The Taoist priest invited by Ning Caichen was an old Taoist with gray hair, heroic eyebrows, gray robe, black gauze, and a straw hat on the back of his neck.

When Maitreya and Yan Chixia came forward to pay their respects, the old Taoist did not name it, but said that they lived in a thatched hut on the hills of southern Zhejiang. Therefore, they called themselves the Thatched hut layman. He was surrounded by a Taoist boy named Xiao Turtle.

Speaking of which, it was also a reunion for the master and disciple of the Caolu layman to meet Ning Caichen. After Ning Caichen left Lanruo Temple, he wanted to return to Jibaozhai to pay the account, but he could not feel at ease with Maitreya and Yan Chixia on the way, but he was unable to return to Lanruo Temple to help.

In the entanglement, Ning Caichen walked farther and farther away. On the way, he happened to meet the master and disciple of Caolu Jue who was robbed by a group of strong men. The old Taoist grabbed a handful of straw rope and threw it out, and turned it into a poisonous snake, which made the strong men scream and panic. After he walked away, the poisonous snake turned back into a straw rope without hurting anyone.

Because he saw that the lay Buddhists of Caolu turned into snakes to play with people with straw ropes and did not take human life. They had both extraordinary skills and compassion, Ning Caichen plucked up the courage to come forward for help.

At the beginning, the lay Buddhists of Caolu did not intend to help, but when Ning Caichen was begging each other hard, he saw that the yin energy in the south was soaring into the sky, covering the stars, so he took Taoist boy Xiaogui and Ning Caichen to Guobei County, set up formations outside the county to help the battle. At the last moment, he helped Maitreya and Yan Chixia, used the soul of the soul to go to the sky, and used the treasure mirror to lure the sun to the real fire to burn the old demon in the Black Mountain to death.

After telling each other about his experience, Maitreya felt a sense of gratitude. He was fortunate to Ning Caichen's kindness and chivalrous spirit, and also fortunate that he could turn bad luck into good fortune and meet the master and disciple of the Caolu Julu, otherwise he and Yan Chixia might have really fallen in Lanruo Temple. The plot was awesome for a while and almost even went to the crematorium.

In addition to being extremely grateful, Maitreya and Yan Chixia thanked Ning Caichen and Caolu Jushi repeatedly. Caolu Jushi looked faint and left with only a few polite words, which made Maitreya a little embarrassed, but Yan Chixia and Ning Caichen were used to it.

"This is a strange man! He is not happy with things or sad with himself. It's a pity. Judging from his expression, he is unwilling to communicate Taoism." Yan Chixia looked admiration, and at the same time, it was a pity that the lay Buddhist was a little cold and difficult to come forward to communicate Taoism.

"It's indeed a pity, but it's good to live. There's hope when you live. Everything is possible!" Maitreya was also a little sorry, but then it was full of hope. As long as you have life, you can't find any Taoist technique.

"That's right, everyone has hope now, the world is full of love, my mission has been completed, and I'm going home." Ning Caichen smiled with the two of them.

"Let's go now?" Maitreya was a little unconscious, and why was he so anxious to end.

"Let's see you off along the way! We're going to do something, Lanruo Temple will come back later." Yan Chixia spoke.

"This is just right. Seeing that the scholar is not in trouble, he really needs a bodyguard." Maitreya was slightly stunned, but then he realized that Yan Chixia was talking about collecting money to refine swords.

"You two!" Ning Caichen saw that Maitreya and Yan Chixia were going to see him, but he thought that they really wanted to escort him along the way, so he couldn't help but smile and shake his head.

Without further ado, Maitreya and Yan Chixia had nothing to pack up, and they had to bring everything on them. Maitreya spent some savings and bought three horses at the market, and then the three left Guobei County all the way.

Ning Caichen was originally from Zhejiang and was considered a fellow villager with Caolu Jushi. However, Jibaozhai was not in Zhejiang. In Jiangning, Maitreya followed Yan Chixia to send him to the place. After refusing to visit, he rode his horse and went straight to Jinling.

Yan Chixia was the general inspector of Six Gate. Although she had lived in seclusion for many years, she still had connections. She led Maitreya straight to the old friend of Jinling's broker, so she sought a hundred wanted orders and a clearance route, and then began to take action.

Jinling is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties. Although there was no Jingnan Campaign in this world and he lost his original status as a capital city, it was also a major transportation route in the south and the center of the civil administration. People who traveled from south or from north to land would pass here.

Yan Chixia had a unique experience in catching bandits and taking people. She ran to Niushou Mountain, which must be passed by merchants from north to south, and used a pair of divine eyes to search for wanted criminals of the bandits, first determine the target, and then take people. If it is an extremely vicious person, he will directly cut off his head.

Maitreya followed Yan Chixia, so he naturally could not watch the show. He took off his monk's outfit, put down his Zen stick, picked up a sword, covered the short hair on his head with a soft hat, and then survived the suffering.

At present, Daning is in a peaceful and prosperous season, and a large amount of gold and silver pours in from the sea, making the market price cheap. Maitreya followed Yan Chixia, and in half a month, he collected more than a dozen thieves and several bandit leaders. After a new round of the security in Jinling, he received more than 8,000 taels of silver.

While making money, Yan Chixia also found someone to buy the materials needed for sword refining in Jinling City. The use of sword refining was nothing more than hardware and eight stones.

The so-called hardware is gold, silver, copper, iron and tin, while the eight stones are cinnabar, realgar, mica, hollow green, sulfur, Rong salt, saltpeter and orchid.

The hardware and eight stones are raw materials for alchemy, and it is not difficult to find here, but the raw materials required for this sword refining are fine. For example, the gold in this hardware must be the mother of gold, that is, horseshoe gold or sand gold, which cannot be the real gold melted after birth. This thing is extremely difficult to find in the Central Plains, which are lacking in precious metals, but Yan Chixia has a way.

Things that were hard to buy in the Ming market were bought on the black market. After more than two months of turnover, Yan Chixia and Maitreya purchased the required gold mother and some of the eight-stone raw materials, and left more than 4,000 taels of silver to buy the main materials needed for sword refining in Guobei County and markets, including copper, iron, tin, lead, cinnabar and other substances.

After purchasing everything and transporting it back to Lanruo Temple, Maitreya followed Yan Chixia to start practicing swords. The two of them hired people to cut off pine wood and burn charcoal from the mountain, and then built a fire stove and sword table with mud behind the temple.

Use painted stones as a pot, inject eight stones of copper, tin, lead and mercury into it, melt them with charcoal fire to squeeze them into juice, and then pour them into the prepared Fantu sword mold, burn the talisman to worship, and after cooling, carefully grind the handle and put it into a sword. This is the sword body. You must put the sword into the treasure box, burn the talisman to worship day and night until you are spiritual, so that you can be called a flying sword.

Maitreya helped Yan Chixia to refine forty-nine swords, which combined with seven or seven, but it could form a sword formation. Unfortunately, there were not so many sword boxes to be filled. She was about to cast a sword cauldron to place it, but she didn't expect that Yan Chixia would practice Vajra Zen. With great improvement in her cultivation, she actually refined the sword energy of the forty-nine swords, shrank it into a small sword about an inch, and used the new sword box to recreate it.
Chapter completed!