Chapter 283 Dealing with all matters and preparing for the catastrophe
Chapter 283 Dealing with all matters and preparing for the catastrophe (First update)
Golden water stream.
This time, Du Yuxi saw Cheng Xinzhan from a distance and went forward to welcome him in. He was really happy, because last time he just sent this Taoist priest to Xiao Huijian, and immediately his salary increased by 10%.
Cheng Xinzhan walked into Jianlu Zhai again.
"Didn't you say to pick it up in a month?"
Eleventh Lady asked, it has been two months and she still has things to deal with overseas. If Cheng Xinzhan doesn't come again, she can only leave her things here and leave first.
"I happened to run into some things and was delayed."
Cheng Xinzhan said.
Eleventh Lady's beautiful eyes turned, and she asked,
"Is it about the master of Zhenwu Temple becoming pregnant?"
Cheng Xinzhan nodded, pondered for a moment, and said,
"You should have heard that the temple master wants to open a temple and recruit disciples, but now there is only one Zhenwu Temple on Bamian Mountain. This is the residence of the temple master, but the disciples recruited in the future will also need a place to live and a place to preach.
"There are few people on Bamian Mountain right now. If they rely on themselves to build it, it will probably be time-consuming and laborious. If your chamber of commerce has the materials and skilled craftsmen in this area, why not take the initiative to ask and offer your help? I think the master of the temple will readily agree based on his straightforward and selfless character."
Eleventh Lady's eyes lit up. This was the difference between merchants and immortals. This master of Zhenwu Temple suddenly appeared. If no one gave any advice, who could figure out what kind of person he was?
If they could establish a relationship with a great cultivator of the fourth realm and a newly-born sect, and a sect that was geographically close to them, it would be an opportunity that could not be sought. Don't ask if the Chamber of Commerce has materials and craftsmen. Even if it doesn't, it can buy them locally and recruit people to form a group. What's wrong with that? Anyway, the Chamber of Commerce has no shortage of money.
"Thank you for your guidance, Xinzhan."
Eleventh Lady bowed gracefully.
Cheng Xinzhan waved his hand.
"It's just a casual remark, thank you for nothing."
"A word spoken from the heart is worth a thousand gold coins."
Eleventh Lady said with a smile, then led Cheng Xinzhan inside and brought him to three large jade boxes.
The box was locked. Shiyi Niang unlocked one of the locks and then opened the box.
"Please look at my heart."
After opening the lid of the box, apricot-yellow Dharma light suddenly came out of the box, like a big lantern, illuminating the room with a warm yellow color.
Cheng Xinzhan took a few steps forward and looked into the box.
There was a pile of rock leaves neatly stacked in the box, about thirty in total. These rock leaves were neatly cut, one inch thick, six feet long, and about four feet three inches wide, which were larger than an ordinary table.
Cheng Xinzhan originally thought that the frozen water rock was jet black, but he did not expect it to be this apricot yellow, and there were no mottled lines or pits on it, like the skin of top-grade jade. If you look at it from a distance, it looks like the talisman paper he often uses, but it is much larger.
In this way, although it has not been refined, the thick stack of it in the box already looks a bit like a book of the earth.
"I didn't expect this rock to be so beautiful."
Cheng Xinzhan said.
Eleventh Lady said,
"These are all over 5,000 years old. If they are less than 500 years old, they are no different from hard soil. Those that are 1,000 years old will appear like stone slabs, and will turn into jade after 3,000 years. Only after 5,000 years will they have this apricot-yellow jade texture."
She opened the other two boxes and pointed at them and said,
"Xinzhan was in a hurry at first, so we first collected the thousand-year-old ones in the shortest time possible, and then collected the older ones. In two months, we only found these three boxes. Does Xinzhan want to take them all away?"
Cheng Xinzhan bowed to Shiyi Niang.
"Thank you for your hard work, Eleventh Lady. I only need the ones that are 5,000 years old. These thirty or so should be enough for me for a while. I'd like to trouble you to continue collecting the ones that are over 5,000 years old for me. When I use up all these, I'll send someone to get more."
Eleventh Lady smiled and nodded.
Cheng Xinzhan waved his hand, put away the box of rock leaves, chatted for a while, then stood up and said goodbye.
"Xinzhan, when will we meet next time?"
Eleventh Lady asked. Since Cheng Xinzhan said "send someone to get it", she guessed that he would not come again for a long time, and it would take a long time to use such a rare magic weapon to refine it.
Cheng Xinzhan nodded.
"I will be in seclusion for a long time, at the shortest, three to five years, at the longest, eight to nine years."
Eleventh Lady's face changed slightly. She didn't expect it would take so long, but she soon regained her smile.
"Then I wish Xinzhan's retreat and practice will be successful and everything will go smoothly."
Cheng Xinzhan nodded and said with a smile,
"I have written down all my thoughts about Yunshu. I hope you will not be stingy with your writing."
Eleventh Lady blushed when she heard this. This Taoist priest always looked serious, but the words that came out of his mouth from time to time were the most touching.
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Kuaiji, Ziwei Mountain, Kuimu Island, Sirius Palace.
The one on duty was Ying Shanzhu of Toujian Mountain. The elders on duty of Sanqing Mountain in Haoran League were Zhao Shanzhu of Shuji Mountain, Gong Shanzhu of Baihu Mountain, and Ying Shanzhu of Toujian Mountain.
Ying Jingsong was very surprised to see Cheng Xinzhan coming, but he was a man who valued words very much, so he just said "sit down" and waited for Cheng Xinzhan to speak.
Cheng Xinzhan made this trip to tell the clan about what he had seen and heard in Xikang in recent years and the current situation in the southwest. Now that Lord Yingshan is on duty, it is even better. Lord Yingshan traveled to Bashu in his early years and is familiar with the situation there.
It was basically Cheng Xinzhan who was talking, and Ying Jingsong was listening the whole time. When he finished talking about the current situation, Ying Jingsong just nodded to indicate that he understood, and then he took the initiative to speak, but he asked about Cheng Xinzhan's practice in kendo.
After chatting for a while and finishing their conversation, Cheng Xinzhan asked about the performance of his two disciples in the alliance.
There were many disciples in the clan who served and trained in the alliance, so Ying Jingsong certainly couldn't remember every one of them, but he certainly paid special attention to Cheng Xinzhan's disciples. When Cheng Xinzhan asked about it, he, who was very frugal with words, praised them highly. Unfortunately, the two children were now on official business outside and not in the alliance, otherwise he would have called them into the hall and let Cheng Xinzhan see them in person.
After some praise, he said,
“But there is one thing. Although your Lixue Mountain is special and is taught by two sects together, when Mingxu and Mingyue were in the alliance, they were basically taught by Li Chengyan and Wang Chengyi from Juqu Mountain.
"These two haven't accepted any apprentices yet. I think they are teaching Mingxu and Mingyue as their own apprentices. It's not good for you to just sit back and do nothing. Don't let these two talented kids get kidnapped."
Cheng Xinzhan said,
"Let the people in Juqu Mountain lay a good foundation for the child first, and then I will bring him up by my side."
Ying Jingsong smiled when he heard this.
Cheng Xinzhan took out two items from his arms, which were the Taiyi Divine Thunder and the Taiyi Qingling Arrow. He entrusted Ying Jingsong to pass them on to his two disciples.
Ying Jingsong agreed, and then he said goodbye and left.
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After leaving Ziwei Mountain, he headed westward, passed Sanqing Mountain but did not enter it. Instead, he stopped when flying over Ganjiang River and landed on Bailong Sandbar in the middle of the river.
There are countless restrictions and sleight of hand set up by Sanyuan Mountain and Sanqing Mountain on this Bailong Sandbar, making it impossible for ordinary people to see or enter. In order to deceive people, Sanyuan Mountain hid this sandbar and rebuilt an identical sandbar not far downstream.
Although the prophecy of the eight hundred earthly immortals caused the two factions to pause their actions after being strongly criticized by the master of the earthly immortals, in the hearts of most people, as they watched Cheng Xinzhan's cultivation and reputation rise day by day, they became more and more convinced of this prophecy, and the sandbar that fulfilled the prophecy was guarded even more strictly. Anyone who wanted to go to the island had to obtain the consent of both factions.
The only exception is Cheng Xinzhan himself.
He took out a wooden box from the cave stone. The material of the wooden box was ordinary, but it could not hide the golden light of the things in the box. The wood was reflected as golden, and there was even more dazzling golden light shining through the gaps in the wooden box.
When he opened the lid of the box, he saw more than twenty golden relics inside!
These were what he had achieved during his more than two years in Xikang.
Of course, these are all willing to cooperate, such as the monk Han Shi and the monk Ku Feng. There are also those who are unwilling to cooperate. The relics of those demon monks were all refined into essence by Cheng Xinzhan and returned to the world.
He vowed to bury the relics in his hands in the sand.
White sand on a sandbar is also sand.
If the golden elixirs of these evil monks were buried in a sandbar where every grain of sand was permeated with Taoist magic power, and could protect their souls and allow them to reincarnate in the Pure Land of Buddhism, then Cheng Xinzhan would have nothing to say.
He dug a hole on the sandbar, buried all the golden elixirs in it, covered it with sand, then flew away, continued to fly west, and flew all the way back to Kanli Mountain.
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Kanli Mountain.
There were only the lion and Wu Qingbo in the mountain. The lion lay motionless on the top of the mountain for ten thousand years. However, it was a hot summer day and the snow was melting rapidly, leaving little room for the lion to move around. Wu Qingbo sat upright at the entrance of Guanxuan Temple, motionless like a stone sculpture.
"Didn't you say you were going out for a walk? Why are you back again?"
Cheng Xinzhan asked.
Wu Qingbo replied,
"Didn't the abbot say he would be away for a while? I will guard the gate for him."
Cheng Xinzhan smiled when he heard this, and then he said,
"I have something to do. I don't trust anyone else with it, so I'd like to trouble you to go out and do it."
"Master, please give your instructions."
Wu Qingbo stood up immediately, feeling that he was finally useful.
Cheng Xinzhan said,
"I have less than six years left before my second alchemy cleansing. Please help me find a remote and deserted place to undergo the tribulation. The place must have all five elements, and it would be even better if it has both yin and yang. There are no other restrictions. It would be best if we find a suitable one within four years. I will also need two years to set up the formations and restrictions at the place to undergo the tribulation."
After hearing this, Wu Qingbo nodded heavily. Finding a place to transcend the tribulation was almost a matter of life and death.
He immediately bid farewell to Cheng Xinzhan, turned into fire and left in a hurry.
Cheng Xinzhan came to the backyard of the temple, sat down by the fire pit, warmed the stove, took out the frozen water rock pages and many auxiliary materials, and prepared to start refining the pages needed for the Book of the Earth.
Although the texture of this five thousand year old frozen rock sheet is like jade skin, which is already very good, it is still a stone slab after all. Cheng Xinzhan wants to refine it into a material that retains the magic meaning of Kun soil, but its shape and quality must be refined to be as soft as paper.
A good piece of paper should be as soft as spring cotton, tougher than autumn cocoon, with a smooth texture and a ripple effect when tapped. This requires a lot of effort.
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The second update will take a while.
(End of this chapter)