Chapter 161 Right and Wrong Success and Failure Are in Vain

Shen Lian had the idea of ​​replacing the master of Huogu Market after reading Gong Zhongze's memory.

He came to Tianzhu Mountain to find ore, and he also had an understanding of Huogu Market through his memory.

There are earth fire veins here, and it is more than ten thousand miles away from the Red Crystal Mine City, which is very suitable to be a base for smelting ore.

In fact, there are two ways to replace him. Sign a Houtu Contract with Huogan Zhenren, the same as Gong Zhongze's control method, and still let Huogan Zhenren take the lead.

But this method has a little risk. After the Houtu Contract backfired in the rift, Shen Lian was also afraid that Huogan Zhenren would turn against him.

Even if his Houtu Contract is powerful and the terms are comprehensive, if Huogan Zhenren plays with his life, there is still a risk of exposure.

Who knows if this guy will avenge Gong Zhongze.

On the other hand, if Huogan Zhenren's memory is fully received and then refined into a puppet, although the agility is a little worse, as long as he does not leave the market, the safety will also increase greatly.

As for the transaction with the Red Crystal Market, this kind of transaction will not require Jindan Zhenren to personally take over the goods. When the time comes, there will be no problem for him to pretend to be Gong Zhongze.

Now we have to fully receive the memory of Huogan Zhenren, which requires Huogan Zhenren not to resist.

The previous search for Gong Zhongze's memory was not comprehensive, but fortunately, most of it was also seized, and we have a certain understanding of his practice methods and daily habits.

Now that Huogan Zhenren's memory has been collected, the plan to replace him is almost done.

Huogan Zhenren was lying on the ground. Although he was hit by the backlash of Houtu Contract twice in a row, Shen Lian, who was used to keeping a steady hand, still let the puppet talisman people hold the Tianyan Jade Talisman to surround Huogan Zhenren.

As long as there is a slight movement, he will be sent on his way immediately.

It is best to have his body as a puppet, but he can create a fake one without his body.

"The road to immortal cultivation is really boring."

Sensing the arrival of the divine thought, Huogan Zhenren did not open his eyes and muttered softly.

"I have already cultivated enough, you don't need to waste your efforts."

Hundreds of years of cultivating immortals, a lifetime of being a puppet.

This immortal cultivation is so boring.

Huo Gan Zhenren's heart is like a bright light. He did not die in the rift valley like Gong Zhongze because he still has a role.

Because the entire Huogu Market is supported by him.

In order to take over this industry in its entirety, his position is very important.

"Don't you want to avenge Gong Zhongze?"

Huo Gan Zhenren showed a hint of sarcasm on his face at the voice that sounded in his ears.

Do you still want him to continue to be a puppet?

Sensing that hint of sarcasm, Shen Lian stretched out his hand unnaturally and scratched his nose to ease his embarrassment.

Well, no matter how much you say to someone who is determined to die, it seems to have little effect.

If you are not afraid of death, why would you be afraid of him?

"Then let go of your divine thoughts. After I check your memory, I will let your soul smoke enter the reincarnation. Maybe after reincarnation, you will be promoted to the Golden Elixir or Nascent Soul in the next life."

At this time, Huo Gan Zhenren opened his eyes and looked around. He did not find Shen Lian's figure. It was always the four phantoms that brought him a dangerous aura.

Looking up with lifeless eyes.

"If you want to search, search at will. It is worthwhile to have a fellow Taoist witness my immortal cultivation path."

"My immortal cultivation path is very boring."

"Reincarnation is meaningless. If there is really a next life, then just live a good life as a mortal and let the grass and trees last for a season."

After Huo Gan Zhenren spoke, he found that there was still no movement around.

On the other side, Shen Lian was writing furiously in the hall. He was drawing the divine thought rubbing talisman. This talisman has the function of imprinting other people's memories.

Of course, this is a mandatory imprint, regardless of whether the cultivator agrees or not.

Now that Huo Gan Zhenren has agreed, he can directly use divine thoughts to read it.

But Shen Lian didn't dare.

Although through Gong Zhongze's memory, it can be judged that Huo Gan Zhenren's feelings for Gong Zhongze are very complicated, and there is definitely hatred.

But Gong Zhongze also owed Huo Gan a favor.

Even if Huo Gan Zhenren agreed to let him flip through it at will, Shen Lian would not gamble.

What if Huo Gan cheated.

Jia Dan Zhenren's divine consciousness is much stronger than the foundation building. If he was not completely sure, he would have tried to use force.

Shen Lian didn't expect that the talismans he inherited were so complete. He just tried to flip through them, and he didn't expect to find the right one.

The predecessor who created this talisman must have encountered a similar situation.

"Buzz!"

Huo Gan Zhenren, who was waiting quietly, suddenly heard a buzzing sound, and then a jade talisman flashed and stuck on his forehead.

Then, ripples appeared in the sea of ​​divine consciousness, and his memory seemed to be triggered.

"Heh..."

Seeing this scene, Huo Gan Zhenren's mouth showed a hint of sarcasm again.

"Be careful, be careful."

"Gong... Master, he didn't lose unfairly."

The mockery on Huo Gan Zhenren's face became more and more intense. He had no intention of stopping it, and let his memory be turned over bit by bit.

Muttering softly, as if reminding, and as if narrating himself.

"... If you often walk by the river, you will get your shoes wet.

...

"Fellow Daoist, be careful."

"Haha..."

"Puff!"

A spiritual light fell, and Huo Gan Zhenren's eyes dimmed in laughter, and he completely lost his vitality.

This time, Shen Lian did not disperse the rising soul smoke, and let the green smoke curl up and sink into the twisted Qingming.

"Hu..."

Shen Lian held three jade talismans in his hand. In order to ensure that the engraved memories were not false, he copied the memories of Huo Gan Zhenren three times.

From beginning to end, Huo Gan Zhenren did not resist.

But Shen Lian was not satisfied with the killing of this man.

"Thank you for your warning, I will reflect on myself three times and be careful every day."

Facing the corpse lying on the ground, Shen Lian bowed solemnly.

The three memories of Huo Gan Zhenren were the same. As he said, his path to immortal cultivation was quite boring.

After coming out of the mortal world, he was Gong Zhongze's puppet, and everything about cultivation was arranged by Gong Zhongze.

Boring cultivation, hunting monsters and then cultivating again, until the two came to the Red Crystal Mine City, Huo Gan Zhenren was promoted to the false pill realm, and established this market under the arrangement of Gong Zhongze.

Even if it was refining equipment, no matter who was refining equipment, it needed Gong Zhongze to arrange it. It was a completely managed path to immortal cultivation.

Want to resist but powerless...

Perhaps it's not powerlessness, but the kindness he received from the disaster in the mortal world...

In short, in the memory of Huo Gan Zhenren, the feelings for this person who once called "Master" are very complicated.

...

Below the attic, a place covered by red mist, the heat wave is rolling.

In the space that was originally in full swing, now there is no other sound except the sound of the whirring flames.

There were cultivators working here, but these cultivators were all collected by Gong Zhongze. After Gong Zhongze was killed, these cultivators also died at the same time.

By the way, there were also two foundation builders who were originally stationed at the archway in the market, and they died together.

After Shen Lian cremated the people, they were buried in the lush land outside the valley.

In addition to the dead cultivators, there was also a second-level red crystal fire ant queen, which was a spiritual pet collected by Gong Zhongze, specially used to collect ore fragments.

Gong Zhongze's vision is extraordinary just because he can think of starting from the details and selecting the slag that the cultivators don't like.

Speaking of which, Shen Lian came up with this method, and he was behind Gong Zhongze, and the key is that he has formed an industrial chain.

Talent.

This place, located above the Fire Vein Spirit Lake, is shrouded in red mist and guarded by restrictions. It is Gong Zhongze's core secret place.

He built all this to make himself promoted to the Golden Core Realm.

What's wrong with poor spiritual roots? Just smash it with spiritual stones and pile it with spiritual objects!

Shen Lian opened the restrictions on the stone door of the cave a little bit, and the rich spiritual energy flowed into his nostrils through the cracks in the door.

After entering the cave, the stone door closed again, and Shen Lian felt that he had entered a third-level spiritual vein.

This stone room is not big, only three feet in size, but it is full of spiritual energy. In the middle is a gemstone platform of half a foot in size, which is mostly hollowed out, but piled with irregular red crystals.

Rich spiritual energy overflowed from it.

Outside the gemstone stand, there were several jade boxes.

Three Star Meteorites.

Five Moonlight Pills.

Three Fire Spirit Beads.

Two Wood Spirit Beads.

When Shen Lian opened the last jade box, a purple spiritual object the size of a finger appeared.

This small purple spiritual object was placed together with several other crystal clear spiritual stones.

After seeing these two objects, his eyebrows raised.

Purple Cloud Mushroom.

A medium-grade spiritual stone.

Gong Zhongze... is really good!

Let's not talk about the previous pills, let's talk about Purple Cloud Mushroom first, which is the main medicine for refining the Golden Pill. This piece is only the size of a finger, and it should have fallen from a complete Purple Cloud Mushroom.

Shen Lian searched through Gong Zhongze's memory, but unfortunately his memory was missing, and he didn't find out how he got it.

There is no need to say much about the middle-grade spirit stone. One piece is worth a hundred low-grade spirit stones, but the spirituality of the middle-grade spirit stone is more sufficient. If it is used when advancing to the golden elixir, it can also add a little help.

In the world of immortal cultivation, the low-grade spirit stone is the mainstream currency of cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage, and the middle-grade spirit stone is circulated above the golden elixir level as a tool for cultivation and exchange.

There are three middle-grade spirit stones in the jade box, one of which is reddish, obviously of fire attribute.

From elixir to spirit stone, Gong Zhongze has prepared everything for himself.

Why has he not been promoted yet? The main reason is that he is not sure. In addition to his low spiritual roots, he is too old.

This time, the main purpose of hunting the foundation-building cultivator is to collect spirit stones and buy a third-level middle-grade Tianji Gathering Spirit Array. This array is said to have a trace of the ability to guide the heavenly secrets, which can assist in cultivation and breakthrough.

Then, Shen Lian's eyes fell on the red stone trough in the middle, and he flipped through Gong Zhongze's memory and really found the relevant fragments.

This stone was found by Gong Zhongze from the storage of a foundation-building master after he killed him. When he sat on it to practice, it could actually help him purify his fire spirit power.

Shen Lian flew and sat cross-legged on the red stone. He immediately felt the crystal in the half-hollowed-out stone trough hitting his buttocks, but a warm aura was injected into his body.

After a dozen breaths, he frowned and jumped down from it.

His fire spirit power was too high, and this red crystal stone trough was of little use to him.

In order to be promoted to the golden elixir, Gong Zhongze made all preparations, but in the end, he failed.

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Putting the things into the storage bracelet, Shen Lian walked out of the stone chamber. The spiritual energy in this stone chamber was so abundant because it was obtained by drawing the spiritual veins below.

Unlike Gong Zhongze, Shen Lian did not need to squeeze the spiritual veins to practice.

He also wanted to save this fire spirit vein.

"Master, I have stabilized the red crystal fire ants."

The nest of the red crystal fire ants is located below the smelting room. After the second-level fire ant queen died, there were still many low-level queens left. Shen Lian directly let Dahei go.

In the past, he always played with black girls, and this time he also let Dahei play with red meat.

"See if you can give birth to an ant tribe with the dual bloodline of black horn ants and red crystal fire ants."

This is the task Shen Lian gave to Dahei. The red crystal fire ants have wings and can fly short distances, which is much faster than black horn ants.

The ground fire is roaring, and the ore quenching particles that are being refined here have long been collected by Shen Lian. A total of 800 jin of various first-level ores, more than 30 jin of second-level ores, and a small amount of third-level ores were harvested.

According to the agreement between Master Huogan and Master Hongyun who is in charge of the Red Crystal Mine City, a transaction will be conducted every five years, and the ores will be traded at 50% of the price of ores of the same grade at that time.

In other words, Gong Zhongze is just making hard-earned money.

But then again, without Hongyun Zhenren's care, this business can't go on.

The last transaction was two years ago.

Looking through Huogan Zhenren's memory, it is known that this business is not only done by Gong Zhongze. After he established Huogu Market, many people who breed ants and collect mineral debris appeared in major mining cities.

Fortunately, in Chijing Mining City, because of Hongyun Zhenren, there are no strong competitors.

On the contrary, there are some small-scale cultivators who have cultivated some small ants, but they are not very successful.

It is said that there are many smart people in the world of cultivation. They may not think of a good way, but they are still very fast at stealing.

Just as Shen Lian thought, the transactions were all conducted by foundation-building cultivators. Hongyun Zhenren didn't care at all. Huogan Zhenren hasn't met Hongyun Zhenren for more than ten years.

The last time they met was at an auction.

The two of them just nodded to each other.

In this way, his safety in replacing Huogan Zhenren has been greatly increased, but the necessary precautions still need to be taken.

Next, it is to quickly breed black-horned ants and red-crystal fire ants in the shortest possible time to speed up the collection of ore debris.

Speaking of which, there are quite a few second- and third-level ores harvested this time. The resources from the six foundation builders alone are a huge number.

Shen Lian summarized everything. There are a total of 2.4 million spiritual stones, of which 1.5 million were scraped from Gong Zhongze.

Sixteen pieces of seven types of third-level ores.

More than 200 pieces of various second-level ores.

More than 60 demon pills.

Thirteen second-level late-stage demon beasts, enough for him to bleed and prepare spiritual ink.

There are even more various spiritual medicines and other miscellaneous things.

After Shen Lian finished organizing, he burned all the storage rings and things with identity certificates to ashes.

Apart from anything else, with this batch of ores, plus the previous reserves, it is entirely possible to start smelting ores to refine the prototype of magic weapons.