Yin and Yang Taoist Code

Finally, they got a room in the Xianlin Guild Hall, and Li Chuyi and the others finally found a place to stay in the imperial city.

Xianlin Guild Hall is indeed one of the top inns in the imperial capital. The upper room here is more appropriately described as a cave than a room. Although the area is not as large as the Mu family's house, it is more than enough to accommodate Li Chuyi and the others, and there is no problem even for three or five more people.

All kinds of things are available in the cave, not to mention the quiet room for practice and the dojo for martial arts. There is also a large backyard for guests to relax. The alchemy room and the refining room are not only well-equipped, but the bookshelves are also filled with various related classics. Various spiritual materials and herbs are also prepared in the storage shelves and lockers for residents to use. Among them, There are many rare treasures on the market, and all consumption stores will settle the bill together with the room fee when checking out based on the market price.

Li Chuyi didn't know the Tao of Artifacts and had no connection with the Tao of Alchemy. Facing these two rooms full of good things, he could only drool and stare.

But what Li Chuyi liked the most was not the two refining chambers, but the spirit gathering array in this cave.

The quality of the spirit gathering array arranged by Xianlin Guild Hall here is quite high. The effect of condensing spiritual energy is not only more than 50% higher than that of common spirit gathering arrays outside, but it also has an excellent effect of purifying spiritual stones.

As we all know, although the spiritual energy in the spiritual stone is rich, it is not suitable for direct absorption. For the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the spiritual energy in the spiritual stone is extremely pure, but for monks, especially human monks, spiritual energy that is too pure will be incompatible with the monk's mana. This incompatibility is what the world often calls of impurities.

To absorb the spiritual energy of the spiritual stone, you need to refine it with your own exercises first, so that this incompatibility can be reduced to a minimum before it can be incorporated into the Dantian and turned into your own magic power. Absorbing it directly without refining, if the amount is small, there is no problem. Once the amount absorbed exceeds the limit that the monk can bear, the monk's meridians will be damaged due to the disorder of mana, which will produce various unpredictable and terrible consequences. These consequences are simply summed up in four words - obsession.

The Xianlin Guild Hall saves the monks most of the trouble. The spirit gathering array here can be refined in advance according to the monk's mana characteristics during the process of releasing the spirit stone aura, instead of being rough like the ordinary spirit gathering array. Release the spiritual energy in the spiritual stone.

This kind of refining is not perfect and can only be regarded as rough refining. In the end, the monks still need to go through their own refining to fully use the spiritual energy for their own use. However, this process undoubtedly saves a lot of time and greatly speeds up the monks' practice speed.

The most important thing is that the rough refining of this spirit gathering array consumes very little spiritual energy, so small that it is almost the same as the consumption of a monk refining it by himself.

Many spirit-gathering formations usually do not add the part used for refining spirit stones, not because the organizer does not know how to do it, but because the organizer's formation attainments are too low, or they do not have a good soul-purifying formation in their hands. A low-quality Spiritual Essence Array will waste a large amount of spiritual energy in the refining process, up to 70% in the highest cases.

Spiritual stones are precious, both as hard currency and for practice. Even the most prodigal son may not be willing to do this just to save effort and waste hundreds of percent of his spirit stones.

So Li Chuyi fell in love with this place as soon as he walked in, not for himself, but for his companions.

Not everyone can chew spiritual stones like him and be fine. At most, they will be upset for a few days. If Li Sinian and the others followed his example, it would not be as simple as having a stomachache. From now on, he would just wait to visit their graves on this day every year.

With the spirit gathering array here and the large number of spirit stones in their hands, the practice speed of several companions will undoubtedly be greatly accelerated.

Especially Li Sinian, who has already stepped into the tribulation with half a foot. All that is missing is a little understanding of the Tao. The accumulation of mana was originally a problem, but it is obviously not a problem now.

"very nice!"

Patting the soft body next to him, Li Chuyi nodded with satisfaction towards the waiter.

"Can we survive the tribulation here?"

"ha?"

The waiter was just about to say something flattering, but he was stunned when Li Chuyi said such a thing.

"Did I say you can survive the tribulation?"

Li Chuyi repeated it patiently.

"Overcoming tribulations, heavenly tribulations, crackling heavenly tribulations, can this place hold up?"

The waiter almost stopped crying.

There were people who came to their store for meditation and breaking through the realm, but this was the first time he encountered someone who came here to overcome the tribulation.

The problem is, for such a big event as overcoming a tribulation, don’t we always find a remote and secret place? How can anyone stay in an inn to overcome a tribulation?

With the fire and thunder falling from the sky, where is the Xianlin Guild Hall? It can be directly transformed into a funeral venue!

But thinking about the shopkeeper's explanation, the waiter did not dare to refuse directly. He could only say with a sad face: "Well, sir, I really don't know your problem. Do you think you should wait for a while and I will ask the shopkeeper." What's your message again?"

Without embarrassing him, Li Chuyi nodded gently: "Okay, you can go, but don't go to so much trouble. Just call your shopkeeper. I still have many questions to ask, in case you don't know and have to go there again." run!"

"Sir, please wait a moment. I'll come as soon as I can!"

After saying that, the waiter ran away quickly, taking with him a kind man with a big belly. Behind the man was an acquaintance whom he had just met.

Seeing that person, Li Chuyi was slightly startled, then nodded in understanding.

The shopkeeper didn't dare to say anything when he came. He first bowed to Li Chuyi and the others, and then asked the man behind him to come to the side. He stood silently with his hands behind his back, as if he was on horseback.

"I thought it was the Mu family's arrangement, but I didn't expect it was you."

After hearing Li Chuyi's words, Nalan Guangcheng smiled slightly and did not answer. Instead, he moved to the soft chair next to him and said, "Sit down first. Sit down and talk."

Without being polite, Li Chuyi sat down.

Nalan Guangcheng sat on the other side. After the shopkeeper personally made the fragrant tea and handed it to the two of them, he smiled and spoke.

"I thought you would turn around and leave without hesitation after seeing me."

Li Chuyi curled his lips and said with a speechless look: "Please, I have a bad temper, but I'm not stupid. Almost all the industries in the imperial capital are in the hands of you people. Even if I sleep on the street Maybe it's the property of one of you. Unless I live outside the city, how could I not deal with you? I just didn't expect that the Xianlin Guild Hall belongs to your Nalan family. I thought it was the property of the Mu family. Well, I originally wanted to live there and disgust them, but now it seems there’s no chance.”

The straightforward words made Nalan Guangcheng laugh. He shook his head slightly and said, "If the elders of the Mu family heard what you said, they would definitely be very angry."

"Just be angry. Their lungs grow in their own stomachs. If they feel uncomfortable on their own, do they still have to ask me to treat them?"

"You kid, you are really... haha."

Helplessly nodding at Li Chuyi, Nalan Guangcheng said: "But you are wrong about one thing. The Xianlin Guild Hall does belong to our Nalan family, but the land here belongs to the Mu family, so this place can also be said to belong to the Mu family. The Nalan family just helps them take care of the property.”

The little fat man wondered: "If you don't manage the Mu family's land yourself, why would you leave it to you? It's not like the land is so good that it doesn't make money, and the Mu family doesn't lack manpower. Are you sick?"

"It makes money, but it has a bad reputation."

Seeing Li Chuyi's confusion, Nalan Guangcheng explained: "In the eyes of outsiders, restaurants and inns in the imperial capital are all golden houses, and no matter how bad the store is, they are still making money every day, but what you don't know is that in Da In Yan's tradition, restaurants and inns are regarded as lowly businesses. Even if you decorate the store as magnificent as a palace, in the final analysis, you are still in the business of serving people. No matter how much you make, your status will not be high. You can face ordinary people. You look majestic, but when you face people with status, such as the Mu family, a long-established powerful family, or officials and generals with public offices, your stature will naturally be reduced by half, so you can earn this money, but you can't do it yourself. "Zheng, you need to get help from a merchant family like our Nalan family first, so that you don't lose your identity."

"Fuck the Taoist priest, isn't this still sick?!"

Li Chuyi rolled his eyes wildly.

"According to this logic, there is no noble profession in the world except being an official! Pawn shops, auction houses, gold and jade shops, treasure pavilions, and various treasure exchanges, aren't these all about dealing with people? It’s so cheap!”

"No."

Nalan Guangcheng shook his head.

"Some of the businesses you mentioned are cheap, but they are not, such as pawn shops, auction houses, and treasure houses, because the objects they buy and sell are goods rather than services. They serve people in order to sell their goods, and Restaurants and inns simply serve people and sell our services. Compared with other industries, we are somewhat similar to empty-handed scammers. The difference is that we are not empty-handed, but spend a lot of money. The price of setting up such a place can satisfy customers, so it can be regarded as a serious business. However, compared with businesses such as auction houses and Zhenbao Pavilion, both in terms of the amount of profit and the nature, restaurants and inns are listed. It’s understandable to act cheaply.”

"That's not right! It's just an inn, how can a restaurant count? I go to the restaurant to eat, not for service. They serve good wine and good food, and they also sell goods!"

"It's goods, but how much does it cost to buy groceries on the street, and how much does it cost to go to a restaurant for dinner? Furthermore, if you like a treasure in the auction house, as long as you really want to buy it, even if the waiter who receives you has a bad attitude, you won't If you know how to buy it, the most you can do is to curse a few times and get sulky. But if you go to a restaurant to eat, if the waiter has a bad attitude, will you still eat there? You will definitely choose another restaurant, because the materials used in both restaurants are the same. Yes, the difference in taste is not intolerable, but the treasures are different. Some treasures are unique. If you are angry and don't buy them, you won't be able to buy them elsewhere. And this is why only the service staff of restaurants and inns are called waiters. , the reason why other professions are called waiters, the two titles themselves reflect the difference in status. "

"What the hell is this!"

Li Chuyi waved his hands impatiently.

It's just that people are divided into three, six or nine grades, even in the profession. He really can't figure out what the so-called nobles are thinking.

I want to make money but I think money is dirty, I want to be a bitch but I still want to build a memorial arch. If I have the leisure to ponder these nonsense, why not use it to do something serious?

Taoist priests often say that people who laugh at poverty do not laugh at prostitutes. He thinks that these so-called noble people are used to living a good life, and they are all idle.

"This is a tradition that has existed since ancient times. You don't need to worry about it." Seeing what Li Chuyi was thinking, Nalan Guangcheng said with a smile.

"This bullshit tradition is just sick!"

Rolling his eyes, the little fat man cursed fiercely.