Chapter 266: Counting is Counting
This person's face and voice look like a middle-aged man who is no more than thirty-four years old, handsome and extraordinary, but he is full of silver hair, his long eyebrows like vertical swords are white, and his expression is like frost on his face, which is quite weird.
After the middle-aged man stepped into the hall, he glanced at Zhao Di lightly, seemed to be slightly flustered, and then said with a slightly softened expression: "This is Zhao Daoyou, Daoyou saved several children of the Bai family, Bai Zheng returned to the post of the great elder of the Bai family, and on behalf of the Bai family, thank you for your help!"
As he spoke, he clasped his hands into fists and bowed slightly.
Bai Zhenggui also accompanied this person and saluted like Zhao Di.
Zhao Di had already stood up with a smile on his face, and said in return: "With a gesture of effort, the two Bai Daoyou are polite!"
Zhao Di secretly sneered in his heart, the middle-aged man's actions seemed polite, but he lightly sent away the kindness of saving several lives, without mentioning anything in return, obviously unwilling to pay any promises and costs.
The three of them were polite, and after they all sat down, the middle-aged man said to Zhao Di again: "Daoyou's tea art is extraordinary, and he actually clicked on the key point at once. ”
The Great Elder smiled, and was just talking nonsense. Zhao Di shook his head and chuckled.
He really didn't have any research on the tea ceremony, but before tasting the tea, he sensed that Bingfeng Jiao seemed to be interested in this tea, so he casually praised it.
The middle-aged man nodded and said noncommittally: "Daoist friend is too modest." Daoists can come to the far north to have important things, if it is convenient, you may wish to reveal one or two, if the Bai family can help, it is also good to repay the kindness of Daoist friends. ”
Zhao Di was slightly surprised, but he didn't expect the other party to take the initiative to mention this matter.
Not only Zhao Di, but even the old man on the side looked at the great elder of the clan with a slightly surprised expression.
Zhao Di said unceremoniously at the moment: "I was about to trouble the Great Elder, and I came down here to practice some of the Bing surname exercises, and I need to use the extremely cold place to increase my cultivation speed." However, I am extremely unfamiliar with this ice field, so I ask the Great Elder for some advice, and it is best to have a topographic map of the vicinity. ”
"Well, most of the monks who come here are here to practice the Ice Surname Exercises, or to refine a magic weapon with the Ice Surname. It seems that Daoyou is no exception. However, within a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles, there is indeed no particularly suitable place!" The middle-aged man's words made Zhao Di cold.
"Oh, how do you say that, isn't this place unusually vast, why isn't there a suitable place?" Zhao Di asked suspiciously.
"That's a good thing, it's just that the aura in the north is extremely barren, and there are very few places with slightly better spiritual veins, and there are only a few high-quality spiritual veins nearby, all of which already have masters. In addition to the place occupied by the Bai family, other spiritual veins within hundreds of thousands of miles were occupied by high-level demon beasts, and there were even shape-shifting demon beasts. ”
"If you need the spiritual veins to be located, it is not possible unless you go far into the ice sea to find an island, or walk hundreds of thousands of miles east and west along the ice sea. The middle-aged man briefly explained the reason and threw a jade slip to Zhao Di.
Zhao Di turned out to be jade, and sure enough, there was a brief topographic map of the nearby area, and after he glanced at it, he nodded, and was silent. The words of the middle-aged man are more consistent with the topographic map in the jade slip, and they are also credible, at least when he flew all the way, he did not find any places with high spiritual power within hundreds of thousands of miles, and only the current Baijiabao was considered a high-grade spiritual vein.
In addition to helping Ice Wind Jiao advance, he himself also had to raise his cultivation to the level of the peak of the late stage of the Jie Dan as soon as possible, and there were also two refining corpses, which also had to be refined into clones, and he also had to advance as soon as possible, all of which must be selected in a place where the aura was more abundant, otherwise it would inevitably be half the effort.
Zhao Di frowned and was silent for a while, then sighed lightly and said, "In this case, I can only try my luck hundreds of thousands of miles away." ”
The middle-aged man glanced at Zhao Di with a smile, and suddenly said: "If the Taoist friends don't dislike it, they can stay here to practice for a while, and the Bai family can provide the Taoist friends with an excellent place to practice for free, which is more than a thousand zhang wide, has excellent aura, and the cold qi is also very strong, and it is quiet and safe, and will never be disturbed." ”
"Stay here!" Zhao Di was slightly stunned, the other party actually promised such excellent conditions.
The old man couldn't help but look surprised all over his face, he had never seen this great elder of the clan so generous. On the contrary, this Great Elder's reputation has always been average, and he is quite sour and gloomy, not quite like he is so bold in order to repay the so-called saving grace.
"Yes, Zhao Daoyou saved several lives of the Bai family, how can Elder Ben not repay this kindness. If it spreads, it will also damage the reputation of our Bai family. The middle-aged man said with a smile.
When Zhao Di heard this, the corners of his mouth curled slightly after thinking for a moment, he raised his eyebrows and said: "Since Brother Bai has a good intention, and he urgently needs a suitable place in the next place, then it is disrespectful, thank you Brother Bai first." ”
The middle-aged man waved his hand heroically and said heartily: "Be polite, this is what the Bai family should do." However, it is necessary to arrange for the clansmen to clean up a little here, and ask the Taoist friends to wait patiently for a few days. ”
"A few days of time is really not enough for us cultivators, and of course there is no problem in the next place. Although Zhao Di didn't know what medicine was sold in the other party's gourd, he also agreed painfully.
"Zhao Daoyou came from afar, it should have been hard all the way, third brother, you accompany Zhao Daoyou to find an upper room to rest for a few days, and arrange for a few disciples to wait. The middle-aged man stood up, and after an explanation, he said goodbye to Zhao Di and left.
Next, Zhao Di was arranged to live in a place, which was a hundred zhang wide, and occupied a floor of the pavilion, and outside the pavilion, there were beautiful female cultivators of the Bai family waiting for him at night, as long as he greeted him, he would immediately listen to the dispatch.
Zhao Di kept thanking him, and accepted the Bai family's arrangement with a smile on his face.
But after entering the room, he casually arranged a spell isolation light shield, and immediately smiled.
"Daoist friends, be careful, I don't think that Great Elder An is kind!" Zhao Di's divine consciousness came from the voice of Chao Yuanzi.
Zhao Di sneered and said: "Thank you seniors for reminding me! Hmph, there is nothing to be done, and it is either annihilation or theft." It's just that he saved the lives of several juniors, and for this kind of head of the family, it is a great credit. It is absolutely impossible for someone to leave outsiders in the family to practice without asking the details of their origins because of this. Eighty percent of him hit the idea on his net worth. ”
"One thing that I am very puzzled about is that I did not reveal any unusual and extremely precious treasures in Xia, how can I make the other party's heart move? Or is it that this Bai family has always been like this, and all monks who pass by and are alone must have bad intentions?"
"Since you know that the other party has a plan, you still plan it, do you have a countermeasure, or don't you take the other party in your eyes at all?" asked Mingyuanzi curiously.
"Hehe, this Great Elder of the Bai Family, although he is a late stage cultivator, his strength seems to be ordinary, and he has not seen through the concealment technique of the lower at all, and he still regards the lower as an ordinary early stage cultivator. Under the other party's light enemy, he thinks that he is careful to watch out for one or two, and it is not a big problem. Zhao Di said quite confidently.
"Yes, although there are always some dangers in doing this, but the road to cultivating immortals is bumpy everywhere, compared to this, this risk is nothing! Daoyou can instead take the opportunity to investigate the so-called cultivation place of the Bai family, if the conditions are good, even if they are snatched, these people of the Bai family are not the opponents of Daoyou!" Mixed Yuanzi agreed.
"However, the Daoist's technique of concealing spiritual power is quite mysterious, so that the monks of the same level are unaware of it within a few minutes, which is a bit incredible!" said Chao Yuanzi with great interest.
"What, seniors are interested in this, why don't you use this exercise to exchange the secret of the hybrid umbrella with your seniors." Zhao Di said with a meaningful smile.
"Hey! Daoyou is really curious. However, these things are far from being accessible to Daoist friends with their current cultivation, and it is useless to talk about them, and when Daoists reach a certain level, they will naturally know about it. Mixed Yuanzi said a few perfunctory words, this umbrella is related to his identity and origin, so he naturally does not want to reveal in detail a "low-level monk" like Zhao Di.
"The seniors don't want to say it, and they won't be reluctant to do it. Zhao nodded and said, "Next, I have to meditate, according to the usual practice, I have to wronged my predecessors to temporarily isolate my divine sense." ”
"No problem! I have already made up my mind with Daoist friends about this matter, and even if I am very curious, I will never snoop on the privacy of Daoist friends. Mixed Yuanzi readily agreed.
"Thank you for your understanding. After Zhao Di thanked him, he took off the Warm Divine Jade, and hit the magic tricks next to it to form an isolation shield, so that the Mixed Yuanzi's divine sense could not detect any changes outside the shield.
Zhao Di took out the Divine Sense Mask, put it on, and quietly probed the person, object, word, and move in the Bai Family Castle!
Although there are a lot of various prohibitions in the castle, with Zhao Di's extremely powerful divine sense at this time, except for a few places, the prohibitions in most places are like a fictitious thing, and he quietly infiltrated them, and the words and deeds of those Bai family disciples were all mastered by him.
Although he didn't have much to worry about dealing with the Great Elder of the Bai Family with his current methods, for the sake of prudence, trying to grasp as much information as possible would only make him more prepared.
Sure enough, there were many monks who were discussing topics related to him, which made Zhao Di pay more attention, but they were just adding fuel and vinegar to the process of exterminating the wolves with his divine martial arts, and there was not much valuable information except for making him shake his head and be speechless.
On the contrary, the great elder of the Bai family seems to have a very bad reputation, and occasionally there are monks who talk about this person, all with a little resentment, most of them are monopolizing most of the resources, treating the clansmen very harshly, and so on.
This made Zhao Di even more confirm that the Great Elder's move of inviting him to stay was absolutely not kind.
And in a secret room in Baijiabao where the prohibition was powerful and Zhao Di's divine sense could not sneak in, the Great Elder of the Bai Family was talking secretly with the Second Elder and the Third Elder.
(To be continued)