Long Xian moved quickly. He was back in the hall after only a short while, carrying a white-glazed ceramic jar in his hands.
After entering, he went before the Celestial Master's seat, set the item down, and said, "Celestial Master, this disciple has fetched it."
Celestial Master Lu reached out and took a jade white pill from the ceramic jar. When he loosened his fingers, it floated suspended in the air.
He said, "Our Xuan Sect has a Mystic Method for guiding and nurturing guardian spirits. I can have someone deliver it later for our honored guest's perusal.
"However, training guardian spirits has always required considerable effort. To avoid delaying their own cultivation, our predecessors of the Xuan Sect refined these Resonance Pills.
"If a guardian spirit takes one, its spiritual aperture can be opened for a time, and it will no longer need constant supervision. Yet this ultimately consumes mental energy. How to weigh the choice is for our honored guest to consider."
As he spoke, he returned one pill to the jar, then swept his Dust Whisk and sent the ceramic jar before Chen Chuan's seat. "This jar of Resonance Pills is a gift for our honored guest."
Chen Chuan glanced at it and reflected on Celestial Master Lu's earlier words, gaining some understanding of the pills' purpose.
They were likely a cultivation method left behind by the Xuan Sect's predecessors for birds and beasts. Yet birds and beasts certainly could not understand written words, so they needed Resonance Pills of this sort. These could allow them to comprehend for themselves the spirit contained within the text.
That spirit could be directly imparted into their brains and bodies, but birds and beasts were not humans. Usually, how much they could comprehend depended on their own abilities.
However, if