Chapter 138: Grafting Wood Technique

The City Lord's Mansion of Haiqing City was extremely large. After Qingyu brought Cheng Xinzhan into the mansion, she flipped her hand and released a cloud chariot. She invited Cheng Xinzhan to board the cloud chariot, while she herself stepped on a giant leaf to lead the way in front.

The cloud chariot traveled in the mansion for a long time before arriving at an elegant courtyard. On the plaque of the courtyard gate were written three characters,

Douduo Pavilion.

This was an interesting courtyard name.

The two got off the cloud chariot, Qingyu put away the cloud chariot, and brought Cheng Xinzhan inside.

Just after passing the shadow wall, they saw a woman like a white magnolia standing gracefully there. The woman was dressed in light, plain skirts, her green hair hanging down like a waterfall, looking a little damp, as if she had just washed her hair and it was half-dry.

The woman's face was not powdered, her goose-egg-shaped face white with a hint of red. She lowered her brows slightly, but her eyes were looking up, looking at the Daoist who was much taller than her. It was not pretentious, but it clearly had a bit of shyness and coyness.

Such a homely appearance was a bit less majestic and a bit more gentle than when she was the proprietor in Peacock City.

"Eleventh Lady, greetings."

Cheng Xinzhan smiled.

The two often wrote letters and were already very familiar.

"Qieqing, greetings. Xinzhan is different everywhere. In Peacock City, you were Sanyuan, on West Kunlun you were Yifu, and now you call yourself Qieqing. Are you planning to make a name for yourself again with Qieqing?"

The Eleventh Lady was not a delicate girl, but a strange woman who could manage business in a foreign land and name her courtyard 【Douduo】. As soon as they met, she came to tease Cheng Xinzhan.

"Xinzhan is also, changing your name is fine, why did you change your appearance to be so mediocre?"

Cheng Xinzhan laughed when he heard this,

"The elders in the mountain have said that since I started cultivating the Dao, I have been too flamboyant, so it is better to hide a little when walking outside."

The Eleventh Lady smiled when she heard this, revealing bright eyes and white teeth.

It was true; he was truly too outstanding.

The Eleventh Lady greeted Cheng Xinzhan to walk into the house. At this moment, she seemed to remember something and frowned to ask,

"What happened to Xinzhan being ambushed by the demonic path of the Third Realm on West Kunlun? I asked you in the letter, but you didn't explain in detail."

The two came to the hall and sat down, and Qingyu served tea.

Cheng Xinzhan took a sip and found it was sweet flower tea.

"I didn't know at the time. It was later that I heard from the elders in the mountain. That demon was from the Five Ghost Sect and wanted to refine a demonic weapon called the 'White Bone Heart-Lock Hammer.' Refining this demonic weapon requires the head of a Yang cultivator to open the spirit. I often used Yang fire to kill demons on West Kunlun, so I was targeted."

"So that's it."

Xiao Eleventh Lady nodded, but in her heart, she thought that if she met people from the Five Ghost Sect in the future, regardless of high or low, she would definitely slaughter them fiercely. This was not all; she heard that the sisters in Bifang City were also doing human trafficking. It would be best to find an opportunity to sell the Five Ghost Sect to vent her anger.

"Xinzhan said in the letter that he was traveling along the Dahe, but I didn't know where you were. I just thought that the Dahe enters the Bohai Sea. If you follow the river to see the sea, you might remember that I returned to Haiqing City and come to the sky to find me. I didn't expect that you really came."

The Eleventh Lady's eyes were bright.

Cheng Xinzhan smiled. When he was traveling in the Northern Frontier, he went to the Tianshan Sword Sect, and in Longyou, he went to Mount Kongtong. Both of these families had friends he made on West Kunlun. When passing through the Jin Plain, he went to Mount Wutai and met the monk Xiangzai. Next, he also wanted to go to Mount Laoshan to see Xue Lixing and ask him to cast a sword for him.

If one had friends wherever one went, what a beautiful thing it was!

Since he had arrived at the Bohai Sea, and it was so close, he naturally had to come to Haiqing City to see.

"How is your cultivation now?"

Cheng Xinzhan asked.

He knew that Xiao Eleventh Lady was practicing the Grafting Wood Technique. This technique was the most opportunistic technique, and some people said it was the technique of wealthy families.

He also knew that many people in Baiyujing were practicing this method. Some were because they had to manage family business and had no time to cultivate, and some were greedy for pleasure and had no heart to cultivate.

Xiao Eleventh Lady was the former.

People who practice the Grafting Wood Technique conclude talisman seeds in flower and wood seeds with Wood-element magic power, and then cultivate them. As the flowers and trees grow, part of the spiritual energy they absorb is transformed into Wood-element magic power and fed back to the talisman owner.

The amount of this feedback is very small, so only when the flowers and trees grow into a forest can the talisman owner's realm be pushed up.

However, although it is slow, this method has no harm to the physical body, unlike taking elixirs; it is neither difficult to accept the medicinal power of tonics, nor will it accumulate elixir poison.

Legend has it that this was a method created by Lu Zu when he was young for a beauty with extremely poor Daoist aptitude.

However, the drawback to this lazy method is quite obvious: the talisman master themselves possesses little combat power. If they do not rely on magic treasures, they must wait until the flora and wood awaken their spirits and transform into demons before they can protect the talisman master.

The method itself is profound, but there are those who harbor evil intentions, planting talisman seeds into the flesh of fetuses. This is the most notorious "Ghost Child Wedding Dress" method in the demonic path, a perversion that the righteous path of the world kills on sight.

"Sigh."

Xiao Eleventh Lady sighed, "Now the higher I go, the harder it is to conclude talisman seeds, and high-quality spirit wood is becoming harder and harder to find. I previously won by quantity and barely reached the Second Realm, but if I want to conclude a Golden Core with A-talisman and B-talisman, it is far out of reach." Cheng Xinzhan tapped the table lightly with his fingers. So Eleventh Lady was already at the Second Realm. He knew that people who practice the Grafting Wood Technique at the Second Realm must conclude talisman seeds with Gang and Sha contaminated with Wood elements. For the wealthy Xiao family, this was not an easy task.

"Eleventh Lady, do you have a lead bottle here?"

The woman looked at him when she heard this, not knowing what he meant.

Cheng Xinzhan flipped his palm, and a purple-pink dewdrop appeared in his palm, surrounded by flame flower miasma, extremely gorgeous and eye-catching.

"This is 'Purple Fire Rotten Peach Sha,' which is the Yin Sha of Ding Fire and Yi Wood. Do you see if it is useful for you to conclude a Yin talisman?"

Eleventh Lady treated him well, not to mention the time she gave him wine in Baiyujing to make him famous, and later when she came to Mount Sanqing, she gave him a lot of paper, ink, brushes, and inkstones. By comparison, she took away very few talismans and never urged him to deliver new talismans. He remembered this kindness.

Xiao Eleventh Lady widened her watery eyes. She had been looking for Yi Wood Sha water everywhere for a long time without any leads. He just took it out so easily?

"Yes, yes."

Qingyu replied quickly, pinching her own master with her hand. The master was looking for Gang and Sha everywhere, so where would she not be prepared with a lead bottle?

However, Xiao Eleventh Lady, who was always generous and regarded money as dirt, was a little coy at this moment, lowering her head and looking at the tea, not knowing what she was thinking.

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Cheng Xinzhan smiled, "Eleventh Lady, could it be that you knew I scattered my talismans on West Kunlun, and this time I came not only without talismans to deliver to you, but also had to bother you to lend me some talisman paper, so you deliberately didn't take this drop of Sha water, so that I couldn't open my mouth?"

"Puchi."

Xiao Eleventh Lady laughed, rolled her eyes at him, and took out a lead bottle to take the Sha water.

"I wouldn't dare. If one day you can't scatter talismans, burying your name as Yifu, and the world finds out, they will still blame me, a little girl."

Cheng Xinzhan laughed.

Not long after, delicious delicacies, seasonal fruits, and nectar were sent up one by one.

Even for the dog, a tiger bone was sent.

After Cheng Xinzhan was full, he didn't finish the wine and even picked up the wine pot to pour it into his gourd.

Eleventh Lady really couldn't stand it and told Cheng Xinzhan to give the gourd to Qingyu and let Qingyu go get the wine.

Cheng Xinzhan was not polite at all and handed over the gourd. Having been outside for two years and not going to the Miao village, the wine had long been drunk.

"How long will Eleventh Lady stay in Haiqing City this time, and how was your report?"

Cheng Xinzhan asked.

Eleventh Lady replied: "The report was okay. Speaking of which, it was also luck, and I have to thank Xinzhan even more. The first year I took over the sea market was the year the Pearl Tower Master held the Sword Fighting Assembly. Xinzhan, as a person who nearly won three consecutive titles, stayed in my sea market restaurant, which made my brand famous. The business has been very good since then. Among the one hundred brothers and sisters who reported this time, I ranked sixth."

Cheng Xinzhan admired her very much. People in Baiyujing were all so good at business. Eleventh Lady could rank sixth, naturally, it was not as simple as just borrowing the east wind of the Sword Fighting Assembly.

"If I return to Peacock City, there are still a few days. By the way, Xinzhan, what have you been busy with lately? Are you in a hurry to leave?"

Eleventh Lady asked.

Cheng Xinzhan shook his head, "There is no urgent matter. I plan to continue walking along the East Sea, and when I reach Huiji, I will return to Yu Zhang."

Hearing this, Eleventh Lady blinked and tentatively asked,

"My family is going to hold an Autumn Hunt in a few days. Those with high rankings can get rewards. The rewards include high-quality spirit plant seeds and family industries. Xinzhan, you also know that we are all children of merchants, and the clan encourages the children participating in the hunt to invite guest ministers to help. See if you can spare some time to be my guest minister?"

Cheng Xinzhan nodded and asked, "That's fine, but my realm is low, I don't know if I can help Eleventh Lady."

Eleventh Lady said, "Xinzhan is too modest. Those participating in the hunt are all our juniors, and the guest ministers invited cannot exceed the Third Realm. And below the Third Realm, I think Xinzhan is already extremely powerful."

Cheng Xinzhan said okay. The Autumn Hunt sounded interesting, and it would be good to see it.

Afterwards, the two chatted for a while, and Qingyu led him to a vacant courtyard in the guest area of the City Lord's Mansion to rest. He was a male outsider, so naturally, he could not spend the night in Eleventh Lady's courtyard.

After Qingyu returned to Douduo Courtyard, Eleventh Lady ordered,

"Two things. First, take ten of my North Pearls, and you go to Tiecha Mountain yourself to apologize to Sister Guo for me. Just say she doesn't need to come to this year's Autumn Hunt, and I have already chosen another guest minister to help. If Sister Guo wants to tease me, let her laugh."

"Second thing, send someone to Peacock City quickly to take all the talisman paper and talisman ink accumulated in our talisman shop. Didn't you hear? Cheng Yifu is about to run out of talismans."

Qingyu took the order and ran away in small steps.

For the next two days, Xiao Eleventh Lady accompanied Cheng Xinzhan to stroll around Haiqing City, and it was not until the third day that the day the Autumn Hunt began arrived.

Early in the morning, Xiao Eleventh Lady led Cheng Xinzhan to leave Haiqing City. The place for the Xiao family's Autumn Hunt was naturally not in the city, but on an island in the Bohai Sea called Changqing Island.

The two descended from the Third Heaven to the Bohai Sea, arriving at a vast water area, boundless, with no islands around.

Just waiting for Eleventh Lady to pinch several spell formulas on her hand, Cheng Xinzhan saw the void in front of him being lifted like gauze, and Eleventh Lady took Cheng Xinzhan into this corner.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 139 =====