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"It's already morning..."
He shook his head, clasped his hands behind his back, and walked outside the academy.
During the whole process, no one among the literary cultivators made a sound.
Because Jiang Lu's soliloquy clearly indicated that he spent the whole night living in the attic that only Wen Tao's direct disciples could live in. There was no need to say more about what this meant.
Zhou Luwei had been with them for a long time, she was very carefree, and she got along well with them. She didn't take the class distinction between direct disciples and inner disciples so seriously, so matters of etiquette and respect were not important.
But Jiang Lu was different. None of them were familiar with his temperament. Of course, they would worry that if they said something wrong and offended him, they might be scolded.
Therefore, not to mention Wen Xiu, who was in the Qi training period like Jiang Lu, even the few who had established the foundation kept silent, only waiting for Jiang Lu to leave before they dared to discuss anything.
Even Fan Jin, who had just reached the foundation building threshold yesterday and was very satisfied with his ambition, did not speak. Even though he couldn't bear to see Jiang Lu being so close to Zhou Luwei just one day after arriving, he just frowned and watched him leave.
It wasn't until Jiang Lu's figure disappeared from the courtyard gate that he muttered:
"Although the fifth senior sister may seem out of place, she is also a genuine Chaos Saint. Everyone admires the fourth senior brother, and the most mysterious third senior sister and the second senior brother who has never seen the dragon. Needless to say, the senior sister, Even the sect leader is full of praise, why does he stand side by side with these people?"
"Maybe he is also a kind of holy body?" someone asked.
"How can there be a holy body in the middle stage of Qi training?" Fan Jin shook his head: "After the fifth senior sister came into contact with Qi training, she started at the top of Qi training. She built the foundation of Immortal Taoism in one month. If she hadn't pursued the perfect golden elixir, she would have already become a golden elixir. She has undergone a major cultivation, not only her, but other senior brothers and sisters are also deliberately suppressing the speed of cultivation in order to pursue the ultimate. I have never heard of anyone in the holy body or in the middle stage of Qi training."
"Then there must be something special about it."
Xiao Zhan said: "For some reason, when I saw him, I felt my spiritual consciousness ringing non-stop. I feel that if I discuss it with him, I might not even make a sound when farting in the future."
Everyone responded to him with blank stares.
"Junior Brother Xiao Zhan, you are really getting more and more obsessed. You should make a clear distinction between work and life." Fan Jin sighed, "Besides, what are you talking about? All the senior brothers and sisters are outstanding and noble. Would they look at him differently because of something like this? Let's not talk about them. When you say this, where do you put the dignity of our master?"
"Sorry, I didn't think carefully about what I said." Xiao Zhan lowered his head guiltily.
At the same time, the senior sisters who are extremely noble among people are still in Wentao Pavilion, their whole bodies are numb and unable to move.
Among them, Ling Ling, who had a different feeling for Jiang Lu, even though his body did not allow it, did not retreat like others. Instead, he relied on Ling Ling's strong willpower and Taoist heart, as well as Ling Ling, who had the highest level of cultivation and greater responsibility. The great food and paintings are the worst.
"To say that your apprentice is really evil."
Hua Zi, whose legs were not together, tiredly held up his eyelids that were as heavy as lead: "In front of him, it's like all living beings are equal. Not to mention them, even me, I can't protect myself even with my cultivation. , his soul will be destroyed by him."
"This..." Yogurt Man Tao smiled with relief: "It is the Body of Slaanesh!"
......
Just as he was thinking about it, Jiang Lu successfully arrived at the Alchemy Peak and found the steward who was sitting in the accounting room.
"Is Mr. Su in charge?" Jiang Lu looked at the other party's waist badge and said, "Please give me the Qi Replenishing Pill for nine people. I want it to be of the highest quality."
"For nine people?"
Manager Su was stunned: "You are a monk in the qi training period, and you have to take a qi-boosting pill several times. This one is three pills. What do you want so many pills for?"
"Ah, it's not for me." Jiang Lu explained, "My master asked me to get it."
"Oh." Manager Su nodded: "Where's the souvenir?"
Jiang Lu took out the seal given by Wen Tao from his arms: "Here."
Manager Su took the seal, took a look at it, and was immediately surprised: "Elder Wen Tao? Are you a disciple of Shise Academy?"
"Yeah, what's the problem?"
Jiang Luxin asked, "Don't you look like a scholar?"
"There is no problem, it's just a little strange, because the disciples of Shise Academy never need Qi-Building Pills, so I was a little curious for a moment."
Manager Su looked at Jiang Lu in confusion:
"The people who usually exchange the most Qi-Building Pills are the people from Blazing Flame Tower. Your academy won't ask for one for a year and a half, so why do you want nine copies of it this time?"
"Uh..."
Of course, Jiang Lu couldn't tell outsiders about the purpose, so he immediately shook his head and said, "I don't know either. I'm just running errands for my master. If you want to know, you have to ask her. How about I go back and ask?"
"No, no need."
Manager Su waved his hand quickly. When Jiang Lu said this, he also realized that he had overstepped a bit. He was curious, but he didn't want to cause trouble for an elder, let alone the most difficult one in the sect, every elder. They all sell her some face-saving food.
There was once a steward who met her and secretly commented on how short she was. She was thrown directly into the Blazing Flame Tower and trained to be a toy for those female cultivators who were refining their bodies. It was so terrifying.
God knows if the other party knew that she was asking for the Qi Replenishing Pill but she still hesitated, whether she would be thrown into the Beast Controlling Mountain tomorrow because she walked into the Alchemy Peak with her left foot first, and become one of those perverted pet beasts of the Beast Controlling lineage.
Thinking of this, he just wanted to deal with Jiang Lu as soon as possible, so he picked up his pen and started to prepare the note.
But as soon as he opened the inventory page of Qi-Building Pills in the account book, he was suddenly stunned for a moment, and then said to Jiang Lu apologetically: "Oh, unfortunately, Chiyan Tower took away all the remaining Qi-Building Pills yesterday. , we have to wait until the afternoon for the new Qi-Building Pill to be released. If it’s not urgent, how about you come back in the afternoon?”
"I'm just in a hurry. If I'm not in a hurry, can I come over early in the morning?"
Jiang Lu was also a little depressed. Wen Tao and Hua Ji were just that. Their cultivation level was there. Even without the Qi-Building Pill, they would recover after a short rest. But the others couldn't do it. They were all like that. After a while, My son is definitely not getting better.
They had work to do during the day, so Jiang Lu would feel very sorry if he delayed them.
"Please think of a way to make it evener, or tell me where you have exchanged a larger quantity of Qi-Building Pills. I'll try my luck and see if I can borrow some."
"Well... let me help you take a look." Manager Su reluctantly followed Jiang Lu's request and began to check where a large amount of Qi-replenishing pills had been mentioned recently.
After looking at it, Manager Su made a discovery: "Yes, in order to prepare for the sacrificial ceremony in a month's time, the Star Observation Tower has taken away a lot of various elixirs. They probably haven't been used yet. If they were just borrowed, look. In terms of Elder Wen Tao’s face, it shouldn’t be a big problem.”
"Oh, thank you!" Jiang Lu nodded gratefully, then turned and left.
"Hey! Seal!"
"Oh." Jiang Lu turned around and took away Wen Tao's seal.
Seeing his frizzy appearance, Manager Su found it a little funny.
Wen Tao actually asked such a lowly disciple to run errands, which was really arrogant.
"Wait a minute." Jiang Lu turned back and said, "Where is the Star Observation Tower?"
"..."
......
Under the guidance of Manager Su, Jiang Lu finally made it to the Star Observation Tower.
This is a seven-story tower standing on the cliff between two peaks. The base is a huge stone mill-like disc, connecting the peaks on both sides. Under the disc, there is a bottomless view. of abyss.
Jiang Lu stood on the disk, looked down, and thought to himself: "Is the sacrifice here? Does that mean the Gate of the Netherworld should be down there?"
As expected of the Bailiu Sect, other immortals ascend by opening the Heavenly Gate and fly upwards, while they fall downwards, focusing on an evil fall.
Being able to come to the Star Observation Tower was an unexpected surprise for Jiang Lu.
He originally planned to come sooner or later to see how the sacrifice was run, but he didn't expect to have this opportunity the next day.
After thinking about it, he entered the Star Observation Building, found the steward on the first floor, and explained his purpose.
"Qi-Building Pill?"
The steward nodded: "We do, but I have to report it. Please wait here."
"Sorry to trouble you."
After the steward went upstairs, Jiang Lu wandered around on the first floor.
Each floor of the Star Observation Tower has different functions, among which all the disciples practice metaphysics.
Just like the disciples on the first floor, who are learning the art of seeking good luck and avoiding bad luck, each of them has a screen of light suspended in front of them.
Jiang Lu was curious, so he found a casual and friendly person to chat with.
After understanding it, he learned that these light curtains connected the world outside the Bailiu Sect's secret realm. To be precise, they connected some secret strongholds of the Bailiu Sect.
If someone pays a lot of money to ask the disciples of the Star Observation Tower to do fortune-telling, they can communicate with this light curtain through those strongholds, and then the disciples on the first floor can do fortune-telling remotely and work from home, which is quite humane.
However, due to the limited strength of the disciples on the first floor, they can only calculate evil and good, and they can only withstand the backlash of mortals, so they basically face ordinary people.
If you want to help practitioners seek good fortune and avoid misfortune, or learn more advanced deduction techniques that can calculate specific matters, you must be a higher-level disciple.
Listening to the other party's words, Jiang Lu began to think about the possibility of asking the people in the Star Observation Tower to help him deduce the location of the clone. But thinking about it carefully, I am afraid that this level of backlash would have to be destroyed by a thunderbolt, let alone the integration period. Come down and chop him to death on the spot.
So he retreated to the next best thing and asked about matters related to sacrifices.
"Senior brother, I have always been curious, how did our sect communicate with Baiyi Laomu, and what is the core of the sacrifice?"
"Is it the core of sacrifice?" The other party thought for a while: "The core is sincerity. Wherever sincerity reaches, gold and stone will open."
"Uh..." Jiang Lu explained: "No, I mean, the key items for sacrifice or something like that."
"Oh, you mean this." The other party suddenly realized: "As for the key item... it is probably the portrait of the Mother of Hundred Arts. The whole charm of the Mother of Hundred Arts is contained in it. Seeing this painting is no different from seeing the real Mother of Hundred Arts."
"So that means that the most important thing in sacrifice is the items related to the person being sacrificed, right?"
"I can't say that, but of course it would be best if there are any. The closer the object is to the person being sacrificed, the easier it is for the voice of the sacrifice to be heard by the deity. And the most important thing is that each object of sacrifice is Unique sacrificial inscriptions, this is the key point.”
The other party explained patiently: "Without the items, the sacrifice may be successful, but without the ritual text, everything is in vain."
"That's it..."
Jiang Lu was a little disappointed.
Although he figured out that the key point was the sacrificial inscription, how did he know what his sacrificial inscription was?
Thinking of this, Jiang Lu asked again:
"Speaking of which, besides Baiyi Old Mother, are there no other immortals in the underworld?"
"This really exists!"
Hearing this question, the other party suddenly said excitedly:
"I have heard of a legend that the portrait of Baiyi Laomu seems to have come from the handwriting of a being above it, so her charm can be recorded.
If it were anyone under the immortal, not to mention recording her charm, just facing her would be pressured from the soul. This is the gap between humans and immortals. "
"Oh?" Jiang Lu suddenly saw a glimmer of hope: "Then that existence is..."
"I don't know." The other party shook his head: "I've already said it's a legend. It's hard to tell whether a legend is true or not, let alone who that existence is."
After a pause, he changed the topic again: "However, everyone said that that existence is the master of the underworld. After all, except for this kind of existence, no one can make Baiyi's mother willing to paint that kind of painting."
"That kind of painting? What painting?" Jiang Lu was a little curious.
The other party looked around and whispered: "Let's talk first. Although everyone knows this legend, no one has actually seen it. Don't say that I told you."
"Understand."