Shangyuque

Chapter 5: How can these independent cultivators understand what unity is?
The middle-grade magic weapon, the Soul-Locking Rope, is standard equipment for the Qingxifang Security Maintenance Team.

Gao Jian has been practicing for many years and is extremely proficient in its use. When he wields it, he is like a swift giant snake.

"Pah~pah!"

Using a rope as a whip, the whip hit Wu Jinyan in the face.

Because he held back, Wu Jinyan only suffered skin injuries and was not shot directly in the head. This was considered a wise decision and showed some humanity.

"Why do you hit me?"

He raised a wooden round bowl as a magic weapon to block in front of him, covering his smashed face, and asked in fear.

Gao Jian's sneak attack was too fast and he succeeded easily, and everyone in the hall was thrown into chaos.

Wang Rongyuan immediately stood in front of the two Yulou brothers, while Zhong Tianshuo mobilized his spiritual power and pushed his daughter Zhong Ningyao directly to the back hall.

Tang Nianqiu seemed to be frightened, and belatedly stood beside Wang Rongyuan.

"Why should I hit you?
The Qi Xin fee is collected to make Qingxifang better. My master spent a whole day studying it and finally figured out how much different shops should pay.

How dare you complain that it's too much? Do you have the right to do that? Does your Wu family have a shop in Qingxifang?
Or are you a casual cultivator on the surface, but secretly a robbery cultivator, trying to sow discord among the cultivators of Qingxifang?"

Zhong Tianshuo and Wang Rongyuan have already left the field. Their cultivation levels are similar to his.

Seeing that he couldn't pull it any further, Gao Jian had to take back the soul-locking rope, but the hat kept getting bigger and bigger.

In fact, there are not so many whys.

The people from the Wang family can’t be defeated, and even the Red Eyebrow Monk can’t defeat them.

Then I can only beat you?
If I can’t teach __ a lesson, can I still not punish you?

"Brother Gao Jian, Brother Gao Jian, let me give you 120 Spiritual Stones. Here are the Spiritual Stones. Please stop talking. Old Wu is not some Tribulation Cultivator."

Gao Jian took the small bag handed over by Ms. Hongmei, first weighed it and shook it twice, then smiled with satisfaction.

"Hey, Fellow Daoist Hongmei, wouldn't it be fine if you gave it to me earlier? Hahahaha, of course, it's not too late now."

As he spoke, he shook the spirit-locking rope in his hand.

Seeing that Hongmei had paid, Tang Nianqiu had no choice but to follow suit and pay fifty spirit stones - Zhiweifang's surplus for one and a half months was gone just like that.

Gao Jian glared at Wu Jinyan, then left domineeringly holding the spirit-locking rope.

These independent cultivators have no idea of the big picture. How can they understand unity without fighting a few times?
For the many merchants and monks in Qingxifang, for the industry of Hongdengzhao, is it easy for me? Is it easy for my master?

If you need to hit someone, you should hit him. Once the whip is applied, the spirit stone will be in place immediately.
What Wang family? In front of the red light, don’t even mention the Wang family. If you are a dragon, you have to coil up too!

"This guy is a scoundrel!"

Zhong Ningyao came out from the back hall, looked at the speechless crowd, and cursed angrily.

Buddhist Hongmei silently applied medicine to Wu Jinyan.

Wang Rongyuan shook his head and whispered to Yulou and the other person.

"This is your first lesson."
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After seeing off Wu Jinyan, Wang Rongyuan and others, Hongmei Jushi finally looked at his disciples and daughter.

"Father, Huafengju shouldn't have handed over so much. Gao and his master must have secretly embezzled some of it!"

Zhong Ningyao really couldn't understand why Hongmei Jushi paid the useless "unity fee" so quickly.

That’s one hundred and twenty spirit stones—Wang Rongyuan only gets one hundred from the family every year!

So many spirit stones were taken away by Gao Jian just by talking!

Listening to the conversation between Zhong Ningyao and Zhong Tianshuo, Wang Yulou, who was standing aside, felt a little embarrassed.

It’s not because Zhiweifang’s payment is low.

Zhiweifang sells alcohol and food, and its profit margin and turnover are far lower than Huafengju.

What Yulou didn't expect was that the daughter of Hongmei Jushi was actually the "naked female cultivator" that Yu'an saw yesterday.

Yu'an is such an idiot. He glanced at people more than ten times today, which really brought shame to the Wang family.

"Eighty percent? Ten percent! That Jiang guy is a..."

Halfway through his speech, Zhong Tianshuo saw Yulou and Yu'an and stopped talking.

"This is my daughter Zhong Ningyao, you can just call her Senior Sister.

Ningyao, teach them the basics of fire control. I'm going out for a while."

Hongmei Jushi seemed to be busy, so she simply arranged some homework and left Huafengju. Zhong Ningyao looked at Yulou, then at Yu'an, feeling a little nervous.

She really wanted to hold her father's hand and ask him why he was so confident that his daughter could teach his two cheap apprentices well.

"Um, you guys don't seem very big?"

"Thirteen years old, Senior Sister Ning Yao, I am thirteen years old this year."

Yulou calmly took a step to the left, keeping a delicate distance between himself and Yu'an that was just a little bit distant but not to the point of breaking off the friendship.

Zhong Ningyao was only fifteen years old, still a young girl, but after receiving her father's order, she tried her best to pretend to be mature and steady when facing Yu'an's answer.

"Well, thirteen is a good age to learn fire control."

After saying this, the girl felt that what she said was too stupid.

How stupid.
I'm clearly imitating my father's way of speaking, but it feels like I'm trying to imitate his father's approach but ended up with a dog instead of a tiger.

Thinking of this, her fair cheeks suddenly turned red with nervousness.

Yu'an didn't understand why his senior sister was blushing, he just licked and asked.

"Senior Sister Ning Yao, is there any difference between the Fire Control Technique and the Fire Flying Technique?"

Yulou knew that the Flying Fire Technique was similar to the Fireball Technique in fairy tales, and was a spell commonly used by cultivators of the Qi-drawing and Qi-refining arts.

But the Flying Fire Technique is more sophisticated, focusing on using the least amount of spiritual power to achieve the greatest attack effect.

The power is not important. What is important is to use it in conjunction with other magical instruments and spells to achieve a systematic battle - the mode of using great strength to make bricks fly is a dead end for ordinary cultivators.

Ordinary cultivators do not have a master or family inheritance, so the Flying Fire Technique they use will be very crude.

With the same level of Qi Induction, Yulou can now perform more than a dozen Flying Fire Techniques in succession.

But for an ordinary Qi Induction Level 2 cultivator, his spiritual energy might be exhausted after just three or five attempts.

“The Flying Fire Technique is used for fighting, and it is useless after the foundation is established.

The art of controlling fire is the introductory technique of the fire practice system, and is mainly used for practicing Taoism.

Didn't the Wang family send you here to learn the Dao?"

Yu'an wanted to lick it again, but Yulou couldn't wait any longer.

"Please teach me, Senior Sister."

To cultivate immortality, one needs to seize every moment. He doesn't have that much time to listen to Yu'an's nonsense.

"Okay, come with me."

After looking at Yulou with gratitude, Zhong Ningyao brought the two young men to the back hall of Huafengju.

In the center of the back hall, there is a huge refining furnace, which is glowing red all over. A silver-white light is flowing on the engraved furnace body, which looks extremely extraordinary.

On both sides of the stove, there was a pile of charcoal that was taller than Yu Lou, and it seemed to be some kind of spiritual object.

On the other side, there is a table made of fine iron, which seems to be where the Red Eyebrow Monk places the materials when refining tools.

"There are basins of water there. Go get two basins of water from the well, and then we can start practicing fire control techniques."

Pointing at the basin in the corner of the back hall, Zhong Ningyao found the feeling of teaching people Taoism.

"Practicing fire control with water?"

Yu An didn't know whether he had lost his mind or just wanted to chat more with the beautiful senior sister, so he actually asked such a question.

"Yes, go quickly."

Zhong Ningyao actually likes Yulou a little more because Yulou would not ask such meaningless nonsense. Yu'an not only talks a lot of nonsense, but also likes to stare at her like a fool.

Soon, under the guidance of Zhong Ningyao, the two put their hands into the basin of water, and then stared at Zhong Ningyao blankly, waiting for the next step of guidance from their senior sister.

The young girl put her hands behind her back, pretending to be an adult, and paced around the refining furnace, recalling what her father had taught her.

“The first step in fire control is to create fire in water, without using any kindling materials, relying solely on one’s own spiritual power to ignite the flame.

Fire is very fierce. Even my father, when he reached the difficult stage of refining weapons, often had trouble controlling the flames.

The reason why you are asked to fetch water is because water is needed to suppress the influence of the fire attribute spiritual energy between heaven and earth on the fire control technique, so as to achieve control over the flames step by step.

Next, I will teach you the formula of fire control technique - this is a secret, you are not allowed to reveal it to others!"

(End of this chapter)