Half a month later.

Small turtle peak, by the lotus pond.

A light and playful girl in a flower skirt sits on the back of a turtle in Xuanshui, touching the simple texture on the turtle shell with her bare hands, and looks reluctant.

"Tan'er, if you don't go back and delay your cultivation, your master may be to blame."

Lu Changan said with a straight face.

Last time, I said goodbye to the people from Feiyue Lake, but I didn't expect this female nephew in the foundation building period to take the initiative to beg to come and see the Xuanshui Turtle.

More than ten years ago, Zhao Tan'er planned to build a foundation, and when she came over with her master Zhao Siyao, she fell in love with the cute Xuanshui Turtle.

"Uncle Lu, the family teacher is going to participate in the Lantern Festival in Bauhinia Immortal City next month, you really don't plan to go over and surprise her old man?"

Zhao Tan'er jumped down from the turtle shell, with a pair of smart eyes, looking at Lu Chang'an's expression.

"In this lantern festival, the family teacher should meet with his juniors at the matchmaking of a real person. Uncle Lu, if you don't make a move, you may be wrong for life. ”

In the past few days since she came to Xiaoguifeng, Zhao Tan'er has more than once matched Lu Changan and Zhao Siyao, either explicitly or secretly.

Regarding this woman's statement, Lu Changan was skeptical.

Zhao Siyao is in Jinyun Valley, she is a high-quality single female foundation building monk, and there are not a few cases of being matched by elders.

If he was willing to cling to or accept the unspoken rules, Zhao Siyao would have succumbed to the ninth-level plan of refining qi, and would not wait until today.

"I don't understand the things between the elders."

Lu Changan shook his head and said.

"Uncle Lu, you'll just go once, okay?"

Zhao Tan'er's teeth were like shells, she pursed her lips lightly, and begged.

"Your Uncle Lu has recently burst out of spiritual light, and he just doesn't have time to overcome the problem of the talisman and hit the second-order top grade. I will definitely go next time. ”

Lu Changan was too lazy to break it anymore, entered the cave, opened the ban, and isolated Zhao Tan'er.

"Hmph, if you're as cowardly as a turtle, you can't take the initiative once?"

Zhao Tan'er was annoyed and helpless.

"Xiaoqing, see you next time."

Zhao Tan'er stretched out a scallion finger, wanting to hook the head of the Xuanshui turtle.

Seeing her approaching fingers.

The Xuanshui Turtle instinctively showed pain, and was so frightened that it immediately retracted into the turtle shell.

Zhao Tan'er is not a gentle girl, and her favorite way is a little special, and she has been scared of the Xuanshui Turtle these days.

"Humph! So do you, shrunken turtle! ”

Zhao Tan'er was dissatisfied, and flew away from Little Turtle Peak boringly.

Puff puff!

Confirming that the woman left, the Xuanshui Turtle excitedly spread joy in the lotus pond.

"Finally gone."

In the cave, Lu Changan breathed a sigh of relief.

He didn't come out in the first place.

Come to the Dan Room of the Cave Mansion and pick up the alchemy that has been abandoned for a while.

Many years ago, Lu Changan's alchemy skills touched the threshold of a second-order Dan master.

But to completely become a second-order Dan Master, this step has not been able to break through for a long time.

He paid the price, and occasionally he could barely refine the second-order pill, but he was absolutely lost, and the quality of the Cheng Dan was very unstable.

Faced with this big bottleneck, Lu Changan chose to put it aside for a period of time, and then revisit alchemy to seek a breakthrough.

"Huh?"

This time for alchemy, Lu Changan felt that the technique was smooth, the fire control was accurate, and his mentality was comfortable.

A few days later, he refined a furnace of second-order cultivation pills.

Six Ning Yuan Dan and two Cheng Dan, there are no obvious flaws in quality.

Lu Chang'an was overjoyed, this Cheng Dan rate had reached the standard of a second-order Dan master.

After a few days of rest.

He opened the furnace again to refine the second-order pill, but as a result, Cheng Dan fell to two percent, and the quality declined significantly.

The previous time, it seemed that it was just an extraordinary performance.

Lu Changan is determined, his alchemy skills have improved, and breaking through this level is nothing more than a matter of time.

In the years that followed, he slightly increased his investment and practice in alchemy.

……

Three years later.

Little Turtle Peak, Dan indoor.

A strong medicinal fragrance emanated.

The brass furnace with a height of several feet flashed brightly, and the lid trembled gently.

Lu Changan is not slow or sick, pinching the trick in his hand, and skillfully unfolding the furnace method.

A piece of aura glow rushed open the lid of the tripod, and the steaming heat swept through.

Sou! Sou! Sou......

Six pills flew down into Lu Chang'an's palm.

Three of them are as black as carbon, and they are waste pills.

There is a pill on the surface of the fourth stripe that is mostly missing, between the waste pill and the inferior pill.

The other two pills are full and crystalline, like green grapes.

The total quantity of Cheng Dan is related to the total amount of material.

"Yes, the quality of the pill and the rate of the pill have stabilized. In the future, refining the familiar second-order lower grade elixir will at least not lose money. ”

Lu Changan smiled and nodded, putting away the pill and the pill furnace.

About half a year ago, his alchemy skills were stable at the second-order lower grade.

It took decades, with the blessing of cultivation and divine consciousness, and after so many years of investment, the alchemy technique reached the second level.

It is enough to prove that Lu Changan's alchemy talent is indeed a bit poor.

In contrast, the puppets he practiced later had skills that were close to the second-order upper grade.

If it weren't for the rarity of second-order high-grade puppet materials and the lack of opportunities to practice, Lu Changan might be able to become a second-order high-grade puppet master in the past few years.

"It will take another year for me to build the fifth floor of the foundation."

"At that time, you can go to the 'Liaoyuan Immortal City' to purchase second-order high-grade puppet materials, and find third-order spiritual bamboo, second-order longevity pills, knot pills and other materials."

Lu Chang'an pondered.

He is now one hundred and thirteen years old, and it is estimated that he will be one hundred and fourteen years old to build the fifth floor.

One of the reasons why the farther "Liaoyuan Immortal City" instead of the Huanglong Immortal City is that the latter has obviously declined in recent years.

Liaoyuan Immortal City, the first immortal city in the Liang Kingdom, is located on the east side of the Fire Palace.

The actual controller behind this immortal city is the Lihuo Palace of the Yuanying-level forces.

Back then, Lu Changan tried to build a foundation and chose to go to Huanglong Immortal City, because it was a holy place for casual cultivation, down-to-earth, and the talisman materials were cheap, suitable for casual cultivation without a background.

Liaoyuan Immortal City, there are often real people haunting, the scale and grade are higher, and the housing prices, rents, and prices in the city naturally rise.

When his cultivation was weak, Lu Changan avoided meeting real people, even if it was just entering the range of his senses.

Now that the cultivation in the middle stage of foundation building, the ability to conceal the qi of the evergreen gong has been greatly increased, and ordinary real people can't see the reality of the void, so there is no need to be too taboo.

……

Lu Changan walked out of the cave and took the two letters presented by the ground rock rats.

One of them is from Guan Qiaozhi.

Counting up, Guan Qiaozhi has been away for five or six years.

A few years ago, she settled in the area around Hengshui Mansion and adopted some orphans and orphans.

Some are abandoned babies who don't even have names.

Guan Qiaozhi made her own opinion, the baby boy took the surname Lu, and the baby girl was surnamed Guan.

It seems that he wants to use this alternative way to help Lu Changan continue his descendants and make up for his shortcomings.

In this letter.

Guan Qiaozhi focused on "Chifeng", a young man with spiritual roots.

Chi Feng is the descendant of Lu Chang'an's stepfather "Qi Jingyun" several generations apart.

A few years ago, Chifeng was discovered by Guan Qiaozhi to have mana fluctuations on his body, and he was officially introduced into the Immortal Road.

"The Jianghu gang is from a group of people, experienced and steady, and the upper reaches of the spiritual root of the lower grade, and the ambition is ...... on the avenue"

Guan Qiaozhi described in the letter that Chiffon is similar to Lu Changan in many ways.

Therefore, as an immortal, she took a little care of Chiffon and gave more guidance, but she did not give much resources.

Recently, Chiffon has cultivated to the fourth level of qi refining, and will officially walk in the immortal cultivation realm.

When Guan Qiaozhi discovered Chifeng, the other party had practiced the "Open Source Sutra" for many years, and he had a foundation of the second layer of qi refining, and he had a solid foundation.

"Chiffon? That's fine. ”

Guan Qiaozhi took a look at his father-in-law's spiritual root descendants, which was actually in line with Lu Changan's intentions.

He can understand Guan Qiaozhi's above behavior of "sustenance of emotions".

As long as he doesn't use Little Turtle Peak as an orphanage, he doesn't have any opinion.

Guan Qiaozhi, as a caring person, understands his temperament and will not do this kind of burden-throwing thing.

……

The second letter is from Li Erqing.

The content of the letter was completely expected by Lu Changan.

The three major foundations of the Mu family have been built, and the number of clansmen in the Qi refining period has increased greatly, and the spiritual veins of Feiyue Lake are no longer enough.

In the first two years, the Feiyue Lake Mujia considered expanding to the surrounding areas.

As a result, the plan went bankrupt.

The main reason is that there are no suitable goals and opportunities.

The Zhuji family on the north side of Feiyue Lake is far away from each other, and it is difficult to provoke contradictions. And this force has a good relationship with the Zhou family of the Royal Beast, similar to half a vassal.

On the south side of Feiyue Lake is the Maple Leaf Huang Family, and on the east side of the Xiuxian Station, it is Zhuye Shanfang City.

It's all the territory of the Huang family.

The Huang family not only had the protection of the later stage of foundation building, but also relieved themselves in the first two years, and a young foundation building monk was born.

The foundation building and cultivating immortal family on the southwest side is closer to Jinyun Valley. The ancestor of this clan had a fake Dan real person a few decades ago, and he still has a relationship with Jinyun Valley.

In the end, the Mu family, which had three foundations, only annexed one or two small families in the surrounding gas refining period, slightly expanding the family industry and sphere of influence.

However, the fundamental problem has not been solved.

If you can't expand outward.

The contradictions within the family have further intensified, the new and old lineages are opposed, and the resources and spiritual veins are limited, so they can only squeeze the middle and lower class clansmen.

Li Erqing was worried about the predicament and hidden dangers of the Mu family, and vaguely expressed his intention to ask for advice in the letter.

……

A few days after the letter arrived.

Li Erqing personally rushed to Xiaoguifeng and talked with Lu Changan until late at night.

"The younger brother suddenly realized: Renlongbo died that year, and the deep meaning of the third suggestion made by the eldest brother."

Li Erqing's expression was complicated and he sighed.

At that time, Huang Tankong calculated the Mu family, and only Li Erqing was left with a foreign surname to build the foundation.

In order to prevent the Mu family from splitting, Lu Changan mentioned three suggestions.

The first two resolve the contradiction from the inside.

They are to let Li Erqing delegate power and train new foundation-building monks in the old lineage of the Mu family.

The only third suggestion is to divert the contradiction from the outside.

"If one day, the situation in Feiyue Lake is stable, it can't meet the cultivation needs of your lineage. You can bring your own descendants and go outside to set up your own family. ”

Recalling Lu Changan's words back then, Li Erqing had to admire, his vision was far-reaching.

As long as Li Erqing is still around, the interests of his huge descendants will continue for a long time.

"Erqing, are you going to set up your own portal?"

Lu Changan said with a smile.

If Li Erqing takes this step, it is in line with human nature.

The foundation of his life is the end, and the road is hopeless.

If you use your own surname to create a family of cultivators, and the descendants will continue to multiply, cultivators will ask, and future generations may be able to give birth to powerful people.

This way of bloodline continuation can be regarded as chasing immortality in a sense.

"Haha! How can I, Li Erqing, let my eldest brother look down on me easily? ”

Li Erqing shook his head and grinned.

"The younger brother hereby swears that as a son-in-law, he will be a family member for life and protect Feiyue Lake until the last moment."

Looking at Lu Changan, who was moved and surprised, Li Erqing felt an inexplicable sense of pleasure and pride.

"Oh, so how are you going to solve the hidden danger?"

Lu Changan was indeed a little surprised.

Li Erqing did this, which can be regarded as a model of gratitude and gratitude.

After all, if there is no Mu family's acceptance and cultivation, there will be no glory of Li Erqing by giving birth to children.

"Congren learned of my thoughts and volunteered to go to remote areas to expand and take away most of the descendants of the direct line."

"In this way, there is no opposition between the old and new lineages inside Feiyue Lake."

Li Erqing said the countermeasures for the future.

"Congren, this kid, is very responsible."

Lu Changan praised.

No wonder a few years ago, Li Erqing was full of praise for Mu Congren's grandson.

At the same time, Lu Changan understood another deep meaning of doing this.

Li Erqing will protect the Mu family for life and will not stand on his own.

However, his grandson extended with his direct bloodline, and when the time came, he had the capital to support his own family.

Regarding Mu Congren's outreach, Li Erqing discussed a lot with Lu Changan.

In the area of Liang Country near the border, there are cheap second-order spirit veins for rent and sale.

Because of the geographical location, the trade is not prosperous, and the conditions are difficult.

Moreover, it is located on the edge of the influence of the sect's forces, and the public security environment is also much worse.

"The little brother came to visit this time, and I wanted to ask Congren for some means to protect his life by the way."

Li Erqing said.

When Lu Changan heard this, his heart moved.

He happened to have a lot of second-order talismans and puppets in reserve.

Especially the second-order middle- and lower-grade puppets who practice their hands, because they do not reveal the identity of the second-order puppeteers, they cannot be sold in the open.

"This set of talismans is a little bit of caution on the part of the eldest brother. The rest of the road protection means are sold at the store's purchase price. ”

Lu Changan handed over a talisman box first, and there were several second-order low-grade talismans in it.

Subsequently, he took out a box of second-order talismans, mainly lower and middle grades, and a small number of upper grades.

He took out two or three top-grade magic weapons and a few second-order puppets.

"This ......"

Li Erqing couldn't help but be stunned, his eyes were straight, and his throat was swallowing and squirming.

Li Erqing struggled for a long time, took a deep breath, and withdrew his gaze with difficulty.

looked at Lu Changan's gaze, as if there was a sense of re-understanding.

He came over this time, he was well prepared, and raised a lot of spirit stones, but at this moment, he felt like a drop in the bucket.

The above war necessities can only be regarded as Lu Changan's conventional means, and he doesn't mind showing a little bit to people who are familiar with and trust.

In the end, Li Erqing squeezed out his life savings, including the support of the Mu family's veteran faction, and owed Lu Changan 2,000 spirit stones.

Buy a top-grade magic weapon, two second-order puppets, and more than ten second-order mid-to-high-grade talismans.

The next day, Lu Changan sent away Li Erqing, who had an empty expression and implied pain.

Li Erqing has never spent so many spirit stones in his life.

It is actually a war supply taken out by Lu Changan, with high quality and low price, and the temptation is too great.

The two thousand spirit stones that Li Erqing owed.

Lu Changan is not worried, anyway, he has many children and grandchildren, and there is no shortage of people to repay debts.

……

A year later.

Little Turtle Peak, inside the secret room.

"One hundred and fourteen years old, with five floors of foundation. The cultivation progress in the middle stage of foundation building reached two-thirds. ”

Lu Changan slowly retracted his strength, and the aura lake in the dantian expanded a few points, and the evergreen mana became deeper and deeper.

With this kind of advancement of small layers, the quality of mana does not change much.

However, the total amount of mana is increased by about 30%, which is helpful for drawing talismans and protracted battles.

Whew! Snore!

The Xuanshui Turtle was in front of Lu Chang'an, greedily inhaling his breath and letting out some kind of excited and rapid cry.

"Oh? Have you already cultivated to the limit of the late first order? ”

Lu Changan probed the situation of the Xuanshui Turtle, and the mana in his body was brewing to the peak, and there was only one opportunity for qualitative change.

The Xuanshui Turtle stretched out his tongue restlessly, rubbing his clothes enthusiastically and cheerfully, looking impatient.

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