Chapter 155

Jiang Yan's own cultivation was just as serene.

Every day, he led everyone to complete their morning and evening lessons, and the remaining time was spent teaching Klee and using Primogems to continuously cultivate his divine sense.

In the evening, he would take time to give Ganyu and Klee some extra guidance.

Other affairs of Shushan were all handed over to Zhongli and the others.

Today, after completing the morning lessons as usual, Jiang Yan let everyone go back to tidy up and prepare for the exploration of the Nine Nether Secret Realm at noon.

But as for tidying up, strictly speaking, it was difficult for everyone to have anything to tidy up.

Lishui had blown up his alchemy furnace yesterday, and the furnace was broken, so he went to find Cloud Retainer to repair it.

After much persuasion to get Cloud Retainer to help, and thinking about the exploration of the Nine Nether Secret Realm today, Lishui wanted to make a great effort.

At the last minute, he wanted to make some pills.

But unfortunately, it still ended with the furnace exploding.

This time, after exploding four or five times, the furnace that had just been repaired for less than an afternoon cracked again.

Lishui shamelessly ran to Feng Hui Peak to find Cloud Retainer to help repair it.

But just as he stepped onto Feng Hui Peak, Lishui was hit square in the face with Yin Five Thunder by Cloud Retainer.

This time, no matter what grand promises Lishui made to Cloud Retainer about giving her the pills once he refined them, Cloud Retainer would not listen.

All the way, she greeted Lishui's intelligence with elegant vocabulary, and the Yin Five Thunder struck from Feng Hui Peak to a place thousands of kilometers outside of Shushan.

In the end, Lishui could only hide in his own cave dwelling and cultivate for the whole night.

The alchemy plan had fallen through.

Cloud Retainer and Ping wanted to try to make some dharma artifacts on the last night before exploring the Nine Nether Secret Realm.

But in the end, they all failed.

Regarding this, Cloud Retainer stated that it was entirely Lishui's fault.

However, considering that up until now, only one low-grade dharma artifact alchemy furnace had been made on Feng Hui Peak.

Lishui felt that even without his interference, they wouldn't have been able to make anything.

On the contrary, Ningguang stayed honestly at Little Bamboo Peak, drawing talismans all night, and had saved up quite a lot of stock.

Others just seized the time to cultivate hard and adjust their state.

Jiang Yan let everyone go back to prepare, but Keqing and the others just went back to their own cave dwellings to take a look.

Upon calculation, they had nothing to pack; some people didn't even have dharma artifacts.

Simply put, they could only arrive at Dragon Head Peak early to wait.

Near noon, Ningguang also arrived on her flying sword; now, everyone in Shushan except Jiang Yan, Ganyu, and Klee had arrived.

After landing, Ningguang looked at the crowd who seemed to have arrived early and had been cultivating for a long time, and asked somewhat puzzled:

"The Sect Master said to let everyone prepare, why did you all come so early?"

Hearing this, Keqing opened her eyes and looked at Ningguang faintly.

"Look at me, aside from a Qingshuang Sword, is there anything else I need to pack?"

Others also silently looked at Ningguang.

Ningguang was a bit embarrassed; after thinking for a moment, with a movement of her divine sense, the pouch at her waist sent out many jade bottles containing pills.

All kinds of pills soon piled up into a small mountain, at least dozens of bottles.

The expressions of Keqing and the others suddenly became somewhat bitter.

They were already poor enough, and this Ningguang...

Was she showing off her wealth?

A moment later, Ningguang's pouch finally finished spitting out all the jade bottles.

Looking at everyone who had envy written all over their faces, Ningguang chuckled and said quite generously:

"These pills are what I just exchanged from the Merit Hall; there are Qi-Replenishing Pills for restoring true essence, True Essence Pills for cultivation, and Rejuvenation Powder for healing injuries."

"Everyone, take some; the time for this trip to the Nine Nether Secret Realm is unknown, and it is very dangerous, so we must prepare more."

Suddenly, Keqing felt a sense of shame for judging a gentleman's heart with a villain's measure.

After condemning herself internally, she roughly looked at the quantity of these pills.

Although she had no contribution points and couldn't afford these pills, she often checked the prices.

But at this look, Keqing suddenly gasped.

"This... these things are probably worth thirty thousand contribution points!"

"It's too precious, we can't take it!"

Hearing this, Lisa on the side was also startled.

She looked at Ningguang with some surprise, her eyes full of envy.

Thirty thousand contribution points, that was thirty thousand low-grade spirit stones.

She had exchanged all the Primogems on her body for spirit stones, and even at most, it was only two hundred or so; she couldn't bear to use them at all.

Ningguang just took out thirty thousand low-grade spirit stones to give away?

How did this richest person in Liyue seem to still be the richest person after coming to Shushan?

"No need to decline."

Ningguang laughed dumbly, shook her head and said:

"Everyone knows the danger of the Nine Nether Secret Realm; without pills, we can say we can't take a single step."

"We don't know how long we will be going this time, or how many dangers we will encounter; it is necessary to be well-prepared."

"We are all fellow disciples, helping each other is what we should do."

Hearing this, everyone found it difficult to refuse Ningguang's kindness, especially Keqing.

Everyone had also learned a lot about the situation in the Nine Nether Secret Realm over the past few days.

That place is not Teyvat, and there aren't many existences even at the early stage of Refining Essence into Qi.

In Teyvat, with the cultivation of the early stage of Refining Essence into Qi, as long as you don't encounter powerful top-tier Archon attendants or Archons, you can basically walk sideways.

And existences like Archons are rare, and they might not necessarily fight them.

The key is that the strong in Teyvat don't practice immortality.

Keqing and the others have an overwhelming advantage.

And the Nine Nether Secret Realm?

That is a proper world of cultivation demons and monsters.

With the cultivation of the early stage of Refining Essence into Qi, not to mention cannon fodder, it probably isn't much better.

Moreover, those demonic beasts are properly cultivating immortality.

Otherwise, how could demonic beasts compete with cultivators?

If you want to go to the Nine Nether Secret Realm to get treasures, you will inevitably have to fight powerful demonic beasts.

Jiang Yan also said that the treasures in the cultivation world are basically guarded by demonic beasts.

When fighting, who can guarantee they won't get hurt?

If you get hurt and can't recover quickly, in that dangerous world, you are a burden and it is slow suicide.

Alice looked at the pills in front of her, and inevitably felt a bit tempted.

After going to the Nine Nether Secret Realm, naturally, she had to find as many treasures as possible before returning.

She also needed cultivation resources.

Of course, it wasn't for Klee.

She didn't need to worry about the cultivation resources for that little one, Klee.

As the Sect Master's direct disciple, Klee has the greatest privileges in the entire Shushan besides the Sect Master.

Alice was shocked just looking at her dharma artifacts, and she didn't even know how many pills Jiang Yan had brought for her.

A few days ago, Alice even saw Klee eating True Essence Pills like candy.

With Klee's talent, plus Jiang Yan's unsparing cultivation of Klee.

Alice felt that if she didn't work hard, in a few decades, Klee would be able to surpass her.

As a mother, Alice was happy to accept that her daughter was stronger than her.

But...

It couldn't be this fast, right?

Doesn't that make her, the mother, look useless?

Shushan has always emphasized self-reliance.