There are always fairies plotting against me

"What kind of pill is this?" Lu Jinan picked up a pill and looked at the small round pill trembling between his fingers, feeling his fingers numb.

"Big Brother!" Zhang Jijin, who had just seen Lu Jinan, immediately bowed and asked, "When did you get here?"

"Just arrived." Lu Jinan smiled slightly: "What is this pill?"

"Jumping Dan!"

"Why are you jumping?" Lu Jinan was stunned, thinking that this was a refined elixir, it shouldn't be what he thought it was, right?

"Jiaodan." Zhang Jijin rubbed his hands. "I recently took on a business deal from the Hehuan Sect. I don't know why they asked me to refine this kind of elixir that's similar to the Qigong Pill, but needs to dissolve slowly in water. But the price they offered is too high."

Zhang Jijin raised a finger and chuckled, "One Jumping Pill costs five hundred high-grade spirit crystals. Those men must have been subjected to the Yang-replenishing Yin technique too many times, otherwise how could their brains be so dull?"

Lu Jinan stared at the pill between his fingers and curled his lips. The cultivators of the Hehuan Sect really lived up to the law that 'strain is the first driving force for development'.

"How do I refine this pill?" Lu Jinan asked curiously.

"It's simple. I'll teach you." Zhang Jijin obviously didn't know what the pill would be used for, so he introduced the method of refining the pill with a happy expression on his face.

Lu Jinan memorized every word in his mind, maybe it would come in handy in the future... right?

"Sell less." After listening, Lu Jin'an said to Zhang Jijin, "Rare goods are valuable, so don't sell too much each time. Those cultivators from the Hehuan Sect will naturally raise the price. Do you understand?"

"Why?" Zhang Jijin looked at his senior brother in confusion. "This thing is a fasting pill that jumps and melts slowly..."

"Listen to me." Lu Jinan patted Zhang Jijin's shoulder and said, "If you can produce a hundred pieces a month, I guarantee you'll make more money."

Zhang Jijin nodded, seemingly understanding: "I'll listen to you, Senior Brother."

After finishing this topic, Lu Jinan explained his origins: "I would like to ask my junior brother to help me refine a fifth-grade pill."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Jijin perked up. He turned his head to see the medicinal liquid that had been refined by his senior brother, and raised his eyebrows: "Dragon scale grass, sky blue flower, phoenix blood, Bu Tianzhi, Scrophulariaceae..."

He looked into Lu Jinan's eyes and asked, "Big Brother, do you want to cultivate your body and communicate with the nine heavenly stars?"

"Yes." Lu Jinan took out the Seven Stars Blood Vessel Opening Pill that he had already refined long ago: "I need this pill urgently, and I can't refine it right now. Can I ask you for it?"

Lu Jinan knew that his talent in alchemy was just enough for himself and could not compare to Zhang Jijin, the head of the Alchemy Hall. In addition, he needed the medicine urgently, so he came directly to Zhang Jijin.

"Leave it to me." Zhang Jijin licked his lips and said, "To be honest, I've wanted to challenge the fifth-grade body-refining pill for a long time. After all, there's no future for physical cultivation now, and no one buys this grade of body-refining pills.

Senior Brother, do you mind that I don't have much experience in refining pills? Or should I ask Master for help?..."

"I'm not asking you to fight when refining pills." Lu Jinan smiled and said, "You can even refine a sixth-grade pill, so how can a fifth-grade pill stump you?"

"Two and a half hours." Zhang Jijin said in a deep voice, "It will definitely be ready."

"Sorry for the trouble." Lu Jinan bowed and said, "I'll pay according to my junior brother's price..."

"Big Brother, you're treating me like an outsider." Zhang Jijin said as he opened the furnace, "We're fellow disciples, so it's only natural for us to help each other. The stronger you are, Big Brother, the happier we are. Talking about money won't hurt feelings."

Zhang Jijin smiled and said, "Besides, it was you, Big Brother, who asked me to do this personally. Tomorrow I will brag to my fellow disciples that I am the first Alchemy Hall disciple to help you refine the elixir."

Looking at Zhang Jijin who started to refine the elixir, Lu Jinan walked out without saying anything more and did not peek at Zhang Jijin's process of refining the elixir.

For a talented alchemist like Zhang Jijin, who has his own unique alchemy method, peeking is an extremely bad behavior.

But Lu Jinan did not leave the Alchemy Hall. Instead, he borrowed an alchemy room and began to try to refine the jumping pill.

The jumping pills that I made myself should be more meaningful, right?

Recalling the method Zhang Jijin taught him, Lu Jinan lit the furnace and prepared the materials.

As he was refining the medicine, he suddenly had an idea: why not make some different flavors like the Qigong Pills, so that they would taste great when eaten.

As soon as he thought of it, he had to do it. Lu Jinan stopped the fire and went out to pick some fruits to enhance the taste of Tiaodan.

"I am indeed a beast in human clothing..."

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Chapter 39 "I promised my disciple that I would protect him."

"Big Brother!"

As the sun set in the west, Zhang Jijin pushed open the door and walked out of the alchemy room. He bowed to Lu Jinan with a look of fatigue and excitement on his face. "Thank goodness I have fulfilled my mission. The Xuanxue Juxing Pill is done."

Lu Jinan, who was watching the pills jumping around in the porcelain bottle, put away the dozen or so pills he had refined, turned around and took the porcelain bottle handed to him by Zhang Jijin, and returned the greeting: "Thank you, Junior Brother Jijin."

"It's a small matter, a small matter." Zhang Jijin waved his hand and then said with anticipation, "If you, Senior Brother, can complete the Nine-Star Body Tempering in this era, can you give me all the elixirs you need later?"

"Okay."

"Alright!" Zhang Jijin bumped his left palm with his right fist, his eyes becoming more and more excited: "If I help Senior Brother complete all the body tempering in this era, I will definitely surpass Master, hehehe..."

Lu Jinan laughed out loud: "Master Chen has lived for so long, he must have refined a nine-star body-hardening elixir."

"He hasn't finished refining it yet." Zhang Jijin chuckled, "I'm very familiar with Master. Besides, the value of Nine-Star Body Tempering in this era is incomparable to the past."

"Okay." Lu Jinan nodded: "Then I'll go first."

"I've also started collecting the materials I'll need later." Zhang Jijin patted his chest and said, "I'll do my best to ensure that Senior Brother has no logistical worries."

"Don't worry, what if I don't succeed?"

"You are the eldest senior brother!" Zhang Jijin's face turned serious. "You are the one who shoulders the future of Wandao Sect. Junior brother, I believe that you will succeed."

Lu Jinan stroked the porcelain vase with his fingers, turned around and walked away: "Wait for my good news."

"I wish you good luck in martial arts, Senior Brother!" Zhang Jijin bowed deeply.

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The highest peak of Wandao Sect, in front of the stone steps of Taiyi Peak.

The gray-haired, thin, slightly hunched old man leaned on a cane with one hand and stroked his beard with the other. Despite his seemingly old figure, his voice was as loud as a bell: "Don't worry, you're not the only one who treats him like a treasure."

Pei Wanyu, who was standing not far away, withdrew her gaze from Danfeng: "But where he wants to go..."

"Young people have their own ways. What can they achieve if we keep protecting them?" The old man tapped the ground with his cane. "I'm worried too, but it's useless.

He has confidence, his fellow disciples trust him, and the entire sect supports him. As their master, you should be even more assured. He has more to shoulder than just himself!"

After the words fell, the old man turned and looked at Ji Wenchang, the deputy sect leader in charge of Taishi Hall: "This time, my birthday will be celebrated in a grand manner."

Ji Wenchang bowed, naturally understanding the meaning of the clan leader's grand plan: all races were invited.

The old man walked towards Taiyi Palace and said, "Let's take advantage of this opportunity to let Jin'an inherit the position of Holy Son."

The Holy Son is the future leader of the Wandao Sect.

"I understand." Ji Wenchang bowed, and in his heart he had already determined the standards for the sect leader's birthday banquet.

After the Sect Master's footsteps faded, Ji Wenchang straightened up, looking relieved. "Jin An should have inherited the position of Holy Son long ago. Sect Master, why did you delay it until now..."

Pei Wanyu looked ahead and said, "Since no one else is vying for this position, it doesn't matter if I come later."

"They dare?" Ji Wenchang shook his head. "How dare they think they can compete for Jin'an's position? I'll break their legs first."

"Serious words."

Ji Wenchang said calmly, "It's better to take precautions before they happen. Anyone who dares to engage in intrigue and disrupt the sect's atmosphere will be killed without mercy."

If the upper beam is straight, the lower beam will not be crooked.

"I'm leaving first." Pei Wanyu took a step forward: "I only have this one precious disciple."

Ji Wenchang frowned slightly: "Be careful that he doesn't grow up."

"I promised my disciple that I would protect him." Pei Wanyu said lightly, "Besides, I know my limits."

Ji Wenchang shook his head and said no more, then left Taiyi Peak. Now that Lu Jinan was going to inherit the position of the Holy Son, it was time for him to teach his disciple Jiang Wuya how to better assist the Holy Son.

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After leaving Danfeng, Lu Jinan went to several other halls again. After confirming that he had brought everything, he took out the flying boat and boarded it to head towards his destination.

After the battle between hundreds of races 20,000 years ago, the five major regions of Yunding Continent, namely east, west, south, north and center, were determined. As one of the victorious races, the human race occupied the entire eastern region and parts of the central and northern regions, second only to the demon race.

However, although the boundaries of each race have been determined, there are still some areas in the Yunding Continent that are unowned, and most of these areas are restricted areas where entry is death.

Among so many restricted areas, there is one that is the real death restricted area - behind the broken world, where the Hades is located.

In the southwest of the Central Boundary, the Eight-Direction Abyss is like a broken boundary wall, where spiritual power cannot enter and life is even more difficult to enter.

After three days of rapid travel on a flying boat, Lu Jinan came from the cabin to the deck, overlooking the broken boundary at the end of the spiritual power. The intertwined abysses seemed to be able to swallow people, making people dare not approach.

"Soul-Calming Corridor..."

Lu Jinan lowered his eyes slightly, put away the flying boat and came to the only city here, which the monks called the ghost city.

Everywhere you look, there are few people, and everywhere are coffins and various supplies needed for visiting graves.

After entering the ghost town, the flow of spiritual power became much more obscure, but Lu Jinan didn't care. Instead, he looked around curiously.

Because the destination of his trip is the legendary underworld, and the ghost town is the human world closest to the underworld.

In Lu Jinan's understanding of the Yunding Continent, the three realms of heaven, earth, and underworld do exist, but the heaven and earth realms can be said to have merged into one, because cultivators and ordinary people live together in this realm, but ordinary people find it difficult to see real cultivators.

But the underworld cannot and will not be integrated into it, because no matter whether it is a monk or an ordinary person, they are all "alive". Once they are integrated with "death", then everything will be a mess.

'Perhaps for death, life is death, and death is life.'

Lu Jinan was still thinking to himself, and walked to the side of the road to look at the coffin pullers passing by. He knew the position of these people in the ghost town: servants of the underworld.

Deliver messages for the living and help the dead fulfill their wishes.

After a living person dies, entering the ancient cycle of reincarnation is not something that can be accomplished immediately.

Lu Jinan still has many unsolved issues about the Yunding Continent, but he also knows that with his current level of cultivation, he cannot understand the rules governing the operation of the world. Now he can only abide by the rules of heaven that have existed in the Yunding Continent for who knows how long.

He turned his head and looked at the tightly closed city gate at the end of the city. It was rumored that through that gate one could enter the Soul-Calming Corridor, and then have the opportunity to reach the underworld beyond the Broken World, but no one had confirmed it.

Because life and death are two different codes, without "transcendence", the Divine Hidden Realm does not dare to easily peek into the mysteries of the ancient underworld, and vice versa... maybe it's the same?

Lu Jinan didn't know, but it didn't stop him from walking towards the door.

He wanted to become an immortal, but to become an immortal he had to conform to the Tao, and the path he was taking could not bypass this door.

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Author: This is my first time writing a Xianxia novel. I have many shortcomings and am still moving forward in my ignorance. Everyone has different perspectives and understandings. If you find anything unreasonable, you can make suggestions. Of course, my knowledge is limited, and I will gradually supplement and improve it without violating the outline. If it cannot be improved, just treat it as the setting of this book.

The author would like to thank the readers who have a deep understanding of the Xianxia genre for their kindness in writing. I am very grateful~

Chapter 40 "Master, I don't want to wait for the next life at all~"

The 15th day of the seventh lunar month is the day of the Zhongyuan Festival, which is also the legendary day when the underworld opens.

It is said that at this time, all ghosts have to undergo tests, and those who pass can leave the underworld. Ghosts with owners go home, and ghosts without owners wander around the human world, wandering around looking for food. Therefore, this day is called Ghost Festival.

Rumors are just rumors, but the truth is more terrifying than rumors.

Because after a powerful monk dies abnormally, he will take advantage of the weakest time of the "boundary between life and death" during the Ghost Festival and try his best to leave the underworld and be reborn in another body.

Just like those beings who claim to be from the upper realm: they eat people!

Over the years, there have indeed been people who have successfully come back to life by violating the reincarnation method of possessing another body, but no one has truly succeeded.

The human world has its own laws, and the ancient world has its own rules.

Those who violate the rules will be surrounded and killed by the Minggu who will provide information.

Lu Jinan had taken on this kind of task before in the Zuozhao Realm. In addition, out of curiosity, he had looked up relevant books in the Wandao Sect's library, so he was quite familiar with it.

Standing in front of the Ghost Gate, Lu Jinan raised his head slightly. Because his own Tao included life and death, he could see the ancient death energy lingering around the Ghost Gate.

A thought flashed through Lu Jinan's mind as he stood out in white: Should he use his current understanding of the Great Freedom Visualization Method to deduce the approximate outcome of this trip?

But as soon as this thought emerged, Lu Jinan extinguished it: "The more I learn the skills, the more proficient I am. How can I be more hesitant?"

Lu Jinan laughed at himself and did not practice the "Great Freedom Visualization Method".

Because human nature is to seek good and avoid evil, and no matter what you do, it is difficult to have a 100% success rate. If you know the bad results in advance, then the seeds of "cowardice" will be planted in your heart.

Once this seed sprouts, it will be difficult to eliminate and will become a "what if" again and again on the path to immortality.

And 'what if' means you have no confidence in yourself.

There may be failures on the road, but there is no ultimate success. The most valuable thing is the courage to keep moving forward with a clear conscience.

"In small matters, it's fine to seek good fortune and avoid disaster, but seeking immortality is a thorny road, and there's no escaping it."