Seeing Qu Qingzhou's strong reaction, Chen Lin immediately showed an interested look and asked further questions.
He always wanted to know what was going on over there in the swamp, but he didn't find out much.
The cultivators here don't need to go through tribulation to advance, but he needs it. Although he is still some distance away from being promoted to the realm of refining emptiness, he must prepare for the future. There are Tianluo people on this side of the snow, so he definitely cannot go through tribulation here, so he is very concerned about the swamp.
"I'm not too sure about that, I just know that the swamp is very dangerous, even the Tianluo people don't dare to cross the border."
Qu Qingzhou shook his head in reply, then looked at Chen Lin carefully and complimented him: "Senior, you actually dared to go there and still got the treasure, you are really amazing!"
"hehe."
Chen Lin smiled.
The other party probably didn't mean that he was capable, but that he was reckless.
Mana powers cannot be easily used outside the gathering place. There is not much difference between high-level monks and low-level monks. This is also one of the reasons why the monk hierarchy is not so strict.
"Since you don't have any elixirs, I will go look somewhere else. Goodbye!"
Having failed to achieve his goal, Qu Qingzhou stood up, clasped his fists and was about to leave.
Chen Lin waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, tell me first, what do you need the elixir for?"
The cultivators here can rely on the Tianyan Jue to practice. It cannot be said that they have no need for elixirs at all, but the demand is not too great. What he gave to the other party was not a elixir to assist in breaking through the bottleneck, and the other party's eagerness made him a little curious.
Seeing Chen Lin asking, Qu Qingzhou did not hide it and said, "It is not for the junior, but for my senior brother. His father's death is coming, but he has been unable to advance to the foundation building stage. He wants to use a secret method to force a breakthrough, but he is worried about the breeding of inner demons, so he wants to use the elixir to cleanse his magic power."
"oh."
Chen Lin nodded.
The reason is reasonable.
The Tianyan Jue is not omnipotent. No matter how useful the technique is, it cannot save poor aptitude. The other party's father couldn't even get through the foundation-building stage before his lifespan ran out. He must be the kind who has no spiritual roots.
He pondered for a moment and said, "As long as I have the elixir, can I succeed in building my foundation?"
"How is that possible?"
Qu Qingzhou smiled bitterly and said, "He has already broken through twice. If he could succeed, he would have done it long ago. This time he is just making a last-ditch effort. I don't think there is much hope."
“I see!”
Chen Lin touched his chin and said, "I do have a kind of elixir that can increase the chance of building a foundation, but I need him to do something for me. Bring him here and I will talk to him."
Qu Qingzhou didn't ask any more questions and left.
Soon, two people were brought over.
An old man and a middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man was his senior brother, named Meng Dashan, and the old man was named Meng Hezhang, Meng Dashan’s father.
Chen Lin didn't even need to investigate to sense a sense of death from Meng Hezhang, and knew that he had less than a year to live.
On the contrary, his son Meng Dashan has reached the late stage of foundation building.
"Which one of you two is in charge?"
Chen Lin went straight to the point and asked directly.
The father and son looked at each other, and Meng Dashan clasped his fists and said, "I wonder what the senior wants my father to do. Can you tell me a thing or two?"
"No, whoever can make the decision should talk to me. This matter involves confidential information and cannot be leaked."
Chen Lin shook his head.
Then he added: "But it is quite dangerous. If you agree, you have to sign a soul contract first. You must not leak the information, so you have to think about it carefully."
His purpose was to ask the other party to help explore the demon world scene, the one of the Ten Thousand Worlds Alliance.
According to Xu Zihan, the people who were projected into that scene could not attack each other, so it was very safe, but they had to complete a rule task before they could leave, and that task had been cracked by their Wanjie Alliance.
But he didn't want to join at the beginning, so he didn't ask what the mission was. Now if he wants to know the content of the mission and the solution, he has to wait inside for the members of the Ten Thousand Worlds Alliance to ask him. If he looks for the solution by himself, he may not find it.
In addition, he didn't know whether any changes had taken place inside after so many years, so he did not explore it himself, but chose the old cultivator Meng Hezhang.
Meng Dashan frowned and was about to speak when he was interrupted by Meng Hezhang.
"Don't think about it. Just tell me what you want. Anyway, without the help of elixirs, I have no hope of building a foundation. What does it matter if I live one year more or one year less? I agree!"
Chen Lin nodded and said, "A wise move."
Then he looked at Qu Qingzhou and said, "Then you two can leave. I will inform you when the matter is completed. It may take some time."
Since his father agreed, Meng Dashan didn't say anything and turned and left with Qu Qingzhou.
Chen Lin took out the soul contract and explained it to Meng Hezhang, and the other party signed the contract readily.
Then, he took the other party to the inner room, set up the formation, communicated for a while, and then took out a foundation-building pill.
"This is a foundation-building pill. You should have seen its use in the classics. Use it now. I will help you build your foundation."
After handing the pill to the other party, Chen Lin's expression became stern, and he said, "Remember the constraints of the soul contract. Everything that happened here, including the matter of the foundation-building pill, cannot be told to anyone, not even your son. Otherwise, the contract will backfire and your soul will be destroyed."
Meng Hezhang hurriedly took the pill and suppressed his ecstasy, saying respectfully: "Don't worry, sir. I know how powerful I am and I will never reveal a single detail. As long as I succeed in building my foundation, if you have any orders in the future, I will go through fire and water without hesitation!"
Although he didn't know what to do, with this foundation-building pill, he had a great chance of successfully building his foundation.
If you can come back alive from the mission, it means you have been resurrected and can enjoy another hundred years of life. Moreover, you will be a foundation-building cultivator, and your status will be incomparable.
Even if I fail, the worst that can happen is that I will die. I don't have much time to live anyway.
No loss either way!
Meng Hezhang sat cross-legged, adjusted his state of mind, swallowed the pill, and began to build his foundation impatiently.
No one wants to die, even if they have to live in a cave forever.
What's more, this underground cave is equivalent to a small city with complete facilities. As long as you complete the fixed tasks every month, you will have no worries about food and drink. If you are lucky enough to form a golden elixir, you can live a stable life. Then you can find a younger female cultivator and live a carefree life for a few hundred years.
Therefore, when Meng Hezhang practiced his skills, there was a look of longing on his face.
Chen Lin was watching from the side and couldn't help but shook his head.
With this kind of mentality, it’s no wonder that he has not been able to build a foundation. It’s good enough that he hasn’t brought out his inner demons and destroyed his soul.
However, this kind of personality is conducive to his control. He is not afraid of the other party having desires, but is afraid of having no desires. As long as this kind of person satisfies the other party's desires, he can make the other party work for him.
After waiting for a while, Chen Lin saw black energy surging between the other party's eyebrows. He actually had a demon in his heart. He immediately took out an exorcism pill and gave it to the other party to take. He also used his internal energy to help the other party compress the spiritual power in his body and liquefy it.
For a cultivator who has reached the Spiritual Transformation stage and with the help of the Foundation Establishment Pill, it is not difficult for a cultivator who has reached the Perfect Qi Training stage to build his foundation. In less than half an hour, Meng Hezhang's body shook, and a strong energy wave emanated from his body!
"Thank you for your kindness in giving me a new life!"
After Meng Hezhang consolidated his cultivation a little, he paid homage to Chen Lin and swore his loyalty.
He sensed the entire foundation-building process clearly and knew that he would never succeed without Chen Lin's help. Now that he had such a powerful and mysterious figure around, he had to curry favor with him.
"You're welcome. We both need each other. Now you should adjust to your cultivation level first. I will teach you a secret technique of spiritual awareness. We can talk about it after you have mastered it."
Chen Lin waved his hand and used the method of initiation to pour a secret spiritual technique used by foundation-building cultivators into the other party's sea of consciousness.
Even so, it took the other party a full half month to comprehend it, which left him speechless again. The other party's comprehension was not as good as his at the beginning.
However, this secret technique is enough for self-defense. Next, he briefly explained what the other party needed to do.
He didn't say much, just asked the other party to wait inside. When the person showed up, he should say that Xu Zihan asked him to go, and then ask about the conditions for leaving.
In order to prevent Xu Zi Han from using a pseudonym, he also drew a portrait of the other party and asked Meng Hezhang to remember it. If anyone asked, he could simply draw the portrait.
As a cultivator with spiritual power, even if he couldn't draw at all, he could still draw a simple outline.
After finishing the explanation, Chen Lin thought for a while, took out a Taixu Wen bone tablet that he had already comprehended thoroughly and gave it to the other party, asking him to keep it properly.
Then he sent the other party into the demon world.
He only had two pieces of Immortal Stone left, and couldn't keep the opponent inside for too long, so he could only use bone fragments.
The nine bone fragments formed a set, and perhaps there was some secret hidden in them, but he had never been interested in such mysterious objects. He only cared about the Taixu text on them. Since he had already comprehended the characters, it didn't matter if he lost them.
After waiting for a while and seeing that there was nothing wrong with the other party's body, Chen Lin left a crow puppet in the room to monitor him, and he retreated outside and waited quietly.
According to his communication with Meng Hezhang, the monks here seemed unaware of the existence of the demon world.
But it is not surprising. After all, it is a closed space. Even if the ancient cultivators knew about it, after tens of thousands of years, all the information left behind would have been cut off.
Not to mention the demon world, the monks here don’t even know much about well-known realms like the underworld and the demon world.
Even most cultivators do not think that the Tianluo people are weird. They think that they are just a normal race, just with a different way of survival from them. They also think that the environment here is normal and that it should be this way.
Our ancestors have lived here for generations without any contact with things outside, so our cognition has become deeply rooted.
Only some high-level monks, because they would explore the newly appeared fairy caves, occasionally came into contact with well-preserved ancient books and learned some inside information from the few words in them, but it is hard to say whether they believe them or just regard them as myths and legends.
But it had nothing to do with him.
Time passed little by little, and Chen Lin was not in a hurry. He took out a set of Taixu Wenzhu scrolls and started studying them.