Immortality begins with monks from the side sect

Chapter 24 New Year’s Eve
  "You told me that you really didn't eat secretly?"

"You can honestly tell me, is this really the amount of essence and blood that can be extracted?"

Chen Ci and Wuyin Evil Qi Bag looked at each other in silence for a long time.

It took two fat pigs and an old cow to extract a little more than three drops of blood essence.

Calculated this way, a full 100 drops of blood essence would require about 120 large animals to refine. This is not a small amount of money. The amount of silver alone is estimated to be more than a thousand taels. If the refined essence is included, Blood labor, monthly transportation costs to Xishan Prefecture.

It is even much more than the offerings made to the Red Dragon Temple in the General Altar.

No wonder Fu Hu Tan said that one hundred drops of essence and blood can be regarded as one merit, and can be exchanged for one Ying Dan Dharma Book. It seems to be able to make up for the effort of the disciples from all over Xishan Prefecture.

But the flesh and blood of living things are not weeds, and they can be cut endlessly. He also needs a lot of flesh and blood every day to sacrifice and refine the five yin evil spirit bags. From this point of view, it is okay in the short term, but the purchased animals will not be enough as time goes by.

"I hope the essence and blood of Fuhu Altar will not be enshrined for long."

Chen Ci sighed a little: "You can't suffer anything, you can't suffer yourself. If your flesh and blood are really not enough, you can only suffer the Five Yin Evil Qi Bags."

Five Yin evil spirit bags:? ? ?

"Sir, because many livestock were put out for slaughter last year, the village below collected a large number, so the price of meat in the county has risen sharply. A pig has risen from eight taels to eleven taels, along with donkeys, mules, and dogs. , poultry has also increased a lot.”

"As for the Shuangtangfang business, because the Huang family specifically reserved their share in Changping County, there is still a monthly income of five to six hundred taels."

"The day before yesterday, Changping County received a gift of two thousand taels of silver as a gift. Currently, Guanli has a surplus of six thousand one hundred taels in its books. In addition, Guanli needs to provide seeds, farm tools, and livestock for spring plowing."

Chen Ci waved her hand: "Okay, I can rest assured that you guys will do the work. The three of you will pay an extra two hundred taels of silver each for the New Year expenses. In addition, some rice, grain and cloth will be given to the tenants in the village below. You still need to work hard to take care of the crops in the coming year. .”

"By the way, you three don't have to wait in the temple these days. You can go out and have some fun."

After sending the three cheap disciples out, Chen Ci leisurely started wandering around the Sanyin Temple. The already somewhat deserted Taoist temple was now even quieter.

It’s Chinese New Year.

Chen Ci touched the Five Yin Evil Qi bag, but he didn't expect that he would spend his first year in another world with this thing.

The path of spiritual practice is indeed lonely.

In this memory, he seemed to have suffered a disaster when he was young, and fell into the hands of Yiheshan Sect's Gaiden after several transfers. Because he had two points of qualifications for cultivation, and he was really handsome, he was lucky enough not to become a material for the ritual weapon. After joining the Heshan sect, I gained some ground.

But it doesn't matter that there is any deep relationship between teachers and sects.

"It's nice to celebrate the New Year alone, except no one asks me how much I earn in a year, and I don't have to watch the dumplings~"

Chen Ci slowly exhaled a breath and turned around to go to the backyard.

When he succeeds in practice in the future, he may be able to do some wanton things, but now he doesn't have much time to feel the sadness of spring and autumn. He has his own things to do every day.

He had to finish refining the blood essence, and in ten days he would have to prepare to go to Xishan Mansion to see what was going on in Fuhu Altar.

But on the second day of the lunar month, two groups of guests came to Sanyin Temple.

First, the family of member Liu from the county, old and young, came to the temple to offer incense and pray for blessings. Chen Ci simply received them for a while. The Liu family was also very sensible. After offering incense, they offered two hundred taels of incense money and then all left.

"Master Chen, what's wrong with my hat?"

Liu Chongjing nervously held up his scholar's hat, thinking that Chen Zhenren, the powerful man, saw something from the hat.

"Um, no, I just don't like the color green. Please change it to a more elegant color next time."

Chen Ci coughed lightly and looked away: "Remember."

Next to the Huang family in the county, Huang Defa not only came to the door in person, but also presented a full fourteen kilograms of Yuancheng sand. It seemed that he took advantage of the New Year to add a little more to the supplies and put it all together to please him. head.

"You don't have to be like this, fellow Daoist Huang, it will cost you money."

Chen Ci poured him a cup of hot tea and exchanged some pleasantries. Not to mention anything else, the wool harvested from the Huang family in the past three months has been worth almost two hundred taels of gold. Regardless of the status of the head of the Huang family as a monk, even for the sake of money, he is worthy of pouring a cup of tea himself.

"Zhenren Chen is really a pure cultivator, but how can he not have anyone around to take care of him? The little old man has a pair of granddaughters who are just over eighteen years old. It would be great if Chenren doesn't mind having them by his side as a maid serving tea and water."

Huang Defa took a sip of tea and complimented Chen Ci cheerfully. Suddenly, he changed his words and wanted to have a relationship with Chen Ci again.

"Where can we leave female relatives in the Qingxiu land outside the country? Fellow Daoist Huang is joking."

There was no smile on Chen Ci's face, she picked up the tea cup and took a sip, and said leisurely.

"It's the little old man who's being abrupt, but it makes Master Chen laugh."

Huang Defa smiled apologetically and quickly stood up to leave.

After leaving Sanyin Temple and walking dozens of feet, Huang Defa got into a light gray carriage with a gloomy expression on his face: "Who is this nonsense who said that the disciples of the Heshan Sect are not afraid of being cold and are so luxurious? Push them out for me." Beat him to death with a stick!"

"Master, it's the fifth young master."

Huang Defa: "." Treason!

The personal attendant quickly offered a cup of hot tea: "Sir, what's wrong?"

"It's okay, it just seems to have made Master Chen unhappy, but it shouldn't be a big problem."

Huang Defa is a mature man, and he has long recognized that Chen Ci is the kind of customer that businessmen like to meet. Although the consumption is not necessarily large, he is stable, has few things to do, and can maintain emotional connection, otherwise he would not be around. After Xiangjiao, he also showed his kindness to Chen Ci frequently.

"On weekdays, take a closer look at what Sanyin Temple requires. It doesn't need to be too expensive. The main thing is to pay attention. The family's funds have been tight recently."

Huang Defa gave a few words of warning and looked back at Sanyin Guan behind him with complicated eyes.

This is the person in the immortal way.

When he was young, he had always dreamed of immortality, but after he became successful in martial arts, he thought about starting the family business first. When he came back to his senses, he couldn't even break through the innate talent. With one hand, I'm afraid I can't even enter the Tao now.

But that's all, it's just that I can live another twenty or thirty years.

"We still need to keep in touch with Chen Zhenren. The foundation of the Huang family is still too weak. Maybe this person will be able to help Sheng'er in the future."

The thought in Huang Defa's mind started to turn. He was already at this age, and he was just planning for his children and grandchildren.

Inside the Sanyin Temple, Chen Ci held a bag of Yuan Shen Sand and smiled disdainfully.

There are only two girls, and they want to test the cadres. Who are they looking down on?

However, the Huang family is not extraordinary. They can make a fortune from just a herb collector. However, in three generations, they have established such a large business, and their business influence has reached the capital. It is really quite powerful.

Anyway, in his previous life, Chen's family had passed down to him, and he almost couldn't get a wife. It was incomparable, incomparable.

But that's it. Even if the Huang family is quite powerful in the world, it is just dodder and can only grow by relying on monks.

"The head of the Huang family is also a hero in Changping County. He must have made great achievements when he was young, but at such an age, he barely entered the Taoism and ended early."

Chen Ci did some calculations and found that if he had just cast the foundation, he would have already pinched the snail with three fingers, and he was almost certain.

But if he doesn't want to sigh like a withered skeleton in a grave two hundred years from now, then he has to smelt all the apertures before the age of fifty, and then find a way to build a middle-grade or high-grade Taoist foundation before he can hope for a golden elixir.

In other words, you must have the Qi refining skills of smelting two hundred or three hundred orifices before you are a hundred years old.

"There is a long way to go, so don't worry about it. Before going to the Fuhu Altar in Xishan Mansion, try to gain some knowledge."

Chen Ci carried Yuan Shensha and walked into the backyard.

On the road to eternal life, no matter how much you think about, you can’t make more progress than every day.

(End of this chapter)