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The old man nodded: "Yes, the Nine Heavens Xuannu is only ranked ninth." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

The young man's eyes widened in shock: "Doesn't that mean that there are at least nine late-stage qi refiners in the Heavenly Emperor Temple?" How can it be! ”

Old man: "That's because you don't understand the nature of the Heavenly Emperor Temple, unlike the Taiqing Shangqing Yuqing Three Sects, the Heavenly Emperor Temple is more like a deliberative body for top qi refiners." The internal structure and specific ranking order of the nine sages are not clear to my grandfather, but the sect leader once said that our Taiqing sect leader, Yuqing sect leader, and Shi Zhenren and Ma Zhenren of the Upper Qing Sect are all sages of the Heavenly Emperor Temple. The seventh sage Shang Youyou erected in Wenjiagang, since it is not his own archway, but the archway of the Heavenly Emperor Temple, it proves that the nine sages of the Heavenly Emperor Temple have reached an agreement to give Wenjiagang to Shang Youyou. Is the treasure land of the three religions a simple place? I asked you to move your household registration to Wenjiagang, not expecting you to inherit Wen Xin's position, but a small gamble. ”

The young man understood that the old man was always planning a long way, and immediately dispersed all his unwillingness: "What are you gambling on?" ”

The old man said: "Bet that Wen Xin will succeed because of fate, not the hidden chess pieces of the Heavenly Emperor Temple, I heard that Wen Xin is forty or fifty years old, if he can't get lucky and advance to the Qi Transformation Period, he won't have a few years to live." You stay here and wait, during which you must not provoke the Heavenly Emperor Temple, just wait quietly for Wen Xin and the old to die, and then see what the situation is. Your cultivation is low, not counting me as a big bully; You are still young and can afford to wait, so I brought you to Wenjiagang. In addition, Grandpa is about to go to sea to find opportunities, and if you stay on the site of the Heavenly Emperor Temple, I can rest assured. ”

Youth: "The northeast of Wenjiagang is the holy land of the Yuqing Sect, where is it safe?" ”

The old man: "Don't worry, at the critical moment of chasing the spiritual vein, the Jade Qing Sect does not dare to provoke Shang Youyou casually." A few months ago, in the Zheng family's extermination case, only in the middle of the refining of the two of them, Shang Youyou convened a council of sages of the Heavenly Emperor Temple, and scolded the head of the Yuqing Sect. It is precisely with the key vote of Shang Youyou that our Tai Puritan Sect has the priority to open up the New World. Leaving you in Wenjiagang, another purpose is also to take advantage of the situation of Shang Youyou, so that the Yuqing Sect will misunderstand Shang Youyou's tendency to side with us Taiqingjiao. ”

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In the autumn of the twenty-third year of Wenxin's arrival on the Xiangzhou mainland, the expedition ship returned safely and officially announced the discovery of a new continent in the East China Sea. The New World is not the Japanese archipelago as Wen Shin originally imagined, but a giant continent that resembles a winged swallow, and is named Yanzhou Continent because of its shape. Expedition ship mathematicians estimate that the total area of the Yanzhou mainland is similar to that of the Xiangzhou mainland, and because of the double swallow wings structure, a large number of coastal areas are particularly suitable for farming.

The Yanzhou continent is desolate, full of undeveloped primeval grasslands and primeval forests, and the occasional indigenous tribes all present a primitive matriarchal society. In terms of natural sciences, indigenous tribes have not yet lit metal technology trees such as bronze, and are reeling from the Stone Age. In terms of supernatural powers, the shamans and chiefs of the indigenous tribes regard the aura of heaven and earth as a gift from the gods, and whoever can sense the aura of heaven and earth is the spokesperson of the gods in the world. At the same time, the cultivation of the Qi Refiners of the Yanzhou Continent is low as a whole, and it is already a rare master in the middle stage of refining, and there are even fewer in the late stage of refining, and they are easily crushed by the explorers of the Xiangzhou Continent.

The Qi Refiner is in the rich aura of heaven and earth in the Yanzhou Continent, and the carpet investigation and plundering of heaven and earth treasures; Wen Xin's Wenjiagang Business Alliance, under the influence of Wen Xin's will, gradually colonized the fertile land of the Yanzhou Continent under the banner of continuously providing daily necessities to the Qi Refiners, and developed the Yanzhou Mainland as a colony. The Yanzhou mainland is about 2,000 kilometers away from the Xiangzhou mainland, and the sea trade is not difficult, and the precious natural resources of the Yanzhou mainland are transported to Wenjiagang bit by bit through the Wenjiagang business alliance, and Fushan Town in Lingshan County has gradually become a symbol of wealth.

The ocean-going expedition continued, and the Deep Blue fleet rediscovered the "New World" in the 26th year of Wenxin's arrival on the Xiangzhou mainland. The quotation marks are due to the fact that the expedition ship did not find a true continent after 20 measurements, and the island of the New World is covered with icebergs and floats between the vast seas like the South Pole of the Earth. The icebergs are named Iceland because of the situation, is there any land under Iceland? Nobody knows. The natural sciences of the Wenjiagang Business Alliance are not enough to explore Iceland, which is full of glaciers. The Qi Refiner class tends to think that there is no earth under Iceland, because Iceland has no heaven and earth aura, let alone spiritual veins, and is a worthless discovery.

After Iceland, twenty-six to thirty-six years, a whole decade without any results, the world seems to have been explored, and the ocean-going exploration industry is gradually sinking into a trough.

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When Wen Xin descended on the Xiangzhou continent in the thirty-sixth year, Wen Xin was sixty-two years old in his previous life and present life.

Perhaps because of the welfare, Wen Xin's appearance is only thirty years old, but Wen Xin already faintly feels that his body is gradually decaying, and the shadow of death is getting closer and closer.

According to the public opinion circles of the Qi Refiners, refining and refining is the essence of life, which makes the Qi Refiners sense and communicate with the aura of heaven and earth, and at the same time quietly mutilates the body of the Qi Refiners, so the life span of the Qi Refiners during the refining period is often not as good as that of the rich and worry-free mortals. Like the county lieutenant of Lingshan County, who Wen Xin had survived to death before, he only lived to be sixty-one years old. Wen Xin was sixty-two years old in his previous life and could die at any time.

Since the young man at the beginning of the journey has transformed into today's languishing old thing, Wen Xin can only helplessly sigh that ambition is invincible and time washes away.

When people get old, they inevitably begin to reminisce.

Looking back on life, looking back on yourself.

More than 20 years ago, not to mention it, in the 36 years since I came to the Xiangzhou mainland, I asked myself, what have I done?

In terms of qi refiners, Wen Xin's large sample data summarizes the laws of heaven and earth aura, although he still does not understand the operation mechanism of heaven and earth aura, the continuous improvement of some empiricism is quite effective. The gradually expanding Wen's private school, which has been operating steadily for more than 30 years, has cultivated a large number of qi refiners for the Xiangzhou Continent, and at this moment, there are about 4,000 students who are willing to respect Wen Xin as a teacher and accept Wen Xin's leadership, there are about 4,000 people in the early stage of refining, 300 in the middle stage of refining, and two in the late stage of refining.

At the beginning, Wen Xin had just advanced to the middle stage of refining, and there were only sixty-six Qi refiners in Lingshan County who had cultivated above the middle stage of refining, and more than 100 vacancies were randomly selected by Wen Xin. After 30 years of hard work, Wen's private school has more than 300 people in the middle stage of refining who are only willing to accept Wen Xin's leadership, and the 200 officials in Lingshan County have been filled, of which 160 qi refiners respect Wen Xin as a teacher, and a large number of mid-stage refining refiners have to migrate to neighboring counties to find a way out. Lingshan County has been upgraded from a weak county to a strong county for gas refining, which should be attributed to Wenxin.

There are currently eight refining late-stage students in Lingshan County, and Wen Xin and his students account for three of them, which does not seem to be an absolute advantage, but in fact, no one dares to ignore Wen Xin's existence. With three refining late-stage and one hundred and sixty refining mid-stage establishments, Wenxin has firmly held Lingshan County in his hands in a substantive sense, and Lingshan County has almost equaled Wenxin's private industry.

Wen Xin is even more proud of the natural sciences.

Rather than simply and crudely introducing the Earth Tech Tree, Wen Xin has activated the creativity of the indigenous mortal class by relying on top-down organization and heuristic guidance. Especially after the discovery of the Yanzhou Continent, the two-thousand-mile sea route became a weapon for mortals to call the Qi Refiner class, and the mortal careerists who were unwilling to be slaves began to be eager to challenge the rule of the Qi Refiner class.

In the refining period, once they reach the depths of the ocean of heaven and earth aura, they immediately degenerate into ordinary mortal appearances, and they may be agile and proficient in martial arts, but they are difficult to defeat group fights and plots. The Qi Refiner is slightly stronger during the gas transformation period, and can even borrow the gas storage cheats to deter a ship of sailors, but he can be blinded when he collides with a sailboat using early artillery.

On land, the Qi Refiner class says the same; On the ocean, the mortal class says the same.

In addition, where there are interests, there are disputes, and many mortal pirates have seized the weakness of the Qi Refiner to be afraid of the sea and rob and kidnap unscrupulously. In the early days, many Qi Refiners were disgusted with sailing pirates armed with early artillery, and demanded that the imperial court order to prohibit the production of hot gas potions and forged iron cannons in all counties. However, the Shangqing Taiqing Yuqing Three Sects above the imperial court already hated a group of low-level qi refiners for grabbing food, and they were embarrassed to prevent the qi refiners from going to sea while wearing moral hats, so how could they be kind enough to clear the obstacles for the low-level qi refiners. Anyway, the Qi Refiners of the Three Sects have money and people, and they hire special warships from the Wenjiagang Commercial Alliance, so they are not afraid of some pirate looting at all. In the later period, the pirate group became a dirty tool for the three sects of Shangqing, Taiqing, Yuqing, and Qing to fight against each other. They are all deep-rooted great sects, and no one is willing to declare a full-scale war until it is absolutely necessary, and it has become the best plan to weaken the other party behind their backs. The three sects of the Shangqing Taiqing and the Yuqing Dynasty and even the imperial court all controlled many pirate forces remotely, with white knives going in and red knives coming out, fighting in the open sea.

Realizing that mortals could not threaten the homeland and had a certain usefulness, the Qi Refiner class gradually compromised and took a few steps back, allowing the mortal forces represented by the Wenjiagang Commercial Alliance to monopolize the trade of the Yanzhou continent. Frequent naval battles stimulated demand, and shipborne artillery developed rapidly with each passing day, and led to metallurgy and other related industries.

Lingshan County is local, and the industry association has also been fruitful. Although the professional students who have been systematically educated in various industries cannot challenge the status of those famous craftsmen for the time being, their overall consistent quality can crush those rural craftsmen in an all-round way, and the mortal class who have become rich because of the sea trade and the low-level qi refiner class who pay attention to the quality of life have gradually begun to accept the primary industrial products of the Wenjiagang Union Cooperative Workshop. At the same time, the wealthy mortal class gradually began to pursue spiritual needs, and all kinds of literary and artistic works began to develop slowly. Wenjiagang is thriving, if time permits......

If time permitted, that would be great.

It's a pity that Wen Xin has already smelled the decay of his flesh.

Wen Xin clearly understood that he had not lived for a few years, and the sound of death had reached the door.

Death is commonplace, and even if the earth develops into the twenty-first century, no one has invented the elixir of life; Even the supernatural power of the infinite charm, Heaven and Earth Aura, except for the legendary Ancestral Emperor, could not bring immortality to other Qi Refiners.

However, heaven and earth aura can delay aging.

As long as you advance to the Qi Transformation Stage and control the aura of heaven and earth to nourish the cells of the flesh, your lifespan will increase significantly.

Not to mention that the top Qi Refiners often have a lifespan of two or three hundred years, even the lowest and lowest Qi refining stage can make up for the invisible wear and tear during the refining period, and it is easy to survive to a hundred years old.