longevity road trip

"Sit down. Now that you're here, Zhuang Ming should have told you what I need. How many pieces of animal skins do you still have on hand from Wanku Cave, take them all out. The spirit stone pill method All utensils are fine, just say what you want.” Zhang Shiping said calmly.

"Before coming to senior, Brother Zhuang has already told me that I do still have those four animal skins here. But this junior doesn't need any spirit stone pills, magic tools, and just wants to ask senior a question." He After Zhen sat down, he looked at Zhang Shiping and said in a deep voice without even taking a sip of tea.

"Huh? I think you should stop asking." Zhang Shiping picked up the teacup, glanced at He Zhen, and said lightly.

"Ahem!" Zhuang Ming picked up his teacup and took a sip. After hearing He Zhen's words, his complexion changed suddenly, and he coughed several times.

Immediately afterwards, he quickly put down the teacup, looked at Zhang Shiping with a forced smile and said, "Really Zhang, he was just pulled up by me, and he hasn't woken up yet. Why don't you hurry up and take out those useless pieces of leather for senior to have a look at?" ?”

He Zhen was silent, and after a while, he suddenly clapped his hands and laughed, "It seems that the seniors know this group of people. Three years ago, my eight brothers and I were attacked by a sneak attack just after they came out of the Ten Thousand Caves. Only Wang Yu and I The two of them had learned the Blood Shadow Escape, and were lucky enough to break through the siege to escape. These people are sharp in their methods, and they cooperate with each other very tacitly. Senior, am I right?"

"You're crazy, why don't you hurry up and apologize to senior?" Zhuang Ming sternly shouted at He Zhen.

"Have you finished, do you think this seat is too good-tempered, or do you think you have no scruples because you think your life is approaching?" Zhang Shiping looked as usual, drank the tea in his hand, and replied slowly.

Although He Zhen's complexion looks okay, but in Zhang Shiping's eyes, this person's aura is slumped, like a soybean lamp swaying in the wind, which might go out by itself one day. It seems that in order to escape the pursuit of Zhang Jingyuan and his group, The blood shadow escape he used was so huge that he hurt his own essence and his own life essence.

"Forget it, it looks like senior won't say anything. We found a total of 49 animal skins at the beginning, and I only took four here. I thought that after returning to the city, we would study together, but I didn't want to go away in a blink of an eye. Life and death. Let’s go like this, a piece of animal skin costs 2000 yuan of spirit stones, and a total of 8000 yuan of spirit stones. After all, Mr. Hong is extremely generous, and as his elder, he wouldn’t take even a little spirit stones in his heart, would he?” He Zhen laughed at himself, flipped his hands over and took out a piece of simple animal skin, and sent it to Zhang Shiping.

"8000 yuan spirit stone? If the animal skin is really what I want, then I can give it to you!" Zhang Shiping took the animal skin, looked at it, saw two ancient characters of tadpoles on it, and said with a nod.

With Zhang Shiping's consciousness, a gray storage bag fell into his hand out of thin air, and then the bag opened, and Xiaguang spit it out, and 2000 yuan of spirit stones of different colors gushed out and piled up.He threw the storage bag to He Zhen, and said lightly: "There are 8000 yuan of spirit stones in here, take the remaining three animal skins here. And Mr. Hong you mentioned, what's going on here ?”

"Mr. Hong even threw three thousand spirit stones last night, and combed the girl Ruyan in Cuiyuan. I heard that he is from the Zhang family. With such descendants, the senior must be a romantic figure." He Zhen stretched out his hand to catch it. , just swept it lightly with his spiritual sense, and saw that there were indeed thousands of spirit stones in the storage bag, he put them into his arms without counting them, and gave a compliment.

"Young Master Hong?" Zhang Shiping murmured, his face was suddenly as cold as ice, and a huge aura immediately enveloped Zhuang Ming and the two of them.

After a few breaths, the pressure receded like a tide and dissipated invisible.

"Senior, if there is no other order, then the two juniors will leave first." Zhuang Ming, whose forehead was covered with cold sweat, asked tentatively.

"Well, thank you for your hard work." Zhang Shiping nodded and said.

Zhuang Ming signaled He Zhen with his eyes, and the two quickly retreated, leaving only Zhang Shiping sitting alone.

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The streets in the city are full of traffic.

A beast cart was galloping, and Zhuang Ming in the carriage said angrily to He Zhen: "Are you looking for death? Don't think that you can't use force in the city, it's easy for those old monsters to deal with us!"

"It doesn't matter, you will give Qi Nian the spirit stone inside, don't say I gave it to you. But this senior Zhang is actually right, I don't know who did it, maybe it will be better for Qi Nian "He Zhen took out a gray cloth storage bag from his arms, put it in Zhuang Ming's hands, and then coughed uncontrollably.

Chapter 533 Worry

"Okay, I'll give him these spirit stones slowly, but don't you want to give them yourself?" Looking at the storage bag, Zhuang Ming weighed it in his hand a few times and said helplessly.

He Zhen finally stopped coughing, and immediately took out a bottle of light green Qiongyu bottle from the storage bag, uncorked the bottle, and drank it in a big gulp, until there was no more drop left, he finally Putting down the jade bottle, he said: "No need, I have spent too much on this injury over the years. Now that the medicine stones are useless, it is better to give these spirit stones to Qi Nian. If he has the heart, he will be able to use it during the holidays in the future. At that time, just burn a few sticks of incense for me."

On the other side, Zhang Shiping was still sitting in the hall at the moment, with a pensive expression on his face. As for He Zhen's rude behavior earlier, he wanted to teach him a lesson, but when he mentioned the so-called 'Mr. Hong' Later, he said that he was his descendant.

What Zhang Shiping immediately thought of was Zhang Tianhong, the most talented person in the family, so his thoughts were all on this.With a movement of his consciousness, a lavender bead the size of an egg fell into his hand, and then he opened and closed his lips, coordinated with the operation of mana, and lightly chanted a few formulas, and the surface of the bead emitted a lavender aura .

He used this to sense Zhang Tianwu's location, and realized that he was about three thousand miles southeast of Nanxiao City, so he said to him: "Tian Wu, come to Nanxiao City to see me immediately."

After Zhang Shiping activated this magic weapon, Shayu Island was more than three thousand miles away.

This is an island shaped like a long shuttle. It is about fifteen miles long and six or seven miles wide at its widest point. There is only a mountain range with a meager aura on it. There are square cities for monks to settle down.

Tongfu Restaurant is the largest inn in Shayufang City. On the second floor, there is a square table against the wall. There are four people sitting there, three men and one woman. They are all in the early stage of foundation establishment.However, these four people were faintly exuding a sinister aura, and it was not known whether it was because they had killed too many sea beasts or monsters, or because of other reasons.

"Thanks to Brother Wu for coming forward, otherwise this blue-scaled dolphin would not have sold for two thousand spirit stones." A man with a scar on his chin said in a low voice.

Opposite him was a middle-aged man with a bronze complexion, wearing a black strong suit, and with thick eyebrows and big eyes, he looked very energetic.When he heard his companion say this, he just smiled, then picked up the wine bowl and touched each other with the others, and said loudly: "Drink!"

However, the female cultivator sitting next to him finished drinking and said worriedly, "Brother Wu, from now on, these sea beasts should be sold to Baiyuanlou at the market price."

The war has lasted for so long, and the prices of the elixirs on the market have increased more or less. Among them, the two elixirs for healing and detoxification and for increasing mana have increased the most, but the purchase price of sea beasts has actually decreased.A few years ago, a blue-scaled dolphin at the beginning of the second level was worth about [-] spirit stones, but now it is only around [-].However, Zhang Tianwu came forward and sold the blue-scaled dolphin to Baiyuanlou, which is the shop opened by the Zhang family in Shayufang City, and sold more spirit stones.

Of course, apart from the blue-scaled dolphin this time, the sea beasts that the four of them hunted in the past were also sold to the White Ape Building at a slightly higher price than the market price, so this female cultivator named Zeng Ziruo was a little worried!

"We will divide the five hundred spirit stones each first, and we will talk about other things later. This time, I will take more wood-type spirit stones." Zhang Tianwu glanced at her, then wiped the storage bag, and a picture appeared on the table. A pile of spirit stones of different colors, exactly one hundred pieces, has almost filled the table.

As soon as the spirit stone was taken out, the man with the scar on his chin immediately put away the spirit stone. This was repeated more than ten times. After the other three received their due spirit stones, Zhang Tianwu looked at Zeng Ziruo. He said, "Don't worry, even if we sell it more expensively, the family can still make money and not lose money. Besides, I'm the elder of the family anyway, it doesn't matter!"

It's just that as soon as he finished speaking, his face suddenly changed. He didn't mean to avoid other people at all. He took out a purple round bead, and a voice came out from it: "Tian Wu, come to Nanxiao City to see me immediately .”

He immediately sacrificed the purple round bead, and respectfully said to him: "Old Ancestor, I'll go over here immediately."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Tianwu put away the ball, and said apologetically: "The ancestor summoned me, and I will leave for Nanxiao City immediately. As for the matter of going to sea, let's wait and see later. If I can't come back in time, I will send someone over Notified you."

"Zhang Daoyou, we are only more than three thousand miles away from Nanxiao City. If we show up and start, we can arrive at dawn tomorrow if we are faster. We haven't been to Nanxiao City for a long time. Why don't we go together? It’s good to have someone to take care of you.” A man in green shirt who hadn’t spoken just now said slowly.

On the second day, it was just dawn.

Outside Nanxiao City, there are still various streamers and startling rainbows intertwined. There are monks who have just left the city, and there are also people who have returned from outside.

More than a hundred feet away from the city gate, a cyan streamer fell down. After the brilliance dissipated, there was a two-foot-long dark green spirit boat inside, and four people jumped from it. Then the spirit boat gradually shrank and was captured by Zhang Tianwu. Stored in storage bag.

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After about half an hour.

Zhang Shiping opened the formation restriction outside the mansion, and personally brought Zhang Tianwu in who had rushed over.As for the other three people, they did not follow Zhang Tianwu.

"How have you been these years?" Zhang Shiping walked ahead along the corridor and said slowly.

In fact, as soon as we met just now, he saw Tian Wu's cultivation level. Although he was still in the early stage of foundation establishment, there was a burst of vitality in his physical body. Sheng has evil spirits, and I think I have worked very hard these years!

"These years have been very good, and the ancestor is worried about it." Zhang Tianwu followed behind and responded.

"Seeing that you deliberately gather evil energy, do you want to follow the path of Mu Xuan Ning Sha body?" Zhang Shiping asked.

"Yes, Patriarch, after much deliberation, I found that the Ningsha method is suitable for me." Zhang Tianwu grinned.

The "Wood Xuanshen" practiced by Zhang Tianwu is a body training method in the Jindan stage. After the foundation stage, there are generally two paths for this exercise. One is to cultivate Yuanmu Xuanshen. Accumulate, increase one's own background, so as to cultivate the skills to the depth and improve the cultivation base at the same time.The other is what Zhang Shiping said is condensed evil, which does not have the effect of the previous one, but can use the evil spirit that has been condensed for a long time, which is somewhat helpful to break through the bottleneck.

It's just that if you want to break through the golden core in this way, the evil energy required is too huge, and even if a monk can gather such a large amount of evil energy, his own temperament and wisdom will be changed to some extent. Ninth, you can't survive the thunder disaster.But how could Zhang Tianwu think so much, with his aptitude, it is an eye-opener to be able to practice to the late stage of foundation establishment!

Zhang Shiping remained silent, not knowing what he was thinking. After a while, he stopped suddenly, turned his back to Zhang Tianwu and said in a deep voice: "I called you here today to ask about Tianhong. I heard that All these years he has been romantic, and he is also called 'Master Hong'. You can be regarded as his brother, so I ask you if this is true?"

Chapter 534

Zhang Tianwu was originally from a secular branch of the Zhang family. When he was in his teens, he found out his spiritual roots. Only then did the mother and son be taken to the Chongling Mountains in Binhai City.At that time, because Zhang Tianhong's grandfather took good care of their mother and son, the relationship between the two families was relatively close.

So after hearing Zhang Shiping's question, Zhang Tianwu immediately hesitated, and after a while, he said softly: "Old Ancestor, Tian Hong is still young, just talk and teach, and it will be all right in a few days."

"Still young? How old is he? He is in his fifties, and he still can't control himself?" Zhang Shiping shouted angrily.

But he immediately took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, turned around and said to Zhang Tianwu expressionlessly: "Forget it, it's not your fault. I already sent someone to look for it yesterday. That unscrupulous son is still enjoying himself in Ruyan Pavilion in Cuiyuan, you go and find him out, I will ask him face to face about this matter."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Shiping walked away immediately, leaving Zhang Tianwu alone with a wry smile.

After learning about the incident from He Zhen, Zhang Shiping called Zhang Tianwu back, and sent people to Cuiyuan to search for it, and found that it was true. I lived in Cuiyuan for five days.

In fact, what made Zhang Shiping angry was not that Zhang Tianhong went to romantic places like Jade Garden, this is all human nature, what made him really angry was that Tianhong was addicted to this way.Besides, as monks from the Jindan family, some high-ranking female cultivators are hard to find, but what kind of secular women are there?

And Zhang Tianhong is already in his fifties, at this age in the secular world, he can be a grandfather, why is he still so worrying!If he really likes that noble lady named Ruyan, he might as well buy her back from Cuiyuan and make her a servant girl, even if it's a concubine's room, it doesn't matter!

In the world of cultivating immortals, there are monks who maintain the body of Yuanyang and Yuanyin, and they are more likely to break through the Zhujin Pill.Zhang Shiping already understood in his heart that this statement is actually half-truth and half-false.Of course, in addition to some special skills and physical fitness, monks need to maintain a virgin body.

Love in the world is part of the yin and yang of heaven and earth.

The reason why this kind of saying is still circulating is that the young man's control ability is not strong at all, and he is cautious. Once he knows the taste of this kind of thing, it is mostly unintentional practice, and it is a waste of time. Therefore, some people who have come here out of good intentions , just made up this half-truth and half-false statement.

Of course, if a monk has no other distractions, he will be more or less diligent in his practice, and naturally it is more likely to break through the current bottleneck of cultivation!

But don't talk about the yin and yang exercise, because even the most famous Huanxi Zen method in the West Desert can't achieve the point that both male and female monks can greatly increase their spiritual power.The so-called yin and yang reconciliation is a method for monks on both sides to reconcile their mana and make them harmonious. If they want to use this to improve their own mana, they still need to harvest a cauldron.After all, the cultivation of a monk is ultimately the accumulation of mana, just as a tree must have roots and water must have a source, mana naturally cannot be obtained out of thin air.

However, in the world of cultivating immortals, no matter if they are men or women, as long as they are used as a cauldron for mending by high-level monks, their fate will not be much better.

Back in the quiet room, Zhang Shiping paced back and forth, trying his best to calm himself down.These days, things are so disturbing that it is difficult for me to calm down!

It wasn't until almost noon that Zhang Tianwu got out of the car with a handsome man in a moon white brocade.

"Brother, what's going on with the ancestor, aren't you angry?" Zhang Tianhong asked a little nervously through voice transmission with his spiritual sense.

"You also know the old ancestor's temper. Have you seen him get angry for so many years? Be careful this time, and focus on practicing in the future." Zhang Tianwu said with a frown. In fact, because Zhang Tianhong is an inner disciple of the sect, And he kept running around for his own practice, so the two brothers didn't meet many times.

In the past, when Zhang Shiping was in Zhengyangzong, he would only return to Baiyuan Mountain once after several years, and the rest of the time he communicated by letter. The situation with Zhang Tianhong is similar.

"Why are you standing at the door, why don't you come in!" Zhang Shiping scolded from a distance.

"Go in quickly." After Zhang Tianwu heard this, he said to Zhang Tianhong beside him with a sullen face.

, Immediately after he strode into the forbidden aura, he said hastily through voice transmission: "It's been so long, you still don't know what kind of person the ancestor is? I persuaded you a few years ago, and you usually play It’s fine if you play for a while, as long as you don’t fail in your practice, then everything is easy to talk about. But what do you think you are doing now. From now on, you should not get together with those cronies in the sect, do you understand?”

Zhang Tianwu walked quickly and didn't say anything more.

Just after walking for a short distance, Zhang Shiping was already waiting halfway.He looked at the two juniors in front of him, was silent for a while, then turned and walked towards the sapphire pavilion outside the corridor.

Zhang Shiping sat on the round stone chair with a big horse, and said to Zhang Tianhong in a cold voice: "If the two of you are fighting for life and death without using the real treasure, what chance do you think you have of winning?"

Zhang Tianhong glanced at Zhang Tianwu, a little bit tangled, hesitant to speak.

"How old are you?" Zhang Shiping took a deep breath and looked at Zhang Tianwu.

"73." Zhang Tianwu responded, his face is not old, his head is full of black hair, and there are only a few forehead lines on his face, but if he does not have a foundation building practice, a mortal of his age would already be gray-haired up.

"What about you, how old are you?" Zhang Shiping said to Zhang Tianhong angrily.

"Fifty out of five." Zhang Tianhong said in a low voice.Supported by the resources of his family and sect, he had already built his foundation in his early twenties, and he was good at maintaining himself, so he still looks handsome in his twenties.

It's just that the world of cultivating immortals respects strength after all. As long as the cultivation base is advanced, no matter how ugly the monk looks, even if he has never opened his mouth, there will still be beauties flocking to him.

"Have you grown up?" Zhang Shiping asked back.

This question directly made Zhang Tianhong blush, and opened his mouth to explain something, but finally remembered Zhang Tianwu's previous words, knelt down, and said dejectedly: "Tianhong is wrong, please forgive me, ancestor!"

Seeing this, Zhang Shiping suddenly stopped being angry, but he seemed to be a little older. He said in a very flat tone:

"No, it's not that I want to forgive you, but other people in the family, and you have to forgive you. All the spiritual things you have practiced over the years, except for the part I gave, the rest is earned by everyone in the family. Yes. You should know the Tang family in the city. When I first came to the South China Sea when I was young, I hunted sea beasts together with the Tang family. It took three to five years, and I almost died several times. Only then did I save [-] A spirit stone. How about you, you are really generous. You spent more than [-] spirit stones in one night. You can ask Tian Wu, how many spirits he saved in the end, except for his practice all year long? Shi? Tim Wu, you should have a good talk with him."

After Zhang Tianwu resigned from family affairs, only the most basic eldership in the clan remained.Of course, these spirit stones were not enough to meet his cultivation needs, so he went out to hunt sea beasts during this battle to earn more spirit stones.Otherwise, it would be much more difficult and time-consuming to hunt down Tier [-] sea beasts after the Sea Clan retreated.

Chapter 535

"Hmph, I have been traveling for 14 years, and the remaining spirit stones are only in the early 3000s." Zhang Tianwu said with a calm face when he heard that Zhang Tianhong had spent more than [-] spirit stones in one night.

Except for a few solitary monks who are self-sufficient and deep in cultivation, most of the monks who hunt sea beasts are looking for a few friends who trust each other to accompany each other. Usually, the number of teams is only about three or five people.

The blue-scaled porpoise that Zhang Tianwu and the others hunted down a few days ago bought two thousand spirit stones, but only five hundred were allocated to him.If three or five heads can be killed in a month, and forty or fifty heads can be obtained in a year, then there are more than 2 spirit stones in hand.So what Zhang Tianwu earned in the past ten years, not to mention 30 to [-] yuan, should be about [-] yuan.

But this account is not so calculated. The consumption of those demon-inducing fluids, array equipment, and various elixir is not a small expense. Besides, how can a monk guarantee that every time he goes to sea, he can return with a full load?Of course, if you can't find any traces of sea beasts when you go out and return empty-handed, that's not too bad.What Zhang Tianwu was most worried about was meeting those sea beasts that were comparable to the perfect foundation establishment. These sea beasts had half-opened their intelligence and knew how to hide their own breath. Many monks were buried in the belly of these sea beasts.

But don't say that these sea beasts are already close to the big monster. When the four of them encountered a second-rank high-grade sea beast, they could only fully activate the formation in order to save their lives, and fled in despair. , Healing elixir still needs spirit stones.

And the reason why he was able to save more than 8 spirit stones was partly because of his family relationship.After so many years of ordinary casual cultivation, it is already very good to have [-] to [-] spirit stones left.

It is said that mortals have to work hard for a few copper plates and a few taels of silver. Why are they foundation-building monks?

As for the use of these [-] or so spirit stones, Zhang Tianwu had already thought about it.

His own aptitude is not good, if he wants to accumulate power faster, he needs to take a panacea to increase mana.

The next thing is to buy many spiritual woods needed to practice "Wood Mysterious Body".There are a lot of spiritual trees in the Chongling Mountains. As the elder of the family, he can naturally use some of them. The fact that the family monks are better than casual cultivators is here, with the support of the family!But these spiritual woods can't fully satisfy his cultivation, so he needs more second-order spiritual woods.

But apart from these two points, the most important thing is the heterogeneous evil spirit he needs to advance to the middle stage of foundation establishment.

In this way, the [-] spirit stones are not much, so Zhang Tianwu was extremely annoyed when he heard that Zhang Tianhong spent [-] spirit stones a night, and he wanted to slap him a few times!

"Did you hear that?" Zhang Shiping said in a flat tone.

"Tianhong knew he was wrong." Zhang Tianhong kowtowed heavily on the ground.

"It's wrong to be extravagant, but you still have a little mistake, that is, you shouldn't be clever. Originally, the old man planned to let you practice well until the middle and even later stages of foundation establishment, so you don't have to slow down your practice because of some trivial matters, but since you have no intention of practicing the road , then let’s start today, the family will no longer provide you with half a piece of spirit stone. As a foundation cultivator, you should also take responsibility. And Tian Wu, you will come to my place in two days. Okay Let's all go down, I'm tired!" Zhang Shiping glanced at him with lowered eyebrows, stood up, turned around, and walked forward step by step.

"Old Ancestor." Zhang Tianwu and Zhang Tianhong called out, but Zhang Shiping didn't seem to hear it.

Seeing Zhang Shiping walking step by step until he couldn't even see his back, Zhang Tianhong stood up. He looked at Zhang Tianwu, hesitant to speak.

"You can do it yourself." Zhang Tianwu looked at him and said in a deep voice, then turned and left.

And Zhang Shiping, who was walking slowly to the backyard, did not return to the quiet room.He stood in the courtyard, looking up at the dark sky.

"Wei'er and Tianhong have such good aptitudes, why can't they calm down and practice, they are all like this, am I wrong? Tian Wu is probably a little unwilling in his heart!" Zhang Shiping's face turned pale However, muttering to himself.

Until the sun went down, he was like a stone sculpture, with a slanted shadow stretching on the ground.

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