Chapter 17: Surrounding Shadows
Although Ye Tongxuan and the others were monks in the late stage of qi refining, they didn't know anything about domesticating demon beasts. Ye Tongxuan could only ask the family to send a beast trainer to help domesticate the spirit bamboo rat.
The beast tamer in the family was quickly dispatched, and the person who came was the Ye family's first-order beast tamer, Ye Tongwu.
Ye Tongwu is the same age as Ye Tongxuan, but his strength is only two levels of qi refining. Although he has no talent in cultivation, he is somewhat good at taming beasts.
In the younger generation of the family, the clansmen who did not have the talent for cultivation all went to study the hundred arts of cultivating immortals, which could be regarded as contributing to the family in another way.
Although the animal trainer can only be regarded as a sideline in the cultivation of immortals, this kind of profession is also indispensable for a family.
Ye Tongwu looked mediocre and dressed plainly, and said, "Brother Tongxuan, the family sent me over to take care of the Lingzhu Rat. There was a hint of restraint in his tone.
Although the two are the same generation, they are about the same age. But Ye Tongxuan has been obsessed with cultivation since he was a child, and rarely plays with his peers in the family. Now, he is already the only late-stage Qi refining cultivator in the family, and Ye Tongwu is naturally a lot more restrained in his words.
Ye Tongxuan nodded, "Come with me." As he spoke, he took Ye Tongwu to the bamboo garden. In the bamboo garden, the spirit bamboo rat is still placed in a cage for the time being.
Ye Tongwu saw the Lingzhu Rat and said, "Brother Tongxuan, the Lingzhu Rat can't be too far away from the Cuizhu. In my opinion, it can be raised on the edge of the bamboo garden. ”
Ye Tongxuan was noncommittal, he didn't know anything about domesticating demon beasts, so he naturally followed the arrangement of the beast tamer.
"Please also ask Brother Xuan to set up a magic circle, so as not to escape the spirit bamboo rat." Ye Tongyuan spoke again. With his cultivation, he can't fully control the Spirit Bamboo Rat, and it is very likely that he will escape from his hands.
Ye Tongxuan took out the four array flags and said, "This is the Ground Binding Array, which can harden the land and prevent the Spirit Bamboo Rats from escaping." After you pick a place, talk to me, and I'll arrange a few more prohibitions."
Ye Tongwu nodded and agreed, "Okay, Brother Tongxuan." ”
After the spirit bamboo rat was handed over to Ye Tongyuan, it soon began to be cultivated. According to his estimates, after three years at the latest, the Lingzhu Rat will be able to start generating income for Jiutai Mountain.
For such a result, Ye Tongxuan can also accept it, after all, he doesn't expect the Spirit Bamboo Rat to bring income to Jiutai Mountain in the short term. He hopes that the Lingzhu Rat can become a long-term source of wealth for Jiutai Mountain.
In other words, in the short term, Jiutai Mountain's income is still stretched. Ye Tongxuan now has to find a way to expand his financial resources in a short period of time.
After arranging the matter of the spirit bamboo rat, Ye Tongxuan was able to relax for a while. Lingtian's affairs are mainly in charge of Ye Shoujing.
Although he was stationed in Jiutai Mountain on the orders of his family, Ye Tongxuan still planned to focus on his own cultivation. Most of the affairs of Jiutai Mountain were handed over to Ye Shoujing to take care of.
After finishing these things, Ye Tongxuan locked himself in the cave mansion and practiced in retreat. Now he only has seven levels of qi refining, and his cultivation is far from enough.
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In the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountains, in a cave, several torches hung around the walls, and five black-clothed monks sat together, discussing something.
"How about attacking Jiutai Mountain this time?" A hoarse voice sounded, and a white-haired old man spoke first.
"Jiutai Mountain doesn't have much oil and water, I'm afraid it won't satisfy the owner." The middle-aged monk sitting next to the old man said, mentioning the head of the house, with a little fear in his tone.
"With our current strength, is there a better option? If there is still something insufficient, we will make up for it ourselves. The white-haired old man said helplessly.
"What Wei Ye said is reasonable. If we weren't really desperate, we wouldn't have gone to Black Wind Village. A man in black agreed with Wei Laodao's view.
The five of them were originally loose cultivators of the Song Kingdom. In the Song Kingdom, they have been doing some sneaky things, and later after the East Window Incident, Wei Laodao took them along the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range to escape to the Liang Kingdom and came here.
They are unfamiliar with each other, and they have no background to rely on. I have been in this area for two or three years, and my life is not as good as one day at a time.
The cultivation resources of the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range were either monopolized by the sect, and the rest were also divided by the Immortal Cultivation Family. Wei Laodao and his party were like rats crossing the street, hiding everywhere.
Usually, they can only rely on sneaky tricks to survive, but Rao is like this, the cultivation resources are still beyond their means, and their realm has not been refined for a long time.
It's not that they haven't thought of doing some serious things, but they are casual cultivators from unknown sources, and ordinary monks dare to hire them. As for the sect and the immortal cultivation family, they didn't dare to ask, and now the major ones are still posted at the gate of the city with a reward notice for the five of them.
In desperation, Wei Laodao had no choice but to wait for others to defect to Heifeng Village. This Black Wind Village is full of extremely vicious loose cultivators, specializing in some robbing houses and houses, robbing passing merchants on the edge of the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range.
Since the village is inside the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range, the nest is secret, and it has not been exterminated, and Wei Laodao and the others also spent a lot of effort to get in touch with the Black Wind Village.
However, this Black Wind Village is not so easy to enter, and Wei Laodao and others were also asked to accept a letter of submission. Only after paying the vote can you officially join the Black Wind Village.
In addition to handing over a certain amount of cultivation resources as a settlement fee, more importantly, it is necessary to kill a monk with a family background.
In this way, it is equivalent to cutting off the back road of Wei Laodao and others, and it is impossible to switch to other families in the future.
After a few days of exploration, Wei Laodao found that there was only the Ye family's Jiutai Mountain, and they were sure to take it. There is no spiritual array protection on Jiutai Mountain, and there is only one mid-stage Qi refining monk stationed there. As long as you act quickly, the loss should not be large.
Wei Laodao and the others were originally greedy for life and afraid of death, if they had the guts, with the number of five people they had, they could completely enter the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range to hunt demon beasts in exchange for cultivation resources.
But hunting demon beasts is extremely dangerous, and not every casual cultivator has such courage. For them, being able to enter the family and become vassals is the best outcome. Retreating to the second, entering the Black Wind Village and robbing the house is much safer than going to the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range to hunt demon beasts.
"The Ye family has a foundation building monk, in this way, will it make too much trouble?" One of them worried. Provoking such a family, with their background, may not be able to bear the wrath of the Ye family.
"Don't worry about this, it's not that the head of the house is in charge, it's the Shen family who is standing behind him." The middle-aged man in black said.
Wei Laodao shook his head, a little unsure, "The Shen family is a family with the same strength as the Ye family, how can it be possible to fall in love with Black Wind Village." We should listen to this message and not take it too seriously. ”
Wei Laodao is now over 80 years old, and his physical condition has gone downhill. His only wish now is to live out his old age in peace, so he desperately needs to find a backer.
"We haven't fully figured out the situation in Jiutai Mountain, so we'll have a good time investigating it in the next few days. Don't go wrong. Wei Laodao thought about it again and again, but he was still a little cautious.
After all, the target of this raid is the Ye family, and there is no guarantee that the monks on Jiutai Mountain will have any tricks.
"The boss asks for our resources ......," asked a man in black.
Wei Laodao raised his hand and said, "Let's get together together, and when the time comes, we will make up for the resources that are still missing." ”
The remaining four people have always been looking at Wei Laodao, and although they are a little reluctant to give up the resources on their bodies, there is no better way. If they were to plunder the places of other families, they might not have the guts.