Chapter 15: A Storm Will Rise
Lu Chang'an's five-year pact with Mu Maode has overstayed its welcome.
After becoming a First Order Rune Master, Lu Chang'an was ready to talk about the terms with the Mu Family.
However, after waiting for half a month, no one from Mu Maode or the Mu Family's senior management made a stand.
On this day, however.
Mu Xiu Yun's maid came to the door and said that the eldest lady asked him to go out to discuss the talismanic path.
The place was at the Willow Pavilion on the banks of Fei Yue Lake.
"Miss Mu asked me out?"
To be honest, Lu Changan didn't want to get too close to Mu Xiu Yun.
Especially a date between a lone man and a lone woman would easily make people suspicious.
......
Half an hour later.
Lu Chang'an arrived at the verdant willow-lined shores of Fei Yue Lake, and an almost half-hanging pavilion came into view.
"This is the Willow Pavilion?" Lu Chang'an glanced at the plaque.
"Mr. Lu, please go up to the third floor."
The voice of a young girl, as clear and pleasant as a spring, came from the pavilion.
The third floor of the pavilion is a garden in the sky, facing the magnificent Fei Yue Lake.
Lu Changan thought it was a private meeting.
The fact proved that he thought too much.
Except for Mu Xiu Yun, who wore a plain dress and was gentle and elegant.
There was also a young girl in blue, with an exquisite melon face, willow eyebrows and almond eyes, with a kind of bright and moving delicacy.
Lu Changan felt familiar.
He quickly remembered that this was the red dress girl beside Mu Xiu Yun when he first went to the Nine Moons Building.
"She is Mu Cherry Orchid, you have met before."
Mu Xiu Yun smilingly introduced.
Mu Cherry Orchid, Lu Chang'an had heard Li Ergou talk about her.
This woman is not small, in the Mu family of young women with spiritual roots, posture and temperament second only to Mu Xiu Yun.
"Mr. Lu." Mu Cherry Orchid made a bow, her voice low and soft.
"Miss Mu."
Lu Chang'an returned the salute, his heart was odd.
The last time he saw him was two or three years ago, and at that time, Mu Cherry Orchid did not have a good attitude towards him.
This time, this woman seems to be a different person.
She was dressed up in her best outfit, and she was very soft and attractive.
When she noticed Lu Changan's searching gaze, Mu Cherry Orchid blushed slightly.
However, she is not the type to be a little girl, and her bright eyes boldly looked at Lu Chang'an. When we meet again today, we have a different mindset.
Mu Cherry Orchid's eyes lit up.
Lu Chang'an is not only handsome, but also has a special temperament, calm and serene, making people feel comfortable.
A few days ago, the elders of the clan pressured her, and under the persuasion of Sister Xiu Yun, Mu Cherry Orchid reluctantly agreed.
Today, at first sight, she did not feel bad.
Although the cultivation is not outstanding, but as a young talisman master, handsome and dusty, can be said to be both talented and good-looking.
"Mr. Lu, I have an ancient book of talismans left down below, I will come back later."
Mu Xiu Yun apologized and hurried down the stairs.
In the original place, only Lu Chang'an and Mu Qinglan remained.
Even if Lu Chang'an was slow, he should have understood.
"Mr. Lu, Cherry Orchid is making tea for you."
Mu Cherry Orchid smiled, the white skin and long legs of the silhouette, movements light and busy.
Lu Changan wanted to stop talking, until Mu Cherry Orchid face with hope, served a cup of tea.
Blowing on the hot air, Lu Chang'an sipped a mouthful.
"Mr. Lu, you maintain so well, do you have any secret recipe?"
Mu Cherry Orchid blinked her eyes and asked curiously.
Lu Chang'an was in his twenties and still looked like a teenager, his skin was crystal clear and flawless.
Immortal cultivators, there is no lack of people who have the ability to keep their skin in good shape, and this is also a topic of interest to female cultivators.
"Maybe it's because I have a good mindset and I cultivate a wood system technique?"
Lu Chang'an was prepared for such questions.
This is not a mundane place, agelessness is not rare in the Immortal Cultivation World, so there is no need to worry about being captured and sliced up.
In addition to the Pill, there are many other techniques that have the effect of keeping one's face intact.
Especially the wooden techniques.
The more common Eternal Spring Technique is 70% to 80% similar to the Ancient Wood Evergreen Technique.
Nourishes the body and restores the face, but its power is mediocre.
Even if Lu Chang'an deliberately exuded mana, it gave people the impression that it was an ordinary wood system gong method.
Mu Cherry Orchid was looking forward to this topic and wanted to talk about it in depth.
"Miss Mu, Mister Lu has an internal emergency, so I'll go out for a while."
Lu Changan smiled apologetically and got up to leave in a hurry.
"Internal emergency?"
Mu Cherry Orchid froze.
A pretty face instantly reddened, and her breasts rose and fell.
Lu Chang'an was obviously using an excuse to leave.
"Surname Lu! Who are you looking down on? This girl's willingness to come over is considered to give you face!"
Mu Cherry Orchid was not shallowly angry.
She originally couldn't look down on Lu Chang'an.
It was only because of the family's pressure and Lu Changan becoming a talisman master that she reluctantly agreed to Mu Xiu Yun's matchmaking.
Her heart was very high, and she was anxious and red-eyed!
Snap!
Teacups fall, tables and chairs are split into pieces.
Lu Chang'an, who was going downstairs, heard the sound and accelerated his speed by a few points, leaving the Willow Pavilion in a puff of smoke.
"Why? He doesn't want to marry a woman from the Mu family?"
Mu Xiu Yun, in a plain dress, stood in front of the window on the second floor, pondering.
With Lu Chang'an's age and potential, there is little hope for Foundation Establishment.
As an orphan, it is not so repulsive to join the family.
If anything, he can't look at mortal women.
Mu Cherry Orchid has a spiritual root and good looks, so there are many suitors.
As long as he marries Mu Cherry Orchid, Lu Chang'an will be able to receive the cultivation of the clan, techniques, pills, and guidance from the clan elders, and will have a bright future ahead of him.
"Sister Xiu Yun, it's not that little sister isn't cooperative. I'm afraid that Lu is not interested in women."
Mu Cherry Orchid came over with an exasperated voice.
"Not interested in women?"
Mu Xiu Yun was surprised, could this be the truth?
But recalling the two or three times he had met with Lu Chang'an.
When Lu Chang'an faced her, he would occasionally subtly reveal an appreciation of beauty.
As a woman, this kind of intuition is very sharp.
"Pissed off! Surname Lu is older than me and his cultivation is not as high as mine, how dare he insult people like this."
Mu Cherry Orchid hard to swallow the heart of the vicious anger, the more you think about the more difficult.
"You don't mess around!"
Mu Xiu Yun's starry eyes stared and warned.
Mu Cherry Orchid was a cultivator of the fourth level of Qi Refining, so if she was bent on retaliation, Lu Chang'an would only suffer.
"I'm not that stupid! Lu Chang'an is a first rank talisman master, if I make a move against him, the elders will definitely punish me severely."
"I, Mu Sakuran, swear! Will find a man ten times stronger than him, so that he can only look up to him in the future." ......
"In order to recruit me as a son-in-law, the Mu family has really used their bitter conscience."
Lu Chang'an, who returned to the courtyard, was somewhat in tears.
The Mu family's "matchmaking" ended in failure.
The Mu family did not force the issue.
After all, it's not sweet.
A few days later.
Mu Maode, the head of the family, personally summoned Lu Chang'an for a half-hour talk.
Both sides reached an agreement.
From now on, Lu Chang'an will be able to enjoy the normal treatment of his clan members even if he doesn't marry a woman from the Mu Clan.
Every year, he will be entitled to a certain amount of spiritual rice and pills.
Of course, he has to pay the obligation to help the Mu Clan to make a certain number of talismans every year.
The Mu family will pay for the materials to make the talismans, and with Lu Changan's attainments in talisman Dao, he will only make a profit.
In this way, Lu Chang'an formally settled in Fei Yue Villa, and began a period of cultivation career.
......
Three years have passed by.
The Evergreen Mana in Lu Chang'an's body traveled all over his limbs and bones, with a kind of endless rotation of verdant meanings.
"Eight years."
Lu Changan lamented that time had passed quickly, it had been eight years since he came to the Mu Family.
After all these years of observation.
In the rotation of the years, the power of the Evergreen Technique was growing at an extremely slow pace.
At the very least, it is slightly more powerful than the roadkill Open Source Sutra and Earth Rock Sutra.
It was also true that the longer one lived, the stronger one's mana became!
After nearly three years of cultivation, Lu Chang'an had crossed most of the third level of Qi Refining stage.
Estimating that in another year, he would be able to reach the peak of the third level of Qi Refining.
At the Qi Refining stage, he basically had no bottleneck.
The peak of the third level of Qi Refining is equivalent to the fourth level of Qi Practicing.
In other words, it takes four years to go from the third level of Qi Refining to the fourth level of Qi Practicing.
Li Ergou, who lives next door, reached the peak of the third level of qi cultivation half a year ago.
The reason why he didn't break through was because of the bottleneck.
From the third level of Qi cultivation to the fourth level of Qi cultivation, to be promoted to the middle stage of Qi refining, this is a hurdle.
Li Er Dog's qualifications are ordinary, how easy is it to break through the bottleneck?
It's not easy to break through the bottleneck.
Or with the help of a breakthrough pill.
Pills that break the ranks are very rare in the Mu Clan and need to be exchanged for contributions.
......
"Brother Lu, let's hunt birds together--"
In the evening, Li Ergou yelled outside.
"You're shouting so cheerfully? You haven't gotten a single bird in the last few days."
Lu Changan joked.
It's not a big deal.
"That's fine, I'll accompany you to have fun today."
"Great! Brother Lu's presence, tonight there will be a harvest."
Li Ergou was very happy.
The "bird" that the two of them are referring to is a kind of "fish eagle" that has recently invaded Lake Fei Yue.
This kind of fish eagle is a half-spirit beast cultivated after birth, specializing in eating the spirit fish in Lake Fei Yue.
As a result, the number of fish in Lake Fei Yue has decreased drastically.
Rumor has it that this fish eagle is a product of the "Imperial Beast Zhou Family".
Lu Chang'an, who had been practicing in the Mu Clan for eight years, smelled a sign of instability.
This stems from the feud between the Mu Family and the Zheng Family.
Ten years ago, the two clans fought over the ownership of a first-order violet copper mine, and the Foundation Establishment Ancestors of both sides were injured.
Later, one of the seven great families, the Zhou Family, interceded to stop the fight and shared the copper ore equally between the two families.
As the adjudicator, the Royal Beast Zhou Clan took 30% of the proceeds.
Underneath the first-ranked violet copper mine, it was suspected that a companion "Purple Heart Copper" was discovered, which is an excellent material for refining top-grade magic weapons.
The two clans, which have been at peace for a few years, are once again at war and have sent more people to the mine.
In the past two years, the Zheng family has been able to obtain the support of one of the Zhou family and sell many of their pets at a cost unknown to the Zheng family.
The Fish Eagle is one of them.
Although the fish eagle is not a threat to Qi refining cultivators, it can fly and dive well, and it secretly hunts for spirit fish and aquatic products in Lake Fei Yue every night.
The Zheng Clan used this trick to try and pull the Mu Clan's energy at the back.
The real target is the Purple Heart Copper in the mine.
The real goal is the "Purple Heart Copper" in the mining area.
The Mu Clan has issued a mission to the clansmen, killing fish eagles can be exchanged for contributions. Li Ergou suffered from the lack of contribution to exchange for the elixir to break the rank.
That's why he actively went to "fight birds".
......
"Accompanied by the Purple Heart Copper, the harassment of the Fish Eagle...... The conflict between the Mu Family and the Zheng Family may escalate."
On the way to Fei Yue Lake, Lu Changan's gaze was deep.
"Wait a little longer! It's not easy to find a place of cultivation as relaxed and harmonious as the Mu Family."
"If the Mu Family's Foundation Establishment Ancestor can't carry on, or falls dead, then we must run away."
Where did fellow traveler Li Ergou know.
The most trusted Big Brother Lu beside him is considering the option of running away.
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