After the secondary occupation reached the maximum level, I wore it

When the banquet was over, all the tables, chairs, bowls and chopsticks were removed, and the noisy voices gradually died down. Soon, the top of the peak became quiet, with the human voices disappearing and only the chirping of birds and animals remaining around.

President Song walked up to the altar and sat cross-legged. The monks took out the cushions they had prepared in advance and sat down, looking expectant.

There are not many opportunities to listen to the Golden Elixir Master’s lectures, and this Dharma Assembly lasted for seven days. This opportunity was rare, so everyone cherished it very much. They sat upright with solemn expressions.

Shi Yu also stayed after the banquet and listened to the subsequent sermons and discussions.

President Song was known as a genius when he was young, but even so, he remained in the foundation-building stage for a hundred years. During this period, he relied on his own hard work to move towards the golden elixir step by step. Therefore, he is experienced and has many insights that are applicable to foundation-building practitioners. His words often hit the nail on the head. Most of the guests who stayed to listen to his teachings were foundation-building practitioners, and they were all amazed after hearing what he said.

What's more, perhaps it was President Song's words that solved the cultivation problem that had troubled him for a long time. He was extremely excited, looking at President Song with gratitude and almost regarded him as a god.

When President Song talked about the rising point, he discussed it with several fellow Taoists who also had high levels of cultivation. It was very exciting and a feast for the eyes.

As for Shi Yu, she had just started the foundation-building stage and had very little relevant cultivation experience. President Song's cultivation insights were rarely verified by her, so she was confused most of the time.

She was not discouraged and continued to listen carefully, forcing herself to take note of what President Song said in the sermon, hoping that she could turn it into nourishment and gain some insights in her future practice.

Beside her, the three Zhou siblings had not yet entered the stage of foundation building, and could not understand a word. Seeing that Shi Yu was listening attentively, she did not want to perform too badly, and reluctantly persisted for another day or two. However, she really gained nothing, and instead, she felt dizzy and unstable because of those profound words. She shook her head secretly, gave up listening, and started to practice breathing and meditation.

It was Qingzhou and Yu who persisted from beginning to end.

When the seven-day Dharma Assembly was over, all the guests present, regardless of their status, age or age, bowed down, kowtowed three times with great respect, and said in unison: "Thank you for your teachings, Master."

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The Dharma Assembly was over, and President Song left. The focus of the whole audience returned to Shi Yu. Everyone, not forgetting their original intention, gathered around warmly and cordially, calling her "Miss Shi" and "Fellow Daoist Shi" one after another.

Shi Yu dealt with these monks who came to show their goodwill and ask for elixirs for a while, and was unable to get away for a while.

It was not until Wen Wen came that she found a lifeline. She left all requests for the elixir to Wen Wen, and only then was she able to get away with Qingzhou, the Zhou family and others.

Wen Wen was naturally happy to see so many commissions coming in like snowflakes. She comforted everyone who was anxious with her soft voice and recorded their commissions in an orderly manner for Shi Yu to choose from later.

After Shi Yu left this place, he hosted a party at Miaoyi Tower and chatted with everyone from the Zhou family before returning to the cave.

After a moment of silence, she sat on the stone bench, rested one arm on the stone table in front of her, rubbed her forehead, and let out a long breath.

Seeing that she looked tired, a pair of slender, white hands with distinct joints reached out, gently pressed their fingertips on her temples, and slowly began to rub them.

Qingzhou's massage technique was not very sophisticated, but his fingertips were warm and cool, with water spirit lingering around them, and the calming and harmonizing effects were quite significant, which made Shi Yu's slightly swollen head feel much better.

Shi Yu enjoyed the moment and said slowly: "Two months later, we will take Mo Tong and leave Lingtai Mansion. As for Ji Yu, if he is willing to go with us, we will take him. If not, we will leave more training resources for him."

Qingzhou nodded silently and asked, "Where do you want to go, Ayu?"

"Shiyan College." Shi Yu paused before saying, "This place is known as the 'No. 1 College in Dongzhou'. It gathers all the talented young people in Dongzhou. I have to go and see it."

Lingtai Prefecture was too comfortable for her. Recently, Shi Yu vaguely felt that she had become a little lax. She knew that if she wanted to go further on the path of cultivation, she must continue to gain experience and be tempered in adversity and danger.

Lingtai Prefecture is where her heart is at peace, but it is not her home, so she has to leave.

After discussing the follow-up arrangements with Qingzhou, Shi Yu was not idle either. He took out some spiritual materials and several medium-grade spirit stones, intending to refine a new spirit-testing magic tool.

The spirit measuring ruler she had made earlier was quite crude and could only measure the quality of low-grade spirit veins, but not higher.

Such a long time has passed, and the spring water has never stopped nourishing him. He has just broken through to the foundation-building stage. All the meridians, blood, flesh, and spirit lake in his body have benefited from it. Shi Yu clearly feels that the quality of his spirit veins has improved, so he wants to refine the spirit-testing instrument again to test it.

After entering the stage of foundation building, refining such little gadgets is easy and effortless, and it can be done in just one hour.

The newly refined spirit-testing instrument is a round disc, which is divided into three layers, representing the low, medium, and high quality of spirit veins. The three layers are evenly divided into nine grids, representing one to nine points.

Shi Yu held the spirit-testing disc in the palm of his hand and slowly injected a stream of spiritual energy into it. He then saw the first grid on the outermost layer light up, and then the light quickly moved forward, lighting up and going out all the way, and finally reached the middle layer and continued to move forward.

Finally, the bright color gradually stopped advancing and stayed on the fifth grid on the middle layer.

"Five points of middle grade." Shi Yu put away the spirit-testing disc and raised the corners of his lips to reveal a smile.

A mid-grade five-point spirit vein might not be very good, but it would not hold her back. And as long as there was spring water, the quality of the spirit vein would continue to improve. Perhaps one day, she would once again have a top-grade fire-attribute spirit vein that was as bright as the sun and as wide and hot as fire.

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In the next two months, Shi Yu first immersed himself in the relics of the three associations, namely, Instruments, Formations and Talismans, for a long time. After absorbing the contents of the ancient books and jade slips inside, he was busy for a long time, handling many requests for elixirs from the Alchemy Association. Then, from time to time, he would find the presidents and elders of the four associations to exchange ideas.

It was called communication, but in fact she filled in the missing and ambiguous parts in the wonderful relics according to her own understanding, and compiled them into four jade slips. She made several copies of each and then explained them in detail to everyone.

No one looked down on her because of her young age. The presidents and elders of the four associations of weapons, elixirs, formations and talismans all listened to what she said carefully and wrote it down.

The four associations, which originally lacked foundation and lagged behind other governments, gradually caught up.

Everyone also knew that after leaving these precious treasures, the day of Shi Yu's departure was getting closer and closer. Although he knew that he was disappointed, at this level of cultivation, separation was a common thing and he could always look at it in a positive light.

Besides, Shi Yu’s departure did not mean he would never come back.

The road is long, there is always a chance to see you again.

Before Shi Yu left, she dealt with a wave of things, some low-grade or poor-quality spiritual materials. Now that she had been promoted to a fourth-grade weapon refiner, most of them were no longer useful, so she simply refined them into low-grade magical weapons.

These low-grade magical instruments do not take much time to refine. A simple gadget can be refined in a few quarters of an hour, while a more complicated one can be refined in a day or two at most.

In the end, there were hundreds of items in total, and she sold them all to Xie’s Auction House, doing a round of decluttering.

Although they are basically low-grade magical weapons, with Shi Yu's current level of refinement, each one is naturally a fine product.

Xie’s Auction House attached great importance to it and even held a special auction for her.

These magical instruments, which were of low grade but good quality, were just right for the children of wealthy families with low cultivation bases. Therefore, they were snatched up and hundreds of thousands of low-grade spirit stones were harvested.

As for the shop, Ji Yu was willing to leave with them, so Shi Yu closed the shop and sent someone to return the shop deed to Zhou's family.

Finally, the day of departure came. Shi Yu did not disturb anyone. He left a letter on the stone table outside the cave. When the morning glow first appeared, he raised the cloud boat and jumped on it.

She didn't want to feel too sad about parting, but after the cloud boat flew for a distance, she couldn't help but look back.

However, she didn't expect that familiar figures had gathered on the top of the mountain and were looking at her from afar.

Shi Yu's eyes were slightly moist as he grabbed the edge of the cloud boat.

"My old friend on the mountain top looked at me and said goodbye, with a long sigh across the cloud tower."

"We traveled together in the past, but now we are parting ways, each going his own way."

＜Volume 3＞End