Chronicles of Celestial Origins

In the Central Plains, in the remote mountains and forests, in the basement of the intelligence station, everyone was hurriedly walking in a hurry.

In the room, a woman with a peach blossom-like face and a plump waist and plump butt pushed the door in and asked doubtfully: "Duke Immortal, why are all the disciples of this station hurriedly packing up the files?"

"Fellow Daoist Xu is here, take a look!" Du Yuankai turned his hand and handed her a file.

Xu Qingwan took it and took a look, her eyebrows slightly furrowed, and she saw it read: Senior Zheng Wei disappeared without any reason, his whereabouts are unknown, and he has been out of touch for seven days.

Du Yuankai said: "Brother Zheng disappeared suddenly without knowing his whereabouts. He has always acted cautiously. If he traveled far away, he would definitely say hello to the disciples below. But now that he has lost contact for so long, I am worried that something has happened, so I need to move this place quickly. Place. He has always trusted you, do you know his movements? "

Xu Qingwan shook her head and said, "I haven't seen him for a long time."

Du Yuankai said: "I have reported this matter to the sect and ordered all the disciples outside to investigate his whereabouts. Let's evacuate quickly!"

Xu Qingwan nodded and said hello, returned to her room and remained silent.

In fact, Zheng Wei met with her half a year ago and told her that he was determined to leave Xingang and escape from the control of Qian Yizong.

Did he suddenly disappear this time and leave Xingang?

There were quite a lot of mixed feelings in her heart.

There is relief, envy, relief, and a hint of guilt.

After a long time, she got up and left the room, leaving the basement together with everyone in the intelligence station.

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In the Qian Yizong alchemy room, Tang Ning concentrated on observing the changes in the elixir. His right hand was placed on the right hole of the alchemy cauldron, controlling the spiritual fire to roast the elixir.

His eyes were slightly closed, and his consciousness was sensing the changes in the elixir inside the alchemy cauldron.

The flames in the cauldron alternately grew larger and smaller, burning around the pill.

The powder of the main medicine floating inside was attracted by his spiritual power, and gradually blended into the cracked pill, becoming one with it.

After a while, the cracked pores on the outside of the pill disappeared. Tang Ning opened her eyes, left the pill cauldron with her right hand, and tapped it.

A black and round elixir spit out from the dragon's mouth and fell into the wooden box.

Tang Ning picked up the elixir and played with it carefully for a while. The entire elixir was no bigger than a steel ball and was black and translucent. If she looked closely, she could see that there was a hint of brilliance.

He nodded with satisfaction, put the elixir into the mysterious bottle, turned around, picked up the elixir on the desk, put it into the elixir cauldron, and continued to refine it.

The night passed in the blink of an eye, and when the sky turned white, he stood up and left the alchemy room.

After practicing the elixir for a whole day and night, both spiritual consciousness and spiritual power have been exhausted, so I need to take a rest.

After returning from slaying Zheng Wei, he began to try to refine the Vitality Pill. After several years of exploration and countless failures, he is now relatively proficient in refining the finished Vitality Pill, with a success rate of no less than 40%. .

Yesterday night alone, in just four hours, he refined ten vitality pills, with a success rate of over 50%.

In countless experiments, he slowly figured out some of his own unique methods, and became more and more proficient in adjusting the fire control time of elixirs.

When he returned to the cave, he lay on the stone bed, closed his eyes and rested. After a while, he fell into a deep sleep.

I don't know how long it took, but the vibration of the storage bag on his waist woke him up.

Tang Ning opened her eyes, took out the formation plate and pointed it at it, took the talisman into her hand, and poured her spiritual consciousness into it. A man's voice sounded in her mind, but it was the disciple on duty in front of the meeting hall.

He fiddled with the array plate, and not long after, a burly man came to the front of the room, bowed and saluted: "Disciple pays homage to Master Tang, and on the order of Master Lu, I invite him to go to the meeting hall."

"Am I the only one?"

"Uncle Lu ordered all the department managers to go."

"I understand, go ahead!"

"Yes." The man responded.

Tang Ning frowned slightly. Today was not the time for discussion. Lu Guang suddenly called for a discussion. He didn't know why.

He stood up and left the cave, turned into light and walked, and after a while, he came to the meeting hall.

Inside, Zhang Yan, Wei Xian, and Zhao Liheng were already seated.

On top of Lu Guang's seat, in addition to these four people, there was another new face, a man with a broad forehead and a thin figure.

Tang Ning glanced at him, and the man nodded slightly to him.

"Junior brothers are all here. We are summoned today for no other reason than to announce the appointment of junior brother Xu Yuan. After being recommended by our department, approved by the Secret Academy, and verified by the Qingxuan Hall, the appointment was issued and Xu Yuan was ordered to be in charge of the Intelligence Department. "

"Junior Brother Xu Yuan was originally the head of the Jiangdongbei Intelligence Station. He was transferred back to the sect five years ago to prepare for foundation building. He successfully built the foundation yesterday. I have decided that he will serve as the intelligence liaison of our department, and Junior Brother Zhao will be responsible for the intelligence collection! Junior Brother Tang, what do you think?"

Tangning nodded and said, "Okay."

"Junior Brother Xu, I believe you all know the junior brothers here, so I won't go into details. Let me introduce their positions to you!"

"Junior brother Tang Ning, in charge of supervising the work of the department."

"Junior brother Zhang Yan, in charge of the specific affairs of the department's action team."

"Junior Brother Wei Xian, in charge of the Ministry of Finance."

"Junior Brother Zhao Liheng is in charge of intelligence liaison. Originally, Junior Brother Tang was responsible for gathering intelligence."

Xu Yuan nodded to everyone.

"Junior Brother Zhao, Junior Brother Tang, please hand over the work matters. This discussion ends here!"

Naturally, everyone had no objections and stood up and left.

"Junior Brother Tang, please wait a moment, I have something to discuss with you." Lu Guang said suddenly.

Tang Ning then returned to her seat. After a few people left, Lu Guang said, "You know the financial reduction plan that Yuan Yidian has recently implemented, right?"

"This is all an open secret," Tang Ning said.

The so-called financial reduction plan is to comprehensively reduce the sect's expenses and reduce the funds of various departments accordingly. Although the regulations have not been officially issued yet, they have already been circulated in private, and those who should know have already known about it.

The Intelligence Department's funding has always been second to none in the Secret Academy, and this time it was cut the most severely. The original funding was 150,000, but in the reduction plan, it was planned to be reduced to 100,000 per year.

This number was by no means a random one. When Tang Ning participated in the selection of the deacons of the Intelligence Department and visited Peng Wanli, he proposed to reduce the funding of the Intelligence Department to less than 100,000 spiritual stones per year.

After so many years of silence, Yuan Yidian finally took action and uniformly reduced the sect's financial funds. The Intelligence Department's funding required 100,000 spirit stones per year. This was obviously well thought out.

Lu Guang said: "Our department's funding has been directly reduced from 150,000 to 100,000. If this is done, it may be difficult to maintain the normal operation of the department. Can I think of some way to make the superiors accommodating?"

Tangning remained silent. It really couldn't be maintained anymore. If the previous distribution plan was still followed, the deacons, supervisors, and managers alone would have to take away one hundred and fifty thousand spiritual stones.

But now that the sect has only allocated one hundred thousand spirit stones, everyone's "income" will be greatly reduced.

"I'm afraid this won't be that easy! It's not that one of our departments has been reduced, all departments have been reduced accordingly. How can we accommodate this kind of thing? We can't just reduce other departments without reducing our funding."

"But we have reduced it too much. We have reduced it by 50,000 spirit stones. I think that while there is no official sect decision on this case, we can still do it. We will go to Uncle Yin later and report to our department. Difficulties."

"Then you go to the headmaster, and I'll go to Uncle Shi and ask them to speak during the sect's discussions and fight for more for us."

"If the funding for spiritual stones is reduced by 10,000 to 20,000 yuan, I will accept it. If it is reduced by 50,000 yuan, I don't know how to be a deacon."

Tangning pondered for a while: "Okay!"

This matter is not Lu Guang's alone, it involves the interests of everyone in the department, including himself, so there is really no reason to refuse.

The two of them left the main hall, turned into light and soared into the sky. After a while, they arrived in front of a majestic cave house. Lu Guang waved his hand and handed the talisman in.

Soon, a figure flashed out from inside, revealing the figure of a woman with bright eyes and white teeth. It was Su Miaoke, Yin Qingyuan's disciple. She bowed to the two of them and saluted: "Master, please come in."

The two of them followed her into the inner room, came to the front of the room, saluted Yin Qingyuan and said: "Disciple pays homage to Master."

"Sit down!" Yin Qingyuan said with a smile.

The two of them took their seats as instructed, and Lu Guang said, "I'm taking the liberty of visiting my uncle this time to ask for something."

"What's the matter? Tell me!"

Lu Guangdao: "Disciple heard that Yuan Yidian has prepared a financial reduction plan, which will be implemented immediately. In this case, the funding of our intelligence department has been reduced to 100,000 spiritual stones."

"Uncle Master, it's not us who are complaining, but the reduction of so many spiritual stone funds at once is really a bit unprepared. If it is really implemented, the department may not be able to continue."

"The Intelligence Section has heavy responsibilities and is highly dangerous. All aspects have to be spent, including the subordinate intelligence stations. Although the funds are provided by the sect, the rewards are still given by the Ministry."

"In these years, among all the departments, the Intelligence Department has suffered the highest number of casualties. Today, the entire department's disciples are not even half as many as they were back then. They are all making sacrifices for the sect."

"Including the funeral affairs of those disciples, they are all handled by the Ministry. They have never asked the sect for a spirit stone. The ministry has not applied for a spirit stone subsidy from the sect for many years, and the finances are already very tight."

"Now that we have to reduce so much funding, I really don't know what to do."

"Uncle, please be considerate."