Longevity Begins With Zongmen Handyman

Chapter 92: Eliminating Hidden Dangers

Entering the courtyard, Li An carefully examined Xu Qiuhui's formation diagram.

This is a second-order formation, Li An judged, probably used to support the Bagua Locking Yuan Formation.

"Master Xu, although Wei has already reached Foundation Building, he has not yet broken through to the second-order level in the field of formations..."

"I'm afraid I can't help," Li An sighed.

Xu Qiuhui stared at Li An and said, "Please, Fellow Daoist Wei, do your best to help. This time, Qiuhui represents Baihu Mountain in this matter. If it succeeds, Baihu Mountain will owe Fellow Daoist Wei a favor."

"This is a token of respect from Baihu Mountain. After Fellow Daoist Wei completes the formation, there will be a generous gift!"

She directly handed over five thousand spirit stones!

With five thousand spirit stones, one could almost buy a set of second-order formations.

She was extremely polite and courteous, and her attitude towards Li An had completely changed.

However, Li An hesitated. If he were to refuse... it would naturally offend Baihu Mountain.

"But Wei's attainments are indeed not enough..." Li An hesitated.

"Please rest assured, Fellow Daoist Wei. Qiuhui has not only sought your help in refining this formation. As long as Fellow Daoist Wei does his best, it will be enough."

She didn't put all her eggs in one basket. Besides Li An, there were two other second-order formation masters helping as well.

Just to be safe, she had looked around.

Li An knew he couldn't refuse anymore, so he could only say, "Alright, then Wei will do his best."

Xu Qiuhui finally smiled and said, "Good, thank you, Fellow Daoist Wei."

"By the way, during the time Fellow Daoist Wei is refining the formation, I will have someone provide all the materials needed. In addition, I will send a disciple here to be at Fellow Daoist Wei's disposal at any time. Please rest assured, Fellow Daoist Wei!"

However, Li An's heart sank.

Sending a disciple here... it wasn't just to be at his disposal, it was more like a supervisor.

He had originally wanted to casually agree and leave.

This Xu Qiuhui was truly not simple.

"Alright."

"As for the materials needed for the formation, my disciple Qin Yue will provide them for Fellow Daoist Wei."

Xu Qiuhui immediately got up and took her leave.

After leaving, another beautiful female disciple was already waiting respectfully on the side.

"Qin Yue, from today onwards, you must respectfully take care of Senior Wei's daily life. You must obey all his orders, understood?"

Xu Qiuhui said lightly.

The female disciple respectfully agreed.

After Xu Qiuhui left, Qin Yue immediately followed Li An into his residence and took out a storage bag, saying, "Senior Wei, these are the materials you need for refining the formation."

"Alright, you can leave. I don't like being disturbed by others."

Li An picked up the materials and began to ponder.

Qin Yue obediently left the residence but stood guard outside.

...

Li An frowned slightly.

It seemed that he couldn't leave until he had successfully refined the formation for Xu Qiuhui.

Now the only way seemed to be to help her refine the formation so that he could gain his freedom of movement.

"Since that's the case, don't blame me..."

Li An immediately began refining the formation.

In the first few days, he failed a lot and wasted a lot of materials.

But Xu Qiuhui was rich and kept supplying materials without interruption.

Li An was not polite either. While helping Xu Qiuhui refine the formation, he also greedily hoarded a large amount of formation materials.

After all, second-order formation materials were not cheap.

Qin Yue and Xu Qiuhui were definitely aware of this, but they knew that it was abnormal not to be greedy in this matter. They had long been prepared and did not inquire further.

In the blink of an eye, ten days had passed.

Li An finally completed one-third of the formation Xu Qiuhui needed.

"One is to meet Xu Qiuhui's requirements, and the other is to prevent the Demon Sect from finding out..."

Li An refined the formation with great care.

With this formation, he had to deceive not only Xu Qiuhui but also the Demon Sect.

After all, the Demon Sect had an insider in Baihu Mountain. When Jiang Huan discovered that the formation Li An had refined did not meet their requirements and could not destroy the Bagua Locking Yuan Formation at a critical moment, the Demon Sect would immediately become suspicious.

But that wasn't enough. Li An also painstakingly left a "backdoor" within the formation.

This required attention to detail and profound knowledge.

Ordinary second-order formation masters couldn't possibly create so many "virus-like" things within a formation.

This was all thanks to the inheritance and experience from his previous life.

...

In the blink of an eye, two months had passed.

On this day, Li An finally succeeded!

A set of second-order array formations, completely refined successfully.

He informed Qin Yue, and soon Xu Qiuhui also came to visit.

"Wei Fellow Daoist really lives up to expectations!"

Taking the array formation given by Li An, she carefully inspected it and didn't find any problems. Xu Qiuhui excitedly said, "Thank you, Wei Fellow Daoist. Here are three thousand spirit stones, please accept them!"

Just this array formation alone gave Li An eight thousand spirit stones.

It was much higher than the market price.

Li An accepted it without hesitation and smiled happily.

"By the way, Qin Yue told me that there were two people who wanted to visit recently. In order not to disturb you, I had Qin Yue turn them down... Li Fellow Daoist wouldn't mind, right?"

Xu Qiuhui suddenly spoke.

Li An's heart tightened instantly. Did Xu Qiuhui just say "Li Fellow Daoist"?

"Li Fellow Daoist?" Li An was puzzled.

Xu Qiuhui didn't observe any useful information and smiled, saying, "It was a slip of the tongue, please don't mind, Wei Fellow Daoist."

"Those two people have some connection with me. Wang Dazhu and Chen Qingling. I wonder if Wei Fellow Daoist has heard of them?"

Li An suddenly realized, "The second-order alchemist? I've heard a little about them."

"Yes, Wang Dazhu should be looking to buy Foundation Building Pills from Li Fellow Daoist."

Xu Qiuhui spoke lightly, but couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

When facing Li An, she always had an inexplicable sense of unease.

After they parted ways at the Spirit Pill Shop last time, she carefully searched for some information and indeed found some clues.

For example, when Gu Hong was captured by the people from the Demon Sect, she was inexplicably rescued later, and no one knew who rescued her.

But during the time when Gu Hong appeared, the area where the Demon Sect was more active happened to be Qingyang Fangshi Market!

At that time, the name of the sinister talisman master had just spread far and wide.

So, she tried to probe again today.

The result was still fruitless.

Could it be that she was overthinking?

"As long as the price is right, Foundation Building Pills can certainly be sold." Li An smiled faintly.

Xu Qiuhui said, "Yes, they should come to visit again soon."

"Qiuhui won't disturb Wei Fellow Daoist any longer. Goodbye!"

After saying that, she got up and left with Qin Yue.

After she left, Li An pondered.

What did this woman find again?

When Xu Qiuhui said the three words "Li Fellow Daoist" just now, he did have the impulse to kill her directly!

This endless suspicion and probing made him quite annoyed.

He wasn't afraid of thieves stealing, but he was afraid of thieves being suspicious.

"Before leaving, I have to eliminate this hidden danger..."

There should be about a month left before the incident of changing to the Gold Core at Baihu Mountain.

It was enough time.

The main thing was that he couldn't let Xu Qiuhui continue to investigate like this. It was unsafe for him and unsafe for Gu Hong.

A few days later, Li An went to Baihu City.

Outside Baihu City, there were many desolate mountains and wild ridges, some of which had always had rumors of bandits.

Li An disguised himself as a mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator and wandered through the territory of a group of bandits.

Sure enough, a group of bandits rushed out, and the leader turned out to be a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator!

Li An easily killed this group of bandits and looted them in return, but he left the late-stage Qi Refining cultivator alive.

"What... what do you want to do?"

This late-stage Qi Refining cultivator's name was Zhao Yi, and he was terrified when facing Li An.

Li An repeatedly checked Zhao Yi and confirmed that he didn't possess any kind of spiritual consciousness secret technique like himself. Then he held Zhao Yi's hand and activated the Blood Flesh Furnace Technique.

The Blood Flesh Furnace Technique didn't necessarily require "doing" like Guo Xiaoxiao.

That was because Guo Xiaoxiao's cultivation level was lower than Li An's, so she needed to "do" that kind of ritual to promote the fusion of blood and flesh.

As a superior cultivator, Li An could directly control Zhao Yi's blood and flesh.

Soon after, Zhao Yi walked out of the cave, and his appearance had completely changed!

He had become... Li An's appearance.

He had become a puppet made of Li An's blood and flesh, and Li An had also used Yin-Yang demonic energy to change his appearance.

"Go to Zhaojia Town and show yourself, but don't let them catch you."

Li An gave an order.

The flesh puppet quickly acted and left.

Li An turned around and returned to Baihu City.

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(End of this chapter)