Chapter 180 Recruitment
Facing the witch's question, Li Yu answered honestly: "No more."
Nangong Chan widened her eyes: "Where did it go?"
It is impossible that Li Yu had refined that Nine Revolutions Demon Pill by himself, unless his fire-attributed golden elixir had also reached the Nine Revolutions, or he possessed a fire-attributed spiritual vein. He did not meet either of these two conditions.
Li Yu explained: "I gave it away."
Nangong Chan asked: "Who is it for?"
"...Senior Sister Qin..."
The consequences of deceiving the witch last time were still fresh in Li Yu’s mind, so this time, from the very beginning, he never thought of deceiving her.
There was no need to lie to her. Senior Sister Qin was his senior sister who was both his teacher and friend. It was only right for him to be nice to her. He was not afraid of the witch knowing it.
We need to slowly change her extreme possessiveness.
Nangong Chan narrowed her eyes slightly.
No wonder she failed to suppress Qin Keren just now.
It turns out that this guy had aided the enemy in advance!
Although she knew that Qin Keren and Li Yu were senior and junior sisters of the same lineage and their relationship was unmatched by anyone else, but in his heart, shouldn't her position be slightly higher than Qin Keren's?
He gave Qin Keren the magic pill obtained from the devil's way, and he was so righteous about it.
Where is the most unique Chanchan?
Even if he wanted to give Qin Ke the demon pill, wouldn't he do it later so that he could defeat her first?
But now that things have come to this, it's too late to say anything. After she stayed alone for a while, she was not so angry anymore. At least he didn't intend to lie to her this time.
She walked up to Li Yu and said, "I'm going to ask you a question, and you answer it truthfully."
"Go ahead."
Nangong Chan looked into his eyes and asked, "If Qin Keren and I were in danger at the same time in a secret cave, and you could only save one, who would you save?"
A woman always hopes to choose herself in a choice between two options to confirm her status.
Li Yu asked back, "Why don't you ask who I would save if you and Zixuan were in danger?"
Nangong Chan glanced at him. She still had self-awareness.
Zhou Zixuan is his Taoist partner, so it is natural for Li Yu to save her.
I don't sleep with him.
She coughed lightly and said, "Don't change the subject. I'm asking about Qin Keren, not anyone else. Just tell me the truth."
Li Yu asked: "It's already that time, can't you join forces?"
Nangong Chan said angrily: "We don't want to join forces, so answer me quickly!"
Li Yu shrugged and said helplessly: "I choose not to go. If the danger cannot be solved by you all together, I will be powerless to go. I will only send one more person away. What's the point..."
Although this is the truth, it is not the answer she wants.
Nangong Chan wanted to pester Li Yu and continue asking questions, but Zhou Zixuan and Jiang Li came over, so she could only look at Li Yu resentfully and give up for the time being.
Life in Kunlun was exceptionally leisurely. Every day Li Yu simply cooked in the kitchen to show off his progress in cooking skills.
In fact, he wanted to show off his dressing skills, but Zhou Zixuan and Jiang Li did not give him the chance to show off.
Subconsciously, they still feel that this is not something men should do.
In comparison, women from the evil path are more open-minded.
This time when Li Yu returned to Kunlun, in addition to reuniting with them every month, he also had an important thing to do.
As his cultivation level improved, the faith of low-level disciples played a smaller and smaller role in his practice. When he was in the Xuanyin Sect, he had already decided that those elders in the sect's foundation-building stage who were nearing the end of their lifespans would be his best targets for recruitment.
In fact, a large number of these people have already cultivated to the peak of the foundation-building stage, and their magic power has been compressed to the extreme. However, due to their talents, they are unable to break through on their own. The number of realm-breaking pills they need is much less than those geniuses who have used pills to pile up their magic power along the way.
One or two Golden Spirit Pills could help them advance to the Golden Elixir stage and extend their lifespan by more than two hundred years.
Li Yu wants to recruit them, and the sect should have no objection.
These elders have dedicated their entire lives to the sect. They have no hope of forming a golden elixir in their later years and can even leave the sect at any time, and the sect will not interfere with their stay or departure.
The only thing to worry about is their loyalty.
But human hearts are unpredictable, and such things cannot be avoided.
Li Yu first asked Wu Tong to count the number of Foundation Establishment elders in the sect who were about to reach the end of their lifespan. This kind of thing was exactly what Wu Tong was good at. One day later, he gave Li Yu the exact number.
Wu Tong held a piece of paper in his hand and said, "There are a total of 2,132 people in the Kunlun Foundation Establishment Stage. Among them, there are 78 people who will die within five years and have completed their foundation building. There are 169 people who will die within ten years..."
He looked at Li Yu and asked uncertainly, "Are you really going to give them the Realm Breakthrough Pills for free?"
Li Yu nodded and said, "These elders have dedicated their lives to the sect. I happen to have some realm-breaking pills in my hand. I might as well give them a chance to form a pill, but they need to serve Yuxuan Peak for fifty years."
Wu Tong said with emotion: "You are really generous. If you can let them form a pill, let alone serve for fifty years, I am afraid they will agree to any request."
Purple Cloud Peak.
Two figures descended from the sky. Li Yu looked at the familiar plants and trees here, feeling a little emotional.
If his old friends could have waited until today, they would not have died with regrets.
"The Young Master is here..."
"Long time no see, Young Master."
"Is the story between you and the Saintess of Xuanyin Sect true?"
"I bet that you will have a girl. I spent a hundred Dan coins, but I don't know if I can see it before returning to the abyss..."
On Ziyun Peak, some old people were playing cards, and some were lying at the door chatting. When they saw Li Yu, although they did not stop what they were doing, they all greeted him with a smile.
They don't have much time left, and the only thing they can do is wait for death.
Not to mention the young master, even if it was the Kunlun master, or the Poxu ancestor himself, they would not care too much.
The reason why he is more enthusiastic about the Young Master than others is because among all the high-level leaders of the sect, he is the only one who still cares about these dying old guys and wants to let them have this little bit of fun before they return to the abyss.
Li Yu looked at these gloomy old men. Unlike the disciples in the Qi Refining Stage, although these elders were enthusiastic, they did not have any faith at all.
Although these elders outside have some signs of old age, they still have vitality in their old age. Their lifespan is at least ten years longer.
Although Li Yu has accumulated a lot of Golden Spirit Pills in the past few months, he can still use them all. He still has to use them on the people who need them most.
He simply greeted everyone and came to a villa with Wu Tong.
Wu Tong had made sufficient preparations in advance. Pointing at this courtyard, he said to Li Yu: "Here lives a second-rank alchemist with a lifespan of 246 years..."
He walked to the gate of the villa, placed his right hand on a stone platform, and input his magic power.
After a long time, the door of the villa was opened from the inside, and a hunched figure walked out of the courtyard. He was skinny, with sparse hair and sunken eyes, like a walking skeleton.
This was how Li Yu looked when he saw Elder Sun for the last time.
The skeleton old man raised his head and glanced at the two of them. Although he couldn't see through their cultivation level, he guessed that they should be the young geniuses of the sect. But he was about to die, and anything in this world had nothing to do with him.
His eyeballs moved in his sunken eye sockets, and he asked in a hoarse voice, "What's the matter?"
Wu Tong looked at Li Yu and said, "This is the young master."
The old man's eyes did not show any fluctuations, and he said calmly: "If you have anything to say, please tell me. I am waiting for you to go back to sleep."
He is about to die, so what if he is the less-than-master? Even if the master summons him, it is not as important as his sleeping.
Li Yu was not unhappy about this. After these elders lost hope of forming a pill, they had long since become indifferent to life and death and had this attitude towards everyone.
Wu Tong looked at the old man with the skeleton and said, "Elder Feng has devoted his whole life to the sect. The young master, in consideration of your contribution to the sect, has granted you a Golden Spirit Pill."
The old skeleton was stunned, thinking he was hallucinating.
Golden elixir?
The sect can only produce a handful of breakthrough elixirs from the foundation-building to the golden elixir stage each month, and they are all used on those genius disciples. Those of them with mediocre talents have to make great contributions to obtain the Golden Spirit Pill. The last person to obtain the Golden Spirit Pill was a few years ago, when someone presented a person with a heavenly spirit vein to the sect.
Why does he deserve such great credit?
At this moment, the old skeleton thought that his time had come. Because he was extremely eager to form an elixir, he had the illusion of returning to the abyss.
His body might still be lying on the chair in the room.
The old man didn't react until a light flashed in the young man's hand and a pill appeared in his hand.
After another moment of silence, he realized something.
He practiced for more than two hundred years, accumulated virtue and did good deeds throughout his life, and God finally opened his eyes...
In just a moment, the indifference on his face that showed he was indifferent to life and death disappeared. His cloudy eyes were filled with a desire for life. He straightened his body as much as he could, knelt on one knee, and said respectfully: "Second-rank alchemist Feng Zhang, I am here to see the young master !"
Li Yu's expression changed slightly.
Although this elder's cultivation is only at the peak of the late foundation building stage, the power of faith in him at this moment is greater than that of Xu Yi and Tian Qi after they reached the stage of Dan formation.
This is not surprising.
Xu Yi and Tian Qi are both very young. Even without Li Yu, they can still form Dan. The most Li Yu can do for them is to show them his talent.
But for these old men who only have less than two years left to live, this is a life-saving grace and their only lifeline. He even just took out the elixir, and the other party generated so much power of faith.
Sure enough, it was not that these old people had no faith, but that he did not offer anything worthy of their faith.
Li Yu couldn't help but glance at Wu Tong.
This guy didn't have any faith at all at that time. Was it because they were too familiar with each other?
Wu Tong thought that Li Yu's look had a deeper meaning, so he said to the old man, "Don't worry. This realm-breaking pill was given to you by the young master as a token of his mercy. It was not given to you by the sect. After you form the pill, you need to serve Yuxuan Peak for a hundred years and you must not betray. Are you willing?"
The old skeleton said without any hesitation: "Disciple is willing!"
If he could form an elixir, let alone serve for a hundred years, even if he had to work like a slave for the remaining two hundred and fifty years for the young master, he would not have any complaints. He was even willing to offer his elixir before his death and donate his body for corpse refining...
As long as he can form the elixir.
Over the past few years, the only thing he could do was to quietly wait for death. No one else would understand this feeling. Now that he finally had a glimmer of hope, he would not hesitate even to sell his body and soul.
Feeling the increasingly strong power of faith, Li Yu found that he still underestimated these people's desire to form a pill.
After a moment, Li Yu personally helped up the old man who was kneeling on the ground and banging his head. The Qiankun Furnace in his body had already been running wildly, absorbing all the power of faith around him.
He only used one Golden Spirit Pill on this second-grade alchemist.
Like Elder Sun, he had actually already made all the preparations for forming the elixir, and all he lacked was the finishing touch.
But his luck was better than Elder Sun's, and he was lucky enough to break through with just one breakthrough pill.
The faith gained in this way was much more than Li Yu had expected. The Qiankun Furnace was even more excited than when he was refining the elixir. Li Yu considered refining all the materials into elixirs, so that he could cultivate more Jindan stage cultivators.
Those materials are disposable and will disappear once absorbed.
But every time he cultivated a golden elixir, he could continue to absorb faith for the next two hundred years.
One is to exhaust all resources, the other is sustainable development. It goes without saying which one to choose.
… …
Various places in Ziyun Peak.
The foundation-building elders who are nearing the end of their lives are playing cards or fishing, enjoying the last .
Compared with those foundation-building elders in the past, they are lucky. At least the sect still thinks of them and allows them to spend their last few years safely. Knowing that there is no hope for them to break through, most of them accept their fate.
At a certain moment, the expressions of these leisurely foundation-building elders all moved in unison and their eyes looked somewhere.
Just now, a strange fluctuation of magical power came from that location.
Kunlun is the second largest sect in the righteous way. Although there are not as many powerful people in the Jindan stage as in the Tiandao Sect, there are always new elders who have formed the Jindan stage every year. Most of them are also familiar with that kind of magic power fluctuation.
After all, that is their lifelong pursuit.
After that wave of magical power spread to the entire Ziyun Peak, the entire Ziyun Peak immediately boiled.
"This is……"
"The fluctuation of Danjie!"
"Who is it? Who has formed the elixir?"
"It seems to be Old Ghost Feng. He actually formed a pill!"
…
After a brief moment of shock, all that was left on everyone's face was envy and jealousy.
Some people form the Dan before their life span ends. As fellow disciples, they are not actually happy for them.
We are all the same, with the same lifespans approaching the end, and we are all waiting at Ziyun Peak for the return to the abyss. So how come he can form a pill and gain two hundred years of extra lifespan out of thin air?
At this moment, almost everyone lost the desire to have fun.
The entire Ziyun Peak suddenly became quiet.
No one was urging the game, and the fish took the bait, but the figure sitting on the fishing platform remained indifferent.
But their silence did not last long.
Less than a quarter of an hour later, another special wave of magical power spread throughout Ziyun Peak.
Everyone looked up, faces filled with shock.
"What's going on today?"
"Another person has formed a pill!"
"Who is it this time?"
…
Within a short period of time, two people successively formed their Dan, breaking through the limitations of their lifespans. Envy and jealousy were no longer enough to describe their feelings.
Just when everyone was stunned, another new wave of magical power came.
"Three!"
“Something’s wrong!”
"Something must have happened!"
The first time was an accident, the second time was a coincidence, but no one had formed a pill on Ziyun Peak for decades, but three people broke through in one day. There must be a reason. For a moment, figures flew up from all over Ziyun Peak and gathered in the direction where the last wave of mana came from...
