The Xu family follows Taoism and seeks longevity

Looking at the plain jade as a talisman in front of him, it was flickering brightly and dimly, as if it was about to explode at the next moment. Xu Zhiyu did not dare to be careless, and tried hard to collect his mind, control his spiritual power, and carefully draw the hook. Drawing runes, hoping to successfully draw the magic runes.

Unfortunately, things didn't work out as expected. At the last moment, too much spiritual power was input, which resulted in the failure to draw and superimpose the runes. In the end, a burst of white smoke came out of the plain jade, then spontaneously ignited, and finally broke into pieces. It became dozens of pieces of different sizes.

"Alas, failed again!" He frowned, looking at the broken talisman paper on the talisman table, and then he cleared it up with a gentle wave of his right hand.

"This piece of plain jade costs five hundred spirit stones. Coupled with other materials such as talisman paper and spiritual ink, more than eight hundred spirit stones will be lost in one failed drawing. So far, it has failed more than ninety times. Well, I calculated that for this soul-asking talisman, I have put in more than 80,000 spiritual stones, I really don’t know, I’m shocked when I calculate it!”

He then burned the reasons for this failure and his experience onto the jade slips he carried with him, which he purchased specifically after building the foundation to record his experience in making talismans. Before the foundation was built, he had always recorded it in books because of poverty.

No matter what, ninety-nine steps have been taken out of a hundred. No matter how difficult the remaining step is, he must grit his teeth and go on anyway. He has no bad habit of giving up halfway.

With this in mind, he took a short rest and meditated for a while to regain his spiritual power. Then he started drawing the Soul-Questing Talisman with full energy. He was determined to work hard and achieve complete success.

Perhaps his hard work paid off, or perhaps God rewarded his diligence. He then failed fifteen times due to various factors, but finally succeeded in drawing it on the sixteenth time.

The quality of the finished soul-asking talisman is very average. If it were taken out and put on the shelf for sale, I believe everyone who sees it would not take a second look. However, Xu Zhiyu is very satisfied and cannot be dissatisfied. He has paid for this talisman. All the efforts and hardships, only he himself knows best.

Originally, he wanted to keep up his efforts and improve the success rate of the soul-asking talisman. Experienced talisman makers would do this, because during the period when a talisman was successfully drawn, the talisman-making skills had grown by leaps and bounds.

But the formation restriction at the door was triggered, and more than once.

Before each retreat, he would agree on a secret code with his clan members. If something small happened in the store, he would just let Xu Zhikai and other members of the Foundation Establishment clan handle it by themselves without disturbing him.

If something difficult happens that makes it difficult for them to make a decision, then the ban will be triggered once. Whether he can leave the seclusion at this time depends entirely on his mood, and he does not have to leave the seclusion.

If something happened that they couldn't handle and he had to step in to solve it, then the ban would be triggered twice. At this time, as long as it is not a critical moment of seclusion, you must leave the seclusion, otherwise the store may suffer losses, and the clan members may also be harmed.

When the restriction is triggered three times, it means that someone has directly knocked on the door. No matter what he is doing, even at the critical moment of breakthrough, he must stop and get out immediately.

After thinking about it for less than a quarter of an hour, he decided to leave. After putting the talisman-making tools back into the storage ring, he put away the formation and walked out of the room.

When he came outside the room, he found no one, which made him a little strange, because generally speaking, people who violated the restriction would wait at the door for a while, and would only leave if the person in seclusion did not show up.

But just now when he felt that the restriction was triggered, he immediately put down what he was doing and hurried out. Unexpectedly, he was still a step too late, which made him startled. He was afraid that something terrible would happen and he would let him go. The person who touched the restriction had no time to wait for him and left first.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly started walking downstairs. He didn't see a single clansman along the way, which made him even more panicked.

It wasn't until he came to the first floor that he found that business was going on as usual in the lobby and there was no strange phenomenon at all. He was half relieved. He looked around and saw that he was standing in front of the shelves, selling spiritual items to the monks. Xu Zhigui, his clan brother, sent him a message.

"Zhigui, come here!"

Xu Zhigui, who heard the message, turned his head and saw the clan brother standing behind him. He calmly cupped his fists and saluted the customer in front of him:

"Forgive me, fellow Taoist, I have something to take care of. If you decide to buy this elixir, I will give you a 10% discount. Come over later and I will help you wrap it up!"

The monk who was looking at the elixir originally wanted to ask Xu Zhigui about the growth period and the effects of some elixirs. When he heard that he was leaving, he was a little unhappy, but when he heard that he could get a 10% discount, his mood changed. Okay, don't underestimate this discount. It can be calculated as a discount of twenty spiritual stones. For a monk like him who lives at the bottom of the city, it is also a considerable amount of spiritual stones.

"Fellow Daoist Xu, please help yourself, I can just take a look at it myself!" the casual cultivator said with a smile on his face, very considerate, but then added: "Fellow Daoist, don't forget about the discount!"

"I won't forget it, fellow Taoist, don't worry!"

After speaking with a smile, Xu Zhigui turned around and rubbed his stiff cheeks, came to the clan brother, said hello and waited for questions.

"Zhigui, thank you for your hard work!"

Everything he did just now fell into Xu Zhiyu's eyes. Opening a business is like this. Not only do you have to be careful everywhere, but you also have to deal with customers' difficulties at any time. It is very difficult. Therefore, he did not ask questions directly, but spoke first. A hard sentence.

"It's not hard work, it's all part of the job. Besides, we also get spiritual stones based on commission. The more spiritual objects we sell, the more we earn!" Xu Zhigui saw it thoroughly and had a clear understanding.

"Okay! Let me ask you, are all the Ji-building tribe members in the store today?"

"Eleventh brother and eleventh sister-in-law went to the Ten Thousand Beasts Tower in the east of Fang City early this morning to watch the battle of beasts. They haven't come back until now. As for the thirty-fourth sister, she was in seclusion for half a year after you, clan brother. I have also been in seclusion for months, and I have not come out of seclusion until now." Xu Zhigui replied.

"You mean to build a foundation in the cabinet right now?" He then asked.

"Yes, after Brother Thirty-six arranged for us to open the door this morning, he stayed in the front hall and helped us receive guests until a foundation-building monk wearing black clothes and a bamboo hat came to visit. He Then we led the senior to the reception room on the second floor!"

It seems that the restriction triggered by Zhikai is related to the mysterious monk in black. I just don’t know what happened? He thought so.

"Okay, I understand. I'm going to find Zhikai right now. You can go and do your work too!"

"Okay, Brother Nineteen, then I'll get back to work!"

Looking at his clan brother who was smiling again and making jokes with customers, he couldn't help but sigh. This is how the world of immortality is. Either you become successful in cultivation and stand high, or you spend your whole life sinking, nodding and bowing. This is a bloody law that no one can change. He I can only be glad that it is the former and not the latter.

When he got to the second floor, as soon as he turned around the stairs, he saw Xu Zhikai walking towards the third floor, and immediately called him from behind.

"Zhikai, where are you going? Did you touch the ban on my door just now?" Hearing the clan brother's voice coming from behind, Xu Zhikai turned around happily, trotted down the stairs, and came In front of him, he said with a somewhat anxious tone:

"Yes, it was me who triggered the restriction on your room door, Brother Nineteen."

"Then why did you leave in a hurry without waiting for me to come out? You don't know, when I opened the door and found no one outside, I was so scared that I thought something had happened to you. Here!" Xu Zhiyu laughed and cursed.

"Alas, clan brother, you don't know something!" Xu Zhikai then told him the whole story.

It turned out that around Chen hour today, a strange late-stage foundation-building monk came to the door. Since he was the only foundation-building monk in the store, he came forward to receive this person.

Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the reception room, the visitor didn't say a word. He just stared at him for a while, then told him that the person he was looking for was not him, and asked him to invite the shopkeeper out, saying that he had something important to tell him. .

Of course, he couldn't disturb his brother who was in retreat just because of someone's words, so he said that if he had anything to do, he could talk to him directly and he could make the decision. Unexpectedly, the person who came was very determined and refused to speak until he saw the rightful owner. The two of them remained in a stalemate for more than half an hour.

As time went by, the visitor slowly lost his patience, and a terrifying momentum burst out from his body. It turned out that he was not a foundation-building monk, but a Zifu monk who had hidden his cultivation. Judging from his momentum, It is by no means as simple as the early days of Zi Mansion.

Now Xu Zhikai couldn't sit still. This kind of thing was completely beyond his ability. In desperation, he was forced to touch the restriction on the door of his clan brother's room, and touched it twice.

After that, he felt that it was inappropriate to leave a Zifu senior alone in the reception room, so he turned back, removed the original second-order spirit tea, and replaced it with the one given to him by his clan brother, which was of better quality. Third level spiritual tea.

In this way, after Xu Zhiyu came out of seclusion, he found that there was no one outside the house. After asking Xu Zhigui, he found his way up to the second floor.

After figuring out the ins and outs, he signaled to his clan members not to be nervous. Since Ye Zhenren, who had been secretly protecting him and his clan members, did not warn him, it meant that the problem was not serious. However, for the sake of caution, he still held the golden elixir talisman in the palm of his hand.

The ancestor's brother walked half into the reception room. What he saw was a robe and cloak that isolated spiritual consciousness. It was exactly the same as the tribe described. When he saw someone coming, the latter took out the tea cup from under the cloak. , placed on the tea table.

"I have met my senior, junior Xu Zhiyu, who is the shopkeeper of Yuanguang Pavilion. I wonder if my senior is here today. Is there anything I can do for you?"

After all, the other party was a senior in Zifu's cultivation, so he placed his position relatively low and spoke very modestly.

The other party still didn't speak, still looked him up and down, then nodded slowly, as if he was right, and said slowly:

"The one I'm looking for is you!" At this point, he paused for a moment, then turned to Xu Zhikai and said:

"Junior, you can go out first. I have something to tell your shopkeeper!"

Seeing the clan brother's gesture with his eyes, he walked out of the guest room, not forgetting to close the door of the guest room at the same time.

"Senior, can you talk now?" This man's mysterious behavior made him a little confused.

"It's like this. I'm here to deliver a messenger talisman to Shopkeeper Xu on the order of my shopkeeper." The man in black spoke, but he didn't start or finish, and he didn't know who asked him to send it.

When he was about to ask, when his eyes glanced over the messenger talisman, he had already confirmed the identity of the visitor, because there was a mark on the messenger talisman that belonged to Taiyang Tower alone.

At this time, he also roughly guessed that this should be a message from the family. Long before he left the family and came to Tianyuanfang City, he specifically went to Shopkeeper Xi and asked her to contact her if something urgent happened to the family. If he got in touch, he hoped that she could use the secret channel for transmitting information between Taiyang Building branches to send him a letter. He also told his grandfather about this.

As for the reason for this, it was because the family was too far away from here, so he and his grandfather agreed to communicate with each other once every six months, and the day for sending the communication talisman was also fixed. Only on that day, he would wait outside Fangshi to receive the message from the family. Even if the communication talisman was sent at other times, but no one received it, it would be in vain. As for passing through Fangshi's protective formation and reaching his hands directly, that was impossible, and Fangshi did not dare to let it go. Come on, who knows whether the communication talisman or the attack talisman you flew over is the Lingxiao Sect. It is impossible for the Lingxiao Sect to make fun of the lives of more than a million monks.

After figuring out the joints, he took the communication talisman with both hands, expressed his gratitude to the man in black, and sat with him for another half an hour. It was not until the third-grade high-grade spiritual tea had completely lost its flavor that he proposed He said goodbye and asked him not to send it off.

From the window of the waiting room, he saw the man in black walking away and slowly disappearing into the crowd. Only then did Xu Zhiyu put the communication talisman on his forehead and began to listen to the message inside.

Within a moment, the communication talisman completed its mission and turned into ashes and was annihilated.

But his face was pale and he stood there with a sad expression for a long time. It wasn't until someone called him outside the door for a long time that he finally realized what he was saying and uttered two words in his mouth:

"Come in!"

Fortunately, Xu Zhikai, who was outside the door, had sensitive ears and heard the sound as soft as a mosquito. He opened the door and walked in. After seeing the man in black leaving in a hurry just now, the clan brother stayed alone in the room and never came out. He was a little worried and wanted to come in to see the situation.

"Brother Nineteen! What's wrong with you? Why do you look so bad? If you tell me something, we will help you share it! Don't hold it in your heart alone!"

Frightened by his clan brother's expression, he hurriedly spoke.

Xu Zhiyu slowly raised his head, found the place where his family was, bowed three times from afar, and then said to Xu Zhikai sadly:

"Zhikai, Grandpa Sixteen failed to break through the Zifu stage in seclusion, and unfortunately passed away!"

"What?" This sudden news also stunned him, and he was speechless for a long time.

The voice, appearance, and smile of the elder with the word "sheng" flashed through his mind one by one. Thinking of his lifelong struggle for the family, Xu Zhikai's eyes turned red involuntarily, his nose became sour, and tears almost flowed out. He tried hard to control himself. Holding back his emotions, he choked and asked:

"Grandpa Sixteen, why is he missing? He was obviously still fine when we left!"

"You go and call Zhijuan out of seclusion now, and then when Brother Eleven and others come back, I will tell you together!" He calmed down and then ordered in a deep voice. (End of chapter)