The cloaked woman seemed to know what he was thinking, and nodded slightly.

Fang Yan was stunned, then shook his head with a smile. At the age of a teenager, I can't think of this, and it's understandable.

"Childe, do you really think we shouldn't keep a low profile?" The cloaked woman was clearly still thinking about what the tongue had said earlier.

"You are the master of the Green Bamboo Pavilion." Fang Yan smiled bitterly.

"I want to know Childe's opinion." The cloaked woman looked straight at him.

"Before that, I want to know, since the Spirit Hall has seniors whose strength has reached the strength of the late stage of the True Realm, it stands to reason that even if your master is here, they have enough strength to be able to annex you, why haven't they made a move." Fang Yan wondered, "Not only you, but even other forces that didn't have the True Realm to sit in the formation, they could easily annex it, why didn't they make a move?" ”

"That's because the predecessors of the True Realm can only protect their own forces, and they are not allowed to meddle in the power struggle on the island." The woman in the cloak explained: "This is the rule set by the Star Palace, for fear that these forces will annex the other small forces on the island like them, and occupy an island to compete with them. ”

"I see." The dialect suddenly realized, and the secret path of this star palace is really not simple.

"In this way, as long as the strength below the True Realm is lower, they can devour other forces by any means?"

"Yes." The cloaked woman nodded, "However, the forces on this island, except for the Spirit Hall and the Qingzhu Pavilion, are all evenly matched, and no one will do such a thing for the time being." ”

"What about the Spirit Temple?" Fang Yan asked.

"Although the Spirit Hall has the ability to annex other forces, other forces have long recognized this, and they have all secretly formed a temporary alliance, once there is any disturbance in the Spirit Temple, other forces will unite to resist. And the Spirit Hall also knew this, so it didn't dare to make any moves. ”

"Is Qingzhu Pavilion in these alliances?"

"Yes." The cloaked woman nodded, "But even if it's here, it's only the existence at the bottom." Moreover, this alliance is only against the Spirit Temple, which does not mean that these forces will no longer have ill intentions towards Qingzhu Pavilion. ”

Fang Yan nodded thoughtfully, and after thinking about it slightly, he said, "I don't know the situation on Linglong Island, but I know that blindly forbearance will only make people look down on it. If you want other forces to respect Qingzhu Pavilion and be afraid of Qingzhu Pavilion, it will obviously not work to tolerate it. ”

The woman in the cloak nodded silently, with a deep expression on her face, and did not say anything more.

Fang Yan didn't say anything more, but he didn't leave it either, after all, he still had a lot of things to sort out from her. Since he was barely a member of the Qingzhu Pavilion now, presumably she wouldn't mind answering him a few more questions.

After a while, the cloaked woman let out a long breath, her eyes suddenly became much clearer, as if she had made a decision.

"Childe, this is the jade plate of Qingzhu Pavilion, with this jade plate, Childe can enter and leave Linglong Island freely." As soon as the cloaked woman's palm flipped, a small emerald green jade plaque appeared in her hand, "Later, I will release the news that there is one more elder in Qingzhu Pavilion, and in addition, I will arrange a vigorous cave mansion in Qingzhu Pavilion for Gongzi to cultivate." ”

Fang Yan naturally didn't have any opinions, and reached out to take the jade plate.

Thinking that she had promised Fang Yan to give him 500 intermediate yuan stones every month, the cloak woman took out another bag of yuan stones and handed it over.

"Childe, here are three thousand yuan stones, as Childe's reward for the next six months."

Fang Yan was stunned at first, but he was not hypocritical, and he also reached out to take it.

"Xiaoying, Xiaomei." The cloaked woman suddenly called softly.

"Pavilion Master." The two thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls from earlier walked in quickly.

"Childe, these two maids have always been my personal maids, let them serve you in the future." The cloaked woman pointed at the two men.

"Huh?" Fang Yan was stunned for a moment, then quickly waved his hand and said, "No need, I like to be quiet, and I don't need others to serve." ”

"Are you sure?" The woman in the cloak looked at him with a smile.

Dialect nodded affirmatively. Do you want others to serve him? He hasn't been pretentious to that point. Besides, he has a lot of secrets on him, and if someone is around him, he may accidentally leak them.

The woman in the cloak didn't insist anymore, and waved her hand, and the two teenagers quickly retreated.

"How big is Qingzhu Pavilion's sphere of influence?" Fang Yan suddenly asked, since he was already the nominal elder of Qingzhu Pavilion, and he had received so many benefits from the other party, if he didn't have some understanding of this force, it seemed a little unreasonable.

"These seven or eight mountains that Childe can see are the sphere of influence of Qingzhu Pavilion." The woman in the cloak pointed to a few peaks outside the cave.

Fang Yan glanced out, and said, "How many disciples are there in Qingzhu Pavilion?" What are the strengths? ”

Hearing this, the cloak woman sighed lightly and said, "There are nearly two hundred disciples in the Qingzhu Pavilion, of which seventeen are the strength of the Soul Condensing Realm, and the other disciples are all only the strength of the Yuan Qi Stage. ”

"What?" Fang Yan was taken aback, "Only less than two hundred disciples? ”

He originally thought that there were hundreds of thousands of people in this Qingzhu Pavilion, but he didn't expect that they actually only had less than two hundred disciples, and more importantly, they only had seventeen disciples of the Soul Condensing Realm. In this way, this force is really not ordinary weak. It's no wonder she's trying her best to win herself over.

"Childe may not know that Qingzhu Pavilion has not recruited disciples for five years." Looking at Fang Yan's surprised expression, the woman in the cloak couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Haven't recruited disciples for five years?" Fang Yan raised his eyebrows, "Why?" ”

"Strength." The woman in the cloak said quietly, "The strength of the Qingzhu Pavilion. ”

The dialect is a little puzzled.

"With the current strength of Qingzhu Pavilion, some people with outstanding qualifications will not choose it again." The cloak woman sighed lightly and said, "Most of the people who will choose to join the Qingzhu Pavilion at this time are some people with poor qualifications, and the reason why they choose the Qingzhu Pavilion is that more than ninety percent of them just want to get a free ticket to Linglong Island." ”

"So, you just don't recruit new disciples at all?"

The cloak woman nodded and said, "Coupled with the fact that some of the assets of the Qingzhu Pavilion are not operating well, I don't have too many resources to absorb more disciples. ”

Fang Yanwan shook his head with a smile and said, "This is the consequence of your blind tolerance. If you can be stronger, Qingzhu Pavilion will definitely not be what it is now. ”

The woman in the cloak smiled bitterly, but didn't explain anything.

"Why are there only seventeen disciples of the Soul Condensing Realm in the door?" Fang Yan wondered, "Is there no Soul Condensing Pill or a disciple who has not met the conditions?" ”

"Both." The cloaked woman's face was a little embarrassed, "The lack of Soul Condensing Pill is one of them, and the other reason is also because there are no disciples who meet the conditions. ”

"Aren't there more than a hundred disciples who have reached the promotion requirements?" Fang Yan looked skeptical.

"Naturally, there are, but very few." The cloak woman shook her head and said, "Among the more than 100 disciples, there are only less than thirty percent of them who really have a chance to advance. And these thirty percent of the disciples were all recruited in the year when the master first left, and when they were recruited, they were only seven or eight years old, and they had just begun to cultivate. ”

"What about the others?"

"Most of the others have already taken a Soul Condensing Pill, but they haven't been able to advance due to their own reasons, and I can't help it. Because the Soul Condensation Pill is very limited, it is impossible for us to give more than two Soul Condensing Pills to the same person, unless I can see that she is really absolutely sure that she can advance. ”

Fang Yan chuckled, shook his head helplessly, and said, "How many Soul Condensing Pills do you still have now?" ”

"A dozen." The cloaked woman replied a little helplessly.

"Dozen?" Fang Yan smiled bitterly, in this way, the days of this Qingzhu Pavilion are really a little bleak.

"Childe, I'll take you to choose a cave first." The cloaked woman said suddenly.

"There's no hurry." Fang Yan waved his hand and said, "I want to ask, in the place where I have advanced, why is there a formation there?" ”

"Naturally, it's to protect the people who are cultivating there." The woman in the cloak looked at him with some puzzlement, as if she wondered why he was asking this.

"After all, it is very likely that the people who cultivate there will have people in the Yuan Qi stage, and for their safety, a simple formation has been laid out." The cloak woman said, "After all, those people spent a certain amount of Yuan Shi cultivating there. Moreover, the vast majority of the people who cultivated there were families with a little bit of power on this island. ”

"I want to know where those formations came from." The dialect finally asked the question that was most important to him.

"It was developed by the formation master." The cloaked woman replied a little dazedly.

"Formation Master?" Fang Yan's heart jumped, "You mean, there is also a formation master in the Qingzhu Pavilion?" ”

"Naturally." The cloaked woman looked at him with some puzzlement, "Childe should also know that due to the problem of resources in this sea area, it is almost impossible for people living on other affiliated islands to cultivate. It is precisely because of this that some people want to rely on other ways to survive, and the formation master is the survival test that most people choose in this sea area. The main reason for this is because the formation arranged by the formation master can protect himself. ”

Fang Yan was overjoyed and said hurriedly: "So, there are many formation divisions on this island?" ”

"Nope." The cloaked woman shook her head, "Childe may not know that it is not easy to become a formation master. The talent required is no less than cultivation. Therefore, Rao has many people who learn formations, but there are very few people who can really achieve something, and most people can't successfully arrange a formation after learning for several years. ”