Although the formation in the herb garden has not yet been repaired, Shouzheng saw Lin Ze's confidence, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "Sages have worked hard for several days, why not go to Pindao's place to drink a cup of snow lotus tea and relax."
Xuelian? Lin Ze's eyes couldn't help but light up when he heard this. This is a good thing. He said without changing his expression: "The palace master has invited me, so don't you dare not obey my order."
Immediately, Shouzheng sent Xuan Xin to arrange for his disciples and others to set up a new formation, and personally took Lin Ze to his residence.
Xuan Ming, however, followed Lin Ze without saying a word, which gave Shouzheng a slight headache.
After Lin Ze and Shouzheng sat down in order, under Shouzheng's instructions, three teacups were brought over and placed in front of the three of them.
Lin Ze opened it gently and saw that a pure snow lotus appeared vividly in the tea cup, and a vague and traceless fragrance constantly impacted Lin Ze's olfactory system.
At Shouzheng's signal, Lin Ze picked up the tea cup and took a slight sip. The fragrance burst from between his lips and teeth and went straight into his stomach.
Lin Ze only felt a comfortable cooling sensation all over his body, which was intoxicating from top to bottom.
After a long time, Lin Ze sighed in admiration: "Good tea."
Shouzheng immediately answered: "The tea is good tea, just suitable for people like the sages. If the sages like it, I still have a pound, and I would like to give it to the sages."
Lin Ze shook his head slightly and said: "A gentleman does not take what others like, so the palace master should drink it himself."
However, Xuan Ming interjected: "If the palace owner is sending snow lotus tea to the sages, why not just have someone deliver it to you? It would be a bit hypocritical to just rely on words."
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"Go and bring the box of snow lotus tea from my room," Shouzheng said, pointing to his direct disciple.
Lin Ze said quickly: "It's really no need, Palace Master..."
Xuan Ming advised: "Sir, snow lotus tea is a good thing to get rid of inner demons. Your martial arts progress is too fast, so you must accept it to regulate your Taoist mind. If you don't accept it, the palace master will be embarrassed."
Shouzheng looked at Xuan Ming, his teeth itching, and said to himself: "Elder Xuan Ming is right, if the sages don't accept it, they are looking down on poor Taoists."
Get rid of inner demons? Lin Ze didn't feel any benefit from the sip he just took. He thought it had no special effect. Since it has the effect of getting rid of inner demons, it must be valuable, so he said decisively: "Then it's better to be respectful than to obey."
When the guests and hosts were getting along, Shouzheng said: "According to the sages, can these formations in the Dao Palace be repaired?"
Lin Ze thought for a while and replied: "With my formation cultivation, I dare not say that everything can be repaired, at least most of them are no problem."
Shouzheng breathed a sigh of relief and asked: "According to the knowledge and experience of the sages, how long will it take to repair all the formations in the Dao Palace?"
Lin Ze made an estimate and said: "This depends on how many formations need to be repaired in the Dao Palace, and whether the resources of the Dao Palace to set up the formation are sufficient. Of course, there must be many people who know how to set up the formation."
"How can we repair all the formations faster?" Shouzheng asked further.
Lin Ze replied calmly: "Theoretically, it will be faster to directly deploy a new formation than to repair the old formation, but it will consume more resources. There are pros and cons to each."
"It's just that no matter how much the formation is repaired, it will never remain intact. I'll leave it up to the Palace Master to make up his mind on how to make a decision."
Shouzheng said without hesitation: "Of course it is better to build a new one. For the sake of the Dao Palace, the formation should be effective as long as possible. The Dao Palace will not hesitate to pay any price."
Lin Ze smiled and said: "Great kindness."
As for when to start, Lin Ze and Shouzheng had a tacit understanding and did not mention it. No one will continue until the new formation of the herb garden takes effect.
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Three days passed by in a hurry. Early in the morning, Xuan Xin was at the door of Lin Ze, calling softly: "Sage, the new array in the herb garden has been set up, but the effect is not satisfactory. Please go and have a look."
Lin Ze opened the door with groggy eyes and said, "What's the rush? I'll come over naturally after I finish washing and changing my clothes."
When Lin Ze arrived, Shouzheng was already at the scene, frowning at the formation.
Tongde stood next to Shouzheng, holding a formation disk in his hand, and said angrily: "What a bullshit sage. He dared to change the formation diagram of the ancestor after only knowing a little about the formation. Palace Master, you see, the effect of this is not as good as that of the ruined formation."
What about the law?"
Tongde looked at Lin Ze and immediately shouted: "You are a liar. You have wasted so many resources to set up a new formation that has no effect at all. How do you explain it?"
Shouzheng followed up and said in a deep voice: "Please ask the sages to explain something."
Lin Ze didn't panic at all and said: "Don't worry, wait until I have a good look at it."
After speaking, he walked to the new formation and observed it carefully. Within a moment, Lin Ze discovered what the problem was and was about to speak.
But I heard Tongde snort from behind and say disdainfully: "It's a bluff."
Lin Ze's face turned cold when he heard this, and he turned around and said, "A decent person should not learn to bark like a wild dog."
Tongde was furious, pointed at Lin Ze and said: "You liar, you still dare to be so arrogant, are you deceiving me that there is no one in the Dao Palace?"
Lin Ze sneered and said: "In my opinion, it's not that there is no one in the Dao Palace, but that there is no one in the Dao Palace array. Otherwise, why would you let a formation idiot like you be responsible for the maintenance of the formation?"
Tongde pointed at Lin Ze and said loudly: "You still dare to talk nonsense, you made a fake formation diagram, and caused heavy losses to our Dao Palace?"
Lin Ze said coldly: "Who said the formation map is fake?"
Tongde sneered repeatedly: "The facts are in front of you, and you still want to quibble?"
Lin Ze let out a long sigh, bowed his hands to Shouzheng and said: "I originally thought that even though the Dao Palace Array Dao elder was poor in formation cultivation, he was still capable of setting up formations according to the diagram. I didn't expect that I still thought wrong. Please forgive me, Palace Master.
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A trace of hope flashed across Shouzheng's originally despairing face, and he quickly asked: "You mean, it's not that there's something wrong with the formation, but that they arranged it wrong?"
Tongde said dissatisfied: "Palace Master, don't listen to his nonsense. He gave us the formation diagram. We set up the formation according to the diagram. How could we go wrong?"
Shouzheng couldn't help but shouted: "Shut up." Then he whispered harmoniously to Lin Ze: "Please ask the sages to take action to bring order to the chaos."
From Shouzheng's point of view, regardless of whether what Lin Ze said was true or false, he couldn't offend him. The results would be out soon anyway, and he was not in a hurry at this moment.
Lin Ze shook his head and sighed, and said: "The foundation of the formation is unstable, the heights are uneven, and the formation technique is so poor, it's no wonder it's ineffective."
After saying that, they surrounded the entire new formation, knocking here, moving there, and kept busy.
Shouzheng was looking forward to it, while Tongde sneered as he watched Lin Ze busy back and forth.
An hour later, Lin Ze pulled out the last formation base and filled it in again. The originally dead formation suddenly glowed with a clear light, as if it came to life.
Tongde stared at the new formation in stunned silence and backed away: "This, this is impossible..."
Lin Ze took a step forward, took the test array disk in his hand, and threw it directly into the array. He saw the pointer on the array disk spinning crazily.
Lin Ze looked at Shouzheng and said calmly: "What does the palace master think?"
Shouzheng bowed deeply to Lin Ze and said, "On behalf of the Dao Palace, Pindao would like to thank the sages for their help."
He turned to look at the defeated Tongde with disgust, and said to the disciples beside him: "Summon the Council of Elders, I will depose the elder Tongde."
Tongde was shocked when he heard this: "Palace Master, please be merciful."
Shouzheng replied coldly: "If you don't do your job properly and have a bad mind, you are not worthy to be the elder of our Dao Palace. What do you think, sage?"
"It is inconvenient for me to interfere in the affairs of the Dao Palace. The palace master should make his own decision," Lin Ze said and turned to leave.