Chapter 297: Hatted Assassin (9.1 Update)

"Huh! Xu Zhenren does not sell the account of the 'Wanhua Chamber of Commerce', and requires a third-order spiritual vein, and dares to enter the manor alone, and his cultivation is probably more than a fake pill. ”

Duan Lao's realm was higher, his divine sense swept over, and he saw Lu Changan's true cultivation, with an unfathomable smile on the corner of his mouth.

He naturally didn't know that this was the grandfather releasing water to his eldest grandson, and he didn't hide it with all his might.

Even the grandson of the fourth generation, who knows the roots, Lu Changan has a trace of defense.

Show higher strength to avoid the other party's dissenting intentions.

Of course, this is not very likely.

Lu Chang'an is a hot person in the Heyuan Oasis recently, an oasis within a range of hundreds of miles, and when you visit the dojo mansion in it, you can see the traces of the outside world.

"Duan Lao's mana is strong, and Xu's hidden means are smiling and generous."

Lu Chang'an's complexion changed slightly, and he forced himself to be calm, as if he was jealous of this unfathomable Jiedan master.

"Xu Zhenren doesn't have to be cramped, it's better for you to have a true pill cultivation, plus a third-order formation, it's not a problem to guard the Shanshui Manor."

Duan Lao has a gentle smile, and everything is under control.

In addition to him, there is also Grandma's secret supervision, which is enough to handle Xu Zhenren.

The land spirit veins on the island are also notarized, and they will not let the other party rely on them.

In the past, when he was not there, he went to take care of the other two branches, and Granny Yun, who was a third-order array mage, was responsible for taking care of and cultivating this third-order spiritual vein.

Granny Yun was limited by her qualifications and potential, and she escaped in the past, but she was seriously injured by the traitors of the sect, which greatly damaged her foundation, and she could not advance in her cultivation.

The situation is similar for Duanlao.

It's just that they don't regress in their cultivation, and the two of them don't rely on third-order spiritual veins.

Half an hour later.

Lu Changan and Duan Lao finalized a lot of details, and finally signed a third-order spirit contract.

The constraints of the spiritual contract are relatively relaxed.

Lu Chang'an's annual task is to refine a certain amount of alchemy and help take care of Shanshui Manor.

Alchemy apprenticeship, three places per ten years.

The spirit deed preliminarily stipulates that for 30 years, Lu Changan can break the contract, but he has to pay for the expenses during the period of residence, which is calculated at twice the market price.

In addition, there is a supplement to the spiritual deed:

Shanshui Manor is at least one or two decades, at most a few decades, and may be rented to other people to use it, hoping that Lu Changan will cooperate.

Lu Changan has no opinion on this.

He had simulated going through the fourth reincarnation, and speculated that the spiritual vein dojo cultivated here was one of the alternative places for the descendants of the Fire to open up a family in the future.

Fearing being targeted, the descendants of the fourth generation did not dare to put their eggs in one basket in order to ensure the continuation of the bloodline.

Therefore, there are three branches of descendants distributed in the Fengyuan country, and they are basically not related to each other.

Among them, the young and excellent heirs, such as the Yun brothers and sisters, don't even know their own backgrounds.

As the grandson of the Lihuo Master, Duan Lao is in charge of the overall planning and only contacts the leaders of the three branches.

The descendants of the fourth generation who took refuge in the war are in a state of lack of success.

The third-order Dan master is faulty, and the True Dan monks are not manpowered.

If you can bind a reliable third-order Dan master and let him help with alchemy, train apprentices, and at the same time help guard this alternative third-order spiritual vein, it will be the best of both worlds.

……

On the same day, Duan Lao handed over the formation control order of Shanshui Manor to Lu Changan.

According to the agreement, the formation on the periphery of the manor must not be changed or replaced by Lu Changan.

However, in the mansion building inside the manor, Lu Changan can set up his own formation to protect his privacy.

Lu Changan didn't care, the hidden formation he had laid out by himself was definitely stronger than the peripheral formation.

The forbidden treasure talisman he mastered could easily break through the third-order formation.

A few days later, Lu Changan officially settled in Shanshui Manor.

Under the mansion, there is a ready-made basement, and there is also a pool and an artificial river in front of the pavilion.

Lu Changan asked the ground rat to dig the pool deeper and lay a tunnel, which required the key spell to open the ban and lead to the basement.

The Xuanshui Turtle can be active in the pool on weekdays, and it can also go to the basement to take care of the Xuantian Vine that reconnects to the earth's qi.

"The small third-order dojo of Shanshui Manor is enough for me and the Xuanshui Turtle to practice, and there is no need to invest additional spirit stones."

After Lu Changan moved in, he was satisfied.

The Xuanshui Turtle's dependence on aura is only equivalent to a fake pill cultivation, and there is also a part of absorbing Lu Changan's golden pill evergreen mana, absorbing the qi of the years when cultivating.

A considerable part of the spells and abilities of demon beasts come from the power of bloodline.

Therefore, normal demon beasts rely on aura, which is slightly lower than that of human monks.

The Xuanshui Turtle is slightly lower than ordinary demon beasts.

As for the ground rats?

The mid-third-order great demon, if you add it, this small spiritual vein will not be able to withstand it.

Lu Changan decided to raise it in the wild and become self-sufficient.

The boundless desert is rich in earth spirit, and there are many ore spirits in the depths of the ground.

Ground rock rats enter here, the sea is wide and the fish jumps, hunting sand beasts, exploring resources and treasures, and occasionally playing the autumn wind, not too comfortable.

Lu Changan is not very demanding, and he only takes two or three percent of the precious spiritual objects he explores and the harvest of destroying the sand bandits.

In the inheritance of the beast left by the yellow wolf real person, there is this kind of wild stocking cultivation method, and the monsters that grow up are more wild and have stronger combat power.

The cost is also very low.

The disadvantages are that the risk is high, it is easy to die in stocking, and the probability of defection increases.

Risk, Lu Changan doesn't have to worry.

He analyzed: The Heyuan Oasis does not have a third-order high-grade spiritual vein, so there is no permanent overhaul in the later stage of the Jiedan.

This means that the ground rock rat dominates the surrounding area, and cultivates at will.

All sandworms, poisons, and exotic beasts are its meal.

As long as you keep a low profile and make a fortune and do not infringe on the interests of the major forces in the oasis, there will be no risk.

……

Months passed.

Lu Changan is in Shanshui Manor and is 215 years old.

In the past few months, the shadow of the ground rat has been rarely seen, and it is simply a pleasure.

I went home twice halfway and gave Lu Changan a little filial piety.

Even if there was no fixed third-order spirit vein, the cultivation speed of the Earth Rock Rat was not lagging behind at all, and it was even slightly faster.

Lu Changan estimated that he had eaten a lot of this product, and he turned a blind eye.

On the Xuanshui Turtle's side, Lu Changan couldn't let it be too lazy and too comfortable.

The spirit wood herbs in Shanshui Manor, as well as some cubs obtained from the Yellow Wolf Zhenren, were handed over to it to take care of.

Those cub eggs, Lu Changan will sell some in small quantities on the oasis for a long time.

Among them, the rarer varieties will be sold at the auction in Xiancheng in the future.

The water and wood spells of the Xuanshui Turtle are suitable for doing these repetitive mechanical tasks.

This turtle has a lazy temperament and has no quarrel with the world, and must be spurred by external forces, otherwise it will lie flat.

On this day, Duan Lao returned to Shanshui Manor with three alchemy apprentices, two men and one woman.

The turtle passes through a tunnel deep in the pool and returns to the basement to avoid detection.

"Xu Zhenren, in the next ten years, I will bother you to teach three juniors."

The three apprentices brought by Duan Lao all have certain alchemy potential, and most of their talents are better than Lu Changan's.

"It's an agreed matter."

Lu Changan promised to come down.

Instructing apprentices, not accepting them as personal disciples, taking the time to answer questions, and point out one or two.

Whether it can be made depends on their personal creation.

Lu Changan looked at the three apprentices, two low-grade spiritual roots and one medium-grade spiritual root.

The one with the middle grade Linggen is called Niu Jie, with dark skin and an ordinary appearance.

Elder Duan instructed Lu Changan that this person has a good talent for alchemy, and he hopes to pay attention to it.

"Niu Jie?"

Lu Chang'an had a strange heart, remembering this person's name,

He lived for seven or eight hundred years, and his original name was "Duan Da Niu", which is rarely known to the world.

Duan Lao's surname is derived from the pseudonym of "Duan".

Niu Jie's cow should be similar.

Incognito for hundreds of years, those who snoop on the legacy of the people on the fire can almost stop.

"If Xu Zhenren can train a third-order Dan master for the old man, the third-order dojo of Shanshui Manor can be transferred to you cheaply."

Before parting, Duan Lao Chuanyin promised.

Lu Changan smiled, not caring much about this kind of pie painting.

This small third-order spirit vein is useful to him now, and when it comes to the middle and late stages of the Jiedan, plus the Xuanshui Turtle, it will not be enough to see.

Cultivating and improving the spiritual veins is extremely slow, and the investment of hundreds or thousands of years is not something that can be done by several generations of monks.

If you want to be fast, unless you snatch the spiritual veins of other forces and migrate and cultivate, you have to have a clever array master to take action.

……

That same evening.

An old man in a wide robe appeared in Heyuanfang City, on the third floor of the Treasure Building.

"I've seen Grandma."

Duan Lao faced the wrinkled silver-haired old woman and saluted respectfully.

By generation, Granny Yun is her grandmother.

In fact, Duan Lao is the same age as Granny Yun, and is not the latter's heir.

Granny Yun was the last wife of the Lihuo Shangren in the Yuan Infant Period, and she was also the youngest Taoist couple.

Several other wives and concubines, most of whom built the foundation and married Dan, basically passed away.

"That Xu Zhenren, can you rest assured?"

Granny Yun motioned for him to be excused, but the latter stood respectfully and refused to sit down.

"Those who have been preliminarily approved by Grandma are naturally relieved. That Xu Zhenren was intercepted and killed in the Scorpion Desert City, destitute, humble and easy-going. Judging by his words and deeds, he should be an elegant gentleman. ”

Duan Lao paused, and then added:

"However, when my grandson met Xu Zhenren twice, I didn't have that kind of affection and cordial feeling."

"Oh?"

Granny Yun's doubts are still unresolved.

She and Yun Ling have similar feelings, but Duan Lao, as the grandson of Lihuo Zhenren, does not.

You must know that Yun Ling is two generations lower than the old one.

It is inferred from this that the feeling of falling in love may not be the same relationship as the real person from the fire.

"Could it be related to the Yun Clan's lineage?"

Granny Yun said secretly.

Yun Yan and Yun Ling both have the blood of the Yun family.

Yun Ling's appearance is somewhat like Yun Yan when she was young.

Coupled with the talent of drawing talismans, Granny Yun cultivated Yun Ling as an elite.

"Perhaps, it's because Xu Zhenren practices the exercises and has an elegant temperament, which is easy to make a good impression on female cultivators."

Duan Lao speculated.

"Hmm."

Granny Yun bowed her head and did not say what she really thought.

Naturally, the two did not understand the causal bond in this.

Duan Lao is just one of the many descendants of the people on the fire, and the bond is not so deep.

Although Yun Ling is of a lower rank and is farther away, she is also the reincarnation of Guan Qiaozhi and has a close relationship with Lu Changan.

Granny Yun is the last wife and Taoist couple from the fire, with deep feelings, and the bond is second only to Yun Ling.

"Grandma, that traitor in Fang Town, arrived in 'Gutian City' this year, and may have traced clues."

"Although the other two have the hole cards of third-order puppets and third-order spirit beasts, they don't have a true pill. Once targeted by this son, it is dangerous and abnormal. The grandson should go over as soon as possible, take care of it secretly, and beware of the thief. ”

Hearing the name of "Fang Zhen", Granny Yun showed a look of jealousy.

She faked her death back then, but she was discovered by Fang Zhen, an elder of the inner gate, who led his subordinates to seriously injure her in a sneak attack.

Fang Zhen used to be the deputy hall master of the Law Enforcement Hall of the Fire Palace, and he was thoughtful.

In the middle of the Yudan, in the early days of the attack on the Yudan, there were many people. Yun Yan relied on the hole cards given by her husband to injure the thief and escape from death.

"Be careful, don't reveal your whereabouts."

Granny Yun instructed.

"Grandma rest assured, now that Xu Zhenren is in charge of Shanshui Manor, my grandson has more time and energy to deal with ......"

……

In a blink of an eye, three years have passed.

Lu Chang'an cultivated comfortably and leisurely in Shanshui Manor, and was not disturbed by the outside world.

The eldest grandson is very relieved of him, and he hasn't come back in the past three years?

Shanshui Manor seems to have become Lu Changan's private dojo.

The down-and-out Xu Zhenren integrated into the Heyuan Oasis and became a house-owning family.

On the oasis, there are fewer and fewer forces and monks who pay attention to Lu Chang'an.

However, the "Wanhua Chamber of Commerce" on the Heyuan Oasis had some prejudices against Lu Changan's refusal back then.

The Chamber of Commerce has mastered nearly half of the spirit wood herbs and alchemy materials on the oasis.

Lu Chang'an couldn't buy those scarce alchemy materials, normal materials, and couldn't enjoy preferential treatment through the channels of the Chamber of Commerce.

Perhaps, this is Wanhua Chamber of Commerce's rejection of Lu Changan and an alternative suppression.

This restriction is of little significance to Lu Changan.

The alchemist is not the hundred arts of cultivating immortals that he majored in, and he even ranks at the bottom of the several existing skills.

Moreover, Lu Changan came from Liang Guo and purchased a lot of rare herbs here.

"Blastoise, if you mess around again, Ling'er will ignore you."

In the landscape manor, there was a girl's voice like a silver bell in the wind by the pool.

A blastoise with a width of a foot squirts a jet of water onto a girl in a blue dress with starry eyes and bright teeth.

Yun Ling wrinkled her nose, her face was full of anger, her hair was wet, and her long skirt was soaked, outlining her delicate undulating curves.

Poof!

The blastoise swam to Yun Ling's feet, spitting blisters, obediently reassuring and apologizing.

Yun Ling snorted lightly, stretched out her white jade feet like tender lotus, and kicked it.

The blastoise has rough skin and thick flesh, and is not afraid of pain, so he sticks out his head flatteringly and rubs the girl's feet.

"It's so itchy, you tap, the point is ......"

Yun Ling giggled, the corners of her eyes sparkled, her pink lip line was pursed, and she slumped on the thick back of the turtle with her wet long skirt.

"Sister, don't make trouble, the girl's family must understand etiquette and know honesty and shame......"

In the corridor of the Water Pavilion, Yun Hao, who had been promoted to the foundation building period, touched his nose and said with a wry smile.

He secretly slandered himself, isn't it just a water blastoise with medium-grade blood, and it is rare to see it in the desert.

For some reason, Yun Ling saw this blastoise for the first time, and she loved it very much, and her mother's love was overflowing.

Blastoise also fell in love with her at first sight.

At first, I visited Shanshui Manor to ask for pills and add rare treasures to the store.

Later, in order to meet the blastoise, Yun Ling took the initiative to help that Xu Zhenren run errands and do chores.

The current Blastoise is naturally a Xuanshui Turtle that changes its shape, similar to the human disguise technique.

In order to meet Yun Ling.

The Xuanshui Turtle actually changed from laziness and anger, and cultivated the Transfiguration Technique a year ago.

This makes it easy to form different species of turtles.

However, it cannot be cross-species.

Blastoise is a common water-based spirit turtle, with a rough appearance outline, as well as water-based spells, which are seventy percent similar to the Blastoise.

"Brother Niu, when will Xu Zhenren come out?"

Yun Hao found Niu Jie, led by three alchemy apprentices, who had outstanding alchemy talent and was already a first-order Dan master.

"Senior Huiyun, the real person is refining the pill, and he has only been in for a few days, at least a few days, and at most ten days."

Niu Jie has a dark complexion, an ordinary appearance, and arches his hand.

Yun Hao sighed and looked at his sister with a ruddy face and a pure smile.

……

Niu Jie, the Yun brothers and sisters and others did not notice: At this time, there was a vague shadow, sneaking into the Shanshui Manor unconsciously.

The third-order formation in the manor was useless.

The vague shadow swept behind a thousand-year-old tree, and his indifferent eyes glanced at Yun Ling and the Xuanshui Turtle who were playing not far away.

It was a mysterious man with a hat wearing a gray robe and a dark cloak.

The inside of his arms, like a magnet, each has a shuriken.

Swish!

As if ghostly, the mysterious man with a hat bypassed the Water Pavilion and avoided everyone's senses and prohibitions, and quietly approached Lu Chang'an's alchemy room.

The blurred shadow flashed again, through the crack in the door, and burrowed into the alchemy room.

The temperature in the alchemy room was very high, and the blue-red light outlined the angular and cold face of the man in the hat.

In front of the alchemy furnace, an elegant middle-aged man in a green shirt pinched the trick in his hand, controlling the blue-gold true fire, and had a meticulous expression.

He didn't seem to be aware of the uninvited guest behind it.

The man in the hat raised his sleeve, revealing the sleeve arrow inside, and the cold light flickered, aiming at Lu Changan's back.

"Meet the Evergreen Real People."

The hat-tapped assassin bowed and made a stiff, indifferent voice.

"How's it going?"

Lu Changan didn't look back, and asked lightly.

"Back to the real person, after infiltrating the investigation, it was confirmed that the Wanhua Chamber of Commerce had indeed cultivated the main medicine of the third-order longevity pill, and there was more than one longevity fruit."

"In addition, the chamber of commerce has a third-order Dan master, and in the future, it is ready to refine the third-order life extension pill to enhance the influence of the chamber of commerce."

"That's a good job."

Lu Changan said approvingly.

In fact, the above is just a self-question, in order to train the puppet puppet to simulate a real human dialogue.

……

Two months ago, Lu Chang'an's puppet skills broke through and refined a third-order mid-grade puppet.

This third-order middle-grade puppet, Lu Changan used the "Xing Peng" of the Infernal Gate as a template to create the form of a human assassin.

Through the flesh and skin technique he learned from Adamaru, he disguised himself as a hat man.

This assassin puppet has a relatively brittle body, and its defensive ability is not as good as that of a third-order low-grade turtle puppet.

However, it is agile, extremely fast, good at stealth, and has a strong assassination ability.

Lu Chang'an's magic weapon or parts tailored for it, there is a cloak that adds concealment.

In terms of assassination, there are shurikens and hidden arrows, which are considered small magic weapons, and they are smeared with poison of the third order.

In addition, it is also equipped with a special poison smoke bomb, which can obscure the senses of the gods, weaken the opponent, and facilitate running or fishing in troubled waters.

Originally, Lu Changan was an assassin puppet and injected the shadow of the first soul into it, but as a result, the power of the divine soul in the Qi refining period was simply unable to control the ability of a third-order mid-grade puppet.

So, Lu Changan injected it with the soul shadow of the second life.

The second life is the soul of the pinnacle of Yudan.

The fighting skills of the assassin puppet eruption, all kinds of micro-manipulations, are even stronger than the monks of the same level.

However, the consumption of divine souls and puppet crystals is quite large.

The effective distance of remote control reaches thousands of miles.

If you don't fight, just rush, scout, you can make do within 10,000 miles.

At such a distance, there is a few percent of the effect of an incarnation outside the body.

It's just that the assassin puppet has no sense of independence, and it has to be controlled remotely by Lu Changan in order to exert its true strength.

In terms of realism, the assassin puppet was deceived into refining qi, and the foundation was okay.

Close conversations, after a long time, may be seen clues.

When you meet a monk Yudan, it's easier to show your stuffing.

"I heard that the Wanhua Chamber of Commerce is attacking the Star Moon Chamber of Commerce on the verge of bankruptcy and wants to annex the latter, how long do you think the latter can last?"

Lu Changan stabilized the true fire in front of the Dan furnace and groaned.

"Although the Star Moon Chamber of Commerce is a True Dan Monk fault, it has taken a turn for the better in recent years. A pair of fake Dan men and women at the helm of the chamber of commerce practiced the lost combined attack technique. ”

"This exercise, absorbing the power of the stars and the moon, and the combined attack of men and women, has the supernatural power of transcending the level. A few months ago, the Zhendan Killer and others hired by the Wanhua Chamber of Commerce were defeated by the two of them at night, and they were seriously injured and barely escaped......"

Lu Changan recognized it with the vision of the Yuan Infant Period, and felt that the set of combined attack exercises had a great origin.

If it weren't for Yun Yan's recommendation, the Xingyue Chamber of Commerce would have been his alternate affiliation.

"Do you know what to do next?"

"My subordinates understand!"

The cloaked assassin opened his leather armor and took out a few puppet crystals and embedded them in his chest, then made a blurry afterimage and disappeared from the alchemy chamber.

(End of chapter)