On the back of the longevity lock, there is an inconspicuous protrusion, and if you look closely, you will know that this bulge came from the bead last night, but now it is inlaid into this longevity lock, and only a small part is exposed.

Nowadays, even high-ranking monks find it difficult to perceive the secret of the bead, because there is only one place on the surface of the bead to probe the space inside the bead, and this position is only the size of a sesame seed.

Only when the spiritual power falls directly on this point can the space inside the bead be discovered, otherwise it will not be possible to enter it at all. Even if you check the other positions of the beads and then explore this particular location, you will not discover the secrets of the beads.

And Xiao An deliberately chose this silver lock for his purpose, because gold and silver are one of the best materials for conducting spiritual power, if someone uses spiritual power to check this silver lock, the spiritual power will be transmitted to the beads along the silver lock, so that no matter how carefully the other party checks, they will not find the secret of the beads.

In the space inside the beads, the spirit stones that Xiao An got last night were neatly stacked, and next to the spirit stones was the pile of "Wind Refining Copper" materials.

Xiao An thought for a while, then took out a few spirit stones and wind refining copper materials from the space of the beads, and put them into his storage bag.

Storage bags only take effect when they come into contact with the stored items, and the same is true when they are released. However, this bead can be used to store and take out items within a radius of one zhang at will, without the need to stick the space bead on the surface of the object.

Xiao An held the silver lock in his hand and played with it for a while, before wrapping the spirit silk around the necklace and fixing it tightly with the longevity lock.

"In the future, I'll call you "Space Bead". After Xiao An named the bead, he put it back on his neck.

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Time flies, and two years have passed in a blink of an eye.

After Lingyue's distress, the sect carried out rectification activities for more than half a year, which made Zheng Qian and others a lot more honest, and they never looked for trouble with Xiao An again.

And in the past two years, Xiao An and Lingyue have only nodded their heads, so plain that Xiao An forgot that he had saved his life.

Now Xiao An is still the caretaker on the first floor of the Library Pavilion, not that Xiao An has no chance to take on other tasks, but Xiao An feels that this task is the most suitable for him.

The first is that this task is only two hours a day and will not affect one's cultivation and study of talismans.

Secondly, there is a lot of information in these books that introduce the strange things in the cultivation world, which is not only interesting but also can increase the understanding of the cultivation world.

The last reason is that there are three days off every month, and Xiao An spends all this time looking for the secrets of the map.

Since discovering the map, Xiao An has not relaxed his search for the location marked on the map. In the past year, Xiao An found a lot of maps, and after careful comparison, a total of more than a dozen places were very similar to the terrain marked on the map.

Every month when he was off, Xiao An would go to these places to look for it, and after a year, he didn't find anything.

Every time I went to the place I was looking for, I found that there was a big difference between the actual terrain and the labels on the map. Even so, Xiao An also checked carefully, but every time he was disappointed.

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On the first floor of the library pavilion, the lights are still brilliant, and monks come in and leave from time to time.

Xiao An was holding a map in his hand, which marked a location, but this location was too far away from his sect, and it would take five or six days to travel back and forth alone, and if you count the time he was looking for, it would take seven or eight days.

Just as Xiao An was thinking about when to go around this place, a monk came straight to Xiao An. The monk came empty-handed, not to return the books.

"This junior brother, can you use your precious land to release a message?" The senior brother did not go around in circles, and directly explained his intention.

Looking at the senior brother in front of him, Xiao An was a little stunned, the person in front of him was the one who spoke out to relieve himself when he was beaten by Zheng Qian and others last year. It's just that he was beaten and his face was covered with blood, and this senior brother didn't recognize him, but he remembered the appearance of this senior brother.

Xiao An, who reacted, quickly got up and took out a stool from the side. After letting the senior brother sit down, he began to understand the specific requirements of this senior brother.

It turned out that it would be time for the internal competition of the sect in two months, and this senior brother was planning to ask the disciples of the outer sect to help him buy some medicinal herbs, and wanted to post this information in a conspicuous position on the first floor of the library pavilion.

The internal competition of the sect mentioned by this senior brother is that in order to motivate and monitor the cultivation progress of the disciples, this competition is held every three years.

This kind of competition is divided into two groups: sect disciples and apprentice disciples, although the competition items are the same, there is no competition between the two.

The content of the competition is not a fighting method, but is divided into "refining, talismans, and alchemy", and I heard that a "formation" will be added this year.

Each competition is divided into two parts, and the ranking of the competition is based on the evaluation of these two parts, and the top few in each group have rich rewards.

One part is that the sect prepares the materials and specifies the types of items that the disciples refine, and the other part is that the disciples prepare the materials themselves, and the sect evaluates them according to the difficulty of the disciples refining the items, the refining results, and other information.

The items refined by the former belong to the sect, and the items refined by the latter belong to the refiner, and will be returned to the refiner after the evaluation is completed.

These rewards not only include items that are cashed out on the spot, but also affect all aspects of the disciple's presence in the sect. For example, when buying materials from the sect, you can enjoy different discounts, and even the use of the sect's "alchemy room" and "refining room" have discounts.

And the most attractive reward is the promotion of disciples.

The top three in each item of the sect's disciple competition can choose their own teacher, which means that the disciple can choose a foundation building monk as his master.

In the Cangyue faction, it is the foundation building period monks who select their disciples, and the only chance for the disciples to choose their masters is to become the top three in the sect's disciple project competition in the competition.

The top three apprentices can enjoy the treatment of true disciples for three years.

The spirit stones and sect contribution points that true disciples need to pay to buy items from the sect are very low, about one-third of the apprenticeship disciples, which means that the top three apprentices can exchange the spirit stones and contribution points on hand for three times the previous materials.

Contribution value is an indispensable means for the sect to maintain a healthy development system.

After the monk undertakes the task of the sect, the sect will not only reward spirit stones, but also give a certain contribution value according to the completion of the task.

Moreover, the remuneration of many tasks will be lower than the normal market, but many disciples are very fond of undertaking such tasks, because such tasks can get a slightly higher contribution value of the sect.

Because to buy items from the sect, you not only need to pay spirit stones, but also need to pay a certain contribution value.

In particular, there are many items in the treasury of the sect that are rarely found in the outside world, and the selling price of these items is comparable to that of the outside market. However, if a disciple buys from outside, it may take days or even months to encounter it, while buying from a sect can be obtained immediately.

At this time, the disciple not only needs to pay spirit stones, but also needs to pay a certain contribution value. This prevents some well-established monks from only taking from the sect and not giving.