The Xu family follows Taoism and seeks longevity

Xu family, material hall.

Looking at the various spiritual objects piled on the ground, Xu Zhiyu sat upright in a chair, drinking tea with his grandfather without looking away.

A group of family foundation-building monks were holding the gift list and counting it by category. From time to time, a family member would raise his head and loudly report his verification results.

"Reporting to the clan leader, Uncle Twenty-Nine, I have received 396 second-grade lower-quality spiritual herbs, 165 second-grade middle-quality spiritual herbs, and 84 second-grade upper-quality spiritual herbs, which are exactly the same as on the gift list."

"Okay, let's register it!" Xu Chengsheng said with a smile, taking a sip of tea.

"Reporting to the clan leader, Uncle Twenty-Nine, we have received ninety-four kinds of third-grade lower-grade weapon refining spiritual materials, forty-five kinds of third-grade middle-grade spiritual materials, and twenty-three kinds of third-grade upper-grade spiritual materials."

"Haha, good, collect them all and put them all into the family treasury later."

Xu Chengcheng smiled even more happily when he heard that. His weapon-making skills had greatly improved now, and he could easily make a third-grade middle-grade magic weapon.

He is preparing to break through to the third-level upper-grade realm. Now he has so many spiritual materials to practice with. How can he not be happy?

"Reporting to the clan leader, Uncle Twenty-Ninth, I have received eleven fourth-grade low-grade spiritual talismans, seven fourth-grade low-grade spiritual materials, six bottles of fourth-grade mid-grade spiritual pills, and five fourth-grade high-grade magical instruments. The items are valuable, so please check them in person, both elders."

At the Jindan ceremony that just ended, the Jindan forces that came to participate, in addition to each sending five thousand medium-grade spirit stones as a gift, generally also presented a fourth-level spiritual object.

Because the grades of these spiritual objects were too high, the clan members who only had foundation-building cultivation were naturally unable to tell the authenticity. Although the possibility of forgery was very small, they did not dare to take it lightly and had to ask the family elders to reconfirm it.

"Then go and have a look!"

Xu Chengsheng put down the teacup, looked at Xu Zhiyu and said with a smile.

"Let's go and have a look!"

When they came to the fourth-level spiritual object, the grandfather and grandson first picked up the talismans and magical instruments that they were familiar with and examined them.

During the past few years of practicing martial arts, Xu Zhiyu also upgraded his talisman maker level to the fourth-grade lower level, so he could basically judge the quality of these fourth-grade talismans.

"Yes, they are all good stuff, there is no shoddy stuff, you can seal it up now!"

After picking up the talismans and checking them one by one, he kindly gave instructions to his nephew who was waiting on the side.

"Yes!"

Xu Jiwei, a cultivator of the Ji generation of the Xu family, bowed in response. She then took an exquisite purple wooden box, opened the lid, put all the eleven spiritual objects in it, and finally pasted a sealing talisman on the wooden box.

"The quality of this magic weapon is really great. If I were not so weak now, I would definitely refine it and use it as my own magic weapon."

Just as Xu Zhiyu finished dealing with his affairs, he heard his grandfather sighing there, so he turned around and walked over.

Before he got close, he saw his grandfather holding a four-foot-long flying sword that was black and purple in color, extremely sharp, and had a serrated blade. He was waving at it in his hand and praising it non-stop.

The shape of this magic weapon is indeed amazing, but Xu Zhiyu believes that the shape alone should not be able to attract a third-level weapon refiner like his grandfather. There must be other reasons.

"This sword does look good. It must have some special features, right?"

asked Xu Zhiyu, who walked forward and took a closer look and did not see anything unusual.

"Of course, actually, when I first saw this sword just now, I also thought it was just an ordinary fourth-level low-grade magic weapon!

But when I picked it up, I found that it was extremely sharp, and there was a sharpness that seemed to penetrate my body.

Then I began to examine it carefully, and finally found that this magic weapon should be mixed with the fourth-grade top-grade spiritual material Xuan Yao Stone.

According to legend, the Black Yao Stone is the sharpest object. As long as a few coins are mixed into ordinary magic weapons, the magic weapon's ability to break restrictions will be greatly enhanced and the attack power will be increased exponentially.

However, this Xuan Yao Stone is extremely rare. I have participated in several Jindan auctions in the past, trying to find it, but have never been able to do so.

This magic weapon contains a lot of black obsidian, at least three taels, it is really a big gift, Jiliang, check, who gave this magic weapon?"

Xu Chengsheng became more and more excited as he spoke, and gave instructions to the younger generation of the family who were following behind him.

"Yes, clan leader." Xu Jiliang took the jade slip and began to look through it for a while, then replied:

"This fourth-rank, lower-grade magical weapon is registered in the name of a person named Wang Lin, but his origins are not mentioned."

This is strange, thought the head of the Xu family, since it is a gift, you must at least leave your origin, otherwise no one will know where you are from.

However, Xu Zhiyu knew this person, so he continued:

"I know Wang Lin. He is a disciple of Venerable Mu Wei. He must have something else to do and couldn't come, so he asked Senior Tong Ying to bring a gift."

When they heard Xu Zhiyu mention the name of the Venerable Huashen, the heartbeats of all the members of the Material Hall suddenly quickened, as if they were back to the Golden Elixir Celebration that had just ended a few days ago.

When the monks sent by Lingxiao Sect to congratulate arrived, everyone participating in the celebration thought that no one else would come.

But I didn’t expect that more people would arrive one after another, and each one was more powerful than the last.

The first is Xu Zhiyu’s old friend, Lin Yishan, a cultivator from Taiyang Tower, with whom he had dealt before. Ever since he became a disciple of Xia Zhenjun, the eldest disciple of Master Muwei, his status has risen rapidly, and he went directly to the headquarters of Taiyang Tower to work.

And he naturally knew whose help it was to achieve his current status, so during Xu Zhiyu's Golden Elixir Ceremony, he specially sent a valuable gift, a fourth-order low-grade spiritual fruit tree, the fruit of which could enhance one's aptitude and also had a detoxifying effect.

For a family, a spiritual fruit tree is much more powerful than disposable spiritual objects such as magic weapons and elixirs. As long as the spiritual fruit tree is properly cared for, the fruit can be harvested continuously in an endless supply.

The next person to come was Master Li, whom he met in the Donghai Market. He came with Master Zhuang. He was able to have what he has today thanks to Xu Zhiyu, so he came to the Golden Elixir Celebration in person and presented a fourth-grade top-quality elixir as a gift.

The next to come were Master Zhuang’s fellow disciples who had reached the level of Fake Infant Golden Elixir. Some of them came in person, while those who could not come sent gifts through others.

Each of these people gave extraordinary gifts, each of them gave 10,000 middle-grade spirit stones, and then added various fourth-level rare spirit objects as gifts. None of them were ordinary items.

The last two to appear were, of course, Master Zhuang and Tong Ying. The arrival of the two Nascent Soul cultivators directly ignited the atmosphere, and the cultivators who came to participate in the celebration felt that the trip was worthwhile. In fact, at the auction before the Golden Core Celebration, when the fifth-level spiritual objects really appeared, some cultivators with bad intentions had already set their sights on the Xu family.

They didn't dare to attack Taiyang Tower. They just wanted to weigh the weight of the Xu family and find out their background.

But after seeing the Nascent Soul from Taiyang Tower appear, all these people's little thoughts disappeared.

Moreover, when Tong Ying revealed her identity and presented a fifth-order talisman as a gift to Xu Zhiyu's Jindan ceremony on behalf of her father, Venerable Mu Wei, everyone present was dumbfounded, even the Jindan cultivator sent by Lingxiao Sect was no exception.

Tong Ying representing herself and representing her father are two completely different concepts.

The former only means that Xu Zhiyu has a friendship with the Yuanying cultivator, which is nothing to the Lingxiao Sect. The Jindan forces in the Qin State all have Yuanying Zhenjun as their backers to a greater or lesser extent.

If it is the latter, then the identity of the Xu family or Xu Zhiyu is intriguing, and it is not an exaggeration for Lingxiao Sect to attach great importance to it.

When their sect holds the Nascent Soul Ceremony, it is not necessarily possible for Venerable Mu Wei to deliver a gift alone. At most, Taiyang Tower will send a Nascent Soul True Lord to come.

And the most important thing is, in the past, there was only one sect in Xuanzhou Continent that had reached the level of a spirit transformation sect, the Jiushi Sect. All other forces in Xuanzhou were under the jurisdiction of the Jiushi Sect. However, the situation changed after Venerable Mu Wei of Taiyang Tower broke through.

In the future, half of the power may belong to Taiyang Tower and half to Jiushi Sect. The Qin State where Lingxiao Sect is located is adjacent to the Yue State where Taiyang Tower is located. If the sphere of influence is really divided, they will definitely be assigned to Taiyang Tower.

So how should Lingxiao Sect deal with Xu Zhiyu or the Xu family, who are related to Venerable Mu Wei, in the future? This is a very important question.

Anyone who has experienced the Golden Elixir Ceremony will never forget it, because it is so shocking.

They would never have imagined that their family would one day have contact with the Venerable Huashen.

So when they heard Xu Zhiyu mention it again, they all stopped what they were doing, hoping to hear some other secrets.

However, Xu Zhiyu just mentioned it and didn't say anything else. Using the tiger's skin as a banner is for outsiders to see, there is no need to show off in front of your own people.

After final statistics, it was found that the Xu family received too many gifts at this Golden Elixir Ceremony.

Not to mention anything else, the spirit stones alone are enough to scare everyone.

There were more than 7 million low-grade spirit stones, more than 280,000 medium-grade spirit stones, and even 100 high-grade spirit stones, which were donated by Zhuang Zhenjun, Xia Zhenjun, and Tong Ying.

Adding all these spirit stones together is almost enough to upgrade the Xu family's spirit vein again.

However, the Xu family now has only one Jindan cultivator, and the spiritual energy emanating from the spiritual vein is enough for the family members to use, so these spirit stones must be sealed up for emergency use.

In addition to spiritual medicines, the Xu family received too many elixirs, magical instruments, talismans, formations, spiritual plants, spiritual beasts and so on.

If these things are digested, the Xu family's strength will definitely reach a new level.

"Yu'er, our family doesn't need many of these mid-grade spirit stones. You should take 100,000 with you. Aren't you planning to travel to Zuzhou next? It is necessary to bring more spirit stones."

Looking at the mid-grade spirit stone stored in the special storage ring, Xu Chengsheng thought for a while and said to his grandson.

"No, Grandfather, you should keep these spiritual stones in the family treasury. I have no shortage of spiritual stones to spend."

This is not because he is modest, but it is the truth. The last time the Wuhen Flower was sold, it sold for 300,000 medium-grade spirit stones.

Among them, 250,000 were used to upgrade the spiritual veins of the market town and the protective formation, and the remaining 50,000 medium-grade spirit stones were still lying in his storage ring and had not been used.

Moreover, at the subsequent auction, the three fifth-tier spiritual medicines he took out almost caused a fight among the six Nascent Soul cultivators who came here for his reputation. In the end, they were all auctioned off at extremely high prices.

These three spiritual herbs were auctioned for nearly 700,000 mid-grade spirit stones. After deducting the 10% handling fee, there were still more than 600,000 left. All of these were kept in his storage ring. How could he be short of spirit stones?
"You should still take some. I know you don't lack spiritual stones, but among these gifts, half of them are yours. If you don't need them, you can give them to your father and mother!"

Xu Chengsheng advised like this.

At the Golden Elixir Ceremony, after Tong Ying revealed her identity, Xu Zhiyu also announced one thing to all the clan members, which was the true identity of his parents.

Anyway, with the Venerable Huashen watching him, he had nothing to be afraid of. Moreover, as his strength grew, he discovered one thing.

It turned out that helping a Qi-refining cultivator who was over sixty years old to build his foundation was not a difficult task at all. He was just too ignorant and made a mistake.

In fact, a large Nascent Soul sect like Lingxiao Sect can do it, but he has never been exposed to this kind of information before, so he doesn't know it.

From then on, his parents returned to the clan's attention, but the fellow cultivators who really knew the couple had basically died out, and only Xu Zhengji, who ranked 29th in the Zheng generation, was still alive.

"Okay, then I'll take 50,000 middle-grade spirit stones. My parents are already late-stage Purple Mansion cultivators now, so they have to pay for it every year."

Hearing his grandson talking about this, Xu Chengcheng was speechless. Since the day his son Xu Zhengyang was born, his cultivation had always been superior to his.

This situation lasted for nearly two hundred years. He never thought that one day his cultivation would be surpassed by his son.

It wasn't because he wasn't diligent enough in his cultivation that his cultivation level increased too slowly. It was really because his son's cultivation level increased too quickly, as if he had eaten some rare treasure. However, he was very sensible about this matter and didn't ask too many questions.

Some things are hard to talk about directly even among family members, like the fact that Xu Zhiyu can charge all kinds of talismans. He knows it but his son and daughter-in-law don't.

"Hey, that's right!"

Seeing that his grandson took out 50,000 spirit stones as he had instructed, Xu Chengsheng nodded with satisfaction.

The family has earned too many spirit stones through the auction and exchange fair this time, and all of this was brought by Xu Zhiyu. If he didn't accept any of it, then he, as the patriarch, would definitely feel bad.

"Alright, all the spiritual objects and stones have been sealed, and the accounts have all been checked. There are no mistakes or omissions. Let's go back!"

After putting away all the sealed spiritual objects, Xu Chengsheng said.

"Well, let's go to the meeting room. I have a few things to explain briefly, and then I have to report to Lingxiao Sect." (End of this chapter)