My Master Knows It All

78: Chapter 74: After Your Performance, It’s My Turn_1 78: Chapter 74: After Your Performance, It’s My Turn_1 Lv Chaoqiong felt as though her lines had been snatched away by the other person, as she was actually supposed to be the one asking, “Why are you everywhere, Cao Zhen?”

“It’s alright, you had good intentions,” Cao Zhen adjusted his mindset and stored all the testamentary documents into the Vajra bracelet, then asked, “View Master, how much longer do we need to maintain the Five-Element Pill Ground?”

“There’s no rush, no rush…” Lv Chaoqiong said with a dry laugh, “It won’t take too long.

Don’t worry, don’t worry.”

Seeing her like this, Cao Zhen guessed that as long as he stayed in the Hidden Dragon Observatory for even a day, Lv Chaoqiong would not open the Five-Element Pill Ground.

Lv Chaoqiong also felt helpless.

In theory, an Alchemy Grandmaster like Cao Zhen should be revered like an ancestor!

He shouldn’t be offended in the slightest!

He was a treasure of the Hundred Peaks Sect!

Yet, coincidentally, after that peculiar pill was finished, the material reserves of the Five-Element Pill Ground really suffered damage.

If he were allowed to continue this way, it would not be long before all the medicinal materials in the Five-Element Pill Ground would be exhausted.

Without having found a solution that would suffice for both parties, Lv Chaoqiong had decided to temporarily close the Five-Element Pill Ground.

She had already sent a crane messenger to the Sect Leader True Person, trusting that the Elder Immortal Palace would soon be able to discuss and establish new rules.

“Peak Master Cao…” Lv Chaoqiong broke the silence after a moment of stillness, “Since you have taken in so many predecessors’ insights into cultivation, to avoid harm to your spiritual heart and delay in your path of cultivation, I suggest you go to the Discourse Hall.

Listening to the elders’ lectures and discussions there will be beneficial for your spirit.”

Cao Zhen looked around and felt that staying here would not allow him to take away more relics.

The only option left was to look around for a way to open the Five-Element Pill Ground, and if that failed, he decided it might also be good to teach his disciples here for a few days.

Meanwhile, it would be beneficial to cultivate some Divine Skills here as well.

Although the main direction of taking pills had been set, now that he lacked materials, he still needed to cultivate the key core Divine Skills himself.

These core Divine Skills could not be taught to anyone outside of his disciples.

And among his current disciples, the one most suitable for practicing the Five-thunder Righteous Method was Yan Yourong.

Her Cultivation Base determined she could not bring the Five-thunder Righteous Method up to the level he currently needed.

“Then let’s go take a look,” Cao Zhen stepped toward the outside of the Immortal Soldier Workshop, secretly planning to visit the Senior Beichen Ying later to inquire about the pricing of the relics he sold in the past, to have a reference.

After all, now that he had downloaded the capability of a merchant, he might as well make good use of it.

When the time came, he could not omit hosting a grand auction.

“Oh, and there’s one more thing I need to trouble the Workshop Master with,” Cao Zhen said with a clasped fist to Ai Yunqi, “I have a disciple who said she would seek me here.

Should she arrive, let her try and see if she can find her own fortune.

Afterwards, she can wait for me in my room.”

A disciple?

Ai Yunqi’s inquiring gaze turned to Lv Chaoqiong beside him, the meaning clear: Wasn’t this the Hundredth Peak?

How come just any disciple could come to the Hidden Dragon Observatory for cultivation now?

Had the rules of the Hidden Dragon Observatory been lowered?

Or were all of the Hundred Peaks’ disciples geniuses now?

Lv Chaoqiong could only respond with a forced smile on her face.

As the Hidden Dragon View Master, she naturally knew how demanding the conditions were to enter the Hidden Dragon Observatory for cultivation.

There were only five people in the Four Treasures Peak, and now two of them had come…

and not the kind who paid their way in.

Nowadays, claiming that Four Treasures Peak ranks as the Hundredth Peak, such a statement couldn’t convince the public.

It seems the ranking of Four Treasures Peak in the Hundred Peaks Sect will have to improve a lot this time…

Huh?

Lv Chaoqiong suddenly realized a way to make money.

The Hundred Peaks ranking was to be advanced because of the minor Spiritual Tide event.

Wouldn’t that mean one could make a good amount of money by betting on the rise of Four Treasures Peak’s ranking?

Although the outside world knew that two people from Four Treasures Peak had come to the Hidden Dragon Observatory, Cao Zhen’s true strength was unknown to them.

Especially these fifty relics; although they would hinder his cultivation progress, they undoubtedly greatly enhanced his combat capabilities.

Since his cultivation base was already capable of challenging those beyond his level, now with the addition of these fifty relics, especially the dual rings of water and fire from the seventh-generation Sect Leader True Person, a treasure on the Hundred Peaks Sect’s Divine Weapons list, even if his cultivation base couldn’t bring out his full combat power, the might was by no means insignificant, right?

The more Lv Chaoqiong thought about it, the more she felt she was correct.

Although during the Hundred Peaks ranking it wasn’t all about combat power and one had to look at the comprehensive ability in the six arts of immortal cultivation, combat power still accounted for a significant portion of the points.

With Cao Zhen’s current cultivation base…

those Peak Masters below the Seventieth Peak might all be no match for him, right?

This combat points should also be able to improve by about ten places, right?

Seeing the View Master’s gaze growing more complex, Ai Yunqi was curious about what she was thinking.

After Cao Zhen left, he said, “Peak Master Cao is indeed rare, but it’s a pity, taking too many relics, a real pity…

getting a smooth ride and then becoming inflated, thinking that if he could obtain relics, his disciples could too.”

Lv Chaoqiong, after being told so by Ai Yunqi, nodded continuously, feeling it made sense and began to suspect whether the Four Treasures Peak Master would become too arrogant and stumble in a magical duel.

After all, if the duel wasn’t a complete crush, experience and technique could alter the tide of battle.

“He is a bit too arrogant,” Lv Chaoqiong couldn’t help but echo.

“Who among those who come to our Hidden Dragon Observatory isn’t a genius of the Hundred Peaks Sect?

Of course…

except those who pay a heavy price to come here.

But how many of them get recognized by the relics?”

While they spoke, they saw a young, beautiful girl with an unfamiliar face enter.

They immediately knew this was the disciple Cao Zhen had mentioned.

At this moment, Lv Chaoqiong’s opinion of Four Treasures Peak dropped another notch.

The girl was beautiful, but there was an aloof coldness in her bones that was difficult to approach.

This must be because Four Treasures Peak had been sailing with the wind these days, making them all become arrogant, right?

It looks like they could only bet on their ranking rising by five places…

Lv Chaoqiong quickly calculated in her heart.

“Your master has gone to the Discourse Hall,” said Ai Yunqi in a matter-of-fact tone, before Yan Yourong could speak.

“Before he left, he asked you to try your luck with the relics here, to see if you could get one.

Close your eyes and with your heart and breath, feel around.

If there’s a connection, that’s your destined relic.

If there’s nothing, then there’s nothing.

It’s useless no matter how many times you try.

Once you’re done, wait for him in his room.”

Yan Yourong paid her respects to them with a polite bow, then closed her eyes to release her power and breath, feeling for the legacy left by her ancestors through blood and sacrifice, communicating with each one.

Ai Yunqi and Lv Chaoqiong exchanged glances, each seeing the smile in the other’s eyes.

Cao Zhen had just scoured the place, and the relics had just undergone the kind of communication that built a resonance.

This young person may have had a chance originally, but now the opportunity was gone, taken by her master before her.