Nanci Jingshe is located in an elegant courtyard with willow trees swaying in the wind near the lake.

Liu Kongyi was meditating with his eyes closed.

In the center of the room stood an ancient bronze incense burner, with wisps of green smoke rising from it.

The room was like the main hall in a Taoist temple where people chanted scriptures and received morning prayers in the morning, filled with smoke that obscured other people's vision.

The beautiful face of the woman sitting on the futon began to become blurry.

The sandalwood, which could make ordinary people living down the mountain feel pure and free from desires for ten days with just one sniff, lingered around Liu Kongyi.

Her demeanor was surprisingly calm.

My mind also reached a kind of indescribable peace.

A few days ago, after listening to the debate between Mr. Zhao and Mr. Tao on "action and inaction" in shock, she lost her appetite and thought about it for several days. Suddenly, she had an epiphany and gained a deeper understanding of the Taoist concept of "loneliness and inaction".

Then she took advantage of the situation and, under the pretext of being close to Mr. Zhao, went to Mr. Tao for advice several times, and the latter was generous in giving her advice...

After some searching and asking, Liu Kongyi gained a lot of insights into the great Dao, and even his state in the late Haoran Realm seemed to have loosened a lot.

But she didn’t know if this was one of the three major illusions in a practitioner’s life. I was about to break through.

The other two illusions are: My chance has come, I can win...

So in the past few days, Liu Kongyi temporarily put aside all the things outside of his personal affairs, even his original intention of going to the academy to pretend to meet Mr. Zhao by chance, was temporarily put on hold.

Sit down in the training room with a clear mind and free from desires, and calmly try to catch the tail of opportunity...

At this moment, Liu Kongyi's mind reached a kind of selfless tranquility.

The silent magic circle in the yard blocked out all sounds from the outside world. The sandalwood from Mount Zhongnan, which was supplied by her family at a value of spirit stones per unit volume, smoothed out every ripple that unconsciously arose on the surface of the lake of her heart like gently stroking velvet cloth.

What is even more rare is that the quaint courtyard she is currently in, called 'Peony', is close to the lake and has been at the peak of the 'spiritual energy tide' within a radius of ten miles in recent days.

It can be understood that it is one of the courtyards with the most spiritual energy in Nanci Jingshe.

However, the internal laws of the distribution of spiritual energy in heaven and earth are very complex. The spiritual energy tide is the name given by the cultivators to the laws of spiritual energy changes. This also means that the "feng shui treasure land" suitable for the immortals to practice on the mountain is not static.

Nanci Jingshe, a place where female students gather for residence, was of course built by Taiqing Prefecture in a place with rich spiritual energy to provide convenience for the students' practice.

In Nanci Jingshe, where the average concentration of spiritual energy is not low, the quality of spiritual energy in different courtyards varies due to the tides of spiritual energy.

There are many things to pay attention to, so there will certainly be a lot of fights among the students of the mansion. Well, except for a few proud and aloof girls who really don't care about the amount of spiritual energy...

Therefore, on weekdays, the courtyards that are at the highest concentration of spiritual energy at each period of the spiritual energy tide must be the most sought-after residences, and every man gets his share.

Although Liu Kongyi's cultivation method tends to be lonely and inaction-oriented, she is not really "doing nothing" like the Taoist saints. Liu Kongyi still worked hard to inherit this "Peony" courtyard from a close senior sister from the previous class.

At the moment, it seems that long-term seclusion and cultivation can indeed give her a lot of help.

At this moment, Liu Kongyi, who was in a lonely state of mind, could sense the waves of spiritual energy rising from certain veins below. Her Dantian was efficiently purifying and washing the "impulsive" spiritual energy, transporting it to the meridians like a vast ocean...

While Liu Kongyi was looking inward calmly, her red lips couldn't help but curl up slightly.

"The right time, the right place, and the right people... Just give me another half a decade, and I will definitely reach the bottleneck of the Tianzhi realm, and finally... I will catch up with those monsters of the same class..."

Before the 'thought' in Liu Kongyi's heart could fully emerge, something strange happened in the house filled with misty smoke.

The sandalwood incense smoke that originally filled the entire house was completely shattered!

The long wisps of green smoke instantly turned into fine and dense white mist.

The Peony Courtyard, which at first looked like a Buddhist temple, suddenly turned into a grove filled with morning mist.

Liu Kongyi suddenly opened his eyes and looked around in panic, "This spiritual energy fluctuation..."

But before she could investigate the source of the spiritual energy fluctuations that completely shattered the Pure Heart Sandalwood, the "white fog" in the whole room once again caused an unexpected phenomenon for her.

The white mist, which was almost static a second ago, suddenly changed and moved violently.

It's like a bowl of porridge with a spoon poked into it and stirred wildly.

Soon, the white mist stirred by the invisible spoon began to form a huge cyclone.

Looking down from the ceiling inside the house,

The counterclockwise white mist cyclones collectively 'sank' downwards.

Then, it sank again.

Like a "white rice ball" being stepped on by the bare feet of a fairy from heaven, they pressed madly down on the bluestone floor of the house.

Liu Kongyi stood up suddenly as if her butt was scalded.

Look down.

The loose white mist that had covered the entire room not long ago was now being compressed by some force into a dense mist barrier under her feet, just reaching her smooth ankles.

But this was not the most shocking thing for the fairy from Taiyi Mansion who was famous far and wide.

"My aura tide, where's the aura!"

She clutched her sleeves with both hands and stared around.

The changes in the smoke in the room just now were just an additional manifestation of the powerful change in spiritual energy that was happening at this moment.

Or it could be said to be just an insignificant aftermath, a sight seen by mortal eyes.

In Liu Kongyi's spiritual consciousness, the spiritual energy of the surrounding heaven and earth was being rapidly drawn away by some invisible force and returned to the earth's spiritual veins at a speed that even she, a cultivator at the Haoran Realm, could sense...

It was like there was a water pump running at full power, madly absorbing spiritual energy, and a vortex cyclone was actually formed in the house.

But now, the cyclone has weakened because...

Liu Kongyi's eyes widened as she lowered her head and murmured, "The spiritual energy in my yard... has been drained away!?"

What made Liu Kongyi feel even more outrageous was that her family had spent a lot of spirit stones to set up a spirit gathering formation in her Peony Courtyard, and there were also a lot of formations to maintain the spiritual energy that she didn't have the patience to remember.

Not to mention stealing the earth energy from the courtyard of the sisters next door, but at least give her a sense of "something in but nothing out" so that it can't be stolen by others.

But now, someone had drained all the earth energy from her yard right in front of her!

Even the arrays in the courtyard were shaky and could no longer be maintained, and the basic spiritual energy was about to be drained away...

Is it tolerable or intolerable?

Liu Kongyi stomped his foot to disperse the fog on the ground and shouted angrily to the sky: "Who is it!"

At this time, the silent magic circle that could no longer be maintained finally let in the noisy sound outside the courtyard.

Fairy Liu, who was supposed to be pure-hearted and cultivate the lonely and inaction way, gritted her teeth, took off her shoes, picked up her life-saving magic weapon, and rushed out the door, wanting to fight with that bitch.

Liu Kongyi had just run out of the closed training room and was stunned when his five senses suddenly felt the vastness.

Because the source that was madly absorbing the spiritual energy in "Peony Courtyard" was not near her yard, but was actually very far away, in the southeast direction of Nanci Jingshe!

“This, this is…”

Liu Kongyi turned her head and immediately jumped onto the roof, but then she was stunned again.

She was not the only one who jumped onto the roof to observe the source.

Front, back, left, right, and in all directions... as long as she could see, there were women standing on almost every rooftop.

The senior and junior sisters who lived near her all ran out like her.

Some of them were like Liu Kongyi, running out angrily with weapons in hand.

Some are gentler and kinder, frowning slightly and tilting their heads in confusion.

Some were even more outrageous, bold and daring, wearing only a bathrobe with wet hair; or wearing a tight-fitting bellyband and underwear, with long hair disheveled and uncombed, and jumping onto the roof barefoot, and started looking for someone with their hands on their hips; no one knew what they were doing in the house just now...

Liu Kongyi: "..."

But it is understandable, after all, it is a "girls' dormitory" and all the people living there are female students from the prefecture.

So they were all like her, with all the spiritual energy in the courtyard being stolen by some 'thief'?

Liu Kongyi looked around in shock.

At this time, not only here, but also the Nanci Jingshe, which covers an area of ​​several miles, is no longer as peaceful and tranquil as before with everyone doing their own things.

From south to north and from east to west in the monastery, almost all the female students were out, and there was a lot of noise. As far as Liu Kongyi could remember, even festivals were not so lively.

At this moment, the eyes of all the women on the roof were attracted by the dramatic movement of the huge spiritual energy in the southeast direction of the temple.

They stretched their necks to look around, with different expressions on their faces.

"Who is stealing my spiritual energy?" a woman asked in a cold voice.

"It's in the southeast corner of the temple."

"What a big deal! Could it be that a senior sister who is in seclusion in some mansion has condensed a golden elixir?" A female student was curious.

"The senior sister who is in seclusion in the mansion to reach the Golden Core Realm is not in the Nanci Jingshe. There is a special cave in the mansion. Besides...what kind of Golden Core is she trying to condense? She hasn't even finished absorbing the spiritual energy, and there is no sign of stopping. The spiritual energy in this vein is almost exhausted..."

"Wait, look at that spot in the sky!" The sharp-eyed female student suddenly pointed to a spot in the southeast direction.

Hearing the voice, Liu Kongyi looked over along with the other girls.

In the sky above a remote courtyard, a strange light was emanating from a small building in the courtyard below, and it was getting stronger and stronger...

"What kind of vision is this?" a woman asked in a clear voice.

Everyone looked at each other carefully, and no one spoke for a while. Liu Kongyi frowned. She often dealt with Confucian scholars in Linlu Academy, and suddenly she felt that this phenomenon seemed familiar... Well, it was also because the impact range of this phenomenon was a bit too exaggerated, so she was unable to react for a while, or it was beyond her cognition.

Just as Liu Kongyi was frowning and thinking hard, a female student suddenly pointed at that place and said:

"Is the courtyard below...Zhao Junior Sister's Qinglian Pavilion?"

The atmosphere among the girls suddenly became quiet.

The field was silent for a moment, two moments, three moments...

Then, there was another round of noisy discussions in Nanci Jingshe, even louder than before.

The roof of Peony Courtyard.

Liu Kongyi was staring at the familiar sight in the southeast sky, and suddenly a figure of a young scholar popped up in his mind, as well as the poem "Clouds break, the moon comes, and the flowers play with shadows" that he had casually changed a word to make into a masterpiece...

"Master Zhao..."

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