I Am Evergreen In the World of Cultivating Immortals

"One hundred and fifty-five years old, with eight foundations."

Lu Changan felt the mighty mana lake in his body, which expanded by about 30%.

Since it is not a breakthrough in a small realm, the "quality" of mana has not changed significantly, and the strength has not improved much.

It's just a step forward in the later stage of foundation building.

"Based on the current progress of cultivation, if you reach the ninth floor of foundation building, you will be around 170 years old."

Lu Changan speculated.

Nine layers of foundation building can theoretically impact the alchemy stage.

However, in order to increase their confidence, most pill congealers will try their best to cultivate to the peak of the ninth level of foundation building, and no matter how bad it is, they will have to consolidate for two or three years.

Back then, Fu Xuemei had just entered the ninth floor of foundation building, and started to form alchemy before it was consolidated. Due to the lack of foundation, the quality of the final Chengdan was affected.

Even so, Fu Xuemei's spiritual root's aptitude, after her mind was mastered, barely formed a real pill.

The situation of Lu Changan was different.

He wants to take the route of "returning the alchemy to the liquid and reshaping the condensed alchemy", which is not achieved overnight.

For the first alchemy, there is no need to pursue the peak of the ninth level of foundation building.

If the quality of the alchemy is higher, the difficulty and risk of shattering the inner alchemy will be greatly increased.

It's the first time to transform Dan back to liquid, and I don't have enough experience. To be on the safe side, it is best to form a fake pill first like Zhang Tieshan.

...

A few days later, Lu Chang'an left the customs and followed the underground tunnel to the bottom of the deep pool behind the mansion.

First check the growth status of Xuanmu gourd vine.

This gourd vine has almost no trace of growth, and the small fruits on it are withered, yellow and black, and lifeless.

"It seems that listening to the 'Xuantian Gourd' in the records of Haige, it failed to condense completely..."

Even Lu Changan's Evergreen Secret Art is powerless to recover from this.

He once consumed his life essence to nourish the dead fruit, but as a result, nothing happened.

Fortunately, the vitality of the gourd vine has been stabilized, and the small piece of green on the vine is more conspicuous than before.

Compared with the situation of dying in the ancient ruins, it is much stronger.

Lu Chang'an looked at the Xuanshuigui at the side again, injecting evergreen mana into it to promote its growth.

In recent years, since the Xuanshui Turtle guarded and watered the Xuanmu gourd and vines, it rarely took the initiative to suck the residual breath of Lu Changan's cultivation.

Lu Chang'an guessed that some kind of benefits brought by Xuanmu Gourd Vine, in the eyes of Xuanshuigui, were more fragrant than his Evergreen Kungfu.

Under the buff of evergreen mana and mysterious wood gourd vine, the growth speed of the mysterious water turtle is far faster than that of the same kind.

It usually takes four to five hundred years for a normal Xuanshui turtle to cultivate to the level of a real pill.

It is estimated that Lu Changan's Xuanshui Turtle will not be used half of the time.

"This tortoise is the bloodline of the local product, and its aptitude is far superior to that of the rock mouse, and it also has the unknown benefits of the black wood gourd and vine. In the future, I don't know what kind of inner alchemy it will form?"

Lu Changan felt hopeful and curious about this.

Return to the ground mansion.

Xia Wenyue was waiting outside the door, asking to see something.

"Come in." Lu Changan waved his sleeves and opened the door.

Xia Wenyue bowed her knees, and said straightly: "Mr. Lu, just now a member of the tribe sent a letter saying that a monk who established the foundation outside Qingshawan visited you."

"Does that person have a registration number?"

"No, he concealed his appearance." Xia Wenyue replied.

Lu Changan was about to refuse.

"That person claims to be your old friend in Liang Guo." Xia Wenyue added hastily.

"Old friend of the Liang Kingdom?"

Lu Changan pondered for a moment, finally nodded, and ordered Xia Wenyue to bring the man over.

For a brief moment just now, he asked the ground rock mouse to investigate, and he smelled a familiar smell.

The visitor is indeed an old friend with a lot of friendship.

...

In a quarter of an hour.

Xia Wenyue went and returned, followed by a monk in a toga wearing a bamboo hat and green gauze.

His whole body was wrapped in robes, and no male or female could be discerned.

Xia Wenyue retreated tacitly and closed the door of the side hall.

Through the green gauze of the bamboo hat, Lu Changan looked at a pair of black eyes dimly, and smiled slightly:

"Miss Shen, I haven't seen you in twenty years, are you here all right?"

Hearing this, the toga-robed monk froze for a moment, and immediately took off the green gauze hat.

It was the face of a woman, about thirty-seven or eighteen years old.

The facial features are beautiful, but the crow's feet are obvious, the fair skin is slightly dark spots, the black eyes are no longer bright, and there is a kind of quiet and deep that has gone through the years.

Lu Changan couldn't help being stunned for a moment, as if he couldn't associate the gentle, quiet and beautiful woman with snow-white skin with the "mature old lady" in front of him.

"Master Lu Fu laughed at me. I am an old man, married and have children, so I can't bear the title of 'girl'."

Shen Bixin's voice was calm, her bitterness and loneliness could not be concealed in her charm.

"Fellow Daoist Shen, don't worry about it! For us practitioners, our external appearance is not important, it's just a layer of skin."

Lu Changan spoke softly, raised his hand with a smile, and let Shen Bixin sit down.

Shen Bixin is the eldest lady of the Tengxing Chamber of Commerce in Liang State, and she once had business contacts and cooperation with Lu Changan.

The first acquaintance was when Jiang Yechen held her in a coma and came to Wuqi Mountain to seek medical treatment.

Shen Bixin was originally in love with Jiang Yechen, but was opposed by the elders of the chamber of commerce.

In the end, she married Song Wenshu, who had a good background and a bright future in Lihuo Palace.

When he was seated, Lu Changan looked at Shen Bixin calmly, and found that her cultivation had stagnated at the peak of the late foundation establishment stage.

"The air is declining, and the mana is stagnating."

Lu Chang'an judged that this woman must have failed to form an alchemy, and had suffered backlash, which resulted in severe damage to her vitality and damage to her body's foundation.

If not, with Shen Bixin's rich net worth, taking the elixir that nourishes and nourishes the face would not cause her face to wither so quickly.

This is not the worst outcome.

It is not uncommon for some alchemy losers to die on the spot, or their realm to drop.

In fact, Shen Bixin's aptitude is good, and her background is better than that of ordinary monks.

It stands to reason that the hope of forming a fake pill is not too small.

At least in Lu Changan's opinion, he is more promising than Fairy Shi, who has not been promoted to the third-tier formation master.

But the world of cultivating immortals is impermanent, it is difficult to be absolutely sure, and it is normal to fail.

"I wonder how fellow Daoist Song is doing?"

Lu Changan didn't want to expose Shen Bixin's shortcomings, so he changed the subject.

As an elite in Lihuo Palace, Song Wenshu has a strong background and has some friendship with Lu Changan.

"Wen Shu...unfortunately died in the battle of cultivating immortals a few years ago."

Shen Bixin's eyes were dim, and her face was sad.

"Song Wenshu died in battle?"

Lu Chang'an's expression froze, he didn't expect to change the subject and expose the scars of Shen Bixin, a widow.

In the war of cultivating immortals in Liang State, there were many deaths.

True alchemy, fake alchemy real person, death is not too small.

The death in the foundation building period is naturally not so conspicuous, unless it is a friend who pays special attention.

Therefore, Lu Changan only knew the news of Song Wenshu's death at this time.

"When did Fellow Daoist Shen come to Jing Country?"

"The Tengxing Chamber of Commerce where the concubine is located, transferred some of the direct descendants and properties here long before the war in Liang State began...Three years ago, the concubine brought her husband's flesh and blood heirs, and came to Jing State with the direct descendants of the Chamber of Commerce. develop."

Shen Bixin recounted the past a few years ago.

Lu Chang'an secretly sighed that the Tengxing Chamber of Commerce had prepared for a rainy day, and even deployed manpower and industries in Jingguo in advance.

In this way, it will be less difficult to take over the monks from Liang Guo through the connections here.

...

"Shen Daoyou's visit this time, to cover up his identity, shouldn't it be simply looking for Lu to reminisce about the past?"

Half an hour later, Lu Changan finally got to the point after learning about Shen Bixin's ups and downs in his nearly twenty years of life.

"The favor owed to my concubine back then by Lu Fushi is still counted now?"

Shen Bixin looked directly at Lu Changan's expression.

"count."

Lu Changan didn't think about it.

He really owed Shen Bixin a favor.

In the middle of foundation building in the past. In order to collect a batch of materials, including the hard-to-find third-level materials, to speed up body training and advance to the quasi-third level, I asked Shen Bixin's chamber of commerce for help.

At that time, Shen Bixin didn't ask Lu Changan for any reward, only a promise of favor from him.

"Master Lu Fu is indeed noble, honest and reliable."

Shen Bi was delighted, showing a smile for the first time.

"Oh, Fellow Daoist Shen wants to fulfill the promise he made back then?"

"No! I haven't reached the end of my life yet. What I said just now was just to verify Master Lu's character and integrity."

"I came here this time because I was entrusted by someone to act as an intermediary. I hope Master Lu will keep the things I'm going to talk about next, no matter whether it will happen or not."

Shen Bixin's face was solemn, and she switched to voice transmission to communicate.

Lu Chang'an realized that the matter Shen Bixin mentioned was of great importance, so he set up a quarantine on the spot.

The two looked at each other, their lips twitched, and they communicated through sound transmission for a long time.

"Wang Feng, grandson of Elder Wang from Lihuo Palace?"

Lu Changan was surprised, but kept his expression on the surface.

It turned out that the real name of the "Prince Prince" who smuggled across the country through a transnational spirit ship was actually "Wang Feng", and he was a genius with the root of the Earth Spirit cultivated by Lihuo Palace.

Wang Feng's grandfather, "Elder Wang", was the top three powerful elders in Lihuo Palace, and his cultivation was at its peak in the late stage of alchemy.

Elder Wang's strength must be higher than that of Lu Changan's previous life.

Wang Feng met Song Wenshu and was the object of the latter's friendship and clinging.

Shen Bixin married into Lihuo Palace, and she also had a relationship with Wang Feng once or twice.

Just a few months ago, "Young Master Wang", who had recovered to the foundation-building stage, found Shen Bixin and asked him for help.

Mr. Wang has two requests:

First, return to Lihuo Palace in Liang State with the help of Jing State's local chamber of commerce.

Second, he wants to find a brilliant pharmacist to take care of his body and repair the hidden injuries from his fall in cultivation.

If he can help, Mr. Wang will be very grateful, and in the future he can also get the favor of Zongmen's later stage of alchemy.

"The concubine's chamber of commerce has a shallow foundation in the country of Jing, barely gaining a foothold, and is rejected by hostile forces. Mr. Wang's two requests are helpless."

Shen Bixin said via voice transmission.

Lu Changan's eyes flickered slightly, seeing Shen Bixin's selfishness.

Song Wenshu's family background was in Lihuo Palace, and Shen Bixin gave birth to his heir.

It would definitely be beneficial to Shen Bixin's descendants if he could gain a connection with Mr. Wang and Elder Wang.

It is true that the war situation is not good for Lihuo Palace.

However, even if a behemoth like the Nascent Soul-level sect was defeated and withdrew from the Kingdom of Liang, its inheritance would far exceed that of a sect like Jin Yungu.

"I'm afraid Lu can't afford such big figures as Elder Wang and Young Master Wang..."

Lu Changan politely refused.

In this matter, Shen Bixin was simply acting as a middleman, and did not waste human affection.

Lu Chang'an has no shortage of spiritual stones and exercises, and has all the things for forming alchemy, so he has no intention of clinging to the lineage of Elder Wang and Young Master Wang.

Mr. Wang was chased and killed by the forces of the Devil's Cult, so there is a certain risk in this matter.

"Mr. Wang said that if Lu Fushi agrees to help, his reward will include a piece of third-rank top-grade spiritual bamboo."

Shen Bixin added.

Hearing this, Lu Changan couldn't help but move.

The third-tier top-grade spiritual bamboo was not easy to get in his previous life when he was in the alchemy stage.

At the largest auction in the Liang Kingdom, Lu Changan once photographed a third-tier middle-grade spirit wood. At that time, he was not sure about refining the third-tier treasure talisman's talisman embryo, and it is still preserved.

The power of the treasure talisman starting from the third level is immeasurable if it is used for cultivation.

In addition, Lu Chang'an's kung fu is wood-type, using the third-grade high-grade spiritual bamboo as the main material, it can refine excellent wood-type magic weapons.

"If Master Lu Fu is interested, he will go to the Xunxian Mansion Inn in Yunyan Immortal City within half a month... At that time, Mr. Wang will personally negotiate with you."

"Well, let me think about it."

Lu Changan did not make a promise.

He was a little puzzled in his heart, how could he offer such a generous reward now that he was so down and out when he met Mr. Wang many years ago?

...

After talking about business, the atmosphere relaxed.

The two of them no longer transmitted sound transmissions, and talked about the past, simply reminiscing about the past.

In the past, the three peak masters of Wuqi Mountain, Lu Changan, Shi Xianzi, and Ye Fei all had a good relationship with Shen Bixin and had cooperation contacts.

At that time, Shen Bixin was quiet, gentle, and generous, which even moved Ye Fei from Xiaodan Peak.

"By the way, how is fellow Daoist Jiang doing?"

Lu Changan suddenly thought of Jiang Yechen, the man Shen Bixin really fell in love with.

Jiang Yechen has a soul treasure in his body. Without his help to restore the memory of Fairy the Master, Lu Chang'an and the two would not have had the important opportunity of the ancient ruins back then.

At least, Fairy Shi did not become a Tier 3 formation master so smoothly.

"Jiang Yechen...how can I see him again as a concubine?"

Mentioning this person, Shen Bixin's expression was downcast, her delicate cheeks were no longer the same as before, and the wrinkles on her brows became more and more obvious.

Lu Changan heard the abnormality in the words.

Didn't Shen Bixin say "I don't have the face to see him again", and there was unconcealable regret and loss in her tone.

"A few years ago, he who had been promoted to Zhendan rejected invitations from the major sects of the Liang Kingdom, and then traveled to other countries..."

"Jiang Yechen, promoted to True Pill?"

Lu Changan was moved, and couldn't help looking at Shen Bixin.

He stroked it simply.

Back then, Shen Bixin abandoned her true love, Jiang Yechen, to marry Song Wenshu, who had a more promising background.

As a result, Song Wenshu was killed in battle, making Shen Bixin a survivor.

And Jiang Yechen, who was considered extreme and unpopular back then, has actually formed a real pill!

It's more subtle.

Jiang Yechen's promotion to Zhendan and Song Wenshu's death, these two events... seem to have happened in those few years.

Jiang Yechen is considered to be Lu Changan's first friend in this life who confirmed the news and formed a real pill.

Although the friendship between the two is very general.

In addition, there is another Zhang Tieshan, but there has been no news for these years.

The difficulty of real pills is much higher than that of fake pills.

In many fairy cities, fake alchemy real people can be seen from time to time, but real alchemy is difficult to get in contact with.

...

Shen Bi was depressed and unhappy, and quickly offered to leave.

Lu Changan knew that it was because her scars were exposed.

But he really didn't mean to.

How did she know beforehand that Shen Bixin's life in the past twenty years was so tortuous.

"Friend Daoist Shen, take care."

Lu Changan watched Shen Bixin's thin figure, covered by loose robes, bamboo hats and green gauze, fly out of Qiufeng Island.

Shen Bixin concealed her identity and visited because she was worried about Mr. Wang's affairs and would implicate Lu Changan.

According to her, Mr. Wang faced intense pursuit in the early years. Although the Chamber of Commerce didn't publicly want to arrest them, there are some forces in the Chamber of Commerce secretly cooperating with the Demon Cult's actions.

In recent years, the wind has relaxed a lot, and the pursuit has dropped significantly.

Young Master Wang recovered most of his cultivation, and only then did he win a chance to breathe.

Seven days later.

Lu Chang'an declared to the outside world that he was retreating, leaving behind a phantom breath simulated by the "Phantom True Talisman" in the secret room.

With the help of the ground rock mouse's earth escape ability, he left from the Xia family in Qingshawan without anyone noticing.

Before the rock mouse was promoted to the third rank, Lu Changan would avoid negotiating with Mr. Wang in his real identity.

After all, it involves the upper echelons of Liang Guozong's sect.

Now there are fewer worries.

Attracted by the third-rank high-grade spirit wood, he didn't mind meeting Mr. Wang.

...

Yunyan Xiancheng, Xunxianfu Inn.

This is the place where Lu Changan and the down-and-out young master Wang first met in the country of Jing.

It's just that Mr. Wang didn't know Lu Changan's identity at that time.

The formation prohibition in Xunxian Mansion can only hinder the investigation of the spiritual consciousness of the real fake alchemy at best.

This couldn't stop Lu Chang'an, who owned the Nine Seal Tablet, and with the blessing of the soul brand in his previous life, his true alchemy-level spiritual consciousness quickly found out the truth.

"This Mr. Wang has been hunted down for a long time, but he has learned to be cautious."

Lu Chang'an discovered that in a guest room where they agreed to meet in Xunxian Mansion, there was also a phantom image left by a phantom talisman.

The real Mr. Wang, pretending to be a servant of the inn, was secretly keeping an eye on that guest room.

Lu Changan confirmed that there was no ambush around Xunxian Mansion.

The person with the highest cultivation level living in the inn is a fake alchemist who is playing with a pair of twin female cultivators.

Lu Changan did not follow Mr. Wang's rhythm.

He opened a first-class guest room in Xunxian Mansion, then walked over to him and asked Mr. Wang to serve in his room.

"Boy, come to the uncle's room to massage and beat your back! The service is good, and the reward of spirit stones is indispensable."

Mr. Wang pretended to be a servant, a little dazed, looking at the big bearded man in front of him.

The nearby servants and maids couldn't help feeling chills in their hearts. They looked at Mr. Wang, who had small arms and thin legs, being dragged into the superior guest room by a bearded and strong man.

The first-class guest rooms in Xunxian Mansion are detached courtyards.

In the living room, Lu Changan and Mr. Wang stared with wide eyes.

"Guest officer, you are..."

"Yes, I am the person you want to see."

The aura of Lu Changan's figure changed, turning into his original appearance.

"Wang Feng later, I met Lu Fushi."

Mr. Wang took off his turban and bowed his hands in a salute. His face was blurred for a while, showing a handsome man with sharp edges and corners.

This is a completely different image from that proud young man with oily hair and pink face on the spirit ship of the Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce.

The other party definitely didn't show his true colors at the time, and even his surname was fake.

Lu Chang'an didn't know what the real image of the original Mr. Wang was like.

However, after more than ten years of ups and downs, the temperament of normal people will change.

"Mr. Wang, there is something unclear about Mr. Lu, please advise."

Lu Changan seized the initiative, opened his mouth first, and secretly observed Mr. Wang's state.

"Master Lu Fu, please ask."

Wang Feng's attitude is humble, without the slightest arrogance of a true disciple of Lihuo Palace and the grandson of an elder.

"I heard from Fellow Daoist Shen that Wang Gongzi wants to return to Liang Guoli Fire Palace? In today's Liang Guoxiu Immortal Realm, the battle situation is unfavorable, chaotic and dangerous. This is not a good choice."

Thinking about it in another way, Lu Changan would definitely not want to go back to the Liang Kingdom unless there was something extremely important and he had to do it as a last resort.

Hearing this, Wang Feng smiled heartily:

"Master Lu Fu is right! Not long ago, Bucai changed his mind and decided not to return to Liang Kingdom!"