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Chapter 123 Cong Yun: These days are getting harder and harder
After soaking in Qun Yao's spiritual pool for half a month and completely integrating the Jiamu Divine Source into his own meridians, Zhang Wei was about to leave Yulong Mountain.

But he was not alone.

Qun Yao also followed.

Because she heard from Zhang Wei that Chi Lian's medical skills and alchemy skills were superb, and Zhang Wei also testified in person, she left her newly-divided second-level spiritual vein and followed Zhang Wei to Jin State in the name of traveling.

She said she wanted Chi Lian to give her a treatment plan.

Zhang Wei has no objection.

But before that, Zhang Wei still had one thing to do.

The Imperial Palace of Jin.

As the imperial palace of the largest country in Baicao Territory, it was naturally renovated in an extremely magnificent manner, and its area was almost as large as the entire Yundu.

But the main reason for this is that the Ji family is a half-immortal cultivation family with many cultivators in the family, and they cannot display their skills in a small place.

The imperial palace was naturally heavily guarded, but for Zhang Wei, a cultivator in the late Foundation Establishment stage, and Qun Yao, a cultivator in the early Purple Mansion stage, the Ji family cultivators guarding the gate did not even dare to stop them.

First invite Zhang Wei and Qun Yao into the palace, and then invite Princess Ji Ning, who had cooperated with Zhang Wei in the past, to come for the liaison.

Not long after, Ji Ning, dressed in a green palace dress, arrived. She burst into tears of joy when she saw Zhang Wei for the first time.

"senior!"

Qun Yao frowned and sent a message to Zhang Wei.

"Xiao Fan, are you related to this Princess Ji Ning?"

Zhang Wei replied: "It doesn't matter."

Qun Yao asked in confusion: "Then why did she cry when she saw you?"

"Excited..."

As he spoke, Zhang Wei took out a jade box from the mustard seed bag and handed it to Ji Ning, saying, "This is the spiritual essence of heaven and earth that you want."

Upon hearing this, Ji Ning forgot all the polite words and excitedly opened the jade box. When she saw the immortal wood spirit heart inside, her eyes lit up.

It is indeed the spiritual essence of heaven and earth!
An opportunity to build a foundation!

I can finally become a foundation-building person!

At this time, Zhang Wei's indifferent voice came.

"Where are my things?"

Ji Ning came back to his senses and bowed to Zhang Wei, "Please wait a moment, senior! I'll have someone bring it to you right away!"

As he said this, he waved his hand, asked the maids under his command to leave, and closed the door.

Then Ji Ning put away the Immortal Wood Spirit Heart, sat down leisurely, and said with a smile: "Two months ago, the Shennong Secret Realm ended. I heard that a Purple Mansion monster lurked in the secret realm, killing more than 300 foundation-building cultivators who entered it.

Afterwards, I waited for you for a long time but you didn’t come. I thought you had died in the Shennong Secret Realm.

Fortunately, the senior was blessed by heaven and managed to survive. As the saying goes, those who survive a great disaster will have good fortune in the future. In the future, the senior will surely be able to ascend to the Purple Palace!"

Zhang Wei said calmly: "Thank you for your good words."

Then Ji Ning showed a trace of shyness on her face, and said hesitantly: "I got a dual cultivation technique some time ago, I wonder if the senior has it..."

The corner of Zhang Wei's eye twitched.

Good man, you still care about my body?

Just as he was about to refuse, Qun Yao next to him said coldly: "We are cultivators. We have not yet achieved the Great Dao. How can we be greedy for the pleasures of men and women!"

"Eh?"

Ji Ning then realized that there was someone sitting next to Zhang Wei.

No, or rather a woman!

At first, when Ji Ning saw Qun Yao’s big body, she thought that the other party was Zhang Wei’s bodyguard. However, when she opened her mouth and heard her voice, she realized that it was a woman!
But isn’t this too tall?

Qun Yao ignored Ji Ning's shocked expression, and just turned to Zhang Wei and warned: "Xiao Fan, you must keep yourself clean! Don't be like some people who are so young and have no ambition, and only know how to take these crooked ways all day long!"

When she spoke later, Qun Yao's tone became very cold.

The aura belonging to the Purple Mansion Realm was released involuntarily, making Ji Ning's face extremely pale with fear.

"Zi...Master Zifu?!"

Ji Ning was completely stunned. She thought the woman next to Zhang Wei was at least a foundation-building master, but it turned out to be a Purple Mansion Master!
She quickly knelt down and said, "My little girl is rude. I didn't know you were here, so I offended you. Please forgive me!"

While they were talking, the maid who went to get the key came back. As soon as she opened the door, she saw her princess kneeling on the ground with her hands and knees prostrated. She was stunned.

But Ji Ning didn't care about the maid seeing her ugly appearance. She quickly got up and took the key from the maid, then respectfully presented it with both hands and said, "Master, this is the key to our ancestral cave."

Qun Yao took the key in her hand, checked it, and then handed it to Zhang Wei, then snorted coldly: "Get up, I hope your things are real! Otherwise...

I still have some face in Baicao Pavilion, and they will probably be willing to replace me with an obedient member of the Jin royal family."

Upon hearing this, Ji Ning immediately said in fear and trepidation: "It is absolutely true! It is absolutely true! I swear, this is absolutely true!"

To be honest, Ji Ning, or the Ji family did have some ideas about the cave, so they wanted to take advantage of the fact that Zhang Wei and the late foundation building monster were both injured to see if they could take advantage of the situation.

But now Qun Yao appears.

A bargain?
Pick up a fart!

At this moment, Ji Ning wished she could lead Zhang Wei and the others to prove her loyalty!
Zhang Wei smiled and advised: "Quanyao, don't scare the children."

Qun Yao snorted coldly and said meaningfully: "Xiao Fan, you are still too kind. Some people just need to be warned so that they can understand what they should and shouldn't do!"

Ji Ning on the opposite side was already shaking like a sieve...

Just like that, after the two men, one playing the good cop and the other playing the bad cop, scared Ji Ning, they left the Jin Palace directly.

After Zhang Wei and the other man left, Ji Ning stood up tremblingly with the help of her maid, and then left with a face full of shame and anger. A puddle of water was left where she had been kneeling.

……

On the way, Zhang Wei played with the secret key, and in his mind he recalled the information about the ancestor of the Ji family, Master Chi Jin, a mid-stage Purple Mansion cultivator.

Master Chi Jin was one of the few Purple Mansion cultivators who had achieved enlightenment among the five regions. He was quite famous in the Baicao Region more than a thousand years ago.

However, after becoming Zifu, he did not return to the inland to occupy the spiritual veins and establish a family of immortal cultivation or even a sect. Instead, he continued to live in seclusion in the Jiexian Mountains and finally passed away in obscurity.

Based on the information provided by Ji Ning, Zhang Wei speculated that the reason why Master Chi Jin did not return to the inland was that on the one hand, he did not want the news of the half of the Hundred Herbs Fertile Map to leak out, and on the other hand, the Maple Forest Mountain spiritual vein where he was located was a second-level spiritual vein.

Don’t think that there are many second-level spiritual veins just because the Canglong Mountain spiritual vein occupied by his Zhang family is a second-level spiritual vein. There are only more than thirty large regional sects in the Five Regions. Apart from the five major sects, there are less than forty second-level spiritual veins detected in total.

The competitive pressure is hundreds of times greater than that of the Foundation Building Family.

If Master Chi Jin returned to the inland, he probably wouldn't be able to enjoy the convenience of high-level spiritual veins, and wouldn't be able to reach a higher level.

So he simply continued to live in seclusion in the Jiexian Mountains.

But this has dug a hole for future generations.

It was fine when Master Chi Jin was alive. With his strength of the middle stage of Purple Mansion, ordinary big monsters did not dare to cause trouble for him. But now that he has passed away, his descendants will not be able to guard the family business in the dangerous Jiexian Mountains.

As a result, his descendants have become worse and worse, and now they have to ask Zhang Wei for help to obtain the spiritual essence of heaven and earth to build their foundation.

But the affairs of the Ji family have nothing to do with Zhang Wei. What he really cares about now are the two most valuable treasures in Master Chijin’s cave.

A quasi-fourth-tier magic weapon, the fragment of the Hundred Herbs Fermenting Picture and that second-tier spiritual vein!

With the spiritual energy of the second-level spiritual vein and the high-quality spiritual plants and ripening effect provided by the Hundred Herbs Flourishing Map, Zhang Wei can stay in it and practice until he reaches the Purple Mansion! As for whether it would be dangerous for him, who is in the late stage of foundation building, to explore the Purple Mansion Cave.

If it was before, Zhang Wei would have tried again after he broke through the Purple Palace, but now...

Zhang Wei took a look at the fourth-grade top-quality Star Flow Spirit Veil in the Sumeru Ring, as well as a large number of third-grade magic weapons and third-grade talismans, and then turned to look at Qun Yao, who was in the early stage of Purple Mansion and was following him.

How about being safe and sending a message to Dongli Qingtong to ask her to come over and help? Or wait another two years, until Yuxianlong also breaks through the Purple Mansion, and then bring everyone over to do the dungeon together?

But if that's the case, how are the spoils distributed?
With this thought in mind, Zhang Wei brought Qun Yao back to Maixiang Village after two months away.

Then he pushed open the door of Chi Lian's courtyard with ease and called out, "Chi Lian!"

However, the first one to come forward was not Chi Lian, but a blue-faced Congyunlu.

"Second Master!"

Cong Yun knelt down at Zhang Wei's feet, crying. His miserable appearance made Zhang Wei think that something had happened to him.

Cong Yun cried and wailed, "It's so good that you're back! I can't live like this anymore!"

"What's wrong? Um..."

Zhang Wei had just said half of his question when he suddenly smelled a foul odor from Cong Yun. Then, with a puffing sound, clouds of yellow-green poisonous gas gushed out of Cong Yun's anus.

Zhang Wei and Qun Yao silently took two steps back.

"It stinks, what did you eat?"

At this time, Chi Lian's voice came from the direction of the alchemy room.

"The elixir I've been experimenting with recently is called the Detoxification and Removal Pill. However, after thousands of years, the properties of some spiritual medicines have changed, so the effects will be different. Let Cong Yun try it out to see how it works."

Chi Lian walked out of the alchemy room, holding a plate of pills in her hands. Her movements were very brisk, and then she saw Qun Yao following Zhang Wei...

"Master Zhang..."

Chi Lian stopped and said quietly, "I think you need to explain to me why Fellow Daoist Qun Yao followed you here."

Qun Yao chuckled and asked, "Why, fellow Daoist Chi Lian, don't you welcome me?"

Chi Lian said calmly: "This is just a small temple. It would be too unfair for Qun Yao to come here."

Qun Yao said calmly, "I'm not wronged. I heard from Xiao Fan that your alchemy and medical skills are extraordinary and are the only ones he has ever seen. It just so happens that the ointment you gave me was indeed very effective, so I came to take a look, and I also want to ask Daoist Fellow Chi Lian to diagnose me as well."

Chi Lian didn't say anything, but just turned his head and looked at Zhang Wei.

So Zhang Wei told Chi Lian the whole story, hoping that she could come up with a treatment plan for Qun Yao.

After listening to this, Chi Lian smiled inexplicably, and while feeding a normal detoxification pill to Cong Yun, whose face turned blue, he said, "Master Zhang, you really introduced me to a good business."

However, just when Zhang Wei thought Chi Lian was going to agree, he heard Chi Lian speak coldly.

"But I refuse."

Zhang Wei: “Eh?”

Chi Lian said indifferently: "I am not short of cultivation resources now, so I want to concentrate on cultivation for the next period of time and strive to break through the late stage of foundation building as soon as possible.

If it weren't for the fact that I had already made an agreement with you, Master Zhang, and that you could refine weapons for me, I would have wanted to just push your work off so that I could save more time for cultivation."

Zhang Wei glanced at Qun Yao, then secretly sent a message to Chi Lian: "Chi Lian, Qun Yao has already reached the Purple Palace..."

Chi Lian glanced at Zhang Wei and said bluntly, "Why? Master Zhang doesn't want to work hard anymore, so he wants to get close to a Purple Mansion Master and eat some free food?"

Chi Lian's words were very harsh, and Zhang Wei could feel the other party's unfriendly gaze even through the veil.

Zhang Wei couldn't help but ask in a voice transmission: "Chi Lian, what's wrong with you today? You weren't like this before."

Chi Lian snorted coldly.

"Relatives are coming."

Zhang Wei was stunned for a moment, his brain didn't react to Chi Lian's words for a while. After a while, he realized that this relative was not that relative.

Immortal cultivators are also human beings, and they will have the same menstrual period as humans. In addition, due to the overall enhancement of their physical attributes, if some illnesses occur, the reaction may be even greater.

But Zhang Wei didn't feel that Chi Lian looked like a relative.

Is it because of...jealousy?
As soon as this idea came to mind, it was strangled by Zhang Wei.

Bah, Zhang Wei, you are despicable!

Zhang Wei recalled Chi Lian's warnings twice, suppressed his ridiculous idea, and continued to transmit the message to Chi Lian.

He advised: "Chi Lian, Qun Yao is already a third-level primary spiritual talisman master. If you build a good relationship with her, you can ask her for help if you need spiritual talismans in the future."

"And I also found a cave of a Purple Mansion Master in the Jiexian Mountains. There is a second-level spiritual vein in it. If we practice there, we can get twice the result with half the effort. We can practice all the way to the Purple Mansion Realm. And this also requires the help of Qun Yao!"

Chi Lian didn't say anything this time. He just looked at Zhang Wei for a while and then sighed.

He said in an inexplicable tone: "Well, since you said so, Mr. Zhang, I have no reason to refuse."

Then Chi Lian looked at Qun Yao, stretched out three fingers and said: "I can arrange a professional recuperation plan for you, Fellow Daoist Qun, but I have three requirements."

Qun Yao raised her eyebrows and said, "Please speak."

Chi Lian: "First of all, Master Zhang originally asked me to work for 50,000 taels of gold per year. And now my time is even more valuable, so you have to pay me at least 100,000 taels of gold per year. If you don't have money, you can use the third-level spiritual talisman you drew as collateral."

Qun Yao thought about it and decided that although the price of one hundred thousand taels of gold a year was a bit exaggerated, it would not be unacceptable if Chi Lian was really as magical as Zhang Wei said.

What's more, she can also draw talismans to resist.

So Qun Yao nodded and said, "Okay."

Then Chi Lian said, "Secondly, Fellow Daoist Qun Yao is the Purple Mansion Master of Yulong Mountain. I believe he can get some special treasures. So I would like to ask Fellow Daoist Qun Yao to bring these things to me. Of course, I will pay for it myself!"

It was a very normal request, so Qun Yao agreed.

However, Chi Lian continued to keep the secret, "As for the third point... I haven't thought about it yet, let's talk about it later."

Qun Yao paused, then smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Chi Lian is indeed as eccentric as the rumors say. But I agree... on the premise that your method is indeed useful."

After making his request, Chi Lian said, "There is an empty room in the courtyard. Fellow Daoist Qun Yao, please pack up and stay here first.

As for Master Zhang, there is a fire-refining pill I prepared for you in your room. After taking it, you can practice Shaoyang Gong with twice the result with half the effort. Remember to finish your practice and rest early. I will go to refine the pill first."

After saying that, Chi Lian turned and left.

Qun Yao said, "Then Xiao Fan, I will go clean up the room first."

"Well... okay, I'll go practice first."

Zhang Wei nodded, then went into his room with no intention of helping Qun Yao clean up her room.

Are you kidding? It’s a girl’s room. What can a grown man like me do to help?

And since we are all monks, cleaning the room can be done with just a few spells.

Qunyao: “…”

Turning around and taking a look at Chi Lian's alchemy room, Qun Yao narrowed her eyes, then went to clean up her own room.

Only Congyun and a deer were left there, looking at the sky and sighing.

Look at the sky, these days are getting harder and harder...

(End of this chapter)