Chapter 10: The Eye
Of course, Shen Chengping couldn't stay by his side all the time, he just instructed him for five days, and then explained that he would check his progress in sword practice every month, and then rushed back to Shangying and quietly returned to his mansion.
Shen Chengping had already explained that he would not be disturbed, and once something went wrong, there would be a problem with the wine given to King Chu Ling, so although some people came to visit these days and wanted to have a relationship with Shen Chengping, a newly favored person, they did not dare to disturb after knowing the situation, for fear that Shen Chengping would not make good wine and be angered by King Chu Ling.
This time, Shen Chengping actually brewed a total of twenty large altars of wine, but he only took out five altars and prepared them to be handed over to King Chu Ling, and the other fifteen altars were all included in the space where the Divine Bead was located.
Since practicing the Xuanxin Mystic Method for five years, Shen Chengping has gradually become more and more clear about the perception of the divine bead in his body, especially last year, as the Yuan Shen cultivation broke through a realm, Shen Chengping found that he had been able to sense the existence of the Divine Bead with the Yuan Shen, especially after he sensed the Divine Bead, he also found that the Divine Bead was a space of its own, although it was gray but it seemed to be boundless, Shen Chengping later tried to put things into it, only to find that this Divine Bead can not only take himself through time and space, but also have the wonderful use of storage, Before, his Yuan Shen cultivation was insufficient, so he couldn't use it at all, but now he didn't have to worry about the storage of items, otherwise he wouldn't be able to leave the village with just one baggage.
Shen Chengping guessed that the Shenzhu must have more uses, but his own cultivation was insufficient, so it was not enough to give full play to the magic of the Shenzhu, he had tried many times, but his Yuan Shen, and even couldn't drive the Shenzhu to make the slightest movement, at most it made the Shenzhu tremble slightly, and in the end, he could only wait for his cultivation to improve a greater before trying.
On the second day after returning to Shangying, Shen Chengping dedicated the five jars of wine to King Chu Ling, and King Chu Ling was overjoyed to hold a banquet to entertain everyone with these fine wines, how did these people resist the temptation of highly distilled liquor, and because it was the first time to drink this wine, they were all drunk without drinking much, and they were also obsessed after waking up, so the reputation of this wine brewed by Shen Chengping soon spread in the upper echelons of Chu State.
Of course, what followed was the order of King Chu Ling to ask Shen Chengping to brew more fine wine, in this case, Shen Chengping could only 'helplessly' continue to make wine behind closed doors, and said that he would definitely brew ten jars of fine wine at a time this time.
Of course, when all the nobles in Shangying were looking forward to the fine wine made by Shen Chengping, Shen Chengping was not in a hurry to make wine in the backyard, but held a wood carving in one hand and a jade carving knife in the other, constantly carving, and finally, a wood carving the size of a grasshopper gradually took shape, and on the desk in front of Shen Chengping, there were three identical wood carvings.
"Alright, that's it!" After carving the last knife, Shen Chengping finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then picked up the four wood carvings one by one and examined them before he began to recite the incantation.
With the spell, a little blue shimmer appeared on the four targets, and after a while, it slowly converged, and then you could see that the four wood carvings began to move.
This is actually a puppet method, carving wood into various shapes, and then carving talismans on it, injecting mana with spells, and the carved puppets can be used to do some chores, and can also be used for fighting, but the four grasshopper-sized wooden carved puppets carved by Shen Chengping are for surveillance.
Now Xu Fu is looking for the woman of Feng Ming's destiny, and has not yet returned to Shangying, but Shen Chengping's main surveillance target is King Chu Ling and Xu Fu's mansion. This wood carving is extremely small, and Shen Chengping also deliberately added a spell, so that the wood carving can change color with the environment like a chameleon, making it easier to hide itself, so it is not difficult to sneak into the palace or Xu Fu's mansion.
Infiltrating Xu Fu's mansion is to detect movements, this wood carving is like a modern surveillance, Shen Chengping only needs to cooperate with a water mirror technique, you can see what you want to see with the help of wood carving, which is much more hidden than directly using spells to view, and it is not easy to be discovered.
Taking advantage of Xu Fu's absence in the mansion, there are only a few boys and some slaves in his mansion, and it is even more difficult for the wood carving to sneak in, but the purpose of monitoring King Chu Ling is to keep abreast of the situation of King Chu Ling, as well as those places in Zhang Huatai that are not allowed to enter, Shen Chengping also wants to investigate to determine whether the real situation is really as he thinks.
For his own mansion, Shen Chengping did not add any occult guards, because a person who only made wine in the eyes of outsiders suddenly became a monk who knew occult arts, this alone was enough to arouse suspicion, he hadn't attracted too much attention before, but now he can only go out as much as possible and stay in the mansion more, and these wood carvings are his own eyes.
The infiltration of the wood carving was very smooth, there was only a simple induction formation set up outside Xu Fu's mansion, but the backyard that was really important was a heavy guard formation, as long as it was slightly alarmed, it would be detected by Xu Fu, and even the two boys in Xu Fu's mansion were not allowed to enter the backyard, and they only took care of some medicinal materials for him every day.
"Tut-tut...... This formation is layer after layer, if it is a monk, it is really not easy to sneak in quietly! In the room in the backyard, Shen Chengping looked at the scene that appeared in the basin of water, and said in his heart: "Xu Fu, this guy is simply paranoia of persecution, and the idle monks will not set up so many means of guarding, it seems that this guy is an extremely cautious guy!" ”
Manipulating the wood carving and bypassing a mystic trap, the wood carving finally came to the Dan room in the backyard, the path of Fang Shi's cultivation is similar to that of the Taoist, there are talismans, alchemy, formations, refining weapons, royal beasts, puppets, etc., Xu Yong has a wide range of knowledge, but the best thing is the pill and the formation, Xu Fu, as Xu Yong's disciple, is naturally also good at alchemy, and this Dan room is also the most likely place to hide important things, which is also the psychology of people, Shen Chengping hopes that he can have a good discovery in the Dan room.
"Well, the Nourishing Pill, the Qi Pill...... Yo, this is the Ambergris Pill, Xu Fu can actually refine it, I want to refine this Ambergris Pill reluctantly, and the mana consumed is a large number, it seems that Xu Fu's cultivation is still much better than what the master said before! Looking at the pills on the shelves where the pills were placed, Shen Chengping thought in his heart.
The refining of ambergris pill requires ambergris, and in the process of refining, it needs to be used for eighteen days to urge the Xuanhuo with mana, adding a full two hundred kinds of auxiliary medicinal materials, and the slightest mistake will be wasted, and the mana consumed and the original spirit are not a small amount, Shen Chengping tried to refine it a year ago, but failed because of the lack of mana, looking at the ambergris pill, Shen Chengping knew that Xu Fu's mana was mostly above himself.