Shangyuque

Chapter 99: Dog Training, Magic Pills, Weapon Refining, and Knowing People (1.3 words, too much content to name)
Wang Yulou didn't care whether Cui Dingyi was honest or not.

It is said that human hearts are like water, but water flows to the lower places, while human hearts are always a little higher and want to be even higher.

Everyone has the possibility of becoming an immortal. Instead of being slaughtered, why not take the risk?

No matter how many rules and restrictions there are, they are nothing but fuel in the face of burning ambition.

Not to mention, the very existence of restrictions provides meaning for deviant behavior.

"Just be honest and do your job well, and there will be no problems."

Wang Yulou walked in front, and Cui Dingyi, with a gloomy face, followed behind. After thinking for a while, he smiled and tried to test it.

"Fellow Daoist Yulou, you know me well. I am just a kid from a fishing family.

We have been able to get to where we are today thanks to the cultivation of the sect and everyone’s trust.

I just don't know why Daoist Fellow Yulou suddenly suspects me?"

Actors in film and television dramas can be extremely subtle in their attempts, and characters created by novelists can have the wisdom to always win.

However, Cui Dingyi's statements and tests are the norm in reality. They have nothing to do with his experience or status. He is simply maintaining his own power within the rules.

Yes, you, Wang Yulou, are extraordinary, but I, Lao Cui, have also shed blood and sweat for Hewan Fishing Village for so many years.

Yes, I have problems, but you can't just be here for two days and then start doubting me, right?
If a disciple from the Bishui Palace comes who is as domineering as Yulou, how will disciples from the Huachi Palace like Cui Dingyi and Zhang Xuewu survive?
Sit at the same table with those Qi-inducing ones?
Inappropriate!
Yulou did not answer Lao Cui's question immediately. It seemed that he was very interested in the business model of Hewan Fishing Village. He looked left and right and walked around.

Finally, Yulou sat down in a fish dumpling shop on the street.

Looking at Cui Ding who was standing beside him, Old Cui's expression had become very forced, so Yulou smiled and said.

"I have no suspicions. It's just that someone told me that your relationship with Xuewu is not harmonious, so I want to ask about the situation."

When Cui Dingyi heard Zhang Xuewu's name, he seemed to have found his backbone. After a little thought, he began to explain smoothly.

“Fellow Daoist Yulou, you must not listen to slander. Although my cultivation level is slightly lower than that of fellow Daoist Xuewu, he does not usually respect me that much.

But after all, they are brothers from the same school. How could they have a bad relationship? It’s just that there are occasional minor differences of opinion at work.

However, I fully support the things Daoist Fellow Yulou has mentioned!"

First, my cultivation is inferior to Zhang Xuewu's, and when there is a problem, he is the one who uses force to suppress me.

Second, there are conflicts between him and me, but I am still a disciple of the Dripping Cave and understand the overall situation.

Third, I am willing to support Fellow Daoist Yulou, respect Fellow Daoist Yulou, and support Fellow Daoist Yulou!
Was Cui Dingyi’s response decent?

Decent, cunning and decent.

But, he finally gave up the idea of resisting Wang Yulou's authority.

This wave successfully alleviated Wang Yulou's void card making tactically, but completely gave up the initiative strategically.

Decent, but a complete failure.

"Hahahaha, yes, I said we are all from the same school, there shouldn't be so much discord.

What do you mean there is a conflict between Fellow Daoist Ding and Fellow Daoist Xuewu? It's all instigation!"

Although he has started looking for someone to investigate Cui Dingyi, it does not mean that Wang Yulou wants to do anything to Cui Dingyi right now. He still has to win him over when the time comes.

Of course, if Cui Dingyi really does not know how to die, then it is also the job of Wang Yulou, a disciple of the Bishui Cave, to weigh his behavior of secretly intercepting the spiritual fish from the Hewan Fishing Village for personal gain and at the expense of the public interest.

At this time, the owner of the fish dumpling shop came up tremblingly with two bowls of fish dumplings.

Pointing to the fish dumplings in the bowl, Yulou invited.

"Come, let's find a friend. This is my first time eating fish dumplings. Please accompany me. Please accompany me."

Fish dumplings are made with fresh fish that have just been taken out of the water. You can almost chase the fish's tail in the water and eat it. The taste is so delicious that it is incredibly fresh and fragrant.

Seeing that Yulou was enjoying her meal, Cui Dingyi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and the breath that was pressing on his chest finally let out.

This man surnamed Wang looks young, but he is extremely cruel and ruthless in his methods of doing things. Although he is smiling, his words force Cui Dingzhi to obey step by step.

Looking at the fish dumplings, Cui Ding was in a daze. He seemed to be really frightened by Yulou.

A white bowl, pink fish dumplings, green chopped green onions, and golden sesame oil. The fish dumplings look great just by looking at them, otherwise Yulou wouldn't be sitting here.

"What? You don't like it?" Yu Lou was puzzled when he noticed that Lao Cui was in a daze.

"No, I grew up eating fish dumplings. My mother's fish dumplings are very skillful and she would add some peppercorns. Hmm, I haven't eaten them for a long time."

"Hahaha, then you should eat more, eat more."

"Yes."

In fact, after Yu Lou practiced Qigong, he could go without food every day and rely solely on absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to replenish the energy needed by the body.

For the most wealthy Qi-cultivating monks, their daily practice is all about eating and eating. They eat all kinds of spiritual food, and when they reach a bottleneck, they study how to break through.

Of course, there are not many cultivators like this, and even Zhou Yingxi may not be able to do it. After all, Zhou Fujiao is like that, and the Zhou family is full of dilapidated signs.

After leaving the fish dumpling shop, Yulou came to a construction site on the left bank of Dahong River. This was the future location of his mansion.

Accompanied by Cui Dingyi, Yulou took a quick look for a while and then noticed the problem again.

Those young monks in the Qi Induction Stage looked exhausted, and some were even yawning.

This seems to be an exaggeration, right?
Yulou's eyes narrowed, without turning back, he just looked at the young monks on the construction site and asked.

"Friend Dingyi, did they do it here last night?"

"Yes, I arranged it overnight when I learned that you needed it."

Cui Dingyi answered respectfully. How can I describe his current state of mind?
It's like a small leader who finally gets inspected by his superiors and happens to do a good job.

However, what the little chief fantasized about certainly did not happen, and his leader spoke calmly.

"These people are just less powerful than me, but they are also my fellow disciples. This arrangement is not appropriate. What do you think?"

After looking at the construction site and at Wang Yulou who proposed to build a high platform for the new mansion, Cui Dingyi spread his hands and asked honestly.

"If you tell me what's inappropriate, I'll change it right away!"

What can we do?

Wang Yulou has an extraordinary background.

Wang Yulou is extremely capable.

Wang Yulou is terribly young.

In Qingxifang, in front of Jiang Baobian, Mu Chunze and Zhou Yingxi, Wang Yulou is nothing.

But in Hewan Fishing Village, he is not only not a nobody, but the undisputed leader.

"Lao Cui, I need a high platform so that I can more conveniently support different places in Hewan Fishing Village.

But the main task of our garrison monks is to prevent the monsters from harming the people of the Hewan fishing village.

You asked these fellow disciples to level the ground and build a platform for me overnight, which would weaken our ability to deal with the monsters.

You are losing the big picture for the small, Cui Dingyi, I think you have lost your mind!"

Honestly speaking, Cui Dingyi has already thrown up his hands and admitted his mistake, and is willing to make corrections according to Wang Yulou's suggestions. If Wang Yulou continues to criticize him, wouldn't it be too harsh?

No, after taking the position of the person in charge, Wang Yulou made five demands to the two of them through Qin Churan.

The first point is that the spirit fish corresponds to the need for profit, which both of them acknowledged.

The second and third points seem to be talking about the location of the mansion, but in fact they are opportunities for others to get closer to Wang Yulou.

The fourth point, repairing the sluice gate, corresponds to doing something new in the position of the garrison monks, which is an advance preparation for upward management.

The fifth point is to collect statistical information and then organize training, in order to get the personnel power of Hewan Fishing Village by eliminating monsters.

Among these five points, Cui Dingyi has already ruined two.

First, the shop run by his son secretly collected spiritual fish. It was digging into the corner of the Dripping Cave and trying to steal the cake of Wang Yulou, the leader of the Hewan Fishing Village.

Secondly, Wang Yulou used the change of the residence's location to give other people in Hewan Fishing Village an opportunity to get closer to him, but Cui Dingyi magnified the matter.

Those Qi-inducing monks would not care that it was Cui Dingyi who was causing trouble. They would only see that on the first day Wang Yulou came, he did not even allow them to sleep, and forced them to level the ground overnight and build a high platform for his mansion.

Zhou Paopi even let the farmhands sleep for a while before the roosters crowed in the middle of the night.

Damn it, when it comes to Cui Dingyi, a rooster crows?
No need at all!
There's no need to sleep, level the ground overnight and show your loyalty to fellow Taoist Yulou!

What is this behavior?
Either stupid, bad, or both stupid and bad!
Originally, Wang Yulou wanted to endure it.

But when he saw Cui Dingyi lying down and allowing himself to be ridiculed, pretending to be stupid and obedient, he couldn't bear it anymore.

Can a person who has gone from being a mortal warrior to a Qi practitioner step by step over a hundred years be a fool?

Cui Dingyi, the old master, was very good at dealing with Wang Yulou's challenges!
He just lies down and lets people laugh at him?
No, Yulou understood.

This old guy is like a dog that bites without barking!
Of course, Wang Yulou was born into the Wang family of Anbei, and his family has a good tradition. He would not directly break off relations with Cui Dingyi.

Therefore, he used the banner of "fighting against demons" as a cover to accuse Cui Dingyi of losing the big picture for the small details and being confused.

I know the limits and I am on the right side of justice. No matter what Cui Dingyi says, it is unreasonable.

Although it was not lethal, there were so many Qi-inducing cultivators leveling the ground on the construction site nearby, which was humiliating enough.

The cultivators in the Qi Induction Stage are ants among the immortal cultivators, but every one of them is sharp-eyed and sharp-eared, so naturally they heard what Wang Yulou said.

Cui Dingyi didn't expect Wang Yulou to make such a statement. He understood that it would be difficult for him to wash himself away.

However, this is not Cui Ding's fault, as he is very good at magnifying the situation.

Shouting support but exaggerating it to show actual opposition is a tactic that is both clever and ruthless.

If Wang Yulou was not a time traveler but a native, he might have been fooled by him.

In that situation, even though I had been secretly cheated by Cui Dingyi, I still thought Cui Dingyi was so kind-hearted.

Therefore, Yulou concluded that Cui Dingyi was a dog that would bite people, but he just didn't wait for the right opportunity, so he didn't bark in front of him.

"You are right. I was not thoughtful enough. How about this, Fellow Daoist Yulou, I will let them go and rest first, and I will personally build the platform for you!"

Facing Yulou's attack, Cui Dingyi responded sincerely.

Is it cruel?
Do you think my arrangement is not good enough?

Then I will cry at your grave myself!

Fellow Daoist Yulou, is this sincerity enough?

When his secret plan was discovered, Cui Dingyi immediately slid to his knees without any psychological burden.

To be honest, Yulou was a little scared of this attitude.

It’s a very simple logic - this kid is similar to me, I must not keep him!

As a time traveler, Wang Yulou knows what is good and evil, and what is morality, so he feels pain because of the cruel world and the desperate reality that he feels as soon as he opens his eyes.

On the other hand, as a son of the Wang family and with the protection of the Jade Ruyi, Yu Lou naturally has the room and space to do things with ease.

But Cui Dingyi didn't, and the two of them acted in such a similar way, how could Yulou not be afraid?

A person who has no principles, only interests, and only wants to move up is the most terrifying.

Cui Dingyi's background and the environment in which he grew up shaped him. This is fortunate because he is successful now, but it is also unfortunate because he may have had no choice in the process.

Yulou knew very well that he could not change a cultivator who had been moving forward step by step for a hundred years and had reached where he is today.

Therefore, Yulou was very alert!

Faced with Cui Dingyi's complete surrender, Yulou did not express his opinion immediately. He had not yet figured out how to deal with this special fellow disciple.

"Come here, you have worked hard all night, come, two spirit stones each, go back and rest.

Fellow Daoist Cui didn't understand what I meant, which led to this misunderstanding.

Monster, you have to be on guard!

Our Hewan Fishing Village is such a good place, we can't let monsters destroy it.

In order to prevent monsters, I plan to build a high platform, but it will take time, everyone go back and rest first!"

Behind Yulou, Cui Dingyi's face looked as ugly as if his whole family had died.

He was sure that he was being targeted!

Trouble, trouble, big trouble.

He actually didn't make many mistakes, it was just that Yulou was too cautious.

Even if tomorrow came, she could not have imagined that Wang Yulou would be able to take the reins in one day and use Qin Churan to seize power.

That’s fine, after all, Yulou’s power grab was achieved after he slayed the demon and showed his might, using the power of the two foundation-building masters.

But Wang Yulou started a field investigation the next day, which was a bit too down-to-earth and too cautious.

In this way, Cui Dingyi's exaggerated act of loyalty was not covered up.

It’s not that Cui Dingyi is too inexperienced, but the education that Wang Yulou received, the methodology he absorbed, and the behavioral patterns he practiced are all quite special.

Just like now, Cui Dingyi just said that he would ask these people to leave, but Wang Yulou ignored him.

He personally stepped forward, gave spirit stones, explained the whole story, and persuaded people to leave - no other Qi training cultivator could have done this.

An average of two Qi Induction Stage monks die in Hewan Fishing Village every year. How much power do the Qi Condensation Stage monks have here?

Faced with the Qi Gui, whoever they want to kill will surely die!
Send them to patrol the more dangerous areas. When they encounter monsters, if they are a little slow in rescuing them or their magic weapons fly a little off course, they will surely die.

But Yulou just treated these young Qi-inducing cultivators as people who were somewhat equal to himself and tried to win their hearts.

Yulou was not simply reciting the sutra that unity is strength. In the world of immortal cultivators, strength is what can decide most things. A group of weaklings will not have much power when united.

But the secret of practice models and methodologies lies in that if people as the actors can update them in a timely manner, they can really play a huge role in practice.

Yulou had an educational foundation in his previous life, and in this life, on the platform built by the King of Anbei State, he saw the vastness of the world of immortal cultivation and the methods and games of the great cultivators.

It is no surprise that Yu Lou, such a person, could behave like this today and discover Cui Dingyi's hidden ambitions and problems.

Seeing the Qi-inducing monks leaving happily, Cui Dingyi stepped forward with mixed feelings and said anxiously.

"Fellow Daoist Yulou, I..."

Wang Yulou turned around and stared at the ambitious man, conveying pressure with his eyes.

"I understand your thoughts, Fellow Daoist Cui, in the future, I will only look at your actions.

Hewan Fishing Village is destined to be a place where I will stay for a short time. We don’t have any major conflicts, right?”

After saying this, without waiting for Cui Ding to say anything else, he boarded the flying boat and returned to his mansion.

Cui Dingyi, who was standing in place, looked at the mid-grade magical flying boat at the feet of Yulou, snorted coldly, and cursed the warriors around him.

"You bunch of idiots, what are you doing standing there? The cultivators in the Qi Induction Stage don't have to do it, so it's up to you to do it!"

He was timid in front of Wang Yulou, but in front of the lower-level warriors, Cui Dingyi was naturally able to put on airs.
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After returning to the mansion, Wang Yulou's heart could not calm down for a long time.

He paced in the courtyard for a long time, then sat down in front of the statue of the Immortal Lord in the quiet room and continued thinking.

After thinking it over, he still couldn't think of a way to properly deal with Cui Dingyi.

This fellow disciple was from Hewan Fishing Village. He had a deep foundation, his cultivation was temporarily higher than his, and his methods were also more powerful.

No matter how you look at it, it's difficult to deal with.

The only thing that is certain is that Zhang Xuewu's acting skills are not that high - he is not at odds with Cui Dingyi at all, he is just annoyed by Cui Dingyi's acting.

Lao Cui treated him like a stick, and Zhang Xuewu, who knew nothing, thought that he and Lao Cui were evenly matched.

For this guy named Cui, killing him directly seems to be a good idea, and Yulou can do it too.

But the two are from the same sect, and Yulou can't always be the God of Killing and be the God of Killing everywhere.

There are so many great monks in the world, and each one is more evil than the other. How many can Wang Yulou kill by himself?

For the time being, you still need to keep in touch with the world, wait until your time comes, and then take advantage of the opportunity. Well, don't think too far ahead, you need to be down-to-earth.

Therefore, we still have to go back to the system of the Dripping Cave to deal with it.

If we say that the bottleneck in spiritual practice blocks the monk’s path to advancement.

Cui Dingyi is similar to the first bottleneck that Yulou encountered in work and life, blocking his path to complete control of Hewan Fishing Village.

You said Cui Dingyi bowed his head, did his job, and obeyed?

Ha, in the world of immortal cultivation, there is no such thing as passing a test by just kneeling. We are all cultivators, so Wang Yulou must be cautious.

Finally, Yulou, who couldn't think of a perfect solution, decided to wait for He Laosan to come back and let him take a letter to ask for help from the clan leader.

In the process of sending him to the Dripping Cave, the old patriarch was sometimes cold to him and sometimes very warm to him. Yulou just thought that the old patriarch was in post-menopause.

Sending a letter asking for help can also comfort the old patriarch.

"Quack quack!"

Just when I thought of He Laosan, He Laosan really came back.

However, Yulou's mind immediately moved. He noticed that there was a high-level Qi training cultivator standing in the air on a boat next to He Lao San.

Yulou stood up and walked into the courtyard. When he looked up, he noticed the Bishui Palace disciple's robes on the monk.

"Why are you here, fellow Taoist?" Yulou bowed slightly first, then asked.

This stranger's Qi training level was much higher than his, so although he could call him fellow Taoist, he still had to show a little courtesy and respect.

After all, Yulou had just arrived, so he could put on airs in front of Cui Dingyi, Zhang Xuewu and the like. After all, they were Yulou's deputies in terms of position.

But Yulou didn't recognize this strange Qi-training person, and he came here with He Lao San.

Yulou was worried that He Laosan might have caused some trouble outside!
It's hard to say with He Lao San's useless character~
"Hahaha, are you Fellow Daoist Yuque?
I am Wu Faxian, the steward of the Meritorious Office. After receiving your letter, I have come here to deliver the Spiritual Rice and Essence-enhancing Pills to you."

The deacon came personally to deliver the pills?

Wang Yulou raised his eyebrows slightly, then raised his hand with a smile and removed the formation from the house.

"I didn't expect that Daoist Fellow Wu would come in person to deliver the elixir. In a hurry, Yulou was not able to prepare anything, so we can only treat him with spiritual tea. I hope Daoist Fellow can forgive me."

Wang Yulou, who came from a prominent family, was respectable, and Wu Faxian, the steward of the Hall of Merit, was even more respectable. He landed in the courtyard, pointed at the wall of the courtyard and asked.

"Fellow Daoist Yuque, you are too polite. This courtyard is made entirely of spiritual wood. I'm afraid it cost a lot, right?"

Wang Yulou extended his hand and invited Wu Fa to enter the hall first, while explaining.

"It's not expensive, only about 7,000 to 8,000 spirit stones."

He didn't know how much it was worth exactly, so he just quoted a price randomly. After all, there was still the magic circle.

Just to maintain the magic circle of this small courtyard, Yulou costs nine spirit stones every week.

Nine per week!
Wang Xianmao was really willing to give it. This kind of magic array could even block weaker foundation building skills.

Of course, Wang Xianzhou couldn’t be stopped.

Therefore, Yulou's report of seven or eight thousand is far from an exaggeration, and may even be a low estimate.

"Hiss... Daoist Fellow Yuque's spiritual tea..."

Wu Faxian originally wanted to praise the delicious tea of Yulou to cover up his surprise when he heard about the value of the courtyard.

But he just realized that the spiritual tea Wang Yulou served him seemed to be a mixture of ordinary tea and spiritual tea.

It has some spirit, but not much. It tastes good, but I can't praise it.

"This tea was cultivated by our Wang family. In a few years, it will be able to become a ninth-grade spiritual tea. If there is a chance, I will invite Fellow Daoist Wu to taste it."

Wu Faxian was immediately filled with awe, took another sip carefully, and then said with a look of enjoyment.

"The aroma is clear, sweet and fresh, it is indeed extraordinary."

The two of them talked for a while and expressed their desire to make friends. Only then did Wu Faxian take out the bottle of Lingmi Peijing Dan belatedly.

"Look, I was so engrossed in my conversation with Daoist Fellow Yuque that I forgot the important matter. This is the Spiritual Rice Essence Pill you requested.

However, I have also heard about your situation. If you want to exchange spirit stones for merit points to redeem items within a short period of time, we can afford the price of fifteen to sixteen.

But the price is too low. If this continues, even if I am willing to help you make the connection, it may be difficult to maintain."

Lingmi Peijing Pill, fifteen merit points, is equivalent to seventy-five spirit stones. Yulou bids eighty, and the implicit price ratio is fifteen to sixteen.

What Wu Faxian meant was that he was willing to sell well, but Wang Yulou couldn't keep taking advantage of him like this for long, and he had to know when to stop.

Yulou thought about it, confirmed the formation, and asked in a low voice.

"Do you collect spirit fish?"

Spirit fish?

Wu Faxian reacted quickly and explained with a smile.

"Fellow Daoist Yuque, you may not know that the Bishui Palace does not accept ninth-grade spiritual fish. They can only be exchanged for Qingquan Palace merits. It's just that, Qingquan Palace merits..."

He smiled ambiguously, and Yulou nodded in understanding.

He thought of the Yuan family. If the Yuan family hadn't snatched away his position as the monk guarding the mine, he wouldn't have to deal with a bastard like Cui Dingyi, and he wouldn't have had only spiritual fish as an income that was better than nothing.

The governance system of the Dripping Cave is very strict. The garrisoning monks can make money, but the sect’s channels of acceptance block the possibility for the garrisoning monks to cash in directly.

Therefore, if Cui Dingyi can run the secret business of exchanging spiritual fish for resources, there must be other underground markets supporting him.

"Understood. I will solve the problem of merit points as soon as possible."

After seeing Wu Faxian off, Yulou shook his head, opened the bottle of Lingmi Peijing Dan, and poured a pill into his palm.

Lingmipeijingdan is beige in appearance and about the size of an egg. Although it is called a dan, it looks like a large meatball.

Yulou pinched it gently, then smelled the lingering fragrance on her fingers and nodded with satisfaction.

It's a good pill, the refining level is not low, one bottle costs fifteen merit points, and one pill is approximately equal to eight spirit stones. The price is quite fair.

Arriving at the quiet room, Yulou swallowed the Lingmi Peijing Pill, and then carefully refined the medicinal power.

The fragrance is the fragrance of the magical rice, and the sweetness is the sweetness of the magical honey in the elixir.

In addition to the spiritual rice, the spiritual rice essence pill also contains a variety of different medicinal materials and auxiliary materials. After swallowing a spiritual pill, the essence of the spiritual rice and the essence of the spiritual medicine spread throughout Yulou's body.

The loss of essence and the decline in condition caused by practicing Guishui Tracing Pulse were rapidly recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye under the effect of Lingmi Peijing Dan.

Seeing the extraordinary effect of the elixir, Yulou's face also showed joy.

Practicing cultivation is difficult. Just tracing the meridians of Guishui has caused him to suffer great damage to his essence and his condition is worrying.

Practicing cultivation is difficult. If it weren't for the Dripping Water Cave, it would be hard to say how much energy and spirit stones an ordinary cultivator would have to spend to buy the Lingmi Peijing Pill.

Cultivation is also simple, all you need to do is pile up resources. As long as you have enough resources of various kinds, you can always find a way to practice quickly.

Ru Yulou, facing the side effects of Guishui Pulse Tracing, he can use merit or spirit stones to exchange for this pill, and he can naturally deal with it, thereby increasing the speed of tracing.

After about a quarter of an hour, the medicinal power of the Lingmi Peijing Pill was completely refined by Yulou, and his condition was mostly restored.

This made Yulou a little difficult to decide. If he took another Lingmi Peijing Pill, his condition would be completely restored, but the cost of cultivation would be too high.

One Lingmi Peijing Pill requires eight Lingshi. If you make two Lingmi Peijing Pills a day, that means you will need sixteen Lingshi.

Yulou now has 6,500 spirit stones, of which the 5,000 donated by the clan leader account for the majority. Other spirit materials, magic tools, etc. can also be exchanged for spirit stones.

But no matter how you calculate it, he currently has only 6,500 spirit stones as a resource.

The cost of practicing is sixteen spirit stones a day, plus other miscellaneous expenses (arrays, spirit incense, etc.), calculated at two spirit stones. The spirit stones in Yulou can only support his practice for one year.

Yulou still can't keep up with this consumption speed.

Therefore, before finding a new stable source of income, you cannot take two pills a day for the time being.

Just recover most of it, it’s not like we can’t make do with it.

After thinking it through, Yulou lit the incense and began to practice Guishui Tracing Pulse.

The fragrance of plum blossoms is bitter.
Halfway through chanting in his heart, Yulou realized something was wrong again.

He had clearly absorbed the medicinal power of a whole Lingmi Peijing Pill, and his essence and condition had actually recovered to a large extent.

But when I mobilize the Guishui spiritual energy to trace the meridians, why is it still so stumbling?
In the quiet room, green smoke was curling in front of the Immortal Lord’s statue, and the floating green smoke painted an ethereal and mysterious picture in the air.

Under the scroll, there was Yulou's expression that changed from gloomy to bright.

It is known that Guishui tracing is effective. The meridians traced by Guishui spiritual energy are indeed wider. There is absolutely no problem with the method of Guishui tracing.

However, a certain amount of essence and overall condition will be consumed in the process of cultivation. However, the Lingmi Peijing Pill is very effective and Yulou's condition has been largely restored.

So what's the problem?
Yulou gritted his teeth and took another Lingmi Peijing Pill with a painful look on his face.

Overdose treatment!

I just don’t believe it. I still can’t trace my pulse normally after my condition has fully recovered!
Yulou's heart aches truly and he cannot bear to let go.

Two Lingmi Peijing Pills and sixteen Lingshi. It seems that this expense is just a drop in the bucket compared to the profit of tens of thousands of Lingshi he earned from Qingxifang.

But at the beginning, Yulou was standing on the platform provided by his family, operating in Qingxifang under Hongdengzhao, and the profit he made was the profit of the store.

Yu Lou actually couldn't get much. Over the years, he had only saved up 1,500 spirit stones - for an ordinary cultivator, this was already a lot.

However, it is difficult for ordinary cultivators to be so extravagant as to take two elixirs a day for cultivation.

However, half an hour later, the curling green smoke could no longer hide Yulou's gloomy expression.

Sixteen spirit stones, all gone in vain!
But the problem Yulou is facing now is that it can't find where the problem lies.

It was obvious that his essence had been fully restored and his overall condition was very good, but the Guishui meridians just couldn't be traced. Whenever he tried to control the Guishui spiritual energy to trace through the meridians, it would inexplicably go out of control.

There are many people who practice tracing the meridians of Guishui Qi in the Dripping Cave, but ordinary practitioners cannot bear the pain of tracing the meridians, and cannot afford the elixir to repair the meridians, so no relevant experience has been passed down.

Yulou thought about it for a long time, and after a process of elimination, he finally thought of a possible reason.

That is, yesterday's pulse tracing process was too painful, and his spirit or will fell into a depression that he could hardly realize.

This kind of depression cannot be recovered by Lingmi Peijing Dan, nor can it be ignored simply by encouraging yourself.

Therefore, he could not control his Guishui spiritual energy after the pain started.

There was a problem with his practice, and Wang Yulou's subjective initiative had reached its limit.

He thought about it and took out the sound transmission talisman that Zhuo Chi left for him.

An hour later, after receiving the news from Zhuochi, Yulou immediately rode his spirit crane and flew straight to Dishuitian.

Zhuochi’s cave is certainly not in Dishuitian, but around Dishuitian, which is called Xianzun Palace, there are many other palaces and fairy mountains.

After searching for a long time in the clouds, Yulou finally found the Zhuo family's Taoist temple and met his long-missed uncle Zhuo.

"Yulou, I just asked you about the problem of tracing the Guishui Qi. There are not many cultivators in the sect who practice this kind of ancient Qi training method. You should have also felt that the progress of Guishui Qi training cannot be directly increased by elixirs or other things."

Zhuochi didn't understand why Wang sent Yulou to Dishui Cave to cultivate the outdated Guishui Qi, but he chose to respect it.

"It's impossible to increase it directly through pills or other things?" Yulou actually hasn't realized this yet.

Zhuochi shook his head and began to explain science to Yulou in a serious tone.

“The reason why the Five Spirits, Five Colors, and Five Rhythms methods are so popular is because new methods like these can be practiced quickly through special means.

The Guishui Qi cannot be cultivated quickly. At the same time, the greatest effect, the so-called Guishui Tracing Pulse, has not been practiced in the Dripping Cave for a long time.

After all, what matters to a cultivator who is building his foundation is the number of acupoints and the quality of his Taoist foundation, rather than the thickness of his meridians.

Therefore, in fact, the sect does not have any way to deal with the difficulty of tracing the pulse.

However, if you need it, I can contact the Meritorious Hall of the Green Water Palace and change a water method for you."

Wang Yulou fell into deep thought. His spiritual roots were four water and six fire. Accordingly, if he wanted to harmonize his roots and energy, he had to practice water techniques.

The Sumai Guishui Qi doesn't seem to be very useful now, so do we want to change it?
Can't change!
Yulou made a judgment almost instantly. This method was recommended by Zhenren Danri. With Danri's knowledge and experience, Yulou would naturally listen to his advice.

"Forget about changing the method. Uncle Zhuochi, do you know anything about the kind of elixir that can suppress pain?"

"A pill that suppresses pain?"

Zhuochi understood that Wang Yulou was trying to force the matter, but as an outsider, he couldn't say anything about Wang's arrangement.

"Speaking of this, I know nothing about alchemy. You'd better ask Brother Xianmao. Your Wang family's alchemy level is actually not low.

The sect may have elixirs, but they require merit points. For you, it is better to save more merit points. In the future, you may have a chance to obtain your foundation-building resources in the Dripping Cave.

No matter how many merit points you have in the Green Water Palace, they may not necessarily be exchanged for foundation-building resources, but having none or not enough is absolutely unacceptable."

Yulou nodded seriously. Senior Zhuochi's words could be said to be completely from his perspective.

Especially the explanation about that merit point is full of wisdom.
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After flying away from Dishuitian and descending on the spirit crane, Yulou had a solemn expression on his face.

Is cultivation really so troublesome, or is it just that the method of Guishuiqi is special?
Maybe it’s because the method is special. Any method that can be recommended by Tanri must be extraordinary.

Thinking of this, Yulou became motivated again. It’s just a bit of trouble. I, Wang Yulou, can afford it!

Returning to the house, he took out a red lantern from his storage bag.

He urged the spiritual energy, and the red light in it spread outwards. He then placed the scales of the human-faced snake demon on the fire - and began refining!
Thinking of the expenses for elixirs required for cultivation, Yulou felt impatient and had to refine the materials obtained from killing the human-faced snake as soon as possible to make up for the expenses on the elixirs.

The reason why the snake monster scales, which only had the potential to become a low-grade magical weapon, were chosen as the object of refining was because Yu Lou did not have a suitable refining furnace at hand.

The red lantern, a top-grade spiritual weapon with eighty-eight restrictions, is very extraordinary, but its role in refining is just a stove. It provides spiritual fire but cannot assist in practicing Qi.

Under such conditions, even if some materials have the potential to be refined into mid-grade magical instruments or above, Yulou is unable to refine them for the time being.

Moreover, each scale of the snake demon is the size of a fist. With Yu Lou's attainments in alchemy, he can create at least five to six levels of restrictions on it - even if we make a conservative estimate, each finished product can be sold for at least fifty spirit stones, right?

Although snake scales are spiritual materials produced by monsters, they are not so compatible with the metal and stone refining that Yu Lou specializes in.

But with An Ning's notes and the basic knowledge of gold and stone refining, it is not difficult to refine the scales into a low-grade magic weapon.

Controlling the red light requires spiritual power, maintaining the position of the snake scales for better refining also consumes spiritual power, and engraving the restrictions consumes even more spiritual power.

In the absence of a refining furnace, the spiritual power consumed by Yu Lou in the process of refining snake scales was about twice as much as usual.

In the end, he stopped after refining only six snake scales, but this was not because his spiritual power was exhausted, but because there were not many corresponding auxiliary materials left.

Processing snake scales requires certain auxiliary materials, and the process of refining them into magical instruments also requires the addition of auxiliary materials. The six small snake scale shields have already used up the corresponding auxiliary materials that were already limited in Yulou.

Of course, the auxiliary material of the alchemy stone magic weapon, Yulou, is still there, and in large quantities.

Picking up a small snake-scale shield, Yulou touched the sharp edge and smiled slightly.

As a mid-level monster in the small demon realm, the human-faced snake gets its powerful defense from two sources. One is the mucus on its body, which cannot be collected after death.

Another thing is the snake scales, which are hard and tough.

During the refining process, Yulou noticed that the properties of snake scales actually made it possible to be refined into an offensive weapon, so he added a layer of sharpness to the restrictions of the snake scale weapon.

Now it seems that the effect is good.

Although it is a low-grade magic weapon and is pitifully small, it has both offensive and defensive capabilities.

Buy two more and wear them. They will provide defensive effects without the need for spiritual power. No matter how you look at it, they give you a sense of versatility.

It should sell better.

However, more importantly, the snake scale shield refined this time is actually a no-cost business.

The snake scales belonged to a human-faced snake, which was already as cold as it could be, so there was no reason for it to charge Yulou for them.

This is also the reason why so many people take the initiative to go there even though they know it is extremely dangerous.

You can earn spiritual stones! A lot of them!

Under the rule of the Immortal Alliance, everyone must abide by the rules, and if a robbery cultivator is discovered, he will be killed.

But when you arrive at the West Sea, all the monsters you kill, from their flesh to their bones, from their skin to their fur, will all be your trophies.

As long as you can win, and win again and again, the road will be smooth - Mu Chunze smiled without saying anything.

This son-in-law of the Zifu family who was added to the water was the one who fought his way out from the West Sea.

However, looking at the snake-scale shield in front of him, Yulou felt troubled.

How to sell it is a big problem.

The Bishui Palace only accepts top-grade magical instruments, which blocks the possibility of him using the Bishui Palace to improve his instrument-refining proficiency.

If he sold these small snake-scale shields to Qingquan Palace through the Qi-Inducing Stage cultivators, Yulou felt that it was too much of a loss considering the conversion loss.

Holding the snake scale shield in his hand, the chill of the snake scales penetrated through his fingertips, giving Yulou a cool feeling.

"Cui Dingyi, Cui Dingyi, where is the underground trading network that supports your fish trading shop?"

Yulou is now facing multiple problems, all of which are quite urgent and need to be resolved as soon as possible.

The first is to repay the merits owed to the Bishui Palace.

Second, get a decent refining furnace so that you can bring out your refining skills and support yourself in purchasing elixirs to assist in your practice.

The Refining Furnace is on the list of merit exchanges in the Green Water Palace, but if you want to exchange it, you need a lot of merit. You can buy it with Spirit Stones, but Yulou is not willing to do so.
These two points are mutually causal, and it is difficult to break the impasse, so after thinking about it, Yulou still thought of Cui Dingyi.

Ultimately, issues in spiritual practice are troublesome and important, but not urgent.

Figuring out the underground trading network behind Cui Dingyi and gaining full control over Lingyu are both urgent and critical issues.

The key to Yulou's breakthrough might be hidden here. We can only wait and see what Qin Churan does.

Shaking his head, Yulou sorted out his thoughts, took out a piece of silk, and began to write a letter to the patriarch.

Dear clan leader, Yulou is facing a problem now and hopes to get your guidance.

Soon, the letter for help was completed and Yulou called the third brother.

When the third brother heard that he had to run nearly two thousand miles, he suddenly felt a little depressed.

The job of a long-distance driver is not easy, and Linghe is also afraid of long distances!

After Yulou tricked it into giving it a Blood Essence Pill, the third brother happily left with the letter.

It will first go to find Wu Jinyan, then leave the cave, and finally come back with the tribe leader's guidance.

In the letter, Yulou asked for help in two matters.

One is how to deal with or take down Cui Dingyi, and of course, it would be best to ensure that there is no fallout.

Lao Cui is a native of Hewan Fishing Village. If Yulou falls out with him, her future job will be difficult.

The essence of this requires the precious wisdom of the old patriarch.

Another thing is about the practice of Tracing the Pulse of Guishui Qi. The loss of essence and low state caused by Tracing the Pulse can be solved by elixirs, but the low spirit and willpower are difficult to deal with.

In the Bishui Palace, one can exchange for elixirs that can improve spirit and will, but after looking around, Yulou found that those were only for use in battle or when breaking through barriers, not for pain relief, and none of them could relieve pain for a long time.

Yulou needs a magic pill that can provide long-term pain relief and thus reduce the pain of pulse tracing, so as to avoid the mental and will depression caused by pulse tracing.

The Wang family should be able to help him with this. After all, the Wang family has been passed down for such a long time, and there might be relevant experience in some corner.
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In the evening, Qin Churan came to the mansion, looking tired but extremely excited.

Seeing Wang Yulou touching the snake's fang without saying anything, she thought Wang Yulou was thinking about something, so she stood there silently for a long time.

In fact, Yulou was only studying the structure and material of snake fangs.

An Ning's notes contained a lot of experience in refining spiritual weapon-level monster tusks, but the human-faced snake was too weak, only at the middle level of the minor demon realm.

Compared with the information and key points about the big monster's teeth left by An Ning, the teeth of the human-faced snake are different in many places.

Therefore, Yulou needs to think carefully about how to deal with it in the future.

The potential of this snake fang itself is probably between a mid-grade magic weapon and a top-grade magic weapon. It has the potential to be refined into a top-grade magic weapon, but it is very low.

After all, the fangs of the human-faced snake are just one of its many means of attack, not its strongest means.

At the beginning, the fire bull horn used in Wang Rongyuan's fire bull horn dagger was the fire bull's strongest means of attack. Therefore, it had the potential to be refined into a top-grade magic weapon.

However, Wang's weapon refiner only refined it into a medium-grade magic weapon in the end, just to make it more "useful".

Unlike spiritual weapons, there is an upper limit to the number of magical weapons that a cultivator can manipulate during the Qi training stage, and the upper limit is not high.

Therefore, the difference between high-grade and mid-grade magic weapons in fighting is not absolute, and systematic cooperation can also have miraculous effects.

The mid-grade magic weapon, the Fire Bull Horn Dagger, is extremely suitable for combat.

But the most helpless thing for Yulou is that the fang of the human-faced snake does indeed come with the snake demon's innate magic, but it is the Wave Mist Magic - the use of this magic is quite embarrassing.

The Fire Ox Horn Dagger has the Flying Fire Technique. When fighting, if you suddenly launch a strike, it will have a very good effect.

As for the Tide Mist Technique, it can also help the enemy escape after it is released.
The enemy ran away and thanked you later. It hurts my heart just thinking about it.

Putting down the embarrassed Snake Fang, Yu Lou looked at Qin Churan and asked.

"How is it going?"

Not knowing which situation Yulou was asking about, Qin Churan first reported the one that Yulou was most concerned about - the matter of Lao Cui.

"I have already contacted the person, but I thought that if I brought him to your residence, he would be targeted by someone with ulterior motives, so I took the initiative to not bring him here."

As he spoke, Qin Churan lowered his head nervously.

Yulou was stunned for a moment, then stood up and smiled.

"Okay, okay, it was my fault for not thinking it through. You did the right thing! You did the right thing!"

Then, he took out a small snake scale shield from his storage bag and threw it at Qin Churan.

"Chu Ran, next time you want to take the initiative like this, you can just remind me before you do it.

This small snake scale shield is made from one of the six largest snake scales on the chest of the human-faced snake demon. It has seven layers of restrictions and can be used for both offense and defense. Just treat it as a reward for running around for me these past two days!"

The snake scale shield is dark in color and extremely ugly, and the base material used is snake scales. If it were placed in the world where Yu Lou once lived, if you gave this to a girl, she would most likely be blocked immediately.

But Qin Churan looked at the snake scales on his hand and felt that he could hardly hear anything. This was a symptom of increased intracranial pressure caused by excessive excitement.

She already knew about Wang Yulou sending spirit stones to the Qi-inducing monk this morning. At that time, she thought that it was normal for Wang Yulou to be of high rank and wealthy since he came from a noble family.

But in her concept and world, she really couldn't understand the behavior of casually giving low-grade magic tools as rewards - it was too cruel!
"Pfft!"

The girl knelt down to Yulou again.

In fact, Yulou now only feels helpless.

Qin Churan knelt down at every turn, making him seem like a strange person.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

The female cultivator kneeling on the ground kowtowed three times.

When he looked up again, his forehead was already blood red.

However, seeing that she was so "sincere", Yulou immediately thought of something that would spoil the mood.

Is this a play for me? Is this a way of managing me upwards?
probably?

In this way, it arouses my sympathy and men's desire for control and protection?

Fellow Daoist Qin, did I guess right?
I, Wang Yulou, am not some legendary born handsome man, reincarnated saint, or son of destiny.

He doesn't have double pupils in his eyes, nor does he have supreme bones in his body. His parents are not dead peerless masters, and even his only golden finger needs to be constantly accumulated to accumulate golden light.

How could a young cultivator, whom I had only met a few times, respect me so much?
be careful!
All I can say is that Zhou Yingxi’s calling Wang Yulou a bastard was not without reason.

Under Wang's influence and cautious character, Yulou's symptoms may be subtle, but also serious.

"Senior Wang, Chu Ran. Chu Ran"

Wang Yulou frowned. He didn't really like being betrayed.

True or false, how much of Qin Churan’s words were true, Yulou didn’t want to think about it.

Unlike Mangxiang and his ilk, Yulou may lack the ruthlessness necessary to become a great monk.

The great monks can ruthlessly regard everyone as a price, so they don't care about the authenticity of loyalty, they only care about the results - they also don't really care about the fate of their subordinates.

Yulou can't do it.

“Okay, no need to say more, it’s just a low-grade magic weapon, just do your job well.

Tell that person that if he finds out the shop of Cui Dingyi's son, I will also give him a magic weapon as a reward!"

No matter how to deal with Lao Cui, it is always more important to find out what he did first.

To describe this thing in another way, it can be called a grabber.

Grab the hand, grab the hand, once you grab the hand, you can grab the other person!

“You can actually meet him, tomorrow he’ll be patrolling the lake on the north shore of Big Red Creek.

As long as you go around the lakeshore under the pretext of inspecting it, you can discuss the matter with him face to face."

Yulou's eyes were somewhat deep, and he became more and more certain that the female cultivator in front of him with blood all over her face was not simple.

Yes, if he was not a sober person, how could he withstand Cui Dingyi’s pressure?

I didn’t expect that such a small riverside fishing village could have two talented people like Cui Dingyi and Qin Churan.

Perhaps, there are so many talented people in this world that this forced the great monks to join forces to change the rules of heaven and earth and restrict the lives of most people.

"Another good suggestion, Chu Ran, come on, get up."

Taking out a piece of white silk, Yulou wiped the blood off Qin Churan's face with her own hands.

He frowned slightly, took out a small blood-enhancing pill, and gave instructions with concern.

"Well, come on, take this elixir and recover faster."

You play me and I play you.

If you want to play the role of a loyal minister, I can also be a wise leader.

If you do the job well, I, Wang Yulou, will naturally treat you with courtesy!
"Senior Wang, it's too precious. I don't..."

"Eat, otherwise when I go out later, people will think I'm such a bad person, hahahaha."

Wang Yulou made a joke, but the content did not sound like a joke, so Qin Churan naturally did not dare to refuse.

After she took a few breaths and her forehead recovered, Yulou asked about another thing.

"Let's talk about the progress of collecting information on Qi-inducing monks. This is also very important."

Asking for spiritual fish is to test the distribution of interests, which corresponds to financial power.

As I was searching, I discovered Cui Dingyi's problem, which was a surprise.

But among the five things Yulou raised, the most important one is actually the fifth one - personnel rights.

Personnel means power.

Under the pretext of preventing and slaying monsters, they first collected information on the Qi-inducing monks in the fishing village, and then organized them to practice preventing and slaying monsters.

Through these actions, Yulou can naturally and firmly seize the personnel power.

“There are currently 23 Qi Induction cultivators in Hewan Fishing Village, including four in the late Qi Induction stage, eight in the middle Qi Induction stage, and eleven in the early Qi Induction stage.

However, Senior Wang, I have roughly calculated how many of these people have a relatively close relationship with Cui Dingyi. Do you want to know?"

After Qin Churan said this, Yulou felt relieved again.

This girl, well, is pretty good, has ideas and ambitions, but
Hmm? Is she hiding her innocence on purpose?

Thinking of this, Yulou smiled suddenly, which made Qin Churan stunned - did I say something wrong?

Of course she was not wrong, but Yulou realized that she was affected by the pressure from Lao Cui.

Qin Churan is capable, diligent, and thoughtful, and is clearly an excellent candidate for training.

But due to the influence of the secretive Old Cui, Wang Yulou actually felt a sense of suspicion when looking at Xiao Qin.

Cultivating immortality is so difficult!
　Thank you Brother Bei for being the leader. I won’t say much more. Brother Bei has supported me for so long and knows my personality.

　　It’s the same old saying, I will never compromise and never give up on my demands on myself. I will always pursue the holy grail of creation and try my best not to let you down!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)