The road to longevity begins with rebirth

The three of them continued to gather in the pavilion beside the Moon Lake.

Li An finally understood the cause and effect.

It turned out that the Spirit Beast Mountain Range, which had been silent for several months, suddenly erupted two months ago. Many spirit beasts rushed out like crazy, affecting all parts of Xuanyang Sect.

Xuanyang Sect issued many tasks, requiring disciples to go and eliminate the surrounding spirit beasts.

But this time the beast tide was unusual, and even one or two second-level spirit beasts appeared, causing considerable casualties to Xuanyang Sect.

Wang Dazhu and Zhao Xianchuan encountered a spirit beast of the seventh level of Qi training during a mission. Only four of the ten people in their mission team survived!

"I heard from the gossip that this beast tide may be related to the Hundred Beast Sect..." Zhao Xianchuan's right hand was hung with a bandage, and his head was also wrapped in gauze, looking quite miserable: "The family sent me a message that a medium-grade spiritual mine was discovered in Suizhou, and all the major sects are fighting for it..." Xuanyang Sect is not the only sect in the Dali Dynasty. In the southern region alone, there are two major Jindan-level forces, the Hundred Beast Sect and the Divine Sword Sect. They are fighting each other fiercely. Li An was also shocked. The medium-grade spiritual mine can produce medium-grade spiritual stones, which is extremely rare. Even a sect like Xuanyang Sect will be jealous! This news should be credible. When fighting for the spiritual mine, the Hundred Beast Sect deliberately caused a beast tide to contain the Xuanyang Sect, which seems reasonable. But he became more and more uneasy. According to what Wang Dazhu and Zhao Xianchuan said, many peripheral industries and halls have been impacted, but Lingzhi Mountain is still fine? This is very abnormal! "The sect is also very nervous. All the registered disciples have designated guard areas. If we were not injured and have not recovered, we would probably still be on the front line..."

Wang Dazhu continued.

"Guard areas? Which are they?"

Li An was concerned.

"All of them, the three major towns and several iron ore areas under our sect in the periphery..."

Wang Dazhu said them one by one.

Li An's heart sank instantly. The iron ore area and the three major towns under it were all easily invaded.

But there is no Lingzhi Mountain? !

Could it be that the sect thought Lingzhi Mountain was not important, so no manpower was arranged?

No, Xu Qiuhui reminded Li An before, which was enough to prove that the high-level leaders of Xuanyang Sect had considered the risks of Lingzhi Mountain.

They considered it, but there was no movement...

Unless it was to lure the snake out of the hole!

Li An's heart sank.

It is very likely that the upper echelons of the sect were preparing to use Lingzhi Mountain as a layout to lure the enemy into a trap.

There were too many twists and turns in his past life, so the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was very likely to be the case.

Besides, elite disciples such as Xu Qiuhui might have been waiting in secret.

This trip was not in vain.

"Brother An, what are you doing this time?"

Wang Dazhu asked.

"I came here to sell some spiritual talismans."

Li An immediately took out nine spiritual talismans.

"Brother An, have you become a talisman master?!"

Wang Dazhu was extremely surprised.

"Not yet, but the success rate is close."

Zhao Xianchuan was also very surprised, and a complex look appeared in his eyes.

In two years, Li An's spiritual roots have been restored, and there is still hope to become a talisman master...

On the contrary, he has fallen to the bottom and even lost his status as a formal disciple. Now he is on the same starting line with Wang Dazhu.

A trace of sadness flowed through his heart, but he did not show it, but said:

"Congratulations, Brother Li!"

"How about this, I will buy all these talisman papers for you?"

Immediately, he took out four spirit stones and handed them to Li An.

"Only three pieces are needed at the market price." Li An said with a smile.

"The other piece is a gift for Brother Li. Brother Li, don't refuse it. It's very expensive to be a talisman master in the early stage."

After experiencing the ups and downs of life and death, Zhao Xianchuan's personality and mentality have obviously changed a lot. He no longer despises Li An, but chooses to make friends with him!

"Yes, why am I so stupid, Brother An, I will give you a gift too!"

Wang Dazhu also smiled foolishly, took out two spirit stones, and wanted to give them to Li An.

Li An wanted to refuse, but he was really short of money at the moment, so he agreed:

"Okay, just consider it as a loan."

...

Before leaving, Li An went to the sect exchange office, but he changed his mind and did not buy a new talisman pen, but looked at the magic weapon.

"Eight-sided umbrella, first-level low-grade, can block the third-level attack of Qi training, effectively defend against hidden weapons, etc., fifteen spirit stones or one hundred and fifty contribution points!"

"Spirit Flame Blade, first-level middle-grade, with flames when attacking, forty spirit stones or four hundred contribution points."

Li An looked around, and basically no one who liked it could afford it!

"Hmm?"

Suddenly, his eyes fell on a dagger.

"Starlight dagger, cast with leftovers of starlight iron, sharp and strong, eight spirit stones or eighty contribution points."

Starlight iron, containing starlight Dao patterns, is a second-level refining material.

But the leftovers are useless, and the dagger made does not come with any mana, and it is too short, so although the price is relatively cheap, no one wants it.

The only advantage is that it is sharp and hard, which is far superior to other first-level magic weapons.

Li An hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and bought it directly. "As expected of a errand boy, he has no knowledge and actually bought a useless thing like the Star Dagger..."

The steward of the exchange pavilion shook his head, but still accepted the spirit stone and gave the Star Dagger to Li An.

Then, Li An picked and chose at the stall outside the exchange pavilion.

Unlike the orderly and valuable items in the display cabinet of the exchange pavilion, this stall was full of substandard products.

For example, some semi-spiritual tools, inferior spirit pills, etc. were piled together in a mess.

Li An picked and chose from a pile of spirit pills, and then chose three black pills.

"These are the spirit pills produced during the refining process of Shuiyuan Pill. The pill poison is very strong!"

The steward couldn't bear it anymore and couldn't help but remind him.

Li An smiled in his heart. He bought the pill poison. If the pill poison was not strong enough, he would not want it!

But he said awkwardly: "Thank you for reminding me, my cloud-moving and rain-making technique has a bottleneck... I can only buy some miscellaneous spirit pills to break through."

This reason is very reasonable.

...

Walk out of the exchange pavilion.

"I'm a pauper again."

Li An couldn't help but sigh. He spent all the spirit stones he had saved for several months, plus the ones passed on by Wang Dazhu and Zhao Xian, and not even one or two spirit sands were left!

However, he didn't regret it when he felt the heavy feel of the star dagger in his hand.

It's worth spending more money to survive.

Putting the star dagger in his arms, he headed towards Lingzhi Mountain.

...

In the evening, the sun set.

Today, Li An came back a little late because he had been deducing based on the terrain while coming out of the outer gate.

If the enemy invaded Lingzhi Mountain, where would Xuanyang Sect surround it from?

In the end, he came to the conclusion that Xuanyang Sect would definitely not kill the enemy as soon as they appeared, but would let the enemy cross Lingzhi Mountain and approach the core area of ​​the sect.

In this way, the bag can be tied tightly and the invading enemy can be completely annihilated.

But it also means that Lingzhi Mountain will most likely be completely abandoned!

Thinking of this, Li An simply didn't want to go back to Lingzhi Mountain, so he just ran away...

But he could only think about it. Now that the sect is on high alert, where can he go?

...

As soon as he arrived at the foot of Lingzhi Mountain, he saw Fan Jie, Zhang Susu, and Zhang Zilin surrounding a tiger's corpse.

"This tiger ran out from the forest, and someone has to be sent to guard it."

Fan Jie spoke in a deep voice, his eyes fell on Li An: "Li An, you have the strongest cultivation, you go."

Li An's face changed slightly.

Fan Jie shouldn't assign this kind of hard work to Li An.

After all, there is Wang Zilin who can be manipulated at will, and he doesn't want to offend Li An, the future talisman master.

Unless he knew that Li An would definitely die there this time!

After all, Fan Jie must still want to kill Li An in his heart, because Li An will become a registered disciple in the future, which is the only risk of his secrets of Lingzhi Mountain being leaked.

Unlike Zhang Susu and Wang Zilin, who can be controlled at will.

It seems that Fan Jie knows the plan of the sect?

So, he wants to kill Li An legitimately in this matter.

This surprised Li An. Zhao Xianchuan and Wang Dazhu were both unaware of it. Fan Jie, a front-line cannon fodder, actually knew about it. Could he have other sources of information?

Li An hesitated and said, "Master, I'm going alone... I'm a little scared."

Fan Jie said lightly, "Then let Wang Zilin accompany you."

Li An showed a helpless expression and said, "Okay."

Wang Zilin's face changed next to him. He actually had to go to watch the night with this Li Baopi?

He was extremely reluctant!

Seeing that Li An agreed, Fan Jie couldn't help but smile meaningfully.

...

Before it was completely dark, under the urging of Fan Jie, Li An took Wang Zilin to the forest.

As night fell, the two worked together and finally a shack built with branches took shape.

Wang Zilin originally suggested to build a bigger one, but Li An strictly limited the size and height of the shack, making it look very low and invisible in the dense forest without careful observation.

So the two squeezed into a shack.

The forest was as quiet as death, with birds singing from afar from time to time, and the shadows of trees in front of us were like ghosts.

"Li An, should we light a bonfire? Otherwise, will there be wild beasts attacking us at night..."

Wang Zilin felt a little guilty. The tiger that broke into the spiritual field today caused him a lot of psychological trauma.

After all, he was only at the first level of Qi Refining, and had only practiced the Cloud and Rain Art. His leg was broken by Fan Jie, making him a cripple. If he faced a wild beast like a tiger, he would probably be dead.

"Can't light a fire!"

Li An said lightly. Lighting a fire can indeed drive away ordinary beasts, but it will become the target of spirit beasts and even enemies lurking in the dark!

After hearing this, Wang Zilin dared not say anything. After two years of hardship, the spirit he had when he first entered the sect had completely dissipated, and he became humble and cowardly.

And Li An was rubbing the three black mixed spirit pills in his hand, his eyes slightly narrowed...

Fan Jie wanted to kill him... the previous hatred of blocking the way, plus the hatred of life and death at this moment.

If I don't take revenge... I'm not called Li An!

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