Chapter 166: Planning Shanyue

Li Yuanxiu stepped on the bluestone slab and went up the mountain. The courtyard was cold and clear. Several elders had already gone into closed-door cultivation. Only Li Xuanling was holding a teacup in the garden, holding a white jade slip of 'Yuehe Turbulent Step' in one hand and reading it. Seeing Li Yuanxiu walking in with joy, he said softly:

"What good thing makes you so happy

"East Shanyue was attacked by demon objects, Mu Jiaoman died suddenly, his son Brother Shamoli took refuge in my family, and is now waiting down the mountain."

Li Yuanxiu finished speaking concisely. Li Xuanling hurriedly put down the teacup, put away the jade slip in his left hand, and nodded with a smile:

"It's really a good thing!"

Seeing Li Yuanxiu's burning eyes, wanting to speak but stopping, Li Xuanling asked:

"I see your appearance, but do you have any plans in your heart?"

"Exactly."

Li Yuanxiu cupped his fists, obviously having already prepared the draft on the way, and stated his thoughts one by one:

"Brother Shamoli is in our hands, and he will inevitably be supported as the Lord of East Shanyue. However, in the nephew's view, the matter of East Shanyue has many oddities. Although we hold Brother Shamoli in our hands, we cannot underestimate Wushan. We still have to wait, first inquire about intelligence, and then discuss the matter of waste and establishment."

"Well said."

Li Xuanling nodded solemnly and asked:

"How about Brother Shamoli?"

"Brother Shamoli, nephew has already seen him. This person looks ignorant of power, stupid and incompetent, but he also has to guard against being pretended to be shown to my family. Now let's leave Brother Shamoli first, provide him with beauties and singing and dancing, test him a few times, and it is best to let him leave a few descendants in my family."

"Oh?"

Li Xuanling thought for a few breaths, suddenly thought of something, and asked:

"This person hasn't practiced Qi, right?"

"Not yet!"

Li Yuanxiu raised his head and looked at Li Xuanling. Obviously, they thought of the same thing. Li Yuanxiu laughed:

"My family still has a copy of 'Profound Thunder Secret Origin Formula'. After he leaves descendants in my family, I can issue the Xuanjing Spiritual Oath and hide the side effects and reward it to him, calling him unable to reproduce. Maybe he will be grateful. After he returns to East Shanyue, no matter how he has different intentions as he grows older, he has no descendants in the end, and the Li family still has to send the royal descendants who have been taught for many years. In this way, everything is in my Li family's hands."

Li Xuanling nodded approvingly, took his words, and said in a low voice:

"We don't have to refine a full copy of Profound Yin Thunder Liquid, just pick one or two percent, and mix the rest into miscellaneous Qi and hand it to him to refine Qi. 'Profound Thunder Secret Origin Formula' is strong, but practicing miscellaneous Qi, what can it practice? After he becomes Qi Refining, he is just a mediocre person, so that he won't get the third-grade cultivation method and be too powerful to be controlled..."

Li Yuanxiu nodded emphatically, thinking of the same thing as Li Xuanling. The two looked at each other, and in a few words, they brewed a conspiracy to eat Brother Shamoli to death. Li Xuanling laughed and said positively:

"The words are calculated like this, but I still have to discuss this matter with father, let him know, he knows many secrets, and by the way, I can ask about Wushan."

Li Yuanxiu cupped his fists and said in a deep voice:

"Then nephew will go to handle this matter first. Brother Shamoli is particularly close to Jiao, and this matter still needs Jiao to come forward more."

"You can do it with confidence."

Li Xuanling responded, thought for a few breaths, patted the storage bag at his waist, turned it over and took out several jade boxes, and instructed:

"These jade boxes contain several spiritual fruits of Embryonic Breath level, most of which are gifts sent during exchanges between families. The main effect is to increase cultivation, but my family doesn't have so many pill formulas, and taking them rashly will easily make the foundation empty, increasing the difficulty of future cultivation in vain, so they have been kept with me and haven't been used, watching them lose spiritual energy and become mortal fruits."

"Take these spiritual fruits, watch the timing and send them to Brother Shamoli, let him quickly improve his cultivation, so as not to keep up with my family's plan, and feed this person to the Qi Refining level earlier, so that things will be easier to do."

"Yes!"

Li Yuanxiu took the jade box, held it in his hand, and said respectfully:

"It is still the uncle who is thoughtful, Xiu will handle it."

Li Xuanling watched him leave the courtyard, sorted out this matter from beginning to end, and then went to Meichi Mountain to find Li Tongya.

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"Mu Jiaoman died suddenly..."

Li Tongya put down the jade slip, listened to Li Xuanling's account of the cause and effect of the Shanyue turmoil, and a cloud of doubt flashed in his heart, murmuring:

"Mu Jiaoman has his own way of contacting Wushan. According to reason, he can pay some price to invite Wushan's Qi Refining disciples to take action. How could he be beaten to death by demon objects so hard..."

Li Tongya thought for a few breaths, remembered that Xiao Yuansi had said that the Zifu cultivator of Shanyue had also reached the end of his life. According to the history of Shanyue's occupation here, this Shanyue Zifu cultivator was afraid that he was the one with the deepest qualifications among all Zifu, and he had lived for nearly 600 years. It is said that he had continued his life several times with secret methods.

"The one on Wushan is afraid that he is already working on breaking through to Golden Core. The Xiao family is also at a critical moment now. It is still necessary to write a letter to inform, and also to inquire about the specific situation, so as to judge Wushan's control over Shanyue now."

"Go call Donghe up."

Li Xuanling nodded and retreated. Li Tongya picked up a blank jade slip from the stone table, thought about it, put down the blank jade slip, changed it to a cheaper spiritual cloth, dipped in ink, wrote a brief letter, sealed it, raised the jade slip and read it again.

Chen Donghe had broken through to Qi Refining for four years now, and was currently at the second layer of Qi Refining. He cultivated with the correct heaven and earth spiritual energy, practiced the correct method, and his true essence was mellow and clear. He respectfully welcomed him and said in a deep voice:

"Donghe greets senior!"

Li Tongya waved his hand, handed the letter to his hand, and said gently:

"Trouble you to take a trip to the county, hand the letter to Senior Xiao Yuansi, and if you can reply immediately, you will bring it back together."

"Yes!"

Chen Donghe bowed and retreated, drove the wind out of the cave dwelling, Li Tongya looked back at Li Xuanling standing on the side, and said softly:

"Broken through to the sixth layer of Embryonic Breath Lingchu Wheel?"

"Reporting to father, broke through last month."

Li Tongya swept with spiritual sense and nodded:

"You are twenty-five years old this year. This speed is just right. Don't be faster. Accumulate for a few more years, and you can break through to Qi Refining before thirty."

"Child remembers."

Li Xuanling responded, stated his plan with Li Yuanxiu, Li Tongya listened without changing his expression, and replied:

"Yuanxiu is a person who can calculate. East Shanyue transports a large amount of grain and materials to the east every year, even including many spiritual objects. It relates to the food and clothing of more than 100,000 people under my Li family, and relates to how much incense there is during the sacrifice next year. Don't lose it. If Wushan is really unable to take care of itself, we can boldly further control East Shanyue."

"Child understands, but what if that Shanyue person really becomes Golden Core..."

Li Xuanling was also a cautious person, bowed and asked, and saw Li Tongya laugh:

"In the Immortal Dao, it is better to break through as early as possible under a solid foundation. Only these Zifu cultivators are at the end of their lives, and they have to break through when their vitality is exhausted. It can be seen that there is no certainty."

"I also read many history books. After the Immortal-Demon War, the Yue Kingdom was established. During this period, there were people who broke through to Golden Core. Later, the Moon Flower Yuan Mansion avoided the world, and the three sects and seven gates entered the world one after another. The Yue Kingdom existed in name only, and there was no immortal cultivator who broke through to Golden Core, let alone this Shanyue cultivator."

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