Qin Hao sat cross-legged on the futon, and there was a faint white mist floating beside her.

After a long time, she exhaled a breath of turbidity, opened her eyes, and the white mist melted into her skin like water vapor.

Foundation building period, early stage.

After returning from the no-man's land, Qin Hao's slow cultivation speed for many years suddenly seemed to have been opened, and in less than ten days, he directly cultivated from the seventh layer of the Qi Refining Period to the Foundation Building Period.

But since she entered the foundation building period, her cultivation speed has slowed down again for some reason, even slower than when she was in the Qi refining period. Even if she was cultivating every moment of the day now, she couldn't feel the obvious increase in spiritual power.

Qin Hao had long been accustomed to this feeling, so she was not too disappointed.

For her, it is already an unexpected joy to have a foundation building period now. And since this kind of thing can happen once, it may not happen again in the future, so there is no need to be anxious now.

Qin Zhen stood up and walked out of his room.

It was still dawn, but there were already bursts of sword training outside, and from time to time the sound of Ye Yousheng pointing was mixed here, which sounded exceptionally harmonious.

After going out, I walked out a few dozen steps to the courtyard where I cultivated.

Ye Yousheng is practicing swords with five children.

The five children stood apart, each with a wooden sword in his hand, wielding it awkwardly as the sword book taught. Ye Yousheng passed by them one by one, observing whether their movements were standard, and if he found something wrong, he reminded them loudly.

These five children are all the disciples recruited by Tianyi Sect this time.

Except for Kong Mingshan from Xinzhao Village, the other four children were all found by Qin Zhen from Liuxi Village, a total of five people, three boys and two girls.

Although there are no particularly outstanding qualifications, fortunately, they are not particularly bad, and they are enough, and if nothing else, they can also meet Qin Zhen's psychological expectations.

And the teleportation array operated by Qiu Sixian can be regarded as a little improved, a few days ago, Qin Zhen received the first income from Qiu Sixian, not counting the payment with the magic weapon, the light spirit stone earned 600,000.

In just a few days, such a secret business can have an income of 600,000 pure spirit stones, which shows how lucrative the teleportation array business is.

As for where Qiu Sixian relied on the teleportation array she opened up and set up the teleportation array that he was doing business with, Qin Zhen didn't ask.

He and Cao Lingyan can come from Yuanzhou to settle in Xingzhou, and they can also have spirit stones to buy the title deed to do business, and they will not be ordinary monks if they are not found by the Six Dao Alliance.

Although the people who help make money cannot be trusted, the money in hand is real.

With this money, Qin Zhen repaired the sect and prepared all the items needed for the new disciples, and the rest was temporarily saved.

As for those magic weapons, there are four in total, and they are all still intact and have not been damaged. After Qin Zhen finished inspecting, he first asked Ye Yousheng and Heng Mingzhi to pick one each, and the others were put into the warehouse first, and then they would make plans later.

At present, Tianyizong has barely gotten rid of the situation of poverty, but if it wants to develop further, it must not stop like this.

Now only the treasury, the disciples' dormitories and the cultivation grounds have been renovated.

In the future, if there are enough spirit stones, Qin Zhen also plans to rearrange the alchemy room and the refining room, and the five children who are interested in these in the future can choose their favorite to learn.

However, now they have only just stepped into this threshold, and they are still at the level of the Qi refining period, so the future will not be considered until a long time later.

Ye Yousheng saw Qin Hao coming out and wanted to go over to say hello to her, but he was still teaching and couldn't leave casually, so he could only look at Qin Zhen pitifully.

Qin Hao winked at him, then easily turned around and left him and walked towards the council hall.

Ye Yousheng also successfully built the foundation the day after she built the foundation, and excitedly offered to teach the newly recruited disciples to share Qin Zhen's worries.

He thought back to how Qin Wenlin had taught him before, and how he taught them now. But it didn't take long for him to discover that the same teaching methods didn't work all the time.

Although the children are still young, they have lived and grown up in the confines of a village since birth, and have little knowledge of the outside world.

For example, the four children in Liuxi Village, they had learned the Qi induction method taught by Qin Zhen in advance, but because they were not very literate, they didn't understand anything at all when they read books and practiced by themselves at the beginning.

So after Qin Zhen discussed with Ye Yousheng and Heng Mingzhi, the three of them divided labor.

Heng Mingzhi is responsible for teaching several children to read and write, and to recognize some basic medicinal materials and ores. Ye Yousheng needed to verbally repeat the content of the sword book, and then correct and guide them when they practiced. As for Qin Hao, because she still needed to worry about other questions about the sect, she only had to occasionally answer the children's questions about spiritual power cultivation.

In the conference hall, Heng Mingzhi was already waiting for her inside.

Qin Zhen walked over: "Why did you come so early today?" ”

Heng Mingzhi was not angry: "Don't say it, if I just live in Tianyi Sect, it's too torturous to always go up and down the mountain like this." ”

"I'm okay with that." Qin Hao walked over to him and sat down, "If you want to officially join the Tianyi Sect, it's no problem. ”

"Don't, I'll do it now. You see how rare it is to practice now, and it will be more marketable for me to go out to treat people with this identity in the future, if I become a disciple of the sect, then these benefits will be gone. Heng Mingzhi waved his hand.

"Whatever you want." Qin Zhen opened the ledger in front of him and looked at it.

I had also mentioned this issue to Heng Mingzhi before, but he used this reason to prevaricate. Heng Mingzhi was reluctant to officially join the Tianyi Sect, but he was willing to help with anything in the Tianyi Sect, so Qin Zhen didn't know what he was thinking.

But no matter what, after all, it was Heng Mingzhi's own idea, and Qin Zhen still respected it and didn't interfere.

"When I went out a few days ago, I took the talisman and pill you refined, and sold some spirit stones in a small town in Xingzhou." Heng Mingzhi said and pushed a small bag to Qin Hao, "I think you can also broaden your new ideas for making money, you can use the money earned from the teleportation array to buy more materials, and then make talismans and pills to sell." If you're willing to refine...... Well, when I didn't say. ”

"Well, that's a good idea." Qin Zhen glanced at him, "But my cultivation is low now, and I can't make very high-grade talismans and pills, even if I sell them, I can only rely on quantity rather than quality, and I am only one person." ”

"Didn't you just recruit five new disciples? You can teach them to learn these things first, and let them make money for you. Heng Mingzhi's words were amazing.

Qin Zhenqu knocked on the bookcase, pulling Heng Mingzhi back to reality from this unrealistic fantasy: "You wake up." Not to mention what they need to achieve at their speed to achieve stable refining, the materials required in this process are also immeasurable. Moreover, we are a regular sect, not a black workshop that employs underage laborers, can you pay attention to the image of the sect. ”

"Okay, okay, it's my mistake." Heng Mingzhi raised his hands to admit his mistake.

"What else did you do when you came up the mountain this time?" Qin Zhen asked.

"I don't have many medicinal materials, and it was supposed to be time to go out to collect medicine after a while, but now I can't get out here, so I can only put it on hold for the time being." Heng Mingzhi spread his hands, "Ye Yousheng is not going to leave for Yangping City to continue the competition in a few days, and then he will have to help come back with the medicinal herbs." ”

"This kind of trivial matter, you just tell him no?" Qin Zhen glanced at him.

Heng Mingzhi had a bitter face: "He has been asking me to help him work recently, and I finally got rid of him, but don't let me run into him again." ”

"Okay." Qin Zhen was a little helpless, "I'll help you out." ”

"By the way, if Ye Yousheng goes to Yangping City, do you still want to go over?" Heng Mingzhi asked.

Qin Zhen shook his head: "Ah Sheng has also built a foundation, at least he can protect himself by going to Yangping City alone, and I still have a lot of things to do, so I won't go with him first." ”

Heng Mingzhi looked a little relieved: "It's good that you are like this earlier, don't always treat Ye Yousheng as a child, there are some things that should be done by him, so he has to let him do it himself." ”

"Hmm......" Qin Hao answered softly.

Heng Mingzhi sensed that something was wrong, frowned and asked, "Is something wrong?" ”

Qin Hao sighed, and still told Heng Mingzhi about Ye Yousheng's poisoning when he was competing with Shen Yingyao, and explained all the antecedents.

"......" Heng Mingzhi had an expression of disbelief.

The two were silent for a while, and then Heng Mingzhi said with difficulty: "Actually...... I can't blame you for this, you didn't want to harm him at the beginning, just to monitor Shen Yingyao's movements, how can this be blamed on you? ”

"If Ah Sheng hadn't stayed in Tianyi Sect and hadn't stayed by my side, then he wouldn't have gone through this." Qin Hao was a little stubborn on this issue, "Maybe it's right that you don't join the Tianyi Sect, after all, I don't have the ability to protect you now." ”

“…… Don't be so pessimistic all the time, okay? Heng Mingzhi continued to persuade, "What you are doing now, what you are working hard, isn't it just for the best direction in the future?" Now that you can see the results, you should be more confident. This time Ye Yousheng's poisoning was just an accident, you have to blame, you should blame the people who targeted Tianyi Sect, not you, the original victim. ”

Qin Zhen let out a long breath: "You let me think again." ”

Heng Mingzhi knew her character, so he didn't continue to dwell on this topic: "What you said last time, the theft of the Qianyuan Sect's Treasure Pavilion, is there any follow-up?" ”

"Nope." Qin Zhen said, "I estimate that Qianyuanzong has no losses at all, just to make the battle bigger and cover up some other things." Otherwise, with Shen Qifeng's personality, he loves face so much, who made him suffer such a big loss, how could he just give up. Only if he picks things up on his own is the most likely. ”

"He should have figured out that even if I have a motive to commit the crime, I can't have the time and ability to commit the crime, and in the end, he still has to find an opportunity to quietly check the sect again."

"But by that time, Shen Hezheng had already cleaned up all the clues."

Heng Mingzhi's eyes flashed: "Do you think Shen He is colluding with forces in other states?" ”

"There's no one else but him." Qin Zhen frowned, "It's just that how did he know that people from outside the state were going to attack Qianyuan Sect, and he could still contact them?" How can people outside the state believe that Shen Qifeng's son will harm Qianyuanzong? Where did they come from? ”

“…… These questions are probably clear only to them. Otherwise, according to your thinking here, you have to find a person from Xingzhou who not only knows the inside story of the relationship between Qianyuanzong's father and son, but also has a relationship with forces outside the state, so that Shen Hezheng can collude with forces outside the state. Heng Mingzhi interrupted Qin Zhen's thoughts.

"Hmm." Qin Zhen also knew that this was the truth, so she had to stop thinking about this problem.

"Senior sister!"

In the distance, Ye Yousheng's voice came.