When Xiao An finished inspecting and repairing the spirit pattern, he stepped on the stone steps in the corner of the cave and walked towards the entrance of the cave. When he walked to the entrance of the cave, Xiao An glanced back at the giant ding in the center of the cave.

This giant tripod is estimated to cost hundreds of thousands of spirit stones, not to mention that this is the smallest of the three giant tripods in this sect.

Looking at the Juding, Xiao Anxin sighed for a while, he thought that he had thousands of low-level spirit stones, and he could be regarded as a small net worth, but he couldn't even buy one percent of this Juding.

Compared with the sect, personal wealth is really scum!

When Xiao An walked out of the cave, Xiao An stood on a platform, quietly looking at the scenery outside the mountain, feeling extremely comfortable.

The environment in the place of the earth fire was extremely harsh, cramped, stuffy, hot, and the dark red color that made people feel extremely oppressive, and the monk would become irritable and irritable after a long time in it.

So every time he came out of the earth fire, Xiao An would take a break at this platform. After a long time, Xiao An felt that his mood had returned to calm, and he walked slowly down the mountain.

The mountain where Xiao An is now located is called "Xinyi Peak", which is one of the "Three Treasure Mountains" of the Cangyue School.

The refining room and alchemy room of the Cangyue faction are distributed on three peaks, so these three peaks are called the "three treasure mountains" of the Cangyue faction, in addition to the "Xinyi Peak" in front of them, the other two peaks are "Lezhu Peak" and "Dancheng Peak".

On the three treasure mountains, each peak is distributed with twenty-seven earth fire houses used for refining tools or alchemy.

Only Xinyi Peak has both the Earth Fire House for refining weapons and the Earth Fire House for alchemy, but these Earth Fire Houses are of a lower level and are only suitable for monks in the middle stage of refining.

And the earth fire houses on the "Le Zhu Peak" are all refining rooms, and the earth fire houses on "Dan Chengfeng" are all alchemy rooms. The power of the earth fire on these two peaks is much stronger than that on the New Art Peak. Therefore, the Earth Fire Houses on these two peaks could only be used by cultivators who had cultivated from the late stage of Qi refining to the Jindan stage.

And the place where Xiao An stayed just now was the Earth Fire Hub of Xinyi Peak, and the entire cave where the Juding was located was used to suppress and purify the Earth Fire, and there were a total of twenty-seven passages above the Ju Ding, leading to the twenty-seven Earth Fire Houses on Xinyi Peak.

There are also formations and related instruments in the earth fire house to control the intensity of the earth fire, but the maximum strength of the earth fire is limited by the giant ding in the belly of Xinyi Peak Mountain.

Once there is a problem at the hub, it will affect the stability of the earth fire in the earth fire house, which will be a disaster for the monks in the earth fire house, at least it will lead to the scrapping of the magic weapons or elixirs in the furnace, and at the worst it will blow up the furnace, and even the lives of the monks in the earth fire house may be affected.

It has been four years since he got the refining furnace and spiritual fire, and during this time, Xiao An has been extremely low-key, spending most of his time in the "Du Zhixuan" every day, except for practicing and refining weapons, occasionally returning to the sect to hand in tasks or going to the market to sell the magic weapons he refines.

"Hello Senior Brother Xiao!", "Hello Boss Xiao!" After walking out of the cave, Xiao An walked towards Pepsi Hall, and met several fifteen or sixteen-year-old teenagers on the way who greeted Xiao An warmly.

"Who was that person just now?" asked softly when Xiao An walked away.

"You don't even know him, he's the famous "First Outer Disciple!" The companion next to him explained with a smile, but there was no trace of respect in his tone, but there was a strong sense of teasing.

It is not because Xiao An's cultivation or prestige is the highest among the outer disciples, but because Xiao An has stayed the longest among the outer disciples. Now Xiao An has been an outer disciple for ten years, and he is the only disciple of the sect who has stayed in the outer gate for ten years in the last two or three hundred years.

Of the more than 300 boys who entered the sect with Xiao An, only more than 120 became outer disciples. Today, more than forty of these people have reached the seventh level of qi refining and have become disciples of the sect.

And the number of disciples who are cultivating at the sixth level of qi refining is also about forty, but since three years ago, there have been countless outer disciples who have left the sect and gone to do a leisurely cultivation. And last year, the last few outer disciples also lost their cultivation intentions and also went down the mountain one after another.

Among these people is Xiao An's old neighbor: Chen Yang, when Xiao An heard the news that Chen Yang was going down the mountain, he specially booked a private room in the restaurant at the bottom of the mountain to see off the old neighbor.

Chen Yang, like Xiao An, was ten years old when he went up the mountain, and this age is not the information reported by the child's relatives, but the result of touching the bones shall prevail.

Yihuang has been a member of the sect for twelve years, and Xiao An and Chen Yang are both twenty-two-year-old youths. This age is at the time when he is heroic and high-spirited, but Chen Yang is a gloomy look.

"Brother Chen, whether you are doing casual cultivation or going home to be a son-in-law, you can have no worries about food and clothing, why are you so decadent?" Seeing Chen Yang so depressed, Xiao An was a little puzzled.

Chen Yang's talisman level was also quite good among the outer disciples, and he could fully use it to support his future cultivation.

After Chen Yang became an outer disciple, Chen Yang's father turned from a teacher to a local "town guard", managing a town. Even if Chen Yang became a casual cultivator, his father's position as a town guard would not be affected.

Even if he leaves office and returns to his hometown in the future, the imperial court will still issue a lot of money every month.

The vast majority of the officials in the Canglie Kingdom are relatives of the monks in the Cangyue faction, and the higher the position of the monks in the sect, the higher the official position of their relatives in the Canglie Kingdom.

Moreover, the state has formed a complete and rational system for the management of cities, villages and towns. Under this kind of system, problems will be exposed quickly, and it will not be easy for the party to be the culprit.

According to the rules of the sect, the family members of the outer disciples can serve as the "town guard" at the highest, as long as someone in the family becomes a disciple of the Cangyue faction, even if it is just a trainee boy, the status of their family members will immediately improve a lot.

Canglie has been founded for more than 500 years, and it has long passed the era of "all people are soldiers". Although martial artists still occupy a large proportion of the secular world, the various industries in the country are already very well established, private schools and schools have long been everywhere, and scholars who are powerless can support their families in their own right.

"Brother Xiao, tomorrow I will go down the mountain, go home and be a young master who stretches out his hands and opens his mouth for food. Come, have a drink for my young master's life first!" Chen Yang did not answer Xiao An's question, but forced a smile, picked up a glass of wine and drank it all.

Xiao An knew that the other party was reluctant to talk about it, so he diverted the topic. Chen Yang had something in his heart, and after a while, his eyes were straight and he talked more.

"Brother Xiao, have you ever experienced the feeling of being knocked down from the clouds? Have you ever experienced the despair of having thousands of expectations in your heart, and working hard for this without the slightest result?

Brother Xiao, do you know that when I was a child, when I was a child, no matter what the article was, I could understand and memorize it three times, and I was praised as a genius.

But since I started cultivating, my pride has been shattered.

When I was apprenticed to a boy, it took me two or three hours to complete the cultivation that others could do in one hour. After becoming an outer disciple, I thought everything would be fine, but I found that the time pile had no effect.

Brother Xiao, do you know, I entered the sixth layer of qi refining four years ago, but no matter how hard I worked to cultivate, the spiritual power in my body never increased in the slightest.

I aspire to reach the seventh layer of qi refining, as long as I reach the seventh layer of qi refining, not only will my lifespan exceed 100 years old, but I will not be afraid of the world's flooding and fire, and I can call the wind and rain, which is no different from the land immortals.

But one step away, there is the difference between immortals and mortals. I'm not reconciled!"

Chen Yang was very drunk, and the last sentence "I'm unwilling" was shouted hysterically.

Xiao An watched quietly and listened to the side.

Maybe he said what was in his heart, but Chen Yang's mental state was much better at this time, after pouring a sip of wine, Chen Yang suddenly stood up, holding the bowl upside down in one hand, holding chopsticks in the other, and using chopsticks to rhythmically tap on the edge of the bowl, singing while knocking:

"I'm Qingdu Shanshuilang, the Heavenly Sect is lazy and slow,

He has been granted a rain branch wind coupon, and he has played the Liuyun Borrowing Moon Chapter.

Thousands of poems, thousands of wines, how many times have you looked at the Hou Wang?

The jade building Jin Que returned lazily, and inserted plum blossoms to get drunk in Luoyang. ”

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Xiao An carried the drunken Chen Yang back to his residence and placed twenty spirit stones beside his pillow. After returning to his residence, Xiao Anxin was still bitter, who knows if Chen Yang's today will become his tomorrow?

The path of cultivation is originally getting narrower and narrower, and for the cultivators in the Qi Refining Period, the fourth layer of Qi refining and the seventh layer of Qi refining are thresholds, and each threshold can brush down half or even more people. It would be better if there was the support of heaven and earth, but monks like Xiao An, who started as trainee boys, are all helpless, and once they encounter a bottleneck, it almost means that the path is broken.