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Chapter 307 The Disciple of the Family
"Look! That's the Jinbi family, the Nanfeng family!"

Zhou Guang's voice came, Xu Luo raised his head and looked over, only to see a haze of mist and clouds in the distance.

The mist is blooming with a faint golden brilliance, and the clouds and smoke are flowing and shining with rainbow clouds.

This should be the large-scale mountain-protecting formation of the Nanfeng family. Nothing can be seen from the outside, only a towering stone monument can be vaguely seen.

Carved on the stone tablet are two brilliant characters, "Jinbi!"
The rhyme of the words is majestic and majestic, as if it contains a mighty power.

"Outside is the manor of the Nanfeng Family, let's go there."

The Jinbi family is a noble family that has been passed down for thousands of years.

A thousand years is neither short nor long. At least, compared with those ancient aristocratic families in the spiritual world, a thousand years is nothing.

Of course.

To be able to have a history of thousands of years in a large area like Mangqiu where dragons and snakes are mixed together and where immortals and demons are fighting all the year round, you can know with your toes that the Nanfeng family must be extraordinary.

"So many people!"

"This manor should be for attracting customers."

As the saying goes, if the mountain is not high, there will be immortals.

The second-generation head of the family, based on the golden spiritual veins, expanded his territory and became a powerful family member.

After simply asking about his life experience, Xu Luo told the truth, claiming that he used to be a disciple of a small sect. Later, the sect declined and he became a casual cultivator. He has been making a living by refining alchemy.

This is true.

"It turns out that the old gentleman is actually a senior alchemist. It's really disrespectful. I blame our husband and wife for being blind. I hope senior can forgive me."

After making inquiries, he said goodbye to the three of them and went directly to another manor.

In the past, the first generation head of the Nanfeng family became famous in one battle and became famous in the Mangqiu area. From then on, he occupied the golden spiritual line and created the family business for generations.

The interview questions were much simpler than Xu Luo expected.

Compared with the military generals' disciples, there are far fewer people who come to apply for the alchemy disciples, and they all seem to be old men who have lived a long time.

Alchemy tools like Xu Luo belong to the civil service.

"With the cultivation level of these people, if they were in the Scarlet Lian Sect, they would be able to become a master of the outer sect, and now they are here to work as a disciple of a powerful family."

Once the hero of a family dies and there is no successor, it will gradually decline or even be annihilated.

Xu Luo took a look, "Good boy, there are quite a lot of monks who came to apply for the job as retainers, and there was actually a long queue. There were men and women in the queue, mostly old people, but not a few young people."

Seeing Xu Luo nodded.

After dressing up in disguise like Xu Luo, middle-aged and elderly people in their fifties and sixties actually belong to young men in the crowd.

Xu Luo shook his head, and after thinking about it, he seemed to be able to understand.

There is also a Qi Transformation Pill.

Xu Luo followed Zhou Guang and others to the foot of the mountain.

of course.

The Red Lian Sect is a place where people eat people. The outer disciples will be planted into locust saplings at some point. The master of the outer sect may look majestic, but in fact he spends the whole day on tenterhooks. He might be eating hot pot and singing As for Ge'er, this person will be gone if he doesn't... He doesn't have the slightest sense of security.

The main thing is to change a place, a pseudonym and an identity.

Throughout the ages, both aristocratic families and sects have experienced ups and downs, either on the way to rise or on the way to decline.

"Why are there so many people!"

This is an eternal truth.

"Fellow Taoist, you...are you applying to be an alchemist?"

One is a health elixir.

In the world of spiritual practice, alchemy is a fairly respectable profession after all. As a craftsman, you can always have a good meal no matter where you are. You won’t be hungry anyway. You don’t have to take risks outside and you can make money while lying down. .

The interviewer is not in the same place.

After learning that Xu Luo was an alchemist, Wang Kejun and Feng Yun changed their attitudes. Xu Luo also changed from a Taoist friend to an old alchemist.

The retainers that Zhou Guang and the other three applied for were military generals.

What made him even more emotional was that the cultivation levels of these monks were not weak, and they were all in the Dharmakaya realm. Many of them were in the late Dharmakaya stage, including many monks like Zhou Guang who had almost perfected the Dharmakaya.

Instead of doing this, it would be better to be a retainer in a wealthy family, with a high salary, good benefits, and most importantly, safety.

Just in case, he randomly gave himself a pseudonym: Funny.

One is Bu Yuan Dan.

For any famous family, as long as one hero is born, he can protect the family for five hundred years, and two heroes can protect the family for a thousand years.

Zhou Guang was shocked, and the couple Wang Kejun and Feng Yun were also surprised. Besides being surprised, they were more envious.

"You two are serious. I have wasted sixty years in this world. To this day, I have accomplished nothing. I am still good at this little alchemy skill..."

After the interview, the steward of the Nanfeng Family gave him some medicinal herb resources and asked him to refine three types of elixirs.

The scenery here is beautiful, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, just like a small town in the forest. I heard from Zhou Guang that the Nanfeng family hired many handymen who farmed and raised flowers, as well as housekeepers, shopkeepers, etc., to take care of the family property. These manors outside were just miscellaneous. The place where the butler lives.

These three kinds of elixirs are essential elixirs for monks, and they are also indispensable materials for cultivation.

The health elixir, as the name suggests, nourishes and refines the Dharma body.

Bu Yuan Dan is used to replenish vitality.

The Qi Transformation Pill assists in absorbing spiritual energy and refining it into mana.

Among them, the Qi Transformation Pill and the Bu Yuan Pill have average technical content, and only the Healthy Body Pill is considered a high-level technology.

For more than half a year, Xu Luo made a lot of money by refining soul pills from countless ghost souls, and then purchased various herbal resources through repeated trial and error. His alchemy skills have advanced by leaps and bounds, and refining these three kinds of pills is not a problem.

It takes three days to refine the Qi Transformation Pill.

Bu Yuan Dan takes five days.

The health elixir requires at least seven days.

It's not that Xu Luo is not good at his craftsmanship, it's that this kind of elixir has to be simmered over low heat, and it can't be cooked faster at all. The heat takes time to cook.

The resources provided by the Nanfeng Family are planned. As long as these resources can be used, five finished elixirs can be refined each to pass the test. As for the quality, perfection is not required. Some flaws are allowed, but it must be effective.

"Not bad! Not bad! Quite good!"

The old housekeeper opened three white jade medicine bottles, poured out the elixirs inside, and praised: "You have refined six elixirs for each of the three elixirs. It seems that you did not waste any of the herbs we gave you. , and it was a pill in one go... Fellow Taoist's craftsmanship is amazing..."

The old housekeeper poured the elixir into the palm of his hand and took a closer look with a surprised expression: "The elixir is shiny but not slippery, the elixir is full but not full, the elixir flower is complete but not complete, this..."

The old housekeeper raised his head and looked Xu Luo up and down, and said: "Among the alchemists who came to apply for the job, most of the elixirs refined have elixirs, but only a few contain elixirs, and even fewer have elixirs. It’s just you.”

"The old man is laughing."

Xu Luo's attitude was sincere and he said humbly: "I once studied alchemy skills with my master in my sect. Later, my sect was destroyed. I have been studying my own skills outside these years, and the elixirs I refined are a bit rough."

The old housekeeper is a knowledgeable person.

He knew very well that someone like Xu Luo, who could refine Danze, Danyun, and Danhua, showed that he had extremely high talent in the field of alchemy, had a lot of experience in alchemy, and his craftsmanship was absolutely excellent.

Perhaps it was because he had been wandering outside all year round and had no fixed residence. In order to make a living, he had refined many crude elixirs, so that his alchemy skills were extensive but not refined, and mixed but not pure.

"What a pity..."

The old housekeeper thought that if Xu Luo had the guidance of an expert in alchemy, he would definitely be able to make a name for himself in the field of alchemy.

If Xu Luo were a few years younger, he would even be willing to cultivate him carefully so that he could serve the Nanfeng family in the future.

It's a pity that I'm a bit too old at this age...

"What's your name? Funny, right? Okay! I've taken note of it. Your skills are quite good and your potential is huge. As long as you are willing to stay in our Nanfeng family and work hard in the future, I can't guarantee the rest, but the resources. You will definitely be satisfied! ”

The old housekeeper first took out a jade plaque and handed it to Xu Luo, and then took out a jade slip. I don't know what message was conveyed in it: "Take the jade plaque and give the jade slip to the deacon on the mountain. He will arrange it well." you."

"Thank you, old man."

Before that, Xu Luo was still a little worried about whether he could pass the test.

Unexpectedly, not only did he pass the test smoothly, he also received special care.

This somewhat surprised him.

……

……

have to say.

The days of being a retainer in the Nanfeng family were quite leisurely.

Every month, you only need to refine the medicinal herb resources you receive into elixirs, and after handing them in, the task is completed.

The work was very easy. With his alchemy skills, he finished it casually while drinking some wine.

The resources belong to the Nanfeng Family. I only need to spend some time to refine a furnace of elixirs. I will take care of food, shelter, and spiritual energy. Not only will I receive a generous Yuan Stone salary every month, but I will also receive various resource benefits.

Zhou Guang, Wang Kejun, and Feng Yun also successfully became disciples of the Nanfeng Family. However, after the three came in, they were directly assigned to other places. They were told to guard the Great Medicine Spirit Field and so on.

The Nanfeng Family is very large and covers a wide area. There are seven mountains on just one golden spiritual vein. I heard that this place used to be a mountain, but it was later split into seven mountains by the first generation head of the Nanfeng Family. High mountains and great mountains.

Emerald Mountain is one of the seven mountains.

Since the people living on this mountain are all the disciples of the Nanfeng family, it is also called the disciple mountain.

this day.

In a cave.

Xu Luo opened the elixir furnace and took out the elixir refined inside. He looked at the elixir as smooth as jade, the full and round elixir, the crystal clear elixir flowers, and the Yin Yuan Qi like cold mist. Nodding in satisfaction.

"Aura is so important to alchemy!"

After coming to the Nanfeng Family, Xu Luo, in addition to completing his tasks as an alchemy tool maker, spent most of his time refining his own Taiyin Hundred Soul Pills, Ten Soul Pills and Taiyin Health Pills.

This emerald mountain is located on the spiritual veins. The spiritual energy is pure and full. The flame formation is extremely stable, and it is much easier to control the fire.

At the beginning of refining the Hundred Soul Pill in the doomsday world, more than a thousand ghosts needed to be smashed into it.

After more than half a year of trial and error, the alchemy skills improved by leaps and bounds, and later it was refined in Tengu Bay, which required more than two hundred steps.

Today, the cost of refining in the cave of Jade Mountain has been reduced to more than 110 steps, and the refined Hundred Soul Pill has complete colors, texture, flowers and fragrance.

"What a fun thing!"

Xu Luo opened his mouth and threw one in, chewing it into pieces. It was sweet and refreshing, cool and soft.

The Hundred Soul Pill enters the throat, and the pure and thick Yin Yuan permeates the body. It circulates through the orifice and turns into strands of mana.

"Alas!" He couldn't help but sigh.

For others, the Taiyin Hundred Soul Pill he refined contains pure and thick Yin Yuan. Even a monk like Zhou Guang with Dharma Body Dzogchen would need at least ten days and a half to slowly refine it.

For Xu Luo, when a Hundred Soul Pill went into his throat, it had no effect except for being crunchy and a bit refreshing.

The little magic power that is refined is like water dripping into the sea, and it is not enough to fill the gap between the teeth.

Even if he ate the Hundred Soul Pill as a jelly bean, the effect would not be very great.

Because he has opened too many acupoints, and the ten orifices, muscles, bones, skin, internal organs, skin, etc., the body of heavenly magic built by him is too powerful.

in other words.

Up to now, Xu Luo has cultivated into a fat man with a huge appetite and an insatiable appetite. The talent of Yinhun can no longer solve the problem of food and clothing.

In the words of the cultivation world, cultivation has reached a bottleneck period.

The problem is that Xu Luo, a fat man like the devil, does not feel full, that is... he has not yet reached the conditions for foundation building.

How to do?
It's not difficult. Since the Yin ghosts can no longer provide food and clothing, then go eat the Yin ghosts, or get more precious medicines such as the golden mallet.

"Damn it! That flat-haired beast from Dark Crow screwed me over!"

This Lao Shizi's heavenly magic body is really powerful, and tyrannical is really tyrannical.

The Dharmakaya is like a mountain, infinitely powerful, and indestructible.

The magic power is like the sea, vast and endless.

But it’s just too strenuous to practice.

Xu Luo never thought that he would face the problem of not having enough to eat, backed by a doomsday world full of ghosts.

……

……

Doomsday world.

A light blue sun hung in the sky as usual.

These days, Xu Luo has transformed into an exorcist, running around the Dachuan realm, sweeping away soul nests and ghost caves one after another.

If there are ghosts, they will eat ghosts. If there are no ghosts, they will suck a lot of souls.

Although the ghost is far from enough to fill the gap between the teeth, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is still meat after all. If you can make up for it, it has been reduced to the level of famine. How can you be picky and selective.

The Yin Shen has entered the stage of manifestation, and Xu Luo took advantage of this time to refine eighteen more formation flags in one go.

I don’t know if it’s because of the five-star smelting inheritance, or if the Yin Shen has become more powerful with the improvement of Shinto cultivation, and found that he still has the strength to control the fifty-four formation flags.

So, nine more sides were added.

A total of sixty-three bone formation flags.

If you have more of this thing, you will have more power. When fighting, you can directly use sixty-three white bone formation flags. Even if you face a foundation-building monk who has practiced for two to three hundred years, you can still be invincible. , even if you can't beat it, you can still kill the opponent by using it.

There is no time to practice.

Time flies by.

In the blink of an eye, another half a year has passed.

early morning.

Warm sunlight is shining down.

The golden family, the Nanfeng family, the Emerald Mountain.

Xu Luo sat at the door of the cave, brewed a pot of fragrant tea, lay back on the Taishi chair and basked in the sun lazily.

At the entrance of the cave is a separate courtyard. There are some flowers and plants planted in the courtyard, as well as a white crane he raised, and there are about a dozen spiritual fish swimming around in the pool.

"Fellow Daoist! Funny fellow Daoist!"

Inexplicable.

An old man appeared at the door.

The old man was slovenly and unkempt, wearing a colorful robe and a face full of wrinkles.

"I'm talking about funny fellow Taoist." The old man walked in with a smile: "What are you doing lying here this early in the morning?"

"You keep saying that I have a lot of yin energy. Why don't I just soak in the sun to get rid of the yin energy?"

The old man lives next door and is his neighbor. I don’t know what his name is, but everyone calls him Old Monkey.

Old Monkey is an old disciple of the Nanfeng Family. I heard that he has worked here for fifty or sixty years, and he can be regarded as an old alchemist of the Nanfeng Family.

"That's true. You have so much yin energy in your body. You really should get some sunshine."

The old monkey grinned, waved his hand and took out a mat, sat cross-legged next to it, took off the wine gourd from his waist, raised his head and took a sip: "But Yin Qi'er, you can't rely on the sun. No way."

"What the hell, what can you do?"

"Of course, the Yin Qi is strong, mainly because of the strong anger. How about... follow me to Tengu Bay, and we two brothers can go to relieve the fire together?"

"Ah!"

Xu Luo sneered and did not respond.

Old Monkey is a very unruly and very coquettish old man. His biggest hobby in life is eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. He goes to Tengu Bay every now and then to cool off. The money he has earned from being a retainer of the Nanfeng Family over the years, There was not a penny left, and almost all of it was spent on those kiln girls in Tengu Bay.

Practice?

Excuse me.

The old monkey's current cultivation level is Dharmakaya Dzogchen, which is one step away from establishing the foundation.

It happened that this step stopped the old monkey for decades.

Now he was lying flat on his back.

To use the old monkey's words, it is impossible to build a foundation in this life. With that little money, it is better to find a few kiln ladies to live happily.

"I heard that there are some new kiln ladies coming to the Thirteenth Floor. What do you think? Let's go and join in the fun? In your words, it will open your eyes and gain some knowledge by the way?"

When mentioning the kiln ladies on the thirteenth floor, Old Monkey suddenly became energetic: "I heard that the new kiln ladies were all trained by the old madam. Their craftsmanship is superb. Don't forget it. The old bustard of the Thirteenth Floor came from Tianmiao Palace back then."

Xu Luo raised his eyelids, glanced at the old monkey, picked up the fragrant tea, took a sip, and lay down again: "Old monkey, I am a serious person."

"Bah! Are you serious? You can pull me down! Last time on the 13th floor, you hugged me and touched me. You even wanted to touch the old madam. Are you a serious person? "

The old monkey scorned him again and again and retorted: "Don't think I don't know. Last time in Xiaohu Mountain, you were familiar with the roads. You were a smart guy everywhere. You had more fun than I did. You see, you go there as much as possible on weekdays! You, on the surface, He seems to be an honest man, but secretly he might be a great pervert!”

"..."

Xu Luo's face was not red and he was out of breath, and he replied lightly: "I am indeed a serious person. I only go to that kind of place to broaden my horizons and gain more knowledge."

"Here he goes again, I'm really convinced. I've never seen anyone as thick-skinned as you in my entire life!"

The two chatted without saying a word. At this time, a man passed by the door.

The man has a majestic face, broad shoulders and a round waist, and is wearing an elegant patterned purple robe.

Seeing the man, Xu Luo quickly stood up, and the old monkey also climbed up.

"Good morning, Lord Steward."

"Hey! Good job, Manager Li."

The middle-aged man's name is Li Yusheng, who is also a disciple of the Nanfeng family. However, he has a higher status and is one of the stewards of Jade Mountain. He is their immediate boss. He usually collects medicinal materials and refines elixirs. Give it to this steward.

Li Yusheng glanced at them, nodded symbolically, and left without saying anything.

"Our steward is getting more and more arrogant. We say hello to him and he doesn't even reply to us. It's his grandma's fault! When I was a guest in Nanfeng, this bastard might have been playing in the mud somewhere. , This grandson just came to the mountain and was unfamiliar with the place. If I hadn’t protected him, this grandson would have died countless times. "

Looking at the unhappy old monkey, Xu Luo patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "Forget it, his status is different now. He is not only in charge of our affairs, but also a foundation-building monk."

"Foundation-Building Great Monk? Bah! Bullshit Foundation-Building Great Monk!"

The old monkey was very disdainful: "It's just a dead foundation. It's no different from us. At best, it's just a pseudo-overhaul of foundation building in name only."

Xu Luo smiled and said: "The dead foundation is also the foundation, and the fake major repair is also a major repair."

The foundation of the avenue, this high mountain.

If it can be turned over and a real foundation of the avenue is built, it will be a veritable foundation-building overhaul.

If you go over it, if you fail, you will die suddenly on the spot, or your orifice will burst, and your cultivation will be lost.

There is another situation.

The foundation building was completed, but it was not completed.

What is being built is a useless foundation, which is also a dead foundation.

This situation is not special. On the contrary, it is still a very common situation. There is even a saying that nine deaths out of ten are common.

There are several types of foundation-building pills on the market today.

Among them is a kind of elixir called Baoji Dan.

The foundation-preserving pill will not increase the success rate of foundation building, but it can keep the foundation intact.

Usually only those monks who have no hope of building a foundation will take this foundation-preserving pill.

The reason is very simple. Although Ji Bao Dan can keep the foundation intact.

But it just doesn't stop.

The foundation is dead, the great road is ruined, and the cultivation level in this life will stop here, and it will never be possible to improve even half a point.

These days, no one will take Baoji Dan if there is even the slightest chance, and they all want to give it a last try, unless they are really not sure at all.

"Then again, old monkey, since you are lying flat and rotten, why don't you take a foundation-preserving pill? Even if you are building a dead foundation and a waste foundation, at least you will have a reputation as a foundation-building overhaul. What's more, listen, Speaking of keeping the foundation, not to mention improving our strength, we can still live for a few more years. "

"You let me take Baoji Dan? Huh! I can't afford to embarrass this person."

The old monkey rolled his eyes at Xu Luo, shook his colorful robe, and said proudly: "I would rather die in the Dharmakaya realm than take Baoji Pills to build a foundation for death!"

Changing the topic, he continued: "Besides, Baoji Dan is very expensive. I have to work here for decades without food or drink to afford it. I may not be able to buy it even if I give it back."

"You seem to have been working in the Nanfeng family for decades, right? Haven't you saved a dime?"

"Saved up."

"Where's the money?"

"They're all in the kiln."

(End of this chapter)