Chapter 56

Indirect practice has proved that even without contact dual cultivation, the Yin-Yang Technique is helpful for opening meridians and acupoints. Applying the tricks in it to impacting the barrier not only speeds up the progress of breaking through acupoints, but also has a certain improvement in the transformation effect of true essence.

With Qing Jie's help, the time to open the Neiguan acupoint was about two or three days ahead of the original plan.

So Liu Xiaolou happily entered the impact of the seventh acupoint—the Daling acupoint, but there was only one spirit stone left in his hand. And half a month later, the last one was also used up, so he had to end this quiet practice.

When Qing Jie came to the door again, Liu Xiaolou expressed his gratitude to her: "Qing Jie, thanks to your careful guidance during this period, I have nothing to repay. This jade pendant is a little bit of my heart, please accept it."

Qing Jie was stunned: "Not practicing anymore?"

Liu Xiaolou said: "It's about time to return to the mountain, I don't know if the Qingyu Sect has left..."

Qing Jie hurriedly said: "They haven't left, they are still there. You should just stay steadily. Didn't you say that your cultivation has improved a lot? Why not go all out?"

Liu Xiaolou scratched his head: "Still haven't left? Three months, right..." He smiled bitterly: "Then I have to go. The spirit stones are gone, so I have to go out to find opportunities and earn some spirit stones."

Qing Jie smiled: "I have been thinking about this for you! Two days ago, an outer sect steward of the Qingyu Sect came to my place to drink. He drank too much and opened his mouth to curse Zhanglong Mountain, Dongyang Mountain, and Mount Tianmu, saying that because of these three mountains, they stewards were reprimanded by the sect and had to travel thousands of miles to run around. My girl asked for the reason, and the steward said that the three mountains refused to sell them spirit wine and spirit rice, so they had to travel to other places. He was sent to Qian'dong, and he didn't know if the sects there would sell it."

Among the sects in Jingxiang, Zhanglong Mountain produces spirit rice, Mount Tianmu brews spirit wine, and Dongyang Mountain also brews a little spirit wine, but not much. In addition, other sects, families, and independent cultivator sects produce very little, not even enough for their own use, let alone selling them.

Liu Xiaolou asked: "Why don't these three mountains sell to the Qingyu Sect?"

Qing Jie sneered: "They Qingyu Sect came to western Hunan, claiming to eliminate harm for the cultivation sects in Jingxiang, saying that the three mountains were jealous, and saying something about the cultivation sects being limited by regional ideas and not accepting their kindness, looking indignant. But even those of us in this line know that you can't cross the line in business. You are a sect in eastern Hunan, running to western Hunan to suppress bandits. People are embarrassed to say anything because of face, so what if they trip you up behind your back? It's just refusing to sell spirit rice and spirit wine. If it were us, we would have fought to the door long ago!"

Liu Xiaolou gave a thumbs up: "Qing Jie's insight is sharp, hitting the nail on the head!"

Qing Jie added: "What if these masters of the Qingyu Sect don't eat spirit wine and spirit rice? Can't they live? It's really... forget it, don't talk about this. Just say that I was still pondering when I heard it before. I remember a guest before, from the Zhang family of Jinping Mountain, who seemed to have a high status. I will find a way to see if I can contact him. I know that their Zhang family also brews spirit wine."

Liu Xiaolou thought for a while and said: "This idea of Qing Jie is good. I will find a way for the spirit wine. I can come back in two or three days at the fastest, or five or six days at the slowest. If Qing Jie has a chance, help me contact the steward of the Qingyu Sect, and let's find a way to sell the wine to the mountain."

Qing Jie immediately made a decision: "Let's do it this way, extort a few more spirit stones from him to help Xiaolou open the five meridians as soon as possible!"

Liu Xiaolou's way is naturally not the Zhang family of Jinping Mountain. He immediately closed the door and rushed to the Tianmen Mountain market. Wei Hongqing is in charge of Hongji Restaurant. Isn't this the biggest way?

When he rushed to Hongji Restaurant, Wei Hongqing was not there, but the shopkeeper already knew Liu Xiaolou and knew that he was a good friend of the owner Wei, so he led him to the inner room to sit down and greeted him with wine and food.

Liu Xiaolou took the opportunity to ask for the price, and the shopkeeper also informed him.

Hongji Restaurant sells three kinds of spirit wine. The most common is the Lu family spirit cellar, forty taels of silver a jar, which is the kind Liu Xiaolou drank when he first arrived and settled the account himself. The spiritual power is very light, and even a cultivator like Liu Xiaolou at the third level of Qi Refinement doesn't enjoy it, just rinsing his mouth.

The high-end one is Zhuyeqing, which is the kind Wei Hongqing treated him to. A jar is several hundred taels of silver, or half a jar for one spirit stone. The spirit wine brewed by the Zhang family of Jinping Mountain of the Dongyang Sect is equivalent to its taste.

The best is the Tianmu Spirit Terrace Wine, which is said to be brewed with the spirit spring water of Mount Tianmu. Liu Xiaolou has never seen it, it is only used by the Lu family and is never sold outside.

To resell spirit wine to the masters of the Qingyu Sect, the Lu family spirit cellar can't be taken out, and it can't be sold for a high price. It must be Zhuyeqing.

But the shopkeeper only agreed to sell one pot. When asked why, he only said that this batch was brewed less and was only for the Lu family's own consumption, and there was no surplus to sell outside. If it weren't for the sake of the owner Wei, he wouldn't dare to take this pot out to sell.

Sure enough! So Liu Xiaolou said no more and waited for Wei Hongqing with peace of mind.

Waiting until late at night, when the restaurant was about to close, Wei Hongqing hurried back. Seeing Liu Xiaolou, he didn't feel surprised, just drove the idlers out, and whispered: "Xiaolou, have you heard? Young Master Lu is missing."

Liu Xiaolou was calm: "What did Brother Wei hear over there?"

Wei Hongqing said: "I heard from the Qingyu Sect people that he once took two people to break into Taoyuan, and after entering the mountain, he disappeared, and even the Form-Capturing Technique couldn't find him. One of them, I suspect, is a steward under my command, and this steward also lost news, and I don't know about the other one."

Liu Xiaolou asked back: "Is his disappearance a good thing or a bad thing for Brother Wei?"

Wei Hongqing smiled: "Of course it's a good thing. This guy has always liked to cause trouble for me. In these few months, I have really saved a lot of worry."

Liu Xiaolou said: "Isn't that great?"

Wei Hongqing said: "It's just that his elder brother Lu Yuanlang is a bit troublesome, like a mad dog, looking at everyone unpleasantly, looking at everyone as the murderer who harmed his brother. But I am upright and not afraid of shadows, so let him make trouble. It's just that Lu Yuanlang turned his spearhead back to the Qingyu Sect..."

Liu Xiaolou realized: "So you guys cut off their spirit wine and spirit power?"

Wei Hongqing nodded: "Exactly Lu Yuanlang's proposal, and also because the Zhanglong Sect took the initiative to contact. The sect elders agreed to cut off their spirit wine, and the Zhanglong Sect also decided not to sell them spirit rice. The Qingyu Sect people are used to eating spirit wine and spirit rice, and suddenly changed their taste, they can't stand it. Let's see how long they can stay in western Hunan... So..."

Liu Xiaolou changed the subject: "So this time I came for spirit wine, I want to ask Brother Wei, can you sell some Zhuyeqing to me?"

Wei Hongqing nodded, a smile appeared on his face: "How much do you want?"

Liu Xiaolou said: "Try not to cause trouble for Brother Wei, let's start with four jars, how about it?"

Wei Hongqing said: "During this period, I originally didn't sell spirit wine to the outside world... How about this, you come once every two days, take one jar away every day, I will calculate it for you at eighty taels a jar, but you can't say you bought it from me."

Liu Xiaolou said happily: "Then thank you, Brother Wei!"

Liu Xiaolou emptied all his family wealth, counted the gold hairpin and jewelry picked up by the big white goose and the silver ingot given by Qing Jie, and just managed to make up more than eighty taels of silver, and calculated it all to Wei Hongqing.

Wei Hongqing originally wanted to make up for Liu Xiaolou, but Liu Xiaolou insisted on not allowing it. Since it was calculated to be enough, why let a good brother make up the money?

Holding this jar of Bamboo Leaf Green, Liu Xiaolou rushed back to Wuchao Town overnight.