Chapter 96.
Chapter 96 News
Walking into the Spirit Scorpion Courtyard, Shen Long saw a dozen of tall black trees with lush branches and leaves, the leaves were rounded, a black mist was floating in mid-air, these black trees were mandarin trees, capable of releasing miasma, the higher the year, the more miasma was released, the stronger the toxicity, it was very popular with poisonous insects and poisonous beasts.
Iron-tailed scorpion lying under a mandarin tree, Shen Long blew a whistle, it let out a sharp hiss and ran towards Shen Long, its tail stinger swung left and right.
It was currently still at the early stage of the second rank, Shen Long took out two black grasses and a beast spirit elixir and fed it to the Iron-tailed Scorpion.
The Iron-tailed Scorpion let out a joyful hiss, and Shen Long could feel that it was very happy.
He waved his hand and the Iron-tailed Scorpion returned to its original position.
Shen Long left the Spirit Scorpion Courtyard and came to the entrance of a small golden-tiled courtyard, where a wooden signboard was hung at the entrance with three big silver characters “Golden Ant Courtyard” written on it.
A golden light curtain blocked his way, he took out a square golden token, wrist shake, a golden light flew out from the token, hit the golden light curtain above, the golden light curtain collapsed.
He walked in, the ground scattered a large number of golden wood, some gold-eating ants lying on top of the wood to gnaw.
The number of gold-eating ants exceeded 50,000, just the second-order gold-eating ants alone exceeded a hundred, coalescing into a weapon form was even more powerful, the queen of the gold-eating ants flew over, its body was like a huge piece of gold, still at the early stage of the second-order.
Shen Long took out some silver ores and fed it to the Gold Eating Ant Queen before feeding it a Beast Spirit Pill.
The number of gold-eating ants was increasing, the cost of feeding them was not a small amount, it was good that Shen Long had opened a small store to sell pills.
The Heavenly Dan Hall provided the materials and he was responsible for refining the pills, most of the pills made were turned in and exchanged for good deeds, and a small portion was left behind and placed in the store for sale.
More than a hundred second-order gold-eating ants flew over, Shen Long fed them some second-order refining materials, the beast spirit pills had no share, Shen Long had not been so generous.
He wore the Yun Shen on his body, and his divine sense was slowly growing.
He had already figured out the function of the Yun Shen Pei, it was an auxiliary magic treasure that allowed the wearer’s divine sense to grow, and the longer the wearer wore it, the more the divine sense grew.
As for the Magnetic Yuan Bead, he didn’t know the specific function for now, mainly because he couldn’t drive it, but the God Pendant didn’t need to be driven, and could be useful when worn on the body.
In addition to the Yun Shen Pei, Shen Long would also take the Green Jade Yun Shen Dan, his divine sense was more powerful, at present, it was no problem to drive more than 50,000 gold-eating ants, he had tried, at most one tea time, his divine sense would be exhausted, and he needed to solve the enemy within one tea time.
If he couldn’t solve the enemy in one tea time, there was no need for Shen Long to die and find a way to escape.
Lin Shan walked over and said, “Uncle Shen, Uncle Qian, Uncle Ye and Uncle Qin have come over.”
“Quickly invite them to the welcoming courtyard, I will go over immediately.”
Shen Long commanded.
The five clans of Qin had joined hands to deal with the four clans of Zhao, in the beginning it was only the foundation cultivators who fought heavily, after fighting for half a year, the foundation cultivators had fallen by hundreds, and the JieDan cultivators had all taken action.
The five clans of Qin have not been able to completely swallow the four clans of Zhao, and ultimately it is necessary to return to the negotiation table, Qin is not willing to spit out the territory that is in its mouth, and Zhao does not want to cede a large chunk of territory.
The five clans of Qin each sent a jiandan cultivator, and Zhao’s jiandan cultivator cut, to decide the specific division of territory, Qin won three games and lost two, Zhao had to cede a large piece of territory.
The Heavenly Flame Fairy of the Xuan Yang Sect easily defeated the Xuan Yin Realist of the Hundred Ghosts Sect, while the Red Jiao Realist of the Royal Spirit Sect and the Golden Sword Realist of the Bastard Sword Villa each defeated a JieDan cultivator.
Qin had twelve states and thirty-six counties, while Zhao had ten states and twenty-seven counties. After the great battle, Zhao ceded two states to Qin, and Qin owned fourteen states.
The Jin Lang Jade vein was jointly mined by the five clans of Qin, with the Royal Spirit Sect taking up 40%, the Xuan Yang Sect taking up 20%, the Baji Dao Villa taking up 20%, and the Seven Summers Sect and the Purple Sky Sect each taking up 10%.
In this battle, the Royal Spirit Sect lost more than twenty Foundation Establishment cultivators, two of them were seventy-two, Lin Sisi led the team to take down a second-order vein, killing a total of seven Foundation Establishment cultivators, and Ning Qian Qian’s performance was also very good, taking down a small spiritual medicine garden and killing five Foundation Establishment cultivators, they fill these two vacancies, becoming the new seventy-two.
Ye Yutang, Ye Yuyi and Qin Bao all killed a Foundation Establishment cultivator and received some rewards. Qian Dafu was responsible for escorting the supplies, which was not dangerous and did not get much credit.
After the battle, Qian Dafu returned to the Royal Spirit Sect and did business with Shen Long.
Shen Long paid the money, Qian Dafu paid the effort, and Shen Long took the lion’s share of the profits earned.
“Yes, Master Shen.”
Lin Shan agreed and led the order.
Shen Long arrived at a secluded green tile courtyard with a hexagonal green stone pavilion.
He came to the stone pavilion and sat down, took out a set of exquisite rosewood tea set and tea leaves, and began to make tea.
Not long after, Qian Dafu, Ye Yutang, Ye Yuqing and Qin Bao came over.
“Senior brother Qin, there are no major injuries!”
Shen Long asked with concern.
Qin Bao had been injured during the great battle and purchased healing pills from Shen Long.
“After taking the Blood Rhinoceros Pill that Senior Brother Shen refined, it’s nothing serious.”
Qin Bao’s tone was warm.
They entered at the same time, at that time Shen Long’s cultivation level was lower than theirs, now Shen Long was in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, they were only in the early stage of Foundation Establishment, on top of that, Shen Long was one of the seventy-two Xiushu, and he was just an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator.
“That’s good, everyone sit down and chat!”
Shen Long greeted them and sat down, picked up the teapot and poured tea for them and chatted idly.
“By the way, in a while Xuan Yang Sect organizes Xuan Yang Dharma Meeting, does Senior Brother Shen want to go to participate?”
Qian Dafu asked.
The Xuan Yang Dharma Meeting was an event organized by the Xuan Yang Sect and had been held many times.
The Xuan Yang Faire was initially organized by the Xuan Yang Sect’s JieDan cultivators to exchange and spar with other JieDan cultivators, and has developed to the point where it is not only JieDan cultivators exchanging and sparring, but also Qi Refinement and Foundation Establishment cultivators who can also participate, and also hold auctions to sell their merchandise.
In a sense, the Xuan Yang Fa Hui is the biggest event in the cultivation world of Qin, with all major powers sending people to participate, and it is held once every hundred years or so.
“Of course I have to attend, aren’t you guys going? It’s held once every hundred years, it’s too bad not to go.”
Shen Long said.
As far as he knew, the five clans of Qin would organize a competition to allow the Foundation Establishment Cultivators of the five clans to spar, which was also a way of communication, the exchange of dao was not only limited to chatting, but sparring and competition was also a way.
Some cultivators were stuck in bottlenecks, and by fighting and sparring with other fellow cultivators, there was hope of resolving the bottleneck.
“We will also participate, but with our strength, it’s too hard to get a good ranking, Senior Brother Shen should have a chance.”
Qian Dafu said with a smile.
“How can it be that easy to get a good ranking, just do your best!”
Shen Long said.
There was an opportunity to express himself, he naturally would not miss it, without a background and with average qualifications, if he wanted to make a name for himself, he had to seize every opportunity to express himself as much as possible, and strive for more immortal cultivation resources for himself.
“Last time the top ten of the Xuan Yang Festivals, the top seven are all Xuan Yang Sect disciples, among them, Tian Huo Fairy is the first place, we fought with the four sects of Zhao, Tian Huo Fairy defeated Xuan Yin Zhen Zhen with a great power, so it can be seen that the Xuan Yang Festivals have gold content.”
Ye Yutang said, his face full of envy.
The Xuan Yang Dharma Meeting was also a chance for the disciples of the Royal Spirit Sect to make a name for themselves, they were only at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, it was too difficult for them to get a good ranking.
“In the past ten Xuan Yang Fairs, the top three places were all Xuan Yang Sect disciples, I don’t know if anyone will be able to change that this time.”
Qian Dafu said curiously.
“If Senior Brother Xu Yang Xu participates in this Xuan Yang Dharma Assembly, he should be able to achieve a good ranking!”
Shen Long said.
Xu Yang was the head of the seventy-two shows, cultivated to the Foundation Establishment Great Circle a long time ago, hadn’t shown up for many years, and had heard that he was impacting the JieDan stage.
“Senior brother Xu should be impacting the conjugation stage, he hasn’t shown up for many years, he probably won’t participate in this Xuan Yang Dharma Meeting, look at senior brother Xu, senior sister Wang and them!”
Qian Dafu said.
After chatting for more than an hour, Qian Dafu’s four people excused themselves and left.
Shen Long looked at Lin Shan and asked, “Senior nephew Lin, when will senior brother Xu organize the party?”
“Tonight at garrison time, the location is at Senior Brother Xu’s residence!”
Lin Shan said.
Shen Long nodded, took out a flickering blue light transmission disk, punched in a spell, and asked, “Senior Sister Chen, is there any news on that matter?”
He had asked Chen Qingqing to help find his parents, promising a heavy thanks after the matter was accomplished.
“No, it’s been too long, and they’re only Qi Refining cultivators, it’s too difficult to find out, I’ve sent people to look into it, but they don’t have any clues.”
Chen Qingqing said.
“Trouble for you, Senior Sister Chen, if you have any news, notify me right away, by the way, I’ve refined a few furnaces of Beast Spirit Pills, I’ll have Lin Shan send them to you.”
Shen Long said. He had a request, he wouldn’t let Chen Qingqing help for nothing, after getting benefits, Chen Qingqing would sell her efforts.
“How is this good!”
Chen Qingqing said.
“What’s there to be embarrassed about, it’s just two furnaces of Beast Spirit Pills, it’s not a rare thing, I still have heavy thanks for finding those two, that’s all!”
Shen Long put away the summoning disk, took out a green-colored storage bag, handed it to Lin Shan, and instructed, “Deliver it to Senior Sister Chen, and give it to Senior Sister Chen with your own hands, got it?”
“Yes, disciple will do it right away.”
Lin Shan agreed and led the order.
Shen Long returned to the Green Lotus Pavilion, walked into a secret room, sat on a futon, and closed his eyes.
The sky slowly darkened, and many cultivators took out tools for lighting.
Shen Long walked out of the Green Lotus Garden, released the Snow Wind Sparrow, and jumped onto the Snow Wind Sparrow’s back.
The Snow Wind Sparrow’s wings flapped gently and flew towards high altitude.
In less than half a quarter of an hour, Shen Long appeared in the sky above a small valley surrounded by mountains on three sides, which was covered by a large piece of fog, making it impossible to see the situation inside the valley clearly.
He sent a transmitting note, the mist dispersed, and a manor covering a vast area came into view.
The Snow Wind Sparrow slowly flew down and landed in front of a green-colored stone pavilion, where two men and a woman were sitting in the stone pavilion, headed by a green-shirted youth with a white face.
“Senior Brother Xu, Senior Sister Liu, Senior Brother Chen, you have all come.”
Shen Long opened his mouth to greet and put away the Snow Wind Sparrow.
“Senior Brother Shen, hasn’t the Snow Wind Sparrow advanced to the middle second stage yet!”
A gold-shirted man in his early forties asked.
Chen Jin, early stage Foundation Establishment.
The outside world thought that Shen Long’s innate spirit bird was the Snow Wind Sparrow, Shen Long didn’t say that his innate spirit bird was the Golden-winged Wind Roc, so as not to attract unnecessary trouble.
He had exchanged his experience of the Imperial Beast with a number of his fellow disciples and found that the bloodline purity of their Intrinsic Spirit Birds was two at the highest, and a few were one, which was completely incomparable to that of the Golden-winged Wind Roc.
“Not yet! Benthic Spirit Birds don’t advance that easily.”
Shen Long explained.
“Feed it more Beast Spirit Pills, it’s not a problem for it to advance to the middle of the second stage.”
The green-shirted youth said.
Xu Lin, middle stage of Foundation Establishment.
Shen Long nodded and asked “Is it just the four of us? Isn’t Senior Sister Song coming?”
“Senior Sister Song is stuck in a bottleneck and went out for a trip, Senior Sister Qin will attend.”
A young woman with a graceful golden skirt said.
Liu Yan, who was also a second rank alchemist.
“Who?”
Shen Long was slightly stunned.
“Master Qin’s descendant, Senior Sister Qin, Senior Brother Shen should have heard of it.”
Xu Lin explained.
“How come Senior Sister Qin is attending our gathering?”
Shen Long was somewhat surprised.
Three years ago, he had met Qin Shuangshuang when he had just passed the alchemy examination, and then he had not seen Qin Shuangshuang again.
With Qin Shuangshuang’s status and position, she should not have attended their party.
“What? Can’t I attend your party?”
A silver bell-like woman’s voice rang out.
As soon as the words fell, a three zhang long eight-winged Thunderfire Centipede descended from the sky, and Qin Shuangshuang stood on the back of the eight-winged Thunderfire Centipede.
“Senior Sister Qin misunderstood, I just thought that Senior Sister Qin was rather busy and didn’t have time to attend our party.”
Shen Long hurriedly explained.
“Senior Brother Xu invited me over, I still have to give face.”
Qin Shuangshuang said with a smile.
“Senior Brother Shen didn’t mean any harm, not to mention that he was surprised, I was also a bit surprised when Senior Sister Qin agreed to go to the appointment.”
Xu Lin relieved Shen Long.
“Everyone is a fellow disciple, I won’t take it to heart.”
Qin Shuangshuang said generously.
“Senior sister Qin, you’ve advanced to the late stage, it seems that you’ll be able to obtain a good ranking in this Xuan Yang Dharma Meeting.”
Chen Jin flattered.
“It’s hard to say, the other four clans will all send their experts to participate, so let’s hope we can get a good ranking!”
Qin Shuangshuang said, her tone changed and she said, “Actually, the rankings don’t mean anything, some core disciples won’t participate easily at all, such as Senior Brother Xu and Senior Sister Yang.”
“Speaking of which, Senior Brother Xu hasn’t shown up for years, and five years ago, I even met Senior Sister Yang once.”
Xu Lin said.
“Perhaps if Senior Brother Xu shows up again, he will already be at the JieDan stage.”
Shen Long said.
“There is this possibility, let’s get down to business! Senior Brother Xu invited me here to exchange the art of alchemy, right!”
Qin Shuangshuang said.
Xu Lin nodded and said, “I heard that Senior Sister Qin has returned, so I invited you over for a chat, and there are some questions I want to ask you.”
Qin Shuangshuang was a descendant of a third-order alchemist, she could ask for advice from a third-order alchemist, and her level of alchemy was much higher than theirs, and many of the second-order alchemists in the Royal Spirit Sect exchanged alchemy techniques with Qin Shuangshuang.
“I don’t dare to ask for advice, exchange with each other.”
Qin Shuang Shuang said modestly.
Xu Lin nodded and stated his confusion, Qin Shuangshuang opened her mouth to answer, she spoke in great detail, from the spirit medicine being thrown into the alchemy furnace to the elixir taking shape.
Qin Shuangshuang pointed out some key points for them to pay attention to, Shen Long’s face showed an expression of sudden realization, some of the doubts that had been troubling him for a long time disappeared, and there was a sense of enlightenment.
Shen Long three people also opened their mouths to ask questions, Qin Shuangshuang patiently answered.
“Senior Sister Qin, are you able to refine a top-grade elixir?”
Shen Long asked curiously.
“Not yet, it’s not easy to refine a top-grade elixir, Grandfather Xuan told me to work harder, I will succeed.”
Qin Shuangshuang said.
“Senior Sister Qin, then again, Senior Uncle Qin hasn’t shown up for many years, hasn’t his old man returned yet?”
Xu Lin asked.
“No, JieDan cultivators are different from us foundation cultivators, it is possible for them to be in seclusion for decades or even hundreds of years, the QianYang Realm is not a small area, perhaps Grandfather Xuan has gone to look for opportunities elsewhere!”
Qin Shuangshuang said.
(End of chapter)