Chapter 280 I asked you, who are you talking to telepathically?!
Saint Changgen returned to the Ghost Path Temple late at night.
The main hall of the sanctuary was deserted. The items on the two tables inside had changed drastically since he left. On the recliner where his eldest disciple usually rested, only a thin white blanket remained, half of it lying on the floor.
The young apprentice had only written half of the paper on the table, and judging from the dried ink marks, it seemed he hadn't been here for quite some time.
The Sage Changgen fell silent.
Without his eldest disciple, he felt as if he had returned to a long time ago. The vast Ghost Path Sanctuary was completely silent, without a single person in sight, only silent portraits and candlelight.
It wasn't until morning that the eldest disciple carried the food box and stepped across the threshold outside the hall.
Mei Liangyu walked into the main hall of the temple with a natural expression, placed the food box on the table, pulled up a chair and sat down next to it, asking without looking up, "Master, how did your competition with the mechanical experts go this time?"
Sage Changgen: "I am only helping to test the new mechanism, not competing with the mechanics master."
Mei Liangyu: "Isn't this the same thing?"
Chang Gen the Sage then said, "The Eight Winds Cage of the Mechanists is even better."
"You can imprison Master?" Mei Liangyu looked up, surprised. "Didn't it fail you last time?"
Chang Gen the Sage: "They made some improvements to the Eight Winds Cage."
Mei Liangyu asked, "Who changed it?"
“Master of the Baili family,” said the Sage Changgen, “Baili Chi.”
Upon hearing this name, Mei Liangyu conjured up an image of a figure in a black cloak, and the man's voice echoed in his ears. He forcibly suppressed these memories and calmly chatted with his master, saying, "This old man also participated in the design of the Eight Winds Cage's mechanisms?"
"Of the four great families specializing in mechanical engineering, the Wen Yang and Situ families excel in innovative structural designs for mechanical engineering, while the Murong and Baili families are adept at analyzing and utilizing Qi," said Sage Chang Gen. "Previously, only the Wen Yang and Situ families participated in the construction of the Eight Winds Cage. Now that the Murong and Baili families have also joined, the power of the Eight Winds Cage should not be underestimated."
"No other saint besides you has had the chance to be imprisoned by the Eight Winds." Mei Liangyu chuckled, calculating the time as he opened the food box, took out the contents, and arranged them. "So, shall we admit defeat this time?"
Sage Changgen said, "I already have a plan to break through the Eight Winds Cage. I'll try again next time."
Those in the government still need to keep working hard.
However, even if all four families mobilized together, they wouldn't be able to defeat Master, would they? Mei Liangyu had a high estimate of Master's strength, but the four great mechanical families combined wouldn't be able to defeat this Ghost Dao Venerable.
Mei Liangyu caught a glimpse of Yu Sui entering and then sat back down at the table.
"Master!" Yu Sui ran into the main hall with a smile.
The Sage Changgen responded, "I am here."
Yu Sui looked up at the portrait above with longing eyes, and Mei Liangyu couldn't help but tease her: "What about the rules? You called him Master, why didn't you call him Senior Brother?"
“Senior brother is here too!” Yu Sui turned her eyes to look at him again, and said innocently, “I didn’t see him just now.”
Mei Liangyu glanced at her sideways, ignoring her, and listened to Yu Sui and his master chattering away while slowly eating his breakfast.
Yu Sui took the initiative to talk to Saint Chang Gen about the orchid poison in the academy, telling her master that she was still in the observation period and could not come to the Ghost Path Holy Hall every day to avoid arousing suspicion from the instructors.
The Sage Changgen expressed his understanding and believed that his disciple was innocent.
Yu Sui sighed in the end, "I never expected Dean Ou to be this kind of person. When he first investigated the Lan Poison in the outer city, didn't he even deceive Master?"
Mei Liangyu: "Are you saying that Master is incompetent?"
Yu Sui shook her head repeatedly: "I mean, Dean Ou is really too wicked!"
"That operation was commanded by Ou Rushuang, and I was responsible for destroying the discovered strongholds." Saint Changgen paused, then asked Yu Sui, "Did he take you to the mirage on his own initiative?"
Yu Sui nodded: "Mm!"
The sage Chang Gen said, "His heart is worthy of condemnation."
He then asked, "Did Xuan Kui also send people to kill your senior brother?"
Yu Sui continued to nod.
The Sage Chang Gen said, "He deserved to die."
He knew he wouldn't get anything out of his rebellious eldest disciple, so he always asked his obedient youngest disciple.
Yu Sui answered all of them one by one, while Mei Liangyu sat beside him, occasionally chiming in with a few words, either sarcastic or explanatory, but mostly just eating.
After Yu Sui finished talking with his master, he looked down and saw that there were only three spring pancakes and a bowl of porridge left on the table.
Yu Sui paused with her outstretched chopsticks, then looked up at Mei Liangyu. Her senior brother had already finished eating and drinking and was playing with the Wind Listening Ruler, without even glancing at her.
"Senior brother," Yu Sui called out to him.
"Hmm?" Mei Liangyu didn't look up.
Yu Sui lowered her head and ate her spring pancake: "It's nothing."
Mei Liangyu then raised her head from the Wind Listening Ruler and looked at the person sitting opposite her. She caught a glimpse of the woman's slightly furrowed brows and a wronged expression, and couldn't help but smile.
“Look inside the box,” he said.
Yu Sui then took the food box and looked inside, discovering that there were still some left inside.
The person who was just frowning suddenly became all smiles.
Saint Changgen silently observed his disciples and noticed that they were getting along better and better.
Yu Sui breathed a sigh of relief after learning from his master that he truly knew nothing about Xuan Kui and Ou Rushuang's affairs. If his master were like Zou Qian, knowing everything but saying nothing, then things would be troublesome.
Fortunately, Master has only been concerned with the competition with the Mechanical Masters lately and is not very concerned about Xuan Kui's matter.
Chang Gen Sheng Zhe's stance on the Lan Du matter was very clear: he was against it and believed that Ou Ru Shuang deserved to die. Even if Xuan Kui hadn't killed Mei Liang Yu, he still thought she deserved to die.
Yu Sui could go out to attend classes and cultivate normally, just like Nian Qiuyan and the others, but recently she has been focusing on the Mountain Spirit, so she returned to her dormitory after leaving the Ghost Path Holy Hall.
In the evening, Mei Liangyu came to talk to her.
“Master is back. I can’t take Yan Xiaochuan to the outer city often, so I’ve researched a new mechanical technique and would like you to help me test it out.” Mei Liangyu walked to the table in the main room and sat down.
Yu Sui became interested and got up from the bedside: "What kind of mechanism is it?"
Mei Liangyu took out a pair of black double-ringed jade from his sleeve. The jade was translucent, but the edges were not very smooth because of the incantations carved on them.
Both the outer and inner sides of the ring are densely engraved with complex and incomprehensible runes and incantations.
Yu Sui walked closer and took a look, and found that the pair of double-ringed jade seemed to be magnetically attracted to each other. Even without a long thread connecting them, they would not fall, but would float and rotate around each other.
The double-ringed jade was only the size of Yu Sui's wrist. Mei Liangyu handed it forward, and Yu Sui reached out to take it.
She carefully examined the indentations on the edge of the double-ringed jade and discovered that the carving seemed to use a mortise and tenon structure, with the dense indentations on the two double-ringed jade pieces able to be connected and interlocked.
“This is the Purple Void Jade from Penglai Island. It has been refined by the Five Elements and forged into a double ring shape,” Mei Liangyu explained to Yu Sui. “The runes and incantations I carved are all related to teleportation, detecting and receiving the Qi of the Five Elements. If successful, it can make a person vaporize and teleport over long distances.”
Yu Sui: "Qi transformation?"
Mei Liangyu replied, “All things are embodied by Qi, and so are humans. Qi transformation is the temporary decomposition of the physical body, which is then propagated and recombined in the form of Qi. The advantage of learning the Ghost Daoist school is that it allows one to better apply the Nine Schools of Ghost Daoist techniques to mechanical arts.”
After hearing this, Yu Sui winked at him, and the amazement in her eyes made Mei Liangyu feel satisfied.
He reached out and picked up a Purple Jade Ring: "When the two rings become interlocked, it means that the energy at both ends is connected, and the transmission will be successful."
As soon as the words fell, Yu Sui heard a crisp click, and the two rings, tightly interlocked, rolled around once and became a chain.
"Senior brother, how did you carve so many runes?" Yu Sui asked curiously.
Mei Liangyu stretched out a hand and moved her slender fingers one by one: "Use your hands."
Yu Sui was taken aback by his calm and confident demeanor.
"Senior brother, have you ever successfully teleported using the Purple Void Jade?" she asked again.
Mei Liangyu nodded. If it were useless, he wouldn't have come to find Yu Sui.
"There are distance limitations; so far, I've only succeeded with short distances. What I want to improve is to increase the distance."
Yu Sui: "How close is 'short distance'?"
Mei Liangyu pointed to the area from the doorway to the table.
Yu Sui: "..."
Okay, then you could call it teleportation.
"How do I use this?" She sat down and studied it carefully.
Mei Liangyu took out another piece of Purple Void Double Ring Jade and taught Yu Sui to adjust the characters and incantations on the double ring jade. After finding incantations with the same frequency and adjusting them, he stored his own energy into the Purple Void Jade.
"After the two sets of Purple Void Jade are combined, as long as you link them together, you can activate the teleportation."
Yu Sui held the Purple Void Double Ring Jade in his hand and played with it. Hearing this, he looked up and said, "Senior brother, this seems more like a one-sided summoning."
Mei Liangyu said, "Only a Zixu Jade with pre-mixed incantations and stored Qi can do this, so there are quite a few limitations."
He paused for a moment, then added, "Isn't that great? If Yan Xiaochuan encounters someone he can't beat, he can just summon me. And I can summon him directly from the Sea Eye."
Yu Sui couldn't help but laugh, picking up the Purple Jade and waving it in front of him: "Good, good, good, Senior Brother, the summoning device you made is the most powerful in the world!"
Summoning device?
Mei Liangyu raised an eyebrow and said, "You can call it that if you want."
After understanding the function of the Purple Void Double Ring Jade, Yu Sui worked with Mei Liangyu to improve its teleportation distance.
Yu Sui was also able to learn a lot about mechanical arts from Mei Liangyu.
However, Mei Liangyu's forging workshop was not in the residence, so when improvements were needed, after discussing his ideas with Yu Sui, he would go back to his own workshop to continue making adjustments.
The two used a wind-listening ruler to transmit their voices, and Yu Sui could occasionally hear the clanging and banging sounds coming from her senior brother's side. Mei Liangyu didn't speak when he was focused, and Yu Sui, listening to the crisp knocking sounds, unknowingly fell asleep.
Mei Liangyu woke Yu Sui up and said that he was downstairs at the dormitory: "Try calling him."
With a casual press, Yu Sui transformed the Purple Void Double Ring Jade into a linked ring with a click. The black jade shimmered slightly, its light lustrous.
She sat up from the bedside, rolled her eyes and looked around the room, trying to see where Mei Liangyu would come from, but she didn't see a single ghost.
Yu Sui picked up the Wind Listening Ruler and asked, "Senior Brother?"
Mei Liangyu clicked his tongue lightly and said, "It seems the distance is still not enough. I'll go up one level at a time and see where the limit is this time."
After saying that, he entered the Dragon Ladder.
Yu Sui responded, and after each floor he went up, he pressed the Purple Void Double Ring Jade.
The dragon ladder had only gone up a few floors when it was stopped. Mei Liangyu raised her eyelids, about to stop the people outside from coming in, when she saw Gu Gan standing at the entrance of the dragon ladder.
When Gu Gan saw Mei Liangyu inside the dragon ladder, he frowned but said nothing and stepped inside.
Mei Liangyu pointed at the Wind Listening Ruler and said to Yu Sui, "Wait a moment."
Yu Sui asked, "What's wrong?"
Gu Gan turned around in surprise upon hearing the voice.
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