Refining Taoism and ascending to immortality

Zhou Qing watched Guan Ping leave, his eyes deep.

The other party will definitely not give up after returning after hitting a wall this time.

In the past, the other party would at most make some moves when allocating resources in the clan to block him. But after he flatly refused this time, their actions might be more direct and more intense.

This matter must be prevented.

After all, the branch behind his mother and uncle has declined, and the branch of the person Guan Ping has just joined is still very prosperous. As long as the momentum is strong, ordinary little tricks can also be overwhelming, making it difficult to stop.

"When the enemy comes, the general will stop it, and when the water comes, the earth will cover it."

Zhou Qing murmured, and before he knew it, it was already evening. The chaotic clouds poured in from the horizon, mixed with the evening light, and touched the door, refracting like a mirror surface. Then the red glow condensed on it, and as time went by, it gathered more and more, gradually becoming a rouge color, and continued to spread.

The beautiful autumn light must not be wasted.

If I live another life, I want to make up for the regrets of the previous life and see the scenery that I have never seen from a high place. This is inseparable from powerful strength.

As for the present, I have to overcome the clan exam first and break the dilemma in the Hengnan Zhou clan. Zhou Qing looked at the autumn colors outside in the evening. The Hengnan Zhou clan exam requires at least marrow cleansing and bone movement before the age of sixteen.

Marrow cleansing, the third small realm in the realm of entering the Tao, involves the extremely critical immortal bones of practitioners.

Immortal bones are hidden in the human body and are difficult for outsiders to observe. Only when the person cleanses the marrow and moves the bones can the immortal bones be distinguished from ordinary bones and show their essence.

If the immortal bones are not of sufficient quality, they will be stuck in the realm of entering the Tao for a lifetime and cannot build a foundation and refine qi. If the immortal bones are of sufficient quality, there is a great hope that they will succeed in building a foundation and enter the realm of refining qi, and even have the opportunity to glimpse the realm of the bright god.

In aristocratic families, once young children enter the realm of refining qi, they will be trained with emphasis, and their status in the family will rise significantly.

Even if you can't refine qi and build a foundation, after washing the marrow and moving the bones, you can draw the power of the immortal bones, cleanse the body, increase your lifespan, and become the backbone of the clan.

It can be said that once you practice to wash the marrow and stimulate the power of the immortal bones, you will be completely different in the clan.

Now that the internal training is perfect, you must cross the meridians to practice and wash the marrow in less than half a year. You can't follow the routine.

In terms of the practice, you must strive for excellence to overtake others.

"Get the elixir first."

Zhou Qing thought silently. No matter what kind of meridians you choose, you need elixirs to assist you at this level.

I have to go and get the breakthrough and practice elixir.

Zhou Qing suddenly thought of the little tricks that the deacons who managed the elixir in the clan often played in his previous life, and his eyes lit up.

In this line, he might get something else by catching rabbits by robbing grass.

With a decision, he straightened his clothes and strode out of the door.

When he got outside, he turned east and walked another two or three miles, and the terrain gradually rose. The road under my feet has become a bluestone road, polished to a smooth mirror.

At the end of the bluestone road, twenty steps go straight up.

The ancient trees on both sides are in autumn, and the red leaves are leaning down. The dark patches make the boy walking on the steps subconsciously squint his eyes. He can already hear the bird singing from the birdcage hanging on the eaves of the hall in front.

The deacon Taoist boy standing at the door of the hall saw Zhou Qing walking slowly. Seeing the patterns and colors on his clothes, he knew that this was a child who enjoyed treatment in the clan, so he smiled and said, "What is this young master doing here?"

Zhou Qing stood still, steady and said, "Zhou Qing, get the elixir."

"It turned out to be Young Master Qing."

The deacon Taoist boy saw Zhou Qing for the first time, but he was sure that the boy in front of him did have an identity in the Zhou family. He wondered: In the Zhou family, even if the children are not valued, they will be regularly issued with elixirs and other cultivation resources, usually by sending subordinates to run errands. Why did this one come in person?

However, the Taoist boy was very quick to greet and see off people. Even though he was puzzled, he was smiling and said flatteringly, "Please come in, please come in."

Zhou Qing nodded and walked straight into the hall.

The hall had only one red lacquer high pillar supporting the dome, which made it look particularly wide and deep. Then, according to the plan, it was divided into various platforms and inner rooms. On the plaque, there were inscriptions of elixirs, magic tools, spiritual birds, etc. There was a kind of strict rules between the iron hooks and silver paintings, which made people solemn.

The Hengnan Zhou family was a family of practitioners. They established institutions very early and had an orderly division of labor. Although they were not as grand as the sects, they had everything.

Family inheritance was not just about blood ties.

Zhou Qing took a glance and went straight to a conspicuous platform in the corner.

A middle-aged man who was sipping tea leisurely behind the stage saw Zhou Qing coming aggressively, so he quickly put down his teacup, stood up, and said, "I am the steward here, He Yun, sir, are you going to receive the elixir?"

He looked quite polite, and it was hard to find fault with him.

Because of the need to arrange various matters for the cultivation of the children of the Zhou family, there are many daily affairs, so those who really have a background are not interested in this. Most of those who can come here to manage things have average cultivation, are good at observing words and expressions, and are diligent.

Zhou Qing stared at the steward opposite him, and said in a low voice, "You are He Yun, right? Why haven't the essence and elixir I need for cultivation been issued?"

"Is there such a thing?"

When He Yun heard this, sweat broke out on his head.

From an outsider's point of view, he is responsible for arranging the elixir of the clan, and he has considerable power. But if you think about it, most of the people who receive the elixir are the children of the Zhou family, and many of them are direct descendants. As an outsider, let alone deceiving the superiors and the subordinates, and embezzling, he will have to endure the anger when he meets a bad temper even if he does things in a proper manner.

If I get caught doing something wrong again, the consequences will be disastrous.

He Yun felt terrified and quickly lowered his head to find the roster. While flipping through the pages to check, he asked, "What do you call the young master?"

"Zhou Qing!"

"Zhou Qing——"

Hearing these two words, He Yun relaxed his hands, put down the roster, and stood up straight. His frightened look suddenly disappeared, replaced by false perfunctory. He smiled and said: "It turns out to be Mr. Qing. This matter I remember that when Young Master Qing’s maid came to collect the elixirs last time, I told her that the essence and elixirs were out of stock, not that they would not be distributed, but that they would be distributed together with the next time.”

Zhou Qing looked at the other party with a bone-chilling look in his eyes, and asked, "Really?"

He Yun bit the bullet and had to answer: "It's absolutely true!"

According to the inventory, the slow-release elixir is also one of the powers of the deacon here. It's just that in the past, it was not easy to use it on the children of the Zhou family because it would easily cause trouble. However, since someone powerful was greeting him this time, he considered the lesser of the two evils and went ahead with it.

After hearing this, Zhou Qing did not speak immediately. He kept looking at the other party with horror, then he smiled and said: "Let's not talk about Jinghe Dan for now. I am here this time to receive the Earth Source Dan."

"Earth Source Pill?"

He Yun frowned, his face darkening.

Although Jinghe Dan is a good elixir, it is incomparable to Diyuan Dan.

The Earth Source Pill can be used to break through bottlenecks and resolve the blockage and waste gas coming out of the meridians when refining from the inside to opening the meridians, which is difficult to refine. Even a practicing family like the Zhou family has a fixed supply.

On the surface, the distribution of Earth Source Pills is to be kept and disposed of by them in accordance with the clan regulations, but in reality it is another matter.

He Yun's heart trembled inexplicably when he thought about the recent events. He took a slight breath, forced himself to calm down, and said: "Young Master Qing, the clan did not equip you with the Earth Origin Pill."

Speaking of this, he thought about it seriously, his voice became more determined, and he said: "No."

What kind of treatment the children of the clan enjoy and what training resources they can receive are clearly stated and issued after approval every year, and they will be implemented accordingly. Those with a strong background may enjoy superior treatment. But the young man in front of him heard that his mother passed away very early, and now even his uncle who had been taking care of him was seriously ill, so he must strictly follow the clan's approval.

Zhou Qing came well prepared. Of course he knew the rules. He said loudly: "I must take the Earth Source Pill today."

Hearing such eloquent words, He Yun blinked his eyes and felt happy: Could it be that Zhou Qing was angry because of the Jinghe Dan matter and came here this time to bully others?

That's the right time!

I can completely label the other party as unreasonable and make trouble, and let the other party return without success, and even erase the tricks I did last time.

Zhou Qing didn't even wait for the other party's smile to spread, and said bluntly: "I have completed the inner training and will soon choose the channel-opening technique. According to the clan rules, I am qualified to receive the Earth Source Pill."

"What?"

He Yun couldn't believe his ears. He was about to speak, but he opened his mouth to take a breath of cold air, then coughed violently, and his face turned red.

Zhou Qing's eyes were dark and his voice was light: "Take out my Earth Source Pill."

"Yes, yes."

He Yun knew that the other party could not lie about this matter, so he quickly agreed, and then stumbled into the inner room. After a while, he came out holding a porcelain bottle with a thin neck and two ears in his hands.

Zhou Qing picked up the porcelain bottle and shook it gently. It seemed that he could smell a refreshing fragrance through the porcelain bottle. However, his face suddenly darkened, his eyes were solemn, and he said in a cold voice: "Deacon He, from the Earth Source Pill The number is wrong, right?”

Then he asked: "Did you remember it wrong, or did you get it wrong?"

"I,"

He Yun's face suddenly turned pale, and his hands in his sleeves were trembling.

"Deacon He."

Seeing this, Zhou Qing turned his eyes. He was lucky. As expected, the deacons who managed the elixirs often misappropriated the elixirs. So he stepped forward, his voice was sharp and piercing, and he said deliberately: "I didn't remember wrongly. It’s not that you took it by mistake, that means you were so bold that you secretly swallowed this Earth Origin Pill?”

"No, absolutely not!"

He Yun almost jumped up and kept waving his hands, almost an afterimage appeared in front of him with such quick hands.

He couldn't bear such accusations.

Zhou Qing looked at the other party's helpless and frightened look. He stared at him for a long time, then stretched out his sleeves, put away the amphora, turned around and walked out. Only the lingering sound came, saying: "He Yun, five days later Please give me the missing Earth Source Pill, otherwise, the clan rules will be waiting for you."

He Yun stayed where he was, his lips trembling. No matter how courageous he was, he would not dare to secretly swallow a pill of this level like the Earth Source Pill.

As for the lack of inventory, it's really his fault.

Some time ago, someone with a very profound background contacted He Yun and asked for the Earth Source Pill. He couldn't refuse, so he thought of a workaround.

The Earth Source Pills that were explicitly to be distributed last year have been distributed. He inquired and confirmed that in recent times, Zhou's "disciples" who did not enjoy the benefits have reached perfection in internal refining and do not need to distribute additional Earth Source Pills.

Calculating the time, there are only a few days left until the day when the clan approves and re-announces the salary every October. So He Yun took out some of the Earth Source Pills still in the library and gave them to the person who asked for them.

The person asking for it also agreed, and he would make up for it next month.

Not only was this done flawlessly, but it was also considered perfect. He had done it several times before and never made any mistakes.

But who would have thought that Zhou Qing would be stuck at this point and suddenly reach the level of inner refinement and become eligible to receive the Earth Source Pill? Now I'm completely on the wax!

Thinking of the strict rules of the Zhou family, He Yun became more and more frightened.

After half a cup of tea, he seemed to wake up from a nightmare. He roared and ran out of the hall to ask for help.

I will try to update as early as 8 o'clock in the future.