The leader was extremely respectful and even spoke carefully.
At this time, this person had changed his name from Su Fan to senior, and the strong ones in the world of cultivation were respected.
Su Fan didn't embarrass them too much, he just continued to listen to him with his usual expression.
"That morning, the inn had not yet opened. The innkeeper called the four of us together and told us that he was leaving to travel.
In the future, a young man who cultivates immortality will come to take over the store for him. We asked how we could know who was coming, and he just handed us a small flag.
He said, there is a soul inside this flag, and someone who comes can recover the soul inside.
If someone grabs the flag before this and chants a spell, you can also summon his inner soul to launch an attack.
It's just that the senior didn't seem to regain the soul before, but seemed to swallow the soul.
Therefore, the juniors did not tell the seniors the truth. Now that the seniors want to know, the juniors should tell them themselves. These are all we know."
Su Fan did not believe what he said and continued to ask: "Since your shopkeeper has gone on a wandering journey, this inn belongs to the four of you, and there is no shortage of money among them, so why do you still want to rob mortals?"
The waiter, who had been stunned for a while, regained his composure and hurriedly replied: "This is what our shopkeeper asked for when he left.
His old man said that if you want to meet that person, you must do this kind of thing. When we heard about it, we were also very surprised.
The shopkeeper is a humble and upright person. Why did he ask us to do such a thing? The shopkeeper explained that if the four of us want to truly enter the path of cultivating immortals in this life, we must find the person he mentioned.
In this way, only the four of us could do such a thing. In addition, the years of robbing gradually caused the four of us to lose our true intentions, and what happened today happened.
The gold and silver in the storage bag are what we have robbed over the years. The four of us have not touched a penny because we have no use for these things."
Su Fan remained silent. The explanations given to him by these four people had no credibility at all. Su Fan was not a careless person.
The leader seemed to understand Su Fan's intentions and stammered: "Senior, if... if you don't believe it, you can go to the backyard with me and you will know as soon as you take a look."
Su Fan said coldly: "Lead the way."
After a while, a group of five people came to the backyard. The waiter raised his hand to draw a symbol and tapped it in the void.
A dark vortex appeared in the direction of the finger. The waiter went in first to signal Su Fan that there was no danger.
Then all five people walked into the whirlpool, and the whirlpool that appeared in the courtyard slowly dissipated.
Within the whirlpool is a cave, which is as bright as day and has abundant spiritual energy.
Su Fan could tell at a glance that there were spiritual veins ores densely covered in this cave.
After a while, the five people walked to the end of the cave. This was a larger stone room, about three times the size of an inn guest room. There was a huge Tai Chi diagram carved on the wall behind the stone room.
There is a stone table in the center of the stone room and five stone chairs in front of it. There are words written on each chair.
Su Fan dispersed his thoughts and swept towards the words on the stone chair.
Suddenly, Su Fan was shocked. The words carved on the stone chair were names one by one.
One of them was Su Fan. Su Fan quickly calmed down and looked as usual.
The four people also saw the names on the stone chairs, which were obviously their own names. At this time, the waiter shouted: "Boss, the shopkeeper didn't seem to have a name when he brought me here."
The leader said jokingly: "More than ten years have passed. Do you still remember how old you were at that time?"
The waiter cursed in a low voice, ran to Su Fan, and asked respectfully: "Senior, is there your name on the stone chair?"
Su Fan nodded and did not answer, taking it as acquiescence. The waiter suddenly smiled and said: "Look, senior. We didn't lie to you. Our shopkeeper is an expert. He has already predicted that you are coming."
Su Fan frowned, walked to the room chair with his name engraved on it, and sat down.
Seeing Su Fan sit down, the four of them also sat in their own places.
Suddenly, bursts of green light emitted from the center of the stone table. At this time, the five people were staring at the stone table.
After three breaths, the green light gradually condensed into a pillar of light, which shone on the top of the stone chamber.
A purple light refracted from the top, illuminating the Tai Chi diagram on the wall.
The entire Tai Chi diagram was enveloped in purple light. This process lasted for ten breaths, and the black and white colors of the Tai Chi diagram rotated rapidly clockwise.
Gradually, the speed of the black and white figures slowed down. With a click, the Tai Chi figure opened from the middle, and Su Fan immediately sent out his spiritual thoughts to sweep it away.
Behind it is a small stone room, which looks like a storage room. The space inside is about the size of an ordinary wooden cabinet.
Su Fan walked towards the stone chamber, and with a sweep of his mind, there was no formation blocking it, only a jade tube.
Su Fan looked through the jade tube with his spiritual thoughts, but could not see anything.
The jade tube is mostly used to record exercises and classics.
In some larger cultivation sects, due to the large number of disciples, it is impossible for everyone to have scrolls and classics.
Therefore, using an item like a jade tube that is easy to record, the user only needs to integrate his memory of the skills into his spiritual thoughts and hand them over to his disciples.
Su Fan is no stranger to the use of this jade tube. Disciples can see the information inside just by scanning it with their spiritual thoughts.
Just now, Su Fan scanned the jade tube with his spiritual mind and did not see the contents. That was because some people recorded the contents of the jade tube as more precious.
The person who makes the jade tube will set the conditions for opening it, and most of them require the blood and essence of a designated person to open it.
Su Fan frowned slightly, and a trace of solemnity flashed in his eyes. According to what the four people said, their shopkeeper had predicted that I would come here many years ago.
Presumably, this jade tube is left for me. But will this be a trap, just waiting for me to enter.
But even so, with my early stage of Qi refining, I wouldn't have gone to such great lengths to harm me.
Su Fan was heartbroken, bit his index finger, dropped a drop of blood on the jade tube, grabbed the jade tube out of the air with a wave of his hand, and swept it away with his spiritual thoughts.
Suddenly, there was a dazzling white light in front of his eyes. When the white light slowly dissipated, an old man with all white hair and beard walked out.
He smoothed his beard, smiled at Su Fan, and said, "My little friend, your name is Su Fan. You are finally here. I have been waiting for you for a long time."
Su Fan's expression was as usual. This old man was a spiritual thought, but this person had such strength with just a spiritual thought. Su Fan thought that he could not see the old man's cultivation, so he asked: "I don't know who the senior is. I'm looking for the junior."
What’s the matter?”
"It doesn't matter who I am. If I come to you, I will naturally give you a great blessing. If you don't want it," the old man said happily.
Su Fan couldn't guess what the old man was thinking. He thought he was no match for the old man, so he wanted to take back his spiritual thoughts. Unexpectedly, he was restricted by a strange force, and his spiritual thoughts could not break free or cut off.
Su Fan's eyes were solemn and he said coldly: "No reward for no merit, I haven't accomplished anything, and I don't need the help of my seniors."
A strange light flashed in the old man's eyes, and he said interestingly: "It's good if you can't be driven by profit." After saying that, he looked at Su Fan deeply.
Then he said slowly: "I calculated many years ago that you would appear in Luo City and have been waiting for you for ten years.
Unexpectedly, there was an error. You are the first person in my five thousand years of practicing Taoism to make an error.
After that, I made many deductions, and my information about you became increasingly blurry.
Finally, I must not spend hundreds of years cultivating myself to make the last deduction.
This time, I calculated that the next ten years will be the time when you appear. It’s just a specific time, but I can’t calculate it no matter what.
I wanted to wait for you to come and tell you in person. But no matter what, my life span has expired. The old man you see today is just my spiritual thought. In fact, I disappeared ten years ago.
Don't ask me why I have to wait for you again. When you reach your cultivation level, you will naturally know.
Whether you believe it or not, I want to ask you to help me complete three things today, would you like to continue listening." Su Fan nodded and motioned for the old man to continue.
The old man laughed, stroked his beard again, and said slowly: "I believe you have already accepted that soul. I obtained that soul in a strange place, and then I derived it from you through that soul.
Okay, the third thing is to help me take care of my four disciples and this inn for five years.
There are four spiritual veins in the cave, three branch veins and one main vein.
During these five years, you can practice as much as you like in my cave, and this is your reward.
The second thing is to leave the inn after five years and set up the strongest defensive formation you have learned in the inn.
If you place the jade cylinder in the northeast corner of the cave's stone chamber, a stone chamber will open. There are some medium-grade spiritual stones in it, all of which will be given to you. You can use them to purchase magic weapons and exercises.
The third thing is, I ask you to take care of them and help them practice.
I won’t tell you the reward for this, you will get it when the time comes.”
Speaking of this, the old man smiled meaningfully. Then he said lightly: "Back then, when I first came to Luo City, I met the four of them by chance. I saw that the four of them were struggling to practice Taoism. With just a little guidance, the four of them treated me in every possible way.
He is willing to be my attendant and serve me for many years.
Most cultivators are noble, but the fact that the four of them are so kind shows that they are very kind to me. I have a mortal bond with them, and now I need you to help me end this mortal bond. I hope you can wait for me to finish it."
After finishing speaking, the old man's figure gradually disappeared. Su Fan slowly withdrew his spiritual thoughts and retracted the jade tube.
I sighed in my heart, this old man is considered an expert, he was able to deduce my arrival after decades. However, I cannot fully believe his words, I still need to observe more.
Seeing that Su Fan had withdrawn his spiritual thoughts, the four people hurriedly left their chairs and ran to Su Fan to ask what the content was.
Su Fan smiled slightly and only said: "Your shopkeeper said that he is very good now and wants you to practice diligently."
After listening to Su Fan's words, the waiter said happily: "Boss, look, I said the shopkeeper is fine."
Su Fan trembled inwardly, but his expression was as usual. The man called the boss frowned slightly and said, "The night the boss left, when I was watching the stars on the roof of the inn, I clearly heard him say that he was not going to die soon."