Chapter 88 The war begins
With the introduction of alchemist Zhu Youlong, Xiao Changqing quickly understood the situation.
Taohuafang is the Xiuxianfang market 'next door' to Nanshanfang, and the distance is not particularly far.
With the speed of a cultivator in the late Qi Refining stage steering a flying boat, if they hurry, they may arrive in five or six days.
The round trip will take just over ten days.
Compared to Luoxia Sect, or even some sects and immortal cities in the heart of Dayu Immortal Realm that are farther away, which can take months to travel, it is much closer.
As for the fact that the Sun family in Taohuafang is the strongest family, it is actually better to say that Taohuafang is the Sun family’s territory!
Because the Sun family is the only foundation-building family in Taohuafang.
It is rumored that the Sun family once came from a prosperous place in the heart of the Dayu immortal cultivation world, but later fell apart for unknown reasons. Now the Taohuafang Sun family is just a branch of the original powerful family, the Sun family, which migrated here.
Taohuafang was very small in the beginning, but it has gradually grown bigger through the management of the Sun family over the years.
The main method used by the Sun family to run Taohuafang is to occasionally auction Foundation Establishment Pills, which are precious pills that are hard to come by for low-level Qi-refining cultivators and cannot be bought even with money!
It is also because of the Foundation Establishment Pill that the Sun family has a very stable position in Taohuawu. Not only do they have two Foundation Establishment Pills in the family, they also have a guest official at the Foundation Establishment stage!
Therefore, the Sun family has three genuine Foundation Establishment Realm fighters!
As for why the Sun family has connections in Liyang Fairy City and knows a second-rank top-grade alchemist, it is naturally because of the glory of the Sun family's ancestors.
The alchemist of Liyang Fairy City owed a great favor to the ancestors of the Sun family, and promised to give the Sun family some elixirs, including foundation-building pills, every few years.
According to Zhu Youlong, the Sun family may not necessarily hold an auction for Foundation Establishment Pills now, but they must still have Foundation Establishment Pills in stock.
As long as Xiao Changqing can come up with bargaining chips to impress the Sun family, I believe it will not be difficult to exchange them for a Foundation Establishment Pill.
As for the bargaining chips, for Xiao Changqing, a second-level talisman master, it is naturally the second-level talisman.
If there are enough second-level talismans, I believe the Sun family would be willing to exchange them for Foundation Establishment Pills.
When they said this, Zhu Youlong and Ruan Qingzhu looked at Xiao Changqing with eyes full of envy.
This is the benefit of mastering the second-level skills!
Even if it is the Foundation Establishment Pill, there are many ways to obtain it.
If Zhu Youlong's alchemy skills could be advanced to the second level back then, it would not be difficult for him to build a foundation, and he could have easily accumulated the knowledge.
Of course, he is now over 60 years old and has no hope of building a foundation.
However, Ruan Qingzhu is only in his early fifties now, and has already achieved great perfection in Qi training, and there is still hope for him to build a foundation.
However, although she was born in Baihua Valley, she was not valued because of her mistakes in her early years, so it was impossible for Baihua Valley to give her the Foundation Establishment Pill.
Without the Foundation Establishment Pill, she wouldn't dare to take that step rashly.
but.
The current situation is turbulent. If there is still no hope of getting the Foundation Establishment Pill in the next two years, she will probably force herself to try even if the risk of failure is high.
"Thank you both for informing me."
After Xiao Changqing chatted about some details about Taohuafang and the Sun family, he turned around and said goodbye.
He decided to go to Taohuafang three months later.
In three months, his cultivation would basically reach the great perfection of Qi training, and it would be time for him to break through to the foundation-building stage. At the same time, during these three months, he also had to make preparations and prepare enough second-order talismans to impress the Sun family and trade for the foundation-building pill.
Without the support of Luoxia Sect, Nanshanfang is short of resources. He does not have many second-level talismans on him now, and he has to keep some for his own use.
just.
What Xiao Changqing never expected was that before he was ready, Taohuafang was invaded by the evil cultivators of the Demon Cult and fell into dire straits.
Although the Sun family had a strong foundation, with three cultivators in the early stages of foundation building and many treasures, Taohuafang was not as powerless as Yinye Peak was and was quickly breached.
But the current situation of Taohuafang is not optimistic.
The evil cultivator's attack is fierce. Taohuafang is in danger and may collapse at any time.
Fortunately, this time Luoxia Sect and Baihua Valley responded promptly and quickly arranged reinforcements for Taohuafang.
However, the war between the immortal cultivation world of Dayu and the evil cultivators of the Demon Sect has not officially started yet, and the major Jindan sects cannot easily intervene or forcibly.
So he asked Taohuafang to seek reinforcements from several nearby immortal cultivation markets.
Nanshanfang, as the nearest market town to Taohuafang, was naturally within the range of targets sought for assistance.
Moreover, Nanshanfang is guarded by Cao Hao and Xiao Changqing. There are a large number of cultivators in the market, and the safety factor is much higher than that of the other markets, so the number of soldiers to be recruited is the largest.
It is not forced conscription either.
When Taohuafang sought help to recruit monks, they were very generous and did not place any restrictions on the monks' cultivation level. As long as they signed up and dared to go, they would accept them all, even those in the early stages of Qi Refining!
And the most important thing is, even if a cultivator is in the early stage of Qi Refining, if he dares to go into battle and kill the enemy after arriving at the battlefield, he will be directly rewarded with five low-grade spirit stones!
If you can kill the evil cultivator, you will receive extra rewards!
Five low-grade spirit stones are not a small number for most cultivators in the early stages of Qi Refining.
Just like Xiao Changqing at the beginning, he only had two low-grade spirit stones a month!
As for cultivators in the middle and late stages of Qi training, if they go to Taohuafang to participate in the battle, they will receive even greater rewards.
The Sun family gave a list of rewards, in addition to spirit stones, there were also various magic weapons and elixirs.
If the military achievements are great enough, the Foundation Establishment Pill will also be on the reward list!
Number one!
In this way, although the monks are afraid of death and value their lives very much, facing the Sun family's generous spending of money, few monks can resist!
In the world of immortal cultivation, spirit stones are much more important than ordinary money.
There are so many cultivators who have taken risks and disregarded their lives for the sake of spiritual stones! Not to mention the foundation-building pills that all Qi-refining cultivators dream of the most!
You must know that under normal circumstances, a casual cultivator in the Qi Refining Realm with no background would have no chance of obtaining the Foundation Establishment Pill. This war, on the contrary, has become a great opportunity in the eyes of many cultivators!
If they seize the opportunity, it might be their chance to advance to the foundation-building stage!
When the three large flying boats used by Taohuafang to recruit monks arrived at Nanshanfang and the recruitment rewards and exchange reward lists were announced, the number of people recruited was sufficient in just one day!
Moreover, in the end, the low-level independent cultivators in the early stage of Qi Refining in the shantytowns were thrown away because they could not fit in the space, and only the cultivators in the middle and late stages of Qi Refining were accepted.
The number exceeds nine hundred!
Even more than a dozen high-level monks living in the Yi-shaped Cave responded to the call and went there!
……
A cave.
When Taohuafang was recruiting monks, Cao Hao, the head of the Cao family, came to visit Xiao Changqing.
The two exchanged ideas on the matter and saw how to deal with it.
"The Sun family's move is really cruel. They only thought about strengthening the defense of Taohuafang, but did not consider that our Nanshanfang would be in danger after being weakened." Cao Hao said angrily.
As he spoke, he observed Xiao Changqing's expression.
"Yes. Who said it wasn't?" Xiao Changqing was also a little worried.
He had originally planned to go to Taohuafang after some time to see if he could buy the Foundation Establishment Pill.
Now, the Sun family directly announced to the public that they did have the Foundation Establishment Pill, and it seemed that there were more than one.
But if you want to get the Foundation Establishment Pill from them, then go to Taohuafang to help resist the invasion of the Demon Cult and kill the evil cultivators!
The more you kill, the higher the reward.
As long as you can kill twenty evil cultivators in the late Qi Refining stage, or five or more evil cultivators in the ninth level of Qi Refining, you can get a Foundation Establishment Pill!
This condition immediately persuaded Xiao Changqing to withdraw.
It’s not that he thinks he’s not strong enough, but he doesn’t want to take risks.
Especially since his identity is so special and his reputation is well-known, he might have already been on the red list of evil practitioners, and he would be besieged if he went there.
Even if his strength was truly extraordinary, he could not withstand the siege and targeting of the evil cultivators.
The reason why he asked for the Foundation Building Pill was to prepare for any life-threatening situation during the foundation building process. If he took risks and struggled for the sake of building the foundation, wouldn't that be putting the cart before the horse?
"If it doesn't work, then I will have to build my foundation by force myself."
Xiao Changqing thought to himself.
"Master Xiao Fu, why don't you give some feedback to Luoxia Sect and ask them not to let Taohuafang come to our Nanshanfang to recruit cultivators. Nanshanfang is so close to Taohuafang. If the evil cultivators of the Demon Cult find that Taohuafang is not easy to attack, and that our Nanshanfang has been weakened, and turn around to besiege Nanshanfang, won't we be in trouble?" Cao Hao asked tentatively.
Xiao Changqing glanced at it and spread his hands, saying, "To be honest with you, Master Cao, I have already mentioned this to our Ling Fu Pavilion's Shopkeeper Wu. But Shopkeeper Wu said that this was an order directly issued by the sect, and no one could stop it..."
Cao Hao sighed when he heard this.
This matter is indeed difficult to handle.
Luoxia Sect and Baihua Valley definitely don't want Taohuafang to fall.
Even if we have to take measures like robbing Peter to pay Paul, we have to do it as a last resort. We can't just watch Taohuafang fall.
As for persuading the monks of Nanshanfang to stay and not go to Taohuafang to fight, no matter whether it is the Cao family or Xiao Changqing, what capital can they use to persuade them?
Where could they get so many spirit stones for reward?
Where can I get the Foundation Establishment Pill?
The monks in Nanshanfang are free to come and go, and are not under anyone's control.
After waiting for a while, Cao Hao began to discuss serious matters: "Taohuafang is a lesson for us. Although Nanshanfang has not been invaded yet, once the evil cultivators of the Demon Cult take action, there will be no signs. We should also be prepared early. I wonder how many second-level talismans Master Xiao Fu has now? Can you sell some? Most of the cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining in my Nanshanfang have second-level talismans as trump cards. Although they cannot compare with the cultivators of Foundation Establishment, they can threaten the cultivators of the early stage of Foundation Establishment if used properly and by sneak attack."
Xiao Changqing thought for a while before speaking: "Luoxia Sect has not delivered second-level talisman materials to Nanshanfang during this period. You should also know this, Master Cao. So I don't have many second-level talismans in my hand, but in order to support the defense of Nanshanfang, I am willing to give some..."
Since his plan to buy foundation-building pills from the Sun family of Taohuafang has failed, he can indeed sell some of them in addition to the talismans he needs.
Anyway, just consider it as supporting the defense of Nanshanfang, which will also increase his own safety.
"That's great!" Cao Hao was very surprised.
Although the second-stage initial stage talisman is not a strategic item like the Foundation Establishment Pill, its role in wartime is no less than that of the Foundation Establishment Pill!
Although he advised the Cao family's supreme elder not to underestimate Xiao Changqing, he should learn from the lesson of underestimating Mu Renjie.
But in fact, in his heart, his view is similar to that of the Cao family's supreme elder.
He didn't think that his own strength was strong enough to really threaten the late stage of foundation building.
But his identity as a second-level talisman master can indeed come in handy!
Based on this point alone, Xiao Changqing's role would not be much worse than his in the middle stage of foundation building!
Therefore, Cao Hao was willing to give up the Jiayi Cave and cooperate with the Luoxia Sect's plan to promote Xiao Changqing as the number one person in Nanshanfang, but he had no dissatisfaction or resentment in his heart.
in contrast.
If the evil cultivator really attacks Nanshanfang, he will not let Xiao Changqing rush to the front line on the battlefield. He will also focus on protecting Xiao Changqing and not let Xiao Changqing be in danger.
He needed Xiao Changqing to be alive so that he could provide Nanshanfang with a steady supply of second-level talismans.
He himself cannot use it, but many members of the Cao family who are in the late stage of Qi training can use it, and so can a large number of cultivators in the Yi Cave!
(End of this chapter)
