Chen Shi's mother woke up the following day and was already able to get out of bed and walk around. The family of three walked out their front door to pay their respects to the village elders, and Chen Shi went to busy himself with the reunion feast, feeding the village commonfolk. Everyone in the village came to the banquet, making it a very lively affair.
On the third day, they went to pay homage to Grandpa, worship Godmother, visit Scholar Zhu, and enter the mountains to worship the spirits of Ganyang Mountain, including Xuan Shan and Granny Zhuang.
On the fourth day, they went to see Granny Sha, Hu Xiaoliang, and other members of the older generation.
On the fifth day, the Heavenly Court Token from Red Mountain Hall was delivered into Hu Feifei's hands. Hu Feifei invoked the Heavenly Court Token to open up the passageway between Xinxiang and the Lesser Heavens, and then delivered the other Heavenly Court Tokens into the hands of Granny Sha, the Green Goat, Hu Xiaoliang, and the others. Chen Tang also received one as a gift.
Top Scholar Chen Shi had returned to his old routine. Every morning he got up to do his morning lessons, cultivated for a bit, then went to the yellow slopes to pay homage to Godmother and Scholar Zhu, listened to Scholar Zhu lecture on the scriptures, and returned home to eat.
Yet besides this, he had taken on an extra job, which was to go to the Lesser Heavens to lecture and expound upon the cultivation methods inscribed on the forest of steles outside the True King's Tomb.
Whenever this time came, a large crowd would always gather in the Lesser Heavens. They were the Juren and Jinshi scholars from the same cohort as Chen Shi,