Asking about longevity

On the border of Qianxue Prefecture, aristocratic families are prosperous, but the small fairy city on the edge is still living a precarious and difficult life.

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

Mo Hua suddenly remembered what he overheard while hiding in the cave where the Qian family ancestor 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 cultivators 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..."

"The bottom line is that they are all sucking the blood of low-level casual cultivators..."

…

The ancestor of the Qian family was an evil 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...

Mo Hua's mood was complicated, and he looked a little disappointed.

Master Gu was watching from the side and saw that Mo Hua was young and had compassion in his eyes. He couldn't help but shrink his pupils and poured a glass of fruit wine for Mo Hua himself.

Mo Hua thought of another question:

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 It stands to reason that the casual cultivators in Gushan City originally made a living by refining the 'array matchmaker' and could live a prosperous life."

"This shows that refining the formation media is also profitable."

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

"Practice more formation media, and by extension, you can earn spiritual stones and popularize formation techniques. Isn't it a good thing?"

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

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

"Ordinary formation matchmakers are used by poor lower-class monks, while luxurious spiritual weapons are used by luxurious and luxurious upper-class monks."

"Even if they are all in the Qi Refining Realm, a thousand low-level monks will not cost as much as a child from a noble family."

"Although our Gu family has property, it is not very profitable. Our property is relatively small among aristocratic families. Our ancestors have always had a lot of restrictions on the children of the family and do not allow extravagance and waste."

"But other families, especially the big families who own the 'Spiritual Mine', have countless properties, and have extremely deep family fortunes, are different..."

"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..."

Master Gu looked a little sad when he said this.

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

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."

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

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

"identity?"

Master Gu said: "For a spiritual weapon, whether the material is expensive or not, whether it is rare or not, what kind of weapon refiner it is from, how many years of skill has been passed down, whether it is limited... these are all important things."

"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 low-grade fake."

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

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

Mo Hua was startled, a little surprised.

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

"If the formation is popularized, a formation flag painted with sixteen lines of formation can only be sold for three hundred spirit stones;"

"But as long as you monopolize the formation, a formation flag can be sold for three hundred just by painting it with eleven lines of formation."

"The cost of refining weapons is lower, and the profits of spiritual stones are higher."

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

"If you can earn spiritual stones lying down, 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..."

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

"The formations are treasured by aristocratic families, and they either cherish them as unique skills, or shelv them in a high cabinet, or they would rather put them in a corner to gather dust."

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

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

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

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

"I won't talk about this anymore. My original intention was to entertain the young master. I didn't want to mention these disappointing things. Please forgive me, young master."

Master Gu poured wine for Mo Hua again.

Mo Hua drank silently and didn't say anything else until the banquet was over.

When parting, 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. The young master can pick it up when he has time."

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

"You're welcome, young master."

Master Gu waved his hand and watched Mo Hua go away at the entrance of Xianhe Tower. He sighed slightly before turning around and leaving.

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 enviously:

"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 prosperous as Qingzhou City, it was quite lively with people coming and going, laughing and talking.

Today, 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 City.

Dachuan was not very experienced in the world and 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 Master Mo?"

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

As for that young Master Mo, he was only at the initial stage of foundation building, so he looked so small and 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 Gu's house, just for the flower spirit stone. , invite that little Mr. Mo to eat fish.

Okawa was puzzled.

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

Dachuan whispered: "Is that young Master Mo very distinguished?"

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

Okawa was startled.

Master Gu looked thoughtful, "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 seems to have no 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 our show of kindness be 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 admitted to 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 Mo Hua's clear and compassionate eyes 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 sects, aristocratic families, inheritances, evil cultivators, evil cultivators, demon cultivators, human traffickers and evil gods.

But he didn't realize how the monks in some small states and small fairy cities around the Qianxue state border lived.

What his mother once said to him came to mind again.

"Not only formation masters, but all monks are the same. When people walk to higher places, they won't look down..."

When monks seek Taoism, they seek the truth in the world.

If you can't even see the reality of this world and the various states of sentient beings, how can you seek the true way of heaven?

If you keep looking up at the sky, how do you know that what you are stepping on is 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. .

There are some surprises in the ink paintings.

He didn't expect that Master Gu would make the matchmaker 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 a chance in the future, he would definitely help Master Gu and the others.

Later, 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 the formation master, and he copied these formation media from the weapon refining manual... "borrowed" them, 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 roughly familiar with it.

The divine sense controls the ink and draws the ground into a formation. Although it looks very cool and is not restricted 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 use this to cover up his "talent" in formations.

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

This will prevent everyone from making 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 is time to try to use it initially.

Mo Hua secretly contacted Gu Changhuai:

"Uncle Gu, I found clues about a hateful criminal cultivator 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 realm, what name, what crime did you commit?"

Mo Hua said: "In the middle stage of foundation building, he is nicknamed 'The 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" and he was the "executive" working 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 people 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..."

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

Then he added: "I think it's worth at least a thousand meritorious deeds!"

When Gu Changhuai heard this, he became very angry.

Mo Hua, this little bastard, made his abacus even to the ears of the Dao Tingsi in Qianxue Prefecture.

"You still want to set your own price?" Gu Changhuai said displeased.

The ink painting speaks righteously: "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 evil and promote good!"

Gu Changhuai was speechless.

Did you call it a little bit?

The lion opens its mouth wide and has 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 also cut it like this...

"Nine hundred!"

Mo Hua took a step back.

"five hundred!"

Gu Changhuai didn't play according to Mo Hua's idea, and he kept the price very tight without giving in at all.

"Eight hundred!"

"Five hundred and ten."

Mo Hua was helpless, "Uncle Gu, you are too stingy..."

The dignified Dao Ting Si Dian Si doesn't feel embarrassed even if the price is increased at ten o'clock for meritorious service.

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 sin cultivators in the same group, or relevant important clues, the price will be increased.

Mo Hua nodded and then reluctantly agreed.

Six hundred points, five people offered a bounty, and each person got one hundred and twenty points divided equally.

So-so.

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

After that, Mo Hua and Gu Changhuai began to "plot" on how to distribute the reward and how to deliver 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. If someone else picks you up, don't blame me."

Gu Changhuai sent a message to Mo Hua.

Then he added:

"Also, if you remember it, erase this message and don't leave any clues."

Mo Hua nodded repeatedly and replied to Gu Changhuai:

"Don't worry, Uncle Gu, I know this well and I won't leave any 'evidence' for you!"

Gu Changhuai: "..."

This kid made it sound like I was covering up his crime...

Gu Changhuai sighed and then ignored Mo Hua.

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

Not only were the magnetic ink and random magnetic patterns eliminated, but even the secondary thunder patterns were erased.

Ink painting is very "professional" when doing this kind of thing.

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 Urn".

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 he found the words "Dragon Crossing the River" inside.

That’s right!

After Mo Hua confirmed it, he clicked the application button instantly with his "quick eyes and quick hands". On the other hand, Gu Changhuai, who saw the name "Mo Hua", also agreed instantly.

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..."