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Chapter 44

Supreme Moon Palace Lunar Yin Primordial Lady Filial Dao Immortal King Golden Splendor Yellow Plain Scripture

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Golden Wind Mountain.

Fierce Tiger Ravine.

Ban Zhua and Ban Ya helped their mother out. The latter bared her teeth in a grin. "Doctor Chen really is a good man. When I saw him back, he kept urging me along the way to move out of the cave."

"Yeah."

"Running all this way in the dead of night to make a house call—what ordinary doctor would be willing?"

Ban Zhua nodded in agreement.

Clearly, he had a favorable impression of Doctor Chen from Dai County.

Supported by her two sons, Ban Feifei sighed. "It is Mother who has dragged you down. There are experts hidden in the city, and they have always been prejudiced against spirits like us. If we accidentally run into one—"

"Mother."

"We neither eat people nor harm people. We cultivate honestly on Golden Wind Mountain. Human experts will not do anything to us."

Ban Zhua comforted his mother.

Ban Ya echoed him.

In truth.

They knew it as well: spirits often harmed people.

Though the mother and her two tiger sons committed no evil, they were still spirits. In the eyes of those Daoists, monks, wandering heroes, and swordsmen, they deserved to be killed all the same.

"Alas."

Ban Feifei let out a sigh and said no more.

The three of them went up the mountain together and moved into a row of wooden houses. Before long, Ban Feifei revealed her true form and fell asleep. Ban Zhua and Ban Ya went outside, also transformed into their true forms, raised their heads to the heavens, and cultivated.

Half an hour later.

After finishing their cultivation.

They used their claws to turn the pages of two scripture scrolls. The scriptures had been dyed yellow to prevent bookworms. A breeze passed through, rustling the pages, and seventeen characters were written on the outermost cover—

Supreme Moon Palace Lunar Yin Primordial Lady Filial Dao Immortal King Golden Splendor Yellow Plain Scripture.

Dai County.

The rear courtyard of the clinic.

"Supreme Moon Palace Lunar Yin Primordial Lady Filial Dao Immortal King Golden Splendor Yellow Plain Scripture."

"It is finally complete."

Chen Jichuan stood in the courtyard, activating Far-Sight. While secretly watching Erban cultivate, he copied down the Daoist scripture.

There had been a few minor twists tonight.

But the outcome was still good.

After spending five or six nights at it, he had finally copied in full the Supreme Moon Palace Lunar Yin Primordial Lady Filial Dao Immortal King Golden Splendor Yellow Plain Scripture that Erban and Ban Feifei treasured like a jewel.

"This scripture truly is profound."

"No wonder Erban studied it for so long every day after cultivating."

Chen Jichuan read through the scripture from beginning to end. He found it obscure and difficult to understand, yet even the small portions he could barely comprehend revealed countless mysteries.

"The scripture is complete."

"Next, I need to interpret it properly and uncover the Grand Yin Body-Refining Method hidden within as soon as possible."

Chen Jichuan was delighted.

He had come to Dai County three full months ago. After settling down, he treated patients, and his reputation spread. People from the martial world had come seeking medical treatment as well.

Those people had seen much and knew much, and Chen Jichuan had gathered quite a bit of information from them.

He learned that.

The Liang World also had its own martial world.

Among the many practitioners of martial arts were those who trained fist and leg techniques or hard-body methods, similar to the Seventy-Two Chen Sect Arts. There were also those who cultivated inner force, similar to the Divine Pounce Blade and the Ghost-Fall Sword.

The former could further be divided into external martial arts and internal martial arts.

It was difficult to say which was stronger.

Some were exceptionally gifted, such as those born with divine strength. If they practiced external martial arts and reached the pinnacle, even Hidden Force experts, or even Transformative Force Realm grandmasters, would find it hard to withstand them.

One force subdued ten thousand techniques.

They truly could not be provoked.

For ordinary people, external martial arts had the advantage of being quick to learn and quick to show results. But when it came to long-term prospects, internal martial arts were still superior.

Internal martial arts were "moving arts."

Inner force cultivation methods, meanwhile, were "still arts."

Every sect and school.

Had its own specialty.

There were as countless experts in the martial world as the vast sea.

Some had reached the Transformative Force Realm, some had reached the Innate Realm, and some were invincible through external arts. They were far more formidable than those of the Great Yan World, and far more dazzling as well.

Beyond these martial artists.

The Liang World also had spirits, ghosts, demons, and evil entities causing harm everywhere.

A lone yin could not give birth.

A lone yang could not grow.

Where there was a dark side, there was a bright side.

Daoism and Buddhism.

Were the nemeses of ghosts, demons, and evil entities.

"Supreme Moon Palace Lunar Yin Primordial Lady Filial Dao Immortal King Golden Splendor Yellow Plain Scripture."

"It is a Daoist scripture containing a true method—the Grand Yin Body-Refining Method."

Whether Dao Sect methods or Buddhist methods, both were far more obscure than ordinary martial arts manuals. They contained many technical terms that only Daoists and monks who cultivated the Dao or recited Buddhist scriptures could interpret.

True methods were often hidden within scriptures.

Without understanding the scriptures.

It was difficult to obtain the true methods.

The Grand Yin Body-Refining Method cultivated by Erban and Ban Feifei was like this, concealed within the Supreme Moon Palace Lunar Yin Primordial Lady Filial Dao Immortal King Golden Splendor Yellow Plain Scripture.

Only by reading it through completely.

Could one cultivate it.

Chen Jichuan had read quite a few Daoist and Buddhist scriptures in the Great Yan World as well.

But now that he had changed worlds, many principles might have been similar, yet the wording, allusions, and terminology were entirely different.

In just three months.

The few Daoist scripture commentaries he had gathered from the market were clearly not enough. If Chen Jichuan did not wish to seek instruction at a Daoist temple, he would have to keep studying and accumulating knowledge.

Fortunately—

Chen Jichuan had plenty of time.

Thus, over the following days, Chen Jichuan continued cultivating to strengthen himself while studying other Daoist texts to interpret the Supreme Moon Palace Lunar Yin Primordial Lady Filial Dao Immortal King Golden Splendor Yellow Plain Scripture, hoping to comprehend the true method soon.

His ordinary medical visits did not bring in enough money for cultivation.

So Chen Jichuan returned to his old ways and opened a theater.

A theater was not a brothel or pleasure house! Chen Jichuan was not a pimp or madam either!!

It was equivalent to a theater from his previous life.

Only, it offered all kinds of performances, such as variety dramas, historical storytelling, ballad suites, puppet shows, shadow plays, acrobatics, and other arts. Since Chen Jichuan came from the modern age, he also added crosstalk, storytelling, Peking opera, vocal mimicry, song and dance, and other programs.

Whatever received a good response was kept.

Whatever failed to suit the local soil and water was cut.

Dai County had originally been prosperous.

There had once been more than ten theaters or similar establishments in the entertainment market. In recent years, most had gone under, leaving only two barely hanging on.

First, people's spending power had declined. Second, the performances were too stale and failed to draw an audience.

Chen Jichuan brought them together.

Drawing on the White Jade Capital model from Great Yan, while combining Liang customs, culture, anecdotes, and historical allusions to arrange the programs, he established a theater that became an instant sensation once more.

Time flashed by.

A year passed.

One day, deep in the night.

Chen Jichuan sat cross-legged in the courtyard, bathing in moonlight and entering Meditation Entry with a tranquil heart.

Each breath in and out.

Subtly matched a certain rhythm.

Vaguely, Chen Jichuan seemed to see a wondrous existence—empty and ethereal, hazy and indistinct, impossible to see clearly and even less possible to grasp.

"This is—"

"My soul?"

A thought stirred in Chen Jichuan's mind. Startled, he fell out of that state.

He only felt his spirit exhausted to the extreme.

When he looked at the hourglass beside him, half an hour had somehow already passed.

"Does this count as entering the gate and reaching the level of 'Meditation Entry'?" Chen Jichuan was somewhat bewildered. He took out the Supreme Moon Palace Lunar Yin Primordial Lady Filial Dao Immortal King Golden Splendor Yellow Plain Scripture from beneath the stone table in the courtyard.

The central purpose of this scripture was to exhort people to make loyalty, filial piety, integrity, and prudence their foundation, using the cultivation of one's temperament and inner alchemy as the method. Then the Dao of alchemy could be achieved.

It secretly contained the inner alchemy method, the Grand Yin Body-Refining Method.

If it were the complete version.

It should also have contained a matching outer alchemy method, as well as other inner alchemy methods, talismans, and incantations.

Unfortunately.

What Erban possessed was only a fragment. It had barely preserved one Grand Yin Body-Refining Method for cultivation, but lacking other methods for joint cultivation and verification, and lacking the support of outer alchemy, it was exceptionally difficult to cultivate.

And even if it were mastered.

There would be no magical artifacts.

No talismans or incantations.

No Dao Arts.

Other than strengthening the soul, deepening one's foundations, and warding off external evils, it had no other use.

A year had passed in the Liang World.

In actuality, Chen Jichuan had spent half a year inside it.

For the first two months, he had pored over every word and sentence, using Erban as a reference, and had barely managed to interpret the Grand Yin Body-Refining Method.

For the next four months.

He cultivated every night at midnight, yet there had been no movement at all.

But tonight—

"The first realm of Dao Arts is called 'Meditation Entry.' By reciting Daoist scriptures and texts, subduing the mind's monkey and will's horse, and making one's thoughts clear and pure, free of stray thoughts, one achieves 'Meditation Entry.' Only upon entering this level can one sense where one's own soul resides, and only then can one cultivate methods to strengthen the soul."

Chen Jichuan leafed through the scripture, comparing it to the profoundly mysterious state he had entered moments earlier.

A smile appeared on his face.

By the time he closed the scripture, he had already reached a conclusion. "I sensed my soul. Meditation Entry has been achieved!"

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