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In front of the gate of the house, under the light, two huge foxes, one yellow and one black, were seen, standing like human beings. In a trance, a burst of smoke and clouds passed by, and then the fox shadows disappeared, replaced by a man and a woman, two The figures stand one behind the other, standing tall.
The man is in his twenties, dressed in black brocade clothes, and looks like a rich man; the woman is sixteen years old, and although she is dressed as a maid, she is dressed in yellow and is pretty and cunning. Both men and women are good-looking. The man is handsome and the woman is delicate. They are really good-looking.
"You two, please come in and have a chat." The young master in black said with a smile on his face: "If you allow Huangfu Minghua to entertain me so well, I will live up to the bright moon tonight."
"Huh?" Jiang Chen muttered, and immediately accepted the invitation happily: "As the saying goes, an invitation is better than a chance encounter. Since Mr. Huangfu invites you so kindly, how can the small talk show his kindness?" As he spoke, he turned to Wang Erlang and asked: " Second Young Master Wang, don’t be dazed, let’s go in now, shall we?”
"Okay..." Although there was still a bit of uneasiness on his face, Wang Erlang calmed down in the end. He thought that following Jiang Chen would be less dangerous, so he immediately pretended to be cool. He said to Huangfu Minghua: "In this case, the young man will thank Mr. Huangfu for his warm hospitality in advance."
"It doesn't matter." Huangfu Minghua said with a smile: "I have always loved to associate with scholars. Speaking of which, I have a cousin Song Niang who married a Kong Sheng from Shandong a few years ago."
"Kong Sheng from Shandong?" Upon hearing this, Wang Erlang couldn't help but his eyes lit up, and he quickly asked: "I wonder if he is the son of Kong Lin who was born in the Kong Shengren clan in Shandong?!"
"Exactly." Huangfu Minghua asked with a smile: "How come, Second Young Master Wang knows my cousin-in-law?"
Wang Erlang smiled and said: "Master Kong Lin is talented all over the world. I have been fortunate enough to read his articles. As expected, he is very talented and well-deserved. It is said that he was a Jinshi a year ago and ranked first among the top two. He has passed on the position and is now an official in Yan'an Prefecture. His official reputation is very clear and he has done a lot of good things for the people."
With Kong Lin at his side, the fear in Wang Erlang's heart suddenly disappeared. Luoluo and Jiang Chen followed Huangfu Minghua's lead into the courtyard gate and walked towards the inner hall.
Along the way, you can see pavilions and pavilions, rockeries and rocks in the courtyard, small bridges and flowing water, and clusters of flowers. It is like a wealthy garden.
When we arrived at the front hall, it was magnificent with carved beams and painted columns, a white jade table, a sapphire stool, a glass lamp, and pearls as lamps.
In comparison, Jiang Chen is naturally much calmer. These many gold and jade treasures may be very tempting to ordinary people, but to a master of cultivation like Jiang Chen, they are just some external things, although they have some value. , but it is also limited.
After inviting Jiang Chen and Wang Erlang to sit down around the white jade round table, Huangfu Minghua immediately ordered the accompanying maid in yellow: "Su Xiang, tell me to go down and quickly bring up the rare treasures in the house. I want to greet the distinguished guests."
"Yes, young master." Su Xiang, the maid in yellow, left in response. After a short while, she led eight children in green clothes and presented rare treasures on jade plates of various colors.
After a while, I looked around and saw the rarities of Table Mountain, such as roasted pheasant, roasted duck feet, Ganoderma lucidum for longevity, ginseng for tonic, Polygonatum sibiricum, which takes hundreds of years to mature, and is as thick as a forearm; Shouwuwu, a thousand-year-old elixir. Born from the intertwining of yin and yang; in the cup, there is thousands of years of chalcedony liquid and thousands of years of stalactites!
Everyone was eating and drinking, chatting and laughing happily during the banquet. When the banquet was almost over, Su Xiang presented a white jade disk with three exotic fruits, the size of chickens, some light red, some dark red, or Purple red, different colors, all exuding a strange and fragrant fragrance. Smelling it can also make people feel energetic. It does not need to be eaten, but it is also precious and extraordinary.
Jiang Chen couldn't help but his eyes lit up when he saw this, but he heard Huangfu Minghua smile and say, "Sir, you are a Taoist master. I guess you recognize the strange fruit in this plate."
Jiang Chen said with some hesitation: "If I guessed correctly, this should be the legendary immortal treasure: the Vermillion Fruit of Heaven and Earth, right?"
"Yes! It's the red fruit!" Huangfu Minghua said with a smile: "It takes thirty years for this red fruit to bloom, thirty years for the flowers to wither and bear fruit, and another thirty years for it to mature. This amazing fruit can nourish the essence and soul, and it can be eaten by mortals." It is free from all diseases and can live as long as seventy years old. People who practice it can increase their power, strengthen their spirit, purify impurities in the body, and replenish their body after eating it. It is a rare treasure of heaven and earth. I have since started I have been practicing spiritual practice for eight hundred years, but to this day, I only accidentally found a red fruit tree and cultivated it carefully to get these fruits."
"Huh?" Jiang Chen sniffed gently, inhaled the aroma, and praised: "What a rich spiritual energy. The red fruit in this plate must be more than a hundred years old, right?"
"Indeed." Huangfu Minghua said: "It takes hundreds of years for the red fruit to mature, but the fruit does not fall off. Every hundred years, the color changes, gradually from light to dark, to purple-red. It is a thousand years old and has powerful effects." It is more than ten times more than the ordinary red fruit. I thought that since Mr. Taoist master is a Taoist scholar, he would not look down on the ordinary red fruit, so I treated him with the thousand-year red fruit."
"Ashamed." Jiang Chen said with a look of shame: "It was the first time we met and was treated by such a spiritual fruit. It really makes Jiang feel very ashamed."
"Previously, my Xiang slave mistakenly put the wine bug in the metamorphosis stage into the body of Mr. Liu Xun of the Liu family in Guobei County. It almost made a big mistake and ruined a hundred years of spiritual practice. Fortunately, my husband intervened to break the situation and a disaster was avoided. This is How can we not repay this great kindness?" Huangfu Minghua's face was full of sincerity and he begged: "Although the thousand-year-old red fruit is precious, it cannot equal the merits of our fox clan's hundreds of years of practice. Please don't refuse, sir."
"This..." Jiang Chen knew that it was difficult to evade this, so he could only reluctantly agree: "It doesn't matter, Mr. Huangfu is so kind. If I refuse again and again, it would seem hypocritical."
Prince Huangfu then ordered Su Xiang to offer the purple-red vermilion fruit on the plate. Seeing Jiang Chen take it, he asked Su Xiang to offer the lightest one to Wang Erlang. He smiled and said: "Second Young Master Wang." He is a sincere gentleman and should treat each other with the same courtesy, but the red fruit is an immortal treasure with rich spiritual energy inside, which ordinary people cannot bear, but this newly ripe fruit can still be eaten."
Wang Erlang was sitting beside him. He had heard that Huangfu Minghua and Jiang Chen had said that the red fruit was precious. He did not expect that he would be lucky enough to enjoy one, so he quickly stood up and thanked him.
Prince Huangfu was not too proud and took the last five-hundred-year-old crimson fruit for himself. He smiled and said: "This red fruit is not suitable for storage without the jade plate. It needs to be eaten as soon as possible. If it goes by for a long time, it may be lost." The effect of the medicine, you two, please!”
"Please!" Jiang Chen responded, and immediately brought the thousand-year-old red fruit to his mouth, gently biting the peel, and then the juice entered his mouth. He felt sweet and pleasant, fragrant and refreshing, and he felt that his whole body was extremely refreshing, and the juice was like moisturizing The raindrops on the earth make every part of the body feel cool.
"What a red fruit!" Jiang Chen praised in his heart. Knowing that the exotic fruit was rare, Jiang Chen quickly sucked in all the pulp and juice of the red fruit into his mouth and swallowed it into his belly.
Next to him, Wang Erlang also drank the red fruit in his hand in a few mouthfuls. He only felt that the thing in his mouth was smooth and cool. He had never eaten such a good thing. After the medicinal power dissipated, he felt as if he was falling into a trance. For a while, he was in a state of confusion, as if he was drunk, swaying uncontrollably.
Jiang Chen held Yuan Shouyi in his arms, calmed down, and slowly performed the Taoist formula. Yang Shen's magic power came out of Zifu and advanced along the meridians. At this moment, his mind was deep and focused on the situation in his body. I saw a layer of cyan light attached to the surface of the meridians, which was the spiritual power of the thousand-year-old red fruit.
As the Yang God's mana runs faster and faster in the body, the cyan light gradually breaks away from the inner walls of the meridians and merges into the rolling torrent of Yang God's mana. With the integration of the thousand-year-old Zhuguo spiritual power, the Yang God's mana is becoming visible to the naked eye. The growth increased by more than 10% in a matter of seconds.
As the Taoist secrets of Zhou Tian were circulated one after another, Yang Shen's magic power continued to grow, until all the spiritual power of the thousand-year-old Zhu Guo was absorbed. In an instant, Jiang Chen felt that his whole body was so light that he was about to fly, and there was a faint sound of wind and thunder in his breathing. The sound was loud, and the bones all over his body kept making "crackling" sounds, but it made him go through a lot of muscle-cutting and marrow-washing again...