Changsheng Xiuxian: I can see through everything

Chapter 196: Seven Sects Competition (Subscribe)

The head of the Du family was shocked.

"Master Chen has collected all the materials for the Thunder-attribute Foundation Establishment Pill?"

"Luckily I collected all of them."

Chen Xuan took out the alchemy materials in front of him.

Three main materials and eight auxiliary materials.

The most crucial one is the inner elixir of the Thunder God Bull.

"Second-grade, mid-grade, thunder attribute, pure and peaceful, perfect for refining pills."

The head of the Du family stared at Chen Xuan in a daze with a complicated expression.

The other materials are fine.

That second-grade, mid-grade thunder beast inner core is extraordinary and priceless.

"This matter is of great importance. I will report it to the ancestor and ask a good intermediary to make an agreement in person."

"Of course! I can ask the sect's Elder Li Changfeng to be the middleman."

The so-called middleman is the person who supervises the performance of the contract by both parties.

Although it is possible to sign a spiritual contract and negotiate the matters of alchemy.

However, within the Jinyang Sect, it is still popular to have middlemen act as matchmakers and supervisors, as this is simple, convenient, and harmonious.

Ten days later, the head of the Du family brought Li Changfeng and Chen Xuan to the residence of the old alchemist Du.

Master Du confirmed the material proportions and negotiated the alchemy remuneration with Chen Xuan.

"One furnace of materials can produce three or four pills if you're lucky."

Theoretically, each batch of materials can be made into eight pills.

However, the level of that kind of alchemist has reached the realm of perfection, at least the Yuanying Zhenjun.

Master Du can make three or four pills, which makes him one of the best among the foundation-building alchemists.

Most ordinary independent alchemists can only make one pill.

If you can get two, it would be an above-average performance.

"Then I'll have to trouble Elder Du."

Chen Xuan asked respectfully, "How is the payment for alchemy calculated?"

Master Du stroked his beard and said, "Chen Xuan, the materials you have are of excellent quality. I will do my best to refine them. For an ordinary foundation-building pill, I will charge 10,000 spirit stones."

"A sect master commissioned a thunder-attribute foundation-building pill not long ago, and paid 20,000 spirit stones for one furnace."

Chen Xuan smiled slightly.

"Elder Du, how dare a mere cultivator compare himself to a master from the sect? How about this? Of the 30,000 spirit stones, I'll advance 10,000 now. I only ask that Elder Du arrange the time a little earlier."

Upon hearing Chen Xuan's offer, Master Du laughed heartily, very satisfied.

"Very good, let's make this an agreement. Elder Li will be a witness. Once I finish refining this order, the next one will be yours, Chen Xuan. Starting from today, we will start refining the pills in three months. How about that?"

"Thank you, Elder Du."

Chen Xuan happily paid a down payment of 10,000 spirit stones.

He knew very well that in consideration of 30,000 spirit stones, Alchemist Du had let him jump the queue.

Among the sect's foundation-building alchemists, his alchemy skills are among the best.

And he has successful experience in making thunder-attribute foundation-building pills.

He is the only candidate that Chen Xuan has appointed to refine the thunder-attribute foundation-building pill.

Even if the reward for one furnace is three times the normal amount.

At this time, Chen Xuan became rich overnight and had no shortage of spirit stones.

"Deacon Chen, if you are successful in the future, don't forget the Du family of Lingyun City!"

"I dare not! Chen Xuan will always remember Elder Du's kindness and will definitely repay him in the future."

Master Du didn't care about ordinary cultivators and even politely refused.

He doesn't have much time left to live, so he is already making arrangements to seal the furnace.

This Chen Xuan is no ordinary person.

It is extremely rare to find a cultivator who also practices thunder magic.

Especially Lei Xiu, who has achieved academic success and is expected to lay a solid foundation.

Lei Xiu has always been famous for his outstanding attack power.

Once the foundation is successfully established, one will definitely be the best among the same level.

For three months, I queued up for Chen Xuan and also for the Lingyuncheng family.

Chen Xuan accepted this favor from him and promised to take care of the Du family in Lingyun City in the future.

After leaving the residence of Master Du, Chen Xuan handed a jade box to Li Changfeng.

Li Changfeng asked, "What is it?"

Chen Xuan smiled and said, "Elder, this is a good thing."

"Is there any need for these empty formalities between you and me?"

"It's not an empty ceremony. Elder, open it and take a look."

Li Changfeng opened the jade box, but inside was a two-foot-long flaming tiger whip.

"this!"

"I know the elder is not in good health. This second-grade, mid-grade tiger whip is just the right thing to replenish his body."

The core skills of the Jinyang Sect are based on the gold and fire attributes.

Li Changfeng is a cultivator with fire attribute.

In the battle at Qingyun Market, he used a secret technique and damaged his foundation, so he did some odd jobs in the sect, actually he was recuperating in the sect.

The second-grade mid-grade flaming tiger whip is exactly the right spiritual object for the ailment.

"This tiger whip is indeed useful to me, so I won't be polite!"

Li Changfeng accepted the flaming tiger whip.

"Don't worry about the Foundation Establishment Pill. Master Du has an excellent reputation, and I will be present when he makes the pill."

"Thank you, elder!"

……

After returning to Lingyun City, Chen Xuan began to practice diligently.

Although the Qi training is complete, the foundation can be established at any time.

But the more perfectly you can polish your body, the higher the quality of the foundation you build.

After breaking through the Qi training perfection, he has been busy killing monsters and obtaining elixirs, and visiting ancient caves. For nearly half a year, he has not practiced properly.

However, after only a few days of leisure, guests came to visit.

"Junior Sister Zhou?"

Chen Xuan looked at the smiling Zhou Liqi in front of him with some doubt. "Junior sister greets Senior Brother Chen!"

Zhou Liqi bowed to Chen Xuan, then her smile faded and she yelled at the young monk beside her, "Come over here and apologize to Senior Brother Chen!"

The young monk sank to his knees, crying, "Please forgive me, Master Chen. I was drunk that day and said something joking. Please forgive me, Master Chen!"

Chen Xuan took a look and found that it was the illegitimate son of the Zhou family who had teased Bai Tingting when they entered the city.

He had long forgotten about this matter.

At that time, the law enforcement team was ordered to take him away, detain him for two or three days, give him a slight punishment, and then release him.

Seeing that his whole body was intact, he must not have suffered any pain.

What play is Zhou Liqi singing?

"Junior Sister Zhou, these minor matters have long passed."

Chen Xuan thought for a moment and explained, "The female cultivator he flirted with that day was a very powerful figure. She was the leader of a million barbarian tribes and a Foundation Establishment cultivator."

"She possesses a body of mysterious and unfathomable magic. If I don't punish her a little, she will bear a grudge and cause great trouble in the future."

"I see. Then I have to thank Senior Brother Chen even more for helping me discipline this unfilial brother!"

Su Yanping came forward and served the spiritual tea to Zhou Liqi, and secretly glanced at her a few more times out of curiosity.

"This is my second wife."

Chen Xuan introduced with a smile.

"This is Miss Zhou from the City Lord's Mansion, and also a junior sister of the Jinyang Sect."

"Meet Madam Chen."

"Meet Miss Zhou."

The two said hello.

Seeing Zhou Liqi's clear eyes and high status, Su Yanping retreated with peace of mind.

"You, my second wife, are quite interesting!" Zhou Liqi said with a smile while drinking the spiritual tea.

"You've been following me since you were little, and you've never experienced anything outside. Junior Sister Zhou, don't worry about it."

"Since Senior Brother Chen has forgiven you, go back on your own and don't cause any more trouble!"

After the young monk left, Zhou Liqi explained her purpose.

"Brother Chen, do you know anything about the Seven Sects Competition?"

"Seven Sects Competition?"

Chen Xuan had indeed never heard of it.

In the sect, he only interacted with Li Changfeng, and the rest of the people were like strangers.

Zhou Liqi explained it to him slowly.

It turned out that after thousands of years of chaos, the Song State had formed seven major sects, and the remaining small and medium-sized sects and cultivation families almost all became vassals of the seven major sects of the Song State.

As the number of cultivators increased, friction and fighting continued between the various sects and families. The fundamental reason was the increase in population and the shortage of spiritual veins.

In addition to consolidating the existing spiritual veins of the Song State, the seven major sects often organize personnel to open up new land and establish strongholds on each newly discovered spiritual vein.

This is why new markets keep appearing in places like the wilderness.

A market town is a small fairy city that governs the cultivation families on the nearby spiritual veins.

However, the division of interests within each sect is decided by the sect’s top leaders.

However, it is difficult to reconcile between the seven major sects.

Some areas, sandwiched between two or even three sects, not only have spiritual veins, but also various secret realms and blessed places.

It is impossible for the seven major sects to fight each other over this.

But if you want to distribute these benefits, you must have a charter.

Therefore, there was a seven-sect competition.

The powerful men from the seven major sects worked together to transform a secret training realm that only Qi training monks can enter.

It opens once every ten years, and the seven major sects send their elite disciples to enter.

It is said that the secret realm for training is the ninth heaven.

The higher you strive, the higher your potential will be and the greater your future achievements will be.

The seven major sects calculated the secret realm Taoist power obtained by the disciples of each sect, and based on this, they allocated some newly discovered spiritual veins and blessed lands.

According to Zhou Liqi, two years from now, the Seven Sects Competition will begin and the secret realm for training will be open.

"Don't we have Fellow Daoist Wu and the others? Jinyang Sect is full of talented people, and we will definitely achieve good results."

After hearing what Zhou Liqi said, Chen Xuan finally understood why she came.

If she could enter the secret realm for training, she hoped Chen Xuan could help her and help her gain some Taoist skills so as to bring some honor to the Zhou family of the City Lord's Mansion.

"Senior Brother Chen, you're joking. Senior Brother Wu Huacheng is considered to be relatively weak in this sect competition!"

Chen Xuan was slightly startled.

If he remembered correctly, Wu Huacheng was the top scorer in the last secret realm selection.

In the inheritance square, he ranks first among the seven elite disciples of Jinyang Sect.

"Senior Brother Chen is not familiar with the sect and doesn't know something."

Zhou Liqi smiled and said, "Haotian Secret Realm is specially opened to ordinary disciples and a small number of outstanding independent cultivators."

"The sect's true disciples will not participate."

"Is there such a thing?"

This time, Chen Xuan was really shocked.

No wonder, whether it was Wu Huacheng or Xuan Mingzi, although they were strong, they were not so strong that he could not look up to them.

"Foundation-building pills, sect contribution points, natural treasures, these spiritual objects are priceless to us ordinary disciples. But to those direct disciples, they are nothing!"

Zhou Liqi said with envy, "They have been gifted since childhood, meticulously taught by Jindan Zhenren, and dedicated to their cultivation, without lacking any spiritual objects. The success rate of their disciples in building their foundation is over 90%!"

Chen Xuan really wanted to curse.

These direct disciples are the future and foundation of the sect.

Just like the top class in the previous life.

With extremely high talent, the best resources and the best teachers, it would be hard for him not to become successful.

For a wild cultivator like him, if he did not have extraordinary means such as the Wordless Taoist Scripture, his lifelong struggle would only allow him to enter a sect as an outer disciple.

Or, after reaching the later stage of Qi training, one can buy a miniature spiritual vein, reproduce, and establish a Qi training family.

Even these are the top figures among the independent cultivators, less than one percent.

Most of them become the common denominator, the base of the pyramid.

Toil all your life, like a slave.

Thinking of this, Chen Xuan couldn't help but sigh. Looking at Zhou Liqi who was smiling in front of him, a sense of oppression came over him.

(End of this chapter)