Seeking Immortality

When Xu Qingfan woke up from meditation, it was already ten days later. The sunset in the sky was dyed with clouds, and it was as red as fire.

Seeing Xiao Hei standing on the branch of the tree next to him, silently protecting him, Xu Qingfan smiled slightly, then took out the remaining bottle of "Demon Spirit Pill" from his sleeve, and sprinkled it on the ground, signaling Xiao Hei to eat. Xu Qingfan turned around and walked towards the stone house where the old beggar was.

After arriving at the stone house, the scene was the same as before. The old beggar was still circling around the copper furnace, pinching his fingers, and at the same time, the various talismans outside the copper furnace were constantly changing in light and darkness.

The only difference was that beside the copper furnace, a seven-color jade ruler was thrown at some point. It was Xu Qingfan's "Rainbow Ruler". Looking at its appearance and its spiritual energy, it seemed to be much more spiritual than when Xu Qingfan gave it to the old beggar before.

Xu Qingfan knew that the beggar had already upgraded the "Rainbow Ruler" and was upgrading the "Earth Mirror" at this time. He was slightly happy in his heart. With a wave of his hand, the "Rainbow Ruler" on the ground quickly flew into Xu Qingfan's hand. He closed his eyes to check the situation of the "Rainbow Ruler". After a long time, Xu Qingfan's face was even more happy. However, Xu Qingfan clearly felt that the "Rainbow Ruler" in his hand at this time, without weakening its flexible and changeable characteristics, its power was more than half greater, and it was officially upgraded from an intermediate earth-level magic weapon to an advanced earth-level magic weapon.

With happiness in his heart, Xu Qingfan turned and left the stone house, and then his body turned into a gray wind and flew towards a hill next to "Jingxiu Mountain". Xiao Hei, who was eating the "Demon Spirit Pill" on the side, was slightly stunned when he saw Xu Qingfan leaving, and then he spread his wings and chased after Xu Qingfan without paying attention to the fact that there was nearly half of the "Demon Spirit Pill" on the ground that he had not finished eating.

After Xu Qingfan landed on that hill. Looking at the strange rocks and trees standing around, he smiled slightly, waved his hand, and the "Rainbow Ruler" appeared in Xu Qingfan's hand again.

It was Xu Qingfan who saw that the "Rainbow Ruler" had been successfully upgraded, and he was so happy that he couldn't wait to come here to test the power of the "Rainbow Ruler".

Xu Qingfan floated the "Rainbow Ruler" in front of him, and then pinched his fingers, and saw that the "Rainbow Ruler" that was originally just floating in front of Xu Qingfan suddenly turned from static. It turned into a seven-color rainbow light that people couldn't see. It struck the ground ten feet in front of Xu Qingfan at a speed like lightning.

In just a moment, a roar suddenly sounded, and after the "Rainbow Ruler" attacked the ground, waves of dust swayed in front of Xu Qingfan, but the "Rainbow Ruler" had returned to Xu Qingfan's side without knowing when.

After a long time, the dust settled, and the power of the "Rainbow Ruler" was finally displayed in front of Xu Qingfan, and he saw the ground in front of Xu Qingfan, which was made of hard rocks. Suddenly, a deep pit with a diameter of about seven feet and a depth of more than ten feet appeared.

Xu Qingfan nodded with satisfaction, and then the finger gestures in his hand changed again. The "Rainbow Ruler" in front of Xu Qingfan, which was originally emitting colorful rays of light, suddenly turned into seven light bands of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, and quickly struck the strange rocks and trees around Xu Qingfan. Under the attack of these seven rainbow lights, whether it was the solid strange rocks on the mountain or the tough trees, they were all smashed to pieces.

At this moment, the finger gestures in Xu Qingfan's hand changed again. The seven rainbow lights suddenly became blurred and illusory. Sometimes they became solid. When these seven rainbow lights were blurred and illusory, they could easily penetrate various strange rocks and trees without damaging the trees and rocks at all, just like seven phantoms. When these seven rainbow lights became solid, the strange rocks and trees suffered again and were smashed to pieces again.

This is exactly the characteristic of the "Rainbow Ruler" that can be transformed into seven and change from real to virtual.

After a long time, when all the wood and stone on the hill were crushed by the power of Xu Qingfan's "Rainbow Ruler", Xu Qingfan stopped with satisfaction. Looking at the mess on the hill, Xu Qingfan was satisfied and secretly said guilty. Then he put the "Rainbow Ruler" into his sleeve, turned into a gray wind again, and flew back to "Jingxiu Mountain".

And Xiao Hei, who had been waiting quietly in the air, also spread his wings and followed Xu Qingfan when Xu Qingfan flew back to "Jingxiu Mountain", and returned to "Jingxiu Mountain" to continue eating those "Demon Spirit Pills".

In the following days, the old beggar helped Xu Qingfan upgrade the "Earth Mirror", and Xu Qingfan fell into idleness again. He only occasionally meditated to cultivate the "Life Qi" in his body, but most of the time, he was just quietly thinking about what he had encountered and heard since he went down the mountain.

The chaos in the world of immortal cultivation at this time was far beyond my imagination, and the undercurrent was surging again. At this time, where should I go and how should I deal with it?

This was the question Xu Qingfan had initially thought about.

But later on, Xu Qingfan's thoughts turned into, in the face of the strange and dangerous situation in the world of immortal cultivation, how should Jiuhua Mountain deal with it?

It must be said that since Xu Qingfan became the deacon elder of Jiuhua Mountain, his thoughts and attitudes have unconsciously changed a lot, and he gradually began to look at problems from the perspective of a school rather than a sect, and his horizons have unconsciously broadened a lot.

On this day, Xu Qingfan was meditating and cultivating the "spiritual energy" in his body as usual, but suddenly he felt the spiritual energy surging in the stone house where the old beggar was, and then the old beggar's tired but happy laughter rang in his ears.

"I have practiced it, isn't it just to merge two magic tools into one after upgrading the magic tools? It really can't be difficult for me."

Hearing the laughter of the old beggar, Xu Qingfan was also overjoyed. He knew that his magical weapon had been refined. He counted with his fingers and found that more than a month had passed since the last successful upgrade of the "Rainbow Ruler". Time, I guess it was because the "Earth Mirror" was originally a low-level earth-level magic weapon. It had to be upgraded to two levels in a row and integrated with the "Evil-Resisting Bead", so it probably took a little more effort.

While Xu Qingfan was thinking secretly, he saw the stone door of the old beggar's stone house being pushed open suddenly. The old beggar walked straight towards Xu Qingfan, then threw the brand new "ground mirror" to Xu Qingfan, and said: "You have already taken the rainbow ruler, right? I have helped you upgrade this ground mirror to a ground mirror." It is a high-level magic weapon. The sights and sounds seen through it have increased from fifty miles to a hundred miles, and the evil-proof beads are integrated into it, which makes up for its shortcomings of not being able to see through illusions, and has more uses. Look at the functions of the five elements of heaven and earth, ghosts and gods.”

Before Xu Qingfan could say anything, the old beggar said: "Haha, although it is the first time, I didn't expect that the fusion of the two magic weapons was quite smooth. It seems that I can put more effort in this aspect in the future."

Xu Qingfan was slightly startled when he heard what the old beggar said. Most of the happiness in my heart suddenly disappeared. Asked: "Old beggar, have you never fused two magic weapons together before?"

The old beggar glared and said, "What do you think? Not only have I never done this, but very few weapon refining masters in the current world of immortality have done it."

Xu Qingfan said: "However, I read from "Talks of Heaven and Earth" that someone had successfully fused two heavenly weapons, the Lanling Sword and the Heavenly Thunder Stone. From then on, the Lanling Sword had the ability to trigger thunder..."

But before Xu Qingfan could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the old beggar: "I have heard about what you said. You are probably talking about the story of the Turtle Spirit Immortal." Xu Qingfan nodded doubtfully.

The old beggar said calmly: "Boy, because you helped me find interesting things twice in a row, let me tell you something. Regarding matters in this world, it is better not to read books than to believe them. Boy, let me ask you, who is the Turtle Spirit Immortal?" Characters of the time?”

Xu Qingfan said blankly: "The head of the Tianling Sect three thousand years ago..."

The old beggar interrupted again: "You also know that this happened three thousand years ago? Let me tell you, the method of fusion of magical weapons was lost in the last catastrophe, and no one has been able to study it until now."

After a slight pause, the old beggar's expression became excited. The tone also became a little higher: "But. That was already happened before. After your experiment with the earth mirror. I have initially mastered the method of fusion of magic weapons, and I only tried it once. Haha, I am indeed today's The first person to refine weapons in the world of immortality.”

Then, the old beggar began to ponder again and murmured: "But this magic weapon fusion technique is still very rudimentary. Back then, Master Gui Ling was able to fuse two heaven-level magic weapons together, but this time I will combine one The fusion of an earth-level high-level magic weapon and a human-level high-level magic weapon almost failed, and this is because these two magic weapons were both refined by me, and the level difference between them is too far, so it is easier to fuse. , so how did the Turtle Spirit Immortal do it back then?"

As the old beggar's voice gradually became deeper, Xu Qingfan knew that the old beggar had completely integrated into the world of weapon refining. At the same time, Xu Qingfan was smiling bitterly, not only because of the old beggar's lesson, but also because of fear. He didn't expect that the art of fusing magic weapons had been lost in the world of immortality for more than two thousand years. Xu Qingfan couldn't help but be afraid of the beggar's reputation as "nine defeats in ten attempts". This "Earth Mirror" was not only a relic of Xiao Huazhe, but its function was also extremely important to Xu Qingfan in the future. If it was destroyed in the old beggar's experiment, then Xu Qingfan But I really want to cry without tears.

"In the future, you must ask the old beggar to make weapons beforehand. I was lucky this time, but I won't be so lucky in the future," Xu Qingfan secretly warned himself.

I don't know how long it took, but the old beggar had been immersed in his own world of weapon refining, and after waiting for a while, Xu Qingfan simply sat down cross-legged and meditated.

When the morning glow in the sky turned to sunset, the old beggar's eyes finally changed from confusion to clarity, and he murmured to himself: "I can't figure it out, how is it possible?"

Seeing Xu Qingfan sitting cross-legged in front of him, the old beggar was slightly startled, and then asked unceremoniously: "Why are you still here?"

Xu Qingfan smiled and said: "Old beggar, as far as I know, the star stone I gave you is enough to upgrade the magic weapon six or seven times. It seems that you have only upgraded it three times."

A look of surprise appeared on the old beggar's face, and he blushed slightly. Then he turned back to the stone house, took out the remaining "Star Stone" and threw it to Xu Qingfan. At the same time, he said dissatisfiedly: "You kid, with such stinginess, , I have helped you refine magic weapons so many times, and you are still so fussy about it that you are reluctant to leave me even a small stone."

In the world of immortality, several small sects can be attracted to desperately "star stones". In the old beggar's mouth, it turned into a small stone, making Xu Qingfan dumbfounded.

But Xu Qingfan knew that the old beggar was not a greedy person. He was just obsessed with refining weapons and had forgotten Xu Qingfan's "Star Stone". And this complaint was just to cover up his mistake, so he didn't care, and just said with a smile: "Didn't you originally help people refine weapons for free? Why are you charging now? Besides, I don't do the same. Are you provided with many opportunities to experiment for free?”

The old beggar was stunned for a moment, then snorted and did not answer.

Xu Qingfan looked at the old beggar's childish behavior and smiled again. Then he smiled and said: "Then I save your life. Is it enough for you to help me refine the magic weapon?"

The old beggar said angrily: "It was your uncle who saved me, not you."

Xu Qingfan said: "Old beggar, haven't you noticed any changes in Jingxiu Mountain?"

The old beggar was stunned for a moment, then raised his eyes and looked around. His face suddenly changed, and he said in surprise: "Where is the Infinite Wave Formation that I had people set up outside the mountain? Why is it missing?"

As he said that, the old beggar turned to stare at Xu Qingfan and asked in a solemn voice: "Boy, what happened during the time when I was refining the weapon?"

Xu Qingfan sighed secretly in his heart and said, "Sure enough." As expected, the old beggar didn't notice what happened at "Jingxiu Mountain" when he was refining the weapon.

But looking at the solemn look on the old beggar's face. Xu Qingfan was still slightly relieved in his heart. This old beggar was not that ignorant of world affairs except for refining weapons. At least he realized the seriousness of the situation at this time.

So Xu Qingfan did not hesitate and told the old beggar about the attack of the man in purple and what the man in purple did while the old beggar was refining the weapon. However, some things were of great importance. For example, the speculation about "Huang"'s identity. The speculation about "Tiansha" was not mentioned to the old beggar.

"Let's put it this way. Is it true that the monks who have been rumored to disappear one after another in the world of immortality in recent years are true? I didn't expect that they would find me this time." The old beggar murmured.

Xu Qingfan asked with concern: "Then what are you going to do? As far as I know, the purple-clothed man has accomplices. Once the purple-clothed man is found to be killed here, he will definitely come to you. You no longer have Tao Hai Boundless Formation protection, no, even with the protection of the Infinite Waves Formation, with the strength of the man in purple, he can still break through it without much effort. After all, your Infinite Waves Formation does not have the blessing of the formation disk."

Hearing what Xu Qingfan said, the old beggar's expression became more serious. After a long time, he sighed: "In this case, I can only seek refuge in Yaowang Valley."

"Yao Wang Valley?" Xu Qingfan asked curiously.

The old beggar explained: "My masters and ancestors all have a relationship with Yaowang Valley, and I myself have helped Yaowang Valley refine many magic weapons. So as long as I go to them, they will definitely take me in." . Although Yaowang Valley is not that strong, it is comprehensive in the world of immortality. Even if a catastrophe comes, it will not be attacked first. "

Xu Qingfan nodded slightly, and after hearing that the old beggar had a place to go, he withdrew the idea of ​​inviting him to Jiuhua Mountain. Although Xu Qingfan believed that the elders of Jiuhua Mountain would welcome the old beggar with his skill in making weapons, he was in Jiuhua. During the mountain closure period, the old beggar was brought back to the mountain, but it was difficult to explain.

Xu Qingfan was about to say something, but the old beggar interrupted: "Boy, I know what you want to say, but you don't have to worry, old beggar, I have done more than just refining weapons over the years. It doesn't attract attention. It's still possible to go to Yaowang Valley. I can see that you still have things to do, so you don't need to escort me."

Xu Qingfan nodded slightly, and suddenly his heart moved. He remembered the magical weapons he had obtained from the man in purple before, so he said to the old beggar: "By the way, I got some magical weapons from the man in purple this time. Senior, please take a look at what they are used for."

With that said, Xu Qingfan placed the magical weapons he got from the man in purple one by one in front of the old beggar.

But I saw that the old beggar also started to identify the magic weapons one by one after Xu Qingfan took out them. "The soul-stirring clock is a magical weapon that can control weak-willed people for a short period of time. It is an earth-level intermediate magical weapon. However, the refining method is extremely rubbish and its function is only 60 to 70% effective."

"The black evil mirror can capture people's souls and torture them. It is an earth-level intermediate magic weapon, but it is still rubbish."

"The flag of the dark spirit, a protective magical weapon, is pretty good, but unfortunately the refining method is too cruel."

As he said that, the old beggar turned his attention to the only dark red bloody knife-like earth-level high-level magic weapon in the hand of the man in purple. He said softly "Hey", then took it and observed it carefully. After a long time, he said: "This This magic weapon is pretty good, and it’s even more powerful than your upgraded Rainbow Ruler, but I can’t tell you the name. It should be a magic weapon used for cultivating demons, but it can only exert 60% to 70% of its power.”

Hearing what the old beggar said, Xu Qingfan's heart moved slightly. He felt that this magical weapon was suitable for Ting'er to use. Wasn't Ting'er lacking an offensive magical weapon now? It's just that it can't be used until Ting'er reaches the realm of forming pills.

In the next two days, Xu Qingfan has been helping the old beggar clean up the cave. When everything was ready, they said goodbye to each other. The old beggar went to "Yao Wang Valley" to seek shelter, while Xu Qingfan flew in the direction of "Qingxu Gate" .