Please show your spirit to our ancestors

Chapter 214 The th Anniversary of Chen Xuanmo's Death
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Princess Jiayue was a very remarkable person. She was the younger sister of the current crown prince. It was said that her cultivation had reached the fifth or sixth level of the Golden Core Stage. She was always mysterious and seldom left the palace, and even less often appeared in public.

Most outsiders' understanding of her only consists of some basic information.

Although the Great Wu royal family has declined for two thousand years, its overall strength should not be underestimated. The number of Jindan cultivators in the family is far greater than that of the Lu family in Zhongzhou, but they have always been low-key.

Although he had doubts about Princess Jiayue's intention, Lu Dongxu still reacted quickly. After a brief thought, he replied in an old and deep voice: "Since it is Princess Jiayue who is visiting, I will go out to greet her in person."

As he spoke, the mixed bloody aura around his body disappeared completely, wrinkles reappeared on his skin, and he returned to his previous old and frail appearance.

"No need."

Almost at the same time as he finished speaking, a soft, cold, and slightly majestic female voice came from afar.

"Mr. Lu is Jiayue's senior, so Jiayue should take the initiative to go to the thatched cottage to pay his respects to him."

While talking.

A fiery cloud appeared in the sky.

A flying chariot pulled by a fifth-rank red phoenix broke through the clouds, circling slowly but actually quickly as it descended towards the direction of Zixia Peak.

The phoenix has always been known for its beauty among birds, and this red phoenix is ​​no exception.

It looked like it was well taken care of. Its feathers were clean and tidy, the crest on its head was soft and silky, and the golden spot on the tip of its tail was as gorgeous as gold flakes.

Even its feathers are not pure red, but have just the right layers and gradients, making them dazzlingly beautiful.

As its wings flapped, flames ignited on every feather and tail feather. The fire was so bright that it dyed the surrounding clouds as if they were on fire.

After just a moment, the Luanchair came to a steady stop in front of the thatched cottage, and a woman pushed open the door and floated down.

The woman was wearing an exquisite and gorgeous palace dress, with a golden hairpin on her head and a jade pendant on her waist. She looked noble and her steps were exceptionally calm and dignified, revealing a confidence and determination from the inside out.

This is the confidence and composure that only a woman who comes from a wealthy family and has been raised in luxury since childhood can possess.

Obviously, she is Princess Jiayue.

"I am Lu Dongxu, paying my respects to Princess Jiayue." Lu Dongxu had already walked out of the thatched cottage at this time. He looked solemn and saluted respectfully.

In name, all the noble families and clans in the Great Wu are under the rule of the Great Wu royal family.

However, with the decline of the Great Wu royal family and the rise of the three major sects, even the immortal cultivation families are no longer conferred by the royal family. Gradually, all the noble families only respect the sects and regard the low-key Great Wu royal family as a mascot.

A strong neutral family like the Lu family in Zhongzhou was like an independent local emperor, and did not even have to pay taxes or tributes.

however.

Even though they had lost their absolute ruling power over practitioners, the royal family was still the number one family of immortal practitioners in the Great Wu Kingdom.

Now that the true representative of the royal family, Princess Jiayue, has arrived, Lu Dongxu dare not put on airs as a nobleman. Instead, he keeps a low profile and shows his respect for the royal family.

"Mr. Lu, you are too polite." Princess Jiayue bowed back, her voice soft and her gesture restrained and polite. "Jiayue is very lucky that Mr. Lu does not blame me for my presumptuous visit."

"No, no, the princess is worth a fortune. It is my honor to have you visit my thatched cottage."

After a brief greeting.

Lu Dongxu welcomed Princess Jiayue into the thatched cottage for tea.

The tea leaves were just ordinary spiritual tea, as if reflecting Lu Dongxu's pure and simple life after his retirement.

As for Andang, he was standing far away from the thatched cottage with his back to them, looking as if he didn't care about anything.

After three rounds of tea.

Princess Jiayue narrowed her bright eyes slightly, looking at Lu Dongxu's wrinkled old face, and suddenly said with a smile: "Why does Lord Xueyu still look so old and decrepit? Could it be that the blood soul lotus didn't work?"

Lu Dongxu's whole body trembled, and his old hand holding the teacup stiffened slightly, but the next moment, he looked bewildered and asked, "What do you mean, Princess? Who is Blood Prison, and what is the Blood Soul Lotus?"

"Lord Xueyu, now that there are only you and me here, there is no need to act." Princess Jiayue frowned, a captivating scarlet color flashed across her eyes, and she flipped her slender jade hand, and suddenly a blood-colored token appeared in her palm.

The token was intricately carved, with a giant, abstract eye outlined in the center with twisted lines. Inside it was a blood-red vortex that slowly rotated, as if it could capture a person's soul and pull it in.

"Holy Son's Order!"

Lu Dongxu's face froze. He looked at Princess Jiayue, then at the Blood-colored Order of the Holy Son. There was still some confusion and disbelief in his eyes.

He never expected that Princess Jiayue, a member of the royal family, would actually take out the [Bloody Holy Son Order].

Is this a fishing expedition, or...?
Princess Jiayue did not respond to Lu Dongxu, but just stared at him silently.

Not a moment longer.

Seeing the increasingly intense scarlet color in Princess Jiayue's eyes, revealing an increasingly dangerous aura, Lu Dongxu immediately stood up and bowed: "Your subordinate Xueyu, I pay my respects to the Holy Envoy."

As he spoke, his heart was already filled with turmoil.

He also never expected that His Royal Highness the Son of God was so capable that he could even infiltrate the imperial family of Great Wu.

"Blood Prison Guardian, no need to be polite."

Princess Jiayue raised her hand casually, indicating that he didn't need to be polite, and then put away the Blood-colored Saint Son Order. She continued in a calm tone: "This time, the two Blood Guardians Youyue and Yuanming were ambushed by the Yunyang Sect, causing heavy losses to our sect. Does the Blood Prison Guardian know about this?"

"I already know about this."

Lu Dongxu's attitude was very respectful.

As the Blood Protector, he is theoretically on the same level as Princess Jiayue, who is the messenger of the Son of God. But in reality, the messenger of the Son of God often acts in accordance with the will of the Son of God. When holding the Son of God's Order, it is equivalent to the Son of God himself, so he naturally dare not neglect it.

"His Royal Highness the Holy Son has been too busy in recent years, and there is something I need you to do." Princess Jiayue didn't waste any time talking to him, she just took out a secret order and handed it over.

Lu Dongxu took the secret order with both hands, checked the seal, and then checked the content and handwriting, as well as the final signature and seal, and found no problems.

But thinking about the content of the secret order, his face became slightly solemn: "Sir Holy Envoy, I have confirmed that the secret order is correct, but the difficulty of this task seems..."

"You just need to follow the secret orders and deploy them step by step. When the critical moment comes, someone will come to assist you in completing the final blow." Princess Jiayue's eyes were stern, and there was a hint of danger in her expression.

Obviously, Lu Dongxu did not allow for bargaining in this matter.

"Yes, I obey your command." Lu Dongxu hurriedly accepted the order.

Princess Jiayue's expression softened, and she encouraged him, "Your Highness the Saint Son relies on Lord Xueyu the most. When Your Highness successfully advances to the Nascent Soul stage and truly ascends to the position of Saint Son, he will definitely prioritize efforts to secure an opportunity for Lord Xueyu to advance to the Nascent Soul stage."

Nascent Soul.

These two words alone have unparalleled appeal to any Jindan cultivator.

Who doesn’t want to achieve Nascent Soul?

Especially for someone like Lu Dongxu, if it wasn't for the purpose of achieving Nascent Soul, why would he risk the disapproval and join the Blood Soul Sect?

"Don't worry, Holy Envoy. I will not disappoint His Majesty the Holy Son."

After getting the promise, Lu Dongxu's face was calm, but his drooping eyes were gleaming with strong desire and hope, as if he had already seen the scene of himself achieving Nascent Soul.

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And almost at the same time.

As the sales of the new issue of Dawu Culture magazine gradually increased, the [Fairy List] incident gradually fermented, and more and more practitioners paid attention to this matter.

The subsequent series of actions taken by Dawu Culture added fuel to the fire, causing the popularity of the Fairy List to soar to an extreme level. People donated generously, purchased separate supplements for each fairy, and cast their precious votes for the fairies.

But it's not over.

In every issue that Da Wu Culture sells next, it will list the real-time rankings of the fairies, and there will be real-time votes behind their names. Some monks can't bear to see their favorite fairies ranked behind other fairies, so they start buying the supplements of the fairies and cast precious one hundred, one thousand, and ten thousand votes for the fairies they support!

As a result, the votes of the fairies began to catch up with each other, resulting in huge changes in the list every month. Some fairies could not help but take part in the list themselves, sending people to buy their own supplements and cast their precious ten thousand or one hundred thousand votes.

Taking advantage of this trend, Da Wu Culture made a fortune and spread its journals to every corner of the immortal cultivation world of Da Wu. Even the richest people among mortals, princes, and generals competed to buy them and regarded them as treasures.

But Chen Xuanmo was not aware of all this.

He and some elite tribesmen had already driven the Xuan Mo and ventured into a secondary dangerous area nearly 5,000 miles away from the Hengduan Mountains. They used the area where the Xuan Mo stayed as a safe base and sent Jin Yu Ling He and Chen Jingyun to carefully explore the surroundings.

Of course, at this time, Chen Jingyun had an orange mark on his forehead, and he carried several gold seals and jade tablets with him.

However, Chen Jingyun had only gone about two thousand miles deep into the Southern Wilderness when he began to explore sideways. Not long after, the orange mark burst, and after a series of coincidences, he was extremely lucky to discover a hidden mid-grade earth spirit vein deep in a hidden mountain.

And in this cave, there is also a fourth-level ferocious mountain-diving beast lurking.

After killing the mountain-diving beast, the Chen family marked the location of this medium-grade earth-based spiritual vein on the map, and asked Zhuge Linglong to organize some fellow disciples to secretly enter the Southern Wilderness, extract the earth-based spiritual vein bit by bit, and transplant it to the Chen family's villa - Dingfeng Farm, to nourish and expand the area of ​​spiritual soil and spiritual fields again.

There are actually quite a few black copper mines deep in this cave, but setting up a base to mine them deep in the wilderness is undoubtedly an extremely dangerous thing. We can only mark them for the time being and consider mining them when there is an opportunity in the future.

But even so, a mid-grade spirit vein plus a fourth-level ferocious beast and its descendants, added up to a fortune of more than 100,000 spirit stones. Even if a wave of profits were shared with the sect, Chen's net profit reached nearly 70,000 spirit stones.

According to the expenditure of thousands of purple air on an orange mark, the income of 70,000 spirit stones is naturally a big profit.

It’s a pity that there is still no clue about the top-grade spiritual vein that Chen Xuanmo wants.

For the next period of time, without the support of the Orange Mark, Chen's gains were minimal, and the risks and benefits he endured were far from proportional.

Therefore, Chen's exploration team could only return to the main house in disappointment.

Afterwards, Chen Xuanmo made an excuse to secretly go to Wanhua Palace and visit his new friend Fairy Yuhua. However, Fairy Yuhua seemed very honest and had been in seclusion at Yuhua Peak and had never left.

Seeing that there was no gain, Chen Xuanmo returned to the main house and fell into a deep sleep.

And so it goes, year after year.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was the 247th year of the Xuanmo calendar, and it had been fiftieth anniversary since Chen Xuanmo's death.

The Chen family worships their ancestors on this day.

Chen Xuanmo woke up again in the seemingly unchanging eulogy of the rebellious son Chen Ningtai.

Feeling the surging purple energy, Chen Xuanmo felt no ripples in his heart. The reason was simple: it was just a habit.

After a while, the gathering of purple energy ended. He counted the purple energy he had harvested, which amounted to 4651 strands.

If this had happened five years ago, Chen Xuanmo would have been so excited that he would have exclaimed, "Wow!" But now, his heart was as calm as a ruthless purple energy collecting machine.

After those part-time priests in the Jindan stage joined the family, the family has been gathering a lot of purple energy in the past five years, and the amount has been increasing year by year, with a very significant increase.

In the 243rd year of the Xuanmo calendar, 3607 strands of purple qi were harvested. In the 244th year of the Xuanmo calendar, the income from purple qi suddenly increased to 4018 strands. This was because Master Changsheng could not wait and joined the temporary offering team.

In the 245th and 246th years of the Xuanmo calendar, 4218 and 4429 strands of purple energy were harvested respectively!
In 245, the total amount of purple energy in the Xuanmo Lingjian was accumulated enough, and it underwent another transformation. The minor magical power of sword-cultivation was strengthened again, and the strength of the sword body also increased significantly, moving firmly towards the level of magic weapon.

The only pity is that this transformation did not gain any new special magical powers, nor any new swords.

From this we can also see that not every key transformation can gain new minor supernatural powers.

The acquisition of supernatural powers and the birth of the split sword may involve some special mechanism, but he has not discovered it yet.

Of course, the harvest of purple energy has increased, but the family's purple energy expenditure is also huge.

In the past five years, every time Chen Xuanmo woke up, he had to consume 1100 strands of purple energy to make the gold seal jade token and the purple energy jade token, but it was just enough and there was not much left.

The improvement of Wang Qianqian's puppet technology, Chen Xinsong's spirit seed plan, and Cui Lingying's alchemy technology consume a lot of purple energy every year.

In addition, the number of foundation-building cultivators in the family has also reached a booming stage in recent years.

Among them, Shangguan Wanqing, Yang Yuling, Chen Jinghuan and several other people with four spiritual roots were promoted to the foundation-building stage one after another in the past five years.

Among the five spiritual roots, Chen Jingsi, who was of the "Jing" generation, after years of polishing, finally made up his mind to apply to his family for a foundation-building pill. Finally, with the support of Chen Xuanmo's two golden seals, he successfully advanced to the foundation-building stage.

However, in order to avoid attracting attention and causing unnecessary speculation because there are too many five spiritual roots foundation-building cultivators in the family.

Chen Jingsi, who was originally engaged in maritime trade and practicing water-based skills, simply learned a "death escape technique" arranged by his family, and he also moved to the family's branch base to preside over the work of the branch base.

As for the exploration of the Southern Wilderness, Chen Xuanmo remained restrained and continued to explore. Every year, he personally sent Jing Yun to explore outside the Southern Wilderness and personally gave him an orange mark.

As long as the orange mark explodes, the exploration team will return immediately regardless of how much they have gained.

Including the time in the 242nd year of the Xuanmo calendar, the Chen family's Southern Wilderness Exploration Team went out a total of five times, and obtained a total of two medium-grade Five Elements spirit veins, and the rest were some spiritual medicines and fruits. There was even one time when they discovered a difficult-to-mine mineral vein, but ended up losing all their money.

The total net income from these five explorations reached about 230,000 spirit stones, which means that on average, the harvest from each exploration was less than 50,000 spirit stones.

In terms of total gains, this is certainly more profitable than buying and selling, but if one wants to use this method to explore for ownerless high-quality spiritual veins within the long Southern Wilderness safe zone line, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Even Chen Xuanmo found it difficult to estimate how long it would take to get results.

Fortunately, although the annual income of the family's jade slave business has declined in recent years, the overall income is still considerable. If we accumulate it slowly, sooner or later we will be able to save up enough five million spirit stones. Then we can naturally buy the top-grade wood spirit vein from the sect.

However, even though the family's purple qi expenses were huge, over the past five years, Chen Xuanmo, through his own "thriftiness", had saved up 3965 strands of purple qi, bit by bit. Adding the 4651 strands of purple qi this time, the total amount of purple qi in stock has soared to 8616 strands.

If we use it economically this year, by this time next year the reserves of purple energy may exceed ten thousand!

Chen Xuanmo was extremely curious about the mark formed by the condensation of ten thousand strands of purple energy. If he used it to give birth to a baby, he wondered if he could directly give birth to a baby with natural spiritual roots.

However, Chen Xuanmo didn't want to catch the couple Chen Jingyun and Wang Qianqian and make trouble for them.

The strength of a family cannot rely solely on one lineage.

Therefore, Chen Xuanmo set his sights on that kid Chen Xiuyang.

But that guy is outrageous. He keeps saying that he wants to devote himself to his career. He is already so old, but he has never had a girlfriend!

Every time when Chen Xuanmo strolled among his descendants, he couldn't help but glare at that bastard Chen Xiuyang, and this time was no exception.

He has already made himself the public enemy of the fairies.

Those fairies fought hard on Chen Xiuyang's Da Wu Culture Platform, but at the same time they hated him to the core and would often fight him every time they met.

Especially the Fairy of Flowers and the Fairy of Taiyue, every time they came to participate in the ancestor worship, the first thing they did after the worship was to grab Chen Xiuyang and beat him up.

This has also led to this guy becoming notorious throughout the Great Wu Kingdom, and it has become increasingly difficult for him to find a wife that suits his taste.

Chen Xuanmo turned his gaze to Jiang Xiaoyu.

It was originally thought that Jiang Xiaoyu and Chen Xiuyang would fall in love with each other because they were childhood sweethearts, but in the end, they became brothers and like-minded partners. It seemed that there was no hope for the two.

Just as Chen Xuanmo was glaring at Chen Xiuyang in anger, suddenly, an idea came to his mind.

Isn't Xiu Yang having a scandal with Princess Yun Yi? I heard that she comes to Da Wu Culture every year. Especially since this year is the year of the Sheshan Market Fair, she will most likely come to join in the fun.

If she gave Xiu Yang a golden mark, no, an orange mark, when she met him, would it produce some miraculous results?

Yun Yi is a very smart and capable girl. Once she is married home, she will definitely be a good wife who can take good care of Xiu Yang.

Wonderful! It’s wonderful!

What a genius I am!
The more Chen Xuanmo thought about it, the more he felt that this idea was feasible.

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(End of this chapter)