The ancestor is incompetent!

Chapter 7 Furnace Burning
The fat man in yellow shirt chuckled, stretched out a plump finger from his sleeve and pointed it in front of him. A yellow light cloud emerged, generating words one by one.

"This is the general affairs rotation. Just tell me which one you like."

Everyone looked up, their eyes quickly scanning the light curtain. Some experienced disciples directly chose the general affairs officer they liked and hurried forward to receive orders from the fat man in yellow.

It was the first time that Li Yuan became a deacon disciple and later did chores. He was not in a hurry to gain benefits from it, but read it carefully, among which there were more than thirty chores.

Most of them are tasks of making puppets inside the mountain gate. There are also a few tasks of going to the mountain gate, and even tasks of detecting the traces of monsters. Those risky tasks are not only marked as being taken over by strong people, but also have spirit stone rewards.

A disciple beside Li Yuan stepped forward and said, "Elder Huang, I will take on the mission of exploring the Chouyun Mountain."

The fat man in yellow couldn't help but look sideways when he heard this. He hesitated for a moment and said, "Master Wen, the dark crows in the Sorrow Cloud Mountain are medium-level monsters. There are even high-level monsters in the depths. You must be careful."

"I have made up my mind." The disciple surnamed Wen said with a firm look, "I have reached a bottleneck in my cultivation recently. If I continue like this, I may be stuck for ten or eight years."

"Okay, since you are so ambitious, I will not persuade you any more." Elder Huang nodded, drew a spiritual light, and then remembered something and took out a scroll from his sleeve and handed it to him, "This is the geomancy map brought back by the disciple who has already visited. Be careful."

"Yes, disciple thanks Elder Huang for his kindness!" said the disciple named Wen happily.

So Li Yuan was the only one left out of the six disciples. The other five bowed and said goodbye. Elder Huang sighed and said, "Boy, have you made your choice?"

Li Yuan replied: "Disciple, I will choose this simple job of watching the furnace."

"Oh?" Elder Huang looked at him strangely and couldn't help laughing: "If it was really a simple task, why wouldn't those guys in front choose it?
I can only tell you that Qian Shiyan is not someone who is easy to get along with."

……

Half a day later, Li Yuan came to the underground fire room with the token. The scorching heat made him sweat slightly as soon as he walked in.

After passing through several layers of restrictions, he arrived at the second of the seven underground fire rooms and said respectfully, "Is Elder Qian here? I am a new disciple on duty."

"Come in."

A cold voice was heard, and the stone door in front of him opened automatically.

"Whoo~"

The rolling heat wave hit him in the face, and the red light that filled the room made it difficult for him to open his eyes. It took him a moment to adjust his gaze and then he could see clearly that there was a giant four-legged furnace three meters high in the room. There was a hole under the furnace, from which an extremely hot spiritual fire came out.

In front of the tall stove stood a tall woman in red with her back to him. Even though her face could not be seen clearly, her slim figure alone was enough to arouse imagination.

"Disciple Li Yuan, greetings to the elder!"

"boom…"

The stone door behind him suddenly closed, and Li Yuan was startled.

The woman turned around, her beautiful face but with cold eyes, the tassels on her hairpin swayed gently.

"How can you practice cultivation when you are so timid?
Do you know that if you are touched by the underground fire, it will burn you to ashes without leaving any bones?"

Li Yuan bowed and replied: "Disciple will keep it in mind."

"Come here, this is the Ice Fire Fan. When you fan it from the front, the wind will help the fire and increase its temperature. When you fan it from the back, it will generate cold air to eliminate fire and reduce inflammation.

Hold this fan, wait in front of the stove, and light the fire carefully."

"Yes, disciple understands."

Li Yuan hurriedly took the Ice and Fire Fan. This was the first time he had come into contact with a magic weapon. Thinking back to the more than ten years of cultivating immortals, it was only today that he touched a real magic weapon.

He stood by the furnace holding a treasured fan, staring intently at the spiritual wood being refined by the raging fire in the furnace.

What is being refined in this furnace is the body of the Jiamu puppet.

Qian Shiyan was seen constantly activating the magic formula in her hands, controlling the earth fire to wrap the green wood, and then calculating the time, waiting for the wood to be half-melted, and her spiritual thoughts began to shape it little by little according to the form of the Jiamu puppet.

Sometimes when the fire was too strong, Li Yuan would fan away the cold air, and sometimes when the fire was too low, he would add more heat.

After a few days of hard work, there were very few mistakes, which made Qian Shiyan feel much more relaxed.

A newly-made Jiamu puppet body fell to the ground, Qian Shiyan nodded and said, "Not bad, your character is much stronger than the previous disciples who came.

I will take a breather while you clear out the waste in the furnace."

Li Yuan quickly responded: "Yes, Elder!"

Qian Shiyan then sat down to meditate and regulate her breathing. It was obvious that refining the puppet was also a laborious task for her.

Li Yuan used a formation to block the fire in the furnace, cooled it down with cold air, and then collected a pile of waste.

There were some scattered spiritual materials among them, which he collected quietly. Elder Qian, who was meditating and regulating his breathing, did not pay attention to such a small matter.

After more than half a day had passed, Elder Qian once again took out spiritual objects from his storage bag, put them into the furnace one by one, and began to refine the next one.

Li Yuan also replenished his magic power and continued to hold the fan and wait for the fire.

This boring step was repeated for a month before Li Yuan was finally relieved. Controlling fire was obviously not an easy task. He was already practicing the Lower Yuan Jue of the water element and had some resistance to fire. He felt a little dizzy after staying in there for thirty days.

Qian Shiyan has refined eight puppet bodies within this month. These puppets will then be sent to the forbidden room, where Li Yuan used to do chores, to have thirty-six external forbidden things engraved on them. They will then be sent to Qi Feng to have four core internal forbidden things engraved on them. They will then be possessed by the spirits of the Dead Cave, and finally checked and placed under secret bans to prevent the puppets from being defective and having their cores seen through by cultivators from other sects.

Li Yuan walked out of the room, took a deep breath of fresh and cool air, and said with a long sigh: "Finally it's done, I can go home now."

When I came, autumn was in full swing, and when I returned, the mountain paths were covered with cold snow. The vast expanse of white mountains separated the secular world below the mountain from the fairyland above.

He looked back and saw a new round of disciples entering the general affairs department. It seemed that the mountain and the foot of the mountain were not completely different.

A beam of light fell from the sky, and Li Yuan looked up and found that it was Ruan Jinghu.

The other party obviously saw him and couldn't help but chuckle, "Junior brother! What a coincidence, you are here for your turn too?"

Li Yuan's mouth twitched. "I just finished my shift and came out of the underground fire room. I'm going to go back and have a good rest."

"Ah, the underground fire room." Ruan Jinghu couldn't help but laugh: "No wonder, the job of watching the furnace in the underground fire room is not an easy job."

"Brother, is this flying magic weapon of yours newly bought?" Li Yuan looked at the jade ruyi following behind him with envy.

"Hahaha, not bad." Ruan Jinghu said proudly, "How is it? Doesn't it look very impressive? This is the place where you can buy this magic weapon.

Junior brother, it's a pity that you didn't go. There are so many people here that it's hard to talk.

This little bit of stuff is my compensation to you. Remember not to talk nonsense everywhere, otherwise I, your senior brother, will not protect you anymore."

After saying that, he took out a wooden box and handed it over.

Li Yuan hurriedly evaded the question, "Brother, how can I do this? I have always been a person who does not socialize with others. I am afraid of causing trouble, so how can I dare to say more?"

"Brother, please take it if you ask me to. I am no longer the same person I used to be. If I continue to mess around, I am afraid someone with ulterior motives will see me. It is better for you to accept it quickly and open it when you return to the cave." Ruan Jinghu saw someone walking not far away and glanced at him to signal him.

Li Yuan naturally understood, and quickly collected it and put it into his storage bag, saying: "Then I'll take my leave first! I'll visit you when I have time."

"Hahaha, go ahead." Ruan Jinghu laughed heartily, waved his hand and walked into the Lingfeng Hall. Li Yuan used the light body technique and hurried back to his cave.

When he arrived at his own courtyard, he closed the gate and the restrictions, then the doors and windows of the inner courtyard. Then he sat on the bed and opened the wooden box given to him by Senior Brother Ruan.

"Spiritual stone!"

Li Yuan exclaimed, "No, this is a mid-grade spirit stone!"

There were two spirit stones glowing blue and filled with spiritual energy in the wooden box.

You know, middle-grade spirit stones are rare treasures for Qi-refining cultivators, not to mention that there are two of them, and they are of water attribute.

This is worth two hundred low-grade spirit stones!

What did Ruan Jinghu and Qi Hongzhi find in the ancient cave? What made Ruan Jinghu so generous that he spent 200 spirit stones just to shut him up!

It seems that the ancient cave is at least at the foundation-building level. He is not the only one who has the opportunity to encounter adventures. The world is so big, and there are countless adventures. Even if he possesses such a powerful inherited treasure, he cannot take it lightly, and he cannot underestimate others.

Li Yuan was moved for a while before he calmed down and thought about the uses of these two spirit stones.

In his opinion, only by spending the spirit stones can they reach their maximum value. It would be better to buy a flying magic weapon and a body protection magic weapon. These two spirit stones plus the more than 40 spirit stones he has accumulated should be enough.

But if such a huge sum of money is used, it will definitely be remembered by those who have ulterior motives. If you go out, you may encounter danger.

After thinking for a moment, Li Yuan resisted the urge to go to the market to buy magic tools. Even though the mountain gate was very close to the market, the risk was not that great, but Li Yuan still did not dare to joke with his own life.

The most urgent task is to refine the puppet!
As long as he could refine a puppet and put a few more armored wood puppets, he would have a chance to escape even if he encountered a late-stage cultivator.

Li Yuan's mind moved, and he came to the World of Ten Thousand Trees. Many spiritual materials appeared in front of him. These were all spiritual objects he had collected from the furnace in the Earth Fire Room.

As long as you are willing to dig through the waste, you can always find some useful spiritual materials.

He took out the soaked green sunken wood, and then followed the steps in the Ten Thousand Puppet Scripture and combined it with his experience of watching Qian Shiyan making puppets. With a thought, a hot flame began to rise under the treasure furnace. After warming the furnace, he put all kinds of spiritual materials into it.

The green sunken wood began to be refined in the furnace, but the flame was too strong and it burned over in less than an incense stick of time.

Li Yuan's face turned dark. He had just gotten into the state when it ended in failure.

He could only take out the ashes of the burnt spirit wood and casually sprinkle them next to other spirit trees as nutrients.

This hundred-year-old spiritual tree is worth hundreds of spiritual stones, but Li Yuan does not feel sorry for it because there are endless spiritual trees behind him.

After a few days, Li Yuan tried to refine it again. This time it was not burnt by fire, but because the spiritual liquid was not properly prepared, it caught fire directly in the furnace, and his face was covered with black smoke.

Li Yuan failed again.

A few days later, he opened the furnace to refine puppets again, and as a result, a roar like an explosion was heard from the furnace.

……

As winter goes and spring comes, the scenery in the mountains has not changed, but new people keep coming and old people disappearing.

When Li Yuan was 30 years old, Qi Lingmen recruited a group of new disciples, but none of them had the extraordinary talent like Li Yunming.

There are new disciples who are becoming famous, and there are also old disciples who are ending up in obscurity.

The Qi Ling Sect built a group of new towers in the middle of the two peaks, among which there was a tower that touched the hearts of all the disciples in the mountain.

The tower is called Su Yu Bai Que Tower. It is a hundred feet high and is said to have a hundred floors. There is a monument in front of the tower, recording the number of floors that have been passed by people who have entered the tower.

At this moment, there were crowds of people in front of the tower, all staring at the stone tablet with burning eyes.

On the stone tablet were engraved the names and sect affiliations of many disciples, a total of seventy or eighty people.

A group of disciples were discussing excitedly, and they were all as excited as if they were the ones who were going to break into the tower.

"Hey, look, Wang Lengchan, who was ranked first, was surpassed! Someone made it to the 28th floor!"

"What? He actually made it to the 28th floor? The 28th floor is a floor that only elders can enter! Could it be that that person is..."

"It's Ruan Jinghu! It's Ruan Jinghu from Lingfeng. He's even taller than Wang Lengchan from Qifeng!"

"This is simply incredible! This person is probably not far from the late stage of Qi Refining, the Condensing Immortal Bone Realm, right?"

"Look, someone has already given up the challenge!"

"Ah? No, this is too fast, isn't it?"

The disciples looked in the direction of the sound and saw that one of the eight doors of the tower was opened, and a young disciple covered in dust walked out. Although he was handsome, his face was full of shame. After leaving the tower, he hurried down the mountain.

"Who is this person? How come he came out so quickly?"

"You can tell by looking at the rankings. Those whose names are still flashing are trying to pass the level. Those who are not flashing have naturally given up on passing the tower."

"This person is... Lingfeng disciple... Li Yuan... He is thirty years old. He has reached the ninth floor of the pagoda."

"Ah? Only the ninth floor? But those who can enter the tower are the deacons and disciples. How can a person who is in the middle stage of Qi Refining only make it to the ninth floor?"

"This senior brother is too..."

"Look, even Li Yunming, who was in the early stage of Qi Refining, has reached the eleventh level!"

"Isn't Senior Brother Li Yuan too bad?"

"Isn't this a disgrace to our Lingfeng?"

……

Two Taoists stood on the sky of the hundred-foot-high tower.

One was a beautiful woman dressed as a Taoist nun, and the other was a white-haired one-eyed old man.

"Junior sister, the trial spiritual weapon you begged from Linglong Sect is truly extraordinary." The one-eyed old man smiled and said, "This will also provide a good place for the disciples in the mountain to practice. We can also see who is stronger than the others."

The beautiful nun smiled and nodded, saying: "The spiritual weapons of the Linglong Sect are naturally extraordinary. This tower is a top-grade spiritual weapon with 108 floors. It uses illusion to make those who enter the tower fall into a battle with 1,808 Qi-refining monks, which can not only improve combat experience, but also will not hurt oneself.

In recent years, the late-stage Qi-refining disciples in the mountain have become increasingly lazy. Wait until these mid-stage disciples have finished their battles, and then let them try their luck.

The peaceful atmosphere in the sect is not conducive to the practice of the disciples. How can there be no fighting on the road of practice?"

"Junior sister, what you said is true." The one-eyed old man sighed, "Just this one spiritual weapon has made the mountain gate's storehouse quite empty. We will have to live a poor life."

"A poor life? My Qi Ling Sect believes that we treat our disciples well, much better than the other sects around us, so this is nothing.

But I am worried about the rumored beast tide. Is it true? "The beautiful Taoist nun frowned and said, "If it is true, I am afraid that the four families in Guangnan Mountain Range will bear the brunt of it, and it is possible that the mountain will be destroyed."

(End of this chapter)