As he walked up the stairs, Yue Qianchou seemed to be leisurely, but in fact, he was tense on the inside and relaxed on the outside. He did not dare to slack off. He understood that this was the lair of Chaotian Palace, and it was also a place where there were many masters. The more nervous he appeared, the easier it was to arouse suspicion. Along the way, he met many disciples of Chaotian Palace, and he always held his head high, like this was his home. Those disciples did not know him, and they could not see through his cultivation, so they all stood on the side of the road and made way for him.
The forest was as dark as ink, and the thin mist rising from the swamp filled the forest, making the air extremely humid. Yue Qianchou went around to the back of the mountain, and after getting out of Shui Mingqing's sight, he looked around, threw a small silver ball into the forest grass, and then slowly flew to the highest of the eight mountains.
The Sutra Seeking Pavilion at the top of the mountain was like a large dark monster, lying there, giving people a gloomy feeling. There were people flying around the mountain, and there were people coming in and out of the Sutra Seeking Pavilion. No one cared about the arrival of Yue Qianchou.
When he landed outside the Sutra Seeking Pavilion, Yue Qianchou found that the entire Sutra Seeking Pavilion was actually made of Meteoric Iron. Meteoric Iron was a common material in the Celestial Realm to make ordinary magic tools. He did not expect that Chaotian Palace would use it to build the Sutra Seeking Pavilion.
As Shui Mingqing said, the Sutra Seeking Pavilion had a total of five floors. The eaves on all sides were like towers, and the layers were like sealed boxes. On one side of each floor, there were two round windows that looked like the eyes of a monster, which were also sealed with fine fences.
People came and went from the Sutra Seeking Pavilion. Yue Qianchou walked around the Sutra Seeking Pavilion. When he passed the gate, he found that there was another floor under the Sutra Seeking Pavilion, which was similar to a basement. There should be six floors in the Sutra Seeking Pavilion. There must be people guarding below, which immediately extinguished his hope of escaping underground.
The most helpless thing was that he found that there was no way to get close to the Sutra Seeking Pavilion. There were people sitting cross-legged with their eyes closed in the four corners of the pavilion. Yue Qianchou could not see through their cultivation. Although their eyes were closed, Yue Qianchou believed that as long as he got close, they would be able to detect him.
Yue Qianchou was eager to know the structure inside. If he couldn't even figure out the situation inside, how could he start? After making another round, Yue Qianchou didn't dare to stay any longer. It seemed like he was the only one wandering around outside, and it would be hard not to attract suspicion if he stayed for too long. He followed the stone steps down the mountain. When he was halfway up the mountain, he saw the mist floating in front of him. Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he had an idea.
Walking quickly to the dense forest, he quickly flashed into the depths of the dense forest on the mountainside, found a secret place, and directly burrowed into the ground. Not long after, he saw that the ground began to emit a thick fog, gradually spreading and blending into the thin fog of the mountain.
"Eh! It's broad daylight, why is the fog so thick? "
"The temperature of the Earth Fire has probably risen! Ah! The temperature of the fire is high and low, so it is estimated that a lot of defective pills will be produced. Those novice alchemists are probably out of luck, and it is inevitable that they will be punished. "
Two disciples of the Skyward Palace, who walked out of the Sutra Seeking Pavilion against the thick fog, looked at each other, smiled, and left quickly, quite gloating. In the Skyward Palace, the phenomenon of thick fog lingering around was very normal, and it had a lot to do with the location of the Skyward Palace. Everyone had long been accustomed to it.
After the thin fog slowly invaded the Sutra Seeking Pavilion, Yue Qianchou, who was hiding underground in the dense forest, was overjoyed. Wherever the thin fog went, the layout of the Sutra Seeking Pavilion gradually appeared in his mind.
The East and West Pavilions of the Sutra Seeking Pavilion were divided by the main entrance and stairs. In the West Pavilion, there were obviously more people reading cultivation methods than in the East Pavilion. The doors of the East and West Pavilions on each floor were opposite each other, and there was a small room in the concave between the two pavilions, where there was a master sitting. At the door of the East Pavilion on each floor, there were some people guarding outside the door to keep an eye on the disciples inside. This was probably what Shui Mingqing had said, the masters who supervised the disciples to choose the pill recipes.
However, the higher the level, the fewer people there were. There was almost no one in the East Pavilion on the fourth floor, and the East Pavilion on the fifth floor was empty. Even the situation in the West Pavilion was similar. Obviously, the higher the level of things, the fewer people could come into contact with it.
After getting a general idea of the layout of the Sutra Seeking Pavilion, Yue Qianchou withdrew his perception. He did not dare to let his perception explore unscrupulously inside, for fear of being discovered.
Although he had a general idea of the situation, what made Yue Qianchou depressed was how to enter the Sutra Seeking Pavilion. After hiding underground and frowning for a while, a bitter smile flashed in his eyes. He cut one of his fingers and forced out two drops of blood …
Suddenly, a red fog appeared from the thick fog rising from the depths of the forest. As the fog spread, it gradually thinned and eventually disappeared without a trace in the vast sea of fog. It was so fine that it was hard to see with the naked eye. After drifting for a while, the red fog split into two and surged silently through the windows of the East and West Pavilions on the top floor of the Sutra Seeking Pavilion. Bit by bit, they gradually gathered in a corner. In the end, a small dot of red was left in an inconspicuous corner of the East and West Pavilions.
After doing this, Yue Qianchou heaved a sigh of relief. He rubbed his hands together excitedly and disappeared underground. When he reappeared, he was in the meeting room of Utopia's military camp.
The door to the meeting room was tightly shut. Zhang Peng was the only one standing guard inside, and there was a pile of jade archives on the table. When he saw Yue Qianchou, Zhang Peng stood up and bowed. "Master!"
Yue Qianchou swept his gaze across the table and asked, "Is everything ready?" Zhang Peng solemnly replied, "Everything is ready. After writing it down in the jade archives, should I give the pill formula to Chief Chen?"
Yue Qianchou frowned and gave an irrelevant answer. "How are the people I asked you to keep an eye on?"
"Chief Preceptor Guan is very calm, but Chief Chen's mood and condition seem to be worsening. Right, that woman made her son acknowledge master's wife as his godmother. Both mother and son spend most of their time with master's wife. It seems like they're on good terms with her, "Zhang Peng reported.
"I hope they won't do anything that I have no choice but to do … Continue keeping an eye on them!" Yue Qianchou glanced at the jade archives on the table. He pointed at them and said, "Other than you, don't let anyone else know about this, including your master's wife. As for the Immortal Herb Garden, send someone to keep an eye on it. You should understand what I mean. "
"Understood." Zhang Peng cupped his fists with a serious expression. Yue Qianchou nodded and disappeared from the meeting room …
In the eastern pavilion of the Scripture Seeking Pavilion in Skyward Palace, Yue Qianchou quietly appeared and floated in the room. He did not dare to move around, afraid that he would be discovered if he made any noise. He looked around and immediately pressed his hand against his chest in relief. Perhaps it was because no one had come to the fifth floor yet, the door was tightly shut. Even if someone were to pass by, they would not be able to see him. This gave him a sense of security.
Inside the room, there were many jade archives hanging on silk threads. He estimated that there were more than a hundred of them. They were clearly the jade archives for pill formulas. Without any hesitation, Yue Qianchou started from the corner of the room. He inserted his divine sense into one of the jade archives and saw that it was indeed a pill formula.
Unfortunately, these jade archives for pill formulas could neither be copied nor stolen. However, he was prepared for this. Without another word, he took out a jade archive and repeated it as he recorded. He then transmitted his voice directly to Zhang Peng, who was in the meeting room in Utopia's military camp. The reason why he wanted the two of them to record it together was mainly because he was afraid that they would make a mistake if they were pressed for time. He still had to compare the contents of the jade archives after they were done. This way, he could be more certain.
Meanwhile, Zhang Peng, who was in Utopia, focused his attention and started writing rapidly on the blank jade archives. The two of them worked together at lightning speed. Yue Qianchou swept through the rows of jade archives. In just a few hours, he had stolen the contents of nearly a hundred jade archives for pill formulas from the entire eastern pavilion on the fifth floor.
After he was done, the sky outside gradually darkened. Yue Qianchou reached out and gently pressed his hand against the meteoric metal wall. He quietly sensed the movements in the entire Scripture Seeking Pavilion and realized that the number of people downstairs was gradually decreasing. He checked the color of the sky outside through the window and decided to hide there until it turned dark.
As he expected, once the sky turned dark, the people on the lower floors gradually left. Not long after, the doors of the eastern and western pavilions on the lower floors began to close one after another. This was exactly what he wanted. He directly fell upside down, his head piercing through the meteoric metal floor and appearing on the ceiling of the fourth floor. He had a panoramic view of the situation in the rooms on the fourth floor.
Seeing that there was no one else around, he emerged from the ceiling and quietly floated in the air. The number of jade archives hanging in the rooms on the fourth floor was double that of the ones on the fifth floor. Time was precious. Yue Qianchou immediately made use of the time to repeat the jade archives one by one.
After spending a few hours quickly clearing the fourth floor, he used the same method to enter the third floor. In the end, he discovered that the number of jade archives on the third floor was another hundred or so more than on the fourth floor. Hence, he immediately started copying them. By the time he was done with the third floor, the sky was already beginning to brighten. Taking advantage of the fact that no one had arrived yet, he went back to the second floor and continued. He managed to get close to two hundred jade archives. When he heard someone coming up to the second floor, he immediately memorized the location of the jade archive that he had yet to finish and quickly disappeared.
He did not escape. Instead, he appeared in the western pavilion on the fifth floor and began to steal the cultivation manuals from Skyward Palace. After he was done with the cultivation manuals in the western pavilion on the fifth floor, he discovered that there were already two people in the fourth floor. Hence, he gave up on the idea of continuing and prepared to continue at night.
After returning to Utopia's conference room, the master and disciple listed the items they had stolen on the floors. Each of them took half of the items and started comparing them to see if there were any areas that they could not match up. In the end, after checking, they found that there were indeed areas that did not match up due to their speed. However, it did not matter. The two of them picked out the areas that did not match up and prepared to go back and check the originals to make changes.
After the sky turned dark, Yue Qianchou snuck back to the second floor of the eastern pavilion and continued what he had not finished. After he was done with the second floor, he continued on to the first floor. As there were too many pill recipes in the basket on the first floor, he spent the entire night but was still unable to finish them. He only came back the next night and spent another half of the night before he was finally done with all the pill recipes in the entire eastern pavilion.
The cultivation manuals in the few floors of the western pavilion were much fewer compared to the pill recipes. However, on the other hand, the contents of the cultivation manuals were many times more than the contents of the pill recipes. For the sake of the items in the western pavilion, Yue Qianchou worked for a total of five nights.
The master and disciple stole at night and quickly checked the items during the day. In the end, they discovered that there were close to a hundred mistakes. Hence, Yue Qianchou spent a lot of time running back to check them. In the end, after calculating the time, it took him exactly ten days to finally get his hands on the items that Skyward Palace had accumulated over the years …
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