"Master, those newly arrived cultivators and common people have been properly settled. In a year, the area around Luoyan Mountain should be transformed into thousands of acres of fertile fields."

A pale-faced young man walked into the meeting hall of the Li family. His name was Li Longshi. He was the youngest son of Li Yeming and the most similar son to Li Yeming among all his sons. He was now arranged to work under Li Xuanhuang.

"Fang Zheng has been brought to the door. Should we let him in?" Li Longshi continued.

Li Xuanhuang nodded and gestured for the man to come in.

After a while, a dark-skinned, honest-looking young man walked in.

"I am Fang Zheng, a casual cultivator from Guyue Mountain. Nice to meet the head of the Li family." The young man was very polite. He immediately bowed to Li Xuanhuang as soon as he entered the room.

Fang Zheng was born in Gu Yue Mountain, which is located west of the Ten Thousand Mountains. This area has always been inhabited by ethnic minorities who drive poisonous insects. However, due to their own heritage and geographical reasons, they have not yet formed a family. Instead, it is a place where independent cultivators and evil cultivators gather. Anyone who can survive there must be a person with extraordinary minds.

Li Xuanhuang said, "Fang Daoist, there is no need to be so polite. Please take a seat."

Fang Zheng then sat down on the left side of Li Xuanhuang.

"I heard from Long Shi that Fellow Daoist Fang brought thirty Gu Masters here. Do you want to serve as guest officials in my Li family?" Li Xuanhuang asked Fang Zheng with narrowed eyes and a smile.

Fang Zheng smiled naively and said, "That's right. Moreover, I have planted a mother-child Gu on all these thirty people that can take their lives at any time. All of them are handed over to the head of the family for disposal."

After saying that, he took out a jade slip and wanted to hand it to Li Xuanhuang.

However, out of fear of the Gu Master, Li Xuanhuang did not take the jade slip himself, but asked the guard who had been serving in the hall to take it.

"We've given them to you, but what about Fellow Daoist Fang's?" Li Xuanhuang asked Fang Zheng with narrowed eyes and a smile.

The latter obviously did not expect Li Xuanhuang to be so overbearing and unconventional, and asked such a strong question right from the start.

"Master Li, do you not trust me?" Fang Zheng said with an embarrassed look on his face.

"It's not that I don't trust you, but I never thought that you would come to me sincerely for surrender." Li Xuanhuang said sternly.

Fang Zheng's face changed drastically. When he was about to explain, a sharp flying sword flew from behind Li Xuanhuang. Before he could make any move, he was pierced through the center of his eyebrows by the flying sword and died instantly.

Li Longshi, who was standing by, didn't even see what happened clearly before Fang Zheng's body collapsed.

"We have already checked. This person has committed many crimes in Guyue Mountain. Although he seems to be honest on the surface, he has changed masters five times in the past 150 years of practicing Taoism. Without exception, all masters have been refined into puppets by him."

Behind the screen, Li Chengping and Li Yeming came out one after another.

When Fang Zheng came to seek refuge, Li Chengping had already realized that something was wrong with this man, so he asked Li Yeming to go to Guyue Mountain to gather intelligence. Sure enough, there was something fishy about Fang Zheng.

Today's Li family has become a big tree that attracts the wind. People who come to seek refuge are like crucian carp crossing the river, but very few of them come with sincerity. Most of them have ulterior motives, and some even want to replace the family. So people have to be on guard. In fact, many people with the same intention as Fang Zheng have been dealt with by Li Chengping.

"The bodies of these Gu Masters are weird, so just burn them. As for the resources, I'm afraid there are some shameful means used. If you are too greedy, you will end up losing the big picture." Li Chengping said, motioning Li Yeming and his son to go and deal with it.

After receiving the order, the two men immediately took action.

After waiting for about half a minute, Li Yeming hurried back.

"Master, this is what appeared after the corpse was burned. No matter what, it cannot be destroyed."

Li Yeming brought an object, which was golden in color with complicated patterns on it, like a leg bone. Even when Li Yeming directly bombarded it with magic, it still did not leave any trace.

Li Chengping wielded his sword and chopped at the object, but there was no trace left.

You have to know that this was an attack from a Jindan cultivator, but he was still unable to do anything to the object.

Li Chengping couldn't help but be curious, so he grabbed the golden leg bone and looked at it carefully.

"The aura here is somewhat familiar, similar to the golden elixir liquid." Li Chengping said in surprise.

The main ingredient of the golden elixir liquid is the golden god fragments of the ancient gods.

"Uncle, are you saying that this might be a fragment of the golden body?" Li Xuanhuang asked.

Li Chengping did not respond directly, but said to Li Yeming: "Yeming, seeing that Longshi has now reached the eighth level of Qi Refining, he has also done a great deed today. You take him to the family's Merit Hall to receive a Qi Gathering Pill."

Li Yeming was a little apprehensive and said, "These are what children should do."

Although he tried to refuse, he could not resist Li Chengping's order and left the Li family's hall.

This Qi Gathering Pill can help cultivators break through a small realm in the Qi training period, but it is relatively expensive. In addition, it is not very useful for geniuses, but it is a bit expensive for cultivators with average talent, so it seems a bit useless.

That was the reward from the academy before, otherwise the Li family would not have such items.

After sending Li Yeming away, Li Chengping spoke up, "There is a legacy of Gu Dao in here, and this is the leg bone of the Gu God."

Li Chengping naturally trusted Li Yeming, but matters of this nature were of great importance, so naturally the fewer people who knew about it the better.

He immediately injected spiritual power into the leg bone, and a brilliant inheritance immediately emerged. It contained not only the methods of refining various poisonous insects, but also a corresponding cultivation method.

“It’s a pity that Fang Zheng is limited by his own qualifications. Otherwise, with this inheritance, he would have achieved the golden elixir long ago.” Li Chengping said.

It contains a complete method of Gu cultivation, which involves refining a kind of Gu worm called the Mingming Gu, raising it between the eyebrows, and integrating it with the spiritual consciousness. One only needs to continuously strengthen the Mingming Gu, and then one can break through.

Out of caution, Li Chengping wanted to destroy his soul as well, but he accidentally killed Fang Zheng's natal Gu.

Originally, as long as his natal Gu was not dead, Fang Zheng could be reborn.

"There are actually such things in the world. No wonder Fang Zheng, who was originally the son of a slave, was able to turn things around and become a cultivator with a certain reputation in Guyue Mountain." Li Xuanhuang said with emotion.

"The world is full of wonders, and this inheritance is of some importance. It can be passed on to those members of the clan who are not good at practicing swordsmanship to enrich the clan's inheritance, or it can be distributed as a reward to cultivators from other families." Li Chengping put it away.

Both of them have already reached the realm above the foundation-building stage, so naturally they cannot change their sects. Moreover, although the Gu Dao is powerful, it is slightly inferior to the Sword Dao.

The so-called dual cultivation of sword and poison is not a possibility. After all, practicing one more technique means not only consuming more of your mind, but also wasting a lot of time. Otherwise, those golden elixir and Nascent Soul cultivators would not rely on swallowing golden elixir to complete their own path.

"This Fang Zheng has given us a big gift." Li Xuanhuang said with a smile.


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