Chongming Xianzong

Chapter 163 After Returning to the Sect
Pei Yi pointed at the alchemy cauldron, and a white vapor mixed with a few drops of black residue rose up.

A trace of disappointment appeared on Pei Yi's handsome face, but he still made a pinch of the Dan Ning hand seal, and the lid of the cauldron flew steadily onto the table beside him. Several pills covered with black stars shot out from the cauldron and fell into Pei Yi's hands.

"Tsk, it's still a second-rate pill." The contemporary number one alchemist in Chongming Sect sighed deeply. This was his sixteenth batch of Miaoyu Pill in the past two months, and he still hadn't succeeded.

Even though Miaoyu Pill is the easiest first-grade intermediate pill to make, and the ingredients used are not precious, Pei Yi has already used up sixteen cauldrons to refine a good pill and has wasted a lot of spirit stones.

You have to know that the Chongming Sect is not rich nowadays, which made Pei Yi frown.

Pei Yi lightly raised his slender fingers, and a slight breeze blew up in the room, picking up the pills one by one and putting them into the jade bottle one by one.

Although the inferior Miaoyu Pills were not as valuable as the good ones, the cultivators in Pingrong County were all very wealthy, so as long as there were people to sell them, they would not have to worry about sales, and in fact they could sell them for quite a bit of spirit stones.

If you calculate it this way, the spirit stones Pei Yi wasted were not that many, but he still felt a little guilty.

"Junior Brother Yuan has been in the training room for a month or two and has not come out. It seems that he is worried because of the sect's financial difficulties.

Junior Brother Zhou has been guarding the spiritual field day and night these days, and a few days ago he said he wanted to go to the spiritual land near Yejia Hengshan to take a look. He was thinking about whether he could open up a few more acres of spiritual field and let Mo Ku take care of it.

Junior Brother Jiang has already taken out a lot of his treasures in exchange for good deeds for the sect, and there are several things in the warehouse that are worth exchanging for good deeds.

Even Junior Brother Ye, who had just joined the sect, was thinking of taking care of the external affairs disciples and then opening a shop at the sect gate, relying on his spiritual inspection skills.

Even Anle began to wonder when he could bring his pack animals to help the He family caravan again so that he could earn some spirit stones to support his family.

The head brother had just returned from the dangerous Lingshi mine in Tanggu County. He didn't even have time to rest before Uncle Hei Lu took Junior Brother Zhou out to see something.

He works so hard, so we, his juniors, should do our best.

Unfortunately, my aptitude is too poor. I was stuck at the bottleneck of the late stage of Qi training, wasting many years. Now, I am still unable to reach the level of a mid-level alchemist."

Pei Yi sighed again and pushed open the small door of the alchemy room.

Outside the alchemy room is Pei Yi's own courtyard. The furnishings are very similar to Kang Dabao's courtyard as the head of the sect, but there is no chess table.

Among the three disciples, Kang Rongquan, Ye Yaoling and Yuan Changsheng, although the first two had entered the Taoism and could live in separate courtyards according to the rules set by Kang Dabao before, Pei Yi took into consideration that they were still young, so he also assigned dormitories to each of them in this courtyard to make it easier to teach them at all times.

Today, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse. Pei Yi felt quite depressed. He walked out of the courtyard and flew his sword to relax. The night wind and the stars brushed through his hair, which seemed to take away a lot of melancholy in his heart.

Pei Yi walked for a while and saw Lu Yunniang bidding farewell to Kang Dabao and Zhou Yixiu. Curious, after the former left, Pei Yi also landed in front of the two.

"Master Brother, Junior Brother Zhou, why is Lu Yunniang here?" Pei Yi asked curiously.

"It's still about the matter of the spirit bees collecting honey. The head brother Gao Yi decided to keep the matter as it is. He reassured Lu Yunniang and said that the shares of the two families would not change and we would talk about it after the agreed time."

Zhou Yixiu answered with a look of regret on his face. If Kang Dabao could really do as he said, Emperor Chongming would be able to earn a lot more money this year by relying on the locust flowers of this tree.

"If it's just this matter, why do you have to talk to Master Brother so late?" Pei Yi felt strange and asked again.

"The head of the Lu family also asked Lu Yunniang to send a letter. The letter said that our people have almost mastered the skills they learned from the He family caravan. He asked the head brother to find a time to discuss with Brother He Shi to see when the caravan route can be planned." Zhou Yixiu went on to explain, his face lit up with joy when he talked about this.

"Oh, this is good news!" Pei Yi's face showed even more joy. This was a long-term business.

Since the destruction of Chongming Market, the sect's income has been greatly reduced. If Pei Yi and Yuan Jin had not reactivated the good deeds system beforehand, Chongming Sect would have had difficulty paying the annual salaries of its disciples this year.

"It's a good thing indeed, but what a pity." The head of Kangda looked at Pei Yi, paused, and suddenly said: "Junior brother Pei, I'm not saying anything too much, but if you do it now... we still have a chance to regret it. Senior brother, go and talk to the Kuai family. If not, senior brother, go and talk to the He family. If it really doesn't work, let them agree to let the little sister of the Kuai family do the urination."

The news that Lu Xun asked Lu Yunniang to bring not only included asking him to meet with He Dezong to discuss the caravan, but also the news that He Dezong had just broken through to the ninth level of Qi training not long ago.

This made Kang Dabao think about marrying into the He family again. He knew that his brother was practicing the top-grade Hong-level martial arts "Ningxin Jue".

This martial art is of a high grade and is difficult to master, but its fighting skills are not much more outstanding than other martial arts of the same grade. It just has one particularly outstanding advantage, which is that it is said to increase the probability of building a foundation.

Because of this benefit, this technique can be considered a "secret" technique even among many foundation-building forces. It is the reward that three generations of the He family received through their dedicated service to the foundation-building cultivator.

If the success rate of an ordinary cultivator in building a foundation without relying on external forces is about 50%, then the probability of a cultivator who practices the "Concentration Heart Technique" in building a foundation will increase to more than 10%.

Moreover, even if a cultivator who practices the Concentrated Heart Technique fails in building a foundation for the first time, he is usually not seriously injured, and in theory he will have a second chance to build a foundation. He Dezong is not even fifty years old yet, and is in his prime. If you think about it carefully, it is still possible for him to build a foundation.

Compared to the small Kuai family, the head of Kangda would of course prefer to become relatives with powerful families like the He family.

"Brother, let's not talk about this anymore," Pei Yi shook his head immediately, "How can I refuse something that has already been agreed to? Just for the sake of Master's teaching, I will never regret this marriage with the Kuai family. I should have ambition, and I don't need to rely on my wife's family on the road of cultivation, and I can still succeed."

Kang Dabao saw that Pei Yi was determined, so he stopped trying to persuade him. Unfortunately, Zhou Yixiu was too old, Ye Zhengwen's face was incomplete, and Jiang Qing himself was reluctant to let him go, otherwise the He family's in-laws would probably be able to get married.

"But if this is the case, if the two families want to get along, they will have to wait until the next generation." The head of the Kang family began to think. In order to relieve his depression, he wanted to invite the two junior brothers back to the courtyard to have a talk.

Unexpectedly, the two men changed color immediately. Pei Yi excused himself by saying that he had to go back to guard the alchemy furnace as he had important elixirs to refine; Zhou Yixiu said that he was going to the Sutra Library to look through the sect's classics to see if there was any description related to the Glazed Treasure Tree.

The two were talking about serious matters. Although the expressions of the two junior brothers were not very good when they were talking, it was impossible for Master Kang to force them to stay, so they had to return to the courtyard and rest alone.

The next day, after Kang Dabao got up, he went to see Jin Shilun's injuries.

In fact, he should have gone to see it earlier, but the day before Kang Dabao had not even entered the gate of Chongming Sect, he was called away by the Black-Shoe Taoist. After returning from the big locust tree, he talked with Lu Yunniang in the evening and was delayed too late, so he came now.

"It's all my fault. I have made myself worry so much." Jin Shilun's injuries have not yet fully healed.

His cultivation was too low, and it was a blessing that he could escape from the mouths of the red-maned wild boar and the wind eagle. Being able to come back alive was enough to comfort Master Kang.

"No need to say all this. As a master, there is nothing to worry about." Kang Dabao put the steamed buns and steaming rice porridge on the small table, and then brought the small table to Jin Shilun on the couch.

The spiritual rice porridge is made from the red spiritual grain that Kang Rongquan harvested last season. It is a good thing. Many casual cultivators in the late stage of Qi training can only eat it once or twice a month as a snack.

This steamed bun is steamed with the fat of red-brisled wild boars. It is soft, sweet, white and fragrant. It is the signature skill of Master Kang and is the most nourishing.

The disciples of the Sanxiang Sect did not do all bad things when they came to Pingrong County. At least they added a lot of meat and vegetables to the Chongming Sect.

The Chongming Sect hadn't had such good food for some days. When Sect Leader Kang got up early, he specifically asked Mo'er, who was on duty in the kitchen, to stew a red-maned wild boar's elbow for him at noon. It was delicious and nourishing.

When Jin Shilun was halfway through his meal, Kang Dabao's other three disciples came to pay their respects.

Han Yundao still looked like a little adult, Duan Anle still had a silly smile on his face, and Pei Que didn't say much, but he was the most noble.

Master Kang thought carefully and realized that among his four disciples, Han Yundao was the most law-abiding, but did not know how to adapt; Duan Anle was the most kind and righteous, but not strong enough; Pei Que was good at everything, but not fierce enough.

In the end, it seems that Jin Shilun, who has the lowest level of Taoism and is the oldest, is most suitable to be the headmaster.

Whether it was his decisiveness in killing the bandits back then, or his ability to seize opportunities in the Chongming market not long ago, it all demonstrated that he had the most critical qualities for a head of the family, such as his ability to remain calm when faced with major events.

However, he is older and has poor qualifications, so he doesn't seem to be a good candidate for the head of the sect.

As he was thinking, Kang Dabao suddenly smiled.

Yunjiao Province is currently in the midst of war, and many people are going to die. Even if I die one day, one of my two junior brothers, Yuan Jin and Pei Yi, should be chosen as the head of the sect.

If he were to do what the old man did back then and choose a young leader and make his own disciple who is still in the early stages of Qi training the head of the sect, he would probably tear the Chongming Sect that he had just built up into pieces.

Master Kang had just broken through to the seventh level of Qi training and had some insights in his mind. His four disciples happened to be gathered together, so the five masters and disciples simply held a Taoist meeting in Jin Shilun's courtyard.

He kept talking until Mo'er came over with the pork elbow. Sect Leader Kang let Xiaoqi out to eat as well. He led the disciples to hold the pork elbow in both hands while preaching seriously. After that, he told Jin Shilun to take good care of his injuries, and then left with the three disciples.

He still had a lot of things to do and couldn't stay here too long.

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