I am a late bloomer in the world of cultivating immortals

Living in seclusion in Lou Mingyue’s cave?
Wei Tu was a little hesitant about this proposal. Lou Mingyue was still unmarried. As a male cultivator, he would be suspected of destroying Lou Mingyue's chastity if he practiced in her cave.

Although given Lou Mingyue's status and identity, no one would question or make a fuss about this, but as Lou Mingyue's "good friend", he also has to think about it and pay attention to it.

Secondly, Lou Mingyue is the current Palace Master of Jianhuo Palace. He lives in seclusion in this woman's cave. Although he can temporarily get rid of the entanglement of people like Master Qiye... he will also be involved in the internal struggles of Jianhuo Palace in disguise.

It's like jumping from big trouble into small trouble.

This was slightly contrary to his idea of ​​secluding himself and practicing in seclusion.

However, this is the best place for him right now.

——Unless he is willing to go through the trouble of traveling thousands of miles back to Xuhai and practice in seclusion in Jishan Sect.

"After all, the troubles in the Sword and Fire Palace are nothing."

Wei Tu sneered inwardly, nodded slightly, and agreed to Lou Mingyue's suggestion.

……

Seeing that Wei Tu agreed with his suggestion.

Lou Mingyue was overjoyed, and her pretty face turned slightly red.

Of course, she quickly concealed the blush. Ever since the death of King Lou Shi, she had grown up during the decades of experience in charge of the Sword and Fire Palace, and would not let people easily see her little girl attitude.

Next, Lou Mingyue began to arrange a corresponding identity for Wei Tu in order to deceive the monks of Jianhuo Palace.

"The Tianquan Competition will start soon. The elders and worshippers in the sect are keeping a close eye on me, the Palace Master. If Senior Wen follows me in like this, it will arouse their suspicion, which will be bad."

Lou Mingyue sighed softly and explained the reason.

"Tianquan Competition?"

Hearing this, Wei Tu raised his eyebrows slightly, and understood a little.

He had practiced in the Xuanyan Market, which was affiliated with the Jianhuo Palace, for a period of time and was familiar with everything going on inside the Jianhuo Palace.

This "Tianquan Competition" is a competition among the Jindan and Yuanying cultivators in the Jianhuo Palace. It is used to redistribute interests and divide power within the sect.

It can be regarded as a proactive approach to ease conflicts within the sect.

However, as far as he knew, the Tianquan Competition was only held once every hundred years, and the last Tianquan Competition of the Jianhuo Palace had only been held sixty years ago.

Now, this competition has been held ahead of schedule. I am afraid that someone is coveting Lou Mingyue's position as the Palace Master and wants to legitimately divide up the "legacy" left by Lou Shiwang during his lifetime.

"Fortunately, I have already informed Fellow Daoist Gong about this competition in advance. With her help, my chances of winning the Tianquan Competition will not be too low."

Lou Mingyue smiled calmly.

What he meant was that this time, he "took great pains" to invite Wei Tu to live in seclusion in his cave, not because he wanted to rely on Wei Tu's strength to solve his problems.

There is no meaning of "repaying a favor".

"Fellow Daoist Gong is quite powerful. With her help, your sect should have no worries in the Tianquan Competition this time."

Wei Tu smiled slightly, and looked at Lou Mingyue with more appreciation.

He didn't mind helping Lou Mingyue here, and regarded it as the rental fee for his training in the fifth-level spiritual land of the Sword Fire Palace.

But correspondingly, after the retreat is over, this favor will be exhausted as he personally takes action.

After all, this is mutual exploitation.

However, a tiger father will never have a dog son. After being influenced by Lou Shiwang for so many years, although Lou Mingyue lacks in personal prestige and strength, his methods are not bad.

He understood the value of his favor.

"What pseudonym would you like to use this time, Senior Wen?"

Lou Mingyue paused and asked.

"What's your name?"

Wei Tu thought for a moment, looked inward at his "Soul and Blood Acupoint", and said with a smile: "Let's name it Wei Fei."

After using Wei Xianer's spiritual blood to enlighten his "Soul and Blood Acupoint", he and Wei Fei had a stronger blood relationship.

Now, he lives in seclusion in Jianhuo Palace under the name of Wei Fei, which can be regarded as spreading some reputation for his deceased second brother.

Besides, leaving this name behind might help him contact Fu Zhizhou - he hadn't seen Fu Zhizhou for a long time since they parted in the Southern Region two hundred years ago.

"Wei Fei?"

Lou Mingyue muttered the name a few times, and with the magic power flowing through his fingertips, he engraved this name on the offering token of the Jianhuo Palace.

Next, Lou Mingyue did not waste any time. He stood up and bowed to Wei Tu, then opened the door of the reception hall and took Wei Tu straight to the cave where he lived.

At this moment, Wei Tu, who was behind Lou Mingyue, suddenly discovered that this woman, who was as beautiful as a peach in the reception hall, had become as cold as ice and refused to allow strangers to enter when she flew away, as if she were the Guanghan Fairy who was detached from the world.

But think about it, although Lou Mingyue's status is not high in front of him, a spirit transformation, but in the eyes of other disciples of Jianhuo Palace, she is the high and mighty Yuanying Palace Master who has the power of life and death over them.

Besides.

What was worthy of Wei Tu's attention was that on the way to Lou Mingyue's cave abode, he sensed as many as fourteen spiritual sense investigations, including some Nascent Soul cultivators.

Obviously, Lou Mingyue is very weak in controlling the Jianhuo Palace without any physical support.

He immediately snorted coldly and released his "quasi-god" level spiritual consciousness, slashing at the Nascent Soul spiritual consciousness that was probing him.

——Exposing one’s strength is also a disguised means of hiding one’s identity.

No matter how smart Master Qiye and others are, it is hard for them to imagine that he is now living in seclusion in the Jianhuo Palace at the "quasi-God-transformation" level, preparing to break through to the middle stage of God-transformation.

next moment,
The sound of wailing was heard one after another in the cave in the back mountain of Jianhuo Palace.

"A quasi-divine cultivator?"

"This bitch actually invited a quasi-god-transforming cultivator to help her participate in this Tianquan Competition."

The Yuanying of Jianhuo Palace who were enemies of Lou Mingyue looked unhappy, thinking that the arrival of Wei Tu was the reinforcements that Lou Mingyue had deliberately requested from the outside world.

Soon, a scene that was even more difficult for them to accept appeared.

In full view of everyone, Wei Tu was actually invited directly by Lou Mingyue into the cave where he lived.

Being invited by a good friend to enter the cave to tell a story may seem like nothing at first glance, but for Lou Mingyue, an unmarried female cultivator, this is a rare event that has only been seen in hundreds of years.

There is no other reason. As the Palace Master of Jianhuo Palace, if he really wants to discuss matters with outsiders, he can just discuss it in the Welcoming Hall or other places. Why must he invite them to his own cave?
As far as they knew, Lou Mingyue's cave had been a forbidden place for hundreds of years, except for some close female elders and juniors.

"Damn it! She actually used her beauty as a bargaining chip and invited the quasi-transformation gods from the outside world to help her... How can she still have the dignity to continue to be the master of the Sword Fire Palace?"

"If the old palace master knew about this, he would probably be unable to rest in peace!"

The cultivators were filled with hatred and cursed inwardly.

However, even so, the criticism against Lou Mingyue was not immediately made clear.

Firstly, the "Tianquan Competition" of the Jianhuo Palace will be held soon. Any conflicts can be resolved there at any time. Moreover, with the combined efforts of all the cultivators, the momentum will be even more overwhelming.

Secondly, although their dissatisfaction with Lou Mingyue's power is growing, Lou Mingyue has one advantage that they can never erase.

——That is the close relationship with Wei Tu and Master Lan.

Without the support of these two great gods, how could the Jianhuo Palace live as freely as it does now? It would have been swallowed up by various factions from the outside world that had long coveted it, leaving nothing behind.

Therefore, they could only force Lou Mingyue to hand over the "legacy" left by Lou Shiwang in the name of legitimate reasons during the Tianquan Competition, and then promote the Jianhuo Palace and cultivate a master of the Jianhuo Palace as soon as possible... They must not force Lou Mingyue with such a moral issue that is difficult to mention in public.

……

Lou Mingyue naturally noticed Wei Tu's move.

After returning to the cave, the frost on her face disappeared, and she thanked Wei Tu for this with gratitude.

With Wei Tu's action, at least before the Tianquan competition, she doesn't have to worry about the dirty things in the sect.

"Senior Wen has helped me a lot. There is no reason for him to suffer. My cave... from now on it will be Senior Wen's cave. As for me... I will just live in this living room."

Lou Mingyue flicked her jade sleeves, blushed slightly, took away her personal belongings in the bedroom, and gave the master bedroom, alchemy room and other places to Wei Tu.

Her cave cannot be said to be small. Not to mention one more person, even ten people would be more than enough.

However, the cultivators' foundation was not allowed to be explored by outsiders, so for the convenience of Wei Tu, she had to put up with it.

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"The bedroom will be left to Miss Lou."

"Wen is not a bad guest..."

Wei Tu shook his head and expressed his recent desire to delve into the art of alchemy and said he would not leave the alchemy room easily.

"Alchemy?"

Lou Mingyue nodded slightly, not thinking it was strange. When she and Wei Tu first met, it was Gong Shulan who introduced Wei Tu as a "fourth-rank upper-grade" alchemist.

"I am also interested in the Dao of Alchemy. If Senior Wen doesn't mind, could you give me some pointers?"

After thinking for a moment, Lou Mingyue made this request. She didn't just want to practice under the same roof with Wei Tu, she also wanted to have more interactions with him.

And giving advice on alchemy became a good breakthrough.

The reason why Jianhuo Palace is named Jianhuo Palace is because it focuses on swordsmanship and fire-based techniques.

She was taught personally by the Lou Lion King, and possessed a strange fire. She had also made great progress in the art of alchemy. More than a hundred years ago, she was already a third-rank top-grade alchemist.

"Sure. If I have some free time, I can give Miss Lou some pointers."

Wei Tu would not refuse such a small request. He nodded and agreed.

After a brief conversation.

Lou Mingyue took the initiative to excuse herself, entered the retreat room in the master bedroom, and began her practice for the day.

"No defense?" Wei Tu's eyes flashed with golden light. He did not see any signs of the formation rising in the bedroom.

He glanced at the woman's blushing face and slender body from the corner of his eye, shook his head, lifted his robe, stood up, and walked into the alchemy room at the side.

It was not difficult for him to see that this woman still had some hope of becoming his concubine. After all, in troubled times, having a divine master as a support would make it a lot easier, whether it was managing the Sword and Fire Palace or going further.

However, now that he has a Taoist companion by his side, his desire to take a concubine is no longer as strong as it was in his early years.

Besides, Jianhuo Palace was also a mess. If Lou Mingyue was really taken in, he would have to divide his attention and focus on the foundation of Jianhuo Palace.

In the world of immortality, strength is respected.

When he has reached a certain level of strength, even if he has no foundation, there will be sects like Shijiu Mountain that will take the initiative to offer tribute to him.

On the contrary, if one is weak, like Lou Mingyue, even if he becomes the Palace Master, even his grandfather's inheritance will be coveted by others.

……

After the ban was placed on the door of the alchemy room.

Wei Tu adjusted his breathing for a few days, took out the alchemy furnace and the elixir for refining the "Infant-Boosting Pill" from his storage bag, and continued to complete the unfinished tasks in the Floating Cloud Cave.

Huhu.

The baby fire is surging!

Under the invasion of the "Floating and Heavy Method", the spiritual liquid in the alchemy furnace continued to sink and float, gradually filtering out impurities and essence.

A month later.

With a "pop" sound, Wei Tu opened the lid of the alchemy cauldron with a spell, and three pills flew out of it.

Of the three pills, one is as crystal clear as jade, and the other two are slightly yellowish.

"Three pills have been made. Although two of them are inferior, they are much stronger than those of Master Han Dan in the past."

Wei Tu put the pill into the pill bottle, feeling delighted.

As far as he knew, Master Han, the former quasi-fifth-rank alchemist of the Nine Nations Alliance, could only produce two pills in one furnace when refining the Infant-Replenishing Pill.

Now, he produced three pills for the first time when he refined the "Infant-Replenishing Pill", which completely crushed this person.

Of course, this is inseparable from his realm and the meaning of floating and heavy methods. Without the help of these two, it would be difficult for him to achieve such accomplishments when refining the first batch of "Infant-Boosting Pills".

However, his realm and floating and heavy intentions are also considered his strength in alchemy. He can't tie his arms and suppress his cultivation when refining the elixir...

"Continue to refine the infant-replenishing pills, and strive to make every batch of pills that come out of the first batch be of top quality..."

Wei Tu took a deep breath, took out all the elixirs for nourishing infants from the storage bag, and began to refine them one by one despite his tiredness.

time flies.

In the blink of an eye, two years passed.

Under Wei Tu's crazy alchemy, the eight elixirs of nourishing infant pills in his hand were completely consumed.

However, the results are also gratifying.

By the time he was refining the sixth batch of "Infant-Boosting Pills", all the pills he had made had finally reached the top quality, without a single inferior pill left.

During the seventh and eighth furnaces, after deliberately subtracting the purifying effect of the "floating and heavy method" on the elixir, the infant-boosting elixir that came out of the furnace was also among the best.

Obviously, his attainments in alchemy have reached the fifth level at this moment. With the help of the "Floating and Heavy Method", he is comparable to the alchemists who have been immersed in this realm for a long time.

See this situation.

Wei Tu immediately started to refine the real fifth-level elixir.

The first kind of elixir is called "Wulian Pill". It is a fifth-level low-grade elixir made with "Five-Colored Precious Lotus" as the main ingredient and seven kinds of fourth-level spiritual medicines as auxiliary ingredients.

Among the "fifth-level spiritual objects" that Wei Tu snatched from the Lord of Bliss, the most numerous were the "Five-Colored Precious Lotus", with as many as three.

But this is normal.

Back then, with the help of Gong Shulan, he also obtained a whole plant of five-colored precious lotus in the Luoxia Secret Realm.

The Nine Nations Alliance and the Three Rivers Alliance, during the period when they jointly managed the Luoxia Secret Realm, also obtained the five-colored lotus respectively.

From this, it can be seen that the five-colored precious lotus is the most abundant fifth-level elixir in the Luoxia Secret Realm.

The sources of the fifth-level spiritual medicines on Ji Le Shen Hou were basically obtained from looting Luoxia Secret Realm, so it is reasonable that there are many five-colored precious lotuses. (End of this chapter)