Chapter 24: The Vault
Hearing Zhang Hualing's words, the elders of the older generation got up one after another to say goodbye, and a few of them glared at Xu Qingfan a few times after leaving, which made the bitter smile on Xu Qingfan's face thicker.
Or, this world is really not as simple as Xu Qingfan imagined, as Xu Qingfan understands more and sees more, this feeling becomes stronger in his heart.
The crowd is bustling, all for profit, and all for profit, and the world is like this.
Over the years, Liu Huaxiang's most important education for Xu Qingfan is to learn to analyze the flow of interests.
According to Liu Huaxiang's words, most of the things in the world are carried out under the control of interests, loyalty is for interests, betrayal is also for interests, strife is for interests, and peace is also for interests.
If, one day, when you can clearly see the gains and losses of benefits, then you can also easily see the purpose and direction of people's actions, so as to control them.
After this elders' meeting, Xu Qingfan felt that he had somewhat understood the meaning of Liu Huaxiang's words.
And as the older generation of elders left one after another, the eyes of the younger generation of elders showed anticipation and excitement.
Elders are a very special position among the various sects in the Immortal Cultivation Realm, they don't care about anything in the sect on weekdays, they have great autonomy, and they happily make any contributions to the sect except for teaching disciples.
But at the same time, being able to be an elder of a sect is also a person with superb skills, and it is an extremely important deterrent force for the sect, in fact, the number of elders of a sect can also explain the strength of this Liubo in a certain way, so the sect cannot ignore the elders because they ignore things and concentrate on cultivation.
Because of this, the various sects in the immortal cultivation world have appeared to say "offerings", and every time Jiazi passes, each elder will receive a certain amount of offerings from the sect, and there are high-level spirit stones in these offerings. There are natural treasures, various elixirs, and even high-level magic weapons, which vary according to the elders' skills and influence in the sect.
This is also the reason why the elders of the old and young generations reacted so strongly after Xu Qingfan proposed the establishment of the three courtyards just now.
Now Jiuhua Mountain's savings are like this, once the influence of the young elders increases greatly, then the offerings they get will also increase, and the offerings of the older generation elders will inevitably decrease.
Interests determine positions, and that's exactly what happened.
Although in the presbyterian church just now. The offerings that the elders of the younger generation could receive were greatly suppressed, but in the face of receiving the offerings as elders for the first time, even if they were as steady as Jin Qinghan, their eyes fluctuated with excitement.
In fact. Even if their offerings were far inferior to those of the older generation of elders, the offerings they received this time were far greater than all of what they had received before.
What's more, this time they can also receive a few high-level magic weapons, which makes them even more happy, as their skills have reached the knot stage, the previous human-level magic weapons are no longer suitable for their use.
And after Zhang Hualing finished saying this, he should stand up first and walk towards the back of the "Hualing Palace".
And those young elders, after seeing Zhang Hualing stand up, also stood up one after another. didn't follow Zhang Hualing towards the back of the hall. Instead, they looked at Xu Qingfan with their eyes, looking like they were following Xu Qingfan's horse.
If there were still people who were dissatisfied with Xu Qingfan becoming a deacon elder before, then with Xu Qingfan winning the control of the three courts for them just now, this disobedience has been greatly reduced.
Noticing the young elders' gaze towards him, Xu Qingfan shook his head unnoticed, but he smiled at everyone on his face, and then followed Zhang Hualing towards the back of the "Hualing Palace", but the young elders did not get up to follow until this time. Thereinto. Jin Qinghan, Lu Qingshang and several other people who were familiar with Xu Qingfan walked quickly to Xu Qingfan's side, obviously to congratulate Xu Qingfan on becoming the chief deacon.
Ahem, but just when Jin Qinghan and the others came to Xu Qingfan's side and wanted to say something, Xu Qingfan suddenly coughed abruptly. ”
In the past six months, Xu Qingfan's cough seems to have become a habit of hitting him with his hands, and he has been accompanied by it, basically every time he says a few words, he will feel chest tightness, and he needs to cough once or twice, just now when he was in the presbyterian meeting, in order to respect and try to say his own thing, so although he was tight, he had been holding back, but at this time, he finally couldn't help coughing.
Seeing Xu Qingfan like this, Jin Qinghan and the others were taken aback, they saw Xu Qingfan coughing half a year ago, but they didn't expect that it was still not good, obviously things are not as simple as Xu Qingfan explained.
Jin Qinghan asked first, "Senior Brother Xu, are you coughing yet?"
Seeing that Jin Qinghan's worried appearance was definitely not a fake, Xu Qingfan's heart warmed, and he was depressed just now because of the matter of the Elders' Council, and his mood eased slightly, and he secretly thought in his heart: "At least, the relationship between me and Senior Brother Jin is not because of interests, right?"
Thinking so in his heart, he said with a smile: "It's not a big deal, you don't have to worry, it'll be fine after a while." ”
At this time, Zhang Hualing, who was leading the way in front, also noticed Xu Qingfan's cough, turned around and asked, "Deacon Xu, what's wrong with you?"
Xu Qingfan said: "I accidentally hurt my vitality while practicing. Don't worry, the boss. ”
Zhang Hualing nodded, and then said to the elders: "Elders wait here first, Deacon Xu, you come with me." ”
Saying that, Zhang Hualing took Xu Qingfan to the deeper part of Hualing's apse, and came to a huge stone gate, Zhang Hualing said to Xu Qingfan: "Deacon Xu, this is my Jiuhua's secret vault, and in the future, you, me, and Elder Gongsun will be in charge together." This stone door has an extremely powerful seal, and it takes a specific set of instructions to open the Lord. Now I'm going to do it again, and you're going to have to remember it. ”
After Xu Qingfan nodded, Zhang Hualing opened his mother to open the secret vault stone door. In order to let Xu Qingfan remember it clearly, Zhang Hualing was also extremely slow, but Xu Qingfan didn't remember it clearly after reading it once.
I saw that after Zhang Hualing pointed at Liao, the originally gray stone gate in front of the two suddenly glowed with dazzling colorful glow, and began to open slowly, as a gap was revealed between the stone gates, a burst of glow accompanied by extremely powerful aura fluctuations came out of the stone gate.
When the stone door was fully opened, the scene inside the door stunned Xu Qingfan.
I saw that inside this inconspicuous stone door, there was a hall covering an area of nearly 100 tilts. The inside is densely packed with stone frames, and there are not as many as 10,000 frames. And on the stone shelf, or high-grade spirit stones, or high-grade elixirs, or rare magic weapons. Every stone frame was covered, and every object was glowing with aura and glow, and when mixed together, it became extremely powerful, and it was impossible to force people to look at.
Even though Xu Qingfan has always been indifferent, he was stunned after seeing this scene.
Xu Qingfan knew that the qiē in front of him was the savings of the Jiuhua Mountain Sect for thousands of years.
"Can you remember?"
Just when Xu Qing was shocked, Zhang Hualing's voice suddenly sounded in his ears.
Xu Qingfan, who woke up from the shock, took a deep breath. Said slowly: "I remember clearly." ”
Zhang Hualing nodded, and then said: "Do you see the huge green slip next to the stone gate? There is a record of all the items in this secret vault, and every time you pick up items from the secret vault in the future, you must record it clearly in this green slip." Understood?"
Xu Qingfan said respectfully: "The juniors understand. ”
Zhang Hualing nodded, but took Xu Qingfan to the depths of the secret vault, and after a while, Xu Qingfan appeared, there was actually a stone gate in the secret vault, but it was much smaller than the one just now.
But I heard Zhang Hualing say: "My Jiuhua Secret Library is divided into three layers, and the first layer is all some high-level stones and relatively perennial elixir magic weapons. And the second layer is some relatively rare things in the immortal cultivation world, such as magic weapons above the ground level, elixirs more than three thousand years old, or eggs of high-level demon beasts, or some books that record important or secret stories, in this layer, if you want to take something out of it, you must get my consent, understand?"
Xu Qingfan nodded again.
Then, Zhang Hualing opened the second stone door in front of Xu Qingfan. By the way, he taught Xu Qingfan to open the second stone gate to point out.
Compared with the first stone gate, the scene of the second stone gate is obviously much more ordinary, * The station covers an area of only about ten acres, and the stone frame is only hundreds, and some utensils are sparsely placed on the stone frame. Otherwise, the aura and glow they emit will be far beyond the first layer.
Then, Zhang Hualing did not lead Xu Qingfan into the third layer of the secret vault, in fact, after looking around the second layer of the secret vault for a week, Xu Qingfan did not have any stone gates. And looking at Zhang Hualing's appearance, it is obvious that only the head of Jiuhua can enter the third layer of the secret vault.
Just when Xu Qingfan was not looking at the second layer of the secret vault, he heard Zhang Ling suddenly say: "At the elder meeting just now, your appearance is good. ”
When Xu Qingfan heard Zhang Hualing say this, he couldn't understand what Zhang Hualing meant for a while, but just replied: "The younger generation is not thoughtful, and his behavior is Meng Lang." ”
Zhang Hualing shook his head and said: "You haven't done anything wrong, the setting of the three courtyards is indeed very beneficial to my Jiuhua's current form, although it is against tradition, but now my Jiuhua takes restoring strength as the first priority, but I can't care so much." ”
After a pause, Zhang Hualing suddenly changed his words and asked again: "What do you think of those elders who oppose the establishment of the three courts?"
Xu Qingfan was stunned again, and replied cautiously: "These elders are all elders of the younger generation, and the younger generations dare not make more evaluations. ”
Zhang Hualing sneered: "Don't you dare to say it? Then I mentioned you well, I think you must think that in order to receive a little more worship and maintain their influence in Jiuhua Mountain, those old guys ignored the future and strength of my Jiuhua Mountain, and blindly suppressed the rise of you young generation elders, which is very inconsistent with their identity as elders, yes or no?"
Xu Qingfan hurriedly bowed down and replied, "The disciple doesn't dare. ”
Zhang Hualing ignored Xu Qingfan's answer, and just said to himself: "The crowd is bustling, all for profit, and all for profit. If you look closely, then you will notice that those elders who support you have more or less disciples who have become a new generation of elders, so they do, and those elders of the older generation who support you are not because they are so self-conscious and sacrifice their offerings for Jiuhua, if you look closely, then you will notice that those elders of the older generation who support you, they more or less have disciples to become the new generation of elders, so they will support you so much. ”
Hearing Zhang Hualing's words, Xu Qingfan was slightly stunned, but he didn't expect what Zhang Hualing said just now, but because he didn't know what Zhang Hualing meant, he was still silent.
But I heard Zhang Hualing say again: "Have you ever thought that since the new generation of elders is the future of Jiuhua, why did I let them compress the offerings of those new generation elders at the elder meeting just now?"
Xu Qingfan's heart turned sharply, but he replied: "The younger generation doesn't know. ”
Zhang Hualing said: "Have you ever thought about it, have those elders of the older generation really used the offerings they received every Jiazi?" In fact, some of the offerings they received each Jiazi would be passed on to their disciples, and considering that their skills were higher, and the consumption of spirit stones and elixirs was also more, although the offerings they received were far more than those of the younger generation of elders, if they deducted these, it was actually not so exaggerated. ”
Xu Qingfan said in a deep voice: "The disciple understands. ”
At this time, Xu Qingfan finally understood the meaning of Zhang Hualing's words. There are two meanings in Zhang Hualing's words, one is to say that Xu Qingfan should not let those elders of the older generation imagine that it is so unbearable, they suppress the amount of worship of the new generation of elders, but they also have their hardships, and the other is to ask Xu Qingfan to strictly follow the regulations of the Council of Elders when he puts the offerings in the future, and he can't give the older generation of elders the slightest less, nor can he give the younger generation of elders a little more, after all, after Xu Qingfan becomes the deacon elder, he will be responsible for arranging and taking care of these things. In fact, even if Zhang Hualing didn't say it, Xu Qingfan would not make a fuss about it, not to mention that Xu Qingfan himself was a person who followed the rules, even if he had this kind of thought, in the face of those elders whose skill realm was useless to him, Xu Qingfan did not dare to suppress it at will.
Seeing that Xu Qingfan understood what he meant, Zhang Hualing smiled slightly, nodded, and said: "Now you go outside, those elders are invited in, and now the offerings of this Jiazi placed for them on the first layer are 1,500 high-grade spirit stones and 30 bottles of various elixirs. The attributes of the spirit stones and the elixir are selected by them. And because you are a deacon elder, you have to make more offerings, two thousand high-grade spirit stones, and fifty bottles of various spirit pills, and after they finish receiving the offerings, they will bring them to the second layer and let them receive two items here at will, while you have three. ”
Xu Qingfan nodded and said, "Junior, let's go." ”
As he spoke, Xu Qingfan walked briskly towards the position of Jin Qinghan and the others outside the secret vault, leaving Zhang Hualing alone, standing in place and looking at Xu Qingfan's back, with a reverted expression.
Tips: The new domain name "biquge.info" has been launched by Biquge, and the original domain name is about to be discontinued. Please tell each other, thank you!