Asking about longevity

Chapter 719 Xie Ling

“Senior brother, Brother Cheng said you could help me, so I asked you to help me.”

The disciple said very politely.

Cheng Mo on the side raised his head and nodded:

“This guy’s name is Xie Ling. Like me, he was born in Genzhou.”

“Although Genzhou is a big place, my Cheng family and his Xie family have little contact, but since we came from the same state and both studied in Qianzhou, we can be considered fellow villagers. I will naturally help him if he has something to do..."

 Cheng Mo patted Xie Ling's shoulder.

Xie Ling smiled gratefully.

 He is much shorter than Cheng Mo. Standing next to Cheng Mo, he looks like Cheng Mo's younger brother.

Mo Hua asked curiously:

"What's up?"

Xie Ling then said: "I accepted several rewards to arrest a sin cultivator, but that sin cultivator practiced excellent fire spells and was extremely powerful. No one else was a match for him."

“There are also some other accessories that are lighter, more beautiful, and easier to carry, but this kind of spiritual weapon is fine for daily use, but in actual combat, it is far less effective than the self-defense effect of armor.”

 “Young Master?”

“Have you practiced well, have you built a foundation...”

“This is the basic idea of ​​refining standard spiritual weapons.”

There is no money sender in the entire Taixu Gate.

 Master Gu nodded and continued:

“This kind of spiritual weapon is more troublesome to refine. If it is customized, the process will be more complicated and the cost will be higher. The price is estimated to be..."

 After Xie Ling left, Mo Hua thought about it again.

Of course, except for ink paintings...

“Otherwise, if you buy a ‘Blue Water Armor’, it can only protect against fire but not anything else. It would be too useless.”

Mo Hua sighed in his heart, then thought again:

"I don't know how my mother is doing in Tongxian City. She works hard at the dining room on weekdays..."

 Ink painting was a little distracted for a while.

Xie Ling looked happy and nodded hastily, "Thank you, little senior brother!"

 “Senior Brother, you...”

“Even if you learn it, you may not be able to prevent it even if you just improvise for a short period of time and don’t practice the magic deeply.”

“For defense against fire spells, the ‘water armor spell’ is naturally better, but none of us have water spiritual roots, so there is no way to learn it.”

“These two are the most commonly used, and they are also the two types of spiritual weapon armor that our Gushan Weapon Refining Shop has ever refined.”

 Cheng Mo patted Xie Ling's shoulder again, "Thank you quickly, little senior brother."

“Go and buy some fire-proof spiritual weapons. They are either not of good quality, not of high quality, or not fire-resistant. Some of them are just too expensive and not worth it…”

Dan Xie Ling and the others were mainly afraid of being killed by fire spells, so naturally it was best to use spiritual weapons for self-defense and avoidance of fire.

If it is a positional attack, you can also rely on the formation of formations to drive water to extinguish fire, or use soil to prevent fire.

 Defense against fire spells…

Xie Ling felt a little worried. He looked at the ink painting and asked in a low voice:

“The water armor robe is slightly lower in cost and lighter. It mainly uses fire protection spells, but other defensive effects are much worse than the blue water armor.”

 This type of spiritual weapon cannot be used by ordinary casual cultivators.

However, Mo Hua has a doubt, "The blue water armor can protect against everything, and on top of that, does it have extremely high fire resistance?"

“Blue Water Armor, the cost is a bit higher. It can protect against both powerful attacks and spells. It mainly resists burns from fire spells.”

Master Gu was relieved now.

He couldn't help but remember that when he was at Tongxian Sect, he was drawing formations and collecting spiritual stones for his fellow sect members. The first gift he bought for his mother was a less than first-grade fire-preventing hairpin.

Mo Hua was startled, then came to his senses and said with a smile: "Suddenly I remembered something. Master Gu, please continue..."

“After all, one is armor and the other is cloth.”

Mo Hua understood, took a sip of the sweet plum juice, nodded slowly and said:

 “I understand, come back in three days.”

When Master Gu saw this, he shouted softly.

"It's okay," Mo Hua said, "They have many spiritual stones."

 “Perform general functions first, and then consider specific effects.”

 Master Gu gave Mo Hua several choices:

Mo Hua was startled when he heard this.

Although Xie Ling looks like a little follower, he comes from a noble family and is definitely not short of money.

“And this kind of jewelry is not cheap, such as cold water jade, fire-proof pendant, fire-preventing hairpin..."

　　fire hairpin.

Mo Hua had an idea in his mind and discussed it with Master Gu.

Master Gu nodded, "The armor weapon must first be 'armor', and then consider other functions."

"Spiritual weapons with such extreme effects have been refined by weapon refiners in the past, but this kind of spiritual weapon is destined to be unsuitable for the masses of monks. Very few people bought it, and the sales volume could not increase. The weapon refiner's losses were extremely serious. Gradually, There will be no more refining shops for refining weapons..."

 Master Gu glanced at the ink painting and said, "Young Master, what are your plans..."

“Well,” Mo Hua nodded, “We will make this kind of extreme spiritual weapon.”

“This process will definitely be simpler, the cost will be lower, and the refining time will be shorter.”

“And this is a custom-made spiritual weapon. We don’t need everything to be good, we just need to make one thing perfect.”

Master Gu thought about it for a while, then he came up with an idea, nodded and said:

 “This is best, just follow the young master.”

 After that, Mo Hua spent some time and designed the weapon refining array according to the formation method and some old weapon refining diagrams given by Master Gu.

 The two discussed for another half day to perfect the details.

Master Gu went back to work.

 Three days later, Xie Ling came to see Mo Hua again.

Mo Hua told him that everything was arranged, but the spiritual weapon would take some time to refine.

Xie Ling felt relieved after receiving the approval of Mo Hua.

About eight days later, Master Gu refined five fire-preventing Taoist robes according to the meaning of the ink drawings, and drew the formations through the ink drawings.

These Taoist robes have no other use except to ward off fire.

 But the effect of warding off fire is almost to the extreme.

Mo Hua handed these five fire-preventing Taoist robes to Xie Ling.

Xie Ling took it solemnly, and during his break, he went to arrest the sin cultivator who was good at fire magic.

 Two days later, the ten-day holiday ends.

Xie Ling came to see Mo Hua and brought four other people with him.

Several people came to the ink painting, saluted one after another, and said in unison:

 “Thank you, little senior brother!”

Xie Ling was very excited, "We wore the fire-preventing Taoist robes you gave us, little senior brother, and fought against the evil cultivator. We let his fire spells burn our bodies, but we were not afraid at all. There was only a slight burning pain. Compared with before, we were like gods." One place…”

“After the final battle, the evil man was finally captured.”

Several other people also looked excited.

Although they are in the same class as Mo Hua, their talents and abilities are actually not too outstanding—at least in the Taixu Sect, compared with a group of geniuses, they are not too outstanding.

 In fact, they are all talented children from the major clans in Jiuzhou.

 But when they gather in Qianzhou, where geniuses gather, these geniuses are no longer so “genius”.

Although he is not out of the ordinary, he is still relatively "mediocre".

 They are under great pressure.

Unlike ink painting, one can still feel as calm as water, and it doesn't matter.

 These talented disciples must make progress.

They are burdened with the expectations of their parents and family. They must learn everything, and they must learn everything well, and nothing can be too bad.

Taixu Sect has a lot of Taoist training and it takes a lot of time.

 In addition to the heavy schoolwork, their progress in completing bounties will be very slow.

Especially for some talented disciples who were raised in the clan before and although they have good talents, they don't like fighting and are not used to fighting. They don't go out to do this kind of arrests and bounties very often.

For example, people like Xie Ling, although they are now in their third year of entry, they still have very little experience in arresting criminal cultivators, and their methods are also very unfamiliar.

What's more, they are facing sin cultivators who have experienced hundreds of battles and have cunning personalities.

 It is inevitable to stumble at the beginning.

 Now, with the help of the Pihuo Taoist robe, he has successfully defeated the "strong enemy", arrested the guilty cultivator, completed the task, accumulated experience, and earned meritorious deeds.

Several people couldn't help but feel a little excited.

Xie Ling and others specially invited Mo Hua to eat chicken legs.

According to brother Cheng Mo, one of the favorite foods of the younger brother is chicken legs. If you ask the younger brother to do something, you must "offer" chicken legs. Mo Hua ate chicken legs and chatted with Xie Ling and others.

While chatting, Mo Hua suddenly asked out of curiosity:

“Do you, the Xie family in Genzhou, also have inheritance?”

Situ Jian inherited the Lihuo sword technique, Yang Qianjun inherited the Yang family's spear technique, and Cheng Mo, who was born in Genzhou like Xie Ling, inherited the mountain ax technique.

 But Xie Ling…

Mo Hua really didn’t see anything special about him...

Xie Ling then nodded and said: "Genzhou is very mountainous. Our Xie family in Genzhou has passed down the art of Kanyu, which can identify the energy of mountains and rivers, determine the tombs of life and death, and teach the secret array of Yin and Yang Feng Shui..."

 “Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Formation?!”

Mo Hua was startled, "Do you know this kind of formation?"

Xie Ling felt ashamed and said, "I don't have the talent for formations. I haven't learned them yet. I've only learned some methods of identifying qi, escaping from mountains, fixing tombs, and suppressing evil spirits."

The ink painting puzzles me: "Distinguish the qi, escape from the mountain, locate the tomb, and suppress evil spirits?"

Xie Ling said: "Distinguish the qi of heaven and earth, use mountains and rivers to escape, read Feng Shui, determine tombs, prevent corpses from transforming, drive away ghosts, and even more advanced, use death to end life, reverse the destiny of heaven..."

Mo Hua’s pupils trembled, and his heart was horrified.

 Use death to end life, reverse the destiny of heaven...

Xie Ling scratched his head and said slightly apologetically: "However, I am not good at academics, I only have some superficial knowledge, and this is all secret knowledge passed down from my family. My grandfather told me not to talk about it..."

 The ink painting shows thoughtful eyes and ups and downs of mind.

When Xie Ling saw this, he thought Mo Hua was unhappy and quickly said:

"But little brother, if you are free, go to the border of Qiongyin Mountain in Genzhou and come to my Xie family as a guest. I can't be the master of some secret techniques, but if my grandfather agrees, maybe I can pass them on..."

Mo Hua looked solemnly, nodded deeply and said:

"good!"

Genzhou, the state boundary of Qiongyin Mountain…

 The ink painting firmly remembers this place.

 …

Henceforth, Xie Ling offered rewards. If anyone did not understand or was unsure, he would go to the dining hall where his disciples lived during the meal, offer a chicken drumstick, and then ask for advice on ink painting.

　　I have a lot of experience in ink painting when it comes to offering rewards.

The Fire Buddha fell into his hands, not to mention the sinful cultivators of these "little shrimps".

 Hence Xie Ling’s answer was accurate.

 But if you ask something, ink painting will definitely answer it.

 With Mo Hua's guidance, and the supporting formations and spiritual weapons, Xie Ling's subsequent bounties were very smooth and efficient.

Therefore, Xie Ling admired ink painting very much.

Although he is not very old, he knows a lot, has good formation skills, is prepared for rainy days, has no plans left, and is sincere and amiable towards others.

 No wonder Mr. Xun chose him as his "little senior brother".

No matter how difficult the reward is, as long as you follow the instructions of your junior brother honestly and meticulously, you will basically not miss it and the risk will be much smaller.

This is not a "little senior brother", he is simply the "grandpa" who gives guidance in the sect.

Since then, Xie Ling has been bragging about Mo Hua to everyone he meets.

Therefore, in the dining hall, not long after Mo Hua sat down, a disciple would often come over, bow respectfully, and politely call out, "Little senior brother!"

 “I have something to ask of you.”

 “I want to buy a spiritual weapon…”

"I want to catch a criminal cultivator, but I can't catch him..."

“Senior brother, please give me some advice...”

 Among these disciples, some are familiar and some are unfamiliar.

Hand ink paintings are all treated equally and we try our best to answer them.

 The spiritual weapons that are occasionally used are also diverse.

There are Sinan for investigation, spiritual mirrors for breaking concealment, armors for protecting against spells, swords, fists and feet, and some weapons that break armor, bleed, and carry five elements of magic damage.

With these needs, Mo Hua also designed the weapon refining array diagram one by one according to the formation method, and through Master Gu, the finished spiritual weapon was refined.

 But then, there is a problem.

Mo Hua is too busy.

 It’s okay to design the weapon refining formation diagram. After all, it is related to the formation, and you can learn something from the ink painting.

 But like other trivial matters, especially the buying and selling of spiritual weapons, you have to set prices, settle accounts, and deliver goods back and forth, which is really a waste of time.

 He thought about it and came up with a way.

During his ten-day break, Mo Hua found Master Gu and asked:

“Master Gu, the Gu family is in Taixu City. Does it have a merchant house, market or store?”

Master Gu was startled and said in surprise:

 “The young master means…”

Mo Hua said: "All the custom-made spiritual weapons will be sold in the store. You can decide how much you make."

 Although earning spiritual stones is a good thing, he has more important things to do now.

Moreover, he wanted to use these spiritual stones to subsidize Master Gu and the others.

Especially the poor weapon refiners in the Gushan Artillery Refining Shop.

 It is enough for Mo Hua to promote and apply the formations he has learned, integrate knowledge and practice, and deepen his understanding of the formations.

 He himself does not want to earn many spiritual stones in this aspect.

 The reason why he didn't go to Wenren Wan was because Mo Hua knew that Aunt Wan was also in trouble, so there was no need to bother her with such a small matter.

Master Gu was slightly shocked and immediately said:

 “I’ll go and ask.”

Although he is the golden elixir of the Gu family, he is in charge of the weapon refining shop and is not particularly familiar with the specific operations.

 But he also knew that this might really be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Master Gu used some connections to find out the specific situation, and then told Mo Hua:

“In Taixu City near Taixu Gate, the Gu family does not have many properties and only has one business pavilion.”

“This business pavilion is not very profitable, so we sell a little of everything, such as elixirs, spiritual weapons, formations, etc., and we can make a little profit.”

“I have some connections within the clan, so we discussed it and asked someone to put the custom-made spiritual weapons in the Merchant Pavilion for sale.”

 “The merchant pavilion will take 10% of the spiritual stones earned.”

Mo Hua nodded.

 But in fact, he doesn’t know much about these business matters.

  Anyway, just leave it to Master Gu to do it himself.

This matter is probably settled like this.

 But even though Mo Hua didn't say it, Wen Renwan still knew it.

 Near the border of Qianxue Prefecture, most of the monastic industries that the Gu family and the Wenren family cooperated with were taken care of by Wenrenwan.

 Before, there were some weapon refining shops and merchant houses of the Shangguan family.

 But these were all taken back by the Shangguan family and leased to the Shen family.

 This was Shangguan Ce's decision, and Wen Renwan had nothing to do.

 But other than that, some of the monastic properties of the Wenren family and the Gu family are still in the hands of Wenrenwan.

Master Gu was in the Gu family, inquiring about the Shangge. Naturally, she couldn't hide these troubles.

Even if Master Gu was able to use his connections and connections to sell custom-made spiritual weapons in the Merchant Pavilion, Wen Renwan nodded in agreement.

Wen Renwan only agreed because of the sake of the ink painting.

 Otherwise, in a fairy city like Taixu City, which is adjacent to a large sect, it would be very expensive to simply rent the spiritual stones needed for the business pavilion.

 This cost may not even be affordable by Master Gu.

 The commission is also determined by Wenren Wan.

 This commission was reserved for Mo Hua.

Wen Renwan was worried that Mo Hua was being tricked into doing business with Master Gu, so he took a 10% cut from Shangge. He thought that if the spiritual weapon could not be sold and the business went bad, he would at least retain some spiritual stones for Mo Hua, so that he would not let anyone lose. He suffered a loss.

The matter was settled like this, and all the custom-made spiritual weapons were sold in the Gu Family Merchant Pavilion.

Mo Hua became a hands-off shopkeeper and felt relaxed.

As more of his fellow disciples "gave guidance", more and more people bought spiritual weapons, and more and more Taixu disciples became friends with him.

Mo Hua’s connections in Taixu Sect are also getting wider and wider.

From the ancestors of the Taixu Sect, to the elders who teach, to the senior brothers and sisters, to the disciples of the same sect, there are all acquaintances in Mo Hua.

 Especially among the same sect, ink painting is quite prestigious.

 When you are unsure about something, ask your junior brother. It's almost become a routine.

 In the dining hall, more and more disciples worship at the "tangkou".

 The chicken legs in the dining hall are almost sold out...

 (End of this chapter)