Chapter 172 Soul Gathering Orb
As soon as it got dark, Yu'er carried hot water to the door of Tianlin.
At that time, Tian Lin was practicing the Buddha and Demon Self-Freedom Kung Fu. After hearing some movement outside the door, he sat quietly for another half-quarter of an hour to fully absorb the effects of the medicine in his body before opening his eyes.
It is not easy to practice the Buddha-Demon Freedom Skill. According to the way normal people practice, they save some money to buy an expensive pill, and most of them rely on themselves to understand this magical power.
But Tian Lin is different. Although he is also very poor, he does not lack the 'Buddha Demon Pill'.
During this period of time, apart from fishing, he also took pills and practiced.
It won't be long before the Buddha and the Demon are at ease.
Yu'er outside the door didn't knock, but Tian Lin still got up from the bed.
He opened the door and waited for Yu'er to put the basin on the washstand before he stepped forward to wash his face.
Yu'er stood behind Tian Lin and said to Tian Lin:
"It seems that Mr. Gao and Aunt Cai Xian next door have already left the house. Mr. Gao washed his face and had breakfast. He just happened to rush to the old house to listen to the discussion of the elders."
Tian Lin was noncommittal. He followed Yu'er's arrangement and went to the old house after eating breakfast, intending to finish the whole meeting. ’
At this time, five or six children's families had gathered in the main hall of the old house to worship.
When Tian Lin came over, not only Gao He and Cai Shu were there, but Master Long Alchemy, who had always been hiding in the alchemy room, was also there.
Among these six worshipers, Tian Lin only recognized Gao He's three neighbors and one Rong worshiper who was a weapon refiner.
Rong Feng sat at the foot of Master Long Alchemist, and there was a chair above the two of them. On the chair was a middle-aged man with the presence of an old god.
But since the middle-aged man can be ranked in front of Long Dan Master and Rong Zongfeng, Tian Lin is sure that the other party is quite strong.
Among the many offerings, cultivation and strength are followed by status.
Tian Lin is a fisherman and has just established a foundation. Naturally, he has neither strength nor good status.
He sat at the foot of Gao He, waiting for the servants of the old house to serve him tea.
A group of people boasted to each other, and not long after, two or three worshippers from the Tong family rushed over.
The most popular among them is Zhou Shoufan, who changed his name to "Xing Bufan".
Zhou Shoufan was the only person present who was in the middle stage of foundation building. In the main hall, apart from Master Long Alchemy who was still sitting on a chair, even Tian Lin followed everyone and came to Zhou Shoufan to fawn over him.
"Brother Xing is young. What is rare is that he can cultivate the Five Elements Dharmakaya after building the foundation of the Five Elements——
Not to mention Pingyang City, even in the entire Tianbei County, except for the Thirteenth Young Master, there are not many people with the ability of Brother Xing, right? "
Cai Shu's breasts were pressed against Zhou Shoufan's, but her husband Gao He didn't care. Instead, he stood aside, stroking his beard and nodding with a smile.
Tian Lin didn't expect that Gao He's wife loved talking to others.
He had met Cai Shu twice, but she always looked cold and reticent.
Tian Lin thought she had such a personality, but only today did he realize that he had gone astray.
"Achieving the Five Elements Dharma Body depends entirely on elixirs, but it is difficult to achieve the Dharma Appearance."
After Zhou Shoufan said this, he looked at the old man who was sitting at the head of Long Dan Master:
"Fellow Daoist Li, how many achievements have you made in the Three Elements Dharmakaya now?"
Over there, Li Gongfeng sighed: "I feel ashamed to say that at my old age, I can barely cultivate the water and fire bodies."
Zhou Shoufan encouraged him and said, "Then it's just the Golden Dharma Body that hasn't been cultivated to perfection, so there's no rush."
Li Gongfeng said distressedly: "It's just the Golden Law Body that has held me back for so long. It's really because the Golden Essence Pills I need to practice the "Golden Essence Jue" are too expensive——
If I were practicing the Golden God Art, I would have already cultivated the Golden Law Body with the help of the Golden God Pill. Although it is still not as good as the Five Elements Law Body of fellow Taoist Zhou, I would have already been in the middle stage of building the foundation of the Three Elements Law Body. "
"There is no need to sigh, Li Gongfeng. You are only about two hundred years old now. Sooner or later, you will be able to cultivate the three elements of Dharmakaya."
Cai Shu stepped forward again and thrust her chest towards Li Gongfeng.
Among the people present, she was the only female monk, so everyone was very tolerant of her.
While everyone was chatting lively, suddenly a boy from the Tong family said, 'The elder is here.'
Everyone turned to greet the great elder who was striding over. Even Master Long Alchemist, who had been in a daze in his seat, stood up at this time.
The great elder nodded with a few others and sat down on the main seat with a sudden stride.
He glanced around at the people present, and after everyone had sat down, he said, "You must have heard about the ghost mist coming from the Shenxian Pond, right?"
Li Gongfeng below nodded and spoke first:
"Two days ago, I went to Shanghai with Feng Zongfeng from the Hebo Institute to investigate. The fog seemed to come from the sea outside Shenxiantang.
As far as I know, Cangzhou and Shenxiantang were once connected to the Yulong Continent. I wonder if this ghost mist came from Yulong Continent? "
After he finished asking, Tian Lin, who was sitting below and no one was paying attention, raised his head and glanced at him, but looked at Zhou Shoufan with his peripheral vision.
Zhou Shoufan's face was expressionless, and no one knew what he was thinking.
However, Gao He said: "There has been no news about Yulong Continent for nearly a thousand years, and whether it is still there or not is a question.
Even if the Jade Dragon Continent is still there, this ghost mist cannot be 'released' by the small island in the Jade Dragon Continent. "
At this time, Zhou Shoufan nodded and said concisely: "In my opinion, it is further south of the Yulong Continent."
Yulong Continent is further south, and it is said that even Nascent Soul cannot cross it.
No one knows what lies further south——
"Where did the ghost mist come from? It's naturally not our turn to worry about it.
I am looking for you today to ask you to go to Shenxiantang to exterminate those resentful spirits during your free time, so as to prevent those resentful spirits from harming the people of Pingyang City. "
At this time, Master Long Alchemy was the first to speak: "I want to refine elixirs, where can I have time to deal with such trivial matters?"
Although the other people did not speak, they all expressed their negative attitude towards this matter.
The Great Elder was obviously prepared and said directly:
"The matter of resisting the resentful souls of Shenxiantang is not only the matter of my Tong family, but also the request of Shuiyun Sect."
He said: "Everyone, if you want to become an outer disciple of Shuiyun Sect, you should behave well. Just like Li Gongfengqin, if you become an outer disciple of Shuiyun Sect, are you afraid that you will not have the golden elixir to eat?"
Li Gongfeng stood up and looked at the great elder in disbelief: "Is the Immortal Sect willing to accept us as outer disciples?"
The great elder shook his head and said: "Shuiyun Sect wants to accept people who have made meritorious service at sea as outer disciples.
To tell you the truth, the Thirteenth Young Master was recalled by my ancestor not for the Dharma-Xiang Pill, but for this opportunity as an outer disciple. "
He looked at everyone with excited faces and took out a bead from his sleeve:
"This is a soul-gathering bead, a bead specially used to collect remnant souls. It will record your harvest at sea——
From now on, the soul-gathering beads will be turned in every six months, and based on the number of remaining souls in the soul-gathering beads, three people will be selected to enter the Shuiyun Sect for trial. Once you succeed in the trial, you can become Shuiyun Sect's outer disciples. "
His words were not uninciting, and even Master Long Alchemy couldn't help but look confused.
At this time, Tian Lin couldn't help but ask the great elder: "Shuiyun Sect can judge the ranking by the number of remnant souls in the soul gathering beads, but how to distinguish the remnant souls in the soul gathering beads from the remnant souls on Shenxian Pond?"
Li Gongfeng also echoed Tian Lin and said:
“Soul-collecting beads are originally used by soul cultivators to collect remnant souls, and soul cultivators often buy and sell remnant souls on the market.
I'm afraid that when the time comes, someone will buy the remnant soul from the soul cultivator, and then pretend to be the remnant soul of Shen Xiantang and use it to commit crimes. "
The Great Elder said: "Don't worry about this. Pingyang City will ban the sale of the remaining souls of the Soul Gathering Beads."
His words did not reassure the people present, but made them even more worried.
In the entire Pingyang City, the Tong family is the most powerful.
The Tong family naturally has the ability to crack down on those who buy and sell resentful souls privately, but who will stop the Tong family from cheating by buying and selling resentful souls in private?
Tian Lin didn't have much expectations for entering Shuiyun Sect. What he considered was that if he could really buy and sell resentful souls, he wouldn't necessarily have to fish to earn spiritual stones.
The resentful soul is terrifying, but he is a foundation-building monk, so as long as he doesn't encounter the Wandering God, there should be no risk.
"Everyone, today's matter ends here. Anyone who wants to go to Shenxian Pond to kill the resentful souls can come up and get the soul-gathering beads."
After the great elder finished speaking, Tian Lin was the first to step forward.
There is no charge for this Soul Bead, so who would refuse to get it for free?
But he soon discovered that Master Long did not step forward to take the Soul Gathering Pearl. Instead, after the show ended, Master Long walked away.
Tian Lin followed up quickly and asked Alchemist Long: "Why doesn't Brother Long take the Soul Gathering Pearl?"
Master Long Alchemist snorted coldly: "I am only good at refining alchemy, but fighting is not my specialty. Although my status as an outer disciple of Shuiyun Sect is very tempting, I still won't go to Shen Xiantang to join in the fun."
Master Long Dan was aloof and arrogant. He only said this and never spoke to Tian Lin again on the way.
When Tian Lin returned to the house and told Yu'er what was going on today, Yu'er said happily:
"If this is the case, Cui'er and I can also help you."
Logically speaking, a sword should always accompany its master, but Tian Lin didn't want his secret to be exposed in front of the two of her.
"The resentful souls in Chenxiantang are very powerful, and your cultivation is too low. I'm afraid that when the resentful souls come to you at sea, you won't even know where they are."
Yu'er really thought Tian Lin was worried about their safety, so she immediately said:
"I don't know, but to deal with resentful souls, there is a special type of talisman that can open the eyes. As long as the eyes are opened, even mortals can see the resentful souls."
Cui'er, who had committed a crime and hadn't spoken to Tian Lin for a long time, also said:
"It happens that we live next door to Mr. Gao Dao and Cai Xiangu. They are both talisman makers. Let's buy some talisman paper from them. It may be cheaper."
Wealth lovers are in the right place. At this time, the word "love" seems to appear.
But Tian Lin still shook his head:
"So what if you can see the resentful soul? You can't release your spiritual consciousness, and you don't have any spells to exorcise evil spirits. I'm afraid that if you go to Shenxian Pond, you won't even be able to save your own life."
After hearing Tian Lin's words, Cui'er couldn't help but said:
"But if the two of us don't help, how many remnant souls can you collect by yourself? How can you compare with those with swords and higher cultivation levels?"
Tian Lin heard this and said calmly: "This time, one of the places to collect the remaining souls to become Shuiyun Sect's outer disciples must belong to the Thirteenth Young Master.
The other one will probably be obtained by the young master or young lady of the Tong family. As for those of us, we are just studying with the prince, so we don’t have any expectations. "
Tian Lin said this, but Zhou Shoufan's figure appeared in his mind.
He estimated that if Zhou Shoufan wanted to go all out, the thirteenth young master of the Tong family might not be able to win over Zhou Shoufan even if he had the support of his family.
But he didn't know whether Zhou Shoufan was interested in becoming an outer disciple of Shuiyun Sect.