Tian Yuan Xian Ji

Chapter 247 The New Inspector
"That Cory thing?"

"After you go to Qiyuan Island, Junior Brother Zhang will be transferred back and let him take over your position to manage internal affairs."

Lu Guang nodded: "When shall I leave?"

"Tomorrow's discussion, I will arrange this matter, just in time, the new inspector of our department will also take office." Lu Xingxian said

Lu Guang's expression changed: "Who is it?"

"Junior Brother Qin Gang from the Inspectorate."

"Him?" Lu Guang frowned. Qin Gang from the Inspectorate Department was a proper member of the Luo family, and he was the grandnephew of Qin Xuefeng, a fellow disciple of Luo Qingshui in the Xuande Palace. Finally sat down.

"It's the same for anyone. As long as I'm still in office, they won't be able to make waves. After you go to Qiyuan Island, if there is a suitable pill or herb that can help you break through your cultivation, you can shoot it. As for Lingshi , the department can pay for you first."

"Thank you, Brother Lu."

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Tang Ning sat cross-legged in the cave, with the storage bag on his waist shaking for a while. He opened his eyes, took out the array plate, tapped lightly, and took the talisman floating in the dense fog into his hand.

After the spiritual consciousness was infused, a voice sounded in his head, it was a disciple named Xue Yan from the Supervision Department who visited him, saying that he was ordered by Zhu Xu.

Tangning was puzzled, who is this Xue Yan?Why did Zhu Xu send him here?

He put away the mother-of-pearl mussels on the stone table, fiddled with the array a few times, and the dense fog billowed outside the cave, clearing a path.

A man with a fair complexion walked into his room and bowed: "Disciple Xue Yan pays his respects to Master Tang."

Tangning responded softly, "Senior Brother Zhu sent you here? What's the matter?"

"My master wants to invite Master Tang to come to the mansion for a talk, so he has never masked his face before, so he pretends to be Master Zhu Xu's name, and now Master Zhu is playing chess in the master's cave." Xue Yan said
"I don't know who the commander is?"

"My teacher's name is Qin Gang, who used to work in the Supervision Department, and is now appointed by the Xuande Palace to work in the Intelligence Division."

When he said this, Tang Ning understood that he was the new inspector who replaced Kong Fanxing. It had been eight or nine years since Kong Fanxing died. Due to the tense battle ahead, the sect assigned many people to guard the camp, resulting in a shortage of manpower in various departments. As a result, no new inspectors have been appointed.

Now the Corpse Puppet Sect and the Zongmen ruled by tacitly transforming the world, the camp was also withdrawn, and all the disciples who were stationed returned to the Zongmen, so the Xuande Hall sent a new inspector.

"Let's go!"

The two left the cave, and after a short walk, they came to a cave in the northwest corner of the third knuckle of Middle Finger Peak.

Xue Yan led him to the auxiliary room. In the room, a man with a clean face and elegant appearance sat opposite Zhu Xu, playing chess.

"Master, Uncle Tang is here." Xue Yan bowed and saluted.

Qin Gang got up to greet him, looking very enthusiastic: "Junior Brother Tang, I have heard about you for a long time, but I have never met him. I am deeply regretful. Today I finally saw my true face."

Tangning smiled and said, "Senior brother Qin is absurd, how can he get such a big name as an unknown pawn?"

"Hey." Qin Gang waved his hand with a smile and said, "No one in Xuande Hall knows that even Master Luo admires you very much. He is quite appreciative. Back then, he strongly recommended you to join the intelligence department, and the sect selected elite disciples to form a team. Uncle Shi personally ordered you to be selected into the team, he has high hopes for you, this time I was transferred to the intelligence department to pay a visit, and he even mentioned you!"

"Oh?" Tangning was a little surprised when he heard his words. Although Luo Qingshui recommended her to come to the intelligence department, she had never had the opportunity to visit alone in all these years.

"I don't know how Master Luo mentioned me?"

Zhu Xu also looked sideways, obviously interested in Luo Qingshui's mention of Tangning.

"Master Luo said that Tang Ning from the intelligence department is a young child who is eager to stand up for the younger generation of the sect, and may become a success in the future."

"Uncle Luo is absurd. I have low aptitude. I dare not take the lead in the sect. The two senior brothers Zhuang and Jiang are worthy of the name. How can I stand shoulder to shoulder with them."

"You don't need to underestimate yourself, Junior Brother Tang. Junior Brother Zhuang and Junior Brother Jiang are indeed the proud sons of a generation, and you have not given up too much. You have made great strides in your cultivation. Listening to Senior Brother Zhu, you broke through to the middle stage of foundation building yesterday, and your lifespan has increased by another fifty years. Congratulations, if Master Luo knew about it, he would definitely praise him again."

"Ashamed, to be honest, I have never visited Master Luo before."

"This matter is very easy. Next time I have a chance, I will take you to visit his old man's house. Come, please sit down."

The two sat down one by one, Qin Gang and Zhu Xu continued to play chess, Tang Ning watched from the sidelines, after a long time, Zhu Xu won by a narrow margin, and smiled slightly: "Junior Brother Qin, your chess skills are not as good as Junior Brother Kong, I have always lost more chess games with Junior Brother Kong Win less."

Qin Gang said with a smile: "Brother Kong is a well-known chess player in the Supervision Department, and there are few opponents. I have played against him a few times and regretted losing to him. How is Brother Tang's chess skills? How about a game?"

Tangning smiled slightly and said, "I've never won, and I'm well-known in all disciplines."

Qin Gang put away the chessboard and served drinks: "I'm newly transferred to the intelligence department, so I'm not very familiar with the situation, so please help me and give advice to senior brothers Zhu and Tang."

Zhu Xu said: "Brother Lu has been in the intelligence department for many years, and he has great prestige. The real power of finance and dispatch in the department is determined by him. The two of us are only responsible for handling some trivial matters."

Qin Gang said: "Senior brother Lu, as the deacon of the intelligence department, of course has the right to handle the dispatch, appointment and financial distribution of the disciples in the department, but if it does not comply with the sect's regulations, we still have to raise our opinions. After I come, I am going to make some adjustments to the untimely matters that violated the sect's regulations before the intelligence department, and I hope that the two of you can support me a lot."

As soon as his words came out, Zhu Xu and Tang Ning couldn't help but look at each other. These words were obviously intended to confront Lu Xingxian. When Kong Fanxing was the inspector, although the two sides had some secret rivalries, they were clearly on the same page. Maintain a relatively peaceful and unified state.

Lu Xingxian and Kong Fanxing each perform their duties, and the division of labor is clear, whoever manages the management, and there are very few conflicts.

Now that Qin Gang has acted so strong since he took office, I'm afraid it won't please him. After all, Lu Xingxian is a deacon. He holds great power in the intelligence department and has a lot of prestige. It's not good for anyone to fall out.

Tangning mused, "It's better to think about this matter in the long run, and it's better to take it slowly, don't rush it."

Qin Gang said: "I know the seriousness, but I'm not going to hide it. This time I was transferred to the intelligence department with a mission. The situation of our sect is different from the past. The demon sect has risen and occupied the western part of Chu State, and the tax revenue of the sect has been greatly reduced. .”

"The Zongmen's finances have always been tight, and now it's stretched. The Secret Academy receives [-] million spirit stones every year, and distributes [-] to the Intelligence Department, which is the most among all subordinate departments. Even so, it still exceeds the standard every year. , apply to the Zongmen for additional funds under various names."

"The Zongmen's finances are beyond their means. Before I came here, I visited Martial Uncle Luo. He specifically told me to keep an eye on the finances and not to add any burden to the Zongmen."

"In the past, no matter who was in charge of the department's finances, every expenditure must be clearly recorded in the future. If someone insists on going his own way and wants to cover the sky with one hand, I will not agree, and I am not afraid of turning against anyone. At that time, I hope Brother Zhu and Brother Tang will support I."

Both of them remained silent, all the disciples of the disciplines under the Secret Precept Academy received their salaries from the Secret Precept Academy, and only the salaries of the Qi Refining disciples were distributed by the headquarters.

The secret academy allocates [-] spiritual stones to the intelligence department every year, of which [-] is used as the salary of the disciples under the department, and the other [-] is used as a mission reward. Every time the disciples go out to perform missions, they are given spiritual stone subsidies, otherwise, who would be willing to work.

Now it is necessary to pay close attention to finances and reduce expenditures, which may be difficult to implement.

"Since it was Master Luo's order, I will do it myself." Zhu Xu said slowly
Tangning also nodded slightly.

"Okay, thank you very much." Qin Gang said, picked up the wine glass, and drank it down.

The three of them chatted for a long time before they dispersed. Tangning left her cave, turned into a light and went straight to Xiuyuan Peak. She cast a light in front of a wooden house and walked inside.

The room is not big, with a radius of only a few feet, and there are several cabinets lined up in it, which is very simple. A man with thick eyebrows and big eyes is sitting cross-legged on a futon. When he senses someone entering the room, he opens his eyes and blurts out when he sees the person coming: " Tangning."

This person is none other than Mu Pingbo who went up the mountain with him. He succeeded in building the foundation thirteen years ago and is now one of the stewards of the elixir department.

He yelled, and then his face changed slightly, and he said in surprise: "You have broken through the middle stage of foundation establishment."

Tangning smiled and said, "Ping Bo, long time no see, why are you here to guard the shop? I've never seen you before!"

Xiuyuan Peak has a nickname, "Qianyi Zongfang City", which is a trading place within the Zongmen.

There are several shops here, where you can buy the pills, spiritual tools, talismans, and formations needed by the foundation-building monks. If you don't have any, you can "make it to order".

This wooden house is the shop of the Elixir Department. It only sells the second-tier pills consumed by the foundation-building monks. Tangning has been buying and selling pills here before.

"This is the shop of our elixir department. The foundation-building monks of our department take turns to be on duty every three months. You haven't seen me, but I've heard of you. I heard that you can make alchemy yourself. In the past few years Sold us a lot of elixir."

Tang Ning smiled slightly: "You know that I was transferred to Jingbei. When I had nothing to do, I learned alchemy from a monk there. When I returned to the sect, I would go to the alchemy room to make alchemy. Over time, I became proficient in the technique. Quite a few of them, and the Wan Lingdan was refined out of the crooked beating."

Mu Pingbo said with a smile: "Don't be modest, one medicine pill is not something that can be mastered in a crooked way. It takes hard work and a lot of refining experience to get a glimpse of its way. I heard that you have refined two medicines in the past three years. Baiping Wanling Pill, with your current skills, you are much better than many disciples of our department, are you here to sell pills?"

"Yesterday, I accidentally broke through the bottleneck of cultivation. Before, I had been using Yuan Qi Pill. Now that I have been promoted to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, Yuan Qi Pill is no longer applicable. I came here to buy a few bottles of Guben Pill."

(End of this chapter)