The reason why Meng Zhou had such doubts in his heart was not just because of this detail itself.

In fact, Meng Zhou has always had a layer of doubts lingering in his heart.

About the world itself.

For cultivators in the Five Realms, the heaven and earth within a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles were already vast enough.

For the vast majority of them, it is difficult to fully explore even a single domain in their lifetime.

They don't have the heart to pay attention to the worlds further afield, beyond their ability to know.

Therefore, it is natural that they are accustomed to the cognition of the five domains.

What is Beyond the Five Domains?

What's there?

Few people think about it, and even fewer people care.

But for Meng Zhou, who has experience in his previous life, this overly clear demarcation between "knowable" and "unknowable" gave him the greatest sense of disobedience.

It's hard for him not to think about a question -

What is Beyond the Five Domains? What's there?

The first person to help him expand his horizons beyond the Five Domains was Yan Zhuang.

Meng Zhou not only knew about the Sea of Stars that existed outside the Five Domains, but could crush the Five Domains in all aspects.

He also confirmed from Yan Zhuang's memories that there was indeed a greater world beyond the Five Domains.

It's a pity that before Yan Zhuang built the foundation, when his behavior was still completely self-controlled, his knowledge and vision were very narrow, and except for some information about the Star Sea, there was no harvest that Meng Zhou expected;

After he achieved the foundation, his fate was completely controlled by an invisible hand, and his thinking and vision did not improve with the increase in strength.

Instead, it gradually distorted and paranoid, completely trapped in an extremely narrow range.

Meng Zhou also failed to solve the doubts about this world from his memory.

Meng Zhou always remembered this matter in his heart, and he never let go.

This time, taking advantage of this opportune moment, I finally rushed out from the depths of my heart.

It was clearly presented in his heart, so that he could no longer avoid it, and he had to face this problem.

With these in mind, Meng Zhou felt that his body and mind suddenly became a little heavier.

After returning to the Aurora Cave Mansion, Meng Zhou had already made his next plan clear.

All along, Meng Zhou's practice has been "self-oriented".

No matter how complicated the changes in the outside world are, he can "stay in a small building and become a unity", regardless of all changes and disputes in the outside world.

If there is no discovery today, Meng Zhou will most likely continue to follow this pattern.

But now, Meng Zhou realized that he had to make a change.

In the past, he didn't know this hidden secret, and he could still practice on his own.

But now—

"I've got to do something more proactively."

Thinking of this, Meng Zhou couldn't help but think of the suggestion he gave to Qingxuanzong through the mouth of "Song Yang".

At that time, he advised Qing Xuanzong that before making a choice, he must first distinguish between friend and foe, and then make a decision to deal with it.

Meng Zhou suddenly found that this was like a boomerang, which went around in circles outside, and finally returned to his hand.

- That set of principles applies to him now.

"Among the Five Domains, if there are still people who have an understanding of the true status quo of the Five Domains, it is likely to be none other than the Founding Patriarchs of the Qingxuan Five Elders and the Three Ancestors of the Soul Command."

"It is this group of people who are most anxious about this reality and have the most firmly hostile beliefs."

When Meng Zhou made these things clear in his heart, there was no need to do it deliberately, and some new plans had already emerged in his heart.

However, although there were new considerations in his heart, Meng Zhou did not take action immediately.

Instead, he once again sank all his mind and devoted himself to his cultivation, as if he had never made this unexpected discovery.

In the blink of an eye, the time has come to December.

The fifth day of December.

Repair to progress +330, 7650/10,000 on the fifth floor of Yudan;

Third-Order Spring Water Sutra +3300, Grandmaster 75,900/240,000;

Xuangui negative monument true skill +3300, grandmaster 64,200/240,000.

Shortly after the end of this routine retreat, Meng Zhou's mind suddenly moved, and he once again turned his attention back to the Ice Heart Blood Lotus clone that had stayed in Sanchuan Plateau.

According to the agreement he had reached with the Blue Blood Army and the Pharmacist Branch, he would come forward again in the middle of this month to treat a group of patients with traumatic souls.

Therefore, Meng Zhou already has a plan to temporarily return to Sanchuan Plateau in the middle of this month.

But just now, the Ice Heart Blood Lotus clone placed in Sanchuan Plateau received a summons from Gu Ruiming of the Pharmacist Branch and Yao Gu of the Blue Blood Sword.

They informed him about the same thing.

At that time, Xuan Lin, the deacon of Qingxuanzong, and many other high-ranking members of Qingxuanzong will attend.

Naturally, their purpose could not be simply to be curious about his wonderful medical skills for rejuvenation.

Although the two did not inform the true purpose of the group, Meng Zhou was not without a little guess in his heart.

Not to mention anything else, the Blue Blood Army, Qiandao Lake, and Wucai Ridge have obtained a large number of fake Dan-level spirit puppets from themselves many times in succession.

Even if the three parties consciously conceal it for him as agreed, but the scale is so large, this is no longer the extent that they can hide it if they want to.

Therefore, if Qingxuanzong came to him because of this matter, Meng Zhou would not feel strange at all.

You may even feel that its reaction speed is too slow - why are you here!

In addition, there is also the matter of elixir wine, and Qingxuanzong also knows some information.

It would not be strange if Qingxuanzong found him because of this matter.

In the midst of such nonsense, the time came to mid-December.

……

Mikawa Plateau.

The Bloodstain garrison.

Meng Zhou completely cured the last False Pill whose soul had been injured.

This time, the soul healing technique gained a total of 23,000 points of experience, making it further accumulate at the master level.

- Among them, the 140 Tsukiji injuries provide an average of 150 experience points each, and the 10 False Dan injuries provide an average of 200 experience points each.

"Soul Healing Master 30,000/120,000"

After those who recovered from their injuries were treated, they left the field in an orderly manner under the guidance of the special personnel of the Blue Blood Army, which was the usual practice in the past.

However, unlike the previous practice, from the time Meng Zhou began to diagnose and treat the first patient, there was a group of monks from the Qingxuan Sect who were silently watching.

Among them, the leader is the deacon hall master Xuanlin, that is, the one who gave a medicine master inheritance jade slip and Meng Zhou at the ninetieth anniversary of Qingxuanzong.

Because he had close contact with Meng Zhou, looking at Meng Zhou's smooth movements, Xuanlin's heart was particularly touched.

When Meng Zhou finished his diagnosis and treatment and came to meet them, Xuan Lin had already led a group of Qingxuanzong monks to take the initiative to greet them, and the smile on his face was even brighter and more sincere than when the two met for the first time.

As Meng Zhou expected, after a little greeting, Xuanlin took the initiative to introduce the fake Dan spirit puppet and the elixir wine.

But what surprised Meng Zhou was that although the other party used fake pill spirit puppets and elixir wine to lead the topic out, the foothold was elsewhere, not in the two themselves.

It needs to be mentioned that the 24,000 jars of elixir wine that Meng Zhou provided to the Pharmacist Branch, each jar was ten catties, a total of 240,000 catties.

The fact that it was sold out in such a short period of time was not only because of its excellent quality and perfect fit for the needs of many monks, but also because it was stuck at a good time.

At that time, the beast tide had not yet officially become a trend, but some forces that saw the opportunity quickly had already formed combat teams and piled up in a steady stream to the outer ring area.

During that special window period, compared to demon beasts, cultivators stood on the upper hand.

As a result, a large number of military contributions were born.

And at this stage, the main task of Qingxuanzong is nothing else, no matter how many results are achieved against the demon beasts, or how many team forces are brought in, it is not the point.

At that time, Qingxuanzong was most concerned about making the value of "military contributions", a thing created by him, widely recognized.

To do this, there is one core principle:

It can be exchanged for what can be bought with spirit stones, and it can also be exchanged for what cannot be bought with spirit stones.

The breadth of its application scenarios determines the value of "military contributions", and this is the core of Qingxuanzong's "grasping" of other forces.

In order to achieve this goal, Qingxuanzong not only opened up a large number of its own resources, but also allowed other monks to exchange them for military contributions.

At the same time, other forces that are ranked higher are also included in the system.

One of the key points is the entire professional association.

According to the agreement reached between the Professionals Association and Qingxuanzong, other forces can use military contributions to exchange various items for the Professionals Association.

Including but not limited to elixirs, magic weapons, talismans, formations, and the treatment of pharmacists, etc.

Therefore, don't look at the fact that since the outbreak of the demon beast plague, every branch of the Professional Association has been busy with their feet on the ground, but the spirit stones they have earned are really not much, and most of them exist in the form of military contributions.

Of course, Qingxuanzong would not be naïve enough to let other forces help Qingxuanzong to take care of it.

There is no doubt that the military contributions in the hands of the Professional Association are recognized by Qingxuanzong.

Moreover, Qingxuanzong also played a very flowery operation, the right to speak, respect, status and other illusory things, which can be quantified with military contributions.

According to the standards of Qingxuanzong, the more military contributions in the hands, the better the treatment in Qingxuanzong.

Pay more attention and have more right to speak......

Because Qingxuanzong has been strictly implementing this set of standards, there have even been many interesting conversations.

One of them said that as long as the military merits in his hands were enough to contribute, it was feasible to make Qingxuanzong lower his eyebrows and bend his waist in turn, and greet him with a smile.

Now, Meng Zhou has verified it with his own personal experience, and this is not an interesting talk.

It's true.

Attacking twice before and after, he diagnosed and treated those monks whose souls were injured, and the military contributions they harvested were converted into high-grade spirit stones, about 4,000.

For ordinary forces, this is already a huge amount of money equivalent to their entire net worth.

But for Meng Zhou, this is only a fraction.

A total of 240,000 catties of elixir wine brought a total of 80,000 high-grade spirit stones worth of military contributions to the Pharmacist Branch.

And that's just the benefits he created alone.

The entire Pharmacist Branch, all the Pharmacists, since the outbreak of the Demon Beast Plague, have begun to explode the liver cultivation.

Although they did not go to the front line, in terms of their contributions and military merits, they were no worse than any group.

It can be said that counting the entire Pharmacist Branch, including him, the president, the military contribution accumulated is equivalent to 150,000 top-grade spirit stones.

At this moment, in the face of the deacon's hall master's affection, which had exceeded the reasonable range, and the meaning of his words, Meng Zhou gradually came back to his senses.

The main purpose of their group is the following:

First, Xuan Lin hoped that Meng Zhou and the entire Pharmacist Branch would not exchange too many high-grade spirit stones.

As compensation, Qingxuanzong can open the top-level privileges to the Apothecary Branch.

He can use his military contributions to exchange for various top-level resources in Qingxuanzong.

Upper limit?

There is no upper limit.

As long as it is owned by Qingxuanzong and can be used for trading and exchange, just mention it!

Looking at Xuanlin's meaning, I wish he could exchange more high-end goods.

Second, Xuan Lin hoped that if possible, Meng Zhou would be able to come up with more elixir wine and items like fake pill spirit puppets.

As for why Meng Zhou was able to take out these things, Xuan Lin didn't care at all.

Or rather, it was too low on the list of matters he cared about, and it was not worth his time and effort.

However, in response to this matter, Xuanlin also made a "small" request.

If he can supply these two types of items on a large scale again, according to the guidance and suggestions of the Deacon Hall after a comprehensive evaluation, it is reasonable to double the price of both fake pill puppets and various types of elixir wine.

As for the current fake pill spirit puppet with one hundred and fifty top-grade spirit stones, one pound of first-order top-grade elixir wine only needs one thousand lower-grade spirit stones, which is completely charitable.

Perhaps, what Xuanlin really thinks in his heart is that his low-price dumping is destroying the entire market environment, right?

After some exchanges with Xuanlin, Meng Zhou can understand his current situation very well.

In other words, there are definitely not many people in this cultivation world who can understand his current situation better than himself.

And he must be one of the few.

When the demon beast tide that swept through the entire Qingxuan Outer Ring area broke out in full force, Qingxuanzong realized that although they had made a lot of preparations, they still underestimated the scale of the demon beast tide.

Interestingly, this did not pose any substantial threat to Qingxuanzong.

But for Xuan Lin, the deacon hall master who is in charge of the economic power of Qingxuanzong, it is a huge threat.

Qingxuanzong imitated some experiences within the sect and created something out of nothing, creating a "military meritorious contribution" covering the entire Qingxuan Domain.

This gave Qingxuanzong a lot of convenience, and with it as a starting point, Qingxuanzong easily did a lot of things.

But the current situation is that because of the insufficient estimation of the scale of the beast tide, the military contribution will be much more than Qingxuanzong originally expected.

There is already a tendency to overflow.

This is a huge challenge for Xuan Lin and the others, and they must try their best to digest this flood of military exploits.

On the one hand, they must take the initiative to guide the direction of the exchange of military merits for big customers such as Meng Zhou.

On the other hand, they have to cooperate with them to digest the military contributions on the market as soon as possible.

After thinking about Xuanlin's current predicament and his intentions, Meng Zhou's heart suddenly became clear. (End of chapter)