The man in purple looked to be in his thirties, although he was not tall, but he was handsome and extraordinary, smiling, giving people a gentle and elegant feeling.

"Can you sit down?"

"Please!"

Chang Shan didn't know who the man in purple was, and he couldn't guess his intentions, but there were rules for walking the world, and the man in purple came to him with a smile, so he had no reason to refuse people thousands of miles away.

"Thank you!"

After the purple-clothed man sat down, he casually put down the folding fan in his hand and said with a smile: "In the past three years, Daoyou is the only cultivator who has come to Zuiyun Tower to drink except for Zaixia. ”

"Oh?"

Chang Shan smiled slightly, and followed the words of the purple-clothed man and asked, "Except for Dao friends, don't other cultivators in Mingyuan City come here to eat?"

The man in purple nodded and said with a smile: "It's not that they don't come here to eat, but they rarely eat." ”

Without waiting for Chang Shan to reply, the man in purple then smiled: "In their eyes, only those things with aura are qualified to enter their mouths. Putting a shackle on themselves for no reason, making it impossible for them to enjoy these delicious things, their pride is a bit ridiculous to say. ”

Chang Shan felt that the words of the man in purple were very reasonable, but for a while he couldn't tell what truth was contained in his words, and when he saw the man in purple turning his gaze to the dishes on the table, he opened his mouth and smiled: "If you don't dislike it, eat a little together." ”

"I'm waiting for your words below!"

The man in purple replied with a smile, and in Chang Shan's strange gaze, he took out seven jade cups of different colors from the storage bag: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue, and purple.

"Fellow Daoist, choose one!"

Chang Shan was slightly stunned and asked, "These seven cups are wine glasses?"

"That's right! These seven wine cups are called Phantom Cloud Cups, and they were refined by a senior. ”

As he spoke, the man in purple picked up the jug and poured a glass of wine among the seven jade cups.

After pouring the wine into the seven jade cups, it looked as if it had been dyed by the seven jade cups, and with Chang Shan's eyesight, it was difficult to tell whether the wine had really become the color of the seven jade cups.

"Please!"

"Thank you!"

Chang Shan thanked him and picked up the cyan cup.

Although the man in purple seemed to have no malicious intent, however, he came strangely, and after Chang Shan drank the wine in the cup, he still wrapped them in true yuan.

Putting the cyan jade cup back on the table, Chang Shan looked at the purple-clothed man with a puzzled expression and said, "The taste of the wine doesn't seem to have changed much. ”

"What do you think will change?"

The purple-clothed man asked rhetorically with a smile and explained: "Instilling aura into ordinary wine will affect the taste of the wine, and these seven phantom cloud cups will only make the color of the wine look a little better." Don't you think that if the color of the wine in your glass is the color you like, you will feel better when you drink it?"

Chang Shan was stunned for a moment, and replied with a smile: "It would be even better if the color of the wine would change a little depending on the wine." ”

The purple-clothed man's eyes flashed, and he said with a smile: "How do you know that the wine glass under you can make the wine have different colors according to the different wines?"

After saying this, the man in purple called the shopkeeper and asked him to bring a pot of each of the other eight kinds of wine in the store.

The shopkeeper called this purple-clothed man the seventh master, as for the name of the seventh master because of the seven jade cups on the table, or because the purple-clothed man ranked seventh, Chang Shan was a little curious, but he didn't ask.

After a while, the shopkeeper came to the table for two with a tray.

Without waiting for the shopkeeper to put down the wine jug on the tray, the man in purple picked up a wine jug from the tray and poured a glass of wine into the cyan jade cup.

Just as the man in purple said, there were some slight differences between the color of the wine in the cyan jade cup at this time and the color of the wine that Chang Shan drank just now.

Seeing Chang Shan's curiosity, the purple-clothed man explained with a smile: "If you put a piece of spiritual jade in the mud of a hundred-year-old cellar for decades, the spiritual jade will have some reaction to the wine, and these seven jade cups all contain this kind of spiritual jade. ”

Chang Shan nodded and sighed: "I didn't expect that there is still a spiritual jade in the world that can distinguish wine, and today is really a long insight." ”

When the man in purple heard this, he laughed, picked up the purple wine glass, and said to Chang Shan: "Please!"

"Please!"

After a drink, Chang Shan and the man in purple exchanged names.

The purple-clothed man's name is Dong Lin, and he is a famous idler in Mingyuan City.

The vast majority of cultivators either spend their energy on cultivation, or on managing a faction, or on alchemy, refining and other skills.

Dong Lin, however, wasted his energy on enjoyment.

There is a manor, a few shops, and three beautiful wives and concubines, Dong Lin is not like a cultivator, but like a child of a family who eats and waits for death.

Usually, Dong Lin either stays in the manor and plays the piano and paints with his wife and concubine, or wanders around Mingyuan City.

This drunken cloud building is one of the best restaurants in Mingyuan City, and Dong Lin will come every three or five days.

Dong Lin didn't regard himself as a cultivator, and under normal circumstances, he didn't deal with unfamiliar cultivators, the reason why he took the initiative to talk to Chang Shan was because he felt that Chang Shan had some similarities with him, and he could eat with relish in the face of a table of wine and food that most cultivators wouldn't touch.

The more he talked, the more Dong Lin felt that Chang Shan had fallen in love with him, and after drinking most of the nine pots of wine on the table, he opened his mouth and invited: "Brother Chang, go to my Guiyunzhuang to sit down, the craftsmanship in the cheap house is no worse than the chef here." ”

After chatting for more than half an hour, Chang Shan also felt that Dong Lin was very interesting and a person who could make friends, but he had no intention of staying in Mingyuan City, hesitated for a moment, and replied: "Brother Dong's kindness, Chang Mou understands it." Chang has something to do, and he can't stay in Mingyuan City for long, please forgive Brother Dong. ”

Dong Lin was obviously a little disappointed when he saw that Chang Shan had rejected his invitation, but he did not say anything to save him again.

"Alas!"

With a sigh, Dong Lin put away the six jade cups such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, and said to Chang Shan: "Please accept this cyan phantom cloud cup, I hope that Brother Chang can think of Dong's friend when he sees it in the future." ”

"Definitely!"

Chang Shan accepted the cyan jade cup, and also wanted to take out something as a gift in return, but after thinking about it, he found that there was no suitable thing on him.

After hesitating for a moment, Chang Shan took out a piece of jade slip, entered a spiritual liquid formula that can delay aging, and said with a smile: "Chang Mou does not have a treasure like the Phantom Cloud Cup, I hope Brother Dong can like it." ”

Dong Lin took the jade slip, probed it, and said with a smile: "I like this thing very much!"

After chatting for about a quarter of an hour, Chang Shan got up and said, "Brother Dong, Chang has taken his leave." In the future, if Chang Mou passes by Mingyuan City, he will definitely come to visit Brother Dong. ”

"It's a deal!"

"It's a deal!"

After bowing to each other, Chang Shan walked towards the staircase, but Dong Lin did not move his body.

When he arrived on the street, Chang Shan looked at the place where he was sitting before, and happened to see Dong Lin looking at him with a lonely face.

Seeing that Chang Shan was looking at himself, Dong Lin showed a stiff smile and arched his hand at Chang Shan.

Chang Shan returned the salute and walked towards the city gate.

Out of Mingyuan City, Chang Shan was in a hurry, but he was thinking nonsense.

"If you can have a confidante with you, you can have three or five friends as neighbors, and die after decades of leisurely life, your life may not be exciting, but you have no regrets. ”

For Dong Lin's way of life, Chang Shan did have some envy in his heart.

However, Chang Shan also understands that people are different, and the road is different, even if he envies Dong Lin's lifestyle a little in his heart, he himself will not really live that kind of life.

Thinking of his confidante, Chang Shan thought of the appearance of Princess Mingyu.

"Why do you think of her again?"

Chang Shan frowned, and quickly diverted his attention.

"The loneliness on his face shouldn't be because I left. Maybe it's because I'm leaving, but he's not lonely because he can't let me go, but because he envies my life. ”

When a person envies another person's way of life, his own life may also be envied by the person he envies.

This happens because people know how to be content and be happy, but they are never able to be content.

After another cranky thought, Chang Shan has a deeper understanding of life.

On the next road, Chang Shan would also go in and take a turn when he passed through the county town, but he never met an interesting person like Dong Lin again.

A year and a half later, Changshan finally reached the Flame Dynasty.

Entering the Flame Dynasty, Chang Shan did not return directly to Juque City.

The experience of killing bloodthirsty armored beasts made Chang Shan see the power of the "Yuan Magnetic Thunder Knife" with the attack of the Yuan Shen, so he thought about how to form a soul bead as soon as possible.

According to the record of the "Legend of the Thief of the Holy Saint", generally speaking, a cultivator needs to survive one Heavenly Tribulation before his Yuan Shen power can condense into filaments, and after three Heavenly Tribulations, his Yuan Shen power will condense into a soul bead.

Chang Shan felt that since he could condense the power of the Yuan Shen into filaments during the Red Dan Period, it was not impossible to condense into a soul bead before the Green Dan Period.

In fact, if Chang Shan cultivated according to the methods in the "Soul Sutra" that improved his own Yuan Shen power by devouring the power of the Yuan Shen of other living beings, his Yuan Shen power would definitely be able to form a soul bead before the Green Pill Period.

However, Chang Shan was very repulsed by this cultivation method, so he thought of other ways to cultivate the power of the Yuan Shen.

The simplest way to cultivate the power of the Yuan Shen is to improve the power of the Yuan Shen through the continuous consumption and recovery of the power of the Yuan Shen, and the derivation of the formation and the refining of the talisman happen to be extremely expensive things.

Chang Shan wanted to cultivate the power of the Yuan Shen by deriving the formation and refining the runes, but although he had many treasures, there were no books on the art of formations and runes.

After thinking about it for a while, Chang Shan decided to go to the Thief Saint's Mansion to get some spirit stones, and then buy some of the classics he needed in those small shops in Juque City.

Chang Shan first went to the Thief Holy Mansion to get 50,000 spirit stones, and then returned to Juque City, on the way, he didn't encounter any trouble.