Chapter 437 My Way is Complete, Undercurrents in the Sky River
The rosy glow emerged from Senior Sister Zhang, illuminating the nine islands of the Heavenly Palace. Uncle Huang could even hear the screams from the distant Paradise Island.
"What's wrong?"
An anxious voice came closer and closer, and Uncle Pang appeared in front of everyone, obviously attracted by the strange phenomenon of heaven and earth.
“Wu Yi…” Uncle Huang waved his hand, signaling him to lower his voice, and said softly, “Wu Yi, I have realized the truth.”
Uncle Pang was slightly stunned, his eyes fixed on Sister Zhang, his fingers trembling slightly: "Enlightenment?"
"Yes, Zheng Fa sent her a formation, and she fell into a state of enlightenment."
When Master Pang heard this, a smile suddenly bloomed on his face, as if he was about to laugh, but he lowered his voice and said, "Okay, okay!"
Uncle Huang naturally understood what he was happy about.
For a cultivator to attain enlightenment is often a great opportunity, and when he attains enlightenment, his cultivation often improves greatly, and there may even be a period of rapid progress.
But this state is hard to come by, she has never experienced it, only read about it in some casual notes. According to rumors in the Xuanwei world, people who have attained enlightenment can at least achieve the state of transformation in the future! Wuyi is now enlightened.
It is a great thing for Wuyi and Jiushan Sect!
Thinking of this, she glanced at the jade tube in Wu Yi's hand, was silent for a moment, then looked at Zheng Fa again, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart: "Zheng Fa's birthday gift is actually an opportunity for enlightenment... From ancient times to the present, there is probably nothing more precious in the Xuanwei Realm..."
Uncle Pang did not leave either. Instead, he followed Uncle Huang and Zheng Fa to protect Sister Zhang.
Senior Sister Zhang sat cross-legged on the chaise longue, her long eyelashes falling on her cheeks, her temperament becoming colder and calmer day by day. The colorful rays of light above her head shone on her face, making her skin look even more crystal clear.
Half a month passed in a flash.
Senior Sister Zhang suddenly opened her eyes, looked up, and two white rays of light shot out from her eyes, shooting straight into the sky.
Then, her body turned into the most beautiful and pure colored glass, and the Nascent Soul in her Dantian jumped out from the top of her head, standing cross-legged on the rosy glow.
The spiritual energy in the sky seemed to be boiling, and the colorful clouds in the sky rolled back onto Senior Sister Zhang's three-headed Nascent Soul, wrapping it up like a cocoon.
For a moment, everyone could not see the scene in the rosy glow. They only saw a neon ball in the sky, which was getting bigger and smaller, and it seemed to be breathing.
The ball of light "breathes" a hundred times, and suddenly exploded, with dazzling light shooting out in all directions.
Even Uncle Huang and his three Yuanyings couldn't help but squint their eyes. When they looked more carefully, they saw Sister Zhang's Yuanying standing in the air, graceful and elegant, indistinguishable from her real body.
"Late Nascent Soul stage?"
Uncle Huang opened his mouth in confusion, and heard Uncle Pang murmuring as if in a dream. His tone was one of surprise, envy, and even a little inferiority.
Uncle Huang closed his mouth silently.
Wuyi's cultivation has greatly improved, so of course she is happy.
But Wuyi's cultivation level surpassed hers, and she felt... complicated.
"How long has it been?"
The muttering of Mr. Pang made her calculate in her mind. It has only been five or six years since Wuyi condensed her Nascent Soul, but now she has become a great cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage?
This speed is so astonishing that it is not even slower than Zheng Fa who achieved the Nascent Soul stage in less than ten years! You have to know that she and Pang wasted thousands of years in the early and middle stages of the Nascent Soul stage...
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but look at the jade tube again. She actually didn't miss her dead Taoist partner that much - he had given her so many birthday gifts, but he didn't even give her a jade tube that could help her attain enlightenment.
Too lazy to miss.
Senior Sister Zhang's Nascent Soul stood in the air, holding the Flying Immortal Pen in her hand. She pointed at the air in front of her, and a rune array diagram took shape at the tip of the pen.
There seem to be billions of runes in this formation, which are scattered and complicated, but they seem to be one and the same, connected by Qi.
“Nine Chapters of Calculation…” Senior Sister Zhang’s Nascent Soul uttered a sound as soft as gold and jade, “My path… is complete!”
She looked down at Zheng Fa, her eyes shining like ripples on the water, and then she leaped up and flew into the body.
Everyone looked at Senior Sister Zhang as she opened her eyes, as if she had finished her enlightenment, and they all walked towards her.
"Senior Sister!"
Senior Sister Yuan rushed to Senior Sister Zhang, her eyes full of envy: "You are in the late Nascent Soul stage?"
Senior Sister Zhang nodded with a smile: "Yes, Master, I am ready to transform into a spirit."
Uncle Huang was even more pleased when he heard this: "After two Jiazi years, he was able to reach the Spiritual Transformation stage... I never thought that I would have such a powerful disciple!"
"Isn't there such a powerful disciple-in-law?"
Senior Sister Yuan blinked and asked back, with a hint of defending the injustice.
Uncle Huang glanced at Zheng Fa, and his tone was unusually teasing: "Isn't it because my disciple is so capable that he can find such a son-in-law?"
“…”
Senior Sister Yuan's eyes were filled with confusion, as if she felt that it made sense and could not be refuted. She rolled her eyes and suddenly looked at Senior Sister Zhang hesitantly and said:
"That jade tube..."
"Um?"
"Can I see it?" Senior Sister Yuan said cautiously, and swore, "I will give you all my snacks for the next year!"
A flash of pain flashed across her face, and it was obvious that she was reluctant to part with it, but the look she gave the jade tube was full of greed.
Senior Sister Zhang glanced at Zheng Fa, and when she saw Zheng Fa nodding at her, she asked Senior Sister Yuan, "Do you want to learn?"
"Yeah! I want to attain enlightenment too!"
Senior Sister Zhang handed over the jade tube: "The snacks are not necessary, Master, you can also take a look, this formation will be of great use in the future."
Upon hearing this, Senior Sister Yuan smiled brightly, grabbed the jade tube and began to read it.
After just two or three breaths, Senior Sister Yuan's claws loosened and the jade tube slipped from her palm.
Uncle Huang waved his hand and took the jade tube that was about to fall to the ground into his palm, with a look of fear on his face: "Why did you throw it away?"
"I...I have a headache."
Senior Sister Yuan covered her forehead with her hands, and it seemed that she was feeling some phantom pain.
"Headache? I think you are a clueless bird!"
Uncle Huang directed his spiritual consciousness towards the jade tube. After a moment, he opened his eyes expressionlessly and handed the jade tube to Uncle Pang who was eager to try.
After Uncle Pang saw it, he was silent for a while. After a while, he said, "The formation is not bad... Well, there is something going on at the Jiushan Military Academy. It has delayed me for half a month. I have to go take a look."
Uncle Huang followed closely behind and told Sister Zhang, "I'll go too. You've just made great progress in your cultivation, so you need a few days to consolidate it."
After saying that, the two of them nodded to Zheng Fa and the others, then slipped out of the courtyard.
The brother and sister walked side by side in silence until they reached the Zhengxian Island, then they looked at each other and simultaneously covered their foreheads and grimaced.
…
In the small courtyard, Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Zhang watched the two elders walk away. They held their breath for a long time before they shook their heads and laughed.
As for the Nine Chapter Array, in Zheng Fa's opinion, the only two people in Xuanwei Realm who can understand it are himself and Senior Sister Zhang.
Firstly, this formation is extremely complex, and the operating system constructed with talismans as the underlying language has an astonishing amount of code.
If you don't have certain professional knowledge and want to learn this, it would be strange if your head doesn't explode.
On the other hand, the Nine Chapters of Array is unprecedented in the Xuanwei Realm.
Among the mysterious formations that Zheng Fa knew, there were some extremely powerful ones that were used for the purpose of deduction and had never been seen before.
Not to mention, the Nine Chapters Array is based on mathematical logic, or even symbolic logic...
In Zheng Fa's opinion, there is huge room for improvement for Xuanwei monks in this regard.
“I’m afraid the two uncles don’t understand.” Zheng Fa shook his head and sighed softly, “They just think that you, Senior Sister, suddenly realized something, but they don’t know that it’s actually the result of years of hard work.”
The fact that Senior Sister Zhang was able to gain so many benefits from the Nine Chapter Array was actually the result of a long period of accumulation.
The strangeness of the Yuanling Taoist body.
Her own talent, interest and love for mathematics.
Several times of experience in manipulating the Nine Mountains Seal.
Of course, the most important thing was that Zheng Fa brought her many computer theory books.
Many Xuanwei cultivators actually cannot understand these books, but Senior Sister Zhang has read most of them carefully.
Being able to independently create a rough Nine Chapters Array... represents Senior Sister Zhang’s attainments.
Thinking of this, Zheng Fa said, "However, in the future, disciples of Jiushan Sect will have to learn an additional formation course."
Senior Sister Zhang nodded gently: "Yes, this Nine Chapter Array Deduction ability is extremely useful."
"Sister, I am planning to set up the Nine Chapters Array on the University Island. I hope you will take charge."
Although the Nine Chapters of Arithmetic has not yet perfected artificial intelligence - the theory is not difficult, but the implementation is difficult.
What Zheng Fa did in modern times was actually equivalent to simplifying Senior Sister Zhang’s original calculation array, which was a subtraction.
However, various artificial intelligence algorithms are doing addition, and they have to consider the properties of the spirit stone and the selection of talismans, so they are much more complicated.
But this does not mean that they cannot use the Nine Chapter Array.
"What do you want to deduce? The Heaven and Earth Gods Array? The Divine Transformation Technique?"
"Of course, we need to deduce the Heaven and Earth God Array." Zheng Fa nodded, "But the most important thing is actually to control the allocation of materials in the Nine Mountains Realm."
"Material allocation?"
"Senior Sister, don't you think that the Nine Mountains Realm is a huge waste now?"
Zheng Fa said.
"Of course I know, but there's nothing I can do..."
There is no way.
To a certain extent, the economic operation of the Jiushan Realm is entirely determined by the wishes of Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Zhang.
Of course, he and Senior Sister Zhang would not want to do anything harmful to the Nine Mountains Realm, but wanting to do good things... does not mean that there will not be bad consequences.
"Jiushan... No, the entire economic system of Xuanwei Realm is full of loopholes." Zheng Fa said, "Spirit Stone as a currency is not rational in itself and cannot meet the needs of a large number of commodities."
"On the other hand, trade is full of barriers, such as Haori Mountain and my Jiushan Sect."
Zheng Fa was not a man who was born with knowledge. After he took charge of the Nine Mountains Realm, he also found a lot of books to read in modern times.
In his opinion, there is no soil for a market economy in the Jiushan Sect today - the Xuanwei Realm has not even completed the social division of labor.
Not to mention, the Nine Mountains Realm simply does not have enough time to develop.
That’s why the First Fifty Year Plan came into being.
But this doesn’t mean there are no problems. On the contrary, there are big problems! This kind of economic plan requires extremely high data capabilities...
Just among the products within the Jiushan Sect, there are tens of thousands of kinds of spiritual materials needed by cultivators.
Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Zhang have to make plans and issue instructions on how much of each spiritual material needs to be produced, how much is consumed, and how to allocate resources.
The simplest example is that it requires a huge amount of calculation to determine what kind of elixir to produce in the medicine garden to meet the needs of the disciples of the Jiushan Sect.
Not to mention that Senior Sister Zhang is still a human being, even if she were really a computer... she would have to be burned.
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In the past, Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Zhang had no choice but to focus on the big things and put their manpower and resources on the most important projects.
It cannot be said to be bad, but the amount of resources and time wasted is also enormous.
"Senior Sister, I want to use the Nine Chapters Array to allocate resources within the realm to maximize resource utilization." Zheng Fazhao told Senior Sister Zhang about his idea.
"It just so happens that we can also input the data collected by Uncle Pang into the formation."
"In my opinion, using this method to utilize the Nine Mountains Array is the fastest way to develop the Nine Mountains Realm. Of course, deducing the array formation skills is also necessary. It's just not the primary task."
Zheng Fa's thoughts can be clearly stated in one sentence - Stupid, the problem is economics! The mysterious world and the modern world are very different, but human nature is not that different, and naturally follows roughly the same economic laws.
Formations or various techniques may be able to enhance the martial arts of the Jiushan Sect, but they cannot fundamentally improve the strength of the Jiushan Sect.
Some knowledge may seem harmless, but it is powerful enough to become a dragon-slaying technique.
Senior Sister Yuan was confused as she listened, her mind went blank, and she couldn't help but turn her gaze to Senior Sister Zhang.
Looking at Senior Sister Zhang's expression, Senior Sister Yuan nodded and understood that Junior Brother was right! After all, Senior Sister's eyes were almost glued to Junior Brother!
"Senior Sister, and...if we are to deduce a technique, I think we should deduce your method of incarnation first."
Zheng Fa said again.
Hearing this, Senior Sister Zhang's eyes softened, but she shook her head and said, "When I was enlightened, I actually tried to deduce the path to spiritual transformation, but I was still missing something."
"Um?"
"The method of the Great Free Demon Ancestor does not match my path."
Zheng Fa fell into deep thought after hearing this. The method of the Great Free Demon Ancestor was, after all, the Dharmakaya of the Demon Sect.
If the magic method doesn't work...
What about Haori Mountain?
Oh, yes, there is also the Tianhe School!
I don’t know if Fairy Xie can get the Xianjian sword skills.
…
It has been some time since Xie Qingxue returned to Tianhe Sect.
But she did not rashly explore the Xianjian lineage's skills for Zheng Fa - after all, this was the Tianhe School's true teaching of the Incarnation of the Gods, and even she, the contemporary senior sister of the true teachings, could not learn it.
How could I give it to Zheng Fa so easily?
She walked out of the Sutra Building, frowning and looking embarrassed.
There were very few records about the Four Meridians’ true teachings in the building, some of which she was not even qualified to read.
It was kept so secret from her, so it would be extremely difficult to give it to Zheng Fa.
She thought about it and realized that the only breakthrough might be her master—if Zheng Fa's guess about her master was true.
Is it true?
Thinking about the people and things she had seen since returning home, Xie Qingxue frowned, unable to make a decision.
After thinking for a moment, she turned around and flew towards the master's hall.
The hall was still deserted and empty, with only Sect Leader Yan sitting on a cushion, practicing with his eyes lowered.
Xie Qingxue stood in front of her master, head lowered, waiting quietly, thinking about what to say.
"Qingxue?"
"Greetings, Master."
"What do you want to talk to me about?"
Xie Qingxue gritted her teeth and asked, "Master, Xuanwei seems to be in chaos. How should my junior brother and I deal with it?"
Sect Leader Yan raised his head and looked at his disciple.
"Nine Mountain Sect."
"The Jiushan Sect is just starting out, and its foundation is weak. Why don't you return?"
Sect Master Yan looked at her, and a look of understanding flashed across his face: "The sect is dangerous, I have no time to worry about you two."
"Then why don't you join the Four Sects?"
"...If you want to seek refuge, will they accept you?"
Xie Qingxue nodded silently, and suddenly tightened her grip on the Qingping Sword, whispering:
"I think that now that my junior brother is outside, his cultivation is improving rapidly."
Sect Leader Yan nodded slightly without saying anything, but just looked at Xie Qingxue with an unfathomable expression.
Xie Qingxue continued:
"But he is in the Hundred Immortals Alliance after all. It will be difficult for him to receive instruction from within the sect in the future." Xie Qingxue lowered her head and said softly, "If...something changes within the sect, there will be no way forward."
There was silence in the hall.
"So what do you want to say?"
"I was thinking, if Master can teach me the true secrets of our sect, wouldn't it be convenient for me to pass it on to my junior fellow apprentice in the future?"
The hall was silent for a while longer.
"The secret method? Which one does he want to learn?"
"Junior brother said that he got a formation for refining the Xian Xian Sword some time ago. I think he has a connection with the Xian Xian Sword."
Sect Master Yan was shocked and stared at Xie Qingxue: "The formation to refine the Immortal Sword?"
"yes."
"He has a good chance."
After a long time, Sect Leader Yan finally let out a sigh of relief.
"Unfortunately it's not enough."
"not enough?"
"This opportunity is not enough for him to learn the secrets of our sect..."
“Master…”
“But…” Sect Master Yan looked at her and suddenly curled his lips. “If he himself has a divine transformation technique that is useful for refining the Xian Xian Sword, this opportunity would be enough.”
Hearing this, Xie Qingxue looked at Sect Leader Yan, and saw that he was looking at her with no smile in his eyes.
She was silent for a while, then nodded slightly, bowed silently, and left the hall.
…
Watching her figure disappear into the sky, Sect Leader Yan slowly closed his eyes again.
"Your disciple..." A smiling voice came from the darkness of the hall, "is not afraid of you causing trouble."
Suddenly, there was one more person in the hall, but Sect Leader Yan remained motionless, his eyelids didn't even twitch, as if he had known about it for a long time.
The Nine Nether Demon Ancestor stood behind him, also naturally and openly.
It seemed that to the people of the Demon Sect, the Tianhe Sect, which was fraught with danger, was like their own home.
"She's a smart person. She's been back for so many days, I'm afraid she must have figured out something."
"More than just smart." Upon hearing this, the Nine Nether Demon Ancestor nodded in approval, "I sense a very familiar aura from her. Given time, I'm afraid she will be able to far surpass you."
"Given the time..." Sect Leader Yan looked up at the sky, "How much time is left?"
Upon hearing this, the Nine Nether Demon Ancestor also shook his head, as if he couldn't refute it: "Have you decided?"
"The arrow is on the string and has to be shot."
"Then why do you still hold on to the secret techniques of your sect?"
Upon hearing this, Sect Leader Yan looked at him inexplicably and cleverly, as if he thought the question was a bit silly: "Zheng Fa wants to master the art of transformation, what does it have to do with me? He is not really my son, why should I give it to him?"
The Nine Nether Demon Ancestor was speechless, and then asked again: "So you want the skills of Hao Ri Mountain?"
"I have no shortage of formations, but if I could obtain the true secrets of Haori Mountain, I would be able to see the strengths and weaknesses of Haori Mountain and have a better chance of winning."
The Nine Nether Demon Ancestor nodded after hearing this, and after a while he said, "I think you are also dreaming."
“…”
"If you are not willing to give him the Divine Transformation Technique, how could Hao Rishan give it to him?" The Nine Nether Demon Ancestor sneered, "Is Hao Rishan stupid?"
(End of this chapter)
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