Chapter 681

After Li Qinchuan had put away the technique jade slip, he said, "Brother-in-law, don't worry!"

"I understand this principle! Now I can't wait to go back and look at the technique!"

Lin Zhangqing understood his urgent mood, so after saying a few more words, he let him go back first! Now that he had nearly 30,000 sect contribution points in his hands, he decided to go to the Affairs Hall tomorrow to take a look.

The next day, after completing his basic cultivation, Lin Zhangqing left Cuiyun Valley and flew directly to the Affairs Hall on his sword.

Coming here, he could be considered familiar with the road. After entering the Affairs Hall, he did not specifically go to the counter where that Junior Sister was on duty this time.

He just found a queue with fewer people and consciously lined up at the very back.

Originally, coming to the Affairs Hall, he should have gone to see the Old Drunkard first, but unfortunately, he didn't know where he had gone to seclude himself now, so he wouldn't go to the backyard! After queuing for a while, it was finally his turn.

The person on duty at the counter was a very young fellow disciple. After seeing him, Lin Zhangqing said directly, "Junior Brother, I want to exchange for a few third-tier defensive magic treasures. Could you help me find a few with relatively powerful defensive capabilities?"

The disciple on duty at the counter hurriedly said, "Alright, Senior Brother, please wait a moment while I take a look for you!"

He then picked up a jade slip and read it carefully, then quickly said, "Found them, Senior Brother! Let me mention a few and see if they are suitable! The first one is the Green Gold Thick Earth Shield, a third-tier lower-grade magic treasure of the earth attribute! Exchanging for it requires 6,000 sect contribution points."

"The second one is the Black Armor Green Wood Shield; this is a third-tier lower-grade magic treasure of the wood attribute! Exchanging for it only requires 7,000 sect contribution points."

"The third one is the Golden Silk Yellow Luo Umbrella; this is a third-tier middle-grade magic treasure of the metal attribute! Exchanging for it requires 12,000 sect contribution points."

"The fourth one is the Golden Dragon Body-Protecting Flag; this is also a third-tier middle-grade magic treasure of the metal attribute! Exchanging for it requires 13,000 sect contribution points!"

"These are the four. Which ones does Senior Brother feel are suitable?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Zhangqing weighed them quickly in his heart and said, "Forget about the first one, the Green Gold Thick Earth Shield. I want the remaining three!"

When the disciple on duty heard this, he was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Alright, Senior Brother, I'll go over and help you get the items!"

After saying this, as if afraid that Lin Zhangqing would go back on his word, he ran off in a flash! Before long, he returned and showed Lin Zhangqing the three defensive magic treasures.

He personally handled them, sensing and checking them carefully once over. After confirming there were no problems, he handed over his identity jade token.

Then he said, "Deduct the contribution points from inside. I will make up the insufficient part with spirit stones!"

After saying this, Lin Zhangqing poured out 40,000 lower-grade spirit stones.

The disciple on duty agreed and immediately took his identity jade token, incidentally collecting the spirit stones as well.

After fiddling with it for a bit, he returned the identity jade token to him and also handed over the three defensive magic treasures!

After Lin Zhangqing put the items away, he scanned his identity jade token and found that only a dozen or so contribution points were left on it.

It seemed that for this recent period, he could only hope that Li Qinchuan would buy more spirit materials to earn him more contribution points! After leaving the Affairs Hall, he flew directly toward Cuiyun Valley, but halfway there, he turned toward the Trading Plaza.

Mainly because he discovered that the spirit crystals the Purple Crystal Scorpions were gnawing on were used up, so he had to go over and let Li Qinchuan keep an eye out to collect some second-tier superior spirit crystals.

In the future, he would try his best to hand over such miscellaneous tasks to Li Qinchuan to handle. After all, he was his disciple and brother-in-law!

After arriving at the place where he often set up his stall and handing this task to him, Lin Zhangqing strolled around there incidentally. He didn't find many new things, but he still harvested five first-tier Yin Spirit Stones.

This item contained Yin-attribute spiritual energy, which was just right for Li Xiangting to use, so he spent 500 lower-grade spirit stones to buy them directly.

He also made an agreement with the stall owner that if there were Yin Spirit Stones in the future, he should save them for him, as he would come over to take a look from time to time.

There were no other harvests, so he returned to Cuiyun Valley and began to race against time to refine the three defensive magic treasures.

Just like that, about ten more days passed, and one day Li Qinchuan returned to tell him an important piece of news.

The sect was recruiting Foundation Establishment and Purple Mansion stage disciples to participate in the exploration and trial of a thunder-attribute secret realm, and it offered very generous rewards.

It was said that as long as one agreed to participate in the trial, they would be given 20,000 sect contribution points first.

Furthermore, this time, all the spirit objects harvested inside would belong to oneself; there was no need to split half with the sect.

When Lin Zhangqing heard this, the first thing he thought of was that Zhuang Chuantao and Lu Baisheng had finally handed over the secret realm in their hands to the sect.

He didn't know what kind of benefits they had received this time! However, this reward had no appeal to Lin Zhangqing at all, so he just listened to it as ordinary news.

Afterward, he threw it to the back of his mind. Just like that, another twenty days passed before he completely finished refining all three defensive magic treasures.

Mainly because two of them were of relatively high grade, being third-tier middle-grade defensive magic treasures, which was why it took so much time to refine them.

And there was one more thing: half a month ago, Li Qinchuan had also officially begun seclusion to switch to cultivating the "Five Elements Chaos Sutra"!

As for himself, he also planned to start taking the fourth-tier Wood Tooth Crystal after resting for two days.

He wanted to see if he could assist the fundamental technique of the "Five Elements Chaos Sutra" to impact his cultivation to the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment.

Unfortunately, just a day later, someone Lin Zhangqing absolutely never expected came to find him!

The next day, after completing his basic cultivation, he went to the backyard garden to brew a pot of spirit tea for himself, and he had only drunk a few cups.

He suddenly felt that someone had triggered the Nine Palace Mystery Array at the entrance. Lin Zhangqing took a look directly with his divine sense.

Unexpectedly, after seeing who it was, he widened his eyes in surprise, looking somewhat incredulous.

But knowing he couldn't keep the visitor waiting, he immediately flew over and opened the formation to welcome the guest.

Arriving at the entrance of Cuiyun Valley, after Lin Zhangqing opened the formation, he immediately said, "Disciple Lin Zhangqing, respectfully welcomes Uncle-Master!"

The visitor was precisely the high-stage cultivator who had been on duty at the arena during the decennial grand competition a few months ago, only he had never known his name.

The visitor smiled and nodded, saying, "My name is Lu Zongkui, and I have had a friendship with the Old Drunkard for over two hundred years. You calling me Uncle-Master is not wrong at all!"

Lin Zhangqing didn't know why the visitor would say this, which made him feel a bit confused.

He still said, "So it is Uncle-Master Lu! Since you came in person this time, there must be something going on. Let's go into the valley and talk while having tea!"

(End of chapter)