sense.
After all, Shi Manrong got divorced very early when he was young. He had a wish in Wu Qishan that year, and wanted to have a child who would continue his descendants.
Lu Changan asked the woman in the green skirt to stay in the pavilion, and he followed Shi Xiaochuan alone.
Just as Lu Changan stepped into the cave, a powerful alchemy spiritual pressure emerged from the adjacent cave, reaching the middle stage of elixir formation.
唰!
The afterimage of the Purple Star flew over and turned into a purple-robed real man with sword-shaped eyebrows and starry eyes. He had a gloomy face and said in a bad tone:
"Lu! Do you still have the nerve to come back to Man Rong?"
“Fellow Daoist Jiang, you are well!”
Lu Changan immediately recognized that this person was Jiang Yechen, whom he had a slight friendship with in the past, and was now the "Zhenren Wuye" who was the number one loose cultivator in the Liang Kingdom.
Compared to a hundred years ago, Jiang Yechen is only a few years older, his temperament is calmer, and he is less feminine than before.
Lu Changan secretly thought that he had heard that Jiang Yechen had a good relationship with Master Shixianzi. Could it be that the two of them had become a couple?
Jiang Yechen’s early lover, Shen Bixin, was married to a married woman. Based on her life expectancy, she was expected to die at least a month ago.
However, Jiang Yechen and Master Shixianzi live in different caves, so it doesn’t look like they are Taoist couples.
“Fellow Daoist Jiang, I am a guest. I don’t have much left in my life, and I just want to catch up with my old friends.”
The faint voice of Fairy Master came, as if he was pleading.
Jiang Yechen snorted lightly and followed Lu Changan into the cave with a cold face.
“Master.”
Shi Xiaochuan did not dare to express his anger and greeted him in a low voice.
Jiang Yechen put his arms around the shoulders of the boy in white, like a father and son, and entered the cave.
In the pavilion, an ordinary-looking woman in a green skirt seemed to be smiling but not smiling.
She actually felt that the temperament and image of the young man in white were more like Lu Changan.
…
In the side hall, Lu Changan saw Shi Xianzi again after decades.
Although she doesn’t live long, Shi Manrong has good looks and looks like a beautiful woman in her middle age.
Although her appearance is not as good as before, it is more mature and graceful, dignified and elegant, and she is as pale as a chrysanthemum.
“Fellow Taoist Lu, why don’t you let that female Taoist friend in?”
“She is a female nun from the tribe of Feng Yuan Kingdom. She is withdrawn and doesn’t like to interact with strangers.”
Lu Changan said calmly.
Shi Manrong didn't think much about it. The female cultivator in the green skirt outside didn't have an outstanding appearance or temperament.
A female nun from an indigenous tribe?
Jiang Yechen couldn't help but think deeply: It seems that Lu Changan went to Feng Yuan Kingdom to seek refuge, and his life was not very good. Perhaps he married a powerful indigenous female cultivator and sold men for **** in exchange for a stable environment for Gou Ming's cultivation, thus cultivating to the middle stage of alchemy.
Otherwise, with Lu Changan's vision back then, he would not have found an ordinary-looking indigenous female cultivator to make do with.
Having been separated from Shen Bixin for more than a hundred years, Jiang Yechen's wasted life and rich experiences have changed Jiang Yechen's state of mind and aesthetics.
In the past twenty years, he reunited and cooperated with Shi Xianzi, and he gradually developed an appreciation for it.
Although today's Shi Xianzi is not as beautiful as many young women, her noble and mature temperament like the fragrance of plum blossoms, which has been honed through hardships, makes him quite moved and resonates with her.
The two have a good relationship, but they have never broken through that boundary.
Now that Shi Xianzi has a short lifespan, Jiang Yechen tried his best to plan a third-level life-extending pill for him to win the favor of the beautiful woman, but it was a pity that it did not go well.
Lu Changan, Shi Xianzi, and Jiang Yechen talked about old times for a while.
It turns out that Shi Xiaochuan is the adopted son of Shi Manrong. He not only has the talent for formations, but also has high-grade spiritual roots.
Jiang Yechen, the number one casual cultivator in the Liang Kingdom, took the initiative to accept a disciple, and Master Xianzi had no reason to refuse.
Because Jiang Yechen is here, it is difficult to go into the topic in depth.
Lu Changan hinted several times that he wanted to talk to Shi Xianzi alone.
Jiang Yechen lingered on, with a stern face and eyes that looked like he was supervising a scumbag.
"Jiang saw the relevant description in "Evergreen Legend": If he hadn't escaped to a different place, Lu Daoyou would be the veritable number one loose cultivator in the Liang Kingdom."
Jiang Yechen had a faint smile on his lips, his eyes gradually became sharper, and his body exuded a cold evil spiritual pressure that was beyond the same level.
"Today, Jiang has itchy hands. As long as fellow Daoist Lu can fight with Jiang undefeated, I will not stop you from having a private meeting with Man Rong from now on."
Over the years, due to good opportunities, Jiang Yechen, who was already highly qualified, became the number one casual cultivator in the Liang Kingdom.
Except for the sect's alchemy overhaul, he has few opponents at the same level.
In the circle of casual cultivators, they are even more lonely and invincible.
One hundred and fifty years ago.
Jiang Yechen competed for the position of peak master of Wuqi Mountain. He had the best overall conditions, but he was actually brushed off by the "blind" Lu Wugui.
At that time, Jiang Yechen said nothing on the surface, but felt somewhat unhappy in his heart.
The Shi Xianzi whom he admired was ruthlessly abandoned by Lu Wugui who ran away decades ago.
Has he shamelessly come to your door again today?
On his own territory in Wuye Town, Jiang Yechen was more sensible than anything else and wanted to give Lu Wugui some color.
Helping him know that the majesty of the No. 1 casual cultivator in the Liang Kingdom is absolutely superior to ordinary true elixirs.
(End of this chapter)