True Man Zhou Has Your Back
After dinner, Li Bai returned to his guest room and took out the purple clay array bases to continue studying them.
A knock sounded at the door.
Knock, knock, knock!
He set down what he was holding and opened the door. Great Dean Zhou was standing outside alone.
"Dean, is something the matter?"
"What were you up to at dinner?"
Seated at the main table and busy trading toasts with the government officials and other masters, Great Dean Zhou hadn't had much time to pay attention to Li Bai. He'd only glanced over briefly.
Only after everyone had eaten and drunk their fill and gone their separate ways did he come looking for Li Bai.
Li Bai said, looking entirely innocent, "We were exchanging hypnotic techniques!"
He'd traded the Five Elements Manipulation technique for other people's signature hypnotic skills. It was a genuine exchange, freely agreed to by both sides, and entirely in keeping with the purpose of this year's masters' exchange.
Sharing what each had to offer would help the Chinese hypnosis community develop in a healthy way.
"So you just went ahead and asked people to trade their secret techniques?"
Great Dean Zhou had clearly made some inquiries before knocking on Li Bai's door.
He'd brazenly proposed trading for other people's prized skills. Wasn't he worried about offending anyone?
Those signature skills were so secret that even their owners' apprentices and students hadn't learned them. Even if the masters and teachers agreed to hand them over so easily to an outsider, their apprentices and students might not!
Qi Weiwen, Old Man Zhong, and the others who'd gathered with Great Dean Zhou last night had known one another for years. Given their elders' friendship, it wasn't a big deal for them to teach