Chapter 312 Li Hongjiu In order to verify whether the rumors were true, some sects did put in a lot of effort. For example, Yanbao Sect, the third-ranked sect in the weapon refining world, lost in the treasure offering competition, resulting in only twenty people coming in, just like the average sect. At this time, a group of people were politely saying goodbye to another group of people. After seeing off the guests, the leader of the group, a disciple named Guang Haoyou, turned his head and looked at an older man who was lying on a big rock not far away, holding a wine gourd and drinking leisurely. When the drinking man saw that his fellow disciples were all looking at him, he immediately raised his gourd to salute them from afar and smiled brightly, revealing his white teeth. His smile seemed like the sun that could melt the snow. He ignored the harsh environment here and looked quite handsome, except for his laziness, which made him seem a little out of place compared to the people who entered the Divine Fire Domain. It doesn't look like they are here to compete, but rather to have fun, playing wherever they go. This man's name is Li Hongjiu. It is said that his mother gave birth to him in a wine jar while hiding while she was pregnant with a big belly while trying to escape from being hunted down. The blood dyed the wine in the jar red, so his mother named him Li Hongjiu. This name is quite casual. I don’t know if it’s because he was born in a wine jar or because of the bad name, but Li Hongjiu is quite good. Of course, it hasn't reached the point of alcoholism. Maybe it has nothing to do with the naming. The elder who came from the Liantian Sect on this trip also has the word "wine" in his name, Qin Zhijiu, and he doesn't seem to be very good at drinking. Guang Haoyou seems to be the leader of Yan Baozong's group, but in fact he is not the leader of Yan Baozong's trip. The leader is Li Hongjiu.

In fact, many people in Yanbao Sect were against letting Li Hongjiu be the team leader. What's more, there were only twenty people coming in this time, and the force for finding the sacred fire was already weak. How many people could accept having an irresponsible leader? But Li Hongjiu, this evil disciple, really troubled Yan Baozong. Although he comes from a great weapon-refining sect like Yanbao Sect, he is a lazy and idle person. You say he is not doing his job properly, but he has a very high talent for refining equipment. He is just too lazy to learn and too lazy to practice. If he has to start practicing seriously, his skills can overwhelm a group of people. What's even more outrageous is that he has the highest talent for cultivation among this generation of disciples. His talent is not just ordinary high, but very high. He is known as the number one person in Yanbao Sect since its founding 1,800 years ago. This first person refers to cultivation talent, not cultivation level. How high is the talent for cultivation? Once when his fellow disciples were in danger, he stood up and took a blow from a master in the human immortal realm with his bare hands, causing the latter, who was unaware of the danger, to leave in fear. This was equivalent to saving everyone's life. The shock that incident brought to the top leaders of Yanbao Sect at that time was unimaginable to outsiders. After questioning, we learned that when Li Hongjiu reached the minor success stage of martial arts, he felt that the sect's practice method was not exciting enough, so he created his own set of practice methods. One can imagine the shock this brought to the sect’s top leaders. Since you have such a good technique, the sect told him not to keep it to himself. You are who you are today because of the sect’s training, so you should share it with the sect. He did not keep his skills to himself and instead showed them to others. However, the skills he created were extremely abstruse, like an antelope hanging on a horn, leaving no trace, and one had to rely entirely on one's understanding to comprehend them. No one else could practice them except himself, and the skills have been shelved in Yanbao Sect until now. Logically speaking, with such a high talent for cultivation, it would be fine if you don't want to refine weapons. You can also practice hard to become a strong man, which can be of use to the sect. In short, even though the sect has punished this guy many times, it is still willing to do its best to provide all the conditions it can. If you are willing to pursue the path of refining equipment, the sect will fully support you and will give you any refining materials you want. If you don't want to refine weapons but are willing to practice to improve your cultivation, that's fine too. The sect will do its best to satisfy any cultivation resources you need. This is a treatment that other disciples could never even imagine. But the result is that he is a person without ambition. He doesn't care about his future or destiny. In his own words, I'm living a good life now, why should I work so hard? It was useless to break any number of sticks used to beat the apprentice. After ten days or half a month, it would be strange if you didn't see him kneeling at the master's door to be punished.

By the way, his master is Qu Wuming, the leader of Yanbao Sect. Back then, seeing that this disciple was very talented, everyone rushed to accept him. As a result, after accepting this disciple, Qu Wuming felt a little disillusioned and was too lazy to accept any more disciples. As a result, Li Hongjiu became the last disciple of Master Qu and was also known as the uncle master by many people in Yanbao Sect. Because of this disciple, the leader of Yanbao Sect was so angry several times that he shouted that he would expel him from the sect, but every time he just shouted, when he encountered such a disciple, he couldn't bear to throw him away, but keeping him would be very annoying and too frustrating. How can the sect let such a person enter the Divine Fire Region without any worries? However, this time the situation was special, and Yanbao Sect could only send 20 disciples to the Divine Fire Region. The power to find the Divine Fire was weak, and if they wanted to win the championship, many people repeatedly cast their eyes on Li Hongjiu. They forced themselves to look away, but had to look back to examine him. First of all, he is the most capable fighter among the disciples at the high martial arts realm. If a battle were to occur, he would not watch his fellow disciples die, but would definitely lend a helping hand. Secondly, Li Hongjiu has a very high talent for refining equipment. It may not be possible to ask him to spend a lot of time on refining equipment every day, but he will have no problem contributing in the competition outside the Divine Fire Domain. For these reasons, Yan Baozong decided to let him participate. At first, the leader of Yanbao Sect was worried that this guy would be lazy and would waste his time talking to him. But when he heard that they were going to visit the Divine Fire Region, where he had never been before, this guy immediately became interested and agreed directly. For this reason, Sect Master Qu was a little annoyed. If this guy had put more effort into cultivation, he would have broken through to the Human Immortal Realm at least twenty years ago. There was no need for him to take the risk of going to the Divine Fire Domain. Later, I thought about it and it didn't make sense. If he absorbed the divine fire, his cultivation might break through faster. Could it be that he didn't bother to improve his cultivation for so many years just to wait for this day? After all, after reaching the human immortal realm, one can no longer enter the divine fire realm. Many people had this suspicion afterwards, but most of them overturned this idea, because that guy has been like this since he was young. After entering the Divine Fire Realm, what Yan Baozong was worried about finally happened. After Li Hongjiu took a tour around the Divine Fire Domain, the novelty wore off quickly. He found that there was nothing interesting here, and it was very boring. He searched around in this barren place all day long. He immediately lay down and told everyone, "I'm just here to make up the numbers, you guys can do whatever you want." He did have some places that interested him. He had heard that the 'Forbidden Land of Wuming' was interesting and had always wanted to go and see it. The disciples of Yanbao Sect were so frightened that they tried their best to hold him down and not allow him to do anything. Not only did they send people to monitor him, they also used the excuse of righteousness to kidnap him. Anyway, disciples like Guang Haoyou started to have headaches. They felt like they understood the pain of the sect leader and were worried about their uncle. Finding the sacred fire is hard enough, and now you have a burden around you. Who can understand this kind of suffering? What's even more outrageous is that after they had worked so hard to find the sacred fire, a group of people eagerly offered it to this uncle-master to absorb, but he actually refused to absorb it, saying that he had no need for these external objects and didn't need them, and that he knew you wanted to absorb it more. Anyway, he just didn't want it and assigned it to Guang Haoyou, letting Guang Haoyou absorb it, saying that the value absorbed by Guang Haoyou would be greater. Guang Haoyou was almost moved to tears, and wanted to thank his eight generations of ancestors. He wanted to absorb the divine fire, but the sect's first choice for absorbing the divine fire was this uncle, and it would be his turn after that, and this was repeatedly explained to him. He could understand the reason, as his uncle was the one who had the greatest hope of helping Yanbao Sect win the championship. If he fails to win the championship after absorbing this divine fire, how will he explain to the sect? His selflessness has turned into selfishness, and even a spit can drown him. How can he hold his head up in the sect in the future? Moreover, he has vaguely guessed the reason why Li Hongjiu did not absorb the divine fire. If he lets Guang Haoyou absorb the divine fire, then the responsibility of winning the championship can be pushed onto Guang Haoyou, and then Li Hongjiu can go to the 'Forbidden Land of Wuming' to play without restraint. If this uncle-master is determined to run away, who here can stop him? Thus, a spectacle that no other sects had seen happened to the Yanbao Sect’s group. They begged, wiped their tears, and knelt down. They begged Li Hongjiu to absorb the divine fire. In the end, they used the righteousness of the sect to force Li Hongjiu to have no choice but to drag him to meet the elders. Li Hongjiu had no choice but to absorb three flowers, and Yanbao Sect only found three flowers in total. He doesn't do any work, but just sits back to enjoy the fruits of others' labor, and he does it reluctantly. The most important thing is that he always lags behind. Which sect would have such a person? The disciples of Yanbao Sect are so angry that they want to hit him. In short, every time the sacred fire is found, no one is happy and everyone sighs. After sending the guests away, Guang Haoyou flashed to the side of Li Hongjiu who was lazily drinking, and asked: "Little Uncle, did you hear that? It has been confirmed that Liantian Sect is indeed looking for Shi Chun and his group. In other words, the legend is true, and Shi Chun and his group do have a way to quickly find the divine fire."

Li Hongjiu also said helplessly: "Why do you care so much? I said three divine fires are enough. I should be able to win the championship. What else do you want?" Guang Haoyou hugged his head in pain and sighed, "Uncle Master, please stop making trouble. There are hundreds of them. Those are hundreds of divine flames. What can you use to win?" As for the other fellow disciples, some sighed, some lowered their heads helplessly, and some shook their heads slightly. In short, no one wanted to talk. Li Hongjiu scanned everyone's reactions, then raised his head and took a sip of wine, then exhaled the alcohol and said, "No matter if there are hundreds or thousands of them, the essence remains the same. The most that can be absorbed is thirty-six. Isn't it said that there are thirty-six kinds of divine fire? Moreover, in my opinion, even if we find hundreds of divine fires, it will be difficult to gather thirty-six different kinds of divine fire, so we still have a chance of winning. Refining skills are something that requires too many aids and is not enough in terms of Taoism, so it may not be possible to achieve perfection." Guang Haoyou said with great sorrow: "Uncle Master, if reasoning can solve the problem, then why did we come in?" Li Hongjiu smiled, raised the wine gourd in greeting, raised his head and looked at the sky, put his mouth to the gourd, and replied, "You are right, I will do whatever you say, I will listen to you." (End of this chapter)