Season Division

  Chapter 35 I need candles

  Boom!

  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.

  The last small piece of candle was lit this time, 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 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 seasons are surrounded by the Xiaohan season, floating slowly.

  Xu Heng continued to breathe in a large amount of air, constantly absorbing the minor cold solar terms, and exhaling other unrelated solar terms.

   Two and a half hours later.

  The fifth ray of solar terms finally condensed successfully, floating in front of the black mist-like solar term of Xiaohan.

   "It can be regarded as the fifth floor of Jianqi... Eh?"

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

   Unexpectedly, this ray of Xiaohan solar terms had just solidified, and the black mist in the sea of ​​consciousness suddenly shook, and directly swallowed the ray of Xiaohan solar terms.

   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 Lichun Festival before the Xiaohan Festival, but now you have to swallow the solar terms?

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

  As a result, something unexpected happened.

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

  Below the small sharp corner, there are three turquoise gaseous "roots", and there is 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 now it is obviously not the same thing.

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

   Soon, with the just-swallowed Xiaohan solar term, it completely turned green.

  Below this small green sharp corner, 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 use the Xiaohan solar term to feed this green horn?"

  Xu Heng was a little stunned.

   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 term as ordinary people.

   "Wait, if next month's Waking of Insects Festival swallows 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, in order to reach the tenth level of Jianqi, a total of 120 Xiaohan solar terms need to be absorbed...

   "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 layers of Qi Jian to enter the descaling state?

   How much time and how many candles will this take?

   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 the time being, 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 Minor Cold Festival may swallow another four festivals before the college entrance examination.

  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.

   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 Jian."

  Xu Heng suddenly missed the Qingming solar pollution last time.

   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 Qi Jian 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 judged that the interrogation plan is effective, the case of Lincheng will have nothing to do with that kid from now on, and we 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 to deal with the result, and the superior said they should figure it out.

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

   "Okay, don't pretend to be dumb, let's vote by raising your hands. Raise your hands 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 also ambiguous, so it is reasonable to choose.

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

   "Oh, it seems that the Four Peoples 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.

  After all, the "Scholar Organization" only recruits officials, or cultivates them by 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 long 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 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 and surrendered..."

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

   "Old leader, they are clearly still playing with Fu Yongqing's idea. They are just taking advantage of Xu Heng's incident to give him a favor. Otherwise, it would be impossible 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?"

   "The kid is only at the third level of Qi building 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 Qi 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.

  Build ten floors of gas 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 the time.

  …

   Soon, the night is deep.

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

  The candles on the table have long since turned to ashes, and the Big Dipper in my mind has finally dimmed again.

  He absorbed a total of six Xiaohan solar terms this time.

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

  So now it is only returning to the previous sixth level of Qi Jian. Except for the double enhancement of the seasonal ability, the other things have not changed 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 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.

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

  I knew I wouldn't send her a text message, and she couldn't reply to the message, so I had to call.

   Don’t be the same as the previous 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 still be so kind?

   Are you trying to make up for knocking me out?

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

  Finally, 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.

   "Do you even offer incense?"

  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 is 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.

  But 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 method he used, even throwing the small piece of incense into the water, he still 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 piece of incense, his experiment is equivalent to burning more than 8 or 9 million yuan for nothing.

   What a crime!

  …

[PS: The introduction of the Four Peoples Association in the two chapters yesterday may have caused misunderstandings, so I modified 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. 】

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