Xu Heng's consciousness felt like he was on a roller coaster, being forcibly pulled into his mind.
Since the last time I lit the candle and used the Seven-Star Beidou to quickly master the tenths of solar terms, the luster of the Seven-Star Beidou has obviously dimmed a lot.
This time the last small candle was lit, and Xu Heng once again entered the state of inner vision.
The Seven Stars of the Big Dipper are clearly visible and gradually become brighter under the candlelight.
Xu Heng took a deep breath quickly and began to exhale the air using the breathing method.
Wisps of thin Xiaohan solar terms were affected and swarmed into his mouth and nose.
Gradually, as the Xiaohan solar term absorbed into the body accumulates and solidifies, it finally turns into a complete solar term in the sea of consciousness.
Xu Heng's realm suddenly returned to the fourth level of Jianqi.
The four festivals surround the Xiaohan Festival and float slowly.
Xu Heng continued to breathe out a large amount of air, constantly absorbing the Xiaohan solar term, and spit out other solar terms that had nothing to do with it.
Two and a half hours later.
The fifth solar term finally condensed successfully and floated in front of the black mist-like Xiaohan solar term.
"It can be considered as the fifth level of Jianqi...eh?"
Xu Heng originally lamented how powerful the Seven Stars Beidou was, so quickly it absorbed and condensed the fifth Xiaohan solar term.
Unexpectedly, this ray of Xiaohan solar term had just solidified, and the black mist in the sea of consciousness suddenly shook, swallowing up the wisp of Xiaohan solar term.
After finally returning to the fifth level of Jianqi, he suddenly returned to the fourth level of Jianqi.
"what's the situation?"
Xu Heng was confused.
Before this Xiaohan Festival, it was enough to swallow the Beginning of Spring Festival, but now we also have to swallow the solar terms?
His consciousness immediately shifted slightly, and he forcefully explored the black mist with two small sharp corners.
An unexpected result occurred.
He found that the small green sharp corner was actually deeply embedded in the black mist.
Below the small pointed corner, there are three green gaseous "roots" and a black gaseous "root" that is gradually turning green.
"Are these the three Xiaohan solar terms that disappeared before? And the one that was just swallowed?"
Xu Heng was suddenly shocked.
He originally thought that the three Xiaohan solar terms that disappeared before were a kind of consumption price, which made his solar terms ability stronger, but the solar terms were permanently consumed.
But now it's obviously not the case.
That green little pointed corner seems to be occupying the magpie's nest, and is it planning to start its own business?
Soon, with the newly swallowed Xiaohan solar term, it turned completely green.
Below this small green pointed corner, there are four green gaseous roots, deeply rooted in the black mist.
"So my Xiaohan Festival is considered parasitized? After swallowing the Beginning of Spring Festival, I still have a Xiaohan Festival to feed this green pointer?"
Xu Heng was a little stunned.
Dare to make a fuss for a long time? This is not a one-time transaction, but a mandatory renewal transaction?
Although the seasonal ability has doubled, but from now on, every time you upgrade a small level, you have to absorb double the Xiaohan solar term?
Well, it’s actually not a loss.
The most important thing is to spend more energy, burn more candles, and absorb twice as many Xiaohan solar terms as ordinary people.
"Wait, then if next month's Jingzhe Festival engulfs it again..."
Xu Heng suddenly realized that he seemed to have oversimplified things.
If Devouring occurs again during the Jingzhe Festival next month, your ability to control the festival is likely to be tripled.
Then the amount of Xiaohan solar term that needs to be absorbed will be tripled.
And so on.
If the twelve festival seasons are completed by the end of the year, the Xiaohan Festival ability will be strengthened by twelve times.
At that time, if you want to reach the tenth level of building Qi, you need to absorb a total of one hundred and twenty Xiaohan solar terms...
"Ah this..."
Xu Heng was shocked by the numbers he calculated.
When others reach the tenth level of Qi Jianqi, they can enter the second stage of descaling.
But he needs to cultivate one hundred and twenty levels of Qi Building before he can enter the Descaling Realm?
How much time will this take and how many candles will it consume?
And this is just the Qi-building realm, the first stage...
"Why do I feel like this wave is not so profitable? The price seems to be slightly higher than I thought."
Xu Heng couldn't help but feel a little bitter inside.
Let’s not think about the future situation for now. Right now, we plan to sprint to the tenth level of Jianqi before the college entrance examination this year and win the city’s top prize in one fell swoop.
The college entrance examination is generally held in June, but it is only February now, just after the Spring Festival.
This means that the Xiaohan Festival may consume four more festivals before the college entrance examination.
If you want to reach the tenth level of Jianqi before the college entrance examination, you need to absorb and condense a total of sixty Xiaohan solar terms.
But now, including the green pointed roots, he only has eight solar terms in total.
"That's it. If every candle can help me condense six solar terms, then I still need to consume eight more candles before the college entrance examination to reach the tenth level of Qi Jianqi."
Xu Heng suddenly missed the pollution of the last Qingming Festival.
Do you want to ask someone about how to contact the cult?
I really want to ask if they still have Qingming solar terms bombs.
When will it be launched? Where will it be launched?
After all, even if you collect eight candles, you can only satisfy the tenth level of Qi before the college entrance examination.
There are still six festivals waiting to be devoured in the second half of the year. If you want to continue to maintain the tenth level of Jianqi by then, you will need to get ten more small candles.
…
At the same time, the Darong City Branch of the Inspection Department.
In the conference room, several leaders were looking at an old deputy director sitting in the main seat.
As soon as the old deputy director hung up the phone, several people hurriedly asked: "How is it? What did the higher-up say?"
"What else can you say? As usual, let us figure it out ourselves." The old deputy director responded angrily.
"Damn, it happens every time." When everyone heard this, they started to curse in a low voice.
After a while, someone asked: "What should we do now?"
The old deputy director frowned: "What else can we do? There are only two options. If the interrogation plan is judged to be invalid, this matter will come to an end for the time being, and compensation can be saved. However, people like us in the branch will definitely offend Fu Yongqing.
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"If it is determined that the interrogation plan is effective, Lin Cheng's case will have nothing to do with that kid from now on, and we will also work with the Lin family to compensate that kid."
In fact, everyone here knows these two options.
It’s just that no one can make a decision. After all, the cause of this matter was ordered by the superiors, but now they need a solution, but the superiors said that they should decide on their own.
This is tantamount to digging or burying, and no matter what choices you make, if something goes wrong in the future, it will be them today who will be held accountable.
"Okay, don't pretend to be dumb. Let's vote with a show of hands. Raise your hands if you agree that the interrogation plan is effective." The old deputy director frowned and raised his hand directly after speaking.
After others hesitated for a moment, they also raised their hands one after another.
"Unanimous vote?"
This result made the old deputy director feel surprised.
After all, not everyone will be afraid of Fu Yongqing, and whether the interrogation plan is effective or not is ambiguous, so any choice is reasonable.
But unexpectedly, it was passed unanimously, and all branch leaders agreed that the interrogation plan was effective.
"Oh, it seems that the Four People's Associations have also contributed!"
The old deputy director seemed to have thought of something. He looked at everyone present and smiled meaningfully.
He was certain that among the leadership of the branch, there were definitely members of the "Scholar Organization" of the Four People's Associations, but he didn't know which one or which ones they were.
After all, the "Scholar Organization" only recruits officials or trains them themselves, and its members are located in various departments on all continents.
But organizations are organizations, and cults are cults.
If there were cultists lurking in the department, they would have launched a thorough investigation long ago, and they would not be so calm.
So now everyone has become accustomed to this situation and has remained silent tacitly.
Anyway, the attitude of the higher authorities towards the Four People's Associations is also polarized. As long as they don't explicitly and openly attack the Four People's Associations, then we are still good colleagues.
"Speaking of which, what the Four People's Association did this time was a bit outrageous. They sneaked into our Inspection Department branch and killed the Lin family. Immediately afterwards, someone came out to accept the crime and surrender..."
When the old deputy director said this, he glanced at the many leaders present and continued to smile: "I am very curious, why would the people of Xu Heng pay so much attention to him that they would give him such a big gift?"
"Old leader, they are obviously still trying to get Fu Yongqing's idea. They are just using Xu Heng's incident as a favor, otherwise they wouldn't be able to make such a big show of it." Someone laughed.
"It's not impossible."
The old deputy director nodded: "But I am a little interested in the kid named Xu Heng. I heard that Supervisor Tiansi is paying close attention to him. We might as well send someone to pay proper attention to him. Talents
Although it takes time to grow, we can’t lose our companionship, otherwise how can we compete with Supervisor Tiansi for talents in the future?”
"That kid is only at the third level of Jianqi now. I don't know how long it will take for him to grow up. But I heard from Zhou Yanan that he seems to want to participate in this year's college entrance examination, and he will choose the seasonal exam." A leader said.
"Oh? So ambitious?" the old deputy director said somewhat surprised.
"Haha, what's the use of having ambition? If he wants to get good grades, he must at least build his Qi to the ninth or tenth level.
"There are only four months left before the college entrance examination. Is it possible that he can imitate his senior sister and build up his Qi to the tenth level in half a year after awakening to the festival? Young people are still too impetuous."
Someone said with a smile.
Even several other leaders present could not help but shake their heads and laugh.
Building ten floors in half a year?
Looking at the entire Scorpio Continent, only Fu Yongqing can do it so far.
The most important thing is that Fu Yongqing was only twelve years old at the time.
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Soon, it was late at night.
Xu Heng slowly opened his eyes from the dark old house and let out a breath.
The candles on the table had long since turned into ashes, and the seven-star Beidou in my mind eventually became dim again.
This time he absorbed six Xiaohan solar terms in total.
But three of them were swallowed up by small green sharp corners.
So now I just return to the previous sixth level of Jianqi. Except for the double enhancement of the seasonal ability, there are no other changes from before the Spring Festival.
"Candles, I need more candles."
Xu Heng whispered to himself.
He tried to absorb solar terms without the blessing of the Seven-Star Beidou, but the efficiency was really slow.
A rough calculation shows that it may take more than 20 days, or even a month, of breathing continuously from morning to night to form a solar term.
This is actually the cultivation speed of most normal people, which shows that his seasonal talent can only be considered average.
So if you want to take the college entrance examination this year, you must get more candles as soon as possible.
Thinking of this, Xu Heng took out his mobile phone and sent a message to Zhou Yanan, asking about the compensation situation.
Then I called my senior sister again, but her phone was still turned off.
"Now that the Lin family's matter has been settled, why is there no news about Senior Sister?"
Xu Heng frowned slightly.
"Jingle Bell."
At this time, the mobile phone rang. It was Zhou Yanan's call.
Xu Heng's expression suddenly changed.
Oops, I almost forgot that I was successful in practicing today.
If I had known earlier I wouldn't have texted her, and she wouldn't have been able to reply to the message, I would have had to call.
Don’t do it like the last two times again?
"Hello?" Xu Heng answered the phone cautiously.
"Go downstairs." Zhou Yanan's clean voice came from the other end of the phone.
Xu Heng's eyes widened immediately.
Fortunately, the next moment, Zhou Yanan's voice came again: "I have received your compensation. The Inspection Department and the Lin family need to compensate you for a total of about 50 million. According to your wishes, I will exchange it all for you into a candle.
"
"What? Just one?"
Xu Heng was originally excited that the compensation was settled so quickly, but when he heard that he only received a candle in exchange, he was immediately confused.
"What do you mean by just one? Do you think this thing is so easy to redeem? This time, I added ten performance points to redeem it for you." Zhou Yanan's annoyed voice came from the phone.
"Uh..." Xu Heng was startled.
Can Zhou Yanan still be so kind?
Do you want to make up for knocking me out?
Or...she really wants an old cow to eat young grass?
Finally, Xu Heng put on two more clothes before going downstairs to find Zhou Yanan to get a candle.
But when he saw the candle, he realized that he had misunderstood.
What Zhou Yanan exchanged was actually a complete candle, which looked almost equivalent to the previous five small candles.
A small candle can absorb six solar terms, so one candle can absorb about thirty solar terms?
Good guy, I'm just good guy.
Xu Heng's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Team Zhou, is there any other way to exchange candles like this? For example, using the yellow paper I had before, or offering incense?" he asked immediately.
"You even offer incense?"
Zhou Yanan was startled for a moment, then frowned and said: "These can be exchanged, but you are not a Qingming Festival commander, why do you need so many candles?"
"Can you change it? Then change two more candles for me, and replace the rest with glutinous rice."
Xu Heng did not answer her question, and immediately took out the remaining thirty pieces of yellow paper and two and a half sticks of incense, and handed them all to her.
The half of the incense stick was the one that Fu Yongqing accidentally broke off before. Its value is probably somewhat reduced, but it does not affect its use.
However, the other half was used by Xu Heng for experiments. Unfortunately, after being lit, it was found that it had no effect on the Seven Stars Beidou and could not be destroyed.
No matter what he tried, even throwing the small piece of incense into the water, he couldn't stop it from burning.
In the end, I could only watch the small half of the incense burnt to ashes.
Xu Heng made a rough calculation.
According to the market price of an incense stick of 20 million yuan, his experiment was equivalent to burning more than 80 to 9 million yuan in vain.
What a sin!
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[ps: The introduction to the Four People’s Associations in yesterday’s two chapters may have caused misunderstandings, so I revised it to make it more intuitive to read. I also want to say sorry to everyone. Today I will only update this 4k-word chapter.
, because the second chapter was too slow, I decided to delete it and make adjustments, so I will continue to update it tomorrow morning. I love you all, okay.]