In those years when I was a mortal and a demon

"Shut up! Do your duty, what are you talking about!" Han Li reprimanded angrily. Since this ugly man knows him, he must also know that he has been accepted as a disciple by Li Huayuan. With Li Huayuan's name at the forefront, there is no need to be polite to him.

"Yes, yes." The ugly man did not dare to refute Han Li's scolding.

"Tell me, how do you know us?" Han Li asked gloomily.

"That's it..."

Because of the elixir, Han Li is somewhat famous in Yellow Maple Valley!

The story about him picking up a big leak in the forbidden area, obtaining many elixirs, and being accepted as a registered disciple by Master Li spread widely throughout the sect, almost preventing other lower-level disciples from burning themselves with jealousy. It wasn't until the second year that the matter gradually subsided.

However, the ugly man was very good at sneaking into the camp, so he naturally kept people like Han Li in mind.

As for Lu Yuan, Chou Han was embarrassed to say that he had also joined the action to denounce Lu Yuan, so he was deeply impressed by Lu Yuan.

So that was it, Lu Yuan and the other two people understood.

In the three years they were preparing, a lot of things actually happened.

The most talked-about thing among the lower-level disciples of Yellow Maple Valley is that the evil man Lu Yuan pretended to die and was sent to participate in the blood ban trial. As a result, he did not repent and offended the old monster Jiedan of the Hidden Moon Sect, who was killed on the spot.

In response to this, the monks in the Danjie stage in Yellow Maple Valley naturally did not dare to go to the old monster Qiong to settle the score. What's more, Nangong Wan had said that day that Han Li's elixir was a secret from the Hidden Moon Sect.

This is equivalent to using a heavenly spirit root that cannot be established in three years to exchange for so many elixirs. The senior management of Huang Maple Valley weighed it up and suddenly felt that they still made a profit.

In addition, when they later learned that Lu Yuan had escaped the disaster with a substitute charm and successfully woke up, they left the matter undisturbed. Even if the Yue Zong knew about it and refused to give up, they deliberately blocked the news of Lu Yuan and announced that Lu Yuan was dead.

As for the abnormal behavior of Huang Maple Valley and Hidden Moon Sect in the forbidden area, there was no news among the seven sects. Later, after Lu Yuan inquired, he learned that because the forbidden area was frequently opened, a large amount of spiritual energy was lost within it. As a result, the old monsters in the Nascent Soul stage of the major sects went out frequently in order to find the origin of other elixirs or find other ways out for their own sect, and no one stayed inside the sect.

The Danjie monks from the Jujian Sect alone did not dare to unite with other sects to go to the Hidden Moon Sect to ask for an explanation, so the matter was shelved.

The above did not have much impact on Lu Yuan. The only thing that worried him was Xiang Zhili. Fortunately, not long after the trip to the forbidden area ended, Xiang Zhili suddenly disappeared, which made Lu Yuan finally feel relieved.

Especially since three years have passed, during which Lu Yuan asked Wu Feng to inquire in many ways, but in the end there was no news about him, Lu Yuan was completely relieved.

"Arrange a fire room for us with stable and gentle firepower. These should be enough!" Lu Yuan ordered, and then took out two mid-level spiritual stones.

"Enough, enough. These two spiritual stones are enough for you to stay in there for a year!" After the ugly man took the two spiritual stones with a smile, he was very attentive to Lu Yuan and hurriedly led the way, almost forgetting that he was I was scared to death by the other party just now.

Not long after, he passed through two other equally tall stone doors, finally walked out of the dock stone passage, and appeared in an oversized rotunda hall.

"This is it." The ugly man walked to a door with two golden characters "Nineteen" painted on it, took out a white jade sign and pasted it on the door, and the white stone door opened automatically.

After his explanation, Lu Yuan said there was no problem.

"We may have to stay here for a long time. We don't have enough spiritual stones. I will replenish them for you when we come out. If you can't use them all, there is no need to return them. Just treat them as gifts for you."

"However, I don't want anyone else to know about seeing me today." Lu Yuan said to the ugly man.

"I understand, I understand!" When the ugly man heard this, his face burst into laughter, and he wisely said goodbye and left.

Lu Yuan watched the ugly man leave the house, and immediately activated the jade sign to seal the stone door again.

"Did you see it? This is where you can enjoy the shade under the big tree. Now you understand how useful it is to have a backer in the alchemy stage!" Lu Yuan looked at Han Li proudly.

"Pull him down, we were almost killed by your bad idea!" Han Li said angrily.

"Brother, are you sure the three of us are going to build a foundation here instead of finding a quiet room or something?" Zhang Tie didn't quite understand after seeing the situation in the room clearly.

"What kind of quiet room is this good? At least you don't have to worry about someone suddenly breaking in and interrupting the retreat, causing you to give up halfway!"

"Besides, I don't know how many Foundation Establishment Pills we need to use to succeed. It's so convenient here. We have brought all the medicinal materials. I will make as much as you need."

"If you practice more, wouldn't it be the same if you took it out?" Han Li curled his lips.

"You're the only one who talks a lot, right? I'd rather listen to you than to me!" Lu Yuan glared at him and took out the materials from the storage bag. The elixir they prepared was enough to be refined hundreds of times. .

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A month later, Chouhan was slightly surprised to see that Lu Yuan and the others had not come out of the underground fire house, but he was more excited, because this way, he could withdraw more fees.

Two months later, the stone gate on No. 19 still hadn't been opened. The ugly man felt pleased with himself, but also shocked.

Three months... six months later.

Still no sign of coming out. At this time, the ugly man's joy had long since disappeared without a trace, leaving only a sad look on his face and a feeling of uneasiness.

In the past half year, it is not uncommon for alchemy or weapon refining. Even over a longer period of time, I have seen the ugly man several times!

But the people who spend such a long time in the Earth Fire House are at least disciples at the Foundation Establishment stage or above! This was the first time for him to see three disciples like these who were only in the Qi refining period but had stayed inside to refine elixirs for such a long time.

...Eleven months later, the stone door of the Earth Fire House where the three of them were located was still closed, with no sign of opening.

On this day, the ugly man stared blankly at Stone Gate No. 19 with a sad expression on his face! At this time, he was sure that something was definitely going on inside. Otherwise, even the monks in the foundation building stage should come out.

What he is most worried about now is Han Li, for fear that Master Li will be angry with him because of his disciple's accident. Although he was a close relative of Master Zhong and was able to manage this place because of this, the ugly man knew very well that Master Li was really angry about this and this patron would never stand up for him.

Just when the ugly man was filled with worries, suddenly the stone door in front of him flashed with white light, and then opened silently, and then two people walked out of it one after another. It was Han Li who had been in the house for nearly a year. Follow Zhang Tie.

The ugly man, who took a while to react, was suddenly surprised and happy. He hurriedly took a few steps forward and said complainingly:

"Two junior brothers, why are you coming out now? If you don't come out, I will..., hey! You...!"

The ugly man who had just spoken a few words suddenly had his eyes widened as if he had seen a ghost. He pointed at the two of them and was speechless, unable to say anything else!

"What's wrong? Is there anything wrong with us?" Han Li and Zhang Tie looked at each other, their faces flashed, and they said with a smile.

"You... your skills! How can I...? Is it difficult... are you in the foundation building stage?" It took the ugly man a long time to come back to his senses, with a look of confusion and horror on his face, and finally stammered asked.

"Well! After refining the elixir, we felt that the environment here was good, so we took the foundation-building elixir and retreated for a while. As a result, we successfully passed the level and are now indeed monks in the foundation-building stage!" Han Li saw the other party acting like this. asked, speaking grandly.

Zhang Tie next to him also stretched out, feeling extremely relaxed.

"Building a foundation here?"

The ugly man looked at the underground fire house behind Han Li, and then at Han Li and the two of them. He still couldn't believe it! This was the first time he had heard of foundation building in the Earth Fire House, which specialized in alchemy and weapon refining!

"It's really unreasonable! Others in the Earth Fire House can successfully retreat and build foundations casually, or two at a time. Why did we find a quiet room and find a lot of auxiliary elixirs, but we couldn't succeed in completing the foundation building? Woolen cloth!"

"That's not right. Didn't they enter with three people at the beginning? Why didn't Lu Yuan come out?"

"Could it be that I really met a ghost? They went in as two people?" Thinking of this, the ugly man couldn't help but turn sideways and want to take a peek inside.

"Why, what are you looking at!" Han Li glanced at the other party casually and said rudely. Immediately, the unique coercion of the monks in the Foundation Establishment Stage emitted. The ugly man who was only a few feet away from him was immediately forced to take several steps back, sweating profusely.

"Uncle, forgive me, disciple, don't you remember that there is another person?" The ugly man immediately nodded and bowed and said with a smile. Even his title was changed from "junior brother" to "junior uncle".

"Then you don't have to worry about it, just leave!" Han Li said solemnly.

"Yes!" The ugly man was extremely respectful and quickly led the way, sending Han Li and Zhang Tie out.

After leaving the Yuelu Hall, the two of them controlled the flying magic weapon and walked slowly in the sky.

Han Li couldn't help but take a deep breath, feeling extremely comfortable.

"Is it appropriate for us to leave Senior Brother Lu in there like this?" Zhang Tie looked back and asked suddenly.

"Brother Zhang, don't worry. Although junior brother has not succeeded in building the foundation now, he must be measured, otherwise he would not let us leave first."

"Oh, you are a fake spiritual root. You took eight pills to succeed. Because of my poor foundation in martial arts, I can accept five pills. But Senior Brother Lu is a Tianling Root. He can't even take ten pills. What's the matter? Son!" Zhang Tie scratched his head and thought hard.

"Brother Zhang, don't worry. I have confidence in my junior brother. Let's go to the meeting hall now. Register and make a register as our junior brother said, and then go find the cave. Maybe after we finish, he will come out." Han Li comforted.

Zhang Tie sighed and nodded in agreement. The two of them sped up and headed straight to the meeting hall.

......

Two months later, there was an extremely desolate place in the northwest outermost part of the Taiyue Mountains. A huge mountain wall with a height of more than a hundred feet was extremely steep, and from halfway up the mountain wall, endless dense white mist filled the air.

No one would have thought that in this thick fog, there is a cave that occupies a large area. During this period, a total of thirteen rooms of different sizes and three halls covering an area of ​​several acres were opened.

In the hall, Zhang Tie and Han Li sat facing each other.

"Senior Brother, it's been more than two months and there's still no news. Is something going to happen?"

"Brother Zhang, don't worry. Junior Brother said that he will stay there for at least a year this time. No matter whether he succeeds or not, he will come out to find us." Han Li stroked the two brocade boxes on the stone table and spoke slowly and methodically. said.

"Okay, it's time for us to leave for a walk around the Tianxing Sect's market."

......

Three months later, a white rainbow suddenly flew from the distant sky. It circled outside the formation for a few times and then stopped. It turned into a white boat, with an ordinary-looking young man standing on it.

Not long after, a passage opened in the formation, and the young man and his boat turned into a white light and flew in again.

......

"Senior brother, have you decided to take Qingyuan Sword Art as your main skill?" Zhang Tie asked in the cave.

"Yes, this time I found a golden book page from Li Huayuan, which contains the complete Qingyuan Sword Technique. It also comes with an auxiliary technique of 'Triple Yuan Transformation Technique', which can greatly increase the chance of forming a pill." Han Li I went to see Li Huayuan and just came back.

Li Huayuan was not much surprised that Han Li could successfully build the foundation. After all, there are ten Foundation-Building Pills as rewards within the sect. Even if the qualifications are poor, there is no way he can produce a Foundation-Building cultivator.

"It's a pity that you don't have wood-attribute spiritual roots, so you can't practice this technique, and I can't find a better one for you anywhere." Han Li pondered for a moment and said with regret.

"What did senior brother say? I already have the 'Jin Yuan Gong' given by senior brother Lu. Although I'm not good at fighting, it's easy to practice and there aren't many bottlenecks. It's pretty good."

Han Li nodded without comment. Li Huayuan had indeed told him. The effect of magic arts such as Jin Yuan Gong on improving mana is very astonishing. It is easy to cultivate and practice, and the chance of encountering bottlenecks is much less than that of Qing Yuan Sword Art.

And with Zhang Tiezhen's spiritual talent, if he wants to pursue a higher level of immortality and enter the heavenly realm, he should major in Jin Yuan Gong, so that he can be closer to the stage of forming an elixir.

The foundation building was successful and they chose a major technique that was quite suitable for them. They were both very happy and confident about their future path to immortality.

"I just don't know how Senior Brother Lu is doing? Do you think he won't be able to build the foundation?" Zhang Tie thought of Lu Yuan who was still in the Earth Fire Room.

"Brother Zhang, you are so sentimental. When we came out, he still had enough medicinal materials left to refine ten or twenty foundation-building pills. Even if a pig eats them, it will be successful!"

"While he is away, let's spend two days in peace."

"Otherwise, when he comes back one day, we will be implicated again because of his trouble-making temperament." Han Li was very dissatisfied with Lu Yuan's lack of low-key attitude.

"Elder brother, what you said is wrong. How about I move out too, and you would be more comfortable on your own!" Zhang Tie said with some dissatisfaction.

"Don't be so petty, you should quickly stabilize your cultivation now." Han Li said, taking out the main formation flag that controlled the Inverted Five Elements Formation, and activated all the defenses of the formation.