Chapter 167 Incident

Even though they were both in the cave, Ling Xiaobai had not seen Chu Ning for nearly a month.

Since the little guy was injured, he returned to the cave to sleep alone.

Chu Ning was very suspicious that the more the other party slept, the faster he practiced.

"Hey!"

When he first saw Chu Ning, Ling Xiaobai screamed in surprise.

It was sensitive to breath, so it naturally felt the change in Chu Ning's strength immediately.

"I succeeded in building the foundation!"

Seeing Ling Xiaobai's performance, Chu Ning said with a smile.

"You have to work hard, little guy. If you don't advance to the second level monster, you will be far away from me."

"Hey!"

Upon hearing this, Ling Xiaobai screamed in grievance.

Chu Ning has now signed a life contract with the other party, and can quickly sense Ling Xiaobai's thoughts.

At this moment, I immediately understood what Ling Xiaobai meant.

"You mean, if you weren't injured, you would have broken through by now?"

Chu Ning said with an apologetic expression:

"During this period, I concentrated on building the foundation, but I didn't practice the Xuanming Jue with you, which delayed your recovery."

After hearing Chu Ning's words, Ling Xiaobai came over and rubbed his feet affectionately.

Chu Ning reached out and picked up the little guy.

"Let's go, go out with me first, and then I'll practice with you when I come back.

I am now in the foundation building stage, so I will definitely be able to bring you better healing effects.

It's a pity that you said you could only eat one Yuancao that day, otherwise, if you had a few more, you would have recovered faster. "

As he spoke, Chu Ning put Ling Xiaobai into the spirit beast bag and left the cave directly.

At this moment, Chu Ning did not change her appearance or conceal any aura.

Although the foundation-building monks are not walking sideways among the thousands of lakes and islands, their status is indeed different from that of ordinary Qi-refining monks.

Since Chu Ning has successfully established the foundation, there is no need to hide too much.

As long as your own life-saving means are not exposed easily.

He flew all the way to the teleportation array.

The teleportation arrays on each island are under the unified management of the Thousand Islands Alliance, and the harvests are also owned by the Thousand Islands Alliance.

Therefore, the person guarding the teleportation array did not recognize Chu Ning.

However, people don't recognize Chu Ning's unique coercion as a foundation-building monk.

This monk, who was about forty years old and at the fifth level of Qi Refining, was stunned when he saw Chu Ning appear.

Then he reacted quickly, bowed and saluted:

"I've met senior, but I don't know where senior wants to teleport to. Junior will make arrangements now."

"Thousand Fantasy Island." Chu Ning answered, reaching out and taking out ten low-grade spiritual stones from the storage bag.

"This is the transmission fee."

When the middle-aged monk saw this, he suddenly showed a strange look on his face and said quickly:

"Senior is joking. Foundation-building monks do not need to pay teleportation fees to teleport among thousands of lakes and islands."

"Oh, really?" Chu Ning responded at this moment, taking the spirit stone back.

He had just broken through, and indeed he didn't know there was such a rule.

"Is this senior just promoted to foundation building? But there are no monks at this level in Feihong Island.

It seems very likely that they are monks from other places who have just arrived in Thousand Lakes and Thousand Islands.

It's just strange why I came directly to Feihong Island when I first came here. "

The middle-aged monk was also shocked and confused at the moment, but he didn't dare to ask.

He just quickly activated the teleportation array.

After a while, Chu Ning walked out under the respectful gazes of the two Qi Refining monks in the Thousand Fantasy Island Teleportation Formation, and then went straight to Nacen's workshop.

At this moment, Chu Ning could also feel the obvious difference in his identity as a foundation-building monk.

All the Qi Refining monks he met on the road were respectful to him.

It is no exaggeration to say that even the path I am walking on is getting out of the way of others.

"It seems that among the thousands of lakes and islands, there are no top forces or monks.

The status of this foundation-building monk is indeed very high. He has had little contact with the outside world before and has not felt it yet.

Now that I have broken through to a foundation-building monk, I can feel this experience immediately. "

With this thought in mind, Chu Ning walked straight into Cen Workshop.

In the shop, several clerks looked at each other with a look of surprise on their faces after seeing Chu Ning come in.

Finally, a guy from the seventh level of Qi Refining came up to him.

"Welcome to Cen Workshop, senior. I wonder what you want to buy?"

Chu Ning looked at the unfamiliar faces of several waiters, and finally landed on the man in front of him who seemed to be the leader among them.

"Take me to see your shopkeeper!"

Although Cen Zijin told him before that he should go to Caiwu Island to inform his contact person after he leaves the customs.

She will rush to Feihong Island.

But since he has already established a foundation, there is no need to hide it too much.

I just came out to meet Cen Zijin. If you don't dare to do this, then you don't cultivate the great road.

When the waiter heard Chu Ning's words, he wasn't worried at all.

Instead, he said more respectfully: "Okay, senior, please follow me!"

The guy didn't even say that he wanted to report it first.

Obviously, when the foundation-building monks arrived, they did not dare to neglect them.

Chu Ning followed the guy up to the third floor and laughed secretly in his heart.

I will definitely surprise Cen Zijin later.

He had only told Cen Zijin before that he would refine a batch of elixirs in the next two to three months.

Then try to build the foundation within half a year.

Now that the other party sees that he has successfully established the foundation directly, he will probably be shocked.

Once again, they came to the teahouse they had been to before. The waiter asked Chu Ning to wait outside the house, and then he went into the teahouse.

I guess he didn't report it before, so he had to report it to Cen Zijin this time.

Soon, the waiter came out again.

Then he said to Chu Ning:

"Senior, please come in. Our shopkeeper is waiting inside."

The waiter stepped back, and Chu Ning smiled and lifted the curtain and walked in directly.

Entering the teahouse, Chu Ning was slightly startled.

At this moment, there was still a person sitting behind the tea table, but it was not a familiar figure to Chu Ning.

It was a middle-aged man about forty-five or forty-six years old.

This person looked vaguely similar to Cen Zijin's uncle Cen Wenquan.

Chu Ning reacted very quickly. Although he was extremely surprised, he was still able to maintain the smile on his face.

When the middle-aged man saw Chu Ning coming in, he was also surprised, but he quickly stood up and clasped his fists and said:

"Fellow Daoist, please take a seat. I am Cen Wenhao, the shopkeeper of this Cen Workshop."

"Shopkeeper Cen!" Chu Ning clasped his fists as a return greeting.

His heart skipped a beat. This Cen Wenhao was one of the four foundation-building cultivators of the Cen family and the second uncle of Cen Zijin.

However, Cen Zijin had told him before that this man and Cen Wenquan had been together, which had put a lot of pressure on her.

Thinking of this, Chu Ning said casually:

"I haven't been to this Cen Workshop for a while, but I didn't know that the shopkeeper had changed."

Hearing Chu Ning's words, Cen Wenhao smiled and looked at Chu Ning, and asked:

"Fellow Daoist, it seems that you are familiar with my niece before. May I know your name?"

Chu Ning was a little confused about what was going on at the moment, but since he appeared in his true face, it was naturally not easy to hide his identity.

So he said lightly:

"I am Chu Ning. We are not familiar with each other, but I have done business here several times before.

I am naturally impressed by the name of Fairy Cen."

"Chu Ning." Cen Wenhao repeated Chu Ning's name softly, and then said with a little doubt:

"Could Fellow Daoist Chu be a newly promoted foundation-building cultivator? I have had many contacts with foundation-building cultivators in the Thousand Lakes and Thousand Islands, but this is the first time I have dealt with Fellow Daoist Chu."

"I am indeed a newly promoted foundation-building cultivator." Chu Ning nodded.

Cen Wenhao heard this and then his face was suddenly enlightened.

"No wonder! Fellow Daoist should have been in seclusion for some time.

Otherwise, he should have heard some news about our Cen family. Now I have taken over this Cen Workshop. If Fellow Daoist has any business, it is the same to tell me."

Chu Ning's heart sank slightly when he heard this.

From what the other party said, the outside world actually knew about the affairs of the Cen family.

Considering that Cen Wenhao took over as the shopkeeper, if this is the case, it is very likely related to Cen Zijin.

After all, although the Cen family's formation is famous, the most famous one among the thousands of lakes and islands is the three words "Fairy Cen".

Although thinking this in his heart, Chu Ning's face did not fluctuate at all.

Instead, he continued to speak lightly:

"Okay, I heard that this Cen workshop seems to have some relatively advanced talismans, pills and the like for sale.

I thought of asking if there are any that our foundation-building cultivators can use.

There are also magic tools. If there are top-level ones, it would be the best.

Just now, fellow Daoist also asked, I am a new cultivator, so naturally I need some things to rely on."

"Of course I have them!"

Cen Wenhao smiled and said, "We have some intermediate talismans and pills in our Cen workshop. It depends on what you need."

As he said, Cen Wenhao took out some pills and talismans.

Chu Ning took them in his hand and looked at them, and his eyebrows raised slightly.

Although these pills and talismans are also of intermediate quality, they are not made by him.

"I heard before that the quality of the talismans and pills sold by this Cen Workshop in the past two years is much higher than that of the outside world.

The quality of these things of Shopkeeper Cen is nothing special. Are you afraid that I can't afford the spirit stones, so you are unwilling to take out the good things?"

When saying this, Chu Ning showed some displeasure on his face.

The embarrassment on Cen Wenhao's face flashed, but then returned to normal.

"Chu Daoyou is joking. If there are higher quality things, Cen will naturally not hide them.

The Cen Workshop did get a batch of high-quality talismans and pills before, but they have been sold out long ago.

But now these pills and talismans are made by the masters of the Chen family and the Shi family respectively, and their quality is definitely one of the best in this thousand lakes and thousands of islands."

"Chen family and Shi family." After hearing this, Chu Ning's expression suddenly became more serious.

These two families were the camps that Cen Wenquan had tried to join before.

Cen Wenhao thought Chu Ning was attracted by the quality of the talismans and pills he mentioned, and didn't think much about it.

He was still talking to himself at this moment.

After a conversation, Chu Ning finally bought some intermediate talismans and pills.

As for the magic tools, since Cen Wenhao only took out some high-level magic tools.

Chu Ning naturally showed a lack of interest.

In fact, if he was not afraid of the other party's suspicion, Chu Ning would not have bought the pills and talismans.

A quarter of an hour later, Chu Ning walked out of the Cen workshop with a calm face, but his heart was full of waves.

"The Cen family has encountered an accident, and it must have been a big accident. It should be related to Cen Zijin."

Chu Ning was basically sure of this in his heart, but he was naturally not stupid enough to ask for information from Cen Wenhao.

Even if he went to other places to ask for information, it would not be convenient for him with his identity.

A foundation-building cultivator was still too conspicuous.

After leaving Cen's workshop, Chu Ning wandered around the market again and bought some spiritual medicines.

Then, he left Qianhuan Island and returned to Feihong Island.

After a while, Chu Ning changed his appearance and restrained his breath to the seventh level of Qi Refining, and entered Qianhuan Island again.

Then he went straight to the Zuixian Building.

Although the Zuixian Building was mainly composed of cultivators in the middle and late stages of Qi Refining, there were many people and many gossips, and he could often hear a lot of news.

Not long after Chu Ning entered the restaurant and sat in the hall, news from all sides came into his ears one after another.

Soon his consciousness was concentrated, and he focused on listening to the conversation of the three people at a table behind him on the left.

"Brother Li, the Thousand Lakes and Thousand Islands are really not peaceful recently!"

The one who spoke was a skinny man. As soon as he finished speaking, another monk with a long horse face took over:

"Who said it wasn't? Two months ago, there was a rumor of discord within the Thousand Islands Alliance.

Now I heard that in the past month, three or four islands have discovered second-level hidden spiritual veins.

Everyone in the entire Thousand Lakes and Thousand Islands seems to be ready to make a move."

Among the three people, an older, gray-haired, Qi Refining Level 7 elder spoke at this time.

"Please tell me more details, my two Taoist friends. I just went on a long trip and I don't know what happened."

"Brother Lu, then I will tell you in detail." The horse-faced man took the lead.

"This story started two months ago, when something unexpected happened to the Cen family.

I heard that Fairy Cen had gained a group of supporters in the Cen family because of her effective management of the Cen Workshop in the past two years.

These people proposed at the Cen family meeting that Fairy Cen should be the head of the Cen family."

The old man didn't wait for the other party to continue, and immediately said:

"It would be great if Fairy Cen could really become the head of the Cen family.

She is the number one genius in the Thousand Lakes and Thousand Islands. Not only is she young, she successfully built her foundation at the age of 18 and is a well-known number one formation master.

I heard that she later learned to make talismans and refine pills, and managed the Cen Workshop very well.

In the past two years, the Cen Workshop has been the best business in this market."

"Who says it's not?" The horse-faced man took over the conversation.

"I thought so when I first heard the news. If Fairy Cen could really become the head of the Cen family, it would be a good thing.

But things didn't go so smoothly.

Just after Senior Cen Wenquan agreed, Fairy Cen made another request.

It is said that Cen Wenquan should leave the Cen family."

The old man was stunned for a moment, with a look of astonishment on his face.

"Why is that? Fairy Cen's behavior is not authentic."

"Who said it's not?" The horse-faced man shook his head.

"It is said that it was because Cen Wenquan had intended to marry Fairy Cen to the genius Chen Xinming of the Chen family.

But Fairy Cen disagreed, and the two had already fallen out."

The old man heard it and shook his head:

"Cen Wenquan is the current head of the Cen family. Can he agree?"

"Of course he didn't agree. I heard that Cen Wenquan didn't even want to give up the position of head of the family.

And later Fairy Cen wanted to take away the Cen family's formation inheritance, and finally there was a big battle within the Cen family.

I heard that Fairy Cen was quite capable. Facing several foundation-building cultivators, she actually injured several people in a row, and finally fled with injuries, and has been missing since then."

Hearing this, Chu Ning's brows were slightly raised, and there was a chill in his heart.

And at the other table, after the horse-faced cultivator finished speaking, the old man frowned.

"Where did you hear this news? Fairy Cen has a good reputation in our Qianhu Qiandao. It shouldn't do such a thing?"

"We didn't believe it at first." The horse-faced cultivator continued.

"But later, both the Chen and Shi families had foundation-building cultivators come out and confirm that they were at the scene on the day of the incident.

And the shopkeeper of the Cen workshop was replaced by another foundation-building cultivator from the Cen family from Fairy Cen.

Fairy Cen did not show up again after that, and gradually everyone believed it."

After hearing this, the old man looked at the horse-faced cultivator meaningfully.

"What Li Daoyou said is right. The winner of this matter will naturally have the final say.

It's a pity for Fairy Cen, a darling of heaven, in the future..."

"Brother, be careful with your words." The horse-faced cultivator quickly reminded him.

The old man was slightly stunned when he heard this and stopped talking about this topic.

He turned to ask: "By the way, Daoyou just said that the Thousand Lakes and Thousand Islands have been lively in the past month. What do you say?"

Chu Ning, who was originally going to leave directly, simply listened again at this moment.

"I heard that in the past month, four islands have discovered second-level hidden spiritual veins..."

The horse-faced cultivator was interrupted by the skinny man before when he said this.

"Brother Li, your news is out of date. There are five. Yesterday, a second-level hidden spiritual vein was also discovered on Zizhu Island.

I also heard that many foundation-building cultivators have proposed to the Thousand Islands Alliance that the Thousand Islands Competition should be held earlier this year."

"Why is that? Oh, those foundation-building cultivators have set their sights on the newly appeared hidden spiritual vein."

...

Chu Ning sat for a while, and when he found that there was no other valuable news, he got up and left.

However, he did not return directly to Feihong Island, but teleported to Caiwu Island.

The news about Cen Zijin has been roughly heard now.

Although Chu Ning knew that most of the previous news might be false.

But in the end, Cen Zijin had a falling out with the family and even fled with injuries.

For a moment, Chu Ning didn't know where to go to find out more about the other party.

However, Chu Ning felt that the previous agreement between the two to meet on Caiwu Island might be the only way to find clues.

Using the shape-changing spell to transform into the image of "Liu Ping" who had handed over the talisman every time before, Chu Ning walked into a medium-sized restaurant on Caiwu Island.

This seat lasted for nearly an hour.

Until a certain moment, Chu Ning's brows suddenly raised slightly.

But at this time, a figure appeared at the door of the restaurant.

This was a woman who looked about 40 years old, and her appearance was extremely unfamiliar.

This person looked around as soon as he entered the restaurant.

After seeing Chu Ning, he ran straight over with a happy face.