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In the next few days, Shi Ling continued to participate in the reconstruction of Guqiao Village. After seeing the dilapidated buildings be renovated into a new building, the entire Guqiao Village seemed to have gained a new lease of life, as if it had been reborn.
Especially regarding the construction of the fish pond, Liu Changfeng was a smart person. After Shi Ling gave him enough funds, he built the prototype of the fish pond within a few days. For this, Shi Ling specifically looked at his construction plan, which made him quite satisfied.
Thus, Shi Ling did not interfere any further with the fish pond matter and handed all of them to Liu Changfeng. As for the other two Blood Coagulation Realm cultivators, Duan Wuya and Xiao Hanyi, although they did not have Liu Changfeng's meticulous thoughts and nimble minds, they still had their own specialties.
For example, Duan Wuya's talent in cultivation was very outstanding, so Shi Ling asked him to specially train those youths who had talent in cultivation, not to mention, the effects were obvious. During Duan Wuya's crazy training, there were indeed a few youths who succeeded in opening their first spirit vein and from then on, stepped onto the road of cultivator.
Therefore, Duan Wuya was not that inferior to Liu Changfeng. After all, any faction would require a large amount of fresh blood to grow strong, and super powers like Spirit Sword Sect were only able to recruit a large number of new disciples every year, right?
Furthermore, Xiao Hantian was not as smart as Liu Changfeng, nor as martial arts as Duan Wuya, but in terms of external expansion, he had his own methods.
What is an external expansion? Actually, it referred to the development of informants and information channels outside, which would bring them to any situation in the outside world.
This bit of ability might seem ordinary, but if one were to carefully think about it, it was actually possible to find out, under the noses of all the major powers, that it was not an easy feat to set up spies and establish a complete set of information channels. Furthermore, with these information channels, the people in Guqiao Village would not become blind and deaf, and would not even know what was happening in the outside world.
The importance of news channels was beyond doubt. Shi Ling had once read a story about an old king who liked drama so he asked the entire country to act it out for him. Even the sentries that were stationed at the front lines were redeployed back, and as a result, without the sentries guarding the border, the enemy army directly invaded the city and plundered the fortress.
It was said that until the old king died, he did not realize why his palace was a month away from the border. However, during this time, he did not know anything about the enemy attack.
From this, it could be seen how important it was for a power to establish a perfect information channel.
At this moment, Shi Ling, who had been living in Guqiao Village for more than ten days, finally decided to return to Spirit Sword Sect. It was not because he missed Spirit Sword Sect that much, but because he was worried that if he came out for too long a time, people would become suspicious and find out about the Guqiao Village here.
If one day Spirit Sword Sect, or in other words, the Inner Sect's Guang Haoran, were to fall out with him, Guqiao Village would become Shi Ling's last path of retreat.
Along the way, Shi Ling rode on the Dragon Foal. Although he might be faster if he ran, he didn't want to waste his strength. To put it bluntly, he was too lazy to move.
The three hundred mile journey was completed in less than two hours, and very quickly, Shi Ling entered the area of influence of the Spirit Sword Sect. It was at this time that Bai Xiaosheng suddenly appeared, he looked at Shi Ling who was leading the horses and said: "Hey, tell me, when do you plan on healing your eyes? If you can't use the Floral Pupil properly for a day, it would mean that you will be affected a lot more! "
Shi Ling rolled his eyes and said, "Do you think I don't want to cure my eyes as soon as possible? However, every time, I would be delayed by all sorts of things. What do you think I should do? I also feel despair! "
Bai Xiaosheng chuckled when he heard this and said, "Then what else do you have to do now?"
Shi Ling shook his head and said: "The reason I came back to Spirit Sword Sect today is to heal my eyes. Of course, I still need to go to the Martial Arts Pavilion to get that eye technique cultivation method!"
Bai Xiaosheng immediately shook his head and said: "If you want to cultivate the Eye of Darkness, you should recover the Floral Pupil first before talking about it."
With that, Bai Xiaosheng flew back into Shi Ling's Heart Ring. Shi Ling didn't say anything, and immediately walked towards the distant Spirit Sword Sect Mountain Gate.
After showing the guard his identity as a jade plate, Shi Ling directly allowed Shi Ling to enter, and the first thing Shi Ling did after entering Spirit Sword Sect was to head towards the Tantai Martial Pavilion. Evidently, to him, it was better for him to get the Blood Wheel Pupil cultivation method first.
The style of the buildings here and the Changshu Pavilion were very similar. They were both ancient looking buildings with two floors, and when one entered the interior, they would also be able to see a large number of bookshelves as well as the various books on them. If one did not differentiate carefully, one might really think that they had entered the Changshu Pavilion.
It was that inside the Changshu Pavilion, there existed all sorts of information that the Spirit Sword Sect had collected over the past thousand years. It had touched upon practically all of the domains, and any disciple within the Spirit Sword Sect could go into the Changshu Pavilion to borrow books, because to the higher ups of the Spirit Sword Sect, knowledge could be shared!
As the most fundamental foundation of a sect, inside the pavilion, there were countless powerful martial skills. If these martial skills were to be spread out, they could even nurture a new sect out, and of course, the truly valuable treasures and martial skills of Spirit Sword Sect could not be placed in this place. Those peerless martial skills could only be read after a disciple had become the core of a sect, and all of them were located on some cliff in the rear mountains of the Spirit Sword Sect.
As he walked, he looked around. However, at this time, a stooped figure appeared in front of Shi Ling. Shi Ling looked up and saw an extremely ugly old face smiling at him.
Shi Ling was immediately scared and almost fell to the ground. Luckily, Shi Ling quickly stood still and looked at the person in front of him in a daze as he shouted, "Who, who are you?!"
At this moment, the old woman laughed. She walked towards Shi Ling with her walking stick and said, "What a forgetful young man. How come you've forgotten about me in just a few days?"
After a while, Shi Ling's eyes widened. When he looked at the old granny, he opened his mouth wide, pointed his finger at her, and said: "You, you are the old granny who met me in Changshu Pavilion last time!"
Seeing that Shi Ling thought of something, the old woman chuckled again. She nodded and said, "That's good. At least I'm not crazy. I can still remember who I am."
Shi Ling's mouth twitched when he heard that. What do you mean by no idiot? Could it be that you've always thought I was going to go crazy?
However, at this time, the old granny exclaimed in surprise. Shi Ling looked over and saw that the old granny had arrived in front of him. Her turbid old eyes stared at Shi Ling's blind right eye and said: "What's wrong with your eyes?"
Shi Ling immediately touched the back of his head and said with a smile: "It's okay, I got injured during the monthly competition. I'll go down to Medicine Refinery Hall to buy some medicine. It's alright!"
Then, Shi Ling started to laugh, but the old lady's expression darkened, as if she wanted to see through Shi Ling's thoughts. She then said to Shi Ling: "Can you take off the cloth on your face and let me see for you."
Shi Ling was stunned and said, "Do you still know how to treat eyes?"
Although his words were full of suspicion, Shi Ling still immediately took off the cloth on his face. As a result, he saw a very hideous scar on Shi Ling's eye. It was left behind after being cut by someone.
However, the old woman's eyes did not seem like they were the same. Her wrinkled face seemed to be squeezed together, as if a mosquito was about to be squashed to death! She waved at Shi Ling, signaling him to kneel down.
Shi Ling immediately did as he was told. He then saw the old lady reach out a hand that was as dry as a chicken claw and touch Shi Ling's face. Shi Ling felt that her hand was like bark.
However, before Shi Ling could resist, he felt a warm stream of energy being channeled into his face and into his eyes from the old lady's hand.
Shi Ling felt that his eyes had become very comfortable, but the old woman frowned. She raised her hand and immediately arrived in front of Shi Ling's eyes. Then she pulled Shi Ling's eyelids up, causing Shi Ling's right eye to open!
The moment his right eye opened, Shi Ling immediately woke up from the comfortable feeling. Under the intense sunlight, Shi Ling felt that his eyes were filled with a piercing pain, and immediately, he retreated backwards and closed his eyes again. One of his hands was still covering his right eye; it was obvious that Shi Ling's right eye could not see any bright light, otherwise it would be very painful.
The old woman looked at Shi Ling and asked, "Who scratched your eyes?"
When Shi Ling heard this, he couldn't help but recall the scene when his eyes were cut and then said: "If I said it was a corpse that was ambushed and then cut, would you believe me?"
However, the old woman sneered. It was obvious that she didn't believe him, so she pretended to turn away, with her back to Shi Ling and said, "Let's go. Don't you want the Blood Wheel Pupil book that I recommended to you before? I'll take you to get it now! "
Shi Ling was stunned for a moment. What's going on? Just now, this old woman was asking him how did his eyes get injured. Why did she want to bring him to the Blood Wheel Mirror now?
Although he was confused, Shi Ling still followed him. At the same time, he used the original piece of cloth to tie it back.
The books here were very thick and there should be at least a few thousand pages. Shi Ling's Adam's apple slightly moved, and the old woman casually took out a book from a shelf, passed it to Shi Ling and said: "Here, this is the thing you wanted!"
Shi Ling quickly took it. After thanking him, he started to flip through it. When he saw the cultivation method, the body composition diagram and the method to instill the power of the eye, he confirmed that it was indeed a cultivation method.
Just when Shi Ling wanted to say something to the old granny, the old granny raised her hand in front of Shi Ling and said: "Don't talk, listen to me first!"
When Shi Ling heard this, he immediately swallowed the words that came out of his mouth. He saw the old woman turn around, take out an identical book from the bookshelf and put it in front of Shi Ling. Shi Ling looked at the book in surprise, and at the same time looked at the book in his hand.
However, the old woman continued, "You don't have to feel weird. You don't have to worry that the martial skill in your hand is fake, because these two books are real!"
With that, Shi Ling was stunned again. He pointed at the book curiously and said: "Both of them are real? Could it be that he had the habit of Skill Storing in the Clear Martial Pavilion? is it a backup that I have kept to prevent disciples from harming the books? "
The old woman laughed and said, "The Clear Martial Pavilion does indeed have a department that specializes in the Skill Storing of Martial Skills. However, they are not here, and the Blood Wheel Pupil Art in my hands is not a Skill Storing either!"
The old lady chuckled and said, "You were originally in the first book, and I was in the second book. Only by practicing two books can I master the Blood Wheel Pupil. If I were to specialize in one book, I could go berserk!"
At this moment, Shi Ling's mouth twitched and said, "So what you're saying now is that you can only give me this book? As for the other book, can't you give me the reason to cultivate it? "
The old woman shook her head and said, "Within the sect, as long as you become an official disciple, you can go in and out of the Martial Pavilion to choose martial arts. There is nothing that prevents you from cultivating, and the book in my hands can't be given to you for your own good!"
Hearing that, Shi Ling pointed a finger at his nose and said, "For my own good?"
The old woman then said, "There is a layer of strange blood energy in your right eye, making it impossible to release your eyesight. This result will greatly affect your cultivation of any kind of eye technique, and may even cause your eyes to go completely blind!"