Although the Questioning Heaven Academy Palace Dan Tower was a tower, it was not a tower that housed people.
The Dan Tower had a total of ten floors, and it was said that each floor represented a Dan Dao realm. The alchemists of the Questioning Heaven Academy Palace would use the Dan Tower to measure their Dan Dao cultivation every year. A first grade human dan master would never be able to climb up to the first floor, and the same third grade human dan master would not be able to climb up to the fourth floor.
On top of that, this was also the Dan Master Qualification Tower of the five empires.
Among the five empires, there was only one place that had the qualifications to certify Dan Masters, and that was the Dan Tower of the Heavenly Enquiring Palace. Every three years, a group of dan masters would pay a fee and come to the Questioning Heaven Academy Palace Dan Tower for dan master certification. A dan master with a certification card from the Ask Heavenly Academy Palace’s Dan Tower would be able to enjoy a 10% discount when purchasing spirit pills that matched their grade at any merchant building.
For the same two Earth Dan Masters, if one had a Dan Tower Certification and the other did not, then the certified Dan Master was much more favourable and contained much more gold.
Mo Wuji came here and saw the Dan Tower standing on the Dan Master Square from afar, but this time of the year was not the time for Dan Master Certification, and there were less people in the Dan Master Square.
Passing through the Dan Tower Square was a deep stream that could not see the bottom nor the other side of the river, underneath the deep stream were clouds and mist, emitting a whistling sound from time to time.
Above the deep stream, there are all kinds of bridges connected to the Danta Square, as if they were rays radiating out, leading to all directions. Some of these bridges only had an iron cable, some were built of wooden planks, and some looked like they could simply run a horse-drawn carriage.
Even though Mo Wuji had never been to the Dan Tower, he knew that every bridge on this deep stream represented a path to where a top Dan Master resided.
A white-bearded old man was sitting on a rock at the edge of the deep stream with a fishing rod, his rod was stretched out towards the abyss as if he was fishing in the abyss. However, Mo Wuji did not see any fishing wire in front of the fishing rod, let alone a fish hook. In fact even if there were these, this deep stream wasn’t a fish pond, what kind of fish could be caught?
“Senior, senior wants to visit Granny Linglong, may I ask which bridge leads to Granny Linglong’s residence?” Mo Wuji bowed and asked.
The white-bearded elder’s gaze swept over Mo Wuji and said with seemingly difficulty, “The invisible one is.”
After saying these words, he then focused on the deep stream once again. Then no matter how Mo Wuji enquired, he stopped saying a single word.
Mo Wuji was helpless and could only stand on the side and wait.
He didn’t know how long it took for this old man to suddenly lift the fishing rod in his hand, and Mo Wuji was surprised to find that this old man had actually caught a fish. The colour of the fish was transparent, just like a silver fish.
The old man immediately excitedly sent this transparent fish into a wooden barrel that had already been prepared, Mo Wuji could only roughly see what the fish looked like, and the barrel was then closed by the old man.
How could you catch a fish without a fishing wire? Besides, this deep stream looked unfathomable, where did the fish come from? The two impossible doubts turned out to be true.
Mo Wuji could no longer hold back and his divine thoughts swept to the front of the old man’s fishing rod. He then saw that it wasn’t that there was no fishing line in front of this fishing rod, but that there was a fishing line that he couldn’t even see with his naked eyes.
Mo Wuji suddenly thought of the old man’s saying that the invisible is, and immediately blessed his heart, his divine thoughts swept onto the deep stream. In a dozen of breaths, he found a bridge that was invisible to the naked eye but could be swept by his divine thoughts.
This bridge was pulled up by a chain though, the chain was not thin, not only was it not thin, it was also adult thumb thick. The reason why Mo Wuji didn’t see it before was because the chain lock was almost colourless, completely melting into the space of the deep stream.
No wonder the white haired old man said that the invisible was, this bridge was really invisible to his naked eyes.
Almost at the instant Mo Wuji used his divine thoughts, the white haired old man suddenly raised his head and stared at Mo Wuji’s back for a while.
“Many thanks senior.” When Mo Wuji turned back to thank the white haired old man once again, the white haired old man had already lowered his head to baby his barrel.
Mo Wuji knew that the other party wouldn’t be able to speak, and after thanking him, he immediately stepped onto the invisible chain-link bridge.
Although it was very windy on the deep stream and this chain bridge was shaky. To Mo Wuji who was already at the 10th level of Pulse Expansion, it wasn’t much of a difficulty.
It was just that this bridge seemed to be very long, and Mo Wuji had walked for almost half an hour before he reached the opposite side.
On the opposite side of the chain bridge was a small hexagonal pavilion that looked somewhat like the long pavilions that were used to send people off in ancient times.
Passing through the long pavilion was a flight of green stone steps, which were very flat and led all the way to a grandiose looking hall.
As Mo Wuji walked along these green stone steps to the outside of the grand hall, he once again saw a familiar face, the red-clothed female cultivator who had brought him to meet Granny Linglong in the first place.
“This senior sister, I would like to meet Smokey ……,” Mo Wuji bowed and said politely.
“You please follow me.” This red-robed female cultivator didn’t even ask Mo Wuji any questions, nor did she say that she wanted to report about Granny Linglong, before she directly led Mo Mo Wuji around the main hall to a small attic surrounded by all kinds of spirit grass.
Mo Wuji had learnt the Dao of Formation, and as soon as he saw that this small attic was surrounded by spiritual qi, he knew that it was surrounded by a high level Spirit Gathering Formation. Cultivating in this small attic was more than a hundred times stronger than his ding-tao area.
“Greetings to this senior sister.” As soon as Mo Wuji arrived outside the small attic, he recognised the young girl who was watering the spirit grass, it was one of the twins who were by Granny Linglong’s side back then.
“Dan Master Mo, are you here to see Smokey?” This young girl stopped watering the flowers and asked softly.
Mo Wuji hurriedly said, “Precisely, please let senior sister inform me.”
This young girl hesitated slightly, and Mo Wuji could tell, “Excuse me, is there something inconvenient?”
The young girl bit her lip and said, “It’s not inconvenient, it’s because granny just cured Smokey’s spirit complex, and now Smokey is in the middle of closed door cultivation. If Master Dan Mo must see her, I will immediately go and inform you.”
“Smokey’s spirit complex has been cured?” Mo Wuji asked in surprise.
The young girl nodded, “Yes, Smokey’s spirit root qualification is very high, now is the critical time for her to cultivate, if Master Mo Dan came over in another three months, she would definitely have passed through this period. Of course Granny has also instructed us that as long as Master Mo Dan comes, we can see Smokey at any time ……”
“That’s good, that’s good ……” Mo Wuji mumbled a few times as he felt the corners of his eyes getting a little moist. Smokey had suffered for so long and finally had a new life of her own. At this moment, Mo Wuji only had deep gratitude towards Granny Linglong for saving Smokey. As for whether or not Smokey could recognise him, this was all secondary. As long as Smokey was fine, it no longer mattered if she recognised him or not.
“No need, it’s better not to disturb Smoke-er’s closed-door cultivation. I’m leaving, I’ll come back to see Smokey later ……” Mo Wuji replied while staring at the small attic for another half a day before he slowly turned around and slowly walked away. He even had a premonition that when he came back here again, Smokey and him would already be strangers.
Until Mo Wuji’s figure disappeared into thin air, the other young girl of the twins walked down from the attic, she looked at the direction Mo Wuji disappeared and sighed, “Dan Qi, would you be going a little too far with this? Granny had instructed for Master Mo Dan to meet Smokey as soon as he arrives. And she also instructed us to let Master Mo Dan and Smokey meet more often.”
The young girl called Dan Qi bit her lip and said, “Dan Xiang, Smokey is at a critical moment in her cultivation at this moment, Granny is soft-hearted, but I’m really worried that Smokey meeting him will cause Granny to give up on her previous endeavours. Do you remember how much effort granny spent to save Smokey, even her cultivation has regressed so much.”
Dan Xiang fell silent, Dan Qi was right, if once Smokey’s old illness returned, and Granny was allowed to save her once more, Granny would probably suffer a great loss of vitality, and would never be able to recover again.
“Alas, I’m worried that Smokey’s qualifications are too high, and by the time the next time Master Mo Dan comes to see her, she might have succeeded in building her spirit.” Dan Xiang sighed and said.
Dan Qi lowered her head and didn’t say anything, Dan Xiang’s worry was not a possibility, but a certainty. She was certain that by the next time Mo Wuji came, Smokey had already succeeded in her spirit building. Once Smokey’s Spirit Building was successful, all of Smokey’s memories disappeared, and Mo Wuji would be a complete stranger in her eyes.
It wasn’t that she didn’t want to help Mo Wuji, but Granny really couldn’t save Smokey-er one more time.
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When Mo Wuji returned, the white haired old man who was fishing in the deep stream was already gone. Mo Wuji was in a low mood and didn’t have the heart to care where the white haired old man had gone and what kind of fish he was fishing for.
He was not even in the mood to go back to the Outer Sect Peak and directly went to the Scripture Pavilion.
There were only two purposes for coming to the hidden scriptures pavilion, one was how to open up the Elemental Storage Complex, and the second was how to build a spirit.
There were a total of five floors in Questioning Heaven Academy Palace’s Scripture Pavilion, Mo Wuji arrived at the entrance of the Scripture Pavilion, sent his outer sect disciple identity jade token up and asked, “Excuse me I want to read some scriptures on cultivation, how many spirit stones do I need per day?”
The administrator at the entrance of the Scripture Pavilion was a man who looked a little mean, this man slanted his eyes at Mo Wuji for a moment before he said coldly, “The Scripture Pavilion doesn’t charge spirit stones, it only charges sect contribution points. One hundred contribution points per day for the ground floor, three hundred contribution points per day for the first floor, and one thousand contribution points per day for the third floor ……”
“What about the fourth and fifth floors?” Mo Wuji hurriedly asked.
The man continued icily, “Fourth and fifth tier outer disciples are not qualified.”
Mo Wuji left the Scripture Pavilion with some disappointment, he couldn’t even think of not doing the sect quests now. If he didn’t do the sect quests, he wouldn’t have any sect contribution points, and without contribution points, he naturally wouldn’t be qualified to go to the Scripture Collection Pavilion.
There was one thing that all sects had in common, and that was the Quest Hall. Although the Questioning Heaven Academy Palace stood above all the sects and was considered a comprehensive academy. In fact the management here was still equivalent to a sect.
If Mo Wuji wanted contribution points, he had to go to the Task Hall to receive point missions.
