Chapter 34 Return to the Sect
Baiyun Mountains.
After leaving Baiyun Temple, Li Yu flew for a distance, stood on a hilltop, and opened the wooden box given to him by Elder Sun.
The wooden box was not big, only about one foot square, but the things inside made Li Yu stunned for a moment, and even his breathing became rapid.
This box contains a full box of spirit tickets, each of which has a face value of five hundred spirit coins.
Li Yu counted them carefully several times. Seventy pieces, a total of seventy pieces of spirit notes with a face value of 500 spirit coins, with a total value of 35,000 spirit coins. If he exchanged them for Tongmai Pills, that would be 35. The real Tongmai Pills were enough to support a cultivator who had just gathered Qi to the fifth level of Qi Refining...
The value of this gift far exceeded Li Yu's expectations!
It should be that Elder Sun gave me all the spirit coins he had accumulated over the years...
Li Yu knew it with just a quick mental calculation. The sect would give one hundred spirit coins to the alchemy apprentices at Danding Peak every month, and Elder Han could get a subsidy of one thousand spirit coins every month. However, he was an alchemist, so his treatment was far better than those at the same level. As an elder in the foundation-building stage, Elder Sun also received at least five hundred spirit coins every month.
Five hundred a month, six thousand a year, it would take about six years to save up thirty-five thousand. Li Yu heard Elder Sun mention that he felt that it was hopeless to achieve Dan, so he came to Baiyun Temple to become a deacon elder. It has been exactly six years since then...
Immortal cultivators don't have the habit of saving spirit coins, and they can't save them. Just like Li Yu, if he has enough spirit coins, he will exchange them for elixirs to increase his cultivation. Elder Sun can save so many spirit coins because he has been disheartened for the past few years, basking in the sun in Baiyun Temple and waiting to die, saving them month by month with his monthly salary...
If an elder in the foundation-building stage ignores his own cultivation and is willing to cultivate the younger generation, more than ten years will be enough for the other party to build the foundation. It is for this reason that the woman dared to promise Li Yu that he would build the foundation in twenty years...
Li Yu stood there for a long time, feeling surprised but also a little melancholy.
So what if you are in the foundation-building stage, or have a lifespan of more than 200 years? In the end, dust will return to dust, and no matter how many spirit coins you have, by that time, it will be meaningless.
Elder Sun acted like this, and he didn't know if he would be the same.
After feeling melancholy for a while, Li Yu calmed down and decided to do his best no matter what the outcome.
Compared with Elder Sun, at least he is still young and has more than two hundred years to think about this matter slowly.
He held the wooden box and flew towards the familiar valley.
I haven't seen the little white tiger for more than a month. I wonder how he is doing. I wonder if he has forgotten him.
Before flying to the valley, Li Yu's body shook slightly when he looked from afar.
On the big rock where he often sat cross-legged to practice, there was a small white figure lying, facing the direction of Baiyun Temple, looking eagerly.
When the familiar figure appeared in his eyes, the little white tiger's body shook, and he rubbed his eyes with his two paws. Then he jumped off the boulder and ran quickly towards Li Yu.
As it ran, its small body suddenly flew into the air, walking in the air like a white lightning, and crashed into Li Yu's arms.
A moment later, in the grass by the stream, the little white tiger threw Li Yu to the ground, and rolled around on him. There was an expression of grievance and anger in its huge tiger eyes, as if it was blaming Li Yu for not visiting it for so long.
After making a fuss for a while, it finally calmed down, jumped into the stream, and quickly came back with a big fish. It threw it at Li Yu's feet and nodded to him.
Li Yu wrapped the fish in lotus leaves, smeared mud on the outside, and placed it on a washed lotus leaf after baking. Watching it wolfing down the food, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Just now he unexpectedly discovered that this little guy could actually fly.
Maybe it was because of the Qi Gathering Pill, spiritual energy was gathering in its body, which was equivalent to the first level of Qi training and the level of opening up three acupoints. In fact, its training speed was even faster than Li Yu's.
Cultivation is not exclusive to humans. All living creatures in the world can practice cultivation. Some animals, even if they do not understand the ways of cultivation, can grow into powerful monsters by simply absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
It’s just that they don’t know how to use spiritual energy, just like those wild ghosts, unable to exert their maximum strength.
For a tiger, one fish is certainly not enough to fill it up, so Li Yu shot three pheasants and two rabbits for it, and only then was it satisfied.
After eating and drinking, Li Yu sat cross-legged on the huge rock, and the dog lay in Li Yu's arms, allowing Li Yu to caress its soft body.
After a moment, Li Yu took out a silver flying boat from his arms. After inputting a magical power, the flying boat quickly grew larger and turned into a flying boat about ten feet long. Li Yu stood up, jumped up, and boarded the flying boat.
Looking at the little tiger standing on the boulder, reluctant to leave, Li Yu pointed at the flying boat, believing that it could understand what he meant.
The little white tiger looked at the flying boat with some desire in his eyes, but finally shook his head, jumped off the rock, picked up a wild rabbit that he had just eaten, turned around and ran into the depths of the forest.
A quarter of an hour later.
Li Yu stood high in the sky, looking down. In the woods below, the little white tiger put the hare next to the mouth of another white tiger. The white tiger was much larger than it, with only three legs and one front leg broken in the middle. This tiger should be the little white tiger's mother.
She only had three legs and could not hunt, but she did not starve to death because of the feeding of this little white tiger.
Li Yu also knew why it didn't follow him.
Elder Sun said, those without love are free, and those without emotion become immortals, but even beasts have emotions, and as a human being, it is not so easy to give them up.
Li Yu certainly wants to live forever, but he also doesn't want to be a spiritual practice machine that abandons love and has no emotions.
He stood on it and watched for a while. After he sighed lightly, the flying boat turned into a silver light and quickly disappeared into the sky.
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Kunlun Cave.
Zixiao Peak Market.
Li Yu walked into Danxin Pavilion and went straight to a counter.
After every failure, he learned his lesson. After being cheated once, he decided to only buy genuine elixirs from the sect. Although the price was a bit higher, the quality was guaranteed and the last incident would not happen again.
The girl behind the counter was already familiar with Li Yu, and asked with a smile: "Brother, are you buying Tongmai Dan again this time?"
Li Yu smiled and said, "Yes."
The girl ran into the stone room behind the counter, took out a jade bottle, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for a long time, brother. I guessed you would be here soon, so I kept it for you."
A young disciple at another counter came over after hearing this and said dissatisfiedly, "What's wrong with you? When I bought Tongmai Pills just now, you said you didn't have any. How come he had some when he came?"
The girl said politely, "This Tongmai Pill was reserved by this senior brother first. Please forgive me."
The girl had a good attitude and her arguments were well-reasoned, so the disciple didn't know what to say, so he just shook his head and walked away.
Li Yu took out a thousand spirit coins, handed them to the girl, and asked, "Is there only one Tongmai Pill left?"
The girl looked around and whispered, "There was only one left yesterday. Many people bought it from yesterday to today. I saved it for you, brother. Please don't tell anyone."
Li Yu smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry, I won't tell."
He often came here to buy Tongmai Pills. After a few visits, he became familiar with the girl. Once he saw her looking listless, he gave her a few pills to calm the nerves and help her sleep. After that, the two naturally became more familiar with each other.
The world of cultivating immortals is not all about fighting and killing, but also about human relationships and social etiquette, otherwise, this Tongmai Pill would not have been left to him.
After putting away the pills, Li Yu said, "Junior sister, you go ahead and do your work. I'll go to another counter and buy a few more."
The girl shook her head and said, "Brother, there is no need to ask. There is no Tongmai Pill in the entire Danxin Pavilion now."
Li Yu was slightly stunned. This matter was a little unusual. Tongmai Pill was only a second-level pill. It was indeed rare in other sects. But where was this place? This was Kunlun. If you threw a brick randomly, it might hit a second-level alchemist. How could there be a shortage of Tongmai Pill?
The girl explained: "I don't know why, all the other elixirs are fine, but suddenly there are no Tongmai Pills in the shop. But don't worry, brother, I will notify you immediately when the new Tongmai Pills arrive..."
Li Yu was somewhat helpless as he had a huge sum of money but no place to spend it. He smiled at the girl at the counter and said, "Thank you, Junior Sister, if you need any low-level elixirs in the future, just let me know and I will make them for you for free..."
The girl raised her hand, her eyes curved into crescents, and said, "It's settled then..."
Li Yu lightly clapped his hands with her, and chatted with the girl for a few more words before leaving Zixiao Peak and returning to Danding Peak.
The first thing he did when he returned to the sect was to buy some elixirs, but to no avail.
Not long after returning to his residence, several senior brothers came to visit. Even though they no longer needed Li Yu's help in refining pills, who knew whether Elder Han would change his mind in the future. They still had to maintain a good relationship with Li Yu on a daily basis.
After a while, Wu Tong, who lived next door to him, also walked in from outside and asked with a smile: "Li Yu, I heard that you went out to do a mission. How was your harvest?"
Li Yu said: "It's OK, they are all small tasks, and they can't even be exchanged for a Tongmai Pill."
Wu Tong was deeply touched and said, "It's normal. These small tasks don't earn much spirit coins. The tasks that really earn spirit coins are too dangerous. If you are not careful, you may even lose your life. Sigh, cultivating immortals is really difficult..."
Li Yu thought of something and asked, "By the way, what happened during the days I was away from the sect? Why can't I buy Tongmai Pills in Danxin Pavilion?"
Wu Tong chuckled and said, "You've finally asked the right person about this matter. If it were someone else, I would have to sell them this information for at least ten spirit coins, but given our relationship, I'll tell you for free..."
