Golden Talisman Pavilion,
At 3 p.m. that day, Mei San walked into the store in a secretive manner.
As soon as he came in, he came up to Xiao Huan and asked stealthily: "I want to see your shopkeeper."
Xiaohuan is the older sister of the two beauties.
She was already accustomed to this kind of stealthy behavior from visitors.
"Excuse me, are you here to trade?"
"Well, my ancestor was a cultivator who had established his foundation. He left behind several notebooks on refining equipment. We, the descendants, are incompetent, so we can only exchange them for some spirit stones." Mei San seemed to be very ashamed.
"Please take your number plate and turn left after entering. There is a waiting room. You can wait there for a while until it is your turn, then you can go in."
Xiaohuan skillfully took out a wooden sign from under the counter and pushed it in front of Mei San.
"Huh? Are there many people coming to your place?" Mei San was stunned and couldn't help asking.
"There are very few recently. You are ranked 43rd today." Xiaohuan responded lightly with a professional and sophisticated smile on her face.
Mei San's face turned red, he grabbed the wooden sign, turned around and walked to the back.
After turning the side door of the shop and walking about ten steps, he entered a simply decorated room.
The room is about 100 square meters and has about 30 or 40 chairs inside.
When Mei San came in, there were already seven or eight people seated in the room.
The room was very quiet and no one spoke. Mei San shrank his neck, walked in quietly, found a chair to sit down, and began to wait silently.
Not long after that,
A young waiter came into the room, and needless to say, someone immediately stood up and followed the waiter out.
After waiting for a long time, everyone in front of him left and it was finally his turn.
Mei San followed the waiter through a corridor and came to the innermost room.
Bang bang!
The waiter knocked on the door.
"Come in!" A gentle voice came from the room.
"Come in!"
Mei San nodded ingratiatingly to the waiter, then pushed open the door and walked in.
"Sit down!" Zhao Sheng pointed to the chair in front of him.
Mei San nodded and smiled as he sat down opposite Zhao Sheng. Then he carefully took out a topaz-colored jade slip from his bosom and placed it on the table in front of him.
When Zhao Sheng saw that it was a jade slip, he immediately became excited. Anything engraved on a jade slip was not simple.
According to the rules, he did not ask about the origin of the jade slip, nor did he check the contents inside, but directly asked the visitor.
"Fellow Daoist, may I ask what the jade slip contains? Martial arts techniques, elixir recipes, secrets, treasure maps, or something else?"
Mei Sandao said, "Senior Zhao, this jade slip was left by my ancestors. It contains a technique for cultivating immortality called the Fire Cloud Technique. My ancestors used this technique to cultivate to the Foundation Establishment stage."
When Zhao Sheng picked up the jade slip, his spiritual sense swept over Mei San's body and sensed that his cultivation was very low, only at the second level of Qi Refining.
He placed the jade slip between his eyebrows and probed his spiritual consciousness into it. In an instant, countless pieces of information about martial arts techniques flooded into his mind.
After a moment, Zhao Sheng took down the jade slip and fell into deep thought.
The jade slip did record a fire-based practice, and the steps involved in refining spiritual energy, transporting spiritual power, cleansing the meridians, nourishing the spirit, and practicing the method were all recorded in great detail.
However, Zhao Sheng still couldn't be sure whether this technique was real.
After all, the culture of fraud in the world of immortal cultivation has a long history. There are few serious people, too many scammers, and almost all the fools are dead.
Things like tampering with pill recipes, fabricating experiences of cultivating immortality, forging spells and treasure maps, etc. are just child's play.
A more advanced method of counterfeiting is to completely fabricate the cultivation techniques, cutting off the beginning and the end, and deriving hundreds of "different" techniques based on one technique.
In the world of cultivating immortals, counterfeiting and forging has become an ancestral skill for some immortality scammers.
But these are not the most vicious ones.
What countless immortal cultivators hate the most is that the cultivation methods are real, but some people deliberately tamper with, erase, or even set up cultivation traps in the most critical parts.
There are many cultivators who do this, many, perhaps to prevent leaks, or perhaps to intentionally harm others.
You can imagine,
After killing someone, someone found a set of martial arts called "Fire Cloud Kung Fu" on the dead body.
The contents of the exercises are ninety-nine percent true, but when advancing to the foundation-building stage, the exercises record that the foundation will be built naturally after nine transformations of practice.
But in fact, the Nine Transformations of Merit had been tampered with. After the Nine Transformations, not only would one be unable to build a foundation, but one would explode and die.
In the world of immortal cultivation, every year countless cultivators end up in various tragedies because they practice fake skills.
Let's get back to the topic.
Mei San was secretly anxious when he saw Zhao Sheng remained silent.
He naturally knew the other party's concerns, and quickly revealed his own origins and family background, and even explained the reason why he wanted to sell his ancestral martial arts.
When Zhao Sheng heard that the other party was selling martial arts in order to join Guiyuan Sect, he felt very curious.
"Doesn't the Guiyuan Sect claim that anyone with spiritual roots can enter the sect?"
Mei San smiled bitterly and said, "Senior, you may not know that it's not difficult to enter Guiyuan Sect, but you need spirit stones to practice! Moreover, there are too many disciples in Guiyuan Sect, and the number of essence and blood beads in the sect is limited. There are too many monks and too little porridge, and the disciples in the sect are almost dying."
Zhao Sheng had heard a little about the recent situation of Guiyuan Sect, so he naturally knew that the other party was not lying.
The speed at which Guiyuan Sect's power expanded is extremely rare in the recent tens of thousands of years of history of the Tianzhu Realm.
In just a few years, the number of disciples exceeded 50,000, and it was inevitable that the sect's resources would be insufficient.
Zhao Sheng was once very curious. Seeing the power of Guiyuan Sect growing like a balloon day by day, why didn't the ten major sects in Zhongzhou choose to suppress it?
You must know that no matter in which world, the upper class is extremely wary of any person or force that may threaten their status, and often chooses to suppress or recruit them in advance.
Could it be that the Guiyuan Sect has been "incorporated"? Or is it just a "white glove" pushed forward by a top power?
Or maybe.
For a moment, countless possibilities suddenly emerged in Zhao Sheng's mind.
"Senior, senior?"
Mei San's cry brought Zhao Sheng back to his scattered thoughts.
"I'll take this jade slip of cultivation technique. What would you like to exchange it for?"
After coming to his senses, Zhao Sheng finally decided to accept this martial art.
Mei San's face lit up with joy when he heard this, and he said carefully, "Senior, I heard you can refine the Essence Blood Talisman?"
"Well, you want the Essence and Blood Talisman?" Zhao Sheng nodded and looked at the other person with bright eyes.
"Yes, I want the Essence and Blood Talisman!" Mei San said with certainty.
Mei San's request made Zhao Sheng somewhat embarrassed.
It's not that the Essence and Blood Talisman is difficult to refine, but he is afraid that once he starts, he won't be able to stop.
Zhao Sheng knew very well how big the supply gap of Essence and Blood Talismans was.
In the past two years, every talisman master in the Talisman Cultivation Association has been visited by the foundation-building cultivators of Guiyuan Sect, not just once but more than ten times or even more.
Zhao Sheng was of course no exception, especially a certain Wei who considered himself an old acquaintance of his and kept coming to his house shamelessly, which really annoyed him.
However, Zhao Sheng didn't want to lose face.
After all, we should not give face to the monk but to the Buddha, so we still have to consider the face of Patriarch Guiyuan.
Just like other Jindan Dayuan Zhenren monopolized a certain industry in Dongtian City, Guiyuan Patriarch monopolized the talisman industry.
In other words, the biggest backer of the Talisman Cultivation Association is Patriarch Guiyuan.
Of course, ever since Patriarch Guiyuan was forced to move out of Dongtian City, the patron of the association has changed.
However, the connections accumulated over hundreds of years cannot be erased in a short period of time.
Nowadays, quite a number of talisman practitioners in Dongtian City have been recruited as disciples by Guiyuan Sect.
Zhao Sheng was invited to join many times, but he refused every time.