Chapter 258: Guest Retainer

Liu Zhangdie heard this and waved his hand, smiling:

"Zhangdie will not hide it. This fifty or sixty spirit stones is already the cost. Zhangdie is not seeking these spirit stones, but has a request!"

Li Xuanfeng suddenly realized and nodded, replying:

"Brother Zhangdie, just speak. If it is something my family can do, we will definitely not refuse!"

Liu Zhangdie paused slightly, sorted out his words in his heart, and said softly:

"Zhangdie has been immersed in array techniques for many years. As the array path becomes deeper, it becomes more difficult to see through the array principles and patterns. If I can get a pupil technique, I will definitely be able to do more with less and go further!"

"It's a pity that I have been searching for many years in this prefecture. The various families are all treasuring their own techniques, hiding their own formulas to death. Zhangdie has no way to seek. If your clan has this pupil technique, you can lend it to Zhangdie for a look. Not to mention this Earth Locking Huaqian Array, even if you set up another array, it doesn't matter..."

Liu Zhangdie naturally knew that the Li family had a pupil technique called "Spirit Eye Clear Pupil", which he had been eyeing in his previous life, but he had not been able to ask for it. Now that he was on good terms with the Li family, he wanted to seize the opportunity to ask for this magic technique.

"Oh?"

Li Xuanfeng raised his eyebrows suddenly, which made Liu Zhangdie secretly startled. Putting down the tea bowl in his hand, Li Xuanfeng secretly thought:

So he deliberately sold a mystery and frowned:

"So it is. My family happens to have a pupil technique, but there is no precedent for teaching it to people outside the clan."

"It was Zhangdie who was abrupt!"

Liu Zhangdie lowered his head somewhat dejectedly and apologized. Li Xuanfeng couldn't help but laugh and replied:

"If Brother Changqing likes my family, just hang a name in my family as a guest retainer, and it won't be breaking the precedent!"

"Is this true!"

Liu Zhangdie was naturally overjoyed and asked hurriedly. He had been showing favor to the Li family. If he wasn't afraid of being too diligent and being recognized as having other intentions, he would have asked about this guest retainer matter long ago. Seeing Li Xuanfeng nod, he was happy:

"This is great, this is great!"

People are happy when they have happy events. Liu Zhangdie had been humble and subservient for most of his life in his previous life to break through, being scolded and manipulated by others. He was not a big figure. Now that he was going to be a guest retainer of the Li family, his tone immediately became diligent, asking:

"I heard that the main family moved the array disk on Mount Yuting Mountain to Mount Huazhong Mountain. Is it still handy?"

"Speaking of this... I was originally going to ask Brother."

Li Xuanfeng shook his head and asked:

"This array disk is not something that can be set up just by placing it anywhere. On Mount Yuting Mountain, it was Qi Refining middle and late stage, but on Mount Huazhong Mountain, it only has the power of Qi Refining early stage. Brother, do you know why?"

Liu Zhangdie had a matter-of-course appearance and replied:

"This array disk is not something that can be set up just by placing it anywhere. If I guess correctly, the array disk on Mount Yuting Mountain was set up for the earth vein spiritual energy on Mount Yuting Mountain. Brother, you moved it to Mount Huazhong Mountain, so naturally the power is greatly reduced!"

He waved his hand and took it all on himself:

Li Xuanfeng naturally thanked him repeatedly. The two chatted for a while, and Li Xuanfeng said:

"I will go to report to the Lord. As for this Huaqian Mountain matter, my nephew will stay behind to guard Huaqian. Brother Zhangdie, you talk to Yuanjiao."

Liu Zhangdie and Li Yuanjiao both responded. Li Xuanfeng bid farewell and rode the wind away. Li Yuanjiao watched this array master leave, and asked:

"I don't know what spiritual objects the Senior wants to use, and how much manpower to adopt? I will prepare it."

Liu Zhangdie's mouth twitched when he heard this, and he said awkwardly:

"Don't call me Senior... Brother Yuanjiao, wait for me to write down the various requirements, and you go to purchase them."

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"Little one, little one dare not be careless..."

Sha Moli broke out in a cold sweat, lowered his head, and stared straight at the bluestone ground. His mind was a mess, and he responded vaguely. Li Tongya sat at the head, glanced at him, and opened his mouth:

"Come forward!"

Sha Moli hurriedly stood up and stepped forward two steps. Li Tongya looked at him twice, his eyebrows slightly frowned, secretly thinking:

Li Tongya saw his fearful appearance, and thought about how diligent this person had been over the years, only ordered a sentence:

"Your cultivation technique needs to be nurtured, don't be too overworked."

Sha Moli didn't know if he heard it or not, and responded submissively. Li Tongya said all he had to say, and thought warmly of his juniors, secretly thinking:

"With Sha Moli's example, I can find some spiritual objects and elixirs to nourish the foundation for Qinghong..."

Li Tongya was most attentive to these juniors, and even had to put his own children behind the children of several brothers. He carefully remembered this matter in his heart and opened his mouth:

"Your eldest son has started to cultivate. He went up the mountain to beg Xuanxuan and got the Li surname. He is also a promising one. When the child achieves Qi Refining, let him give up the position and come up the mountain to cultivate well."

Li Tongya's words did not have any meaning of discussion. Sha Moli heard this and had no dissatisfaction, and even felt slightly moved and grateful. Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining were already completely different. He was still polite. Back then, a group of Great Witch Doctors on Wushan used Qi Refining cultivators as medicinal materials. Shanyue people had long learned to bow their heads and wait for orders. Sha Moli was no exception, and said straight:

"Thank you! Thank you Old Ancestor!"

"Hmm."

Li Tongya saw that he was honest and smiled:

"A good Shanyue Lord, but in the end, he can only cultivate in a secret room on the mountain. It's a grievance for you."

"Little one doesn't have this heart!"

Sha Moli had been ruling Shanyue for four or five years, so how could he not understand that it was the time to show loyalty? He knelt down with a thud, trembling:

"If it weren't for the main family, the little one would have died in some corner of Shanyue long ago! Now that I have achieved Qi Refining and rule the Shanyue country, what else is there to be dissatisfied with... Inheriting the throne is my own child, which is a matter of course. It is just right to make room to concentrate on cultivation and enjoy the spiritual energy of the immortal mountain. The little one is extremely grateful!"

Li Tongya finished listening to this, his eyes still staring at the sword in his hand, nodded and said:

"Not bad, grown a lot. Stay on the mountain for a few months. The family will catch demons back in a few months. You will contribute your part then."

"Little one understands."

"Retreat."

Sha Moli then slowly left the courtyard, only feeling his back soaked, and walked down the mountain in a daze. In his mind, there was still that sword with cold light flashing. It took a long time to come back to his senses, and he muttered:

"Li family... the main family already has Foundation Establishment sitting in town, which is a great thing. I am at ease, and the main family is not afraid of me making trouble, so there is no worry about killing the donkey after the mill."

Sha Moli walked on the stone slab road, and the Li family members appeared in his mind one by one, from Li Xiangping and Li Tongya to Li Xuanfeng and Li Xuanling, and then from Li Xuanxuan and Li Yuanshu to Li Yuanjiao and Li Qinghong. His heart was both lucky and emotional.

"Coming to the main family many years ago was just a thought, but I boarded this big ship... A thought of difference, either becoming someone else's slave, a corpse in the forest, or achieving a country's master, riding the wind in Qi Refining."

"Thousands of hard lives, ten thousand thoughts of calculation, are not as good as this thought of difference. The rise and fall of fate between heaven and earth is absurd."

He was only a little over forty years old, yet the ups and downs he had experienced were more than ten times that of an ordinary person. Walking on the mountain path, his footsteps became increasingly light and brisk.