Wild boar

Chapter 58
Three days later.

Qingye Xuan.

Dong Liyi was sitting in the alchemy room refining the Qi Restoration Pill. A huge wild boar lay quietly outside the alchemy room.

The pig's eyes seem to be closed, as if they are wandering in the sky.

After a long time.

There was a strong aroma of medicine coming from the alchemy room.

Another batch of Qi-Returning Pills has been prepared.

Dong Liyi left the alchemy room with three bottles of elixir and headed towards the shop in the outer courtyard of Qingye Xuan.

Senior Brother Zhou Yunlei is guarding the shop outside.

"Senior Brother Zhou, I have made three more bottles of Qi Restoration Pills and brought them to you to sell goods." Dong Liyi said.

"Junior brother, just put the elixirs in your own storage bag. The elixirs on my shelves are all samples. If a customer needs them, they can take them from the storage bag." Zhou Yunlei said.

"And the evil-inducing pills used by monks in the Gang Stage can only be found in the master's storage bag. If there is no alchemist in the inner castle who is willing to bring the pills to us for sale, we will have to remove the corresponding samples from the shelves. , so you don’t have to explain to customers..." Zhou Yunlei pointed at the red pills on the shelf and said.

"Uh...I see." Dong Liyi solved another doubt in his mind.

"Junior brother, you should concentrate on your cultivation. The sales volume of Qi Restoration Pills has not been good recently. Listen to Master and put cultivation first." Zhou Yunlei advised.

"How could it be? The Qi Restoration Pill is a consumable item, and the elimination route is always the best." Dong Liyi asked strangely.

"The Tianchi Alliance members are almost gone. Not to mention the Qi Restoration Pills, even the sales of the Healing Pills are not as good as before." Zhou Yunlei said depressedly.

"The members of the Tianchi Alliance are all monks in the Gang Refining stage. Most of our Qi Refining stage monks are still in White Castle. These two low-level elixirs for modification should not have any impact." Dong Liyi frowned. said.

"Junior Brother Dong, it is precisely because the monks in the Refining Stage are almost gone that no one issues missions. The Mao Gong disciples will not go out unless they receive the mission, and naturally they will not consume Qi Restoration Pills and Antidote Detoxification Pills." Zhou Yunlei touched. He touched his head and said.

"Senior brother, what does Mao Gong disciple mean?" Dong Liyi asked.

"Have you ever heard of the Maozi workers in mortal towns?"

"I've heard that they are the people hired temporarily by the boss."

"The same goes for Mao Gong disciples. Although they are monks in White Castle in name, they are actually similar to casual cultivators. They have no teachers in White Castle and do not enter important positions. They accept tasks in the mission hall in exchange for spiritual stones, and then use them to Lingshi purchases cultivation resources from Baibao, and they are mutually beneficial and each gets what they need." Zhou Yunlei explained.

"That's it." Dong Liyi showed a look of surprise.

"Junior Brother Dong, do you think something will happen if this continues?" Zhou Yunlei suddenly asked.

"What happened? What happened?" Dong Liyi asked with a confused look on his face.

"Forget it, maybe I'm overthinking it." Zhou Yunlei muttered.

……

It was about the afternoon.

Seven disciples with foreign surnames came to Qingye Xuan with serious expressions.

"It turns out to be Ma Zhengquan, Senior Brother Ma. What kind of elixir do you want to buy when you come to our Qingyue Pavilion?" Zhou Yunlei greeted warmly.

The seven disciples with foreign surnames looked at each other and said nothing.

Ma Zhengquan, the leader of the seven, clasped his fists and said: "Senior Brother Zhou, you also know that in Baibao, only the disciples with the surname Bai are given a monthly salary. They can practice peacefully without going out. But if the disciples like me and other surnames cannot earn spiritual stones, You can’t even buy spiritual rice.”

"The seven brothers and I have no special skills, nor have we been valued by the elders as disciples. We can only do maozi work. Now, the seven of us have not received tasks for more than a month, and the spiritual stones in the storage bags have dried up. I feel ashamed to say that now we can no longer afford to buy spiritual rice.”

"The seven brothers and I are all in the internal refining realm, and have not yet opened the sky. Our internal spiritual energy can only be replenished by the outside world. If we don't have spiritual stones to buy spiritual valleys, and if we want to keep our cultivation level from regressing, we can only eat chaff like spiritual beasts." It's gone." Ma Zhengquan said with a sad and angry look.

Sure enough.

Zhou Yunlei sighed. What he worried about had indeed come true. If this continued, something would really happen. "Senior Brother Ma, you should report this matter to the elders of White Castle." Zhou Yunlei said after a while.

"Senior Brother Zhou, now that the Tianchi Alliance and the underground monks have returned to the surface, how can the Bai family monks have time to take care of us Mao Gong disciples." Ma Zhengquan said sadly and angrily.

"Senior Brother Ma, you shouldn't come to me for this." Zhou Yunlei said.

"Senior Brother Zhou! I just want to discuss with you, can you let me wait for the seven brothers to start at Qingye Pavilion, guard the door, protect the courtyard and so on, as long as you give them food to eat, that's all!" Ma Zhengquan said with fists in his hands.

This situation made Zhou Yunlei frown for a moment, pacing in place and unable to make a decision.

After a moment.

"Seven senior brothers, although the master has left, no one can make the decision on this matter. We must discuss it with our junior brothers."

"I have a few spirit stones here. You can use them to buy some spirit rice for a few meals. Come back tomorrow and I will give you an answer whether it succeeds or not." Zhou Yunlei took out five spirit stones from the storage bag and put them in It was handed into the hands of Ma Zhengquan.

"Thank you, Senior Brother Zhou." After Ma Zhengquan took the spirit stone, he took his brother and left with tears in his eyes.

Zhou Yunlei immediately closed the door, imposed a lockdown, and turned around to go to the inner courtyard of Qingye Xuan.

Qingye Xuan inner courtyard.

at dusk.

Zhou Yunlei made two large buckets of rice.

One bucket is for me and my junior brother to eat, and the other bucket is for a pig to eat.

Looking at Zhu Zishan eating the spiritual rice with gusto.

"Hey..." Zhou Yunlei sighed.

"Why are senior brothers sighing?" Dong Liyi asked.

"Why does this pig eat spiritual rice?" Zhou Yunlei pointed at Zhu Zishan and asked loudly.

Zhu Zishan turned his head and glared at Zhou Yunlei fiercely, as if to say why can't I eat rice? ?

"Senior Brother Zhou, we are quite rich in spiritual stones now. Since Zhu Zishan likes to eat rice, just let him eat it." Dong Liyi said with a smile.

"Junior brother, you have talent in the alchemy path, and you were noticed by the master as soon as you came to White Castle. How could you know the difficulties of the disciples at the bottom of White Castle..."

"Seven senior brothers came to me this afternoon and told me their difficulties..." Zhou Yunlei told the truth about the difficulties in his heart.

"Senior Brother Zhou, this matter is not difficult. According to our current income, we can probably afford to cook a few more barrels of spiritual rice." Dong Liyi said with a smile.

"Hmph! Do you think this is the end? Taking in seven of them is just the beginning. I, Qingye Xuan, can raise seven idlers and a pig, how can I raise seventy idlers and a pig!?" Zhou Yunlei patted his thigh. said.

This statement came out.

Dong Liyi fell silent immediately.

However, what surprised Zhou Yunlei was that the wild boar beside him actually showed a thoughtful expression.

"Forget it...Junior brother, don't take this matter to heart. If they come again, I will send them away." Zhou Yunlei sighed and said.

"Senior brother, I heard that blocking people's path is like killing their parents. The spiritual power of those senior brothers are all replenished by external substances. If there is no spiritual rice intake and their cultivation level regresses, will they go astray?" Dong Liyi said with a look on his face. Said worriedly.

"Are you afraid that they will rob us if they are desperate? Don't worry, as long as they don't leave the White Castle, nothing will happen."

"Are we leaving the White Castle?" Dong Liyi asked.

"Hey!" Zhou Yunlei grinned.

"Junior brother! Don't think about leaving the White Castle, focus on practicing in Qingye Xuan, and wait for the master to come back. Then everything will be worry-free." Zhou Yunlei said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)