Longevity begins with loose cultivation

Chapter 139
One day after half a year.

Lu Zhong sat cross-legged in the quiet room, continuing to comprehend the Juyuan method.

Now that foundation building is just around the corner, it is very necessary to practice this secret technique that can increase half of the chance of foundation building, and it may save a lot of spirit stones.

"Practice by yourself for a while, and then go to the master for advice."

"There is also the purchase of Foundation Establishment Pills. It is time to put it on the agenda. The Foundation Establishment Pills at the auction are not easy to get, and more preparations are needed... Zongmen Shangong, I can barely exchange for one. Jidan, you also need to fight for it in the past, I heard that the supply of Jidan in the treasury is in short supply, if you want to change it, you have to queue up..."

He thought silently, raised his head and looked towards the corner of the quiet room.

There was a gray orb floating there, which was absorbing the soul power of the surrounding spirits, forming a vortex of soul power, and all of them converged on the spiritual weapon Wutu Ruimu Spirit Ring, enhancing the spirituality of this ring little by little.

I don't know if it's because of the spirit sacrificial method, or because half-spiritual weapons are difficult to transform, and the speed of upgrading the spiritual ring is not fast. Lu Zhong estimates that it may not be able to become a spiritual weapon when it breaks through to the foundation-building stage.

"I'm not in a hurry. I heard that not all foundation-building true cultivators can have spiritual artifacts to protect themselves. Most early-stage foundation-building cultivators can only use high-grade magical artifacts because they don't have enough accumulation."

While thinking about it, he comprehended the method of gathering elements.

Recently, Lv Zhong had a whim, if he could focus on two tasks at the same time, observing the scene backtracking world and the real world at the same time, maybe it would have some magical effect.

It's just that what is the magical effect, the idea in his heart is still very vague.

It is expected that you will not be able to understand until you really achieve dual-purpose.

"Oh, there is no end to learning!"

……

a few days later.

Lu Zhong collected all his good deeds and came to the Hall of Treasures.

"Senior Brother Lu, good morning!"

In front of the palace gate, a horse-faced disciple on duty greeted him enthusiastically. Lu Zhongxun looked over and found that it was an inner disciple who was under his command when he led the team to wipe out the waterways of Yongling City, so he nodded with a smile.

Submit the identity to the other party for verification, and soon the restriction on the entrance of the Treasure Hall was lifted, and a hole that could allow one person to enter appeared.

Lu Zhong stepped in and quickly disappeared inside.

Waiting for the restriction to return to normal, another short and fat disciple on duty asked curiously: "Hey, I've been a beginner for three years, how come I haven't seen this brother Lu?"

The horse-faced disciple laughed, and explained: "It's not surprising, in fact, even if it's me, it's the first time I've seen this Senior Brother Lu in the sect, but if you change the name, I think you will be familiar with it!"

"Oh?" The chunky disciple was even more curious.

"Uncle Shui Ni's apprentice." The horse-faced disciple looked around and whispered.

Hearing this, the short and fat disciple suddenly felt sore in his heart, and said quietly, "It turns out that the one who is about to become a real disciple is this Senior Brother Lu..."

According to his gossip, that Uncle Shui Ni has already started retreat, maybe after he leaves the retreat, he will become their ancestor, the Jindan Daoist who Shouyuan said is five hundred years old.

"That's right!" the horse-faced disciple said bitterly.

……

"What do you need to change?"

Sha Baoren, who is serving as the deacon of the Treasure Hall this year, is sitting behind the table at the moment, asking the disciples who came to exchange.Judging from his impatient expression, it is obvious that he is not willing to be the deacon, but because of the rules of Helingzong, he has to take this responsibility.

"The disciple wants to redeem...a hundred-year-old gold treasure thorn"

Under the stage, a skinny disciple said weakly.

Uncle Sha's notoriety is so bad that it can be said that the talk of it in the circle of disciples has changed color.

"Century-year-old golden thorns? There has never been such a thing in the treasury. If you want it, you should go to the market to buy it." Sha Baoren glared at him until tears came from the corner of the skinny disciple's eyes, and then looked at the queue behind Disciple suppressed his anger and said: "Anyone who wants to exchange, show me the catalog first, and if there is such an idiot, don't blame me for teaching him!"

After scolding, Sha Baoren sat back on the bench and said coldly:
"Next!"

All the disciples are silent at this moment.

Someone asked in a low voice: "Uncle Sha, what's the matter?"

"It's not that matter, I heard..." A person next to him said this, his voice lowered, "I heard that the above has already discussed the result, and I will soon divide the sect."

"Branch sect?" Hearing this, many people seem to have known it a long time ago, and they still couldn't help sighing.

Lu Zhong was at the side, so he naturally knew what branch sect was.

Not long ago, his master Shui Ni revealed that the Heling Sect would most likely adopt the method of dividing the sects to avoid disaster in the face of the oppression of the Lingyue Sect. Xuanyue, Feixing, and Tuoyang's three veins formed their own sects independently.

Lu Zhong didn't know if this was a strategy of appeasement, or a clever move thought up by the three ancestors, he only knew that he was powerless to stop this kind of thing.

This must be understood by many Helingzong disciples.

Nowadays, there is a long queue at the Treasure Hall, which may be related to this. After all, no one knows that after the division of the sect, the original good deeds of the sect will not be recognized. Many people are ready to use up their good deeds.

Soon, it was his turn to exchange.

"Master Uncle Sha, this disciple wants to apply to exchange for the Foundation Establishment Pill."

Zhu Jidan?
Sha Baoren raised his head curiously, wanting to see who the Exchange Foundation Establishment Pill was.

One good deed and one Foundation Establishment Pill, if you want to exchange it on weekdays, you are fighting for the top, so there is also a ranking. Specifically, the decision to obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill is based on the order of the application and the contribution of the sect. in the order of precedence.

That is to say, it has been suggested that the exchange is a kind of ranking, and the contribution of the sect is also a kind of ranking.

As long as one of the rankings is met, you can smoothly exchange for Jidan.

"It turned out to be Nephew Lu." Sha Baoren glanced at Lu Zhong, swallowed what he wanted to say, and picked up a pen to swipe a few strokes on the account book in front of him, "ranked twenty-seventh in succession and nineteenth in contribution After half a month, the Treasure Hall will release a notice, if it is your turn, just come and exchange, otherwise you will enter the next round, and the specific ranking notice will also explain."

"Thank you, Uncle Sha, for letting me know!" Lu Zhong bowed his hands in thanks.

……

After returning from the Hall of Treasures, Lu Zhong stayed quietly in the bamboo building. Every day he studied the Juyuan method, meditated, practiced kung fu, and occasionally comprehended the way of yin and yang with Li Hejun.

For the rest of the time, he was not idle.

He never stopped drawing the golden light talisman.

This is his biggest source of income at present when the revenue from sales of story books is dwindling. With his proficient talisman-making skills, he can get [-] spirit stones every month.

The days are dull and fulfilling, and soon it will be the day when the announcement will be made in the Hall of Treasures.

When we came to the square of the Hall of Treasures, there would always be many disciples around here every time the notice was released.There are only a few who are eligible to apply, and most of them come here to watch the excitement, or to find a backer for themselves, and there are quite a few Kunxiu who are dressed up in fancy clothes, as if they are here to choose a concubine.

Declining the kindness of the two female cultivators, Lu Zhong looked at the list on the bulletin board, and quickly found his name in the exchange qualification list.

"Hey, I am actually qualified!"

The joy in his heart could not be restrained, and a smile could not help showing on his face.

It is well known that Foundation Establishment Pills are rare.

Even in Middle-earth, where the Immortal Dao is prosperous, the competition for this kind of foundation-building treasure is extremely fierce. Although most of the Middle-earth masters have the means to cultivate the main material of the foundation-building pill, there are also a lot of monks in Middle-earth. , so the difficulty of obtaining the Foundation Establishment Pill was even higher than that of Nanman.

In the Heling Sect, it was quite difficult to obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill.

The [-] points of good deeds alone are not enough for ordinary disciples to collect.

Generally speaking, it is based on the rewards of the elders, or the hard work of the family for several generations, and then exchange them for potential younger generations, so that they can shoulder the important task of revitalizing the family.

It seems that Lu Zhong, like Lu Zhong, relies on himself to collect enough contribution points.

Not none, just very rare.

Along the way, I heard congratulations one after another. Lu Zhong smiled and bowed his hands in return. He walked through the crowd to the treasure hall, where all the Helingzong disciples who had obtained the qualification for exchange gathered.

All eyes were focused on a jade table, where twenty jade boxes were impressively placed.

The surface of the jade box is not only pasted with yellow paper to prevent the loss of aura, but also has a sealing restriction on it, and the level of the restriction is not low, obviously it was done by Jindan real person.

"Congratulations to all the masters and nephews who have obtained the qualification for exchange. Let's exchange for the Foundation Establishment Pill one by one according to the order on the notice. If there are still some missing merits, as long as they are collected within today, they can be exchanged." Behind the table, Lin Zhenghe said with a smile.

Looking at the twenty disciples below with kind eyes, he couldn't help but wonder how many Foundation Establishment True Cultivators could be added to the door after the distribution of these Foundation Establishment Pills. It is a normal probability of three to four, and they are blessed by the Patriarch. Six to seven.

"Hehe, it would be great if it could be half..." Lin Zhenghe thought in his heart.

Everyone stepped forward to exchange one by one, and soon it was Lu Zhong's turn.

After handing over the identity card, [-] points of good deeds were allocated, and a jade box got his wish.

With a light pull, the prohibition on the jade box came into contact automatically, and the two yellow papers pasted on the surface were torn off, and a dark green pill the size of a longan, exuding amazing aura, appeared in Lu Zhong's eyes.

Not daring to be careless, he began to check according to the description in the classics.

Like Lu Zhong did, there were still many people present.

Lin Zhenghe saw it, but he didn't stop it. After all, he came here in the same way back then. The Foundation Establishment Pill is really too precious. If you don't confirm it on the spot, no one will be able to accept it with peace of mind.

"That's right, this is Jidan!"

After Lu Zhong confirmed that it was correct, he happily covered the jade box, and pasted the two yellow papers back to prevent the loss of the spiritual energy of the pill, which would weaken the effect of the Foundation Establishment Pill.

"Unfortunately, Master Shui Ni is still in seclusion. If she can give some pointers, I think the progress will be much faster, so that I can try to build the foundation sooner." After getting the foundation pill, Lu Zhong felt like a monkey scratching his heart. Yes, I can't wait to go back to retreat and break through immediately.

Fortunately, he still held back.

Saying goodbye to Uncle Lin, Lu Zhong stepped out of the treasure hall.

"The next step is to go all out to retreat and practice, so that the cultivation base can reach the perfection of Qi refining as soon as possible, and at the same time, the method of gathering elements must be refined. After the two conditions are met, you can take the foundation building pill."

After making a plan, he made another trip to the Hall of Miscellaneous Affairs and told himself that he was going to retreat and build a foundation.

After some registration, I got five years.

……

Time passes day by day.

Lv Zhong lives in seclusion and has been devoting himself to practice. His cultivation base is growing continuously and steadily, and his comprehension of the method of gathering elements is also making continuous progress. Everything is developing in a good direction.

At the same time, a major event happened in Helingzong.

After the Jinhong Sect and the Luoyun Sect were destroyed, the Lingyue Sect of the Nascent Soul Sect sent an ultimatum.

It seemed that they were worried that the Heling Sect would not give in easily, and deliberately spread the news that the Supreme Elder had left the customs. It was under such pressure that the three Jindan Patriarchs had reached an agreement and decided to split the sect.

After flying for more than three thousand years, the flag symbolizing the Heling Sect fell.

The Three Spirits in One Seal was divided into three independent sects: Xuanyue, Feixing, and Tuoyang. The Heling area will belong to the Tuoyang sect in the future, and the Yanling Mountain area will belong to the Xuanyue sect. The original hometown of Luoyun became the residence of Flying Star Sect.

In the blink of an eye, two years have passed.

The door of the quiet room, which had been covered with dust for a long time, was slowly pushed open from the inside.

Lu Zhong walked out with a gloomy expression. The first attempt to establish a foundation failed. Although he had expected it in his heart, after all, it was not an easy matter for monks with four spirit roots to establish a foundation.

Fortunately, this failure also gave him a certain understanding of how to build a foundation.

"It is estimated that the second attempt will also end in failure, and perhaps the third foundation establishment will be successful..." He was thinking silently, planning to auction two foundation establishment pills in Fangshi.

But at this moment, a group of monks came outside.

The clothes on their bodies looked familiar, and all of them were burly, with extremely strong backs and waists.

"Has the sect been divided?" Lu Zhong thought to himself.

Glancing at the Helingzong disciple uniform on his body, he suddenly felt as if he had passed away, and couldn't help wondering if he was the last Helingzong disciple.

No, Master Shui Ni is probably still in retreat.

In the Heling Sect, there are only two masters and apprentices left.

Out of the corner of Lu Zhong's eyes, he saw the team of monks approaching. The leader was a black-faced monk, whose build was much higher than that of ordinary people, a full ten feet tall. He sized Lu Zhong up first to confirm that he was not from Tuoyang's lineage. After the monk, he smiled and cupped his hands and said:
"My fellow Taoist, the original Heling Sect has been disbanded. Please pack your bags and leave Kaiyang Sect."

When Lu Zhong heard the address of "Daoist", the only luck left in his heart suddenly disappeared. Looking at the black-faced monk, he pondered and said: "I don't know if we can allow a period of time, after all, my master is still in retreat. , as a disciple of her old man's family, how can I not accompany her to serve?"

"Is there such a thing?" the black-faced monk asked in surprise.

He originally thought that Lv Zhong's retreat for so long was outrageous enough.

But now, there is actually a master who is retreating.

At this time, a member of the team behind the black-faced monk came out, and said some news after leaning close to his ear.

"That's how it is!" The black-faced monk understood what had happened, and said to Lu Zhong: "Your master Lu, your master has returned to China, but she left something for you in Wangxian Town, do you see?"

"Thank you, fellow daoist, for letting me know!" Lu Zhong nodded and walked towards the mountain gate.

In the bamboo building, there is nothing to pack, so he can leave Kaiyang Sect now.

The reason why he didn't choose to jump off the cliff as in the past is because of the formation protecting the mountain. Without the identity card to pass the verification, jumping down rashly will only provoke a counterattack from the formation.

So we can only walk down the mountain.

(End of this chapter)