Chapter 35: Friends of the New Year
The Refining Sect is divided into two hundred and sixteen floors, half underground and half above ground, and the refining room of the sect leader Ouyang Ye is located at the lowest level of the underground, and there are four huge refining rooms and a hellfire pool at the lowest level.
The hellfire pool, the magma is rolling, and the heat waves are suffocating, and Zhang Jun, who has always had a strong resistance, can't stand the heat.
"Sect Master, there is a VIP who is willing to spend a high price to create two pieces of armor of the highest level, the lowest is the top grade of the Yellow Rank, Dream Relic can't be the master, I have come to ask the Sect Master" Meng Yi said.
"Let him in," came an old voice.
The refining chamber is unusually empty, and there is a deep ditch near the wall near the hellfire pool to drain the magma, and on top of it is a huge furnace dome, and next to the furnace dome are placed hammer frames, iron, fire tongs, and other refining items.
A red-faced old man with gray hair and bright eyes sat on the Taishi chair, holding a book in one hand and a teapot in the other, enjoying it leisurely.
The refiner is a noble profession in the entire colorful field, and it is highly respected, especially in the distant Red Blood Country, the Xuan-level refiner is simply an emperor-like existence, including the palace, no sect or family dares to provoke, after all, the development of each sect and family needs weapons, armor and other utensils as a foundation.
There are requests from others, and the major sects and families have curry favor with the Refining Sect. Therefore, he developed the habit of arrogance of the alchemist, and of course this habit also infected the alchemist, the apothecary, the spell master, the array mage, and the legendary soul master. These high-ranking professions are the king's professions in the colorful field.
"The junior Zhang Jun visited Mr. Ouyang Ye, and asked the seniors to help more" Zhang Jun stepped forward and bowed to the ground. Xuan-level refiners are worthy of respect, and they also have the capital to accept worship.
"The higher the grade of the artifact, the higher the material required for forging, I wonder what material you brought?"
Ouyang Ye put down the books and teapot in his hand and asked.
With a refiner of his level, the last thing he cares about is the spar, and it is never an exaggeration to say that Ouyang Yefu is rival the country.
Ouyang Ye is an instrument idiot, he can not care about anything, but he is obsessed with improving the level of refining and is eager to go to the next level. Therefore, after hearing that Zhang Jun asked for the armor, the yellow rank was the minimum standard grade, the higher the grade, the better, and he became interested in Zhang Jun.
"I don't know if it's okay for the Black Corpse Bug Queen?"
"What?" Ouyang Yeteng stood up from the Taishi chair with a bang, his eyes shining.
"How many years of cultivation is the queen of the black corpse worm?" Ouyang Ye raised his leg and walked in front of Zhang Jun.
Zhang Jun didn't speak, just glanced at Mengyi with his eyes.
Ouyang Ye comprehended, waved his hand and said, "I will take over this business personally, you go down"
In addition to the refining pool, there is also an independent space secret room in the Sky Swallowing Gourd, and when Zhang Jun collects and refines the black corpse worm, he keeps the corpse of the black corpse worm separately.
The flesh, leather armor, and poison sac behind the black corpse insect are the purest resources for cultivation, alchemy, and medicine refining, especially leather armor is an excellent refining material.
After the dream left, Zhang Jun took out the heaven-swallowing gourd.
Zhang Jun took a step forward and handed the Sky Swallowing Gourd to Ouyang Ye, revealing several spatial secret rooms inside, where the flesh, leather armor, and poison sacs behind the black corpse worms were placed.
"After seeing a real black corpse insect for the first time in his life, the old man is really blessed, even if he dies, he can be blinded. Haha......" Ouyang Ye laughed as he spoke.
Ouyang Ye, who calmed down after half a ring, opened his mouth and said, "Young man, you are very lucky, I don't know where you got the black corpse worm queen, it seems that at least ten thousand years of cultivation, it is an absolute treasure level of alchemy and refining materials, but this kind of treasure, my current alchemy level is not able to refine it, and your gourd level is not low, these two things should not be easily shown."
"Thank you seniors for reminding me, some time ago, by chance, these things were given to me by a senior. Zhang Jun replied politely.
"Senior, I won't tell you, I'm now low in cultivation but I have a strange treasure, every time I am in danger at a time of crisis, I urgently need to have a means to save my life, I originally planned to make two armors to defend myself, but now it seems that there is no hope, do you think there is any way to help me?" Zhang Jun and Guan Xiong felt a lot after the battle, and they urgently needed something to save their lives.
"To tell you the truth, my cultivation has been shackled at the peak of the Huangwu Mirror for many years, although I have taken the Holy Yellow Pill, but it has fallen short to no avail, resulting in alchemy has always been the level of a Xuan-level low-grade refiner. ”
"In this way, you give me a one-foot-square piece of the body of the black corpse insect queen to see if it can bring me an opportunity to open the shackles for my cultivation. I'll give you a few treasures of the Xuan level as bargaining chips in exchange, and we will trade fairly, so that both parties can get what they want, what do you think?"
"Good senior, no problem!!"
In the dark compartment on the wall of an inner room, Ouyang Ye took out a few things hidden in the dark compartment.
"These things are all the most outstanding Xuan-level works of the old man, a set of Xuan-level lower-grade armor made of lion and tiger animal skin, a Xuan-level lower-grade Thunder Bead refined by the body of the Thunder Flamingo, a Xuan-level lower-grade spider silk underwear made of eight-eyed heavenly spider silk quenching and refining, and a Xuan-level lower-grade Eternal Bell refined by meteorite iron outside the sky,"
"These few Xuan-level low-grade treasures should be able to protect your life under the Xuanwu Mirror, these are all given to you, I know that these together are not as valuable as your body after a piece of black corpse worm, but the old man really only has these few most proud objects, what else do you need, you can bring it up, the old man can try to find it" Ouyang Ye sincerely replaced the body after the black corpse worm.
"In fact, with your cultivation strength, if you forcibly leave a junior, you don't need to trade with a junior at all. But you deserve the respect of the younger generations. The seniors are so open-minded, we can make a friend, and this piece of flesh after the black corpse worm will be a gift from the juniors. Zhang Jun bowed and said.
"Really?"
"Of course it's true, since I dare to come to the Refining Weapon Sect and let you know the secret of the Black Corpse Worm Queen, I naturally have great trust in you. ”
"I didn't expect that wow!! old man and Xiaoyou met for the first time, and he could trust me so much, which is also the honor of the old man. Hahaha...... The relationship between people is based on mutual understanding and mutual trust. Since you trust the old man so much, I am willing to form a friendship with you. I also have a secret, in fact, I am not from the Red Blood Country, and the Xuanzong of the Kunyu Empire is my real home. It's a pity that when he was young, he was addicted to gambling, and he lost thousands of years of family business after a big gamble, and then he was taken in by the master in the Refining Sect. Living in the Red Blood Country for a lifetime, it is estimated that there is no chance to win back the Xuanzong in this life."
"You're still betting?"
Zhang Jun was a little strange, a big gamble could lose all the Refining Sect, what a gamble it must be?
The Refining Weapon Sect could have been regarded as a rich and rival country, but in the Red Blood Country, it definitely belonged to one of the top local tyrant consortiums, and in terms of resources, Dongshan Academy could not compare. But the Instrument Xuanzong is definitely much stronger than the Refining Instrument Sect, this is certain, Ouyang Ye has even lost the Instrument Xuanzong, I am afraid that the bet of the Refining Instrument Sect is really not enough.
"The Xuanzong is the ancestral business of my Ouyang family, and my greatest wish in this life is to surpass my junior brother in alchemy and recapture the Xuanzong, how can I not gamble?" Ouyang Ye replied.
"I don't understand this, does improving alchemy have anything to do with gambling?"
When I was twenty-three years old, I lost 100 million spirit crystals because of a bet with someone, and I was chased to collect debts. This matter was known to the sect master of the Qixuan Sect at that time, that is, my father, although he helped me pay back the gambling debts, but he was angry and couldn't afford to fall ill and died. Ouyang Ye said these two eyes with tears in his eyes and remorse on his face.
"After my father left, I was the only one who inherited it, and I should have inherited the sect master of the Xuanzong Sect. However, my cousin was bewitched by his junior brother Lin Chengdao, found the Hall of Elders, and openly challenged me in the name that I was not worthy of being the sect master of the Xuanzong Sect, betting that I was inferior to them in alchemy. At that time, I was already a low-grade refiner at the Huangwu level, and it could be said that I was the first person in alchemy among the juniors, so of course I was not convinced. ”
"I let out a bold statement, no matter who is in the junior, whoever surpasses me in alchemy, will give up the position of the sect master of the Xuan Sect to whomever it is. The gamble that was supposed to be won, who would have thought that Lin Chengdao, who only had a Mingwu-level middle-grade refiner, had always been the most hidden person, he turned out to be a Huangwu-level middle-grade refiner, and finally Lin Chengdao won the position of the sect master of the Xuanzong Sect, and then by chance, I learned that all this was arranged by Lin Chengdao, including the matter of 100 million spirit crystals, which was also Lin Chengdao's bureau. I even suspect that my father's death had something to do with him. ”
"This Lin Chengdao is too insidious, isn't it? From what you said, he has always coveted everything in Xuanzong, so you just forget it?
"How could it be that I didn't seek revenge on him, since I suspected that the old man's death was related to Lin Chengdao, I raised my suspicions in the Elder Hall. But first, I have no direct evidence, and second, because the Elder Hall was bought by Lin Chengdao, so I was beaten out by the Elder Hall. ”
"In the end, the Elder Hall made a bet with me, when I surpassed Lin Chengdao in alchemy, it would help me get back my ancestral business. I have been to the Xuanzong and Lin Chengdao competitions countless times to try the alchemy technique, and each time I have lost a lot, I have to say that Lin Chengdao's alchemy is extremely talented, and he has always been superior to me. ”
"You should know that there is no way to improve the alchemy technique without a refiner with resources, and after countless gambling competitions, in desperation, I was forced to leave the Kunyu Empire and come to the Red Blood Country Refining Sect, and I have been taken in by the master until now. Ouyang Ye finished speaking, with a decadent look on his face.
"Then have you returned to the Kunyu Empire Refining Sect?"
"I want to go back, but no matter how hard I have cultivated alchemy and martial rank cultivation over the years, I have been pulled farther and farther away by Lin Chengdao, you may not know that the current Lin Chengdao is a Xuanwu-level high-grade refiner, and the martial level cultivation has reached the supreme realm of the Xuanwu Mirror Sevenfold, and I ....... Shame on the ancestors and the ancestors!!"
Zhang Jun finally understood, it turned out that it was not that Ouyang Ye didn't want to take revenge and didn't want to win back the Xuanzong, but that his strength was insufficient, and the gap with the enemy was not of an order of magnitude at all.
"I also hope that Zhang Jun Xiaoyou will keep this secret for me. Not to mention this, it is also a great blessing for me to be able to form a New Year's friendship with you today, there is also a piece of Red Flame Order here, you can also take it together, this token represents me Ouyang Ye himself, there are many refiners in the outside world who are my disciples, if necessary, you can ask them for help. In addition, the Red Flame Order is also a one-time life-saving weapon, and the Red Flame Order stores the full force of my Huang Wujing's peak cultivation. ”
Zhang Jun didn't expect that this gray-haired old man turned out to be a man of temperament, and although he met for the first time, he was really good. I can't help but sigh with emotion, exchanging hearts for hearts, no matter how old or young, you can become close friends and fellowship with each other.
"Thank you for your trust in me, to be honest, the younger generation comes from another world, and his profession is similar to that of a refiner, and he is a designer of weapons. Therefore, the juniors are particularly fond of alchemy, and they want to follow the seniors to learn the art of alchemy, I don't know if Ouyang's seniors are willing to teach me?"
"Do you like alchemy? I can teach you, but are you practicing fire exercises now? That's the foundation of alchemy. ”
"I haven't cultivated the fire system technique yet. ”
"Then I'll tell you about alchemy first! The art of refining is actually not difficult, the most difficult thing is to control the fire, if you want to become a refiner, you must at least practice the fire technique, after cultivating the fire technique, when there can be a pure fire in the body, you can practice the art of refining. ”
After Zhang Jun practiced the Xingchen Wanhua Gong, there was a qualitative change in the dantian, but his cultivation was still low, and he could not exert the firepower in the two heavens of ice and fire, and the next part of the Flame Heart Sutra had not yet begun to cultivate.
"The younger generation has not been in this world for a long time, and he has not yet practiced the fire system exercises. ”
"I have the local fire burning heaven skill, you can take it to practice, it will help you cultivate the fire system technique and control the firepower. There are also two books here that are the foundation for the cultivation of alchemy."
"One is a compendium of refining weapons, which contains thousands of refining recipes for various levels, and books that teach you how to improve the level of alchemy. There is also a copy of my self-authored refining experience, which I have given to you. When your fire-based exercises are completed, I'm teaching you alchemy. ”
"It's just that next time you have to change your appearance, although I am the sect master of the Refining Weapon Sect, but there are a lot of fish and dragons here, and you have a strange treasure, it is better to be safer." Ouyang Ye was very worried about Zhang Jun's safety. If anyone knows the secret that Zhang Jun has the black corpse worm, I am afraid that it will lead to a bloody storm.
"Thank you seniors for your concern, in fact, this appearance is not my true appearance, there are many inconveniences, please forgive me" Zhang Jun waved his hand, revealing his true face, and later put on a mask again.
"I didn't expect you to be so young, huh..... It is also understandable that you have a special treasure, and if you show your true face, you will encounter a lot of unnecessary trouble. Remember, before the cultivation is not to the Tianwu Mirror, do not expose the black corpse insects, it will be life-threatening. I already remember what you look like, you go, looking forward to seeing you again. ”
"Thank you for the gift from your predecessors. ”
"It should be the old man thanks to Zhang Jun Xiaoyou, the body of the black corpse insect is a priceless treasure, since you and the old man have formed a friendship for the old man, the old man is not polite to you, you and the old man do not need to be polite, the red flame order is only this one, no matter how you change your appearance, I know who you are, even if you have something to do in the future, you must do your best. ”
Zhang Jun put away the Qiankun bag given by Ouyang Ye, took out a piece of the flesh of the black corpse insect from the heaven-swallowing gourd and gave it to Ouyang Ye, bowed deeply and walked out of the refining room. As soon as Zhang Jun opened the door and came out, he heard a burst of loud shouting in the room.
"Get out, you little thief, you dare to use the queen's leather armor to trick me. Nian Zai has some relationship with your master, and this time I spared your life. Forever you will not be allowed to step into the Refining Sect. Dare to come again next time, and I will not be spared. A gust of wind hit Zhang Jun, and he involuntarily rolled on the ground a few times, and a trace of blood oozed from the corner of his mouth.
The chief manager of the Dream Relic, who had been waiting outside the door, had seen Ouyang Ye lose his temper for the first time in recent years, so it was no wonder that Ouyang Ye was angry. What is Ouyang Ye's identity? Someone actually used the queen's leather armor to pretend to be a black corpse insect and then deceived him? It is already a big face that he was not killed immediately, it seems that the sect master and the master of this slave have a good relationship, otherwise the sect master would have killed this ant with one palm.
The Chief Administrator of the Dream Relic also shouted angrily and said, "Hurry up and get out, you are not allowed to step into the Refining Sect for half a step from now on,"
Zhang Jun knew that this was Ouyang Ye's predecessor covering for himself, and he didn't want to expose Zhang Jun's identity with a strange treasure. I can't help but be grateful.
Zhang Jun, who came out of the Refining Instrument Sect, returned to the Dragon Tourist Inn in a short time, and when he was on the road, there was always a feeling of being stared at, and Zhang Jun looked back a few times and found nothing.
But it made Zhang Jun more vigilant.