Chapter 237 - Cold Prancing Chalcedony
Chapter 237 - Cold Spirit Chalcedony
Hearing this, Lu Chang'an sort of realized that his true identity had already been known by the Five Fortunes Chamber of Commerce.
The Five Fortunes Chamber of Commerce and the Crescent Moon Chamber of Commerce are on opposite sides of the fence, so it's inevitable that there will be a mole between them.
The Crescent Moon Chamber of Commerce investigated Lu Chang'an's true identity, and this matter is not considered top secret in the Chamber of Commerce.
"Mister Wu knows a senior talisman master named Lu Chang'an, also from the Immortal Cultivation World of Liang, is he the target of your Chamber of Commerce?"
Lu Changan said without a ripple on his face.
"That's right! It is precisely that Rune Master Lu."
Xia Mingqu's eyes shone and he clapped his hands.
"Young Master Xia wait a moment, I'll have that friend come out to meet me."
Lu Chang'an said, getting up and walking out of the hall that welcomed the guests.
About ten breaths later.
A white-clothed young man with a long body, serene and gentle, stepped into the hall.
Xia Mingqu was slightly stunned, and with a smile on his face, he rose and saluted: "I, Xia Mingqu, have long admired the great name of Rune Master Lu."
"Xia young master fallacious praise, Lu mou only in the Liang country slightly thin name, in the Jing country cultivation world, not many people recognize."
Lu Chang'an politely returned the salute.
"This......"
Not far away, Xia Wen Yue looked at the calm and serene white man, could not help but stay for a moment, appearing to be at a loss for words.
For a moment, she couldn't connect the slightly greasy, round-faced middle-aged man in her memory with the handsome, unassuming, white-clothed man in front of her.
"Aunt Wen Yue, I'll first take Fellow Daoist Lu to see the Clan Chief."
Xia Mingqu said to her.
"Well, good......"
Only then did Xia Wen Yue react, her pale snow-like face flushed with a light blush, and she bowed her head and answered.
Lu Changan and Xia Mingqu walked out of the hall side by side.
"Rune Master Lu, I heard that you have a spirit pet mount, a Xuan Shui Turtle of Earth Grade bloodline?"
Xia Mingqu asked with a smile as his face showed curiosity.
Lu Changan's nickname of "Turtle Rune Master" was widely spread in Liang, partly due to the fact that he kept the extremely slow-growing Xuan Shui Turtle.
"Just in time, letting you out for some air."
Lu Chang'an waved his sleeve robe and beckoned in the direction of the deep pool.
Pfft! Wow!
A dozen of breaths later, a dark green turtle leapt out of the pool, inducing a surging wave of blue water.
Lu Chang'an let out a faint smile, his figure drifted down onto the back of the Xuan Shui Turtle, and stood with his arms folded, facing the wind and breaking the waves.
"Fellow Daoist Lu has this kind of elegance, just like a divine figure."
Xia Mingqu had envy in his eyes, and took Lu Changan with him, flying towards the center of the Qingsha Bay clan land.
Along the way, the female cultivators of the Xia Clan could not help but look at the white-clothed man traveling on a turtle.
"Cousin Mingqu, who is this?"
Oncoming a dignified and beautiful blue dress female cultivator, eyes flickering luster, from a distance to see the big turtle on the extraordinary style of the white man.
"Shenglan, you actually know......"
Xia Mingqu slightly embarrassed, Lu Changan's identity information, in the Xia clan is currently limited to a few high-level know.
He secretly transmitted his voice, explaining the situation to Xia Shenglan.
"Miss Shenglan."
Lu Chang'an nodded his head and gave a greeting.
He remembers that when he saved this girl, he had never seen such a bright light in her eyes today.
"Wu Fan...... Lu Changan......"
Xia Shenglan pretty eyes wide, froze for a long time, watching the turtle ride away, handsome white back.
......
Qing Sha Bay Xia Clan Hinterland.
The Waterfall Cave, waterfalls pouring.
This place is the Xia Clan's most dense area of heaven and earth aura, reaching the level of a quasi third-order spirit vein.
"Five Blessings Chamber of Commerce, could it be that there are highly skilled vein formation masters who can mediate spiritual veins and cultivate their rank?"
Lu Chang'an secretly wondered.
Five years ago, when Lu Changan first visited the Waterfall Cave, the aura environment of this place was slightly inferior to the present by one or two points.
Of course, to a False Pill Realist, this difference is of little significance.
Most of the false pills in the Immortal Cultivation World are unable to advance in their realm, and only need to maintain their cultivation level to keep it from slipping.
As a result, some False Dan real people would choose to start a family and have the time to take care of mundane matters, or go for hedonism.
Only a few False Dans did not give up on the Great Dao and sought the slim chance of further advancement.
"Fellow Daoist Lu, please come in, the patriarch is waiting."
Xia Mingqu stood guard outside the Water Curtain Cave and did not enter himself.
Inside one of the stone halls of the Water Curtain Cave, Lu Chang'an once again met the patriarch of the Xia Clan, Xia Hong Yu.
"Hehe, fellow Daoist Lu's disguise skill is brilliant, Xia was mistaken in the past."
Xia Hong Yu is good at health cultivator, more than two hundred years old, but handsome face, fair skin, only slightly gray hair temples.
If you are dealing with him at close range, you can feel the aura of the vicissitudes of time on his body.
"It was just a fluke... Lu is just relying on a disguise external object, it's not enough."
Lu Chang'an is not humble, in Xia Hong Yu's hospitality to take a seat.
This meeting, Xia Hong Yu has a kind of peer treatment meaning, personally made a pot of spiritual tea.
Lu Chang'an knew that a late stage Foundation Establishment with notable strength and possibly a quasi-third-order Rune Master could well afford this kind of treatment. "Fellow Daoist Lu, this is your second-order spirit contract."
Xia Hong Yu took out a spirit contract book and displayed it in front of Lu Changan.
Puhu!
Immediately, a handful of fire flared up and burned this second-order spirit contract of the Five Fortunes Chamber of Commerce into ashes.
Lu Changan was slightly moved, Xia Hong Yu did this to show his sincerity.
The spirit contract signed back then was more or less forced by the situation.
The Xia Clan has given up its greatest constraint by burning the contract.
"Fellow Daoist Lu, you have stayed in Qingsha Bay for many years and never left, would you like to become an envoy of the Xia Clan in Qingsha Bay? Treatment do not have to worry about, reference to the most senior Dan Master of the Five Fortunes Chamber of Commerce. Any conditions can be raised."
Xia Hong Yu's tone was gentle, casting a kind gaze.
"Then let's talk about the specific obligations of an offering. Lu's main purpose of coming to your land is to take refuge and cultivate......"
Lu Chang'an said bluntly.
The treatment can be appropriately low, but you can't be subjected to too many constraints, nor can you give too much energy for drawing talismans and alchemy.
Half an hour later, Lu Changan and Xia Hongyu negotiated the terms.
In the future, Lu Chang'an became an envoy of the Xia Clan in Qingsha Bay, mainly refining some high-quality talismans and instructing his apprentices in the process.
The original alchemy duties, Lu Chang'an mood is good, then casually refining some.
In recent years, the headquarters of the Five Fortunes Chamber of Commerce has produced a second-order danmaster, so it doesn't rely on Lu Chang'an in this regard.
In terms of treatment, the Xia Clan has promised to provide Lu Changan with a dojo with a top-grade spirit vein, a supply of second-order spirit rice, animal food and other supplies, and a several-fold increase in his spirit stone salary.
"If you, Fellow Daoist Lu, are used to living on Autumn Wind Island, I will ask the Formation Vein Master at the Chamber of Commerce's General Rudder to take action, dredge the spiritual veins, invest spirit stones, and transform your dojo into a second-order, upper-grade environment."
Xia Hong Yu proposed.
"Then I'll trouble the patriarch." Lu Chang'an didn't reject the good intentions.
Although spirit veins can be cultivated for enhancement, it is very slow.
In a short period of time, in order to raise the spirit veins of Qiufeng Island to the top grade of the second order, the spirit veins of one or two other dojos in Qingsha Bay would inevitably have to be sacrificed.
Previously, Lu Chang'an had cooperated with the Spirit Gathering Formation and invested some spirit stones to enjoy the upper grade spirit vein environment.
Nowadays, he can save a fortune.
If he matched the Spirit Gathering Formation and invested spirit stones, the aura environment in the localized area could be upgraded by half a grade.
Especially at the bottom of the pool, which is connected to the earth's veins, the aura of heaven and earth is more active. That's where the Xuan Shui Turtle and the Earth Rock Rat often stay.
Even if the Qiufeng Island's spiritual environment is upgraded by one level, it is still not enough for True Dan Demonic Beasts to cultivate without fear.
Luckily, the Ground Rock Rat is skilled at hiding in the ground, and can dabble in the spiritual qi of the underground veins. It can even go to the bottom of the Clear Sand Bay hinterland to rub against the denser quasi-third-order spiritual qi.
Anyway, the Ground Rock Rat has a lifespan of 500 to 600 years, and since it has just become a third-stage demon, Lu Changan doesn't expect it to improve quickly.
At this level, it is not uncommon for True Dan cultivators or Third Order demons to be stuck in a small realm for hundreds of years.
......
Xia Hong Yu personally sent Lu Chang An out of the Water Curtain Cave.
Xia Mingqu, who was guarding the outside, had a hint of color in his eyes.
The patriarch's attention to Lu Chang'an was beyond his expectations.
"Lu Chang'an's disguise, back then, was able to fool my 'Cave True Eyes' secret art, his person is even more uncomplicated than the intelligence gathered from Liang......."
Back to the Waterfall Cave, Xia Hong Yu tone calm, answer Xia Mingqu's doubts.
Lu Chang'an feet on the big turtle, with the original identity, return to the Autumn Wind Island residence.
Lu Chang'an is in a good mood and has a clear mind as he doesn't have to wear a mask all the time.
"Greetings, Senior Lu."
The medicine boys, Xia Mingcheng and Xia Wenyue, changed their address and were more respectful than before.
Obviously, they had been informed of Lu Chang'an's true identity from other sources.
"Be free to salute."
Lu Chang'an glanced at the thin girl with her head hanging low and her eyebrows locked in smoke, her face as pale as ever, appearing weak.
Lu Changan remembered the conversation with Xia Hongyu, the other mentioned Xia Wenyue. Xia Hongyu learned from the information that Lu Chang'an not only knows how to maintain health, but also has dabbled in medicine, and is good at warming up the roots of dark diseases.
"If fellow Daoist Lu has the leisure, I hope to take a look at Wen Yue's condition."
At that time, Xia Hong Yu just casually mentioned, seemingly did not hold too much hope.
Now seeing Xia Wen Yue again, Lu Chang'an's heart was moved.
However, when he thought of Xia Wen Yue's refusal of his own goodwill back then, his interest in the matter was greatly diminished.
......
In a flash, two and a half years passed.
Without realizing it, Lu Chang'an had been in the Jing Country's Immortal Cultivation World for seven or eight years.
His age had also crossed the important barrier of one hundred and fifty years old.
At 150 years old, for other Foundation Establishment Cultivators, there is little hope of attaining Dan in this lifetime.
After that, the body's functions would start to decline, and the success rate of pills would drop drastically.
Of course, there is no such thing as an absolute in the Immortal Cultivation world.
Those cultivators who cultivate life-prolonging skills, prolong life, maintain good physical condition, and then take the fine life-extension pills, and then later in the year, the case of conjugation of the pills, there are cases in every era.
If the opportunity to go against the heavens, take the legendary heaven and earth spirit, directly extend life a thousand years, or even return to childhood, in the ancient books are also not lacking in records.
"Rune Master Lu, Xia Wen Yue has fainted to death."
On this day, Lu Changan was checking the growth of herbs in the medicine garden, when the medicine boy Xia Mingcheng hurriedly came to report.
"Fainted again? Did you give her any pills?"
Lu Changan was not surprised by Xia Wen Yue's fainting, it happened almost once or twice a year during the years he was stationed on Autumn Wind Island.
This woman's body is cold and yin, and she has been a sickly child since she was young, and can only barely maintain her cultivation.
Lu Chang'an originally thought that this situation would improve after her cultivation level increased.
As a result, after cultivating to the late stage of qi refining, Xia Wen Yue's condition did not reverse and the coldness in her body became heavier.
"The medicine was used, her condition this time is a bit abnormal, she didn't wake up for half a day."
Xia Mingcheng added.
"Where is she unconscious?"
"In the pharmacy."
Lu Chang'an couldn't help but think.
In the last two or three years, the Five Fortunes Chamber of Commerce has been in internal turmoil and has been competing with the Xin Family for power.
The external business industry has been suppressed by the Crescent Moon Chamber of Commerce.
The relationship between the Xia Clan and the Xin Clan has dropped to freezing point since Xia Shenglan's return.
Later, the Xia Clan inadvertently found evidence of the Crescent Moon Chamber of Commerce's support for the Xin Clan, and there was a lot of explicit or implicit fighting.
The Xin family admitted that they had received help from the Crescent Moon Chamber of Commerce, but it was a normal transaction, and there was no betrayal of the Chamber of Commerce's interests.
Internal and external struggles, coupled with the impact of neighboring wars, bringing more instability, the Chamber of Commerce is bound to fight casualties, resulting in a lack of injury medicine.
Xia Wen Yue is a pharmacist.
In terms of medicine and pharmacology, she is the first person of the young generation, and she has been configuring a large number of medicines for the family, so she has been working hard lately.
......
Not long after, Lu Changan followed the medicine boy to a pharmacy near the alchemy room.
In the pharmacy, a weak girl with a light blue smoke dress and green eyebrows fell to the ground.
Her face, which was like a wild goose, was sickly pale, and her lips were green and shivering slightly.
Lu Changan stretched out his hand and covered her bare forehead, feeling a frosty coolness.
Lu Chang'an frowned slightly, and held her cool as jade's slender wrist, you can see the transparent light green blood vessels under the crystal skin.
"The coldness has eroded the meridians and internal organs, and over the years, the disease has become terminal."
Lu Changan came to a preliminary conclusion.
Under such symptoms, Xia Wen Yue was still able to maintain barely cultivation, study pharmacology, and take care of the mundane things on the island, which was already beyond his expectation.
If it were any other cultivator, his meridians would have been blocked and he would have become an invalid.
Lu Chang'an used his Evergreen magic power to dissolve the condensed cold Qi in Xia Wen Yue's body.
During this process, he discovered that Xia Wen Yue's navel had left a deep dark disease.
"Could it be that the root of the disease was brought out from her mother's womb."
Lu Chang'an speculated.
Half an hour later, Lu Changan dispersed the coldness of the bright surface that was stagnating in Xia Wen Yue's body. At this time, the young girl was coughing in a coma, her forehead was oozing fine sweat, and her body temperature was beginning to rise.
"Eh?"
Lu Chang'an was about to let go of his hand when he suddenly realized that Xia Wen Yue's body was slowly starting to breed Yin Cold Qi again.
Where did the Yin Cold Qi come from?
Lu Chang'an was puzzled, and as he pinched the girl's slender wrist with two fingers, he vaguely sensed the coolness from her bones.
"The coldness has been deposited for so many years, wouldn't her bones be......"
Lu Changan examined Xia Wen Yue's bones, once again out of anticipation.
The bones of the young girl were as slender as jade, with a sense of crystalline clarity, and although a sense of coolness came from them, they did not have the expected coldness that would injure the bones.
This coolness makes people calm and clear, and there is a difference between the coldness of the body's accumulation of Yin.
The root of the disease was not found in the bones.
Lu Chang'an added Evergreen Mana with his divine sense and examined the upper half of the young girl's body up to her head.
"In the divine soul, there is a coldness coming from......"
If not for Lu Changan's strong divine sense and meticulous inspection, he almost neglected it.
In Xia Wen Yue's divine soul's sea of consciousness, a trace of coldness surged, as if it could frostbite the divine sense.
"Cold Prana...... Jade Bone...... Could this be some sort of innate dao body?"
Lu Chang'an tried to recall the memories of his previous life.
In the end, the "Cold Prana and Jade Bone" recorded in a certain ancient book matched some of the symptoms of Xia Wen Yue's body.
The Innate Dao Body, also known as the Innate Treasure Body, is an innate constitution that is independent of the Spiritual Root.
Lu Chang'an had very little contact with it in his previous life, and in this life, he only heard that the pride of Liang, "Tuoba Jin", possessed an Innate Treasure Body, and later barely formed the Golden Dan.
"Xiao Ming, you go and get busy first. Wen Yue's situation is more serious and needs to be nourished again with magical power."
Lu Chang'an waved his hand and asked the medicine boy Xia Mingcheng to retreat.
According to the records of the ancient book in his previous life, the possessor of the "Cold Prancing Chalcedony", an innate Taoist body, would only be able to survive and develop if it was born to a female cultivator.
And before the cultivation has been accomplished, it is necessary to hide it from the outside world, otherwise it may lead to the disaster of killing oneself.
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