Longevity begins with loose cultivation

"The most important thing at the moment is to solve the injuries on the body."

Lu Zhong was going to Xiaotanggu to settle the matter, but according to the information obtained by the incarnation, there seemed to be some twists and turns in wanting to heal his wounds in Xiaotanggu.

What is the specific situation, we have to go there to know.

After taking down the map sent back by the avatar and confirming the location of Xiaotanggu from it, he immediately turned into a rainbow and left Linjiangfang City where he had lived for a long time.

Flying across the sky, a scene of a prosperous fairyland appeared in front of his eyes.

At this moment, Lu Zhong was thinking about what to do next.

Should I continue to be a casual cultivator and gather resources little by little?

Or worship into the sect, family, or even the Tuhuang Palace, and become a ruling monk.

There are advantages and disadvantages to joining the first two, Lu Zhong already knows this very well.

The key lies in the ruling monk.This is a special group of monks developed on the basis of the Immortal Cultivation Kingdom, which is very different from the monks who rule a place in the traditional sense.

Compared with ordinary monks, the way for the ruling monks to obtain resources is relatively special.

They need to make achievements in order to obtain resources.

Whether it is governing the local area, operating industries, or defending against foreign enemies.

Everything depends on performance.

Otherwise, there is only a meager salary.

It can be regarded as a profession with a very high upper limit of development and an extremely low lower limit at the same time.

According to Lu Zhong's opinion, if he wanted to ascend to immortality in the world of spirits, he could not do without the help of a powerful force. After all, there were enough resources to cultivate to the stage of crossing the catastrophe, which can be said to be numerous.If one party takes more, the other party will take less, and conflicts will inevitably arise.In a conflict, if you can rely on power, it will be a huge advantage.

If you choose to be a casual cultivator, you will obviously not be able to enjoy this kind of benefit.

Everything can only depend on oneself.

"It can only be said that freedom, there are good and bad."

Lu Zhongmo thought.

Considering that there are still several big realms between the stage of transforming the gods and the stage of crossing the catastrophe, he doesn't need to rush to make a decision, as long as he decides on the future direction before the stage of advanced integration.

Whether it is a casual cultivator, a sect, a family, or a ruling monk.

Or, a combination of multiple forces?
There is plenty of time to think.

After flying for half a month, after seeing a steaming valley looming in the distance, Lu Zhong suddenly changed direction, like a solid lead sinking, and landed in front of a small nunnery surrounded by peach blossoms below.

Looking up, you can see a small plaque with the three characters of flamboyant and phoenix dancing impressively.

Peach Blossom Temple!
Although the Peach Blossom Temple is not big, it even looks extremely dilapidated, but there are not many monks coming in and out.

Not to mention the cultivators who walk everywhere.

Even cultivators who are rare to see on weekdays and who don't see Shenlong often show up here.

Without exception, all of them were injured.

Or, it is suffering from a strange disease.

Lu Zhong noticed that the injuries or strange diseases on these monks were quite strange, not like the injuries of immortal cultivators, but rather like the actions of the evil apostles who were raging in the wilderness.

Or the wound festers, constantly bursting out with bugs;
Or wrapped in weird rotten cloth, no matter how the patient tore it, burned it with a spiritual fire, or even tore off the belt and flesh together, it would not be able to tear off the leather strips in the body, but would make the rotten cloth more tightly rolled.

A series of strange illnesses were beyond Lu Zhong's imagination.

Compared with these people, his seemingly serious physical erosion, on the contrary, seemed ordinary.

During the time when Lu Zhong stopped, more than a dozen monks turned into light and submerged into the Peach Blossom Nunnery.Gradually, noises began to come from the nunnery. Hearing this sound, he stopped stopping and walked in.

Inside the Peach Blossom Temple is a mustard space.

This space is hundreds of feet long and wide, and it has long been arranged as a hall. There are already nearly a thousand monks waiting inside. It can be seen from their clothes that they all come from different places. The recent interesting events in Metaverse, or sitting cross-legged on a futon alone, suppressing serious injuries in the body.

However, no matter what these monks were doing, they would glance at the end of the hall every once in a while.

Lu Zhong looked the same way, and found that there was a high platform at the end of the hall, dotted with silver light, as if there was a Milky Way flowing. There was a long table in the center, and in front of the long table was an old man in green robe with a round face. Sitting there with his eyes closed, he tapped his knuckles on the table from time to time, as if he was waiting for something.

On the old man, he sensed a very strong breath.

"Refining Void, or Fusion?"

Suddenly, a middle-aged man who had just entered came in, wearing a khaki-yellow robe and burning with blood, stepped forward. The man first gave a respectful salute to the old man in the blue robe, and then the two of them did not know what they had achieved. After the middle-aged man presented a glass token and a storage ring, he got a token with the word "soup".

Such a scene fell in the eyes of many monks.

"I'm really envious. As long as you make contributions to the Earth Emperor Palace, you will not only be rewarded with a lot of resources, but you can also be exchanged for the right to bathe." The monk who knew about it said with a complicated expression at this moment.

These words seemed to reach everyone's heart.

After hearing this, many people were even more moved.

But a small group of people in the hall, including Lu Zhong, had a different expression at this moment.

The words spoken by this person, the voice is not too loud, just enough to be heard by the people nearby.May I ask, which avatar would accidentally talk to himself in such an environment?
Lu Zhong sensed something was wrong.

If there is no accident, the person who spoke must be a trustee.

Its purpose is probably to recruit people for the Tuhuang Palace.

After all, those who will come to Xiaotanggu are at least at the stage of transformation, and a small number are monks at the stage of refining, all of which can be called high-end combat power.Moreover, the monks who came here were basically injured, and some even regarded Xiaotanggu as the last straw.

It is not difficult to imagine that if at a desperate moment, you meet the helping hand from the Tuhuang Palace,
What choice will these people make?

"This is really a wonderful move."

If you are afraid, the Tuhuang Palace and Xiaotanggu will work together to limit the number of monks who are in trouble.

This is very likely, but Lu Zhong thinks it should not be too much.

After all, high-level monks are basically not fools.

If the Tuhuang Palace really did these petty tricks, not only would it not be able to gain people's hearts, but it would find people disgusted.

"This group of people is almost enough."

The green-robed old man opened his eyes at this moment, and saw that he took out a jade book, and said to the crowd of monks below: "Please come forward and register one by one, fellow daoists who want to bathe, and choose the place where you want to soak. The rules are still the same as before. If there are new fellow Taoists who don't understand the rules, don't worry about it, there are detailed rules and pages on the table, you can take a copy."

After a cup of tea, monks stepped forward one by one.

Lu Zhong, on the other hand, brought a page of the book first.

It turned out that due to too many monks who came to seek treatment, Tang Gu's treatment opportunities were already in short supply.

For the sake of fairness, a set of rules was gradually developed.

Except for the location reserved for the Tuhuang Palace, all the hot springs in Xiaotanggu will be marked on the map of Xiaotanggu, regardless of the level of healing effect. The denser the green light on the map, the better the healing effect.Every time Little Tang Valley opens, everyone has a chance to register.

The better the position, the more competitors.

vice versa.

If you want to get a treatment opportunity, you have to compete for the registrants in the same treatment location.

Competition does not rely on force to decide the outcome.

Instead, look at the appraisal price.

For example, a monk in the early stage of transformation, who worked for the Earth Palace for free for one year, can be counted as one point of evaluation value, two points a year in the middle stage of transformation, and three points a year in the late stage of transformation.

Paying 100 million spirit stones can also be counted as a little evaluation value.

In addition to this, you can also submit precious elixir, or valuable information.

All of the above behaviors can also obtain evaluation value.

The outcome of the competition depends on the sum of points obtained.

The one with the most wins.

The rules are simple and clear.

In Lu Zhong's view, this is clearly an auction, but the rules are slightly special.

In order to treat the injury, he decided to participate once.

Soon, it was Lu Zhong's turn to register.

He glanced at the map and found that, as the introduction said, Xiaotanggu marked all the healing springs on the map, which can be divided into three major areas:

The emerald soup valley in the middle has the best effect, and it has an excellent healing effect on the injuries of the monks who refine the emptiness. There are 36 places; the second is the yellow jade soup valley, whether it is a monk who refines the emptiness or a monk who transforms the spirit. There are 54 places to heal injuries here; the last is the worst Qingyu Tanggu, which is only suitable for monks in the transformation stage, and there are [-] places.

Considering the difficulty of winning the competition and his own situation, he didn't look at Jade Tanggu and Huangyu Tanggu.You don't need to look at those places to know, there must be a lot of competition for cultivators who practice virtual reality, and it is basically impossible for cultivators who transform spirits to win.As for picking up leaks, the monks present are all human beings, and they will never leave a chance to pick up leaks.

Lu Zhong thought very clearly that the goal of his treatment this time was to suppress the injury.

Anyway, for him, as long as he can suppress the injury, he will have more time to heal the injury, and then he can heal the injury little by little with the help of a large amount of healing elixir.

In this way, the room for choice will be much larger.

After some consideration, Lu Zhong finally chose an unpopular position.

Qingyu Tanggu, number five.

It is said to be unpopular, but in fact, thirteen monks have already participated in the competition for this treatment position.

Immediately, the original "Thirteen" on the map changed to "Fourteen" after the green-robed old man finished registering.

Seeing that Lu Zhong had chosen this place, the previously registered contenders for position 55 all cast their gazes this way. Seeing that this is a late-stage cultivator, their complexions more or less changed.

"Looking so young, I think it's someone who doesn't have deep accumulation."

Someone comforted himself like this.

Some people, as if they were crushed by the last straw, sighed heavily, then got up and left directly.

It's just that I don't know whether I will accept the solicitation of the Earth Palace after I go out.

But more people continued to sit where they were.

They seem to have a lot of confidence in winning the competition.

On Lu Zhong's side, after the registration was completed, he found a place to sit down.

While tasting the soup and tea produced by Tanggu, while waiting for the registration to end, he was also thinking about how to defeat other competitors in the same period at the lowest price.

For him, wanting to win the competition is not a problem.

But it is also necessary to plan carefully, after all, he does not have a stable source of income now.If one point is spent on the resources at hand, the future cultivation expenses will be reduced by a corresponding point, and there is no room for extravagance.

Time, minute by minute.

After Lu Zhong, three more people chose the 55th position.

"The competition is really fierce!" Lu Zhongmo thought.

In comparison, only three or five people registered for the [-] spots in Jade Tanggu.

But anyone with a discerning eye knows that even though there are only a few people competing, the starting price will definitely be quite exaggerated.After all, the position in the Emerald Tang Valley can even play a big role in the injuries of the cultivators who refine the void.

After a while, another monk registered for position 55.

So far, a total of 18 people have registered.

Seeing that the process was coming to an end, Lu Zhongyuan thought that the number of people would end here, but at this moment, another monk came in from outside, and he was still in the late stage of transformation like him. He was wearing a purple robe and a purple jade crown. The black-faced youth actually chose the 55th seat of Qingyu Tanggu.

This black-faced young man seems to have an extraordinary background.

Among the 18 people who competed with Lu Zhong, there were three monks who were in the mid-stage cultivation of the gods. When they saw that they were going to compete with this person, they directly chose to give up and got up and walked out of the small nunnery. The rest of them looked very bad , it seems that there is no hope for the next bidding.

"Fellow Daoist, why are you even interested in coming here?"

Those who were familiar with the black-faced youth took the initiative to say hello.

"Hey, I got a little injury. I planned to take some time to heal the injury by myself, but I happened to meet Tanggu again, so I might as well save some time and just come and take a dip." The black-faced youth rushed over. After sweeping, seeing that the other party's strength is not weak and has the value of making friends, he said with a faint smile.

When the nearby people heard this, they all showed shock.

It’s true that people are better than people than dead people. They came to compete for the position of healing, and they were all prepared to pay all their wealth, and even to do coolies for thousands of years in the Tuhuang Palace. How could they be like this "black-faced Xuanjun", Take out a lot of resources casually, just to save time for healing.

Hearing this, Lu Zhong thought to himself, no wonder those people just gave up when they saw this one coming in.

At the same time, I was secretly crying in my heart.

How could I be so unlucky?

Just happened to meet such a ruthless person.

But give up, he will never give up.

After all, the opening cycle of Tanggu is at least once every 500 years. Such a high time cost, possible risks encountered on the way, and many uncertain factors make Lu Zhong prefer to pay more and take advantage of this opportunity , took a shot at position 55 and stabilized the injury.