The people of the Yingtian Sect who were far away on Liantian Peak didn't know that their Supreme Elder was in a desperate situation at the moment.

In their eyes, this is just another day of calm confrontation.

Since Xu Buful's injury has not yet healed, Chen Yuan has been guarding the mountain gate formation these days.

Early in the morning, Chen Yuan received a bad news from the elders.

In the temporary lounge at the mountain gate, as soon as Chen Yuan entered the room, he found that the fire elder of the main formation at this moment, Elder Liu, who had the deepest formation attainment in the sect, and Elder Qin, who was responsible for managing the materials of the sect, were all on the list.

Coincidentally, the faces of the three of them were full of sadness.

"What's wrong?" Chen Yuan asked in a deep voice.

Elder Fire got up first and went to the door to take a look, making sure that there were no other disciples nearby, because he knew that if the news he was about to give was spread, it would definitely hurt the morale of the army.

After doing all this, Elder Fire nodded to Elder Qin with a serious expression, signaling that he could speak.

Elder Qin said with a sad face, "...... Chen Sect Master, there are less than 30 million spirit stones in the treasury. ”

Chen Yuan's face sank when he heard this, and he asked, "What's the matter?"

In the following narration of Elder Qin, Chen Yuan figured out what had happened.

It's nothing more than bullshit, people from all walks of life have stretched out their black hands to the sect's treasury when the funds are not sufficient, and some of the more powerful elders even lent spirit stones just a matter of words, and they didn't even have to fight the white stripes.

Elder Qin has a soft personality, and his elder rank is also the lowest, so no one can give it a good face, so it is easy to borrow this spirit stone and it will be difficult to take it back.

Over the years, the mess of white slips and verbal arrears have piled up to form a huge deficit.

In addition, a few days ago, Mo Cangxing transferred a large amount of spirit stones from the warehouse.

The Great Elder's request for Elder Qin did not dare to be a little lazy, but what he didn't know was that Mo Cangxing had already made up his mind to betray the sect at that time, and after this spirit stone was finally taken by Mo Cangxing, it was distributed to his subordinates as a dispersal fee.

But who knew that when the eight major factions besieged this file, the spirit stones consumed by the formation every day were like flowing water, just yesterday, Elder Qin was terrified and took stock of his family, only to find that there was a huge gap between the actual number of existing spirit stones and the books.

If he waited for a while, but he couldn't take out the spirit stone that the sect needed, and the sin caused at that time was really not even compensated for hanging, so as a last resort, Elder Qin had no choice but to come out and confess and be lenient.

Chen Yuan laughed angrily: "So I should thank you, at least you didn't wait for the spirit stone to run out before you told me, so you left us some buffer room?"

Elder Qin lowered his head, extremely ashamed, speechless.

Chen Yuan took a deep breath and asked expressionlessly, "Tell me, how many spirit stones are left in the Hidden Star Pavilion now?"

"A thousand, more than 10 million ......"

"More than 10 million?

"One thousand and seventy thousand......," Elder Qin raised his head and tried to distinguish the sentence, "But the IOUs in my hand, as well as those verbal arrears, are all written down, and the total amount is still right." ”

"Then you can tell me, can these IOUs be used to drive the formation?"

"Chen Yuan, extinguishing the fire, Elder Qin is also an unintentional mistake," said the first Fire Elder of the Refining Weapon Dao, "The old man dares to vouch for his reputation, Elder Fire has never coveted the benefits of a spirit stone from it. ”

"Among those IOUs, there is also one of your Fire Elder Ones, right?"

Elder Huo didn't answer this, and turned his head away, his old face slightly red.

Chen Yuan was really angry, "The sect's appointment of you as the master of the Hidden Star Pavilion is a trust in you, but are you worthy of the sect's trust?"

"Taking the interests of the sect as your favor, yes, I believe that you have not taken the spirit stone and put it in your pocket, but can this erase your sin of dereliction of duty?"

Chen Yuan took a deep breath, tried to calm himself down, looked at Elder Qin and said, "You hand over the affairs of the Hidden Star Pavilion, and then go and think about it, and when this is over, I will arrange for you to go to the Sect's External Relations Office." ”

Elder Qin was unexpected, and looked at Chen Yuan in disbelief, but he didn't expect his punishment to be thunderous and rainy.

It was still Elder Huo who gave him a look again and again, and only then did Elder Qin react, and he hurriedly confessed his guilt and bowed to Chen Yuanxing to retire.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that Elder Qin was guilty of killing him, but it would not help the current situation.

At this critical moment, Chen Yuan was reluctant to make a big move, so as not to make people panic.

Moreover, although he didn't say it, Chen Yuan felt in his heart that in this matter, Xu Bucheng could not escape responsibility.

On the one hand, there is the reason for his poor supervision, and on the other hand, how can there be no responsibility for the superior to put the unsuitable person in the wrong position?

This also strengthened Chen Yuan's determination, if he could wait until the crisis passed, he must respond to the Heavenly Sect from top to bottom to carry out reforms, and wash away the imprint left by Xu Buying.

As for the new pavilion master of the Hidden Star Pavilion, Chen Yuan already had a candidate in his heart.

Wen Xiannian, who was assigned by the twenty-seventh, although he was a little out of tune, his extremely stingy character and his life were more important than his treasures, but he was the best candidate for this position.

But for now, that's not what pays attention.

Chen Yuan asked, "So, the spirit stones in the inventory are only enough to support the consumption of the formation for twenty days?"

"I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on for twenty days. Elder Liu, the chief of the formation path who had been silent beside him, suddenly interjected.

Chen Yuan frowned and asked, "What do you say?"

It turns out that the bad news is not just a deficit in the treasury.

According to Elder Liu, this was the first time that Ying Tianzong had activated the Mountain Protection Array for such a long time, so many problems that had not been noticed before were exposed.

Enveloping such a large area of a mountain protection array, in fact, 500,000 spirit stones per day are not enough to consume.

It's just that the magic circle itself can also draw spiritual power from between heaven and earth to make up for the loss of some spirit stones.

However, after activating the magic circle for a long time, there was such a situation: even the spiritual power around Tianfeng was absorbed by the formation in large quantities, and even the surrounding spiritual stones had no time to replenish, so a depression in the concentration of spiritual power was formed in the area of Liantian Peak.

This also led to a serious shortage of spiritual power extracted from the heaven and earth by the formation, and correspondingly, there were more spirit stones needed to maintain the formation.

Accidents came again and again, but Chen Yuan had to face them.

Chen Yuan's face was unwavering, and he didn't seem to be affected by any of these accidents, because he knew that he was already the backbone of the Yingtian Sect Master at this moment, if he panicked first, what would those people under him think?

So he just calmly asked, "How long can it last?"

"Fifteen days," Elder Liu pondered for a moment and added, "At most!"

"I know," Chen Yuan nodded, and said indifferently, "I'll solve the matter of the spirit stone, and after the discussion of your formation Dao, see if you can optimize the formation method and reduce the loss of spirit stones." ”