Chapter 114, Foundation Establishment Pill (5000 words)
This was the place where he had agreed to meet with someone, but as soon as the door opened, a completely different face appeared in front of him. There was no time for his expression to change, and a ray of light suddenly fell down.
puff!
The robe on Yue Wen's body lit up with the light of the Little Golden Armor Technique, but the sword was struck so fast and heavy that even the air seemed to be broken. The pressure fell along with the sword's edge. In just a breath, the light of the Little Golden Armor Technique came out.
split into two.
The last barrier cracked, and Yue Wen was not surprised at all. Most of it was cut off and he fell to the ground.
Lu Nan quickly pulled the body into the house, reached out and squeezed a small cloud and rain spell to wash away the dirt on the ground, and then walked into the house.
The two monks inside were lying quietly on the ground, their chests and abdomen still heaving, apparently unconscious.
"We can't keep these two!" he thought to himself.
The reason why it is kept until now is because of the keen perception in the later stage of Qi refining. If Yue Wen discovered in advance that there was no breath of living people in it, he would probably have left some thoughts on it. If he wanted to kill him smoothly, the difficulty would rise sharply.
And his cultivation level is stronger than Yue Wen's, and he has a small breath-condensing technique to cover up, so it is easy to avoid Yue Wen's perception.
"Fortunately, the physical skills have been perfected. Otherwise, with the Dacheng level Xiaobao Xiangshu, it may not be possible to kill Yue Wen!"
Once he mobilized his magic power, it would inevitably be noticed, so from the beginning to the end, he used physical skills and flying swords to behead Yue Wen.
Lu Nan used the flying sword to slash the necks of the two people on the ground.
After the two of them were out of breath, they lifted the body to the corner of the yard, corroded it with a small amount of acid rain, then wrapped the black soil in oilcloth and put it in a storage bag.
After seeing that there were no traces left around, Lu Nan climbed over the wall from the backyard and left.
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In the next few days, Lu Nan carefully observed the activities of the Foreign Affairs Department.
After all, killing a deacon of the Foreign Affairs Office would definitely be a catastrophe if he was discovered.
Although he asked himself that he had done it cleanly, he was also worried that something had been omitted. If there was any news, it would be best to know it as soon as possible and escape to the fairy city in time.
Fortunately, five or six days have passed and there has been no response from the Foreign Affairs Office.
Lu Nan felt that time was almost up, so he packed up and entered the Foreign Affairs Office.
"Friend Lu Dao!"
The sudden cry made him feel a little nervous, and he quickly looked over.
"Fellow Daoist Lin, what's the matter?" The person who came was clearly Lin Jue.
Lu Nan was a little surprised.
Because of Yue Wen's relationship, this person rarely talks to me. I don't know what kind of wind blew to greet me today.
Lin Jue forced out a smile and said: "It's nothing, it's just that the harvest season is coming soon. I want to ask, how is the harvest there? If it's not enough, I can help you spread it out! You know, use spiritual stones to make up for it.
Supplementing with Ling Gu is completely different!”
Lu Nan quickly said: "No, no! The harvest is just okay!"
"Well, if you change your mind, you can come to me at any time!"
Lin Jue seemed to be in a good mood, which made Lu Nan feel strange but didn't ask any more questions.
Walked for a while.
"Fellow Daoist Lu!" This time it was Fang Jin, but his face didn't look very good.
"Fellow Daoist Fang, what are you—"
"Oh~ don't you know, something happened to Daoist Fellow Yue!" Fang Jin said.
Lu Nan said in shock: "How could it be possible! Fellow Daoist Yue is a late-stage Qi Refining monk! Could it be -"
Fang Jin shook his head and said: "I can't say for sure. It's not completely determined yet. The disciples at the mountain gate are still investigating!"
Lu Nan's heart skipped a beat, thinking back to his behavior.
There should be nothing missing, right?
"I hope the results will come out soon!" he said solemnly.
"Yes! If I know who did it, he will definitely die without a burial place!" Fang Jin said harshly.
Lu Nan felt a little embarrassed. If it hadn't been for him, he would have thought that Fang Jin was testing him.
This old guy, how about someone else?
"You won't be spared lightly!" Lu Nan agreed.
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The waiting day was not long. The next day, a few flashes of light fell on the Foreign Affairs Office. The leader, Lu Nan, still had some impression that he was Lu Xuanfeng, a high-level monk who appeared in the village during the recruitment that day.
The team responsible for this investigation was headed by him.
"I wonder what the result is? However, with Senior Brother Lu's methods, we can find some clues!" said a monk next to him.
Lu Nan's heart tightened slightly, and she wanted to leave, but she was worried that she would not do it to herself.
Just when he was struggling, the news came, which made him feel slightly relieved.
"I didn't expect that the remnants of the Sanyuan Sect would dare to touch my Iron Sword Gate tiger's beard at this time. I'm really looking for death!"
"It seems that there will be no peace in the next period of time!"
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Lu Nan was walking in the corridor of the Foreign Affairs Office and heard some comments from time to time.
Yue Wen's disappearance was not discussed above. The monk suddenly disappeared for a period of time, maybe because he had his own business to do. The reason why it was possible to cause trouble in such a short period of time was because this period of time was a critical moment when Yue Wen was on duty.
, there was no news for several days, and then it attracted the attention of the monks from the Foreign Affairs Office.
At other times, it may not be discovered for several months.
In this regard, Lu Nan could only admit that he was unlucky. Fortunately, he handled it cleanly, otherwise, it would have been dangerous.
The investigation may not be over yet, but Lu Nan's sense of crisis has gone away a lot.
Whether it is in the past life or here, the longer the time passes, the more difficult it is to investigate the case.
"It's still a bit risky!"
Lunan secret passage.
"Next, the speed of obtaining resources can be slowed down a little!"
He still has a long lifespan, so there is no need to fight for that time.
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Back in the village, Lu Nan continued to practice his spells step by step.
Every once in a while, he would go to the fairy city and hand over the drawn talisman paper to Han Ping.
Originally, Han Ping planned to have someone come over to get it, but Lu Nan refused. Now it is better for him to minimize contact with outsiders.
"When the foundation is established, you don't have to worry about these anymore!"
Lunan secret passage.
He has been trying to find out about the Foundation Establishment Pill. However, most monks have no idea where to get the Foundation Establishment Pill. They just say that it must be in the Iron Sword Sect.
I asked several deacons from the Foreign Affairs Office, but they remained silent.
It was not easy for Lu Nan to ask questions.
Just quietly accumulating wealth and preparing for foundation building.
On this day, Lu Nan, who was practicing in the yard, suddenly heard a knock on the door.
I thought it was Lu Jiu, but what I didn't expect was a monk from the Foreign Affairs Office.
"Congratulations fellow Taoist!"
Lu Nan was confused.
I don’t know what the other person meant by this!
The monk smiled and said: "Fellow Taoist Lu - no! It should be Deacon Lu. Please bear with me in the future!"
deacon?
Lu Nan said strangely: "Fellow Taoist, couldn't you have made a mistake?"
The monk said: "Fellow Taoist, you will know when you return to the Foreign Affairs Office!"
Lu Nan followed the other party out with a confused look on his face, and saw Lu Jiu walking towards him.
"Where are you going, Fellow Daoist Lu?"
"Go to the Foreign Affairs Office!"
"Hi~" Lu Jiu glanced at him doubtfully and shook his head, "How can this little steward of Lingtian do so many things?"
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"Deacon Lu, this is your appointment document!"
"This is your jade sign!"
"Here's the deacon's ration!"
"besides--"
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Lu Nan didn't expect that one day he would become the focus of everyone, and he suddenly felt a little scared.
It’s so eye-catching!
But on the surface, he had to face it all with a smile on his face.
In front, more than a dozen deacons from the Foreign Affairs Office were sitting on chairs. Whether they were sincere or not, their faces were full of smiles.
Lu Nan took the things from the female cultivator and thought to himself: What a guy!
Why does it feel like I was awarded a medal in a previous life?
Lu Nan's breathing suddenly stagnated, but he saw someone walking over, "I hope fellow Taoist Lu will work hard for our sect in the future!"
The person in front of him, with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes and a cold face, was clearly Lu Xuanfeng.
"Absolutely!" Lu Nan said quickly.
Lu Xuanfeng nodded, turned and left.
The other deacons then came over to congratulate him, but Lu Nan still felt that the atmosphere was a bit strange.
The promotion ceremony to deacon was over, and Lu Nan found Fang Jin to understand the situation.
"There is no need to worry, Fellow Daoist Lu. This is not a bad thing. Just accept it with peace of mind!" Fang Jin's expression could not be called cold, nor could he be said to be enthusiastic.
Lu Nan felt that there must be something going on here, but unfortunately, the other deacons remained silent and did not explain.
He could only give up temporarily and return to the yard.
The deacon's rations were much better than those of ordinary foreign affairs disciples. In addition to jade tablets and documents, there was also a high-grade robe with four spells in it, which was slightly better than the one he was wearing. Lu Nan replaced it.
The brand new robe is draped over my body, and I feel a little more comfortable.
"By the way! There's still a place to stay!"
Lu Nan found the disciple in charge of related matters, and soon he was taken to the courtyard complex where the deacons lived. It occupied a very wide area, and there were only dozens of courtyards. Compared to the courtyard where he lived before, it was simply heavenly.
Different places.
"Every treatment has been upgraded to a higher level. I wonder if related things will be unlocked in Zhenbao Pavilion!"
He valued spells more than external objects, so he couldn't wait to go to Duobao Pavilion.
The female cultivator who received him was still the same female cultivator last time. After seeing Lu Nan, she handed over the booklet and said, "Do you want to buy new spells so soon, fellow Taoist?"
She remembered Lu Nan's face, because transactions with huge spiritual stone amounts like the last time were very rare these days.
However, Lu Nan turned the book to the end, closed it, and said, "Is this the only one?"
The female cultivator didn't notice him and said with a smile: "Of course not, but only deacons and above can read the new volume!"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was an extra jade card in front of him, slowly shaking under Lu Nan's hand.
"you you--"
Lu Nan looked a little funny, but also a little happy, and said with a smile: "Go get it!"
The female cultivator quickly turned around and ran in. After a while, she followed a person and walked out.
"It turns out to be Fellow Daoist Lu!" The person who came was an old cultivator with white beard and hair and a slightly chubby body. Lu Nan remembered seeing him at the previous promotion ceremony. He seemed to be named Guang Ming.
The two complimented each other and walked inside. Within a moment, they entered a spacious room.
"But I was negligent. As fellow Taoist Lu, I don't have to wait outside like ordinary disciples!" Before entering, Guang Ming said apologetically, and followed the female monk behind him with a straight face: "From now on.
If something like this happens again, you are the only one to ask!"
"I don't blame her, I didn't identify myself right away!" Lu Nan said with a smile.
If Guang Ming's behavior is neither serious nor serious, he probably still defends female cultivators mostly, and he doesn't need to take it seriously.
Sure enough, Guang Ming smiled, signaled the female cultivator to leave, and then introduced Lu Nan into the house.
"This is the book our deacons use. It's a little different from the one outside!" After a while, he took out a thin jade book.
Lu Nan flipped through it for a while, frowned and said, "I wonder if I can ask fellow Taoist a question?"
"Friend Lu, please tell me!"
"Why are there no foundation-building spells in the Treasure Pavilion?"
Guang Ming shook his head and smiled, and said: "Friend Lu, you are overthinking it. Every foundation-building spell is the foundation of a sect. How can we and other foreign affairs disciples be able to see it?"
"Is there no way to solve it?"
"Not at all!" Guang Ming looked at Lu Nan's hand turning the book, "Fellow Taoist, please turn to the last page!"
Lu Nan quickly speeded up. When he saw the content of the last page, he couldn't help but froze for a moment and said in surprise: "This-"
Foundation Building Pill!
What was written on the last page was the Foundation Establishment Pill!
A whole golden page, with only this line in the middle: Foundation Establishment Pill: a thing used for foundation establishment! It can increase the chance of foundation establishment!
"You see, this is the path of our Foreign Affairs Office. If you want to learn the Foundation Establishment Realm spell, you must first become the Foundation Establishment Realm, and this Foundation Establishment Pill is what is used for Foundation Establishment!"
"Can I buy Foundation Building Pills in Zhenbao Pavilion?" Lu Nan said excitedly.
Guang Ming shook his head and said: "You can buy it if you can, but you can't buy it this way!"
"What's the meaning?"
"You have also seen that the price of the Foundation Establishment Pill is not marked because this pill is sold by auction. If there are any pills, the Treasure Pavilion will hold a special auction. Fellow Taoist is also a deacon now.
, you will naturally receive the invitation!”
"I see! But what is the historical price of this elixir?"
"The fluctuation is a bit big. The foreign affairs department, inner sect, and the later stage of Qi refining add up to more than 100. If the market is good, the price of a foundation-building pill can reach 10,000 mid-grade spiritual stones and upwards! If the market is not good,
We can also get seven or eight thousand middle-grade spiritual stones!"
Lu Nan frowned and said, "Will the inner disciples also participate?"
"Who says it's not?" Guang Ming sighed, "The numbers of the late stage of Qi refining in the Foreign Affairs Department and the late stage of Qi refining in the Inner Sect are almost the same, but the distribution of Foundation Establishment Pills is much different. For example, last time, there was a gap
It took two years for a batch to be sent to the Foreign Affairs Office, and the number was only five! Many Taoist friends in the Foreign Affairs Office were snatched and bloody. If there were no Foundation Establishment monks present to suppress the situation, there would have been a fight! Even so,
Inner disciples can still participate in the auction!"
"Fortunately, those in the inner sect's Qi Refining Realm still know how to measure. If they take more than half of the quantity, they will no longer compete with us! It's just that the quantity is still too small!"
Lu Nan asked doubtfully: "Is it issued once every two years?"
"No! It depends on the adjustment in the door! If there are many pills released, it may be once a year! If there are not many, then once every three to five years is not impossible! But generally speaking, within two or three years, there will be at least one
once!"
"This - let's count it once every three years, thirty years, that is thirty times. Counting three pills at a time, it can be used by all the late-stage Qi Refining monks in the Foreign Affairs Department!" Lu Nan said.
Guang Ming glared and said: "Who said that one person only needs one? If that were the case, that would be great. One would go into the belly, it would be successful, and everyone would be happy! If it doesn't work, the road to cultivation would be cut off. Why should we stay here when we should enjoy the enjoyment?
In the sect?”
"One is not enough?"
"Then it depends on your talent! For some, one is enough! For some - seven or eight are not enough! If you reach a certain number, it will determine whether you can advance to foundation building! But, everything always likes to leave a glimmer of hope.
, Therefore, even if you have swallowed a dozen or so Foundation Building Pills, twenty, or thirty pills, there will always be a glimmer of hope until the end comes! Moreover, because they have swallowed more, these people have swallowed less than those who have.
Even crazier!"
"Who doesn't want to live forever?"
Lu Nan sighed.
In the past few months, he had saved two thousand middle-grade spiritual stones, and he thought he was already a rich man, but now it seems that even if he wants to get even one foundation-building pill, it is far from enough.
"With an average of eight thousand middle-grade spiritual stones a year, it takes at most two years to secure a foundation-building pill!"
On the way back, Lu Nan made a calculation in his mind.
No wonder casual cultivators eventually return to their sects.
No way, resources are limited.
The emergence of a furnace of foundation-building pills requires firstly an alchemist of sufficient rank, and then the collection of materials.
It's not like Lu Nan has never thought about learning the alchemist's skills. With his golden fingers, he will definitely be able to reach a very high level in a few years.
but--
There are many difficulties in it.
First, there is alchemy.
This technique is simply not available for purchase.
The only way was to enter the inner sect and become a disciple of the alchemist. This level stuck him to death.
Even if you use some unusual means to obtain alchemy, what about the materials?
Unlike making talismans, many of the materials used in alchemy are elixir plants transplanted from some barren mountains and ridges and cultivated in the spiritual veins so that they can be continuously produced.
It is difficult to see such wild large tracts of medicinal materials. Even if they are found, they are in unexplored areas.
Iron Sword Sect has always needed manpower to clear up wasteland, and this is also part of the reason.
Therefore, if you don’t have enough materials, you won’t be able to gain enough proficiency even if you give him time!
Lu Nan gave up his plan to refine pills. In that time, he would have earned enough money for several foundation-building pills.
Now all his income comes from making talismans. If he increases his power to make talismans, he can increase his monthly income. However, he does not plan to do so for the time being.
He didn't know if Yue Wen's matter was over. If his fault was exposed, it would be more gain than loss.
"Although the market in Fairy City is huge, there are also many constraints!"
"Maybe I can change places!"
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Lu Nan made a decision in her heart.
However, this matter cannot be rushed. His position as spiritual field manager has not yet become popular, and if he wants to change his position again, he is afraid of being targeted by someone who is interested.
"let it go!"
Back in the village, Lu Nan had just walked to the front of the courtyard when he saw Lu Jiu walking over, with a hint of gloating on his face.
"Friend Lu!" Seeing Lu Nan, he ran over with a smile on his face.
"Fellow Taoist smiles so happily, is it because he has produced top-grade spiritual rice?" Lu Nan said with a smile.
Lu Jiu quickly put away his smile and said: "Nonsense! It would be great if the spiritual fields I manage can produce less inferior spiritual grains!"
Lu Nan could see that the other party had some unhappiness, so he didn't ask and just agreed casually.
Finally, Lu Jiu couldn't help it anymore and said, "Hey, fellow Taoist, do you still remember fellow Taoist Zhang?"
"Remember! What happened to Fellow Daoist Zhang?" Lu Nan was a little curious.