At this mont, the Black Water revealed its true power. On the water’s surface, wave after wave rose continuously, looking like endless towering mountains—
This ti, if it launched another attack, it would strike at the core essence of the Red Fish—if it didn’t submit and let Zhou Xuan light this incense, it feared it wouldn’t be able to leave this Secret Realm.
"Woohoo~"
The big fish was finally scared and submitted, flipping over its belly and bowing to the giant waves,
With its submission, the Black Water ceased its offensive.
The Red Fish once again transford into a clear spring and twisted together with the green clear spring like a braid.
When the spring water braid was fully twisted, the two streams suddenly turned into stone pillars dozens of feet high.
A clap of thunder from the sky struck down upon the stone pillars,
With a continuous cracking sound, dense cracks appeared on the surface of the pillars, and then—the pillars collapsed with a roar, revealing an incense stick painted with "Green and Red Fish Patterns" within the Secret Realm.
Zhou Xuan, due to this incense, advanced to the sixth incense.
"But what is the na of this incense hall? There is no alchemy hall in Jing Country."
Though the human world doesn’t have an alchemy hall, there are alchemists.
"Once out of the Secret Realm, I’ll ask Lao Bai Lu."
Zhou Xuan, having just entered the sixth incense, seed to have so insight. He didn’t rush out but sat down, carefully contemplating.
...
Under the Ancestor Tree of the Zhou Family’s Troupe,
Zhou Lingyi carefully felt the vibration of the Ancestor Tree’s branches.
Zhou Xuan had a connection with the Ancestor Tree. His every move, including the situation inside Zhou Xuan’s Secret Realm, was all clear to it.
However, everything in Zhou Xuan’s Secret Realm was invisible to Zhou Lingyi and Yuan Buyu. They could only know the situation inside through the vibration of the Ancestor Tree’s branches.
Beside them, Yuan Buyu looked like an old gambler, eagerly waiting for the dealer to open the cup, hoping for a good roll.
"Master Zhou, how is it? What is the sixth incense hall opened by my disciple?"
Zhou Lingyi waved her hand, signaling Yuan Buyu to calm down. After listening attentively for a while, she turned to Yuan Buyu and said, "Elder Yuan, my brother’s sixth incense is still not a Human World Hall!"
"Ah? So arrogant?"
Upon hearing it was not the "Human World Hall," Yuan Buyu’s smile widened to his ears.
Next to him, Mr. Bai Liu was also jubilant, congratulating Zhou Lingyi,
"Master Zhou, congratulations! The hall your elder brother raises is never an ordinary hall. If he manages to complete all nine halls, he might... re-establish the grand cultivation scene of Jing Country on his own."
"You storyteller, your mouth is really slick, stealing all my words." Yuan Buyu chastised Mr. Bai Liu, forgetting that he himself was also a storyteller.
Mr. Bai Liu glared at Yuan Buyu: "Lao Yuan, do you really think you can chastise ? In the field of storytelling, you’re supposed to call senior brother."
"I’m now at the God-level of storytellers. Here in the Zhou Family’s Troupe, you call junior brother, I wouldn’t mind, but outside, what are you supposed to call ?"
"Ancestor Master."
In the human world, disciples address soone at the "God-level" as either "Great Ancestor" or "Ancestor Master," except when the seniority difference is significant, like Yun Ziliang and Li Changxun.
Although Li Changxun is the Mountain Ancestor of Dragon Seeking, Yun Ziliang’s seniority is so high and his reputation among the Dragon Seeking Mountain People so vast that,
Li Changxun can only address him by the normal title: "Grandmaster."
Listening to Mr. Bai Liu address him as "Ancestor Master," Yuan Buyu felt secretly pleased, then turned his head and said, "The voice was too soft just now; I didn’t hear clearly. Say it louder."
"Ancestor Master! Ancestor Master!"
Mr. Bai Liu called out twice more.
"Ah, it sounds nice, really nice." Yuan Buyu was content,
Mr. Bai Liu sneered: "Pah, Lao Yuan, it’s only because you took a good disciple. Otherwise, you would never be the new Bi Fang among storytellers."
"Well, then, why didn’t you take a good disciple? Taking disciples involves luck."
Yuan Buyu laughed heartily while Mr. Bai Liu’s stern face eventually softened into a smile.
He smiled, feeling happy for Yuan Buyu. Among storyteller disciples, who didn’t know that Yuan Buyu was the most talented disciple among storytellers, second only to Mr. Feng?
Unfortunately, Yuan Buyu had encountered unkind people. First, his master held back secrets from him, then he took on four disciples, and three of them betrayed him, directly leading to ten years without incense and leaving him disheartened.
"Disciple" was probably the word Yuan Buyu least wanted to hear for most of his life.
But now, everything had passed. Zhou Xuan, this disciple, beca a "star lamp" in Yuan Buyu’s life, warming his cold heart and lighting up his dim future once more.
Seeing Yuan Buyu erge from the shadows of his past life, Mr. Bai Liu felt happy for him.
At this ti, Yuan Buyu asked Zhou Lingyi again: "Master Zhou, what is my disciple’s new incense hall like?"
"The Green and Red Fish entered the Secret Realm, and they are the Dan Ancestor between Heaven and Earth. So my brother’s new incense must be an alchemy hall, but—I don’t know what this hall should be called either."
Zhou Lingyi also believed in Zhou Xuan’s eccentric ways. She prided herself on knowing many secrets of the Divine Dao in Jing Country,
But the previous "Colorful Play Master" incense, she didn’t know the na of that hall. And now, this incense stick, she still didn’t know the na.
"My brother, his abilities are just too vast."
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