Chapter 83 Paying Homage to the Elders
After accepting the task of assisting in drawing talismans from Senior Sister Shen, Chen Luo did not stay in the main peak and returned to the cemetery early.
The brother who guards the tomb drank too much last night and didn't go out the whole day. He is still sleeping in the house and his snoring is deafening.
He had asked last night that after this year, this senior brother would be ready to go down the mountain. He had persisted in the mountain for five years but had not been able to break through to the late stage of Qi Refining. Seeing that he was getting older, he let go of some of the vague ideas.
Night falls.
Chen Luo closed his hut and quietly came to the cemetery.
"Southwest, the ninth pit in the third row."
Chen Luo recalled the location that his grave-guarding brother had told him yesterday.
He had already visited the spot last night.
There is no one else in the cemetery except the brother who guards the tomb. Especially at night, not even a bird can be seen.
Soon, Chen Luo found the grave that his senior brother, the gravekeeper, had mentioned, in a pile of low weeds.
The tombstone was tattered, with a corner missing, and the words on it were soaked by rain and invisible. I don't know how many years have passed since he died, no wonder no one cares about him. Not to mention the grave mound, which was covered with weeds and some of the soil was washed away by water. It didn't look like a grave at all. If it weren't for the reminder from the grave-keeping brother, Chen Luo would have thought that this was just a small mound that was forgotten to be cleaned.
Pushing aside the weeds, Chen Luo couldn't help but sigh.
Time is the most ruthless.
Even if it is a foundation-building cultivator, he will be forgotten after his death. After another hundred years, when the brother who guards the tomb is gone, who in the world will know that the person buried here is a foundation-building immortal cultivator?
"I didn't expect that after becoming an immortal, I would have to go back to my old job."
After confirming that the location was correct, Chen Luo took out the tools he had prepared during the day, and also took out the deerskin gloves he brought from the Yue Kingdom Tomb and put them aside.
After simply identifying the burial location of the remains, he picked up the shovel.
They started digging with a grunt.
Bang!
With a muffled sound, Chen Luo stopped what he was doing.
After digging up the soil, he found that the shovel had dug up bones. A dignified foundation-building monk didn't even have a coffin.
His shovel dug right into the top of the skull, which meant that the skull of a foundation-building cultivator was relatively hard, otherwise the bone would have been broken by this shovel.
'It's not poisonous.'
The experience of burying corpses that I learned from my third uncle came in handy.
Chen Luo used a shovel to fiddle with the skull, and after making sure there was no danger, he put on special deerskin gloves.
He reached out and grabbed the skull.
'Contacted with the brain waves of a dead person, damage level 96%, do you want to read it?'
Familiar information appeared, and Chen Luo was cheered up. He chose to read it without saying a word.
"Read!"
A familiar brain wave flowed into the body along the palm of my hand.
“It really works!”
Chen Luo was refreshed, looking at the skull in his hand with deep emotion. He didn't expect the plan to be completed so smoothly, picking up the brain of a foundation-building cultivator for free.
"Junior brother?"
A voice suddenly sounded.
Chen Luo, who was still immersed in joy, suddenly froze. He turned around and found that his brother who was guarding the grave had appeared behind him at some point, holding a fresh pheasant in his hand.
Wasn't he sleeping in the room before?
"That's how you look up to the elders!"
Looking at Chen Luo holding the elder's skull in his hands, the grave-keeping brother who had just returned from hunting felt numb all over.
I thought I had an honest and obedient junior brother, but I didn't expect that he was actually a fellow practitioner like me!
No wonder he chose to take on the tomb-guarding mission.
With this hobby, without the cover of the tomb-guarding mission, he would definitely be chopped into pieces by the law enforcement disciples.
"Brother, I actually wanted to give the elder a bath. Do you believe me? The old man has been buried alone for so many years, helpless and homeless." Chen Luo did not expect that the grave-keeping brother would happen to come out just when he was digging the grave.
Is this guy usually a night owl?
"I believe it!"
The grave-keeper nodded seriously.
But the expression on his face looked wrong, as if the suspicion of 'do you take me as a fool' was almost written on his face.
"But Junior Brother, don't hold out too much hope. These two elders are very poor."
'How did you know?!'
Chen Luo had a dazed look on his face.
The expression of the brother guarding the tomb suddenly changed.
"No more talking, just continue weeding."
The grave-keeping brother had an experienced look on his face, patted Chen Luo on the shoulder, then carried the roast chicken he had caught and left humming a song.
Judging from his appearance, he seemed to be in a very happy mood.
Chen Luo breathed a sigh of relief.
He hadn't expected that the grave-keeper would have such an attitude. But this way, he could work without any hesitation. He just had to fill the grave before daybreak.
After making sure there was no danger, Chen Luo no longer acted sneakily like he did at the beginning.
The speed of swinging the shovel has increased a lot.
Soon, the second elder's grave was dug up by him. Like the previous foundation-building elder, this elder was not buried with a coffin.
Chen Luo skillfully placed his hands on the skull, absorbed the brain waves, and then filled the elder's skull back into place.
After harvesting the brains of two foundation-building immortals in one night, Chen Luo suddenly felt full. He rubbed his groggy brain, gave up on the brains of those unqualified Jianghu people, and started a new round of grave digging.
Even without the foundation-building elder, the late Qi-refining elder cannot be let go.
"This Junior Brother Chen is even more persistent than I was back then. He even dug up graves of Qi Refining disciples." The grave-keeping brother who was cooking hot pot inside the house looked at Junior Brother Chen who was working hard to dig a grave outside the window and couldn't help but sigh.
It's late at night.
Chen Luo was still swinging the shovel over there.
This focused attitude towards the grave-digging business is much better than what he had before.
Time flies, and half a month has passed in a flash.
During this half month, Chen Luo practiced Qi training during the day, helped Senior Sister Shen draw talismans in the afternoon, and dug graves at night to replenish his external brain.
Without any scruples, Chen Luo became more and more bold in digging graves. Anyway, there were only him and his senior brother who was the gravekeeper in the back mountain. As long as his senior brother did not try to stop him, he acted recklessly.
Finally, thanks to his unremitting efforts, his external brain underwent a major upgrade.
Except for the brains of the royal family and the Nineteenth Young Master, all the other Jianghu brains were replaced. Even the brain of the Grand Master who had protected the Nineteenth Young Master was not left.
With the assistance of nearly thirty brains of late Qi Refining cultivators and two Foundation Establishment Immortal Cultivators, his comprehension of Qi Refining cultivation improved by leaps and bounds.
What was once a difficult problem now seems incredibly simple.
Finally, on the sixteenth day of guarding the tomb, Chen Luo successfully broke through his cultivation and reached the third level of Qi Refining!
This was a breakthrough achieved by relying on one's own understanding without using any spirit stones or external resources.
After breaking through to the third level of Qi Refining, the number of controls of the external brain increased again. Chen Luo, who happened to be guarding the graves in the cemetery, simply came to make up for it in time and dug up a group of graves of late Qi Refining disciples to fill the vacancies.
In the room.
Chen Luo practiced according to the 'Awakening to the Spirit' technique, and the refined spiritual energy circulated in his body. His state of the third level of Qi Refining had completely stabilized.
He hadn't done much digging in recent days.
He had cleared all the weeds near the cemetery, and the cemetery looked brand new, with new soil.
"The third stage of Qi Refining is almost complete. In terms of refining spiritual energy, no one in the entire Shenhu Xianmen should be faster than me."
Opening his eyes, Chen Luo sensed the changes in his body.
With the help of a group of external brains, his practice speed was increased to the limit. The first three levels of the "Enlightenment Technique" were like practicing it hundreds of times, and different insights echoed in his mind. The multi-angle and no-dead-angle "intuition" allowed him to practice the third level of Qi Refining to the limit.
After reaching this level, one should start preparing for a breakthrough into the middle stage of Qi training.
One is the technique, and the second is the resources for cultivation. In Shenhu Xianmen, the disciples in the middle stage of Qi Refining are the mainstream.
The new disciples began to differentiate in the past few months. The geniuses with superior spiritual roots, with the help of resources, gradually entered the middle stage of Qi Refining, and the middle spiritual roots also reached the third level of Qi Refining. However, most of the inferior spiritual roots were still at the first level of Qi Refining, and the few who were willing to spend money were only at the second level of Qi Refining, and there was still a long way to go before the third level of Qi Refining, let alone the middle level of Qi Refining.
This gap will be further widened over time.
"Spiritual roots and resources!"
Chen Luo took a deep breath and began to rest.
The grave-keeper next door had already started snoring. After lying down completely, the grave-keeper lived a very carefree life. According to him, after this period was over, he would go down the mountain, return to his hometown to become a local rich man, marry hundreds of wives, and try to give birth to a descendant with superior spiritual roots.
In the Shenhu Immortal Sect, a tomb-guarding senior brother in the middle stage of Qi training was insignificant. But if he were placed in the Three Kingdoms area below, a senior brother in the middle stage of Qi training would be an extremely important figure.
The number of immortal cultivators is insignificant compared to the population base of the Three Kingdoms.
Even if there are disciples going up and down the mountain every year, it will not have any impact on the overall situation.
The next day.
After Chen Luo finished the tomb-sweeping task, he went to the front power transmission platform. He remembered that there was a small exchange meeting there in the morning. They were all senior brothers and sisters from Wudao Peak. They shared what they had, which was also a way of communication.
He had completed Sister Shen's talisman-drawing task ten days ago. Recently, he had used his experience in completing tasks to buy some materials and simply drew two talismans.
Dust removal talisman!
This was the simplest type of talisman. He learned how to draw it when he was doing a task for Senior Sister Shen, which saved him the money to learn how to draw talismans.
Chen Luo sat in the corner and placed the two dust-removing talismans he had drawn in front of him.
There are only two in total, and I can’t afford more.
With his limited task points, he was able to exchange for materials for five Dust Removal Talismans. Producing two of them was already considered an over-the-top achievement. Even formal talisman masters had a lower success rate than him.
"Brother, are you going to sell talismans?"
Three shadows blocked Chen Luo's way. He looked up and saw Huang Ying, Fu An and the others. The difference from before was that one person was missing. He didn't know whether he was no longer with them, or had other experiences, or was already gone.
"One for each spirit stone."
Chen Luo responded to them with a price.
"I want it!"
Huang Ying immediately took out two spirit stones and bought the two dust-removing talismans.
Such a generous behavior made Chen Luo stunned for a moment.
Not even paying the price!
"Did Senior Brother draw this talisman himself?"
"yes."
Chen Luo did not deny it.
He didn't think of hiding it when he sold the talismans. If he didn't want to go down the mountain to do the mission and wanted to quickly accumulate resources, he could only rely on selling talismans. Among the knowledge he had mastered at this stage, only making talismans was the easiest to cash in. The remaining three were still in the theoretical stage and difficult to try.
"Where did you learn the spirit infusion technique?"
Fu An, who was standing next to Huang Ying, couldn't help but ask.
After being in the industry for so long, they are no longer the rookies they were back then.
He knew the value of the Four Arts of Immortal Cultivation better than anyone else, especially among the Three Kingdoms cultivators. Any one of the Four Arts of Immortal Cultivation could trigger a war. The same was true for the Way of Talismans. Talismans, resources, and even talented people could all be found. What was really difficult was inheritance.
The method of infusing spirits is the core of the art of talismans.
"No comment."
Chen Luo glanced at Fu An and ignored the question.
The skill of soul infusion is improved by Chen Luo himself using the knowledge of immortal texts taught by Changqing Zhenren. When Changqing Zhenren taught him the immortal texts in the Yue Kingdom Tomb, he once said that the immortal texts can transform spiritual energy into real usable power, which can be used in talismans, formations, and refining equipment. It can be said to be full of mysteries.
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