Lu Chen helped people read their faces while smilingly asking Chen Ping'an through Sound Gathering, "Earlier, when you saw Senior Brother beyond the heavens, did you discuss transferring that copy of the True Records of Pill Books to him? If you settled it, I could spare myself the trouble of passing along a message."
Chen Ping'an picked up a large chopstickful of pickled pork stewed with bamboo shoots and nodded. "We discussed it. The next time I go to Tongye Continent, I'll deliver it to Taiping Mountain."
Besides the many orthodox talismans recorded within the True Records of Pill Books, Cui Dongshan had once revealed heavenly secrets for his teacher: the book's pages themselves were superb talisman paper.
Moreover, Li Xisheng's handwritten annotations in the book—more than twelve hundred characters—could, if used to "refine characters," support a Luotian Grand Ceremony offering sacrifices to twelve hundred Daoist deities. Whether for Luopo Mountain, the High Sect, or Qingping Sword Sect, it would be more than enough to serve as a Mountain Protecting Formation. In the eyes of Peak Cultivators, it might not be earth-shattering, but it certainly deserved the word "extraordinary." Yet Chen Ping'an had his own plans. When Taiping Mountain formally held its celebration next time, he intended to present this Daoist book and the Mountain Protecting Formation to Huang Ting as gifts. Double Happiness Arrives—he would also be repaying the favor of the Old Heavenly Monarch's gift of sword formation blueprints to Taiping Mountain years ago.
After all, Taiping Mountain of Tongye Continent had inherited its incense-burning lineage from the branch of Kou Ming, the White Jade Capital Great Sect Master.
Lu Chen turned and asked, "Miss Pei, may I ask you something? Have those two children clearly established a master-disciple lineage with my Senior Brother yet?"
Previously, Pei Qian