Seven paintings of Lianqi Pavilion

  "After practicing for more than three hours in one breath, both arms were sore and didn't want to move! ... This afternoon still have to sort out old books, get up first to eat!" Ye Chen left the martial arts training ground and returned to his small house, lying on the bed.

  He rested for a while, gradually recovering some strength, and got up to go to the school cafeteria for lunch.

  Ye Chen was calculating on the road, he still had two sets of sixth-grade herbal medicine formulas in his hand. The intensity of cultivation was very high, but fortunately, the effect of the sixth-grade herbal medicine was extremely good, and using it once every five or six days should be enough to temper his body, estimated to last for ten days to half a month.

  He is worried now, the "Xianfu" ancient painting scroll has no more Tianli, and cannot upgrade the quality of the herbs. Moreover, for a while, he doesn't know how to restore the Tianli of the medicinal field in the painting.

  This also means that in ten days, half a month later, he will have no medicine left.

  "The task of organizing the old book warehouse can still be done for twenty days, and I can earn twenty taels of silver, which is enough to buy back a lot of third-grade medicinal herbs for cultivation. The efficacy of third-grade medicinal herbs has decreased a lot, but it's still better than nothing. Being frugal with them should be enough to last a month. In about two months' time, I hope to break through to the fifth layer of Body Refining Stage!"

  Ye Chen hastily finished his meal and came to the basement of the library, opened the door of the old book warehouse with a brass key, and cleaned up two-thirds of the remaining old books.

  After several hours.

  Ye Chen flipped through the pile of old books and saw a white bone fragment on the ground that was over three inches long, emitting a faint white glow.

  Although an oil lamp was lit on the stone wall of the old bookcase, the indoor light was still relatively dim. If it were outdoors during the day, the faint white glow of this piece of white bone might not be visible at all.

  "What kind of bone is this, so cold!"

  Ye Chen held it in his hand and felt a cool breeze, on which were engraved more than ten strange ancient characters that didn't seem to be the script of Wuguo, but rather seemed like some sort of ancient national sacrificial script or oracle bone script recorded in certain classics. He couldn't quite understand them.

  The Yun state is vast and boundless, with countless countries, each with their own writing systems. It's extremely difficult to distinguish between them, especially the ancient characters. Unless one is a scholar of the Wuguo Wenxue, well-versed in the scripts of various nations, it would be impossible to read the texts of different countries.

  However, Beifeng Shuyuan focuses on martial arts training, and the students here are not interested in textual research and will not spend their energy studying the texts of various countries.

  "This piece of bone has only over a dozen words, it's too incomplete, can't even make up an article, completely useless, obviously belongs to severely damaged books, must be discarded."

  Ye Chen muttered to herself.

  Suddenly, Ye Chen felt that the ancient painting scroll tied around his waist was rapidly heating up and becoming scorching hot.

  Ye Chen was shocked and hastily put down the bones, untying the ancient painting scroll that was tied around his waist.

  But as soon as it was taken down, the ancient painting scroll immediately cooled down.

  "What's going on? How strange!"

  Ye Chen found himself relieved after a false alarm.

  He re-tied the ancient painting around his waist and picked up the white bone fragment again, thinking of distinguishing its value.

  But the ancient painting scroll at his waist began to heat up again.

  Ye Chen was secretly worried.

  He unrolled the ancient painting scroll tied around his waist and placed it on the ground.

  Ye Chen stared at the ancient painting and then glanced at the white bone fragment in his hand, feeling a bit strange.

  It's been over a decade since he got the ancient painting scroll, and he had never encountered such a sudden heat wave before. Only today, did he unintentionally pick up this piece of bone! ...... Yes, there must be something wrong with this bone!

  "What connection could this white bone fragment possibly have with an ancient painting scroll?!"

  Ye Chen opened his eyes wide and fell into deep thought.

  He carefully placed the bone chip on top of the ancient painting scroll, wondering if anything would happen.

  The ancient painting scroll glowed with a faint flash of light. "Whoosh!" The bone fragment immediately disappeared from above the painting, sucked into it.

  "This ancient painting scroll of the immortal mansion can not only plant medicinal herbs in the medicine field, but also absorb other things?!"

  Ye Chen was shocked and took in a mouthful of cold air.

  He was tense and stared intently at the movement inside the ancient painting scroll.

  The picture on the ancient painting scroll has come to life.

  In the painting, a small pavilion with a sign that reads "Lian Qi Ge" on the floating island began to emit a faint mist.

  At the same time, a faint glow appeared on the ancient painting scroll, and the glow gradually intensified, restoring its color.

  After a while, the smoke in the ancient painting stopped, and a small pile of bone powder fell out.

  Ye Chen pinched a small amount of bone powder between his fingers and took a look, it was indeed the remnants of that bone fragment from earlier, but it had completely lost its luster and no longer emitted any white light.

  The old painting now has a rich and lustrous color, which is much more beautiful than its original dull appearance.

  "This bone fragment originally had a faint white glow, but the Alchemy Pavilion absorbed all of its white glow. Now the color of the ancient painting is warm and moist, much stronger than when I first got it. Does this mean that the ancient painting has recovered some '田力' (field energy), and I can continue to grow medicinal herbs in the medicine field?"

  Ye Chen was overjoyed by the guess.

  "This 'Xianfu' ancient painting scroll is indeed a treasure passed down by the immortals! The small house, one mu of medicinal garden, alchemy pavilion, elixir pavilion and animal enclosure on Xianfu Island are probably all very useful!"

  Ye Chen wasn't too sure, but this speculation was probably correct. For now, he had only found the Medicine Cauldron and Alchemy Furnace to be useful, while the others' effects were still unclear.

  "Now using medicinal plots to grow herbs should yield more herbs!"

  Ye Chen suppressed the joy in his heart.

  Before he came, I was worried that the medium-grade medicinal herbs would be in short supply for ten and a half months. How could the spiritual power of the medicine field in the Xianfu painting be restored? Now it has absorbed the white light from that piece of bone, and its spiritual power has begun to recover somewhat. The medicinal herbs grown will probably be enough for him to use for one or two months.

  "I didn't know there were such good things among these old books!"

  Ye Chen thought for a moment and continued searching through the pile of books.

  He almost turned the pile of books upside down, flipping through thousands of volumes. But what disappointed him was that he couldn't find any other good stuff like bone slips, bamboo slips or jade stones that could make the ancient painting scroll hot in the old book pile again.

  Even if he put those ordinary bone pieces and bamboo slips on the ancient painting scroll, the ancient painting would not react at all and would not absorb them.

  "Was it just that piece of white bone that was a treasure?"

  In the late afternoon, Ye Chen tidied up hundreds of volumes of classics, locked the door and left the old book warehouse, still with doubts and regrets in his heart.

  The daily life of studying at Beiyue Academy is repetitive and mundane.

  Ye Chen practiced "Tiger Leaps and Cuts" second move - Tiger Leaps Slash on the martial arts training ground every day.

  He practiced for three or four hours and almost dislocated his own bones.

  Such a cultivation intensity is extremely rare among the young students in the Upper House, attracting the attention of many aristocratic families and even ridicule and criticism.

  "Just watch, this guy is practicing so desperately, and his progress is extremely fast in a short period of time. But without good spiritual herbs to temper his body, within a year or two, this kid's meridians will be ruined! For his whole life, he'll be stuck at the fourth or fifth layer of Body Refining, getting slower and slower with each practice, and forever unable to enter the late stage of Body Refining!"

  "He's just a poor kid, can he afford to buy mid-grade spiritual herbs? ... Haha, I almost forgot, the herbal shops in our academy don't even sell third-grade spiritual herbs or higher, they've all been bought out by wealthy families! As disciples of noble families, we can get subsidies directly from our families and obtain fourth-grade spiritual herbs or higher for cultivation. How could a poor kid like him possibly get his hands on such high-grade spiritual herbs?"

  "In the depths of Beimu Mountain, there are indeed many wild herbs above four grades. However, in the depths of the mountain, there are packs of gray wolves, black bears, tigers and leopards, ferocious beyond compare, with strength no less than that of a late-stage martial artist who has cultivated their body to its limits. I wonder if he dares to go? Perhaps he'll be lucky enough to enter, but unlucky enough not to return!"

  Ye Chen met these windy words with cold ridicule and would not argue back, responding only with silence.

  But he had a bellyful of anger, "Just you wait! In more than five months it will be the North Mountain Academy's power assessment and graduation examination. Talking so much is useless, everything will be said with strength! Wait until the academy's assessment and examination in five months, let's see who cries and who laughs!"

  He cleaned the book house in the afternoon, every five or six days, and at night he took a dose of Liu Pin Cao medicine to refine his physique, cure internal injuries in his meridians, and relieve blood stasis caused by excessive cultivation.

  "Tiger Leaps and Cuts!"

  Ye Chen let out a low shout, his footsteps moved swiftly, and in an instant, a slashing knife shadow tore through the air.

  "The Two-Step Tiger Slash" is a beginner-level knife technique that is relatively simple to practice and doesn't require too much skill, it's just a matter of time before mastering it. His martial arts training progressed very quickly.

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