longevity road trip

As for "walking on behalf of the sky", this kind of thing is just a joke.The world is not benevolent, and everything is regarded as a straw dog. Who is qualified to set the so-called "Tao"? In the final analysis, it is nothing more than a conflict of interests between them.

The reason for shouting this sentence is actually to pull a tiger's skin and come to a teacher who is famous, but that is the practice of ordinary people, and there are few people in the world of cultivating immortals like this.

Could it be that the monks had to fight with each other before fighting?

It is only when both parties can't help each other that they can stop and talk in a good mood.

However, the Xiuxian Sect's way of handling things is more straightforward.

There is really no distinction between good and evil in gongfa, and people have good and evil thoughts.No matter what kind of method a monk practices, as long as he doesn't kill mortals and destroy the foundation of the human race, then such sects as Xuanyuan Sect will not be hunted down.

The world of cultivating immortals may seem chaotic, but in fact it has its own rules.

After shopping around for a long time, Zhang Shiping didn't see a single interesting thing at the stall.

Seeing the stars dotted in the deep sky, it was getting late, Zhang Shiping thought of going back, and didn't want to stay any longer.

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In front of the courtyard, Zhang Shiping tapped lightly, broke the white light curtain, and stepped into it.

There are several jade talismans of various colors in the restriction, floating and sinking in it, Zhang Shiping is very used to waving his hand to wave, floating beside him, and walking with it.

Zhang Shiping casually took a red jade slip, his spiritual sense penetrated into it, and after a few breaths, he stretched out his hand to take the next one.He looked at five sound transmission jade talismans in a row, all of which were sent by the five stewards to report things.

For the alchemy matter, these five people were there, which saved Zhang Shiping a lot of thought.Just like today, he summoned all the stewards at once, usually only once in a ten-day period, otherwise, wouldn't Zhang Shiping have no time to practice in the past 20 years?

"This girl is willing to come back." Zhang Shiping took a scarlet jade slip that he hadn't seen yet, and with a flick of consciousness, his tone was a little surprised, and then he put the jade slip into the storage bag.

The jade slip was sent by Lin Weier, Zhang Shiping's apprentice, saying that she and her husband had just arrived in Nanxiao City today, and they wanted to greet Master Zhang Shiping, but they waited for a long time and did not come back, so they decided to Leave the jade slip and go home first, explaining that it's time to come back on time.

Chapter 487 Refining the Spiritual Sand

Zhang Shiping walked through the vestibule, and every two or three zhang in the courtyard, there was a lantern with moonstones and pearls, emitting a quiet light, he stepped on the light and walked all the way to the backyard.

There is a gentle breeze, and the green bamboos planted on the edge of the corridor are rustling, and the light and shadow are colorful.

The mansion is very quiet, as if there is no other person except Zhang Shiping.In this mansion inhabited by Daoist Jindan, in fact, there are not even half of the servants and maidservants there, only a few puppets purchased by Zhang Shiping, which are used to take care of some chores in the mansion, and feed and take care of him in the worm room. Phantom Locust, Blood Moon Scorpion Spider.

Over the years, many phantom locusts have advanced to the rank. Even Zhang Shiping has bred three phantom locusts that are one step away from Dan Jie, but only a few dozen or thirty phantom locusts have advanced to the rank over the years. That's all, the cultivation bases are all at the second-level low-grade, and there is not a single middle-grade one.

There is an explanation for this in the "Insect Classic", it is because of the limited natural aptitude of spirit insects.If it weren't for the two mutations of the Phantom Locust, both of which had something to do with the Blood Moon Scorpion Spider, Zhang Shiping would have thrown them away long ago, so why would he waste spirit stones to feed such inferior spirit insects.

Walking along the corridor, after a few turns, Zhang Shiping came to the quiet room in the backyard.

With a flick of his finger, the bright flames of more than a dozen downlights placed on the lamp stand in the room suddenly rose, and then Zhang Shiping untied the jade belt, took off his outer robe, and habitually put them all on the table not far from the group case. Mu Shi stepped forward, then reached out and pulled out the jade hairpin, took off the sapphire crown, and let his long hair hang down.Wearing only a plain white undershirt, he walked a few steps, put the jade crown in his hand on the wooden table, and then sat down cross-legged.

As for the array arranged outside the quiet room, it had been activated as early as when Zhang Shiping entered the backyard.With this formation that he bought with a lot of money, coupled with the restrictions outside the mansion, he believed that even a monk in the early Yuanying period would not be able to silently peep in the dark.

Afterwards, Zhang Shiping's spiritual consciousness was slightly applied, and he took out the bronze lamp from the jade belt on Mu Shi beside him, lit it and placed it in front of him.

This quiet room is not very big, it is over twenty steps long and seven or eight steps wide, which is just enough to set up a medium-sized spirit-gathering circle.But even so, it was too deserted here.When Zhang Shiping first came to Nanxiao City, the Zhang family wanted to send some well-behaved and sensible young people over to help him with some chores, but he refused.

'Yuan Hengtai in the same age, Tianzhi will be Wentian', this is the genealogy of the Zhang family. Since no one in the 'Yuan' generation has built a foundation, the next generation from the 'Shi' is A few foundation-building monks with the word "Heng" are all very old.Among them, although Zhang Hengren has reached the late stage of foundation establishment, he is still far from consummation, and Zhang Shiping does not have any hope for him to form alchemy.

As for the boys of the 'Tian' generation, Zhang Shiping watched over a dozen of them grow up, and they are more affectionate.Among them, what surprised him the most was Zhang Tianya, a girl who was not the best in aptitude, nor the hardest in her cultivation, but she was the first one in her generation to build a foundation.After several years of experience as the head of the Zhang family, according to the agreement between the two, she resigned as the head of the family. After practicing in the family for a few years, she is now traveling abroad, looking for opportunities.As for Zhang Tianwu, after so many years of hard work, he finally succeeded in building a foundation.

In the past twenty years, among their peers, there are still five people who succeeded in building the foundation.

Among them was Zhang Tianhong, the child with dual spiritual roots who was sent to the inner sect by Zhang Shiping.With the support of both Xuanyuanzong and the Zhang family, his practice has been smooth sailing. He is just in his early 40s, and he is already in the middle stage of foundation establishment.Although Zhang Shiping was still somewhat dissatisfied with it, he knew that he couldn't force it too much.

As for Zhang Tianyu, who disappeared while traveling, after so many years, there is still no news.Perhaps apart from Zhang Shiping who would occasionally think of it, people in the Zhang family might have forgotten that there was such a person.

And the clan members of the "Zhi" and "Bi" generations have gradually grown up.Before he knew it, Zhang Shiping had watched generation after generation of clan members be born, grow up, practice, and even die.

After years of hardship, I got used to this life and death after watching too much, it was just a common thing.

As for Lin Xier's apprentice, she has slackened a lot in her practice over the years.When Zhang Shiping saw her years ago, he scolded her severely.As a person with double spiritual root qualifications, she is in her early [-]s, and her cultivation base has just advanced to the late stage of foundation establishment. How can she satisfy Zhang Shiping, who is a master.

After scolding her, Zhang Shiping looked at her husband Jin Siming next to her with a look of disgust.From Zhang Shiping's point of view, he was also somewhat wrong.It's just that Lin Xi'er admitted her mistake with a smile, and at the same time helped Zhang Shiping, the master, to breathe.

"Forget it, you're such an old man, you just have to think it over yourself." At that time Zhang Shiping said helplessly, telling the husband and wife not to hang around in front of him, out of sight and out of mind.

This apprentice is like a married daughter, it is really worrying.But this person has his own plan, since she doesn't want to be here, Zhang Shiping reluctantly can't come, so he can only let her go.

Thinking of his apprentice, Zhang Shiping shook his head, feeling a little helpless in his heart.

Since her husband and wife will come over tomorrow, then let's talk about it by myself, Zhang Shiping thought in his heart.

Although he said that he would not care about her anymore, but after all, he grew up from that little person day by day.After all, she is now over a hundred years old, but in Zhang Shiping's view, she is still a child.

After clearing his mind, Zhang Shiping stretched out his hand and took out another brocade box from the jade belt on Mu Shi. After laying it flat on the wooden case, he blew lightly. Just floated down.

With a sound of 'click', Zhang Shiping opened the lid, and the box contained small pieces of deep purple prisms the size of a cat's eye. Under the light of the copper lamp, the purple light was mixed with a little silver light, deep and psychedelic. Like the stars in the sky.

This is the Wanguangxingyinsha obtained from Huijiu's stomach. Zhang Shiping only sacrificed it initially when he was in Nanming City.Now that he has time to come back to Nanxiao City, Zhang Shiping will naturally continue to sacrifice and refine it until it is completely refined to the size of fine sand, which is the real silver sand of ten thousand lights.

And the magic weapon forged from this sand has the effect of isolation after being activated, which can protect the monk's mind to a certain extent, and it also has the effect of condensing fire and gathering inflammation.A few days ago, in Nanming City, Zhang Shiping recognized this rare star spirit sand based on these two points.

Zhang Shiping didn't intend to sell this Wanguangxingyinsha, he planned to refine it into his natal pagoda.

Zhang Shiping looked at the hundred or so star silver stones in the box, raised his two fingers together, pointed downwards, and said softly, "get up".

Chapter 488 Master and Disciple

A prism floated up from the box, Zhang Shiping pointed forward, and the prism immediately rose a few feet and left slowly.

When Zhang Shiping was separated by Zhang Shiping, the spar floated in the air, motionless.

Then Zhang Shiping pinched the magic formula in his hand, urging the golden pill, and dozens of golden thread-like pill fires suddenly manifested in the air, winding towards the prism, but the silver-purple brilliance on the surface of the spar shone, this time Dozens of wisps of pill fire approaching it disappeared without a sound, as if the pill fire had no effect on him.

Zhang Shiping knew this kind of situation well in advance. There was no surprise in his eyes, but he looked at the purple prism in the sky expressionlessly, and continued to pinch the formula in his hand. With the Dan fire, it was further subdivided into hundreds of strands, rising from all sides of the quiet room, completely enveloping the spar.

The purple prism in the air was slowly turning in the pill fire, watching the pill fire being absorbed by the silver sand of ten thousand lights, and after two incense sticks, the prism still remained unchanged, and Zhang Shiping's expression remained the same. Calm, still maintaining the power of the pill fire without haste.It wasn't until another cup of tea was passed that Prism finally stopped absorbing the pill fire, and turned red and hot all over. At this moment, he activated the golden pill again, mobilized mana, and suddenly increased the power of the pill fire by three points .

For a moment, the prism changed suddenly, densely packed small liquid droplets emerged from the mirror-like surface, in a molten state, and then under the fierce refining of the pill fire, the liquid droplets rose little by little, and the air dispersed invisible.

As time passed and the gasification took place, the prism, which was originally only the size of a cat's eye, gradually became smaller, while the fireball wrapped in the spar became bigger and bigger.

After another hour or so, only mung bean-like prisms remained, which finally completely vaporized in the pill fire.The fireball, which was originally the size of a fist, has grown to the size of a human head at this moment, filled with smoke, and gradually turned from gray to thick black.

Seeing this, Zhang Shiping's eyes finally flashed a gleam of joy, and then his expression became solemn. He took a deep breath, and shot several spells with his hands in an instant. For a while, black smoke billowed in the fire ball, and then he Opening his mouth, a cloud of blue light spewed out, passed through the thin wall of the alchemy fire, and melted into the black smoke, making it stagnate.

His consciousness suddenly burst out from his weight, penetrated into the fireball, and pulled out all the sundries he could perceive.And when these sundries passed through the pill fire, they were completely burned by it.

It's just that the time for this blue light to freeze the black smoke is too short, it only takes a breath, no matter how fast Zhang Shiping moves, after all, only [-]% to [-]% of the sundries are drawn out.

So far, after three or four times of repeated refining, Zhang Shiping was able to have complete confidence and confirmed that all the sundries had been pulled out.

As the smoke from the silver sand of Wanguangxing became more and more pure, wisps of silver light glowed in the golden fireball, intertwined with the golden brilliance of the pill fire, which was extraordinarily gorgeous.

At this level, Zhang Shiping's face relaxed, and he continued to manipulate, making the fire ball gradually shrink.

But the gold and silver aura in the fire is getting stronger and stronger, if there is no formation to cover it, the brilliance will probably fill the whole mansion and disturb others.

Zhang Shiping stretched out his hand, and the ball of spiritual fire that shone like gold and silver slowly fell into his palm.As soon as the pill fire touched the skin of his palm, it immediately reintegrated into his body, leaving only a layer of silver light swirling slightly like a star.

Then he carefully put it into the jade box that had been prepared on the table.

After a few breaths, the aura dissipated, and the bottom of the box was covered with a thin layer of silver sand.

At first, Zhang Shiping only needed one night to initially refine a large piece of Ten Thousand Light Star Silver Sand into more than a hundred pieces of prisms, but the subsequent refining was not so easy.A single prism would take him nearly an hour and a half. Even if he worked day and night without stopping for a moment, it would take him about two hundred hours, which would take two to thirty days. Zhang Shiping reckoned that it would take him two months to completely refine and obtain the Ten Thousand Lights Star Silver Sand.

After resting for a cup of tea, Zhang Shiping proceeded to refine the next prism. After refining the second prism, it was already midnight outside.

Originally, his mana was more than enough to refine the third and fourth crystal stones, but Zhang Shiping put away the two jade boxes on the wooden table, because the apprentice would come to visit early tomorrow morning, He wants to rest.

To be a teacher by example should always look like a teacher by example, and you can't be too detrimental to the law and exhaust your mind, and make it too embarrassing, so that you lose the majesty of being a teacher.

After thinking this way, Zhang Shiping sat cross-legged and meditated, and began to refine spiritual energy, accumulate mana, and regain his spirit.

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As the sky was getting brighter, Zhang Shiping left the quiet room early, walked for a while in the dim light, and then went to the worm room to check the situation.He didn't open up any medicine gardens here. There are plenty of low-level elixir in the Chongling Mountains, and he doesn't need to spend any energy on them. However, the growth conditions of high-level elixir are different, and he doesn't have the heart to serve them. thing.Of course, the most important point is that those elixirs take too long to grow.

Moreover, some high-level elixir can cultivate new spiritual plants with seeds, roots, and branches, but some are purely transformed by the aura of heaven and earth. Even those masters who are most proficient in cultivating spiritual plants cannot fully understand them. Clear the mystery.This kind of elixir transformed from the aura of heaven and earth is naturally much more precious than other high-level elixir that can be cultivated.

However, there are very few immortal planters who can guide the spiritual energy to form spiritual seedlings after careful preparation, and then take care of them carefully. After the medicine is stable, it can be cultivated like other high-level elixir. After hundreds of thousands of years, after the elixir matures, you can start harvesting it.

In the world of cultivating immortals, not all panaceas need to be implanted with the whole plant.This kind of elixir exists, most of which are some elixir recipes handed down from ancient times, and now with the improvement of generations of alchemists, they can gradually use the elixir leaf flower fruit, stem root bark juice and other parts to be used as medicine, together with other ingredients. Some easy-to-raise and easy-to-obtain auxiliary medicines are used to refine these ancient medicines, and some medicines are even more effective.

The skill of Xianzhi is much more difficult than other arts of cultivating immortals such as forging, alchemy, and talismans. It is easy to learn but difficult to master.In the beginning, monks in the early stage of Qi refining can be regarded as beginners after learning a few elementary exercises, but when they reach the point where they can manipulate spiritual energy to form medicine.As far as Zhang Shiping knows, among the huge Xuanyuan Sect, there are only two Xianzhi masters who have reached this level.

When things are done, Sishi is getting closer.Zhang Shiping sensed that two people got out of the car in front of his house.

There was a little joy on his face, he walked a few steps quickly, and sat down in the front hall.

Immediately with the divine thoughts, a door about Zhang Xu long and wide appeared in the white light bar in front of the courtyard, and then Zhang Shiping said in a low voice, "Come in."

Chapter 489 Backlash

In front of the mansion gate, a Yufeng Beast pulling the cart slowly stopped under the shout of the coachman.In the carriage, someone raised the indigo-colored curtain, and a middle-aged monk in brocade clothes who looked about 50 or [-] years old came out first and got out of the carriage.

This middle-aged monk in brocade clothes had slightly white temples and some wrinkles at the corners of his eyes. Although he looked no longer young, his facial features were still handsome.After Jin Siming got off the car, he helped a plump and graceful woman out of the car. This woman was Lin Xi'er, the only apprentice Zhang Shiping had accepted.Although she looks young now, she is actually over a hundred years old.

At this time, Zhang Shiping's lukewarm words passed through the opened door and reached the ears of the two.

Side by side, the husband and wife walked through the long and wide portal, and walked in.It's just that there is not even half a servant in front of the door. The husband and wife looked at each other and couldn't help frowning.The two walked into the restricted area, and the portal behind them, with a faint white light, slowly gathered together.

The driver, Shi Daqiang, moved the small stool onto the car. Instead of leaving, he found a corner out of the way, took a small wooden brush, and waited for the wind-riding beast to comb its hair. Seeing Jin Siming and his wife who had just entered, Shi Daqiang's face was a bit dark due to the wind and sun all year round, but at this moment he was smiling, showing a few yellowish teeth.

He held two spirit stones in his arms, which were the fare and reward given by Jin Siming and his wife.Although this Yufeng Beast was a spirit beast passed down from his ancestors, logically, the fare he got from carrying people should all belong to him.But life is not that simple. Where there are people, there are people forming gangs. If he wants to live a stable life, he can only pay two taels of silver a day and join the largest car and horse dealer in the city. This is also impossible. .

The carriage and horse business in Xiaofeng City is actually not that easy to do.Depending on the distance, the coachman usually gets three or five taels of silver for carrying a passenger.If this is placed in the secular world, three or five taels of silver can naturally buy a lot of things, but it is different here, gold and silver things are not worth much, only spirit stones are really good things.

Maybe there are very few monks who use spirit stones as fare. He hasn't gotten half a spirit stone for almost three months.The people who come and go in the city seem to be high-ranking monks at first glance, but sometimes this kind of people are more careful and careful.

There are two kinds of guests that Shi Daqiang likes to carry the most. One is the kind of young people who look glorious at first glance. This kind of people are usually from the big family sect, with good qualifications and good cultivation. Gao, he has no concept of money, and he is a spirit stone when he makes a move.The other is those real seniors who don't see one or two spirit stones in their eyes, but this kind of expert can't see clearly with his naked eyes and can only rely on luck.

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Jin Siming and his wife walked up the steps slowly, stepped over the gate, and walked around the screen wall from the left, only to see Zhang Shiping sitting in the upper chair on the left in the middle hall.

After seeing Zhang Shiping, the two seemed relieved.Lin Xi'er nodded towards her husband beside her, and then with a smile on her face, before she reached the middle hall, when she was a few meters away from the door, she yelled crisply: "Master, my apprentice is here to see you."

Zhang Shiping, who was holding a teacup in one hand and a tea lid in the other, was gently brewing tea. His movements froze, and when he looked up, a smiling female nun was walking towards him, while Jin Siming was a step or two behind. follow.

"The mouth is so sweet this time, what is it for?" Zhang Shiping stopped drinking tea, he casually put it on the table at hand, glanced at her, and said angrily.

"Junior pay respects to Master Zhang." Jin Siming said in a deep voice, clasping his fists in salute.

"Let's all sit down." Zhang Shiping nodded. Although he didn't want to see Jin Siming, it was his apprentice's choice after all, and it had been so many years, so what could he do?

It is said that the married daughter and the water poured out, his mood is roughly the same!

Jin Siming thanked him, and then sat on the chair on the left row, but Lin Xier did not take the seat, but walked lightly, came to Zhang Shiping, and tapped his shoulder.

"Today is neither a new year nor a holiday, why do you think you are a teacher?" Zhang Shiping said without changing his expression.

Lin Xi'er tapped a few times, and Zhang Shiping continued: "Enough, you're already that old, so just tell me what's going on."

"Master understands disciples best. This time I came here to ask Master for something." Lin Xi'er nodded her head.

"Looking at you like this, it's the same as doing something wrong when you were a child. Let's talk about it." Zhang Shiping picked up the teacup in hand.

It's just that the moment he lowered his head to drink tea, Zhang Shiping's expression suddenly changed drastically, a huge spiritual pressure suddenly rose from his body, and there was a faint red pagoda burning with black flames around him, and around him The tables and chairs on the table were immediately washed away and scattered in all directions.It's just that there were many wounds on his neck, and hot blood gushed out from the scratched veins.

After being shaken away by the phantom of the pagoda, Lin Xi'er now has yellow-gray hair growing on the back of her hands, her knuckles are very thick, her nails are black and sharp, slightly curved, like the minions of some monster. He wanted to attack again, but he didn't expect Zhang Shiping to react so quickly.

Seeing the black flame that suddenly appeared, sticking to her fingers, and burning towards her arm in an instant, she felt a sharp pain in her soul for a while.

"Ah, ah..." Lin Xi'er screamed like an ape.

Then Zhang Shiping saw Jin Siming, who was sitting on the chair, had a black stick with a wide top and a narrow bottom in his hand, and hit him head-on.

During such a change, Zhang Shiping opened his mouth, and a blue light spewed out, and the Qingshuang sword became larger in the wind.

With a clang, the flying sword collided with the stick in Jin Siming's hand, knocking him flying with the flying sword, and Jin Siming couldn't bear it, he took a few steps back, the Qingshuang sword that was knocked into the air fell down. After spinning a few times, it flew to Zhang Shiping's side.Although the Qingshuang sword refined with the red soul sacrifice did not cut off the black stick with a single blow, it did leave a deep gash.

Then Zhang Shiping's figure appeared in a phantom, he had already left the central hall, and floated into the air, and the restriction covering the mansion garden was also dissipated in a single thought.

In mid-air, Zhang Shiping held the wound on his neck with one hand, blood gradually emerged between his fingers, half of his clothes were soaked with blood.Such an injury, among mortals, if it is not treated in time, it may take a person's life within ten breaths.

However, taking advantage of these few breaths of time, Zhang Shiping directly blocked the blood vessel so that it would no longer lose blood.This is a last resort, to maintain the injury and prevent it from getting worse, otherwise, if all the blood is lost, even the Jindan cultivator will not be able to last for a long time.

He immediately threw out a dozen mid-level talismans, but there was a black thunder ball sandwiched between them. In an instant, thunder light enveloped the central hall, and there was a loud thunder on the flat ground, covering up several roars in the room.