Tonight's events spread rapidly from the third stronghold of the Northern Spiritual Federation, like a whirlwind.

Shi Wu's name and the legendary spirit gathering pot became the focus of discussion among the monks. Some said that the spirit gathering pot was auspicious gift from God to the third stronghold of the Northern Spiritual Season Alliance, and some said that all this may be the power of the Spiritual Season Alliance...

But no matter what, they were all planning to go to the ninth examination room in the southwest on the first day of August to watch Shiwu's assessment.

The next morning, the sound of discussions by other monks sounded early outside the cubicle in Shiwu.

Shi Wu opened his eyes from meditation after halfway through Yu Si. He took the jade pendant hanging behind the door and stood up and left the compartment.

The scorching sun outside hangs high in the sky, and Shi Wu saw many monks shading on the porch of this bungalow to escape the summer heat. This scene reminded him of when he was young in Xuanjia Village, the elderly in the village often gathered under the shade of trees to enjoy the cool and chat. Shi Wu said, "It would be great if there was a watermelon now, it would be best soaked in the well water."

Shi Wu put away his luxury and walked to the edge of the porch under the sun.

The monks here surrounded the thin man in the middle of the porch and listened to him telling the news he had just received in a vivid way.

The thin man in a yellow robe rolled up his sleeves and said with emotion: "You don't know. The cultivator from the three thousand feet area of ​​the Lingchen Pavilion just came down and immediately opened the enemy trapping array from the holy level. Then a loud noise came out. Even if the Lingchen Pavilion was protected by the holy level magic array, it still felt trembling and shaking!"

"What!" the group of monks surrounding him said in surprise.

A strong man in a red robe said, "I remember that Meng Xun Lingshi is a late stage monk in the Huixu period. Could it be that the senior named Shi Wu is a monk from the holy realm?"

The thin man shook his head and said, "This kind of thing is not something my friend can tell. But he said that judging from the fact that Senior Shi left, his cultivation is definitely not inferior to that of the meal teacher Meng Xunling."

After hearing this, the monks onlookers agreed with the thin man's view. After all, Luan Suling's meal peddler passed by Meng Xun, and his son Meng Xiao's palms were cut off by Shi Wu. Meng Xun had no reason to let Shi Wu go. Since Shi Wu could last until Luan Suling's meal peddler came, his strength should be not much different from Meng Xun.

The famous round-shaped female cultivator in the crowd said shyly: "Fellow Daoist Li, is that senior Shi Wu really as handsome as you said?"

The thin man was obviously stunned by the questioning of the female cultivator. He coughed and replied, "According to my friend, Senior Shi is a fairy-like figure, and his eyes, which are as charming as a vague sky, are particularly charming."

The female cultivator blushed when she heard this, obviously looking forward to meeting Shi Wu.

Seeing that everyone was in high spirits, the thin man took the opportunity to say, "Senior Shi will participate in the assessment of the lower ninth-grade spiritual chef at the ninth-grade examination room in the southwest on the first day of August. At that time, the Spiritual Chef Alliance will definitely send many big figures to view it. If you exchange me for the late-stage Nascent Soul Recipe, even if you are in other examination rooms, you will have the chance to be attracted by those big figures!"

Unexpectedly, as soon as the thin man finished speaking, the monks around him began to talk to each other, but no one paid attention to him.

The thin man sighed: "Business is really hard to do these days."

When Shi Wu came over, he heard from the thin man's accent that he was Li Fei last night.

When Shi Wu, who was leaning against the edge of the porch, was still thinking that the news about this person was well-versed, Li Fei had already walked to him.

Li Fei said: "This fellow Taoist was so nervous. Is it the one who came last night?"

Shi Wu smiled on his extremely ordinary face and said, "Fellow Daoist is very good at observing."

Li Fei laughed and said, "Fellow Taoist praises me. How did you rest last night?"

Shi Wu nodded and said, "It's not bad."

"That's good. I'm afraid the sound from me here has aroused fellow Taoist." Li Fei said.

Seeing that Li Fei was not talking about the exchange last night, Shi Wu smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Li is an expert in business."

Li Fei mocked himself: "Fellow Taoist, don't harm me. I haven't negotiated a business yesterday until now."

"Business is not only something that is completed. Last night, when you asked me to exchange the Spirit Gathering Basin, I found that Fellow Daoist Li pays attention to the word "skill" when doing business." Shi Wu said.

Li Fei said in surprise: "I wonder where the word "Question" comes from?"

Shi Wu explained: "You know that most monks who live here are short of money, but they will definitely carry one item on them, that is, the spirit-gathering pot. So you take advantage of the spiritual recipes that others need and the spirit-gathering pot that are not left with durability. And you also understand that the best way to attract customers is to get the latest news, and you are also very good at connecting these news with your business. Although you have not negotiated a business since yesterday, you already have many potential customers. As soon as the time comes, the business will come."

As soon as Shi Wu finished speaking, the round female cultivator who asked Li Fei about Shi Wu's appearance came to them. The female cultivator bowed to Li Fei and said, "Fellow Daoist Li, I have a spiritual meal recipe for permanently increasing strength in the early stage of the God Refining Level. I wonder how many prescriptions can be exchanged for you for the late stage of the Nascent Soul Level? Senior Shi and I are in the same examination room, and I want to perform better."

Li Fei was not sure whether Shi Wu was blind or was a businessman like him, but now that business is coming, he naturally puts business first. He told Shi Wu that he had lost his companionship and took the female cultivator to the side.

Shi Wu folded his hands and leaned on the porch, then closed his eyes and enjoyed the pleasure of enjoying the cool air.

About half a moment later, Li Fei returned to Shi Wu happily. Seeing Shi Wu closed his eyes and resting, he did not disturb him, but leaned against the porch with Shi Wu. Then three monks came to discuss with Li Fei about exchange for the late-stage Nascent Soul Spiritual Food Recipe. This made Li Fei feel more and more that Shi Wu was also an expert in business.

Li Feiguang completed a four-order business in one morning. When he returned to Shi Wu again, Shi Wu stretched and said, "Fellow Daoist Li is doing a prosperous business."

Li Fei bowed and said, "It's auspicious words for fellow Taoists."

"Can Fellow Daoist Li answer my questions because of how good the business is this morning?" Shi Wudao.

Li Fei looked at Shi Wu with caution: "Fellow Taoists can tell me, but I may not be able to answer."

Shi Wu smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Li, don't be nervous. I just want to ask you about the assessment process of the lower ninth-grade spiritual steward. This is my first time participating in the assessment of spiritual stewards and I don't know much about these."

Li Fei thought what was going on, so he replied to Shiwu: "The assessment process for the ninth-grade spiritual chef is extremely simple. The number of candidates in each examination room is 1,000. Candidates must enter the examination room before the beginning of each month and use the half month specified in the Spiritual Food Alliance to complete the refining of the nine late-grade spiritual meals in the late-grade Yuanying spirit meals. Since you have paid the registration fee for 6,000 top-grade spirit stones first, the examination room will provide you with the corresponding spiritual food materials. You just need to bring the spirit gathering basin to go there."

"It's really simple." Shi Wu said after hearing this.

Li Fei added: "The process is simple, but the process is not easy at all. It takes half a month to refine nine spiritual meals at the late stage of the Nascent Soul level, and all must achieve excellent or above qualities. This means that the spiritual meal apprentice must not only have strong concentration, but each step must be strictly refined according to the spiritual meal recipe, but also have the source of fire equivalent to the early stage of Kongming monks."

Shi Wu was not worried about the origin of fire. What he was afraid of was that he could still refine it according to the steps on the spiritual meal recipe at the beginning. As he was refining, various situations that were different from those described in the spiritual meal recipe.

Seeing that Shi Wu was wearing a very bad robe, Li Fei thought Shi Wu was the kind of person who came to take the exam after finally getting enough registration fees. He said to Shi Wu: "Fellow Taoist, I advise you not to come out in the next few days and meditate in the compartment. On the first day of August, I went to queue up outside the examination room earlier. Although the spiritual meal recipes and spiritual meal materials are kept secret, you can enter first after the examination room is opened earlier, and then choose the best spiritual meal materials based on the spiritual meal recipes in your hand. Each spiritual meal recipe can only receive a corresponding spiritual meal material."

"One portion? That means there is only one chance?" Shi Wu asked.

Li Fei confirmed: "Yes. So the assessment of the lower ninth-grade spiritual food chef is actually the most cruel. If you pass it, you will always be a spiritual food apprentice. Even if you can refine the best spiritual food, you will not be recognized."

Shi Wu frowned and said, "This rule is too rigid. If there is a spiritual apprentice who specializes in one or two types of spiritual meals, but the nine spiritual meals that are tested are exactly his weakness, then won't he never get the opportunity to play to his strengths?"

Li Fei looked at Shi Wu in shock because Shi Wu's words were questioning the rules of the Lingchen Alliance. He changed to a voice transmission and said, "Fellow Taoist must not say such words outside. If someone is listening to them, you may get into trouble."

Shi Wu knew that Li Fei was kind, and he sent a message saying, "Thank you, fellow Taoist Li, for the reminder."

Li Fei remembered that Shi Wu said that it was his first time to participate in the assessment of spiritual food chefs. He guessed that Shi Wu should be the kind of spiritual food apprentice who is good at a certain type. He sent a voice to Shi Wu: "Fellow Taoist, you and I have a destiny, so I will say a few more words to you. You should just think that a gust of wind blows and send these words into your ears."

Shi Wu sent a message knowingly: "I will never reveal a word."

Li Fei smiled and said in a voice transmission: "Actually, this is not a secret, it just cannot be said on the surface. It is rumored that some spiritual apprentices who are only good at one or two types of spiritual meals but have not passed the spiritual meal assessment will help some spiritual meal teachers who open spiritual meal shops. They say that they are trying to do it, but they are actually refining on their own. This not only improves skills but also makes connections. When they get familiar with those spiritual meals who have a certain status in the spiritual meal alliance, they can obtain the test questions for the ninth-grade spiritual meal assessment at a certain spiritual meal alliance base in advance through some means. They will strengthen training for the nine-grade spiritual meals, and their chances of passing the assessment will greatly increase. Of course, if they are descendants of those big figures, they don't even need to be assessed, just go through the motions."

Shi Wu sent a message in confusion: "What does it mean to go through the motions? Aren't there a thousand spiritual apprentices in each examination room to take the exam together? Will no other candidates be dissatisfied and report it?"

Li Fei sent a voice transmission: "Fellow Taoist is still too young. Those descendants of those big figures participated in the assessment of the lower ninth-grade spiritual chefs, and they were well-organized from top to bottom. Not to mention the examiners who inspected the venue and evaluated the exam, just say that the other nine hundred and ninety-nine candidates were arranged by those big figures to accompany the exam. Who would report it, and who dares to report it?"

Shi Wuding was still there, but he didn't expect that there were so many dark corners in the assessment of the ninth-grade spiritual steward. He looked at the dream-filled apprentices here, listening to their fascination with the title of spiritual steward. He suddenly felt that this situation was so ironic.

Li Fei patted Shi Wu on the shoulder and said, "Fellow Taoist, if you really have the ability, you must climb to a high place. Only by climbing higher can you break free from the constraints set by the people above. Don't care about the way to go up. When you get to the top, you will only be sought after by the people below. Because no one will laugh at the people above in this era, only those who have been trampled by others will be regarded as jokes."

Shi Wu Transmitter asked: "Don't those who are superior consider the people below?"

"Consider the people below? Fellow Taoist, ask yourself, if you reach a high position, will you still care about the people below? Maybe you will persist at the beginning, but when you see that people around you who are on par with power and treat you as an alien to exclude you. At that time, you can still consider what you said to be for the people below?" Li Fei asked back.

Shi Wu heard a sense of resentment in Li Fei's words, and he sent a message: "Fellow Daoist Li has a friend of the superior?"

Li Fei's expression changed, and he sent a voice with a wry smile: "It seems that fellow Taoist is better at observing than me. Yes, I do have a friend of a superior. I once had a lifelong friendship. Back then, we worked together and finally collected enough registration fees for 12,000 top-grade spirit stones. We promised that no matter who passed the exam, we must hire the other party as the accountant when opening a spirit meal shop in the future. Later, he successfully passed the assessment of the lower ninth-grade spirit meal and obtained the title of the spirit meal chef. But I made an error in refining the last spiritual meal, which led to the assessment failure. I originally thought he would encourage me to take the exam again, but he said that the examiner in their examination room was very optimistic about him and suggested that he work hard to continue to participate in the assessment of the lower eighth-grade spirit meal chef. He hoped that I would earn the spirit stones with him and then buy it.

Buy the prescriptions and materials for him to refine. He said that when he passed the assessment of the lower eighth-grade spiritual food teacher, he would earn more spirit stones, and I would do as many times as I want to take the exam in the future. I believed him and used him to exchange the prescriptions for spiritual food to guide other spiritual food apprentices to earn spirit stones. He was really a genius in the spiritual food journey. He then easily promoted to the lower eighth-grade and became the disciple of the examiner before. At first, he would meet me occasionally, but later even if I went to find him, he just asked his servants to take two boxes of spiritual food to send me away. I didn't collect those two boxes of spiritual food, nor did I look for him again. I heard that he later went from the lower eighth-grade to the lower seventh-grade, to the sixth-grade, to the fifth-grade, and to the fourth-grade, and became the manager of a spiritual food pavilion."

Shi Wu sent a voice transmission: "I can understand why you have the same opinion as before. Even friends who share life and death are unreliable, and those strangers don't have to rely on them."

Li Fei looked at Shi Wu as if he had met a soulmate.

Shi Wu asked in a voice transmission: "Do you hate him?"

Li Fei sighed and said, "Is it useful to hate? I am just a waste who is scattered in the bungalow area of ​​the Kaoxue Building. My hatred cannot reach the unattainable Lingchen Pavilion."

Shi Wu shook his head helplessly when he heard this.

Li Fei put away his emotions and said, "Fellow Taoist, for some reason, I'm telling you so much today. I hope you just thought it was just listening to a story."

"Yeah." Shi Wu nodded and said, "By the way, I don't know what is the most difficult thing to refine in the late-stage Nascent Soul spiritual meal?"

Li Fei thought for a while and said, "If the process is complicated, it is naturally a spiritual meal that expands the spiritual veins. Because this type of spiritual meal main material, whether it is spiritual plants or spiritual flesh, requires the spiritual chef to be familiar with the inner meridians. During this process, the spiritual chef's concentration will be exponentially condensed. Any mistake will have a huge impact on the spiritual chef's mind. I completed the eight spiritual meals in the first assessment smoothly, but when the ninth spiritual meal that expands the spiritual veins, my mental mentality was unbearable during the refining process."

Li Fei couldn't help but feel ache when he said this. This was the turning point in his life and a hurdle that he could not overcome in his life.

"Did you not take the spiritual food tutor assessment again later?" Shi Wu asked.

Li Fei told Shi Wudao: "I went there, and I went there twice. But my luck was really bad. I encountered spiritual meals that expanded my spiritual veins during both test questions, and the next time I was asked to refine two spiritual meals of this type. Without surprise, I failed. Even though I am a late-stage cultivator of Kongming, I never dared to participate in the spiritual meals assessment again."

Shi Wu exclaimed lightly: "Why do I think the types of the nine spiritual meals can be seen from the questioner's wishes?"

"It really shows the wishes of the questioner. There was once a test room where nine test questions were all used to refine spiritual meals that permanently increase their strength. The spiritual meal recipes and materials used in the nine spiritual meals are different."

Shi Wu said thoughtfully: "The monk who is in the same examination room as Shi Wu is probably going to be miserable."

"Why did fellow Taoist say this?" Li Fei asked inquired.

Shiwudao: "The third stronghold of the Northern Lingchen Alliance has created great public opinion this time due to the Shiwu incident. On the first day of August, many monks will definitely go to watch Shiwu's assessment. The Lingchen Alliance will never miss this good opportunity to gain the power of Shiwu. I guess they will give the most difficult test questions to the ninth examination room in the southwest."

Li Fei half-believed and half-doubtedly said, "Fellow Taoist, are you thinking too much? That senior Shi is a genius cultivator with the Yin and Yang spiritual fire!"

Shi Wu laughed and said, "Compared with the face of Lingshen Alliance, a genius like Shi Wu is not worth laughing at all. Moreover, whether Shi Wu passes or not, it is beneficial to Lingshen Alliance."

Li Fei reacted and said, "If Senior Shi passes the assessment, the Spiritual Season Alliance will gain a genius. If Senior Shi fails the assessment, the Spiritual Season Alliance can establish its power in front of everyone."

"Fellow Daoist Li is such a smart person." Shi Wudao.

Li Fei became extremely respectful to Shi Wu and said: "It was Li who used the reminder of fellow Taoists to take advantage of the situation."

Shi Wu asked: "I wonder how many spiritual food recipes are there for the late-stage Nascent Soul level expansion of spiritual veins in fellow Daoist Li?"

"Absolutely 3,700 kinds." Li Fei said.

Shi Wu said in surprise: "So many?"

Li Fei said: "The spiritual meal recipes at the late-stage Nascent Soul level are easier to exchange, so I only collect more."

Shi Wu nodded and said, "Fellow Daoist Li, if you meet the candidates in the ninth examination room in the southwest, try to recommend spiritual meal recipes to expand the spiritual veins to them. Although the effect is not very good, it is a kind reminder at least."
To be continued...