The Arcane Linguist
Chapter 137

The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon and the Nine Needles of Supreme Simplicity

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In Snowfort, Roland woke from his dreams once again. Feeling the shift between illusion and reality, he marveled from the bottom of his heart.

"Dream Sprites really are amazing!"

He got out of bed and saw a stack of fully transcribed material on the desk, which only deepened his admiration.

I do love copying books in my dreams...

This really is a miraculous trick for efficiency!

He now felt as though he had encountered the "Snail Girl."

Like the Snail Girl, the Dream Sprite always finished a great deal of work for Roland without him even noticing.

His efficiency in bringing material over had improved enormously. In just a few days, he had produced the relevant figures and the works attributed to them.

Most of it still concerned their venerable ancestor, the Yellow Emperor.

This included works on cultivating the body and nurturing one's nature, such as The Mysterious Maiden Scripture, The Plain Maiden Scripture, and the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon.

These works might seem unremarkable, but they were the source of important concepts in later martial arts, traditional Chinese medicine, meridians, and yin-yang and the five elements.

According to later research, The Plain Maiden Scripture might have been completed sometime between the Warring States period and the two Han dynasties, then circulated and revised among common people during the Six Dynasties. Its title first appeared in Ge Hong's Baopuzi Inner Chapters: A Survey of Books, written during the Jin Dynasty, and its author was unknown.

Here, however, Roland simply brought it over as well to flesh out the "character" of the Yellow Emperor, the venerable founding ancestor of Huaxia civilization.

"Darling, what are you reading? Is this your latest masterpiece?"

As he read, a languid voice came from behind him. A voluptuous, mature body embraced him from behind as

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