The next day, in the Jixiang Sect, on the floating cloud platform, a middle-aged beautiful woman from the Lingbao Sect and the accompanying steward and others climbed the tall building and saw Li Zhen in the main hall inside.

At this moment, he was wearing a moon-white ice silk water-patterned imperial robe, wearing a feather crown and a golden hairpin, sitting on the throne.

On both sides are crane-shaped bronze incense burners that are about to fly, the fragrance is silent, smokeless and dispersed, like the warm meaning of the sun filling the whole hall.

The middle-aged beautiful woman and the people accompanying her bowed and praised: "The deputy head of the Qintian Academy of the Lingbao Sect, the deacon elder Yin Lanqing has seen Sect Master Li. ”

Li Zhen bowed slightly, stretched his sleeves and said, "Yin Daoyou, please take a seat." ”

After the group sat down, the maid served fragrant tea, and for a while, the fragrance of flowers wafted.

"Elder Guizong Fu has been here many times, why is he not here?" asked Li Zhen casually.

Yin Lanqing replied: "Elder Fu is already old, so the sect has sent me to take over his mission, and in the future, if you need it, you can contact me or the deacon we set up on Beixiao Island. ”

"I see......"

After some pleasantries, the middle-aged beautiful woman asked about the recent customization of incense burner utensils and various objects by the Jixiang Sect.

These are the daily affairs of a sect, Li Zhen's current identity is already the head of a sect, and the sect's public account is hung with loans all the year round, as well as the wealth obtained from operation, which is often hundreds of millions.

Among them, some are cash money, some are assets, and some are liabilities.

The sect masters who are good at management will try their best to transform some of the foundations of the sect on the premise of maintaining the stability of the sect.

The resources used by the disciples, including the pills needed for daily cultivation and advancement, and the support for the self-defense of outstanding disciples, all came from this.

And those who can meet these needs are often the people who are traditional sideways such as Dan Dao, Qi Dao, Fu Dao, etc.

Li Zhen has spent a lot of money on these expenses over the years, and in terms of equipment, he has reached a deep cooperation with the Lingbao Sect, and the two sects have developed into an alliance and have many trade contacts with each other.

However, after Li Zhen and Yin Lanqing talked for a while, they mentioned another issue.

"I want to entrust your sect to help me refine a magic weapon, the grade is about between the first and third grades. ”

"Oh?" Yin Lanqing suddenly became interested when she heard this, "I don't know what Sect Master Li wants, but do you have the materials you need to prepare in advance?"

Li Zhen said: "Over the years, I have collected the feathers that fell off when the incense upside down birds grew up, and I have used my own mana many times to refine and transform the treasure embryo, which should be very suitable for processing and making into a feather fan, but there is still a lack of several five element materials, if you cooperate, you can exert the magic power of fragrance and flowing wind, and completely solidify it." ”

He immediately explained several requirements, one is to bring his own magical power of borrowing the law, which can attract the vitality of heaven and earth and transform incense, and the other is to solidify himself and cast on it, a magical spell called Xiangyun Liufeng.

This is the method of blowing incense with the wind channel method to form an invisible air flow to attack the enemy, which belongs to the category of the fragrance of the wind.

If this is the case, ordinary people can easily use this treasure to promote incense and deal with the enemy.

And the transformation ability that Li Zhen intends to give it is to transform the enchantment incense with hallucinogenic effect.

This needs to be endowed with this treasure mana and spiritual essence through himself, but the magic weapon embryo that can carry these mana and spiritual essence is best refined by a tool sect like the Spirit Treasure Sect.

This kind of magic weapon customization belongs to the category of processing and production, because the mana is provided by Li Zhen himself, Lingbaozong only charges part of the cost of the finished magic weapon, about hundreds of thousands.

Yin Lanqing inquired in detail, recorded Li Zhen's request, and saw Li Zhan take out his bird feathers on the spot, and Yin Lanqing and the instrument dao master he brought to inspect the products, and finally came to the conclusion that it was necessary to prepare three additional parts of the lower grade spiritual materials that had entered the flow products, with a total price of 550,000 runes, and pay another instrument dao master to go back and forth here and come to refine the treasure, 300,000 runes.

If everything goes well, the short is more than a month, the long is more than three months, Li Zhen can have such a magic weapon called a fan in his hand, and the incense upside down bird is still growing, and after the youth, middle age, and old age, there will be more years, more spiritual feathers fall off, and several other higher-grade secondary, third-grade, or even higher-grade magic weapons can be refined.

In general, such wool ...... No, it's pretty good.

Soon after, Yin Lanqing and the others said goodbye and left, and Li Zhen pressed his hand on the box containing the bird feathers that had been sealed by the experience, thoughtfully.

"Husband, what's the matter, has everything been negotiated?" Mu Qingsi walked out of the inner hall, and when she saw Li Zhen sitting there pondering, she couldn't help but smile faintly and asked.

"It's all right, the people of the Spirit Treasure Sect are experienced, this kind of treasure refining matter, you can still rest assured that it will be handed over to them, and the price will only be more than 800,000 yuan in total. Li Zhen said.

"Then why are you still like this, I thought they wouldn't be able to take this order. Mu Qingsi sat down beside Li Zhen.

Li Zhen said: "I'm not thinking about this magic weapon itself, but I suddenly thought that I am a monk of incense and want to strengthen my own strength and increase my reliance, but the first thing that comes to mind is the old traditional method, adding a magic weapon, which really has to make people think deeply."

It seems that I have a long way to go, and there is still a long way to go. ”

"Oh?" Mu Qingsi glanced at him unexpectedly, but she also understood that what Li Zhen said was indeed the truth.

"Since ancient times, the elixir, magic weapon, and talisman are also known as the three heroes of the side door, no matter what sect you are from, what kind of path you cultivate, there is a high probability that you will not be able to leave these three things.

Sword cultivation, law cultivation, lich, ghost immortal...... Even the interracial races, most of the time.

Especially in this instrumental way, the function of the magic weapon has been used for a long time, and it can really be called a necessity for cultivation and progress, seeking immortals.

But for a long time, few people have thought about why this is the case. ”

"That'...... Why is this happening?" Mu Qingsi couldn't help but ask curiously.

Li Zhen said: "To put it bluntly, it's very simple, it's just two words, useful!"

"Useful?" Mu Qingsi nodded silently, it was true.

Li Zhen said: "The magic weapon is essentially a tool, which belongs to the extension of the monk's limbs, and from a secular point of view, the ancient ancestors drank blood and slashed and burned from the era, they knew how to use stone tools and polish tools, and the history of this road can also be traced back to the era of primitive tribes.

Mu Qingsi suddenly realized and said: "Husband, you seem to have mentioned to me the history of incense burning wood before, if you trace back to its source, now the incense burning ceremony implemented by the Jixiang Sect, as well as the incense burning ceremony that you have vigorously developed, also comes from this. ”

Li Zhen laughed and confided the truth: "This is actually deliberately made up by me, but it is not bad in nature, this is indeed an imitation of the bonfire festival of the ancient ancestors, in order to achieve the effect of promoting the formation of incense culture memes and penetrating into the hearts of the people, and at the same time it has many functions of consuming inventory and expanding domestic demand......

When the incense is refined, it is to be used, and it is in the ascendant, and it is not necessary, so we will take the lead in using it ourselves, showing all kinds of benefits to all parties, forming a trend, and there will be a virtuous circle. ”

Li Zhen did these things, not without a purpose, but with deep cultural roots and development clues in them.

So far, the incense feast in Mu Qingsi's mouth has become a landmark festival of the Jixiang Sect, every year the day of the establishment of the sect is a small celebration, every ten years of a big celebration, it is conceivable that the future will be established for a hundred years, a thousand years, there will be a larger celebration.

This will be able to spread the word to a certain extent, leaving a deep impression on the visitors and the casual cultivators, and at the same time driving other paths and forces to follow suit.

However, although all these are good, they all face the same problem of necessity, and in the final analysis, it is the useful word mentioned by Li Zhen.

All things in heaven and earth are probably not immune to this.

The reason why he became a spiritual incense craftsman, married a princess, and enjoyed happiness was because he was useful;

The reason why the incense sect was able to develop and the incense path was supported was also because it was useful;

In this case, if Xiang Dao wants to catch up and keep up with other traditional forces in the Immortal Cultivation Realm, it must also be useful.

Even, in order to make up for the gap caused by the long-term absence in the history of development, this use must be greater than that of other paths, forming a clear advantage.

Otherwise, even when he, the sect master of the Jixiang Sect, had a need, the first thing that came to mind was the Qi Dao, the Dan Dao, how could other monks not be like this?

And in this remark, Li Zhen also faintly pointed out the fact that incense has become a spoiler of traditional forces in a sense.

In the immortal cultivation world, the side-door left-hand forces led by the old three families, and the auxiliary cultivation method occupies more than half of the country, or even more of the share.

Related to it, there are also various paths and systems such as the Formation Dao, the Divination Dao, the Witch Gu, the Shinto Dao, and the Ghost Dao.

Among them, divination, Shinto, etc., can be regarded as the extended category of the Dharma Dao, and the source of witchcraft is more ancient, but it is also closely related to the Dharma Dao.

The incense path is just an inconspicuous little transparent, always on the edge of the immortal cultivation world, and has never occupied the mainstream position.

"Think about it carefully, it's really a younger brother, I don't know when I can be anti-customer-oriented, and it will be popular!" Li Zhen sighed.

Mu Qingsi knew that Li Zhen had never been a person who only sighed helplessly, and when he said this, he must have already had an idea, and asked, "How does the husband plan to change this situation?"

Li Zhen said: "The truth is always found in simplicity, just around the word useful, in fact, it is enough.

But I've talked about necessity before.

The reason why the three heroes of the side gate have been able to occupy the mainstream for a long time and be accepted by the majority of monks is that in addition to their true usefulness, it has long been deeply rooted in cultural roots and habits.

Although monks have a saying that they do not rely on external objects to refine their own bodies, they still have to rely on magic weapons and tools to protect the way and eliminate demons. The same is true for the use of the Dan, and the use of these by the monks is simply suitable.

In my opinion, the method of burning incense to urge the gods and controlling qi can also be perfectly integrated into the cultural roots and daily habits of immortal cultivators, but it is best to find another way to influence and change with a subtle attitude.

In addition to waiting with the flow, the specific approach is to develop more industries such as incense, incense pills, and perfumes, in the form of spiritual materials and strange things, moisturizing things silently!

Today's Three Treasures Floating Incense Pill is a good example, and I have successfully used it to break into the territory of Dan Dao and gain a small piece of survival from it. ”

Mu Qingsi was very amused, but if you think about it, it is really so.

"In terms of the Dharma, I already have the methods of "Heavenly Fragrance Introduction", "Wonderful Incense Recipe", and "Incense God Concept Thoughts", and I also opened a sect and passed on the Taoist system.

I have used the dream incense to set foot in the realm of the dream path, and the monks like the Mo predecessor did not see through my intentions, but also strongly supported it, so sooner or later, the dream path will also have a place for my incense path. ”

Li Zhen said again.

"What I am asking for now is to also be able to occupy a place in the path of instruments, and over the years, I have sought incense burners, incense sachets and other utensils, firstly, to meet the needs of my disciples, and secondly, to earnestly implement my own path development concept.

As for the incense market, there are more than 1,000 kinds of heavenly materials and earth treasures, which are to invade the realm of the avenue of money and form a perfect cycle. ”

He said that when he was rising, he stretched out his hand to paint, and in the flow of mana, yin and yang changed, forming one large and small circle after another in the air in the form of ink.

"Qingsi, you see, this is the entire immortal cultivation realm, including three thousand avenues and one hundred thousand small paths, each of which has its own territory and scope, but it does not mean that it is eternal.

My incense is here, in the gap between the Tao of Instruments, the Dao of Dan, and the Tao of money to survive and develop, and it is normal for God to prey on some interests at the junction unconsciously.

But in the end, I don't want to be their enemy, but to coexist and develop together.

In the future, there will inevitably be a day when my incense road will be completed, and it will be on the stage openly and formally, and it will no longer be one of the 100,000 paths, but a genuine 3,000 avenues.

However, in the current development, which I call the initial stage, it is still necessary to refer to other paths and deal with the relationship between boundaries. ”

Mu Qingsi sighed calmly: "Xiangdao is very fortunate, with your husband and you being so attentive, I think it should have a bright future." ”

At this moment, the jade talisman worn by Li Zhen's waist burst into anger, and it seemed that someone was looking for it.

Li Zhen sensed it for a while, and smiled: "It's actually Lin Daoyou from Tu Xingshan." ”

Mu Qingsi said: "What the husband is talking about is Lin Ji, who was introduced to him by Master Hong on Beixiao Island before, is there anything wrong with him?"

Li Zhen said: "He wants to invite me to participate in an exchange in the circle of formation masters...... Looks like I'm going to have to make another run. ”

Mu Qingsi thought of Li Zhen's previous remarks, and suddenly had a strange thought in her heart: "So, the next way to attack is the formation path?"

Participating in such an exchange was very beneficial to Li Zhen, who immediately replied that he would be invited to participate on time.