Seeking Immortality

After hearing the bell ring, Xu Qingfan hesitated for a moment, then turned and flew towards the front mountain.

Speaking of which, Xu Qingfan had not been to the front mountain for more than ten years. After about a cup of tea, Xu Qingfan arrived in the air above Jiuhua's front mountain. He looked down and found that the damage caused by the Jiuhua catastrophe sixty years ago had basically been restored. The trees, rocks, pavilions and houses were exactly the same as they were more than sixty years ago. Judging from the appearance alone, Jiuhua was far away from the shadow of sixty years ago.

Seeing this scene, Xu Qingfan couldn't help but shake his head slightly. Restoring the construction of Jiuhua was his responsibility as the deacon elder of Jiuhua, but he had long forgotten about it. At this time, the restoration of the scenery of Jiuhua's front mountain should be the work of Li Yuhan.

Speaking of which, Xu Qingfan still owes Li Yuhan the most. Compared with Jin Qinghan, Xu Qingfan and Li Yuhan are just casual friends, but after Xu Qingfan became the deacon elder, it was Li Yuhan who helped Xu Qingfan deal with the affairs of the deacon elder, allowing Xu Qingfan to have more time to practice in seclusion or travel down the mountain.

Although the reason why Li Yuhan helped Xu Qingfan, in addition to his friendship with Xu Qingfan, Zhang Hualing's instructions were more important, but in any case, it was an indisputable fact that his progress in cultivation was delayed because of helping Xu Qingfan.

Sometimes, Xu Qingfan also wanted to do something to compensate Li Yuhan, but after thinking about it, he found that he had nothing to help Li Yuhan, which made Xu Qingfan even more helpless.

Of course. The recovery of Jiuhua is just a scenery.

Before the Jiuhua catastrophe happened more than 60 years ago, Jiuhua had a total of 40 elders. Twenty of them died before and after the catastrophe. Afterwards, Zhang Hualing's "Jiuji Cave" plan greatly shortened the time for the elite disciples of Jiuhua's young generation to form a pill. Now, more than half of the young disciples who entered the "Jiuji Cave" to practice, about 25 disciples, have reached the stage of forming a pill, and 16 of them have received the initiation of the elders of the previous generation of Jiuhua^^ That is to say, Jiuhua now has 45 elders.

Judging from the number of elders alone, Jiuhua's current strength is second only to that before Zhang Xusheng's rebellion 900 years ago.

But judging the strength of a sect. It cannot be judged only by the number of elders. Although Jiuhua had only 40 elders at that time, among these 40 elders, the worst one had the cultivation of the late stage of solid pill, but at this time, the newly promoted 25 elders, who can reach the stage of solid pill, are only four or five people. So compared with Jiuhua before the catastrophe, Jiuhua has only recovered its strength on paper, and its actual strength is still far from recovery.

There is another point that most people in Jiuhua are not aware of at all, that is Liu Huaxiang. Or Li Xuhan, the Mahayana Grandmaster who has protected Jiuhua for more than a thousand years, this senior master with a long-term vision and great means, but he actually died forty years ago. Whether it is his mind or his strength, it cannot be remedied by adding a few Jindan-stage cultivators.

Under this situation, how should Jiuhua deal with the catastrophe outside the mountain after it is born?

Thinking about this question, Xu Qingfan landed in front of the "Hualing Hall" on the waist of Jiuhua Mountain, and then walked slowly into the "Hualing Hall".

Xu Qingfan came relatively early. There were only a dozen elders in the "Hualing Hall" at this time, and Jin Qinghan, Li Yuhan and others who were familiar with Xu Qingfan had not come yet, while Zhang Hualing and Gongsun Huasuo were sitting quietly, with Zhang Hualing in the middle. And Gongsun Huasuo sat on the right of Zhang Hualing.

After Xu Qingfan came in, he nodded to the elders present, bowed to Zhang Hualing and Gongsun Huasuo, and then walked to the right of Zhang Hualing and sat down.

When he saw Zhang Hualing sitting in the main seat in the hall, Xu Qingfan's brows could not help but frown. The unique aura transformed by the secret method became even stronger on Zhang Hualing.

Since Xu Qingfan entered the Hualing Hall, the elders kept looking at Xu Qingfan. Their eyes were full of surprise. They didn't expect Xu Qingfan to have reached the late stage of the solid pill. You know, Xu Qingfan was just a cultivator in the middle stage of the spirit silence a decade ago. But now he is no less than some of the elders of the older generation. Such progress is incredible.

If the elders were just surprised when they looked at Xu Qingfan, then when they saw Xiao Hei on Xu Qingfan's shoulder, they were only horrified. Most of the elders who survived the last catastrophe were at the Jindan stage, so they could sense the strong sense of danger under Xiao Hei's restrained aura. This sense of danger actually made those Jindan elders feel uneasy. In other words, the strength of Xu Qingfan's pet has reached the advanced level of the earth rank! !

Another thing is that at the moment when Xu Qingfan entered the Hualing Palace, those Jindan elders clearly felt that it was not only Xu Qingfan who entered the "Hualing Palace". There were two faint spiritual fluctuations on both sides of Xu Qingfan's back, and their cultivation was not inferior to Xu Qingfan. But no matter how these elders detected, they could not detect the true face of these two spiritual fluctuations. It was just that the two spiritual fluctuations faintly resonated with Xu Qingfan's spiritual fluctuations, and the three seemed to be one.

After noticing this, the elders looked at Xu Qingfan with a complicated look. They found that with the spirit pet of Jindan stage, the spiritual energy fluctuations of the two late Shidan, and Xu Qingfan's own late Shidan cultivation, Xu Qingfan's current strength was actually above most of them. Even in the entire Jiuhua Mountain, Xu Qingfan's strength was probably in the top seven.

Next to Xu Qingfan's seat, Zhang Hualing and Gongsun Huasu's expressions were even more complicated. Zhang Hualing was relieved with a sigh, while Gongsun Huasu was gloomy and ugly.

"Deacon Xu's cultivation progress has been very fast in recent years. I'm afraid he is no less than Zhang Xusheng back then. So it's understandable that Deacon Xu has not cared about Jiuhua's affairs in recent years."

Just when the elders were sighing that the waves behind are pushing the waves ahead, Gongsun Huasu suddenly spoke.

Since Xu Qingfan divided the power in Gongsun Huasu's hands and accidentally surpassed him in reputation, Gongsun Huasu has always disliked Xu Qingfan. He originally wanted to compete with Xu Qingfan for the position of Jiuhua Sect Leader, but now as Xu Qingfan's cultivation and reputation in Jiuhua are getting higher and higher, his original hope is getting slimmer and slimmer.

In his words, although he was praising Xu Qingfan's cultivation, he was actually secretly accusing Xu Qingfan of being only concerned with his own cultivation over the years, but not paying any attention to the affairs of the deacons and elders.

After Xu Qingfan heard what Gongsun Huasu said, he was secretly shocked. Zhang Xusheng is a taboo in Jiuhua Sect, and Jiuhua elders rarely talk about him. So why did Gongsun Huasu compare Xu Qingfan with Zhang Xusheng? Did Gongsun Huasu know that Xu Qingfan had been transformed by Zhang Xusheng's secret method?

Although secretly shocked, Xu Qingfan's face remained calm, and he just smiled faintly: "Yes, thanks to Li Yuhan's help, otherwise I would have no time to practice."

The implication is that I let Li Yuhan take charge of the duties of Jiuhua Deacon Elder, and he didn't delay anything, so you have no reason to blame.

Hearing Xu Qingfan's words, Gongsun Huasu snorted softly, and then stopped talking.

At this time, Zhang Hualing, who had been sitting quietly, suddenly stood up and said to Xu Qingfan on his right: "Deacon Xu, come with me to the back hall."

As he said that, Zhang Hualing stood up on his own and walked towards the back hall without paying attention to Xu Qingfan's reaction. Xu Qingfan hurried to follow, while secretly guessing Zhang Hualing's intentions in his heart.

"Could it be that Zhang Hualing is also dissatisfied with me for only concentrating on cultivation these years? That's not right, he clearly told me to concentrate on cultivation."

While secretly guessing, Xu Qingfan followed Zhang Hualing to the back hall of Hualing, but saw that Zhang Hualing had stood still at some point, turned around and silently looked at Xu Qingfan, and after a long time, a look of relief flashed in his eyes.

"You are very good, your progress over the years has exceeded my original expectations, it seems that some things are time to give you."

Hearing Zhang Hualing say this, Xu Qingfan was slightly stunned, and saw Zhang Hualing wave his right sleeve, and two green tablets and a blue bead suddenly appeared in his hand.