With a set of master-level alchemy inheritance, and a fourth-order pill recipe such as [Yulu Jinxia Pill], Luo Qingni naturally had nothing to do with some of Zhou Chun's requests.

She happily gave Zhou Chun the green light, and at Zhou Chun's request, she helped mobilize her connections to collect materials for refining [Ancient Dust Pill].

At the same time, the two quickly reached an agreement to jointly collect materials to refine [Yulu Jinxia Dan].

After everything was negotiated, Luo Qingni went to refine the [Hualong Pill] for Zhou Chun first.

And Zhou Chun also took the opportunity to go to the city and rented a cave mansion as a place to live in the future.

Not long after, Luo Qingni went out of the customs and handed over the successfully refined [Hualong Pill] to Zhou Chun.

After getting this pill, Zhou Chun did not delay, and immediately secretly returned to Yasukuni, sent the elixir back to the Zhou family, and handed it over to Zhou Daoquan.

As for whether Zhou Daoquan's Spirit Pet Blood Flame Dragon Python can successfully evolve into a third-order dragon through this [Dragon Transformation Pill], it can only depend on its own chance.

After Zhou Chun returned to the Great Zhou Kingdom, he took the letter of introduction given by Luo Qingni at the beginning and went to the mountain gate of the Yuan Puppet Gate.

Previously, he felt that his strength was insufficient, and he didn't dare to go to the sect mountain gate where the "Thousand Machine Master" was located easily, lest the other party have evil intentions to assassinate him.

Now that his own strength is no longer inferior to that of the mid-stage Jindan monk, Zhou Chuncai dared to go and buy a fourth-order puppet.

The Yuan Puppet Gate used to be a large sect with Yuan Infant Monks in charge, but now there is a fault line among the Yuan Infant Monks in the Gate, and this faction has shrunk its power and lowered its profile a lot.

However, as one of the few sects that can refine fourth-order puppets, even if the Yuan Puppet Sect is in decline now, ordinary people and forces will not dare to fight their ideas.

After all, no one knows how many fourth-order puppets are hidden in the mountain gate of the Yuan Puppet Gate, let alone whether there are fifth-order puppets equivalent to Yuan Infant Stage monks hidden inside!

As a force that started with puppetry, the Yuan Puppet Sect does not recruit anyone like other sects in recruiting disciples, but prefers to recruit those monks who have talent in manipulating puppets or refining puppets.

Of course, if it is a high-grade spiritual root qualification, then the Yuan Puppet Sect will also consider it.

All in all, the number of disciples in this sect is very small, and the total number of people in the whole sect is less than a thousand!

Fewer people means that the overall demand for cultivation resources is smaller, so the Yuan Puppet Gate now only guards its own mountain gate to live, and only retains a fang market controlled by this sect outside, specializing in selling some middle and low-level puppet magic weapons.

It is worth mentioning that puppet magic weapons below the fourth order do not need to use spirit crystals as energy drives, and can be driven by a "spirit source bead" specially refined by the Yuan Puppet Gate.

This "Spirit Source Bead" itself is a kind of energy storage magic weapon, which can store one-third of the mana of the corresponding realm cultivator according to different grades.

For example, the third-order high-grade "Spirit Source Bead" can store one-third of the mana of the late stage of the Purple Mansion.

Once the mana in the "Spirit Source Bead" is exhausted, it needs to be recharged by the immortal cultivator before it can be used again, and the mana in the "Spirit Source Bead" cannot be stored for a long time, and will gradually pass over time.

If this is the case, the "Lingyuan Pearl" is also a great invention.

However, the biggest drawback of this kind of energy storage magic device is that it can only store the mana of the owner of the magic device.

And because the monk's own mana attribute is biased severely, if a "Spirit Source Bead" full of metallic mana is used to drive a puppet that is good at fire attribute means, the efficiency will be very low, not to mention, it will also cause great damage to the puppet itself.

This kind of restriction makes immortal cultivators who use puppet magic weapons below the fourth order rare in the immortal cultivation world, and only the disciples of the Yuan Puppet Sect will use them as a means of opposing the enemy.

After Zhou Chun's hidden cultivation came to the Fang Market under the control of the Yuan Puppet Gate, he also bought a few second-order puppet magic weapons and the matching "Spirit Source Bead" to study them because of curiosity.

He found that although the "Spirit Source Bead" was also a magic weapon, in fact, when the imperial envoy was fighting with the puppet, it basically did not occupy much of the monk's divine sense, let alone mana.

The divine consciousness paid by an immortal cultivator's envoy to a second-order high-grade puppet is probably equivalent to a second-order high-grade magic weapon and a second-order lower-grade magic weapon.

And the combat power of a second-order high-grade puppet can steadily suppress a mid-foundation building monk, and there is no need to consume its own mana.

In this way, even an ordinary late-stage foundation building monk can still have the spare strength to urge a second-order high-grade defensive magic weapon to protect himself when the imperial envoy fights with two second-order high-grade puppets.

After the mana of the "Spirit Source Beads" in the two second-order high-grade puppets is exhausted, you can directly give up the two puppets and then deal with the enemy in a full state.

"It's a pity that this price is too expensive, a second-order high-grade puppet with a 'Spirit Source Bead' is almost equivalent to a third-order low-grade magic weapon!"

"In addition to the Yuan Puppet Sect's own disciples, or those rich children who are not short of money, there are a few monks who can configure two puppets of the same rank for themselves!"

Zhou Chun shook his head, put a few puppets into the storage bag, and gave them to some family juniors as talismans in the future, depending on the situation.

Then he personally visited Yuanwu Mountain not far away, handed over Luo Qingni's letter, and named him to visit the "Master of Thousand Machines".

Because Zhou Chun revealed his cultivation in the Jindan period, the Zhike disciples of the Yuan Puppet Sect were very efficient, and it was not long before a man who claimed to be a disciple of the "Thousand Machines Master" came to greet Zhou Chun.

After following this person to an elegant courtyard in the depths of the Yuan Puppet Gate, Zhou Chun saw the "Master of Thousand Machines" he was going to visit.

This puppet master looks like he is already old, with gray hair and wrinkles on his face, as if his longevity is not much, and his cultivation is also in the middle of Jindan.

After a few words of greeting with Zhou Chun, he looked directly at Zhou Chun and said: "The remains of the puppet that Luo Daoyou sent over at the beginning really inspired the old man, and he has gained something else, and now she said in the letter that you have a more complete puppet wreckage in your hand, I wonder if you can let the old man take a look?" ”

"Absolutely."

Zhou Chun nodded, and then took out the basically intact bow and arrow warrior puppet from the storage bag.

"Sure enough, it's a puppet of the same origin!"

As soon as he saw the shape of the bow and arrow warrior puppet, Master Qianji's eyes lit up, and he immediately beckoned the puppet to take a closer look at it.

When he checked this, he was a little carried away, as if he didn't feel that time had passed at all, and he had forgotten the existence of Zhou Chun, an outsider.

And Zhou Chun didn't want to disturb him rashly, so as not to make him unhappy and let him exchange fourth-order puppets be yellow.

So, after Zhou Chun waited for most of the day, Master Qianji came back to his senses from the state of full devotion, and suddenly found that there was still an outsider like him.

"When I'm old, I'm always so easy to forget things, and I've been waiting for a long time."

He patted his head, apologized to Zhou Chun apologetically, and then looked at Zhou Chun and said: "Zhou Daoyou's puppet is indeed very intact, and it still has the possibility of repairing, I don't know what you want to exchange with the old man with this thing?" ”

"Zhou wants to exchange a fourth-order puppet with the master!"

Zhou Chun did not hesitate to say what he meant.

Hearing what he said, Master Qianji immediately nodded and said, "Well, this request is not too much, the old man just has a few puppets in his hand to exchange, Zhou Daoyou, you can choose one yourself!" ”

After speaking, he took out three puppets from the storage bag and put them in front of Zhou Chun for him to choose.

These three puppets, namely the ape puppet, the wolf puppet, and the turtle puppet, represent different emphases.

Wolf golems are better at attacking, turtle golems are the main defense, and ape golems are more balanced.

After thinking about it, Zhou Chun chose the ape puppet.

He came to exchange for a fourth-order puppet, not for himself, but to enhance the Zhou family's heritage.

Compared with the other two serious puppets, the ape puppet is undoubtedly more in line with his requirements.

"Since Zhou Daoyou has made a choice, then this puppet is Daoyou's, if the puppet is damaged and needs to be repaired in the future, Daoyou can contact this door, and this door will charge a fee according to the difficulty of repair."

As he spoke, Master Thousand Machines put away the other two puppets.

"Zhou understands, thank you for the master's fulfillment."

Zhou Chun's face was overjoyed, and he immediately gave a bow to thank him, and then put away the ape puppet.

He didn't expect things to go so smoothly.

This Thousand Machines Master didn't seem to care where he got the bow and arrow warrior puppet from, or that he was very obedient to the rules of the Immortal Cultivation Realm, but asked about the origin of such items.

After this goal was achieved, Zhou Chun did not stay in the Yuan Puppet Gate for long, and soon left the house.

When returning to Tianyuan Immortal City, Zhou Chun was still very cautious, worried about whether the Thousand Machines Master would deliberately paralyze him and secretly rob and kill himself.

But it turned out that he seemed to think too much, and he came back all the way very smoothly without any trouble.

This made him sigh that there were still normal people in the immortal cultivation world!

After returning to Tianyuan Immortal City, Zhou Chun went all out to collect the elixirs that were used to refine the [Ancient Dust Pill].

Zhang Liang's identity has also been operating in Tianyuan Immortal City for dozens or hundreds of years, and he has met a lot of monks.

Zhou Chun also advertised it at this time, and even went to the "Tianyuan Palace" to place an order to collect elixirs, and soon many Purple Mansion monks and Jindan monks in the city knew about his high price to collect certain elixirs.

Doing so will definitely allow those who have the relevant elixir to take the opportunity to sit on the ground and raise the price, but it will indeed be able to raise the relevant elixir for Zhou Chun faster.

Anyway, he is not bad for spirit coins now, and some ordinary thousand-year-old elixirs have also been hoarded a lot, even if it is a premium transaction, it is acceptable.

Now Zhou Chun has only one idea, and that is to raise a spirit pet to the fourth order as soon as possible!

Facts have proved that as long as the Jindan period monks are willing to pay the capital, except for the thousand-year-old elixir and some rare magic weapon spiritual materials that are difficult to obtain in a short time, most of the thousand-year-old elixirs can still be obtained.

Zhou Chun bought it at a price that was almost three to fifty percent higher than the normal price, and with the elixir he already had in his hand before, he had enough materials for two furnaces of [Gu Chen Dan] in just two years.

At this time, Luo Qingni was still practicing while studying the alchemy inheritance given to her by Zhou Chun, and she would only open the furnace for alchemy a few times at intervals.

After Zhou Chun's materials were collected, she didn't say a word, and immediately helped Zhou Chun refine the [Ancient Dust Pill].

Maybe it's because he practiced two more times, or maybe it's because his alchemy skills have improved again, Luo Qingni refined two furnaces of [Ancient Dust Pill] this time, and a total of fourteen pills were produced.

After these fourteen [Ancient Dust Pills] arrived, Zhou Chun immediately made an allocation.

Lei Jiao got six elixirs for nothing, Jinjia Negative Mountain Turtle Stone got six elixirs, and the remaining two were given to Golden-winged Tiger.

According to his distribution arrangement, after the three-headed spirit pet swallows all these spirit pills, Lei Jiao will definitely be able to break through to the third-order high-grade demon beast in vain, and the golden armor negative mountain turtle stone will definitely be able to break through to the third-order high-grade because he has also devoured a silver-horned rhinoceros demon pill before.

And the reason why Zhou Chun didn't concentrate all the [Ancient Dust Pills] on one demon beast to swallow was because he didn't want to be too eccentric, and secondly, because if this pill was taken too much in a row, it would also develop resistance.

And in the future, he will continue to collect and refine the elixir of [Ancient Dust Pill], and if he is willing to spend money, it should not be a problem to gather the materials for a furnace of elixir in five or six years.

Just when Zhou Chun was looking forward to the breakthrough of a few spirit pets, Zhou Daoyi followed Lin Hongyu to Tianyuan Immortal City.

It turned out that Lin Hongyu had already exchanged for a knot pill spirit object that would help Hedan, and this time she brought Zhou Daoyi over to retreat and knot pills.

At the same time, the two also brought Zhou Chun a good and not bad news.

After Zhou Daoquan's spirit pet Blood Flame Dragon Python subdued the [Transformation Dragon Pill], it was not able to evolve into a Blood Flame Python.

However, it was also because the medicinal power of the [Dragon Pill] helped it purify its bloodline, so it broke the shackles of the bloodline and broke through to become a third-order demon beast Blood Flame Dragon Python.

In terms of strength and potential, the third-order demon beast Blood Flame Dragon Python is naturally much worse than the third-order Blood Flame Dragon, but it is definitely not worse than Zhou Mingde's Fire God Jackal.

Zhou Daoquan himself was not disappointed in this, and specially asked Zhou Daoyi to help thank Zhou Chun.

Another thing that made Zhou Chun feel reassuring was that the Zhou family had been generally stable in the past two years and had not been harassed.

This proves that his approach has taken effect, and the Ice Prison Gate may be concerned about the masters behind the Zhou family, so he has temporarily reined in and made no further moves.

In fact, this is also normal, although the killer sect of the Ice Hell Gate has a high completion rate of missions in the past, it is not without the experience of failure.

And the killers who can be sent by them are killed or captured, often because there is a strong man behind the target.

In this case, the Ice Prison Gate often investigates the situation first to see if the target is good or not.

If the target itself is investigated and easy to grasp, the Ice Hell Gate will naturally gather killers to uproot it.

But if there is really a lot of money behind the target, with the protection of the Yuan Infant Monk, the Ice Prison Gate can only be recognized most of the time.

After all, they are not strong enough to allow them to assassinate others, and not allow others to kill them!

For the sake of a Jindan stage killer, offending a Yuan Infant stage monk is a very irrational thing!

Although Zhou Chun didn't fully understand the method of the Ice Hell Gate, he also roughly guessed that the other party would definitely have some scruples if he couldn't find the missing killer and thoroughly understood the details, and he would not easily do anything to the Zhou family.

As for Qinglian Guan, I think that after learning about the disappearance of the Ice Hell Gate killer, they will also have scruples and dare not easily attack the Zhou family.

Zhou Chun only needs to drag it out now, and after a few decades, he will be able to have the strength to not be afraid of the Ice Hell Gate Killer and Qinglian Guan.

The next thing is also easy to do, Lin Hongyu and his wife went to rent a cave mansion to tie the pill, Zhou Chunming is still a person who has nothing to do with them, but he is active in Tianyuan Immortal City to collect relevant elixirs.

On this day, Zhou Chun was practicing in the cave mansion, and suddenly received a summons from Sun Yuanjing, the shopkeeper of Tianbao Pavilion, asking him to go to Tianbao Pavilion to talk about it.

Because of the purchase of [Taiyi Xuanjin Qi] at the beginning, coupled with the purchase and refining of [Ancient Dust Pill] elixir in the past few years, the friendship between Zhou Chun and Sun Yuanjing can be regarded as steadily improving.

At this time, the other party summoned and invited, although he did not explain what it was, he did not slack off, and went to Tianbao Pavilion after receiving the merit.

"Sun Daoyou suddenly invited Zhang to come here today, could it be that he found the elixir that Zhou needed again?"

In the private room of Tianbao Pavilion, as soon as Zhou Chun saw Sun Yuanjing, he half-jokingly asked about the other party's intention to invite him.

But seeing Sun Yuanjing, he shook his head and said: "That's not it, inviting Zhang Daoyou over today is also entrusted by someone." ”

As he spoke, he lowered his voice and said, "Zhang Daoyou, do you remember the Zeng Daoyou who asked you to help get rid of the stubborn disease?" This time, Zeng Daoyou asked Sun to invite Zhang Daoyou to come over, and wanted to have a private meeting with Zhang Daoyou! ”

"That's ......"

Zhou Chun looked at Sun Yuanjing, couldn't help but bow his head and groaned, thinking about the intention of the monk surnamed Zeng in his heart.

His deal with the monk was just a deal, and he didn't even know the real name of the other party.

Now that the other party suddenly said that he wanted to meet him privately, he must have something to ask for.

From the bottom of his heart, Zhou Chun certainly didn't want to make extraneous branches.

But he also knew that since the other party had entrusted Sun Yuanjing's relationship, he would not give up easily.

If he refuses at this time, he will still have the second best face for Sun Yuanjing, but I am afraid that he may not be able to really dispel the idea of the monk surnamed Zeng.

Therefore, after thinking about it, he still nodded lightly to Sun Yuanjing and said: "Since Sun Daoyou spoke, Zhang naturally wants to give Daoyou a face, so ask Daoyou to arrange a place!" ”

Hearing what he said, Sun Yuanjing suddenly smiled and said, "Hehehe, so Sun Mou thanked Zhang Daoyou first." ”

Then he explained: "Zeng Daoyou has already said in advance, if Zhang Daoyou agrees to meet, he can go to the Tianzihao private room of the Green Bud Teahouse in the city to meet!" ”

"Green Sprout Teahouse? Zhang understood. ”

Zhou Chun bowed slightly, said goodbye to Sun Yuanjing, and then went to the Green Bud Teahouse.

This Green Bud Teahouse is a high-end teahouse in Tianyuan Immortal City, and it only does business in the circle of high-level monks, and only the monks of the Purple Mansion can book a private room in it, and the price is very expensive.

Zhou Chun had been here a few times before, and he was also very impressed by the several unique spiritual teas in this teahouse.

At this time, when he arrived at the teahouse and reported the surname of the owner of the private room, he was soon greeted by a beautiful woman.

Zhou Chun still had some impressions of this beautiful woman, but it was the person who welcomed him and Sun Yuanjing into the Monk Cave Mansion, if he remembered correctly, he should have been surnamed Wei.

After this woman saw Zhou Chun, she immediately saluted respectfully and said: "The concubine has seen Senior Zhang, and my lord has already prepared tea in the private room to wait for the senior." ”

"Wei Daoyou is polite, please lead the way."

Zhou Chun said, and followed the woman to the Tianzihao private room in the teahouse.

After entering the private room, Zhou Chun saw the true face of the monk surnamed Zeng.

At this time, the monk was not wearing a mask, but his real appearance was that of a handsome-looking man, probably between thirty and forty years of age.

Looking at the breath on his body, it is obvious that he has completely been cowardly from the stubborn diseases in his body and has returned to normal.

Seeing this situation, he immediately bowed to the other party and said: "Zhang has seen Zeng Daoyou, congratulations to Zeng Daoyou for getting rid of his old diseases and regaining his health." ”

When the monk surnamed Zeng heard this, he immediately smiled heartily and said: "Hahaha, Zeng can recover, thanks to Zhang Daoyou, please take a seat." ”

As he spoke, he raised his hand to invite Zhou Chun to take a seat, and asked the beautiful woman who was a concubine to bring tea and water to Zhou Chun.

Immediately, I saw him pick up a cup of tea and salute Zhou Chun and said: "It was rude for Zeng to take the liberty of inviting Zhang Daoyou over, Zeng first replaced the wine with tea, and made compensation to Zhang Daoyou." ”

"Zeng Daoyou is polite."

Zhou Chun responded, and also picked up the tea and saluted the other party.

After greeting each other like this, I saw the monk surnamed Zeng saying to Zhou Chun apologetically: "At the beginning, Zeng was suffering from a stubborn illness, so he had to hide his identity, and I hope Zhang Daoyou will not blame him." ”

After speaking, he introduced himself: "Actually, Zeng's name is Zeng Tai, and he is the elder of the Yuanyang Sect of the Great Zhou Kingdom!" ”

"It turns out that Zeng Daoyou is actually an elder of the Yuanyang Sect, it is really disrespectful and disrespectful!"

Zhou Chun's face froze, and he hurriedly bowed his hand politely.

He had already heard of the name of the Yuanyang Sect, this sect was a powerful sect in the forefront of the Great Zhou Kingdom, and it was not far behind the Nine Yuan Sword Sect in terms of power.

The contemporary Taishang elder of the Yuanyang Sect, "Yuanyang Venerable", is a famous great monk of the late Yuan Dynasty of the Great Zhou, and his strength is unfathomable.

In addition to this Supreme Elder, the Yuanyang Sect also has another mid-Yuan Infant monk and two early Yuan Infant monks.

Zeng Tai was actually an elder of the Yuanyang Sect, no wonder Sun Yuanjing would faintly show favor to this person in every way!

But seeing Zeng Taihu's eyes blazing at him, he said: "Zeng's origin Zhang Daoyou is clear now, I wonder if Zhang Daoyou can tell him his origin now?" ”

He had asked people to investigate Zhang Liang before, but he found that he couldn't investigate the specific details of Zhang Liang, and only knew that he was a monk outside the Great Zhou Kingdom.

When it comes to forces outside the Great Zhou Kingdom, even if Zeng Tai is an elder of the Yuanyang Sect, it is impossible to investigate the origin of a false Jindan period monk in so many countries.

That's why he came to meet Zhou Chun after learning that Zhou Chun was active in Tianyuan Immortal City again.

Hearing him ask about his origins, Zhou Chun suddenly became vigilant, and immediately shook his head and said: "Zhang was born in a small family in a remote place, but there is nothing to say. ”

"It turns out that Zhang Daoyou is a family monk?"

Zeng Tai nodded thoughtfully, and then stopped biting on, and immediately smiled slightly: "Zhang Daoyou doesn't have to be careful, Zeng has no ill will towards Daoyou, I invited Daoyou over today, I just want to make a deal with Daoyou!" ”

(End of chapter)