Star Gazing Technique

Watching Chen Mobai and Qing Nü leave the shore, Luo He Zheng sighed, thinking how wonderful it is to be young.

"This is the way to the Kongqing Pavilion."

This wasn't Luo He Zheng's first visit to the Goumang Dao Academy, but he still asked Song Yuexin a question as a formality, and she nodded.

"I'll take you there."

Just as the two were about to head in another direction, Luo He Zheng suddenly exclaimed "Eh!" and turned to look in a certain direction.

"What's wrong, Teacher Luo?"

"Nothing."

Luo He Zheng shook his head, not expressing the strange feeling of being watched.

This is a port. After disembarking, you can see rows of two- or three-story villas that rise up the steps along the road. They are arranged in a staggered manner, seemingly following some kind of formation, creating a unique sense of harmony between man and nature.

In one of the unassuming buildings, a girl wearing sunglasses sat on the windowsill, her feet dangling in the air, gazing towards the harbor.

Behind her, on the wall, a large screen displayed images of the port.

"It seems we've been discovered."

The Sunglasses Girl turned her head and said something, and a moment later a slight cough came from behind her.

"This is the surveillance footage from the Goumang Dao Academy. We've only borrowed the footage. Even if they discover it, other Daoist Academy won't say anything. They'll just assume it's necessary precautions for the upcoming Offline Sparring."

In the corner of the room furthest from the sunlight, a man with long gray hair sat on a wooden chair, watching the screen and gently pressing buttons on the remote control in his hand.

Before long, the original view of only the port was divided into nine smaller sections.

One of the images flashed past, showing Chen Mobai and Qing Nü walking by.

"I heard you did a fortune telling for him?"

The gray-haired man pointed at Chen Mobai, then accessed surveillance footage from various locations on Wood God Island, continuously tracking the Chief of the Wuqi Dao Academy.

"Yes, it was a coincidence. I wasn't originally waiting for him."

The Sunglasses Girl turned her head, saw the screen, and spoke calmly.

"Oh, so even your Divine Machine Mansion's doctrine of Karma can be wrong?"

The gray-haired man looked surprised upon hearing her words, but he coughed twice as he spoke hastily, seemingly unwell.

"My cultivation is not up to par, but it's possible that forming a karmic Karma with him might lead to someone better than the one I'm waiting for."

"In other words, your connection with him is even stronger."

The gray-haired man was the Chief of the previous generation of the Star Gazing Academy, named Ding Chunzhi. He was also at the peak of Foundation Establishment. Although his Spell Duel skills were average, his Heavenly Evolution Life Observation Art was already quite advanced. It was said that no one he observed could escape his notice.

"I guess so."

The Sunglasses Woman spoke calmly, without revealing the truth about the fortune-telling she gave Chen Mobai that day.

"Interesting. Now that you mention it, I suddenly want to observe his fate."

Upon hearing this, Ding Chunzhi closed his left eye with great interest, while his right eye, which he had opened, shimmered with silvery-white starlight. At the same time, he kept pressing the remote control in his hand, trying to capture Chen Mobai on the screen.

"People from the Kunpeng Daoist Academy have arrived."

Just as Ding Chunzhi was about to interpret Chen Mobai's Life Observation, the Sunglasses Girl suddenly spoke.

"What a coincidence."

Upon hearing this, Ding Chunzhi paused for a moment, but could only sigh. He used the remote control in his hand to switch the screen to show the port.

A young man with golden curly hair and a cold face walked onto Wood God Island. Behind him was a boy with delicate features and melancholy eyes, as well as Taishi Shu, the Chief of the Kunpeng Daoist Academy this year.

"Qi Huanzhi, Nangong Xiu, Taishi Shu, any one of these three guys is at the Golden Core stage, yet they are all at the Kunpeng Daoist Academy. It truly deserves to be called the number one university in the Immortal Sect."

Ding Chunzhi sighed slightly when he saw the three people who had come ashore.

He was the most outstanding student of the Star Gazing Academy in the last hundred years, but at most his talent was only close to that of these three.

Fortunately, he mastered the Star Gazing Technique!

With starlight twinkling in his right eye, Ding Chunzhi looked at the three people on the big screen and saw their fates and the rankings they could achieve during this Offline Exchange.

"Nangong Xiu currently in third place, Taishi Shu in second place, Qi Huanzhi in first place."

After Life Observation of the three men, Ding Chunzhi picked up a pen and wrote their names on a large sheet of paper.

"The one who Mending Heaven has arrived."

The Sunglasses Girl, sitting on the windowsill with her legs swinging, spoke up to remind him.

Following the three from the Kunpeng Daoist Academy, Lou Fengcheng and Ling Dao Shi also arrived at Wood God Island.

Ding Chunzhi, disregarding the need for rest, used the Star Gazing Technique again to glance at the two people on the screen, and then wrote their names between Qi Huanzhi and Taishi Shu.

Thus, the second became Lou Fengcheng, and the third became Ling Dao Shi.

Taishi Shu slipped to fourth place, Nangong Xiu to fifth.

After Life Observation the fortunes of two powerful figures from the Great Dao Academy, Ding Chunzhi took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and gently wiped the sweat from his forehead. Then he opened the Clear Eye Bamboo Spirit Dew on the table and dripped two drops into his right eye.

The refreshing and invigorating feeling made him breathe a sigh of relief.

While Star Gazing Technique is powerful, it also consumes a great deal of Spiritual Sense and mental power. Moreover, the more skilled the person is at stargazing, the greater the backlash against them.

Fortunately, the people from the Four Great Dao Academies and Ten Great Academies didn't all come at once, otherwise he definitely wouldn't have been able to handle it.

Moreover, among the Ten Great Academies, there are not many outstanding individuals; only a handful of two or three can make him feel pressured.

In the late afternoon, Xiahou Weihuan and Sima Xingyu also came ashore.

"Huh!"

Upon taking a look using the Star Gazing Technique, Ding Chunzhi couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"What's wrong?"

"Xiahou Weihuan couldn't see through it."

Ding Chunzhi frowned slightly, then opened his left eye, which had been closed, and his eyes sparkled with starlight as Life Observation screen.

Using his full power to Star Gazing Technique, he finally pierced through the hazy red mist surrounding Xiahou Weihuan and saw his fate.

"This guy is indeed living up to his reputation; his ranking is actually above Qi Huanzhi."

Previously, Ding Chunzhi had witnessed Lan Haitan's overwhelming defeat of Xiahou Weihuan in Lesser Red Heaven, and he thought the latter was just famous. However, after observing him closely with the Star Gazing Technique today, he discovered that it was not that he was weak, but that Lan Haitan was too strong.

In an instant, Xiahou Weihuan became number one on his paper.

Sima Xingyu, on the other hand, ranked tenth.

"No wonder Pure Yang Academy dared to challenge Wuqi Dao Academy. The chances of these two Core Formation are also very high. If Nangong Xuanyu Nascent Formation, he can indeed put up a fight against the weakened Wuqi Dao Academy."

After reading Xiahou Weihuan, Ding Chunzhi dripped two more drops of Clear Eye Bamboo Spirit Dew.

Why did she come?

Suddenly, the Sunglasses Girl spoke with surprise.

Ding Chunzhi could only open his eyes again. He saw the beautiful woman in the blue dress on the big screen and frowned. After thinking for a while, he sighed and did not use Star Gazing Technique to see her fate.

Besides the two people from the Pure Yang Academy who had just Life Observation, they were also too exhausted to look at because this person was too powerful.

Fortunately, her accident was an isolated case.

Although there were also Chief and graduates from the Ten Great Academies, none of them put any pressure on Ding Chunzhi, as he saw through them all.

By the time evening approached, the white paper was almost completely covered with names written from top to bottom.

"Lu Qiulong is here."

Upon hearing the warning, Ding Chunzhi took it seriously. Although Lu Qiulong's cultivation was not as high as his, due to his long-term fusion with his companion beast, his essence and blood had been tainted by the beast's domineering aura. He had to be careful to avoid being devoured.

"Phew, not bad, I managed to rank tenth."

After Life Observation Lu Qiulong's fate, Ding Chunzhi breathed a sigh of relief and wrote his name above Sima Xingyu's, causing the latter to slip to eleventh place.

"That's about it for today. It's almost time for the school to close. Let's come back to see the rest of you tomorrow. We're still missing the three from the Wuqi Dao Academy, Tao Mingqing from the Supreme Origin Academy, and... Pei Azurefrost."

When he mentioned the last name, Ding Chunzhi's expression became more solemn than ever before.

Although she was a graduate of the Mountain Sea Academy, Pei Azurefrost, as the number one Sword Cultivator at the Foundation Establishment, was someone that even Lan Haitan was unwilling to directly confront. It was unclear why she had suddenly decided to participate in this Offline Sparring Sudden Impulse.

Just as the Sunglasses Girl braced herself against the windowsill, preparing to pull up her feet that had been swinging all day, she saw a dashing woman in a dark green bodysuit and a white cape coming ashore.

"Pei Azurefrost has arrived as well."

Ding Chunzhi, who had just stood up to pack his things, could only sigh and open his eyes again to look at the big screen.

A sharp cry of pain escaped Ding Chunzhi's lips. The Sunglasses Girl, whose expression had been calm, suddenly changed slightly. She saw Pei Azurefrost, who had just approached the harbor, suddenly raise her eyebrows and look in their direction.

She moved swiftly, disappearing from the windowsill and disappearing into the room.

He then went to Ding Chunzhi's side, took the remote control, and turned off the screen.

"This guy seems to have spotted us."

As the Sunglasses Girl spoke, a hint of interest suddenly appeared in her usually calm tone.

After a whole day of looking around, I've finally found something interesting.

"I will never look at that girl again."

Ding Chunzhi released his right hand from his right eye, and a red mark, like a sword mark, appeared above and below his eye socket, as if someone had slashed his eyelid with a sword.

"Xiahou Weihuan is also Sword Cultivator, but he's not that terrifying."

The Sunglasses Girl glanced at Ding Chunzhi's sword scar on his right eye with a strange look and said something.

"Even among Sword Cultivator, there are differences in skill level."

After saying this, Ding Chunzhi applied two more drops of Clear Eye Bamboo Spirit Dew to himself, then packed his things and prepared to leave.

"Huh? The school's under lockdown, how come that guy from the Wuqi Dao Academy hasn't left the shore yet?"

While helping to tidy up, the Sunglasses Girl suddenly sensed something was wrong.

The rest of the people from the Daoist Academy left before dark after visiting Wood God Island and returned to the island where Goumang Dao Academy had arranged accommodations. However, Chen Mobai, who arrived first, had not seen anyone.

Could it be that they stayed overnight on Wood God Island?

"Perhaps, like Pei Azurefrost, they have relatives living here."

Ding Chunzhi began by saying that Pei Azurefrost's original name was Pei Cui, and her mother was a prominent figure at the Goumang Dao Academy, so it was understandable that she came before dark.

But Chen Mobai is from another school, and they've already arranged a nice island Villa for him, so why is he staying at a small hotel on the island? "Could he really be dating that person with the Heaven Spirit Root?"

As a man, Ding Chunzhi thought of something and blurted it out.

"No, I already saw it when I did his fortune telling last time. Although he has good luck with women, his heart is firm in his Peach Blossom. All the beauties combined can't compare to a small advancement in his cultivation path. He won't indulge in women at such a young age."

The Sunglasses Woman was very confident in her ability to read faces, and was certain that Chen Mobai was not that kind of person.

"Alright, I'll go see him tomorrow."

Ding Chunzhi did not refute the words of the Divine Machine Mansion Inheritor, but he was becoming more and more curious about Chen Mobai.

the next day.

The two of them waited at the usual spot, but still did not see Chen Mobai leave the shore.

On the third day, Ding Chunzhi finally couldn't hold back any longer and pulled back the surveillance footage on Wood God Island, finally finding Chen Mobai's trail.

"They stayed in the Alchemy room for three days!?"

After watching the footage of Chen Mobai and Qing Nü going in three days ago and never coming out again, Ding Chunzhi and the Sunglasses Woman looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Alright, it's done."

The Alchemy room at the Goumang Dao Academy is naturally top-notch, with complete equipment.

Qing Nü wiped the sweat from her smooth forehead, handed Chen Mobai three portions of Clear Eye Bamboo Spirit Dew extracted from the medicinal pool, and then, without stopping, went to a Sand Furnace to take over from Chen Mobai Pure Yang Spiritual Power for three days, and began to condense the medicinal properties.

Chen Mobai sought out Qing Nü to ask for her help in Alchemy.

Wang Xingyu was in seclusion to Foundation Establishment, and he happened to be coming to the Goumang Dao Academy. He had already asked Luo Yixuan to collect the main and Auxiliary Medicine of Clear Eye Bamboo Spirit Dew and Camel Thorn Medicinal Paste.

Of these, the Clear Eye Bamboo Spirit Dew is easy to refine, since Qing Nü has experience in it.

As Third Grade spiritual herb, Camel Thorn can mostly only be refined into Second Grade ointment in the Eastern Wasteland. However, in the Immortal Sect, as long as the Alchemy's skill level is high enough, it can be refined into a Third Grade ointment.

Fortunately, Qing Nü has already passed the exam for the Third Grade Alchemy certificate this year.

The skill level is sufficient.

Before coming to the Goumang Dao Academy, Chen Mobai had already discussed with Qing Nü a prescription for enhancing the strength of meridians and blood. In accordance with the latter's request, he acquired another Third Grade Herb, Water Heart Lotus Seed, and eighteen Second Grade Auxiliary Medicine in the Sky River Realm.

Fortunately, Giant Wood Ridge is rich in medicinal resources, and most of them are available there.

In addition, Luo Yixuan was very diligent in her work and even made a special trip to the market outside the sect to buy two other Second Grade Auxiliary Medicine that the Spiritual Plant Department did not have.

For this ointment, Chen Mobai spent 5,000 sect Contribution Points and 200 Spirit Stone.

Besides these, there were also some industrial Auxiliary Medicine from the Immortal Sect, which cost about 30,000 Merit Points. However, compared to the main expense, these were negligible.

"Leave the rest to me. It will take about half a month to complete the preparation of this ointment, which will coincide with the end of your Offline Exchange."

Qing Nü sat down in front of the Sand Furnace with a smile, slowly blending the various medicinal herbs inside with her spiritual power. Every now and then, she would pick up the Spirit Essence brought by Chen Mobai, crush a corner into powder and sprinkle it in to extract the Pill Toxin.

"Then I'll have to trouble you."

Chen Mobai felt that his presence was also interfering with Qing Nü's Alchemy, so he nodded and, just like before in Vermilion Cloud City, consciously left the Alchemy room.

"He's finally out."

Ding Chunzhi activated a surveillance camera aimed at the Alchemy room. He saw Chen Mobai stretching and leaving the room. He closed his left eye and activated the Star Gazing Technique.

With a whoosh, it pierced the air like a sword strike!

Then, a painful, suppressed voice rang out.