novelapdf #310 - Report anything you can't handle to your superiors
#310 - Report anything you can't handle to your superiors
The morning arrives.
The bells ring out once more.
The square is now filled with people.
Many are unaware of what is happening.
Last night's sudden assembly and dispersal left them with no peace for sleep or cultivation.
These people know a little about the situation.
Soon, some Core Formation disciples who were originally organizing materials in the buildings were assigned tasks.
Of course, some Foundation Establishment cultivators at their peak were also directly appointed.
In short, the team leaders for each squad were gathered.
Everything continues.
As for the rest, the person in charge did not mention it; he needs to investigate.
He also urgently needs to kill a chicken to scare the monkeys.
But the question is, where to find this chicken to kill?
He has to start with some hidden personnel.
But he doesn't know who to look for at the moment, but the pioneering work cannot stop.
Otherwise, something will happen.
In addition, he needs to inform the sect about what's happening here.
If only some team leaders had died, he would have hesitated whether to report it or not.
But with the death of a Void Refinement Initial Stage cultivator, his problem becomes smaller.
After all, pioneering in a small place shouldn't involve Void Refinement cultivators appearing.
But now that one has appeared, something unexpected might happen.
And he can't handle matters involving Void Refinement cultivators.
As long as the pioneering progress doesn't fall behind too much,
the sect usually won't blame him.
This isn't a matter of individual ability, but rather something beyond his capabilities.
Gu An's side also had someone transferred away; originally, they were looking for Lu Yan, but unfortunately, she refused to go.
In the end, Yao Caixuan, dressed somewhat skimpily, was transferred away.
It is said that the team leader over there is a direct disciple's cousin.
Perhaps she can find some opportunities.
It's better than following Gu An, who looks like he's in his forties or fifties, right?
The other person looks like a Core Formation cultivator in his early twenties, while Gu An is a Core Formation cultivator in his forties or fifties.
The difference is obvious.
Geniuses never look old.
Especially when they've only just reached Core Formation.
So, Gu An's team, which originally had four people, now only has three left.
Xiang Leiling, who seems kind, also seems to have other thoughts.
In short, the two who remain are relatively diligent.
And the one who left came to climb the social ladder.
It suits everyone's interests.
Thus, Gu An didn't stop anyone's wishes.
However, the loss of five people has put a lot of pressure on everyone.
These five were all troublemakers for the three teams.
Gu An doesn't feel bad about them leaving.
In addition, there are three more hidden among the Qi Refining cultivators and ordinary people.
Among them, Lai Chang is still alive; the other party's main target is still himself.
The others are all here for the fruits in the depths.
They are all a group of people who will do their jobs well.
"With fewer people, I'm sorry to trouble you all; in order not to affect the progress, you will listen to Fairy Lu for the entire process," Gu An said calmly to everyone.
After that, he continued logging.
Since you have your purposes, then you can work hard; as long as you don't hinder my logging, everything is fine.
What Gu An needs now is to log wood steadily.
One to two warm currents a day can be said to have increased the speed by three times.
With such a good opportunity, naturally, he can't let people disturb him.
He will definitely not compete for merit with them if they want it.
After all, there's no way he can take all the good things for himself.
But it would be too much if they didn't even let him log.
Everyone remained vigilant today, but they didn't encounter any demonic beasts.
This made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.
And Gu An also successfully logged wood for a day.
There was only one warm current today, but he was content.
Mainly because the progress of clearing the mist has slowed down.
Today, it was only three zhang, but compared to yesterday's less than one zhang, it was a huge improvement.
Everything went smoothly, and Gu An returned to his residence.
If everything goes well next month, then it may be possible to improve his spells again.
As for bitter cultivation, it's probably less than halfway there.
Now, it's much harder to obtain bitter cultivation than before.
One is that his cultivation has improved, and the other is that he has switched to cultivating the Azure Lotus Profound Yellow Scripture.
As such, the amount of bitter cultivation required for advancement is even greater.
However, there's no need to rush these things.
Let's take a look at yesterday's gains first.
After all, he picked up quite a few storage treasures.
He needs to figure out what's inside.
The first thing he looked at was naturally the storage treasure of the Void Refinement expert.
The other party picked up quite a few people's storage treasures.
Now, those people's belongings are all thrown in one place.
Gu An checked it out and shook his head.
These people are either Foundation Establishment or Core Formation cultivators; they don't have many spirit stones at all.
Adding them all up, there are only two thousand spirit stones, plus some pills; there are some magical artifacts, but they don't seem to be worth much; these people don't look rich.
Gu An recalled himself.
It's indeed not easy to earn spirit stones during the Core Formation stage.
And the consumption is also high; the prices of the required pills and talismans are not low.
Not to mention other things.
You have to save up for a long time for a protective magical artifact.
Most Core Formation disciples don't even have a proper magical artifact that they can use.
They're all mass-produced, cheap goods.
After all, there are too many places to spend spirit stones: protective magical artifacts, offensive magical artifacts, spells, techniques, pills, talismans.
You can only save up for them one by one.
Merit points, spirit stones, you have to save them all together.
And also tasks, cultivation.
Under such circumstances, most Core Formation cultivators are poor.
This is still without their exploitation.
Under exploitation, it's even harder.
Gu An withdrew his gaze and finally carefully examined the storage treasure of the Void Refinement beauty.
One look, and he sighed; this is what a rich person looks like.
Even though nine spiritual swords were damaged, there are still three spiritual swords left.
Even if they have cracks, their grades are not bad.
It's not impossible for three of them to be worth ten to twenty thousand.
In addition, there are spirit stones, fifty thousand spirit stones.
After this trip, excluding the purchased magical artifacts and so on, he actually made a profit.
It's a pity there are no other valuable things.
The beautiful woman clearly looked very rich.
Subsequently, Gu An took out Fairy Cheng's storage treasure.
The moment he opened it, Gu An was slightly surprised.
Inside, there was only a transparent round box.
"What is this thing?" Gu An took out the item and felt a little strange.
He examined it carefully and found that there was white mist inside the box.
It was not opened and could not be opened.
This made Gu An even more strange.
He leaned closer to inspect it.
But just as he got close, suddenly the white mist inside began to surge.
The mist suddenly dissipated, and a blood-red gaze appeared in front of Gu An.
This sudden scene was too terrifying; subconsciously, Gu An threw the box in his hand out.
But Gu An suddenly felt some stinging pain in his eyes.
Then, his vision began to burn with red flames, about to cover Gu An entirely.
The scorching heat of the flames appeared instantly, and the pain quickly spread throughout his body; when he looked at his arm, his arm was directly burning, but in the time it took to breathe, his arm endured the burning of this strange flame.
Severe pain struck, followed by unconsciousness.
And the flame was going up his arm, about to burn him completely.
At this, Gu An's power finally reacted and suppressed it at the first moment.
But it couldn't be suppressed.
Immediately afterward, Profound Yellow Qi was mobilized, and Astral Qi in his Qi Sea also began to circulate in his body.
The Azure Lotus Profound Yellow Scripture quickly circulated.
Under such circumstances, the situation finally improved, and the flames could no longer extend.
But the flames in his eyes were still burning; the flames in his vision were about to burn him completely.
Even if he closed his eyes, the red flames continued.
Gu An couldn't understand what this was.
But he could only keep running the Azure Lotus Profound Yellow Scripture, mobilizing the Astral Qi in his body and the Profound Yellow Qi that was born.
It wasn't until the second half of the night that the Xuanhuang Qi covered the flames.
Sensation returned to my arm.
Before dawn, the flames were completely extinguished.
But Gu An collapsed, exhausted and unable to get up.
Originally, he wanted to rest, but suddenly he noticed the transparent round box out of the corner of his eye.
He discovered that the box was burning with red flames.
In an instant, Gu An felt like the sky had fallen.
He had almost died just from being glanced at.
If it were to come out, hundreds of lives wouldn't be enough to pay for it.
How many times could he be burned to death by a single glare?
Gu An immediately thought of Fairy Cheng's storage treasure.
He immediately put the box into the treasure.
However...
The flames followed the treasure and began to burn.
The eerie red flames burned through the storage treasure.
Then, with a crash, the round box broke through the storage treasure and fell to the ground.
Gu An subconsciously took two steps back, frightened.
What exactly was this thing?
He suddenly remembered Fairy Cheng's words. Could Fairy Cheng be the one suppressing this thing?
Is that why she was so sure that no one would kill her?
If only Fairy Cheng could suppress this thing.
Then indeed, no one would want to kill her.
It was also the capital for her arrogance and domineering.
But Fairy Cheng is already dead.
What to do now?
"What if I'm just overthinking it?"
Gu An felt that the flames would only burn, and the thing inside shouldn't be able to escape.
Then, Gu An condensed the Qi Sea Tiangang and began to cover it with Xuanhuang Qi.
Today, Gu An could only say that he was unwell and wouldn't go to the wasteland.
The whole day passed.
The flames were finally extinguished.
Layers upon layers of Xuanhuang Qi were added.
But Gu An could feel that he couldn't completely suppress it, and the flames would burn again tonight.
Afraid that it would burn bigger and bigger.
So, after extinguishing the flames, Gu An immediately took the box and left the forest.
Finally, he found a pond deep in the mountains.
Without hesitation, he entered the water, broke open the ground, and buried the thing inside.
He also set up some seals around it.
Only then did Gu An leave quickly.
Such treasures are for the virtuous to possess.
He was neither virtuous nor talented, so forget it.
That night, Gu An returned to his residence and breathed a sigh of relief.
In this way, if there were any disturbances in the back mountain, it would definitely attract the attention of the surrounding people.
There were already many spies in the wasteland, and if they discovered it, they would notify the various experts.
In this way, there would definitely be seniors to deal with that thing.
Anyway, he was powerless.
If the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up.
Only after returning to his residence did Gu An feel a little strange.
His body was indeed fine.
V
Every time he closed his eyes, he always felt like there was a ball of flames burning in front of him.
"What's going on?"
Gu An didn't think much about it, he just felt that he had a psychological shadow.
Maybe it will be fine after a while.
However, the next night, when Gu An closed his eyes again, he found that there seemed to be something about to appear in the flames, with mist surrounding the flames.
The third night.
Gu An saw the mist begin to churn.
On the fourth day, the mist began to be burned by the flames, and something was about to drill out.
His heart was pounding.
His intuition told him that he was going to die.
Once that thing drilled out, he might be difficult to escape.
He had been seen, and that gaze would not let him go.
Not daring to stay, Gu An opened the door and left the room.
When he came to the pool again, he was horrified to find that it had already been burned by flames.
The water in the pool had dried up, and the box was lying there, burning the surroundings.
The red eyes were wriggling madly, wanting to break through the transparent box.
Gu An was sweating profusely.
This time, he didn't even need to close his eyes to feel that this thing was burning all the time.
In the end, he chose to suppress it.
He didn't go back for three days and successfully extinguished the flames.
But looking at the box that could explode at any time, he was silent.
He couldn't suppress it for long at all.
Even if he kept running the Azure Lotus Xuanhuang Sutra.
In the end, Gu An thought of the Twelve Stars of Sui Chen, perhaps he could use this seal.
Currently, this was the strongest sealing technique he had come into contact with.
After sealing the heavy stone into the first star, Gu An cast the second star, Dan Que, on the box.
Then Dan Que covered the box and returned to Gu An's hand.
It looked like nothing was wrong.
But after returning to his residence, Gu An found that the flames began to burn in the second star.
Gu An summoned it out and saw the flames burning inside.
In at most three months, the second star, along with him, would be burned away.
Fortunately, the flames in front of him disappeared.
"No, this kind of thing should still be handed over."
This thing was simply not something he could provoke.
When the time comes, extinguish the fire once more and let the Blood Demon Monarch take a look. If there's no way, hand it over to Chu Meng. If the subordinates can't handle it, the superiors will always take care of it, right?
If it really doesn't work, then hand it over to the Hall of Merit.
The Hall of Merit wouldn't refuse, right?
No matter how you look at it, this thing is a good thing.
Senior Brother Mei might even have to thank him.
But he had to go back as soon as possible.
Therefore...
Speed up the progress.
Directly find the core spirit tree, so that he can go back.
Whether he has made a contribution is no longer important. If he continues to delay, he will die sooner or later on this inexplicable box.
Sure enough, he wasn't cautious enough.
He was reckless.
The next day, Gu An went to find the person in charge and told them that he was back.
After that, he returned to the third team to chop wood.
By the way, he used the Blood Spirit to spy on the location of the core spirit stone and let Lu Yan adjust the direction.
Although he also wanted to stay and chop wood, unfortunately, time waits for no one.
Cangmu Sect.
Lingzhu Peak.
Chu Meng sat in her seat, tinkering with spiritual herbs.
But suddenly, she felt her eyelids twitching violently.
"What's going on? I always feel like something troublesome is about to happen."
She immediately called Chunyu.
"Miss."
Chunyu respectfully saluted.
"Has there been any news from the clan?"
Chu Meng asked.
Chunyu shook her head: "No, but the clan should not be peaceful. It seems that many things have happened internally."
Chu Meng pondered slightly and said: "Has anything happened in the sect?"
"Nothing major."
Chunyu shook her head.
"Has there been any change in the Six Courtyards outside the peak?"
"Four of them have taken on missions, but they are all conventional missions. Even the troublemaking Dean of the First Courtyard has only gone to the wasteland. Nothing major will happen. In addition, I heard that many people died during the wasteland reclamation, but it wasn't this Dean."
"Why?"
"I heard that a Returning Void realm cultivator died, and that one was only in the late Golden Core stage, so naturally no one suspected anything."
Chu Meng was silent for a moment and said: "Is there anything wrong with those who died?"
Chunyu respectfully said: "The others are fine, but the Returning Void realm cultivator and the one who was with her should be spies from other places who came to the sect. The specific situation is still uncertain."
Chu Meng thought for a while and felt that these problems shouldn't be too big.
Cangmu Sect doesn't seem to be afraid of spies recently.