Chapter 145

Sure enough, not long after, Mountain Shaper, in tatters and holding a pill furnace with a crack in it, flew toward Wind Return Peak on his sword with a face covered in dirt.

Lisa was bored and counted down the time in her heart.

About three minutes later, a familiar angry reprimand crossed such a long distance and entered Lisa’s divine sense.

"Mountain Shaper! If you don't know how to refine pills, don't refine them! If you don't have the ability, why don't you learn first!"

"You exploded the furnace fourteen times today and made me fix the pill furnace three times!"

"I still have many magic artifacts to refine! Are you not going to do anything else but have me specifically repair your pill furnace!"

"We are about to explore the Nine Nether Secret Realm; can't you be a little more settled!"

Listening to Cloud Retainer’s furious reprimand, Lisa supported her chin with a smile.

With a flick of her finger, a few peach blossom petals fell into her teacup.

A wisp of flame bloomed at the bottom of the tea, and in a short while, the tea began to steam.

After cultivating immortality, many things became more convenient.

In layman’s terms, it was easier for Lisa to be lazy.

Lisa couldn't hear the subsequent argument between Mountain Shaper and Cloud Retainer, and she had no intention of listening.

Arguing back and forth was nothing more than those few sentences.

Mountain Shaper promised humbly not to mess around, painting a picture for Cloud Retainer that he would give her the True Origin Pill the first time he refined it.

Then Cloud Retainer would reluctantly help him fix it.

Mountain Shaper would come back and explode the pill furnace again...

This was repeated.

It had been repeated many times these past few days.

Her gaze drifted faintly toward Heaven-Piercing Peak; calculating the time, it should be the time for Jiang Yan to teach Klee cultivation.

The privileges of a direct disciple of the Sect Master were sometimes truly enviable.

Since Lisa joined Shushan, she hadn't seen Jiang Yan many times in total.

When there were more and more Shushan disciples in the future, it would be fine for those with good talent like them.

As for ordinary disciples...

I’m afraid it would be difficult to even see the First Seat, let alone the Sect Master.

A mysterious man... is a woman’s poison.

The little Qilin on Heaven-Piercing Peak was clearly deeply poisoned, and even Ningguang on Little Bamboo Peak couldn't say for sure...

Lisa’s thoughts were flying.

Suddenly, several streams of light rushed from Little Bamboo Peak and Heaven-Piercing Peak toward Dragon Head Peak.

Lisa immediately became interested.

Rushing over so anxiously, was it about the Nine Nether Secret Realm?

But she hadn't heard the Sect Master notify them...

Anyway, her cultivation had been interrupted by Mountain Shaper’s furnace explosion, so Lisa also went out and flew toward Dragon Head Peak on her sword.

At this time, on the martial arts arena of Dragon Head Peak, Xiao was standing in the center of the arena, closing his eyes and concentrating.

Zhongli was standing not far away.

Not long after, the stream of light that had been as thunderous as a reprimand finally stopped at the martial arts arena.

Ningguang and Keqing descended slowly from the sky; as for their current sword-flying combat power, at the very least, they were very good at sword-flying.

After landing, they first glanced at Xiao, who was standing motionless in the arena, and then walked toward Zhongli.

"First Seat..."

Zhongli raised his hand slightly to interrupt what Ningguang and Keqing were about to say, and said softly:

"Just watch Xiao."

Ningguang suddenly understood and watched Xiao with great interest.

Just now, she and Keqing received Zhongli’s voice transmission, saying that the martial arts technique they had been waiting for so long had finally been figured out.

Ningguang and Keqing naturally flew over without a word.

Originally, Ningguang thought that Zhongli had been cultivating and cleaning up the mess Venti made every day, so it would likely be difficult for him to have time to figure out techniques.

She estimated that even if it were fast, it would have to wait until they returned from the Nine Nether Secret Realm.

She didn't expect Zhongli to have done it so quickly.

Sure enough, the power of contribution points was huge; even the First Seat couldn't be an exception.

Seeing Xiao resting his mind with his eyes closed, and a breath different from true essence flowing on his body, Ningguang also understood.

It was likely that Zhongli gave the technique to Xiao and let him experiment with it.

Immediately, Ningguang and Keqing were also a bit expectant.

But just at this time, a sound that Zhongli least wanted to hear rang out.

"Ehe!"

In an instant, Zhongli’s face turned black, and he only felt his three gods jumping, having a desire to beat something up.

"Let me see, what fun things are happening on Dragon Head Peak today that everyone is gathered together."

A green light flashed and disappeared, and Venti’s figure appeared beside everyone.

It was just that Venti at this time was a big change from before.

His original somewhat frivolous attire had been replaced by a strange emerald green Daoist robe.

It wasn't as solemn as the one Jiang Yan wore on weekdays, but instead had a bit more frivolity.

Paired with the hat he couldn't bear to change, it had a feeling of being a bit of a mongrel.

The original Venti, because of erosion, was afraid of forgetting old friends, and plus he didn't want his old friends to be completely forgotten by Mondstadt.

He had always appeared in the image of the original Venti.

Now, the erosion had been removed, and he had no worries.

He simply dressed more freely.

In Shushan’s words, this was called "the heart follows the movement."

Venti lay on his side on a wide flying sword, swinging his legs, one hand supporting his head, and the other hand holding a wine gourd, taking a sip from time to time.

Looking at his somewhat blurry eyes, it was clear he was drunk again.

Zhongli didn't pay attention to him, intentionally ignoring Venti.

Not long after, Lisa also flew over.

After landing and looking, she said curiously:

"Ningguang, Keqing, you came so anxiously just now; did something go wrong with the Nine Nether Secret Realm?"

Ningguang was stunned for a moment, shook her head, and smiled:

"It’s not about the Nine Nether Secret Realm; it’s that the First Seat completed the commission I posted, and the martial arts suitable for mortals to practice have been created."

"We came to take a look; the time is just right, we can still send it back, and it won't delay the exploration of the Nine Nether Secret Realm."

Lisa suddenly understood.

There were only those few tasks in the Merit Hall, and she had also seen them.

Naturally, she knew about the commission Zhongli posted.

However, although it wasn't about the Nine Nether Secret Realm, it was overall a very interesting and novel discovery.

It was just right to see how the technique Zhongli researched was; if possible, she could also study it.

Research a technique suitable for mortals to practice for Mondstadt as well.

Jean was under quite a bit of pressure, and since she herself had cultivated immortality, she had to take care of Jean.

Everyone didn't say much, and Venti’s eyes also lit up, quietly removing his drunkenness.

The martial arts techniques Zhongli gave Xiao were too low in level compared to his own Flying Cloud Overlord Spear.

Let alone him, a peak Refining Essence to Qi cultivator.

Even if any cultivator at the early stage of Refining Essence to Qi came to see it, they could master this kind of martial arts technique to perfection in minutes.

After cultivating immortality, it brought all-around strengthening.

Moreover, martial arts techniques were ultimately for mortals; for cultivators to study this was simply a dimensionality reduction strike.

Not long after, Xiao had sorted out the martial arts techniques in his mind.

He used some true essence to temporarily convert it into the so-called martial arts internal energy.

Xiao realized that he had reached the limit of these few techniques.