The Xu family follows Taoism and seeks longevity

Chapter 334 Depressed Xu Zhisheng (please subscribe!)
  At the entrance of Taoyuanfang City, there is a long queue to enter and exit.

Seeing the two sisters leaving, Xu Zhisheng sighed softly and turned towards Fangshi.

He and his sister Xu Zhizhi have been learning formations from Master Liu for more than half a year, but their progress has been very slow. His previous dream of starting in half a year, becoming a master in one year, and becoming a second-level formation master in three years was shattered. He now also understands why there has never been an formation master in the family. Firstly, there is no inheritance, and secondly, this skill requires too much talent.

When he was in the family school, whether it was the improvement of his cultivation or the practice of spells, he was the best among his peers. But after learning the formation, he had to doubt whether his talent was real. So outstanding.

In fact, he wouldn't be depressed if both brother and sister were making slow progress. The problem was that his younger sister Xu Zhizhi was different from him. Her younger sister, who had always behaved about the same as him, suddenly seemed enlightened after learning the formation from Master Liu this time, and she refused to discipline her. Whatever it is, you can learn it once you learn it, and you can understand it at a glance. Now you can barely be regarded as a formation apprentice.

Faced with the basic knowledge of formations taught by real people, such as the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, the One Yuan, the Two Instruments, the Three Talents, the Four Symbols, and the Five Elements, as well as the judgments of celestial phenomena and terrain, he seemed to understand only half of it, as if he was in the middle. There is a gap, and true understanding cannot be achieved.

As for the next actual operation, he stretched his hips even more. When faced with the homework left by the real person, whether it was painting the basic formation pattern or placing the formation base, he did a complete mess.

To be honest, he regretted learning the formation on the spur of the moment, but it was not good to back out now. Not to mention how his always-competitive sister would mock him, and even the 19th brother who specifically begged for help for him, he felt that he could not face it. Yes, after all, Xu Zhizhi was the only person selected by the family to learn the formation. He later specifically asked his clan brother to help him get the opportunity, so he could only grit his teeth and learn it hard.

Fortunately, Liu Zhenren also came from this stage, so he did not criticize him harshly. He just kept encouraging him and teaching him. Finally, after understanding his growth trajectory, he even suggested that he live in Fangshi for a period of time.

It turns out that since he detected his spiritual roots and entered the Clan Mountain to practice, he has never been down to the Clan Mountain. The family tasks he took on were various patrols, guarding spiritual fields, elixirs and the like.

The main reason for this is the existence of Xu Zhizhi. The brother and sister have always had almost the same cultivation speed. You chase me and spend almost all your time practicing, for fear that the other will surpass you.

When his sister signed up to apply, he didn't understand it very much, because the brothers and sisters were only at the seventh level of Qi refining, and they were at the bottom in the later stages of Qi refining, so he just stayed quietly at home to practice, and did some things by the way. In the family mission, I finally accumulated enough family contribution points and redeemed them for foundation building pills, and finally succeeded in building the foundation.

At first it seemed that the two of them had different choices, and they couldn't tell the difference.

But looking at it today, it seems that Xu Zhizhi's choice was better.

Because before teaching, Liu Zhenren took them up to the blue sky, down to the deep streams, mountains, rivers, mountains, and forests, saying that it was to broaden their horizons. The formation is also closely related to these, or it can be said that the formation evolved from the laws of movement of all things in the world.

During this process, Liu Zhenren taught them and also asked some questions to inspire them. Because he had experienced too little in the world, his answers were relatively superficial. Xu Zhizhi, because he had experienced the baptism of war, combined with what he had seen. Smell, the answer is often more profound.

And he finally understood where his shortcomings were, so when Liu Zhenren asked him to go to Fangshi to practice, he agreed. He decided to use his own eyes to see this world of immortality that had always been shrouded in mystery. .

Originally, the foundation-building monk could skip the queue and go directly to the Xu clan member responsible for registration at the door to verify his identity and then enter the city. However, in order to experience life, he still stood at the end of the queue entering the city.

From noon to noon, a full hour later, it was finally his time. Because they restrained the pressure, no one in the team noticed anything unusual about him. But as soon as he reached the registration desk, he opened his mouth and leaked it. trap.

The monk in charge of the inspection asked mechanically without raising his head:

"Is this your first time in Taoyuanfang City?"

"Yes!"

"Newcomer? Go there to register your name and get an entry token before you can enter!"

Looking at the tribesmen who had never raised their heads to look at him, Xu Zhisheng shook his head slightly, and then went to the registration office next to him. There was only one tribesman sitting there, holding a blank city entry token, ready to register for the monks who came to Fang City for the first time. .

When they saw him for the first time, the people at the registration office jumped up from their chairs, put the token on the table, and immediately raised their hands and saluted:

"My nephew told me that he has met Uncle Sixty-Eight!"

Looking at the clan nephew in front of him, and then looking back at the clan members who had been alarmed and gathered here, he waved his hand to stop them, and at the same time started chatting with the clan nephew.

"The last time I saw you, you were at the third level of Qi cultivation. I didn't expect that after more than ten years of not seeing you, you were already at the seventh level of Qi cultivation. Time flies so fast!" He sighed with emotion.

"Yes, Uncle Clan! I heard that you have been carrying out garrison missions with Aunt Sixty-Nine and Uncle Seventy-Six. How come you have time to come here?" Xu Jidao asked.

The fact that the Xu Zhizhi brothers and sisters learned the formation from Master Liu was kept secret. Only a few senior family members knew about it, but the Qi Refining clan members did not know about it, so he thought that Xu Zhisheng was still on duty at the Ancient Xiu Cave!
  "It's boring to stay there all the time. I have some free time recently, so I came to visit Fang City. By the way, this is my first time coming to Clan City. In the past, I just listened to the tribesmen's stories, but this time I am immersed in it!"

"Hehe! Congratulations to Uncle Zu for making his dream come true! Jiaifang City is developing very well now. Come in and take a look! By the way, Uncle Zu, since it is your first time to come to Fang City, do you need a little help? My nephew, do you want to find a clansman to guide you?"

"No, I can just walk by myself. You should be on duty!"

After chatting with his nephew for a while, Xu Zhisheng walked into the gate of Fangshi. Since he was a member of the Xu family, he naturally did not need to apply for any tokens. Family tokens were also universal here.

As soon as he walked through the gate and entered Fangshi, six or seven people gathered around him and wanted to guide him. With just one glance, these people could tell that Xu Zhisheng was coming to Fangshi for the first time and it was not easy to escape. With the entanglement of these monks, he began to take a serious look at his hometown.

For him, everything was so novel. The wide and clean streets were lined with various shops. There was a huge flow of people on the street, and the sound of hawking could be heard everywhere.

According to the tribesmen's stories, he walked across the street and came to the Sanxiong Market, which he longed for. This place really had an extraordinary appeal, and it was no exception to him.

Looking at the dazzling array of stalls and the various spiritual objects that dazzled his eyes, Xu Zhisheng was like a bee flying among the flowers, so happy! “Fellow Taoist, how do you sell this broken array plate?” After wandering for a long time, he finally found a spiritual object that was barely eye-catching, and squatted down to ask the stall owner for a price.

Originally, when I saw the stall owner who had business coming to me, he still had a warm smile on his face, but when he heard his words, his face darkened at that time. He thought to himself, how could he ask for a price like this, but the other party behaved like this? , which also shows his lack of experience. He likes this kind of monk the best.

"Young Taoist has a keen eye, but this array plate is not broken. You can see that the formation patterns carved on it are relatively clear and have great research value. If I guessed correctly, you should be an array master, right? You Looking at the material of this formation plate, it is made from materials of the second level and above. This also shows that the corresponding formation should be above the second level. If fellow Taoists buy this thing back, they can deduce it from above. Come up with a complete set of second-level formations, then you can send it!"

The stall owner cheated and deceived me, and made ridiculous claims. I thought you weren’t fooled yet! For such fledgling young monks, he understood their psychology very well. They were shy, had a good face, and most importantly, didn't know how to bargain.

Sure enough, Xu Zhisheng nodded as he expected, as if admitting the fact that he was an array master, and then asked:
  "Then how much spiritual stone is this formation disk worth?"

"Not expensive, three hundred spirit stones!"

"Ha! Such a precious thing, fellow Taoist, you should keep it for your own research! Goodbye!"

Xu Zhisheng stood up and turned around to leave. Although he was not even considered a formation apprentice now, he had a fourth-level formation master teaching him by his side, and his vision was quite good. This stall owner wanted to trick him, but he had obviously made the wrong idea. .

In fact, the reason why he was curious about this formation plate was not because it was so attractive, but because he had been shopping in the casual cultivator market for so long and only found this one spiritual object related to the formation, so he asked about it. The price was high, but I didn’t expect the stall owner to open his mouth like a lion. He was not stupid, how could he be fooled like this?
  "Fellow Taoist, stay here. Deals come and go. If you think it's too expensive, you can make a counter-offer!" Seeing that he didn't fool the other party, the stall owner hurriedly shouted from behind.

Xu Zhisheng didn't know how to make a counter-offer directly:
  "I can give you at most ten spiritual stones!"

He now regretted asking about the price of that array plate, so he deliberately quoted a price that he thought was ridiculously low.

"Alas! This business is getting increasingly difficult! Come on, who made me and my Taoist friends fall in love? It's a deal!"

When he turned around, what he saw was the pained expression on the stall owner's face, but the smile hidden behind it was so obvious. If he hadn't left yet, the stall owner would probably have laughed out loud. Gritting his teeth, Xu Zhisheng reluctantly took out ten spiritual stones and threw them on the stall. He grabbed the array plate from the stall owner and walked away.

"Misstep, what a misstep! Although ten spirit stones are not much, it is really embarrassing! I heard from my tribe that you must be extra careful when visiting the casual cultivator market for the first time, but I didn't take it to heart. I thought it was because they were too If you are careless, you will suffer a loss and be fooled.

Now it seems that it is not that the clan members are careless, but that the casual cultivator stall owners are too cunning, and there are all kinds of deceptions in endlessly, making it difficult to guard against them! Fortunately, no one here recognized me, so I didn’t expect this to spread! "

He thought and comforted himself as he walked. As soon as he came out of the casual cultivator market, he met a tribesman. He walked up to inquire about the situation of the market, and then headed towards Baocui Building. He was going to find Brother Nineteen.

Let’s talk about Xu Zhiyu, right now he is sitting in the room worrying! It turns out that he came to Fangshi this time, firstly to resolve the matter of the Foundation Establishment Talisman, and secondly, to issue the ‘Meteor Tickets’, both of which were accomplished beautifully.

But there has been no progress yet in investigating the changes in Lingxiao Sect's attitude towards the family. Originally, he planned to contact the new shopkeeper assigned to Tianluo Pavilion by the Lingxiao Sect and slowly inquire about the news, but unfortunately this late-stage foundation-building monk named Zhao Shitian basically stayed at home. He once sent someone to ask for help. , but none of them succeeded. They either used excuses to retreat or went out for something else.

He now suspected that this person had heard some rumors, so he avoided seeing the family monks. He also made up his mind that the next time he would pay a visit in person, if there was no progress, then he would summon his grandfather and ask the family to People have other ideas.

At this time, a clan member reported that Xu Zhisheng had come to visit him. This gave him an idea and he went out to greet him in person.

"Quick, Zhisheng, try this spiritual tea. I asked someone to buy it from Yuzhou. Don't drink it anytime!"

"Thank you, Brother Nineteen!"

He took the tea cup with both hands and looked at the bright-colored and fragrant spiritual tea in the cup, and he opened his mouth to express his thanks.

After tea, Xu Zhiyu spoke: "Zhisheng, didn't you and Zhizhi learn formations from Senior Liu? Why did you come to Fangshi in your free time? Could something have happened?"

Then Xu Zhisheng told him everything about his failure to learn the formation and what Master Liu asked him to come to Fangshi to practice, and asked for his opinion.

He pondered for a while and then said:
  "Senior Liu has a high level of cultivation and is also a fourth-level formation master. She must have a special purpose in giving such an order, so you don't need to think too much. Just live in Fangshi. Since it is training, then you need more Contact people, the casual cultivator market is getting bigger and bigger, and Zhinan is a bit too busy to handle it alone, so you just go and help her manage it!"

Seeing that Brother Nineteen had said this, he naturally would not refuse, so he agreed and said goodbye.

"That's it, Brother Nineteen, I'm going to find Brother Zhifeng first and ask him to arrange a room for me. I may disturb you, Brother, in the next period of time. I hope you won't find me troublesome!"

"What are you talking about? If you have anything to do, just come to me! By the way, you will go somewhere with me tomorrow and I need your help if I need help. Is that okay?" After Xu Zhiyu laughed and scolded, he remembered something again and ordered his clan brother.

"No problem, I will wait in the room tomorrow for Brother Clan to call him!" Although he didn't know what was going on, since Brother Clan had a need for him, he would not refuse.

"Okay, let's go. I happen to have something to do with Zhifeng. Let's go together!"

After saying that, the two of them stood up together and left the room.

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