Jixiang Sect, on the Lingfeng.

Li Zhen and Mu Qingsi stood in front of a dirt pit, a little sad, and buried their old cat white lion that they had raised for decades.

With the mud and sand covering, this little life that had been with them for many years was completely gone.

"Before you know it, the white lions are all old and dead, and time flies so fast. ”

Although pampered, all cats are just ordinary cats after all, and after so many years, it is no longer good.

Li Zhen could only secretly sigh that time was ruthless, and it consumed everything, including the monk's feelings.

He shouldn't have been so sentimental, but after burying this pet that he had raised for many years, he suddenly understood how those seniors had become indifferent one after another.

Feelings are a lock that binds oneself and protects oneself at the same time.

Human nature is hidden in it, and if you open this lock, you may instantly attain enlightenment, or you may instantly become demonic.

"Qingsi, counting the days, we are already in the age of the sixtieth year, if it weren't for the success of cultivation, we would have been old a long time ago. ”

Li Zhen turned his head to look at his wife next to him, still as delicate as jade, maintaining a youthful and beautiful appearance.

This may be something to be thankful about, but if it weren't for that, Li Zhen didn't know if his feelings for Qingsi would deteriorate with the passage of time.

Mu Qingsi said: "Yes, time flies so fast. ”

Li Zhen said: "Time, it is indeed too fast, no wonder so many people practice hard, just to fight for a chance to prolong their lives, even if it is only ten years, they will not hesitate to spend millions of talismans."

But how would those people know that over the years, we have refined many Three Treasure Floating Fragrance Pills, and even the luxury of feeding cats, but the effect is very small.

Senior Brother Zhou also sent a little from their side, but they each sought other ways to prolong their lives, and they didn't look useful, in the end, this longevity and long-term vision still have to rely on their own cultivation, and breaking through and promoting is the right way.

Or, raise the human face tree for more than 100 years, and then look at it after accumulating enough medicinal power. ”

He said this because of the recent news from Zhubu Guo, saying that one of the senior brothers was not in good health and was about to die.

Although the senior brother was a monk, he was already in his eighties, and it was time for him to die.

Mu Qingsi said: "The effect of similar methods is greatly reduced, they have eaten two of the Three Treasure Floating Fragrance Pills that we specially gifted, and any more will have to be several times to have a meager effect."

What's more, Senior Brother Fang is sick, and the tea turnip is not cured, and it is not beneficial to blindly use supplements for this kind of old man whose life has withered, what he needs is not to prolong his life, but to rejuvenate. ”

Li Zhen nodded slightly: "That's true, the tea turnip must be purified to a perfect realm in order to be reborn and cultivate the Dao body, but there is an implicit condition in it, that is, the life element of oneself still exists, and the activity of the physical body is still there."

The effect of young people using this kind of thing is completely different from that of old people, and the lower and higher monks also change proportionally, not in absolute numbers.

Judging from the current situation, he won't be able to survive this winter, and in another one or two decades, Senior Brother Zhou Cheng and Senior Sister Yi Yi will also die if they don't build a foundation, and when the time comes, we can only go with the flow. ”

Mu Qingsi said: "Let it be?"

Li Zhen said: "Birth, old age, sickness and death, most of them are like this, this is called looking at the mountain is a mountain." ”

Mu Qingsi said: "If you don't want to do this, what should you do?"

Li Zhen said: "That is to look at the mountains and not the mountains, the monks investigate the falsehood, regard the red face as white bones, life and death are separated, love and hatred are all vain, and the Taishang forgets the love like this." ”

Mu Qingsi was stunned for a while and asked, "Husband, one day, will you be too forgetful?"

Li Zhen smiled and shook his head: "In this world, there are countless strong people who walk alone on the avenue, and the wise people who forget each other in the rivers and lakes do not know how many, but I may not be unhappy when I am so wet, this is called watching the mountain is still a mountain."

Just because everything in this world is like the Tao is divided into yin and yang, the cliché of freedom is often only about the forgetfulness of the Buddha, Buddhism also has the saying of empty color, in my opinion, these are the emperor's flat dan, the Taishang forgetfulness is the golden flat dan, the empty color is different is the silver flat dan, our ordinary people's wooden flat dan, how is it not the truth?

Too forgetful is not ruthless, and the difference in emptiness is the same!"

Mu Qingsi said: "What about this time? Time can wipe everything out, and it can also change everything." ”

Li Zhen finally hesitated, showing a little sorrow on his face: "A hundred years of life for refining qi, eight hundred years of life for building a foundation, three thousand years for a dan life, and ten thousand years for a Yuan baby, and turning into a god, it is said that he can live through a Yuan Hui, and there is even a secret of eternal life that is rumored to exceed this upper limit!"

When it comes to things on the level of time, not only lifespan, but also a way to reverse the flow that is enough to redeem regrets, it will be a greater freedom and leisure.

There are too many eternal lives and leisures between this heaven and earth that are worth pursuing, but I don't want to stand alone and hang each other, so let's work together to get married and travel together!

When we are all in the future, and even the Yuan Infant and the gods, we will have greater freedom and leisure, and when everything between the heavens and the earth is beautiful, don't you envy the gods?"

Li Zhen also had a faint idea of going with the flow in his heart, whether it was from relatives or from the actual conditions, it was impossible to use medicine for the other party's senior brother and others.

That is, to be prepared to watch these fellow disciples die of old age.

But what he said was Senior Brother Fang and the others, but he was alluding to each other.

Li Zhen really can't imagine what it will be like for himself and his wife to face such a life and death parting one day in the future.

But this is not a tragedy designed specifically for oneself, everyone in the world has to go through it.

I can't understand it, I don't know it, how to solve my worries, I can only cultivate immortals.

He sighed softly and said to his wife, "Let's go." ”

Back at Fuyuntai, there happened to be a disciple's report to arrive, Li Zhen looked at it casually, and quickly disposed of the things he should dispose of.

Over the years, the Jixiang Sect has established a stable and effective operating mechanism, and the first generation of the leaders of the academy have also retired one after another and become the successors of Li Zhen's disciples.

Although these people only have Qi refining and cultivation, they have already met the basic conditions for controlling the forces under their command and can hold up the shelf.

Soon after, another deacon's disciple sent a batch of dossiers about the arrangements for the entry of new disciples from the outer court and the permission of the completed disciples to preach.

With a ten-year period, alternating between the old and the new, the Jixiang Sect continues to deliver qualified incense makers to the immortal cultivation world and the mundane world.

The essence of it was absorbed by the sect, and as for those disciples of the outer courtyard who had not become qi refining, some of them were sent out to make a living, and some of them stayed, and they served in the sect in Jixiangfang, and they each had their own arrangements.

Although Li Zhen can't guarantee that they will have a bright future, as long as they are down-to-earth and willing to work, there is absolutely no problem in fighting for prosperity and health in the eyes of ordinary people.

These have also been prescribed, and it didn't take much effort for Li Zhen to approve the report of the Qintian Academy, and then think about it.

Now that incense is gradually flourishing, there are opportunities everywhere, not to mention the origin of the Xiangzong sect, even ordinary people have a coincidence and get the book "Brief Version of Incense", self-taught, can change their fate.

It's just that ordinary people are less literate and literate, and it is basically impossible to learn by themselves when they read these books like heavenly books.

However, among some casual cultivators, word of mouth has begun to be passed on, teaching incense blending, incense making, and the rudimentary versions of various incense products have been imitated, and even pretending to be disciples of the Jixiang Sect to disguise themselves as apprentices.

Whether it is climbing the mountain to pull the relationship, swaggering and cheating, or sincerely, grateful to Dade, they also regard themselves as their ancestors, and are grateful for their pioneering and pioneering achievements.

From a secular point of view, he is now a successful person, and he has no regrets.

If you don't have the heart to make progress, you can say that it is complete if you leave a successor or descendant of your bloodline to inherit all this.

But after all, he is not the kind of old man who is about to die, he still has a lot of longevity and life, and there are still many things to do.

......

More than a month has passed, and Beixiao Island.

"Seven million eight million!"

"Congratulations to this fellow Daoist for winning the Twenty Years of Three Treasures Floating Fragrance Pill......"

An old cultivator with a red face on his face stood up with a little smile, bowed his hand to the people next to him, and then followed the deacon sent by the Chamber of Commerce to the direction of the back hall.

This also announced that the auction was a complete success.

As the curtain came down on the venue, the latest news was sent to all the heads of the chamber of commerce.

After another three days, the month's accounts were settled.

"Yuxian, you personally go to the Jixiang Sect and hand over this talisman money to Li Zhen. ”

Elder Shang was still the same as in the past, instructing Shang Yuxian to do things.

In fact, there is no need for Shang Yuxian to personally dispatch this kind of thing, but in order to keep in touch, it is still necessary to let him do it himself.

Time is the most powerful weapon, and so is affection, there is no gap between Li Zhen and his wife for her to step into, so she will retreat.

She also knew that she had wronged Yuxian by doing so, but for the sake of the family, it would be a guarantee for thousands of years.

"Yes. Shang Yuxian didn't think about it so much, she only knew that this matter had always been handled by herself, and millions of dollars, according to the rules of the Money Society, did need to be handled by the foundation building monks.

After arranging Shang Yuxian's errand, Elder Shang didn't say anything, just nodded and said, "Go ahead." ”

Soon after, Elder Shang received news from the Chamber of Commerce and went to a jade mansion on the island to discuss important matters.

In the Beihai rudder, many people at the level of Elder Jiedan were there.

A rudder elder surnamed Huo said, "Elder Shang, you are here, we will discuss the matter of Li Zhen and Jixiang Sect today." ”

Elder Shang said, "Li Zhen?

Elder Huo said meaningfully: "This Li Zhen is laying out the future. ”

Elder Shang was a little confused, so "Is Elder Huo talking about the matter of the Xiang City?" The Jixiang Sect puts skills first, and attaches more importance to the guidance of the incense path than money, so we are indeed a little unable to intervene. ”

Elder Huo said: "There is no difference between the Incense Dao and the Dan Dao, the Instrument Dao, and the Array Dao, the difference is that the Incense Dao is in the ascendant, and almost all the skills and secret methods are in the hands of Li Zhen.

Now there are incense makers in Fangfang City, but all of them are Li Zhen's disciples and grandchildren, and his rules are the greatest, unlike other paths that can be easily divided.

Maybe it won't be until thousands of years later that the Avenue of Money will have a chance.

However, I don't have much opinion on this, and the future is up to the people of the future to worry about. ”

"What is that fellow Daoist referring to?" Elder Shang said with some confusion.

Elder Huo didn't answer, just shook his head lightly and looked at the person next to him.

Elder Shang followed and looked over, but saw that it was Yun Li, the person in charge of the Treasure Building.

Yun Li said solemnly: "Elder Shang, as far as we know from our recent investigation, the incense market set up by Li Ji occupies several shares of the market of all parties, and the transaction volume and the amount involved are still growing rapidly.

But unlike those chambers of commerce and fang markets in the past, these people rely on the Jixiang Sect and are not under the jurisdiction of our chamber of commerce, except for paying the rent and taxes of the commercial street, they are almost like an independent kingdom!"

He is talking about the control mode that the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce has always been, the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce is essentially the general alliance of commercial forces of all parties, the Money Club, the Treasure Building, the Flying Boat Club, the Wanbao Building, the Tiangang Gate, the Disha Gate and many forces stand side by side, and there are also Zhubu Country rudder, Beihai rudder and so on.

But the only point is that the business model and the money system are all unified.

Today's Jixiang Sect, across the avenue of money and the path of incense, is frantically spying on the edge of danger, and they have nothing to do about it.

"What is Elder Yun's opinion?" Elder Shang pondered for a long time and asked.

Yun Li was a little dissatisfied, in his opinion, Elder Shang was completely shirking his responsibility.

But since he was asked, he was not polite, and immediately said: "It is reasonable to let the Jixiang Sect hand over the power of the Xiang City, and I, the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, will be in charge!"

He was wise, knowing that Qizhen Lou alone was not qualified to win those incense markets, so he simply brought everyone along.

"Well, that's not right. ”

To Yun Li's surprise, it was not Elder Shang who was the first to come out to object, but a foundation building monk who looked like a steward in his Treasure Building.

Another newcomer, who was not tall and usually had no sense of existence, also said, "If you regard the Jixiang Sect as a new commercial force, it should intersect with us on an equal footing. ”

"Yes, the Treasure House will be willing to hand over the right to operate thousands of treasures, and the money will hand over its own coinage rights?"

"Commercial matters, it is better to solve them commercially. ”

Hearing this, Elder Shang laughed secretly, but said the same: "This proposal is too ridiculous, Elder Yun is better to be cautious, and now there is no evidence that the Jixiang Sect has monopolized the incense material market, and the various spiritual materials he deals in are still intersecting with the business scope of all parties.

The last sentence is the point, this emerging force is also an emerging market, you can do it, where are the other chambers of commerce, local markets, all parties in charge, and the elders?

Yun Li was a little speechless for a while, and he didn't seem to expect that he proposed to move the incense market, and the resistance was so big.

But he would not give up so easily, and soon took out a dossier and put the development of the Xiangshi that he had known about for many years in front of these high-level leaders of the Beihai rudder.

The interests here are far greater than they seem, so they can't help but be impressed!