Chapter 57

Leaving Xu Henshui's residence, Zhang Sheng parted ways with Ji Liuli and left in a hurry. Zhang Sheng felt guilty about this matter and really didn't want to stay with Ji Liuli for long.

After parting, Ji Liuli boarded a quiet mountain peak and came to a small courtyard in front of the peak, and then the courtyard gate opened on its own.

In the courtyard sat a young Daoist, who looked young, even younger than Ji Liuli. He held an ancient book in his hand, and seeing Ji Liuli walk into the courtyard, he put down the book and asked: "Caused trouble again?"

"Of course not!"

The young Daoist was slightly surprised: "It's been three months since anyone came to complain to me! Did something go wrong with your cultivation?"

Ji Liuli said: "I've been refining Wei Yuan's foundation during this time, but the more I refine, the more confused I become, and checking the classics didn't give me an answer, so I can only ask the Patriarch."

The young Daoist became interested: "Wei Yuan? Is that the gold-swallowing little beast from the Tianqing Palace? What's wrong with his foundation, let me see."

Ji Liuli said: "He practices the Jade Toad Gazing at the Moon Map; this is his visualization map."

The young Daoist looked at the jade toad that was several tens of zhang high, and one eye could fit the entire courtyard, and the smile on his face froze. The jade toad also looked at him and blinked.

A moment later, the young Daoist said: "Good for you, Xuanyue, for hiding it so tightly!"

The young Daoist carefully examined Wei Yuan's visualization map and then said: "This is indeed a bit tricky; what medicine do you use to refine him now?"

"This is the refining prescription." Ji Liuli reported more than a dozen medicine names.

As soon as the young Daoist heard it, he shook his head and said: "The medicinal power is too weak! Your prescription is equivalent to pouring water with a ladle; how long are you going to pour on such a large piece of land? You have to use fierce medicine."

The young Daoist pondered for a moment and said: "I will give you four prescriptions, corresponding to tendons and muscles, blood merging, jade bones, and spirit refining; use my prescriptions to refine his foundation, and when his tendons and muscles are forged, the Foundation-Nurturing Pill's medicinal power won't be enough, and the Tianqing Palace will have to change pills. In fact, with Wei Yuan's foundation, the refining effect is no longer that great, but being able to add trouble to the Tianqing Palace is also good."

Taking the prescription, Ji Liuli's little face immediately changed: "Patriarch, the Tianqing Palace can't afford these medicinal materials now, right?"

"You can let them owe it, as long as Zhang Sheng writes an IOU, don't use Fenhai's!"

"Even if Zhang Sheng is willing to borrow, I don't have that much money to fill it in?"

The young Daoist said lightly: "Only a few million taels of immortal silver, just some scattered silver, I will fill it for you. Let's turn the gold-swallowing little beast into a gold-swallowing giant beast; I want to see how Xuanyue, that old thing, lives! Next time he sees me, if he dares to mention the word 'theory' again, I will smash the IOU on his face!"

Ji Liuli was overjoyed: "Thank you, Patriarch! Patriarch is so good!"

The young Daoist gave a huff and said: "You! My old man's skills, if you learned a little, you wouldn't worry about this little money? You only know how to fight and kill all day, not knowing that winning without fighting is the best..."

Before his great principles could start, Ji Liuli had already disappeared. The young Daoist stomped his feet in anger, but had no way.

However, looking back at that visualization map, he always felt something was not quite right, and frowned: "Making it so big, it looks like it was done on purpose. Could it be... that it's to welcome something over?"

At the foot of the mountain peak, Ji Liuli walked away sneakily. She naturally knew that these immortal silver were a huge problem for others, but for Yan Shi Fenhai Zhenjun, the head of the Heavenly Secrets Palace, it was not worth mentioning. He could earn millions just by adjusting fortune for any True Person, and his efficiency in robbing money was no less than that of the Creation Temple.

It was just that she liked fighting and killing.

Yan Shi Fenhai Zhenjun said that adjusting fortune could also kill people, but she still liked to fight and kill herself.

In the Task Hall, Zhang Sheng had been turning around for half an hour, but didn't see the Heavenly Craft Palace's task list, feeling very lost.

The price of Foundation-Nurturing Pills this month had risen by another half percent. Those old rascals at the Creation Temple were not human.

Zhang Sheng calculated the time; in two days, Wei Yuan's pills would be gone. He sighed and flew to the Tianqing Palace, heading toward True Person Fenhai's residence. Although his master was also having a hard time, as a True Person, there should always be more ways.

The door to True Person Fenhai's residence was open, and voices were coming from inside, seemingly arguing fiercely. Zhang Sheng subconsciously held his breath and waited outside the inner courtyard gate, wanting to wait for the people inside to leave before going to find his master.

The two people in the courtyard were originally talking in low voices, but for some reason, they didn't talk it out, and suddenly their voices began to rise.

Only hearing a pleasant female voice say: "Wang, don't be shameless! The money you owe me is already quite a lot, and it will only be more in the future. If you really annoy me, I'll give you a 'nine out thirteen back' interest rate, and you'll never be able to turn over in this life!"

True Person Fenhai said: "Yunying, we are both people who have achieved success in cultivation, why have such a big temper?"

"Look at this study of yours, are there any valuable things left? What about those fire fish in the pond? Your poor family fortune has been sold out, and you're only missing two pillars at the door. Oh, such a broken jade toad is also worth putting in the center of the treasure shelf, can it be worth ten taels of immortal silver? You call this success in cultivation?"

True Person Fenhai smiled bitterly: "I am an elder, I have to protect the younger generation, right? Otherwise, what should I do?"

"Younger generation, humph, you only know the younger generation! You are so good at feeling sorry for people, why didn't you feel sorry for me back then?"

"I really had no choice back then..."

"Nonsense! You betrayed your promise back then, clearly promised me but went back on your word at the last minute, and ran away silently, leaving me alone on the mountain! Now you have the face to say you had no choice?"

True Person Fenhai said humbly: "It was indeed my fault back then, but so many years have passed, your anger should have dissipated a bit."

"Fine, then let's not talk about the past, let's talk about the present. You still have many places where you need my help, why should I help you? Because you are shameless?"

True Person Fenhai sighed and said: "Then tell me, as long as I can do it, I will do my best."

"Good! I won't make it difficult for you, you come back with me now and boil the water in the lake behind my palace; I want to take a bath. Your Dao name is Fenhai, it shouldn't be difficult for you to boil a lake, right? As long as you come to boil bath water for me every month in the future, I won't charge you interest, otherwise, nine out thirteen back!"

True Person Fenhai was silent for a moment, then sighed and said: "No matter what, I let you down, let's go."

True Persons moved like lightning, and two figures soared into the sky and disappeared instantly.

The two True Persons were agitated and didn't notice Zhang Sheng outside the courtyard. Zhang Sheng knew a little about the past and knew that he couldn't intervene in this kind of thing.

It was just that it seemed his master was also at the end of his rope. Even as a True Person, it was impossible to independently bear the growth resources of more than five hundred Dao Foundations.

Zhang Sheng sighed, just about to leave, when he suddenly recalled a sentence the female True Person had just said. Jade toad? What jade toad?

Zhang Sheng pushed the door into the courtyard and went straight to the study. He saw that the treasure shelf facing him was empty, and most of the precious treasures originally placed here were gone. True Person Fenhai always liked to put his favorite treasures on this shelf, and now it seemed that most of his family fortune had been sold.

But Zhang Sheng's gaze froze, and he saw a low-quality jade toad in the center of the treasure shelf. This shelf originally held three small immortal swords, but now they had been moved to the side.

Zhang Sheng left the study with an expressionless face and slammed the door shut. Originally, he had some sympathy for his master's encounter, but now...

The old rascal deserves this disaster!

(End of chapter)