"Why don't you just kill me?!"
Yuan Xuanzhan finally stood up in front of Lu Ping. By now, he had calmed down and was staring at Lu Ping with a pair of dark eyes.
Lu Ping shook his head. "Leng Qian might not be Master's favorite, but she's still my senior sister. You're her dao companion, so I won't kill you. In the future, you'll be on duty in the Bajing Tower!"
"What big words. The Bajing Tower is a great treasure that Tianlin Laozu found outside. You, Lu Xuanping, can send me there with a single word. Do you really think that Zhenling belongs to your family?"
Lu Ping sneered. "Although Zhenling doesn't belong to my family, the Bajing Tower is mine. If I put someone in there, not even Senior Grandmaster Tian Xiang can say anything!"
Yuan Xuanzhan stared at Lu Ping, dumbfounded. When Tianlin Laozu brought the Bajing Tower back to the sect, it had caused quite a stir.
The Bajing Tower was a treasure between a treasure and a heavenly grotto-heaven. In terms of quality, it might not be as good as a true heavenly grotto-heaven treasure, but it only had two real functions.
One was to suppress, like a prison, to imprison opponents in the tower.
The other was a trial. The Eight Scenic Tower could create different illusions by placing different Spiritual Treasures. Moreover, these illusions were extremely realistic, as if they were different worlds. It could also evolve into different beasts and birds of prey according to the grade of the Spiritual Treasures. It was an excellent place for disciples to train.
This was especially true for the second function. The sect would nurture some disciples to be used, but none of them had any knowledge or experience. They only knew how to follow the instructions, so how could they have any future? Those divine abilities and magical arts could only be mastered through life and death battles.
However, if these disciples were to be sent out to train, it was unknown how many losses they would suffer each time. If these disciples could train in the Eight Scenic Tower before being sent out, it would be extremely beneficial to their growth and training.
Only the great sects with deep foundations would have a place like the Bajing Tower. Zhenling had once tried to refine a similar treasure, but the method to refine such treasures was usually forbidden by the great sects. Zhenling had no way of obtaining it.
Moreover, the amount of spirit materials and energy needed to refine such a treasure was no less than refining a similar type of heavenly grotto-heaven treasure. For Zhenling, this was an unbearable burden.
Yuan Xuanzhan never thought that the Bajing Tower that Zhenling Laozu regarded as the sect's treasure was actually Lu Ping's. Looking at Lu Ping's matter-of-fact expression, Yuan Xuanzhan couldn't bring himself to suspect anything. Moreover, Lu Ping wasn't lying to him.
Seeing Yuan Xuanzhan disappear into the teleportation formation, Sixth Brother Lei, who had been muttering to himself, suddenly asked, "Is that Bajing Tower something from the Surplus Heavens Sect?"
Lu Ping curiously looked at Sixth Brother Lei and asked, "How did Brother Lei know?"
Sixth Brother Lei chuckled and didn't say anything. Lu Ping knew that he didn't want to say something, so he didn't ask him again.
At this time, Sixth Brother Lei opened his mouth and said, "You want him to be a guard?"
When Sixth Brother Lei revealed the origins of the Bajing Tower, Lu Ping already knew that Sixth Brother Lei knew many of its secrets. Thus, he wasn't surprised to hear Sixth Brother Lei mention the Bajing Tower's guard.
Lu Ping nodded and said, "His cultivation is at the fifth layer of Core Forging, so he can be a guard on the fifth layer!"
Sixth Brother Lei said doubtfully, "It seems that the Bajing Tower has already been brought back to Zhenling. Didn't the Laozu arrange for guards on each layer to be responsible for the disciples' trials and to suppress the cultivators imprisoned in the tower? Aren't you afraid of offending the Laozu by arranging for him to be there? "
Lu Ping glanced at Sixth Brother Lei and said, "Keep your thoughts to yourself. Since I'm making an example out of Yuan Xuanzhan, it's not just for one person. This time, I'm just a pawn. But after suppressing Tian Shu, it means that I can also be a pawn in the sect. I'll demote Yuan Xuanzhan to Eight Scenic Pavillion, and the sect's Grand Ancestor will definitely give in!"
Sixth Brother Lei gave a thumbs up and said, "You're awesome! You've established your prestige in front of your Laozu!"
Lu Ping chuckled and said, "What else can I do? This time, it was the Laozu who used me as a spear. No matter what, I have to compensate them. Besides, I've already refined the stone tablet on the eighth layer of the Bajing Tower, so the final decision of the guard arrangement lies with me!"
Sixth Brother Lei looked at Lu Ping walking towards the cave dwelling and murmured, "I knew you were a cunning brat!"
The two entered the cave dwelling and saw Hu Lili and Linglong chatting passionately. Linglong's wine cauldron had already stopped spinning. The mid-sized spirit vein that Tian Shu Laozu had previously moved to the east coast had now been reversed by Linglong's wine cauldron. It had been drawn back and suppressed under the cave dwelling to prevent it from flowing away.
Lu Ping nodded at Hu Lili and said, "Since the spirit vein has been taken back, you still have to take care of the formation. Let's go according to the original distribution!"
The many cultivators on Huang Li Island had yet to recover from the shocking battle above Huang Li Island when they suddenly heard a muffled rumbling sound coming from the ground below Huang Li Island.
Just when everyone was at a loss, a cultivator with a keen divine sense suddenly exclaimed, "The spiritual energy is rising again! The concentration of spiritual energy on Huang Li Island is rising!"
"Spiritual Master Lu Xuanping has taken back the spirit vein!"
"Those branch veins must be full of spiritual energy now. Doesn't that mean those abandoned cave dwellings can be used for cultivation again?"
"Speaking of which, Spiritual Master Lu Xuanping is really generous. Not only did he deliberately draw out a few small spirit veins to build cave dwellings for cultivators to cultivate, he also used the spiritual fields as a medium to spread the spiritual energy in the spirit veins through the island's protective formation. This caused the concentration of spiritual energy on the entire Huang Li Island to be twice as high as other places. No wonder Huang Li Island can attract so many cultivators."
Many cultivators swarmed towards the few small spirit veins that Hu Lili had deliberately left behind to benefit the cultivators on the island. Since the spirit veins on the island were once again under Spiritual Master Lu Xuanping's control, the cave dwellings on those branch veins must have become delicious cakes. The faster you move, the less you move!
A few days later, the attentive cultivators found that the concentration of spiritual energy on the entire Huang Li Island seemed to be increasing slowly even after it had returned to its previous level.
Just when many cultivators were secretly wondering about it, news came from the disciples stationed at Zhenling Island that the concentration of spiritual energy on Huang Li Island would double from the original basis. Furthermore, they would also draw out a few branch veins from the spirit veins on the west coast to build cave dwellings for cultivators to rent.
When the news came, all the cultivators on Huang Li Island rushed to spread the news. The number of people coming and going on Huang Li Island suddenly increased by 20%. If it wasn't for the fact that the area of Huang Li Island was really limited, and the fact that the spiritual energy gathering area on the island had been used by the outer disciples of Zhenling Sect to plant various spiritual grains and herbs instead of being used to expand the market area of Huang Li Island, the number of people on Huang Li Island might be even more terrifying.
In the cave dwelling, Hu Lili said worriedly, "Are we being a little too extravagant? Ever since the spirit veins on the island gathered into a middle-sized spirit vein, we've been searching everywhere for years, but we've only hidden a small spirit vein secretly without being discovered by Uncle Tian Shu. If we continue to use it like this, one-tenth of the entire spirit vein will be given to others for free!"
Lu Ping smiled and said, "How can we give it to others for free? The cave dwellings on those branch veins can at least recover a batch of spiritual stones, right? As for increasing the concentration of spiritual energy on the entire island, that's just a gimmick. How much resources can we waste from the spirit vein?"
Hu Lili said, "We have to take care of our own cultivation first. Although half of the middle-sized spirit vein is enough for us to cultivate on a daily basis, don't forget that you still have a few little guys with you. Which one of them is easy to deal with? You have a lot of friends from the same sect. Sometimes, they need to practice their supernatural powers and secret techniques, and sometimes, they need to go into closed-door cultivation. However, they can't wait to go to the sect, so they have to come to you to borrow the spirit vein. In this way, a middle-sized spirit vein is barely satisfactory. If several of us go into closed-door cultivation at the same time, I'm afraid we won't even have enough for ourselves!"
Lu Ping glared at Sixth Brother Lei, who had been watching Lu Ping being scolded and gloating. He rubbed his chin and said with a chuckle, "Don't worry, look at what this is!"
After saying that, Lu Ping took out a few boxes from his storage artifact and lifted the spirit-locking talisman on them. A few round and crystal-clear beads appeared in front of Hu Lili.
"Spirit Gathering Beads? Why are there so many of them? "
Hu Lili looked at the rolling Spirit Gathering Beads in the box and asked in surprise.
There were nine small-sized Spirit Gathering Beads in the box. They were the four that Lu Ping had obtained from the Fist Valley in Ying Shan Mountain Range and the three that he had obtained from Sang Yu at the underground trade fair in Tianxuan Ancient City. In addition, Linglong had also condensed some of the small-sized Spirit Gathering Beads into two small-sized Spirit Gathering Beads.
Other than the nine Spirit Gathering Beads, there were also five small-sized Spirit Gathering Beads. These were the leftover beads that Linglong had used to fuse with the small-sized Spirit Gathering Beads.
Hu Lili happily kept these Spirit Gathering Beads and said, "That's great. With this, Huang Li Island can have two middle-sized spirit veins. The remaining small-sized spirit veins can be rented out again. At the same time, it can also increase the density of the spiritual energy in the entire Huang Li Island and attract more cultivators."
Hu Lili set up a formation in the center of the cave abode and placed the nine small-sized Spirit Gathering Beads in different positions on the formation plate. Dense spiritual energy quickly filled the cave abode.
This was a spirit-fusion formation that could accelerate the speed at which the Spirit Gathering Beads were transformed into spirit veins. Under normal circumstances, it would take a year to catalyze a Spirit Gathering Bead into a spirit vein. However, with the support of the spirit-fusion formation, it would only take three months for the transformation to be completed.
Of course, this spirit-fusion formation could not be casually set up. One could tell just by looking at the dozens of high-grade spirit stones embedded around the formation plate. Moreover, these spirit stones had to be changed from time to time as the formation operated.
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