Gu Sheng frowned slightly.
"I haven't had time to coach her lately."
"How about letting her follow me?"
Miss Tantai proposed.
"Although I am not good at teaching, Linlang Pavilion has rich resources, which will be of great benefit to her practice. Moreover"
She smiled.
"The pavilion is deserted, so it would be nice to have her as a companion."
Gu Sheng thought for a moment and nodded.
"That's fine. Qing Xuan has a simple temper, so I feel more at ease with you taking care of me."
"Then it's settled."
Miss Tantai had a cunning look in his eyes.
"By the way, there is one more thing. My sister plans to come forward in person and contact the senior officials of the Great Desolation Sacred Academy."
Gu Sheng looked condensed.
"Miss Bing Tang wants to intervene?"
Miss Tantai sighed.
"Great Desolation Sacred Academy has complex internal factions. Only when my sister comes forward can the situation be calmed down."
She observed Gu Sheng's expression.
"Someone might come looking for you, so be prepared."
Gu Sheng looked worried.
"I don't want to attract attention, especially for a behemoth like the Holy Court."
"It can't be avoided."
Miss Tantai shook his head.
"The alchemy skills you displayed are too amazing, and the Holy Court will not turn a blind eye."
She lowered her voice.
"But don't worry, the Holy Court is not monolithic. There are also factions who are close to me, Linlang Pavilion."
In the alchemy room, sandalwood scent lingers.
Miss Tantai Wearing white clothes, Sheng Xue touched the tea cup lightly with her fingertips, her eyes as deep as a cold pool were reflected on the water.
"Mr. Gu, Great Desolation Sacred Academy is calm on the surface, but in fact there is an undercurrent."
Her voice was cold.
"You destroyed Myriad Flow Sect three days ago, which has touched the interests of some people."
Gu Sheng raised his eyebrows slightly and tapped his knuckles lightly on the table.
"Oh? I'd like to hear the details."
"There are many factions within the Holy Court."
Miss Tantai A wisp of cold air gathered on his fingertips, drawing complex lines on the table.
"The First Elder faction has close ties with 'Shadow Alliance' in the city, and Myriad Flow Sect is one of the forces they support."
Suddenly the night wind blew in outside the window, and as the candlelight flickered, Miss Tantai's face flickered in and out.
Gu Sheng noticed that the ice crystal ring on her left ring finger glowed with a strange blue light. This was a warning weapon only owned by the Linlang Pavilion's top executives.
"It seems the situation is more serious than I thought."
Gu Sheng chuckled lightly, but there was no trace of fear in his eyes.
" Miss Xue Li came here specially to remind me that Gu has recorded this sentiment."
Miss Tantai shook his head.
"No need to say thank you. You helped me obtain 'Profound Yin Ice Soul', and Linlang Pavilion will reciprocate the favor."
She suddenly lowered her voice.
"Three days later, Shadow Alliance will gather at the abandoned pharmacy in the south of the city. At least two Golden Core cultivator will be present."
Gu Sheng's eyes flashed.
He picked up the tea cup and drank it all in one gulp. The hot tea turned into a stream of hot water in his throat.
"Good tea!"
"You"
Miss Tantai frowned.
"I suggest you stay away from the edge for the time being. Linlang Pavilion and Secret Chamber can isolate the detection of spiritual consciousness, or..."
"Or leave Great Desolation City?"
Gu Sheng put down the tea cup, and the porcelain made a crisp sound when it collided with the wooden table.
"It's a pity that Gu doesn't like to be a coward."
Miss Tantai stared at him for a moment and suddenly sighed.
"I really can't persuade you."
She took out a jade slip from her sleeve.
"This is information about known members of the Shadow Alliance. It may be useful to you."
The jade slip was cold in hand, and Gu Sheng scanned it with his consciousness. Dozens of names were densely recorded inside, and some were even marked with the titles of the Great Desolation Sacred Academy deacons and elders.
His pupils shrank. The situation was much more complicated than he expected.
"Thank you."
This time Gu Sheng sounded much more sincere.
Miss Tantai stood up, his clothes fluttering.
"If you see a purple smoke column rising from the east of the city in three days, it will be a signal that Linlang Pavilion is in danger."
She walked towards the door, then stopped and said.
"Gu Sheng, only by living can you have a future."
When the figure in white disappeared into the night, the smile on Gu Sheng's face gradually faded.
He tightened his fingers, and the jade slip turned into powder in his palm.
"Shadow Alliance Great Desolation Sacred Academy"
he muttered.
"It seems we have to strike first."
Just as he was about to stand up, he suddenly felt a stinging pain between his eyebrows.
Gu Sheng's face changed suddenly, and he immediately sat cross-legged, his mental energy sinking into the sea of consciousness.
In the sea of consciousness, the originally calm golden ocean is now turbulent.
In the center, the spirit fetus surrounded by nine Grotto-Heavens was trembling violently, with spiderweb-like cracks appearing on the surface, and red and blue lights flashing alternately inside.
"Senior Yue!"
Gu Sheng called with his spiritual consciousness.
The shadow of the gray-robed old man appeared next to the spiritual fetus, his face solemn.
"Boy, the fusion of the spiritual fetus and the residual soul of the Southern Emperor Saintess has reached a critical moment and requires a lot of energy supply!"
Gu Sheng was shocked.
When he obtained this mysterious spiritual fetus in the ancient battlefield three years ago, Yue Shen Gong said that it was a treasure bred by ancient secrets. Now it is even more magical after being fused with the remnant soul of the Southern Emperor Saintess.
But the hunger and thirst coming from the spiritual fetus at this moment actually made his consciousness feel tingling.
"What energy is needed?"
"Aura, mental power, Soul Power can be used, the more the better!"
Yue Shen Gong speaks very fast.
"If there is insufficient energy, the spiritual fetus may backfire on the host!"
Gu Sheng did not dare to neglect, and immediately branched out a ray of Soul Power to go to the spiritual fetus.
As soon as the silvery thread of mental power touched the surface of the spiritual fetus, it was suddenly sucked in at an alarmingly fast speed.
"Hiss"
Gu Sheng took a breath of cold air.
This wisp of Soul Power was enough to support an ordinary monk to cast high-level spells three times, but it was instantly swallowed up by the spiritual fetus without even causing a wave.
He gritted his teeth, took out a hundred pieces of High-grade Spirit Stone from the storage ring, and used Nine Dragon Qiankun Art to extract the aura from it like crazy.
The nine-seat Grotto-Heaven shines brightly in the sea of consciousness, transforming the pure spiritual energy into a nine-color torrent and pouring it into the spiritual fetus.
The spirit stone dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning into gray powder within a few breaths.
Gu Sheng Cold sweat oozed from his forehead. The one hundred pieces of High-grade Spirit Stone were extremely valuable. If placed in the outside world, they would be enough to cause competition among small sects. However, they only healed less than one-tenth of the cracks on the surface of the spirit fetus.
"Not enough! Far from enough!"
Yue Shen Gong said anxiously.
"The spiritual fetus is giving birth to some kind of existence, which requires a huge amount of energy!"
Gu Sheng had a ruthless look in his eyes.
He slammed the storage ring, and immediately three thousand pieces of High-grade Spirit Stone poured out like a waterfall and piled up into a hill on the floor of the alchemy room.
Nine Dragon Qiankun Art operates to the extreme, and nine spiritual dragons fly out from the palm, devouring the spiritual stone energy crazily.
The crackling sound of spiritual stones sounded like fried beans, and the entire alchemy room was enveloped in a thick spiritual mist.
Gu Sheng All the seven orifices began to ooze spiritual energy. His body was like an over-inflated skin bag, and pain like tearing came from his meridians.
But he didn't dare to stop, because the spiritual fetus in the sea of consciousness finally began to stabilize, and the surface cracks healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Good boy!"
Yue Shen Gong was amazed.
"Ordinary Golden Core cultivator would have been bursting at the seams, but your nine-seat Grotto-Heaven is indeed magical!"
Gu Sheng has no time to respond.
He devoted all his attention Divine Capital to controlling the transformation of spiritual energy. The nine Grotto-Heaven wheels rotated like flying, sorting out the violent spiritual energy into gentle energy.
The spiritual fetus swallowed the sea like a bottomless pit, gradually emitting a hazy halo.
Three hours later, when the last spirit stone turned into powder, Gu Sheng's whole body was soaked with sweat.
The floor of the alchemy room is covered with thick spiritual stone powder, which makes a fine "rustling" sound when stepped on.
Within the sea of consciousness, the spiritual fetus finally stopped absorbing, and the surface cracks completely disappeared, replaced by a shell as crystal clear as jade.
Through the translucent shell, a red and blue light group inside can be vaguely seen beating slowly, pulsing regularly like a heart.
"This is."
Gu Sheng's spiritual consciousness approached and he felt an unprecedented wave of life.
Yue Shen Gong The phantom circled around the spiritual fetus, amazed.
"Amazing! The spiritual fetus is giving birth to some kind of life form, and the remnant soul of Nanhuang Saintess seems to be perfectly integrated with it."
Gu Sheng tried to use his spiritual sense to detect, but was blocked by the shell.
What's even more strange is that he actually felt a faint sense of closeness from the spiritual fetus, as if the being conceived inside was connected by blood with him.
In the alchemy room, Gu Sheng looked at the blackened residue in the alchemy furnace and shook his head helplessly.
This was already his seventh attempt to refine "Nine Revolutions Spirit Condensation Pill", and each time he failed at the critical moment of condensing the elixir.
"It seems that the control of the heat is not accurate enough."
Gu Sheng sighed softly and waved his hand, and the remaining medicinal residue in the alchemy furnace turned into fine ash and scattered, like the first snow in winter, slowly falling throughout the alchemy room.
His mentality is peaceful. After all, the method of alchemy is full of variables, and failure is common.
Gu Sheng stood up slowly, patted the medicine ash on his robe, and was about to leave the alchemy room that was already in a mess.
"Squeak"
At this moment, the door of the alchemy room was pushed open from the outside.
A girl in a lavender dress walked in, rubbing her eyes. Her hair was slightly messy, and there was a bit of tiredness in the corners of her eyes. She had obviously just woken up.
"Gu Sheng, what are you fussing about again?"
Miss Tantai Halfway through his words, his eyes suddenly widened and he lost all sleep.
She looked at the red dust floating all over the room, and the corners of her mouth raised slightly.
"Hey, is it snowing? Or is our Great Alchemist Gu up to something new?"
Gu Sheng touched his nose awkwardly.
"It's just a failure in refining the alchemy. I'm going to ask someone to take care of it."
"No, no, no!"
Miss Tantai quickly waved his hand and walked quickly to Gu Sheng, with a cunning light in his eyes.
"My alchemy room never allows outsiders to enter. I should clean these 'snowflakes' myself."
As she spoke, she took out a jade bottle from her storage bag, shook it gently, and all the elixir ash in the room gathered into the bottle as if being summoned. Within a moment, the alchemy room returned to tidiness.
Gu Sheng looked at her skillful movements and couldn't help but ask.
"Why are you so tired? Didn't you get a good rest last night?"
Miss Tantai immediately fell down upon hearing this.
"It's not because of the elixir you gave me! I tried to refine 'Jade Marrow Pill' according to the method you told me, but the success rate was very low. I tried more than 300 times last night, but the success rate was less than 30%!"
The more she spoke, the more excited she became, her fingers twisting the corners of her clothes unconsciously.
"I've been trying to improve the recipe all night and I'm almost going blind!"
Gu Sheng frowned slightly, thought for a moment and then said.
"Show me the recipe. Maybe I can help you improve it."
Miss Tantai's eyes lit up, and he immediately took out a roll of yellowed parchment from the storage bag and handed it to him.
"Here! This is the original recipe. I made seventeen changes, but the effect is not ideal."
Gu Sheng took the prescription and examined it carefully. His fingertips lightly crossed the paper, sometimes pausing and sometimes moving quickly.
Miss Tantai stood aside, nervously watching every change in his expression.
"Paper and pen."
After a while, Gu Sheng suddenly spoke.
Miss Tantai Without saying a word, he quickly took out the fine spiritual ink and jade sticks from the storage bag and handed them to him.
Gu Sheng took the pen and quickly sketched the recipe, sometimes adding a few herbs and sometimes adjusting the refining sequence.
"That's it."
Miss Tantai looked closer, his eyes widening.
"Why didn't I think that I could adjust the heat like this!"
Gu Sheng made the last stroke and handed the improved prescription back to her.
"Try this, the success rate should be increased to more than 70%."
Miss Tantai As if he had found a treasure, he held the prescription and checked it over and over again. The tired look on his face was wiped away, replaced by a flush of excitement.
"That's great! I'm going to the alchemy shop to try it now!"
She turned around and was about to run out of the alchemy room, but suddenly turned back and gave Gu Sheng a quick kiss on the cheek.
"Thank you!"
After saying that, he rushed out like a gust of wind, leaving Gu Sheng standing there, touching the place where he was kissed and not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
Looking at Miss Tantai's leaving figure, Gu Sheng shook his head, straightened his clothes and decided not to waste any more time.
He left Linlang Pavilion and went straight to the teleportation array in Tiancheng.
Tiancheng's teleportation array is located in a high tower in the center of the city, surrounded by heavy troops.
After Gu Sheng paid ten pieces of mid-grade Spirit Stone, he was about to step into the teleportation array when a disciple wearing Great Desolation Sacred Academy clothes suddenly stopped him.
"Stop!"
The disciple's face was stern, and the sword in his hand was placed across Gu Sheng's chest.
"Outsiders are not allowed to enter the Celestial City without the guidance or tokens of the Holy Court disciples."
Gu Sheng frowned slightly.
"Someone is going to pick me up."
"Who will pick you up? Whose name is it?"
The disciples of the Holy Academy did not relax their vigilance at all.
"Shen Qingtian."
Gu Sheng replied calmly.
Upon hearing this name, the disciple's face changed slightly and he looked Gu Sheng up and down.
"What is your relationship with Senior Sister Shen?"
"Friends."
Gu Sheng answered briefly, while noticing that there were several times more guards around the teleportation array than usual.
"Why are the patrols so strict today?"
The disciple hesitated for a moment and lowered his voice.
"Myriad Flow Sect is in trouble, Tiancheng must be on guard."
He paused.
"Just wait here. If Senior Sister Shen really comes to pick you up, I will let you go."
Gu Sheng felt something in his heart.
Myriad Flow Sect Something happened? It seems that Tantai Bing Tang has contacted the higher-ups of the Holy Academy. No wonder the alert has suddenly escalated.
He was secretly glad that he acted in time, otherwise it would have been difficult to enter the Celestial City once the Holy Court was fully sealed off.
About half a quarter of an hour later, a cyan figure walked out of the teleportation array.
Shen Qingtian is dressed in a green shirt and has a sword at his waist, looking heroic.
She saw Gu Sheng being stopped at a glance and walked over quickly.
"Gu Sheng!"
She called out, then turned to the Holy Academy disciple.
"This is my friend, please let me go, junior brother."
When the disciple saw Shen Qingtian, his expression suddenly became respectful.
"Senior Sister Shen, is this really your friend?"
"Why, you don't believe what I say anymore?"
Shen Qingtian raised his eyebrows, and although his tone was light, it carried an unquestionable majesty.
"Get out!"
Shen Qingtian's voice was as cold as ice, and there was a dangerous light in his eyes.
The two Inner Court disciples were not afraid at all, but instead showed sarcastic smiles.