Chapter 9 Little White Tiger's Gratitude
early morning.
Chen Ming woke up from his coma and felt pain all over his body, including his throat, back of the neck, chest, waist, back, crotch... He felt pain all over his body. He climbed up from the bed with difficulty, his face full of fear.
"Am I dead?"
The last memory in Chen Ming's mind was that his magic power was exhausted, and the female ghost in the well possessed him, and then he lost control of his body.
In a trance, he seemed to see his long-deceased grandmother coming to pick him up.
Although he missed his grandmother very much, he didn't want her to take him away.
He was only twenty years old, had not yet established his foundation, nor had he ascended the throne. He still had a good life to live. Just as the Empress Dowager was holding his hand and walking away, a man suddenly appeared.
Li Yu!
Chen Ming used to dislike this handsome face, but at that moment, Li Yu’s handsome face was his light!
It was already bright outside. Ren Yuanwai pushed open the courtyard door tentatively and asked cautiously, "Masters, are you still here?"
But what he saw was Chen Ming's extremely angry face.
Originally thought it was a simple mission, he almost lost his life here. Chen Ming certainly would not give up. He endured the severe pain in his body and summoned the officials from Fengzhou.
He suspected that this incident was a conspiracy against them.
If he knew that there was a female ghost here who was comparable to the peak of the first level of Qi Refining, he would never dare to accept such a mission. Chen Ming is the prince of the Chen Kingdom, so the officials of Fengzhou will naturally cooperate with him.
However, after interrogation, everyone in the Ren family knew nothing about the matter.
Li Yu was not surprised by this. No one in the Ren family had the courage to frame the immortal master. All this should have been the plan of the female ghost.
Driving those wandering ghosts to harass the Ren family and create the illusion of a haunted house is actually just a cover. Her real goal is the souls of the cultivators.
To ghosts, the souls of immortal cultivators are a great tonic that can quickly increase their cultivation. However, she had not expected that for a small ghost-exorcism mission, four Qi-refining stage cultivators would come to Baiyun Temple, causing her soul to fly away and die again, completely disappearing from this world.
Li Yugang had only been in this world for a few days when he personally experienced the dangers of the path of cultivation.
Even if it is a small and insignificant task, there is a possibility of death.
After returning to Baiyun Temple, the four of them went to Elder Sun to hand in the task.
Elder Sun is a little old man with gray hair and wrinkles all over his face. He looks to be in his sixties or seventies, but Li Yu knows that he is far more than sixty or seventy years old. Instead, he is over two hundred years old, definitely an old monster who has lived for two centuries.
Although Elder Sun's cultivation has reached the late stage of foundation building, it is highly unlikely that he will be able to form a golden elixir in this lifetime. So he came to Baiyun Temple and became a manager, making use of his remaining energy to help the sect, train reserve talents, and wait for the deadline to come.
Li Yu had never seen Elder Sun practicing on weekdays. The most thing Elder Sun did was to lie in a rocking chair to bask in the sun for the whole day, without moving. People who didn't know him would think he had passed away.
"A female ghost at the peak of the first level of Qi Refining?"
Elder Sun was lying on the rocking chair, listening to Li Yu and others' description of the mission. He opened his eyes slightly and said calmly, "To have cultivated to this level, the female ghost must have practiced for decades. Fortunately, she is just a wild ghost who doesn't know ghost magic and can only possess people. Otherwise, at least two of the four of you would have died there..."
Elder Sun's emotionless words made those who heard them feel scared again.
Elder Sun glanced at them again and said, "You are lucky this time. The world of immortal cultivation is full of dangers. You are a bunch of young boys. When you go out, you should be more careful. Otherwise, you will die without knowing how you died. Every year, the number of disciples who die in missions in major sects is at least 800 if not 1,000..."
After admonishing the four people, Elder Sun turned around and walked into a hall with his hands behind his back. After a moment, he came out staggeringly and handed Chen Ming a few things that looked like gold coins.
Chen Ming hesitated for a moment, handed all ten spirit coins to Zhou Zixuan, and said, "Junior Sister Zhou, I don't want any reward for this mission. You can divide these spirit coins among yourselves."
Then he looked at Li Yu and Jiang Li again, lowered his head and said: "I was wrong about what happened before. I apologize to you here. I hope you don't mind."
Facing Li Yu and Jiang Li at this moment, Chen Ming's mentality is completely different.
Who doesn’t want to achieve immortality when cultivating immortality?
If it weren't for Li Yu, his life would probably have ended yesterday, not to mention the path to immortality. Compared with this great favor, the previous little grudges are nothing.
Jiang Li waved his hand generously and said, "Forget it..."
Anyway, during the past two years of feuding with Chen Ming, neither he nor Li Yu suffered any physical harm.
Zhou Zixuan took the spirit coins and did not think for long before handing them all to Li Yu, saying, "Junior Brother Li, I'll give you all these spirit coins. I can't help you with this mission..."
Li Yu wanted to refuse, but Zhou Zixuan's attitude was very firm, so he had no choice but to accept it.
Ten spirit coins, each with a face value of ten spirit coins. Li Yu gave half to Jiang Li, who decisively refused: "I don't want any either. There is no use for me to have spirit coins. You can take them all..."
Li Yu knew Jiang Li. This kid had no intention of practicing cultivation at all, so if he said he didn't want to, he would definitely not do it.
Suddenly, Li Yu had 100 spirit coins. He didn't know how to spend them. With 100 spirit coins, he could buy a few low-level talismans for self-defense from Elder Sun, or some elixirs to replenish mana...
These things are very useful for the Qi Refining Stage. If Chen Ming had a Qi Recovery Pill last night, he would not have been attacked by that female ghost.
However, Elder Sun said that if they could become official disciples of Kunlun Sect three months later, the sect would give them these things, and it would be a waste to buy them now. He suggested that Li Yu save them first. The spirit coins would be of great use after they entered the sect. If they could not enter the sect, there would still be time to exchange them for these things.
Li Yu felt that Elder Sun's suggestion was very pertinent. At present, the entry selection three months later was more important.
There is no unique selection criteria for entry, and it mainly depends on the personal preferences of the sect's selection elders. However, entering the Qi Refining stage is a rigid selection standard. Those who are above the second level of Qi Refining can enter directly. For the first level of Qi Refining, there is still a lot of uncertainty, which depends on the number of acupoints that have been opened.
Although Li Yu has advanced to the first level of Qi Refining , he cannot guarantee that he will be selected, as there are still people in the temple who were eliminated last time.
He must seize these last three months and improve his cultivation.
Early in the morning, when it was just light, Li Yu got up, washed, and left Baiyun Temple.
The concentration of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth will affect the speed of cultivation to a certain extent. More than a hundred people from Baiyun Temple gathered on a hill to practice together, but they were competing with each other and the effect of their practice was not good.
Another reason was that Li Yu wanted to rub the little tiger.
I have to say, it feels very good.
Soon, Li Yu arrived at the stream where he gathered energy last time.
This place is located in a valley. It not only has beautiful scenery, but also abundant spiritual energy. And no one is competing with him for it. Facing the rising sun, Li Yu sat cross-legged on a huge rock by the stream, guiding the spiritual energy between heaven and earth and began to impact the second acupoint on his right hand.
This acupuncture point is called "Shaofu" and is the second of the 72 acupuncture points of the Fire Spiritual Meridian.
The Shaochong acupoint on Li Yu's right hand was already filled with spiritual energy. He guided the spiritual energy in his body along the meridians to attack the Shaofu acupoint, but every time the spiritual energy attacked, it was like hitting an unbreakable high wall.
Cultivation is so boring. Li Yu didn't know how many times he had attacked, but the high wall still showed no signs of being broken down, not even the slightest shake.
The sun had already risen overhead, and Li Yu was planning to go back to the temple to eat first, when suddenly a cheerful roar came to his ears.
Li Yu was very familiar with this roar . He opened his eyes and saw the little white tiger running towards him from a distance. With a light leap, it jumped onto the boulder and rubbed its little head against Li Yu.
Li Yu held it in his arms and couldn't help rubbing it again. After his undercover career ended, he raised a cat named Xiaobai as spiritual sustenance. This little tiger was a little big, but it felt better in the hand.
After rolling comfortably in Li Yu's arms, the little white tiger jumped off the boulder and nodded to Li Yu in a certain direction.
Unexpectedly, it would make such a human-like movement. Li Yu was stunned for a moment and asked unsurely: "You want me to go with you?"
The little white tiger didn't care whether Li Yu understood what it meant or not, and ran towards the bushes in front. After running for more than ten steps, it looked back at Li Yu and nodded again, signaling him to follow.
Li Yu followed with great interest, and then turned into a little white tiger and ran on the ground. He flew behind it. Not long after, the tiger and the man arrived at a cliff.
Li Yu was puzzled and murmured, "Why did you bring me here?"
Standing on this cliff, Li Yu found something strange here. The ten feet area under his feet was bare and there was nothing, but ten feet away, the grass and trees were lush and green.
Only then did he realize that the little white tiger was standing on the edge of the cliff, nodding its head downwards to signal Li Yu.
It seems that there is something under the cliff.
Li Yu walked to its location and looked down the cliff. He saw a red plant growing on a protruding rock below the cliff. It looked like some kind of short tree, with only a fist-sized fiery red fruit on the top.
When Li Yu saw the fruit, he was stunned at first, and then he said in surprise: "Red fruit!"
Li Yu had worked as a medicine boy for ten years and was very familiar with all kinds of plants. He recognized at a glance that the plant growing under the cliff was called "Zhu Guo", an uncommon elixir that was hard to come by. Not only did ordinary pharmacies buy it at high prices, but even Kunlun was in demand.
The Zhu fruit can prolong the lifespan of mortals. After being refined into elixir, it can increase the magic power of immortal cultivators. The purchase price of a hundred-year-old Zhu fruit at Baiyun Temple is five hundred spirit coins.
“Roar…”
The little white tiger kept growling. Li Yu looked into its eyes and read some information from them, which surprised him.
"Is this... for me?"
There was a lively light flashing in the huge tiger's eyes. Li Yu was shocked. This little tiger was so intelligent. He had never seen an animal with such eyes. Could it be that the Qi Gathering Pill from last time made it intelligent?
Is it repaying its kindness?
