Chapter 123 Cong Yun: These Days Are Getting Harder and Harder

After soaking in Qun Yao's spiritual pool for half a month and completely integrating the Jiamu Divine Source into his own meridians, Zhang Wei was about to leave Yulong Mountain.

But he was not alone.

Qun Yao also followed.

Because she heard Zhang Wei say that Chi Lian's medical skills and alchemy skills were superb, and Zhang Wei personally demonstrated it, she left her newly allocated second-level spiritual vein and followed Zhang Wei to Jin State in the name of traveling.

She said that she wanted Chi Lian to give her a set of treatment plans.

Zhang Wei had no objection.

But before that, Zhang Wei had one more thing to do.

Jin State Palace.

As the palace of the largest country in Baicao Domain, it was naturally renovated in an extremely magnificent manner, and its area was almost as large as the entire Yundu.

But the main reason for this was that the Ji family was a half-immortal cultivation family, and there were many cultivators in the family, and the place was too small to display their skills.

The palace was naturally heavily guarded, but for Zhang Wei, a cultivator in the late foundation building stage, and Qun Yao, a cultivator in the early purple palace stage, the Ji family cultivators guarding the gate did not even dare to stop them.

They invited Zhang Wei and Qun Yao into the palace first, and then invited Princess Ji Ning, who had cooperated with Zhang Wei at the beginning, to come to meet them.

Not long after, Ji Ning, dressed in a green palace dress, came and burst into tears of joy when she saw Zhang Wei.

"Senior!"

Qun Yao frowned and sent a message to Zhang Wei.

"Xiao Fan, are you related to this Princess Ji Ning?"

Zhang Wei replied, "No."

Qun Yao asked in confusion, "Then why did she cry when she saw you?"

"Excited..."

As he said that, Zhang Wei took out a jade box from the mustard seed bag and handed it to Ji Ning, saying, "This is the spiritual essence of heaven and earth you want."

Ji Ning forgot even the polite words when she heard this, and excitedly opened the jade box quickly. When she saw the fairy wood spirit heart inside, her eyes lit up.

It is indeed the essence of heaven and earth!

An opportunity to build a foundation!

I can finally build a foundation!

At this time, Zhang Wei's indifferent voice came.

"Where are my things?"

Ji Ning came back to his senses and bowed to Zhang Wei: "Please wait a moment, senior! I will ask someone to get it right away!"

Then he waved his hand, asked the maid to leave, and closed the door.

Then Ji Ning put away the Immortal Wood Spirit Heart, sat down gracefully, and said with a smile: "Two months ago, the Shennong Secret Realm ended. I heard that a great demon from the Purple Mansion lurked in the secret realm, causing the death of more than 300 foundation-building cultivators who entered it.

Afterwards, I waited for a long time for you, and I thought you had died in the Shennong Secret Realm.

Fortunately, you are a lucky person and have survived successfully. As the saying goes, those who survive a great disaster will have good fortune in the future. You will definitely be able to ascend to the Purple Mansion in the future!"

Zhang Wei said lightly: "Thank you for your good words."

Then Ji Ning showed a trace of shyness on her face, and whispered: "I got a dual cultivation technique some time ago. I wonder if you have it..."

Zhang Wei's eyes twitched.

Good guy, you are still thinking about my body?

Just as he was about to refuse, Qun Yao next to him said coldly: "We are cultivators, and we have not yet achieved the Great Dao. How can we indulge in the pleasures of men and women!"

"Eh?"

Ji Ning realized that there was someone sitting next to Zhang Wei.

No, or rather, a woman!

At first, Ji Ning thought that Qun Yao was Zhang Wei's guard because of her large body. As a result, she realized that it was a woman when she heard her voice!

But she is too tall, isn't she?

Qun Yao ignored Ji Ning's shocked expression, but turned her head to warn Zhang Wei: "Xiao Fan, you must keep yourself clean! Don't learn from some people who are young, unmotivated, and only know how to take these crooked ways all day long!"

Speaking of the latter, Qun Yao's tone was already very cold.

The aura belonging to the Purple Mansion Realm was released involuntarily, which frightened Ji Ning's face extremely pale.

"Zi... Master Zifu?!"

Ji Ning was completely stunned. She thought the woman next to Zhang Wei was at least a master of foundation building, but it turned out to be a Master Zifu!

She quickly knelt down and said, "My daughter is rude. I didn't know you were in front of me. I offended you. Please forgive me!"

While she was talking, the maid who went to get the key came back. As soon as she opened the door, she saw her own princess kneeling on the ground with her whole body prostrated. She was stunned.

But Ji Ning didn't care about the maid seeing her ugly appearance. She quickly got up and took the key from the maid, then respectfully presented it with both hands and said: "Master, this is the secret key to the ancestral cave."

Quan Yao took the key in her hand, checked it, and then stuffed it into Zhang Wei's hand, then snorted: "Get up, I hope your thing is real! Otherwise...

I still have some face in Baicao Pavilion, and they will probably be willing to change it to an obedient Jin royal family."

Ji Ning immediately said in fear and trepidation: "Absolutely true! Absolutely true! I swear, this is absolutely true!"

To be honest, Ji Ning, or the Ji family, did have ideas about the cave, so they wanted to take advantage of the situation when Zhang Wei and the late foundation-building monster were both injured to see if they could get a bargain.

But now Qun Yao appeared.

Get a bargain?

Pick up a fart!

At this moment, Ji Ning wished she could lead the way for Zhang Wei and the others to prove her loyalty!

Zhang Wei smiled and advised: "Quanyao, don't scare the children."

Quan Yao snorted coldly, saying with a hint of meaning: "Xiao Fan, you are still too kind. Some people just need to be warned so that they can understand what to do and what not to do!"

The opposite Ji Ning was already shaking like a sieve...

Just like that, the two of them, one playing the good cop and the other playing the bad cop, frightened Ji Ning and then left the Jin Palace directly.

After Zhang Wei and the others left, Ji Ning stood up tremblingly with the help of the maid, and then left here with a face full of shame and anger, and a puddle of water was left where she had knelt.

…

On the way, Zhang Wei played with the secret key, and recalled the information about the ancestor of the Ji family, the purple mansion mid-stage cultivator Chi Jin Shangren.

Chi Jin Shangren was one of the few purple mansion cultivators who had achieved enlightenment in the five domains. He was very famous in the Baicao domain more than a thousand years ago.

However, after becoming a purple mansion, he did not return to the inland to occupy the spiritual veins and create a family of immortal cultivation or even a sect, but continued to live in seclusion in the Jiexian Mountains, and finally passed away in obscurity.

Based on the information given by Ji Ning, Zhang Wei speculated that the reason why Master Chijin did not return to the inland was that on the one hand, he did not want the news of the half-piece of the Hundred Grasses and Flourishing Picture to be leaked, and on the other hand, the spiritual vein of Fenglin Mountain where he was located was a second-level spiritual vein.

Don’t think that there are many second-level spiritual veins just because the spiritual vein of Canglong Mountain occupied by his Zhang family is a second-level spiritual vein. There are only more than 30 regional major sects in the five regions. In addition to the five major sects, the total number of second-level spiritual veins detected is less than 40.

The competitive pressure is hundreds of times greater than that of the foundation-building family.

If Master Chijin returns to the inland, he probably won’t be able to enjoy the convenience of high-level spiritual veins, and he won’t be able to impact a higher realm.

So he simply continued to live in seclusion in the Jiexian Mountains.

But this has dug a pit for the younger generation.

It was fine when Master Chi Jin was still alive. With his strength in the middle stage of Purple Mansion, ordinary big monsters didn't dare to come to him. But now that he has passed away, his descendants can no longer protect the family business in the dangerous Jiexian Mountains.

As a result, his descendants are getting worse and worse, and now they have to ask Zhang Wei for help to get a spiritual essence of heaven and earth to build their foundation.

But the affairs of the Ji family have nothing to do with Zhang Wei. What he really cares about now is the two most valuable treasures in Master Chi Jin's cave.

Quasi-fourth-level magic weapon, the fragment of the Hundred Herbs Fermentation Map and the second-level spiritual vein!

With the spiritual energy of the second-level spiritual vein and the high-quality spiritual plants and ripening effect provided by the Hundred Herbs Fermentation Map, Zhang Wei can stay in it and practice until he reaches Purple Mansion!

As for whether it would be dangerous for him, a late-stage foundation-building person, to explore the Purple Mansion Cave.

If it was before, Zhang Wei would try again after he broke through the Purple Mansion, but now...

Zhang Wei looked at the fourth-grade Xingliu Lingsha in the Xumi Ring, as well as a bunch of third-grade magic weapons and third-grade spiritual talismans, and then turned his head to look at Qun Yao, who was in the early stage of the Purple Mansion beside him.

Or should he be safer and send a message to Dongli Qingtong to ask her to come over and help? Or wait another two years, until Yuxianlong also breaks through the Purple Mansion, and bring everyone to do the dungeon together?

But in that case, how to distribute the spoils?

With this idea in mind, Zhang Wei took Qun Yao back to Maixiang Village after two months of absence.

Then he opened the door of Chilian's courtyard with ease and called: "Chilian!"

However, the first person to greet him was not Chilian, but a blue-faced Congyun deer.

"Second Master!"

Congyun knelt at Zhang Wei's feet crying, and his miserable appearance made Zhang Wei think that he had been hurt.

Cong Yun cried, "It's so good that you're back! I can't live like this!"

"What's wrong? Um..."

Zhang Wei had just finished asking when he suddenly smelled a foul odor from Cong Yun. Then, with a puffing sound, a cloud of yellow-green poisonous gas gushed out of Cong Yun's anus.

Zhang Wei and Qun Yao silently took two steps back.

"It stinks. What did you eat!"

At this time, Chi Lian's voice came from the direction of the alchemy room.

"The elixir I've been experimenting with recently is called the Elixir of Purification and Detoxification, but the properties of some spiritual medicines have changed over the past few thousand years, so the effects will be different. Let Congyun try it out."

Chi Lian walked out of the alchemy room with a plate of elixirs in her hand. Her movements were very brisk, and then she saw Qun Yao following Zhang Wei...

"Mr. Zhang..."

Chi Lian stopped and said faintly: "I think you need to explain to me why Daoist Fellow Qun Yao followed you here."

Qun Yao chuckled and asked: "Why, Daoist Fellow Chi Lian, don't you welcome me?"

Chi Lian said indifferently: "This is just a small temple. It's too unfair for Qun Yao to come here."

Qun Yao said indifferently: "No, I heard from Xiao Fan that your alchemy and medical skills are superb, which is the only one he has ever seen in his life. It just so happens that the ointment you gave me is indeed very effective, so I came to see it, and I also want to ask Daoist Fellow Chi Lian to diagnose me."

Chi Lian didn't speak, but turned his head to look at Zhang Wei.

So Zhang Wei told Chi Lian the whole story, hoping that she could give Qun Yao a treatment plan.

After listening, Chi Lian smiled inexplicably, and while feeding a normal detoxification pill to Cong Yun, who was pale, he said: "Mr. Zhang, you really introduced me to a good business."

However, just when Zhang Wei thought Chi Lian was going to agree, he heard Chi Lian say coldly.

"But I refuse."

Zhang Wei: "Huh?"

Chi Lian said indifferently: "I don't lack training resources now, so I want to concentrate on training in the next period of time and strive to break through the late stage of foundation building as soon as possible.

Even if the cooperation with Mr. Zhang hadn't been arranged long ago and you could refine weapons for me, I would have just pushed the matter away from you, so that I could save more time to practice. "

Zhang Wei glanced at Qu Yao, and then secretly sent a message to Chi Lian: "Chi Lian, Qu Yao is already in the Zi Mansion..."

Chi Lian glanced at Zhang Wei, but still said unceremoniously: "What? Mr. Zhang doesn't want to work hard anymore, so he wants to lean on the lap of a Master of Zi Mansion so that he can eat soft food?"

Chi Lian's words were so harsh that Zhang Wei could feel the other party's unfriendly gaze through the veil.

Zhang Wei couldn't help but ask through a message: "Chi Lian, what's going on with you today? You weren't like this before."

Chi Lian snorted coldly.

"The relatives are here."

Zhang Wei was stunned for a moment, his brain unable to react to Chi Lian's words. It took him a while to realize that this relative was not that relative.

Immortal cultivators are also human beings, and there are many immortal cultivators who have the menstrual period that humans should have. Even because of the overall enhancement of physical attributes, if some problems occur, the reaction may be even greater.

But Zhang Wei never felt that Chi Lian seemed to be a relative.

Is it because...jealousy?

This idea was strangled to death by Zhang Wei as soon as it came up.

Bah, Zhang Wei, you are despicable!

Zhang Wei recalled Chi Lian's warning words twice, suppressed his ridiculous thought, and then continued to transmit messages to Chi Lian.

Advised: "Chi Lian, Kunyao is already a third-level first-grade spiritual talisman master. If you have a good relationship with her, you can ask for help if you need any spiritual talismans in the future."

"Furthermore, I also found a cave of Master Zifu in the Jiexian Mountains. There is a second-level spiritual vein in it. If we practice there, we can get twice the result with half the effort. We can practice all the way to the Zifu realm, and this also requires skirts. Yao, please help me!"

Chi Lian didn't speak this time, just looked at Zhang Wei for a while, and then sighed.

He said in an incomprehensible tone: "Well, since Mr. Zhang, you have said so, then I have no reason to refuse."

Then Chi Lian looked at Kun Yao, stretched out three fingers and said, "I can arrange a professional recuperation plan for you, fellow Daoist Kun Yao, but I have three requirements."

Qu Yao raised her eyebrows and said, "Please speak."

Chi Lian: "First point, Master Zhang originally asked me to sell you 50,000 taels of gold per year. But now my time is even more precious, so you have to give me at least 100,000 taels of gold every year. If you don't have the money, you can use it." The third-level talisman you drew is used as collateral."

Qu Yao thought for a while, although the price of one hundred thousand taels of gold a year was a bit exaggerated, but it was not unacceptable if Chi Lian was as magical as Zhang Wei said.

What's more, she can also draw spiritual talismans as a countermeasure.

So Qunyao nodded and said, "Okay."

Then Chi Lian said: "Second point, Fellow Taoist Kunyao is the master of Zifu in Yulong Mountain. He must be able to get some special heavenly materials and earthly treasures, so I would like to ask Fellow Taoist Kunyao to bring these things to me. , of course, I will pay for it myself!”

It was also a normal request, so Kunyao agreed.

However, Chi Lian then said: "As for the third point... I haven't thought about it yet. Let's talk about it later."

Qu Yao paused, then smiled and said: "Fellow Chi Lian is indeed as weird as the rumors say. But I agreed... provided that your method is really effective."

After finishing his request, Chi Lian said: "There is still a vacant room in the courtyard. Fellow Taoist Qunyao, please pack it up and stay here first.

As for Mr. Zhang, there is a pill for refining fire that I prepared for you in your room. After taking it, you can practice Shaoyang Kung with twice the result with half the effort. Remember to eat and practice early and rest early. I will go to make the pill first. "

After saying that, Chi Lian turned and left.

Qunyao said, "Well, Xiaofan, I'll clean up the room first."

"Hmm...Okay, then I'll go practice first."

Zhang Wei nodded, and then got into his room, without any intention of helping Qunyao clean up her room.

Just kidding, in a girl’s room, why would a grown man like me go over and help?

And since everyone is a monk, cleaning up the room can be done with just a few spells.

Qu Yao: "..."

Turning around and taking a look at Chi Lian's alchemy room, Qu Yao narrowed her eyes and then went to clean up her room.

There was only one deer left in Congyun, looking at the sky and sighing.

Look at the sky, these days are getting more and more sad...