When I was supposed to be slaying the dragon, I accidentally started cultivating immortality

Sotheby's auction house headquarters, in the general manager's office.

"Idiot! Waste! A bunch of waste! You once again humiliated Sotheby and Iron Rose! Once again, one person single-handedly robbed the most precious lot! This time there are two!"

The pot-bellied general manager roared at the few surviving waiters and guards in the above-ground villa and underground auction house, pointing his stubby fingers at them one by one.

As a leader who has been staying at Sotheby's headquarters, he doesn't know what kind of environment these people survived, nor does he know that even if everyone in the auction house sacrifices their lives heroically, they still can't stop that person. Swordsman - He just needs some scapegoat to let him pass the blame, even if it's only part of it.

He is not the leader of this plan, he is just the leader's deputy. The leader will bear the greatest responsibility. If he can shirk some of his secondary responsibilities, although he will definitely not be able to keep his position as general manager, You may not be dismissed, if you are lucky you may just be demoted.

The general manager cursed loudly in the office. Thanks to his relatively low bloodline, although he was not good at fighting, his physical fitness was good. His voice was like thunder, and it lasted for a long time, as if he didn't even need to drink water.

"Last time it was a Taoist priest! This time it's a swordsman! If there is another time, what will it be! A bald monk?!"

…

"Ah...ah sneeze!"

China, on the top of an unknown hill in the south, in an old adobe house in a small courtyard, an old monk sitting at the table drinking tea suddenly sneezed.

Opposite the old monk sat an old Taoist priest. The Taoist priest was wearing an old Taoist robe that was fully patched. The old monk was wearing a hundred-pin monk's robe. With a wooden table with irregular edges and a bed made of adobe, it was the bandits and bandits who saw this. Both of them had to show kindness and leave two bags of rice for them.

"Eh? Old friend, are you not in good health and have caught a cold? Pindao once read a medical book that said people with colds are not suitable for drinking tea. For your health, Pindao should put away this pot of tea. "

The old Taoist priest sitting opposite the old monk had quick eyesight and quick hands. He wanted to put away the copper teapot on the table. The old monk quickly pinched his wrist: "Bah! You are getting better and better at telling lies with your nose open. I'm in very good health, and I won't catch a cold even in the North Pole. The sneezing just now was just a telepathy, so you'd better put down this pot of tea that I won with great difficulty."

The old Taoist priest let go of his hand, without concealing the regret on his face, and said: "Your five-eyed penetration has reached the perfection of the Heavenly Eye Skill, and it has touched the realm of the Wisdom Eye Skill. The Arhat in the scriptures is only one step away from you. , since you have the feeling, it must not be groundless."

"Arahantship, don't talk about one step, even half a step. If you can't achieve enlightenment, there will be a barrier. You still have to wait until the fate has arrived." The old monk shook his head, "But you, what state are you in now? Even the old monk has no idea. Can’t see through you?”

The old Taoist priest smiled and said nothing, picked up his tea cup and drank it all in one gulp, then his expression suddenly changed.

"What's wrong?"

The old monk was puzzled.

"The troublesome person is here," the old Taoist priest sighed, picked up the copper pot and poured out the emerald green tea soup, "and he is here to disturb the purity of the poor Taoist."

The old Taoist priest poured himself a cup of tea. The old monk waited for a while and nodded. In a blink of an eye, he found that the old Taoist priest had drank half of the pot of tea. The Taoist priest glared angrily, grabbed the copper pot and poured himself tea quickly.

A few minutes later.

"Shin Takeuchi Yunjiro, the last student of Kobi-ryu Takeuchi, came to pay homage to Mitutoyo-senpai and express his regards to Mitutoyo-senpai."

Outside the courtyard, the old Taoist priest heard a voice that he had heard many times.

The old Taoist priest took two deep breaths, and finally he didn't hold back. He stood up with a dark face, picked up a nearly bald broom in the corner of the room, pushed open the door, and walked out.

The screams outside the hospital suddenly became endless, and the old monk drank a sip of tea.

…

In downtown Chicago, on the top floor of a financial building, is the chairman's office.

This is the largest industrial group of the Campbell family in Iron Rose, and all the heads of the Campbell family will also serve as chairman of the board.

A sky-blue sheep felt carpet covers the entire floor. Behind the large solid wood desk is an office chair made of the skin of a certain subspecies of dragon animal - it is carefully disguised as cowhide, while the sofa is actually covered with cowhide. Place on the other side.

"Park Mengsheng! You've messed everything up!" Sitting in the office chair, Lynos Campbell, the contemporary head of the Campbell family, roared at the middle-aged Taoist priest whose severed wrist was still wrapped in gauze. His carefully groomed white fibrous roots Trembling, "You have brought disaster to the family! Now there are only ten elite forces available to the entire family!"

"I remember that I told you clearly before implementing the plan that this was a gamble, and now we have lost the bet," Pu Mengsheng said with a cold face. He did not wear the yellow robe he had worn in the auction house before, but a white one. Casual suit, "As a gambler, whether you, me, or anyone else in the family, you should be mentally prepared for a disastrous defeat."

"Ever since the Taoist priest hit us hard a few years ago, we have lost all dignity in this North American mixed-race world. Those sellers who hold the top treasures are hesitant between us and other auction houses, lacking the top For auction items, ordinary sellers no longer list us as their first choice. Just like the stock market, once a group of shareholders begin to believe that a certain group's stocks are doomed, they will sell their stocks, and then others will follow. Sell-off, in the end, even if there is no problem with this group, it will suffer because of this..."

"I don't need you to explain the rules of the stock market to me. I'm ten times more professional than you in the stock market," Lin Aos interrupted Park Mengsheng, "Of course I understand that if I don't take the risk to change my reputation, Sotheby's reputation will decline. It is trapped in an endless cycle of slow death, but now? We lost the bet! It will indeed not die slowly, because it is already dead! No one will believe an auction house that has been robbed or even bloodbathed twice in five years. Now sellers would rather give their things to be pawned than choose us again!”

"Calm down, you need to maintain your grace. Even though Sosby is the legacy left by your grandfather and my ancestor-in-law, we did lose the bet with fate, so we can only accept the result of the bet. ," Pu Mengsheng spread his hands, "Destiny is different from the dealer in the casino. It never cheats. If we lose to it, we can only lose with conviction."

"When I married my daughter to you, I never imagined that you would cause such a big loss to the family..."

Lin Aos looked like an old man in his fifties or sixties. At this moment, he seemed to be completely discouraged. The wrinkles on his face drooped and formed ravines: "Will the elders let you go? While I can still keep you, You should leave the family as soon as possible."

"Leave?" Pu Mengsheng's face looked strange, "Not to mention how many things I have done for the family over the years, how many new roads I have opened, and how much I have contributed to the development of the family over the years. After I left, the current family Can you still hold on?"

"The market at Sotheby's Auction is a piece of fat meat, so fat that it runs smoothly. The other families staring at it are like hungry wolves surrounding the sheep. Originally, we were argali, with hooves and horns. Even if a wolf faced us We also have to weigh ourselves, but the Taoist priest saw off one of our horns this year, and now the swordsman saw off our other horn. If I am also gone, it means that I have lost one of my hoofs. Besides being a delicious meal for wolves, what other fate can our sheep have?”

"The Senate is also a wolf. They have been coveting my power for a long time. You are also a thorn in their side. Now you have given them the best opportunity. We are sheep in the eyes of other families, but you are in their eyes. Now they are also sheep.”

"It sounds a bit ironic. Father-in-law, if you didn't go into finance and wrote scripts, you might be a master of satire."

Pu Mengsheng smiled.

"You will see more ironic things in the future. Even a top satirical dramatist like Chekhov, his scripts cannot express even one-tenth of the absurdity in reality." Lin Os shook his head, "Let's go Come on, I have arranged a car for you downstairs, you will be safe if you leave here and return to South Korea."

"Escape like a dog?" Pu Mengsheng shook his head, "Maybe we will have other choices."

"Other options?"

Lin Os was puzzled.

"The old people in the Council of Elders have become rotten. They only fight for power and gain, and they only kill their juniors, taking away from those young people who are energetic, enterprising, and have the instinct to lead the family further. Power stubbornly maintains its rule that will collapse sooner or later, just like an emperor in the Song Dynasty of China recalled Yue Fei with twelve golden orders."

"It's Zhao Gou, Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty."

Lynos demonstrates an excellent reserve of historical knowledge.

"Recall that when we were working hard for the development of our family, those who were holding on to our hind legs were euphemistically called 'holding the reins of the horse to prevent it from running off the reins and rushing towards the cliff.' What qualifications do these old guys have to continue to hold the highest power in the family?"

"You want to resist them?" Lin Aos frowned, "It's not that I haven't had this idea before, but we don't have the strength..."

"I know, so I found a partner with this capability."

Pu Mengsheng smiled, and Lin Aos's expression suddenly changed.

Park Mengsheng turned to look at the door of the office. The originally closed door had opened a gap at some point. Through the thin gap, he could see the delicate gray suit fabric behind.

"Come in, Mr. Henkel."

…

Kassel College, underground villa of the Equipment Department, Lu Mingfei was lying on the bed, playing with the transparent crystal in his hand.

He didn't have to worry about being discovered by Norma when he took out the Sunstone in the dormitory, because apart from the experimental site and very few public areas, there was almost no monitoring equipment for Norma in the Equipment Department.

Norma's authority in the equipment department was greatly restricted, and even the independent canteen of the equipment department was not monitored. Although these nerds often ate instant noodles, ordered takeout, ate hamburgers, fried chicken, and drank iced Coke, they would occasionally On a whim, they wanted to eat something from the canteen, but they were unwilling to leave the underground base, so they simply built a small canteen.

Lu Mingfei was lying on his back on the bed. The orange-red light in the sun stone in his hand was dimmer than when it was first taken out at the auction house. It was probably because part of the power stored in it was used to turn into flames.

In Lu Mingfei's perception, this small transparent crystal contains extremely pure and stable water energy - yes, although this thing can absorb the energy of sunlight and store it into flames, But the main body is actually extremely high quality water energy.

Sunlight contains the energy of fire and the power of sunlight. Although the Sunstone is made of extremely high-quality water energy and can absorb and store the fire energy in the sun, it does not contain the energy of moonlight. power, so it was impossible to activate the power of Sun Hua, otherwise what Lu Mingfei attracted in the auction house at that time was a copycat version of Sun Real Fire.

Of course, considering the differences in the power systems of the two worlds, perhaps there are no records of Rihua and Yuehua in this world. At least Lu Mingfei has not seen similar records anywhere so far.

Generally speaking, a treasure with such rich and pure power of water would be a waste in the hands of a monk if it is not used to absorb the essence to temper mana or use it as a material to refine weapons.

But for Lu Mingfei, his magic power is already pure enough. Unless he can induce the pure energy from the nine heavens to refine his magic power, it will be difficult for him to have anything that can increase his magic power again. This bolt The water energy in the sun stone is naturally far from enough.

As for the weapon refining... he thought about it, but in the future he would have to use this thing to find the girl who had robbed the execution site at the auction in exchange for the Mogao Grottoes stone slab.

Use it for practice. Others won't be able to tell if you take a few puffs, but he doesn't need it.

Let's bring it to refine the weapon... Just two puffs of it won't be enough. Anything less will be useless. If it's more, it will probably make the thing smaller. Maybe it can be reduced by half. It won't be easy for him to explain when the time comes. He can't tell others. "Look at my sincere eyes. Do you believe me if I tell you that this thing will be this size when it comes into my hands?"

Of course, it's not impossible to do whatever he wants with his strength. With the Swordsman Projection, no one can stop him if something is stolen or not returned, and with the Swordsman Projection skin on, no one knows that he did it.

But in the final analysis, Lu Mingfei considered himself to be a good person despite being reluctant to do so. He really couldn't do such a thing where he was only interested in profit and turned his back on others.

After putting away the sun-tie stone and giving up the thought of doing something with it, Lu Mingfei walked out of the underground base of the Equipment Department and took a walk on the corridor of Kassel College - he was a little distressed and needed to relax.

He walked aimlessly on the corridor, admiring the carefully decorated green belts and trees. He passed by a girl in cool clothes. Her thighs were white and dazzling in the sun. The only problem was that the owner of these thighs was always staring at him. , and even stared at him a little uncomfortable.

Unknowingly, he walked outside the library. Lu Mingfei thought about it for a moment and thought that he might as well borrow a book and go back to read it, then walked towards the library.

Then through the floor-to-ceiling glass outside the library, he saw Senior Brother Chu sitting at a table inside, seemingly looking at some book attentively.

However, what really caught Lu Mingfei's attention was the long-haired girl standing next to Senior Brother Chu, bending over and having her head very close to him.

The girl seemed to be whispering something to Senior Brother Chu. Her long hair fell naturally and brushed the back of Senior Brother's hand on the table.

Looking at a man and a woman who seemed to be acting intimately, Lu Mingfei's expression suddenly changed, and two gossipy lights flickered from his eyes.

Read with a beautiful woman, and add fragrance to your red sleeves!

Okay! Senior Brother Chu! It’s yours!