Chapter 96: Refining, Opportunity
In the next few days, there was no wind or rain in the city of Haojing, but in the streets, the cultural and educational disciples were arguing loudly with each other.
What they argued about was whether Lu Yi was a "great sage in his own right" or a "traitor who was in collusion with the eunuch party", whether he was a "gentleman of unique character" or a "hypocrite who courted the public"?
Of course, Lu Yi didn't care about these.
The day after being granted the title of Duke, Lu Yi prepared a gift and went to the mansion of Marquis Tian'en... Oh, no, Duke Tian'en.
When Mrs. Hu saw Lu Yi, she treated him as if she had seen an enemy - the salt and iron documents promised to her by the Bai family were naturally invalidated after Lu Yi joined the Shougong Supervisor.
Although he ruined Mrs. Hu's financial resources, she didn't ask anyone to kick Lu Yi out, which was a sign of her good self-control.
Lu Yu was extremely enthusiastic.
He did not mention the matter of "immortality", but set up a family banquet, drank and talked happily with Lu Yi, and forced Mrs. Hu to accompany him, constantly pouring wine and serving food to Lu Yi, and made up for the family relationship that had become distant from Lu Yi in the past few years when he went to guard the Beijie Town.
At the dinner table, the two men finalized that a total of 300 households, approximately 2,000 members of the Lu family, would be separated from the Tian'en Mansion and join Lu Yi's Tianyang Mansion.
Among the three hundred families, Lu Yi first chose the Lu An family, with whom he was closest.
The other families that Lu Yi chose were all close relatives who had taken good care of him in the past few years. They were all honest people, had happy families, and no useless children.
As soon as Lu Yi's mansion is completed, these members of the Lu family will move to the back street of the mansion.
When leaving Tian'en Mansion, Lu Yi took Lu An and dozens of clansmen who had good knowledge and personal abilities with him.
Next, Lu Yi's mind was completely focused on the benefits he had gained from the Secret History Bureau.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the nineteenth year of Jiayou.
The rare dark clouds dispersed, and a large patch of red clouds appeared in the eastern sky. In the backyard of the Yushunfang Survey Office, the snow on the branches kept falling.
In the small building in the backyard, in Lu Yi's room.
Lu Yi sat cross-legged, with five-colored mists filling the air all around him. A sparkling ring was suspended in front of him, spinning slowly. Under the stimulation of his spiritual light, wisps of five-colored light continued to merge into the ring.
The ring comes from the inheritance stele.
As the five-colored light continued to blend in, the fine lines on the ring lit up bit by bit, and it seemed that only the last one or two fine lines were missing, and the entire ring would be completely lit up.
In the middle of the backyard, a big yellow dog was standing in front of the door of Lu Yi's small building, with a yellow light emanating from its mouth and nose.
In the other four directions, four old men were also absorbing and exhaling spiritual energy. The five-colored spiritual light that was invisible to ordinary people's eyes enveloped the entire backyard, as if the space of this yard was forcibly cut out from this world.
In Lu Yi's Danzhong acupoint, a point of Guixu Immortal Yuan was spinning rapidly.
The five-colored mist was continuously absorbed into Lu Yi's body through his mouth and nose, and then it was like all rivers returning to the sea, all entering the Tanzhong point, and was completely swallowed up by this bit of Guixu Immortal Essence.
When Lu Yi was in the Secret History Bureau, all the energy in his body condensed into a point of Guixu Immortal Yuan, and this point of Immortal Yuan was only the size of a sesame seed.
However, after several days of trial and practice, the volume of this immortal energy has expanded to the size of a soybean.
Lu Yi tried it these past few days, but once he left the backyard where he had set up the Five Elements Feng Shui Formation, no matter how hard he tried, his Wuliang Guixu Body could not move at all.
But in this backyard, Lu Yi can operate the Wuliang Guixu body freely, and his cultivation speed is very fast.
When a red sun rose in the east and the sunlight spread over the earth, Lu Yi's night's homework was finally over. He swallowed up all the five-colored mist in the room in one breath, and then opened his mouth to spray out wisps of five-colored rays of light.
Da Huang and others also took deep breaths at the same time, slowly taking the five-colored light exhaled by Lu Yi into their bodies.
The hair on their bodies glowed with an oily luster, and the essence and blood in their bodies surged wildly. Faintly, there could be heard the sound of "rushing" of flowing river, and the sound was many times stronger than when they were in the small courtyard on the back street of Tian'en Mansion.
With a humming sound, the ring floating in front of Lu Yi shone brightly.
All the patterns on the surface of the ring lit up at the same time, and Lu Yi and the ring suddenly felt a strange sense of being connected by blood.
The spiritual light of the soul gently probed into the ring, and Lu Yi laughed happily: "Ha, such a magical thing, my luck is not bad."
What appeared in front of Lu Yi was a small, dimly lit space. The space was spherical, with a diameter of just over ten feet.
A piece of information flowed out from the ring, and Lu Yi's smile suddenly disappeared.
This ring is called the 'Bei Ming Ring'. It is a token of inheritance passed down by the head of the Supreme Bei Ming Immortal Sect. It is an extremely powerful spiritual object. Its internal space is extremely vast, covering an area of tens of thousands of miles, enough to accommodate mountains and rivers, forming a small paradise of its own.
But now the Beiming Ring gave Lu Yi the feeling that it was dying, as if it was seriously ill.
The spiritual power of the world collapsed, and the Beiming Ring was hidden in the inheritance stone tablet. Its own spiritual power continued to dissipate, and it had already run out of energy. The huge space inside the ring had long dissipated, and only a square of ten feet was barely retained.
The spherical space with a diameter of ten feet can accommodate everything, which is a great surprise to Lu Yi.
But suddenly I learned that this space was originally tens of thousands of miles in size...
Lu Yu, I'm so heartbroken.
"But it's not bad. This treasure is probably the only one in the world right now." A little bit of five-colored mist flew up from Lu Yi's fingers and continuously poured into the Beiming Ring.
The small space inside the Beiming Ring was wriggling slightly, and Lu Yi felt vaguely that it seemed to be expanding slightly around it.
"Oh? The spiritual power is shattered, but the source is still there." Lu Yi murmured: "As long as my cultivation is sufficient, you still have a chance to recover?"
Lu Yu nodded, and his spiritual light swept across the space in the Beiming Ring.
This ten-foot-square space was once the core area of the Beiming Ring's tens of thousands of miles of space, and it was also the last area to collapse.
Now, suspended in the middle of this small space is a long-necked water bottle over one foot high with a simple and elegant shape.
As soon as Lu Yi thought about it, the Beiming Ring was already on the middle finger of his left hand, and the long-necked water bottle appeared silently in Lu Yi's hand.
As soon as Aquarius appeared, there was a loud noise.
The terrifying weight came upon Lu Yi, and his hands sank. His bones and muscles were pressed so hard that they made crackling sounds. His arms were almost torn off by the weight of the bottle.
Just as Lu Wu cried out "Oh no!", the bed under him and the floor beneath the bed collapsed together with a loud crash. Lu Wu was like a meteorite falling from the sky, smashing through five floors of floor in a very miserable manner, and crashing into the hall on the first floor with a loud bang, creating a large hole five or six feet deep in the hall's ground blue brick floor.
Lu Yi fell into a big pit, feeling dizzy and with severe pain in his internal organs. He almost fainted from the pain.
"Good...baby!" Lu Yi cried out with gritted teeth, biting the tip of his tongue and spraying a mouthful of blood mixed with five-colored mist onto the long-necked water bottle.
The Beiming Ring on the left hand flickered, and bits of light flowed into the water bottle.
Several runes on the surface of the water bottle flashed slightly, and the essence and blood that Lu Yi sprayed on it was rapidly absorbed by the bottle body. The weight of the water bottle suddenly disappeared. Lu Yi's arms trembled as he carefully picked up the water bottle.
This water bottle was stored in the core area of the Beiming Ring. All items in the Beiming Ring had collapsed, and only this bottle remained. Obviously, it was the most precious treasure in the Beiming Ring, so it was stored in this core area.
Lu Yi gently picked up the water bottle and looked at it carefully. He saw a flash of light from top to bottom on the thin neck of the water bottle, revealing a line of tiny words.
'Taichu Guixu Bottle'!
The light disappeared, the small words vanished, a piece of information came out, and Lu Yi already understood the origin of this water bottle.
"This treasure... is one of the Seven Treasures of the Supreme Beiming Immortal Sect, and ranks fifth. It can absorb the spiritual power of heaven and earth, condense the Primordial Mysterious Water, nourish all things, and replenish the soul. It is an unparalleled secret treasure for cultivation."
I gently shook the Taichu Guixu Bottle, and heard a faint "ding ding" sound coming from the bottle.
Lu Yi leaned over to the mouth of the bottle and looked inside. He saw three black droplets the size of broad beans in a faint gas of light. They were like mercury, constantly rotating and rolling in the gas, looking extremely agile and magical.
These are the three drops of Xuanyuan Divine Water that were left in the Taichu Guixu Bottle back then. I’m afraid they are not the only three drops left in the world.
"Bang!"
The door of Lu Yi's building was pushed open with force, and Da Huang, Caracal, and Ah Hu, who was sweating profusely, rushed in hurriedly.
Through the gate, one can see that in the small courtyard outside, guards such as Yu Dianhu have surrounded the entire courtyard.
Lu Yi waved his hand, walked to the door, and said to Yu Dianhu and the others, "My cultivation has improved. I accidentally destroyed the floor, but it's not a big deal. I'll ask the masons and carpenters to come over later and repair this small building."
Yu Dianhu and others saluted and then left the courtyard.
Ah Hu circled Lu Yi twice, looked at the big hole on the ground in the lobby, and shook his head: "Brother Yi, you are fooling me again."
Lu Yu rolled his eyes and glared at Ah Hu: "Stop talking about my business. I don't have time to take care of you these days. Do you understand the Buddha statue I gave you?"
Ah Hu gave a simple and bitter smile and wiped the sweat off his forehead: "Brother Yi, I'm not lazy. These past two days, I've been hugging it when I sleep, but... you said there's a treasure in this Buddha statue, but I didn't find anything?"
Lu Yi shook his head and shook the water bottle in his hand: "It's my fault. I should have known that you can't figure out the mystery. However, it's my chance, and it's your chance too."
"It's better to do it today than to wait for a better day. I'll fulfill your wish today. Hey, you are my brother after all. I would be heartbroken if I used this treasure on someone else, but you are Ah Hu."
Lu Yi walked to the door and shouted outside: "Today is the fifteenth day of the lunar month, right? Go and see if the Bai family is marrying off their daughter today? Go and check and see whose child is so unlucky to be chosen by the Bai family?"
The eunuch's soft voice of response came from outside the door.
Lu Yi brought Ah Hu to a small building next door that was of the same style as Lu Yi's residence.
On the first floor of the small building, in the hall, in front of a messy bed, the Buddha statue that Lu Yi got from the Secret History Bureau was standing there upright, with a pillowcase covering the Buddha's head.
It seems that what Ah Hu said about sleeping with his arms around the Buddha statue these days is really what he did.
"Sit down. I've been thinking about this method. It might work." Lu Yi pressed Ah Hu in front of the Buddha statue and shook the Taichu Guixu bottle in his hand. "Wait a minute. Just let go of your thoughts and follow my instructions."