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Chapter 90: Successful Apprenticeship! Practicing the Seven-Star Sword Formation (Big Chapter, Explosive Update, Please Give Me a Monthly Vote)
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These four words.

Immediately, Master Xuan Yang suddenly became enlightened. He slapped his thigh and said excitedly, "Great! Why didn't I think of this? I heard that your mother likes to be a rich woman the most. Then I will give her some spirit stones!"

Tuan Tuan's face fell a little, feeling a little ashamed and embarrassed: "Grandpa, first of all, your news is outdated. My mother has already made a lot of money from the profits of the two products, the enhanced version of the Little Thunder and Fire Bomb and the Jade Slave."

"Second, giving spiritual stones directly is too vulgar."

"What should we do then?" Master Xuan Yang looked helpless.

When he was young, he also thought about finding a senior or junior sister to go out with.

But those senior and junior students annoyed him so much. Their ever-changing minds were impossible to guess. He was tortured so much that he finally indulged himself in refining equipment. Only then did the world feel peaceful!
But what he really didn't expect was that at such an old age, in order to accept an apprentice, he still had to figure out a girl's mind?
"Actually, Grandpa also knows that my mother likes the art of refining weapons the most, right?" Tuantuan reminded in a low voice.

"Yes, why didn't I think of that?" Master Xuan Yang slapped his thigh, but then he became embarrassed again, "But the weapon refining skills I learned were all from the sect. If Qianqian has already become my disciple, then there is nothing to worry about. But if she hasn't, I can't teach her the sect's skills."

Tuantuan was also a little helpless.

My future master is really... Even when the food is right in front of his mouth, he still won’t eat.

She had no choice but to continue to point out a little more: "Grandpa, the last time my mother went to the sect's weapon refining hall, she was interested in Senior Brother Yun Hao's Red Dragon Spirit Furnace..."

"Red Dragon Spirit Furnace? This is not easy to do." Master Xuan Yang was in a dilemma. "The grade of that thing is too high, and it has to be connected to the top-grade fire spirit vein. It is a huge project to build it!"

"The biggest problem is that your Chen family is too poor. It seems that there is a place called Fire Spirit Cave, which has a very small low-grade fire spirit vein, right?"

The time he spent staying at Chen's house was not in vain, as he learned about Chen's information from all aspects.

What amazed him most was that the recently popular [Jade Slave] and the pretty good enhanced version of the small thunder and fire bomb were both made by Chen, or to be more precise, by Qianqian.

I think these should be the weapon refining techniques that come with her righteous inheritance.

The ideas behind these refining techniques are different from those of the Great Wu Kingdom, and many of them are exquisite and mysterious.

This also made Master Xuanyang believe that Wang Qianqian really had the inheritance and was really capable of arranging Tuantuan's future, instead of deliberately shirking control of him.

Thinking of this, Master Xuan Yang became even more anxious and wanted to quickly establish his relationship with Tuantuan.

After a brief thought, Master Xuan Yang said, "How about this? I will go to your Fire Spirit Cave today to explore the terrain and see if I can find a way to expand the size of the spirit vein and rebuild a spirit furnace based on the actual situation."

Master Xuan Yang also gave it his all.

As the saying goes, you can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a baby. How can you expect to have a beloved disciple if you don't take care of Qianqian?
"Grandpa, you are awesome." Tuantuan praised endlessly, his eyes full of admiration, "This way, Tuantuan can live in Fentian Peak."

Seeing Tuantuan so happy.

The slight heartache that Master Xuan Yang felt suddenly disappeared without a trace, and his fat old face was full of relief.

Subsequently.

Master Xuanyang took his disciple Yunhao to inspect the Wang family's industrial base, the Fire Spirit Cave.

He first disliked the fire spirit vein in the Fire Spirit Cave for being too small and weak, and then criticized the Chen family's proud [Dingkun Furnace] as worthless.

Afterwards, he conducted another careful survey and discovered that there seemed to be a hidden spiritual vein deep within the inferior spiritual vein in the Fire Spirit Cave. He then took great pains to open it up and connect it, barely able to upgrade the inferior fire spiritual vein into a medium fire spiritual vein.

Then, he asked Senior Brother Yun Hao to go back and forth to the sect several times to collect materials, dismantle the original Dingkun furnace, and reinstall a set of [Red Fire Spirit Furnace]. Although it was not as good as the Red Dragon Spirit Furnace in the Refining Hall, it could also refine spiritual weapons.

During this time, it naturally cost Master Xuanyang a lot of contributions from the sect, and it took a full month, but every time he saw Tuantuan's innocent eyes full of hope, Master Xuanyang felt full of energy again.

In addition, Master Xuanyang also wrote down a lot of his personal experiences in refining equipment and gave them to Wang Qianqian for reference.

With all his sincerity, Master Xuanyang finally "moved" Wang Qianqian and made her agree to let Tuan Tuan become his disciple.

However, Qianqian feels that Tuantuan is still too young and needs someone to take care of her daily life. She wants to keep her by her side for a few more years and has to wait until she is sixteen years old before she can join the sect.

Although five or six years was very torturous for Master Xuan Yang, he felt that the conditions were not difficult to accept when he thought that he could come to Chen's to visit Tuantuan at any time and could learn the martial arts and refining techniques in advance.

After that, the two sides held a simple apprenticeship ceremony in the Chen family's main house. After the ceremony, Tuantuan officially changed his words and called Master Xuanyang "Master".

Master Xuan Yang suddenly felt very relieved, and all his fatigue and heartache about his contribution points disappeared.

Moreover, during this period of time, the sect has repeatedly sent him messages, asking him to go back for meetings.

Even the sect leader Ziyin Zhenren sent a message saying that if Xuanyang didn't go back for the meeting, he would come and arrest him personally.

Under no other circumstances, Master Xuan Yang could only bid farewell to Tuantuan reluctantly.

A ball of red cloud rushed straight into the sky and hurried back to the sect.

Above the clouds and sky.

In the brilliant red glow like smoke and haze.

Master Xuanyang and his disciple were resting in the [Hongxia Treasure Bag].

This period of time has exhausted them, not only physically tired, but also severely mentally exhausted!

Especially Senior Brother Yun Hao, he has lost a lot of weight.

It is not easy to accept this disciple.

"Five and a half years, just five and a half years left, I will personally take Tuantuan to Fentian Peak." Master Xuanyang's eyes were filled with eagerness when he thought of the scene after Tuantuan came to Fentian Peak, but he couldn't help but disparage Chen Ningtai, "Tuantuan can't be allowed to contact Chen Ningtai for too long, otherwise he will be contaminated by his thoughts that appear to be honest but are actually worldly and old-fashioned."

He had a very bad impression of Chen Ningtai, and there was a strong suspicion that he was using Tuantuan to get money from Xuan Yang.

But at this moment.

Senior Brother Yun Hao said, "Master, before we left, Patriarch Ningtai secretly gave me two storage bags. One of them is for you, and he told us to open it after we return."

"Haha, look, the flattery comes again, right?" Master Xuanyang sneered, "You should stay away from this kind of person."

However, he couldn't hold back his curiosity, and without waiting to return to Fentian Peak, he directly took the storage bag and opened it, using his spiritual sense to explore inside, wanting to see what the old man could give out, which must be some local specialties.

next moment.

He was stunned, and a look of surprise and astonishment quickly filled his eyes.

"I saw" that his storage bag was filled with about five thousand spirit stones. In addition, there were some local specialties produced and sold by the Chen family, among which there was a jade box that was very eye-catching.

He picked up the jade box and opened it, only to see a fist-sized, red metal inside, emitting a strong fire aura.

"This is……"

Master Xuan Yang's expression was somewhat dull.

Senior Brother Yun Hao, who was standing by, came over to take a look and couldn't help but exclaimed, "Isn't this the Scarlet Flame Precious Gold that you, Master, have been asking for for several years but never received?"

This kind of red flame precious gold is one of the main materials for refining fire magic weapons. Even if it is a fist-sized piece, it cannot be obtained without several thousand spirit stones.

It’s not that Master Xuan Yang couldn’t afford it, but this precious gold was rare and he was unlucky, so he didn’t buy it for the time being.

However, refining magic weapons is not a matter of a day or two. Some materials are not available in the world yet, so we have to wait and see.

In fact, it was not easy for the Chen family to get the Red Flame Gold. It was obtained by Chen Xuanmo and Chen Jingyun working together, spending a whole golden mark and picking it up at a bargain price in the Jinwu Market.

The reason why it is called "half-bargain" is that they also spent three thousand spirit stones.

But even so, the golden mark was considered a profit. After all, it was normal for a red flame gold of this size to be sold for six or seven thousand spirit stones at an auction.

Master Xuan Yang looked at the spirit stones in the storage bag, and then looked at the red flame gold.

He was silent.

In the Chen family's Fire Spirit Cave, he did invest supplies worth no less than three thousand sect contributions.

But what Chen returned to him was more than double what he had paid!
Especially that piece of red flame precious gold. How much effort and spirit stones would a foundation-building family need to spend to get this?

"Master, I have quite a few spirit stones in my storage bag." Senior Brother Yun Hao said, "There are several thousand spirit stones."

He thought about it for a moment and understood that this was Chen's return of the spirit stones for his previous contribution to the mid-grade golden spirit sword pad, as well as a reward for his help in building the Fire Spirit Cave during this period of time.

After a while, Master Xuan Yang sighed softly and said, "Patriarch Ning Tai is really thoughtful. I misunderstood him before."

"This Chen family is not simple."

***
It was the night that Master Xuan Yang left.

Inside the ancestral hall of the Chen family’s main residence.

The lights flickered.

The tablets are quietly arranged on the table, looking extremely solemn.

In a corner of the ancestral hall, two temporary small rooms appeared at some point. They were made entirely of cast iron, and the key parts were made of expensive fine iron, especially the lock on the fine iron fence door, which was bought at a high price as the [Heavenly Secret Lock].

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to call these two small rooms "cells".

Among them, in the small cell on the east side, the main criminal Chen Shiyun was lying on the wooden bed, groaning from time to time. The severe pain in her buttocks made it difficult for her to even turn sideways, but even so, she still had to lie down to do her homework, review papers, and copy the [Chen Family Rules] and [Chen Family Ancestor Instructions] as punishment.

In another small cell, the accomplice Chen Xiuyang was imprisoned. He was also beaten badly, but fortunately he was only five years old and could not even recognize all the characters, so he was exempted from the punishment of copying for the time being.

As for the ones who beat the kids, they were naturally the children’s own parents, and it was a mixed doubles match!

Chen Xuanmo, who was in the heroic spirit state, watched this scene speechlessly.

In Chen Ningtai's words, let these two little bastards repent in front of the ancestors and make sure they are deeply aware of the mistakes they have made.

But Chen Xuanmo knew that it was the rebellious son Chen Ningtai who was trying to put pressure on him, indirectly reminding him, the heroic ancestor, not to spoil the children too much, lest these children become more and more lawless and cause disasters in the future.

"Haha, Chen Ningtai, you're a rebellious son." Chen Xuanmo was very angry.

Your father is dead, and his only pleasure is to pamper his children. How dare you deprive him of that.

But after being angry, Chen Xuanmo calmed down and thought about it, and felt that his rebellious son's words made some sense.

Xiu Yang and Tuan Tuan are both his favorite children, and he hopes that they can do well and walk steadily in the future.

That’s all.

Since you have made a mistake, you should be punished.

Especially Tuantuan, who has a temper that gets angry at the slightest disagreement, really needs to be tempered down.

Therefore, although Chen Xuanmo felt sorry for the two children, he did not stop them in the end. He just accompanied them quietly in the form of a heroic spirit.

Tuantuan, in particular, was so pitiful. Not only was he beaten and imprisoned, but he also had to review papers and copy clan rules.

While Chen Xuanmo accompanied him silently, he also began to think about the gains and losses of this incident.

This time, he hastily decided to seek a master and support, and although the result seems to be very good, it is still a choice made out of necessity. In the final analysis, it is because Chen’s own strength is insufficient.

Finding a backer can only be considered a temporary solution.

If you want to solve the problem fundamentally, you still have to improve Chen’s own strength.

But the path of cultivating immortals has always been about accumulation over time, like water dripping through a stone. Even a genius in cultivating immortals with three spiritual roots cannot achieve success overnight.

Therefore, if you want to improve Chen's foundation in a short period of time, you can only focus on external things.

In addition, the death of Master Chen Xuanmo also dealt him a heavy blow.

These days, Qianqian and Ningtai have been trying to get some information from Master Xuanyang indirectly.

The death of the master was actually related to the resurgent [Blood Soul Cult], but Master Xuanyang refused to talk about the specific circumstances. He only said that the Chen family was too weak now and knowing more would do more harm than good.

Judging from Master Xuan Yang’s attitude, the revival of the Blood Soul Sect this time is by no means simple.

Firstly, it concerns the safety of the Chen family. Secondly, Chen Xuanmo also wants to do something for his master. Therefore, it is urgent to improve the foundation of the Chen family.

The first thing to consider is the safety of the Chen family’s main residence.

The mountain protection formation currently used in the main house - [Small Five Elements Formation], was obtained by Chen Xuanmo in exchange for a merit and 3000 contribution points in the sect in his early years. Even if facing the crazy attack of one or two foundation-building cultivators, it can at least withstand one or two hours.

This is also the main reason why the Linhai Bai family did not dare to attack [Qingyu Cliff] at the beginning. Relying on the small five elements formation, the overall combat power of the Chen family will be greatly enhanced.

But now.

As the Chen family grew stronger, the threats they faced also became more powerful.

[Wuhen Mountain], [Heyang Luo Family], [Hedong Cui Family], and even the [Blood Soul Sect] which has potential possibilities.

The mere five elements formation is not enough.

The movable formation that was exchanged earlier, the [Qinggang Mist Formation], although much more expensive than the Small Five Elements Formation, also has unique uses, but in terms of protection level, it is almost the same as the Small Five Elements Formation.

Its high cost mainly lies in its mobility.

Therefore, Chen Xuanmo wanted to upgrade the [Small Five Elements Formation] and upgrade it into a mountain protection formation that could temporarily resist Jindan cultivators - the [Five Elements Formation].

This time, Chen Ningzhuo went to the sect to ask about the price.

Okay.

It actually requires thirty merits and ninety thousand contribution points.

Although this is the price for on-site installation, it is too expensive. Even if the Chen family sells all their belongings, they cannot afford to install this formation.

Therefore, Chen Xuanmo could only settle for the second best. As for the mountain protection formation, he first combined the [Small Five Elements Formation] and the [Qinggang Mist Formation] to make do.

But at the same time, you can add a set of offensive formations to attack instead of defend, thereby increasing the overall defensive power of the main house.

This is also the reason.

After careful calculation and consideration from the sect's list of exchangeable formations, Chen Ningzhuo and Chen Xuanmo selected a set of [Seven Star Sword Formation].

Its structure is relatively simple, with a sword-sacrificing platform as the core and seven low-grade spirit swords forming a sword formation!
But there are two disadvantages.

Firstly, it is expensive. The seven low-grade spirit swords alone cost 4000 contribution points, and the sword sacrifice array requires another 3000 contribution points. In total, it consumes two [Merits] of the Chen family, 7000 contribution points.

After Chen exchanged for the "Green Wood Eternal Life Art" and "Red Flame Burning Fire Art", two superior wild methods, he only had three [Merits] left, with 3496 contribution points.

It is worth mentioning that the sect also gave 800 contribution points to the head of [Tanhai Yaksha], a wanted criminal who was not on the blacklist, after Chen exaggerated the harm he caused to him, but there was no [Merit].

As for Chen Ningtai's middle-grade gold-type spiritual sword, Yun Hao supplemented its contribution value, but Chen returned it to Yun Hao in the form of spiritual stones, which was equivalent to spending spiritual stones to purchase the contribution value.

Therefore, in order to exchange for the [Seven Star Sword Formation], Chen Xuanmo spent two [Merits] and 7000 contribution points. The remaining contribution points could only be recharged by times the spirit stones.

It was precisely this time of "extravagance" in spending spirit stones and contributions in various aspects that caused the spirit stone inventory accumulated by the Chen family in previous years to almost run out, and the sect was left with only one [Merit] and zero contribution value.

The speed of squandering money is even faster than making money.

In addition, the [Seven Star Sword Formation] has a second drawback, which is that it must be controlled by a foundation-building cultivator with strong spiritual awareness on the sword-sacrificing platform.

Of course Chen Ningtai met the need, but if he controlled the sword formation, who would defend the family?

But the good thing is that the Chen family still has the heroic ancestor Chen Xuanmo, who can activate the Seven Star Sword Formation by consuming purple energy, and even let the Xuanmo Spirit Sword replace one of the swords to become the main sword in the formation.

In this way, it will be more powerful and more cost-effective than Chen Xuanmo burning the purple energy alone to drive the Xuanmo Spirit Sword to attack.

Therefore, this set of Seven Star Sword Formation is, in a sense, very suitable for Chen's current situation.

In addition, there is also the secret water palace in the East China Sea, which must be developed as soon as possible.

The Shuifu is in a hidden location with excellent protection. It can become Chen’s safe house in the future and one of their life-saving trump cards.

But the ambitious Chen Xuanmo lost all interest when he saw that he only had 163 strands of purple energy left.

When I woke up this time, I had accumulated 700 strands of purple energy.

However, in order to add points to Qianqian's weapon-refining skills, and also to add points to Tuantuan's weapon-refining skills, as well as to let Chen Jingyun go to Jinwu Market to pick up bargains, the purple energy has been consumed at an extremely fast rate.

Of course, the consumption on Tuantuan's side is very small, just a token of its own, and the bulk of the expenditure still falls on Qianqian.

This is also thanks to the fact that Chen Xuanmo does not need to fall asleep when he is awake, and can be woken up when needed, thus saving some purple energy.

These are the rest.

Chen Xuanmo didn't dare to use it casually, he had to keep it just in case.

After spending another day with Tuantuan in the [small dark room] for self-reflection, he decisively fell into a deep sleep, thinking that out of sight, out of mind.

Before going to sleep, he had a wonderful expectation in his heart, hoping that the next time he woke up, the purple energy would surge to more than 1000 strands.

But I just fell asleep.

Suddenly, Chen Ningtai's urgent voice came to Chen Xuanmo's ears: "Please ask father to appear, something has happened in the family."

Something happened?

Chen Xuanmo's heart skipped a beat and he woke up with a start.

Luo's?

Cui family?

Or maybe... Wuhen Mountain?

Seeing the sword tremble slightly, Chen Ningtai knew that Chen Xuanmo was awake, so he quickly reported: "Father, a group of evil cultivators suspected to be from the Blood Soul Cult have invaded our territory. As soon as we noticed their whereabouts, they rushed directly to Qingyu Cliff. Now the mountain protection formation has been activated. I hope that father will show up and protect the family."

Evil cultivator from the Blood Soul Sect?

Chen Xuanmo's heart sank.

Why would the evil cultivators from the Blood Soul Cult come to a remote place like Cangyiwei?
Was Chen implicated by his master, or was he put on the Blood Soul Cult's revenge list because he had previously killed the Blood Hand Demon Slayer?
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