Under the moonlight, ripples formed a long path, and it seemed to have some kind of connection with the Mingzhen Dao League's waist badge. Qi Wuhuo could feel that even if others followed him and walked through this water path, they would simply fall into the current and become soaked.

Only by holding this item can you walk on the right path and enter the Mingzhen Dao League.

But can Tan Tai Xuan’s badge have such a great effect?

Or was it actually the sloppy-looking fortune teller who played tricks on the waist badge?

It should be the latter.

The young Taoist was thoughtful. He had changed into simple clothes and put away his Taoist robe. He also cast a spell from the manuscript of old Mr. Ao Liu, which could control the flow of water to change the light and conceal his face. The little peacock was placed in the secret pocket of his sleeve, and was still sleeping soundly. He felt very at ease.

Qi Wuhuo still didn't know the stance of the Mingzhen Taoist Alliance, nor did he know whether it was righteous or evil. Besides, this kind of loose organization would inevitably have many members and a diverse group of people. It wouldn't be wrong to be cautious.

Slowly walking along the waterway opened by the moonlight, the young Taoist's soul only felt a faint resonance between the waist badge of the Mingzhen Taoist Alliance and the moonlight.

How the changes occurred and how the transfer was carried out were so mysterious that he couldn't understand them even with his level of cultivation.

Before he could make a careful distinction, he saw that he had already changed his place in a flash.

He found himself in an antique attic. Everything he saw was extremely exquisite, even the tea sets looked like magic weapons. He could hear the hustle and bustle. Qi Wuhuo slightly turned his eyes and saw a window on the side. It was made of spiritual wood that was more than 500 years old. It gave off a faint fragrance, like the fragrance of grass and trees, like rain falling on a sparse forest, which made people feel peaceful.

Through the window, you can see the street scenery outside.

There is a ten-mile-long street with many stalls on both sides, just like the human world.

But they all hang with floating lights and shadows.

The people coming and going were noisy and bustling, all using their skills to conceal their own aura. It was almost like the Lantern Festival in a big city in the mortal world, but each of them had more or less the aura of a cultivator. It was bustling and so many cultivators appeared in front of him at once. For Qi Wuhuo, this was the first time he had seen this.

There were footsteps and someone was approaching. Before he came over, a respectful and polite voice came:

"It's the fluctuation of the formation."

"But has the [Scripture Master] Taoist priest who is here to give a lecture and answer questions come today?"

Soon, a young man wearing a dark red Taoist robe with golden piping on the hem and collar came over. When he looked up and saw Qi Wuhuo, he was startled to find that he did not seem to be the Taoist priest who exuded the pressure of innate Qi in the past. However, his expression did not change at all, and he said with a smile: "Ah, fellow Taoist, is this the [Scripture Master] from my Mingzhen Taoist League?"

"I am here to hire a servant for today. Thank you for your courtesy."

"I wonder if you are here today to [preach], [answer questions], or [make elixirs]?"

Qi Wuhuo had already guessed in advance that the method given by the fortune teller definitely had some problems, but he was not in a hurry. After chatting with the receptionist a few times, he learned that although the Mingzhen Taoist Alliance only did ordinary information exchange and communication of spiritual objects, for the sake of its own reputation, it would invite Taoist priests who had cultivated to the level of innate Qi, and even real people, to come on the full moon night every three months.

Either preaching, or answering questions, or making elixirs.

This will attract many monks to join the Taoist Alliance.

And for these Taoist priests who preach and answer questions.

Based on many assessments such as the quality of their teachings, they will be given access to more intelligence and precious spiritual materials.

The young man explained politely, "If you want to preach, there is a jade artifact in front of you that can spread your voice everywhere."

"As for the answer to your doubts, it is right here. In the past three months, I have accumulated many jade slips and jade books. You can just write down the answer."

"We will directly put up the [Taoist Master will answer your questions] today."

"In this case, fellow Taoists in the Taoist Alliance will also write down their doubts in the jade slips and hand them over."

"As for alchemy, our alliance will provide the alchemy furnace."

"Those who ask for the elixir will have the materials delivered to them, and you can make the elixir from there."

"Which one do you choose, fellow Taoist?"

Although he was unsure about the strength of the Taoist in front of him, the Mingzhen Taoist Alliance had its own rules. Those who could come here through special means naturally had some ability and must not be offended. Qi Wuhuo thought for a while, and then said: "I want to exchange some things first, is it okay?"

The young man smiled and said, "Of course you can. Please follow me, fellow Taoist."

He brought Qi Wuhuo to the lower level of the pavilion, where Qi Wuhuo sold the pills he had refined during this period of time, as well as some of the things that Tan Taixuan originally had. The old man who appraised the price was surprised and praised him, saying, "The rest is ordinary, but the method of refining this pill is very skilled. The price should be raised by three levels."

"My Dao League has a lot of storage in Zhongzhou, so fellow Daoists can exchange it."

"My Taoist Alliance can exchange elixirs, magical weapons, and secret techniques of various schools and sects."

"I wonder what you want, fellow Taoist?"

The young Taoist said, "Information."

"Haha, in the Nine Provinces and Thirteen Lands, even in the Demon Country and the underworld, our Taoist Alliance has many sources of intelligence."

"You have so many things, and there is a lot of information that can be exchanged. What kind of information do you want?"

"Seven years ago, the Jinzhou disaster."

These seven words seemed to have some special power. The old man's expression became slightly solemn. He looked at Qi Wuhuo, then at the things placed on the table - there was most of Tan Tai Xuan's worth as a cultivator at the innate Yiqi level, as well as the results of Qi Wuhuo's herb collection and elixir refining over this period of time. It could be considered a big business.

But the old man finally looked away and said seriously: "It's not enough."

"The events in Jinzhou back then involved too many people and too many things. What you have is only enough to exchange for the most superficial intelligence."

"If you want more."

"We need to add more."

Qi Wuhuo exhaled slowly, not feeling surprised, and just asked, "How much can you know?"

The old man asked back, "What do you want to know?"

Qi Wuhuo closed his eyes for a long time, and countless thoughts emerged. He had too many questions to ask, and finally said:

"I want to know whether the Mingzhen Dao League also went to the Jinzhou disaster, and why?"

The old man said wait a moment, and left for a while. After a while, he came back with many scrolls in his hands. After flipping through them for a long time, he replied, "I can still tell you this question. The Mingzhen Dao League was led by the leader of our Dao League. As for the purpose, they went to do business with the demon tribe."

Business with the demon clan.

Qi Wuhuo suddenly remembered the last look he and his master had when they parted.

I saw the gentleman walking into the demon vegetable market.

The flag of the Mingzhen Taoist Alliance was flying high.

The old man flipped through the books and said, "In addition, according to our records, apart from the Mingzhen Dao League, it seems that there was also a nearby sword sect that cultivated evil spirits that entered the sect, and a branch of Buddhism also entered the sect. In addition, there were also many small sects and small practitioners who took advantage of the chaos to enter the sect. I think most of them wanted to take advantage of the chaos to get some money and property, right?"

The young Taoist asked, "The Mingzhen Dao League is going to do business."

"yes."

"What business?"

"I don't have the permission to look through this, and these things are not enough for exchange."

"Then may I ask, did the Dao Alliance make a profit or a loss in that business?"

"This is actually very simple, and it is very profitable."

"Is that so? Doing business with the demon country can make a lot of money?"

Thoughts emerged one after another in the young Taoist's mind, but he suppressed them all in the end. Then he stood up, looked at the young Taoist on the side, and said, "Please take me to the jade slip. I choose [Resolve Doubts]."

The young Taoist was surprised, and then said politely: "Please follow me."

The place to [solve doubts] is on the second floor. Each person has his or her own questions, which are written down on jade slips.

It was placed here by the Taoist Alliance members after paying a certain price.

As long as it can clear up their confusion.

The collateral is here, and the Dao Alliance points used in exchange will belong to the person who solves his doubts.

Qi Wuhuo did not choose those jade slips with high Dao Alliance points, but started with simple cultivation questions. The first one was about how to cultivate breathing and nourish qi, and how to calm the mind. However, three Dao Alliance points were not as much as the price of one of Qi Wuhuo's pills. The young Taoist lowered his eyes slightly, thought, and then answered seriously.

Because he was in the Taoist Alliance, he deliberately used his left hand to hold the pen and write on the scroll.

After it is written, it will be passed on to the person who asked the question in a way similar to the [Method of Revealing the Shape of Round Light].

The young Taoist gave him a cup of tea and then left. He walked to the back, shook his head, and whispered to his friend next to him: "I thought you had great abilities, but you can only answer the simplest questions. We can answer those questions almost perfectly, but we don't dare to write until we are sure."

"I see his cultivation level doesn't seem to be very high either."

"I'm afraid you got this method by chance somewhere, so you came here?"

"Keep your voice down."

"If someone else hears it, it will damage the dignity of the Dao League. Aren't you worried about being punished?"

"Ha, if you don't tell me, who else would know?"

But after they chatted for a while, the young Taoist was flipping through a Taoist scripture when he suddenly received a voice transmission. He was slightly stunned, turned around, and said to his friend next to him: "...that guy, no, that Taoist priest, he answered all the basic questions and confusions that had accumulated for several months, and he was thanked for everything."

"I have to lead the way and take him to a higher level where the problems are stored."

"Please prepare tea for me first."

"I want the good tea I put on the top shelf of the cupboard, good tea!"

He ran away in a hurry.

The young Taoist was led to another place, where there were far fewer jade slips.

The Dao Alliance points for each jade slip reached double digits.

The young Taoist served the tea which gave off a bitter aroma and then left.

I sighed with my friend: "You really can't judge a person by his appearance. You can't judge others by their cultivation."

"It would be difficult for an ordinary Taoist priest to answer these questions."

He flipped through the Taoist scripture in his hand, but before he had read a third of it, he received a voice transmission, looking as if he had seen a ghost, saying:

“It’s also been solved…?!!”

He put down the Taoist scripture in his hand and said, "I will lead the way..."

The broad voice replied: "You take a rest, I'll do it."

The young man raised his head and saw a middle-aged man with a square face walking towards him. The middle-aged man said slowly:

"Go to my cave and get my spiritual tea."

"Hmm? What are you still standing there for?"

"Go quickly."

"Ah, yes, yes!"

This time, Qi Wuhuo sat at the highest point of the entire attic. When he looked down, he saw the night was like water, the moonlight was cold, people were coming and going, and there were many tourists. A middle-aged Taoist brought him spiritual tea. He started from the most basic questions and saw the confusions of many practitioners. Then he tried to give answers from his own perspective.

I just feel that I have a better understanding of spiritual practice.

There are not many questions here, even just one volume.

The middle-aged Taoist smiled gently and said, "This problem has been here for more than a year, and the price is the highest. However, although there have been four Taoist priests and one Taoist master who came here to give lectures in the past year, no one has been able to solve this problem."

"Master, please."

Qi Wuhuo unfolded the jade book and saw a line of words written in neat handwriting:

[Practice purely with the primordial spirit, temper with thunder and fire, and remove its yin nature]

[Can I seek the great way? ]

[Can you achieve immortality? ]

Qi Wuhuo pondered for a moment, then picked up the pen in his left hand to answer.

This time it was not a method like the round light revealing method, but a spirit bird took the scroll away.

…

The streets were crowded with people, some selling spiritual materials, some exchanging spells. Apart from the fact that all the participants were practitioners, it was different from any ordinary city market. Suddenly, a spiritual bird flew down from the sky, passed over the heads of the crowd, folded its wings, and landed on the teahouse in the center of the Mingzhen Taoist Alliance. A white hand stretched out, the wrist was as white as frost and snow, and the fingers were particularly slender.

"Hmm? Anybody else answering?"

"Let me see."

The voice was calm, and the speaker was wearing a Taoist robe and a mountain god mask.

The eyes are large and soft.

He opened the scroll and saw the answer written in a neat handwriting:

“No.”

"Practice is to go back from three to two, and then from two to one, and that is the great way."

"Discard the essence of the physical body, and combine the pure energy with the spirit."

“Although he has great supernatural powers, his realm is still not as good as that of a person who has achieved the state of the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top of the Head.”

"The root of it is to abandon the primordial essence and not be able to return to the original spirituality."

"Having only technique but no principle is a dead end."

The girl wearing the mountain god mask narrowed her eyes slightly, and when she calmed down, the body of the young prince wearing the tiger mask opposite her stiffened a little. After her sister woke up, she longed for the great way. Naturally, she would not miss the gathering of the Mingzhen Dao League, especially since she needed to consider the path to choose in the future. Years ago, she entrusted her sister of the Cui family to ask for help and hang it up in various places in Jiuzhou.

Just wait for the opportunity to see the insights of the cultivators in this world.

I have been to several places, but found nothing.

This is the first time I've seen her react like this.

The young prince asked curiously, "Sister...what's wrong with you?"

Qiong Yu replied: "That's fine. I should ask this real person what he thinks."

She picked up the pen in her left hand and wrote her answer on the scroll.

"Thunder and fire can temper the Yin element, and it can also reach a point of pure Yang that is indestructible. This is no different from the result of practicing Taoism to refine the spirit and return to the void."

"Three thousand great ways, different paths, the same destination, how can there be any difference?"

"Please enlighten me."

She added another portion of Dao Alliance points within the Dao Alliance and asked the spirit bird to deliver it.

After a while, the spirit bird came back.

She read the answer this time: [Tao gave birth to one, one gave birth to two, two gave birth to three, and three gave birth to all things]

[If you abandon one of them, the root will be incomplete, just like a person whose three souls are incomplete. In the end, he may have great supernatural powers, but his realm will not be closer to the original great way of evolution of all things. As for what the Taoist friend said, tempering with thunder and fire is just drinking poison to quench thirst.]

[As cultivators of our generation, we should use our own mellow primordial qi to polish our yin qualities, which is to cultivate ourselves. 】

[Thunder and fire rely on external forces]

[The endings are similar, but they are actually two completely different paths]

[One is walking to the top of the mountain step by step, while the other is eager to ride in a carriage up the mountain]

[I have never practiced the path of Yin God, but I can speculate that no matter what kind of magical power one cultivates on this path, one cannot completely survive the thunder tribulation. Every time, one can feel that one's Yin quality is decreasing, getting closer to pure Yang, but every time there is always a wisp of Yin quality left, which is never completely polished away. The regret becomes more and more serious, as if entering a reincarnation.]

[As your cultivation improves, the next thunder tribulation will be stronger]

[In the end, with only a tiny regret left to succeed, he died, and that was all]

The young prince paused when he saw his sister.

Wearing the mountain god mask, the girl with a cold temperament could still be felt. After a long time, she sighed and said, "...My experience in the dream is the same as what he said. It seems that it is not that I failed to persevere to the end, but the pure Yin God path itself is not feasible. Maybe I can improve my cultivation in a short period of time, but the direction is wrong. In the end, I will not be able to reach the great road, but only a dead end."

"No immortality."

…

Qi Wuhuo gave his answer, and the Taoists began to calculate the number of Dao Alliance points he had obtained from the jade slips. Because the young Taoist had been answering questions all night, the number of questions was complicated, and the calculations took quite some time. Finally, when the results came out, they calculated with each other, and the old man felt it was a pity and said, "There is still a third short..."

"I didn't know before that the matter of Jinzhou would require such a huge amount of Dao Alliance points."

He sighed for a long time and could only use the word "huge" to describe it.

Two-thirds of it has been completed, but most of it was provided by the Qiuqiu Jade Slip that has been hanging for more than a year.

In other words, the Dao Alliance points provided by the Jade Cards that were accumulated in a state over three months were less than one-fifth of the points required to read this information.

Thinking about it, the old man felt sighing in his heart.

However, the young Taoist did not become dejected.

The greater the cost of the Jinzhou incident, the more it proves that this matter is not simple.

Knowing that the information is here is enough.

After that, you can find ways to prepare Dao Alliance points.

Whether it was to preach, to answer questions, or Uncle Niu, they were all methods. When he stood up, he heard footsteps. A young girl in green, wearing a fox mask, came over with clear eyes. When she saw the young Taoist who was the only one not wearing the clothes of the Taoist League, she smiled and asked the young Taoist beside him, "Is it this Taoist who answered my young lady's question just now?"

After getting a positive answer.

When she saw Qi Wuhuo, she crossed her arms in greeting, then took out a jade ring and said:

"My young lady said, thank you Taoist for clearing up my doubts."

"Today, the Taoist priest needs something in exchange, no matter what it is."

"My lady, bid on my behalf!"

"No second thoughts!"