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Arriving before the White Bone Pagoda, the area was still teeming with people.

The birth of the Dreamworld had changed the number of cultivators comprehending the visualization diagrams in the Merit Hall's secret chamber, but it hadn't altered the number of people undergoing trials at the White Bone Pagoda.

In fact, because there were now more opportunities to comprehend the visualization diagrams, cultivators didn't need to queue up, making willpower and control even more crucial.

And the White Bone Pagoda was the best place to temper willpower and control, so even more people came daily to train.

"Oh, Pavilion Lord Wang is here. We haven't seen you lately. What have you been busy with?"

Everyone was familiar with the famous Wang Zihou.

Before, everyone wanted to beat him up, but later they realized that's just how he talked. Beating him up wouldn't change anything; he was born with a taunting skill.

"Can you compare me to you idlers? Little… This Pavilion Lord is deeply valued by Master Xuan and entrusted with the important task of tending to spirit plants. This Pavilion Lord is very busy."

Wang Zihou was as always.

Except he no longer called himself 'Little Master,' but 'This Pavilion Lord.'

Everyone was used to his tone, knowing that's just how he was. There was no need to get angry with him; it wasn't worth it.

Therefore, it was a unique sight on Qingyun Mountain. Others cautiously addressed each other as 'Fellow Daoist' and were very polite, but Wang Zihou was different. It was his exclusive style.

He didn't plan to change. If he changed, he wouldn't be Wang Zihou, and everyone wouldn't be used to it.

"Pavilion Lord Wang, is the Hundred Herb Pavilion still hiring? Since you're valued by Master Xuan to tend to spirit herbs, do you need anyone? Old Liu here wants to join the Hundred Herb Pavilion."

Recently, Wang Zihou had been very busy, and everyone knew that Master Xuan had brought back many spiritual medicines and plants from the small world.

"No, no. I can still manage for now. Of course…" Wang Zihou changed his tone and said, "Maybe I will need someone, depending on the time, haha…"

Wang Zihou spoke like a riddler, vaguely saying things that made no sense to anyone.

"Everyone, I'm not chatting anymore. I'm going to train. So busy, sigh!"

Watching Wang Zihou swipe his card and wait to enter, everyone gnashed their teeth in anger.

However, coincidence struck.

Just as Wang Zihou was about to enter, the White Bone Pagoda suddenly trembled, then rapidly shrank and flew towards Xuanhuang's residence.

"I…?"

Wang Zihou felt inexplicably familiar, as if he had experienced something like this before. What was going on?

Was the White Bone Pagoda incompatible with him?

"Ding!"

Suddenly, the merit point token made a crisp sound. Everyone hurriedly looked; a new message had arrived.

[The White Bone Pagoda is about to advance and will be temporarily closed for a week to ten days… ]

The Merit Hall sent a new message, revealing that the White Bone Pagoda was also about to advance.

Coincidentally, Xuanhuang had sorted out the harvest from Yellow River Park and planned to have the White Bone Pagoda refine and integrate the Tier 2 ghostly skull from the Ghost Bus.

However, the skull was Tier 2, and the White Bone Pagoda couldn't refine and integrate it on its own, so it could only rely on the reforging of the Heaven and Earth Furnace.

"The White Bone Pagoda is also about to advance, so fast. I wonder if, after reaching Tier 2, it will further strengthen the tempering of willpower and control?" the surrounding cultivators said.

"Haha…" Wang Zihou laughed.

He thought he was unlucky, but he didn't expect to profit.

The deducted merit points would be automatically extended this time, meaning he spent the price of a Tier 1 White Bone Pagoda to experience the abilities of a Tier 2 White Bone Pagoda. He had made a huge profit.

"The Tongtian Jianmu advances, the Guixu Millstone advances, the Heaven and Earth Furnace advances, the Void Blade advances, and now the White Bone Pagoda also advances. Have Master Xuan's major treasures all reached Tier 2?"

Someone summarized.

"Yes, what a fast speed. Master Xuan creates techniques while also cultivating at such a speed, and he's even doing the hellish difficulty of creating and refining techniques. How big is the gap between our talent and Master Xuan's?"

Someone asked.

"What made you have the ambition to compare yourself to Master Xuan? Are you still asleep? Or did you take too many drugs, daring to compare yourself to Master Xuan?"

Someone replied, their tone full of contempt.

"I'm just sighing, isn't the difference too big?" the person said speechlessly.

"Young man, looking up will make you despair, looking down will make you arrogant, it's better to look straight ahead."

"…"

"Everyone, have you heard? The four major forces will bring the natives of the Blood Moon Realm to Qingyun Mountain. Doesn't this mean our competition will be even greater?

Even if the geniuses of the Blood Moon small world are fewer than us, there will always be top-tier ones, right?

Doesn't this mean that some Fellow Daoists will be forced out of Qingyun Mountain again?"

Someone suddenly asked.

"I've also heard that these natives were subdued by the four major forces. The creatures of the Blood Moon Realm are in a miserable state, almost in a state of being raised in captivity.

After being subdued by the four major forces, the four major forces taught them the three fundamental techniques. This time, the leaders of the major forces are temporarily returning to bring them to pay respects to Master Xuan, which can also be considered as seeking their roots and tracing their origins."

This person added, "Indeed, the competition is even greater, but the small world is also open to us. Every sip and every peck is predetermined, both good and bad."

"I'm afraid it's worse for us weak rogue cultivators, right? We'll be the first to be forced out of Qingyun Mountain. It seems we need to find a foothold in Nanshi," a middle-aged man in his forties in the first grade lamented.

"This day will come sooner or later. How difficult is it to gain a foothold here? Qingyun Mountain is a stage for geniuses and evildoers. We're lucky to still be able to gain a foothold.

However, with the Dreamworld, it's not too bad. It's just that willpower training will be a bit more troublesome in the future, and we'll need to come to Qingyun Mountain."

"Fellow Daoist, you're wrong. The so-called environment shapes one's perspective. Those near vermilion get stained red, and those near ink get stained black.

Even if we're at the bottom of Qingyun Mountain, our progress will be faster than in Nanshi. These are two different things.

In Qingyun Mountain, pressure will become motivation, not to mention the Qi Luck gathered by Qingyun Mountain, which will push you to progress. Nanshi can't compare to this," one person said.

They added, "Even if it's difficult, we must try our best to strive for it. The longer we can stay in Qingyun Mountain, the better. The progress here is far greater than in other places."

After this person finished speaking, everyone nodded in agreement.

Because there were countless precedents.

At the same level, with similar talent.

Some didn't want to compete and went to Nanshi, while others gritted their teeth and persisted in Qingyun Mountain.

Not long after, in just a month, the difference came out.

One was at Body Refinement Fifth Layer, while the other hadn't even perfected Body Refinement Fourth Layer. This was the difference.

Qingyun Mountain gathers the faith and Qi Luck of cultivators.

It's like saying that your luck will be better here, and many invisible barriers will be broken by the Qi Luck and the faith gathered by the cultivators.

As long as you stay in Qingyun Mountain, you can share a bit of the blessing of Qi Luck and the power of faith.

These are still invisible benefits, and there are even more tangible benefits.

News is known first, and all kinds of wonders and mysteries are also experienced first.

The people you associate with are also of a higher level, which greatly improves your perspective and mind.

Even pills and talismans are cheaper.

Everyone knows these benefits and changes.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many people sticking to Qingyun Mountain, doing their best every day to stay.

Therefore, hearing that cultivators from the small world were also coming to Qingyun Mountain, everyone was solemn, especially those who were already behind.

There was a cultivator on Qingyun Mountain who called himself 'Baixiaosheng,' a strange person.

He liked to organize all kinds of news and also liked to organize all kinds of lists. At first, everyone didn't pay much attention, but he persevered.

Over the months, everyone gradually accepted his lists and rankings.

The four major forces and top rogue cultivators all recognized them.

Of course, it started when the ladies in the Merit Hall borrowed the data he had compiled and gave him a message consultation fee.

Sun Tong needed data support to formulate regulations and thought of Baixiaosheng, so she borrowed his data.

That time, Baixiaosheng's reputation was completely established, equivalent to the Merit Hall endorsing him.

This person not only gained a firm foothold in Qingyun Mountain but also took this opportunity to establish the [Listening Tower], specializing in sorting and selling various data, just like Wang Zihai.

Baixiaosheng was previously a fortune teller, the kind with real talent and learning.

After coming to Qingyun Mountain, he began to learn Xuanhuang's Qi refining method, which is the "Tongtian Jianmu Visualization Diagram."

Like the previous rogue cultivator powerhouse Wang Daqiang, Wang Daqiang comprehended the Heaven and Earth Furnace Visualization Diagram and created his unique thunder method.

Baixiaosheng, however, deduced the way of luck and the method of deriving Yi-Li arithmetic based on the "Tongtian Jianmu Visualization Diagram."

He is very good at various deductions and seeing luck.

Logically speaking, his method is a path to death in this distorted world.

After all, the will of heaven is distorted, and the rules collide. At this time, exploring the secrets of heaven is tantamount to seeking death.

But because of the existence of Jianmu in Qingyun Mountain, the secrets of heaven have been corrected, and the rules are stable.

Without a single mistake, every poem, every hair, every internal, every appearance, all are seen!

This gave him the soil to grow.

The advantage is that with the help of Qingyun Mountain's stable secrets of heaven, he can use the deduction method and also detect luck.

But the disadvantage is that this method is difficult to use away from Qingyun Mountain, and even he himself should not leave Qingyun Mountain.

But with every drink and every peck predestined, he did not intend to leave Qingyun Mountain, choosing success or death, continuing to delve into this method, planning to fight to the end.

Therefore, he founded the Listening Tower and, after inquiring from various sources, recruited a guest official.

This guest official is Gao Jue, the second disciple of Taoist Ma, known in the spirit master world as Gao Jue with "Ears That Hear the Wind."

As a spirit master stationed in Qingyun Mountain, Gao Jue could not cultivate and had to endure waiting for the Xuan Master to transform him back into the furnace, so he didn't have much to do.

Hearing that it was a news organization, he was very interested and liked it very much, so he joined.

Gao Jue's strange ear ability is difficult to use in Qingyun Mountain, but it can be used outside Qingyun Mountain.

It just happened to cover Baixiaosheng's luck calculation.

After the two combined, the Listening Tower was established.

With these two great gods in charge, one internal and one external, one calculating and looking at luck, and the other listening to all things with strange ears.

Almost all the news and people in Qingyun Mountain are difficult to escape their calculations.

Of course, the two would not seek death by exploring secrets, but only look at luck and news that can be sold, which is the bottom line.

Without a bottom line, I am afraid that the Merit Hall would not tolerate them, and the four major forces are not easy to talk to.

After its establishment, in order to open up the situation, they released the first list, which was a ranking list of experts.

It mainly looked at the luck and news summary to draw conclusions.

For example, the previous number one was Mr. Yan Lai.

But what about this list?

It did cause a sensation after it started selling, but afterwards, everyone was no longer obsessed with it.

Because this kind of list can only be seen and is useless. Friends around you can figure it out and say a rough idea.

Their list also charges one point. Whose points are blown by the wind? Slowly, fewer and fewer people bought it.

The two looked at each other and thought this was not good. This master list is too ordinary.

Everyone in Qingyun Mountain is familiar with the masters, and it doesn't seem to attract everyone's attention.

Later, Gao Jue was also a little depressed. Once Taoist Ma learned about it, he gave him a suggestion.

He said that you can completely give a list of people who are about to be swept out of Qingyun Mountain through luck, calculation, and various news.

The master list can be seen but not touched, but being swept out is a matter of personal pain.

Also, your printed list looks informal. Pay some handling fees to the Merit Hall, or say a split fee.

In the future, the list will be issued directly through the points card, which looks high-end and borrows the tiger skin of the Merit Hall...?

Gao Jue understood, as expected of his master.

After discussing with Baixiaosheng, there was finally a new situation.

With the master's face, he met with Chief Manager Sun Tong.

Chief Manager Sun was also very interested after hearing about it. The establishment of a news channel is very necessary.

It can also increase competition among cultivators. This Listening Tower is well established.

He directly said that the Merit Hall occupies 40% of the shares, and you two each have 30%.

But the Merit Hall does not manage, but only invests.

He also said to the two, don't be angry, the Merit Hall is not so cheap to take advantage of you. There is real investment.

First of all, my Merit Hall's investment is to endorse you. The intangible wealth you get cannot be measured in points.

There are also some inside stories, news that does not need to be formally announced to everyone, can also be given to you to operate.

Finally, your Baixiaosheng's deduction is just like that. Although you are the number one among cultivators, this is Qingyun Mountain. The treasure you are borrowing is Jianmu.

Jianmu is the small will of heaven in Qingyun Mountain. No one knows the luck of each cultivator better than Jianmu, as well as his own spiritual machine, spiritual rhyme, cause and effect, etc., all under Jianmu's investigation.

Our Merit Hall can give you a fortune map that does not reveal the cultivator's own secrets. Don't you want to release a list to select who will be the people facing elimination?

We can also provide it, and it is more accurate.

Can these three points be regarded as 40% of the shares?

The two were overjoyed when they heard this. This is a great thing.

Not to mention anything else, this tiger skin alone cannot be bought. Moreover, Chief Manager Sun is right. Baixiaosheng's deduction method still relies on Jianmu as the root.

In this way, the Listening Tower was established.

The list is directly issued through the points card, and the points are automatically deducted upon purchase.

After this list was released, all Qingyun Mountain cultivators, including Nanshi cultivators, spent points to check it out as soon as possible.

Master list, Refining God powerhouse list, Refining Qi powerhouse list, Refining Body powerhouse list, etc.

Anecdotes, development index of the four major forces, Tianjiao list, etc.

Of course, the most attention is paid to the fortune list.

No one cared about this list at first.

Fortune list...?

What does this mean?

But after everyone bought it, they found out that it was a person's fortune.

This list does not announce the strong and the top-ranked, but only announces the bottom 500.

Gradually, this list made people dumbfounded to find that the recently eliminated people were the top few on the list.

Good fellow!

It turned out to be a list of people who were swept out. This list is too important.

Directly understand who your competitors are.

Those on the list worked harder, and those not on the list were extra careful, for fear of falling behind and being on the list.

This reflects the seriousness and accuracy of the list.

The Listening Tower officially became famous, and everyone paid more attention to various news and lists.

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