Chapter 434: Nightmare Arrives at the Mansion, Heaven and Earth Spirits

Lanling City.

Marquis of Jing'an Mansion.

After the 1st, this long-quiet Marquis mansion became lively again.

For more than ten days in a row, it could be described as bustling!

Among those who took the initiative to visit, besides court officials, more were Jianghu figures.

Representatives from twenty-three provinces, a group of Martial Dao Masters, True Persons, Lanxun Pavilion reserve members, and members almost all came to visit Li Fei!

Li Fei was just elected as a member of the Lanxun Pavilion, and these people will be his colleagues in the future. Plus, they are all Martial Dao Masters and True Persons, so if he didn't see them, it would seem too pretentious.

So for more than half a month, Li Fei basically spent his daytime on interpersonal interactions and could only practice at night.

However, this tossing was also very valuable, allowing him to establish his own connections in the other twenty-two provinces.

"If the Marquis of Jing'an comes to Guangwu Province another day, you must let me fulfill the duties of a host!"

"Haha, Sect Master Zhang is too polite, I will definitely visit your sect when the time comes."

"Hahahaha, good, then it's a deal!"

In the main hall, Li Fei was talking with Zhang Zhang Chengjun, Sect Master of the Qianxue Sect in Guangwu Province.

Guangwu Province also has no top-tier major forces, and the Qianxue Sect is the strongest Jianghu sect in this province, so in the end, Zhang Zhang Chengjun was successfully elected as a member of the Guangwu Province Lanxun Pavilion.

The Qianxue Sect has the support of the Yuwen family, one of the "Ten Great Clans," so Zhang Zhang Chengjun, this member, can also be counted as being on the side of the imperial court.

Zhang Zhang Chengjun is 89 years old this year and is a Martial Dao Master of four supernatural powers. He is already trying to condense the Martial Dao Domain and has a certain chance of breaking through his realm.

Once the breakthrough is successful, the Qianxue Sect will have a Grandmaster and will immediately be able to rank among the top-tier major forces!

Therefore, Zhang Zhang Chengjun is very famous in the Jianghu of Guangwu Province and is the well-deserved number one person!

However, this Martial Dao Master, who has been famous for many years, put his posture very low in front of Li Fei. This visit also took the initiative to bring a valuable gift—Soul-Returning Pill.

Soul-Returning Pill is an elixir specifically for martial artists to practice "Returning to One," which can increase the success rate of martial artists breaking through to the Dao Foundation stage!

For such precious elixir, Li Fei uses his Marquis quota to buy from the imperial court, and he can only buy ten pills a year.

The bottle of Soul-Returning Pill that Zhang Zhang Chengjun sent has a total of thirty pills!

Li Fei certainly doesn't need such elixir anymore, but it can be used to cultivate his subordinates.

Now, the only Dao Foundation martial artist he has truly cultivated himself is Xu Xu Xiaotian, and he is very short of manpower. With this elixir, plus the Soul-Returning Pill given by the Crown Prince at the Qionghua Banquet of the Daluo Sect before.

The two bottles of elixir added together give Li Fei's subordinates another chance to have one more Dao Foundation martial artist!

The people who have visited him during this period are either sect masters or gang leaders, and at the very least, they are elders or great offerings.

These people, of course, wouldn't come empty-handed, and they were all very generous!

Li Fei also chose to accept most of the gifts depending on the situation.

He had already exhausted his purchase quota for the next five years during his previous seclusion. Although he has quite a quota every year after becoming a member of the Lanxun Pavilion, he practices both law and martial arts, and the quota of the Lanxun Pavilion may not be enough for his own practice, let alone for cultivating subordinates.

So the gifts received during this period solved Li Fei's urgent needs.

Added together, these gifts are almost worth his annual purchase quota as a Marquis!

It can be seen that receiving gifts is indeed a good way to accumulate wealth.

After sending Zhang Zhang Chengjun away, Li Fei had just sat down to drink a sip of tea when the mansion steward rushed over again.

Li Fei sighed: "Who is it this time?"

"Marquis, it is Elder Shen Zhen of the Nightmare Sect visiting."

The steward said.

"Oh?"

Li Fei was stunned and immediately became energetic, "Please invite True Person Shen in."

"Yes."

The steward turned to invite the person.

The people who came to visit Li Fei during this period all submitted visiting cards in advance and came after agreeing on a specific time with Li Fei.

Shen Zhen had not submitted a visiting card before, but she came to the door suddenly today.

Li Fei had a rough guess in his heart and knew what the other party was here for.

A moment later, Shen Zhen, wearing a white robe, a green bamboo jade hairpin on her head, and a crescent-shaped jade pendant at her waist, with an elegant and dusty temperament, walked into the main hall.

"I have met True Person Shen."

Li Fei took the initiative to stand up and greet her.

"I have met the Marquis of Jing'an."

Shen Zhen saluted Li Fei.

"True Person, please sit."

"Thank you."

After the two sat down, servants soon brought tea.

"Please have some tea."

"Good."

The two began to drink tea, and the main hall was quiet for a while.

Shen Zhen didn't speak first, and Li Fei wasn't in a hurry to speak, so he accompanied the other party to taste the tea slowly.

"The scenery when the Marquis of Jing'an broke through his realm that day is the only one I have seen in my life, which is admirable."

Shen Zhen put down the teacup and said softly.

Li Fei also put down the teacup and smiled: "True Person Shen is overpraising."

Shen Zhen: "The Marquis walks the path of combining law and martial arts. When you broke through your realm that day, I observed it carefully; it seems that the Marquis's life-bound magic treasure is somewhat unusual."

Li Fei's smile remained unchanged: "It does have some special features."

Shen Zhen looked at Li Fei's eyes seriously, as if wanting to see something from them.

After looking for a few seconds, she said word by word:

"Has the Marquis ever heard that my sect has a True One magic treasure, named Ruyuling?"

Li Fei restrained his smile and nodded: "I have heard of it."

Shen Zhen said in a deep voice: "This object is the treasure of my sect, but it was lost many years ago. If anyone can return this object, my sect will definitely have a heavy reward, and any conditions can be discussed!"

She finally said it.

In fact, when it was determined that the person holding Ruyuling was in the Daluo Sect, the Nightmare Sect conducted a series of secret investigations.

Finally, the focus was locked on Li Fei, who was also in the Daluo Sect at the time.

The reason why it was not determined was because Li Fei only revealed his Martial Dao realm and did not reveal his sorcery cultivation.

It was not until the news of Li Fei's dual cultivation of law and martial arts spread that the Nightmare Sect finally locked onto him.

Before setting off, Nightmare Sect Sect Master Ji Ji Longyi once said to Shen Zhen:

"As long as you find the person holding Ruyuling, spare no cost to snatch it back from the other party! Even if the other party is a True Person of the Daluo Sect!"

But when it was discovered that Ruyuling might be with Li Fei, the Nightmare Sect hesitated again.

Compared to the Daluo Sect, which had already fallen from the altar and was severely sanctioned by the imperial court.

At that time, Li Fei had already been named a Marquis and had obtained the title of the first Dao Foundation stage in ancient and modern times. Whether it was his future in the imperial court or his future in cultivation, it made the Nightmare Sect even more fearful!

So the Nightmare Sect had not taken action, not wanting to easily make enemies for itself.

Then, just when the Nightmare Sect was struggling with how to ask for the return of the sect's treasure, the Lanxun Pavilion referendum came, so Shen Zhen came to Lanling City.

Immediately following was what happened on March 1st.

After that day, the Nightmare Sect stopped struggling completely:

Abandoning the pursuit by force, choosing to exchange Ruyuling back from Li Fei's hands with benefits.

And the rhetoric Shen Zhen used was very cautious. She didn't say directly that Ruyuling was with Li Fei, but euphemistically said that if anyone was willing to return the object to the Nightmare Sect, the Nightmare Sect was willing to pay the price.

This left a lot of room, so that neither side would be embarrassed.

Fortunately, on the day Li Fei completed the "Fate Bridge," the aura of the life-bound object he revealed was not Ruyuling.

On the day of the public breakthrough on the 1st, Shen Zhen confirmed again that Li Fei had not refined Ruyuling into a life-bound object.

Although she didn't know why Li Fei would choose to use another magic treasure as a life-bound object instead of using a True One magic treasure, this was undoubtedly great news for the Nightmare Sect.

Once Li Fei refined Ruyuling into a life-bound object, the two sides would completely move towards hostility, and there would be no possibility of peace talks at all!

Hearing Shen Zhen's words, Li Fei was also silent.

In fact, after deciding to walk the path of "refining the treasure with the body," Ruyuling was no longer a necessity for him.

It's not that it can't be returned to the Nightmare Sect.

But to let Li Fei just return the original owner like this, he asked himself that he didn't have such noble character.

After all, it wasn't him who stole the thing from the Nightmare Sect.

Picking up a very valuable item on the side of the road and returning it to the owner, the person has to show something, not to mention a True One magic treasure?

The level of magic treasure can be simply divided into four grades: "Heaven, Earth, Mysterious, Yellow."

Among them, the lowest Yellow-grade magic treasure is refined using the lower three-grade implants, and is usually the magic treasure of a True Person of the Possession stage.

For example, Li Fei's Flying Sword Body, although it incorporates twelve implants, all of them are lower three-grade, so before breaking through his realm, it could only be considered the lowest Yellow-grade magic treasure.

The Mysterious grade above that refers to magic treasures with life-bound supernatural powers.

After condensing true power and refining true spirits, the supernatural powers of the life-bound magic treasure are self-contained, and it is promoted from Yellow grade to Mysterious grade.

Above the Mysterious grade are the Earth grade and Heaven grade. These two grades are linked to the "Heaven and Earth Spirit System" of magic treasures.

Seventy-two Earth Spirits, thirty-six Heaven Spirits, respectively refer to seventy-two types of Earth Spirit-grade implants and thirty-six types of Heaven Spirit-grade implants.

These implants are all middle three-grade sorcery-type implants, and like the Martial Dao Foundation, there are many different combination forms.

Gathering a full set of Earth Spirit-grade implants and refining them to perfection can promote the magic treasure from a Mysterious-grade magic treasure to an Earth-grade magic treasure.

At this step, the magic treasure can release the Earth Spirit Array, similar to a martial artist's Martial Dao Domain.

Therefore, a True Person who has refined an Earth-grade magic treasure is also promoted to a top-tier True Person.

Next is to gather a set of Heaven Spirit-grade implants, and after refining them to perfection, the magic treasure is promoted from Earth grade to Heaven grade.

At this point, the Heaven and Earth Spirits are perfect, and it is only one step away from breaking through the realm!

Further up, stepping into the True One realm, becoming a True Person, the life-bound magic treasure turns into a life-bound magic treasure, containing the laws of the Great Dao.

This is the complete promotion route of the sorcery path.

The True One magic treasure is fallen from the life-bound magic treasure of a True Person, possessing the quality of the Heaven and Earth Spirits being perfect, and the more than one hundred types of implants inside are all self-contained and complete!

Therefore, in terms of preciousness, the True One magic treasure is actually even more precious than the Heaven-grade magic treasure!

"I don't know what kind of conditions your sect is willing to offer?"

Li Fei asked.

Shen Zhen was overjoyed when she heard this and said hurriedly:

"This depends on what the other party needs, everything can be discussed!"

In fact, saying this easily makes one open their mouth like a lion.

But the value of the True One magic treasure is there, and Li Fei's status and potential are also there.

Rather than racking one's brains to probe and play tricks, it is better to show sincerity directly.

Before Shen Zhen came today, she was mentally prepared to be slaughtered by Li Fei!

Li Fei looked at Shen Zhen's expression, was silent for a moment, and suddenly said seriously:

"Since the True Person is so straightforward, I will just say it directly; Ruyuling is indeed in my hands."

Shen Zhen was stunned when she heard this, not expecting Li Fei to be so direct.

If it were in the past, Li Fei would not have directly exposed this matter.

But today, he already has the confidence to face many people and things!

Since Shen Zhen is so sincere, he is not willing to make things difficult for the Nightmare Sect.

"To be honest, since this thing is the treasure of your sect, returning it to the original owner is what should be done."

"Marquis..."

"True Person Shen, let me finish my words first."

"Marquis, please speak."

Shen Zhen has already used honorifics.

Li Fei looked at her: "I don't care how this thing was lost in the first place. The person who stole Ruyuling is already dead, but he left behind a disciple, and this person is now my subordinate."

Shen Zhen immediately said: "Marquis, rest assured, since the traitor is dead, as long as we can get Ruyuling back, my sect will never pursue others again!"

Li Fei looked into Shen Zhen's eyes and nodded:

"Good, I believe True Person Shen. As for the rest, I am also practicing sorcery myself now, and I will have a greater demand for middle three-grade sorcery-type implants in the future. I hope the Nightmare Sect can open a purchase channel for me in the future, allowing me to purchase a batch of cultivation resources from your sect every year."

He has already achieved the True Person stage, and next he needs to incorporate middle three-grade implants into his body to enhance his own Flying Sword Body, so as to be promoted to Earth grade and Heaven grade as soon as possible.

A set of Earth Spirit-grade implants requires seventy-two types, and a set of Heaven Spirit-grade implants requires thirty-six types.

This is much more than the implants needed for the Dao Foundation!

And Martial Dao Masters also need to incorporate many middle three-grade implants of the Martial Dao type to seek to condense new supernatural powers.

Li Fei practices both law and martial arts, and his demand for implants is double or more than others, and he also needs to cultivate his subordinates, so the more channels for cultivation resources, the better.

"Anything else?"

Shen Zhen asked.

Li Fei: "Nothing else."

"Ah?!"

Shen Zhen widened her eyes.

She was already prepared to be slaughtered by Li Fei, but the conditions the other party finally put forward were just this?

Being able to purchase a batch of cultivation resources from the Nightmare Sect every year.

It is to buy, not to ask for.

And Li Fei didn't specify the exact quantity.

"Is the Marquis not joking?"

Shen Zhen's voice was trembling.

Li Fei smiled and then said seriously: "This Marquis is serious."

Shen Zhen is already over a hundred years old this year, and it is only because she practiced Daoist beauty-preserving sorcery that she appears young.

This True Person who is over a hundred years old and has experienced great winds and waves, after all, is a woman and more emotional, and at this moment, her eyes were actually a little red.

Returning the original owner seems to be a matter of course, but if people ask themselves:

Picking up items worth ten or one hundred yuan, one can return them to the owner without hesitation.

Picking up items worth one billion or ten billion, and having the ability to take them as one's own, how many people can reach Li Fei's level?

She took a deep breath, stood up, and as a True Person of the current era and an Elder of the Nightmare Sect, solemnly bowed to Li Fei:

"Shen Zhen, on behalf of the entire Nightmare Sect, thanks the Marquis of Jing'an!"

PS: It's the end of the month, everyone, clear out the monthly tickets in your hands~

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 435 =====