Asking about longevity

Elder Yu took the spirit stones and put some of them for public use to build a weapon refinery. The rest bought a lot of wine and meat, and invited the craftsmen and monster hunters to have a feast.

Wine is good wine, but meat is not spiritual meat.

Elder Yu couldn't afford to invite so many monks to eat spiritual flesh. He found Mo Shan and spent spiritual stones to ask Liu Ruhua to help cook some monster meat.

There are beef, mutton and chicken, etc., stewed with spicy spices, and the various aromas are mixed together. It smells very attractive, and it has been cooked a lot, so it can be eaten open.

Everyone ate happily, and Mo Hua also had a great time eating. The weapon refining shop was filled with a lively and cheerful atmosphere.

Only the master of the class didn't know how to taste his food.

He was originally worried that Mo Hua would be the only one to draw the formations, and he would be short of manpower and not be able to keep up with the progress.

Now the Qian family has come to cause trouble many times, injuring craftsmen, destroying some buildings, and requiring some formations to be repainted, and it seems that the progress is even behind them.

Master Ban sighed. The wine was sour and bitter in his mouth. He didn't know what it felt like.

He was holding an ink painting of a big chicken drumstick and chewing it with both hands. When he saw Master Ban’s appearance, he asked:

"Master Ban, are you worried?"

Master Ban sighed again, full of things on his mind, but didn't know how to speak.

He can't rush Mo Hua, let Mo Hua hurry up and draw the formation.

And since he knew that Mo Hua was a formation master, and that he could draw a first-class formation, Master Ban felt a little in awe of Mo Hua, and spoke with more worries, not as relaxed as before.

Mo Hua saw that Master Ban was worried and said, "If you have anything to say, just say it."

When Mo Hua asked this, Master Ban could only bite the bullet and said: "Mo... Mo Hua, how long will it take to finish this formation..."

Mo Hua assessed it and said: "Let's see if the Qian family will come to cause trouble again. If they come again, it will probably take longer. If they are scared of being beaten and know it hurts, then it will be quick. But because of money The family is causing trouble, some formations need to be redrawn, and it will be later than expected."

Master Ban nodded, "Then thank you for the hard work."

Even so, he still felt a little uneasy.

Over the years he has been a craftsman, he has heard many promises and expectations, but there are very few promises that can actually be fulfilled, or expectations that can be met as scheduled.

Seeing that the master was still worried, Mo Hua asked, "If the construction period is delayed, will the consequences be serious?"

"It's not serious, it's just that the construction period is delayed, so we craftsmen can't settle the accounts, and the craftsmen under me can't get the spiritual stones."

Master Ban looked downcast: "The craftsmen all come from poor families. They have to earn spiritual stones to support their families and provide for their children to practice. They work day and night to earn some hard-earned money. If the construction period is delayed, the spiritual stones will be collected." If they don't get it, their family may not be able to make ends meet..."

Mo Hua nodded, feeling the same. Their family had lived in poverty before.

Most of the casual cultivators in Tongxian City are monster hunters, who make a living by hunting monsters. Not many are craftsmen, and even fewer can become master craftsmen.

Most of these craftsmen are monks from other places, and they often have to travel around. They will go wherever they need to build caves, build houses, build weapon refining shops, alchemy shops and other buildings.

From planning to completion, a monastic building may take at least a few months, and may take a year or two or even longer. During this period, they rarely go home, and spend less time with their relatives and more separation.

But even with such hard work, the spiritual stones they earned were barely enough to make ends meet.

Sure enough, it is not easy for casual cultivators in this world to make a living no matter what they do.

Mo Hua sighed and asked again: "Will there be people who default on spiritual stones?"

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Master Ban's expression became helpless, "This is common. After the cave is built, others don't want to give the spirit stones, or they make excuses, saying that the spiritual stones cannot be recycled, and they keep defaulting on the payment. There is nothing we can do."

"About eighty or ninety years ago, I was not a craftsman at that time, just an ordinary craftsman. I followed my master and helped a monk build a small cave. After the cave was built, the monk said that he had no spiritual stones in his hand. Let's wait..."

"We waited and waited. After waiting for three months, we still didn't receive a single spiritual stone. Our family was so poor that we couldn't open the pot, so we had no choice but to go to him again to ask for it. When we went there, we found that he was enjoying the spicy food in the dining room. , rewarded singing girls and spent a lot of spiritual stones. We asked him for spiritual stones, and he arrogantly said that he had plenty of spiritual stones, but he would not give them to us..."

Mo Hua sounded angry, "Didn't you beat him up?"

"Beat him!" Master Ban nodded, "We were angry, so we tied him up and beat him up, severely injuring him."

"Then what?"

"Then he found Dao Tingsi and asked Dao Tingsi to arrest us and imprison us for half a month. In the end, the master took the blame and was convicted by Dao Tingsi and sent to prison for ten years. We were beaten Dozens of sticks were released."

Thinking of his former master, Master Ban felt a little sad for a moment.

"Daotingsi is really nothing!" Mo Hua was a little angry.

Then he thought that Zhang Lan was also a monk from Daotingsi, and he was quite nice. It seemed that he had accidentally hurt him...

"You can't say that." Master Ban patiently advised Mo Hua.

"Are there any exceptions?"

Master Ban nodded, "The cultivation world is so big, there are Dao Tingsi everywhere. Some Dao Tingsi are loyal to their duties, while others are greedy and corrupt. We cannot generalize..."

"I have dealt with all the Dao Tingsi in several cities around here. The Dao Tingsi in Tongxian City is quite abiding by the rules. Even if they occasionally get some kickbacks, it is human nature. In other places, there are good and bad. The Tao Tingsi would even collude with local families, expropriate family property, plan to inherit the martial arts, and cause other people's families to be destroyed..."

Master Ban spoke with lingering fear.

Mo Hua was also surprised. The world of monasticism was indeed more complicated than he thought.

He kept all these things in mind so that if he encountered them in the future, he would be prepared.

"Master Ban, don't worry. Although Elder Yu is stingy, he will give the spiritual stones that are due and will not default on them!"

Mo Hua said firmly, then thought for a moment, and then said: "As for the formation, I will draw it faster and try not to delay it for too long."

After all, it is not easy for craftsmen to earn spiritual stones, and it is not easy to live a life waiting for spiritual stones.

Master Ban was stunned for a moment, "Can you draw faster?"

He was already fast enough, and he could get much faster. After all, Mo Hua was just a person, and he was just a kid of eleven or twelve years old.

Master Ban felt a little sorry and said worriedly: "You don't have to worry, just follow the steps. Don't rush it. If the consciousness is consumed too much, it will be troublesome if the sea of ​​consciousness is injured. I heard that the formation master's sea of ​​consciousness will be injured for the rest of his life. I can’t draw formations anymore…”

"Don't worry, I know what's going on." Mo Hua said.

It was the first time to draw formations on such a large monastic building, and it was the first time to design and plan so many formations, so I started painting carefully and cautiously, and the speed would be slower to try not to make any mistakes.

Now that I have been painting for so many days, my technique has become much more proficient, and although there are many formations, they are not complicated. Most formations are not even first-level. It is not difficult to draw, but it is a bit boring.

I also need to finish the ink painting early, and then find a way to learn and use more advanced complex formations.

The re-formation should be much more interesting.