The Xu family follows Taoism and seeks longevity

After putting all the treasures back into the storage ring, Xu Zhiyu always felt uneasy.

So after thinking about it again and again, he took out the sound transmission instrument that Tong Ying left for him, told him everything about the gifts he received from his senior brothers, and asked her what to do.

Sending the message was like a cow sinking into the sea. There was no reply for a long time. Seeing this, he couldn't send it a second time, so he could only wait patiently.

But he didn't expect that he had to wait for seven days. When he recorded all the secrets and anecdotes he saw in the Sutra Pavilion on the jade slips, there was still no movement.

Now he couldn't sit still any longer, so he directly called several Zifu monks assigned to him by Tong Ying to serve him.

"Sir, do you have any orders?"

They seemed to have undergone special training and seemed to be in the same mind. They spoke in exactly the same tone and speed.

"It's like this. I have something that I urgently need to discuss with Senior Tong, but I used the sound-transmitting magic weapon she left for me to contact her, but it's been several days and there's still no reply. You know her What have you been busy with lately?”

Xu Zhiyu asked directly, these people were all from her palace, and they might know his whereabouts.

But after hearing his question, several people lowered their heads and looked at each other, making eye contact, and then the person with the highest cultivation level on the sixth floor of the Zi Mansion stood up.

"Sir, we disciples are not allowed to inquire about the Palace Master's whereabouts. This is the rule in the palace, so we don't know the Palace Master's specific whereabouts.

but"

"Nothing. If you have anything to say, just say it. Don't hesitate."

"But when I met with a good disciple in the palace a few days ago, I accidentally heard the news. I heard from him that in the past few days, various Nascent Soul forces on Xuanzhou Continent have arrived at the headquarters one after another, and the person responsible for reception Theirs is the palace master.

Therefore, I guess that the Palace Master is very busy at this time, so it is possible that he does not have time to reply to your message. "

No, there are so many people, how could Tong Ying be the only one to receive them? She would be exhausted?

There are at least dozens of Yuanying forces on the Xuanzhou Continent. For such a grand ceremony, basically all the people leading the team are Yuanying True Monarch and Tong Ying's fake infant cultivator. It seems a bit unimportant to receive these people, and it is not convenient. She should be allowed to do these things alone.

However, he couldn't deduce too much specifically, because this monk on the sixth floor of the Purple Mansion only provided him with so much information, and it was just hearsay, which may not be true.

"Maybe that's the case, then that's it, you go back first, I'll come back to you if anything happens."

Xu Zhiyu thought a little depressedly that he could only keep the treasures for the time being, although they may not all belong to him in the end.

Seeing that he was not in a high mood, the monk on the sixth floor of the Zi Mansion first winked at the other three people and asked them to step back. Then he came to him and asked respectfully:

"Sir, there is no need to be so upset. If you have nothing to do now, just let me take you around the headquarters. There are many fun places here."

"Funny?" Xu Zhiyu raised his eyebrows, couldn't it be?
"Yes, it's fun. It's known as a monk's paradise. Once you go there, there's nothing you won't like."

As if he had read his thoughts, the sixth-level cultivator from the Zi Mansion continued to seduce him.

"Ahem, originally I had something to do, but since you sincerely invite me, it's not good if I don't go. Let's go now!"

After finishing speaking, Xu Zhiyu had already taken the lead out of the hall. He wanted to see how the fireworks at the Taiyang Tower headquarters were different from those in other places.

In this way, the two of them walked through the palace for a long time before they came to a strangely shaped palace.

I saw that the palace was all white, and unlike other buildings, the architectural style here was not square, but like a top-shaped conch shell, with a sharper bottom and bigger ones as it went up.

And if you listen attentively, you will find that the noisy sounds coming from this strange palace are very attractive.

What is somewhat curious is that there are some white conch shells stacked on both sides of the palace, and there is a notice posted on the wall next to them.

Looking at the plaque with the three characters "Conch Pavilion" above his head, Xu Zhiyu was completely embarrassed. He didn't expect that what people said was fun didn't mean the same thing as what he understood. This also made him feel a little disappointed.

The sixth floor of Zifu who was following him one step behind, no, let's call him by his name. He once introduced himself and said his name was Liang Zhuoying.

Liang Zhuoying took a step forward and whispered to him:
"Sir, this is the fun place I told you. When we disciples in the palace have free time, we will come here to have fun. Are you interested in going in and taking a look?"

Although his face was full of doubts and he didn't know where this place was, those noisy voices did arouse his curiosity.

Looking back, looking at Liang Zhuoying with a flattering smile on his face, Xu Zhiyu's face moved slightly, nodded, and walked into the 'Conch Pavilion'.

There weren't many monks on the first floor of the shop. The voice came from the second floor. He waved away the guy who was about to come up to guide the two of them, and Liang Zhuoying took him up to the second floor himself.

The space on the second floor is not big, only about thirty feet in diameter, but it is crowded with monks. Seventy or eighty monks are standing in a circle. I don’t know what they are doing.
With a slight induction, he discovered that the people who came here were mainly foundation-building monks, and occasionally a few Zifu monks could be seen.

In the middle of the hall is a pool about ten feet long, filled with all kinds of conchs, large and small.

The small one is only half the size of a fist, the large one is slightly larger than a human head, and of course the largest one is half the size of a human being.

"Open, open!"

I saw a group of monks gathered around, seemingly looking at something, while shouting at the top of their lungs.

"Alas~ It's the Silver Spiral Bead again!"

A monk with a ninth-level foundation squeezed out from the crowd, with a look of regret on his face and a bead the size of a thumb in his hand, looking a little downcast.

Xu Zhiyu noticed that in his other hand, there was a white conch shell with a small hole about an inch in diameter. If nothing else happened, the spirit bead was obtained from this conch shell.

With a look of confusion on his face, he looked at Liang Zhuoying beside him.

"Is this conch gambling?"

"Haha, you have a sharp eye and recognized this kind of gameplay at a glance. It seems that we are in the same way."

Liang Zhuoying replied with a smile, but the use of this idiom made Xu Zhiyu feel strange.

"This method of playing is quite novel. I need you to explain it to me in detail." "This is natural. Master, this conch is produced in the snail waters of our country. Strictly speaking, it is a kind of sea beast and a special kind." It cannot survive in other sea areas, so it can be regarded as a specialty.

This kind of conch is not aggressive, and the conch meat is very rough and difficult to swallow, but there are treasures hidden in its body. "

"You must be talking about those strange beads, right? I just saw someone leaving with them." He interjected.

"Young master's guess is correct. This spirit conch can breed a special kind of spirit bead, and it can be divided into many colors. They are silver, gold, blue, and green. From bottom to top, they correspond to the realm of the monks. , the silver spiral bead is just the most common, only the quality of the first-level monster inner elixir.

Gold corresponds to foundation building, blue corresponds to Zifu, and green corresponds to golden elixir. This is also the reason why the foundation building monk just opened the silver spiral bead and was extremely disappointed.

The spirit snail in his hand seemed to be medium-sized and cost a lot of spirit stones, but there was only an ordinary-grade silver clam bead inside, so he sighed. "

Hearing this, Xu Zhiyu finally understood. The larger the spirit snails, the more expensive they are, but that doesn't mean that high-quality snail beads can be obtained 100% of the time.

But after thinking about it, this is also reasonable. If the quality of the snail beads is determined entirely according to the size of the spirit snail, then there is no point in betting on snails.

"Then the spiral bead itself is valuable, right? Otherwise, why would a monk spend a large sum of spiritual stones to open it?"

Xu Zhiyu asked as he watched another person in the crowd in front leave happily, holding a snail bead of the same level as his own in his hand.

"Young Master is saying that the spiral beads released from the spirit snails can replace the inner elixir of monsters and be used as materials for refining pills, refining weapons, and forming formations. They have a wide range of uses.

That is to say, this kind of snail beads are not common here. In the snail sea area where this kind of spirit snail originates, these kind of snail beads can be directly used as spirit stones, and they are very popular. "

"I understand, thank you for clarifying."

He looked at Liang Zhuoying beside him, who had been sizing up the crowd. He smiled and shook his head, then led him towards the pool and asked jokingly:
"Fellow Daoist Liang, it seems that you are very good at this, so I wonder what the quality of the highest-grade screw beads you sell is?"

Hearing his question, Liang Zhuoying puffed up her chest and said proudly:

"Sir, I once opened a green conch in this Spiritual Conch Palace eighteen years ago."

"That is equivalent to the inner elixir of a fourth-level monster. You are considered rich."

"Oh, it's hard to describe in words. I only had good luck once. After that, most of the spiral beads I opened were golden. Even blue spiral beads are rare. Overall, I lost a lot."

"Excuse me, please, give way."

When he came to the back of the group of monks, looking at the extremely crowded crowd, Liang Zhuoying took a step forward and began to get into the crowd and squeeze on both sides, trying to open a passage for him.

Now the grooms who were lying by the pool were not happy.

"Who is it? Why are you squeezing?"

"I can't go to such a big place next to me and have to squeeze in here. It's really sick."

"I'm telling you, stop squeezing, otherwise I'll be in a bad mood today and make me angry. I'll have to slap you with my big ears."

Hearing these complaints and even cruel words, Liang Zhuoying, who often hung out here, didn't pay attention at all. He just forced Xu Zhiyu to follow after barely squeezing out a passage.

After passing through the crowd, he came to the edge of the pool and saw hundreds of spirit snails soaking in the not very deep water.

In the center of the pool, there is a stone platform with a radius of one foot, which is higher than the surface of the pool. At this time, several guys who are building foundations are shouting hard at the monks who have formed a circle.

"The latest spirit snails unearthed from the snail and clam sea area, fellow Taoists must not miss it."

"This batch of spirit snails is of high quality. Fellow Taoists who want to take a gamble must not miss this opportunity. I heard that there is a chance that green snail beads can be found among these spirit snails."

Huanshou looked around and found that there were already many monks who reached into the pool to fish out the spirit snails they wanted, and then put them in their hands to check. The clerk didn't stop him. He immediately understood that this might be the rule, so he reached out and took it out casually. A spirit snail only the size of a fist was examined.

However, after looking at them for a long time, he still couldn't see anything. These spirit snails were indeed extraordinary. Nothing could be seen from their appearance, even if he scanned them with his spiritual sense.

The shell is so tight on the outside that you won't know what's inside until you open it.

Suddenly, just when he was about to ask Liang Zhuoying, who was standing next to him, about the price of the spirit snail in his hand, some noisy and excited voices suddenly came from his left side.

"Oh my God, the green conch beads are actually green!"

"You've made a fortune~"

"Alas, I had chosen this spiritual snail that he opened just now, but I gave up at the last moment. What a mistake!"

Among the group of monks, there was a fair-skinned third-level monk who was dancing with a green conch in his right hand and an empty shell of a medium-sized spiritual conch in his left hand.

"Sir, this man has made a fortune. The price of a mid-grade spirit conch is only one hundred mid-grade spirit stones, but the minimum value of a green conch bead is around ten thousand mid-grade spirit stones."

Liang Zhuoying looked at the foundation-building monk, licked his lips, and said with great envy.

His performance actually represented the sentiments of most of the monks present. The monks around him suddenly became excited because of the appearance of this green spiral bead. Their enthusiasm for buying was extremely high, and the atmosphere became even more heated. The monks who were originally dejected because of losing the bet , his face turned red, and he was ready to buy spirit snails again.

"Man, I want these five spirit snails. These are 60,000 spirit stones. Do you think they are enough?"

"I want two spiritual clams, but I don't have enough spiritual stones. You can take this third-level low-grade magic weapon."

"Dude."

Looking at these crazy gamblers, Xu Zhiyu shook his head helplessly, and at the same time secretly warned himself that gambling kills people!
However, Liang Zhuoying beside him didn't think so. He took a storage bag directly from his body, threw it into the hands of a waiter, and then said very proudly:
"Man, I want ten. These ten medium-sized spirit snails are all mine."

"Okay, senior, please wait a moment, I will fish out all these spirit snails, and then you can use your magic power to cut open the shells."

"Okay, stop talking nonsense. It's not my first time here, sir. What are you talking about?"

After getting his own ten spirit snails, Liang Zhuoying did not cut directly, but came to Xu Zhiyu's side. (End of chapter)