After passing through the passage, Yang Cheng found himself in a room. However, the room was surrounded by walls. There was only a circular opening on the front wall that was blocked. There was a chair placed in front of the opening.
Yang Cheng went straight over, sat on the chair, and couldn't help but use his spiritual sense to examine the black cloth covering the opening, trying to see what was inside. Unexpectedly, he was blocked back, and then he was surprised to find that the black cloth could block the opening.
Spiritual consciousness.
"Fellow Taoist, what do you need when you come here?" At this moment, an old voice suddenly came from the opposite side of the round hole.
"I would like to entrust you to inquire about the two materials." Yang Cheng replied.
There was silence for a moment, and then a wooden plate was pushed over from the opposite side, and the old voice sounded again: "Three months, and a deposit of ten spiritual stones. If there is no problem, fellow Taoist can just enter the name of the material into the jade slip."
"Can."
Yang Cheng said, picked up the jade slip in the wooden plate, put it on his forehead, and used his spiritual sense to write the two materials he had found out into it. He also took out ten spiritual stones from the storage bag and put them together with the jade slip.
On the wooden plate, I pushed it over.
The wooden plate disappeared behind the black cloth. After a while, it was pushed over again. There was a jade slip inside: "This is the voucher. Taoist friends will use this to receive news three months later."
"Okay." Yang Cheng picked up the jade slip, put it in his storage bag, stood up and left.
After leaving the grocery store, Yang Cheng was still thinking about the scene just now.
If nothing else, this gray base for gathering information was opened by casual cultivators. Moreover, the business it undertakes should go beyond simply gathering information.
But these were none of Yang Cheng's business. He just wanted to know if they could really find out information about the two materials he needed to refine the sword embryo.
As for everything else, the water here seems to be very deep, and Yang Cheng needs to stay far away to be safe.
Back at Lingjian Sect, Yang Cheng practiced at night and wandered around during the day. He waited for another four or five days before Guanshi Liao left the weapon refining hall.
During this period, Yang Cheng also saw Cao Fang and other weapon-refining helpers, all of whom looked sluggish and depressed. It was obvious that they had suffered a lot during the continuous process of refining the weapons for many days.
In the past, Yang Cheng was very envious, but now that he has found his own way to make money, looking at Cao Fang and others, he suddenly realized that being a weapon-refining helper didn't seem to be a good job anymore.
When Cao Fang saw Yang Cheng's leisurely and happy look and his pity-filled eyes, he didn't know what he thought of. After saying goodbye, he even started to stagger a little while walking.
Seeing this, Yang Cheng shook his head repeatedly in sympathy, "Oh, it's true that high-paying jobs are not that easy to do!"
After entering the Steward's Hall, Steward Liao got straight to the point when he saw Yang Cheng and directly mentioned that Uncle Zhang had told him to punish Yang Cheng.
However, since he had just left the customs and needed a few days to make arrangements, he asked Yang Cheng to go back. If there was any news, he would inform Yang Cheng.
After listening to Manager Liao's words, Yang Cheng couldn't find anything to say, so he could only return to the courtyard with a wry smile and continue to wait for the punishment results.
Fortunately, Yang Cheng did not wait too long this time. Three days later in the afternoon, a disciple on duty at the Guanshi Hall sent Yang Cheng a jade slip, saying that it was given to him by Guanshi Liao.
Yang Cheng knew that his punishment was coming, and he was still a little nervous. However, when Yang Cheng read the contents of the jade slip, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
In the jade slips, Guanshi Liao did not arrange for Yang Cheng to go mining. He only mentioned that outside the city of a state capital in the secular world, there were ghosts that harmed people and harmed passing merchants.
Let Yang Cheng deal with it on behalf of Lingjian Sect, which will be considered as completing his punishment.
Now that he had received the mission, and it didn't seem to be anything powerful, Yang Cheng began to prepare and planned to set off early the next morning.
Complete the mission early and come back so you can continue planting herbs.
Looking at the empty medicinal fields all day long, Yang Cheng also felt very uncomfortable.
But something very strange happened next, which surprised Yang Cheng and made him feel uneasy.
Just a little later, a messenger talisman suddenly flew from Yang Cheng's small courtyard. After a few flashes, it passed through the door and appeared in front of Yang Cheng.
Looking at the thing in front of him, Yang Cheng stretched out his hand to take it inexplicably, and then a very vague voice came into Yang Cheng's ears, "Be careful!"
Then the messenger talisman suddenly burst into flames, burned quickly, and soon turned into ashes.
"Be careful! Be careful about what?" Yang Cheng felt strange for no reason.
"Who sent the messenger talisman? I couldn't explain clearly. What should I be careful about?" Monk Yang Chengzhang was confused and suddenly confused.
However, Yang Cheng quickly thought about tomorrow's trip, "Is this what you are talking about? Could it be that on this trip, going to the secular world to eliminate ghosts will be in danger?"
After contacting each other, Yang Cheng looked at the beams and began to feel uncertain, "I just received the task on the front foot, and someone will remind me immediately on the back foot!"
However, although the voice in the messenger talisman was very unclear, Yang Cheng's Yuanshen was different from ordinary people, even surpassing the Yuanshen in the early stage of foundation building. From the words, it was heard that the person who issued the talisman was a female cultivator.
Moreover, when Yang Cheng put the finger that had just touched the messenger talisman in front of his nose, he could still smell a very faint fragrance of powder, which all meant that the other party was a female nun who did not want to reveal her identity.
If Yang Cheng couldn't figure it out, he simply didn't think about it, and then started practicing.
...
There is a temple ten miles away from the city of Suizhou. Although it has declined, it still has many halls and towers. In the early years, it must have been a prosperous place and the rituals continued.
However, as the eminent monk passed away and two things happened later, the incense gradually dimmed.
By now, the monks have completely left, and the temple has become more and more dilapidated as it has fallen into disrepair. Only occasionally businessmen who missed the time will stay here for a night.
However, since it was rumored to be haunted and several people died a year ago, few people dare to come, making this place even more quiet and mysterious.
At noon, a man walked along the road and entered the temple. He wandered around for a while, admiring the poems and ink left by past tourists on several walls of the temple, and then left without knowing where he was going.
The ruined temple is left behind, looking even quieter in the light.
In the evening, another travel-worn scholar carrying a bookcase came on the road. After seeing the temple, he seemed to be relieved, and then entered the main hall.
With the remaining light outside the hall, the scholar dug out the flint from the box, and found a few unburned logs in a fire that had long been extinguished. After several efforts, he finally lit a fire.
Seeing the fire burning, the scholar seemed very happy.
Then he went outside the main hall, looked around for some branches, carried them into the main hall, and finally stopped.