Chapter 483 The Ascension Platform (1)
Seeing Yuanjun leave, Ji Rong turned her head and asked Qingpingzi, "Senior brother, it seems that Yuanjun hasn't asked you to refine pills for a long time. Is it because he hasn't been taking pills anymore that he's showing signs of weakness now?"
Qingpingzi said calmly, "For great gods like them, this is not a decline."
The deity who governs the sun and moon is getting old, and thus has to expend more effort when exercising divine authority. These days, He must have been lazy, neglecting to cleanse the source stream, which is why His true nature has been revealed.
Upon hearing this, Ji Rong immediately recalled the incident of brushing the source of the moon at the Nightlight Banquet, and she had a plan in mind.
With each of the various structures of the Spatial Inscription Avenue in charge of its own, Ji Rong and Qing Pingzi were able to relax.
Aside from occasionally wandering around, they mostly stayed on Cloud Cliff teaching the surviving outer disciples. This time, Qingpingzi finally got to experience being a master.
Because Ji Rong took in several hundred outer disciples at once, even after so many years, many have died or been injured, and seventy-three quick-witted and capable disciples have been sent to various places, one hundred and twelve still remain.
Every time Qingpingzi went to teach, he would carry the colorful phoenix puppet that Zepeng had presented to Ji Rong years ago. He would see a sea of heads below calling him "Master Uncle" and "Master," a sight that made him feel very pleased.
Time flies, another century has passed;
Everything was moving in a positive direction, except for Ji Rong's increasingly empty treasury.
Ze Peng was transferred by Jiao Jue to Hezhou to understand the people's livelihood, while Buzhou was taken over by Ji Zhuang, who then engaged in closer ethnic exchanges with Xizhou, which was under the jurisdiction of Gu Qingqing. Ji Rong's four nominal disciples were scattered by Jiao Jue and sent to various places.
Among them, Shanhe was placed in Cangzhou, Xiaohua in Chizhou, Tieniu in Danzhou, and Gutou was sent to Tangheshan in Juzhou, where he was instructed to specialize in fire techniques under Xitong.
During this time, Qing Tanzi came out once. As soon as she came out, she found Ji Rong and asked for the large root of the ancestral tree, saying that she wanted to use it as a pole to lift the chain of order.
Ji Rong disagreed. Cutting off thick roots would be too painful. Even though her tree trunk had good regenerative ability, she would have to sleep for a long time after a section was cut off. Not to mention the cost of treasures, the newly grown roots would not be as useful as the old roots.
But Qing Tanzi's words made sense. She said, "Junior sister, I only need a section to repair the Heavenly Road. It's enough to fool those chains of order. I don't need anything more."
"We must first cultivate this spatial inscription path. If you don't give it to me, how can the Great Dao of Order in the deep space manifest, and how can we establish an anchor point in the outer heavens?"
After saying that, Qing Tanzi had Qing Yangzi and Ji Rong plead poverty, saying that his lineage had poured all the rare materials they could muster into this road, and they needed to open up the Heavenly Road as soon as possible to transport ore from the outside world to recoup their losses.
Because Qing Tanzi kept sticking to her every few days, Ji Rong couldn't avoid it, so she had to call Qing Pingzi over. With Qing Pingzi as a witness, Ji Rong painfully picked a small piece of the stalk that had broken off and handed it to Qing Tanzi.
Because Qingpingzi was there, Qingtanzi didn't dare to look up at all. She took the precious root and went straight back to refine it into a weapon.
Ji Rong is getting poorer and poorer. Even with the constant influx of money from the wealthy people of Kyushu, she is still getting poorer and poorer.
Fortunately, the finished magic artifact "Heavenly Gate" of Qingtanzi was finally created, and Wu Hao and his group even refined the talismanic treasure robe.
Today is the day for testing at Haiya Mountain. If all goes well, the first batch of cultivators will be sent into the sky today to build the Ascension Platform in the Outer Heaven.
Beneath the faintly visible spatial inscriptions, Qing Tanzi happily carried Ji Rong, examining the two mirror-like gates as he said, "Junior sister, if you could give your senior sister another root and let her place it on the top Heavenly Gate, the entrance to the Ascension Platform would be even better."
Ji Rong rolled her eyes and said, "Senior sister, I am a living being, not a dead one. Besides, senior sister also needs to think about this. After this spatial passage is created, it will wear out over time. If I die then, where will the younger generation find materials to repair it?"
Qing Tanzi stuck out his tongue and hissed, "That's their business, what does it have to do with us? Junior Sister is just stingy, she's not willing to spare even a single root."
Ji Rong said, "This path is ultimately meant for countless cultivators to follow, so it cannot be made so expensive. This is also beneficial for you senior sisters. Only when there are more and more alternative materials will your lineage prosper."
When all races truly prosper, it's estimated that even three paths won't be enough.
Qing Tanzi naturally understood the point Ji Rong had made.
Fifty years ago, they estimated the number of future cultivators again at a council chaired by Ji Rong, and the estimated number was almost the same as the number of living beings reported every year now.
Seeing that Ji Rong wouldn't give it to her, and Qing Pingzi was coming towards her menacingly with his whisk, she stopped arguing with Ji Rong and directly instructed Qing Yangzi and Qing Dongzi to install the passageway.
Meanwhile, Wu Hao, a Saint Realm array cultivator, personally led his fellow disciples to equip the cultivators behind Qing Pingzi with talismanic robes.
This precious garment was made by accident.
Wu Hao and his fellow disciples are actually very skilled in array formations. They have a solid foundation, but what they lack is a bit of imagination.
Originally, they always made paper and talismans themselves because paper is lightweight and can hold more stacked talismans than jade pieces. However, this also resulted in greater waste and took up a lot of time for the array cultivators.
It wasn't until Ji Rong came to inspect the area and asked the reason that he said, "Then why not use cloth? In the past, all the silk cloths offered by the myriad races to the gods could be used as ritual implements to ward off water and fire."
Wu Hao never thought of using cloth because at that time not many cultivators wore robes, and it would be cumbersome for people with fur and scales to wear a layer of clothing.
But Ji Rong gave them a hint, and they all suddenly understood. They started frantically using all sorts of materials as carriers and eventually discovered that, compared to jade being fragile, metal being heavy, and paper being easily rotten, cloth was the best.
Various types of cloth woven from spirit silk with seal script are durable. So, they collected silk to weave cloth, then embroidered the inscriptions, and finally used needle-stitched runes to make this set of precious seal script into the style of a precious garment.
To be honest, after putting on these talismanic robes, Ji Rong's outer disciples actually started to look somewhat human.
It was the first time Ji Rong had seen them wearing the finished product, and she felt a sense of familiarity. She planned in her heart that once Wu Hao was less busy, she would ask him to make her a similar style.
She thought happily to herself, "When the time comes, once I take off my magic feathers and put on my magic robes, no one will recognize me."
Wu Hao and his group moved quickly. In about a quarter of an hour, Ji Rong's 112 outer disciples were equipped with talismanic robes. They also checked their own magical artifacts. They were just waiting for Qing Tanzi and his group to finish setting up the Heavenly Gate before heading inside.
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