Chapter 81: Great Reward, Good Story
Facing the head master, Li Yu felt that he was still very restrained.
He didn't even ask for the fourth-level talismans, but only a few third-level ones, and the space ring that Jiang Li gave him. It was enough before, but after adding more things, the space seemed a little small, and it would definitely not be enough in the future. This time, he was thinking about whether he could get a new one...
Thirty Tongmai Pills, a few third-level talismans, a larger space magic weapon, and some spiritual herbs and medicines were barely enough to be the "generous reward" that the head master mentioned.
Only at this moment did Wang Daoxuan realize that the "generous reward" he mentioned and the "generous reward" that Li Yu understood did not seem to be the same.
Dozens of Tongmai Pills, third-level talismans, space magic weapons, spiritual herbs and medicines, this "reward" is too heavy.
How could he, a disciple in the Qi Refining Stage, have such a big appetite?
But if you think about it carefully, he is not an ordinary Qi Refining disciple. He is Junior Sister Xuan Zhen's beloved disciple. She has given him countless good things, which has made his vision so high.
Wang Daoxuan threw him a white jade ring and said, "There are no third-level talismans, no spiritual herbs , and the thirty Tongmai Pills are all in this space magic weapon. You just refined three furnaces of pills in succession, you must be very tired, Wang Hua, send him back to the peak to rest..."
Fearing that Li Yu would ask for more, he did not give Li Yu a chance to speak again and immediately asked the third-grade alchemist to take him away.
After Li Yu left, he breathed a sigh of relief and said speechlessly: "A mere Qi Refining disciple actually has such a big appetite..."
The woman who was preening the crane's feathers asked, "Is it big?"
Wang Daoxuan looked at her and asked in astonishment, "Isn't it big?"
The woman said calmly, "You are the one who mentioned the high reward. Thirty Tongmai Pills are also considered a high reward?"
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Wang Daoxuan was speechless for a moment and didn't know how to explain to her.
Li Yu is supported by Junior Sister Xuan Zhen's disciple. He has a space ring and a third-level talisman in the Qi Refining Stage. He can easily buy dozens of Tongmai Pills with them. It is normal for him not to know how precious Tongmai Pills and the third-level talismans are.
His own disciples are the sect's treasures. When they were in the Qi Refining Stage, they almost ate the Tongmai Pills like candy beans. They were not short of magical self-defense weapons, so they could not appreciate their value.
Neither of them has ever managed a household and doesn't know how expensive firewood and rice are. They won't understand if you tell them this.
The woman continued, "Moreover, if you hadn't promised the people of Tiandao Sect, this wouldn't have happened. This was originally your fault, and others are just making up for the mistake you made. Isn't it right for you to reward him handsomely?"
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"You are the head of Kunlun. If you can't do what you said, it's not to say it."
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After a moment, Wang Daoxuan walked into the front hall and breathed a long sigh of relief.
Sometimes, he himself didn't know who was the master and who was the disciple.
He shook his head helplessly, and his expression gradually became calm.
The disciples of Tiandao Sect came from afar and wanted to participate in Kunlun's Alchemist Competition. As the head sect leader, he had no way of refusing, as this was Kunlun's etiquette.
But the Tiandao Sect's move was truly a bully.
As the largest sect of the righteous path, they possess absolute strength. For thousands of years, they have been sucking the blood of various major sects to strengthen themselves. In recent years, they have become more and more unscrupulous.
If it weren't for Li Yu, Kunlun would have been ruined this time.
Thinking of Li Yu, he began to ponder over another thing.
In the last alchemy apprentice competition, Li Yu entered the realm of heaven and man and won the first place, but he didn't take it to heart, thinking it was just his luck.
But this time, in the first-grade alchemist competition, he was able to withstand unimaginable pressure in a desperate situation and reach the realm of heaven again. This cannot be explained by the word "luck".
This young disciple possesses unparalleled talent in the art of alchemy.
Especially the ability to frequently enter the realm of heaven and man is a unique thing in the ten thousand year history of alchemy.
The heavens were fair, giving him such an incredible talent for alchemy, but only giving him mediocre talent for cultivation...
However, taking a step back, even if his talent for cultivation is a little lacking, if the sect really wants to train him, it is still possible to push him to the Golden Core stage in a short period of time. In this way, the sect will have an extremely talented third-grade alchemist.
Although he is powerless after reaching the golden elixir stage, before reaching the golden elixir stage, no matter how poor his talent is, with the combined strength of the entire sect, he can reach the peak of foundation building in just a few months and form a golden elixir within a few years.
However, even if he is the head of Kunlun, he cannot decide on this kind of thing alone. It must also be discussed by the elders.
This matter can be brought up during the regular meeting next month.
This is finally a big reward...
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After Li Yu left Yuxu Peak, he was not in a hurry to return to Ziyun Peak.
He stood in the air, looking at an inverted mountain not far from Yuxu Peak. After thinking for a while, he flew straight towards the peak gate.
Yuzhu Peak is shrouded by a large formation, with a vast platform on top. Behind the platform is a magnificent palace complex. The gate of Yuzhu Peak is right in front of the square.
Li Yu landed in front of the peak gate, where a familiar figure was already waiting for him.
Xu Qingxin smiled at him and said, "I knew that Junior Brother Li would come here."
Li Yu took out the jade box from his sleeve, handed it to Xu Qingxin, and said, "Senior Sister Qingxin, please give this pill to Jiang Li."
Xu Qingxin accepted the jade box and said to Li Yu, "Master wants to see you."
Li Yu was planning to leave, but was a little surprised when he heard this: "Master Xuan Zhen wants to see me?"
Senior Sister Qingxin’s master is Jiang Li’s master. Li Yu didn’t know who the head of Kunlun Sect was before, but she had specifically asked Wu Tong about their master, Patriarch Xuanzhen.
This Xuanzhen Patriarch, whose strength is in the late Nascent Soul stage, is one of Kunlun's top geniuses in hundreds of years, and one of the Nascent Soul Patriarchs of Kunlun Sect who is most likely to achieve deity transformation.
She holds an extremely high status in Kunlun Sect, and she doesn't even need to give face to the Sect Master.
As famous as her strength is her temper.
It is said that this Yuanying Patriarch has a very bad temper and is not popular in Kunlun. She basically has no friends, but because of her extraordinary strength, everyone is afraid of her and only dares to talk about her secretly behind her back.
Jiang Li had been in Kunlun for such a long time, but she had only met Li Yu secretly once. They had not said a few words and she left soon. This showed how strict Master Xuanzhen was to her.
Wu Tong was extremely well-informed, and no gossip in Kunlun could be hidden from him. Therefore, Li Yu also knew that after Jiang Li came to see him last time, many rumors about the two of them spread in Kunlun, and the Xuanzhen Patriarch was very dissatisfied.
It was also the order of Patriarch Xuanzhen to lock Jiang Li in Yuzhu Peak and not let her see him.
Therefore, even though he came to Yuzhu Peak to deliver the elixir to Jiang Li, he had no intention of meeting this Nun Miejue.
But since the other party wanted to see him, Li Yu had no way to refuse.
After all, he is the Nascent Soul Master. If he wants to meet a Qi Refining disciple, it’s just a matter of a word.
Li Yu followed Xu Qingxin to a large hall. The first thing that caught his eye was a very beautiful bird. The bird had a pink crest on its head and five tail feathers behind it. It looked very much like the legendary phoenix...
Li Yu quickly shifted his gaze away from the big bird, clasped his fists to a middle-aged woman in the palace, and said, "Greetings to Master Xuanzhen."
The middle-aged woman turned around slowly. She had left early during the Alchemy Competition just now. It was only until now that she realized that there were two major reversals after she left.
After many twists and turns, this pregnancy pill finally arrived at Yuzhu Peak.
After she heaved a sigh of relief, she glanced at the jade box in Xu Qingxin's hand, then looked at Li Yu and said, "What do you want to exchange this pregnancy pill for? Pills, third-level talismans, or protective magic weapons? Just ask for what you want, and I will satisfy you."
This is the sect's last pregnancy pill, which is extremely precious. She doesn't want to take advantage of Li Yu.
Li Yu did not hesitate and shook his head, saying, "Grandmaster, you misunderstood. I don't want to exchange this pregnancy pill for anything. Just think of it as a gift from me to Junior Sister Jiang. I have been in Kunlun for so long, but I have never given her anything..."
Li Yu's expression was indifferent, as if what he gave was not a fifth-level pregnancy pill, but a recovery pill or detoxification pill.
Although he also lacked resources for cultivation, if he used this pill to exchange something from Master Xuan Zhen, he would be too unfair to Jiang Li and would not have the face to see her again.
Moreover, from what the headmaster could see, these Nascent Soul masters were not as wealthy as he had imagined. They couldn't even give him a few hundred Tongmai Pills, so what was he talking about as a huge reward...
The middle-aged woman looked at Li Yu and stood there in a daze for a long time. At this moment, she seemed to understand why her beloved disciple would rather disobey her orders and sneak out to see him.
She had been practicing for hundreds of years and was accustomed to the intrigues and deceptions in the world of immortal cultivation. Fellow disciples would become enemies just for a pill or a magical herb, but she had rarely seen such a relationship.
She was slightly moved in her heart, breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "I thank you on behalf of Li'er, Qingxin, take him to see your junior sister."
Xu Qingxin smiled and said to Li Yu, "Junior Brother Li, follow me."
Li Yu followed her, passed through the hall, and came to another palace. On the cushion in the center of the palace, a figure was sitting cross-legged.
Xu Qingxin smiled and said, "Junior sister, look who's here?"
Jiang Li turned around and when he saw Li Yu, his face showed obvious joy. He slowly stood up and whispered, "You're here..."
Li Yu looked at the girl in front of him, moved his lips, but said nothing.
This Jiang Li was not the Jiang Li he was familiar with. He obviously had a lot to say, but Li Yu didn't know what to say for a moment.
Jiang Li seemed to realize this as well. After thinking about it, he took out a pendant from his sleeve and put it around his neck.
The next moment, her temperament underwent some subtle changes.
In Li Yu's heart, that familiar feeling came back again.
This was the Jiang Li he was familiar with.
He put his arm around Jiang Li's shoulders out of habit and asked, "What is your current level of cultivation?"
Jiang Li said embarrassedly: "The water spirit vein is in the late stage of foundation building, and the other four spirit veins have just been built. The master said that the practice cannot be too fast, and it needs to be suppressed..."
Comparison is the thief of joy. Li Yu's cultivation speed is actually very fast, but he can't even catch up with Jiang Li's shadow. However, he is not stupid enough to compare himself with the genius of the Heavenly Spiritual Vein who is being cultivated vigorously by the sect.
He took out a few jade boxes from his storage ring. After Jiang Li took a look, his eyes lit up immediately and he said in surprise, "Xu Ji's sugar cakes, Su Ji's glutinous rice cakes, thousand-layer crisps..., this is the candied haws sold by that old lady!"
These things were bought by Li Yu when he was in Fengzhou. When he was practicing in Baiyun Temple, he and Jiang Li would often sneak down the mountain to eat, drink and have fun. These were her favorite things.
There was no air in the storage ring, so Li Yu stored these things in a jade box. When he took them out, they smelled the same as when he first bought them.
Xu Qingxin looked at Jiang Li, who was eating with relish and was extremely happy, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart. In this world, the people who understood her best, apart from her parents, were probably Junior Brother Li. He was the only one who knew how to make her happy.
Jiang Li hadn't eaten proper food for a long time. During the Qi Refining Stage, he took fasting pills. After building the foundation, he could fast on his own. But the feeling of eating this delicious food is incomparable to any other pills.
She took a bite of the candied haws, her face full of satisfaction and happiness.
Li Yu looked at her useless appearance and said, "I'll bring it to you next time I go down the mountain."
Then, he handed Jiang Li a jade token and said, "I now live in the No. 69 Villa of Ziyun Peak. This is the jade token that activates the villa formation. I'll give you one. When you can come out, you can come find us."
"You guys..." Jiang Li blinked and asked, "Are you and Senior Sister Zhou together?"
Li Yu shook his head and said, "Not yet, but now we live together, so it's convenient for me to take care of you."
Although the witch was nice to him, she was a demon after all. If Li Yu's identity was exposed for some reason, Jiang Li would be fine, but his Taoist partner would definitely be implicated.
Although he also coveted Senior Sister Zhou, if he wanted to form a legitimate dual cultivation partnership with her, he'd better find a way to completely resolve the issue of his identity first.
However, this cannot be blamed on that witch.
Without the witch, Li Yu would have died long ago, twice.
Without continuing the topic, Li Yu took off the space ring on his hand, handed it to Jiang Li, and said, "Just now, the headmaster rewarded me with a space magic weapon. You can take back this space ring. I have erased my mark."
The space of that white jade ring is more than ten times that of this space ring.
The space ring that Jiang Li gave him was of no use to him. Moreover, this ring was given to Jiang Li by someone else, and the style was more feminine. Whenever Li Yu wore it outside, others would know that he was a gigolo at first sight...
Jiang Li did not accept it and said, "I have a space magic weapon. You don't need it anymore, so give it to Senior Sister Zhou. It's useless to me anyway. Senior Sister Zhou took good care of us in the past, and I never gave her anything..."
Having a space ring can indeed provide great convenience for cultivators, so Li Yu accepted it on behalf of Zhou Zixuan.
He wanted to say something else when a light cough was heard from the entrance of the hall.
Xu Qingxin sighed and said to Li Yu, "Junior Brother Li, it's time for us to go."
Li Yu patted Jiang Li on the shoulder and said, "Practice well, see you next time."
Under Jiang Li's reluctant gaze, Li Yu and Xu Qingxin walked out of the hall.
At the entrance of the palace, Li Yu bowed to the middle-aged woman again.
The middle-aged woman waved her sleeves, and a bottle of pills slowly flew towards Li Yu.
Without looking at Li Yu, she said calmly, "In order to improve your cultivation, you took too many Tongmai Pills in a short period of time. Although each top-grade Tongmai Pill contains very little poison, the poison accumulated over a hundred pills cannot be ignored. The longer it takes, the harder it is to eradicate. This bottle of pills is for curing the poison. Take it."
As an alchemist, Li Yu certainly knew that except for the best elixirs, any elixir would have elixir poison.
Ordinary disciples do not have to worry about the problem of pill poison. They often have to wait several months to buy a Tongmai Pill. By the time they take the next pill, the poison from the previous pill has already been refined through their practice.
Li Yu was different. He took more than a hundred Tongmai Pills in more than half a year. The poison accumulated in his body could not be refined by himself, so he had to take special detoxification pills.
This detoxification pill is not the low-level detoxification pill refined by Li Yu, but a high-level pill. Not only are the main ingredients hard to find, but in order to have the effect of detoxifying, it must itself have five pill patterns and be a top-grade pill without any pill poison.
There are extremely few top-grade high-level elixirs, and there are not enough to share with the geniuses in the sect who take Tongmai Pills in large quantities. Danxin Pavilion does not sell them at all, so Li Yu naturally has no channels to get them.
He did not refuse. After accepting the pill, he clasped his fists and said, "Thank you, Master Xuanzhen."
Patriarch Xuanzhen said calmly: "Go, go back and practice well, it may be possible to form a pill in this life. If you encounter any difficulties, you can come to Yuzhu Peak to find me."
Li Yu clasped his fists again to express his gratitude.
Seeing is believing. After seeing it in person, Li Yu realized that although Xuan Zhen Patriarch always had a face like Nun Miejue, she was actually a good person. She was just a little harsh towards Jiang Li...
On the way to send Li Yu out of Yuzhu Peak, Xu Qingxin said with a smile: "Master is like this, sharp tongue but kind heart, you will understand if you come to Yuzhu Peak more often in the future..."
At this time, in a hall on Yuzhu Peak, a middle-aged woman looked at the lost Jiang Li and asked, "Do you blame your master?"
Jiang Li shook his head and said, "I know, Master is doing this for my own good."
The middle-aged woman said, "The life span of the Spiritual Transformation Stage is 2,000 years, and the life span of the Void Breaking Stage can reach more than 4,000 years. If one can achieve unity with the Tao and become a celestial being, one can have an endless life span, living as long as the heaven and earth, shining as brightly as the sun and the moon..., and the Golden Core Stage is only 500 years. The deeper the love, the longer the torment in the future. I don't want you to walk the path I walked..."
Jiang Li thought of the tombstone on Yuzhu Peak.
Senior Sister Qingxin said that the person buried under that tombstone was the master’s dual cultivation partner.
Hundreds of years ago, the two of them were a pair of immortal lovers that everyone in the sect envied. However, the master's talent was much higher than that of the uncle, and he could easily form a fetus, while the uncle stopped at the golden elixir stage and ran out of life first. It has been more than two hundred years since then...
Jiang Li often saw his master standing in front of the tombstone for days at a time.
She looked at Master Xuanzhen and asked, "Master, do you regret it?"
This question has been thought about by Patriarch Xuanzhen countless times.
If she had listened to her master and forgotten all love, she wouldn't have had to suffer for more than two hundred years. But if you ask her, she won't regret it.
Naturally, there is no regret.
At least, she was happy during those four or five hundred years.
She touched Jiang Li's head and said, "Before you achieve the Golden Core, you should practice well here. After you achieve the Golden Core, I don't care what choice you make. Everyone has his or her own path..."
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When returning to Ziyun Peak, in order to avoid trouble, Li Yu dropped directly from the sky and landed directly in the courtyard of the villa.
Zhou Zixuan has returned home and is playing with Ling'er.
Li Yu handed the space ring to Zhou Zixuan and said, "This is for you."
Zhou Zixuan was stunned for a moment and said, "Isn't this given to you by Junior Sister Jiang?"
Li Yu said: "The headmaster has rewarded me with another space magic weapon. I will give this to you. Your magic tools, talismans, jewelry and other things can all be placed in the space ring."
Zhou Zixuan said in embarrassment: "But, if Junior Sister Jiang knew, would she be angry?"
Li Yu smiled and said, "Don't worry, she asked me to send you there."
After hearing what Li Yu said, Zhou Zixuan finally felt relieved. As long as she didn't cause misunderstanding among Junior Sister Jiang, it would be fine.
After a moment, she recognized the space ring as its owner again, put it on the ring finger of her left hand, and couldn't wait to put her things in it.
Li Yu took a look and found that women's rings looked better on women's hands. This ring was obviously more suitable for Zhou Zixuan. When he went out in the future, he would no longer be treated as a gigolo.
At this time, no one in the entire Kunlun thought that Li Yu was a gigolo.
In the world of cultivating immortals, being a gigolo means that an incompetent male cultivator is kept by a female cultivator and can only survive by relying on the female cultivator, but Li Yu is obviously not one of them.
The champion of the alchemy apprentice competition, the champion of the first-class alchemist competition, the tenth person in the illusion trial in a thousand years...
If he didn't have the ability, then among the current Kunlun disciples, except for Junior Sister Qin and Junior Sister Jiang, the rest would be waste.
In Kunlun, among his peers, those practitioners who are more powerful than him are not as good at refining pills as he is.
Among his peers, there are alchemists who are better than him...
Sorry, no.
Winning the first place in two alchemy competitions has firmly established his position as the number one alchemist of the younger generation. No one below the second-grade alchemist dares to say that his alchemy is better than Li Yu. After all, they have no idea when Li Yu will be able to enter the realm of heaven and man.
Today, Li Yu is undoubtedly the hero of the entire Kunlun.
Most of Kunlun’s low-level disciples may not know who the head of Kunlun is, but they definitely know who Li Yu is.
If he had not re-entered the heavenly realm at the critical moment and refined ten top-grade pills, completely turning the situation around, the championship of this first-grade alchemist competition would have been taken away by the people of Tiandao Sect.
That extremely precious pregnancy pill will also be given away.
New disciples who have just joined the sect may not have any special feelings about the Tiandao Sect, but some old disciples who often go out on missions have suffered a lot from the Tiandao Sect's disciples. As the only super sect in the world of immortal cultivation, the Tiandao Sect's disciples, relying on the sect's strength, are arrogant and domineering, and do not take the disciples of other sects seriously at all.
This time, Li Yu managed to regain a little face for them.
The story of him and Jiang Li was also passed down as a legend by the Kunlun disciples.
He had just been promoted to a first-rank alchemist not long ago, and might not even be able to refine all the pills for the competition, but he still stepped forward without hesitation and incredibly won the first place. He gave up the opportunity to become a disciple of a late Nascent Soul master, gave up the extremely rich cultivation resources, and gave the extremely precious fifth-rank pill to the woman he loved.
What kind of feeling is this?
Some female disciples put themselves in Jiang Li's shoes, and their hearts almost melted...
