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Zhou Kingdom has a vast territory, with 21 prefectures under its jurisdiction, and its land area is nearly half that of Gan Kingdom.

The number of spiritual veins is even more than that of Gan Kingdom, but the fourth-level spiritual veins are not as large as those of Gan Kingdom.

The three major sects of Gan Kingdom with Yuanying Zhenjun are all gathered in Jinhong Mountains.

As long as the three sects unite and sit down to talk, most of the conflicts in Gan Kingdom can be resolved.

There are many sects and families in Zhou Kingdom.

In terms of quantity and comprehensive strength, it is stronger than the forces other than the three major sects of Gan Kingdom.

However, although the Qingtian Sword Sect is the only one in Zhou Kingdom, it is located in the northern border of Zhou Kingdom and is adjacent to Liang Kingdom, which ranks second in strength among the seven major cultivation countries.

The Qingtian Sword Sect often has frictions with the Jiuling Sect, a major sect of Liang Kingdom. In order to deal with the Jiuling Sect, it is simply unable to command the heroes.

Therefore, the competition between small and medium-sized sects and families in Zhou Kingdom is more intense.

After receiving Lin Shaoyu's letter, Fang Xiu did not go directly to Anshan Prefecture City,

but went to the Bibo Mountain Villa of the Mu family first.

The blood-tooth rice that Fang Xiu has grown in the past two years has excellent quality and is well-known among the spiritual plant farmers of the Lin family.

A year ago, Chen Fan had approached him and expressed his desire to exchange some spiritual rice with the sludge cleared from the fish pond where spiritual fish were raised.

The sludge in the fish pond is mixed with the excrement of spiritual fish. Although it cannot reach the level of spiritual soil, it also has strong fertility and can fertilize spiritual soil.

Fang Xiu gave Chen Fan 50 kilograms of green bamboo rice at the price of one kilogram of green bamboo rice for five cubic meters of sludge.

Fang Xiu went to the fish pond enclosed on the north side of Bibo Lake and found Chen Fan who was feeding the fish.

"Fang Daoyou, you are such a rare guest. Long time no see."

"After not seeing you for a year, it is really gratifying that Chen Daoyou has broken through the bottleneck of the middle stage of Qi Refining. "Fang Xiu smiled and bowed.

Chen Fan has been raising spirit fish for the Mu family for three years. He has cultivated from the third level of Qi Refining to the peak of the third level, and has reached a bottleneck.

Now he has entered the fourth level of Qi Refining. For the cultivation speed of low-grade spiritual roots, it is not bad.

"Fang Daoyou's cultivation has improved and he has entered the eighth level of Qi Refining. The foundation is already in sight!"

Chen Fan also sensed that Fang Xiu's mana fluctuations were stronger than last year.

"Fang Daoyou are joking. It's just a lucky breakthrough. I don't dare to hope for the foundation building at the moment." Fang Xiu smiled faintly.

After he broke through to the eighth level of Qi Refining, he has been hiding his breath and showing the cultivation of the seventh level of Qi Refining.

However, this time, Fang Xiu changed his mind when he heard that Yu Yongwei became the registered disciple of Jiadan Zhenren.

He not only wanted to show his cultivation, but also tried to show that he was stronger.

"Fang Daoyou is too modest." Chen Fan smiled, and then changed the subject, "Fang Daoyou, are you here for the Lantern Festival in Anshan Prefecture?"

"That's right. "Fang Xiu nodded.

Chen Fan said: "Miss Qi has already informed me of this matter in a letter. After I feed the spirit fish, shall we go together?"

"That's what I meant." Fang Xiu replied.

In the past three years, he concentrated on farming and didn't have much time to communicate with fellow cultivators. In addition, many casual cultivators who farmed wanted to share farming with him.

Fang Xiu was disgusted by his obvious enthusiasm.

Except for the exchange of spirit rice that time, Chen Fan and the others had basically no intersection.

When the spirit fish matured half a year ago, Chen Fan gave him a few spirit fish, and Fang Xiu gave him a few kilograms of spirit rice in return.

Therefore, this time Fang Xiu took the initiative to come to the door and invite Chen Fan to go together.

Of course, there was another reason. Fang Xiu saw the shadow of an old friend in Chen Fan.

His eyes were a bit like Bai Xing.

After Chen Fan fed the spirit fish, he reported to the Mu family and temporarily He asked someone to look after the spirit fish for him, and then borrowed two spirit horses with a trace of wind-attributed demon beast blood, and left the fertile plains with Fang Xiu.

The limit for a 'thousand-mile horse' in the secular world is to travel 200 miles a day, and it needs to rest for a long time afterwards.

A spirit horse can travel 500 miles a day, and it will not be too bumpy when running in the mountains.

Including the time for rest and detours, Fang Xiu and Chen Fan took ten days to reach Anshan Prefecture City, 4,000 miles away, three days before the Lantern Festival.

The two went to the most luxurious Jiuxian Building in Anshan Prefecture City.

Room No. 1.

Fang Xiu, Chen Fan, Yu Yongwei, Mu Qingxuan, and Lin Shaoyu reunited.

"Long time no see. "Fang Xiu smiled and bowed.

In just three years, everything has changed.

Yu Yongwei, the little sister who followed them in the team back then.

Now, she sits in the main seat.

From the age of fourteen to seventeen, in three years, she cultivated from a mortal to the peak of the sixth level of Qi Refining.

She became the youngest of the five people present, but her cultivation was second only to Fang Xiu.

She is twenty-six years younger than Fang Xiu.

Lin Shaoyu and Mu Qingxuan sat on the left and right of Yu Yongwei.

Lin Shaoyu is still wearing a moon-white robe, with a handsome face that makes people impressed at first sight, but he is much more restrained than three years ago, and his temperament has become more stable.

He became an outsider at the age of nineteen. Disciple of the sect, 21 years old this year.

Her cultivation level has risen from the fifth to the sixth level of Qi Refining.

Sitting in the main seat, Yu Yongwei seems to have not grown much. She is still petite, with almond eyes and a round face, showing the cuteness of a girl next door.

Compared with Mu Qingxuan, who is only one year older than her, she has basically not changed.

Her white and clean face is plain, her eyes are like black pearls,

and her nose is high. At first glance, she has a more three-dimensional sense of a mixed-race beauty than three years ago.

Her slender waist tied with a belt is slender and her chest begins to swell. The beauty has also opened up.

Mu Qingxuan's progress is second only to Yu Yongwei. She has cultivated from the third to the fifth level of Qi Refining.

But there is nothing surprising. They are all middle-grade spiritual roots. Mu Qingxuan's water spiritual root sensitivity is 33 points, while Lin Shaoyu's earth spiritual root sensitivity is only 20 points.

In comparison, Chen Fan went from the third level of Qi Refining to the fourth level of Qi Refining.

Fang Xiu went from the seventh level of Qi refining to the eighth level of Qi refining.

Progress is relatively slow.

Take a look at it.

I know that among the five people here, Yu Yongwei's foundation building is a sure thing.

Mu Qingxuan has great hopes.

Lin Shaoyu has high hopes.

Fang Xiu has some hope.

Chen Fan has little hope, almost none.

Yu Yongwei, Mu Qingxuan, and Lin Shaoyu are all in the Yin Yang Pavilion. Although they have status differences between the inner and outer sects, they still have some intersection.

In another ten or twenty years, if Fang Xiu cannot build the foundation, I am afraid there will be no intersection between them.

The once deep friendship will gradually weaken with the gap in strength and status, until it disappears.

What's more, their friendship is not very deep.

However, it won't be that obvious in the short term.

Chen Fan, who had always been relatively silent before, now became more talkative during the dinner.

They exchanged their cultivation experiences together and talked about what they saw and heard.

Yu Yongwei complained about being punished by the fake Dan master, but the conversation that was gradually becoming lively and harmonious fell into a brief silence.

Others do not have the qualifications and courage to complain about fake elixirs.

Yu Yongwei became a registered disciple of Master Fake Dan during her Qi refining period. If she can accept the guidance of Master Fake Dan, she will definitely be his direct disciple in the future.

Lin Shaoyu and Mu Qingxuan have to wait until they have established their foundation before they have the opportunity to become formal disciples of the False Dan Master, and they may not receive focused training.

Not to mention Fang Xiu and Chen Fan.

"By the way, Fellow Daoist Fang, I heard that the blood tooth rice you have grown in the past two years is of very high quality, and the real people in the pavilion are full of praise. I wonder if you have any surplus now, could you sell some to me?"

Seeing that the atmosphere had become subtle, Lin Shaoyu looked at Fang Xiu and took the initiative to change the topic.

I don't have much blood teeth rice left in my hands, so I can't say whether I can sell it or not. I didn’t prepare any welcome gifts this time. I gave you some blood tooth rice that I grew for everyone to try.

Fang Xiu smiled.

He took out four cloth bags from the storage bag, each containing five kilograms of bloody rice.

"Five pounds of bloody tooth rice?!" Lin Shaoyu was shocked.

Five kilograms of blood tooth rice, the market price is ten pieces of low-grade spiritual stone.

But this stuff is hard to come by.

If you meet a senior brother or uncle who wants to try something new, you might be able to sell it for double the price.

Twenty spirit stones are not a small amount of money for a monk in the middle stage of Qi refining.

Lin Shaoyu didn't expect Fang Xiu to be so generous.

"Fellow Daoist Fang, how can you be so embarrassed?"

Mu Qingxuan's beautiful and smart eyes fell on Fang Xiu's face.

"Just give us a discount and sell it to us."

When Lin Shaoyu heard this, his face twitched slightly, but in order to show off in front of Mu Qingxuan, he immediately agreed:

"Yeah, how can we have the nerve to take advantage of you so much."

As he said this, he also pretended to take the spirit stone.

"Wait a moment, Fellow Daoist Lin." Fang Xiu waved his hand and said with a smile:

“Last year, I bought silt from fish ponds from Daoyou Chen, and I gained more than ten kilograms of blood tooth rice.

These are my thoughts, no need for spiritual stones, we are just friends,

No need to see outsiders.

Of course, if you want to buy it in the future, I will not give you a discount.

There are still 350 kilograms of blood tooth rice planted the year before, and it took two years to finish.

Last month, I harvested more than 600 kilograms of blood tooth rice, and handed over 200 kilograms of fake elixirs from Yin Yang Pavilion to the real person, and fifty kilograms to the Lin family.

Fang Xiu has about 450 kilograms left.

The extra output is also related to the silt sent by Chen Fan.

Of course, the main thing is that Didramon is down-to-earth and willing to work.

"Well...thank you, Fellow Daoist Fang." Lin Shaoyu smiled and handed over his hands.

Lin Shaoyu would understand if Fang Xiu only gave Yu Yongwei.

In addition, he might want to please him, the young master of the Lin family.

As for sending Mu Qingxuan as a gift, he might be a good friend or he might have fallen in love with her.

But he really couldn't think of any reason to give such a precious thing to Chen Fan.

I just feel that Fang Xiu is a very particular person and is worth getting to know.

"Uncle is so generous!" Yu Yongwei put away the bag with a smile.

"In this case...Qingxuan would be disrespectful." Mu Qingxuan smiled.

"Thank you, Brother Fang!"

Chen Fan clasped his fists, tightened the bag in his hand, and stuffed it into his arms.

"Fellow Taoist Fish, please stop using the title of ordinary people. If people from the Yin Yang Pavilion find out, I can't afford it." Fang Xiu joked with a smile and raised the wine in his glass.

The atmosphere was harmonious again.

Jiu Xian Lou's 'Jiu Xian Zui' is just an ordinary wine, it does not contain any aura, but it can also be called a delicacy in the world.

After three rounds of wine, five flavors of food.

Yu Yongwei's face was red and she looked a little cute.

Mu Qingxuan's beauty looks even more attractive.

Peng!

There were explosions outside the window and fireworks bloomed in the sky.

"The lantern festival has started, let's go to the lantern festival!" Lin Shaoyu said with a smile, looking at Mu Qingxuan from the corner of his eye.

"Let's go!" Yu Yongwei regained some of her childishness.

A group of five people left the Jiuxian Tower.

The streets were busy with people coming and going.

There are colorful lanterns everywhere, and dragon and lion dances take turns.

"Sometimes I think about it, it's actually quite good to be a mortal."

Mu Qingxuan watched a family of three walking past chatting and laughing in front of them, and suddenly felt something.

"What good is it for mortals to struggle in the torrent of the secular world and waste their lives?" Lin Shaoyu rarely followed Mu Qingxuan's thoughts.

"Many immortal cultivators are actually no different from mortals.

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Mu Qingxuan's eyes became cold and the drunkenness faded. Lin Shaoyu did not argue anymore, but looked at Chen Fan, "Fellow Daoist Chen, what do you think?"

"I didn't have a full meal before I was twelve years old."

Chen Fan said lightly.

"What do you think, fellow Daoist Fang?" Lin Shaoyu asked Fang Xiu again.

"Me? I see with my eyes."

Fang Xiu admired the fireworks in the sky.

Lin Shaoyu:

"Puff!" Mu Qingxuan couldn't help laughing and covered her mouth with her hands.

"Look! Such a big lantern!" Yu Yongwei pointed to the pagoda-shaped building in front of her and ran over excitedly. A giant lantern was raised there.

"Wait for me. "

Mu Qingxuan followed.

The five of them wandered until late at night before returning to the inn to rest.

The Lantern Festival lasted for three days.

On the morning of the fourth day, the five of them had breakfast together.

Before leaving, Fang Xiu said, "Fellow Daoist Yu, I have an unwelcome request.

I want to ask you for help..."

"Fellow Daoist Fang, please feel free to ask. If it is something I can do, I will do my best."

Yu Yongwei responded with a smile, but did not finish her words.

'I heard that every sixty years, all the real people in the Yin-Yang Pavilion can get a branch of the evergreen ivy wood. Some real people will reward the last branch of the branch to their disciples...I want to buy some." Fang Xiu bowed.

"The last branch of the evergreen ivy wood is only the second-grade lower grade at most, and most of them are the first-grade upper grade.

The price is much more expensive than the spiritual wood of the same level, but there is nothing special about it.

Why did Fellow Daoist Fang waste this spiritual stone? Is there any special use for it?"

Yu Yongwei was puzzled.

"I want to refine a magic weapon, which requires a spiritual wood with a higher age. The last branch of the evergreen ivy wood is not of high grade, but it is old enough." Fang Xiu responded.

Yu Yongwei looked embarrassed: "But... I am just a registered disciple of the master, and I am not qualified to ask the master for the last branch.

Unless I become a true disciple, the master will accept me as a formal disciple in advance,

then I can ask for it.

"If you practice to the late stage of Qi Refining before the age of 25, you can enter the true teaching." Mu Qingxuan added.

"Yu Daoyou, here is a fine purple condensation pill, which can be used to break through the late stage of Qi Refining. It should help you break through the late stage of Qi Refining as soon as possible. "

Fang Xiu took out a porcelain bottle from the storage bag.

"Fine purple condensation pill? !" Lin Shaoyu was shocked.

He didn't expect Fang Xiu to be so wealthy that he actually had such a good thing.

"This is what I bought to break through the bottleneck of the late stage of Qi Refining. I didn't expect that I broke through by luck, so I saved this purple condensation pill. "

Fang Xiu evaded the question and looked at Yu Yongwei.

"It's my advance deposit. After the matter is done, there will be another thank-you gift."

The price of a first-grade high-quality spiritual wood is about three hundred spiritual stones.

This exquisite purple condensed pill was found by Fang Xiu in the storage bag of Ghost Shura.

"Master told me to try not to take the broken-level pill, so as not to affect my future potential." Yu Yongwei shook her head slightly.

"I can promise you that when I become Master's formal disciple, I will definitely ask Master for the last branch of the Evergreen Ivy Wood for you."

"Thank you for your trouble, Fellow Daoist Yu!" Fang Xiu expressed his gratitude solemnly, and took out a small storage bag from his arms and handed it to Yu Yongwei.

"This is..." Yu Yongwei probed with her spiritual sense and was slightly surprised.