Ji Qianling slowly drew her teacup before her. "Junior Brother mentioned the 'Heavenly Calculation Technique.' Your Senior Sister has a question. When you calculated Zen Master Wujue's hair that day, the final step was unbelievably fast. Did you use the Heavenly Calculation Technique?"
"Of course!"
"That question you posed yourself—53,999 loads of water—was that also the Heavenly Calculation Technique?"
Lin Su smiled. "What else would it have been? Did Senior Sister think the Old Monk and I had arranged some collusion?"
To be honest, the claim that Lin Su and the Old Monk had colluded was a suspicion shared by almost everyone.
Lin Su sat within the bamboo grove, seeming thoroughly aware of such suspicions.
Yet now that he brought it up himself, Ji Qianling began doubting herself instead. "Has your branch of the Heavenly Calculation Technique already taken a new step forward?"
Lin Su said, "The Heavenly Calculation Technique encompasses all things. It has many branches, and after a thousand years, breakthroughs are inevitable. Senior Sister's branch can calculate the circulation of one's own bloodline with the Heavenly Calculation Technique. Is that not also a tremendous breakthrough?"
He did not directly answer whether there had been some great breakthrough, yet his words clearly conveyed that he admitted to one.
Ji Qianling's gaze flickered slightly. "The Heavenly Calculation Technique encompasses all things. Every major branch differs, and after a thousand years, each has its own breakthroughs... Perhaps you and I can exchange ideas."
"Master... Master instructed me to return to the sect with the intention of exchanging ideas in mind. Since Senior Sister is willing, that could not be better!" Lin Su said. "Why don't we part for now? Once I enter the Literary Abyss, we can choose a day to return here and exchange ideas."
When he mentioned his