Asking About Longevity Chapter 677

Chapter 677: Noble Man

 At the border of Qianxue Prefecture, the bells of aristocratic families are ringing, and the food is prosperous. However, in the small fairy city on the edge, they still live a precarious and difficult life.

Small families like the Qian family can still dominate in Tongxian City, but near the border of Qianxue Prefecture, they are oppressed and are no different from ordinary casual cultivators.

Mo Hua suddenly remembered what he overheard while hiding in the cave where he was refining evil pills when he was arresting the ancestor of the Qian family in Daheishan. What the ancestor of the Qian family said to the deceased head of the Qian family, Qian Hong:

“…In this world, the weak eat the strong, the big fish eats the small fish, and the small fish eats the shrimp.”

“The same is true in the monastic world. Casual practitioners are exploited by small families, small families are oppressed by mid-level families, and mid-level families are oppressed by upper-class families.”

“In other words, casual cultivators support small families, small families support middle-level families, and middle-level families support upper-class families…”

“At its root, it's all about sucking the blood of low-level casual cultivators…”

The ancestor of the Qian family was a wicked man. He built the Black Mountain Evil Stronghold, raised evil cultivators, killed people and made elixirs, and committed countless murders in order to seek his own immortality.

 But some of what he said seemed to be undeniable facts...

The ink painting has a complicated mood and a somewhat sad look.

Master Gu's tone was solemn and his expression was sighing.

 Ink painting reminds me of another question:

“Master Gu, the family is seeking profit... It stands to reason that the casual cultivators in Gushan City originally made a living by refining the 'formation matchmaker' and could live a prosperous life.”

“If formations were popularized, a formation flag with sixteen lines of formations could only be sold for three hundred spirit stones;”

When leaving, Master Gu only said:

"During the next ten-day holiday, I will send someone to deliver the prepared matchmaking to the Gu family in Qingzhou City. Young Master can pick it up when he has time."

Mo Hua frowned and said nothing, wondering what he was thinking about.

"These things are time-consuming and labor-intensive and will not bring benefits to the family, so the current situation is..."

Master Gu looked sideways slightly, looking at the expression on the ink painting, and suddenly smiled and apologized:

"I won't say this anymore. My original intention is to entertain the young master. I don't want to mention these disappointing things. Please forgive me, young master."

“In addition, the aristocratic family actually does not need to promote the formation media and popularize the formation method..."

"identity?"

“Even if they are all in the Qi Refining Realm, the cost of a thousand low-level monks is not as high as that of a child from a noble family.”

Master Gu nodded and sighed: "This is natural..."

“But ordinary monks don't know the formations, so they can only depend on the aristocratic families, and they have no choice; ordinary formation masters, who don't have the inheritance of the formations, can only rely on the aristocratic families...”

 Master Gu looked a little sad when he said this.

“This shows that refining the formation media is also profitable.”

“You can earn spiritual stones while lying down, and you don't need to spend any time studying the application of array media, the optimization of array methods, and the promotion of array science…”

“Isn't it a good thing to practice more formation media and, by extension, not only earn spiritual stones but also popularize formation techniques?”

"Our Gu family, although we have property, is not very profitable. Our property is relatively small among aristocratic families. Our ancestors have always had a lot of restraints on the children of the family and do not allow extravagance and waste."

Master Gu said: "A spiritual weapon depends on whether the material is expensive or rare, the hand of the craftsman who made it, how many years of skill has been passed down, and whether it is limited... these are all important things."

Master Gu shook his head, "To be honest, this kind of luxurious spiritual weapon is actually very ordinary in terms of skill. Its offensive and defensive effects are very weak, and it may even sacrifice practicality for the sake of beauty."

“Why do they go out of their way to fish in the lake and waste the mines to refine those luxurious spiritual weapons?”

“But as long as we have a monopoly on the formation, a formation flag can be sold for three hundred just by painting the eleven formations on it.”

Master Gu said: "What the family wants to do is to monopolize the inheritance of formations and the resources for refining weapons."

Mo Hua drank silently and said nothing more until the banquet was over.

“Without these 'finishes', even if you use the same refining skills to refine the same luxurious spiritual weapon intact, it will be regarded as a 'fake' and a subpar fake.”

 “You're welcome, young master.”

Mo Hua was startled, a little surprised.

Mo Hua was puzzled, "Then why are they expensive?"

“Is it because the luxurious spiritual weapons make so much money?”

Mo Hua bowed his hands and said, "Thank you so much, Master Gu."

“The formation is treasured by aristocratic families. They either treasure it as their unique knowledge, shelv it in a high cabinet, or they would rather put it in a corner to gather dust.”

“The cost of refining the weapon is lower, and the profit of the spirit stone is higher.”

“But other families, especially the big families with 'spiritual mines', countless properties, and extremely deep family fortunes, are different...”

“Ordinary array mediums are used by poor lower-class monks, while luxurious spiritual weapons are used by luxurious and luxurious upper-class monks.”

Master Gu sighed: "The most important thing is the word 'status'."

Master Gu waved his hand and watched Mo Hua go away at the entrance of Xianhe Tower. He sighed slightly, then turned and left.

Mo Hua frowned, "Is it difficult to refine a luxurious spiritual weapon?"

 Master Gu poured wine for Mo Hua again.

“As long as you have the monopoly on the formation, you can set whatever price you want.”

Master Gu was observing the words and expressions at the side. Seeing that Mo Hua was young and had compassion in his eyes, his pupils could not help but shrink, and he poured a glass of fruit wine for Mo Hua himself.

“So this kind of luxurious spiritual weapon cannot be made by ordinary weapon refiners.”

“A precious Taoist robe worn by one of their direct descendants is probably enough to feed and clothe a thousand Qi Refining cultivators for a year…”

 After leaving, Master Gu purchased some materials for refining the formation media in Qingzhou City, and then returned to Gushan City by car.

 In the car, his apprentice Dachuan was also there.

Dachuan is a monk born and raised in Gushan City. He has learned to refine weapons since he was a child and rarely leaves Gushan City. This time he arrived in Qingzhou City and saw the scene of the fifth-grade immortal city, which was eye-opening.

In the carriage, Dachuan said with envy:

“Master, Qingzhou City is much more prosperous than our Gushan City…”

Master Gu gave a slight "hmm", but there were some words he didn't say.

In the past, Gushan City was also prosperous. Although it was not as good as Qingzhou City, it was quite lively with people coming and going, laughing and talking.

 Nowadays, Qingzhou City is more prosperous than before.

But Gushan City has been in depression forever...

There is not only one Qingzhou city in this cultivation world, but also countless Gushan cities.

 Dachuan, who was not deeply involved in the world, did not understand these words, so Master Gu did not say them.

After the car drove for a while, Dachuan suddenly remembered something, glanced at Master Gu, and whispered:

“Master, why are you so polite to that young Mr. Mo?”

 The master is Jindan, a third-level weapon refiner.

As for the little Mr. Mo, he was only at the early stage of foundation building, so he looked small and extremely weak.

Although Dachuan felt that he should respect the young Master Mo, his master put his stature too low. He went to Qingzhou City specially and waited for a long time at the Gu family just for the flower spirit stone. , invite that little Mr. Mo to eat fish.

 Okawa is very confused.

Master Gu just said: "You don't understand..."

Dachuan whispered: "Is that young Mr. Mo very distinguished?"

Master Gu thought for a moment, then shook his head and frowned, "I'm not sure either..."

 Okawa was startled.

Master Gu's eyes were full of thought, "I asked a cousin to ask around in the clan. Although this young Master Mo often comes in and out of the Gu family, he really doesn't seem to have any blood relationship with the Gu family..."

“Although he is valued by Mrs. Shangguan, it seems that he is not a relative of the Shangguan family or the Wenren family.”

“He entered the Taixu Sect and claimed to be a 'casual cultivator'…”

“Rogue cultivator?” Dachuan was stunned for a moment.

 Master Gu nodded slightly.

"But..." Dachuan hesitated, "If he is really a casual cultivator, wouldn't we be showing kindness in vain?"

"No..." Master Gu's eyes narrowed slightly, "How could an ordinary cultivator be treated so favorably by the Gu family and the Shangguan family, and how could he be allowed to worship at the Taixu Gate?"

"What if...he is really a casual cultivator?" Dachuan said weakly.

"What if he is really a casual cultivator..." Master Gu looked solemn, "This is actually a good thing..."

Dachuan was stunned and looked confused.

Master Gu took a long breath and sighed meaningfully:

"There is some suffering in this world that children from aristocratic families will never understand..."

“If you don't experience it personally, see it with your own eyes, or live down there, you will never understand...”

 Dachuan looked stunned and nodded half-understanding.

Master Gu's eyes narrowed slightly, and the clear and compassionate eyes of Mo Hua appeared in his mind again, and he murmured in a low voice:

 “This young master may really be our 'noble man'…”

 After Mo Hua returned to the sect, he was a little worried.

 He realized that he had overlooked a problem.

 I have always been thinking about the sect, the aristocratic family, the inheritance, the evil cultivators, the evil cultivators, the evil cultivators, the human traffickers and the evil gods.

However, he did not realize how the monks in some small states and small fairy cities around the Qianxue state border lived.

The words his mother once told him came to his ears again.

“Not only formation masters, but all monks are the same. When people walk to higher places, they will not look down..."

 When monks seek Taoism, they seek the truth in the world. How can we seek the true way of heaven if we cannot see the reality of this world and the various behaviors of sentient beings?

How do you know if you keep looking up at the sky that you are stepping on the real earth?

Mo Hua walked in Taixu Gate, looked up at the vast sky, then looked down at the earth under his feet, stepped on it a few times, and nodded slightly.

 Seven days later, less than ten days.

Mo Hua, who was practicing in the sect, unexpectedly received a storage bag.

The storage bag contained three types of formation media, the formation plate, the formation flag, and the formation base. There were twenty pieces of each. They were refined by Master Gu and specially sent to the Gu family. Wen Renwan specially sent someone to Taixu Gate. .

The ink painting has some surprises.

He didn't expect that Master Gu would refine the matchmaking so quickly and send it over specially. He was obviously very concerned about this matter.

Mo Hua was grateful and thought that if there was an opportunity in the future, he would definitely help Master Gu and the others.

 After that, while practicing, Mo Hua began to study these formation media.

These formation media look exquisite, but their structure is also very simple.

Mo Hua is a formation master, and he copied and "borrowed" these formation media from the weapon refining manual, so he can understand them at a glance.

 It is not difficult to draw formations on it.

After all, it is just a basic formation medium. I tried to draw a few things with ink painting and tried to use it, and I became generally familiar with it.

 Shenshi controls ink and paints the ground into a formation. Although it looks very cool and is not limited by the formation medium, it is too arrogant. Once it is used too much, many people will be wary of it and will fall into passivity.

 Therefore, Mo Hua plans to use normal "formation media" to perform formations in the future, and also uses this to cover up his "talent" in formations.

 Try to integrate into the identity of an ordinary formation master and get along with fellow sect members.

So that everyone will not make a fuss from time to time and it will be troublesome to explain it yourself.

 The formation medium has been refined and the formation has been drawn. It's time to give it a preliminary try.

Mo Hua secretly contacted Gu Changhuai:

"Uncle Gu, I found clues to a hateful criminal who has killed people and is on the run. Can you post a reward for me?"

Gu Changhuai was silent for a long time before replying:

 “Where did you get the clue?”

Mo Hua: "I heard from a Taoist friend that by chance, he happened to get clues about sin cultivators..."

Gu Changhuai: "The 'fellow Taoist' you are talking about, isn't it you?"

Mo Hua denied: "How is it possible?"

Gu Changhuai knew that Mo Hua was really going to be perfunctory and there was absolutely no truth in his mouth. He didn't bother to ask, but said directly:

 “What state, what name, what crime?”

Mo Hua said: "In the middle stage of foundation building, he was nicknamed 'Dragon Crossing the River'. I only know that he must have killed people, but I don't know anything else..."

“If you want to ignore your uncle, you can go to Daotingsi to investigate and see if he has done any other bad things?”

Gu Changhuai fell silent.

At this moment, he felt that Mo Hua was the "executive secretary" and he was the "executive secretary" who worked for Mo Hua...

 But Gu Changhuai had no choice but to look through the files himself.

Mo Hua waited patiently.

 After a while, Gu Changhuai replied:

“I have done a lot of bad things. I have killed people on the mountain, robbed at the ferry, and sold illegal pills...”

“Have you ever sold monks?” Mo Hua asked.

Gu Changhuai said: "I have never found any evidence of this kind of crime..."

Mo Hua was filled with indignation: "This person is so bad!"

  He then added: “I think it's worth at least a thousand meritorious deeds!”

When Gu Changhuai heard this, he became very angry.

Mo Hua, a little bastard, made his abacus so that even the Daotingsi at the border of Qianxue Prefecture heard it.

 “You still want to set the price yourself?” Gu Changhuai said displeased.

Mo Hua's righteous words: “It's not called pricing, it's called punishing evil and promoting good!”

"I accepted the reward and worked together with my colleagues to punish the evildoers. Wouldn't Dao Tingsi give me a little more merit and praise my 'good deeds'?"

 “Punish the evil and promote the good!”

 Gu Changhuai was speechless.

 Did you call it a little bit?

 The lion opens its mouth wide, and its mouth is open to a thousand points.

 Gu Changhuai said: "Five hundred."

Mo Hua was shocked: "Uncle Gu, how can you 'haggle' like this? Just cut it in half with one knife?"

 Although he himself cut it in this way...

 “Nine hundred!”

Mo Hua took a step back.

 “Five hundred!”

Gu Changhuai didn't play his cards according to Mo Huaxiang's rules and chewed up the price to the death without giving in at all.

 “Eight hundred!”

 “Five hundred and ten.”

Mo Hua had no choice but to say, "Uncle Gu, you are too stingy..."

Dangdang Dao Ting Division, merit at 10 o'clock, did not feel lost.

Gu Changhuai was indifferent, "This is to let you understand that merit is hard-won and every bit is precious."

Mo Hua snorted: "It's not like I haven't done any bounty before. How can I not know the price of sin repair in the middle stage of foundation building?"

 “At least seven hundred and fifty!”

 “Five hundred and twenty…”

After some "bargaining," Mo Hua finally set the reward for his merits at "six hundred points."

At the same time, if there are other criminal cultivators in the same group, or there are important clues related to it, the price will be increased.

Mo Hua nodded and then reluctantly agreed.

 Six hundred points, five people offered a reward, and each person was divided into 120 points.

 Just so-so.

 More than a hundred points is not much, but I have done my best.

After that, Mo Hua and Gu Changhuai began to "conspire" on how to distribute the reward and how to distribute it to Mo Hua.

“Tomorrow evening at midnight, on time, the Daoting Secretary will offer a reward, and the conditions are: early stage of foundation building, second-level formation master, water prison technique, and concealment technique.”

 “You move quickly, don't blame me if someone else picks you up.”

Gu Changhuai sent a message to Mo Hua.

 Then he added:

“Also, if you remember it, erase this news and don't leave any clues.”

Mo Hua nodded repeatedly and replied to Gu Changhuai:

“Don't worry, Uncle Gu, I know this person well and I won't leave any 'criminal evidence' for you!”

 Gu Changhuai: “…”

This guy, he's talking as if I'm covering up his crime...

Gu Changhuai sighed and then ignored the ink painting.

Mo Hua wrote down Gu Changhuai's message and then erased it as expected.

Not only the magnetic ink and random magnetic patterns are eliminated, but also the secondary thunder patterns are erased.

 This kind of thing, ink painting is very "professional" when done.

 The next day, when midnight arrived, Mo Hua didn't even practice the formation. Instead, he held the Taixu Ling early and concentrated on the tasks in the "Reward Bin".

 In the reward basket, there are countless reward entries with pictures and texts of Yuanci.

As soon as the midnight hour came, a light suddenly flashed, and there was an additional task.

Mo Hua's spiritual sense is extremely sharp. In just a moment, he discovered the words "Water Prison Technique", "Concealment Technique", "Array Master"... etc. in the entry.

His consciousness swept through it like a dragonfly, and found the three words "龙 crossing the river" in it.

 That's right!

After Mo Hua confirmed the application, he had "quick eyes and quick hands" and clicked the application instantly. Gu Changhuai on the other side also agreed instantly when he saw the name "Mo Hua".

This bounty entry disappeared as soon as it appeared.

At this time, there were still many disciples in the middle and late stages of Taixu Sect's foundation building, staring at the bounties in the Taixu Order like hungry wolves. They accidentally came across this bounty, but before they had time to look at it, it was gone again in a flash, and they all said: Face blank.

 “What's going on? Isn't it a new reward?”

 “I haven't watched it yet, why is it gone?”

“Damn it, who is it? Your hands are so fast... No, your consciousness is so fast... I just blinked and was snatched away..."

 (End of this chapter)

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