Chapter 257: Chapter 240: Another Year_l
Book Pavilion.
Chen Mobai was sitting on the first floor, sipping tea while the disciple in charge of the pavilion, Brother Hu, was keeping him company.
Meanwhile, Zhuo Ming had already begun selecting the cultivation technique she needed for her path transition. After hearing Zhuo Ming’s requirements, Brother Hu directed her toward a section where he had meticulously arranged most of the Divine Wood Sect’s Earth Attribute Cultivation Techniques.
“Uncle has good judgment. You have a disciple with an inherent elegance, and she should be successful in Foundation Establishment in the future.”
Brother Hu, whose name was Jinshan, poured Chen Mobai a cup of his cherished tea while watching Zhuo Ming browsing through the bookshelves in Area B. Rubbing his white beard, he couldn’t help but sigh in admiration.
“Oh, is Brother Hu an expert in physiognomy?”
Chen Mobai was somewhat surprised. Although Zhuo Ming looked delicate, everyone who met her for the first time found her very ordinary, like a common stone or grass by the roadside.
Her potential was average, and her cultivation level was also ordinary.
She was quite diligent, though. She always completed any task assigned by Chen Mobai meticulously.
Like E Yun and others, he thought that Chen Mobai only accepted her as a disciple because there were no other suitable candidates around, and they also shared the bond of being from the same hometown. So when Liu Wenbo became a disciple, Zhuo Ming was also conveniently accepted under his guidance.
After all, Liu Wenbo was seen as the future True Inheritor they all held high expectations for. He would surely not stay with Chen Mobai for long. At that time, there will be many fertile lands in Xiao Nanshan that need someone to manage. Zhuo Ming was lucky. She was the only choice at that time.
A countless number of Qi Cultivating disciples in the Divine Wood Sect envied her.
From being an ordinary, low-level Qi Cultivating sixth level disciple, she leaped to the top, becoming a disciple of the Chief True Inheritor and a Foundation Building elder.
No matter if she becomes a True Inheritor or not, after joining Xiao Nanshan, Zhuo Ming will no longer be lightly insulted or bullied by others.
For dangerous missions such as opening up Yun Meng Ze, as long as she does not wish to, nobody can force her to go to the battlefield and fight.
“I’ve reached Qi Cultivation Perfection, but I’m unable to achieve Foundation Establishment. And since I’ve already surpassed the critical age of sixty, there’s no need to waste time on cultivation, so I naturally read various books.”
“Although Disciple Zhuo looks very ordinary, her features are well-proportioned. With a round forehead and moist jaw, she is endowed with a very auspicious bearing. If she hadn’t embarked on the cultivation path, she would definitely have led a life of wealth and happiness in the mundane world until the end.”
“Others may not notice, but I can see the innate elegance hidden in her brows. And with you, at the very least, you can shelter her for two hundred years, enough for her to grow.”
After listening to Hu Jinshan’s words, Chen Mobai couldn’t help but look surprised.
This little round face has so many interpretations? Why didn’t he see them?
If he hadn’t known from the Spirit Testing Instrument that Zhuo Ming had an excellent Earth Spirit Root, he would never have thought that she could eventually reach Foundation Establishment.
“I hope Brother Hu’s insights are accurate. This way, I will have a disciple to look after me in my old age.”
Chen Mobai didn’t really want people to know about Zhuo Ming’s talent. After all, she had not even cultivated her Divine Sen
“Teacher, which of these four books do you think is good?”
At this time, Zhuo Ming had come down, holding four blue books and seeking Chen Mobai’s opinion.
“Mother Earth Cultivation,” “Mountain Chasing Decree,” “Wu Earth True Method,” “Fossil Treasure Scroll.”
“Brother Hu, What do you think?”
As Chen Mobai began to look at these four cultivation techniques, he asked Hu Jinshan, who was seated in front of him, for his opinions.
He had been in the Book Pavilion for decades, after all. Despite being only in the Qi Cultivating Realm, he surely knew about the various cultivation techniques and their exchange situations.
“Mountain Chasing Decree has the most practitioners. It starts with cultivating a magic artifact called Mountain Flipping Seal from the Qi Cultivating Realm. It is a magical artifact cultivating technique. It’s astonishingly powerful among peers and practitioners and, if the magic artifact is cultivated well, it will accelerate the cultivator’s progress. However, it consumes a lot of resources, too much for the average person to cultivate.”
“Wu Earth True Method is the most comprehensive. As the Earth Vein Qi Cultivating Technique of the Five Elements Sect, it’s profound and extensive. In theory, once it’s perfected, it can even be linked with the supreme method of the Five Elements Sect, the Primordial Dao Fruit. This is usually chosen by disciples who have some ambition and confidence in themselves.”
“Fossil Treasure Scroll is a Qi cultivating technique that originated from the Flying Sand Sect in the Ten Directions Hall. Although it’s the most ingenious of the four techniques, the version collected by the Divine Wood Sect only includes instructions up to the Foundation Building Realm. If you choose to cultivate this, you need to consider this point carefully.”
“Finally, we have Mother Earth Cultivation. It’s not very popular compared to the other three because it requires a secondary cultivation skill, the Spirit Plant Master. Its fighting power is average, but if you have expansive fertile fields or medicinal fields to apply the techniques, it’s the fastest method to cultivate instead. Due to our numerous medicinal fields in the Divine Wood Sect, this cultivation technique has many buyers. Many of them acquire it for its knowledge and most of them primarily cultivate the Longevity Sutra.”
While Hu Jinshan was explaining each technique, Chen Mobai had already gone through the four cultivation techniques and naturally had no doubts in his heart.
But this decision concerned Zhuo Ming’s lifelong path, so he still gave her a choice in the end..