txolops Chapter 146 Compensation
Chapter 146 Compensation
Not long after.
Cheng Yao personally went to Xiantao Mountain and delivered the letter that Qi Hanmo had entrusted Wang Xingwei to bring back to Li Ping.
As Li Ping received the letter, he also learned from her.
Not only him, but Qi Hanmo also wrote a letter to the other four people.
So, after handing the letter to Li Ping, Cheng Yao hurriedly took her leave to deliver letters to others.
Sitting in the pavilion, Li Ping opened the letter, read it carefully, and then a thoughtful look appeared in his eyes.
In fact, although he was in Fenglan Immortal City, he had been paying close attention to the changing battle situation between the Defenders Alliance and the Four Demonic Sects in the Yuan Kingdom.
After all, Fenglan Immortal City is a member of the Defenders Alliance. If the Defenders Alliance falls into a disadvantageous position in the great battle against the four demonic sects, it will also affect the situation on Fenglan Immortal City's side.
It can be said that moving one hair affects the whole situation!
When he replied to Qi Hanmo last time, he specifically reminded his fifth brother to write back to remind him if the situation changed.
The letter sent by Qi Hanmo mainly described the changes in the battle between the Defenders Alliance and the four demonic sects, and also mentioned his own cultivation status.
According to the information he had gathered, after the Weidao Alliance and the four demonic sects fought in turn, the four demonic sects had not gained any advantage and were already planning to retreat, so the war in Yuan Kingdom seemed to be coming to an end.
Li Ping naturally welcomed the possibility that the great war might end.
After all, he is a peace-loving person, and being in a generally peaceful environment is conducive to his development.
If the Defenders Alliance is truly defeated by the demonic path, and the cultivation world of the Western Wilderness is in chaos with the rise of demons and the decline of the righteous path, he has no teleportation array to escape to other places.
In addition to describing the battlefield situation between the Defenders Alliance and the Four Demonic Sects, Qi Hanmo also described his own cultivation progress.
He entered the academy and had a master at the Core Formation stage. The cultivation resources he could obtain at the academy were naturally far greater than when he was a rogue cultivator in the immortal city.
When he left the Immortal City, he was only at the sixth level of Qi Refining.
However, after seven years of arduous training at the academy, he had already reached the peak of Qi Refining and planned to attempt Foundation Establishment in a while.
As for resources such as Foundation Establishment Pills, his master had already arranged them for him, so he didn't need to worry about them himself.
At the end of the letter, Qi Hanmo excitedly told Li Ping that after he successfully established his foundation, he would take some time to return to the Immortal City to drink with his brothers and sisters!
Li Ping believed that Qi Hanmo should have no major problems establishing his foundation, after all, he had a master at the Core Formation stage.
Moreover, this Core Formation cultivator is a high-ranking member of the largest power in the Western Wilderness, and the resources he can control are extremely extravagant.
It's just a matter of getting a cultivator with four spiritual roots to establish their foundation; it's a piece of cake!
"If Hanmo also succeeds in establishing his foundation, then only Cheng Yao and Bai Qing will remain. If nothing unexpected happens, they might both be able to establish their foundations within ten years." Thinking of this, Li Ping's mood improved.
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Originally, Li Ping thought that Cheng Yao would bid for the Foundation Establishment Pill to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage three years later, but what he never expected was that...
Less than two months after the letter was sent, Cheng Yao visited him again, beaming with joy, to inform him that she had successfully established her foundation.
Upon hearing this, Li Ping was somewhat bewildered. Where did Cheng Yao get the spirit stones and the Foundation Establishment Pills?
It wasn't until he heard Cheng Yao's explanation that he suddenly realized what had happened, and he was somewhat amused and exasperated by the outcome.
He never expected that the Wang family patriarch would defraud rogue cultivators, and Ye Chen would take the opportunity to set a trap for the Wang family. The two of them used every trick in the book.
But in the end, the one who benefited the most was his unremarkable fourth sister.
Just as Li Ping was caught between laughter and tears, Cheng Yao brought up another matter: "By the way, big brother, I'm going to become Xingwei's Daoist partner."
Li Ping knew about her relationship with Wang Xingwei and wasn't surprised by her choice. However, the Wang family had a tarnished reputation in Xiancheng, and Li Ping didn't think Cheng Yao's choice to marry into the Wang family was a good one.
After thinking for a moment, he subtly reminded him, "Now that you have successfully established your foundation, you should have already become a disciple of a True Person. Does the True Person know about your becoming Daoist partners with Wang Xingwei?"
Cheng Yao nodded affirmatively: "Zhenren knew that Xingwei was a member of the Wang family, but after I told her the story between Xingwei and me, she smiled and agreed to our marriage."
"Since you agree, I wish you all the best," Li Ping said with a smile.
He said this, but in his heart he actually looked down on Master Fenglan.
If Cheng Yao marries into the Wang family, she will naturally become a member of the Wang family. However, she is also a disciple of Master Fenglan, which undoubtedly breaks the rule set by Master Fenglan himself that "members of the Wang family shall not hold positions in the Immortal City."
He broke the rules he set for himself—although it seems that Master Fenglan was moved by the story between Cheng Yao and Wang Xingwei and thus helped them get together, which is a beautiful story.
But rules are rules!
To rule such a vast immortal city yet arbitrarily break the rules he himself set, Li Ping could only say one thing: a makeshift operation.
Of course, Fenglan Zhenren is the most powerful person in the Immortal City, and she can do whatever she wants.
Of course, Fenglan Zhenren is the most powerful person in the Immortal City, and she can do whatever she wants.
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Considering that Cheng Yao did not use the Foundation Building Fund, it means that she contributed for so many years in vain, but in the end she voluntarily gave up her own rights.
Perhaps she herself didn't care about this matter, but Li Ping couldn't let his fourth sister suffer a loss.
After thinking for a moment, he took out a palm-sized crimson shield from his storage bag and four bottles of Qi-Nourishing Pills, placing them on the table in front of him.
"Big brother, what's wrong?" Cheng Yao asked, puzzled.
Li Ping smiled and said, "You successfully established your foundation without using the Foundation Establishment Fund. Consider this second-tier high-grade magic weapon, the 'Crimson Armor Shield,' and four bottles of Qi Cultivation Pills as your foundation establishment congratulatory gift."
After obtaining the second-tier top-grade magic weapon "Blood Transformation Shield" from Yan Liming's storage bag, the Crimson Armor Shield was no longer of much help to him.
However, considering that the Crimson Armor Shield had accompanied him in many battles against powerful enemies and that he had developed an attachment to it, he had never sold it.
It would be perfect to give it to Cheng Yao now.
A second-hand Crimson Armor Shield, plus four bottles of Qi-Nourishing Pills, is worth about two thousand spirit stones, enough to make up for Cheng Yao's loss.
Upon hearing this, Cheng Yao was surprised and repeatedly declined, saying, "Big brother, I don't want to."
After some polite refusals...
Ultimately, under Li Ping's insistence, she had no choice but to accept the items on the table.
After Cheng Yao took her leave, Li Ping nodded with a smile: "Only Bai Qing is left."
……
In a courtyard house in the outer city.
Bai Qing was treating a cultivator's injuries, and standing beside him was a bright-eyed girl of about eighteen or nineteen.
After examining the injuries, Bai Qing prescribed several kinds of spiritual medicines for the injured cultivator to treat his wounds.
He then accepted the treatment fee and left with the bright-eyed girl.
Walking on the streets of the immortal city.
Bai Qing spoke with a hint of probing, "Xiao Hui, do you know why I prescribed this treatment for him?"
The bright-eyed girl was none other than Bai Qing's half-sister, Bai Hui.
Of course, the generational name passed down in the Bai family to this generation is "Zheng," so they should actually be called Bai Zhengqing and Bai Zhenghui respectively. However, when addressing each other, the younger generation usually doesn't deliberately use the generational name.
Since arriving in Immortal City seven or eight years ago, Bai Hui has found that she is more comfortable with Bai Qing than with her family, so she has been staying with Bai Qing and has not gone back.
Helpless, Bai Qing could only let it be.
After discovering that Bai Hui had a talent for pharmacism, he would take her with him when he went out to make house calls and teach her the ways of pharmacists.
Upon hearing Bai Qing's question, Bai Hui pondered for a moment before confidently replying, "The patient just now suffered damage to his lungs and internal organs due to improper cultivation, resulting in the accumulation of magical energy. Therefore, he needs to be given medicine to 'clear heat and guide stagnation' to expel this stagnant energy. It would be best to stimulate the 'Taichong' acupoint with magical energy while administering the medicine to enhance its efficacy."
Bai Qing nodded and patted Bai Hui's head approvingly: "Not bad."
Upon hearing Bai Qing's praise, Bai Hui couldn't help but wink smugly.
As the two walked, Bai Qing thought of something else.
That was his foundation-building process.
He is currently at the eighth level of Qi Refining, and it will only take him about five more years to reach the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining, thus qualifying him to attempt the Foundation Establishment stage.
However, he needed a Foundation Establishment Pill to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage. He was a member of the Bai family, and his family background was recorded as "a family of cultivators" in the Immortal City.
Therefore, he couldn't go directly to the Immortal City Auction to bid for Foundation Establishment Pills like his second and third brothers.
Because the family cultivators were not qualified to bid for Foundation Establishment Pills.
Thinking of this, Bai Qing couldn't help but feel hatred for his long-dead father.
"If only I were a rogue cultivator." He sighed inwardly, thinking of the difficulties his family cultivators faced in obtaining Foundation Establishment Pills.
Independent cultivators can directly purchase Foundation Establishment Pills with spirit stones, while clan cultivators must undergo life-and-death trials to obtain them.
According to what Bai Qing himself knew.
The academy that Fifth Brother Qi Hanmo entered controls a secret realm of heaven and earth.
It is said that this secret realm was built by an ancient cultivator with great supernatural powers, and the flow of time inside it is ten times that of the outside world.
In other words, the growth rate of the spiritual herbs in that secret realm was ten times faster than in the outside world.
For this reason, that secret realm was used by ancient cultivators to cultivate spiritual herbs. A large number of precious spiritual herbs grew there, including the main ingredient needed to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill, the "Golden Marrow Jade Fungus".
In fact, almost 80% of the 'Golden Marrow Jade Mushrooms' in the Western Wilderness cultivation world come from this secret realm.
Due to the different flow of time, the academy opens a secret realm every thirty years. During this period, cultivators can enter the secret realm to harvest spiritual herbs.
However, since this secret realm has been built for a long time, many of its restrictions are damaged beyond repair, and once a cultivator above the Foundation Establishment stage enters, it will cause irreversible damage to the secret realm.
Therefore, the academy prohibits cultivators above the Foundation Establishment level from entering.
Because there are many dangers in the secret realm, some of which can even threaten Foundation Establishment cultivators.
Furthermore, the Qi Refining cultivators who entered the secret realm together would also fight each other ruthlessly for the sake of spiritual herbs.
If one is not careful, a cultivator entering the secret realm can easily perish.
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