Chapter 145: Cultivating the Art
Chapter 145 - Cultivating the Arts and Advancing Together
Half a month later.
Little Turtle Peak, by the Lotus Pond.
A light and playful flower skirt girl, sitting on the back of the Xuan Shui Turtle, her plain hand touching the ancient texture on the turtle shell, reluctant to part with her appearance.
"Tan'er, if you don't go back and delay your cultivation, your master may be blamed."
Lu Changan said with a stern face.
Last time, when he took his leave from Fei Yue Lake, he didn't expect that this female nephew, who was at the Foundation Establishment Stage, would take the initiative to beg to come over to see the Xuan Shui Turtle.
A decade ago, when Zhao Tan'er was planning to build her foundation, she came here with her master Zhao Siyao and fell in love with the simple and cute Xuan Shui Turtle.
"Uncle Lu, my master is going to participate in the Zijing Immortal City's lantern festival next month, are you really not going to go over there and give her old man a surprise?"
Zhao Tan'er jumped down from the turtle shell, a pair of soulful eyes, watching Lu Chang'an's expression.
"This lantern fair, my master was set up by a JieDan real person to meet with his juniors. If you don't make a move again, Uncle Lu, you might have made a mistake for life."
In the past few days of coming to Little Turtle Peak, Zhao Tan'er had more than once either explicitly or implicitly set up Lu Chang'an and Zhao Siyao.
Lu Chang'an was half believing in this woman's words.
Zhao Siyao was a high-quality single female Foundation Establishment cultivator in the Golden Cloud Valley, and was set up by her elders in more than a few cases.
If she was willing to climb or accept subterfuge, Zhao Siyao would have succumbed long ago when she was scheming at the ninth level of Qi Refining and would not have waited until today.
"Things between elders, you don't understand."
Lu Changan shook his head.
"Uncle Lu, you'll go just once, okay?"
Zhao Tan'er's teeth were like shells, lightly pouting her lips, begging.
"Your Uncle Lu's recent outburst of aura, to overcome the talisman puzzle, to impact the top grade of the second order, just don't have the time. Next time, I will definitely go."
Lu Chang'an didn't bother to argue any further and entered the cave, opening the forbidden system to isolate Zhao Tan'er.
"Hmph, as wimpy as a turtle, can't you take the initiative for once?"
Zhao Tan'er was annoyed, but there was nothing she could do about it.
"Xiao Qing, see you next time."
Zhao Tang'er stretched out an onion finger, wanting to pull the hook with the Xuan Shui turtle's head.
Seeing her approaching finger.
The turtle instinctively showed pain and immediately shrank into its shell.
Zhao Tan'er is not a gentle girl, favorite way is a bit special, these days the turtle is afraid of playing.
"Hmph! You are the same, shrinking head turtle!"
Zhao Tang'er was dissatisfied and flew away from Little Turtle Peak in disinterest.
Pfft!
Confirming that this woman had left, the Xuan Shui Turtle excitedly spread its joy in the lotus pond. "Finally gone."
Inside the cave, Lu Chang'an breathed a sigh of relief.
He didn't come out first.
He came to the cave's Dan Room and picked up the alchemy that had been deserted for some time.
Some years ago, Lu Chang'an's alchemy skill touched the threshold of a second-stage dan master.
However, to become a second-order elixir master, this step has been slow to break through.
He paid the price, and occasionally he could barely make a second-order elixir, but it was absolutely bloodless, and the quality of the finished elixir was very unstable.
Faced with this big bottleneck, Lu Changan chose to put some time aside from time to time, and then revisit alchemy to seek a breakthrough.
"Hmm?"
This time, Lu Changan felt that his technique was smooth, his fire control was precise, and his mind was cozy and at ease.
A few days later, he refined a second-stage cultivation elixir.
Six Condensed Yuan Pills, two were completed, with no obvious flaws in the quality.
Lu Chang'an's heart was delighted, this rate of pills completed reached the standard of a second-order elixir master.
After resting for a few days.
He opened the furnace again to make a second-order elixir, and the result was that the pills fell to 20%, and the quality slipped significantly.
The previous time, it seemed like he was just over-exerting himself.
Lu Changan was certain that his alchemy skills had improved, and it was only a matter of time before he broke through this barrier.
In the following years, he slightly increased his dedication and practice in alchemy.
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Three years later.
Little Turtle Peak, inside the Dan Room.
A strong medicinal scent emanates.
The ten-foot tall brass furnace flickered with spiritual light, and the lid of the cauldron trembled gently.
Lu Changan did not slow down, his hand pinched the knots and skillfully performed the furnace opening method.
A piece of spiritual qi haze, rushed open the lid of the pot, the steamy hot air swept.
Whoosh! Whoosh......
Six pills, flew down to Lu Changan's hand.
Three of them were as black as carbon, they were spent pills.
One of the pills had half of the fourth dao line missing on its surface, between a ruined pill and a bad pill.
The other two pills were full of crystal particles, similar to green raisins.
The total number of pills formed is related to the total amount of materials.
"Not bad, the quality of the pills and the rate of pills formed have stabilized. In the future, if you refine familiar second-order lower-grade pills, at least you won't lose money."
Lu Chang'an smiled and nodded, putting away the pills and the furnace.
About half a year ago, his alchemy skill stabilized at the second rank lower grade.
It took a large number of decades, with the addition of cultivation and divine sense, and with so many years invested, the alchemy skill only reached the second rank.
This proves that Lu Changan's alchemy talent is indeed a bit poor.
In contrast, the puppetry skill that he practiced afterward was nearly second-order.
If it wasn't for the fact that puppet materials of the second-ranked top grade were rare and there weren't many opportunities to practice, Lu Changan might have become a second-ranked top-grade puppet master within the past few years.
"In one more year, I will be able to cultivate to the fifth level of Foundation Establishment."
"At that time, you can make a trip to the 'Prairie Immortal City' to purchase Second Order Upper Grade Puppet materials, and look for Third Order Spirit Bamboo, Second Order Life Extension Pill, and Nodulation Auxiliary Pill, among other things."
Lu Chang'an pondered.
He is now one hundred and thirteen years old, and is predicted to be one hundred and fourteen years old at the fifth level of Foundation Establishment.
One of the reasons why he was considering the more distant Prairie Immortal City instead of Yellow Dragon Immortal City was because the latter had declined significantly in the past few years.
The Liaoyuan Immortal City is the number one immortal city in Liang, located on the eastern side of the Li Huo Palace.
The actual controller behind this Immortal City was the YuanYing level power of the LiFire Palace.
Back then, when Lu Chang'an plotted to build his foundation, he chose to go to Yellow Dragon Immortal City because it was a holy place for casual cultivators, grounded, and had cheap talisman materials, which made it suitable for casual cultivators with no background.
Liaoyuan Immortal City, often infested with pandan real people, the scale and grade to be higher, the city's housing prices, rent, prices naturally rise.
When his cultivation is weak, Lu Changan avoids meeting with real people, even if he only enters their sensory range.
Now the cultivation of the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, Evergreen Kung Fu convergence of gas hiding ability greatly increased, ordinary real people can not see the reality, do not have to be too much taboo.
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Lu Changan walked out of the cave and received the two letters presented by the Ground Rock Rat.
One of them is from Guan Qiaozhi. It's been five or six years since Guan Qiaozhi left.
A few years ago, she settled in the area around Hengshui Province and adopted some orphans and girls.
Some of them were abandoned babies and didn't even have names.
Guan Qiaozhi took it upon herself to give the baby boy the name Lu and the baby girl the name Guan.
It seems to be an alternative way to help Lu Chang'an continue to have children to make up for the shortcomings.
This time in the letter.
Guan Qiaozhi emphasized on "Qi Feng", a young man with a spiritual root.
Qi Feng is the descendant of Lu Chang'an's rightful father, Qi Jingyun, who is several generations removed from him.
A few years ago, Qi Feng was discovered by Guan Qiaozhi to have fluctuation of magic power, and he was formally introduced to the path of immortality.
"He was born in a jianghu gang, experienced, quick and steady, with a lower-grade spiritual root upstream, and aspiring to the Great Dao......."
Guan Qiaozhi describes in her letter that Chi Feng is, in many ways, similar to Lu Chang'an.
Therefore, as an Immortal Guide, she took slight care of Chi Feng and gave him more guidance, but did not bestow many resources.
Recently, Qi Feng has reached the fourth level of Qi Refining, and will officially walk in the world of Immortal Cultivation.
When Guan Qiaozhi discovered Qi Feng, he had been practicing Open Source Scripture for many years and had a solid foundation at the second level of Qi Refining.
"Chi Feng? That's good."
Guan Qiaozhi taking care of her righteous father's spiritual root descendant is actually in line with Lu Changan's intention.
He could understand Guan Qiaozhi's "emotional" behavior.
As long as Little Turtle Peak is not used as an orphanage, he has no problem with it.
Guan Qiaozhi, as a caring person, knows his temperament and would not do such a thing as to throw away his baggage.
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The second letter is from Li Erqing.
The content of the letter was completely in Lu Changan's expectation.
The Mu Family's three major foundation builders and the number of Qi Refining Stage clansmen have increased greatly, and the Spirit Vein land in Fei Yue Lake is no longer enough.
Two years ago, the Lake Fei Yue Mu family considered expanding to the surrounding area.
As a result, the plan went bankrupt.
The main reason was that there was no suitable target and opportunity.
The Foundation Establishment Family on the north side of Lake Fei Yuehu is far away from each other, making it difficult to provoke conflicts. Moreover, this power has a good relationship with the Royal Beast Zhou Family, which is similar to half of the vassal.
On the south side of Lake Fei Yue is the Maple Leaf Huang Family, and on the east side of the lake is the Bamboo Leaf Mountain Market.
All of them are the territory of the Huang family.
The Huang family not only has a late stage Foundation Establishment shelter, but two years ago they slowed down and gave birth to a young Foundation Establishment cultivator.
The southwest side of the Foundation Establishment Immortal Cultivation Clan is closer to the Golden Cloud Valley. There was a False Pill cultivator in their ancestry decades ago, and they still have ties with the Golden Cloud Valley.
In the end, the Mu Family, with three Foundation Establishment cultivators, only annexed one or two small Qi Refining Stage families in the neighborhood, slightly expanding the family's industry and sphere of influence.
However, the fundamental problem has not been solved.
If it is impossible to expand outwards.
The internal conflict within the clan is further intensified, with the old and new lineages opposing each other, and with limited resources and spiritual veins, they can only oppress the lower and middle class clansmen.
Li Erqing was worried about the Mu family's predicament and hidden dangers, and his letter implicitly expressed his intention to ask for advice.
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A few days after the letter arrived.
Li Erqing personally rushed to Little Turtle Peak and had a long talk with Lu Changan until late at night.
"Little brother suddenly realized: when Ren Long Bo died, the deep meaning of the third suggestion made by big brother."
Li Erqing looked complicated and sighed.
At that time, Huang Tankong was counting on the Mu family, and only Li Erqing, an outsider, was left to build a foundation.
In order to prevent the Mu Family from splitting up, Lu Changan mentioned three suggestions.
The first two, to resolve the conflict from within.
They were to let Li Erqing decentralize and train new Foundation Establishment Cultivators in the Mu Family's old lineage.
Only the third suggestion is to divert the conflict from the outside.
"If one day, the situation at Fei Yue Lake stabilizes and is unable to satisfy the cultivation needs of your lineage. You can bring your own direct lineage and go outside to start your own family."
Thinking back to Lu Chang'an's words back then, Li Erqing couldn't help but admire that his vision was far-reaching.
As long as Li Erqing was still around, the interests generated by his huge clan descendants would perpetuate the old and new rivalry for a long time.
"Erqing, you are preparing to start your own family?"
Lu Chang'an said with a smile.
If Li Erqing takes this step, it's only natural. The foundation is the end of his life, and there is no hope for the Great Dao.
If you use your own family name to create a family of immortal cultivators, the descendants will continue to multiply and cultivate immortality, and the future generations may be able to give birth to great powers.
This kind of bloodline continuation is considered to be some kind of pursuit of immortality.
"Haha! How can I, Li Erqing, let my big brother look down on me so easily?"
Li Erqing shook his head and grinned widely.
"Little brother hereby swears to be a member of the Mu family for life as an incoming son-in-law, and to guard Lake Fei Yue until the last moment."
Looking towards the moved and surprised Lu Chang'an, Li Erqing had a kind of inexplicable pleasure and grandeur.
"Oh, then how are you going to solve the hidden danger?"
Lu Chang'an was indeed a bit surprised.
Li Erqing's behavior is an example of how to repay a debt of gratitude.
After all, without the Mu family's acceptance and cultivation, Li Erqing wouldn't have been able to live a life of glory by giving birth to a child.
"Congren learned of my thoughts and volunteered to go to a remote area to expand, taking most of the direct descendants with him."
"In this way, within Lake Fei Yue, there will be no confrontation between the old and new lineages."
Li Erqing stated the future countermeasures.
"This child, Congren, is very responsible."
Lu Changan praised.
No wonder some years ago, Li Erqing was full of praise for Mu Congren, his grandson.
At the same time, Lu Chang'an understood another layer of deep meaning in doing so.
Li Erqing will be the guardian of the Mu family for life and will not set up his own family.
However, his grandson with his direct lineage will have the capital to start his own family when the time is ripe.
Li Erqing discussed a lot with Lu Chang'an about Mu Congren bringing his clan to expand outside.
The Liang country is close to the border, and there are cheap second-order spirit veins for rent and sale.
Because of the remote location, trade is not prosperous and the conditions are hard.
Moreover, being located at the edge of the clan's influence, the law and order environment is also quite poor.
"My younger brother is visiting this time, and I want to ask Congren for a little means of protecting the Dao and preserving his life in passing."
Li Erqing said.
Lu Chang'an's heart stirred when he heard this.
He happened to have quite a stockpile of second-order talismans and puppets on hand.
Especially the second-order middle and lower-grade puppets for practicing were not able to be sold openly because they hadn't displayed their second-order puppet master status.
"This set of talismans is a small token of appreciation from big brother. The rest of the means of protecting the Dao will be sold at the store's purchase price."
Lu Chang'an first handed over a talisman box with a few second-order lower-grade talismans inside.
Afterwards, he took out a box of second-order talismans, mainly lower- and middle-grade, with a few upper-grade ones.
He also took out two or three extremely high-grade magic weapons and a few second-order puppets.
"This......"
Li Erqing could not help but freeze, his eyes looked straight, his throat swallowed and squirmed.
Li Erqing was entangled for a long time, took a deep breath and withdrew his gaze with difficulty.
He looked at Lu Changan with a gaze that seemed to have the meaning of reacquainting himself.
He came over this time, well prepared, raised a lot of spirit stones, but at the moment it feels like a drop in the bucket.
The above necessities can only be regarded as Lu Changan's regular tactics, and he doesn't mind showing a little bit to those who are familiar with and trust him.
In the end, Li Erqing drained his life savings, including the support of the Mu family patriarchs, but also owed Lu Chang'an 2,000 spirit stones.
Purchase a top-grade magic weapon, two second-order puppets, and more than ten second-order middle- and top-grade talismans.
The next day, Lu Chang'an sent off Li Erqing with an empty expression and hidden pain.
Li Erqing had never spent so many spirit stones in his life.
The reason is that Lu Chang'an's products are of high quality and low price, so the temptation is too great.
Li Erqing owes two thousand spirit stones.
Lu Chang'an is not worried, anyway, his children and grandchildren, there is no shortage of people to pay the debt.
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One year later.
Little Turtle Peak, inside the secret room.
"One hundred and fourteen years old, fifth level of Foundation Establishment. Mid Foundation Establishment Cultivation Progress, reached two-thirds."
Lu Chang'an slowly withdrew his energy, the lake of spiritual qi in his dantian expanded by a few points, and his Evergreen Mana became deeper and deeper.
This kind of small layer of advancement, the qualitative change in mana is not much.
However, the total amount of mana increased by about 30%, which was helpful in drawing talismans and prolonged battles.
Hooch! Hullo!
The Xuan Shui Turtle was in front of Lu Chang'an, greedily sucking in breath and letting out some sort of excited and urgent cry. "Oh? Already cultivated to the limit of the late first stage?"
Lu Changan probed the Xuan Shui Turtle's condition, the mana in its body was brewing to its peak, and it only lacked an opportunity for a qualitative change.
The Xuan Shui Turtle was restless and stuck out its tongue, enthusiastically and cheerfully rubbing against his clothes, with a look of impatience.
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