Xiuxian: I use magnetic fields to prove my truth

Chapter 178 Now I Have an Assistant
Zhou Qing expanded his business to gather resources to aid his cultivation. If this hindered his cultivation, it would be a loss.

Zhou Qing pondered that he should find himself an assistant to help him handle various trivial matters.

However, such assistants are not easy to find.

First of all, his junior disciples would be unable to handle the job. His assistants not only had to deal with the small workshop, but also had to liaise with the shops and affiliated families of the outer hall. Ordinary disciples did not have enough prestige to be competent for this kind of work.

Moreover, being his assistant would be a huge waste of energy for these disciples who are in the prime of their spiritual practice and cannot afford to waste their time.

After thinking it over, he could only think of Mu Zhuosha, so it seemed he would have to ask her to recommend someone.

According to Lu Qiushui, Mu Zhuosha accompanied Jiang Renqing to Nanwanbao City to investigate Hu Guan, and it is unknown when they will return.

Now we can only wait.

Zhou Qing thought he would have to wait at least a month or two, but to his surprise, Mu Zhuosha returned after only three days and went straight to his house.

Zhou Qing smiled and said, "What a rare guest! What brings you here, Uncle-Master?"

Mu Zhuosha laughed and said, "With such a commotion you've caused, I can't not come back even if I want to."

Zhou Qing asked, "Did Uncle Yu send you a message?"

Mu Zhuosha nodded, looking at Zhou Qing meaningfully, and said, "You really used an array to kill Wei Xing?"

Zhou Qing laughed and said, "Otherwise, you don't suspect that I killed him using my cultivation, do you?"

Mu Zhuosha said, "I can't speak for others, but I can't be sure about you. You look like you're hiding a lot of things."

Zhou Qing said, "That's unfair. No matter what you're hiding in your heart, you can't go against the basic laws of cultivation. I've only been cultivating for a little over two years. How could I suddenly grow to the point of killing a Foundation Establishment cultivator?"

Mu Zhuosha clapped her hands and laughed, "That's right, that's exactly it. From now on, no matter who mentions it, you should reply like that."

Zhou Qing was both amused and exasperated, and asked, "How's the investigation going at Nanwanbao City? Any results?"

Mu Zhuosha pondered for a moment and said, "We haven't found any clues, but I always feel that that fat bastard Hu Guan isn't that simple. Perhaps we've overlooked something."

So, are you still going back?

Mu Zhuosha shook her head and said, "Since he is on guard, there is no use in going back to investigate. Thank you for your heroic act. Now that the situation in the sect has changed, many affiliated families are willing to submit to us."

"I need to stay and deal with their affairs."

"How's it going on your end? With more shops coming up, the demand for goods will also increase. Will you be able to handle the workload here?"

Zhou Qing said, "No problem."

"By the way, I do have something to ask you."

He then mentioned that he wanted to have an assistant.

Mu Zhuosha smiled and said, "You trust me that much?"

"How to say?"

Mu Zhuosha said, "The assistant you mentioned is almost like a family's head butler. This is a high-ranking and powerful role that has access to many of the client's secrets. Are you really so comfortable letting me choose someone for you?"

Zhou Qing smiled and said, "People should always believe in something. If you don't believe in anything, you'll end up doing nothing."

Mu Zhuosha nodded and said, "I'll have Yu Liangmou come over to help you later."

Zhou Qing was taken aback and said, "Uncle Yu is working at Zichen Palace, so I'm afraid we can't leave without permission."

With Yu Liangmou in the Zichen Palace, they could often get a lot of important information at the first opportunity.

Mu Zhuosha said, "I will arrange for someone else to replace him later. Yu Liangmou can keep the secret, so it is safest to have him do things for you."

Zhou Qing had no choice but to agree. Mu Zhuosha left in a hurry.

In the afternoon, Yu Liangmou went to Zhou Qing's house to report for duty. He smiled and said, "From today onwards, I will be working under you."

Zhou Qing said, "Uncle Yu, you flatter me. I just don't have any other people to help me out, so I had no choice but to ask you to come and help me for a while."

Yu Liangmou said, "You don't need to be so polite. I'm doing my duty to someone who entrusted me with this task. Just tell me what you need."

Zhou Qing smiled and nodded, explaining to Yu Liangmou the responsibilities his assistant needed to fulfill.

However, he was responsible for coordinating affairs at the workshop and overseeing matters related to the affiliated families who cooperated with Zhou Qing.

Yu Liangmou left as ordered.

After handing over all the miscellaneous tasks to Yu Liangmou, Zhou Qing finally felt relieved again.

He is now completely relieved.

He only needs to focus on his own affairs now; he no longer needs to worry about sect missions on behalf of his junior brothers and sisters, which was something the senior brother used to have to do.

None of his junior classmates wanted to do any more of those tasks.

Their monthly earnings from Zhou Qing are dozens of times higher than what they earned from their previous missions.

This situation has become a hot topic of discussion within the Qingyun Sect.

The other registered disciples, and even most of the formal disciples, envied the treatment this year's registered disciples received.

Zhou Qing began to focus all his efforts on overcoming the current difficulties.

The first step was to invent a device for receiving and deciphering infrasound, the second was to encode infrasound communication, and the third was to study the effects of infrasound of different frequencies on the human body and how to prevent infrasound from harming oneself.

For the last item, he could only test it on himself. For safety reasons, he needed to be very restrained and cautious, so progress was slow.

Even after two months, he still gained a lot.

He has identified several frequencies that can cause hallucinations, liver damage, and dizziness.

The only problem is that the energy level of infrasound is too low to harm cultivators with truly high levels of cultivation.

He needs to find a way to amplify the energy level of infrasound, which is currently difficult to achieve because the metal sheet he uses to emit infrasound has limited energy capacity.

However, these problems are not urgent. Zhou Qing has enough methods at present and is not in a hurry to develop new methods, so he can solve the problems slowly.

Aside from this difficult problem, the first two tasks went very smoothly.

He used fire iron as the core and embedded it in a soft black jade tablet to create a decryption tool.

Because the fire core iron is sensitive to spiritual energy, the fire core iron in the jade pendant can generate spiritual energy fluctuations of a specific frequency after being vibrated by infrasound.

The array that Zhou Qing designed in the jade tablet can receive this spiritual energy fluctuation and translate it into sound waves that can be heard by the human ear.

He will then have Wu Tao wear the jade pendant on his chest, using a mechanism similar to bone conduction to transmit the sound to Wu Tao's ears.

Zhou Qing has already created a prototype of this device, but there are still several key issues that need to be resolved.

Fearing that there wouldn't be enough time, Zhou Qing consulted Wu Tao and learned that the Array Formation Conference would not be held for at least another six months, which put his mind at ease.

The vastness of this world means that interactions between sects often involve a high time cost.

Simply sending the information to a friendly sect and then having them travel there often takes several months.

(End of this chapter)