Chapter 40 Chapter 40 Pixixi
Yun Miao: "What is Yuanhui?"
Tan Xiaobai opened his folding fan and prepared to help the boss solve his problems, but was once again elbowed away by Huo Xin.
Huo Xin: "Yuanhui is a unit of time measurement passed down from ancient times. One Yuanhui is 129.6 million years."
"In the world of cultivation, the time when natural gods walked the earth and Nuwa created humans is considered the Primordial Era. The period when dragons, phoenixes, and unicorns roamed the earth is considered the Ancient Era. The period after the dragons led the demons into the demon world and before the great catastrophe is considered the Ancient Era."
"By the way, weren't you curious about the figure you saw on the Heavenly Ladder? I asked my master about it before. She said that figure was the remnant spirit of Feng Yin, the last leader of the ancient Xuantian Sect."
Huo Xin whispered in Yun Miao's ear, "She died in the catastrophe like everyone else. Only a remnant of her soul remained attached to the Heavenly Staircase, where it slept for tens of thousands of years. It was finally brought out of the ruins along with the Heavenly Staircase by the ancestor. Previously, only past sect leaders had seen her."
"The reason you were in a trance was because she used her soul-stealing ability on you. Fortunately, my master said it only slightly affected your spirit and didn't harm your body."
Players are very persistent and easily distracted creatures. Yun Miao was stunned for a moment before she brought back the hazy figure that she had long forgotten.
It turns out that the blurry figure without even a specific appearance model has such a high-ranking identity?
Her eyes lit up: "So there's a very powerful ancestor in my ladder to heaven?"
She understood that this must be the white-bearded old lady hidden in the magic weapon space that is essential for the loser's counterattack!
Huo Xin's voice lowered. "My master said that tens of thousands of years have passed since our time. Ancestor Feng Yin's remaining soul has become increasingly fragile due to the wear and tear of time. So, after she gave you the Ladder to Heaven... her soul dissipated."
Yun Miao was stunned. How could this be different from what was agreed upon? Where was Granny Whitebeard? Where was the peerless martial arts? Where was the ultimate inheritance? Where was the Pirate King's treasure?
Just then, a familiar voice was heard.
"Yun Miao? Huo Xin? Didn't you say you were looking for help forging a magical weapon? Why are you standing there? Don't you know how to get into the Heaven and Earth Cauldron?"
Yun Miao and the other two turned their heads and saw a tall and thin man standing beside the giant cauldron, looking at them in confusion. It was Gao Zhu.
"Yun Miao didn't go to the Enlightenment Hall and didn't know about the Heaven and Earth Cauldron. Xiaobai and I talked to her a little more."
Huo Xin also looked over in confusion: "How come you are also at Qifeng?"
Gao Zhu raised the low-level magical incense burner in his hand and gestured to the three people: "There is no class in the Enlightenment Hall today, so I accepted the mission from Qifeng and came here to earn some contribution points."
Just like the disciples of Danfeng have alchemy furnaces in their rooms and vegetable gardens outside their rooms, the disciples of Qifeng also have a small compartment in their rooms specifically for refining magic weapons, which is equipped with a furnace and various tools. A lot of waste residue is produced when refining magic weapons. Although it is waste residue, it can be turned into treasure after special treatment.
His task was to collect the slag from the slag troughs of the furnaces from house to house in the disciples' residence, and then send it to the weapon refining hall for unified processing by the disciples of the weapon peak there.
Huo Xin couldn't help but sigh, "The leader of Qifeng Peak is very meticulous and frugal in his management."
Yun Miao immediately raised his head proudly: "No, no, no, when it comes to frugality, my uncle Tian Laokou is the undisputed thrifty master. He saves the dregs to fertilize the land, sells the waste elixirs at a high price to the beast peak to feed the monster beasts, and then buys the monster feces at a low price to fertilize the land. It's just basic operation."
"He would also sell the lower-quality, rotting spiritual plants that Danfeng couldn't use up to Baiweitang to make dishes, splitting the profits 30% to 70%, generating income for Danfeng's disciples."
"Actively improve the pill recipes and improve the common pill recipes into perfect, ordinary, and simplified versions. Then sell most of the perfect version pills to pill merchants at a high price, and send a small number of perfect, ordinary, and simplified versions of the pills to the Treasure Pavilion, so that disciples who are short of contribution points have more options for redemption."
"Occasionally, I would use my diligent hands to borrow some purple bamboo shoots from the Sword Peak, some medicinal bath bags from the Body Peak, some cinnabar from the Fu Peak, and some monster blood, monster hair, monster gallstones, and so on from the Beast Peak."
"Speaking of which, he had previously wanted to cooperate with Baiweitang, grinding some of the waste pills of varying effects into powder and using a small amount in dishes, still aiming for a profit of 37%. Unfortunately, the profit eventually dropped to 19%, and Elder Gu of Baiweitang didn't agree. So, a few days ago, in a rage, he ground the waste pills into powder and sold it at the Treasure Pavilion. Did you see it?"
Everyone: …So that’s how those extra bottles of Waste Rejuvenation Pills, Waste Soul Restoring Pills, and Waste Wound Medicine Powder on the “Treasure Pavilion Exchangeable List” in the airspace came from.
They remembered it was labeled "Use in small quantities only. Do not take large amounts at once. Danfeng will not be responsible for any abdominal pain, diarrhea, itching, dizziness, or excessive flatulence." Who on earth would spend Contribution Points on such junk?
And what about the so-called borrowing some... borrowing some...? Could it be that they will borrow without returning it?
How can this be called frugality? No matter how you look at it, it's just a profiteering businessman. Yun Miao, what are you so proud of?
At this moment, Huo Xin and others finally understood how Tian Laokou got his nickname. However, he was the master of Danfeng Peak, the famous Dan King. Yun Miao dared to call her uncle Tian Laokou, so they did not dare to comment casually. They could only hold back their words and almost got internal injuries.
Tan Xiaobai was worthy of being Yun Miao's younger brother. After a moment of surprise, he accepted Tian Laokou's habit.
"Master Tian Feng and my master are two completely different extremes. My master always says that the last thing Fu Feng lacks is money. Before, when I was practicing drawing talismans, I used both sides of the yellow paper, and he even said I was petty."
Huo Xin sighed and said, "It's better to have money than not to have any." The senior brothers and sisters at Tifeng would fight when they got excited or angry, and the Disciple Residence was like a second martial arts training ground.
She has not had a good night's sleep since she moved into Tifeng. From time to time, she could hear hearty and heroic laughter coming from outside, followed by bang bang bang, boom bang bang, and rumble.
That first night, she didn't even dare close her eyes, staring at the beams above until dawn, her mind full of the ghost-back spider that Yun Miao had flattened with her shoe. Fortunately, Tifeng's house was incredibly sturdy, and no matter how earth-shattering the fighting outside, her house didn't shake at all.
But no matter how strong a house is, it cannot withstand the trampling and brutal collisions of the strong men and women inside. Disciple House has houses that collapse every day, and new ruins appear every day. The house has to be rebuilt every few days.
"My master was so angry a few days ago that he pounded the wall and cursed that he would send us, gorillas who only knew how to beat our chests and stamp our feet, to sleep in caves."
Then, with a loud bang, the house of the dignified Tifeng Peak Master also collapsed...
Huo Xin still remembers the scene at that time. Elder Ge, the deacon who came to discuss the funding issue, first sat in a daze in a pile of fresh ruins and stared at her master. Then he was so angry that he kicked her master's good leg with his lame leg.
She also cursed that if Tifeng continued to destroy the house like this, she would definitely not allocate funds next month. Mengshi, you, the big ape, just wait to take those little apes to sleep in the cave!
Yun Miao patted Huo Xin's shoulder and comforted him, "Don't be afraid. If the Celestial Peak Master ever really wants to send you to sleep in a cave, you can come live with me in the Medicine House. Although my uncle treats humans poorly, he's very considerate towards small animals."
Tan Xiaobai also pretended to be serious and patted Huo Xin's other shoulder: "You can also come to me for refuge. Fu Feng is rich and has prepared private residences for his disciples. I can directly convert one of the rooms into a cave for you to live in."
The veins on Huo Xin's forehead were throbbing. She tried to hold it back but finally couldn't. She raised her hand and gave each of them a crisp slap on the head.
"I'm not a gorilla!"
"And you, since you already have a room for me to live in, why do you have to transform it into a cave? In your eyes, am I only fit to live in a cave?"
"I'm sorry. I was wrong."
Tan Xiaobai cried out in pain and covered his forehead, quickly admitting his mistake. He then looked at the calm Yun Miao in confusion: "Boss, doesn't it hurt?"
Yun Miao touched his red forehead and glanced at the [Health -1] prompt box. He snorted with pride and disdain, "It's just a little bit of wind and frost. I can still withstand 1,799 attacks like this."
Huo Xin, who still didn't know what Yun Miao was proud of, said: How come there are both zeros and whole numbers here?
Tan Xiaobai was thoughtful, then said admiringly: "Boss, you are amazing!"
Huo Xin: ...
Takatake: ...
Gao Zhu looked at Huo Xin sympathetically: "Hey, you've worked so hard."
Huo Xin frowned and did not answer this question. She just said that they had something else to do and said goodbye to Gao Zhu. Then, taking advantage of her height, she grabbed Yun Miao and Tan Xiaobai by the back of their collars with both hands and dragged them forward.
When Yun Miao saw that he didn't have to walk anymore, he immediately relaxed and let Huo Xin drag him like a soft noodle. Tan Xiaobai wanted to struggle, but when he saw the boss lying down, he immediately lay down too.
Huo Xin, who was carrying a heavy burden, said: "...Hold on, hold on. She won't argue with fools."
Huo Xin had been practicing swordsmanship every day for ten years and was already in good health. He was now a physical cultivator at the second level of Qi Refining. After many days of tempering his body with medicinal baths, he had the strength of an ox and could walk briskly even while dragging two burdens.
When they got close to the Cauldron of Heaven and Earth, the three of them raised their hands and placed them on the giant cauldron. The next moment, they saw a flash of white light before their eyes, and then they appeared in a paradise with green mountains and clear waters.
Peach blossoms flutter in the mountains, fish wag their tails in the water, and rows of houses are hidden among the peach trees. It is truly a beautiful April with its vibrant blossoms, a perfect time of year. [Note 1]
Tan Xiaobai exclaimed: "I didn't expect it to be so beautiful in here!"
Yun Miao looked around thoughtfully. It seemed that the Heaven and Earth Cauldron and the Ladder to Heaven were both spatial magical tools, but with different focuses.
Although the Ladder to Heaven is a magic weapon used by both the ancient and current Xuantian Sect to select disciples, and is also known as the Ladder to Heaven, its essence is a very hard prison, and the Cauldron of Heaven and Earth is a man-made small world, similar to the space world in novels.
Huo Xin wasn't interested in the beautiful scenery and walked towards the peach forest. "Let's go. Where does that Senior Sister Pi Xixi you mentioned live?"
Yun Miao was about to answer when he heard a sudden roar coming from the peach forest in the distance.
"Pixixi, don't run away. I'm going to beat you to death today!"
"You're about to beat me up, wouldn't I be a fool if I didn't run away?"
"Alright, you still dare to talk back, you little bastard, I'm going to give you a good beating today, you're even cheating on your own senior sister!"
A tall figure chased a palm-sized sparrow, whizzing past Yun Miao and the other two, then whizzing back. The surrounding peach forest became their arena for pursuit. The strong wind blew the peach blossoms off the branches, making it seem like a crimson, misty rain had fallen.
"How did I trick you? You said you accepted the mission to eliminate the mole nest outside the sect, and asked me to quickly make you a magic weapon specifically for catching mice. Didn't I help you make it within three days?"
"How dare you say that? Why don't you even look at what you're beating for me?"
"I did everything you said. You said we should capture them alive, and it would be best if we could lure them into the trap without damaging their fur."
A tall woman stopped, like a breeze falling on the branches of a peach tree, without even causing the treetops to tremble.
"Yeah, I said I was going to walk into a trap, and you actually got me a robe. The robe is fine, but what do you mean by drawing a pornographic picture of a beautiful mouse on it?"
She glared at the front with a sour face. "I had originally planned to go on a mission with a fellow apprentice of Fu Feng I admired, and I even dressed up meticulously, looking ethereal and graceful. But as soon as I threw my handkerchief, several male and female rats floated down from it and flirted in front of the rat hole. A strange fragrance filled the air, and then a long line of lustful rats rumbled out of the hole and ran onto my handkerchief."
"You know what happened at that time, it almost killed me? I didn't even dare to look back to see how that junior brother looked at me. You bastard, how can I face that junior brother in the future?"
The palm-sized sparrow suddenly grew into a giant sparrow over one meter tall and landed on the top of another peach tree.
Yun Miao took a closer look and realized it wasn't a sparrow, but a petite woman wearing a simulated sparrow cloak. She sat on a treetop, legs dangling. The hood on her head was almost an enlarged version of a sparrow's head, and the pointed beak opened and closed as she spoke.
"Monster beasts that haven't reached the Golden Core stage and can't transform into human form have low intelligence and are essentially dominated by their animal instincts. Therefore, to deal with these monster beasts, we can only start by addressing their three most primitive desires: appetite, reproduction, and sleep."
"Gophers live deep underground. If you want them to fall into your trap, you can't target their sleepiness. And you want something new, unique, and different. Common food wouldn't work either. So, the only thing left is their reproductive drive."
The tall woman rolled up her robe and threw it over, then stood with her hands on her hips and angrily shouted, "I clearly said that the magic weapon must be of a new style!"
Huh? Is that so?
Pixixi pulled off the scarf on her head and finally realized that she seemed to have misheard before.
She looked away guiltily. "Yes... yes, the pattern on the robe is indeed very novel, and it's definitely a rare style on the market."
The tall woman gritted her teeth and said, "I want something exquisite and beautiful!"
Pixixi is very confident about this: "The pictures of beautiful mice that I draw are very exquisite and beautiful."
The tall woman narrowed her eyes and said, "Okay, Pixixi, you are deliberately playing rogue with me now, right?"
Pixixi tried to be a scoundrel: "Hey, don't worry about the other things, just tell me if this mousetrap I made is useful!"
The tall woman said nothing, but slowly pulled the long sword at her waist out of the scabbard an inch, and the snow-white sword body immediately reflected a narrow cold light.
Pi Xixi quickly put her head in her hands and begged for mercy: "I didn't know you were going to seduce my junior brother. Besides, when you came to pick it up, I told you to check it in person. After that, the goods are sold and there will be no returns or exchanges. It was you who left in a hurry and didn't take a closer look!"
The tall woman paused, then put the sword back into the scabbard with a sour face.
"It's my fault. I knew you were unreliable but I didn't check you carefully. No, I should say I knew you were unreliable and I shouldn't have asked you for help in the first place. Naturally, I wouldn't have ended up in such a shameful situation now."
She looked up at the distance with sorrow: "Forget it, it seems that I am not destined to be with that junior brother. I should hurry up and find another one. The junior brother that Jianfeng recently accepted seems to be quite good..."
Seeing her senior sister muttering as she walked away, Pi Xixi quickly raised her robe and said, "Senior sister, your robe..."
The tall woman sneered without even turning her head: "No, keep it for yourself."
Pi Xixi put her hand to her mouth and shouted, "The goods have been shipped and there are no returns or exchanges. The contribution points you paid for have already been used up on the materials. I don't have any contribution points to pay you back."
The tall woman said: "Get lost, get lost, I didn't ask you to return it!"
Pi Xixi chuckled and said, "Thank you, Senior Sister. Come to me next time if you have any problems. We are sisters in my heart, and I will definitely help me if I can!"
The tall woman still didn't look back this time. She just sneered and pointed to the sky. A piece of rotten wood in the forest immediately flew towards Pi Xixi's forehead.
Boom!
Pi Xixi, who was sitting on a branch of a peach tree, fell down with her legs up in the air.
Yun Miao and the other two who watched the entire process said: ...
Huo Xin silently turned his head to look at Yun Miao: "Is this the Senior Sister Qifeng Pi you're looking for? Are you sure you want to ask her to forge your sword?"
Tan Xiaobai: "Boss, I told you a long time ago that this Pi Xixi is unreliable. Why don't we change her? Otherwise, what if she draws some weird things on your sword?"
"I say...if you say bad things about others, shouldn't you stay away from them?"
Pi Xixi crawled out from the pile of peach blossoms on the ground with her forehead red from being hit. Although she complained like this, she didn't seem angry at all. Instead, she was smiling as usual.
Huo Xin glanced at her, then pulled Yun Miao a little further away and continued in a low voice, "Many people in the airspace say that Pi Xixi is unreliable. Her habits and tastes are completely different from those of ordinary people. The magic weapons she creates are strange and bizarre. Although some of them can be effective when used properly, they can also easily backfire."
"That's right, that's right."
Tan Xiaobai nodded vigorously and immediately listed several things to support Huo Xin's statement.
For example, Pi Xixi had previously created a rain of pear blossom needles that shot backwards. However, the person who bought it forgot about it when fighting with a monster. As soon as he fired 10,000 cold needles as thin as cow hairs, he turned the person into a hedgehog, and almost made the monster die of laughter.
There is also a breath-retaining cushion that Pi Xixi had made before. It is said that as long as you hide under the cushion, you can conceal your own breath, and even the monster with the most sensitive sense of smell cannot detect it.
So a senior sister who accepted a mission from the sect bought it, ran to the outskirts of Xuantian Mountains, hid the cushion in the grass, and dug a hiding place under the cushion, intending to ambush the black-brissed pig required for the mission. As a result, while she was waiting in the dark pit, the "sky" suddenly brightened.
She looked up in confusion and saw a wild sheep looking down at her blankly, chewing the breath-retaining cushion that she had bought with many contribution points as if it were hay.
It turned out that although the cushion had an excellent effect in concealing breath, its defense was extremely low, and an ordinary sheep could chew it as grass.
The senior sister was startled and immediately made a move to grab it. However, at that moment, the black-brimmed pig from the mission passed by. As soon as it saw her, it immediately lowered its head and started charging forward! Pig charging forward! Pig charging forward!
In the end, this poor senior sister was beaten black and blue, and even her storage bag was trampled to pieces. She could only walk back to the sect step by step in tattered clothes and with a dull look in her eyes, dragging a dead pig as big as a mountain. The first thing she did when she got back to the sect was to hold up the broken pieces of the futon that had been gnawed until only the size of a palm was left and ask Pi Xixi to return the money.
Tan Xiaobai: "Another time, she built a fishing rod, claiming the hook could automatically track large fish hiding in the water plants. It was said to never miss. But when she demonstrated it, she swung the rod, and the hook didn't enter the water. Instead, it whizzed off into the nose of a Tifeng Senior Brother in the crowd."
"That senior brother dodged immediately, but his nose slipped through the cracks, and his hair got snatched away. I heard that something went wrong during his training during that time, which led to his baldness. He's been hiding in his room these days, and only dared to go out after a friend gave him a wig. And what happened..."
"A strong man with a sturdy build, covered his bald head and cried like a child as he ran back to the disciples' quarters at Tifeng. His sobs were as loud as thunder."
Huo Xin continued, "That wig was also made by Pi Xixi. She made it from a very flexible aquatic plant, and it's said to last no matter how you move. The friend who bought the wig was so angry that he cried. He said that if the Law Enforcement Hall didn't punish Pi Xixi severely, he would hang himself in front of the hall."
"What happened next? What happened next? How did the Law Enforcement Hall punish Pi Xixi?"
Yun Miao's eyes were filled with the excitement of eating melons. She didn't expect that there were so many interesting melons in the airspace. She would have to look carefully in the future.
Huo Xin's expression was odd for a moment, and then he said that Pi Xixi had shaved all her hair off, made a wig, and gave it to the Tifeng senior brother as an apology. The senior brother, who had been crying loudly, smiled when he saw her bald head.
The disciples of the Law Enforcement Hall who had punished her in the past and the friend of that senior brother looked at her shining bald head in silence for a long time, and finally rescinded the punishment against her.
She commented objectively, "From this perspective, Senior Sister Pi's character is quite good, but I still don't recommend you go to her for help."
Pixixi: "Oh, those were all accidents. I didn't mean to do them. Besides, rather than praising my character, I actually want to hear you praise my refining skills and my perfect works."
Huo Xin suddenly felt her shoulders sink, and she immediately turned her head warily to see that Pi Xixi had quietly stood behind them, with her arms resting on her and Yun Miao's shoulders, one on each side, and the pointed beak of her sparrow hood almost touching her head.
Pi Xixi said with a smile, "You are the Junior Sister Yun Miao who I made an appointment with earlier, right? Are these two chatterboxes your friends? Come on, don't be so nervous, let's go to my place and have a cup of tea and chat slowly."
She had recently come up with a very exciting new idea, and now she needed contribution points to buy materials, so she couldn't let these three little fat sheep get away. Hehe.
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The author has something to say: [Note 1] From Bai Juyi's "Peach Blossoms in Dalin Temple"
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