Mountains and Rivers Meet Again

While Chen Ping'an squatted there in a daze, Nalan Yudi, the only one with a Square Inch Object, took out a Book of Immortals titled Supplementary Records. Her Lineage had commissioned someone to purchase it from Inverted Mountain years ago. The little girl moved with startling speed, flipping crackle-crackle-crackle to the Tongye section. A single page of the Book of Immortals could record over a dozen Landscape Painting Scrolls and thousands of tiny characters. A mortal Master who had never cultivated would lack the eyesight to make out the text.

Chen Ping'an had been short of money back then and had bought only a copy of the Book of Mountains and Seas. He had not been willing to spend on this much thicker Supplementary Records, which documented mountains and rivers in far more cumbersome detail. The little girl began explaining the origins of this Immortal Ferry Crossing in Yuzhou to the others. But just as she started speaking, she suddenly remembered that "reminder" she had copied down herself. Hastily, she tossed the book back into her Square Inch Object, clapped her hands, and squatted beside Chen Ping'an. Imitating Master Cao, she pressed a hand against the dirt and pretended nothing had happened.

Chen Ping'an came back to himself and smiled. "It's fine this time. Just pay attention next time."

The sooner a child made small mistakes, the sooner they learned; the sooner elders said it, the sooner children remembered.

Chen Ping'an rose to his feet. "Yudi, I'll cover for you. Keep reading and explain it to us. To be honest, I don't know the historical allusions behind this ferry crossing either. If you can, use Tongye Continent elegant speech."

"Would Master Cao not know? You're testing whether I can speak elegant speech smoothly, right? That must be it."

Only then