Thank you for the gift - Wu Yin Mo Fan

  Xu Fei Niang returned after half a month, and San Feng and Dong Xiu had been waiting anxiously. As soon as they met, they asked about the disciple who went to the southwest to retrieve the treasure. Xu Fei Niang smiled and said: "My disciple has already obtained the treasure, but on the way back, he encountered people from Emei Sect, who wanted to rob him of it. He didn't want to lead the enemy here and create enmity between Zi Yun Palace and Emei Sect, so he returned to Wutai Mountain first. He also asked me to inform the palace masters that after he has cultivated the treasure to merge with his yuan Shen, making it impossible for others to snatch it away, he will come back to pay his respects."

  San Feng and Dong Xiu both had something hidden in their hearts, and they put aside many of their grand words on the spot. It was nothing more than that Shidi was too aloof, and if such a thing happened again, he would only need to come to the Purple Cloud Palace to see how Emei would deal with it, no matter how arrogant he was, he wouldn't dare to be unruly again. Then, changing the subject, they asked her about Yue Qing's affairs, especially that black jade calabash.

  Xu Fei Niang told her the truth: "That gourd was refined by a traitor in our sect, named Liu Liu Zhen Yuan Gourd. It's only partially completed. Not long ago, Yue Shidi killed the traitor and obtained this treasure, which he then re-refined into the Liu Ding Liu Jia Shen Mo Gourd. Inside, it contains the Liu Ding Liu Jia Shen Mo, with abilities to fly through the sky, move mountains and seas, and change endlessly." Xu Fei Niang saw her looking eager and continued, "Yue Shidi is a very upright person and has never liked such demonic methods. When he first got his hands on it, he even thought of destroying it. He's been wearing that gourd on him all along, but rarely takes it out to use it. He said that after he cultivates the Yuan Ying in the future, he'll use our sect's Xuan Gong to transcend and restore those demons to their original form, then send them to reincarnate."

  "What a pity!" Dongxiu muttered to herself, shaking her head. "Such a powerful treasure, who knows how much time and effort was spent refining it, yet he's going to destroy it for nothing!" She said as she shook her head, "For people like us, it's hard to get even a second-rate treasure, but he's willing to destroy one that's already in his hands. Sister Xu, go tell Brother Yue, if he doesn't want that gourd anymore, give it to me instead."

  "He wants to release the divine demon on that gourd, and won't easily give it to anyone." Xu Fei Nang pulled Dong Xiu's hand, "Sister, don't worry, if you lack a treasure, that's simple. Yue Shidi is the best in our Wutai Sect at refining equipment, let him help you refine a few more magical treasures, which will be handy and powerful, isn't that better than your Dragon Bird Ring by a hundred times?"

  Dong Xiu's heart was moved, but he still pushed it away: "Brother Yue has come from afar as a guest, how can we trouble him too much."

  Xu Fei's expression turned unhappy: "We're as close as sisters, and Yue Shidi is like my own brother. Why must we be so formal? I'll take charge of this matter! I'll bring my sister to see him right now, let's see if he dares to utter a single word of refusal!"

  After finishing, he pulled Dongxiu to Daxiong Reef, and Sanfeng also followed closely behind. When they arrived, Yue Qing was instructing Wu Fan to practice swordsmanship. He gave Wu Fan the black evil sword that he had taken from Yan Shi's hand after killing him a few days ago. The black evil sword had been nurtured by Yan Shi with the Xuan Yin secret technique for over 200 years and was more than a hundred times better than his previous flying sword. Wu Fan was overjoyed and was practicing the flying sword according to Yue Qing's teachings, achieving a state of unity between form and spirit.

  Xu Fei Niang led Dong Xiu in and explained the situation.

  Yue Qing smiled and said, "Sister Master has such a good relationship with you all, and these days have been treated with great hospitality. As for me, I will naturally not hesitate to refine the treasure. Not to mention refining two pieces, even ten or eight pieces are no problem! However, there is one thing, if you want to refine equipment, you must have materials. As the saying goes, 'A skilled woman cannot cook without rice.' Even if my technique for refining equipment is superb, I still can't conjure up treasure out of thin air."

  Dong Xiu hastily said: "As long as I have all of Purple Cloud Palace, it's up to you, fellow Taoist! After the matter is settled, I will definitely express my gratitude!"

  Yue Qing waved his hand: "There's no need to mention a thank you between us! However, the beautiful Purple Cloud Palace has limited materials suitable for refining immortal family treasures. If you want some ordinary flying knives or flying spears, it's not difficult, but coming here would be useless."

  "That... Fellow Daoist said what materials are needed, I'll search heaven and earth to get them!"

  Yue Qing thought for a moment: "Actually, it's not that difficult. I can use the five corpse demons of Yang Shi to refine a Five Yin Demon Flag for you."

  "Wu Yin Demon!" Xufei Nang exclaimed in shock beside him.

  San Feng and Dong Xiu were extremely curious: "What treasure is Wu Yinmo that it can make Sister Xu lose her composure like this?"

  Xu Fei'niang said: "Those five yin demons were one of the ten evil spirits that suppressed the northern demon sect in those years! After refining, they can come and go without a shadow, and any sword, water, fire, wind, or thunder cannot harm them. They can fly and escape, and nothing is impossible for them. Swallowing souls and devouring spirits are also effortless. Even if they encounter a heavenly immortal who is about to ascend, if they don't have a powerful treasure in hand, they will still be captured by the demons."

  As soon as Dong Xiu heard this, he was overjoyed: "In that case, Yue Dao quickly tell us the materials, and we'll go search for them."

  Yue Qing thought for a moment and said, "Corpse demons have form and substance, while yin demons are formless and substanceless. To refine a corpse demon into a yin demon requires a great deal of hard work. First, you need to decoct 365 kinds of immortal medicine into spiritual liquid, then use it to wash and practice the corpse demon nine times until it becomes formless. Next, you need to use human heart blood as a guide, combined with 108 kinds of spiritual medicine to refine the demon-guiding pill, which will hold the demon's head in place and prevent it from escaping. Because yin demons are formless and substanceless, ordinary materials' banners cannot carry them, so you need to use a fire jade pole, thousand-year-old fire silkworm silk for the banner face, refined gold for the frame, xuanhuang dragonsand as ink, and xuanlang wolf hair as a brush. After writing and drawing on the banner, it needs to be washed and practiced with spiritual medicine three times. What's left is not difficult, I just need to spend 18 days of hard work, and I can make the yin demon stay on the banner forever, serving people."

  Actually, for Yue Qing, refining the Five Yin Demon Flag wasn't that troublesome. He just needed to combine the five corpse demons with the Five Ghosts' Soul-Stealing Flag in one place. In fact, he had already started cultivating it and had completed about half of it over the past few days. The materials Winter Snow wanted were also carefully selected by him and Xu Fei Niang. They all existed within the Purple Cloud Palace, but some of them were quite rare and precious. They wanted to see if Winter Snow's status in the palace would allow her to take out these items.

  Wu Fan was very efficient, and had already prepared a small notebook with the materials that Yue Qing had mentioned earlier, written on bamboo paper, cut into small pages, and bound together with a nail, which he presented to Dong Xiu.

  Dong Xiu took the list in her hand, held it to her chest, and said with a smile: "The things that Brother Yue mentioned, I remember that most of them are available in this Purple Cloud Palace. I'll go search for them right away, and whatever is available will be sent over tomorrow!" She pulled over Xu Fei Niang and San Feng, "Both sisters also come to help me pick out the items, so as not to waste effort going out to find things that are already here in the palace, wouldn't that be a pity?"

  San Feng also wanted to test Yue Qing's ability with this matter, and Dong Xiu had always been in the same party as her, advancing and retreating together. She was delighted that she could get a powerful treasure, so she strongly supported it, taking Dong Xiu to various medicine palaces sealed by the immortal law to collect medicine. In just half a day's time, they had collected everything and sent Wu Fan to deliver them to Da Xiong Jiao.

  Dong Xiu still had some lingering fear: "Fortunately, the heavens are blessing us, these things are all available in our Purple Cloud Palace. If not, I would have to go out to the Three Mountains and Four Seas to collect herbs. If luck is bad, who knows when we can gather everything?"

  Xu Fei Nang chatted with her for a few sentences, then suddenly changed the subject and said in front of San Feng: "Dong Xiu sister, there are some things that I must mention. Although it's been over 30 years since I last saw Yue Shixiong, we still have the same master-disciple relationship from back then, but after all, he is not me. We are like sisters, just like when you asked me to help refine that furnace of Rejuvenating Elixir, I didn't say anything else and was willing to go all out for it, in order to live up to our sisterly bond. However, Yue Shixiong is still a guest here for the first time, and from what I know, refining that Five Yin Demon Flag consumes a lot of heart and blood. Just steaming and drying those many kinds of medicinal materials, and then refining them into medicinal liquid requires a lot of effort. Moreover, the demon is cunning, and if one is not careful, there's a risk of going mad from demonic energy. Dong Xiu sister, do you understand what I mean?"

  Dong Xiu was taken aback, and then said: "As sister said, I know the hardships of refining treasures. How could I let Brother Yue do all the hard work for nothing? On the day when the treasure is refined, he can choose any rare and precious treasure from the palace..."

  Xu Fei Nang smiled and said: "What kind of person is Yue Shidi? How can he choose his own reward?"

  "Then I'll personally pick out a few for him!"

  Xu Fei Nang slightly shook her head: "Sister, do you know that the Five Yin Demon Flag was a treasured artifact of the Northern Demon Sect in the past? Now that the Northern Demon Sect has been completely destroyed, there is only one person under the heavens who can refine that flag - and that's only Yue Shidi. If you just give him a few pieces of golden jade spiritual medicine, Yue Shidi naturally won't say anything, but if he doesn't get it, I as his senior sister will have to plead for him!"

  Dong Xiu understood Xu Fei's meaning, and she also thought that they should give some gifts to Yue Qing. However, on the one hand, she was used to being stingy, and on the other hand, she really didn't have anything valuable to give away. After hesitating for a while: "In that case, I'll just copy out the Tianmo Secret Manual that I obtained from Moon Island back then."