The Wheel-Turning Master.

Wu Muqianxu had been away from home for many years and had suffered a lot of grievances outside. When he saw his old brother, he held Lin Bai tightly and refused to let go, looking like he had met an old friend in a foreign land.

He kept talking for a long time about escaping death by the skin of his teeth and going through many tribulations, but he didn't act like a Jindan cultivator at all.

The four of them sat down. Wu Muqian wiped his eyes, held onto Lin Bai tightly, and asked, "Mu Fairy, why did you come here with Lin Zhuanlun?"

Mu Zhen had previously interrogated Wumuqian and knew a lot about Wumuqian, but Wumuqian knew nothing about Mu Zhen.

At this moment, Wu Muqian had already figured out that this seemingly unkind Taoist friend Mu Zhen had a good relationship with Lin Pei, but judging from the temperaments of the two women, it was definitely not the case that they worked together.

"Of course I seduced her." Mu Zhen said with a smile.

"Lin Zhuanlun, I am convinced by you from the bottom of my heart! After all, if you can defeat a high-level Nascent Soul cultivator, shouldn't it be easy for us to defeat those at the same level?" Wumu Qian immediately began to praise him, and when he saw Pei Ning closing his eyes to rest and Lin Bai looked unhappy, he quickly stopped talking.

"Tell me, tell me in detail about your journey north." Lin Bai frowned.

"Oh." Wu Muqian sighed heavily and talked about the past.

What he described was more detailed and thrilling than Mu Zhen’s.

At that time, Du Jueming led the team, with eleven other golden elixirs, and they took the old route of Chishangxing.

But at that time, Chi Shangxing brought too many people, and there was no high-level cultivator to protect him, which disturbed many Yuanying monsters and led to many bloody battles. When Du Jueming and others set out, the monsters had not yet calmed down, and they would go crazy and fight at the slightest sign of trouble.

The first monster they encountered was a mammoth, which was in the middle Nascent Soul stage. It was extremely violent and its behavior was disorderly. Du Jueming was injured at that time, Lu Jiuyao and Qi Hongyun were trampled into meat patties, and the rest of the Jindan were also injured.

Later, the mammoth fought with a white bear, and everyone escaped.

But after several consecutive encounters with danger, the group was forced to disperse, and even Du Jueming disappeared. Wu Muqian had been traveling with Gao Yuanyuan for a while, but later they also got separated.

In the end, Wumuqian was blessed with great fortune and escaped from the dead end. He stepped into the territory of the Northern Wilderness and saw human habitation. Only then did he find peace.

"I have been looking for news about Senior Du and the others, but unfortunately I couldn't find any. I couldn't find any other colleagues either. I could only stay in the market, gathering information while recuperating from my injuries. In the end, I became a guest of others..." Wu Muqian looked more and more pitiful as he spoke.

Lin Bai looked at Wu Muqian and felt that most of what he said was true. As for inquiring about Du Jueming and the Tianwen Sect, he probably had never done that.

"That's it for the first half of my life. There's still tomorrow." Wu Muqian waved his hand, looking depressed as if he had seen through life and death and had no attachment anymore.

But no one responded to his sigh, so Wu Muqian laughed awkwardly a few times and added: "But I am lucky to have met the kind-hearted Fairy Wood. Now that I have reunited with Brother Zhuanlun after a long absence, I feel like I have returned home!"

He was in high spirits and really regarded Lin Bai as his life-saving straw.

"Sister Zhen, where are your fellow Taoists?" Lin Bai asked.

"You guys wait here, I'll go find it." Mu Zhen stood up, looked at Wu Muqian, and said, "Fellow Daoist Wu Mu, come with me!"

"My injuries haven't fully healed yet." Wu Muqian immediately looked pitiful.

Mu Zhen smiled and strode out.

Wu Muqian saw that Mu Zhen was completely unguarded against Lin Pei and the others, and clearly trusted them to the utmost. He felt more and more that the three of them had a close relationship.

Seeing Mu Zhen walking out of the cave, Wumuqian quickly grabbed Lin Bai and asked about his next visit.

Lin Bai did not hide it either, only saying that he had wandered around and later chose a place to practice seclusion.

"You have a beautiful woman by your side, and you are making rapid progress." Wu Muqian took out some wine and poured it, looking poor. "Unlike me, I was looked down upon in my hometown. I finally got to be a comfortable guest here for two days, but now I have nothing. Fairy Mu also took away the spirit stones I saved with great effort. I don't know who she gave them to."

Lin Bai was very soft-hearted. He just urged her to drink and console him, saying some nonsense that the spirit stones would return after being dispersed.

"How did you get to know Fairy Wood?" Wumu Qian pulled Lin Bai away from Pei Ning and lowered his voice, saying, "From what I can see, she is not someone you can easily mess with. Your Pei Ning is not a pushover either. How did you reconcile them?"

"I know him in the East China Sea." Lin Bai didn't want to listen to Wumuqian's nonsense anymore, so after talking perfunctorily for a while, he closed his eyes and meditated, cultivating his newly made flying knife.

Now he is at the eighth level of the Golden Core, and his progress is very fast. He is unlikely to have any rivals in the same level in terms of fighting ability. Without thinking too much, Lin Bai practiced quietly.

More than a month later, Mu Zhen finally came back with five people.

There were three men and two women. The two female cultivators were young and beautiful. Among the three male cultivators, there was an old cultivator, and the other two were also young golden elixir cultivators.

As said before, Mu Zhen was looking for three more people, but now there are obviously two more than the quota.

"Let me introduce them to you all." Mu Zhen smiled, "This is my good friend Wu Muqian, and these two are my Taoist companions, alchemist Lin Zhuanlun and swordsman Pei Ning."

Then Mu Zhen introduced the others, and said to the old Jindan with a smile: "This senior brother is Daoist Jiang Tiesuo, who is very famous among our generation."

He pointed at the beautiful female cultivator and said, "Senior Sister Ying Caidie." Then he pointed at the male cultivator and said, "This is Daoist Fellow Yu Baili."

Finally, there was only one man and one woman left. Mu Zhen smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Yu, you introduced these two people. Why don't you introduce them to each other?"

"These two are my close friends, Fellow Daoist Lu Qingyin, and Fellow Daoist He Wenyao." Yu Baili said with a smile.

These two people were none other than Lu Qingyin and He Wenyao, whom he met when he first entered the Northern Wilderness. However, more than ten years have passed, He Wenyao has made progress, and Lu Qingyin has become more like a virgin, quiet and indifferent.

"I have admired you for a long time!"

"Disrespect, disrespect!"

Everyone was very polite, but they were all hypocritical.

Lin Bai did not mention his acquaintance with Lu Qingyin and He Wenyao, and the two of them tacitly kept silent.

Wu Muqian had heard of He Wenyao's reputation and also knew about the dirty deeds between Lin Bai and He Wenyao. Seeing that Lin Bai didn't say anything and Pei Ning pretended not to know him, he just laughed it off.

Mu Zhen was sometimes a bit frivolous, but he was also a meticulous person. He immediately asked everyone to sit down and started to discuss the arrangements.

"Wait a minute." Yu Baili raised his hand to stop Mu Zhen from speaking. He looked at Lin Pei and Wu Muqian, and his admiration for them was gone. He just smiled and said, "Although many hands make light work, too many people will cause confusion, not to mention going deep into a dangerous place. May I ask, Junior Sister Mu, what abilities do these three have? Just now you said that Fellow Daoist Lin Zhuanlun is an alchemist. Do we need an alchemist for this trip?"

"Then may I ask what Senior Brother Yu's strengths are?" Lin Bai asked with a smile.

"After I became a spirit, I established my foundation at the age of sixteen and formed my elixir at the age of sixty. I have a basic knowledge of formations and some experience in fighting, so I have some knowledge." Yu Baili smiled knowingly, looked at Lu Qingyin, and said, "Fairy Lu, I remember you said you also have a basic understanding of formations, shall we discuss it later?"

So he's using me as a raft to please Lu Qingyin?
Before Lin Bai could say anything, He Wenyao couldn't help it anymore. He pointed at Yu Baili's nose and angrily said, "How dare you discuss Taoism with a fairy?"

"Look, Brother He, why are you so angry?" Yu Baili took out his folding fan, and acted like a true gentleman, making He Wen Yao look like a villain. "You only know some trivial knowledge of growing herbs and seedlings, but you can still follow the fairy. Why can't I discuss Taoism with the fairy?"

"Fairy! Let's go! This man has evil intentions. He said he would give us an opportunity. It's obvious that he has bad intentions! The people here are not good people either!" He Wenyao felt aggrieved. He glanced at Lin Bai again and made up his mind. He immediately grabbed Lu Qingyin's sleeve and was about to leave.

Lu Qingyin did not stand up. She looked around at everyone and saw the old man Jiang Tiesuo stroking his beard indifferently, Wu Muqian moving aside again and again, Ying Caidie smiling, Pei Ning simply closed his eyes, and Lin Zhuanlun pressed his forehead, as if he was remembering something old.

As for the owner of this place, Fairy Mu Zhen was also laughing, as if she was watching a joke.

"Now that we are here, let's make the best of it." Lu Qingyin said.

"Fairy..." He Wenyao felt very aggrieved, but he did not dare to disobey Lu Qingyin's words, so he nodded in agreement immediately.

Yu Baili thought that Lu Qingyin stayed because of his face, so he was very happy and kept looking at Lu Qingyin without moving his eyes away.

Seeing that the commotion was over, Mu Zhen immediately clapped his hands and laughed, "I'm relying on you all this time, and we need to work together!"

She repeated the rules a few more times, prohibiting infighting and asking everyone to swear an oath on their own lives, but no one responded.

Mu Zhen did not force them, and asked everyone to talk about their own strengths, make many arrangements, and examine their own things.

After another three days of rest, Mu Zhen led the team to set off. (End of this chapter)