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Chapter 326: A Good Faith Deal

Chapter 326 - Sincere Deal

Promoted to the late Jindan stage, Lu Chang'an's cultivation was slow and inefficient in the land of the third-order middle-grade spirit veins.

There weren't many days left in the Xuan Yin Pavilion of pleasant cultivation.

Before returning to the Wei Dao Alliance, Lu Chang'an still had some loose ends to deal with in the Feng Yuan Kingdom.

This morning.

On the pond of the cave, a man and a woman were sitting on the back of a big turtle.

"From today onwards, I have a complete set of talisman inheritance to impart to you."

Lu Chang'an went against the norm of being Mr. Xu and changed into a white coat, warm and handsome, indifferent and serene.

Yun Ling was dressed in a green dress, starry eyes and white teeth, curves exquisite undulation, clear and soft in a little more mature and charming.

"Thank you Mr. Xu for the gift."

She listened to the man in white in front of her, and felt that in addition to the familiar feeling of closeness, there was also an unprecedented attachment and adoration.

Lu Changan caught Yun Ling's hidden emotions.

In addition to stimulating Yun Ling's qualifications and potential, Yun Ling has not been able to solve the riddle of the fetus after so many years.

It seems that the difficulty of awakening to one's past life is difficult for ordinary cultivators.

It might require quite a few conditions related to the cultivation realm before reincarnation.

Yun Ling's past life was not even at the Foundation Establishment stage.

It was just an attempt to explore reincarnation, Lu Chang'an didn't care much about success or failure.

"That's all for today, take this jade slip."

Lu Changan passed on the simplified third-order talisman inheritance that he had compiled in his last two lives to Yun Ling.

Although it was a simplified version, it was customized for Yun Ling to take advantage of her dexterity.

Moreover, it would not reveal Lu Changan's personal talisman style.

Yun Ling accepted the jade slip, rose from the turtle's back, and made a solemn bow of thanks.

"I heard that your elder brother is preparing for the completion of the dan?"

"Well, Brother Hao has already cultivated to the ninth level of Foundation Establishment." Yun Ling nodded.

Even she herself had cultivated to the eighth level of Foundation Establishment two years ago.

Due to the improvement of her root bones and physique, as well as Lu Changan's famous teacher's guidance, Yun Ling's cultivation progression was not much slower than that of an ordinary top-grade spiritual root.

As a second-ranked top-grade talisman master, she has long been self-reliant, earning a steady income of spirit stones.

"In the near future, Mister Xu will be leaving Wind Yuan Country for a period of time to deal with some personal matters, and will not be able to bring you along. Until then, if you have any wishes and requests, feel free to raise them, and Mister Xu will try to fulfill them as much as possible."

Lu Chang'an gave a formal promise.

"I implore, let Suzaku consider it for a while."

Yun Ling pursed her pink lips, her starry eyes flickering as she heard the hint in the words.

She opened her mouth, and ultimately did not pursue the request, begging.

In the superior environment of the Xuan Yin Pavilion, practicing for decades, Yun Ling was taken care of.

As a maid, serving for so many years, Mr. Xu had not only not owed her anything, but had also promoted her.

For most cultivators, this is a rare opportunity in life.

She didn't dare to ask for more and knew that Mr. Xu's decision could not be changed.

......

The following year.

Lu Chang'an instructed Yun Ling from time to time, occasionally sipping tea and listening to music, enjoying the beautiful dance of Fairy Nei Yue at night.

Lu Chang'an seemed to be more relaxed and didn't leave the Xuan Yin Pavilion much.

Even the promotion process of the late Jindan stage was hidden from the public.

In secret, Lu Changan silently improved his divination skills.

At the same time, he maneuvered his puppet doppelganger to go out, purchasing supplies and spying for information.

Through his puppet doppelganger, Lu Changan once again negotiated with the Puppet Arm Ancient City Master of the Gutian Immortal City.

The Ancient City Master had asked for a large sum of money last time, which meant that there was room for negotiation.

A top-notch puppet inheritance, although rare, was not a non-renewable resource.

"Fourth-ranked Soul Nurturing Wood? Ancient City Lord insists on this item, what is his need?"

After two negotiations, the emotionally indifferent mute City Lord did not mention the unrealistic Infant Transformation Pill, and shouted a slightly more reliable price.

However, a Soul Nourishing Wood or a Soul Dao treasure of the same type is a necessity.

In addition, there is also the "Soul Puppet Planting Technique", which the Ancient City Lord insisted on asking for and refused to budge.

"Soul Puppet Planting Technique? I don't know how to do that either."

Lu Chang'an sighed.

The other party mistook his previous life's possessed puppet, a doppelganger with complete divine soul power, for the Soul Planting Puppet Technique.

Soul Seeding Puppetry is a mysterious puppetry technique that can give a puppet a spiritual consciousness and cultivate a puppet spirit that can perform many common spells of human cultivators, even including divine soul-like means.

This kind of puppet art can not only enhance the puppet's overall strength, but also help in refining a true fourth-order puppet.

Even in the Thousand Chance Sect, most of the fourth-ranked puppets are not as powerful as a YuanYing True Lord.

The main reason for this is the gap between the divine soul levels.

The "puppet spirit" of a fourth-order puppet is naturally inferior to a human True Lord's YuanYing spirit body, making it difficult to cultivate it to the same level.

However, the Soul Puppet Seeding Technique can help the puppet spirit to take shape quickly and greatly reduce the cultivation time.

Rumor has it that the Soul Puppet Seeding technique mastered by the Thousand Chance Sect is incomplete and immature. Only the core elders are qualified to practice it and touch that field.

Lu Changan was not in a hurry and took his time to negotiate with the Ancient City Lord and bargained.

He denied that the Green Dragon Society possessed the Soul Puppet Technique, but rather another means of cultivating puppet spirits.

Lu Chang'an's puppet doppelganger, possessed by his previous life's spirit injection, was like an alternative puppet spirit.

Only, this puppet spirit was a blank sheet of paper, empty of the power of the divine soul and the combat instincts of his previous life, but without consciousness.

Or rather, it has consciousness, but it belongs to Lu Changan, who exists in the third, current life.

"It's hard to believe that the Gutian Immortal City has ambitions of plotting for a fourth-order puppet?"

A thought surfaced in Lu Chang'an.

After divining and projecting, it was affirmed that this was not far off.

"Soul Nurturing Wood...... species of Soul Puppetry...... seeks the Fourth Order?"

Understanding the other party's approximate needs, Lu Changan took the initiative in this deal.

......

Unconsciously, a year and a half had passed since Lu Changan was promoted to the late Jindan stage. On this day.

Granny Yun arrived at Xuan Yin Pavilion and paid Lu Changan a visit.

Initially, because of the potential danger and not wanting to implicate Yun Ling and Mr. Xu, she never came to Xuan Yin Pavilion.

This time, Granny Yun learned of Yun Ling's summons.

For Mr. Xu's promise, Yun Ling could not make the decision, remembering the granny who raised her.

In the end, she gave her grandmother the choice of that promise.

Inside the cave, Lu Chang'an received Granny Yun alone.

"I am grateful for Mr. Xu's past care for our clan, and his kindness in lifting up Suzu'er."

Granny Yun, her head full of silver hair, older than ever, bowed and took her seat on her crutches.

Lu Changan realized that Granny Yun's lifespan was less than a hundred years.

Due to the fact that she was seriously injured by a traitor, her foundation was damaged and she suffered from a dark disease, so her physical functions declined prematurely.

"Mr. Xu's promise, I should not have overstepped. However, Yun Hao and Yun Ling will face the important hurdle of attaining dan. I can only ask Mr. Xu to refine the Crystal Condensation Pill."

Granny Yun did not exchange too many pleasantries and quickly got to the point.

Lu Changan realized that the materials for the Crystal Condensation Pill that Granny Yun was preparing were still short of a portion of the ingredients, and she was unable to find a reliable third-ranked dan master.

Fortunately, the Fire Lord has left a legacy for their lineage.

The main ingredient of the Crystal Condensation Pill, the "Seven-core Xuan Yue Flower", a plant owned by Granny Yun, has finally matured in recent years.

"This matter is not difficult."

Lu Chang'an's face was calm as he agreed.

According to his original plan, he had wanted to leave Yun Ling a chance to form a dan.

The resources that Granny Yun had on hand for the completion of the dan were only able to be used by one of the siblings.

Yun Hao's qualifications were even better as a top-grade spiritual root.

In order for the brother and sister to be perfect, and for the good things to come true, Granny Yun came to the door.

Two months later, the ingredients for the Crystal Condensation Pill were gathered.

Lu Chang'an himself had some of the loot, and the Xuan Yin Pavilion helped collect a few.

Lu Changan also summoned Granny Yun to secretly concoct the elixir in his cave.

For seven days, Granny Yun stayed in the cave, accompanied by Yun Ling, and this time she didn't even propose to observe the alchemy.

She promised that if she exceeded two Crystal Condensation Pills, the extra portion would be used as payment.

In the end, Lu Chang'an just played normally and refined two genuine Condensed Crystal Pills, refusing the reward.

Except for Immortal Niyue, no one else in the outside world knew about the alchemy pills.

Granny Yun left a crystal condensation elixir for Yun Ling and got up to leave, preparing for Yun Hao's completion of the elixir.

"Suzu, you don't lack Crystal Condensation Pills now, but the conjugation spirits are equally important in terms of the quality of the pills and their future potential. In this regard, you need to make personal preparations."

Lu Changan was prepared to let Yun Ling train for more than ten years at the late stage of Foundation Establishment, and plan for the crystallization spirit on her own.

With the life-preserving cards he gave him and the care of the Xuan Yin Pavilion, the risk is relatively controllable.

Yun Ling herself is a second-order top-grade talisman master, past cultivation is not a closed door, with the nearby oasis, the group of people, there are transactions to go, but also had encountered a lowly sand bandits.

"Suzu knows, will live up to Mr. Xu's expectations."

Yun Ling reveals a pearly smile, with a fighting spirit and hope for the future.

In fact, both Lu Changan and Granny Yun had prepared the conjugation spirit for her,

This kind of unified rhetoric is just to sharpen the siblings.

......

A few months later, Lu Chang'an was approaching 310 years old.

His divination skill finally reached the top of the third rank.

For this reason, in the past one or two years, he had consumed a few more years of longevity, and his total lifespan had dropped to 1090 years.

Divination at the top of the third rank still belongs to the top grade of the third rank, there is no qualitative leap, but cultivating to the limit of the third rank, the bottom is deeper.

Lu Changan contacted the Ancient City Lord again to trade the puppet inheritance.

Previously, he intentionally left that side out for half a year.

This time, the Ancient City Lord finally made a major concession and expressed his sincerity.

Lu Chang'an understood the other party's needs and turned the trade item into a castrated version.

For example, the fourth-ranked Soul Nourishing Wood was replaced with a Soul Dao wonder made from a small piece of Soul Nourishing Wood.

Lu Changan provided a second-order puppet containing relevant techniques to Xuanji House for research. In addition, Lu Changan added another 30,000 spirit stones.

On the side of Xuanji House, they were willing to trade the core puppet inheritance, including the puppet army formation.

But at most, they would give it to the Quasi-Fourth Order.

Lu Chang'an could accept it, he needed the puppet inheritance of the Thousand Chance Sect to strengthen his own puppetry skills.

As for the higher fourth-order puppets, it would be difficult to gather a complete set of materials before advancing to YuanYing.

This was not a matter of financial strength.

Precious resources at the YuanYing level were mostly circulated in small circles between people of the same rank. Or, occasionally, one or two of them would appear in top level auctions.

Even with the fourth generation's YuanYing eyesight, Lu Chang'an avoided dealing too much with True Lords if it wasn't necessary.

The two sides agreed to trade in the desert a thousand miles away from Gutian Immortal City a month later.

......

The first day of the agreement.

Lu Chang'an surrounded himself with many divination wonders, deducing the dangers, as well as the old YuanYing monster behind XuanJiLou.

For Lu Chang'an nowadays, only the power of the YuanYing level could pose a real threat.

Therefore, his divination precaution was mainly the YuanYing old monster, whether or not he interfered in this transaction.

With this precaution, Lu Changan sacrificed his lifespan to improve his divination ability, so that he could at least detect a hint of what was going on.

The third-order top level divination, relatively smooth, did not feel very strong resistance.

"It turns out that the Xuanji Building and the Yuanyin Elder Monster who supports it behind the scenes are not entirely of one mind."

Lu Changan basically confirmed that the YuanYing Elder Monster behind XuanJiLou did not know about this deal.

Because, the interests of both sides were not completely aligned.

The Infant Monsters from the two sects are behind this deal, supporting the Outer Sect Alliance, and their real plan is in the Snowy Mountain Sacred Ground.

The branches of the two religions are merely tools to be utilized to check and balance the eight tribes of the Wind Elemental Kingdom, the Deserted City.

The Xuanji Building and other forces have to cooperate with them, otherwise, without the support of the Yuanyin Monarchs, they will either be dependent on the Feng Yuan Kingdom or be annexed.

After confirming his fortune telling, Lu Changan maneuvered the two puppet doppelgangers and headed to the agreed location.

The Ground Rock Rats were looking out for him underneath the sand layer.

Lu Chang'an's main body was hidden in the dark, some distance away.

Half a day later.

Somewhere in the desert, sand and soil were piled up to form a dune that was about ten feet tall and covered an area of a hundred feet.

The dune is shaped like a pyramid, but at the top is a flat platform that can accommodate a dozen people.

The surrounding area is isolated by a third-order illusion formation, making it difficult for ordinary cultivators to step in.

On the dune, there are two figures.

In addition to the Puppet Arm Ancient City Master, there was also a zombie-like green-armored man with his eyes tightly closed.

On both sides of the dune, four third-order puppet giants stood, holding halberds and resembling guards.

After a long time.

A traveling merchant wearing a bucket hat, stepping on the sand, entered the third-order illusion formation alone, and went straight to the platform at the top of the dune.

"Alone?"

The Puppet Arm Ancient City Lord, a hint of color in his eyes.

In order to safeguard this transaction, he had invited the quasi-fourth rank puppet from the Xuanji Building.

Even if there is a countermeasure around, it is still quite risky for that traveling merchant Daoist to enter the illusionary formation alone and trade with them.

"Your Excellency can check the surrounding situation."

The Ancient City Lord was expressionless and raised his hand to indicate.

"No need! The poor Taoist came over this time to trade in good faith, and I believe that Xuanji House is the same."

Daoist You Shang was generous and flew to the top of the dune, sitting opposite the two.

Before he took his seat, his palm lightly tapped his storage bag.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh......

Eight light shadows landed on the ground, emitting third-order spiritual pressure, presenting eight bowman puppets around the dune.

The Ancient City Lord's eyelids jumped, those eight third-order archer puppets, the construction material is exquisite, are the third-order inferior quality within the fine, equivalent to the peak of the early stage of the JieDan.

A round of shooting, even the JieDan cultivator will have to be numb and retreat.

"Very strange! This person has the characteristics of a puppet, but possesses a complete divine soul, and can even manipulate puppets with his divine sense."

The green armored man sitting with his eyes closed, his face was stiff and emotionless, his consciousness fluctuating and uncertain. He was a fourth-order puppet master in his lifetime, but for a moment he couldn't tell whether the other party was a puppet or a human cultivator.

They are experts in puppetry, so they can tell the difference.

"We are also sincere in our dealings. Why don't you open the door and show us what we're trading?"

The Ancient City Lord did not like formalities, and directly used his dan power to roll up the two jade slips, floating in mid-air.

"Sincerity is good."

Daoist Traveling Merchant laughed and took out three trading items from the box and cage.

They were a wooden bracelet, a second-order puppet, and a heavy bag of spirit stones.

The three items floated in mid-air and were examined by the Ancient City Lord and the green-armored man.

The Ancient City Lord and the green-armored man's divine sense was the first to inspect the wooden bracelet.

"Indeed, it is a wondrous item made of fourth-order Soul Nurturing Wood."

The Ghost Dao Puppet Spirit hosted by the green-armored man conveyed surprise and excitement, communicating with the Ancient City Lord.

The wooden bracelet, one of Lu Chang'an's original two Soul Nurturing Rings, has been re-tempered over the years.

This one, as a trade item, was reorganized in appearance, with the addition of other materials, and was completely revamped.

Even the original builder, Zhang Tieshan, could not easily recognize it without a closer look.

"That second-rank puppet also possesses a complete divine soul, an extraordinary puppet spirit. It is only that the power of the divine soul is weaker, and is only Refined Qi Perfection......"

The Ancient City Lord and the green-armored man then probed the second-order puppet and confirmed that there was no mistake.

As for the bag of spirit stones, as an addition, the two of them didn't care much about it.

"Are you two still satisfied?"

Daoist You Shang's eyes narrowed slightly, he had just used his divine sense to roughly check the puppet inheritance in the two jade slips.

It includes puppet formations and puppet spirit cultivation techniques.

The jade slips are restricted and cannot be copied, so they can only be consulted.

Lu Changan, who was hiding behind the curtain, judged that the inheritance itself was fine with his eyes, and confirmed it with his projection.

The Xuanji House has left a little bit of its best skill for the puppet inheritance, which is not wrong.

Lu Changan also played a trick.

The soul power of that second-order puppet came from the first possession of the spirit, and it wouldn't be able to support for more than two days before it collapsed.

He could even make it explode by remote control.

In such a short period of time, Xuanji House can't study anything at all.

"Good!"

The Ancient City Lord nodded and agreed to the deal.

The traded items from both sides, at the same speed, fell into their respective hands.

"If there is no problem, the poor Taoist will leave first......"

Daoist You Shang got the two jade slips, put away the eight archer formations, and flew towards the outside of the illusion formation.

Until his figure left the illusion formation.

The zombie-like green armored man, opened his eyes, eyes within the sockets jumping strange and eerie green ghost flame.

"As expected, it is a valuable spirit wood in the Immortal Cultivation World, which can not only nourish the divine soul, but also create killing-type soul dao treasures to restrain ghosts."

His green iron like palm, playing with the bracelet made of Soul Nourishing Wood, feeling the hot spring like breath, surging into the Ghost Dao Puppet Spirit in his body.

"Congratulations Master, with the help of this item, your consciousness can continue for a longer period of time. In the future, I will assist you in casting a true fourth-order puppet, and Xuanji House will not have to look at that old monster's face."

The Ancient City Lord exclaimed with great joy, his wooden face revealing an expression of fervor and anticipation.

The two of them are not confused by external objects or female color, and have been passionate about puppet techniques all their lives.

One person and one puppet didn't realize that the second-order puppet beside them was trading, and there was a hint of abnormality in the bottom of their eyes.

......

"A puppet spirit that is transformed by a ghost path's living soul and maintains its pre-birth spiritual consciousness? It's a bit interesting......."

Hundreds of miles away, Lu Chang'an was informed of the sound of the images exchanged between the two through the puppet he possessed in his first life.

"Building a real fourth-order puppet? Not a small mouth!"

"However, the material of that puppet is almost at the Yuan Ying level! It's not a complete exaggeration."

Lu Chang'an was a bit hot under the collar about the material of that quasi-fourth rank puppet.

"That's just it, a sincere deal!"

Lu Chang'an deliberated for a moment or two and gave up the thought.

The Ancient City Lord and the quasi-fourth-order puppet joined forces, the lineup was really powerful. The Ancient City Lord alone is close to the Peacock Holy Maiden, and the Blue Jiao Puppet he possesses is comparable to the peak of the late JieDan stage.

There was also the puppet army formation that specialized in positional warfare.

The quasi fourth-order puppets are even stronger and require the fourth generation to descend in order to suppress them.

Again, it's near the Gutian Immortal City, there's no heaven or earth.

Lu Changan maneuvered the puppet split and the ground rock rat withdrew.

At this time, the second-order puppet on the other side, came with an abnormal picture sound.

"Master Lou! You are...... not saying that you are trading in good faith, that the Green Dragon Society does not know the bottom line, it is unfathomable!"

Ancient city master face changed, out of the voice.

Only to see, the tip of the green armor man's nails, dazzling a wisp of obscure gray-green ghost gas, into the void, pointing in a certain direction.

"What are you panicking about!"

The green-armored man's eyes were eerie, and his tone was dissatisfied.

"This is the Ghost Dao tracking secret technique performed by the old man, just tampering with those two inheritance jade slips. In the Great Green Earth Realm, there is basically no Ghost Dao inheritance, and it is difficult to detect abnormalities under YuanYing."

"If that trader, afterward, can detect it and erase it. We have traded in good faith since."

"Jie Jie, if it can't be detected, it proves that that Green Dragon Society is nothing more than a bluff and a trick to play God."

The green-armored man's face showed a bit of hideousness, making people shudder.

"Building Master! Your consciousness is affected by the power of the Ghost Dao, please fall asleep quickly!"

Although the words of the man in green armor made sense, the ancient city master instinctively felt that something was not right.

Importantly, the green-armored man's sanity was unstable at the moment.

After his transformation into a ghost, he is more prone to negative emotions than before.

This was also why, the green-armored man would allow himself to be sealed and slumber for years.

"This matter will be decided by the old man himself!"

The man in green armor shouted harshly, his arms opened up, the ghostly green iron wind, sweeping across several miles in a circle.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The Ancient City Lord and the four third-order puppets were sent flying backwards, and two of the third-order puppets were split into pieces and exploded on the spot.

"Master of the building!"

When the Ancient City Master barely stabilized his body, the green-armored puppets blurred and disappeared from sight.

He wanted to cast a spell to check and balance it, but it was too late, the latter had already flown out of its effective sphere of influence.

"Relying on that Soul Dao wonder alone is far from enough to allow me to become a fourth-ranked puppet controlled by a ghost spirit. The person who made that deal will have the chance that I need!"

Within the green-armored man's eyes, ghostly flames flickered as he flew to the Nine Gangs Sky in a few breaths.

The Ghost Dao transformed it, trusting its own intuition, that the Green Dragon Society was mostly a front.

If the trader had absolute strength, why would they need to be so patient, haggling and bargaining, trading with them in good faith?

......

In the desert, Lu Changan flew tens of thousands of miles away.

The region where the Feng Yuan Kingdom is located is a desert that is uninhabited and has a harsh environment.

The oasis spirit veins are as rare as gold in the sand.

"Huh! You really dare to chase this far?"

Lu Chang'an stopped his recluse and looked at the direction behind him.

The two jade slips were tainted with the hidden aura of the Ghost Dao.

Even if there was no information passed on by the second-order puppets, Lu Changan would have scrutinized them carefully when he got his hands on them.

In the vicinity of Gutian Immortal City, the time and place were not present, Lu Changan did not want to get entangled with it.

He wasn't afraid of a single quasi-fourth stage puppet with an unstable mind.

Therefore, Lu Changan didn't erase the Ghost Dao's aura on the jade slip to see if the other party dared to fall alone and really chase after him.

Unexpectedly, the green-armored puppet hosted by the ghost spirit was actually quite persistent and chased after him for tens of thousands of miles.

"Lu Mou was originally trading in good faith! Since you and the others have bad intentions, I don't blame this real person for not speaking of martial virtues."

Lu Chang'an snorted coldly, quickly converged on his trail, and made a good arrangement in the vicinity.

Finally, he handed over two jade slips that were tainted with the Ghost Dao's aura to the Late Third Stage Puppet dressed as a traveling merchant Daoist, and told him to meditate and rest in the sand pit.

A few moments later.

Hoh Boom--

A terrifying spiritual pressure, accompanied by a monstrous cloud of ghostly Qi, swept in.

That oppression was close to the fourth-ranked beast king that the Peacock Holy Maiden was protecting back then!