With the consent of Pavilion Master Qin Xuan, Li An naturally became the Pavilion Master of the Treasure Pavilion in Baihu City.
Treasure Pavilion also has a high status in the city, and even owns a residence in the third-level spiritual vein area.
This naturally belongs to Li An!
This house is not close to Baihu Mountain, but there is a small residual vein extending from it, so that the spiritual energy of the third-level spiritual vein is within a small area of one or two miles, and the surrounding area is only the second-level spiritual vein area.
Li An was very satisfied with this house. He carefully checked it, then moved in, and directly set up three sets of second-level magic arrays for protection.
Three sets of second-level arrays cost a lot, but he didn't care, because after becoming the Pavilion Master of the branch, many of his expenses could easily go through the account of the Treasure Pavilion.
Power must be used for personal gain!
There are five managers and two treasure appraisers in the branch of Treasure Pavilion. Li An has the experience of leading a family of immortal cultivators in his previous life. He quickly made them obedient, promoted his confidants, and cracked down on dissidents. In just two years, the entire branch has been built into an iron plate by him, which can be said to have become his "private kingdom".
At the same time, Li An's wallet has become more and more bulging in this year. With the accumulation of these years in the main pavilion and the large amount of spiritual stones given to him by the third county lord, he now has about 50,000 spiritual stones in his hand!
For ease of use, he exchanged half of them for medium-grade spiritual stones, 250 pieces.
At the same time, the flow of resources in the entire branch of Treasure Pavilion is actually under his control.
He can give priority to all the collected resources and get them by various methods.
Of course, he is not unscrupulous and not so crazy. After all, he still has to ensure the overall operation of Treasure Pavilion.
The profit cannot be much different from before.
...
In the blink of an eye, five years have passed.
During these five years, the Third Princess had written to Li An, asking him to go back, saying that she had something important to do with him.
Obviously, the changes in White Tiger City were beyond their expectations, and they could no longer control Li An.
But Li An declined, and the reason he used was ready-made: Pavilion Master Qin Xuan had already intended to kill him, so he could only hide here to avoid disaster.
This reason left the Third Princess helpless.
She couldn't force Li An. After all, from her point of view, Li An didn't know that he was being "raised as a pig". If she forced him too hard, it would be easy for Li An to notice something.
If she didn't force Li An, then if she wanted Li An to go back, she would have to get rid of Qin Xuan, or come forward to protect Li An, but by doing so, she would easily attract the attention of the palace.
Her "pig-raising plan" was done without the palace's knowledge.
In the end, they could only compromise. After all, Li An couldn't escape in White Tiger City.
In this way, it would be natural for Li An to stay in the city.
...
On this day, when Li An just returned to the mansion from the Treasure Pavilion, two people were already waiting at the door.
One of them was very familiar to Li An, and it was...Xu Qiuhui!
After decades of separation, the old friends finally met again.
After decades, Xu Qiuhui was still the same, with a higher level of cultivation. She had reached the late stage of foundation building and should be planning to form a pill.
In fact, Xu Qiuhui had always wanted to visit Li An some time ago and handed in her name card several times, but Li An was too lazy to see her.
He knew that Xu Qiuhui must have something to ask for.
Since the other party had something to ask of him, he had to grasp the attitude and talk slowly.
Li An would not forget the revenge of Xu Qiuhui for taking the purple soul grass, but his principle has always been: benefits are greater than hatred!
Never let hatred affect the great plan of cultivating immortals.
First see if he can squeeze enough benefits from Xu Qiuhui.
"Master Zuo!"
Seeing Li An return, Xu Qiuhui and the middle-aged man came over and saluted respectfully.
"Who are you?"
Li An was puzzled.
"I am Xu Qiuhui from Baihu Mountain, and this is Master Zhang Deyi, the alchemist!"
Xu Qiuhui introduced: "We two are presumptuous to visit, please forgive us, Master."
Li An glanced at Zhang Deyi.
Zhang Deyi, Gu Songxi's eldest disciple, Gu Hong's senior brother... Li An also dealt with him indirectly.
Back then, Li An was going to find him to refine the foundation-building pill, and for this purpose he deliberately approached his disciple Luo Yong, but later found that Zhang Deyi might have been possessed by someone, so he chose Gu Hong again.
Now that many years have passed, Zhang Deyi should have been completely possessed.
"Zhang Deyi meets Master Zuo."
Zhang Deyi also smiled, very respectful and polite. "I have long heard of your great name. Please come in, please come in--"
Li An made a gesture of invitation.
Entered the living room.
The servant served tea, and the three of them exchanged a few polite words. Seeing that Li An did not ask any questions, Xu Qiuhui took the initiative to say:
"Master Zuo, we actually came here to ask for something."
"Just say it." Li An put down the teacup.
"Master Zhang and I are both in the late stage of foundation building. We are currently planning to form a pill, but we still lack some spiritual medicines."
Xu Qiuhui said: "Mainly green light grass, hidden stone, and dragon blood bone."
"We have collected these three medicinal materials for many years, but we have not found them in the end, so I would like to ask Master Zuo for help."
As the master of the pavilion, Li An, in a sense, controls the flow of rare resources in the city.
After all, as long as the rare spiritual medicine is willing to be sold, most of them will be taken to the Treasure Pavilion for appraisal and auction.
In order to find resources, they found Li An.
——In fact, this is also a result of Li An's layout in the past five years.
During these five years, under his instruction, the single prescription medicine of Yuanlingdan received by Zhenbao Pavilion has not been auctioned, and all of them have been saved.
As a result, it becomes very difficult for those who want to refine Yuanlingdan to collect spiritual medicine.
Finally, they must ask Li An for help.
Li An's goal is to get Yuanlingdan during this time away from the surveillance of the Demon Cult.
After all, the Demon Cult's "pig raising plan" is aimed at the key point of Li An's Dan formation.
If Li An gets Yuanlingdan in advance when the Demon Cult doesn't know, then he will have a lot of initiative to deal with the Demon Cult.
Even, he can find an opportunity to attack Dan formation when the Demon Cult is unaware. Once successful, how can the Demon Cult do anything to him?
...
Li An thought for a moment and said, "These medicinal materials...are all rare and can never be found overnight."
Zhang Deyi said, "As long as Pavilion Master Zuo helps, Pavilion Master Zuo can get one of them after the pill is made!"
"And please rest assured, Pavilion Master Zuo, you only need to help us find the medicine, and we will take care of the purchase."
It can be said that his attitude is very sincere.
The main reason is that he and Xu Qiuhui are both quite old.
Xu Qiuhui is older than Li An, more than 150 years old, and Zhang Deyi is 170 years old.
Based on their lifespans, if they fail to form the pill before the age of 200, they will have no hope after going downhill.
Otherwise, they would not look for Li An.
"If the pill is made, who will go first and who will go later?" Li An asked with a smile.
A furnace of Yuanling Pills can produce at most four pills!
The quality may be good or bad, and who will choose first and who will choose later must be clearly agreed.
Xu Qiuhui and Zhang Deyi looked at each other, and Zhang Deyi said, "Master Zuo... pick the second one, how about that?"
This was already a big concession.
He and Xu Qiuhui were the leaders, and Li An only provided a channel to find spiritual medicine.
"Okay,"
Li An said nothing and agreed.
He was not in a hurry to bargain. Anyway, the most important medicinal materials were in his hands, and he would slowly control the two people later.
The two were overjoyed.
The three people reached a cooperation.
"By the way,"
Li An suddenly said, "Some time ago, I just received a hidden Dao stone, but it is not fully mature and not perfect. I am preparing to use the spirit gathering array to nourish it. I need to trouble Miss Xu for help."
In the past five years, he has been observing and feeling the great array set up by Baihu Mountain.
Currently, the entire Baihu City is monitored by Baihu Mountain.
This means that even if he is in his residence, Baihu Mountain can use the great array to monitor him at any time.
Li An doesn't like this kind of environment. It is safest to control everything in his own hands.
Therefore, he has to keep quiet and make some adjustments to the formation of Baihu Mountain through Xu Qiuhui's hand.
And the gathering spirit formation is just a cover.
"Master Zuo means that I need to make some fine adjustments to the formation to guide the gathering of spiritual energy?" Xu Qiuhui asked.
Li An nodded.
Xu Qiuhui frowned slightly, but still nodded and said, "Okay, I'll try."
"You two didn't let other people know about this?" Li An asked again, smiling:
"With more people, there may not be enough Yuanling Pills to share..."
This is a reminder to prevent Xu Qiuhui from being noticed by Baihu Mountain when she changes the formation.
Zhang Deyi and Xu Qiuhui both nodded. Naturally, the fewer people involved in this kind of thing, the better.
If Li An hadn't arranged in advance and blocked the resources, they would not have come to Li An.
They left immediately. ...
A few days later, Li An took out the Dao-hiding Stone from the pavilion and deliberately made some repairable flaws.
Put it in the third-level spiritual vein for nourishment. Xu Qiuhui came again. After seeing the Dao-hiding Stone, she no longer doubted what Li An said, and then quietly changed some formations to attract spiritual energy to gather towards Li An.
A month later.
After Li An's observation, due to Xu Qiuhui's adjustment, the monitoring of some places by the White Tiger Mountain formation has been loosened.
That night, he took out a hoe.
Begin to dig a tunnel——
...