Xiuxian: I use magnetic fields to prove my truth

Chapter 191 Two Months
After slowly cleaning up, it was almost evening.

Zhou Qing sat at the desk in his study, the setting sun shining on him through the window.

He seemed to have suddenly withdrawn from the previous intrigue and returned to the normal order of life.

By nature, Zhou Qing did not like to fight with others.

When you fight with others for a long time, you inevitably develop a fixed mindset, becoming biased and easily angered, and tending to see everyone you encounter as your enemy.

Wherever there are people, there is conflict, and struggle is always unavoidable.

After the struggle, it was fortunate that he could find such a familiar and peaceful place to withdraw and restore his daily routine.

Zhou Qing was even more grateful that he hadn't moved to Qingyun Mountain.

Zhou Qing resumed her previous life.

Every day, practice your Qi, read books, ponder the mysteries of formations, or, like playing a game, divide your magnetic field into dozens of parts and control the iron balls to rotate around you, thereby training the flexibility of your magnetic field.

Occasionally, he would also visit the Zhenyuan Court and Cheng Feipeng to inquire about recent matters.

Cheng Feipeng has already taught his disciples how to carve anti-Qing and restoration-Ming banners, and they are currently working diligently on the task.

On the array court side, the formal array masters were digesting the wave theory that Zhou Qing had explained earlier.

The Array Academy has two array masters, Xuanzhe and Hongguan, as well as fifteen formal array masters and sixty-seven array apprentices.

In order to thoroughly understand the wave theory, they held several academic seminars and invited Zhou Qing to give several lectures.

Finally, Xuanzhe and Hongguan were responsible for formally recording the results of these seminars in a book, resulting in the first two documents written by Zhou Qing himself since the advent of wave theory.

"A Study of the Wave Interference Phenomenon Using Rune No. 2331 and Rune No. 1996 as Examples" — Xuanzhe

"Observations on the Wave Diffraction Phenomenon of Rune No. 667" — Hong Guan

Later, these two documents were published in the internal publication of the Array Formation Association. Afterwards, the two array formation masters deleted the runes used as examples in the documents, made slight modifications to the articles, and published them in the external publication.

In addition to the seminar, the court is also studying the new long-distance communication issue mentioned by Zhou Qing, and is trying to develop a faster communication method.

They also discussed this matter several times with array masters from other sects.

Zhou Qing participated in all these discussions, and some of the ingenious ideas among them were quite inspiring to him.

Finally, several member sects of the Array Formation Association focused on the key issues of this project: the speed of spiritual energy fluctuation propagation and the degree of attenuation.

By thoroughly studying this problem, they can design a more reasonable relay system.

At this point, the issue was reduced to a technical or engineering problem, so Zhou Qing handed the matter over to someone else and withdrew from the situation.

Two months later, Zhou Qing sensed that the spiritual energy in his body had become abundant again. He estimated that he would be able to break through again in two or three months at most.

For others, the cultivation process becomes increasingly difficult as they progress.

The number of spiritual roots is limited. Although the speed of absorbing spiritual energy will increase with the advancement of one's realm, the degree of acceleration is limited by the number of spiritual roots and is difficult to match with the amount of spiritual energy required to break through a realm.

Therefore, it is destined that it will be more difficult to break through as you go further.

Zhou Qing, however, was different; the more he progressed, the easier it became for him to break through.

With each breakthrough in his cultivation level, his magnetic field strengthens significantly, increasing his ability to absorb spiritual energy at a much faster pace.

Now that he has reached the fourth level of Qi Refining, Zhou Qing feels that, without using spirit stones, his speed of absorbing spiritual energy is almost equivalent to that of a cultivator with twenty or thirty spiritual roots.

Compared to when he first tested his spiritual roots, it has increased twenty to thirty times. If this continues, once he reaches the Foundation Establishment stage, his spiritual energy absorption speed will probably be comparable to that of a peerless genius with eighty-one spiritual roots.

In the future, he will become a figure far surpassing even the most outstanding geniuses.

Two months later, Cheng Feipeng finally led his disciples to produce a batch of anti-Qing and restoration-Ming formation plaques.

Making array plates is more troublesome than making talismans. The junior disciples also have other talisman-making tasks and need to take care of their own cultivation. On average, each person can only make one a day, which is already quite good.

After two months, only two thousand array plates were made.

At a price of thirty mid-grade spirit stones each, these array tokens could be sold for six thousand high-grade spirit stones. After deducting the amount handed over to the sect, the amount retained by various shops, and the benefits distributed to the Array Academy, he could obtain nearly one thousand high-grade spirit stones.

That's a huge fortune.

Zhou Qing was a little unsure how to spend the money.

The troubles of the rich.

Zhou Qing put the array tokens in a storage bag and went to find Mu Zhuosha, asking her to have someone transport them.

Upon meeting Mu Zhuosha, he explained his purpose.

Mu Zhuosha suddenly smiled amusedly and said, "Your batch of array tokens is really timely. Something funny happened recently too."

Zhou Qing asked curiously, "What is it?"

Mu Zhuosha smiled and said, "Our old friends are buying up large quantities of soft black jade and recruiting array masters to inscribe anti-Qing and restoration array plates."

Zhou Qing thought for a moment and then laughed, "They're just trying to make things difficult for us. They also want to use this incident to completely take over the business of the anti-Qing and restoration of Ming formations from their affiliated families."

The Qingyun Sect has over a hundred affiliated families, with the five most powerful being the Wei family. Now that the Wei family is bound to Zhou Qing, they are no longer accepted by the other four families.

These four families are powerful enough to support array masters.

Therefore, after obtaining the anti-Qing and restoration formation from Zhou Qing, these four families secretly copied the formation plates and distributed them to other affiliated families for sale.

A large portion of the profits from the sales by other families goes to these four families.

Previously, these four families did not dare to steal array plates on a large scale. When selling them, the ratio of the array plates they stole to the array plates they needed to pay to the sect was about two to one.

Now they have suffered a great loss at Zhou Qing's hands, and Zhou Qing has taken over the entire Zhenyuan Court.

The four families, relying on the fact that they had suffered a loss, assumed that the sect leader would not be too harsh on them, and with the support of Ancestor Xu Jingfeng, they simply started to cause trouble.

They decided that from now on, the shop would only sell pirated array tablets, and they would no longer pay quotas to the sect, thus completely taking control of this lucrative business.

While it can't completely make up for the loss of the court, it's enough for them to recover some of their losses.

Since they refused to pay their share to the sect, they naturally began to steal records on a large scale, no longer holding back.

Mu Zhuosha laughed and said, "After your batch of array tokens appears, they will probably be dumbfounded."

Zhou Qing rolled his eyes and smiled, "In that case, there's no rush to sell this batch of array tokens."

Mu Zhuosha was taken aback and asked, "Why?"

Zhou Qing said, "Why don't we wait until they've finished engraving all the soft black jade and are ready to sell it, and then launch it together with them?"

(End of this chapter)