Chapter 96: You Dont Understand the World of a Top Student (2/2)
At the same time, outside the w.a.n.g Family Village, on the Dog Ear Mountain, the leaders.h.i.+p team of the Wisdom Sect was holding a plenary meeting.
According to w.a.n.g Lu’s idea, their Nine Regions Intelligence Revenue Service would be called Wisdom Sect for the outsiders, while on the high-ranking meeting, it would be addressed as Intelligence Revenue Service.
“w.a.n.g Lu are you serious on setting up the altar here?”
Among the few of them, the only one who dared to call him by name was none other than Miss Holy Maiden.
w.a.n.g Lu also didn’t mind; he nodded and said, “Of course I’m serious. Anyhow, this is a formal sect, so how could it not have an altar?”
Holy Maiden was curious. “Can you build the altar?”
The dirty old man and Wu Feihua were also curious. w.a.n.g Lu’s remark about the altar was true. Every Sect in the Union of Ten Thousand Immortal, big or small, basically each had their own altar. The altar could condense the surrounding spiritual energy and turn it into infinitely wondrous things. It was a top rank applied installation and also the foundation of the Immortal Cultivation Sect. However, such a simple thing like an altar was never in the possession of a trash level sect like the Seven Stars Sect, because they simply couldn’t build it.
This altar thing seemed simple, but the technique and skill required to construct this thing were astonis.h.i.+ngly high! The Sect Leader of the Seven Stars Sect was a Xudan cultivator, yet, no matter what, he could not build a formal altar! At present, after saving years and years, the Seven Stars Sect was able to buy a broken vessel from the Mysterious Sky Mansion. They then set up the Five Elements Creature Array on top of the vessel to create an “altar”. The spiritual energy conversion rate was not high, and the things that it transforms into was also limited… Yet, it had already made a lot of other sects envious. How would the reaction if it was a proper formal altar? The dirty old man and Wu Feihua didn’t dare to think about it!
As for w.a.n.g Lu, although he has an ill.u.s.trious background, after all, he only cultivated for more than two years. He was only a low-level Qi Cultivating Stage, so how could he know how to build an altar?
Then they heard a sneer from w.a.n.g Lu. “You guys underestimate the top student of the Spirit Sword Sect too much.”
With that, w.a.n.g Lu took out a book t.i.tled “Fundamentals of Altar, by Lu Li” and then thumbed through the pages.
The Holy Maiden nearly spurted out blood. “You… you want to learn it now!?”
w.a.n.g Lu sneered. “Learn it now? Those words are an insult to a top student you know! Let me tell you, the real top student never learn on the spot! I have long ago learned about this, and now I’m just reviewing it!”
“You… isn’t this Fundamentals of Altar is at least a course for those Foundation Establishment or above? You hadn't even finished Body Refining Stage a long time ago, so what’s the use of learning this?”
“Top student never ask if the cla.s.s is useful, top student only asks how many credit points are there in a cla.s.s!”
“What the! That’s just abnormal! But, what’s the use if you just know the theory? Not to mention you learned this subject a long time ago, if you want to refresh your mind now, I’m afraid it’s already too late.”
w.a.n.g Lu contemptuously smiled. “With your IQ, naturally, you won’t understand the top student efficiency in refres.h.i.+ng a subject.”
“Okaaay then, Mr. Top Student, when are you going to finish refres.h.i.+ng this subject?”
w.a.n.g Lu snorted. “Give me two minutes.”
With that, he began to randomly flip through the book, and then closed it. “Okay, that’s about it.”
“... You’re just pretending, right?”
“This altar thing is not that hard actually as long as you calculate a good location, choose the appropriate altar type according to the formula and prepare the basic materials. The remaining problem is how to establish the spiritual energy tide to form the spiritual energy cycle. Over ninety percent of the Fundamentals of an Altar is filled with the explanation about spiritual energy tide, and this part, I’ve already know it by heart.”
Miss Holy Maiden wrinkled her eyebrows for a while and then had to admit that she didn’t understand what w.a.n.g Lu just said.
Simply because she can’t cultivate; Feng Ling never thoroughly studied the theory of the Immortal Cultivation. Her understanding of cultivation was nothing more than hearing fragments and parts from the conversation of the people on the mountain. Once it was related to the formal theory, she was immediately thrown off balance.
However, the dirty old man and Wu Feihua were different, especially the dirty old man, since he was also involved in his previous sect’s several attempts on building an altar. After successive failures, he already had a profound understanding of this matter.
The establishment of the spiritual energy tide was indeed the top priority. One could even say that everything else, such as the choice of materials, the matching array, as well as picking an auspicious date, were all for this goal.
However, it was really difficult to establish the spiritual energy tide. At least, for a group of loose cultivators, it was as difficult as to ascend to heaven. For those sects in the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals, as long as they have a Jindan Stage expert, that expert, through deep meditation technique, could finely control the surrounding spiritual energy to establish the tide cycle. However… how could an honorable Jindan Stage expert a.s.sociate with Seven Stars Sect? Not to mention even a Jindan Stage expert would find it difficult to enter the deep meditation without the a.s.sistance of the resources from the sect within the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals.
That being the case, how could a mere low-level Qi Cultivating Stage cultivator like w.a.n.g Lu be compared with a Jindan Stage expert?
“Um, you don’t need to bother with the specifics of this operation. This time, you just need to gather the relevant materials and leave the rest to me.”
The dirty old man nodded to express his understanding. Building an altar, establis.h.i.+ng spiritual energy tide, all of these were the core knowledge of a sect, so it was normal for w.a.n.g Lu to not divulge this. However… how were they going to gather the material?
“Of course you’re going to buy them. No matter what, you’re a local boss in the Blue River Region, so you should know where to find sellers of materials, right?”
As he talked, w.a.n.g Lu retrieved his mustard seed bag from his side, took out a paper and a pen, and started to write the list of materials. After that, he threw it at the dirty old man. “Buy the materials on this list, not more not less.”
The dirty old man took a look at that list and felt a mouthful of blood well up in his throat. “Seventh Rank Fine Gold, Fourth Rank Black Earth, Sixth Rank Glazed Fire… Director, you’re crazy!”
Wu Feihua, who heard his remarks from the side, could not help but widen her eyes. “Any one of this stuff easily cost hundreds of spirit stones, how could we possibly afford that!?”
This time, it was w.a.n.g Lu’s turn to be surprised. “Didn’t you previously occupy the government of a prefectural capital? A few hundreds of thousands of spirit stones is considered very light, so how come you can’t afford this several thousand of spirit stones?”
The dirty old man immediately began to pour out his grievances. “Hundred of thousands of spirit stones is the sect’s income, not our personal income! The sect’s operational cost is high. Relying on his position, the Sect Leader desperately raked that money before the several elders. When it finally came to my hand, it was already not that many! Moreover, I still have to use it to cultivate! The cost of elixirs are not small, so in the end, I can only save a few spirit stones!”
w.a.n.g Lu sighed. “In short, you don’t have the money. Okay, I can cover this first expense.”
He then opened his mustard seed bag and pulled out a sparkling and translucent jade that blinded people’s eyes.
“This, this is the highest grade spirit stone!” Despite raking in money for many years in the Seven Stars Sect, the dirty old man had never seen such a top grade spirit stone. This kind of spirit stone was extremely pure; from its abundance of spiritual energy, this spirit stone could be valued more than ten common high-quality spirit stones, yet w.a.n.g Lu just casually pulled it out from his bag! What’s more was the fact that this spirit stone was worth more than the value of the spirit stones that he acc.u.mulated all these years!
Even Miss Holy Maiden was extremely surprised—Non-Phase Peak has always been known for being impoverished, so where did this w.a.n.g Lu get this much spirit stone?
Of course, by exchanging it with the sect credit. As the Spirit Sword top student, w.a.n.g Lu was indeed poor, but not that poor.
“Take this five hundred spirit stones and bring the materials here within two days. Then we’ll establish the altar in the w.a.n.g Family Village. Heh, in any case, this will be our Intelligent Revenue Service general headquarters, so we should make it beautiful.”