Chapter 393 Observing the Palace Master

In the end, Kou Chong didn't know whether he had a problem or "Zheng Bo" was going crazy.

Facing such an old man who might die someday, Kou Chong wisely made the most appropriate choice -

Don't respond to scolding, just keep silent.

Until "Zheng Bo"'s unprovoked venting came to an end, Kou Chong said apologetically:

"It's all my problem, so I won't bother you."

After that, he turned and left.

"Wait." "Zheng Bo" suddenly called him again.

Kou Chong stopped and turned to look at "Zheng Bo" with a puzzled look on his face.

"Zheng Bo" asked: "What are you going to do now?"

Kou Chong said: "Keep thinking, what else?"

He felt that his previous intuition was not wrong.

Just at a certain moment just now, he even felt that he was only a thin layer of window paper away from finding the correct answer. He only needed to probe forward and things would be done.

Although, this feeling faded later.

After many attempts, he could not reproduce the feeling at that time.

But Kou Chong inexplicably believed that the feeling at that time was not wrong.

Since "Zheng Bo" could not give him useful advice, he would continue to try.

Kou Chong believed that everything would have a second chance.

As long as he tried enough times, he would eventually be able to find the feeling at that time again, and even go a step further on the basis of that time, and find the answer he was looking for.

"Zheng Bo" stared at him for a while, then slowly shook his head and said:

"The thing that people can't force the most is their own thoughts.

Sometimes, the harder you try to calm down and eliminate all distractions, the more counterproductive the effect will be."

Kou Chong opened his mouth, and after a while, he asked for advice: "Then... what should I do?"

"Zheng Bo" sighed and pointed out:

"What you should do most now is to relax your mind completely.

... The reason why you are in that state is that you have been too tense these days.

So, let's go, you don't have to come to this library for a while."

Hearing "Zheng Bo" give such advice, Kou Chong was dumbfounded.

"Leave? You don't have to come anymore? Then... where should I go?"

"Zheng Bo" waved his hand and said, "Go wherever you want, and completely put this matter aside.

It doesn't matter whether you go to practice or go shopping.

After a while, when you have completely put these thoughts out of your mind, you can come here again."

Speaking of this, "Zheng Bo" paused and said:

"Before that, don't compete with yourself.

If you do that, you will only suffer in the end!"

As he said, he lay back on the recliner again, closed his eyes and took a nap, and gently waved his hand, as if he didn't want to continue this topic with him.

Kou Chong was still confused about "Zheng Bo's" strange behavior today.

However, he also found a reason to convince himself. Perhaps, "Zheng Bo" was because my performance today touched some of his personal memories.

Whether it was his unreasonable anger or his careful guidance after anger, his emotional target was not himself, but the current "Zheng Bo" to himself at a certain moment in the past.

Thinking of this, Kou Chong felt that things suddenly made perfect sense.

…

Meng Zhou secretly tripped up "Zheng Bo" and slowed down the progress of his plan, and finally left the "Lotus Space".

After putting the golden powder double-stemmed lotus rooted in the body of the Earth Charm Spirit Turtle into the Spirit Gourd Space and doing some necessary processing on some traces, Meng Zhou quietly escaped from the Earth Charm Spirit Turtle and sneaked out of this spiritual island.

This time, Meng Zhou had a clear goal, a place called "Observation Hall".

To be honest, Meng Zhou actually had a deep connection with this place.

Back then, in order to get a regular update on the situation of Cuiyu Lake, Yan Zhuang took the initiative to apply to become the "Observation Envoy" who was specifically responsible for the "Juye Wilderness".

The specific responsibilities were to regularly collect, sort out, and summarize the information regularly transmitted to the Xingxiu Palace by all forces loyal to the Xingxiu Palace, including the Qiao family, so that the Xingxiu Palace could also understand the approximate changes in the "Juye Wilderness" during the mountain closure period.

The observers not only need to summarize and report this information regularly, but also need to report it to all the senior officials of Xingxiu Palace immediately if they encounter any special changes.

On the other hand, it is also very important to maintain the "loyalty" of these forces' spies.

Only in this way can they serve more wholeheartedly.

As for how to do it specifically, it includes responding to the other party's soul call when necessary, helping the other party solve some difficult problems, or granting some precious cultivation secrets, etc.

Such observers are naturally not just Yan Zhuang.

During the nearly two hundred years of the Xingxiu Palace's mountain closure, different observers have gradually developed more standardized and strict procedures in the process of exercising the authority of observers.

With the birth of four Yuanying Zhenjun in Xingxiu Palace, the mountain closure that lasted for nearly two hundred years ended. In order to bring the outer domain eight wildernesses back into the order control of Xingxiu Palace, a large number of Xingxiu Palace Jindan were sent to various wildernesses to guard.

This is the most important matter of Xingxiu Palace at present.

In order to manage these guards of the Jindan, pay attention to their safety, coordinate their stay and go, and keep abreast of the timely dynamics of each domain...

Such a tedious and important matter, of course, requires a professional team to be responsible for this matter.

The "Observation Hall", which was originally very professional and had previous experience, would gradually end its mission as the Xingxiu Palace closed the mountain, and took on this new mission.

This is also the reason why Meng Zhou came here as his first stop after he understood the truth of the "Xingxiu Tianchi" and gradually had a mature way to break the deadlock in his heart and determined his whereabouts in the next few years.

In this "Observation Hall", there are two pieces of information he must get.

First, the "Observation Hall" has the information of all the monks sent to guard the Jindan.

Not only is there the cultivation situation of each guard of the Jindan, and a general introduction to the characteristics, but also includes the contracted monsters, important magic weapons, special secrets, etc.

More importantly, all the monks who submitted applications for transfer and return through the communication beads within two months, and the monks who will be safely replaced at that time, their information is concentrated here.

These are all information that Meng Zhou must master.

Second, the timely information of each wilderness area collected by the "Observation Hall" is an important reference for the next stage of the four Yuanying ancestors' actions.

For example, a large number of cultivators attacked Qinglin Peak on a large scale because they were dissatisfied with the practices of Xingxiu Palace. The timely appearance of a Yuanying female cultivator directly killed the wave of counterattack.

For example, Meng Zhou practiced "Heaven and Earth Combination" in the "gap area" between the five domains and treated "wounds of heaven and earth" one after another, but eventually caused a huge disaster with a huge impact, which shook the entire five domains.

That abnormality directly attracted two Yuanying to investigate in person.

This is also information that Meng Zhou must master.

Apart from anything else, he will have to act frequently in the next few years, and there will be no good thing to hide in the "Lotus Space" for a few years.

He must do his best to avoid the possibility of direct encounters with these Yuanying cultivators during his activities outside.

Everyone uses Xingxiu Sea as a base. If there is no advance planning, this kind of thing is very likely to happen.

In the eyes of low- and middle-level cultivators, the Xingxiu Sea with a radius of 50,000 miles can be called vast.

But for Meng Zhou and those Yuanying cultivators, it is really not big at all.

It is almost the same as living in the same house with everyone.

In this case, if you don’t want to meet with other people, the best way is of course to start from the source and directly grasp their schedule.

And this is also the key for Meng Zhou to go to the "Xingxiu Tianchi" for field investigation.

Although Meng Zhou has glimpsed the truth from a large number of ancient books, and although he has a 99% confidence in his heart, there is a possibility of other situations before he has personally inspected and verified it.

Therefore, it is necessary to go to the vicinity of the "Xingxiu Tianchi" for field investigation in person.

And this requires ensuring that there are no Yuanying cultivators in the "Xingxiu Tianchi" when he goes to the field investigation.

Otherwise, even if he has strong confidence in his "Five Elements Escape".

Doing so is too risky.

Now, as long as it is possible, he really doesn't want to take any risks.

The more stable, the better.

Therefore, with so many reasons, he had to come to this "Observation Hall".

...

The "Observation Hall" is located on a large spiritual island.

Right next to this spiritual island, there is another spiritual island of much smaller area, on which many formations such as teleportation array and questioning array are arranged.

Xingxiu Palace monks go to the outer domain of the Eight Wastelands, or return from the outer domain of the Eight Wastelands, all here.

It should also be mentioned that this is just a conventional means, not the only means.

At least, according to what Meng Zhou learned, all the Nascent Souls did not go through this place.

Meng Zhou guessed that they should have higher authority and could go back and forth more freely.

After entering the spiritual island where the "Observation Hall" is located, Meng Zhou quickly identified the first target.

Deputy Hall Master Cao Bin.

According to the information he learned, the "Observation Hall" has a hall master who has reached the peak of the ninth level of the Jindan realm.

The talent of this hall master is not inferior to the four newly promoted ancestors who have already entered the Nascent Soul realm.

From a certain perspective, this hall master is even better than the four newly promoted ancestors.

As early as a hundred years ago, he had reached the peak of Jindan and launched a sprint to the Yuanying realm.

However, he also failed here.

Although he did not fall, and barely kept his cultivation from falling, he also lost the possibility of further progress forever.

For this reason, the hall master could not face the four newly promoted Yuanying ancestors with a normal heart.

Although he was the hall master, he almost never showed up and didn't care about anything.

The person who was really in charge of the specific affairs was Cao Bin, a deputy hall master who had just entered the eighth level of cultivation.

After determining the specific action target, Meng Zhou further confirmed the specific contracted monster.

A snake that was not known for its size and was green all over.

The most special thing about this snake is that its snake saliva has two characteristics at the same time, strong toxicity and strong healing ability.

Whether it is "poison" or "healing" is completely in the mind of this snake or Cao Bin.

Meng Zhou saw through the essence of the snake saliva at a glance, live poison.

This gave Meng Zhou a sense of intimacy.

Besides, because of the special nature of this snake, Cao Bin did not let it move freely in Xingxiu Sea, but confined it within the scope of Lingdao.

This greatly facilitated Meng Zhou's actions.

Meng Zhou spent several days designing the most suitable Tai Sui body according to the situation of the spirit snake, and spent 20 kilograms of third-grade upper-grade Tai Sui flesh and blood to refine a snake-shaped Tai Sui body.

Then, Meng Zhou imitated the method that had been used on Kou Chong and Fan Ling, and replaced the spirit snake without the deputy hall master Cao Bin noticing.

Then, through the influence of the "contract connection", Cao Bin took the initiative to call back the spirit snake and put it into the beast bag.

Through this series of obscure operations, Meng Zhou became the real hall master of the "Observation Hall" without anyone noticing.

Of course, he did not act recklessly because of this.

He just watched silently through Cao Bin's eyes and ears.

Soon, the information about the guards of the Dan sent to the outer domain of the Eight Wastelands, as well as the information that could directly or indirectly prove the activity patterns of the four Yuanying cultivators, appeared clearly in Meng Zhou's mind.

The goal was achieved smoothly, and there were no accidents during the whole process. Meng Zhou himself was surprised.

"It seems that as long as the route is correct and the method is appropriate, it is normal to achieve the goal.

The thrilling and twists and turns in the process are not because the goal is too difficult to achieve, but because the route chosen is not stable enough and the method is not appropriate enough." Meng Zhou thought so in his heart.

What first caught Meng Zhou's attention was the extremely regular activities of the four Yuanying cultivators.

It can be clearly seen that from the time when Xingxiu Palace came back to the present, the activities of the four Yuanying cultivators have been completely silent in the first and second months of each year.

Even if a very serious incident occurred in a certain wilderness during this period, such as the organized counterattack of the cultivation forces within the wilderness, the wanton actions of the Lihen Sect, etc.

As long as the time happened in these two months, the four Yuanying would not make an immediate and targeted response.

Their response to the events that occurred within these two months was basically concentrated in March of that year.

And except for these two months, their response was very timely at other times.

Even able to anticipate things and nip those plots against Xingxiu Palace in the bud.

Such an obvious pattern, Meng Zhou almost didn't think much, and came to a conclusion naturally.

"This should be the time for them to practice in seclusion?"

Because of similar experiences with them, Meng Zhou easily came to this conclusion.

Moreover, they were so consistent in their actions, and they were most likely to practice in seclusion in the same place.

And this place could only be "Xingxiu Tianchi".

Meng Zhou made such a judgment in his mind, and at the same time, he also determined the time for the first close-up field investigation of "Xingxiu Tianchi".

March next year.

At that time, it was the busiest time for the four Yuanying cultivators who had just finished their two-month retreat.

What if it was not busy?

"So, the short-term goal is to let them enjoy a fulfilling March next year."

How to do this?

Meng Zhou looked at the guards of the Jindan distributed in the eight wildernesses of the outer domain.

Through the deputy hall master Cao Bin, Meng Zhou learned that tomorrow, a garrison Jindan will return from one of the wastelands, and at the same time, a cultivator who has already arrived at this spiritual island will be arranged to go there half a day in advance to take over and replace.

Half a month later, another garrison Jindan will return from another wasteland to take over.

One and a half months later...

Finally, Meng Zhou determined his goal.

Hongze Wasteland in ten days.

Because in fifty-five days, another garrison Jindan will return from Hongze Wasteland.

This means that if he goes to Hongze Wasteland with the replacement Jindan in ten days, he can take another ride back fifty-five days later.

Limited time is used to the greatest extent. (End of this chapter)