Chapter 55: Elder Sun's Past
Purple Cloud Peak.
Two new owners moved into Villa No. 69 two days ago. They are two young disciples, a man and a woman. The man is handsome and the woman is beautiful. They seem to be a couple practicing Taoism.
It is not surprising that Ziyun Peak has new neighbors. What is strange is that this is the retirement place for the foundation-building elders who are nearing the end of their lives. Those who moved here in the past were all old guys who were about to step into the grave. This is the first time that young people have moved here.
This young man became famous in Ziyun Peak within a few days of arriving here.
This was mainly because he was an alchemist, and the pills he sold were not only of excellent quality but also 20% cheaper than those sold by the sect. In the first two days, only a few people bought his pills. After experiencing the efficacy of the pills, an elder in the foundation-building stage repurchased five bottles .
This was enough to prove the quality of his elixirs. Word spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred. His fame quickly spread throughout Ziyun Peak.
First-grade elixirs, especially Baoyuan Pills, are very popular in Ziyun Peak. The foundation-building elders here, regardless of gender, will find one or more dual cultivation partners before their lifespan ends. Both they and their partners need Baoyuan Pills.
Courtyard No. 69.
Li Yu and Zhou Zixuan sat in the pavilion in the front yard, counting their harvest in recent days. Thanks to his hard work day and night in refining pills, they had received 20,000 spirit coins in just five days. Subsequent orders have been scheduled until next month.
This is enough to prove that Li Yu made the right decision to settle down here.
Zhou Zixuan was stunned by so many spirit coins and murmured, "Do all alchemists make so much money..."
Of course, not all alchemists can make as much money as Li Yu. His advantage lies in his 100% success rate in making pills. Most alchemists do not have the same five spiritual veins as him. Generally speaking, if one can use two materials to make ten pills, he is already an excellent alchemist.
For one pill, the sect gives them three portions of materials. Of course, the sect has its reasons. Three portions of materials for one furnace of pills is the average level of alchemists. Even if there are some extras, there are only two or three extra pills, and the alchemists can keep them for themselves. This is their ability.
Seeing her moved expression, Li Yu asked with a smile: "How about it, do you want to learn alchemy? If you want to learn, I will teach you."
Zhou Zixuan shook his head and said, "Forget it. I don't have any talent in alchemy."
Among the five spiritual veins, the one most relevant to alchemy is the fire spiritual vein, and the wood spiritual vein is only used as an auxiliary. If one becomes an alchemist solely with the wood spiritual vein, his future achievements will not be too high, and he will most likely only be a first-grade alchemist for his entire life.
Li Yu said: "You can cultivate another fire spirit vein, it's just two years later to build the foundation."
Zhou Zixuan shook her head and said, "There is no problem with building the foundation, but with my talent, if I cultivate two spiritual veins, there is no hope for the golden elixir..."
Speaking of this, she suddenly thought of Li Yu.
Li Yu cultivated five spiritual veins. With the speed at which he earned spiritual coins, it would not take ten years for all five spiritual veins to be cultivated to the foundation-building stage. However, once he reached the foundation-building stage, it would not be so easy to improve his cultivation.
The price of the elixir that improves the cultivation level of the foundation-building period is ten times that of the Tongmai Pill, and it is much more scarce than the Tongmai Pill. It is not necessarily available even with spirit coins. Li Yu is not Jiang Li, and the sect cannot spend so many resources to cultivate him. In other words, after building the foundation, the possibility of him forming a pill is even smaller than his own...
This immediately made her feel depressed.
She didn't dare to have any extravagant hopes for the Nascent Soul Formation. What she hoped most was naturally to form a Dan with Li Yu. For her , being able to spend five hundred years with the person she loved was already the happiest thing in the world.
If the person she loves cannot form an elixir, then her extra lifespan will only extend her suffering for a few hundred years. Instead of this, it would be better for them to live and die together...
Zhou Zixuan didn't speak for a long time, and Li Yu didn't mention it again.
He was actually just saying it casually. For a cultivator, strength is secondary. What is important is lifespan. It is better to break through one more realm than to repair one more spiritual vein. Just because he has no choice, it doesn't mean others don't have it either.
At this moment, he saw a trace of determination in Zhou Zixuan's eyes. She looked at Li Yu and said, "It's not impossible. When I learn how to make pills, I can help you share some of the burden, and you won't have to work so hard..."
Li Yu didn't expect that she would really consider it, so he waved his hand and said, "I just said it casually, don't take it seriously, it's more important to form a pill."
Zhou Zixuan said firmly: "If we don't want to form the elixir, then don't form the elixir. When our lifespans are about to end, we will do the same as them, find two rocking chairs, lie down at the door and bask in the sun..."
Although she has embarked on the path to immortality, her desire for longevity does not seem to be particularly strong, and her heart always remains pure.
Li Yu tapped her head gently and said, "How can you not form a pill? Don't worry, I'm here. Yuanying dare not say anything, but it's still very easy for you to form a pill."
Li Yu was not worried about forming a pill. Even if he had nothing and only relied on his own practice, there was still a glimmer of hope for forming a pill. What's more, he also had the mysterious pill furnace, so he was not without even this confidence.
When he forms a pill, he will be a third-grade alchemist, capable of refining pills that can improve one's cultivation in the foundation-building stage. It will not be difficult for her to form a pill as well.
After refining pills for several days in a row, Li Yu felt physically and mentally exhausted. He picked up a rocking chair from the yard, walked outside, and lay comfortably on the rocking chair, watching the streams of light passing through the sky in Kunlun Cave Heaven.
There are many villas in Ziyun Peak, and many people, like Elder Sun, find a rocking chair and lie there all day.
On his left and right sides, in front of the gates of the two villas opposite, there were people lying in rocking chairs like him, either dozing or in a daze, exactly the same as Elder Sun when he was in Baiyun Temple.
Li Yu lay there, recalling his experiences of two lives in his mind, and couldn't help but sigh at the magic of life's encounters.
He could also understand people like Elder Sun. They had lived for more than two hundred years and had enough past events worth remembering.
After lying there for a while, a voice suddenly came from the left: "Hey, kid, you are so young, why are you moving to Ziyun Peak like us old guys who are about to die?"
Li Yu didn't even turn his head and said leisurely: "It's quiet here, I like it very much..."
Since he had nothing to do, Li Yu started chatting with the old man next to him. He learned that he was a talisman maker. During the chat, the two old men opposite him occasionally interrupted. Li Yu soon learned that one of them was a formation master, one was a mechanism master, and the other was a spirit beast master.
The four people are all in the foundation-building stage. Their lifespans are coming to an end, and there is no hope for them to form an elixir in this lifetime. So they choose to retire here in the last few years of their lives.
They dedicated their entire lives to the sect, and when they were dying, the sect treated them well. The monthly subsidy was much higher than Li Yu's, but it didn't mean much to them.
Upon learning that Li Yu was from Baiyun Temple, the mechanical engineer suddenly asked, "That old fellow Sun Zhen seems to be in Baiyun Temple. Do you know him?"
Li Yu said: "Senior, do you also know Elder Sun?"
The mechanical engineer smiled and said, "Yes, of course I know him. We entered the sect together. At that time, an elder in the foundation-building stage took a fancy to him and wanted him to be his dual cultivation partner, but Sun Zhen refused. Later, the man named Wu got him..."
Li Yu was not wrong. The unruly young man back then was indeed Elder Sun himself.
Speaking of old friends, the old mechanical engineer became more talkative. He said, "Sun Zhen is a proud and tough guy. He refused the foundation-building elders' request for dual cultivation. After entering the sect, he did not choose either the alchemy or the refining of weapons. He took the path of cultivation. With his powerful fire-attributed skills, he went deep into various caves and dangerous places and completed many difficult tasks. Except for the guy named Wu, he was the first among us to cultivate to the peak of foundation-building and the one with the greatest hope of forming a pill..."
After saying that, he looked at Li Yu again and asked, "I heard that he found a genius with a heavenly spirit vein for the sect, and the sect rewarded him with a realm-breaking pill. How is it going? Did he succeed ?"
Li Yu sighed and said, "No..."
The old mechanical engineer was silent for a long time before he sighed, "The immortal way is ruthless, the immortal way is ruthless..."
It was the first time that Li Yu heard about Elder Sun’s past. He never expected that Elder Sun, who was usually kind and amiable, was such a ruthless character when he was young.
At this time, the other three old men also spoke one after another.
"I've also heard of Sun Zhen's name."
"This man is very decisive in his actions. Many disciples of the Demonic Path have died at his hands."
"He hasn't formed a pill either? What a pity, what a pity..."
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With a common topic, the relationship between Li Yu and the elders seemed to have become closer. During the chat, Li Yu did not forget to solicit business for himself and said, "Seniors, if you need any low-level or first-level elixirs, you can ask me to refine them. I will give you a 40% discount..."
Li Yu's advertisement was not successful. These seniors seemed to have no interest in dual cultivation and just spent their time lying in rocking chairs .
So Li Yu made a set of mahjong for them.
For these elderly people who have nothing to do, this is a great way to kill time.
After personally teaching them how to play mahjong, the situation of several elderly people lying in rocking chairs in a daze around these villas was changed. A table was set up at the door of Villa No. 68, and the sounds of "clattering" and "pa pa pa" continued for a long time.
"bump."
The old mechanical engineer picked up a card and played another one from his own deck: "Thirty thousand."
"eat."
The old beast master ate the card, thought about it, and then played a three-tube.
"Hu."
Li Yu pushed down the pile of cards in front of him and said with a smile: "Seniors, thank you for letting me..."
Several people were playing mahjong, and they were not allowed to release their spiritual sense. Even though their cultivation was much higher than Li Yu, they had no advantage at all. Li Yu won 100 spirit coins from the other three people in one go. Zhou Zixuan, who was standing behind him, took back the spirit coins that Li Yu had won with a smile.
Several people quickly learned how to play mahjong, and Li Yu's advantage gradually disappeared. After a few rounds, Li Yu won and lost, and in the end he even lost dozens of dollars.
He didn't do this to win the spirit coins of these old people. They were either cultivating immortals or refining elixirs all day long, and they were stupid. He needed to develop some entertainment activities to relax and bring some joy to these bored old people...
Maybe if they are happy, they will let him inherit the inheritance before his death, just like Elder Sun did...
