Chapter 319 The First Monk

After a while, Li Congren withdrew his respectful etiquette. The action just now seemed to be a tribute to the passing ancestor of the Mu family.

Mu Changxiu was shocked, and turned around to take a look: Mu Bingyun had indeed expired, and passed away with a peaceful expression.

After the grief, Mu Changxiu sent a message to tell him that preparations for the funeral had been made in advance.

"Master Li, did Grandpa Lu come here just now?"

Mu Changxiu asked in a tight tone.

It is absolutely unusual to be able to treat Li Congren, the fake Dan real person, with such respect.

Although Mu Bingyun is considered half an elder, she is not enough to make Li Congren lower his attitude so low.

The two young men from the Li family in Xuemei Mountain also looked at their grandfather curiously.

"Perhaps, only Aunt Bing knows."

Li Congren shook his head and looked directly at Mu Changxiu indifferently, making the latter feel embarrassed that his thoughts had been read.

In the Feiyue Lake Mu family, Mu Bingyun is the last monk who has a deep connection with the real person Changqing.

When Mu Changxiu was a teenager, his mother led him to meet Changqing, and he even received a meeting gift from him.

After that, there was no communication.

Today, the Mu family is declining day by day, and crises are looming.

Mu Changxiu eagerly wanted to see the Taoist cultivator who left legendary stories in the world of Liang Guo's immortal cultivators.

Li Congren has a middle-grade spiritual root with similar qualifications to him, so why can he form a fake elixir?

This is not only the financial resources, but also the opportunity and help brought by Treasure Hunter Rat in the early stage.

More than a hundred years ago, Lu Changan, who was in the foundation-building period, went to Jing State to seek refuge, and he owed Li Congren a favor.

Many years later, Changqing, the real person who returned to the Liang Kingdom, deliberately stayed one night in Xuemei Mountain, which frightened the hostile "Dongmen Family" and took the initiative to apologize and turn enemies into friends.

That night, in addition to Lu Changan, the people who stayed at Xuemei Mountain were Zhang Tianfeng, the current helmsman of Jinyun Valley!

Since then, the Li family in Xuemeishan has not only resolved the troubles, but also gained a great reputation in the surrounding areas. The development of its chambers of commerce and industries has become increasingly smooth.

Before Li Congren was promoted to False Pill, there were as many as ten foundation-building monks from the Xuemei Mountain Chamber of Commerce, including several worshipers.

Due to this layer of protection and the alliance with the Zhou family of beast control, Xuemei Mountain itself has a good foundation, which allowed Li Congren to obtain crystal condensation pills and pill-forming spiritual objects.

This is not Mu Changxiu's conjecture. The context of relevant deeds has been stated in biographies such as "The Legend of Evergreen" and "The Travels of the Black Turtle".

Especially "Evergreen Legend" is highly praised: the biography believes that Lu Changan is expected to become the "No. 1 Loose Cultivator in the Liang Kingdom". Later, he fled to the Feng Yuan Kingdom, either to keep a low profile or to avoid powerful enemies, and voluntarily gave up such false reputations. .

…

In the cave, Mu Changxiu asked again and again, suspecting that Li Congren was hiding something.

"Little brother Changxiu, please don't force this matter."

Li Congren frowned slightly and spoke in an aggravated tone, which frightened the latter into bowing repeatedly.

Mu Changxiu sighed bitterly, knowing that he couldn't force it, so he just took a chance.

He was unwilling to accept it: the friendship between Master Changqing and Feiyue Lake was severed from his own generation.

That day, Li Congren and his two young descendants were guests at the single-family guest house on Yuexin Island.

"Grandpa, you hired someone to compile a biography of Changqing without his permission. Would he be unhappy if he knew about it?"

One of the girls in the purple dress is Li Congnen's favorite granddaughter. Her sparkling black eyes reveal her curiosity about the legendary figure.

It turns out that the mainstream versions of "The Legend of Evergreen" and "The Travels of the Black Turtle" in the world of immortality were both compiled by Li Congren.

"Ahem! Some of the biographies circulating on the market at that time smeared Chang Qing. Grandpa, I was protecting his image as an old man. I believe Grandpa Lu will not blame him."

Li Congren coughed lightly and explained.

He didn't lie. A few unpopular men of letters actually smeared Grandpa Lu as a coward and ran around.

Or maybe it could depict Grandpa Lu as an infatuated person and write a raunchy harem romance novel.

The biographies compiled by him correct the historical truth!

Lu Changan is portrayed as a wonderful man who is indifferent to fame and fortune, has high integrity and is not harmed by beauty.

The so-called running away is to assess the situation in a low-key manner, look far-sighted, and finally have the last laugh.

Even if there is an occasional romance, it is because all fairies are conquered by the charm of Changqing Master and are willing to become passers-by in his legendary life of cultivating immortals.

"More than fifty years..."

In the guest room, Li Congren looked up at the moon, feeling sad. Thinking back to the last time I met Grandpa Lu, it was a decade ago.

In the eyes of the world, Master Changqing has disappeared from the world of immortal cultivation in Liang for more than fifty years.

There are only some inaccurate rumors. Some say that he was buried in the vast sand sea, while others say that he took refuge in Feng Yuan Kingdom and will come back when the war is over.

Now, ten or twenty years after the Demonic War ended, Master Changqing still has not returned.

call!

The lights in the house suddenly went out, and a cool breeze blew out of thin air.

Li Congren felt a chill in his heart and his body became cold.

After the strange wind passed, a transmission talisman appeared in his hand.

After listening to the content of the transmission notes, Li Congren looked overjoyed.

Stay until late at night.

He flew away from Yuexin Island alone and sneaked into the Jade Villa by the lake.

Jade Villa is the place where the lower-class members of the Mu family practice.

When they were young, Lu Changan and Li Erqing hibernated here for many years.

Especially the Erqing Patriarch married here and gave birth to many blood descendants.

In the small courtyard by the lake, there is a Changqing Zhenren that belongs to his youth and is still well preserved.

Li Congren took a deep breath and sneaked into the former residence of Changqing Zhenren.

…

From the outside, the former residence of Changqing Zhenren was dark and silent.

Entering the courtyard, Li Congren found that the lights were on in the house.

Creak!

The door of the study opened automatically, and a man in white, who was as quiet as jade and handsome as a scholar, sat in front of the desk.

It was the familiar figure in Li Congren's memory.

"I am the unfilial junior Li Congren, and I pay my respects to Grandpa Lu."

Li Congren floated into the study and bowed.

At this time, he found that there was a female cultivator in a green skirt wearing a veil on the back of Grandpa Lu, who brought the brewed tea.

The green-clothed female cultivator had an ordinary appearance, elegant manners, and a deep magical aura, which made Li Congren unable to see through. I am afraid she is a female cultivator of the True Dan.

Lu Changan raised his hand, motioned Li Congren to take a seat, and looked at him with a smile:

"Yes, with your aptitude, you can cultivate to the level of false elixir, worthy of being the grandson that Erqing values ​​most."

In fact, fifteen or sixteen years ago, when Lu Changan plotted against the Peacock Saint and came to Liang State, he found that Li Congren had formed a false elixir.

Looking at the huge number of cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation, it is not common for medium-grade spiritual roots to form false elixir, but it is not exaggerated.

In the eyes of Yuanying Zhenjun, a great cultivator of elixir formation, it is even less worth mentioning.

Unless it is a low-grade spiritual root that forms a Yuanying, it can be considered a son of luck.

"Congren is dull and has not formed a true elixir. I am ashamed of Grandpa Lu's guidance and care."

Li Congren's words were sincere, and his tone was somewhat regretful.

Back then, he saw the majesty of the true elixir cultivators in Xuemei Mountain and realized the huge gap in strength and status between false elixir and true elixir.

At that time, he made a wish that if he had the hope of forming an elixir in the future, he must strive to form a true elixir.

Unfortunately, he didn't take the last half step after all.

"Haha, Congren's achievements have made him the first descendant of Li Erqing. You are good at running the family. Although this generation doesn't have the real elixir, there may be no real elixir in the future."

Lu Changan had previously calculated that the fortune of the Li family in Xuemei Mountain was much better than that of Feiyue Lake.

Even if Li Congren achieved the fake elixir, the family was so prosperous, and the Xuemei Mountain lineage was still thriving.

Of course, for this kind of immortal cultivation family, the birth of a real elixir cultivator is basically the ceiling, and it is difficult to break through.

After chatting for a while, Lu Changan asked Li Congren about the situation of the Liang Kingdom's immortal cultivation world.

During this period, the woman in the green skirt also asked questions, and Li Congren answered them in detail without asking about the former's identity.

Lu Changan didn't want Fairy Niyue to know about Xing Peng's relationship.

Li Congren runs a chamber of commerce, including some cross-immortal cultivation country businesses, and the news is more informed than ordinary cultivators.

Through Li Congren, Fairy Niyue learned about the relevant situation of the former Xuanyin Pavilion Mountain Gate.

The former mountain gate was occupied by the Jindan Sect that migrated from the former Feng Kingdom and belonged to the Jinyang Sect.

This sect is powerful and is better than Jinyun Valley.

It is almost impossible for Fairy Niyue to get back the old mountain gate in her lifetime.

Lu Changan asked about the current situation of the Peacock Saint.

Li Congren pondered and said, "The Peacock Demon Girl is still detained in the Jinyang Sect. The Beast King Valley is not threatened, and is even more unwilling to put up a sincere bargaining chip. Killing this girl will not benefit the Jinyang Sect at all..."

Lu Changan smiled knowingly when he heard this.

The current situation of the Peacock Saint is very embarrassing.

She can't go back, and she can't die.

Her magic power is banned, and she can't practice. Her cultivation will even slowly regress.

"However, the 'Ten Thousand Cranes True Lord' of the Beast King Valley privately sent someone to intercede, and perhaps gave Jinyang Sect a promise of benefits, so that the Peacock Demon Girl could move around in a small area at the gate of the Jinyang Sect, become a maid, and do some menial work. Life is a little better than before..."

"Become a maid?"

At first, Lu Changan was still worried that the Peacock Saint Girl would be given a certain degree of freedom and might escape.

Later, he learned that not only was the Peacock Saint Girl's magic power imprisoned, but her feet were also hinged and locked, which was made by Yuanying True Lord himself.

Once she tried to leave Jinyang Sect, the restriction would take effect, and she would be worse than dead.

Many guests of Jinyang Sect would even deliberately go to the outer mountains to admire the Peacock Saint Girl's demeanor as a maid.

The Peacock Saint Girl silently endured the humiliation and kept silent.

If Lu Changan visited Jinyang Sect, he would be able to see the Peacock Saint Girl, but he was not allowed to go over to contact her.

Lu Changan speculated that Jinyang Sect was worried that the Beast King Valley would really unify the surrounding countries in the future, and did not dare to really hurt the Peacock Saint Girl.

In this way, there will be room for maneuver in the future, so as not to be targeted for liquidation and revenge.

Even if they are defeated and relocated, the difficulty will be completely different if they are targeted by the high-level officials of the Beast King Valley.

...

Half an hour later, Li Congren's face was ruddy and he bowed to take his leave.

Before leaving.

Li Congren bought relatively affordable third-level talismans and third-level low-grade puppets from Lu Changan.

Lu Changan asked him two things.

First, Li Congren should take care of the Mu family as much as he can.

Lu Changan's friendship with the Mu family gradually broke down.

However, Li Erqing's lineage is closely connected with the Mu family of Feiyue Lake.

Without Feiyue Lake, there would be no Xuemei Mountain today.

Lu Changan had previously calculated that after Mu Bingyun's death, the Mu family's future luck would be very bad, and there was even the possibility of extinction.

Second, during the funeral, let Li Congren do it on his behalf and give a gem as a gift to the descendants of Qifeng.

It turned out that Lu Changan found a top-grade spiritual root among Qi Feng's descendants.

Lu Changan was already pleased that his adoptive father's descendants had established a family in the world of immortal cultivation after many setbacks.

And Qi Feng had been taking care of Xiaogui Peak, including Guan Qiaozhi's tomb.

This character and perseverance made Lu Changan appreciate it and decided to reward him.

The gem given by Lu Changan can slightly speed up the cultivation speed before the formation of the elixir, and at the same time has a slow warming effect on the root bones, reducing the probability of damaging the foundation.

"Lu Lang, tonight... are we staying overnight in your former residence when you were young?"

Fairy Ni Yue approached from behind, with a faint and elegant fragrance and a gentle voice, like the sound of a clear spring.

Many years ago, Fairy Ni Yue was stunned when she learned the identity of "Lu Turtle".

Later, when she saw the true face of Lu Changan, she gladly accepted it, and their friendship deepened.

"Tonight in the former residence of this real person, you will play music for one night to commemorate me."

Lu Changan said with a smile.

Hearing this, the woman in the green skirt in front of him changed into a colorful feathered dress, and the veil was removed, revealing a peerless appearance. The beautiful fairy figure danced in the moonlight in the courtyard.

Then, an ancient zither floated in the air, playing the ethereal sound of a valley.

Lu Changan listened to the music and watched the dance, and in a trance, he seemed to have returned to the Qi Refining Period more than 200 years ago, living under someone else's roof and being cautious.

At that time, he never thought: one day in the future, he would revisit the old house and let the first fairy of Liang State sing and dance for him, play the zither and flute.

The next morning, the old house in the small courtyard by the lake was silent.

Except for Li Congren, no one in the entire Feiyue Lake clan knew that Changqing Zhenren had visited the old house last night.

…

In the next two days, Lu Changan did not attend Mu Bingyun's funeral.

He did not want the outside world to know the exact news of his return.

A few days later.

The two took the chariot magic weapon and arrived at Wuye Town, a gathering place for scattered cultivators on the southeastern border of Liang State.

Wuye Town is a newly built large market town. It is located in the rear of the battlefield of the magic path and on the border of Liang State. It is convenient to go to Feng State and Wangyue Fairy City.

To its east is the dangerous poisonous gas swamp, where poisonous creatures and strange beasts emerge in endlessly. It is ten times more dangerous than the Feisha Natural Chasm to Fengyuan State. It is very dangerous for a True Dan cultivator to cross it.

On the other side of the endless swamp is the boundary between the two sects, which is far away.

In recent years, with the presence of Liang State's first casual cultivator "Wuye Zhenren" and to escape the war of the magic path, Wuye Town has expanded rapidly and absorbed a large number of casual cultivators. Its scale is no less than that of some fairy cities.

It's just that the scale of the spiritual vein is inferior and cannot accommodate too many Jindan Zhenren.

Wuye Town is built around the mountains. On the top of the most central mountain, there are several caves, surrounded by clouds and mist. They are the residences of the upper controllers of Wuye Town.

"Master, the sensor array center just had a momentary fluctuation, but it quickly returned to normal. I suspect that there may be an unknown cultivator who hides his identity and illegally invades..."

In the second cave on the left, an elder of the market town in the late stage of foundation building came in to report.

"The array fluctuates, how many colors of light are warning?"

In the garden in front of the cave, a beautiful woman in her forties sat lazily leaning on the railing, wearing a dark green long skirt, with a plump and undulating figure.

"It seems to be five colors."

The elder of the market town said uncertainly.

"Five colors... just for a moment?"

Master's eyes condensed, no longer casual, and her expression became serious.

For cultivators who sneak into the market without verification, the array in the city will be sensed.

There will be various reactions according to the color.

The Qi Refining Stage is one color, the Foundation Building Stage is two colors...The Fake Dan Zhenren is only three colors.

If five colors appear, it is the highest alert, which means that it is at least a strong man above the True Dan level.

However, the reaction only lasted for a moment. The visitor may have left after a touch, or avoided the formation and sneaked into the interior of Wuye City.

"You leave first. I will report this to Master Jiang."

Shi Manrong said calmly and sent the elders of the town away.

At this time, she looked at the rock landscape not far away. There was a rat demon as big as a puppy sitting on it. It looked ordinary.

The elders of the town who had reported before did not notice the rat demon about ten feet away from him.

"It's you..."

Shi Manrong was stunned. The clever eyes of the rat demon were highly consistent with a certain image in her memory.

It was impossible for an ordinary third-level rat demon to break into her cave as if there was no one.

Shi Manrong's spiritual sense swept outside the cave and saw a man and a woman sitting in the reception pavilion.

"Hey! Mother, where did the rat come from?"

A clean and elegant young man in white came over and looked at the rat demon on the rock curiously.

"Xiaochuan, there are guests outside the door. You should welcome them in and don't disturb others."

Shi Manrong ordered.

"Okay."

The young man in white took a token and came to the outside of the cave.

The two people in the pavilion were a man in white and a female cultivator in green skirt.

The female cultivator in green skirt wore a veil, covering her nose and below, and her features were ordinary.

The gentle and quiet man in white made the young man a little stunned.

This man's image and temperament were rare among the male cultivators he knew, and he had an inexplicable sense of affinity.

The two people's magic power was deep and obscure, and it was hard to tell whether it was real or fake.

"Junior Master Xiaochuan, under the order of my mother, I will take you two to the cave as guests."

The young man in white was in the middle stage of Qi Refining and bowed.

"Xiaochuan, your mother is Master Fairy? The formation master of Wuye Town?"

Lu Changan asked.

"Yes." The young man in white nodded.

Lu Changan didn't think much about it and prepared a gift for Master Fairy's son later.

Time has passed.

After so many years of no contact, even if they were Taoist couples, their feelings would fade, let alone a fleeting relationship.

Even if Shi Manrong got married and had children, it was reasonable in Lu Changan's eyes.

After all, Shi Manrong divorced very early when she was young, and she had a wish in Wuqi Mountain that she wanted a child to continue her offspring.

Lu Changan asked the woman in the green skirt to stay in the pavilion, and he followed Shi Xiaochuan alone.

As soon as Lu Changan stepped into the cave, a powerful Dan power and spiritual pressure emerged from the neighboring cave, which surprisingly reached the middle stage of Dan formation.

Swish!

The purple star's residual shadow flew over and turned into a purple-robed immortal with sword eyebrows and star eyes and a full forehead. His face was gloomy and he said in a bad tone:

"Mr. Lu! You still have the face to come back to find Manrong?"

"Fellow Daoist Jiang, how are you!"

Lu Changan immediately recognized that this person was Jiang Yechen, who had a little friendship with him in the past, and now the "True Man Wu Ye", the first casual cultivator in Liang State.

Compared to a hundred years ago, Jiang Yechen looked only a few years older, with a calmer temperament and less feminine feeling.

Lu Changan thought to himself that he had heard that Jiang Yechen and Master Fairy had a good relationship. Could it be that the two of them became a couple?

Jiang Yechen's early lover Shen Bixin married a woman. According to the life expectancy, she has been dead for at least sixty years.

However, Jiang Yechen and Master Fairy lived in different caves, which did not seem like a Taoist couple.

"Daoyou Jiang, you are a guest. I don't have much time left, and I just want to reminisce with my old friend."

The faint voice of Master Fairy came, as if pleading.

Jiang Yechen snorted lightly, followed Lu Changan into the cave with a cold face.

"Master."

Shi Xiaochuan did not dare to breathe, and greeted him in a low voice.

Jiang Yechen hugged the shoulders of the young man in white, like a father and son, and entered the cave.

In the pavilion, a woman in a green skirt with an ordinary face seemed to smile.

She felt that the temperament and image of the young man in white clothes were more like Lu Changan.

…

In the side hall, Lu Changan saw Master Fairy again after several decades.

Although she didn't live long, Master Manrong had the ability to maintain her youthful appearance, and she looked like a beautiful woman in her middle age.

Although her appearance was not as good as before, she was more mature and graceful, dignified and elegant, and as quiet as a chrysanthemum.

"Daoyou Lu, why don't you let that female Daoist come in?"

"She is a female cultivator from the Fengyuan tribe. She is solitary and doesn't like to interact with strangers."

Lu Changan said calmly.

Shi Manrong didn't think much about it. The female cultivator in the green skirt outside didn't look outstanding.

Female cultivator from the indigenous tribe?

Jiang Yechen couldn't help thinking: It seems that Lu Changan didn't live well when he went to Fengyuan to seek refuge. Maybe he got married to a powerful female cultivator from the indigenous country, sold his beauty, and exchanged it for a stable environment for practicing, so that he could practice to the middle stage of Jindan.

Otherwise, with Lu Changan's vision back then, he wouldn't have found an ordinary-looking female cultivator from the indigenous country to make do with.

After being separated from Shen Bixin for more than a hundred years, Jiang Yechen's wasted life and rich experience have changed his state of mind and aesthetics.

In the past twenty years, he has gradually appreciated Master Fairy after reuniting and cooperating with her.

Although Master Fairy is not as beautiful as many young female cultivators, her noble and mature temperament like the fragrance of plum blossoms tempered by her hardships makes him quite moved and resonates with her.

The two have a good relationship, but they have never broken through that boundary.

Now Master Fairy has a short life span, and Jiang Yechen has tried hard to find a third-level longevity pill for her to win the favor of the beauty, but unfortunately it didn't go well.

Lu Changan, Master Fairy, and Jiang Yechen reminisced for a while.

It turned out that Shi Xiaochuan was the adopted son of Shi Manrong. He not only had a talent for formations, but also had a top-grade spiritual root.

Jiang Yechen, the first casual cultivator in Liang State, took the initiative to ask to accept a disciple, and Master Fairy had no reason to refuse.

Because Jiang Yechen was there, the topic was not easy to go deep.

Lu Changan hinted several times that he wanted to talk to Master Fairy alone.

Jiang Yechen refused to leave, his face was stern, and he looked like a scumbag.

"Jiang saw a related description in "Evergreen Legend": If it weren't for the long-distance escape, Fellow Daoist Lu would be the real first casual cultivator in Liang State."

Jiang Yechen had a faint smile on his lips, his eyes gradually became sharp, and he exuded a cold evil spiritual pressure beyond his peers.

"Today, Jiang is just itching to fight, as long as Fellow Daoist Lu can fight with Jiang for a hundred breaths without losing. In the future, I will not stop you from meeting Manrong again in private."

In recent years, due to good opportunities, Jiang Yechen, who already has superior qualifications, has become the first casual cultivator in Liang State.

Except for the Jindan Daxiu of the sect, he has no rivals in the same level.

In the casual cultivator circle, he is even more lonely and invincible.

One hundred and fifty years ago.

Jiang Yechen competed for the position of the peak master of Wuqi Mountain. He had the best comprehensive conditions, but was actually eliminated by the "blind" Lu Wugui.

At that time, Jiang Yechen didn't say anything on the surface, but he was somewhat unhappy in his heart.

The fairy master whom he admired was ruthlessly abandoned by the fleeing Lu Wugui decades ago.

Why did he shamelessly come to his house again today?

In his own territory in Wuye Town, Jiang Yechen had to teach Lu Wugui a lesson.

So that he would know that the majesty of Liangguo's number one casual cultivator was definitely superior to that of ordinary true elixirs.