"As an old saying goes, while the priest climbs a foot, the devil climbs ten. Patriarch Li, you did a coup-de-grace by dumping me. Well, let's forget about it. I'd better off heading back to my sect, " Shan Chengfeng said with a wry smile. Waving his hand in an uninspired manner, he blew the joint, leaving a pitiful shadow of his back to Li Taixuan and Lin Xiao.
"Esteemed Taoist, " Li Taixuan hastened to call him.
However, Shan Chengfeng didn't give a backward glance but tossed out a token instead. He said, "Patriarch Li, you'll be more than welcome to attend the congregation of the Danling Sect. I'll be waiting for you and our exchange of alchemical knowledge."
Shan Chengfeng's already disappeared at that moment, but his voice continued, "And, please do remember to bring along the young lad standing beside you. It's rather fortunate for you to have him."
"Thank you very much, Esteemed Taoist, " Li Taixuan saluted to Shan Chengfeng in the distance. Then he passed Shan's token to Lin Xiao before he got a chance to have a look at it, "Martial Uncle, please take it."
Li Taixuan's pious look made it impossible for Lin Xiao to turn him away. Without any fuss, Lin Xiao took the token and had an incidental scrutiny.
That was a small token with the size of half a palm. It was all black with freezing glitters darted forth. There was one gold-plated inscribed character on it, looking pretty imposing — apparently, it was a high-end one, unlike the one offered by Li Taixuan.
Li Taixuan finally got around to having a look at the token and turned thunder-struck forthwith. That was actually a token produced exclusively for Shan Chengfeng. Having got the hold of it, you would be treated as an out-and-out guest of honor, deserving the best reception at the Danling Sect.
And its merits covered a lot of ground. With the token in hand, no one dared to pose a random challenge to the Taixuan Sect.
It was fair to say that the token would help the Taixuan Sect forge ahead if Li Taixuan made good use of it.
Nevertheless, Li Taixuan wouldn't go there. He was a firm believer in that a sect had to develop with its own efforts.
"Martial Uncle, please put it away. It will save your life if you encounter any hazards in Chijing Prefecture, " Li Taixuan offered a reminder to Lin Xiao based on the token's value without going to the details.
Protection with a token was rather embarrassing, hence it could only act as the last remedy to adopt if one was dreadfully hopeless. However, Lin Xiao said nothing about it and simply did as Li Taixuan said.
"Martial Uncle, the Wonderland..." Li Taixuan asked. His attention, once again, went back to the life in the Wonderland as soon as Shan Chengfeng was sorted.
"The Wonderland is already sealed by the Great Formation. But I am able to blaze a trail through it. The lode itself was rather difficult to handle, as only when one's cultivation has reached the fifth level of the Refining Divine Realm will he be able to conduct mining work there. And he will have to bring a spiritual weapon with him, " Lin Xiao responded.
Having experienced the alchemy event, Li Taixuan began to consult Lin Xiao about everything regardless of his age, "Martial Uncle, no problem. We do have a couple of spiritual weapons in our sect. What do you say we go mining right now?"
Lin Xiao nodded in agreement and said, "That's exactly what is on my mind. I intended to go down there with several seniors first and mine for a certain amount of the multicolored spiritual radiant stones. Then we can upgrade some weapons to spiritual ones by dint of the stones we had. In this case, we can speed up our mining progress."
"Martial Uncle, you're right spot-, " Li Taixuan broke open his mouth widely all of a sudden before "on" came out. He panted terribly and gazed at Lin Xiao.
"What did my martial uncle say? Mining for some stones and upgrading average weapons to spiritual ones? Was I mistaken? Could it be said that...that my martial uncle was capable of spiritual weapon refinement?" Li Taixuan wondered.
He went on interrogating himself, "Lin Xiao boasts so strikingly powerful a physique that even caused the hematemesis of Diling the Spiritual monster, so terribly marvelous a perception that made ten bells chime simultaneously, and so surprisingly outstanding a command of alchemy techniques that outperformed the most prestigious alchemy master. Now he offered a side note that he is capable of spiritual weapon refinement. He mentioned it so casually as if it was simply a piece of cake. Is this world or myself insane? I really found my hearing problematic."
Granted Li Taixuan had a solid heart, now it was literally going to explode. And even the Divine Soul of the Ocean of Conception was on the brink of a collapse.
"Dying...I'm dying, Martial Uncle. I'll have to wind down a bit," Li Taixuan stammered while panting heavily like a drug addict. He staggered out of the Furnace Hall, fearing that he might implode to death out of sheer ecstasy.