Chapter 59 Girl, are you there?
The witch ignored Li Yu. When Li Yu chased her out of the door, she had disappeared.
Li Yu was the only one left in the room.
Li Yu stood there for a while, looking at the body of Elder Sun lying on the rocking chair with a complicated look.
Be it inner demons or evil thoughts, Elder Sun is already dead and it all means nothing.
On Li Yu's path of cultivation, he did teach Li Yu a lot, and even before his death, he taught Li Yu a crucial lesson.
That is, you can't trust anyone easily.
Li Yu walked around the rocking chair and picked up the conch on the cabinet at the back.
He input his magic power into the spirit conch, and soon a voice came from the other side: "Mr. Sun, why are you not dead yet?"
Li Yu said to Lingluo in a deep voice: "Elder Sun has passed away."
After a moment of silence, an old voice came from the other side of Lingluo: "Got it, you stay there first, I will go over and deal with it right away."
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Li Yu didn't have to wait long. Early the next morning, the people sent by Kunlun to deal with Elder Sun's funeral arrived .
The two elders who came were the foundation-building elders, one surnamed Zhang and the other surnamed Hu. They first examined the body of Elder Sun. Then, the foundation-building elder surnamed Zhang asked Li Yu, "Your name is Li Yu, right? I heard Sun Zhen mention you."
Li Yu nodded and said, "Yesterday I went back to Baiyun Temple to see Elder Sun and talked to him for a few words. I didn't expect..."
The foundation-building elder surnamed Zhang said, "His life span was originally limited, and it could have run out at any time. With his personality, he didn't die in a fight with others, which was a good start and a good end."
Elder Sun didn't have much time left, and there was nothing unusual about his body, so the two had no doubts about his death.
Li Yu did not say much to them and deliberately concealed the fact that Elder Sun was possessed by a demon.
When a person dies, it is like a light going out. After all, he had been nice to Li Yu before, so he deserved a decent ending.
After a moment of silence, Li Yu said to them, "Elder Sun told me before he died that he wanted to bury his ashes behind Baiyun Temple."
According to the rules of Kunlun Sect, after the death of the Foundation Establishment Elders, they must be brought back to the sect for a unified burial. There is a large sect in the Demonic Path, called the Puppet Sect. The disciples under this sect are good at the art of refining corpses and they love to rob tombs and dig up corpses. If the body of a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage falls into their hands, he will not have peace even after death.
After the two foundation-building elders discussed Li Yu's request, the old man surnamed Zhang said, "Since this was his request before he died, let's do as he said."
The two men burned Elder Sun's body with their own hands. Li Yu collected his ashes in a jar. Elder Sun's tombstone had been prepared by him long ago. On a stone tablet in the corner of his yard, there were simply a few large characters engraved: "Tomb of Sun Zhen of Kunlun Sect".
Elder Sun’s journey to immortality began at Baiyun Temple and ended at Baiyun Temple. According to his request, Li Yu buried his ashes behind Baiyun Temple.
The strong ones in the late stage of foundation building will eventually sleep forever in this small place.
The two old men who had built their foundation were friends of Elder Sun when they were alive. They poured a few cups of spiritual wine in front of the tomb and looked at the mound behind the tombstone, feeling a sense of sadness in their hearts.
Their age is not much younger than Sun Zhen. If they cannot form an elixir within twenty years, they will ultimately be nothing more than a handful of dirt.
After a while of nostalgia, the old man surnamed Zhang said to Li Yu, "Sun Zhen is gone, and there is no one in charge of Baiyun Temple for the time being. You stay here first. The sect will send a new steward in seven days at most."
Li Yu had no way to refuse this request and had to agree to it.
After dealing with Elder Sun's ashes, Li Yu and they sorted out Elder Sun's belongings. All of his things were given to Li Yu two months ago, except for the spirit conch that belonged to the sect and was used for communication. The two only found two spirit coins with a face value of 500 yuan in a cabinet.
The foundation-building elder surnamed Hu said, "That's impossible. How come there are only so few spirit coins?"
His eyes looked at Li Yu vaguely.
The old man surnamed Zhang glanced at Li Yu and said, "Sun Zhen told me that he had asked Li Yu to take care of his funeral affairs, and all the things he had accumulated before were given to him."
They couldn't say anything about the personal belongings that Elder Sun had handled during his lifetime.
The two men collected the thousand spirit coins as relics and took them back to the sect. As for what would happen to them in the end, Li Yu had no idea. After seeing the two off, he found an empty room in Baiyun Temple as a temporary residence, waiting for the sect to send a new deacon.
During this period, he absorbed the elixirs given to him by the witch one by one.
The spiritual medicines collected by the witch were naturally of high quality. Two of them actually helped Li Yu open two acupoints at once.
After absorbing all the spiritual medicines, Li Yu's cultivation level ushered in another wave of growth.
Among the five spiritual veins, the wood, earth, and gold spiritual veins, although still at the third level of Qi Refining, have also reached the peak of the third level of Qi Refining. They are only one acupoint away from entering the fourth level of Qi Refining.
As for the two spiritual veins of water and fire, twenty-five acupoints were opened up on each of them, and he had already reached the fourth level of Qi Refining.
Cultivating immortals is not just about fighting and killing, it is more about the ways of the world. He can achieve his current level of cultivation, probably only 20% of it is due to himself, and the remaining 80% is mainly due to his connections...
Jiang Li, Elder Sun, and that witch are his greatest helpers on his path of cultivation.
The old man surnamed Zhang said it would take seven days. When Li Yu waited for the third day, the sect sent a new deacon.
The cultivation level of this deacon is not high, he is only at the fifth level of Qi Refining. In fact, this is the average . Those like Elder Sun, who have the foundation-building strength and ask to be in charge of the outer sect, are very rare exceptions.
After handing over the work to the deacon disciple, Li Yu left Baiyun Temple.
In the Baiyun Mountains, somewhere in a valley.
Li Yu stood on the flying boat. This time, without waiting for his signal, the little white tiger jumped onto the flying boat by itself. Li Yu touched its head, and the man and the tiger flew towards the direction of Zhao State.
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Ziyun Peak, Villa No. 69.
Zhou Zixuan hadn't been home for half a month. After returning here, she began to take care of and trim the flowers and plants in the garden. The little white tiger with a jade pet pendant around its neck lay at her feet. The spiritual energy here was too strong and it couldn't adapt to it yet. It felt dizzy all day.
In the alchemy room in the backyard, Li Yu was concentrating on refining the elixir.
More than ten days ago, he took the little white tiger to the State of Zhao and stayed in the Zhou family for a while, enjoying the secular life. After the Lantern Festival, he returned to the clan with her and the little white tiger.
At the mountain gate, a jade identity card for a spiritual pet was obtained for it, and it could enter and exit Kunlun Cave Heaven freely.
After refining several batches of pills, Li Yu walked out of the courtyard, said hello to the people playing mahjong at the door, left Ziyun Peak, and flew towards an extremely tall mountain.
Soon, Li Yu flew to the top of the mountain.
This peak is called Tianzhu Peak. It is the highest peak in the entire Kunlun Cave Heaven except for the several inverted peaks. It is also the place where Kunlun disciples usually receive their tasks.
As soon as Li Yu landed on the Tianzhu Peak Square, he heard a constant stream of voices.
"Brother, we have a mission to eliminate zombies, and we are short of one person. Do you want to join us?"
"Go deep into the Kunlun Mountains to collect spiritual medicine. We are still short of one person who has cultivated the golden spiritual veins. The requirement is to be at least the third level of Qi training..."
"We are heading to the Tianshan Mountains to hunt snow wolves. Are there any fellow Taoists at the ninth level of Qi Refining willing to join us?"
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This was not the first time Li Yu came to Tianzhu Peak, and he was not unfamiliar with this situation. Not all disciples of Kunlun Sect were like him. They did not need to go out to do missions, and could earn spirit coins even if they stayed in the sect. The vast majority of disciples still needed to do missions to exchange for spirit coins.
Many tasks cannot be completed by one person alone, so they usually recruit teammates first, and then go in groups of three or five people.
Li Yu came to Tianzhu Peak this time to see if there were any tasks to take on.
It’s not because he is short of spirit coins. The dilemma Li Yu is facing now is that he has spirit coins but has no place to spend them. He and Zhou Zixuan buy six Tongmai Pills a month, which only costs 6,000 spirit coins.
And his income from alchemy has approached 60,000 spirit coins.
Li Yu did not consider the task of earning spirit coins. He came here mainly to see if there were any tasks that directly rewarded Tongmai Pills like the Dandao Competition. He had five spirit veins, but could only buy three Tongmai Pills every month, which meant less than one per spirit vein...
On the square of Tianzhu Peak, there are four walls several meters high. Water curtains are flowing on the walls, and there are lines of flowing words on them.
Each line of writing on it represented a task. Li Yu scanned the first wall. They were all one-off tasks. They were mainly supernatural events that occurred in the secular world, such as exorcising ghosts, catching zombies, and monsters causing chaos. They needed to be handled by disciples of the sect. The value of a task was approximately between fifty and two hundred spirit coins.
The task on this wall was not what he wanted, so Li Yu just glanced at it and stopped looking.
On the second wall, there are also a lot of tasks, all of which are fixed tasks, such as finding certain spiritual herbs and medicines, the fur and blood of certain monsters, some rare minerals, etc. These things are either materials for alchemy or materials for making talismans and refining tools, and they are all long-term needs of the sect.
What disappointed Li Yu was that the rewards for these tasks were all spirit coins.
Li Yu walked to the third wall and continued browsing.
"Kill the Soul Refining Sect disciple Zhou Tian and you will be rewarded with 10,000 spirit coins or 10 Tongmai Pills."
The reward for this task made Li Yu's eyes light up. He finally encountered the reward for Tongmai Dan. Next to this task, there was a portrait of the disciple of the Lianhun Sect, displayed in the form of a water curtain.
Li Yu was very excited about the ten Tongmai Pills, but he had no clue about the disciple of the Soul Refining Sect and could only watch helplessly.
Li Yu continued to browse the next task.
"Kill Liu Feng, a disciple of the Five Poison Sect..."
"Kill Zhao Long, the disciple of the Puppet Sect..."
The tasks on this wall are all bounties targeting disciples of the Demonic Path. The cultivation base of these disciples is not high, and they are around the Qi Refining Stage. The reason why they are bountied by Kunlun is that many disciples of Kunlun were brutally killed by them. In order to avenge their own disciples, the sect offers such a high bounty.
Although Li Yu wanted to earn these Tongmai Pills, he didn't know the whereabouts of these people...
Oh, wait…
An idea suddenly popped up in Li Yu's mind.
He quickly left Tianzhu Peak, went straight out of Kunlun Cave Heaven, flew forward for a distance, and landed on a peak in the Kunlun Mountains.
Then, he took out the spirit shell from the space ring, inputted mana into it, put the spirit shell close to his ear, and said, "Girl, are you there?"
