Capítulo 1075: Chapter 418: Union with Heaven (Part 3)
“Such a grand title? Then I’ll make a trip to Jingchuan Prefecture.”
“What are you going there for?” Yun Ziliang asked.
“I’m going to retrieve the book ‘Can Tongqi of Supre Clarity’.”
Zhou Xuan’s Divine Soul imdiately took a Day Trip to Mr. Ye’s Main Hall in Jingchuan Prefecture.
…
Inside Mr. Ye’s Main Hall, the Earth Child was dozing off in a corner of the study with an ancient, yellowed book covering his belly.
On the cover of the ancient book, five small seal characters were written — ‘Can Tongqi of Supre Clarity’.
“Dong, dong, dong!”
A knock at the door startled the Earth Child awake. He hurriedly got up, the ancient book sliding off his belly, and instinctively reached out to catch it, his eyes glancing towards the door.
“Yo, Master, it’s you.”
Zhou Xuan approached with a smile, saying, “Master, I’m here to ask you for sothing.”
“This…”
The Earth Child had always been a stingy person, which is why when Zhou Xuan asked for Master Lu Xue’s ancient book, he only handed over three torn pages instead of the full volu.
Now, with Zhou Xuan directly requesting sothing, it was bound to be of great value.
“I want that book ‘Can Tongqi of Supre Clarity’.” Zhou Xuan said.
Upon hearing it was this ancient book, the Earth Child let out a sigh of relief and said, “If the Master wants it, I must give him the respect and let him have it.”
He handed the ancient book in his hand to Zhou Xuan.
“So straightforward?” Zhou Xuan was a bit surprised, saying, “Given our relationship, I thought you were quite fond of this book as you only gave three torn pages before.”
“Heh… heh.”
The Earth Child felt a bit embarrassed. Initially, he didn’t want to share it thinking the book had so important secrets due to its grand title.
However, after giving away the torn pages, he studied the book for an entire afternoon, and besides dozing off, he couldn’t figure out anything noteworthy from it.
Even the ‘Alchemy Way’ recorded in the book was irrelevant and incongruous.
“This lousy book, even too rough for wiping one’s backside.”
The Earth Child muttered this to himself, then said with an air of generosity, “I do like this ancient book, but since you have co from afar, I have no choice but to part with it.”
“Thank you for your generosity, Master.”
Zhou Xuan took the ancient book and added, “Whenever I undertake sothing, I ensure fairness. This book belongs to your Tangkou. If I gain any profitable insights or skills from it, I’ll split thirty percent of the profits with you.”
“Thirty percent?”
“Think it’s too little?” Zhou Xuan asked.
“Don’t give a single penny.”
The Earth Child got up and said, “We beca such close friends yesterday, so close as to discuss profits? Too distant.”
“Wow, Master is really generous?”
“I’m used to being generous. Master, take the book as a token of my goodwill.”
“Well, thank you then.” Zhou Xuan took ‘Can Tongqi of Supre Clarity’, and took a Day Trip away.
As Zhou Xuan left, the Earth Child smiled smugly: “Even for a master, this worthless book has nothing to offer. Using it to earn a favor from a master is well worth it, utterly worth it.”
The more he thought, the more pleased he beca. Then he slapped his own forehead: “Earth Child, oh Earth Child, how are you so good at calculating? You seize every opportunity. With such cunning and wisdom, what will beco of you?”
…
Upon returning to the Zhou Family’s Jingyi Shop, Zhou Xuan first summoned his ‘Will Heavenly Book’ to sense whether there was a ‘talismanic script’ within ‘Can Tongqi of Supre Clarity’.
But the Will Heavenly Book stayed silent, suggesting there wasn’t any ‘talismanic script’.
The content of this book was indeed, as Lord Jiu said, obscure and difficult, incoherent, almost unreadable.
Unable to understand it, he went downstairs to hand the ancient book to Yun Ziliang for interpretation.
“Lao Yun, I’ve brought back ‘Can Tongqi of Supre Clarity’, but I can’t understand it. Take a look and see if you can uncover its mysteries.”
“Tsk, not to boast, but I, Lao Yun, have never found a Taoist scripture I couldn’t comprehend. Being described as a Taoist Literary Saint and a Dragon Seeking Scholar is rely a testant to my extraordinary talent and knowledge.”
Yun Ziliang took the book, waved his hand with flair, and said, “You go play, don’t distract from burning the midnight oil to study.”
“Only Lao Yun can do it.”
Zhou Xuan delegated the ‘ancient book interpretation’ task and returned upstairs alone.
He took out the three torn pages and continued pondering the resurrection of Master Lu Xue’s family.
But with just these three pages, no matter how he viewed them, he couldn’t comprehend how the monk resurrected the family.
It was at this mont that Miss Qiang from the Secret Realm called out to Zhou Xuan: “Ah Xuan, Ah Xuan, co to class quickly.”
The Engineer also called, “Boss Xuan, are you still learning the sixth layer techniques of the Colorful Play Master or not?”
“Oh right, I can now learn the sixth layer techniques of the Colorful Play Master.”
When deceiving the Mouse King and Bi Fang, Zhou Xuan had used the ‘World Without Thieves’ skill, and had already burnt enough incense.
Now his Colorful Play Incense could advance to the sixth layer.
He pressed down the pages with an ink bottle from the table, closed his eyes, focused, and imrsed his mind into the Secret Realm.
…
The main hall of the Zhou Family’s Jingyi Shop.
Yun Ziliang was now quite anxious as he couldn’t understand a bit by studying late into the night.
“What the motherfucker kind of book is this? It talks as incoherently as an idiot, the first sentence not matching with the next at all.”
Zhao Wuya, who was eating pig’s head at, looked up at Yun Ziliang: “Master Ancestor, what did I ever do to you that you’re cursing ?”
“Go play elsewhere.”
Yun Ziliang was in a bad mood as the boastful claims he made about being a ‘Taoist Literary Saint’ and a ‘Dragon Seeking Scholar’, like boorangs that had hovered in the air for a long ti, one by one stuck him back.
“Each character’s ink in this book is recognizable on its own, but together I have no idea what it ans.”
He tried reading aloud to see if vocalization might reveal so understanding.
“The glow reflects the remains, shutting the western window…”
“Shut your motherfucking door, a window is a window, a door is a door, what window door? Whoever wrote this is a fool, completely senseless.”
Yun Ziliang couldn’t take it anymore, he brought the book upstairs determined to confront Zhou Xuan, willing to endure his ridicule. At that mont, he had only one thought — never to see this book again.
“My Taoist Literary Saint na, a lifeti of brilliance, all ruined by this book.”
He gently knocked on Zhou Xuan’s door with no answer.
“Xuanzi? Xuanzi?”
He called twice more, still no response.
Yun Ziliang gently pushed open the door to find Zhou Xuan ‘dozing’ on the desk.
“Gone to the Secret Realm.”
Yun Ziliang figured it out and set ‘Can Tongqi of Supre Clarity’ gently on the desk, closing the door as he left.
Soon after he closed the door, a rustling sound ca from within the room. If carefully listened to, it seed like a faint scraping noise.
The three torn pages pressed beneath the ink bottle by Zhou Xuan began to inch forward like crawling bugs, pushing their ‘bodies’ into wave-like shapes.
The scraping sound ca from the pages being rubbed against the bottom of the ink bottle.
“Tap.”
As the three pages collectively escaped, the ink bottle lightly tapped against the table top.
Then the three pages slipped into ‘Can Tongqi of Supre Clarity’, with the rough edges of the pages rging back with the book as if like a limb reattachnt surgery…
…
“Boss Xuan, the first five layers of the Colorful Play Master are all about deception. What is a person? Common folk are people, demigods of the human world are also people, even the twenty-four gods are people. However, Heavenly Gods, Heavenly Venerates, and Wills have transcended the human realm.
Your first five layers can’t deceive them either.”
“Oh…” Zhou Xuan was sowhat absent-minded, his gaze on the Red Ginseng Children — Big Child and Third Child — playing gas in the Secret Realm.
“The techniques of the Colorful Play Master can never deceive Heavenly Gods or Heavenly Venerates. So why did the Supre Will once send out so many gods and Daoists to hunt down and eradicate the Colorful Play Master? It’s because the latter techniques can perceive secrets of the human world.”
“This sixth technique, coincidentally, shares a na with a Taoist term Master Yun spoke to you about today, it’s called ‘Agreent With Heaven’… Boss Xuan, are you even listening to my lecture?”
The Engineer sensed Zhou Xuan’s absent-mindedness and seed a bit upset.
Zhou Xuan, however, pointed to Big Child and Third Child, saying, “Have those kids been like that recently?”
Big Child and Third Child, while playing gas with the Blood Well Human Brain, froze mid-ga,
after which, they’d co to their senses and continue playing, then freeze again. So it went, on and off, an endless cycle…
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