Chapter 73 Demon Refining Array "I see. Wanbao Pavilion has been doing a booming business these years. But Master Uncle also knows that our Shuanglu Island has many businesses in the market that need my careful management. After Wanbao Pavilion got on the right track, I handed it over to my subordinates to manage. I usually just check it every now and then. I have never looked at the accounts in detail. If there is anything wrong, Master Uncle, please don't blame me."Ling Tianxing spoke respectfully, looking at Li Qingque from beginning to end, but he didn't even look at Zhang Qian who was beside Li Qingque, as if he didn't see this person. Zhang Qian narrowed his eyes. He had lived three lives as a human being and his mind was very cunning. After hearing what Ling Tianxing said, he knew that there was something mysterious in the account book that Yu Xuanji had taken away before, and it was very likely that there were many false accounts. "How could I blame you?" Li Qingque sighed and said, "If you hadn't helped to look after it, Wanbao Pavilion might have closed down long ago. I was in seclusion for all these years, and you managed Wanbao Pavilion so well. I should be thanking you. But now I have come out of seclusion, and I have also accepted a junior brother. I am about to revitalize the Demon Refining Island. I would like to take back Wanbao Pavilion and run it myself." Ling Tianxing's eyes sparkled: "So this is what Master-Uncle is planning. That's good. After Master-Uncle Li has looked at the accounts, he will send someone to take over." "I'm glad you think so. By the way, this is my junior fellow apprentice Zhang Qian. You probably haven't seen him before." Li Qingque pointed at Zhang Qian and introduced him. Ling Tianxing's face immediately showed surprise and admiration: "So this is Junior Brother Zhang Qian! Junior Brother Zhang, I've heard of your great name for a long time. You broke through Shangyuan Bajing Palace in one breath, which is really amazing." Zhang Qian felt amused. He was sure that Ling Tianxing recognized him the first time he saw him, but now he looked like he didn't know him. He didn't know what he was thinking. "How dare I? It should be that I have long heard of your great name. I have long heard that Senior Brother Ling is an expert in alchemy and refining equipment. Coincidentally, I am very interested in alchemy and refining equipment. When I have time, I would like to go to Shuanglu Island to ask for advice and learn. When the time comes, I will ask Senior Brother Ling to give me some guidance." Ling Tianxing smiled inexplicably: "Oh? Junior brother, are you interested in alchemy and refining equipment? This is not easy to learn. There is no problem with guidance. Whether you can learn it by then depends on your aptitude and understanding. Moreover, if you want to learn alchemy and refining equipment, it is best to have the spirit of fire. If not, you have to refine a kind of divine fire."
Zhang Qian's heart moved. He really didn't know anything about alchemy and weapon refining. There was nothing related to alchemy and weapon refining in the perception of the Hundong Patriarch. The prehistoric world was full of immortal medicines and divine fruits. Eating any one of them would bring great benefits. There was no need to refine them into elixirs. It was after the great catastrophe of the witches and liches that the sky collapsed and the earth cracked, the innate spiritual energy was lost, and all the immortal medicines and divine fruits withered. Then the way of alchemy emerged. As a result, in the early days of the prehistoric times, there was no one who studied the art of refining elixirs and weapons, and the ancestor Hundong was neither of them. In the early days of the prehistoric times, the ground was filled with innate spiritual energy, and any weed had considerable medicinal power, so there was no need for alchemy at all. "I still have some things to do, so I won't stay any longer. Uncle Master, wait for you to finish looking at the accounts and send someone to hand them over to me." Ling Tianxing smiled gently, bowed, and turned to leave. After he walked away, Zhang Qian narrowed his eyes and said, "Senior Sister, believe it or not, there must be a lot of false accounts in Wanbao Pavilion. You have been in seclusion for so many years and have never checked. It is easy to make some false accounts." Li Qingque glared at him lightly: "Do you think I can't think of it? If there is, then there is. It is much better than the closure of Wanbao Pavilion. When we return to the Demon Refining Island, you can help me take a look and give me some ideas on how to run Wanbao Pavilion after we take it back." After stopping talking, Li Qingque took Zhang Qianjian and toured various places of Jianhu Palace and introduced them in detail, so that Zhang Qian had a deep understanding of Jianhu Palace. Before returning to the Demon Refining Island, Zhang Qian specially went to the Void Island he had chosen to take a look. He discovered that hundreds of strong Taoist soldiers had already carried stones and wood piled up into a small mountain, and were casting all kinds of strange construction spells, building the mansion that Zhang Qian wanted at an incredibly fast speed. A hundred-foot-high sword rainbow rumbled down and flew to the top of the fairy mountain on the Demon Refining Island. "Island Master, I have already looked through the accounts of Wanbao Pavilion, and there seems to be something wrong..." Yu Xuanji held a jade box with an expression of wanting to say something but stopping herself from saying it. Li Qingque frowned slightly: "Not right? Let me see." He stretched out his hand and took the jade box in his hand. He scanned it with his spiritual sense. After a long while, Li Qingque snorted coldly and looked displeased. "What a Ling Tianxing! No wonder he said that before. It turns out that the account is a mess!" Zhang Qian took it and looked at it, and found that this was not an account at all. It was a mess. Not only were the accounts recorded in it disorganized, but the profits after selling the various treasures were also not clearly recorded. Even the spirit stones sold for the same item differed by several times. "Island owner..." Seeing Li Qingque's gloomy face, Yu Xuanji said something tentatively, but Li Qingque suddenly showed deep fatigue, and the flaming fighting spirit in his eyes also dissipated a lot. He said hoarsely: "These people are all trying to bully me. I don't know how many times our Demon Refining Island has been taken advantage of over the years!" Zhang Qian's face condensed, and he consoled her: "Don't be sad, Senior Sister. It is not possible to revitalize the Demon Refining Island in a short period of time. Things have to be done step by step. Don't worry, those who took advantage of our Demon Refining Island will be vomited out sooner or later." Li Qingque shook his head slightly, and after a while he instructed: "Xuanji, tomorrow you will take over the Wanbao Pavilion with the accounts, and temporarily arrange for your mermaid clan to run it. Also, these days I accidentally scanned the Demon Refining Island with my spiritual sense, and found that many outer disciples were doing evil on my Demon Refining Island. What's going on?"
Li Qingque became a little angry when he said this. Yu Xuanji frowned and said, "We have had no outer disciples on the Demon Refining Island for a long time. Our Jianhu Palace has hundreds of thousands of outer disciples all concentrated on Wentian Island, Kanli Island, and Guiyuan Island. There are no outer disciples from our Demon Refining Island lineage at all. You have been in seclusion for these years. As the demon soldiers who originally belonged to our Demon Refining Island left one by one, our mermaid clan alone can't take care of the entire island. Now tens of thousands of acres of spiritual fields on the Demon Refining Island are all abandoned, and the outer disciples from the other three islands are bold enough to come to our Demon Refining Island to pick spiritual medicines and capture spiritual beasts privately. Some even have the audacity to capture our mermaid clan." After a pause, Yu Xuanji continued, "That's not all. The special product of our Demon Refining Island, the Demon Refining Divine Lotus Root, has been picked wantonly by the outer disciples on the other three islands. Now it's almost extinct." "presumptuous!" Li Qingque slammed the table suddenly, anger rising in his eyes, which scared Yu Xuanji. "Humph, I will activate the Demon Refining Array and seal off the Demon Refining Island in a moment. Junior Brother, you will lead the demon soldiers on the island to inspect it, but if there are any disciples from the other three islands, arrest them all!" hum! A round, red array plate appeared. This array plate was the one that controlled the Demon Refining Array. Li Qingque pointed his finger and a stream of light shot into the formation. Suddenly, dense clouds of fire appeared in the sky above the Demon Refining Island, which was thousands of miles in radius. The fire cloud spread rapidly, completely covering the entire Demon Refining Island in almost an instant. (End of this chapter)