Chapter 37: The Hall of Return
The little black pig seems to be so happy forever, when he followed Shen Shi towards the sea viewing platform, he jumped and trotted all the way on the stone steps of the mountain road, and from time to time he drilled into the dense and verdant trees on both sides of the road, and he didn't know what he was doing sneaking inside, and after a while, he ran out with a humming and returned to Shen Shi's side, and occasionally rubbed a few times on him, which was very affectionate.
As they approached the viewing platform, the number of disciples of the Lingxiao Sect around them began to increase significantly, and when Shen Shi once again stood on this platform with seven huge pillars erected and a wide field of vision to overlook the boundless sea, he only felt that the sea breeze was blowing in his face, the sky was high and the sea was wide, and the heaven and earth were boundless.
In the square around the Guanhai Terrace, there are already many disciples of the Ling Xiao Sect walking around, especially near the important halls and pavilions around it, which is quite popular. Maybe it was because he had broken through to the Ning Yuan Realm a few days ago, Shen Shi unconsciously calmed down a lot, and it seemed that he no longer had the feeling of crampedness that he had back then, and that inexplicable pressure was much less.
In the past few days, while he has stayed in the cave to cultivate, he has also carefully read the disciple rules of the Lingxiao Sect and the "Haizhou Geographical Chronicles" that he received that day, so now he has a basic understanding of the daily cultivation life and various door rules of the sect here. The Ling Xiao Sect would issue fifteen spirit crystals to each Ning Yuan Realm disciple every month, which was the most basic cultivation requirement to be guaranteed, but anyone who had a little pursuit in cultivation knew that this spirit crystal could not support the cultivator's true full cultivation at all.
All kinds of elixirs, many rare spiritual material auxiliary resources, which one doesn't need a lot of spiritual crystals to support?
As long as the disciples who entered the Lingxiao Sect cultivated to the Ning Yuan Realm and ascended to the Golden Rainbow Mountain, the previous restrictions on Qingyu Island would be all relaxed, in other words, the gap in family background began to be truly revealed after ascending the Golden Rainbow Mountain. Those wealthy vassal families can use the spirit crystals accumulated by the family to support their own disciples almost without restrictions, which makes people from families such as Sun You and Zhong sisters take a great advantage and can avoid many detours. As for an ordinary disciple like Shen Shi, who had no family to rely on, he had to spend a lot of effort on how to earn spirit crystals.
Of course, this is not fair, and it is precisely because of this that among the disciples of the Ling Xiao Sect, the children of the family and the disciples of the common people are often a little estranged, and they will faintly form two circles that are not very harmonious. However, this is just a general statement, friends are important in their hearts, and friends who have good friendships on both sides are also seen from time to time, such as Shen Shi and Sun You, and the like, which are not uncommon.
Shen Shi naturally envied those children of the family who had a family to support the spirit crystal, but compared to some of his fellow disciples who were angry and often muttered some grumbling words, his mentality was very peaceful, and the reason was very simple, looking at those scattered cultivators outside the Ling Xiao Sect, in comparison, he was already extremely lucky.
All the way to the east side of the sea viewing platform, Shen Shi stopped outside a tall hall, looked up, only to see this hall standing majestically, majestic, the eaves carved beasts are lifelike, the red lacquer pillars Xuanqing doors and windows, most of them are open, a large plaque is hung above the main door, and there are three big characters written on it: return to the heart hall.
The halls that can occupy a conspicuous position around the viewing platform are all very important places under the Lingxiao Sect, and this Guixin Hall is no exception, and Shen Shi has long known from the disciple rules that introduce many of the rules of the Lingxiao Sect and even the situation of the sect, this Guixin Hall is the location of the White Crane Hall on Jinhong Mountain, which is similar to the White Crane Hall on Qingyu Island, and it is the hall in the sect that issues various tasks to all disciples.
Such a place will naturally be the most popular place in the sect, and the disciples of the Lingxiao Sect who come and go are shoulder to shoulder, which is very lively, and Shen Shi also followed the flow of people and walked into this hall with the little black pig covering a huge area.
After entering the hall, there is no dark feeling in front of you, the doors and windows around the hall are transparent, the light is sufficient, and there is almost no difference from the sea viewing platform outside, and in the large space in the main hall, the most eye-catching is the two stone walls erected in the main hall, each has dozens of zhang long, you can vaguely feel the flow of aura, one is white, one is dark gold, the color is different, but there are clear words emerging on the stone wall, the spiritual light is flickering, it seems that these two stone walls themselves are not to be underestimated spiritual magic weapon.
Shen Shi was also eye-opening, with some vague conjectures in his heart, he walked closer and took a closer look, and sure enough, many words on these two stone walls were the tasks issued by the main halls of the sect or directly as the identity of the Lingxiao Sect.
Shen Shi smiled lightly in his heart, and then, like many of the Lingxiao Sect disciples around, began to carefully watch and read the mission texts on these stone walls. After looking at it for a while, and comparing it back and forth between the two stone walls, Shen Shi found some of the differences, the white stone walls were relatively ordinary tasks, and the sect or the hall that promulgated the task would give more or less spirit crystal rewards to the disciples who completed the task, and generally speaking, the return was not bad. And the number of tasks on the golden stone wall is obviously much less than that of the white wall, but the number of disciples who gather around the golden wall to watch intently is indeed more, that is because only in the tasks above the golden wall, there will be a reward that is more important than the return of the spirit crystal, that is, the Xuanfu count that Sun You had mentioned to him yesterday.
According to the introduction in the disciple's rules, Shen Shi now has a clearer understanding of the Xuan Fu Count, knowing that although the Spirit Crystal under the Ling Xiao Sect is extremely useful, some of the most important and high-end cultivation resources need this kind of Xuan Fu Count, or the points obtained above the Xuan Rune.
For example, the elixir hall in the elixir hall below the second grade can be purchased with spirit crystals, but once the level reaches the third grade, the value of the elixir will skyrocket, and at the same time, some rare and rare elixirs at this level can no longer be purchased with spirit crystals, and can only be exchanged for a fixed number of talismans. And if you go to the next level, when you reach the elixir of the fourth grade and above, you can only use the Xuan Fu to count.
In a similar situation, there are also various spiritual materials related to cultivation, including various mineral deposits, formations, spiritual weapons and magic weapons, etc., the only exception is the classic secret scrolls of various Dao magic powers that the disciples themselves want to cultivate, all the divine channel methods under the Ling Xiao Sect, except for the one that can be selected from the seventeen exercises for free just after climbing Jinhong Mountain, all the Dao magic powers in the future need to be exchanged for Xuan Fu counting.
Unless...... If a certain disciple has officially entered the disciple of one of the twenty-two Yuan Dan Realm Great True Persons in the Ling Xiao Sect, then the master will naturally have no additional restrictions on the Dao magic power taught to the apprentice.
However, of course, all this is still extremely far away from Shen Shi, in fact, among the thousands of personal disciples on Jinhong Mountain, less than half of the disciples who can be fortunate enough to be valued by the real people of the Yuan Dan Realm and included in the disciples. So Shen Shi didn't think too much about it now, he still wanted to find some tasks at the moment, and then he would earn spirit crystals first.
However, because after the realm reaches the Ning Yuan Realm, the Lingxiao Sect will no longer specifically restrict its disciples from going out, as long as it costs the cost of a spirit crystal, you can take the sect to cross the sea immortal boat to the mainland and go to all parts of Haizhou, so even if you don't take on the sect's tasks, as long as you do something outside, such as collecting medicine or hunting demon beasts to collect spiritual materials and then sell them to the shops in Liuyun City, you can also exchange for spirit crystals.
Shen Shi has some such plans in his heart, but the return of the sect's mission is said to be stronger than running blindly, so he is also watching carefully here in Baibi, as for the task of rewarding the Xuanfu count on the side of Jinbi, Shen Shi reluctantly gave up after reading a few task introductions, this kind of rewarding and precious task is more difficult than the task here in Baibi, and it is often not a dangerous and unpredictable place to face, that is, to find some rare and rare heavenly treasures, and even some tasks directly state that they want to deal with some fourth-order, The fifth-order demon beast that has already cultivated into a demon pill is extremely powerful, it is really beyond Shen Shi's ability, and in desperation, he can only give up.
If you have the opportunity to have strength in the future, let's go and see it again, Shen Shi said to himself secretly in his heart, anyway, the road always has to be walked step by step.
After watching for a long time on the white wall and looking at a lot of tasks, Shen Shi found that the task requirements here seem to be different from those on Qingyu Island in the past, generally speaking, there is no fixed amount limit, but there are clear and definite time requirements, for example, Dantang issued a task, which is to collect stone lott, jade magpie root, spider grass, If you only hand over one or two of the spiritual materials, the amount of spirit crystals obtained is also average, but if you hand over four kinds of spiritual materials at the same time, the reward spirit crystals will be greatly increased, which is quite generous, but the requirement is that it will no longer be collected after seven days.
Shen Shi thought about it, and remembered that these four spiritual materials such as this stone rose seemed to be the main material for refining a kind of "Hua Song Dan", and in terms of grade alone, it was already a third-order spiritual elixir, and because of his previous experience in the first floor of Tian, he knew these four spiritual materials very well, so he planned to see that if he had the opportunity, maybe he could try to do this task.
While thinking about it, Shen Shi suddenly felt that someone was gently patting him on the shoulder from behind, and when he turned his head, it was a beautiful woman standing behind him, looking at him with a smile.
Shen Shi laughed and said, "Zhong Qinglu, are you also here to see the mission?"
Zhong Qinglu smiled slightly, and between her eyes, her eyes were as light as water, as if she had unconsciously made the surrounding crowd lose its color, leaving only her gentle and soft smile in everyone's eyes.
"yes. She smiled and looked at the task on the white wall in front of her, and said, "Hey, this is our Dantang's mission, are you interested?"
Shen Shi shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "Just come and take a look, but if you really want to do these white wall tasks, I'm afraid it will take a while to hone it." ”
Zhong Qinglu nodded and said, "Also, when we first went up the mountain, we tossed for a long time at the beginning, not to mention anything else, just going to the surrounding treasure places that produce various spiritual materials to find out the topography of the situation, it takes a lot of thought." ”
Speaking of this, she paused, glanced at Shen Shi, a faint smile vaguely with a little relief and gentleness, and said: "It seems that the barrier-breaking pill has a good effect, you have only been back to the mountain for a few days, and you have broken through the realm to Ning Yuan all of a sudden." ”
Shen Shi nodded with a smile and said, "Count me lucky, okay, you watch first, I'm going to make money." The last sentence he said with a bit of a joke, unconsciously, suddenly there seemed to be a sense of familiarity after he was familiar with her on the blue fish island, at that time, it seemed that he could also tell some jokes with this girl more easily in his memory.
I don't know if I suddenly had a similar feeling, Zhong Qinglu's face flashed a strange but gentle expression, and after a moment of silence, she suddenly stopped Shen Shi, who had already walked a few steps, and then pulled him to a place where no one was on the edge of the main hall.
Shen Shi was a little surprised and said, "What's wrong?"
Zhong Qinglu was silent for a moment, looked at him deeply, and then said softly:
"You...... Remember that deal we had back then?"