"I only wonder where you obtained this Formation, young friend?"
"This junior was fortunate enough to enter the Langhuan Blessed Land once. That's where I found it."
"You have excellent luck, young friend."
Qiao Ranran smiled. She had told this lie so many times that she had come to believe it herself. "It was just a stroke of luck. I think that even with only an incomplete manuscript, Your Venerability could devise an Acupuncture Technique that suited you. If there are any discrepancies, they're probably due to the Cultivation Manual. That's why the Illusory Sea Heart Sutra was the first thing I thought of. It has no other use; it only stabilizes and enhances the Flower-Transposing Acupuncture Technique while the needles are being applied. I thought you would need it more."
"If you give everything away, young friend, what will you have left to rely on?" Venerable Muhua smiled at Qiao Ranran. He looked at her as though she were a willful child who didn't know any better. Everything she had done was to help him, yet he still thought the girl was too foolish.
But Qiao Ranran smiled. "What I rely on is far more than this Formation and sutra." A flicker of guilt passed through her. Then she pressed her lips together and said, "Besides, giving these to you doesn't mean I can't use them anymore, right? The farther Medicine spreads and the more people who learn it, the more people benefit. Sharing Medicine doesn't make the person who first knew it forget it! Spreading it throughout the world is a good thing. After all, if you hadn't obtained that incomplete manuscript of the Flower-Transposing Acupuncture Technique, you wouldn't have spent so many years studying it, would you?"
Venerable Muhua nodded with a smile. "Well said, young friend.