Chapter 161

In the mountains, there is no calendar; when the cold ends, one does not know the year.

Since the Immortal of the Remaining World appointed Cheng Xinzhan as the Bai Hu Envoy, six years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Cheng Xinzhan's life within the sect has tended toward tranquility, but his reputation within the sect has risen day by day.

There are three main reasons.

The first is that on the day he took office as the Bai Hu Envoy, he questioned the abuse of power by office officials, leading to the reorganization of the Atmosphere Rectification Department, killing the chicken to warn the monkey, and the atmosphere in every office improved a lot.

The second is that half a month after he took office as the Bai Hu Envoy, the sect established the "Office-Worker Governance". This is a governance composed entirely of disciples of the first and second realms who sit in offices. When the first Governance Head took office, he was even an unknown first-realm disciple who had been in the sect for less than two years, and yet such a disciple with low cultivation could visit the various Sect Masters at any time.

Moreover, the first Governance Head said that the "Office-Worker Governance" was thought of and implemented by the Bai Hu Envoy.

After these two things, the lives of all disciples in the sect who held concurrent office positions became much better, and they all felt a sense of gratitude toward Cheng Xinzhan in their hearts.

The third is that at the same time the sect announced the establishment of the "Office-Worker Governance", a "Fu Song Building" was also built.

The "Fu Song Building" recycles the talismans, elixirs, spiritual grains, magic treasures, etc., produced by low-realm disciples in the sect. Disciples can take these things and exchange them for various precious materials and gold and silver.

It is said that the establishment of the "Fu Song Building" is also related to the Bai Hu Envoy.

Thus, all low-realm disciples hold Cheng Xinzhan in high regard.

However, after becoming the Bai Hu Envoy, he was not blindly protective of these low-realm disciples. At the beginning, he could basically catch a few every day who were lazy in cultivation or addicted to other paths like elixirs, swords, talismans, and artifacts while neglecting their Inner Elixir cultivation.

For these people, he was never soft-hearted, especially the registered disciples still cultivating in Little Wan Mountain; he would go deep into the houses of Little Wan Mountain to drag them out and question them loudly.

He did not want to see another old temple master who was still regretting when he was old.

However, perhaps because of the previous major events, or perhaps because Cheng Xinzhan had some understanding of other paths like elixirs, swords, talismans, and artifacts, no one questioned by Cheng Xinzhan could argue with him. In any case, these low-realm disciples were at least orally convinced in the end and corrected themselves under Cheng Xinzhan's continuous earnest teachings.

After these people corrected themselves, they didn't feel any benefit at the time, often only realizing after two or three years that what Cheng Xinzhan said at the time was heartfelt truth, so they were convinced and even more reverent toward this Bai Hu Envoy.

When these people understood and went to Cheng Xinzhan to thank him in person, Cheng Xinzhan only said that this was his duty. If they really wanted to thank him, then if they saw others trapped in such delusions in the future, they must also point it out to them and follow up and urge them continuously, not letting anyone go to waste.

These people did so and also spread Cheng Xinzhan's words.

So under such a general trend, previously in Mount Sanqing, only the top high-level cultivators knew Cheng Xinzhan's name, but now everyone knows it.

So after Cheng Yifu, Cheng Nandou, and Cheng Tingxian, he had another nickname, called Cheng the Compassionate Tiger.

While being a compassionate tiger, he did not slack off in his cultivation of the Outer Elixir Dao and Inner Elixir Dao.

In these six years, he once again practiced with the method of avatars.

The Shuangling and Youjing souls drove the bamboo body to practice the Outer Elixir Dao, while the Tai-Guang soul resided in the physical body to practice the Inner Elixir Dao.

It is worth mentioning that after continuously practicing the "Secret Decree of the Long-Life Embryonic Essence Manifesting Spirit" and the "Principles of the Taiyi Golden Flower", the spirituality of the Tai-Guang soul was already very strong. After the Shuangling and Youjing souls left the body, it could also coordinate the seven souls and other Inner Landscape gods to continue opening other physical acupoints and comprehending supernatural powers.

In these six years, he opened twelve new acupoints, all located on the Qi-circulating route from the Yin and Yang palaces to the Yellow Court.

In these six years, he comprehended four new supernatural powers.

In these six years, his other four magic swords were all completed. After refining the fire sword, Jiang Weishan refined the water sword in less than a year, and then opened three furnaces at the same time to refine the wood, earth, and metal swords simultaneously.

After the five magic swords were refined, Jiang Weishan welcomed his fifth Elixir-Washing Tribulation and successfully passed it.

Now the five magic swords are nurtured in his five palaces, washed and refined day and night by five Inner Landscape gods with spiritual power, and talisman patterns are engraved on the magic swords.

This is complementary; the more vigorous the sword Qi of the five magic swords, the more proficient the five Inner Landscape gods become in driving the five-element spiritual power.

In these six years, Cheng Xinzhan's medicine was also brewed better and better. With continuous Yang-natured tonic medicine, the Green-Scaled Yin-Deficiency Throat Obstruction disease was almost cured. Now he can open his mouth to speak, though he still stutters a bit.

And the third sister's eyes were also completely healed, but the reason for the third sister's eyes healing was neither eating sea fish nor drinking medicinal agents.

It was a path Cheng Xinzhan had never imagined before.

As early as six years ago, when he first learned the Elixir Dao, he discovered that every time he returned from Danxia Mountain, the third sister liked to sniff around on his body.

So one time while chatting with Ren Wushi by the heater, he told Ren Wushi about this, joking that his own civet cat even liked the scent of elixirs.

However, after hearing this, Ren Wushi asked Cheng Xinzhan to bring the civet cat over the next day for him to see.

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After Cheng Xinzhan brought the third sister to Danxia Mountain, the third sister was exceptionally excited, jumping directly onto the elixir furnace to sniff around, and even wanted to jump into the flue, scaring Cheng Xinzhan into a cold sweat. He hurriedly hugged the third sister down; the other end of the flue was a bottomless abyss!

Ren Wushi laughed loudly when he saw this, saying that this civet cat had the bloodline of the Dragon Son Suanni, and it was very strong; the white film on its eyes was proof.

This white film is innate; the thicker the white film, the stronger the bloodline intensity. To remove it, one must use smoke and fire to smoke it open; no other method works. And the process of using smoke and fire to smoke it is the process of stimulating the Suanni bloodline in the civet cat's body.

For an alchemist, if one can have a spiritual pet with the Suanni bloodline, this is an extremely auspicious thing, because Suanni likes smoke and fire. Ancient alchemists believed that if a Suanni lay on an elixir furnace, it could bring good luck to the alchemist.

However, a civet cat with a white film is of course not necessarily a manifestation of a rich Suanni bloodline; more often it is just an eye disease. But seeing the third sister so fond of the smell of smoke and fire, it could basically be concluded that this was not a simple eye disease of an ordinary civet cat.

Ren Wushi said Cheng Xinzhan had great luck; such a civet cat being one in ten thousand was not enough to reflect its scarcity. And the matter of the civet cat's white film and the smoke-smoking method was also something Ren Wushi accidentally saw in an ancient book telling stories about alchemists; very few people knew about it.

Cheng Xinzhan was also very surprised. Before, when he exchanged orchid grass for the third sister, he heard the stall owner say that the third sister had the Suanni bloodline, but at that time he didn't take it seriously at all, because all the civet cats in the world were either descendants of Suanni or descendants of the Bai Hu. To say that the third sister had the Suanni bloodline was possible, but Cheng Xinzhan didn't believe it was very rich.

However, he really didn't expect that by mistake, the third sister really had a not-low Suanni bloodline remaining.

Since then, Cheng Xinzhan would bring the third sister along whenever he refined elixirs. Every time he refined elixirs, the third sister would lie on the elixir furnace, not afraid of fire or smoke, and liked to inhale the elixir smoke that emerged from the elixir furnace before the elixir was formed.

Thus, after three or four years, the white film on the third sister's eyes completely faded, revealing golden pupils and vermilion whites of the eyes. When the Green-Scaled one saw this, it stuttered and told Cheng Xinzhan that this was the bloodline of the Dragon Son Suanni.

At that time, when Cheng Xinzhan heard this, he smiled and praised the Green-Scaled one for its good eye.

In these six years, Deng Ge made rapid progress under the guidance of Old Bai. Earth escape and wind stepping were already very proficient, and recently he had been preparing to refine the transverse bone.

During this period, he sent Deng Ge twice to take the door god New Year pictures to the Miao village. Looking at Deng Ge's gestures and the old village head's letter, he knew that everything was fine in the Miao village, and the old village head looked like he could live for another ten years.

And Old Bai, who initially claimed to have little lifespan left, became more spirited the longer he lived in Mount Sanqing, his fur becoming more lustrous, and he didn't even know how much lifespan he had left.

Six years had passed, and Cheng Xinzhan felt his bones itching; he was restless again.

(End of chapter)