Longevity begins with loose cultivation

Chapter 248
Same as other places in Nanban.

To enter the Shahu Oasis, you also need to pay a city fee, which is called a "security fee" in local terms. The forces here have given such a name, which seems to show its rationality.

A spirit stone is not expensive.

Lu Zhong handed over the spirit stone and walked into the city. After passing through the city wall and a thin layer of shield, the originally dry and hot air suddenly became humid.

At the same time, the aura is suddenly strong.

Compared with the harsh environment outside, the interior of the oasis is indeed much more livable.

It seems to happen to be a festival in the Heavenly Knife Region.

Pedestrians are crowded with each other on the road, and from a distance, there is a mass of black heads, and the festive atmosphere is particularly strong.

On both sides of the street in front of you, various shop flags fluttered in the wind.It also has a bit of the local characteristics of the Tiandao domain. The monks here like to pull banners, so the streets are full of colorful signs and slogans.

The water of Yingquan is on the shelves, if you want to buy it, hurry up!
The Sand Scorpion Caravan is recruiting newcomers, all capable people and strangers are welcome to sign up! (Note in a small line next to it) Those who practice water magic and kung fu are preferred.

The Matchmaker Marriage Office will help you bridge the love between immortals and mortals!
Lu Zhongduo glanced at it a few times and thought it was interesting.

Especially the slogan at the end can be regarded as another characteristic of Tiandaoyu.Compared with other places in the Southern Barbarians, in the Heavenly Knife Region where immortals and mortals often live together, there are obviously more cases of intermarriage between monks and mortals.

Stop and go all the way, bought a lot of special food.

Soon came to "Tianyan Mansion".

There is an endless flow of people here, and it is not surprising that the foundation is truly cultivated. Even Jindan Daoist can be seen occasionally, which makes Lu Zhong slightly startled.

He was not in a hurry to go in, and first inquired about the situation.

If you find out that you come to Tianyan Mansion to deduce the secret, you must first explain your needs. After Tianyan Mansion has assessed the risks, it will give you the required fee.If the assessed risk is too high, there may even be a possibility of rejection.

Not all monks who come here can get the desired results.

What most people can get is basically a vague prophecy.

After learning about the situation, Lu Zhong stepped into Tianyan Mansion, told his needs, and soon got a reply that he had to pay a fee of [-] spirit stones.

"So cheap?" He was slightly taken aback.

In turn, he realized that he was used to being extravagant.

One hundred thousand spirit stones is definitely an astonishing number for ordinary monks.It is enough to train a little cultivator who has just finished entraining qi into the body into a foundation-building true cultivator.

In other words, the price should be very high.

After Lu Zhong agreed, a deacon offered the deed. The terms were quite detailed, stipulating the respective obligations of both parties and the division of responsibilities in case of unforeseen accidents.

"Guest please wait a moment, we will arrange for you right away."

After finishing speaking, the deacon bowed out of the room with the signed spiritual deed.

This is a cup of tea time.

Just as Lu Zhong was getting impatient, an old man in a black cassock walked in, cupped his hands and apologized: "I'm sorry for keeping fellow daoist waiting so long, this is the result you want."

"Oh?" Lu Zhong took it and finished it, his face became cloudy.

For a while, he didn't know whether to say his luck was good or bad.

Regarding the whereabouts of half a page of the book, Tianyan Mansion gave a clear location, which is located in the Shaxuan Valley in the Western Territory.According to Shaxuan Valley, which is located in the Western Extreme Sword Region, the world has changed for so many years, and it is not known what it has become. It is not easy to get half a broken page.

Thinking of this, Lu Zhong did not choose to give up.

"Let's take one step at a time..."

It is only the last half of the broken page to gather the supernatural powers outside the body. If you are afraid of difficulties and give up, it is really hard to be reconciled!
……

The first step to the west is to restore the cross-border teleportation array.

After returning from the Heavenly Knife Realm, Lu Zhong first went back to the Bihaizong, took a lot of formation materials, and then took the Cangkong Stone to the Poisonous Insect Valley.

Via Lucuifang City.

Thirty years is enough to change the world.

Affected by the outbreak of the beast horde, this place has long been deserted.

Where can we still see the prosperity of the past?
As far as the eye can see, there is a piece of emerald green hills, and there are several broken walls hidden among the luxuriant grass, and it will not be long before these traces will disappear, and everything will return to the original wild state.

From here, Lu Zhong descended to the ground.

Today's northern Great Forest Sea has become a paradise for monsters and beasts, and a forbidden place for human monks.In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he decided to sneak in with his breath.

Following the previous route, we soon came to a poisonous swamp.

"After all, it's still thousands of miles away from Poisonous Insect Valley, right?" Lu Zhong looked at the boundless poisonous swamp in front of him, he couldn't help feeling surprised, and then faintly worried.

Without control for such a long time, the poisonous insect swarm still doesn't know what it will look like.

Maybe a third-order individual has already been born.

"Anyway, let's go in and have a look first." Lu Zhong thought of this, and took a five treasure pill in his mouth. This pill is a third-order pill, which can detoxify most of the Nanman's toxins.

A Five Treasure Pill is worth close to ten thousand, but in order to preserve mana to deal with accidents, it is worth using it.

The pill took effect quickly.

The discomfort caused by the body's exposure to toxins immediately receded like a tide.

After confirming his safety, he disappeared and rushed towards Poisonous Insect Valley.

On the way, I met several groups of poisonous insects, all of which were in the hundreds. From a distance, it looked like a vast area, either carrying prey back to the nest, or spitting saliva everywhere.

Their saliva is poisonous, and after polluting the land and water sources, poisonous swamps will form over time.

"Same as recorded in the classics."

Lu Zhong avoided these small swarms of insects from a distance, and soon found the location of the former poisonous insect valley. The original valley has been shrouded in thick poisonous mist, and it looks like a purple-black poisonous pool from a distance.

In this heavy poisonous fog, there stood one gourd-shaped insect nest after another.

All are green-spotted ghost nests.

Obviously, the green-spotted ghost worm is the final winner of Poisonous Insect Valley.

After the rest of the swarm became defeated, they either fled here hastily, or were wiped out by the green-spotted ghost worms, leaving no individual left.

Turn around and come to the old entrance to the underground palace. Unexpectedly, it has been flooded with poisonous water. The only good news is that there is no trace of poisonous insect activity, and you can enter as long as you clear the poisonous water.

Seeing this, Lu Zhong took out a "Cang Yicao" and took it.

When he first released the poisonous swarm, he had already anticipated the possibility of the swarm getting out of control, so the selected swarm was actually carefully selected.

Cangyicao specializes in detoxifying the poison of the green spotted ghost insect.

Diving into the poisonous water, the protective qi was corroded and sizzling. The concentration of poisonous aura contained in the water was extremely high, and it had already begun to erode the body, but there was nothing to worry about.

Go forward along the passage, and after clearing the obstacles on the way, you will soon come to the underground palace.

Affected by the activities of the poisonous insects, the magic circle he left behind has long been damaged. The walls of the underground palace were bitten like a sieve, filled with poisonous water, and the teleportation circle was severely damaged.

"It's another big project!" Lu Zhong calculated the workload, and his scalp felt a little numb.

But for the method of incarnation outside his body, he can only grit his teeth and do it.

Repair begins.

First set up a few restrictions to press out the poisonous water in the underground palace, and then start repairing the walls of the underground palace, mainly using the "fossil into mud" spell.He mixed some of the ashes of the "Greentooth", a natural enemy of the green-spotted ghost bug, into the wall.In this way, the green-spotted ghost worms will instinctively avoid this place, reducing the chance of the underground palace being destroyed.

After a lot of busy work, the underground palace was finally repaired.

In order to confirm the effect of the ashes, Lu Zhong deliberately used the scene to reconnaissance, and the green-spotted ghost insects outside did show signs of avoiding them.

very good!

I breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately started repairing the teleportation array.

The process is purely manual labor.

The difficulty in the layout of the teleportation array lies in the calculation of the precise spatial orientation, and the calculation result is reflected in the array. Lu Zhong has the assistance of the gray fog space, as long as it is reproduced intact.

……

Yanhufang is close to Yanyan Lake, which is where the name comes from.

Every morning and evening, there will be hunting teams going out and returning to the pier by the lake. They will stop at the pier area to sell their prey, which are basically eyeless demon fish in the smoky lake.

Eyeless demon fish is a general term.

The underground is dark all year round, so there is no need for such things as eyes. Most of the indigenous creatures here have no eyes, and rely on other methods to obtain information.

It may be because of the growth in the smoky lake, the demon fish always smells of sulfur no matter how it is handled.

Today, when food is scarce, monks and ordinary people who cannot afford to buy spirit mushrooms can only use it to satisfy their hunger.Compared to starving to death, a demon fish that is difficult to swallow is nothing.

As the "sunlight array" on the top of the square market gradually brightened, more and more people went to the wharf area to buy fish.

The light in Yanhu Square is all provided by this large array.

When the formation is opened, the formation is destroyed and the rest is stopped.

For the new generation of Westerners who had to live thousands of feet deep underground to avoid the scarlet aura pollution, they had never seen the ground.

This is their day.

"what is that?"

Suddenly, someone noticed a purple light appearing in the lake.

The purple light became more and more dazzling, and it was rapidly approaching the pier. Seeing this scene, the monks on the shore, none of them dared to ignore the carelessness, and pulled out their poorly crafted magic weapons one after another, putting on a posture of guard.

"Clang clang clang!"

Alarm bells rang loudly.

At the same time, the brightness of the sun array rose to the highest level, illuminating Yanhufang in every detail.

The strong light penetrated the smog of the smoky lake, and the people on the shore could see clearly that what was approaching from the lake was actually a mass of purple flames, and the water vapor transpired in the place it passed, creating a huge dense fog.

From afar, it looks like an ancient giant beast is approaching.

"The one inside is a cultivator?" A cultivator who had practiced the Qi-watching technique boldly took a look inside, and suddenly burst into tears and almost lost his sight, but he also saw something from inside.

"How could it be a monk!" Zhuji Zhenxiu, who had rushed over, retorted.

In the pervasive purple flames, there is a terrifying aura that makes people tremble, and this is definitely not something that a monk can emit, at least she can't do it in the early stage of foundation establishment.

"Could it be the legendary Jindan Daoist!"

I don't know who shouted, and the crowd fell silent for a moment.

Since the establishment of Yanhufang, the monks here have never seen the Jindan real person, so that in the eyes of the new generation of Fangmin, monks of this level have become legends.

Who would have thought that I would see it today!
Fear suddenly hit like a tide, drowning everyone on the pier.

Lu Zhong saw this scene from a distance, but he didn't expect that his appearance would frighten the people here.

Half a year ago, he finally restored the teleportation array.

When he set foot on the western border again, what he saw was a terrifying scene.

As far as the eye can see, everything has turned dark red, the ground is covered with scarlet corruption pools, and the sky is filled with a rich and almost substantial scarlet aura.

Under such circumstances, traveling has become a daunting task.

After flying for less than half a day, the accumulated scarlet corrosion was enough to endanger his life, so he had to stop and purify it with Ziyou Extreme Fire.

After all, the time spent on the road has not been purified much.

Therefore, after finding traces of monk activities on the ground, they followed the ruins all the way to find them.

So there is this scene.

Pressing down on the bottom line of the monks on the shore, Lu Zhong stopped his forward steps, and removed the scarlet and corrupt Ziyou Jihuo that purified his body, so that his figure could be revealed.

Looking at the old Foundation Establishment cultivators on the shore, there was no fresh blood in them, which made him frown.

Only thirty years have passed, and the world of cultivating immortals in the western region has degenerated to this extent?

According to this speed of regression, it may take less than a hundred years, and the highest cultivation among the human race here is only the peak of Qi refining.

And these are all thanks to that gift.

Thinking of this, Lu Zhong grabbed a lump of mud from the bottom of the lake, and used the technique of turning mud into stone to form a rock pillar. Then he stroked the storage ring with his left hand, took out ten thousand catties of spiritual rice from it, and piled it on the rock pillar.

"A small gift, a little sincerity."

Immediately, he looked at the people in Fangshi and said, "Please send someone out to talk to me."

There was a commotion among the crowd on the shore, and finally a monk in the late stage of Qi refining was elected, who is Li Yuming, the owner of Yanhufang.In the case of a crowd of foundation-builders and true cultivators guarding the city, Yanhufang is qualified to send out to discuss matters, and there is only one person left.

"Junior Li Yuming, I have met senior!" Li Yuming said calmly.

While speaking, he couldn't help but move his eyes to the pile of Lingmi next to him.

Is this the Lingmi recorded in the classics?

It is crystal clear like jade, exuding an attractive fragrance.Not to mention that there is a very strong spiritual energy in the spirit rice, which is many times stronger than the spirit mushrooms grown in the workshop.

Noticing this scene, Lu Zhong estimated that the value of Lingmi to the monks here was several times higher than that in thirty years.But he estimated that these people would not be able to offer any spiritual items in exchange.

Otherwise, the cultivation base would not be so low.

"Answer me a few questions, and these Lingmi can be given to you."

"Yes, senior!" Li Yuming suppressed his excitement.

"Is there a large settlement nearby?" Lu Zhong asked.

"Twenty years ago, a monk who claimed to be Yeling Immortal City came and said that this city was five thousand miles northwest of Fang City. At this time, the only information this junior knew."

"Yeling Immortal City?" Lu Zhong listened with a strange expression on his face.

As far as he knew, the city had already been reduced to death thirty years ago.

Now that the changes in the world are intensifying, how can there be monks?
Seeing only this answer, he asked the next question.

"Do you have a way to get rid of the scarlet aura?"

The reason why Lu Zhong asked this was because he found that the monks here had no traces of being corroded by the scarlet aura, which indicated that they most likely had mastered the means of purification.

"Back to seniors, we mainly rely on dry scarlet mushroom powder to eliminate the influence of scarlet aura." Li Yuming said, taking out a bottle of red mushroom powder from his pocket.

"This is the dry powder of scarlet mushroom. Although it can purify the scarlet aura, it is highly poisonous, so..."

"It's just poisonous, it's fine."

Lu Zhong took out a detoxification pill and took it, and secretly pinched it to detect malice.

Seeing that there is no problem, I took out a little dry powder and took it.

"The effect is mediocre, better than nothing." Lu Zhong quickly came to the result and was not satisfied with it. He immediately looked at Li Yuming and said, "How many dry powders of scarlet mushrooms do you have left? Bring them to me. One bottle of dry powder is exchanged for one." Jinling rice."

At present, he is still in the Ye Ling domain, which is a hundred and eight thousand miles away from the West Extreme Sword Domain, so he can save a lot of time by preparing some dry powder of scarlet mushrooms.Otherwise, it would probably take him three to five years to reach Shaxuan Valley.

When I come back after picking up the broken pages, I still don't know when it will be.

"Ah yes!" Li Yuming couldn't hide his emotions when he heard this, and laughed out loud.

This senior is really a kind person!

When he returned to the pier, he truthfully reported the conversation between the two of them and the transaction request made by Lu Zhong to several foundation-establishing true cultivators at the pier.

Nothing to discuss, all passed unanimously.

Having lived underground for a long time, they have long since lost the idea of ​​returning to the surface. It is useless to keep the dry powder of scarlet mushrooms, so it is better to take this opportunity to make Lingmi.

(End of this chapter)