Chapter 6: Cold Mountain City
"It's been almost another year!"
Chen Tianhong stared at the ink droplets hanging on the tip of the pen, as if he was looking at his past, present, and future through a "crystal ball".
The ancients said: Whoever abandons time, time will also abandon him.
How a person can not waste his golden years in a short life like a white horse, and leave a different fireworks between heaven and earth, is the answer that the human race has been searching for for generations.
To this day, it is still believed that as long as one is successful in cultivating and living forever, he will have enough time to find the answer. However, the thousand-year-old history of the human race clearly tells future generations that if there is such a day, it is just another new beginning.
After a short period of emotion, I began to pack up the pen, ink and paper.
The seemingly vast books in the library are decorated with words and organized into four books.
A total of four thick books have been sorted out, and three of them have titles, namely "Heavenly Creations", "Materia Medica", and "Diary of a Madman". The fourth book, which has the largest number of words and extremely miscellaneous content, really can't find a suitable title, so I have to leave it blank.
Invisibly, he had an inexplicable curiosity about the owner of the library: what kind of character should he be?
When he stood up, he happened to see the four girls stretching their waists, smiling, adapting to their own bodies, and forcing themselves to get up in infinite laziness. A flash of inspiration suddenly flashed through my mind, and I wrote in the title of the fourth book: Treasure of the Wind and Moon.
When Chen Tianhong cleaned up, the four girls got up.
"Brother Luo Guo ......"
Xiaofeng is the most shy and childish, and when he found out that he was wrong, he turned his head very embarrassedly, and naturally put his hands on his face, so that his red face would not be revealed.
"You can call it whatever you like. Chen Tianhong couldn't help but shrug his shoulders, and naturally acquiesced to their habits, "You have been sleeping for three months. ”
"Ah......h
The four girls spoke in unison, their mouths wide open in surprise. For people who have not yet set foot in the cultivation realm, it is normal to have such a surprised performance.
"Being able to completely independently fuse the spiritual power of the Ice Spider King within three months shows that your cultivation qualifications should not be bad. In the future, if I can get the right cultivation method, I will have a better future than me. Chen Tianhong said, "The things here should have been done." You guys pack up simply, pack up, and we'll go out and find someone to see if we can get out of here and go to the next training place. ”
Xiao Jian was cheerful and said with a sweet smile: "Brother Luoguo, you collect all the books here?"
"Well, if I have the chance to meet the former owner here, I still need to ask many, many questions!" Chen Tianhong smiled slightly, "I hope that amazing senior doesn't trouble me!"
Xiaobao made the stove into a cloth bag and carried it diagonally on his body.
Here, the five of them have nothing to clean up. The four girls walked out of the study building first, and Chen Tianhong went to the second and third floors again, and soon came down. But when he went out, he found four people standing outside the door. Hurriedly walked out of the door and saw an old man with gray hair standing in the academy, looking up to the sky.
When the old man saw Chen Tianhong come out, he also withdrew his gaze, and a pair of deep dark gray eyes glanced at the five people, and said: "Old man Fan retreated, received an order from the sect, and went to Gusu City to check the origin of the 'Law of Hypoidence' from the 'Dazai Courtyard'. ”
The four girls looked at each other, and Chen Tianhong was silent.
The old man who claimed to be Fan Hui continued: "Fortunately, the old man has found out and returned to the sect. The sect sent an order to take you to the 'Dazaiin Temple' in 'Hanshan City'. ”
Before they could finish speaking, the five of them were already standing on a cloud and headed south. The direction of this trip is farther away from "Ziwei Peak".
Fan Hui continued: "Lao Min is smart, but he is confused for a while. I thought that if I went away and flew high and hid in the 'Sea of Stars', I would be safe. Childish, stupid, what a pitiful sight. ”
Chen Tianhong didn't speak, because he didn't know what to say. If Li Chungang was as clever, he might be able to ask something. Since you can't ask, it's better not to say.
On the clouds, his attention was always on the strange colorful light net under the heavenly dome. I didn't feel time moving, but I found myself standing on the ground, in front of an almost identical academy door. And Fan Hui is gone.
Here, the climate is much warmer, but the situation is obviously more desolate and deserted than Gusu City!
The five looked at each other and said that they were suffering.
Chen Tianhong was the first to walk into the academy, looking at the extremely chaotic courtyard, and suddenly felt as if he had entered a madhouse. I didn't know what to say, but silently picked up the scattered books, papers, manuscripts, pens, inkstones, tables and chairs, and so on.
With the help of the four girls, from the yard to the study building, it was already dark when they were sorted out. Chen Tianhong took out the dry food he had prepared earlier and divided it with the four of them. After taking a elixir for himself, he bound four thick books and began to work.
In the process of reading, he began to be confused, and he was even more shocked.
The books here are all account books. The only currency involved is "spirit stones", and an account can easily be in the millions.
In addition to the shock, there is something beyond imagination: what is the service of such an account?
As for the financial account books, Chen Tianhong doesn't know anything. When he was in the Shenzhou Continent, there were Long Bo and Cangsong in the family, and Zhen Buyi and Cao Cao in the sect took care of him. But now, let him sort out this aspect of things, it's just confused, and he doesn't know where to claw. It's much, much more difficult than reading those difficult and obscure texts.
What to do?
Bite the bullet!
He put away the bound books, prepared a piece of scratch paper, and began to read through all the books. The four girls who had finished dinner also came to help, handing over the books and tidying them up.
Nowadays, Chen Tianhong's reading speed is extremely fast, and he has gradually developed the ability to remember. It took five days and five nights to read through all the account books in the library. Write on the first line of the scratch paper: Assets, Liabilities, Owners' Equity, Cost, Profit and Loss.
The second line reads: Enter, pay, deposit, should.
The third line reads: Receipt, i.e., profit, and deposit, i.e., liability.
Then, he thought for a long, long time, and wrote on the fourth line: Come, go.
The four lines are the words in which he distilled and summarized the contents reflected in different types of account books after reading through the account books. With such an outline, the next work seems to be much simpler.
When you read through it for the second time, you can register and create a book as you read.
At this time, Xiaoyue, who was quiet among the four girls, gradually integrated in. From following the beginning to slowly pointing out errors and omissions, and then to sorting out the book materials in advance, everything goes naturally and falls into place. It seems that she was born with a natural gift for financial management.
It was 10 days after the first draft.
The four girls did not have the slightest slack energy, but they were all energetic and assisted by the left and right.
Chen Tianhong gradually realized that it was indeed much easier to gather the wisdom of five people than one person. Therefore, he began to revise the last book.
Xiao Yue muttered: "In these account books, there are millions of spirit stones and millions of mining workers, it is really hard to imagine that the old people in the past are working hard for a big thing of what scale. ”
Xiao Jian pouted and said: "Tut, is it possible, the seniors in the Immortal City, do you still want to open the sky?" Millions of spirit stones, tsk, enough to buy the title of an immortal!"
Xiao Yue said: "This is still a breakdown of expenses in a certain sum. In fact, it is a drop in the bucket of the whole. She couldn't help frowning when she said this, and continued: "If you look at all the numbers, it is said to be for the service of the Open Heaven Project, but it is almost the same. For example, there is a footnote that says, 'In order to collect five million spirit stones, a huge spirit ore mountain range was dug into a plain'. What kind of manpower and material resources should be used, and how much time should it take?"
Xiao Feng pursed his lips and said, "I can't imagine it!"
Chen Tianhong focused on writing, listening to the conversation of the four girls, and was inadvertently moved by Xiaoyue's words. He couldn't say why, he just thought of the "Mortal Domain" plain where his home was located. Thinking about the situation on the Shenzhou Continent about the spirit stone again, an impulse in my heart became stronger and stronger.
Although he firmly denied it, he had actually decided that the Shenzhou Continent was very likely to be a corner of the world that was abandoned after overexploitation. With the efforts of the Nine Sages, the vast number of cultivators on the Divine Continent were relieved of their dependence on the cultivation of spirit stones, and they could instead cultivate by absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
So, who will be the person who mines and excavates the mortal realm?
He didn't want to think about it, and the pen in his hand wrote faster and faster, and gradually entered a new realm of writing. After a while, the wind returned, gently brushing his face, providing additional spiritual energy from the outside in, making him full of energy.
When the book was completed, it was three days later, at midnight.
Just as the bright moonlight entered the study building and sprinkled on Chen Tianhong's face, a trace of spiritual light ripples appeared in those bright eyes, slowly receiving the moonlight. The moonlight slowly dimmed, and the wind seemed to be blowing again between the dark heaven and the earth.
"Four Pillars Inventory!" Xiao Yue read softly and said softly: "Brother Luo Guo, the title of your book is really good! It seems that you have been reading thousands of books since you were a child!"
Chen Tianhong calculated in his heart and said, "It's about eight years!" He didn't tell his clumsy troubles, and he was glad that Li Chungang was not around.
Xiaobao puffed out his face and said, "Is the matter here going to end too?"
Xiao Jian had an idea, walked to the door, turned around and grimaced, and said softly: "The white-haired old man is in the yard!"
Chen Tianhong and the others immediately walked out of the study building, and saw Fan Wei standing in the courtyard, looking up at the moon as bright as a silver plate.
"The prediction of the sect side, you will need about thirty years. Unexpectedly, it only took you a month, which is very unexpected. Fan Fei said indifferently, "Next, you will be named as the outer disciple of the Ziwei Hall Dazai Academy, and be responsible for sorting out the most complex ancient historical materials." ”
With that, he left Hanshan City with the five of them and headed north.