Chapter 199

The habit of the heroes of Wulong Mountain is to scatter like birds and beasts when the enemy situation is unclear, and each goes their own way. After receiving the news, they prepared to scatter.

But before they went far, they saw Huang Ye Xian climbing the peak, and soon reached the top of the peak.

Huang Ye Xian is a female cultivator, over forty years old, with a cultivation of Stage 9. Her personality is more straightforward than male cultivators. It is said that her ruthlessness in taking action is rare even among fellow Daoists. Although her appearance is ordinary, she is highly valued because there are very few female cultivators in Wulong Mountain, and she is quite popular among fellow Daoists.

At this moment, she had a smile on her face, without any panic. Everyone calmed down—it definitely wasn't a great sect coming to suppress them. Some people also realized and comforted each other: "It's okay, it's okay, the major sects have all decided, our Wulong Mountain is a boundary mountain, and no sect is allowed to go up the mountain!"

Huang Ye Xian came to the front and greeted loudly: "Xiaolou—Xiaolou, hurry back to your mountain gate, many fellow Daoists have come to visit you! People from Mount Shenwu, various high-gate young masters, more than a dozen of them, all have come!"

Liu Xiaolou hurried to meet her: "Huang Xian came to inform me personally, the junior is truly flattered!"

Huang Ye Xian pulled Liu Xiaolou's arm and turned to leave: "Hurry! These high-gate noble family young masters, each one is graceful, handsome, well-behaved, and eloquent, all are young talents... Let's hurry back to meet the guests. You've stayed in Wulong Mountain for too long. Seeing them is truly refreshing... Ah, in Wulong Mountain, only you and Wei kid are exceptions, I don't mean you..."

Liu Xiaolou smiled: "Actually, after staying with those high-gate young masters for a long time, you will know that it's just for fun. If you talk about righteousness and boldness, it has to be our Wulong Mountain."

Huang Ye Xian said: "Hmm, hmm, hmm, you are right, just for fun..."

Tan Bazhang and Fang Bu'ai followed closely. Left Gaofeng turned his head and glanced at Jiang Feihu and Zhang Shihua, sneering: "How about it? I told you earlier, even if it's a divorced son-in-law, it's still a son-in-law!"

Jiang Feihu's face was very bad. Zhang Shihua sighed and hugged him down the mountain: "Brother Jiang, the matter of setting up a monument forest at Tiankeng Drum... Brother Jiang thinks it should be set up or not?"

Jiang Feihu said hatefully: "Set it up, why not set it up? I insist on setting up the monument forest for him!"

He muttered again: "Divorced son-in-law, how can he still be a son-in-law?"

He looked back at the fellow Daoists who followed and asked: "Where is Linglong Guest? Why didn't he come?"

Zhang Shihua's face sank: "He said he refined his meridians and is healing."

Jiang Feihu spat: "Rat!" He pointed to someone behind him: "You go to Dry Bamboo Ridge and see if the people who came are from Mount Shenwu?"

Returning to Flying Tiger Cave to wait for news, before long, the man came back: "Brother Jiang, many people have come to Dry Bamboo Ridge. I listened to the general idea from the side. There is one in white, what Bai Yun Villa, surnamed Yun, known as Bai Yun Swordsman, and a big fat man, said to be from the Xiong family, and another Daoist, they all call him Daoist Lei Ming, and what Iron Young Master, Brother Jiayin... I don't know if it's true or not. Huang Xian is very enthusiastic, pulling this one to talk, laughing with that one, and even saying she wants to be the host and banquet these young masters."

After he finished speaking, Zhang Shihua pondered: "It's really true... Lady Ye is from Pengze, it's close to there, maybe they have all met..."

Jiang Feihu was silent: "What a dog's life!"

They were sad and unwilling in Flying Tiger Cave, but Dry Bamboo Ridge was very lively. Yun Ao, Xiong Xi, and other young masters came together, which was out of Liu Xiaolou's expectation, but also reasonable.

Liu Xiaolou knew they would definitely come to the door, but he didn't expect them to come together. After the excitement ended, he opened his heart and talked to them: "Everyone, I am no longer the son-in-law of the Su family. I think everyone knows this. At that time, I was disheartened and felt that I couldn't see anyone, so I thought about returning to Wulong Mountain, so I couldn't inform everyone, please forgive me. I originally thought about contacting everyone after I calmed down, but I didn't expect everyone to arrive. Since you are here, I will give everyone a promise. Wulong Mountain is indeed far from everyone. This point is undeniable. If it is not convenient for everyone to come again and you want to get back the spirit stones, I have no words. Like Brother Yun and Brother Xiong, you two still owe nine times in total. I will pay you a spirit stone, and you can find a way to divide it yourself. Others are roughly the same. Daoist Lei Ming still has one month. I can't pay you spirit stones, but I can pay you silver."

Yun Ao said: "Brother Liu, we came here this time, not for the spirit stones."

Liu Xiaolou cupped his hands: "Thank you for your understanding, Brother Yun. If everyone is still willing to come, I naturally welcome it, and I can add a few more times for everyone."

Yun Ao said: "Brother Liu, making a round trip is really too far, it takes three or five days. To tell you the truth, it is not convenient for us to come often, so everyone thought of a way, wanting to ask you to refine a set of array plates for us. How many spirit stones and silver are needed, we will gather."

This was a bit unexpected for Liu Xiaolou. He thought for a while and said: "A set of array plates is worth a lot, and my illusion array cannot be used forever after successful refining. After a period of time, you have to come back to replenish materials and re-refine."

Yun Ao nodded: "Doesn't any magic array consume spirit stones to be used for a long time? We understand. Brother Liu, just name your price."

Liu Xiaolou said: "Please stay here for a few days, I have never done this kind of business, I need to calculate how many spirit stones I should ask for, so that I won't lose money, and it won't make everyone a fool."

These young masters all laughed, Xiong Xi shouted: "It's the first time to be a guest at the son-in-law's place, how can I stay for a few days and appreciate the famous Wulong Mountain scenery!"

Daoist Lei Ming also said: "I heard that the son-in-law is good at dual cultivation techniques, and the poor Daoist wants to ask for advice."

Iron Young Master said: "It's not easy to come out once, not restrained by my wife, it's the time when the sky is high and the sea is wide, of course I have to stay for a few more days!"

Liu Xiaolou quickly reminded: "Everyone, this is Wulong Mountain. If you want to appreciate the mountain scenery, the scenery of my Dry Bamboo Ridge is especially beautiful. Don't wander around elsewhere, so as not to disturb the quiet cultivation of fellow Daoists in the mountain. If you show your power and hurt someone by accident, you can just leave, but I will have a headache. Please understand. Well, Senior Huang of Jade Maiden Cave and everyone are fellow villagers, you can go to Jade Maiden Cave to wander around."

These young masters stayed at Dry Bamboo Ridge. Huang Ye Xian and Fang Bu'ai took them to wander around Dry Bamboo Ridge, or visit fellow Daoists who were on good terms like Tan Bazhang and Left Gaofeng.

Taking advantage of these few days, Liu Xiaolou completed the conception of refining the array plate, trying his best to simplify the Lin Yuan Xuan Stone Array, removing everything unrelated to viewing, and deleting those unused parts, such as the defensive method that can withstand a certain degree of Daoist attacks, and the confusing method used to cover the enemy's perception. In this way, the time and materials for refining were reduced by half.

Based on this conception, he roughly drafted a list, dividing the required materials into two categories.

Ninety percent are general materials needed for refining array plates, such as five metals and eight stones, twelve kinds of common birds and beasts, spirit flowers and spirit grasses. He couldn't collect these things alone, it was time-consuming and laborious, and the loss outweighed the gain. He was prepared to hand them over to these young masters to collect. The variety was added a bit more than required, the purpose is to ensure that the recipe will not be leaked.

Another list is a few key spirit materials, including Muli Fragrance, Moshan Xuan Stone, Spring Water Essence Jade, and Dongting Toad. Among them, the most critical one is naturally Muli Fragrance.

After the list was drafted, he gathered the young masters to negotiate: "Please help collect these materials. How much it costs, I don't care. I only want the things. Once the things arrive, I will refine them. Refining a set of array plates takes roughly three months. Refining requires spirit stones as assistance to provide true qi replenishment, roughly nine spirit stones. I can't work for nothing, I also have to support my family and improve my cultivation. I don't charge much every month, only three spirit stones. In addition, this set of array plates also needs to ask an array master to assist, and also pay remuneration, needing four spirit stones, plus three spirit stones for renting a place with earth fire, totaling twenty-five spirit stones. Please consider."