Chronicles of Celestial Origins

The next day, Tang Ning came to the meeting hall. All the disciples from the Internal Affairs Department were waiting outside. Zhang Miao and Zhu Zhongwen saw him disappearing from the light and stepped forward to bow and salute: "Disciple pays homage to Master Tang."

Tangning waved her hand: "Let's go!"

The three of them jumped into the light, and dozens of disciples behind them picked up their magic weapons. Following them, the group arrived at Jinbaofeng. Tang Ning waved his hand, and the talismans disappeared into the light curtain.

Not long after, the light curtain melted and a gap appeared, and everyone filed in. A ray of light shot out from a distance, fell in front of everyone, and a guard figure appeared. He bowed and saluted: "Disciple pays homage to Master Tang."

Tang Ning said: "I and the disciples from the Yuanzi Department are here to receive the sect disciples' salaries and funds for this year. You will lead the way."

"Yes." Wei Jie responded, his light flew up, and he led everyone to the black mountain wall. He turned his hand, took out a command flag, and pointed it towards it. The command flag shot out a ray of light, and the mysterious The mountain wall suddenly opened.

Tang Ning and others entered the inner room and came to the light curtain. Zhu Zhongwen took out the array plate and fiddled with it slightly, and the light curtain dissipated.

Everyone entered the stone chamber, and Tang Ning directed the disciples to carry the stone boxes out slowly. These stone boxes were two feet high and about five or six feet long. It took eight disciples to lift them. Each stone box contained ten items. Ten thousand low-grade spiritual stones.

Dozens of disciples went back and forth more than a dozen times to transport millions of spiritual stones.

"Record them all! How many spirit stones are there in total?" Tangning asked as she saw the last group of disciples carrying the heavy stone box out of the room.

Wei Jie replied: "There are thirty boxes in total, including 4.2 million low-grade spiritual stones and 2.5 million medium-grade spiritual stones, for a total of 6.7 million."

Tang Ning nodded and exited the room together with Wei Jie, Zhang Miao, and Zhu Zhongwen, and returned to the meeting hall.

In front of the hall, the disciples from the five investigation teams had gathered and were waiting outside. Tang Ning waved her hand and told Zhang Miao and Zhu Zhongwen to go back to their respective departments.

Inside, the five stewards were standing waiting with their hands down. When they saw him entering, they hurriedly saluted.

Tang Ning walked to the main seat and sat down: "You all, please take a seat!"

"Yes." Several people below responded and took their seats as instructed.

Tang Ning said: "I first came to Yuanyi Hall not long ago, and many of the disciples have never met me before. You can each sign up."

"Disciple Palm Seal Department Xu Qingwan."

"Disciple Yuan Zibu Zhang Chang."

"Disciple Internal Supervision Department Fang Xiang."

"Disciple Chen Yu of the Foreign Ministry."

"Xu Xiangyang of the Disciple Inspection Department."

Several people spoke one after another.

Tang Ning said: "I proposed to the headmaster to form an inventory team this time. The purpose is to count all the assets inside and outside the sect, and then create a new register and log them in. I only have one request, and strive to be truthful. No matter how much corruption or shortfalls there were before, they will all be Do not ask."

"I'll give you a month to first inventory all the assets within the sect, and then inventory the assets outside the sect."

"Here, I will give you a team leader. Xu Qingwan will be responsible for the specific affairs of the investigation and will serve as the leader of the investigation team."

"First of all, we will start the inventory from our Yuan Yidian. You go to various ministries and departments to count all the assets and record them."

"Yes." Several people responded.

"Go!"

"yes."

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At night, footsteps sounded outside, and a woman with bright eyes and white teeth pushed the door open. Tang Ning opened her eyes and saw Gu Yuanya's slim and brisk figure walking towards her. She smiled slightly: "Why didn't you knock on the door first when you came in? There are no rules."

"Master, I want to ask you something, okay?" Gu Yuanya walked up to him and said pitifully.

Tangning smiled: "Tell me! What's going on?"

"Disciple doesn't want to stay in the Supervision Department anymore. It's not interesting at all. Disciple wants to come to Yuan Yidian to help the master. Master, please transfer me to Yuan Yidian!"

"How can you help?"

"You don't want to check the sect's assets. Disciple can help you do this! I guarantee that no one can hide it from you."

"Inventorying assets is a thankless job. What are you doing here?"

Gu Yuanya smiled and said: "Master, you specifically transferred Master Xu to Yuanyi Palace to do these thankless tasks for you? I will tell Master Xu when I see her next time."

"She is different from you. You are still a child. Why do you get involved in these things? Cultivation is the most important thing for you."

Gu Yuanya said: "I am not a child! Master, please stop treating me as a child. I am now dozens of years old. Besides, if Master Xu can participate, why can't I participate?"

"You are still thinking about having fun after several decades? Just go to the Supervisory Department and practice with peace of mind! You have been at the bottleneck of the ninth level of Qi Refining for many years, right? You don't want to practice, but just have fun all day long. Why are you like this? When can we build the foundation?”

Gu Yuanya curled her lips slightly and whispered: "It's not like I can break through the bottleneck by practicing hard. It depends on chance! You always make me practice hard and don't let me get in touch with things. It's like being locked in a cage. Like the birds in it, what’s the point?”

"Cultivation is not a game. You always think about fun. This is not good. How is your practice of the Five Elements Integration Dafa?"

When Gu Yuanya heard him ask about the skills, she didn't know how to respond, so she lowered her head and said nothing.

"When you encounter a training bottleneck, you only know how to have fun, so you can't work hard to practice the exercises? Even if it doesn't work, it is also good to learn alchemy with your teacher. Others are afraid that they don't have enough time to practice, but you think you have too much time." Tang Ning just finished her words. , Mu Tiancheng came in from the outside, bowed and saluted: "Uncle Master, Master Zhu from the Palm Seal Department wants to see you."

"Invite him!"

"Yes." Mu Tiancheng responded and left.

"Go ahead! It's time to talk about business as a teacher."

"Oh!" Gu Yuanya lowered her head and responded, then turned and left the room.

Tang Ning looked at her disappearing figure and shook her head helplessly. This child was obedient when she was young and would do whatever she said. But as she grew older, she became more and more rebellious.

Perhaps the two of them had stayed together for a long time and lost the awe they had in the past!

It seemed like she had to prepare the first-level bottleneck elixir for her. If she couldn't break through the ninth-level bottleneck of Qi refining on her own, she would have to try external methods, Tang Ning thought to herself.

Footsteps sounded outside, and Zhu Zhongwen came in from the outside, bowed and saluted: "Disciple pays homage to Master Tang."

"Zhongwen, you're here, sit down!"

Zhu Zhongwen sat down and said, "I'm sorry to bother my uncle, but I really have something to ask my uncle for advice. All the funds from this temple have been received. How should I distribute them?"

Tang Ning had actually been waiting for him to report this matter. He had been transferred to Yuan Yidian for half a year. Last year, he didn't make any money in terms of spiritual stones. There was nothing to say because it had been allocated, but this year there should be some. Have one for yourself!

"There are no outsiders here, let's talk openly! How were the funds for various departments and departments allocated in the past?"

Zhu Zhong heard: "Each department will be allocated a fund of one hundred thousand spiritual stones."

Each department has 100,000 spirit stones. In other words, Peng Wanli alone has obtained 300,000 spirit stones, accounting for almost half.

"Since this has been the distribution in the past, this year is no exception. Hasn't the financial reform plan not been implemented yet? If there are any changes, let's wait until the plan is approved and implemented!"

"Yes, then I will assign them tomorrow." Zhu Zhongwen turned his left hand and took out two storage bags: "This is what the master has given you. I hope you don't refuse."

Tangning took the storage bag, entered it with her consciousness, and scanned it. It was filled with medium-grade spiritual stones. Each bag contained 500 blood-brown crystal clear spiritual stones, arranged neatly, for a total of 100,000 spiritual stones.

Tang Ning smiled and said, "Since Palace Master Peng has good intentions, I will be disrespectful."

"I don't want to disturb my uncle's practice. Disciple, I'm leaving." Zhu Zhong heard that he accepted the storage bag, got up and left.

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A month passed in the blink of an eye. In the alchemy room, Tang Ning's right side was covering the right opening of the alchemy cauldron. Her eyes were slightly closed, and her spiritual consciousness was sensing the changes in the pills and main medicine in the alchemy cauldron. Her spiritual power controlled the size of the flame, pulling it along. The main medicinal powder is blended into the pill.

In the pill cauldron, the outside of the pill pill has been cracked with countless tiny pores that are difficult to see with the naked eye. The powders of different colors are pulled by the spiritual power through the countless pores and merge into the pill pill. The flames transformed by the spiritual power burn around the pill pill. Roasting, the flame becomes bigger and smaller.

Gradually, the outer layer of the elixir gradually melted, and under the action of the powerful medicine inside the elixir, the pores were filled. After an unknown period of time, he patted the elixir cauldron, and a black and round elixir came out of the dragon's mouth. spit out.

Tang Ning wiped the sweat from his forehead, with a slight joy in his expression. He moved his hand and took the elixir into his hand. He smelled the rich fragrance. He played with it for a while, nodded with satisfaction, and put the elixir into the black box. Inside the bottle, sit cross-legged, close your eyes and carefully comprehend the artistic conception when refining the elixir and recall the balance point in the medicinal properties.

After a long time, he opened his eyes, put the pills on the table into the alchemy cauldron, and concentrated on refining the Xiaoyang Pill again.

After breaking through the golden elixir realm, he finally made a breakthrough in the way of elixirs. Just now, after hundreds of failures, he successfully refined a Xiaoyang elixir.

Everything just fell into place. He kept groping through failures and finally mastered that delicate balance point.

When the sky turned white, Tang Ning left the elixir room and returned to the cave with her eyes closed, sitting cross-legged to rest.