Junior sister, I really need to control you

Although the Zhulu Temple strictly forbids investigating the origins of guests, she was not entirely clear about the person's background or identity.

But based on his cultivation level and age alone, he must be treated with utmost seriousness.

Besides, they had just helped me.

Moreover, he is also very handsome.

"No rush, no rush," Li Yinsheng picked up his tea. "Shopkeeper, why were those cultivators' magical artifacts delayed for so long?"

"Moreover, even if you try to appease them, you only talk around the subject and refuse to give them a clear answer as to why the delivery of the ritual implements has been delayed again and again."

Li Yinsheng voiced his doubts, not expecting the shopkeeper to answer him, but asking wouldn't hurt.

If the female shopkeeper said she couldn't answer or gave an evasive answer, he wouldn't press her for details.

However, he did not expect that the female shopkeeper, after biting her lip and pondering for a moment, would actually answer him.

"At this time, it is not proper to speak carelessly, but since you have just helped me, it would be impolite of me to keep it from you."

The female shopkeeper sighed and explained, "Those cultivators outside, their magical artifacts are actually 99% complete, but they're all stuck on the last step."

"Because we were just one step away from completing the project, we were unable to deliver the goods."

"Which step is missing?" Li Yinsheng asked curiously.

"This final step involves using top-grade cinnabar refined through secret methods to create a spiritual rune on the magical artifact," the female shopkeeper said. "Not all magical artifacts require this step, so other magical artifacts can still be delivered normally."

"Why are we stuck at this step?" Li Yinsheng was very puzzled.

"Because we've run out of cinnabar to use for applying spirit runes," the female shopkeeper said with a wry smile and a shake of her head.

"Shopkeeper, are you joking?" Li Yinsheng was somewhat skeptical. "High-grade cinnabar is not common and it's not cheap, but how could a prestigious casting furnace temple like yours not be able to get even a single piece of high-grade cinnabar in so long?"

"The temple naturally has high-grade cinnabar, but it has never been enough. In the last six months, it has been even more strained, so most of it has been used to make high-grade magic artifacts, and not much has been left for mid-grade magic artifacts," the female shopkeeper said helplessly.

Li Yinsheng was even more surprised: "A prestigious casting furnace temple can actually be stumped by some high-grade cinnabar?"

"Senior doesn't know?" The female shopkeeper was also somewhat surprised. "Among all the Taoist temples under the Zhengyang lineage, except for Shouyi Temple, none of them are not troubled by high-grade cinnabar."

"Who said that? Our Xuanzhen Temple has never had a headache over top-grade cinnabar!" Li Yinsheng thought to himself.

"If top-grade cinnabar is so rare, why isn't Shouyi Temple included?" he asked.

"Naturally, it's because Shouyi Temple monopolizes all the top-grade cinnabar. Every Taoist temple has to buy from them, and can only buy from them." The female shopkeeper said this with obvious gritted teeth.

"Don't you care about the lineage?" Li Yinsheng asked.

"The lineage turns a blind eye to this, after all... it is said that Shouyi Temple has quite a powerful backer within the lineage." The female shopkeeper shook her head.

“Shouyi Temple is domineering and takes advantage of everything in the Taoist temple,” she sighed. “My Zhulu Temple has been targeted by Shouyi Temple because it refused to be exploited by them in the past two years, and we are running out of high-quality cinnabar.”

“That’s really domineering…” Li Yinsheng couldn’t help but sigh.

He was certainly familiar with Shouyi Temple. It was Shouyi Temple that had previously announced that it had "reserved" the spiritual vein of Xuanzhen Peak. As the person involved, he naturally knew this.

However, he never expected that Shouyi Temple would be even more powerful and domineering than he had anticipated.

Zhulu Temple was already one of the most powerful Taoist temples, but when the female manager mentioned Shouyi Temple, she said that Zhulu Temple would be exploited by Shouyi Temple.

In this light, Shouyi Temple truly deserves to be the number one Taoist temple under the Zhengyang lineage.

Unfortunately, it's a bit unethical.

The female shopkeeper then told him that the monk who had caused trouble at the entrance and spoken rudely to her earlier, although not wearing the robes of Shouyi Temple, was someone she recognized as a monk from Shouyi Temple.

I don't know if the other person is simply frivolous and rude by nature, or if they came with malicious intent to deliberately cause trouble.

Chapter 42 Divine Sense Jade Slip, Daily Test

Inside the shop of the casting furnace.

After getting a general understanding of what had happened, Li Yinsheng chatted with the shopkeeper for a while and offered her some words of comfort before getting to the point.

"Shopkeeper, do you still have any divine sense jade slips for sale in your shop?" Li Yinsheng asked.

"A jade slip containing divine sense?" The female shopkeeper was taken aback and couldn't help but say, "Senior really likes to buy some obscure items."

Li Yinsheng smiled but didn't say anything.

If it weren't for his junior sister's special circumstances, he really wouldn't have bought this thing.

"Fortunately, you've come to the right place. Our Casting Furnace Temple has a rich collection, and we do have a few jade slips containing divine sense. I'll go and get them for you right away."

After the female shopkeeper finished speaking, she did not call a maid to run errands, but turned around and left to fetch it herself.

After eating several plates of snacks, and even asking the maid to bring several more plates of pastries, Mu Xiaoyu finally stopped eating.

She looked at Li Yinsheng curiously: "Senior brother? What is a Divine Sense Jade Slip?"

“It’s a magical artifact that allows you to repeatedly inscribe information into it with your divine sense,” Li Yinsheng said. “It’s not cheap; it usually costs several thousand talismans.”

"That's really expensive. A few thousand talismans could buy dozens of sacks of snacks." Mu Xiaoyu nodded. "What's the point of selling it for such a high price? Is it only for recording?"

"After the cultivator inscribes the information inside with their divine sense, the user can directly memorize the information by simply using their own divine sense to absorb it."

Li Yinsheng explained, "To give an example, I use my divine sense to record the entire Taoist scripture, and then you use your divine sense to absorb it into your mind."

"Then you will remember this Taoist scripture firmly, which is equivalent to memorizing it word for word after spending a long time."

"It can be considered a kind of magical tool that specifically helps people quickly memorize scriptures or other complex information."

Li Yinsheng smiled at Mu Xiaoyu and said, "Junior Sister, although you have already achieved some cultivation since you came up the mountain, you lack a foundation in scriptures, which will make things increasingly difficult for you later on."

"If you want to make up for this lack of foundation by studying the classics, it will take at least two or three years, studying hard at your desk every day. And you can't not study. Without a foundation in the classics, you won't even be able to understand the later levels of the Qingxuan True Scripture."

"However, if we could use the divine sense jade slip, it would be much faster," he said with a smile.

Mu Xiaoyu was stunned for a few moments, then almost jumped up from her chair.

"Senior brother, I don't think this spiritual jade slip is expensive!" Her eyes sparkled. "If I had such a treasure when I was studying with the teacher, I wouldn't have had to memorize texts every day!"

They wouldn't get their hands slapped by the teacher for not finishing memorizing the text.

“But it’s not too late now!” Mu Xiaoyu chuckled. “Actually, I’ve always been worried about this. Senior brother, you said that new disciples have to study scriptures for a few years before they can join the sect.”

"Senior brother, you are a good person. You taught me cultivation before I even had to read or recite scriptures. But who knows, I might have to catch up on all the scriptures I haven't read yet someday."

"I hate studying the most. Now that I have this treasure, studying the scriptures will be much easier, right?" Mu Xiaoyu said happily.

Li Yinsheng shook his head and chuckled at Mu Xiaoyu's naiveté.

If it's really that useful, why is it considered an "unpopular" item by the female shopkeeper?

The Divine Consciousness Jade Slip sounds convenient and simple, a shortcut to learning scriptures, but in reality it is extremely troublesome.

First of all, just using one's divine sense to inscribe information requires a high level of cultivation and divine sense, and it is also extremely mentally taxing.

Because this is not a message from the divine consciousness, but a transmission of memories by the divine consciousness, which is to directly implant information into someone else's mind, the inscription of scriptures must be done with great care.

Moreover, the content burned into it is disposable. Once someone has used it, the burned content will disappear, and if you want the next person to use it, you have to burn it again.

It's impossible to burn a single copy and then benefit all new disciples.

It's like having a highly skilled cultivator spend a considerable amount of time just to save a newly initiated disciple the time of memorizing texts.

People without a strong background cannot enjoy this kind of treatment.

Of course, for a true person like Li Yinsheng, whose divine sense is extremely powerful and who has also cultivated a special soul-tempering technique, recording it would be a piece of cake.

But to have a real person personally inscribe a jade slip containing one's divine consciousness—the person receiving such treatment must have an incredibly profound background.

Secondly, when using the Divine Sense Jade Slip, a large amount of information is forcibly flooded into the mind in a short period of time, so it is inevitable that some dizziness and headaches will occur.

Even with normal memorization and study, one will still feel dizzy and lightheaded after a long time, let alone with the divine jade slip.

However, Li Yinsheng believed that with his junior sister's firm will, she would definitely be able to overcome it.

And most importantly, remembering something doesn't mean you truly understand it.

The "memorization" that the Divine Sense Jade Slip brings to the user is the kind of complete rote memorization, which is useless on its own.

After memorizing them, someone still needs to explain and interpret the scriptures so that the disciples can understand them and apply them to their cultivation.

The Divine Sense Jade Slip can only save time for memorizing texts, not for studying them.

That's why Li Yinsheng had to set aside at least half an hour for his junior sister every day after that—she had to attend classes.

During this period, Li Yinsheng would personally explain the scriptures to her, helping her to quickly fill in the gaps in her foundation in classical studies.

When Li Yinsheng was studying the scriptures, he didn't have the good conditions of having a divine jade slip.

He could only memorize the Taoist scriptures that filled two entire bookshelves by himself. Fortunately, his senior uncle explained things to him, so he didn't have to figure things out on his own.

According to the study plan he assigned to his junior, it should be possible to compress two or three years of study into a few months.

Of course, this would be much harder than studying normally for two or three years. After all, even with the help of the divine jade slip, my junior sister only had half an hour of class every day.

At most, you can extend her time by one hour.

Therefore, the intensity of studying for half an hour or an hour will inevitably be higher.

A moment later, the female shopkeeper returned with several jade slips containing divine sense.

According to her, these jade slips containing divine sense had been accumulated over several years, and their quality varied slightly, so the price ranged from five thousand five hundred to eight thousand talisman coins.

Before Li Yinsheng could say anything, Mu Xiaoyu waved her Qiankun bag, indicating that she would pay and wanted the best one!

Her idea was very clear—this jade slip was obviously meant to save her the pain of memorizing texts, so she definitely had to buy the best one!

Mu Xiaoyu was willing to buy it herself, and Li Yinsheng didn't stop her, but the necessary bargaining process still had to be followed.

After some haggling with the shopkeeper, Mu Xiaoyu bought the divine consciousness jade slip, which originally cost eight thousand talismans, for five thousand talismans.

After inquiring about Li Yinsheng's intended use for the Divine Sense Jade Slip, the female shopkeeper also gave him some free gifts.

……

That evening, at Xuanzhen Temple.

With the help of the White Rainbow Sword, Mu Xiaoyu mastered the third sword light and was then taken to the Sutra Repository by Li Yinsheng.

Then she realized that her senior brother's promise that she could "practice swordsmanship for half an hour less" actually meant "use the saved half hour to study scriptures!"

At first, she sat down at the table with a smile, thinking that since she had the jade slip containing divine consciousness, studying scriptures and reading books wouldn't be tiring.

Then she realized that when receiving knowledge through the divine consciousness jade slip, it felt like "the top of her head was opened and someone was pouring water into it".