Chongming Xianzong

Chapter 93 Cooperation (Thanks to Brother Jian V for the 10000 points reward)

After arriving in Jingnan Prefecture very quickly, and then quickly returning to Chongming Sect, Master Kang was really frightened. At this time, he gave up the idea of ​​going out again, and let the four heads of the Liu family's four ghosts dry in the storage bag first.

After staying in the secret room for another half a month, Kang Dabao pretended to have come back from outside and rushed back to Chongming Sect in a dusty manner.

After returning, he didn't even have an appetite to eat the pork elbow that Jin Shilun personally brought to him, so he went straight into his headmaster's room. He thought he could rest and recuperate for a while, but he didn't expect someone to come to see him at night.

"Oh? Fellow Daoist Lu, do you want to buy a box of spirit bees in my house as well?" Kang Dabao looked at the female cultivator from the Lu family in front of him, and showed little interest after hearing her purpose.

The reason why the head of the Kang family showed little interest was simply because he was in a bad mood. It was definitely not because the second cousin of the head of the Lu family in front of him was plain-looking, had thick hands and feet, and was not curvy.

He had heard Jiang Qing mention this female cultivator to him before. When several people from the Lu family had joined forces to fight Jiang Qing, this female cultivator's methods were the most ferocious, much stronger than the two patriarchs of the Lu family.

"Tsk, it's not a pressing matter. Why bother coming here so late at night?" Kang Dabao sat in the main seat, greeting the female cultivator opposite him warmly on the surface, but he was secretly complaining in his heart.

"I have seen the locust tree transplanted by your sect earlier. I think the spiritual plant that can make Master Kang personally come to the sect must be extraordinary. So when I heard that Master Kang returned to the sect today, I took the liberty to visit him without stopping. As long as Master Kang agrees to this, my family's spiritual bees will be able to make good locust flower honey with such excellent locust tree flowers."

The female cultivator from the Lu family looked like a practical person. She wasn't good at flattering people, but once she started talking about spiritual honey and spiritual bees, her eyes would light up.

After hearing what the Lu family female cultivator said, Kang Dabao was not completely defeated by his depression. He knew that what the female cultivator said was something serious that needed to be taken seriously.

I threw away my depressed mood and comforted myself with this sentence: "I have been used to being poor for many years, and the things that were robbed were all picked up from other people's coffins."

The head of Kangda thought that professional matters should be asked to professionals, so he turned to look at Master Zhou Jia who was sitting next to him and said, "Fellow Daoist Zhou, what do you think? Is Fellow Daoist Lu's proposal feasible?"

"Well, in my humble opinion, there is nothing wrong with Brother Lu's suggestion. However, to implement this matter, I have to see the box of spiritual bees that Brother Lu wants to place under the locust tree before I can make any statement." Master Zhou Jia's words were mature.

Kang Dabao and the Lu family female cultivator nodded in agreement. Kang Dabao was about to say that they would discuss it tomorrow, but the Lu family female cultivator spoke up: "Daoyou is right. I have brought the box of spirit bees."

As she spoke, she took out a gray wooden box magic tool from the spirit beast bag and opened the lid on the side of the box. A large group of black spirit bees buzzed out of the beehive and circled around the green lamp in the hall.

Fortunately, Chongming Sect was not wealthy after all, and the lamps and candles in the hall were all burned with animal oil, and all that was burning was ordinary fire. If a brainless spirit bee flew over curiously, it would only be burned and hurt, and its wings would smell a little burnt, but it was no big deal. Otherwise, in just this short time, most of the box of spirit bees of the Lu family female cultivator would have been destroyed.

Master Zhou Jia did not go to look at the spiritual bees in the hall first. Instead, he used his spiritual power shield to probe into the beehive.

Although the soldier bees around were anxious, the female cultivator of the Lu family controlled the queen bee and did not give any orders. They could only watch Master Zhou Jia reach into the beehive, pick up a young spirit bee, dip it in honey, put it into his mouth and start chewing it.

"Brother Daoist Lu's box of spiritual bees is not simple. Although they are only of the lower grade of the first level, when you chew them, they taste a bit like the upper grade of the first level black jade bees." Master Zhou Jia praised.

This method of identifying spirit bees was the first time Kang Dabao and the Lu family female cultivator had seen it. But the latter was surprised and said with admiration: "Fellow Daoist Zhou is right. My black jade bees are indeed trained from black jade bees."

"Tsk, if that's true, then the matter of the magical bees collecting honey will require some careful consideration." Upon hearing this, Master Zhou Jia frowned and sighed.

"Why is this?" The female cultivator from the Lu family asked, and even Kang Dabao showed a puzzled look on his face.

"You have been cultivating the Black Jade Bee for many years, so you should know the nature of this bee. If what I guessed is correct, your spirit bees should be similar to the Black Jade Bees in terms of their habits. Although they are also good at pollination, they are very ferocious and violent when collecting nectar, and often damage the petals and stamens of the spirit flowers."

"If my family also had fruit trees and spiritual plants, it would be fine. If these spiritual bees tore off some of the false flowers, the remaining harvest might be better. But what Sect Leader Kang got was a locust tree, and most of its value lies in the locust flowers. If it is harmed by fellow Taoist's spiritual bees and only a little spiritual honey is obtained, it would be a bit of a loss."

After Master Zhou Jia explained the whole story, the doubts on their faces disappeared.

Kang Dabao was not very interested in this matter, so he was about to reject the Lu family's female cultivator's proposal. But he heard the latter ask, "Daoyou Zhou is well-informed and has a good memory. Black Jade Bees do have this bad habit. Daoyou's concerns are not unreasonable. I admire them. But I wonder if you can let me see the locust tree in person. After seeing it, it won't be too late for our two families to make plans."

The female cultivator of the Lu family was not good at flattery, so her praise for Master Zhou Jia was not just polite talk, but sincere admiration.

She wanted to see the big locust tree, but Zhou Jiashi had no say in the matter, so she looked in the direction of Kang Dabao.

Master Kang had no objection. It wouldn't hurt the locust tree to lose a piece of bark if she looked at it. The deal was hard to make anyway, so he just treated it as the young bee that was eaten by Master Zhou Jia just now.

The three of them walked under the moonlight and came to the big locust tree. The Lu family's female cultivator also had some vision. She only needed to get close to the tree and smell it to feel that the original grade of the big locust tree was not low, but it was damaged for some reason.

But with Master Zhou Jia's appropriate remedy, even she, an outsider, could feel that the vitality of the big locust tree was recovering rapidly.

"This is at least a first-grade, top-quality spiritual plant." The female cultivator of the Lu family was tempted. Her Black Jade Bee could only speed up its advancement by eating all kinds of high-quality spiritual flowers and making honey.

However, even if high-quality spiritual flowers are found by chance, the quantity is usually limited, and the pollen alone is not enough for all the black jade bees, so it has to be used to breed queen bees.

However, among the spiritual flowers that were found in sufficient quantity, those that could be found were of too low a quality to be used by the Black Jade Bee to upgrade its level.

If this locust tree could really provide honey for black jade bees, then after three to five years, at least half of her boxes of black jade bees would be able to advance to the first-grade intermediate quality, and the honey they brewed would be of a higher quality than it is now.

Although the grade has only been raised by one grade, the first-grade middle-grade spiritual honey can already be used as an auxiliary material for refining some second-grade elixirs, and its value will be greatly increased. "There is no other tree more suitable than this locust tree, and we must make a deal!" The Lu family female cultivator thought so, and she lowered the price she had originally planned. She said, "Master Kang, our two families will cooperate, and your family will get 40% of the locust flower honey, and my family will get 60%."

Before Kang Dabao could settle the account, he saw Master Zhou Jia walked to the big locust tree, stretched out his finger to draw a difficult rune in the air, and then crushed a spirit stone in his hand and sprinkled it on the rune.

Then the runes began to glow and were imprinted on the trunk of the locust tree. Two flower buds instantly grew on the tenderest branch of the tree. Then the buds opened one after another, and two small white flowers bloomed at the same time. The quiet night sky was filled with a clean and refreshing fragrance.

Master Zhou Jia then borrowed another black jade bee from the female cultivator of the Lu family. The black jade bee rose from Master Zhou Jia's fingertips and rushed towards the locust flowers like a hungry tiger. While picking nectar, it also bit the petals, leaving them full of gaps. In the end, even a petal was torn off.

Kang Dabao and Zhou Jiashi looked even uglier when they saw this. Then they heard the latter say, "Alas, Brother Lu, your black jade bee is even more ferocious than I thought. Let alone 40% of the honey, even 60% would probably just barely break even."

"Then it's 60%!" The female cultivator from the Lu family watched the black spirit bee collect pollen, then fly back to her hand with a bulging belly. She became more determined to reach this cooperation.

"Oh, fellow Daoist, wait a minute. If you give 60% to my family, wouldn't that mean there would be no profit? Then why should I let you, the spirit bee, make honey?" At this time, Kang Dabao took over. He couldn't do this business that would lose money.

"Seventy percent will be given to your family!" The female cultivator from the Lu family raised the price neatly and efficiently.

"Eighty percent!" Master Kang was not polite and chopped again.

"It's 80% certain! That's settled then." This time the Lu family female cultivator answered with finality.

"I'll take my leave now and come back when the locust flowers bloom." The female cultivator from the Lu family was quite efficient. After finishing the discussion, she bowed and left.

"Tsk, I should have said 90% earlier, what a loss." Seeing that the female cultivator from the Lu family agreed so readily, Sect Leader Kang started to do the math again.

"Master Kang, even if it's only 10%, it's still a profit." But at this time, Master Zhou Jia spoke only after he saw the female cultivator from the Lu family gradually walking away.

"What do you mean, fellow Taoist?" Kang Dabao was intrigued and asked curiously.

"If Fellow Daoist Lu had tamed a group of first-grade, top-quality Black Jade Bees, then our locust flowers would indeed be harmed a lot in the process of collecting nectar. But the Black Jade Bees she tamed are only of the lower grade, with weak mouthparts, and cannot bite the petals of the first-grade, top-quality locust flowers. They will not cause any damage to our locust flowers." Master Zhou Jia laughed.

"So just now... Daoist fellow, did you cheat?!" Master Kang came to his senses halfway through his words. How could he not know that it was Master Zhou Jia who did this?

"The two locust flowers that I ripened by using Master Jia's secret technique and against the season are just for show and naturally cannot withstand the bites of the spirit bees." Master Zhou Jia's expression was somewhat smug, which seemed inconsistent with his honest appearance.

"If the locust flowers on this tree are no exception, they can be picked by two boxes of spirit bees, and about six to eight liters of locust flower honey can be obtained. If the locust flower honey can be brewed into medium-quality spirit honey, then one liter can be sold for twenty-five spirit stones. That year,..." The more Zhou Jiashi spoke, the happier he looked.

Kang Dabao couldn't help but reply after hearing this: "Even if we don't count the income from the Sophora japonica flowers, the net profit from the spiritual honey alone is 120 to 160 spiritual stones."

“That locust tree alone can bring the Chongming Sect an income of two to three hundred spirit stones in one year.” Thinking of this, Sect Leader Kang became even happier.

"Hiss, I didn't expect this honest man to have such a cunning side." Kang Dabao was delighted but also a little alert.

As expected, a person who can make a living alone in a big city like Xuanwei for so many years must not be as simple as he looks.

There was already some peculiarity in the look that Master Kang cast towards Master Zhou Jia.

　Thanks again to Brother Jian V for the tip! I should have added more, but my typing efficiency on my phone is too low, so I can only leave it as a debt for now.

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　　After writing the first two chapters, there were some controversies. I have read the comments from all the brothers and they all make sense.

　　The biggest problem may be that Lao Bai did not lay the groundwork for Kang Yilong's appearance.

　　Actually, Lao Bai's original intention was to show the feeling of great joy and sorrow of getting a lot of treasures in the beginning, but then having a good sleep and realizing that it was all a dream. He wanted everyone to feel the absurdity that cultivating immortals is not something that can be achieved overnight, and that all kinds of accidents may happen at any time.

　　But now after reading everyone’s feedback, I think it was not written well and was a bit abrupt. This is Lao Bai’s problem.

　　Thank you very much for the constructive suggestions. When I woke up this morning, I saw that many readers who criticized Lao Bai still voted in support. I sincerely thank them for this.

　　Those of you who are concerned about the outline don’t have to worry. I am still sticking to my main storyline.

　　I also saw some arguments among people in the comments. I think people read books to relax. If there are any problems, they are the author's problems. There is no need to hurt the harmony with each other. So Lao Bai will delete some of the more aggressive comments. I hope everyone understands.

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