"To be honest, Senior, after Junior learned that Senior Zhang had given this technique to the family head, Junior thought that it would be a thousand hardships and ten thousand difficulties to obtain it again," Wen Zhen explained awkwardly. "So Junior used discussing the technique with Senior Zhang as a pretext to secretly copy it. Senior Zhang was an exceedingly good man. He knew Junior's intentions, and sometimes Junior did not even need to copy it—he would give Junior two copies!"
"Alas, the ancients spoke well: only after losing something does one know the preciousness of possessing it!" Old Man Gu Qiong sighed. "Before this, we kept discussing Fellow Daoist Zhang Xiaohua's origins. Now it seems that whether he came from the Dao Alliance, the Heaven Alliance, or even the Lost Land, he was still a Daoist sect cultivator. So long as he could help us revise our cultivation techniques and allow our Daoist sect to survive and flourish amid the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi aberration, he... was the savior of our Daoist sect!"
"Unfortunately, Fellow Daoist Zhang has already fallen!" True Person Ji Yan sighed as well, though he still raised the jade slip in his hand. "Fortunately, before his death, he left behind some cultivation techniques. Not only can we let our younger generations cultivate these techniques, but we can also use them as models to comprehend his methods of revising techniques and revise even more cultivation techniques!"
At this point, True Person Ji Yan looked at Wen Qingfan and said, "Of course, these cultivation technique jade slips were obtained by the Dao Alliance from the Wen family. This old man will issue an Alliance Leader's order, allowing the Wen family to atone for its merits, and the Wen family will be richly rewarded!"
"Thank you, Seniors,