The Xu family follows Taoism and seeks longevity

Chapter 18 The mission expires (begging for recommendation votes to collect)

It was dark at night, and Xu Zhiyu, as usual on Purple Wood Mountain, lit up the lamp and read the letter from his grandfather and the weapon refining experience he wrote when he was a second-level weapon refiner, preparing to improve his weapon refining skills.

According to his grandfather's letter, Xu Tianyu had a low success rate in refining weapons, and it was difficult for him to figure out what went wrong.

The specifics required Xu Zhiyu to refine the weapon in front of him and observe from the side before he could discover the problem. He couldn't explain it in a sentence or two. The letter finally said that he would personally visit Zimu Mountain in the near future.

Suddenly, he heard that the mountain guarding formation had been touched by someone. He quickly took out his magic weapon and walked out, preparing to find the person or monster who broke into the formation.

However, before he could find the figure of the person who broke into the formation, he heard a "whoosh" sound and a hand was silently placed on his back.

"Yu'er, don't get excited, this is just a little test from me!"

Listening to this familiar voice, Xu Zhiyu's extremely tense body relaxed, then turned around to look at the visitor, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Grandpa, don't you have some objections to your grandson? My grandson is timid. But I can't stand you always threatening me like this!
  It turned out that the person who suddenly broke into the formation in the middle of the night was none other than Xu Family's foundation-building elder Xu Shengsheng who was supposed to be in Nanfeng Mountain.

"Hehehe, Yu'er, are you blaming me? Then do you know how panicked I was when I heard Zhi'an say that you almost broke into the soul-eating spider's lair?"

Although his grandfather was smiling when he spoke, Xu Zhiyu was frightened. There was something in his words!

"Do you know how much I expect of you? Do you know how much your parents, your uncle, and your aunt expect of you? You bear the expectations of so many of us. It's just that you don't practice well in the mountains, but you still do it. Going deep into the forest to chase monsters without telling me and my family, do you know how big a blow it would have to my Xu family if something happened to you?"

"What our Xu family lacks now is a mineral vein or a spiritual mountain?"

"No! What our Xu family lacks now is a qualified heir, a foundation-building monk who can take over the family and guard the Xu family's family business after I pass away!"

"You say you are timid, but in my opinion, not only are you not timid, you are also bold!".

Xu Zhiyu was scolded and had no words to reply. He could only listen quietly and did not dare to make any noise. In his memory, this was the first time that his grandfather had been so angry with him.

"I know that you have behaved differently from ordinary people since you were a child and have your own ideas about everything, but you have to know that the dangers and cruelties of the world of immortality are far more than what you know from classics and elders!"

"You want to see the outside world, I have no objection, but ask yourself, are you ready? If you are not careful, you will die."

"Just like today, if the person who comes here is not me, but a second-level monster, a hostile foundation-building monk, even if there is a formation here, do you think you can hold on until the family comes to help?"

The questions from his grandfather Xu Shengsheng went straight to the depths of Xu Zhiyu's soul. He was always eloquent in the past, but now he was sweating profusely and couldn't answer a word.

"Grandfather, calm down. My grandson knows he was wrong. My grandson knows he was wrong!"

He looked pale and lowered his head, not daring to look at his grandfather's majestic eyes, and kept begging for mercy.

After all, he is the junior he values ​​the most, so he shouldn't be too harsh on him. Seeing Xu Zhiyu like this, Xu Shengsheng's anger gradually dissipated.

His face softened, and he said helplessly, "Get up. If I really wanted to punish you, I would have asked someone to replace you and return you to the family. This time I just want to teach you a lesson and let you know how to behave as a member of the family." At this time, don’t just think about yourself, but also think more about your family. Who are your parents working hard in Fangshi every day for? Don’t you really know?”

"My grandson knows that he will definitely remember his grandfather's teachings in the future and will never make the same mistake again!" Xu Zhiyu raised his head, with tears flashing in his eyes, but his face was extremely firm, obviously he had truly listened to his grandfather's words. These words.

Seeing this, Xu Shengsheng's eyes flashed with relief, but he waved his hand without any trace of expression on his face and said: "Okay, stop chatting. I can't leave the family for too long. While there is still some time, you can do it in front of me. Refining a weapon once, let me see your skills. If you have any questions about cultivation, you can also talk to me about it.      Grandpa still loves himself!
  Xu Zhiyu was overjoyed, knowing that he had passed the test today, and without saying anything, he quickly took out the refining cauldron and materials and started refining the weapon on the spot.

This time when he was refining the weapon, he was highly concentrated and showed the same attitude towards the leader's inspection in his previous life. He wanted to succeed at once, but unexpectedly failed. After repeating this process for more than ten times, it was successfully refined just once when the sky was about to dawn.

"Please give me some advice, grandpa."

When the magic weapon came out, Xu Zhiyu didn't bother to wipe the sweat from his forehead and quickly handed it to his grandfather Xu Shengsheng who was sitting cross-legged next to him.

Unexpectedly, after his grandfather Xu Shengsheng took the magic weapon, he directly fired out a sword energy without looking at it and cut the magic weapon into several pieces. Then he moved the fragments of the magic weapon in front of his eyes and pointed them out one by one. Omissions and errors that occurred during the refining process.

"Look here, the broken lines here are messy, which shows that you have not tempered the impurities in the metal. This small amount of impurities does not seem to affect the use of the magic weapon, but in fact it reduces the pressure-bearing capacity of the magic weapon, making it This has become the weak point of the magic weapon!"

"And the technique you used when refining the weapon just now."

In the technical work of refining weapons and alchemy, there is really a huge difference between having a master teach you and not having a master teach you.

Before receiving the guidance of his grandfather Xu Shengsheng, a second-level weapon refiner, Xu Zhiyu read a lot of weapon refinement classics and read over and over again the weapon refinement experience summarized by his grandfather, but he still had some problems when refining the weapon. Many errors and omissions are unknown. This situation is that after he fails, he often doesn't know where the failure is. If he wants to find the point of failure on his own, he can only use failure after failure to find it slowly.

But in the eyes of his grandfather, Xu Shengsheng, a second-level weapon refiner, these mistakes and omissions that he didn't know about and couldn't find were like lice on the monk's head.

As a result, his grandfather easily pointed out the mistakes and omissions that he would have had to try countless times to figure out, and directly explained the solution to him.

After this face-to-face instruction, Xu Zhiyu's weapon refining skills suddenly changed. He had a feeling that as long as he digested the knowledge taught by his grandfather Xu Shengsheng today, he could increase his success rate to 30%.

After giving Xu Zhiyu some guidance on the art of refining weapons, his grandfather Xu Shengsheng answered some questions he encountered in his practice, and then left quietly just as he came quietly. Although his grandfather did not say where he was going, Xu Zhiyu knew that he must be going to the red flame iron ore vein that he and Xu Zhian discovered.

Sure enough, the day after his grandfather left, Xu Zhiyu received a transmission note from his grandfather.

In the transmission note, his grandfather told him that there was indeed a second-order low-grade spiritual vein and two second-order soul-eating spiders in the Red Flame Iron Ore Vein. The Red Flame Iron Ore Vein was a small mineral vein, and he repeatedly told him not to get close to it again. area, but did not explain how to deal with this matter.

Grandfather didn't say anything, and Xu Zhiyu didn't ask any more about the matter. After all, the matter involved second-level monsters, and it was no longer something they, the Qi-training monks, could handle and decide. How to deal with this matter was left to the family. Get rid of the headache.

He just felt a little pity for Xu Zhian and himself. After all, before the mine was officially put into mining, they would not be able to get the dividends from the discovery of the mine.

Two years later, Xu Zhiyu's mission of stationing at Zimu Mountain has come to an end. In the past two years, with the accumulation of a large amount of refining materials, his success rate in refining first-level low-grade weapons has reached 20%.

"Hey, it seems that my talent for refining is not good. Now, let alone earning spiritual stones, I can't even keep my income. It seems that I can only switch to another way. My grandfather and parents will be very sad, right? They can't They all have high hopes for me!" Xu Tianyu murmured to himself.

He has been stationed in Zimu Mountain for three years, but now he misses Nanfeng Mountain very much, misses all the scenery on Nanfeng Mountain, and misses his parents whom he has not seen for seven or eight years.

Therefore, when the family elder who came to replace him, the twenty-seventh uncle Xu Zhengxi, came over, he hurriedly completed the handover without wanting to stay for a moment longer, and then set foot on the road amidst the complaints of this very young elder. On the way home.

　Posted in the third update, please vote for recommendations and favorites
  　　
  

(End of this chapter)