MTL - I Am Evergreen In the World of Cultivating Immortals-Chapter 186 war accident
Chapter 186 War Changes
Half a year later, Xiao Guifeng.
"It's finally taken this step."
Lu Changan put away a letter in his hand, turned his gaze to the south of Wuqi Mountain, and murmured to himself.
Squeak!
The rock rat scratched the back of its head, rolled its eyes slightly, and looked at its owner suspiciously.
Not far away, the Xuan water turtle, with a body width of 1.8 feet, is lazily lying on the edge of the pond where the lotus is blooming, maintaining a certain habit, staring at a certain direction in a daze for more than 20 years.
The water turtle is still far from adulthood.
It doesn't know that the human nun who was closest to her once is approaching the centenary mark and has entered her twilight years.
…
Half a month later.
A well-dressed young man in the early stage of foundation establishment flew to Xiaogui Peak on the back of the light.
"Junior Li Congren, meet Grandpa Lu."
The young man who established the foundation smiled and saluted without being humble or overbearing.
"Congren, please come in and sit down."
Lu Changan sat in the pavilion and activated the formation on the mountain.
Li Congren in front of me is the grandson of Li Ergou, who used to be named "Mu Congren".
Squeak!
The ground rock mouse emerged from the hole not far away, licked its lips, and stared straight at the visitor from afar.
Mu Congren's heart tightened, fear appeared in his eyes, and he looked at the rock mouse at the late stage of the second order.
He subconsciously supported the spiritual pet bag at his waist.
"Grandpa Lu, this junior is visiting for the first time after the establishment of the foundation, and there are some omissions. This is a specialty of honoring you."
Entering the pavilion, Li Congren presented a big gift box.
Lu Changan's consciousness swept away, and he was a little surprised. Li Congren's gift was several pieces of high-grade second-grade ore, including a quasi-third-grade cold iron concentrate.
"Congren has a heart."
In these years, he has tried to create a second-order top-level puppet, which requires high-quality materials.
Accepting Li Congren's filial piety, Lu Changan couldn't help but think of Lin Lu.
The last time I was so filial to my juniors, I fell into the battlefield of a neighboring country, and my life and death were uncertain.
"Grandpa Lu, this is a debt that Congren repaid on behalf of grandfather."
Li Congren handed over another brocade bag.
"Um."
Lu Changan weighed it, and there are two thousand low-grade spirit stones inside.
Before "Mu Congren" went out, Li Erqing asked him to buy a batch of valuable war preparations, including second-tier mid-to-high-grade talismans, and two second-tier puppets.
At that time, Li Erqing and his grandson drained the spiritual stones they had stored for many years, and they still owed Lu Changan two thousand spiritual stones.
Because Li Erqing had many descendants, Lu Changan didn't worry about repaying the debt at all.
"Congren has something to thank Grandpa Lu. Those war preparations that were sold cheaply 20 years ago played a big role at the critical moment. They helped the younger generation repel evil cultivators and protect the safety of the clan."
Li Congren said gratefully.
"Some time ago, I heard Lingzu mentioned you in a letter. It is really not easy to lead a branch of the clan to expand and take root in remote and bitter cold places alone."
Lu Changan looked at the calm and capable Li Congren, and praised him.
Li Congren's aptitude is similar to that of Mu Bingyun.
Although this son does not have outstanding skills, he is good at business management.
The branch he brought out has a good momentum of development. In just over twenty years, the overall strength has directly caught up with the established Foundation-Building family, and their background is almost there.
Not long ago, Li Congren officially changed his "surname Li", and his branch was named "Xuemeishan Li's family" on its own.
The lineage he brought out is all direct descendants of Li Erqing. After nearly 20 years of laying the groundwork for a generation, this matter has not faced much resistance.
In Feiyue Lake's family, some old people were quite critical, but they didn't ask the teacher to ask the crime.
Mu Bingyun acquiesced in this matter.
Back then, three foundation-building monks appeared in Feiyue Lake at the same time. The spiritual veins of the Mu family could not accommodate so many monks.
At that time, the contradictions and interests of the new and old factions of the Mu family were not in harmony, and they were in a development bottleneck. It was Li Congren who took the initiative to take away the direct descendants of Li Erqing's lineage to operate in remote places with poor conditions.
If Li Congren hadn't taken the responsibility, Feiyue Lake, which failed to expand in the past, would sooner or later split due to internal friction.
"Although the expansion of the family has been hard work, it doesn't have the constraints of the family. With the concerted efforts of the clan and a little favorable time and place, the younger generation has finally gained a firm foothold."
Li Congren said modestly.
Lu Changan knows that harmony between people is often more difficult than the right time and place.
Li Congren is good at business management, which is far superior to his grandfather, and Mu Bingyun is not as good.
nowadays. Although Li's lineage separated, they maintained close contact and cooperation with Feiyuehu Mu's family.
After all, the blood of the two races is of the same origin.
Moreover, Li Erqing himself did not want to leave the Mu family, and vowed to guard Feiyue Lake until the last day.
This is an important link for the close cooperation between the two ethnic groups.
…
After talking for half an hour, Lu Changan had a better understanding of Li Congren's current situation.
Li Congren's "Li Family" is located in the northwest of Liang State, close to the border of Liang State.
The specific location is on the southwest side of the Beastmaster Zhou's house.
If you go to the "Bauhinia Immortal City" in the west of Liang Kingdom from Zhou's house, you will pass near the family land of the "Xuemeishan Li family".
Bauhinia Immortal City is also close to the border of Liang State, and has trade relations with Jing State in the Western Regions.
Li Congren's ability to take root in a more chaotic and bitterly cold place also benefited from his diplomatic ability.
For example, the Zhou family of Yushou is the strongest cultivating family in that area.
Li Congren took advantage of this relationship with Lu Changan, coupled with his filial piety, to maintain a good relationship with the "Zhou Jingxuan" of the Zhou family.
In terms of personal relationship, Li Congren made friends with a casual cultivator in the middle stage of foundation establishment, and had a fatal friendship.
This casual cultivator in the middle stage of foundation establishment became the enshrinement of the Li family.
Not only that.
Li Congren also became a Taoist partner with a female cultivator at the early stage of foundation establishment, but it was not made public.
The rapid development of the Li family also benefited from what Li Congren called "the right time and place".
To put it simply, it is a war fortune.
In the ten years before the war, the Li family bought a 50-year development right of a mine vein at a low price.
As the war started, the prices of various materials rose, and gold and iron-related ores were no exception.
In addition to mineral value-added.
The war supplies that circulated from Jing State to Liang State promoted the prosperity of trade around the Li family.
"Jing Guo, what is the current situation?"
Lu Changan asked curiously.
At present, several nearby countries, Liang Guo, Feng Guo, Yan Guo, and Chen Guo, are all involved in the war of cultivating immortals.
However, the battlefield is limited to Feng Kingdom.
"Jing Kingdom is a neutral cultivating country. There are no fourth-order spiritual veins and Yuanying-level sect forces, and it never participates in disputes between neighboring countries."
"The country is located within the angle between Chen State, Liang State, and the Black Mist Mountains. It is rich in materials and relatively developed in terms of trade. In these years of immortal wars, the sects and families of Jing State have made war fortune..."
Li Congren talked about the situation in Jingguo.
The Li family is close to the northwestern border of Liang State, and has contacts with businessmen in Jing State.
Seeing that Lu Changan was more interested, Li Congren presented him with a jade tube, which recorded the situation of Jing Guo's world of cultivating immortals.
"Jing Country, as a neutral cultivating country, does not intervene in the war, and the situation is stable. It is an alternative retreat."
Lu Changan thought to himself.
…
Afterwards, Lu Changan gave some guidance to this junior grandson in terms of cultivation.
Li Congren is nearly ten years younger than Mu Bingyun, and has reached the peak of the early foundation establishment stage. It will take some years of polishing to break through the bottleneck.
Before leaving.
Li Congren purchased a batch of war preparation materials from Lu Changan.
Li Congren's financial resources were beyond Lu Changan's expectations.
This son bought three puppets, one for the early stage, mid stage, and late stage of the second stage.
In terms of talismans, the second-tier middle-to-high grade is the main one, and I purchased a dozen or two, including two second-tier top-quality ones.
Of course, this kind of financial resources is the wealth of a family, not Li Congren's private property.
Squeak!
The ground rock mouse looked restless, seeing Li Congren soaring into the air, showing an expression of unwillingness.
"It made Grandpa Lu laugh. The junior has a pet spirit mouse, which is only at the beginning of the second level. He is not good at fighting, so he dare not come out to meet the rock mouse."
Li Congren explained with a smile.
"Oh? Is Congren's spirit mouse pet male or female."
"Public." Li Congren replied.
Lu Changan glanced at the rock mouse with a smile.
After Mu Congren left Wuqi Mountain.
Lu Changan communicated with the rock rat for a while.
"Mu Congren's spirit rat pet, bloodline level is not inferior to the current rock rat. It is not good at fighting, could it be a rare rat that hunts for treasure or mines? If so, the value is much higher than the rock rat."
"It seems that the development momentum of the line led by Mu Congren is not just due to the value-added of existing minerals."
Reminiscent of Mu Congren's quasi-third-order ore, Lu Changan couldn't help but guess.
He didn't mean to search or covet.
For the Foundation Establishment cultivator, this can only be regarded as a normal range of opportunities, and at the same time borrowed the wind of the war.
…
Three years passed in a flash.
Lu Changan practiced for seven or eight years on the sixth floor of the foundation building.
On this day, Shi Manrong came to Little Turtle Peak, bringing a piece of news.
"The engagement between Shen Bixin and Song Wenshu has been postponed?"
Lu Changan was surprised, almost thinking that Fairy Shi was joking.
A few months ago, they received an invitation letter from someone sent by Song Wenshu. At that time, the engagement was half a year later.
"At the beginning, I didn't believe it either. However, this is the news from the disciples of Lihuo Palace."
Shi Manrong looked puzzled.
"The marriage contract is postponed, not cancelled. What happened?"
Lu Changan felt strange and thought deeply.
Song Wenshu is in Lihuo Palace, although he is not from the true family background, or the direct line of the elders, but he has a good background.
"Recently, will the price of the array increase?"
"The low-level formations have not moved, but the quasi-third-level formations have seen an abnormal increase in demand and price."
Fairy Master replied, thinking quickly.
"You suspect that this matter has something to do with the war?"
She turned her clear eyes and looked at Lu Changan.
"If Song Wenshu is suddenly recruited by the sect to go to the front, then the extension of the marriage contract is an irresistible reason, and it is not shameful."
Lu Changan thought of a possibility.
"Three years ago, Liang Guozong recruited the third batch of monks. The fourth batch of recruits is indeed coming soon..."
Fairy Master pondered.
Lu Changan had a feeling that things were not that simple.
Because, in the past year, he has not received any news of the war from Jin Yungu Zhao Tan'er.
Lu Changan speculated: Unknown changes may have occurred in the frontline wars in neighboring countries.
Zhao Tan'er was probably banned by the sect and could not pass on information about the war to the outside world.
The channel for obtaining war information was blocked, and Lu Changan felt uneasy.
If the battle of cultivating immortals is a big storm, then he is like a small boat on the sea.
The current situation is equivalent to saying that the sailing boat has lost the forecast of the storm.
In a few years, Lu Changan will be promoted to the late stage of foundation establishment, and his strength will greatly increase, so he doesn't want to face surprises.
"There is a place where you should be able to get the latest war information..."
(end of this chapter)
