Seeing Zhang Xiaohua's restless, anxious look, Nie Qianyu smiled. "Rest assured, Brother Ren. The Incense-Passing Cult's visits to Hui Chun Valley aren't fixed to an exact date, but the year is fixed. They should certainly come this year. It has been a tradition for hundreds, even thousands of years. Even if Hui Chun Valley suffered some calamity, the Incense-Passing Cult would still come. There is absolutely no reason for them not to come this year."
Zhang Xiaohua patted his chest. "Thank goodness. You gave me quite a scare."
The two chatted and laughed for a while longer, then Nie Qianyu took the pages and returned to the outer valley.
As usual, Zhang Xiaohua sat cross-legged on the grass cushion and contemplated the rabbit talismans. After such a long period of study, he had already comprehended more than half of the three hundred and sixty-five talismans. He was now on the one hundred and eighty-third. Yet this one hundred and eighty-third talisman had taken him three full days, and he still had made no progress whatsoever.
After another while, Zhang Xiaohua opened his eyes dejectedly. Since he had begun contemplating the rabbit talismans, only the first few had posed some difficulty. Of the next hundred or so, he could comprehend several simple ones in a day, while even the complicated ones took no more than two days each. Yet now, having barely reached the halfway mark, he had spent four days on a single talisman without the slightest sign of a breakthrough. Had he entered a bottleneck?
After pondering for a long time, Zhang Xiaohua decided to set the rabbit talisman aside for the moment. After all, he still had many things to cultivate. As for restrictions and formations, there was still a portion of the jade slips Fire Dragon True