The Xu family follows Taoism and seeks longevity

After leaving Lingxiao Palace, Xu Zhiyu made a special trip to Lanxing Peak to visit Qin Yun's master, Master Chu.

"Please wait here for a moment, Senior. I will inform the Peak Master on your behalf."

At the foot of Lanxing Peak, the female cultivator in the late Foundation Establishment stage who was in charge of guarding asked him the purpose of his visit, took him to a pavilion at the bottom of the mountain to sit down, and then ran to report.

Looking at the miraculous beauty around him and drinking the fragrant spiritual tea, Xu Zhiyu began to plan for the next step while waiting for Master Chu to arrive.

After finishing the Lingxiao Sect's business, he planned to go back to the family first to inform his ancestors and others about the expansion of the family's territory, and then gather all the leaders of the forces under his command for a meeting, both to win over the hearts of the people and to intimidate them.

Then it was time for him to set out on his travels. Before his breakthrough, he had already made up his mind to visit Zuzhou, which was the most prosperous place in the human world and where many geniuses emerged.

He thought to himself that he was now considered one of the geniuses, so how could he not go there to gain some knowledge and experience?

Of course, this is only one of the reasons. The main reason is to refine the natal magic weapon.

The skills of the Shenxiao Palace are naturally equipped with corresponding natal magic weapons, and are divided into several levels according to their power.

Of course, as a super power, the Shenxiao Sect’s even the lowest-grade natal magic weapon is much stronger than the natal magic weapons of ordinary cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation.

As for the highest-grade one, it goes without saying that it is absolutely powerful. The natal magic weapon that Xu Zhiyu wants to refine is naturally of the highest grade.

But there is also a big problem here, that is, the materials needed to refine this highest-level innate magic weapon are extremely rare.

According to the information he copied from the Sutra Library in Taiyang Tower, most of the materials are special products of Zuzhou and cannot be found in other continents. Even if you have a lot of spirit stones, you cannot buy them.

As for the other small half, Xu Zhiyu plans to take the opportunity of going to Taiyang Building headquarters to look for them carefully, and he estimates that he can collect a lot of them.

Just as he was planning his next journey, Master Chu had quietly arrived and stood by his side.

Ever since he broke through the Jindan realm, his spiritual awareness had surged again, and was now on par with a seventh-level Jindan cultivator. Therefore, he had noticed the arrival of Master Chu long ago, but in order not to appear different from ordinary people, he did not react in advance.

"I've met senior!"

Xu Zhiyu was the first to speak and say hello.

"You're welcome. Now you're also a Jindan cultivator, so you can just call me fellow Taoist."

"How can that be? You are Yun'er's master, so I'd better call you senior!"

Xu Zhiyu shook his head and didn't intend to do so. The other party was his Taoist partner's master. If he called him fellow Taoist, wouldn't it be confusing the generations?
He knew that his Taoist partner had great respect for her master. If he really addressed her as a fellow Taoist, he would not be able to get along with Qin Yun in the future.

"It's up to you then. Come, sit down and talk."

Master Chu nodded without comment, then invited him to sit down again.

The two were silent for a long time.

Xu Zhiyu didn't know what to say. Including today, he had met Master Chu no more than five times in total, so he really couldn't find a topic to talk about. Of course, he had something to say to the other party this time, and it seemed a bit awkward to speak dryly.

Just as he was racking his brains to find a topic to open the situation, Master Chu, who was sitting opposite him, was staring at him up and down, with relief, satisfaction and pride in his eyes.

In fact, when her disciple won the position of true disciple and expressed his desire to become a Taoist partner with Xu Zhiyu, she did not quite agree.

There is no other reason, I just feel that the difference in their identities is a bit too big. One has the support of a sect and will almost certainly become a Jindan cultivator in the future, while the other was born in a small tribe on the border and his future is worrying.

The reason why she agreed to it was actually a temporary measure. In her opinion, if she was cruel enough to separate the two, she could definitely do it, but her disciple would probably hate her for the rest of his life.

So she thought about it again and again and agreed, but she also put forward a requirement, which was that they could only become Taoist couples after they broke through to the Golden Core Stage.

What she did was actually a blatant conspiracy, because she felt that the possibility of Xu Zhiyu breaking through to become a Jindan stage cultivator was too small. It couldn't be said that it was impossible, but it would definitely take a long time to achieve.

And during this long period of time, her disciple, who was infatuated with so-called love, would definitely face the reality.

Either she breaks up with Xu Zhiyu and becomes like her, never looking for a Taoist partner and focusing on Taoism, or she finds a more outstanding male Jindan cultivator and lives together with him.

If Xu Zhiyu knew what she was thinking, he would definitely curse at her.

But as far as Master Chu is concerned, she doesn't think she did anything wrong. Any master who wants the best for his apprentice would make the same choice as her.

At this moment, she had to admit that she had been mistaken. The male cultivator sitting opposite her, who seemed ordinary to her, had actually achieved the Golden Elixir, and it took him such a short time, which was far beyond her expectations.

In addition, the series of major events that took place at the other party's Golden Core Ceremony, which had been widely reported in recent times, had fundamentally changed her opinion.

"Is there something that has brought you to Lingxiao Sect this time?"

After a long silence, Master Chu finally spoke.

"Yes, I just went to pay a visit to the sect master, reported my identity to him, received the guest token, and confirmed the scope of my Xu family's territory."

Xu Zhiyu replied, and then he paused, took out something from his storage ring and placed it on the stone table in front of the two of them.

"This is?"

Looking at a small brown wooden box on the table with two sealing talismans on it, Master Chu asked in confusion.

“The box contains a dark blue snail bead. I heard that it is very helpful for water-attributed cultivators to break through to the golden elixir stage, so I would like to ask the senior to pass this item to Qin Yun.

When she breaks through the Golden Core in seclusion, she can take this medicine, which will achieve twice the result with half the effort and will definitely help her."

He knew the attributes of Qin Yun's spiritual roots, which were water, wood and earth spiritual roots. The dark blue snail bead he obtained from gambling on snails at the Taiyang Tower headquarters would be of great help to her.

"Okay, you are so thoughtful, I will accept the things on Yun'er's behalf.

I have another piece of good news for you. Yun'er has already broken through to the ninth level of Purple Mansion a few days ago. She is currently in the sect's secret retreat, preparing for a breakthrough to the Golden Core stage!"

"So fast? Last time I heard from my grandfather, wasn't Qin Yun only at the seventh level of Purple Palace? How come she is growing so fast?"

Xu Zhiyu really wanted to figure this out, because cultivation becomes more difficult as time goes by.

It doesn't make sense that it took decades to reach the seventh level from the first level of Purple Mansion, but in just a few years, he broke through from the seventh level to the ninth level. "That's all thanks to you!" Master Chu stared at him and said meaningfully.

"Thanks to me, I don't quite understand what you said."

This is not him pretending to be stupid, but he really doesn't understand.

“The sect didn’t give a specific explanation, they just said Yun’er was extremely talented, and then they rewarded her with a Spiritual Enhancement Pill to help her break through the realm.

This happened the day after your Golden Elixir Ceremony.

Even I was called by the sect master and praised, saying that I had trained a good disciple for the sect, and he also asked about some of your affairs indirectly."

At this point, she couldn't help but sigh that this young man, whom she didn't think highly of back then, would actually allow her to benefit from him one day in the future.

Originally, her cultivation had reached the ninth level of the Golden Core, and it was basically impossible for her to make further progress and become a false infant cultivator.

But now there has been a turning point, which was revealed when the sect leader summoned him last time.

He told her to facilitate the marriage between her disciple and Xu Zhiyu. After the two of them became Taoist couples, she would get the spiritual object that could help her break through the false infant stage.

After chatting with Master Chu about Qin Yun, he turned to ask Master Chu about another matter.

"I wonder if you have heard of the Five Lakes Gang?"

"Five Lakes Gang? Why are you asking about this?"

Master Chu's expression changed and he asked in a hoarse voice.

Seeing the other party's reaction so big, although Xu Zhiyu was a little surprised, he still told the other party everything about the attack by the Five Lakes Gang's Jindan when he broke through.

After completing the transformation of his cultivation method, he used soul-searching skills on the golden elixir that was stored in the sealed space, and only then did he learn the other party's true identity.

But they couldn't find out why they targeted the Xu family.

He asked his ancestors and grandfather, but they both said they had never heard of this force. This made him suspect that the other party might have taken advantage of the situation and attacked his family on impulse.

In addition, there were too many things to worry about later, such as the auction and the Golden Elixir Ceremony, so he put the matter behind him.

It was not until he came to Lingxiao Sect that he remembered it again, so he asked Chu Zhen about it.

Since the other party dared to attack him when he was breaking through, whether it was intentional or unintentional, he would make him pay a sufficient price.

"These shameless villains, after so many years, their behavior is still so shameless."

Master Chu was a little agitated. He stood up suddenly, facing one direction, and cursed with gritted teeth.

"Senior, ..." He hesitated to speak.

Then Master Chu began to tell an old story.

It turned out that three hundred years ago, Master Chu led several of his disciples to a large market on the border of Qin and Jin to attend an auction.

About a month before the auction started, a piece of news suddenly broke out in the market that the cave of an ancient Nascent Soul cultivator had appeared not far away.

Although they were skeptical about the news, many cultivators still went to the scene to check it out. In the end, they concluded that it might really be an ancient cultivator's cave residence.

Now all the cultivators who came to participate in the auction could not sit still, including Master Chu. However, in order to prevent her disciples who were only at the foundation-building stage from taking risks, she did not take them with her, but left them in the market.

However, little did they know that all this was a trick set up by the Five Lakes Gang. After Master Chu and a group of Jindan cultivators destroyed the restrictions outside the cave of the so-called Yuanying cultivator, they discovered that it was empty.

It was not until then that they realized they had been tricked. Just when they wanted to leave, they found that they had been trapped in a pseudo fifth-level formation without knowing when.

This discovery completely panicked all the Jindan cultivators. They began to use all their skills to attack the formation, activating all kinds of talismans one after another as if they had no spirit stones.

Eventually, with their concerted efforts, the formation was finally broken, but at this time, three full days had passed since they were trapped.

They sensed something was wrong and fled to the market place, where they saw only ruins and corpses all over the ground.

It turned out that the robbery gangs of the Wuhu Gang, led by the fake infant monk, had launched an attack on the market town during the days they were trapped. Although the monks in the market town had been resisting tenaciously, they were eventually defeated due to the huge gap in strength.

These robbery cultivators were truly ruthless, and in addition to robbing spiritual objects, they also killed people, set fires, and abducted female cultivators. The several disciples brought by Master Chu were either killed or tortured to death.

That's why she was so excited when she heard the name of the Five Lakes Gang. As for Qin Yun and her fellow apprentice sisters, they were recruited by Master Chu again after that.

"Senior, please accept my condolences!"

Xu Zhiyu expressed his deep sympathy. It would be unbearable for anyone to see so many carefully trained disciples die at once!

"You mean you destroyed the physical body of a Wuhu Gang robber, and imprisoned his golden core and searched his soul, right?"

"Not bad!"

Upon hearing this, Master Chu's face lit up with joy. She didn't care how Xu Zhiyu did it, and continued to ask:
"So, is there any place where the Five Lakes Gang is based in his memory?"

It seems that he is going to take revenge!
"Senior, these guys are too cunning. According to the information I got from soul searching, they don't have a fixed residence at all. They are always on the move and commit crimes. They may be in Qin today and Yue tomorrow.

However, I did find out their approximate range of activities and their next action targets through soul searching. I wonder if this information is useful?"

After he finished speaking, he took out a jade slip and handed it over. It contained the memories of the Five Lakes Gang's Jindan cultivators, and he had made a rough summary of them.

"Okay, I'll take it. I'll go find the Sect Master and report to him privately. If the information you provided can really eradicate the Five Lakes Gang, then you'll have done a great deed."

Master Chu seemed very excited and kept pacing back and forth. She couldn't help but feel a little excited as there was hope that hundreds of years of deep hatred could be avenged.

Seeing this situation, Xu Feng couldn't stay any longer, so he said goodbye and left Ling Xiao Sect. (End of this chapter)