Couldn’t help but ask with some curiosity.
Jiu Baiyun looked at Su Zhiyun sitting on the elder chair with a satisfied expression and asked, “Is it that comfortable?”
Su Zhiyun leaned back in the chair, too lazy to even lift her eyelids, and affirmed as a matter of course, “Yes.”
“Why would I sit on it if it weren’t comfortable? It feels like soaking in hot spring water, my mind feels much clearer.”
Hearing this, Jiu Baiyun also grew curious.
He casually walked over to a seat and lightly stroked the armrest.
It felt cool and smooth to the touch, similar to what Su Zhiyun had described.
However, the moment his fingertip touched it, a faint wisp of air current silently seeped into his body along his finger.
The sensation was extremely subtle; had he not been extremely sensitive to his own spiritual energy condition, it would have been nearly imperceptible.
But it was this wisp of air that suddenly accelerated his spiritual energy recovery speed, which had been as slow as a turtle’s crawl and nearly stagnant.
Jiu Baiyun’s eyebrows shot up, and a flash of surprise crossed his eyes.
He felt somewhat astonished.
He had just been wondering if this sect had anything that could speed up spiritual energy recovery, never expecting to find it so quickly.
After all, there had to be more than just this one place in the sect that could accelerate his spiritual energy recovery.
Although pleasantly surprised, Jiu Baiyun didn’t rush to sit down.
Pulling his hand back from the armrest, Jiu Baiyun watched Su Zhiyun practically sink into the spacious and comfortable elder chair, looking utterly content, as if glued to it.
He couldn’t help but chuckle and ask, “Aren’t you going to check out the other areas? The meditation room, the spirit gathering array—aren’t you curious about their specific effects?”
Su Zhiyun waved a hand languidly, not even fully opening her eyes.
Her voice drew out lazily from the comfort.
“No rush~ no rush~ There’s plenty of time. This chair is way too comfortable. I feel like it can help alleviate my system information overload syndrome.”
“Let me sit a bit longer to recharge. You go ahead first.”
She was completely captivated by the chair’s comfort and the strange air current that soothed her irritability, wanting only to savor this rare moment of relaxation a little longer.
The system to-do list flooding her vision?
She’d deal with it later!
“What the hell is ‘system information overload syndrome’…”
Jiu Baiyun looked at her helplessly, shook his head lightly, and said, “Alright, then let A Ran and Xiao Mu stay with you for now. I’ll go figure out the sect’s layout.”
Finished speaking, Jiu Baiyun turned to look at Xiao Mu and A Ran, who were still looking around.
“A Ran, Xiao Mu, you two rest here with Sister Su. Don’t run around.”
After receiving a “Mm-hmm” reply from A Ran and Xiao Mu, Jiu Baiyun took one last look at Su Zhiyun, who was slumped in the chair as if merged with it, and couldn’t help but twitch his mouth.
Then he turned around and strode out of the main hall area of the Core Hall.
The hall wasn’t entirely empty.
Bypassing the central meeting area, several corridors extended out on both sides, leading to different functional zones.
Jiu Baiyun casually chose a corridor on the left and walked down it.
The corridor was also paved with warm, smooth spirit jade, the walls on both sides glossy, emitting a faint glow that illuminated the passage clearly.
As he walked, he looked at the subsystem panel.
From his quick scan earlier, besides the pile of tedious setup tasks he had dumped on Su Zhiyun, he noticed there was also an option on the panel called [Sect Core Area Overview].
After a brief thought, Jiu Baiyun directly clicked on [Sect Core Area Overview].
[Sect Core Area Overview]
[Core Hall (Yunling Hall)] : The sect’s central hub, where the sect leader and elders hold meetings and issue commands.
Possesses a weak effect of clearing the mind and aiding thought (effect increases with sect level).
[Basic Training Meditation Room (×4) ]: Provides a basic cultivation environment, isolating ordinary external interference.
Built-in elementary mind-stabilizing formation.
Current spirit energy concentration: Basic level (enhanced by spirit gathering array).
[Elementary Spirit Gathering Array (Activated) ]: Continuously gathers heaven and earth spirit energy, increasing spirit energy concentration in the core sect area.
Current coverage: Core Hall and surrounding meditation room area.
[Sect Protection Array (Activated) ]: Forms a basic protective barrier, resisting external physical and energy impacts (Strength: can withstand conventional attacks below the Five Mysteries Period).
[Spirit Plant Garden (Not Activated) ]: Reserved area, can cultivate spirit plants.
Requires investment of seeds and spirit energy to activate.
(Tip: Detected 10 spirit plants pending storage, can now transplant to activate Spirit Plant Garden.)
[Sect Warehouse (Empty) ]: Used to store sect resources.
Jiu Baiyun glanced over the previous content, understanding the effects well enough, but his main focus was on the Spirit Plant Garden.
Those ten spirit plants had been delivered to the entrance by the Mysterious Rats arranged by Bai Ya, and he hadn’t bothered with them.
The ten plants were still sitting there.
However, Jiu Baiyun discovered something very convenient.
Any special items within the sect’s range could be directly stored into the sect warehouse.
Jiu Baiyun’s gaze lingered on the [Spirit Plant Garden] entry in [Sect Core Area Overview] for a moment, then turned his attention to [Sect Warehouse].
The ten spirit plants of various forms at the entrance were marked by the system as items to be stored.
[Ding! Detected ten spirit plants. ]
[Store into sect warehouse?]
[Yes/No]
Jiu Baiyun decisively confirmed [Yes].
The icon representing the warehouse status on the panel flickered slightly, and next to the original “Empty” status, a small number marker instantly appeared: 10.
“Done.”
Jiu Baiyun withdrew his gaze with satisfaction.
As for the subsequent operations like activating the Spirit Plant Garden and transplanting the spirit plants… these tedious tasks were naturally left to Su Zhiyun as well.
The functions of the Core Hall and the surrounding meditation rooms, spirit gathering array, and other “core areas” were already described clearly on the panel.
Jiu Baiyun was now more concerned about another practical issue.
Where would they live?
They couldn’t just sleep on the floor in the hall at night, could they?
He closed [Sect Core Area Overview] and carefully searched through the [Sect Management Module] on the system panel.
Soon, he opened a submodule called [Sect Layout Detailed Map].
The layout of the entire mountain peak was clearly displayed on the virtual map.
The Core Hall was located in the center of the mountaintop platform, and right behind it was a quiet area slightly separated by formations, labeled [Sect Leader Residence] and [Elder Residence].
This area clearly took advantage of the natural slope behind the mountain, ensuring privacy while remaining closely connected to the core hall area.
Outside the core area, near the mountainside, was a relatively open [Disciple Living Area], consisting of rows of uniform basic houses.
The map clearly showed that this area was quite far from the Core Hall.
Although there was a path, it was separated by large stretches of open land and undeveloped forest.
“Hmm, that’s reasonable. The sect leader and elders are close by for easy meetings and peace. The disciples live farther away to avoid noise.”
Jiu Baiyun nodded to himself, satisfied with the arrangement.
After all, the sect only had this one mountain peak, with limited space; it was already good to have functional zoning.
However, the sect only had one main gate—wasn’t that a bit too few?
The disciple living area was far from the hall, and even farther from the sect’s main gate, making entry and exit inconvenient.
But Jiu Baiyun quickly dismissed this thought.
No need.
Once they cultivated to the Second Xuan Stage, they would be able to fly on swords, which was very fast.
There was no need to specially open another gate.
Besides, with only one gate, it was easier to keep track and manage entries and exits.
Jiu Baiyun once again looked at [Disciple Living Area] and noticed that it also had a detailed classification by disciple rank, with specific living quarters for stewards.
He nodded thoughtfully.
Miscellaneous disciples had four to a room, ordinary disciples had two to a room, and personal disciples had one each.
Since the sect was only a beginner-level sect, neither strong in strength nor large in area, it didn’t even have outer and inner divisions.
And disciples were only allocated rooms, not entire houses.
Although it sounded a bit cramped, Jiu Baiyun was still satisfied.
In his previous life, during middle and high school, he had lived in dormitories with that many people.
Besides, it only sounded small.
From the model diagram on the system panel, the area of one room was not small at all; it could easily fit over a dozen people.
Moreover, the interior was exquisitely decorated, more luxurious than the disciple residences of most sects in this world.
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