In the Castle of Immortals, servants were walking like flowing water, making final preparations for the birthday.

In the more than a thousand miles south of Lingnan, the Wen family is the king.

This place has been a barren land since ancient times, and the place of exile is also a valuable place in the eyes of the monks, because there is not even a spirit stone mine here.

But this place has its own merits for alchemy, because there are quite a few poisonous insects and beasts.

Therefore, the Wen family is quite at home here. Although there have been several other small aristocratic families competing with it in the past dynasties, the Wen family has always had the last laugh without exception.

The most dangerous incident was the internal strife of the Wen family more than 800 years ago, when several small aristocratic families who had been under it for a long time colluded with outsiders to overturn the empire in one fell swoop, but unfortunately in the end they failed.

Because there was a Pan Xiu'er at that time, the hostess who celebrates her birthday today, the current ancestor of the Wen family, the most respected in terms of age, and the most powerful alchemist of the Wen family, one of the three great alchemists in the world.

The huge banquet hall was almost full. This year's birthday was unexpectedly lively. It seemed that even some sects from far away places had sent people.

The Wen family is based in Lingnan, relying on alchemy and the connections accumulated through alchemy, rather than absolute force, because when it comes to force, many of the sects who come here are stronger than the Wen family.

If Pan Xiuer, the ancestor of the Wen family, had not studied under the Shushan sect, there would not even be a single Heavenly Realm monk in the Wen family.

But no one dares to underestimate the Wen family. Among the three great alchemy masters in the world, Lu Kun specializes in the Daqian Empire, and Zhuang Zhiqing is a member of the Emei Sect, and at most he only makes elixirs for various Taoist sects.

Only Pan Xiuer has almost no threshold. Even though she is a demon sect, although she does not make elixirs herself, she can still trade elixirs in the Wen family.

The Wen family just opens its doors to do business, so all parties can buy elixirs here, provided there is sufficient exchange.

Although Lingnan is a barren land, the Wen family is not poor. This is due to the Wen family's unique status.

So at first, several small aristocratic families wanted to unite to overthrow the Wen family and replace them. However, with the failure of those alchemy families, the Wen family has no rivals in Lingnan, unless there are outside alchemy families or alchemy sects.

Come in and compete with them.

There are almost no internal worries, but external worries have always been a subtle matter.

This kind of conflict between foreign alchemy families or sects has never happened, because the only alchemy sects that have been qualified to compete with the Wen family as a whole are the Taoist Jinding Sect.

Ever since the Jinding Sect's leader, Dan Ding Zhenren, died in a calamity, no one in the sect can compare with the three great Alchemy Lords. Although the current leader, Cai Ping, is better than others in the sect, he is not as good as the three.

But whether it is these alchemy sects or people like Lu Kun who want to build a new alchemy sect with the power of Alchemy Lord, there are naturally a lot of places to choose from, and there is no reason to come to Lingnan to compete with the Wen family for this.

barren land.

It is not too difficult to annex a sect like the Wen family, which is not very powerful but has many connections. It can be done as long as its own power is strong enough.

The most qualified one before was the Guangming Holy Witch Sect, which was the largest sect in the south and had the Taoist sect as its backing.

However, since the last time the Bright Holy Witch Sect was severely damaged by its old enemy, the Dark Demonic Witch Sect, its vitality has been severely damaged. Even the old sect leader Yu Yu Qingyin is still in the body of the soul.

It was given to the current patriarch Yu Yuqiong.

However, with the support of the Taoist sect, the Dark Demonic Witch Sect even abandoned the original mountain gate and moved their faction to Zhanzhou in the south to end the matter.

The Wen family has cleverly maintained its independence in this complex and balanced situation. Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Guangming Holy Witch Sect is extremely friendly to it.

Every year on birthdays, people come to pay their respects, and at the same time there are various forces in need of elixirs. When the sect makes a reservation for the quota of elixirs from the Wen family, this has become an unwritten practice over the past eight hundred years.

The annual output of elixirs cannot be unlimited. Even if the raw materials are abundant and there is no shortage at all, alchemists are still not unlimited.

And this still refers to ordinary elixirs. If any sect needs to refine a long-term and troublesome elixir for itself, it needs to make an appointment with the alchemist in advance.

In this way, the alchemist can estimate the time after the appointment and concentrate on refining the elixir within the required time.

There are different levels of elixirs, and not just any alchemist can make them.

Among the alchemists, with the alchemist as a reference, there are alchemists below, and there are great alchemists and alchemists above them, and the three great alchemists all want to get the title of alchemy king.

At least you must be an alchemist to be qualified to make alchemy independently, and only to be eligible to accept invitations from the Wen family.

"Haha, I wonder how many elixirs Brother Mao wants to reserve this year?" A monk who had just sat down asked an acquaintance next to him.

"Hahaha, of course I want more, but it depends on whether Fairy Pan is willing to nod."

Others also started chatting, and the banquet hall suddenly became noisy.

"To be honest with fellow Taoist Cao, our sect and the Taiyue Sect are currently in a state of turmoil, so we came here this time to ask the Wen family to sell more medicine to us."

"Ah, wouldn't this mean that we are squeezing out our share? You also know that after all, the annual quotas of the larger sects are almost fixed. They only increase but not decrease. If they decrease, they will also be reduced for small sects like us.

, suddenly you want more, what should we do?”

"Alas, fellow Taoist Cao, that's not what you said. Your sect has not had any conflicts with anyone this year."

Everyone in the banquet hall was getting louder and louder, and Pan Xiuer, the hostess, never showed up. Only the current patriarch of the Wen family, accompanied by two clan members, came to each table to salute the distinguished guests.

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After saying hello, Wen Rufeng walked to the next table, but the words she heard faintly behind her stuck in her heart like needles.

"Fellow Taoist, since you want more elixirs, why didn't you mention it to the head of the Wen family when he came just now?"

"Haha, it seems that fellow Taoist just came here this year, so I don't know. He is not the one who decides this Wen family, not even the previous heads of the Wen family. He is the birthday boy on today's birthday, the Wen family member.

Only our ancestor Pan Xianzi can make the decision."

"I see, but I have one thing to ask you. Why is the person in charge of the Wen family named Pan, but not Wen?"

"Here, come over here."

Wen Rufeng felt uncomfortable and let out a long breath.

This appearance has not changed since eight hundred years ago. Even Wen Rufeng considers himself a rare alchemy talent in the Wen family and knows that it is difficult to change.

Everyone in the Wen family is resentful of that ancestor, but who among the people alive today has not received some guidance from her?

So if you want to overthrow her by force, don't say whether it can be done or not. Even if it can be done, it is absolutely impossible to convince others and replace her.

In order to be convinced, one must defeat Pan Xiuer on the alchemy path.

Wen Rufeng pinned this hope on her daughter Wen Baoer. She has entered the family at a young age and has an unlimited future.

Pan's mother could be so cruel as to send her daughter to Shushan to learn alchemy through a favor. She could give Wen Baoer more help and use her own way to control his body in the future. Whether it's alchemy or connections, as long as she

Wen Baoer performed as well as Pan Xiuer did back then, and the support of the Wen family is self-evident.

"Enough!"

Just when all the guests in the hall were getting a little impatient, someone finally broke out first, which even shocked Wen Rufeng.

I saw a man in black suddenly stood up among the tables at the east end, looked around at the crowd and shouted.

"Stop arguing. Starting this year, the Wen family will no longer sell elixirs to others, and will no longer accept invitations to make alchemy."

"What?"

"What's going on?"

"Who is this guy? He doesn't seem to be from the Wen family. How can he make the decision for the Wen family?"

Wen Rufeng was shocked and angry, and quickly turned around, "Everyone, everyone, this guest is not from my Wen family. I must have annoyed him by being too noisy just now, so I didn't hesitate to speak. This year's specific pill quota is still

I have to wait until my ancestors come out before making a decision."

After hearing what Wen Rufeng said, everyone calmed down.

Unexpectedly, the man in black sneered: "What I just said was not a joke."

Wen Rufeng couldn't help but shuddered and looked at him coldly. When she saw the mark on the man in black, she couldn't help but said in surprise: "Da Qian Empire?"

The man in black smiled and said: "Yes, this is Zhou Lian, the second disciple of the chief palace alchemist of the Daqian Empire. He was ordered by His Majesty and Master Lu to come to the Wen family. From today on, the Wen family belongs to our Daqian Empire.

You are no longer allowed to make elixirs for outsiders. Master Lu has something more important and wants Zhou Lian to report it to Fairy Pan in person."

"What do you mean, you want to dominate?"

"Isn't the Daqian Empire too overbearing?"

"Fellow Daoist Zhou, although the Daqian Empire is dominating the east, it seems to be thousands of miles away from Lingnan. Although our Wen family is small, it has always been relatively independent. The matter of the pill quota has always been decided by the Wen family.

It's not up to others to decide." Wen Rufeng's face was ashen, if the person who spoke just now was not Daqian Empire, he would definitely tell the other party to get out directly.

Hearing what Wen Rufeng said, others also expressed their support.

Although the Daqian Empire is one of the most powerful forces in the world, it can be traced back to the split of Dachu more than a thousand years ago. The founder was the first prince of Dachu. When the country was founded, it had the support of many forces and ranked third among the three empires.

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However, later the Iron-Blooded Marquis of the Daxi Empire broke through to the holy level, and the Daqi Empire was supported by the Chunyang Clan. However, the Daqian Empire did not have the support of the holy monks, and it was once in decline.

It wasn't until the Iron Blood Marquis went to the Daqian Empire as an envoy, and suddenly Lord Asura and the Heavenly Corpse Boy from the Demonic Sect appeared, that the world knew that the Daqian Empire had the support of some Demonic Sects.

But as Wen Rufeng said just now, no matter how powerful the Daqian Empire was, it was still thousands of miles away from Lingnan and not directly bordering it.

Of course, this distance is not a big problem for the monks, but it represents the sphere of influence. The Wen family is not within the sphere of influence of the Daqian Empire.

"Hahaha, today is different from the past." Zhou Lian laughed wildly and said, "Clan Chief Wen and everyone know that since Zhou left Yaojing, our Daqian Empire has divided its troops into three groups to conquer some nearby people who are not willing to accept naturalization.
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