Longevity begins with loose cultivation

Chapter 127 Spy
Xiaoyuan Valley Mine.

In the quiet room, Lu Zhong sat cross-legged.

The aura flashed on the surface of his body, and he played out a series of spells.

The gray orb in front of him was spinning slowly, constantly absorbing traces of pure soul power from several light spheres surrounded by planets. After the purification and aggregation steps of the sacrificial vessel, a pale flower flame was finally ignited.

The Wutu Ruimu Spirit Ring floated above the flower flames, sending out translucent ripples, faintly giving people the feeling of cheering.

"It seems that my direction is correct. The method of offering sacrifices to the spirit can indeed enhance the spirituality of the spirit ring." Lu Zhong looked at this scene and thought silently.

It's just that the spiritual growth rate of this method is really slow like a turtle crawling.

Since he started offering sacrifices to the spirit, at least he spent more than two years on it. Just during the period when he was stationed at the Xiaoyuangu Mine, it took him a whole year. It was not until today that the spirit of the spirit ring began to show.

"I don't know how long it will take for it to complete its transformation..."

After muttering something, Lu Zhong stopped his hands, put the things into the storage bag, and turned to go out.

Today it's his turn to patrol again.

After being stationed here for a year, the mine encountered few attacks. On average, it was once a month. It seemed that the other party was also holding the idea of ​​routine, so that after a whole year, none of the high-ranking disciples on both sides died. Those who died were all low-level disciples and low-level casual cultivators recruited.

Recently, those casual cultivators are obviously not as peaceful as before.

But there is no need to worry about these hired monks rebelling, after all, they all swore poisonous oaths and signed contracts. Although there are ways to evade both, the cost is not usually high, and the two cases cannot be used on small characters.

Coming out of the secret stone room he built, Lu Zhong walked through the mine tunnels intertwined with cobwebs before arriving at the central square of the mine, where the two main roads of the mine cross.

According to the usual practice, patrols are assembled here, and then set off to perform tasks.

There were already people waiting in the square, and when they saw him appear, they immediately leaned over.

"Senior Brother Lu, thank you for your rescue last time!" A young man wearing a jade crown cupped his hands and said with gratitude on his face.

Lu Zhong thought for a while before he remembered that this happened half a month ago.

The young man's name is Xiao Changyuan, he was born in a cultivating family, and he is currently at the seventh level of Qi Refining.

The mine was attacked that day, and during the process of repelling the invading monks, he happened to rescue Xiao Changyuan from the siege, saving this junior from the fate of becoming the first disciple to die in battle.

"It's just a little effort..." Lu Zhong said lightly.

"To senior brother, it may be a trivial matter, but to me, this is a life-saving grace. If senior brother doesn't dislike it, after today's patrol is over, I want to entertain senior brother at the residence!"

After pondering for a while, Lu Zhong agreed.

Always alone, it seems too out of the way, need to socialize occasionally.

"By the way, senior brother still has a golden light talisman on him?" Xiao Changyuan asked expectantly.

I didn't realize how lucky it is to have a talisman master who knows how to golden light talisman by my side until the war starts.

The golden light talismans issued by the sect had been exhausted a few months ago.

If it wasn't for Lu Zhong's golden light talisman last time, Xiao Changyuan felt that he would have died in the siege long ago, and he would not wait for rescue to arrive. Therefore, when he met Lu Zhong this time, he wanted to prepare some more golden light talismans.

According to the current trend, God knows how long it will take for the war to end?
"How many tickets do you want?" When Lu Zhong heard that the business was coming, a smile appeared on Lu Zhong's face.

Whenever a war starts, it is a good opportunity for talisman makers to make a fortune.

For example, everyone is in the Xiaoyuangu mine now, and communication with the outside world is almost completely cut off. Since he is the only one who can provide the golden light talisman, the price of the talisman has already been pushed up to fifteen spirit stones.

"Brother, can I share ten?" Xiao Changyuan asked nervously.

Recently, more and more people bought talismans from Lu Zhong, so he worried that Lu Zhong would be reluctant to sell them.

"...Yes." Lu Zhong pretended to ponder, and agreed.

The reason why he didn't readily agree was because he was careful, so as not to make people think that the Golden Light Talisman could be bought at any time.

"Senior Brother Lu, give me five too."

At this time, a charming female cultivator came, saw Lu Zhong's eyes lit up, and hurriedly shouted.

"It's Junior Sister Bao, yes."

Lu Zhong accepted the spirit stones of the two and handed out the golden light talismans respectively.

The hired monks at the edge of the square saw the golden light talismans, all of them were full of emotion, and some of them had plenty of spiritual stones, so they gritted their teeth and came forward to buy one or two, so as to add to their own safety. Assure.

As for those hired monks who couldn't afford it, they had no choice but to touch the arrow-avoiding talisman in their arms and keep telling themselves to be careful.

Soon, the team was assembled and set off.

Those in charge of patrolling today are Lu Zhong, Xiao Changyuan, and Bao Danhong.

According to the plan, they need to lead their respective teams to patrol the periphery of the mine according to the patrol route, so as to prevent hostile monks from sneaking in without knowing it.

Once the enemy is found, there is also the responsibility to attack and expel it.

Fortunately, it was another uneventful day.

Lv Zhong led the team back to the mine, and found that everyone on Xiao Changyuan's side was injured, and there were three people missing from the full team, obviously they had encountered monks from the Jinhong Sect or the Luoyun Sect.

Xiao Changyuan looked worried at this moment, seeing Lu Zhong approaching, he rejoiced and said: "Fortunately, I bought ten golden light talismans from senior brother when I set off, otherwise I'm afraid I won't be able to come back this trip!"

Footsteps came, and Bao Danhong's team also returned, and their condition was also not very good.

It was only when Lu Zhong saw this that he realized that it was his luck that he didn't run into any trouble.

Of course, it may also be that the eighth level of Qi Refining has played a role, making the opponent afraid to take him as a target.

After all, persimmons still have to be picked softly.

"Brother, see you tonight!"

"I will go to the appointment on time." Lu Zhong nodded.

After disbanding a group of team members, he walked towards the west area of ​​the mine.

The huge Xiaoyuan Valley Mine can actually be divided into four areas.

Among them, the north and south areas are where the mines are located, and the east area is where the minerals are initially processed, or the ore is screened out, or directly melted into ore ingots, and only the west area is the residential area.

Lu Zhong's secret residence is in the South District, and the purpose of going to the West District is to buy ingredients.

He has experienced problems with his mood, and now he pays more attention to the changes in his mentality. He has lived in the mine for a long time and feels bored, so he wants to buy ingredients here to satisfy his cravings. I heard that the things here are quite unique.

Reining in his breath, he soon came to the West Market.

Before stepping inside, a strong breath of life came over us.

The sound of bargaining and shouting to attract customers is very lively.

His eyes flicked over all the ingredients, all of which Lu Zhong had never seen before.

There are not only unknown blind fish caught in the dark river, but also fresh and tender mushrooms cultivated in mines, and fresh vegetables grown by mortals themselves. There are not many varieties.

But what Lu Zhong wanted was not these ingredients.

As a monk, if you eat this kind of food without aura, you will only feel that you can't swallow it.

Walking to a towering pavilion in the West Market, there are not many goods on the shelves here, but without exception, they are all ingredients with spiritual energy, including the digging monsters that broke into the mine, and some that grow from the nourishment of spiritual energy. Ling mushroom.

The price of things is not high, after all, there are not many monks in the mine, it is difficult to digest all the goods, and the spiritual energy content of these ingredients is the same, so Lu Zhong only spent a dozen spirit stones to buy enough for a year's consumption ingredients and received in the storage bag.

"boom!"

Suddenly, a loud bang came from the side.

It was Lu Zhong who was walking in the direction just now, and a shop suddenly exploded.

"Crash!"

The pouring rain of blood fell, mixed with a lot of residual limbs and meat.

One can imagine how many mortals lost their lives just now!

Howls, screams...

In an instant, Xishi fell into complete panic, and all mortals fled in all directions, wanting to leave this place of death.

In the distance, on the sentry tower in the western district, a spiritual flame soared into the sky, and the warning bell rang loudly!

Lu Zhong blocked the rain of blood with a water-pattern mask, looking at the direction of the black smoke billowing in the direction of the explosion, he couldn't help frowning.

In the vision of the qi-watching technique, the West Market was peaceful just now, but now it is filled with black corpse aura, which gushes out from the shops that exploded just now like a spring.

All mortals covered by these corpses will fall to the ground within three or five steps, and they will be living corpses when they get up again.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of living corpses appeared.

"Are you planning to paralyze the operation of the mine? After all, the operation of the mine cannot be separated from mortals..."

Thinking of this, Lu Zhong took out dozens of exorcism talismans, which formed a dazzling golden light after being activated, and directly purified a large area of ​​the living corpses that rushed past with their teeth and claws.

Wherever it passed, the corpse energy in the living corpse was ignited, and golden flames were ejected from all seven orifices.

After a burst of wailing, he fell to the ground and remained silent.

After consuming most of the power of the exorcism talisman, Lu Zhong approached the explosion site.

At this moment, a bloody shadow suddenly sprang out from the ground.

It slapped its claws on the water pattern cover, and it actually caught three eye-catching scarlet claw marks, and it was still sizzling, crazily consuming the power of the cover.

A group of monks came just in time after hearing the news, and the leader was a middle-aged man with a scholarly temperament. When he saw the blood shadow, his face changed in shock, and he hurriedly reminded him: "Brother, be careful, this is the blood shadow of the devil's unclean spirit." , The vicious monster that breaks our spiritual hood!"

On Lu Zhong's side, he was also secretly startled to hear such a reminder from the other party.

No wonder half of his spiritual power was consumed with one claw, so it turned out to be a monster that specializes in breaking the spirit shield!
With a cold snort, Lu Zhong popped out the exorcism talisman that had not exhausted its power in his hand.

In an instant, a group of golden flames formed.

The flame composed of yang energy can be said to be fatal to that blood shadow, directly turning it into a torch.

After a while, only a pile of ashes remained on the ground.

After solving the blood shadow of the evil spirit, Lu Zhong ignored the middle-aged man walking towards him, but shifted his gaze to the center of the explosion just now, after thinking for a while, he took out a handful of blazing sun stone powder, and said The curse quickly condensed an entropy light gun.

Throwing it forward, a golden flame suddenly shot up into the sky.

It was a bead emitting corpse aura, which was directly ignited by the yang energy in the gun.

"Thank you, brother!" Zhang Yuan cupped his hands and said in a sincere tone.

He is the garrison captain of the West District, responsible for maintaining order in the entire area. Such a big incident in the jurisdiction should have been severely punished, but fortunately, this senior brother took action to resolve the danger in time.

"It's just on the way." Lu Zhong told the truth.

Who would have thought that such a thing would happen to happen just to buy food here once.

He couldn't help but wonder if this matter could be avoided if he didn't hide his cultivation when he came to West City this time. After all, a dignified late-stage Qi refining monk can still play a lot of deterrent effect.

While speaking, the source of the commotion here, the bead that spewed out corpse energy, was finally burnt out of all corpse energy.

"It's Naqi beads!" Zhang Yuan said in surprise.

The reason for this expression is because this kind of thing should not appear in the mine.

The entire Xiaoyuangu Mine is actually surrounded by the "Wutu Octagonal Formation". All monks entering and exiting, as well as miners going up and down the mine, must be inspected, and it is logically impossible to flow into this thing.

After all, Naqi beads are a kind of magical storage device, and their function is similar to that of a storage bag, so they cannot be stored in a storage bag.

"It's a spy." Lu Zhongmo thought.

And spies can only appear among a group of disciples in the late stage of Qi refining.

The inspection of entering and leaving the large formation is not without loopholes, except for the two guarding foundation building masters, the inspections received by high-level disciples like Lu Zhong in the late stage of Qi refining are actually just a formality.

Just as Lu Zhong was thinking, there was a rush of footsteps.

A low-level disciple of Helingzong who was at the third level of Qi Refining came quickly with a light body talisman. After seeing Lu Zhonghou, he saluted respectfully, and then said: "Senior Brother Lu, Uncle Yu called everyone in the central room. .”

"Understood, I'll go now." Lu Zhong nodded.

He stopped suddenly, looked at the Naqi bead on the ground, and said to Zhang Yuan, "Is it okay for me to take this Naqi bead?"

The value of Naqi beads is not low, at least it starts with nearly a thousand spirit stones, and can store up to [-] units of spirit energy, which is enough to drive the black eel beads just once.

With it, Lu Zhong no longer has to worry about the charging of the black pearl.

"Of course!" Zhang Yuan hesitated for a while, but quickly replied firmly.

Logically speaking, the Na Qi Pearl should have been the trophy of Senior Brother Lu.

……

On the ground floor of the central square, the center room of the Great Formation.

When Lu Zhong came here, he found that Yu Qing had already arrived, and Xiao Changyuan and others were also sitting inside. Everyone was silent, and the atmosphere in the central room was particularly dignified.

After bowing his hands to Yu Qing, he walked to the empty seat and sat down.

"Just now I received a report that there was an attack in the west area of ​​the mine. Nephew Lu happened to be there, so tell me the details." Yu Qing coughed and said, his face paler than before.

Lu Zhong got up and explained in detail.

And show that naqi bead to make sure what you said is true.

"In this way, there are spies in the mine. And the only ones capable of accomplishing this are me, Junior Brother Lin, and all the senior nephews present!" Yu Qing quickly came to a conclusion, and said in a serious tone.

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but change countenance.

"I also have something to ask." Yu Qing glanced at everyone present, and finally settled on the empty chair beside him, "Has anyone among you seen Lin Nan recently?"

"Uncle Lin?"

Xiao Changyuan and others shook their heads.

The same is true for Lu Zhong, he has not seen this Uncle Lin for a long time.

An idea suddenly popped up in my heart.

Is it?

Opposite the long table, someone stood up, it was Ma Heng.

He is the person with the highest cultivation level among all the high-level disciples, and he has already reached the ninth level of Qi Refining. He hesitated for a while and said: "The disciple is in the West Market. See... I met Master Lin. The time is this morning."

When this statement came out, everyone was lost.

There are expressions of shock, disbelief, and more of a thoughtful expression.

"How dare you swear to guarantee it?" Yu Qing asked with burning eyes.

"I swear..." Ma Heng swore.

"Very good, I have some news from my side, I want to tell you." Yu Qing glanced at everyone present, sighed suddenly: "Just now, I saw Junior Brother Lin leaving the formation in a hurry, it seems..."

She didn't finish her sentence, but everyone knew what was going on behind it.

Lin Nan rebelled!

(End of this chapter)