The "Luxury Manor" is located at the top of a high mountain in the Cangyue faction, and the originally steep summit has been flattened. Form a flat land covering an area of hundreds of acres.

It is now the depths of winter, but the manor is as warm as spring, and all kinds of exotic flowers and plants compete with each other.

In a very wide hall in the manor, there is a beautiful sound of silk and bamboo from time to time.

Today is Kou Gongzi's 40th birthday, and at this time, a feast is being set up in this hall to entertain some good sons and friends who are usually with him.

On the main seat of the main hall, a handsome young man who looked to be only seventeen or eighteen years old was sitting, and he was looking intently at the dancing girl in the center of the main hall.

The young man had clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, but his eyes were blank and pale, and he looked like he had been hollowed out by wine.

On both sides of the main hall sat forty or fifty guests, the one on the left was a middle-aged monk, and the one on the right was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy.

The peculiar thing is that the cultivation of these people ranges from the fifth layer of Qi refining to the ninth layer of Qi refining, but at this time, these guests get along very well with each other, and those who are low in cultivation are not flattering, and those who are high in cultivation are not in a state of being high.

Some of the guests whispered to each other, some drank themselves, but more of them were still intoxicated with the dancing in the center of the hall.

At this time, the silk and bamboo are leisurely, the song is curling, several dancing girls are dancing in the main hall, whether it is a musician or a dancing queen, there are four or five layers of Qi refining cultivation, and its rhythm and dance posture are more beautiful than countless mortals.

There are also many servants on the side who keep serving wine and food, and the scene is very lively.

And whether it was the young man on the main seat or the young brother on both sides of the main hall, there was a monk standing with his hands hanging down about five steps behind him, and it was the monk who had received the duty of guarding.

The guard behind the young man in the main seat was Zhao Liang, and at this time, Zhao Liang did not look around, but held his breath and concentrated, looking refreshed.

At the entrance of the main hall also stood two monks, one of them was Xiao An, and the other was a slightly chubby young man who was obviously much older than Xiao An.

Because the entrance of the main hall is far away from those boys, Xiao An and this slightly chubby young man can still chat from time to time, unlike the monks behind Brother Gongzi who have to keep a straight face.

During the conversation, Xiao An learned that this person's surname was Liu, and this person was very talkative.

This monk surnamed Liu, who entered the sect six years earlier than Xiao An, had been stagnant at the seventh layer of qi refining for several years. Now that he has lost confidence in improving his cultivation, he plans to take on more tasks to accumulate some spirit stones.

"Brother Liu, are the young monks sitting over there all from other sects, why haven't I seen any of them?" Xiao An gestured twice with his chin to the young guests sitting on the right side of the main hall.

Listening to Xiao An's question, this "Brother Liu"'s chubby face turned into a pleated bun, if it weren't for the task, it is estimated that Brother Liu would have been lying on the ground laughing at this time.

"Brother Xiao, you don't even know this, right?" Brother Liu finally stopped smiling, and then asked Xiao An with a smile on his face.

Xiao An touched his nose a little embarrassed, he has always put cultivation in the first place in the sect, but he really pays little attention to other aspects.

Under Brother Liu's introduction, Xiao An knew that these guests were all sect monks. It's just that these people are all descendants of the sect administrators, and they are all people who were born with golden keys.

As for not knowing these people myself, this is also normal. In terms of cultivation, these people have their own teachings from masters in the sect, and how can they coexist with themselves as "trainee boys" selected from the secular world or the descendants of casual cultivation.

Speaking of this, this Brother Liu was also a little jealous, after all, he and the others had already lagged behind each other too much from the starting line of cultivation.

"Do you mean to say that these people are not cultivating the Cangyue Qi Technique?" Xiao An keenly caught a trace of important news from his words.

Brother Liu glanced at Xiao An with some surprise, but he didn't expect Xiao An to grasp a piece of information that he had deliberately skipped from his description so carefully.

However, this information is not a secret among the cultivators in the late stage of Qi refining, although this junior disciple has just stepped into the sixth layer of Qi refining, the spiritual power in his body is extremely pure, and it is not a problem to enter the late stage of Qi refining, so it is revealed to him in advance, which can be regarded as a good fate.

"Of course, these people are not cultivating the 'Cangyue Qi Induction Technique', although this exercise is progressing quickly, it can't lay a solid foundation, these people are all high-level exercises selected according to their own spiritual roots. Brother Liu whispered to Xiao An what he knew.

Seeing Xiao An's expression constantly changing, this Brother Liu thought that Xiao An was "hit" by the news just now, and he was a little gloating in his heart.

Although Xiao An was taken aback by this news, he was not "knocked down" by this news, but was very fortunate that he had revised the "Thousand Hammer Forging Body Secret Method".

Brother Liu, who had already opened the conversation, was a little surprised when he saw Xiao An's face return to calm. With a roll of his eyes, he enthusiastically introduced the event to Xiao An.

The host of this banquet was the "Piaoxiang Restaurant" at the foot of the mountain, and even the most famous chef of the "Piaoxiang Restaurant" was invited to the mountain, and each dish had to be bought with a dozen or even dozens of spirit stones.

And these dishes were removed in less than a quarter of an hour, and Xiao An saw that only a few of these removed drinks and dishes were eaten one or two bites, and most of them were brought back intact. Even the spirit tea worth more than a dozen spirit stones was just the mouthwash of these sons and brothers at this banquet.

Xiao An felt that these sons were more extravagant than the emperor in the story of the storyteller in the town.

He can only earn more than a dozen spirit stones by working hard every month, which is not enough for these sons' mouthwashes, and Xiao An's mentality is gradually a little unbalanced.

Just as this imbalance slowly increased, the past came to mind one by one. Xiao An thought of the people around him who were frozen to death and starved to death when he was begging, and also remembered some childhood friends he met when he burned paper for his grandfather.

As the sentence goes: A mountain looks at a mountain high.

Compared to these people, he is already a lucky one.

Blind comparison can only make you more and more miserable. The beggar has to compare his wealth with the emperor, isn't he sick?

Only by grasping your current time and allowing yourself to maximize your improvement under limited conditions is the most important thing. Xiao An suddenly got rid of his frustrated state, and there were more indescribable changes.

When he saw Xiao An's eyes quickly regain clarity again, this "Brother Liu" was really taken aback, and he made up his mind to befriend Xiao An.

"Brother Liu, is this Kou Gongzi really forty years old?" Xiao An glanced at the young man sitting on the throne and asked with some confusion.

Although the monks were younger than their actual age, the boy looked to be only seventeen or eighteen years old, which was too much different from his actual age. Moreover, this person's cultivation is only at the fifth level of Qi refining, which is far from reaching the realm of maintaining the permanent youth of the physical body.

"Today is this person's 40th birthday, of course, he will not fake. As for the person's appearance, it is said that this Kou Gongzi once ate a "Zhuyan Pill" when he was twenty years old. ”

"Brother Liu" laughed dryly after speaking, looking very disdainful of this.

"Oh, a big man still eats "Zhuyan Dan", what's going on?" At this time, Xiao An also looked very gossipy.

Xiao An is performing this task for his "neighbor" Chen Yang, and he really doesn't know anything about this Kou Gongzi.

Last night, Chen Yang had an abnormality while making the talisman, which not only set the residence on fire, but Chen Yang was also seriously injured. And Chen Yang is a person who is usually silent in the sect and has few friends, and Xiao An happens to be one of them.

Under Brother Liu's introduction, Xiao An had a certain understanding of this Kou Gongzi.

This Kou Gongzi is a well-known disciple of the sect, although he has only cultivated to the fifth level of qi so far, he has been messing with flowers and grass all day long, and he has been plagued in the sect for more than 20 years.

The reason why this person is so domineering is his grandfather Kou Minglie. This old man Kou himself was a successful cultivator in the late stage of foundation building, and he was in charge of the dark hall of the sect, and he was definitely a powerful person in the sect before.

And this Kou Gongzi definitely belongs to the kind of person who was born with a golden key, not only his grandfather is a foundation building monk, but even his father is also a foundation building period monk.

It is said that in order to allow his offspring to have a good cultivation qualification, his father deliberately waited until the foundation building period to have a child. And this Kou Gongzi also lived up to his expectations after he was born, and he was a double spirit root monk.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and when the son was less than one year old, a family of three was assassinated. His parents died in a battle with the Assassins, but reinforcements arrived in time to save the young man.

But this son, who was less than one year old, was highly poisonous, and at that time, Old Man Kou used all his tricks to remove the poison on this son's body.

When this son began to cultivate, he found that his cultivation progress was miserable. Although he is a dual spirit root qualification, his cultivation speed is not as good as that of a four-spirit root cultivator.

After spending countless heavenly and earthly treasures, he only reached the fifth level of qi refining at the age of seventeen, and since then he has not been able to advance an inch.

It is said that when this son was seventeen or eighteen years old, the old man Kou had the idea of leaving him to fend for himself, and after learning the news, the old man Kou was very anxious.

Fortunately, this Kou Gongzi suddenly remembered that his grandfather had mentioned a sentence: his appearance at this time is almost exactly the same as that of his father when he was young.

knew that in his grandfather's heart, his deceased father was much more important than himself. So this son spent a lot of money to buy a "Zhuyan Dan", and permanently fixed his appearance at the age of seventeen or eight.