This room is uninhabited. There is only a dust-avoiding spell on the door to keep away dust. Ye Su pushed the door open and went in. It felt familiar yet strange.
What was familiar was that the structure of the room remained the same, unchanged for thousands of years, with a bed and two tables located under the east window and at the main entrance respectively. What was unfamiliar was that these beds and tables were made of good materials, countless times better than the ones she had used before, and they contained the most concentrated and pure spiritual energy of the Qianji Sect.
Ye Su closed the door and sat at the table. The calmness and ease on her face suddenly disappeared. She supported her forehead with both hands and closed her eyes tightly, trying to clear the confusion in her mind, but to no avail.
I don't know what happened to them. Before leaving, Yi Xuan was still fighting with Lu Chenhan, but Lu Chenhan seemed to have enough strength to sustain. Junior brother had to face the two phantoms that were beginning to materialize. Even if there were many purple top-grade spirit stones left in the realm, there would always be a day when they would be used up.
There is also Senior Tu Shi who just crawled out from underground.
At this time, Ye Su didn't know that after she came, the entire Three Realms had come to a standstill and time had stagnated.
She took a deep breath, exhaled, put down her hands and became the calm Ye Su again.
Ye Su turned and walked towards the bed, sitting down with her legs alternating, and began to meditate. She wanted to practice as quickly as possible until she could overcome the tribulation, become a god, and find a way to go back.
…
the next day.
As soon as Ming Liusha walked out of the room, he saw Xiyu and Xia Er looking out of the first room. He curled his lips and said, "It's so late, why don't you get up to refine the weapon? You still want to be the eldest senior sister like this?"
"It seems like he is in a trance." Xiyu said while pulling the east window.
Ming Liusha sighed and said, "Alright, don't disturb her when she's in meditation. I'll ask the people from the Formation Hall to build a few formation barriers for her room in a few days."
"Why did she hide in the room as soon as she arrived?" Xia Er shook her head and walked away. "I thought Ye Su was interested in our Qianji Sect."
"Who cares what she's doing? Let's go and refine the weapon." Ming Liusha walked out of the yard.
"After all, she will be our eldest sister from now on." Xia Er followed her out and muttered.
Day after day passed, and Ye Su never left the room. Even Elder Xing came to see this strange young cultivator who held the Thousand Machine Order just to stay in the Thousand Machine Sect as the eldest sister.
It was not until late one night two months later that a shocking thunder suddenly appeared in the sky above Jiuxuan Peak, cutting through the pitch-black night.
"What the hell?!" Ming Liusha, who was lying on the bed, opened his eyes instantly and jumped out of the nearby window, just in time to bump into Xiyu who also jumped out of the window.
Xiyu looked up at the night sky where a thunderstorm was about to come: "Second Brother, it's a thunder tribulation."
Ming Liusha turned his head and looked at her expressionlessly: "You changed your words quite smoothly."
"Wow! Is Senior Sister about to be robbed?!" Xia Er's voice came from the yard, "This formation is much bigger than mine at the beginning. You are worthy of being Senior Sister!"
Ming Liusha: “…”
He walked out from the side wall, grabbed Xiyu with one hand and Xia Er with the other, and dragged them out: "Don't stay here, the thunder tribulation is about to come."
The three people ran down the mountain. At this time, the head of the sect and the elders of other peaks had also woken up. Zhang Fengfeng had already flown away from Jiuxuan Peak on a giant paper crane, and took his three disciples away on the way.
The elders from other peaks also looked towards Jiuxuan Peak.
The night was dark, but occasionally, mysterious thunder would streak through the sky, illuminating the entire Qianji Gate as if it were daytime.
"The innate sea of consciousness is indeed extraordinary." An elder sighed, "This movement is much greater than that of an ordinary Mahayana."
At this moment, Ye Su in the room finally woke up from her trance. She stood up and walked out of the room. The table and bed in the room were made of precious materials and could not be damaged by thunder.
She walked into the yard, found an empty spot to stand, and took out the Thunder Gathering Bottle that she had refined from her Qiankun bag.
At this time, a thick bolt of lightning finally struck from the thunderclouds that had been gathering for a long time, and it struck directly on Ye Su's head. She had no magic weapon to resist, nor did she raise a spiritual power shield, so she was struck through by the lightning and emitted a burnt smell.
The speed of Mahayana Thunder is too fast.
When the first bolt of lightning struck, Ye Su thought that her consciousness had not yet adapted to this speed.
There were still arcs of lightning on Ye Su's fingers. She looked up at the thunderclouds gathering in the night sky, waiting for the next thunder.
After being struck several times, Ye Su's consciousness was finally able to keep up with the speed of the Mahayana Thunder. She was exhausted and could only sit on the ground, her hand still tightly holding the Thunder Gathering Bottle. She wanted to use every strike of thunder to forge the Thunder Gathering Bottle in preparation for collecting the Ascension Thunder later.
Another great thunder struck down. Ye Su did not dodge and let it strike. Then she manipulated her spiritual consciousness to attract the thunder and used her body as a medium to introduce the energy of the great thunder into the bottle. With her other hand, she released spiritual fire to burn the thunder outside the bottle.
It would be difficult for an ordinary person to continue resisting when struck by the great thunder. Ye Su also had a splitting headache. Every bone in his body was protesting, breaking and recovering, and then breaking again.
She was able to hold on simply by relying on the vast sea of consciousness in her body.
However, Ye Su felt that it was enough. There was abundant spiritual energy here and she could absorb it almost anytime and anywhere. There was no impurities at all. It was pure and rich. This was an experience she had never had before.
Every subsequent lightning strike was attracted by Ye Su to the bottle, then refined, attached and penetrated into the lightning-collecting bottle.
This process lasted for five full days, until the sixth night, when the sky continued to be bright, as if it were a long day. Everyone was mentally prepared. This was the last thunder of advancement, and if they could survive it, they would be able to advance.
"Alas, this thunder looks too big." Zhang Fengfeng stood anxiously at the foot of the mountain, looking up at the night sky and said, "If I had known, I should have thrown a few magic weapons to her before leaving that night."
Ye Su sat in the yard. The surroundings had sunk a lot. She looked up at the night sky that was as bright as day. If she opened the Thunder Bottle at this time, there should be an 80% chance of collecting the Great Thunder into the bottle. However... Although doing so can advance, it cannot strengthen the bottle.
In the end, Ye Su still chose not to resist and let the last great thunder strike down. But before that, she drew a spirit gathering array around her to speed up her body's absorption of spiritual energy so that she could repair her body faster.
“Boom—”
The thunder was approaching, and the night sky was so bright that no one could open their eyes. A very thick, purple-colored Mahayana thunder struck directly towards Ye Su.
She tensed her body immediately, her bones were broken inch by inch by the thunder, and her spiritual power could barely catch up with the speed of repairing them. Ye Su suddenly spat out blood, her nose and ears were dripping blood, and even her eyes were torn from trying so hard to hold on. Blood mixed with sweat on her face flowed down, but her hands were extremely steady, still controlling the spiritual fire to refine the Mahayana black thunder drawn from her other hand, allowing it to slowly attach to and penetrate into the gap in the thunder collecting bottle.
The last Mahayana Mysterious Thunder ended, and the night sky gradually returned to the calmness of a few days ago. Ye Su held the Thunder Bottle tightly in one hand, and used the sleeve of her other hand to wipe the blood stains on it, but the bottle became dirtier and dirtier.
She paused and looked down at her sleeves. It turned out that she had been struck by lightning too many times and her spiritual power had not been restored in time. Her skin was cracked and even her clothes were soaked with blood.
Ye Su mechanically performed several cleansing spells on herself. If her junior brother was here, he would probably cover his nose and look down on her.
After cleaning herself, Ye Su cleaned the Thunder Bottle again, but in her eyes, the Thunder Bottle was still red.
Ye Su shifted her gaze to look at her hands. Her brain, which had been stiff and sluggish from the lightning, finally reacted and realized that blood might have gotten into her eyes. Everything she saw was red.
She carefully placed the thunder-collecting bottle into her Qiankun bag, emptied her mind for a moment, and finally closed her eyes and fell down with a bang.
When Zhang Fengfeng brought his three disciples back to Jiuxuan Peak, they saw Ye Su lying in a pit in the yard.
"Wow, was she struck by lightning while sitting here without moving?" Xia Er lay on the edge of the pit, looking at Ye Su who had fainted below, "She didn't even use any magic weapon? She didn't seem to have taken any medicine even though she was so badly injured."
"First, pull your senior sister out. I'll go ask the medical staff to come and see her." Zhang Fengfeng said.
"With such a big fuss, I thought she was going to overcome the tribulation." Ming Liusha complained, but still jumped in and fished the person out.
"He's in the middle stage of Mahayana and has caught up with us." Xiyu said as he squatted beside him.
…
When Ye Su woke up again, she had returned to her room, and this time there was an extra quilt on her bed.
Ye Su felt that there was a pillow under her neck.
She opened her eyes and looked at the ceiling for a moment, then quickly stood up. Before she could enter into meditation, several people walked in from outside.
"Practicing right after waking up?" Ming Liusha looked at her posture and said with a sigh, "The doctor said that you are too tired and need to rest. Otherwise, it will be harmful to your practice."
That day, a medical practitioner from the medical hall was invited to see Ye Su. After some investigation, he asked the sect leader with a suspicious look on his face how long it had been since she had had a good rest, and he had never seen a cultivator so tired and tense.
"Big sister, today is the monthly exam for Qianjimen. Let's go down and take a look." Xia Er called Ye Su very smoothly. He pulled a chair over and sat beside the bed. "The beginning of every month is very lively. I wonder how many people will be scolded."
Thousand Machine Gate Monthly Exam...
Ye Su had heard of this term before. It was said that Qianji Sect used to hold a weapon refining assessment every three months. However, Qianji Sect later became poor, so the assessment was shortened from three months to one year, and then to several years, and finally it was cancelled directly.
"You guys want to compete too?" Ye Su asked.
"There's no need for the three of us to compete." Xiyu smiled as he stood on the other side, "The level is too high, and we already know everything that Master has taught us."
Ye Su nodded: "Then I'll go down and take a look."
…
The entire trial field was filled with disciples, and everyone was waiting nervously for the next test.
"The top ten in the assessment can get materials from the elders." Xiyu stood next to Ye Su and introduced, "As for what to assess, different elders will set questions each time, and the questions are different. Some elders like to assess the identification of materials, and some like to watch them refine weapons."
Ye Su followed them and stood at the edge, looking at the elders and the sect leader sitting on the stage. Until the assessment began, there was an empty seat next to the sect leader, and no one sat there.
"Is there anyone else who hasn't arrived yet?" Ye Su said, looking at the empty seat.
"That's the seat of our master." Xia Er took a look and pointed to the sky. "The master ascended to heaven too quickly and didn't have time to deal with the affairs behind the Qianji Sect, so he would come down occasionally to ask Master to be the head of the sect."
His tone was nonchalant, as if the gods coming down from above was a very common thing.
"However, it is very troublesome for the master to come down, so most of the time Elder Xing is the boss of our Qianji Sect." Xia Er whispered to Ye Su, "Elder Xing hates people who break the rules and lie the most, you must not let him catch you."
As he said this, he stretched out his hand and pulled hard on his neck: "Elder Xing will really kill people!"
"Okay, I understand." Ye Su nodded in response.
"And..." Xia Er took out a self-made Qianjimen map from his bosom, with all the peaks clearly divided, "This peak is Elder Xing's territory, and the Deacon Hall is on it. In addition, there is a wine cellar under this peak, you must not go there, it is full of Elder Xing's favorites."
Ye Su remembered something and suddenly asked, "Is there any Baqing wine in it?"
Xia Er said as a matter of course: "Of course there is. Everyone in the Three Realms knows that Elder Xing is the best at brewing Eight Green Wine."
He smacked his lips as if recalling the past: "After our master ascended to heaven, Elder Xing once served this drink to celebrate. It was delicious!"
Ye Su lowered her eyes and wrote down the route on the map, then said nonchalantly, "Then I won't go."
She still remembered that Zang Liu said that he had stolen a lot of Baqing wine from Qianjimen. She wondered if her junior brother would be there
The monthly exam of Qianji Sect began, and this time the test was on equipment refining. Ye Su watched the disciples refining equipment and found that they all had extremely solid foundations, and many of them had brilliant ideas. However, the only thing that made her unbearable was that their abandonment rate was too high, and not many people succeeded in one go.
If the other people present knew her idea, they would probably laugh out loud. The failure rate of Qianji Sect's disciples in refining equipment is notoriously low, and they can usually succeed within three times.
"I'm a little tired. I'll go back and rest first." After watching for most of the day, Ye Su turned to Ming Liusha and the others and said.
Ming Liusha waved his hand, his eyes still on the hands of the junior sister who was refining the weapon in front of him, and said, "Go back and rest, don't practice."
Ye Su stepped out of the crowd and prepared to walk up Jiuxuan Peak, but halfway there he suddenly changed his route and headed towards the peak that Xia Er had circled just now, which was Elder Xing's cellar.
For some reason, she wanted to go to the cellar. As for what she was secretly expecting, only Ye Su herself knew.
There was a formation on the cellar door, and there was also a mechanism on the last step. Ye Su saw through it at a glance. After unlocking the formation and the mechanism, she slowly pushed open the door and walked in.
This cellar is very spacious. Not only are there large wine vats on the ground, but there are also many shelves filled with various wine jars.
As soon as she entered, Ye Su smelled various faint aromas of wine, but as she walked deeper, a familiar and special fragrance began to become stronger.
—It’s Baqing wine!
Ye Su had drunk a small cup of it in Gui Mansion before, so she was familiar with the taste.
Her heart suddenly skipped a beat, but her footsteps became lighter and lighter, as if she was afraid of disturbing something.
Through the gap in the wine rack, Ye Su saw a familiar figure carrying a turtle shell on its back, but there were no signs of bites on it. She hesitated and stopped in front of the rack without moving.
"Demon Lord, Turtle Dad is calling Turtle to go back, hiccup—"
It’s Zangroku!
Ye Su recognized the voice the moment she heard it. It was hard not to recognize the tone, except that the voice sounded a little younger.
Her fingers tightly grasped the handrail of the rack, "Demon Lord... is it my junior brother?"
Ye Su couldn't see the person on Zang Liu's left because his view was blocked by a large wine jar.
Zang Liu burped and said, "Demon Lord, shall we come again during the next Qianji Sect monthly exam?"
As he spoke, a hole of light appeared in front of him, which was the door leading to the demon world.
At this time, a slender and beautiful hand stretched out from behind the wine jar, pressed on the tortoise shell of Zang Liu, and pushed hard, pushing the person into the empty door, and then the empty door disappeared into the wine cellar.
"… Quarrel."
The moment Qingyue's slightly drunk and hoarse voice sounded, Ye Su recognized who it was. She did not notice the smile that flashed in her eyes and walked out involuntarily.
"When you are in the water."
Ye Su walked to the big wine jar, looked at the person sitting next to the wine jar and shouted.
"… Um?"
He was obviously drunk, looking up at Ye Su, without any sense of vigilance about being discovered.
Ye Su looked at the junior brother opposite him. His hairpin was a little crooked, and the clothes he wore were not very good, as if they were torn from somewhere randomly, rough and cheap, and there was a large wet spot on his chest, but it still did not detract from his handsome and almost breathtaking appearance.
"He really came to steal wine." Ye Su muttered to herself as she half-knelt down, reached out to adjust his hairpin, and her fingertips slid down to touch his hot cheek.
You Fushi frowned and slapped her hand away, but because of the force he used, he fell forward.
Ye Su supported him, and suddenly realized that someone was coming in from outside. She immediately drew a teleportation array on the ground and pulled the person over.
"Wake up." Ye Su stretched out her hand and pinched You Fushi's waist. "This is a random teleportation array. Get out first."
You Fushi's waist has always been sensitive, and when she pinched it neither lightly nor heavily, he suddenly woke up. He only had time to see Ye Su's face clearly before he was teleported to another place by the teleportation array.
Watching her junior fellow apprentice disappear, she felt inexplicably lost.
Ye Su raised her fingertips, and a stream of wine floated out of the wine jar and hit her collar.
Suddenly, the wine cellar was brightly lit. It turned out that there was a pearl hidden on the ceiling. Once the cover was removed, the light from the pearl could illuminate the inside.
Elder Xing looked expressionlessly at Ye Su half-knelt in front of the wine vat, which was only one-third full. "Didn't you see the sign on the front of the wine cellar that says 'No entry for strangers'?"
"I saw it." Ye Su deliberately touched the corner of his mouth and said, "I came in because of the aroma. I couldn't help it. The wine brewed by Elder Xing is too fragrant."
Elder Xing's face turned black as charcoal: "Don't flatter me, it's useless."
His Eight Green Wine!
"Did you break the formation at the door?" Elder Xing asked, staring at Ye Su.
"yes."
"Go and receive your punishment." Elder Xing grabbed Ye Su and walked towards the Deacon Hall.
Along the way, the aroma of wine on Ye Su's body wafted in the air.
"There's someone who broke into the cellar to steal wine again, and the last one was the head of the sect."
"This is the aroma of Baqing wine. Wow, it smells so good."
Elder Xing smelled the aroma of alcohol on Ye Su and felt heartbroken, but his face was solemn and indifferent as he took her into the Criminal Court.
"You stay here and can't leave until you have refined all the materials. If you ruin a material, the amount will be doubled." Elder Xing said coldly.
Ye Su looked at the various materials piled up in the hall. After hearing what Elder Xing said, he was stunned for a long time and couldn't help but asked, "Is there such a good thing?"
Elder Xing: “…”
Is this disciple not very smart
Refining materials is the most boring thing. Generally, disciples who have finished refining have to vomit for a while before they can resume refining.
"Don't ruin any of them." Elder Xing warned, "Reflect on your actions and copy the sect's instructions a hundred times."
"Okay, Elder Xing." Ye Su looked at the materials inside, unable to hide his excitement, "Can I start?"
She had never seen such a huge mountain of materials before. It was like seeing a mountain of gold.
Elder Xing: “…”