Best Ascension

Chapter 38 The Two-Year Retreat
In the Hehe Courtyard, Zhao Sheng sent away Zhao Xiaoqi who came to inquire about the news after patiently comforting him.

After sending Zhao Xiaoqi away, he shook his head with a wry smile on his face, and he couldn't help sighing, "This black hand behind the scenes really took great pains, and even used the means of spreading rumors among ordinary people. It seems that the Zhao family is not tormenting to death. Don't give up."

By this time, Zhao Sheng had vaguely guessed who was manipulating all this behind the scenes, and it was most likely Wei Cheng, my old fox.

Only he will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals.

The reason why Wei Cheng and I wanted to force the Zhao family to death was not only for the immortal cultivators of the Zhao family, but more importantly for the Zhao family's [-] mortal relatives.

Don't think that mortal relatives are not important to a cultivating family.

On the contrary, it is the most important foundation of any cultivating family.

Taking the Zhao family as an example, among the 31 members of the Zhao family who were cultivating immortals, more than ten were from secular families.

When the Wei family annexed the [-] relatives of the Zhao family, the number of newly born cultivators in the family would inevitably increase greatly.

In the world of cultivating immortals, a considerable number of cultivating families achieve a leap in family strength by continuously assimilating mortal relatives of other families.

Zhao Sheng also guessed that maybe not only he had figured it out, but even the shrewd elders of the family probably knew it in their hearts.

But so what!

Wei Chengwo's move was obviously out of fear, and the conspiracy he used was more like a conspiracy.

Who made the Zhao family reveal such a big flaw in spite of themselves.

In this regard, Zhao Sheng has no good way, but can only see the tricks.

The key to breaking this matter lies in whether the two clan elders can successfully establish their foundations.

It's done, everyone has a bright future.

If you can't make it, you can only make plans!

……

The sun was scorching, July was hot, and two months passed in a blink of an eye.

On this day, Zhao Sheng was concentrating on drawing the invisibility talisman in the talisman making room.

A moment later, as the surface of the talisman paper glowed with light, the complex and gorgeous talisman disappeared, and an invisibility talisman took shape.

Seeing that Zhao Sheng succeeded again, Zhao Chongwei at the side couldn't help throwing down the talisman pen in frustration, and complained to Zhao Sheng: "Chonghe, why is the invisibility talisman so difficult! I have failed more than ten times today."

Hearing this, Zhao Sheng walked to her side, picked up a scrapped talisman from the table, looked at it for a while, and said: "Xiaowei, your brushwork and talisman are correct, and the spirit orifices are complete. The reason why you repeatedly The reason for the failure is that the distribution of spiritual power between the rune lines is uneven, resulting in poor connection of the nodes."

Zhao Chongwei took the talisman and looked at it for a while, and said in frustration: "I have tried my best to control it, but the invisibility talisman is too complicated. I put all my energy into its shape and aura, and I really don't care about other places. Not everyone is like You are so perverted!"

Zhao Sheng was speechless, it's all my fault!
In the end, he had no choice but to comfort him: "Don't worry, take your time. Practice makes perfect. With your current progress, it will take up to three months."

Zhao Chongwei couldn't help but rolled her eyes, and said in disgust, "Are you laughing at me for being stupid!"

Zhao Sheng froze when he heard the words, and quickly apologized: "Grandma, you are the genius girl of the family. You have already reached the third level of Qi refining at the age of seventeen. I am a rookie at the second level of Qi refining, how dare I laugh at you."

Hearing what he said, Zhao Chongwei felt slightly less depressed, but still sighed: "What's the use of the third level of refining Qi, it can't help the family at all. I don't know when the elders of the clan will leave the customs?"

Zhao Sheng's expression was slightly gloomy, and he comforted her: "Don't worry, the two clan elders will definitely succeed!"

After hearing this, Zhao Chongwei clasped his hands together, lowered his head and closed his eyes, and prayed devoutly: "The ancestors bless our Zhao family to produce another foundation-building cultivator!"

After finishing speaking, she elbowed Zhao Sheng and urged: "Chonghe, hurry up and pray with me."

Zhao Sheng was speechless.

Who says cultivators are not superstitious, in fact they are old superstitious.

Just like Zhao Keru, the alchemist of the Zhao family, every time he opened the furnace to make alchemy, he had to bathe and change clothes, burn incense and pray, and the momentum was very grand.

Not only him, most of the refining masters and alchemists in the world of cultivating immortals have similar worship habits.Some worship heaven and earth, some worship my Taoist sages, and some worship their own ancestors.

Seeing that Zhao Sheng didn't move, Zhao Chongwei urged again: "Hurry up!"

Zhao Sheng touched his nose and had no choice but to say a few words of ancestor's blessing.

Due to his perfunctory attitude, Zhao Chongwei complained to him a lot.

It was not until Zhao Sheng "reformed evil and returned to righteousness" that he was let go.

In other words, I beg myself to bless my offspring, but there is no one else!
Facts have proved that it is useless to ask the ancestors to bless them.

Two days later, a piece of bad news like a thunderbolt from the blue made the Zhao family panic.

Zhao Jingang's foundation building failed!

Not only failed, but even the meridians were broken in many places, and the realm regressed back to the early stage of the ninth level of Qi refining.

In just half an hour, Zhao Chonghe, as the only Chongzi descendant, sat down at the round table with the seven elders of the Zhao family who held real power.

At this time, the atmosphere in Tongxin Hall was more serious than it was two months ago.

There is no doubt that Zhao Jingang's failure was a serious blow to the Zhao family, so serious that it shook everyone's confidence.

In this emergency meeting, Zhao Sheng did not speak, in fact, he had nothing to say.

Failure is failure, not the sky is falling.

The other elders of the Zhao family behaved very rationally this time, and after a short period of frustration, they immediately discussed the aftermath properly.

A simple description is to block the news externally, try to downplay the color of failure internally, do everything possible to appease people's hearts, and severely crack down on any rumors.

After leaving Tongxin Hall, Zhao Sheng immediately went to Shangong Hall, paid ten years' spiritual salary in advance as the patriarch, and exchanged all the treasures in the storage bag, such as Feijian and Xuanlan Crystal, into Bigu Pill and Lingyuan Pill.

Then, he plunged into the water vein training room and started a long retreat.

He was about to prepare for retreat.

If Zhao Jinding also fails.

Zhao Sheng decided to enter Tianzhu Mountain in advance after he was promoted to the third level of Qi Refining.

Time flies, and two years are fleeting.

On this day, Zhao Sheng with messy hair and beard finally walked out of the training room.

At this time, no one knew that he had successfully advanced to the third level of Qi Refining.

After leaving the customs, Zhao Sheng boarded a wooden boat and ordered the boatman to sail to the shore of Longli Lake.

Halfway through the journey, he was shocked to find that there were more than [-]% more boats on Longli Lake than two years ago.

From three-foot-long wooden boats to wide-bottomed boats more than ten or twenty feet long, there are more than a hundred of them.

There are also two medium-sized dragon-headed dharma boats more than 30 feet long and seven to eight feet high, with countless runes shining on the surface of the hull, galloping fast on the lake.

From time to time, someone on the Fazhou cast fishing nets that glowed with spiritual light into the water.

This busy scene seems to symbolize that the Zhao family is very prosperous.

However, seeing this scene, Zhao Sheng was not only unhappy, but frowned tightly.

Standing on the bow of the boat, Zhao Sheng muttered to himself: "The situation is not good!"

After going ashore, Zhao Sheng quickly learned a very bad news from the people of his clan.

(End of this chapter)