Chongming Xianzong

Chapter 136: After the storm, forge ahead

"Yes, yes, yes, Taoist brother, take care. Don't worry. Just wait for uncle-master to summon you, and I will definitely convey the message to you." Kang Dabao stood under the archway of Chongming Sect, and with a smile on his face he sent away the disciple of Hemu Dao who came specially to invite Taoist Heilu to return to the mountain gate.

On the sixth day of September in the 424th year of Qianfeng in the David Immortal Dynasty, the great leader Kang of the Chongming Sect celebrated his birthday. He had a good official position and good wealth, and there were no taboos.

This year, the head of the Kang family was thirty-seven years old and had reached the sixth level of Qi training. Behind closed doors, he could shamelessly claim that he had a good chance of building a foundation.

The disciples of Hemu Dao didn't calculate the date well before coming, not only they failed to invite their uncle-master back, but also they happened to arrive on Kang Dabao's birthday, so they had to hold their noses and take out a bottle of cultivation elixir as a gift.

But the Taoist Heilu was in seclusion and could not see him, so he could only drink a few glasses of wine, then made excuses that he had something to do, and returned in a depressed mood with nothing.

The head of the Kang family was not affected by the misfortune of others. Today, all the Chongming Sect members gathered together for a rare occasion. Even Zhou Xinran rarely left the Chongming Tower. He also invited the three young cultivators of the Ye family to have a drink, making the head of the family courtyard, which was still preserved in its original state, very lively.

On such a good day, he had no intention to persuade Heilu Taoist to go back on behalf of Hemu Dao. The latter had always taught his disciples all his knowledge during his time in Chongming Sect. Not only did Pei Yi successfully break through to the seventh level of Qi training, but even Yuan Jin broke through the bottleneck and reached the sixth level of Qi training, and stood on the same starting line with the head of Kangda Sect.

The one who benefited the most was naturally not Kang Dabao. Jiang Qingcai really made great progress. Not only was his cultivation about to break through to the ninth level of Qi training, but even his attainments in swordsmanship were improving with each passing day.

If he continues like this, according to Taoist Heilu, Jiang Qing will be able to establish his foundation before he turns forty!
Seeing that he was one step closer to taking the position of the founder of the revival, Kang Dabao was eager to build a golden statue for the Taoist Heilu and enshrine him in the ancestral hall, and have his disciples kowtow to him every morning and evening. How could he be willing to lobby for his old acquaintances from the Hemu Dao?

However, when Taoist Heilu comes out of seclusion, he will definitely bring these things with him.

However, Taoist Heilu did not accept any disciples in Hemu Dao. Now judging from his attitude towards Kang Dabao and his fellow disciples, it seems that those disciples in Hemu Dao are not as close to this side as they are. They may not leave after hearing the news.

It’s not just Black-Shoe Taoist’s unlucky nephew who came to give gifts today.

Upon hearing that Master Kang was celebrating his birthday today, the people from Qinghan Court across the street also sent a gift. It was brought by a little girl with double flat buns.

The little girl seemed to be called Ping'er. She was pretty, well-behaved and polite.

What Fei Shuhe sent was not expensive. It was just an exquisite food box containing seven or eight kinds of spiritual snacks.

It is rich in spiritual power and can be a great supplement for those who practice Qigong. It is a rare thing that is rarely seen in rural areas like Pingrong County.

Kang Dabao thanked the little girl and took out a few spirit stones as a reward. The little girl did not despise him and took them with a smile, then skipped all the way back to Qinghan Courtyard.

Fei Shuhe has been staying at home since he moved into the Qinghan Courtyard. It has been nearly half a year, and even the head of the Kang family has not seen his wife.

The disciples who guard Qinghan Academy often take leave and come out to move around nearby. Most of them behave in a dissolute and unruly manner, and have a bad reputation.

The matron who came with the dowry in the courtyard should be surnamed Sun, and she was also a foundation-building cultivator. But it seemed that her old injuries had not healed yet, and she had been recuperating most of the time in the past few months.

Kang Dabao had never seen this Madam Sun, but the Taoist Heilu had mentioned her before, saying that she was not an ordinary foundation-building person and that Kang Dabao should be respectful when they met her.

There was no need for Taoist Heilu to remind him of this, as Master Kang was a cautious person by nature. As long as someone was building a foundation, no matter how unusual it was, he would naturally treat them with respect.

In the past few months, not only Fei Shuhe stayed at home, but Kang Dabao also stayed at home and practiced in the house for half a year. He handed over the general affairs of the sect to the four junior brothers. Because of the clear arrangement of various affairs before, all industries of Chongming Sect developed in an orderly manner.

After Lu Xun learned that the head of Kangda had married the daughter of the Fei family, his heart instantly fell, and it seemed that he had lost the courage to compete with the latter.

He also specially invited Jiang Qing and Duan Anle to take the Chongming Sect's pack animals along for a trade trip. Once the caravan was fully formed, they could sell it off from the He family caravan and form a caravan jointly managed by all the families (Chongming Sect).

After Pei Yi made further progress in his practice, he got rid of all the pent-up energy in his heart, and his attainments in alchemy also improved further. He showed signs of being promoted to a first-class intermediate-grade alchemist.

At the same time, because of the low prices and good craftsmanship, the business of commissioned alchemy in Chongming Building has also improved a lot.

This is not only a good business for the sect to earn spirit stones, but more importantly, in the process of refining the elixir, they can also come into contact with some unprecedented elixir recipes and take the opportunity to gain access to the sect and accumulate foundation.

After Yuan Jin was traumatized by Kang Dabao being forced into battle, the hostility in his heart seemed to have dissipated a lot, and he no longer just went for show when reciting scriptures in the morning and evening.

Apart from the fact that he was still reluctant to give up the White Ape Sutra and start over, he listened to all the instructions given by Master Kang.

During the past six months, Yuan Jin spent a lot of time and effort in his practice to recast a Shutu Qingyuan Shield for Kang Dabao.

Although it is still only a mid-grade first-grade shield, compared to the previously destroyed Shutu Qingyuan Shield, Yuan Jin not only used better materials in the recasting process, which consumed less spiritual power to control, but also significantly improved the shield's defensive capabilities.

Even though Jiang Qing's strength has improved a lot compared to the last time he tested the shield, the sword mark left by his full-strength sword attack on the newly-forged Shutu Qingyuan Shield is still shallower than the last time.

As Master Qi thought, his apprentice Yuan Jin was not bad in the art of refining weapons. What he lacked was some exclusive secrets and experience in refining weapons. Yuan Jin could learn the former from the practice notes left by the predecessors of the sect, and the latter was also beginning to show results in daily accumulation, which made Yuan Jin barely sit on the position of a first-class mid-grade weapon master.

Thanks to the relationship between Kang Dazhang and Fei's legitimate son-in-law, the business of Chongming Market has really flourished. Zhou Yixiu, the farming master, not only helped Zhou Xinran to manage the business of Chongming Xiaolou from time to time, but also carefully explored the earth veins while taking good care of the old spiritual fields and the big locust tree. Together with Kang Rongquan, he opened up two acres of first-level lower-grade spiritual fields, accumulating a lot of good deeds.

By the way, it is particularly worth mentioning that during the half year that Master Kangda devoted himself to practice.

Except for Jiang Qing, who had never taken care of anything, the other three brothers got together and spent a lot of time and effort to restore and improve the good deeds system that had been abandoned in Chongming Sect. This was a further farewell to the bad habit of not distinguishing between public and private affairs in Chongming Sect in the past.

From then on, the sect could use good deeds instead of spirit stones to pay annual salaries to disciples at a one-to-one ratio.

This measure can not only greatly alleviate the long-standing shortage of spirit stones in the Chongming Sect, but also, after the disciples have done good deeds, they can exchange and apply for some precious items that were previously collected by the great master Kang but were difficult to distribute directly, so as to further motivate the disciples to complete the tasks assigned by the sect and practice diligently.

The sect's public treasury, the sect's treasury and Kang Dabao's storage bag were completely separated from then on, and the sect finally had the appearance of a normal sect.

After the birthday banquet of Master Kang Da, the Chongming Sect had to prepare intensively for the annual Ascension Conference.

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