Season Division

Chapter 35 I Need Candles

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Xu Heng's consciousness felt like he was on a roller coaster, being forcibly pulled into his mind.

Since the candle was lit last time and the Seven Star Big Dipper was used to quickly grasp the tenths of the solar terms, the luster of the Seven Star Big Dipper has obviously dimmed a lot.

This time, the last small piece of candle was lit, and Xu Heng entered the state of inner vision again.

Under the illumination of candlelight, the seven-star Big Dipper is clearly visible and gradually brightens.

Xu Heng quickly took a deep breath, and began to exhale the air with the breathing method.

Strains of thin Xiaohan solar terms were affected, swarming into his mouth and nose.

Gradually, as the minor cold solar term absorbed into the body accumulates and solidifies, it finally gradually turns into a complete wisp of solar term in the sea of ​​consciousness.

Xu Heng's state also suddenly recovered to the fourth level of Qi Jian.

The four festivals surround the Xiaohan festival, slowly floating.

Xu Heng continued to exhale a lot of air, constantly absorbing the Xiaohan solar terms, and exhaling other unrelated solar terms.

Two and a half hours later.

The fifth ray of solar terms finally condenses successfully, floating in front of the black mist-like minor cold solar term.

"It can be regarded as the fifth level of building Qi... eh?"

Xu Heng was still impressed by the strength of the Seven Star Big Dipper, and he absorbed and condensed the fifth Xiaohan solar terms so quickly.

But I didn't expect that this ray of Xiaohan's solar term had just condensed, and the black mist in the sea of ​​consciousness suddenly shook, and directly swallowed that ray of Xiaohan's solar term.

After finally recovering to the fifth level of Jianqi, he suddenly changed back to the fourth level of Jianqi.

"what's the situation?"

Xu Heng was at a loss.

It’s okay to swallow the Spring Festival order before the Xiaohan Festival, but now you also have to swallow the solar terms?

Immediately, his consciousness moved slightly, and he forcibly probed into the black mist with two small sharp corners.

As a result, something unexpected happened.

He found that the small green horn was actually deeply embedded in the black mist.

Below the small sharp horn, there are three greenish-green gaseous "roots", and a black gaseous "root", which is gradually turning green.

"These are the three Xiaohan solar terms that disappeared before? And the one that was just swallowed?"

Xu Heng was shocked.

He thought that the three Xiaohan solar terms that disappeared before were a kind of consumption price, which made his solar terms stronger, but the solar terms were permanently consumed.

But that's obviously not the case now.

That little green horn seems to be occupying the magpie's nest, and is planning to set up its own business?

Soon, with the ray of Xiaohan solar term that had just been swallowed, it completely turned green.

Below this small green horn, there are four turquoise gaseous roots, deeply rooted in the black mist.

"So my Xiaohan festival is considered parasitic? After swallowing the Lichun Festival, I still have to give Xiaohan solar term to feed this green horn?"

Xu Heng was a little taken aback.

Dare to make a fuss for a long time, this is not a one-time transaction, but a mandatory renewal transaction?

Although the seasonal ability is doubled, but from now on, every time you increase a small level, you have to absorb double the Xiaohan solar term?

Well, it's actually not bad.

The big deal is to spend more time and energy, burn more candles, and absorb twice as much Xiaohan solar terms as ordinary people.

"Wait, if next month's Waking of Insects Festival devours it again..."

Xu Heng suddenly realized that he seemed to think things were simple.

If devouring occurs again at the Waking of Insects Festival next month, his seasonal ability is likely to be tripled.

Then the minor cold solar terms that need to be absorbed will also triple the original amount.

and so on.

If the twelve festivals are eaten by the end of the year, the ability of the minor cold season will become a twelvefold increase.

At that time, if one wanted to reach the tenth level of Jianqi, one had to absorb a total of 120 Xiaohan solar terms...

"Ah this..."

Xu Heng was taken aback by the number he calculated.

Others who have cultivated to the tenth level of Qi Jian can enter the second stage of descaling.

But he needs to cultivate 120 levels of Qi Jian to enter the Descaling Realm?

How much time does this take, how many candles?

And this is only the Qi building environment, the first stage...

"Why do I feel that this wave is not so profitable? The price seems to be slightly higher than I imagined."

Xu Heng couldn't help feeling a little bitter in his heart.

Let's not think about the future situation for now, and now I plan to sprint to the tenth floor of Jianqi before the college entrance examination this year, and win the city's festival champion in one fell swoop.

The time for the college entrance examination is unified in June, but it is only February now, and the Spring Festival has just passed.

This means that the Xiaohan Festival may devour another four festivals before the college entrance examination.

Then if you want to reach the tenth level of Jianqi before the college entrance examination, you need to absorb and condense a total of sixty Xiaohan solar terms.

But now, counting the green pointed roots, he only has eight solar terms in total.

"It's over. If every candle can condense six solar terms, then I need to consume eight more candles before the college entrance examination to reach the tenth level of Qi building."

Xu Heng suddenly missed the last Qingming solar pollution very much.

Do you want to ask someone how to contact the cult?

I really want to ask if they still have Ching Ming solar bombs.

When will it launch? where?

After all, even if you get eight candles, you can only meet the tenth level of building energy before the college entrance examination.

There are still six festivals waiting to be devoured in the second half of the year. If you want to continue to build up the tenth level of Qi by then, you need to make another ten small candles.

...

At the same time, the Darong City Branch of the Inspection Department.

In the conference room, several leaders were looking at an old deputy director who was sitting in the main seat.

As soon as the old deputy director hung up the phone in his hand, several people hurriedly asked: "How is it? What did the above say?"

"What else can we say, as always, let us figure it out." The old deputy director replied angrily.

"Damn, it's like this every time." When everyone heard this, they began to curse in a low voice.

After a while, someone asked: "Then what should we do now?"

The old deputy director frowned: "What else can I do? There are only two options. If the interrogation plan is judged to be invalid, this matter will be temporarily closed and the compensation can be saved, but people like us in the sub-bureau will definitely offend Fu Yongqing .

"If it is determined that the interrogation plan is effective, the case of Lin Cheng will have nothing to do with that kid, and we will have to work with the Lin family to compensate that kid."

These two choices, in fact, everyone here knows quite well.

It's just that no one can make a decision. After all, the cause of this incident was ordered by the superior, but now they need a solution, and the superior said they should handle it by themselves.

This is tantamount to whether digging or burying, no matter what choice you make, if something goes wrong in the future, it will be those people who are held accountable today.

"Okay, don't pretend to be dumb, let's vote by raising your hands. Raise your hand if you agree with the effective interrogation plan." The old deputy director frowned, and raised his hand directly after speaking.

After hesitating for a moment, the others raised their hands one after another.

"Unanimous vote?"

This result surprised the old deputy director.

After all, not everyone is afraid of Fu Yongqing, and whether the interrogation plan is effective or not is still ambiguous, so it is reasonable to choose.

But unexpectedly, it was unanimously passed, and the leaders of all branch bureaus agreed that the interrogation plan was valid.

"Oh, it seems that the Four People's Association has also contributed!"

The old deputy director seemed to have thought of something, looked at everyone present, and smiled meaningfully.

He can be sure that there are definitely members of the "Scholar Organization" of the Four Peoples Association in the leadership of the branch, but he doesn't know which one or which ones it is.

After all, the "Scholar Organization" only recruits officials, or cultivates itself, and its members are located in various departments on all continents.

But organizations are organizations, and cults are cults.

If there were cult members lurking in the department, they would have launched a thorough investigation a long time ago, and it is impossible to remain so indifferent.

So now this situation, everyone is used to it, tacitly kept silent.

Anyway, the attitude towards the Four Peoples Association is also polarized. As long as there is no explicit plan to crack down on the Four Peoples Association for a day, then everyone will still be a good colleague.

"Speaking of which, what the Four People's Association did this time is a bit out of line. They sneaked into my inspection department and killed the Lin family, and then someone came out to plead guilty and surrender..."

When the old deputy director said this, he glanced at the many leaders present, and continued to smile: "I'm curious, why is a Xu Heng so important to the people, so that he is given such a big gift?"

"Old leader, they are clearly still playing with Fu Yongqing's idea. They just took advantage of Xu Heng's incident to give him a favor. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to make such a big splash." Someone laughed.

"It's not impossible."

The old deputy director nodded: "However, I am also a little interested in that kid named Xu Heng. I heard that Supervisor Tiansi pays close attention to him. We might as well send someone to pay attention to him. Although it takes time to grow, we can't lose our company, otherwise how can we compete with Jian Tiansi for talents in the future?"

"That kid is only at the third level of building qi now. I don't know how long it will take to grow, but I heard from Zhou Yanan that the kid seems to want to try to take the college entrance examination this year, and he still chooses the seasonal exam." A leader said.

"Oh? So ambitious?" The old deputy director was a little surprised.

"Haha, what's the use of being ambitious, if he wants to get a good grade in the exam, he must at least build up Qi on the ninth or tenth floor.

"Now there are only four months left before the college entrance examination. Is it possible that he can still learn from his senior sister, and after awakening the seasons, he will build ten levels of energy in half a year? Young people are still too impetuous."

Someone said with a smile.

Even the other leaders present couldn't help shaking their heads and laughing.

Ten floors of gas built in half a year?

Looking at the entire Scorpio Island, only Fu Yongqing can do it so far.

The most important thing is that Fu Yongqing was only twelve years old at that time.

...

Soon, the night was dark.

From the pitch-black old house, Xu Heng slowly opened his eyes and exhaled lightly.

The candles on the table had already turned to ashes, and the Big Dipper in my mind finally became dim again.

This time he absorbed a total of six Xiaohan solar terms.

But three of them were swallowed by the small green horns.

So now it's just going back to the previous sixth level of Qi Jian. Except for the double enhancement of the seasonal ability, there are no other changes from before the Spring Festival.

"Candles, I need more candles."

Xu Heng whispered to himself.

He tried to absorb solar terms without the blessing of the Seven Star Big Dipper, but the efficiency was really slow.

Rough calculations, I am afraid that it will take more than 20 days, or even a month, to condense a solar term.

This is actually the cultivation speed of most normal people, so it can be seen that his season talent can only be regarded as ordinary.

So if you want to take the college entrance examination this year, you must get more candles as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, Xu Heng took out his mobile phone and sent a message to Zhou Yanan, asking about the compensation.

Then I called my senior sister again, but the phone was still turned off.

"Now that the matter of the Lin family has been settled, why is there no news from Senior Sister?"

Xu Heng frowned slightly.

"Jingle Bell."

At this time, the phone rang, and it was Zhou Yanan's call.

Xu Heng's face suddenly changed.

Too bad, I almost forgot that I was successful in cultivation again today.

If I had known that I would not send her text messages, and she would not be able to reply to messages, I would have to call.

Don't be like the last two times again?

"Hello?" Xu Heng still connected the phone carefully.

"Go downstairs." Zhou Yanan's clean voice came from the other end of the phone.

Xu Heng's eyes widened immediately.

Fortunately, the next moment, Zhou Yanan's voice came again: "Your compensation has been received, the inspection department and the Lin family need to compensate you a total of about 50 million yuan, according to your intention, all of them can be exchanged for a candle. "

"What? Only one?"

Xu Heng was originally excited that the compensation was settled so quickly, but when he heard that only one candle was exchanged, he was stunned.

"What is only one? Do you think this thing is so easy to exchange? This time, I redeemed it for you after making up ten performance points." Zhou Yanan's annoyed voice came from the phone.

"Eh..." Xu Heng was startled.

Can Zhou Yanan be so kind?

Are you trying to make up for knocking me out?

Or...she really wants old cows to eat young grass?

In the end, Xu Heng put on two more clothes for himself before going downstairs to find Zhou Yanan to get a candle.

But when he saw the candle, he realized that he had misunderstood.

What Zhou Yanan exchanged back was actually a complete candle, which looked almost equivalent to the previous five small candles.

A small piece of candle can absorb six solar terms, so one candle can probably absorb thirty solar terms?

Good guy, I'm direct good guy.

Xu Heng's eyes lit up immediately.

"Team Zhou, is there any other way to exchange candles like this? For example, use the yellow paper I used before, or offer incense?" He asked immediately.

"You even have incense offerings?"

Zhou Yanan froze for a moment, then frowned and said, "These can be exchanged, but you are not a Qingming festival master, why do you need so many candles?"

"Can I change it? Then help me change two more candles, and replace the rest with glutinous rice."

Xu Heng didn't answer her question, and immediately took out the remaining 30 pieces of yellow paper and two and a half incense sticks, and handed them all to her.

The half of the incense stick was the one that was accidentally broken by Fu Yongqing before. The value is estimated to be somewhat discounted, but it does not affect the use.

However, the other half was used by Xu Heng for experimentation. Unfortunately, after igniting it, it was found that it had no effect on the Seven Star Big Dipper, and it could not be extinguished.

No matter what he tried, even throwing the small piece of incense into the water, he couldn't stop it from burning.

In the end, I could only watch the small half of the incense offering burn to ashes.

Xu Heng made a rough calculation.

According to the market price of 20 million yuan for a stick of incense, his experiment is equivalent to burning more than 80-9 million yuan for nothing.

Sin!

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[PS: Yesterday's two chapters on the introduction of the Four Peoples Association may cause misunderstandings, so I revised it to make it more intuitive to read, and I want to say sorry to everyone, for the time being, I will only update the 4K words of this chapter for the time being. , because the second chapter is too slow, I decided to delete it and make adjustments, so I have to continue to update it tomorrow morning. I love you all. 】