Two days later, the three major families, including the Wang family, reached an agreement to jointly expel the Crystal Palace monks from the Three Families Island, and at the same time, Bi Zhenren and the other three real people announced on behalf of the Northern Alliance that the Crystal Palace was unpopular in the Northern Alliance's sphere of influence and demanded that the Crystal Palace monks return to their sect immediately.
Although these monks repeatedly emphasized that the trade fair had nothing to do with Crystal Palace, and pulled out the tough signboard of Crystal Palace, now the monks of Sanjiadao have obviously determined that the monks of Sanjia Palace are plotting misdeeds on Sanjia Island, and the monks of Crystal Palace have no choice but to withdraw from Sanjia Island and return to their own sect.
After the Crystal Palace retreated, Wang Yishan, the eldest son of the Wang family, left with him, who was said to have been recommended to be a disciple of a real person in the Crystal Palace.
However, the Crystal Palace finally placed a chess piece within the Northern League through the Wang family, extending its own power into the Northern Alliance's sphere of influence in a different way.
At the same time, although the strength of the Wang family is slightly inferior to that of the Zhang family, it is not easy for the Zhang family to occupy the absolute position of Sanjia Island with the support of the Northern Alliance, so the Li family has become the target of the Zhang family's co-optation, and at the same time, the Northern Alliance has also made a commitment to the Li family.
The situation in the three cities was changing, but it did not affect Lu Ping in the slightest to prepare to refine the seven-step pattern pill.
Just when Lu Ping was about to retreat and refine alchemy, he received another invitation from Li Maolin.
When Lu Ping came to the Li family reception room again, in addition to Li Maolin and his daughter, there was also a female cultivator playing with a jade pendant in her hand, looking at Lu Ping who walked in with a scrutinizing gaze.
Li Maolin pointed to the strange female cultivator and introduced with a smile: "Brother Lu Jiu, this is the daughter of a friend of my old man in his early years, called Chu Ting, I haven't seen him for decades, I don't want my niece to have the inheritance of an alchemy master in her early years, and now she can actually refine the elixir of the half-step forging period.
Lu Ping was startled, yawned slightly, and said: "In Lu Jiu, I have seen Miss Chu!"
After the two sat down, Li Maolin just wanted to say something, but Chu Ting asked first: "I don't want Brother Lu to be able to refine a half-step forging elixir just by reaching the late stage of hemolysis, which is really admirable."
Lu Ping heard that although Miss Chu was polite, her tone was naturally a hint of arrogance, thinking that she was a monk from a noble background, so he replied calmly: "It's just a fluke, it's not worth mentioning!"
Chu Ting obviously didn't care about Lu Ping's perfunctory, but continued to ask: "Dare to ask Brother Lu what kind of half-step forging elixir he has ever refined?"
This was a bit abrupt, Lu Ping glanced at her and did not answer.
Li Maolin hurriedly said: "The difficulty of refining the seven-step pattern pill is not ordinary under the elixir of the forging period of the elixir, and the spiritual grass required to refine the seven-step pattern pill is also extremely difficult to find, my Li family has collected it for several years, but it is only barely enough to make up for the four furnaces, it is related to whether the little daughter can smoothly advance to the pill forging period, the old man has to be cautious, these four furnaces of elixir Brother Lu refine two furnaces, Chu Ting's niece refined the other two furnaces, the two of you only need to refine a seven-step pattern pill, what do you two think?"
Lu Ping naturally knew that this was the Li family's somewhat distrustful of him, after all, the Li family invited him to come, more based on his own speculation, compared to it, Li Maolin's old friend's daughter was obviously more trustworthy.
Lu Ping, as an alchemist, naturally has his own arrogance, stood up quietly, and said: "Since the Li family master can't trust him, he has invited a brilliant pill master, and this matter of refining the elixir is withdrawn, but the pill formula of this seven-step pattern pill has already been recorded in my mind, and I cannot return it."
Lu Ping said this quite heavily, Li Maolin suddenly panicked, but after all, he was a real person, and he immediately weighed the pros and cons.
If Lu Ping is directly driven away by Chu Ting today, in the eyes of the alchemist, Lu Ping is just because his skills are inferior to others, and he deserves to be ashamed, but if the Li family invites a brilliant alchemy master and dislikes Lu Ping's alchemy, then not only will the Li family be hostile to the alchemist, but Chu Ting will also be isolated by the alchemist.
Although Li Maolin is not an alchemist, his hundreds of years of experience obviously have heard a lot about it, he hurriedly stood up, stopped Lu Ping, and said: "Brother Lu calms his anger, it's not that the old man doesn't trust his brother, it's really that the little girl can advance to the alchemy forging period has a lot to do with it.
Lu Ping saw that Li Maolin was like this, and knew that a real person could do this, which could be regarded as giving him enough face, and he also took someone else's seven-step pattern pill formula, so it was a bit unjust to leave, so he went down the steps and said: "Since the head of the Li family said so, the junior is not a person who does not know what is good or bad, so he should do his best."
Li Maolin was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered his servants to lead Lu Ping to the alchemy room, and at the same time sent the two furnaces of spiritual herbs for refining seven-step pattern elixirs.
After Lu Ping left, Li Xiuzhu asked with some confusion: "Father, since Senior Sister Chu has arrived, I am just guessing this Lu Jiu's alchemy, and I haven't seen it with my own eyes, he just wants to leave, why should my father stop him, what if this person is just a person who deceives the world and steals his name, wouldn't it be a pity to refine two furnaces of spiritual grass?"
Li Maolin shook his head and explained some of the rules he knew about alchemists one by one, although he was explaining to Li Xiuzhu, he was actually telling Chu Ting.
After hearing this, Chu Ting put the jade pendant in her hand on her waist and murmured: "No wonder the teacher repeatedly asked his niece to meet an alchemist before leaving, no matter how good or bad her alchemy skills are, she must be good friends with him.
Li Maolin shook his head and said, "This person's alchemy skills may not be unskilled, since this person came to Sanjia Island, the scattered cultivators in the market often took some spiritual herbs to ask him for advice, and he answered them one by one, and he has never encountered a spiritual herb he doesn't know, which shows that at least this person's alchemy foundation is quite solid."
Chu Ting thought for a while and said: "These three islands are just a small area, I'm afraid it's rare for rare spiritual grasses to appear, and it's not very difficult to recognize them all."
Although Chu Ting said this, there was still a hint of arrogance on her face, and a little more seriousness.
Li Maolin ignored Chu Ting's words and continued: "And this person is very mysterious, I actually can't see through it, this person should be pregnant with the hidden secret technique of the upper layer, and can completely change his own aura cultivation, etc., and this person's cultivation may not be the seventh layer of hemolysis, Zhu'er, you may not be his opponent."
When Li Xiuzhu heard his father's words, he said in disbelief: "How can it be, doesn't that mean that this person will be a monk in the pill forging period?"
Li Maolin said solemnly when he heard this: "Nonsense! Does Zhu'er think that she has no rivals among the monks in the hemolytic period? I'm afraid you're not even your senior sister Chu, are you?"
Li Xiuzhu knew that he had said the wrong thing, but he was still a little unconvinced, but he heard Chu Ting say thoughtfully: "Indeed, does Junior Sister Li still remember the fifty-seventh monk at the trade fair? Originally, senior sister thought that person must be the real person who sealed his own cultivation, but now that I think about it, I feel that that person is a bit similar to this Lu Jiu, no wonder after seeing this person, I feel a little familiar."
Li Maolin was shocked when he heard this, and asked in unison: "Is this true?"
Chu Ting shook her head and said, "I'm not sure, it's just that it feels a bit similar, that person was extremely cunning that day, and he never left the slightest flaw about himself, even the imprint of divine thoughts could be cracked, and that person should also be good at a hidden technique to reduce his own cultivation, which was also the basis for me to suspect that he was a real person forging alchemy."
Li Maolin said: "It's a pity that I couldn't meet Master Chu at that time, otherwise I wouldn't let that person take advantage of the chaos to sneak into the surviving monks.
Chu Ting thought about it for a moment and said: "It shouldn't be like that, the moment the cloak broke, I had already covered my appearance and aura with a cloud veil, and I don't think that person would notice."
The alchemy room of the Li family.
Lu Ping had already made up his mind, no matter whether the seven-step pattern pill was refined successfully or not, he would leave the Li family as soon as possible, Lu Ping did not expect that the participant in the attack on the underground trading fair was actually the Li family, and the Chu Ting just now was the seventy-second monk who fought against Lu Ping.
Although Lu Ping used the Qinghan Sword to cut his cloak, the other party reacted very quickly, and in a moment he covered his appearance with a layer of gauze, only letting Lu Ping know that this person was a woman.
However, when Lu Ping saw Chu Ting, he saw that the jade pendant she was playing with was exactly the same as the jade pendant on the waist of Monk No. 72 that day, and Lu Ping also asked about a quiet and distant fragrance.
Although the fragrance of the Hundred Flowers Pill can be changed according to the different preferences of the monks, as an alchemist, whether the fragrance comes from the Hundred Flowers Pill is naturally known by smelling it, not to mention that Chu Ting did not change the fragrance, which was exactly the same as the fragrance emitted by the seventy-second monk that day.
The cloud veil covered the appearance and breath, but it failed to cover the monk's body fragrance, this is probably smelling the fragrance of the woman!
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