Chapter 169 Before Departure

"Junior brother, you are really in a good mood."

After being stunned for a while, Xu Mengyun walked into the pavilion, picked up the wine glass, drank it all in one gulp, choked a few times, and couldn't help complaining.

"Haha, when I have nothing to do, I can take a break from my busy schedule and spend some leisure time. What's wrong with that?" Lin Chen laughed and then said jokingly.

"But then again, I have already been promoted to the foundation building stage. In the way of cultivation, the one who has achieved success comes first. Isn't the title of junior brother a bit excessive?"

"Then I can also call you uncle, uncle, uncle~" Xu Mengyun pursed her lips, her tone a little teasing.

Lin Chen paused and couldn't help laughing: "Forget it, just call me junior brother, it makes me look younger."

"What do you mean by this is that I am very old?" Xu Mengyun heard it, her face a little unhappy.

"Haha!" Lin Chen laughed, "Senior sister, don't get me wrong. What I mean is that we boys are always 18-year-old boys, and of course, senior sister is always a 19-year-old girl!"

"You are smart!" Xu Mengyun's face relaxed and curled her lips.

Then, the two fell silent for a while, not knowing what to say to each other.

After hesitating for a while, Xu Mengyun thought it was better to get back to business, after all, this was also the way they had always interacted.

"Junior brother, have you heard about the recent spiritual vein cave leasing method?" Thinking of this, Xu Mengyun asked.

"I know, this thing, I am very familiar with it." Speaking of this, Lin Chen couldn't help but sigh softly.

He didn't expect that when he assisted Xu Mengyun in creating a platform, he gave her some thoughts and ideas to execute.

Unexpectedly, Xu Mengyun didn't understand, but Changqing Zhenren, who had lived for nearly 700 years, understood it and came up with this method of Xiuxianjiefu loan.

Originally, in order to adapt to this underworld of Xiuxian where the weak are preyed on by the strong, Lin Chen had to change himself and hide his weapon.

But he didn't expect that as his strength grew stronger, he was also gradually affecting the world.

Especially in the unexpected situation, he brought the things that deceived countless people in his previous life to this life. For a moment, Lin Chen didn't know whether this was good or bad.

"Then Junior Brother, how do you think we should deal with the regulations set by the Jindan Patriarch?" Xu Mengyun asked again.

Then, after hesitating for a while, Xu Mengyun added: "Junior Brother, we may be able to get a lot of resources from it, so should we..."

Lin Chen was silent for a while. He was always decisive, but he hesitated in the face of this question.

He naturally knew how much benefit was contained in it, and even with the knowledge of his previous life, he could make a lot of money.

If he refuses this opportunity, he may never find a way to collect spiritual stone resources so wantonly in the future. Even if he doesn't do it, others will do it, but the problem is...

Looking at the snow-capped mountains in the distance, Lin Chen stared blankly for a long time before saying: "Use the spiritual stone resources in our hands to buy a part of the cave mansion spiritual veins, and occupy this place permanently through the name of my true disciple, and then choose someone to live here."

"Don't use it for buying and selling? This is a large amount of spiritual stone resources."

"Spirit stone resources are important, but this is not all on my path of cultivation. It is just something we use to pursue the great way, and we can't become its slaves." Lin Chen said lightly.

"Besides, the more of this thing you take, the more dangerous it is. In a world where great power belongs to oneself, if you don't have enough strength but have too much wealth, it is a capital crime."

"Then how do you plan to deal with these spiritual veins and caves?" Xu Mengyun asked again.

"Choose cultivators with talent or perseverance, as well as those who have excellent cultivation skills, to move in. At the same time, some spiritual vein caves can be sold to geniuses among the independent cultivators at half the market price."

"Junior brother, are you trying to win people's hearts?" Xu Mengyun asked curiously.

"Sister, do you think I need this?" Hearing this, Lin Chen couldn't help but smile.

Xu Mengyun was stunned at first, and then a smile appeared on her face, and she subconsciously said: "Junior brother, I really didn't misjudge you."

"Hmm?"

"Nothing, then what are your plans next?" Xu Mengyun quickly changed the subject.

"You should know a little about the war that will happen next." Lin Chen said directly.

Anyway, with his current status, it's nothing to reveal a little.

"Knowing a little, I'm afraid there will be a big war?" Xu Mengyun pondered for a moment.

With her intelligence, how could she not notice anything?

"That's right. And this war is very likely to affect the entire Lingnan land." Lin Chen nodded and continued.

"What?!" Xu Mengyun's face changed, and then as if she realized something, she hurriedly said, "Junior brother, you are not going to the battlefield, are you?"

Lin Chen glanced at her and shook his head and said, "In this war, unless it involves a life-and-death battle that will destroy the sect, otherwise, I can choose whether to participate."

"This..." Xu Mengyun's face changed when she heard this, and then, as if she realized something, she couldn't help but ask, "The ancestor..."

"It has agreed."

Xu Mengyun was absent-minded for a moment. She naturally knew that Lin Chen was currently a true disciple. Being able to do this meant that he had, to a certain extent, escaped the sect's legal cage, but could still gain benefits from it.

The Jindan ancestor actually allowed such a thing to happen. Among them...

She thought about it, and wisely did not continue to ask.

However, regarding this matter, Xu Mengyun thought about it, and her eyes gradually brightened up. She said, "Junior brother, if that's the case, maybe we can take advantage of the information gap in the next situation..."

"Next, I won't be in Qingyun Sect for the next few decades." Lin Chen said slowly.

"So we can try...ah?" Xu Mengyun finally understood, and paused, with a confused look on her face.

"In the next few decades, I will go to a dynasty called Daqian, and during this period, I hope that every three years, you can send the spiritual objects on the list I gave you for cultivation to the location I designated." Lin Chen explained.

"Daqian? Junior brother, what are you going there for?" Xu Mengyun's face was full of confusion.

"Seeking immortals and preaching." Lin Chen said softly, "To pursue my golden elixir road."

"But, can't it be done in the sect?" Xu Mengyun said a little at a loss, "The sect has a wealth of spiritual stones and elixirs, and even more spiritual objects for forming elixir, maybe..."

"My path is not on these." Lin Chen smiled and shook his head.

With his ability and the power he has now, he can make a fortune during the war.

He can use the alchemy he created to shine in it.

He can bury various healing herbs in the soil and refine them into healing sacred objects similar to the legendary [Di Zang Zhenlu] by using the soil refining method.

He can also turn a pool of water into an alchemy furnace and refine the flawless Qi Dan by using the method of turning clouds and smoke into rain, or plant a hundred-mile Danlin by using the wood refining method to mass-produce elixirs.

Even simpler, he can apply the Internet he developed to the war and make enough profits through information asymmetry.

He has many ways to earn spirit stones, and with his current status, there are very few people who can hinder him.

Maybe, after the war, he can even earn wealth comparable to that of a Jindan Zhenren, or even a Danling spirit object, and have the opportunity to impact the Jindan.

But these are not what Lin Chen wants.

Through the accumulation of resources, the golden elixir itself can be piled up, but the mystery of it cannot be comprehended.

Crossing the boundless darkness, coming to this wonderful and dazzling world, to explore, to discover, to know the reason, so as to better walk out the road ahead, this is Lin Chen's lifelong pursuit.

"... Junior brother, do you have to go?" Xu Mengyun was silent for a long time before he said in a daze.

"Definitely." He nodded firmly.

"Once you go, it will be decades?"

"That's right."

"Decades... How many decades are there in a person's life?" Xu Mengyun murmured, and then fell silent.

Lin Chen did not speak either, and the atmosphere in the field fell into solidification.

After a while, Xu Mengyun seemed to come back to her senses and asked: "Junior brother, when are you leaving?"

"Right now." Lin Chen said word by word.

"Now?! So urgent?!" Xu Mengyun was surprised.

Lin Chen did not reply for a moment, but looked at the distant sky, with an indescribable light flashing in his eyes. Then he smiled and said, "These hundreds of years of life are too short, so I only seize the day."