Before leaving, Patriarch Lu met with Li Yuanba alone.
When Senior Brother Qi Jin and Jiang Pu heard Patriarch Lu's request, the envy in their eyes almost burst out.
The Yuanying Patriarch, who has lived for hundreds of years, has accepted many disciples in his lifetime, and his disciples have accepted more disciples. Therefore, in the sect, there are many cultivators who have the Yuanying Patriarch as their master.
But in the eyes of the Yuanying ancestor, he probably doesn't take these younger generations seriously.
And Patriarch Lu met with Li Yuanba alone more than once, which went beyond ordinary concern.
In the Senluo Sect, with such a backer, no cultivator would offend Li Yuanba unless he had some interests that he had to fight for.
"Yuanba, I see that your cultivation is improving very quickly. It seems that you are not short of resources?" Patriarch Lu asked Li Yuanba casually.
Li Yuanba was stunned when he heard this. He didn't understand what Patriarch Lu meant.
Could it be that Patriarch Lu took a fancy to his reward? This shouldn't be the case. No matter how good the reward given to a Jindan disciple is, Patriarch Lu would not take it seriously.
"I would also like to thank the ancestors for their help. The task assigned by the sect is excellent!" Li Yuanba bowed and replied.
"This time the sect was able to obtain a fourth-grade resource production site, and you have made a great contribution. This is a huge achievement, but my opinion is that you'd better save this achievement. The accumulated achievement will increase your chances of exchanging it for infant resources when you are in the late Jindan stage!" Patriarch Lu said with a smile.
The fact that he could say this shows that he is truly optimistic about Li Yuanba.
He watched Li Yuanba's golden elixir being formed, and in a short period of time, he completely stabilized himself in the golden elixir stage, and his combat power in the body refining was comparable to that of a late golden elixir stage cultivator.
As for his disciples, he had Elder Jian, which made him proud. When it came to his grandchildren, he also hoped that Li Yuanba would be his pride.
When he meets other Nascent Soul ancestors, he can also use Elder Jian and Li Yuanba to attack those old friends.
"I'll listen to my ancestor!" Li Yuanba had no objection, as he did have sufficient resources.
It sounds like the resources to become an infant are still far away from him, but he still has to prepare in advance.
Although he had not heard of any news of competition for infant-forming resources in the Senluo Sect, in the Shushan Sect where his main body was located, the qualified Jindan elders had almost joined the competition for infant-forming resources in a factional manner.
Li Yuanba has no shortage of resources for cultivation, but even his original form, Li Shiming, cannot obtain the resources for the Infant stage. Those are resources of another level that cannot be accessed by Jindan cultivators.
"Although the reward given to you by the sect has been converted into accumulated merit, you have brought me considerable benefits this time, so I still have to give you a personal reward!" Patriarch Lu said with a smile.
A fragment with a strong smell of corpse appeared in his hand, only the size of a fingernail.
As soon as this fragment was taken out, the space where he was became cold and gloomy.
"This is a core fragment of a golden corpse, a trophy from a battle. It's of no use to me, so I'll give it to you!" He threw the fragment to Li Yuanba.
But he remembered that Li Yuanba had a corpse to refine.
The core fragment of the golden corpse, even a tiny fragment, is a fourth-grade spiritual object.
Its value is naturally extremely high, far beyond the comparison of any third-grade spiritual object.
He had some considerations when offering such a reward. Li Yuanba had some secret, but his cultivation speed was extremely fast, which meant that he had no shortage of cultivation resources. Moreover, he could cultivate his body to such a level, and the resources required for cultivation were even more terrifying.
All these show that Li Yuanba is extremely wealthy. As an ancestor, if he took out an ordinary third-grade spiritual object, Li Yuanba would probably say in his heart that he was stingy.
Patriarch Lu thought about it for a long time, and finally found the core fragment of the golden corpse that he had almost forgotten.
"Thank you for the gift, ancestor!" Li Yuanba said with surprise in his eyes.
His corpse refining strength has reached the silver corpse level. Although he has invested a lot of third-grade corpse refining resources, Jiang Chen's strength improves extremely slowly.
This general is his natal refined corpse. Unlike his original body, Li Shiming, who would sacrifice many refined corpses, this general is his only refined corpse and will also be one of his main fighting forces.
Jiang Chen is a perfect match for him. Jiang Chen is a special corpse refiner with sword intent in his body. His sword intent will increase as his strength increases. If Jiang Chen's strength can be improved quickly, it will be extremely beneficial to him.
“That’s it!” Patriarch Lu nodded, and his figure disappeared on the spot.
"Farewell, old ancestor!" Li Yuanba bowed.
After sending Ancestor Lu away, the matter of Muyang's bee colony will have nothing to do with him anymore, and Ancestor Lu will handle the rest.
No matter how powerful the third-grade Muyang Queen Bee is, it is nothing in front of Ancestor Lu.
Li Yuanba's attention was attracted by the fragments in his hand. If it could be collected by Patriarch Lu, it would not be garbage.
He took out a jade box that sealed a spiritual object and carefully placed the core fragment of the golden corpse into it.
He had a feeling that it would be a waste to use such a treasure now.
He needed to look up some information, get some understanding of the core of the golden corpse, and then make a comprehensive analysis of the general's situation before making a decision.
The matter here was settled. Senior Brother Qi Jin was injured, so there was no need to keep Li Yuanba and Jiang Pu any longer.
When they separated, Senior Brother Qi Jin gave a storage bag to Li Yuanba.
On the way back, Jiang Pu's attitude towards Li Yuanba became closer. Before, it was a combination of interests, but now it was also accompanied by awe for Li Yuanba's identity.
Jiang Pu had heard before that Patriarch Lu treated Li Yuanba differently, but this time he saw with his own eyes Patriarch Lu's attitude towards Li Yuanba and felt Patriarch Lu's love and care for Li Yuanba from a close distance.
The two separated in Jieshan City, Jiang Pu returned to the Jieshan Checkpoint, and Li Yuanba returned to his own garrison.
Li Yuanba returned to the training room. He took out the storage bag given to him by Senior Brother Qi Jin, and inside was, as expected, spiritual soil.
However, what surprised him was that in addition to the second-grade spiritual soil, there was also some third-grade spiritual soil.
The third-grade spiritual soil is spiritual soil that can be used to grow third-grade spiritual plants. Its value is very high. The amount in the storage bag is almost half an acre.
The value of this item is extremely high. Even though Li Yuanba is wealthy, he still feels heavy holding this storage bag.
It can be seen that Senior Brother Qi Jin did this to repay him for saving his life.
He also knew that the second and third grade spiritual soil he kept would be of little use. He chose to cultivate with the sword and had no intention of learning other secondary occupations.
Although he was not yet able to make the sword his only weapon, the sword training took up too much of his time, leaving him no time to learn a secondary skill. Even if he did learn it, he had no time to put it into practice.
In addition to practicing the main technique, sword cultivators spend the most time every day honing their sword intent. In Li Yuanba's case, this means using the Wanjian Peak to enhance his sword intent every day.
"Let's send these spiritual soils to the main body!" Li Yuanba quickly thought of a solution.
A month later, Li Yuanba received the newly picked third-grade spiritual tea leaves from Senior Brother Qi Jin, as well as a valuable reward, which was ostensibly for Master Li Shiming.
He also used this excuse to pass through the Jieshan checkpoint again and headed for the righteous sphere of influence, handing the third-grade spiritual tea leaves and spiritual soil to his original body, Li Shiming.
This time, there was no trouble at all in passing the Jieshan checkpoint.
On the Senluo Sect side, after Jiang Pu came back, the other two Jindan elders who already had a good relationship with Li Yuanba, after learning about Li Yuanba's improved strength and Patriarch Lu's attention, almost responded to Li Yuanba's every request.
Even at the righteous checkpoint, the three righteous Jindan elders did not pose any difficulty at all, and even made it clear to Li Yuanba that he could pass freely at any time as long as he wanted.
In the days that followed, Li Yuanba kept in constant contact with Senior Brother Qi Jin, and their relationship upgraded to that of good friends.
Among demon sects like Senluo Sect, Senior Brother Qi Jin is one of the few late Jindan cultivators who has not practiced any magic. His character and personality are trustworthy, so Li Yuanba is willing to make friends with him.
One day half a year later, Li Yuanba, who had just finished his training, suddenly received an urgent message from Jiang Pu.
He immediately turned into a sword light and flew towards the Jieshan Checkpoint.
When they arrived at the Jieshan Checkpoint, the three Jindan elders were already sitting in the hall, among whom Meng Sheng had an extremely ugly expression on his face.
"What happened?" Li Yuanba asked Jiang Pu.
"Daoist Brother Mu Peng was transferred over there and replaced by Zhiguang Arhat from Qianye Temple. This transfer was too sudden, and a batch of goods of Junior Brother Meng was confiscated by Zhiguang Arhat!" Jiang Pu replied in a deep voice.
Unlike the boundary mountain checkpoint on the Senluo Sect's side, the golden elixir guarding the checkpoint on the righteous forces' side is not only served by the golden elixir elders from the three major sects, but sometimes by the golden elixir elders from the major forces within the righteous forces.
Generally speaking, the transfer of the golden elixir guarding the checkpoint will be notified in advance.
This sudden change broke the rules to some extent.
You know, this checkpoint adjacent to the Ten Thousand Mountains has extremely high gray income. This is an unspoken rule. These gray incomes are also part of the remuneration for guarding this dangerous checkpoint.
Zhiguang Arhat of Qianye Temple was not only suddenly replaced, but also seized a batch of goods as soon as he arrived, which was equivalent to cutting off the financial resources of the Jindan elders on both sides.
Although Li Yuanba didn't know how much loss Meng Sheng had suffered this time, looking at Meng Sheng's expression, he didn't want to ask and thus increase Meng Sheng's worries.
"What can we do?" Li Yuanba asked puzzledly.
Although he had used his connections to pass through the checkpoints on both sides freely before, even if he was able to pass, he did not dare to attack the golden elixir guarding the checkpoint.
You have to know that there is a large formation to help in the level. If he really takes action with his limited strength, it means that he will have to fight against the suppression of the large formation while being an enemy of the righteous Jindan elders.
"According to fellow Daoist's suggestion, we should talk to Zhiguang Arhat first. If the talk fails, we will find an opportunity to provoke a conflict between the two sides and have a showdown in the central buffer zone. Then we will give Zhiguang Arhat a hard blow!" Jiang Pu said gritting his teeth.
Cutting off someone's financial resources is like killing their parents. If Zhiguang Arhat is really ignorant, the guarding golden elixirs on both sides will not let him go.
Ever since Li Yuanba came to Jieshan City, the guarding golden elixirs of both sides have been living extremely comfortably.
Privately promoting products has brought them huge profits, and this is still a small matter.
The key lies in Li Yuanba's channels, which enable them to convert their profits into third-grade elixirs refined by Master Li. This allows them to either greatly enhance their strength or accumulate rich cultivation resources while guarding the checkpoints.
All the guarding Jindan are in the middle Jindan stage. The strength of the middle Jindan stage is the most difficult to improve. With such convenience in guarding here, it is impossible to let them let go.
"I don't like the Arhat of Qianye Temple!" Li Yuanba expressed his attitude.
"When the time comes, if we really want to take action, we will still need Junior Brother Li's help!" Jiang Pu said with a smile.
The reason why Li Yuanba was asked to come here was because of Li Yuanba’s fighting power.
If the two sides really were to confront each other, only Li Yuanba would be able to severely injure or even kill Zhiguang Arhat in a short period of time.
"Notify me when the time comes!" Li Yuanba nodded.
At the righteous checkpoint, Ying Hou entered the cave of Zhiguang Arhat.
"Friend Ying, if you are here for private smuggling, then please don't say a word!" Zhiguang Arhat was very unfriendly to Yinghou. He spoke directly in a serious tone before Yinghou even opened his mouth.
"Zhiguang Arhat, do you know that these are the rules here? You must abide by the rules when you come here. The interests involved not only involve us, but also involve multiple factions within the three major sects. Do you really want to go to extremes?" Ying Hou heard Zhiguang Arhat's resolute tone and made things clear.
"The sect sent me here to guard this place. In my eyes, I will point out and deal with anything that does not conform to the rules. If you have any objections, please appeal to the temple!" Zhiguang Arhat said in a deep voice.
"In that case, you will bear the consequences yourself!" A cold light flashed in Ying Hou's eyes. After saying this, he turned away.
Zhiguang Arhat looked at Yinghou leaving and a sneer appeared on his face.
Since the arrival of Zhiguang Arhat, he has successively investigated and dealt with many cases of unreported goods, which has affected many forces.
But he has Chiba Temple as his backer, and no one can do anything to him.
What made everyone even more angry was that he hardly ever rested and stayed at the customs clearance passage every day, checking all the goods.
Normally, this kind of work is carried out by the three guarding Jindan in turns.
As time went on, even the golden elixirs guarding both sides couldn't stand it anymore.
Ying Hou and Xin Tong, two righteous golden elixirs, took the initiative to contact Jiang Pu to discuss the details of how to deal with Zhiguang Arhat.
Li Yuanba did not participate in it. He only needed to take action to get rid of Zhiguang Arhat at the last moment.
In fact, Zhiguang Arhat had little influence on him. The original body, Li Shiming, had a large number of third-grade auxiliary elixirs for the early stage of golden elixir cultivation, which had been delivered to him long ago.
He had no other needs recently and no goods needed to be transported through the checkpoints.
But an Arhat from Qianye Temple appeared at the boundary mountain checkpoint, making him extremely uncomfortable.
Qianye Temple has been eyeing him covetously, and he always feels uneasy if he doesn't get rid of Zhiguang Arhat as soon as possible.
However, although he did not pay attention to this matter, his original body, Li Shiming, had separated out a separate brain, which was always paying attention to the situation near the Jieshan Checkpoint through the drone satellite system.