Having figured this out, Jiang Fan was brimming with enthusiasm. He immediately moved to put it into practice and test the wonders of the Dao-Nurturing Chapter, to see whether it could make the Dao Seed take root as he had surmised.
But just as he moved, a clear voice suddenly came from beside the bookshelves.
"Huh?"
"Do you like reading these incomplete texts too?"
Jiang Fan paused slightly and looked up.
At the end of the bookshelf, a young woman had appeared at some point.
She looked about seventeen or eighteen, dressed in a pale jade-green gown. Her dark hair was loosely tied with a plain ribbon, with little jewelry adorning her. She looked as fresh as a drop of morning dew.
Jiang Fan looked around and found no one else there.
When he looked back at the young woman, she was tilting her head slightly, her dark eyes full of delight as she watched him, as though she had discovered something immensely pleasing in the vast Daoist Canon Pavilion.
Jiang Fan immediately realized she was speaking to him.
His gaze swept over the yellowed Dao-Nurturing Chapter, and he replied softly.
"Yes."
The young woman was delighted by his response. She hurried over to him and spoke in a lighthearted voice.
"Wonderful!"
"I love reading these incomplete texts too!"
Jiang Fan withdrew his gaze.
"Why?"
"Aren't complete cultivation methods better?"
The young woman's eyes lit up, as though someone had finally asked her that question.
Without standing on ceremony, she sat down on the meditation cushion beside him and propped her chin in her hands, settling in for a chat.
"Of course complete cultivation methods are good!"
"A complete cultivation method is like a paved highway, broad and unobstructed. All you have to do is walk!"
"As long as your