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It was noon, on Jidu Island, on the top floor of the bamboo building, a wide green bamboo reclining chair was placed diagonally in the middle of the roof, facing the direction of the sun.

Bai Chengjing was naked on the upper body, and the lower body was only wearing a pair of wide kudzu shorts, leaning lazily on the recliner, waking up like a dream, as if sleeping but not sleeping.

Next to the chaise longue, there are many strange parts, some of them are small, some of them are huge, some of them are less than an inch, and the ones are three feet long, some of them are made of animal bones, some of them are carved from wood, most of them are made of metal, and the only thing that these parts have in common is that all the parts are engraved with many strange patterns, like runes.

The sun was a little off, Bai Cheng let out a sigh, looked up to the sky and stretched his waist, slowly opened his eyes, revealing bloodshot eyes, rubbed his temples vigorously, relieved the nerves that were a little numb due to excessive use of his brain, and slowly swallowed and got up from the chaise longue.

It's been more than three months since he came back from Taiyin Island, and Bai Cheng still can't believe it when he recalls everything that happened that day.

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More than half a year ago, he went to Taiyin Island to apply for the island assessment, and after passing three levels in a row, he finally met with Daoist Paka in the Burning Mountain Pavilion.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Daoist Paca met, he scolded him so loudly that he almost expelled him from Taiyin Island.

What he didn't expect was that just as he was about to leave, Daoist Paka suddenly changed his face, reversed his indifference at the beginning, changed his hot face, and said a few words about the grievances between Xie Daoren's lineage and Daomen.

Next, Daoist Paka not only allowed him to stay on Taiyin Island, but also gave him an incredible gift.

This great gift also starts with the power structure of the Jiuyao Islands.

The Jiuyao Islands are nominally subordinate to the White Tiger Hall Ghost Village, which was built by General Wei, but in fact it is jointly managed by three families, which are the royal family of Chen Guo, General Wei Da and Xie Daoren.

Among them, the representative of the Chen royal family is Liang Jiugong, the chief eunuch of the Yuanlong Palace, who manages the Jiuyao Islands as a whole, and the two most important tasks are to regularly harvest the research results of the islands and ensure the application materials on the islands.

General Wei's representative in the Jiuyao Islands was the commander of the Wuying Palace and the five islands of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, a total of six people, and these six people had no distinction between superior and inferior powers, and formed a pre-military meeting to be jointly responsible for the protection of the islands.

As for Xie Daoren's lineage, Daoist Fengnuo is not on the island all the year round, I don't know what he is busy with, Lingtu Daoist is obsessed with research, and he stays at home on Rahu Island, so the representative figure can only fall on Paka Zhenren on Taiyin Island. Paka Zhenren was appointed by Xie Daoren to govern Taiyin Island and preside over the research work of the Jiuyao Islands.

However, in addition to Paka's master and apprentice on Taiyin Island, there are also strange people and strange people collected by the Chen royal family and General Wei after decades, these people either have a skill, or are wise, or capable of others, and they are all top figures in the government and the opposition.

It's just that extraordinary people have their own very temperament, and if you want to make good use of these people, you can't just use the power of the court to coerce, but you have to use more gentle means.

At the suggestion of Daoist Paka, and the consultation and agreement of the three major forces, the "merit point" system was implemented on Taiyin Island, and the enthusiasm of the island's masters was stimulated with merit points.

Specifically, it is to set up a "merit workshop" and a "trading hall" on the island.

Among them, the Meritorious Workshop is responsible for providing various research materials such as ancient dossiers and artifact fragments, and distributes tasks on the island according to the preciousness of the materials, and sets the merit points of the tasks.

If someone on the island is interested in the mission, they can pick up the mission at the Meritorious Workshop, and after the mission is completed, they can submit their research results to the Meritorious Workshop to receive the corresponding meritorious points.

As for the role of merit points, it can be said that they are all-encompassing, from food and wine, antique toys, to court officials, cherishing cheats, all of which can be exchanged for merit points. There have been scholars who have stayed on the island for 20 years, and have exchanged them for second-grade high-ranking officials with merit points, plus millions of silver, and have lived a life of Zhong Ming Ding Food since then, and there have also been scholars who have worked the island for more than ten years, mobilizing thousands of troops of the imperial court with merit points, exterminating a thousand-year-old family on the border of Chen State, and avenging the blood of the whole family.

Because completing tasks on the island can not only improve one's own cultivation, but also earn merit points, the scholars on the island are all enthusiastic and have solved countless problems over the decades.

The trading hall is complemented by the Merit Workshop, which is designed to guarantee the exchange of results between scholars.

This is because many scholars on the island have the energy to study the rune knowledge on their own in addition to completing their tasks. Since these achievements belong to individual scholars, they can be exchanged with other scholars.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, people's hearts are treacherous, and the world is unpredictable, and private transactions between scholars are inevitably inconvenient, so Chief Parka set up a trading hall to guarantee the transactions between scholars on the island. As for the cost of the transaction, both parties must provide a copy of the results used for the transaction to the trading room.

However, the trading hall will not take this achievement in vain, but will issue merit points according to the degree of cherishing of the results provided by both parties.

Of course, academics can sell their research directly to the trading floor, but few do.

This gift from Paca Daoist to Bai Cheng is a thick piece of information, which contains all the achievements collected by the "Meritorious Workshop" and "Trading Hall" on Taiyin Island over the past decades, and it is not bad at all, and it is all handed over to Bai Cheng!

When Bai Cheng saw this information, he was shocked beyond words!

In order to collect this information, Chen Guo has spent many manpower and material resources for decades, and I don't know how much effort has been expended, and the degree of confidentiality of these materials in Chen Guo belongs to the highest level. Put it on the earth where it was in the previous life, it is simply a secret information at the same level as the design drawings of nuclear bombs or the distribution drawings of intercontinental missiles.

Without the permission of His Majesty or General Wei, anyone who dares to read the information will have only one consequence, that is, they will be beheaded all over the house, and the nine clans will be connected.

Bai Cheng still remembered that he was dumbfounded and asked, "Uncle Paka, is this really okay?

Daoist Paka said lightly: "If you don't read these materials, do you still have to study them from scratch and walk the path that others have walked again?

Bai Cheng didn't say a word, hurriedly took the information, and looked at it.

This information is very much, with his "long-term" mental cultivation, he studied hard day and night on Taiyin Island, and it took three months to read the information again, which can only be said to be browsed, as for understanding and researching, I don't know how many days.

However, his mental cultivation is extremely high, and he has the ability to never forget, after browsing once, he does not need to look at the information again, and he can recall any content of the information in his mind at any time, and there will be no mistakes.

After reading the information, Bai Cheng planned to receive the task and prepare to conduct actual research on runes.

On the same day, Liu Kui once told him that if he wanted to increase his knowledge of runes on Taiyin Island, there were generally three ways, the first was to study the ancient fragments and fragments of magic weapons, although the chance of producing results was not large, but once there were results, it would be extremely rewarding. The second method is to disassemble the finished Dharma instruments developed by the other six countries or the two sects of Buddhism and Taoism, which is purely hard work, but it can guarantee results. As for the third option, it is to exchange with other scholars and share their results with each other.

All of Baicheng's current rune knowledge was obtained from the Jiuyao Islands, and there were no unique rune achievements, so it could not be exchanged with others, and this road was naturally impassable.

As for the other two paths, Bai Cheng decided to choose the second path, which was the path to dismantle the finished artifact. This is because although he has some rune skills, his practical ability is insufficient after all, and it is almost a pipe dream to analyze the fragments, while dismantling the finished magic weapon can quickly increase his basic skills.

However, unexpectedly, when he went to the Meritorious Workshop to receive the task, the director of the Meritorious Workshop Zhou not only assigned him a task of dismantling the magic weapon, but also assigned him a task of analyzing the fragments of the ancient magic weapon.

What made Bai Cheng speechless was that the fragment of the magic weapon assigned to him by Chief Manager Zhou had extremely high merit points, almost more than ten times the task of dismantling the magic weapon, and it was one of the most difficult tasks in the Merit Workshop.

For this task, Bai Cheng originally wanted to shirk it, but unexpectedly, Manager Zhou had to send it to Bai Cheng anyway, on the grounds that he felt that Bai Cheng was extremely talented and suitable for this kind of extremely difficult task.

Bai Cheng took on this task with many doubts, he thought that this was a deliberate difficulty by Manager Zhou, but it was not until he asked Liu Kui that he understood the cause and effect of the matter.

It turned out that this task was extremely difficult, and it was simply impossible to complete, and there was no progress in hanging in the merit workshop for decades.

In desperation, Mr. Zhou simply "regarded a dead horse as a live horse doctor", and when any newcomer reported to the meritorious workshop, he would assign this task to the newcomer, for the same reason, "Your Excellency is talented and intelligent, and this task must be yours."

As for the actual reason, it is said that Mr. Zhou once drank and spit out the truth, because he always felt that the newcomer had a good life, and maybe he could solve this problem by luck.

When Bai Cheng knew this answer, he was also helpless, and after returning to his residence, he threw the fragment of the magic weapon aside and concentrated on dismantling the other magic weapon.

After staying on Taiyin Island for a few months, Bai Cheng felt that there were many people on the island, which was quite inconvenient, and it happened that there was no need to stay on the island all the time to disassemble the magic weapon, so he proposed to Chief Paka that he wanted to return to Jidu Island and continue his research.

Naturally, Chief Paca agreed to his request.

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It has been more than three months since I left Taiyin Island, and Mo said that the fragment of the ancient magic weapon, even this finished magic weapon, Bai Cheng has not yet analyzed it thoroughly.

He only now understands what Liu Kui means when he says that the second way has results every year, and the underlying meaning is that every time you want to produce results, you have to study for a year.

Bai Cheng yawned, slowly walked to the edge of the rooftop, looked at the endless sea in the distance, and suddenly had the urge to swim.

Thinking of this, he jumped off the bamboo building on tiptoe, and swept along the top of the layers of trees towards the silver sand by the sea.

A few steps to the sea, Bai Cheng stepped on the silver white sand, striding towards the tide.

The Jiuyao Islands are located in the tropics, and the sea breeze is humid all day long, so the clothes are worn on the body, but after a while, they will become slimy and wet, so Bai Cheng simply wears only one pair of shorts every day, and there is no need to take off his clothes when he wants to go to the sea.

With a "plop", Bai Cheng jumped into the sea and swam underwater.

The Jiuyao Islands are located in the sea, there are no traces around, the sea water is clear and transparent, and there are no traces in more than ten zhang.

Before coming to the Jiuyao Islands, Baicheng already had the Zhou Tian realm. After the breakthrough half a year ago, all the small meridians around his body were opened, and his cultivation took a long step forward, and he was only one step away from the third realm of the Qi Cultivation Level, and as long as he opened the hidden points between the five internal organs and six internal organs, he could enter the realm of no leakage.

The small meridians around his body have been opened since then, and the growth in cultivation is still secondary, and more importantly, from now on, he can breathe directly through the skin around his body without passing through his mouth and nose.

Even if he is in the water, he can use the skin around him to breathe freely in the water, and he will never have to worry about running out of energy.

Swimming among the corals, the White Castle is underwater and swims among the corals, and as the fish chase and play, you can see sea crabs and turtles floating by, which is very different from the land scenery.

After playing for a while, Bai Cheng felt that his energy was gradually recovering, and his slightly anxious nerves slowly relaxed, and his hands and feet swayed slightly, ready to return to the shore.

Bai Cheng jumped out of the sea and walked slowly onto the beach, the sun was not early, and the sun was setting in the west, leaving only the afterglow endless.

His body shook, his whole body qi and blood flowed, and in the blink of an eye, the fog was rising all over his body, not only did his skin return to dryness, but even the shorts he wore became dry and comfortable.

Bai Cheng stretched his waist, moved his body bones, looked down at his chest, and as far as his eyes could see, he couldn't help but let out a soft "oh", the word "Qingxu" engraved on his chest had disappeared.

On the same day, in the Stunned Valley, the "Clear Void Jade Pendant" that Bai Cheng carried with him suddenly changed, absorbing the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi contained in the white stone wall at the bottom of the cold pool. Subsequently, the "Qingxu Jade Pendant" also disappeared, and only the two words Qingxu on his chest remained on Bai Cheng's body.

Bai Cheng had tried every possible means to find the secret contained in these two words, but no matter what method he used, these two words did not react, as if they were ordinary tattoos.

What makes Bai Cheng even more speechless is that as the days go by, these two words gradually disappear, like a clumsy tattoo, which will gradually wear off over time.

A few days ago, when he looked down, the word Qingxu was already extremely faint, but he didn't expect it to disappear completely today.

Bai Cheng smiled bitterly, I really don't know how to explain to Fang Yin the next time we meet again, can it be said that the Clear Void Jade Pendant will disappear on its own?

With a sigh, Bai Cheng walked towards the bamboo building, intending to continue dismantling the magic weapon. (To be continued.) )