Chongming Xianzong

Chapter 364 White Ape Blood Gui Xiang's Plan
"Junior Brother Jin, I'll give you two bottles of first-grade, top-quality black-eyed white ape's mountain root blood. This is twenty-two spirit stones. Please order some." Zhou Xinran handed a plain cloth bag filled with spirit stones to Jin Shilun.

The latter took it carelessly and said softly, "Sister, why bother saying 'point'? It is only natural that you do things for the sect without receiving any reward."

Zhou Xinran and he have known each other for many years and have worked together in Chongming Tower for several years. Their relationship is much better than that of other brothers. After hearing this, she just laughed and joked: "There is no master in Chongming Tower these days, so you don't need to say these nice words to me."

Jin Shilun just shook his head and sighed: "Senior sister, what you said, I..."

Zhou Xinran did not let him continue, but continued, with a hint of blame in her voice: "You too, you finally came here, and you chose to come when Sister Mo'er was not around."

The handsome swordsman opposite him showed some helplessness on his face, and sighed, "It's a bad timing. Who would have thought that Mo'er would find an opportunity to break through the initial stage of Qi training during this period of time, and use her good deeds to buy a retreat room and return to the sect. As a husband, I can't stop her, right?"

"You've explained all the reasons. You have no teacher to look after you now, and you are in a high position, so you must remember not to do anything shameful." Zhou Xinran was really a person who was worried about his life, and he added another piece of advice.

Jin Shilun knew that she was talking about the romantic stories that Niu Kuang had left behind when he was the defender of Chongming City.

But he just smiled and didn't explain.

"Chongming City is only a few steps away from the mountain gate. The commanders can see everything clearly from the top of the mountain. Who would dare to have any evil thoughts?"

Taking a bag of spirit stones that had not yet warmed up and exchanging them for two combined elixirs, Jin Shilun bowed and clasped his fists: "Then Junior Brother, I will leave first. There is a shortage of people in Chongming City, so it is not good to leave for too long."

Zhou Xinran wanted to stay, so he waved his hand and said, "If there is no urgency, you can rest for two more days. Junior Brother Yuan and Uncle Sun have accepted the assignment from Senior Brother Duan, and they should be moving into Chongming Building to work in the next two days. You should wait for two more days before leaving, so that it will be more lively by then."

"Junior Brother Yuan is going down the mountain too?" Jin Shilun's tone sounded a little surprised.

After all, he knew how much the teachers and elders in the sect valued Yuan Jin's only flesh and blood - Yuan Changsheng - since Yuan Ruyi was murdered by the evil villain of the Wu family.

He should be kept in the sect to concentrate on his cultivation. How could you bear to send him to such a busy and busy place like Chongming Market?
Zhou Xinran also obviously understood why Jin Shilun was suspicious, and without further explanation, he just said softly: "This is what the master meant."

Jin Shilun, who was equally confused, did not ask any more questions after hearing this, but just nodded repeatedly: "Brother Yuan is devoted to the way of alchemy, and it is a good thing that he has come to this market to realize his ambitions."

As the two were chatting, a beautiful female cultivator in military uniform walked in. Zhou Xinran immediately exchanged glances with Jin Shilun, walked out of the counter, and smiled as she hurried over to greet him: "Sister Shao is here. It's been a long time since we last met."

Jin Shilun took a closer look and saw that the woman in front of him had a heroic look with a hint of charm, and a heroic spirit with a hint of tenderness. Who else could it be but Shao Meng?
"Why are you so polite, Senior Sister Zhou?"

Although Jin Shilun couldn't figure it out, the pretty girls standing in the hall all started to move.

Nowadays, there are many young girls who came from the background of independent cultivators working in Chongming Building, and they have all been trained by Zhou Xinran to have good eyesight.

As soon as she said this, the table for entertaining distinguished guests in the hall was already filled with a wide variety of fragrant tea, snacks, and candied fruits.

All kinds of snacks are competing with each other for beauty, which really whets the appetite of visitors.

Shao Meng stretched out his white scallion fingers and picked up a piece of rouge sugar melon, a faint smile appeared on his face, and he said softly: "Manager Zhou is really polite. You deserve what others say that you hold the purse for your family's head."

Zhou Xinran laughed along, but her tone was negative: "Sister Shao, what you said is really true. My head master is such a great man. How can I, a sister, take on such a great responsibility? I can't accept your praise."

"Ha, that's right. He is now a big business owner. Ordinary business is not worth mentioning. Let's not talk about it for now." Shao Meng rubbed his white fingers gently, and then said with a smile: "Manager Zhou, I came here this time to make a profit for you."

"Oh? How much black-eyed white ape essence blood did Sister Shao bring? We in Chongming Tower accept everyone who comes. As long as the goods are genuine, we will never let you suffer a loss, sister." Zhou Xinran laughed, her tone full of intimacy.

"You are really smart." Shao Meng was not surprised that he didn't keep the secret. He raised his sleeves slightly, and streams of light appeared. Nearly thirty vermilion jade bottles fell on the counter.

Zhou Xinran moved over, clicked quickly, and then a hint of surprise flashed in her beautiful eyes.

After a while, she came out of the counter with a bulging animal skin bag in her hand, walked up to Shao Meng, and said crisply:
"There are four bottles of first-grade lower-grade blood essence, sixteen bottles of middle-grade blood essence, and nine bottles of high-grade blood essence. According to the price offered by our Chongming Building today, this is 190 spirit stones. Sister Shao, please order some."

Shao Meng, like Jin Shilun, took it carelessly and said with a smile:

"Manager Zhou has always been very efficient in doing business. Others would be happy to round off the amount, but you always round up the amount with us. No wonder our colleagues from the Anti-Theft Office always have to come to your house first before going out to buy things, and only go to other houses after confirming that you have nothing."

Zhou Xinran just smiled without saying a word, and Shao Meng bowed and said goodbye.

After the latter left, Jin Shilun, who had been silent until then, asked suspiciously, "Sister, this Shao Meng was appointed as the Bad Leader by Senior Deng Baichuan some time ago, right? Even so, isn't Senior Sister being too polite?"

Jin Shilun's doubt is not without reason. Even though the anti-theft department of Chongmingfang City is now under the joint efforts of Yue Feng and Deng Baichuan, it has become quite strong.

But after all, most of them are elite Qi-cultivating cultivators, and Shao Meng is a person with no future in foundation-building.

Therefore, the Anti-Thief Office is nothing to the current Chongming Sect, so there is no need for Zhou Xinran, the inner sect disciple and chief wealth disciple of Chongming Sect, to attach so much importance to it.

"Junior Brother Jin, why don't you think about why Senior Deng Baichuan chose Shao Meng to be the Bad Leader?" Zhou Xinran said this, and after seeing the puzzled look on Jin Shilun's face, he talked about something seemingly unrelated:
"Senior Yue Feng of the Yue family wanted to hire Shao Meng as his concubine, but was rejected. She is one of the most outstanding descendants of the Hancheng Yue family after Yue Lan's death."

"What do you mean, Senior Sister?" Jin Shilun's tone was filled with even more doubt.

"If she is really a rootless Qigong practitioner, how could she have the courage to refuse everyone's great cause of foundation building?!" Zhou Xinran's words were already quite clear at this point.

But she then said, "Shao Meng has done her best to find something for our sect, no matter how difficult or precious it is, to come to us. Junior brother, do you think she is really from Tulingshi?"

If Jin Shilun doesn't understand, he will be sorry for his master's careful teaching. As the saying goes, "A son should not mention his father's taboos." The same is true for master and apprentice.

Even if Jin Shilun thought about it, he didn't dare to say it. He had been in Chongming Market for quite a while and had heard a lot of these rumors.

He had never taken it to heart in the past, but when he thought of the sudden appearance of the two reclusive young mistresses in the sect, Jin Shilun seemed to have a different opinion about his master's reputation as a "bullying womanizer" that was widely spread in the outside world.

Jin Shilun didn't stay for long in the end. Before leaving, a martial master found traces of a suspected advanced monster outside Chongming City. Although the few casual cultivators who stayed in Chongming City were innocent, they were all weak, so Jin Shilun was still a little worried. Just after saying goodbye to Zhou Xinran, Jin Shilun met Gui Xiang, who was full of energy.

The latter is now the son-in-law of the Yue family. He is in the prime of his life and can be regarded as an important figure in the small place of Chongmingfang City.

Although he knew that Master Kang had some disagreements with this guy in the past, they had finally reconciled on the surface. Therefore, just for the sake of the Yue family's face, Jin Shilun, as a junior, couldn't turn a blind eye.

"Junior Jin Shilun greets Senior Gui."

Gui Xiang smiled warmly, helped Jin Shilun up, and then said: "Young friend Jin is the disciple of Master Kang, so why do you need such a generous gift? I heard that your family needs the essence of the black-eyed white ape, so I came to visit you."

"Thank you very much for your concern, senior," Jin Shilun said half-truthfully. He had never thought before that Gui Xiang would be so concerned about Chong Mingzong's affairs.

The latter just laughed loudly for a while, and said in a gentle voice: "You are still young, you don't know that I still have some friendship with your master."

He thought he had done a perfect job in killing Han Yundao, and he also knew that Kang Dabao was a man of his words and deeds, so he seriously believed that he could live in peace with the Chongming Sect from now on.

Even on ordinary days, Guixiang was willing to show some kindness, just like helping to collect the things that Chongming Building urgently needed today. This was not the first time he had done so.

He only thought that the head of the Kang family was still the "Brother Kang" who valued friendship and loyalty the most. He thought that if he just kept on doing this, he would eventually be able to reconcile with them one day.

"I think I've heard my master mention it before." After hanging around in the market town for so many years, Jin Shilun has become quite good at telling lies.

Hearing Jin Shilun's words, Guixiang was quite happy. He took out a round iron ball and handed it to the former: "I haven't seen you for a long time, nephew. I have a Tianleizi, which I used for self-defense before building my foundation. It's a pity to leave it unused now, so I'll give it to you, nephew."

Before Jin Shilun could refuse, he saw Guixiang leave happily, so he had to accept it.

"After all this trouble, I still owe him a favor." Even though he got a very precious magic weapon, Jin Shilun did not feel too happy.

After carefully looking at the Tianleizi in his hand, he carefully put it into an empty storage bag.

Chongming City and Chongming Market are not too far away, so Jin Shilun did not bring a spirit beast with him this time. The foot strength of a Qigong cultivator can rival that of a galloping horse without relying on talismans. After half a day, Jin Shilun saw the outline of Chongming City.

After entering the city, he was most concerned about the traces of the monster that Wu Zong had discovered earlier. After asking a few of the remaining cultivators, he learned that nothing had happened during the day he was away, and he finally felt relieved.

After returning to the City Lord's Mansion, Jin Shilun did not greet Kang Dabao's grandchildren who were dressed in jewels and precious stones, but went straight to a very remote courtyard in the City Lord's Mansion.

After being admitted to the hospital, Jin Shilun first picked up and replaced the spirit stones that had been mostly consumed in the middle-grade spirit gathering array. When the spirit gathering array started to operate, Jin Shilun frowned: "The power of this spirit gathering array seems to have decreased a lot recently. It seems that I need to send a message to Senior Brother Wei Gu and ask him to come and see what went wrong."

Jin Shilun tried to practice for a while, but felt that the spiritual power gathered by the formation flags was a bit mixed, so he stopped practicing temporarily, filled out the letter talisman in a few strokes, folded paper into a swallow, and ordered it to fly to Chongming Sect.

Unexpectedly, in the afternoon, when Jin Shilun went to patrol the surroundings, he discovered the advanced monster beast that was showing its whereabouts nearby.

"It's a first-grade, mid-quality green-skinned rhino. Its horn is quite valuable, but its meat is not tasty, so I can't give it to my master as a gift!" Jin Shilun was filled with filial piety. The blade of the long sword in his hand glowed with light, and the sword energy swept out at a rapid speed, carrying a cold wind.

It was obvious that this green-skinned rhino was used to bullying others in the vicinity and was not afraid of Jin Shilun's exquisite swordsmanship at all. Its pair of small eyes suddenly widened and the single horn on its head slashed violently.

Unexpectedly, this time he suffered a great loss.

Jin Shilun used his sword energy to instantly disperse the spiritual light of the green-skinned rhino's horn. Before the latter could react, he saw sword lights like snow in front of him, pouring down like heavy rain.

The solid flesh and bones were easily cut by the knife like tofu. When the head and body of the green-skinned rhino were almost separated, it could still feel the endless pain coming from the huge body.

"This green-skinned rhino is quite capable of fighting. It will take more effort than I thought." Jin Shilun sighed and with a hook of his foot, the head of the green-skinned rhino flew to his waist. Jin Shilun grabbed the horn and lifted it in front of him. After a few cuts, he cut off the rhino's horn.

Until this time, Jin Shilun felt a little happy in his heart. He thought: "This green-skinned rhino has some skills. I'm afraid it will soon enter the first-class upper grade. This rhino horn may be worth one or two hundred spirit stones.

Come to think of it, after Brother Yi successfully led the spirit into his body, I seem to have not given him a decent gift. Junior Brother Zong Neiye seems to have advanced to the lower-grade weapon master for some years, but I don’t know if he can master the middle-grade magic weapon.

If possible, please ask him to use this rhino horn to tailor-make a mid-grade magic weapon for Brother Yi."

Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly saw a late-stage monk with a longbow on his back and blood all over his body coming from the front. The monk was obviously seriously injured, and it was unknown how long he had been escaping before he ran to the vicinity of Chongming City, the owner's land, in a panic.

There were two late-stage monks chasing behind him, and their situation was not much better than that of the longbow monk.

From this we can see that this longbow monk is obviously no ordinary man. The pursuers behind him were also covered in blood, but they did not dare to get close to the longbow monk. They only dared to follow him from a distance, like two hungry wolves with big eyes and small bellies, ready to give a fatal blow to the sick tiger in front at any time.

"Is that a monk from Chongming Sect in front?!" When the longbow monk saw Jin Shilun's handsome face, he seemed to be grasping a straw and asked loudly.

The incident happened suddenly, and no one knew the details, so Jin Shilun had no intention of answering. The longbow monk summoned up all his strength and shouted, "Is that a Chongming Sect monk in front?!"

Jin Shilun still didn't answer. Seeing the pursuers getting closer and closer, the longbow monk couldn't help but feel terrified. He gritted his teeth and shouted loudly, "Hey, you Chongming Sect, don't you really want to know who killed Han Yundao?"

As soon as the longbow monk finished speaking, he felt a sharp light flash in Jin Shilun's eyes, and his whole body became refreshed.

The latter used the Cloud Crane Step to stride forward, while Jin Shilun, holding the white light in his hand, went forward to fight. On the way, he did not forget to warn loudly: "The one with the bow on his back, if you dare to bluff me, I will also let you know how powerful the Chongming Sect is."

It was not until this time that the two late-stage cultivators who were chasing him saw Jin Shilun's handsome face clearly, and then they saw the wonderful swordsmanship that he had practiced "Spiritual Sword Technique Selection" to perfection.

"Die!"

(End of this chapter)