Carrying on the past and opening the future, the dragon awakened and the pills were complete (5,000 words offered, monthly

votes requested at the start of the month~)

"Good."

Cheng Xinzhan accepted the jade box.

He had originally intended to send Lion to fetch it, but a few days earlier, some friends from Juqü Mountain who managed affairs in the Haoran Alliance had come to visit. From them, he had learned that his two disciples happened to be slaying demons around the Miao Borderlands, so he had sent word asking them to collect it from Fuxia Lake and make this special trip.

As it happened, both disciples were about to undergo Core Formation. It was time he showed them some concern, too.

"If you have any questions about your cultivation, ask away."

Lin Mingxu and Zhuming Yue exchanged a glance, each seeing the delighted surprise in the other's eyes. How could cultivation be free of questions? Some could be resolved through their own contemplation; others remained incomprehensible no matter how hard they thought. But who was their master? The Myriad-Dharma Scripture Master, Master Guangfa, the man whose "Master Guangfa's Explanation of the Essentials of Shangqing Spirit Preservation" and "Starlight and Moonlight Purifying Body Spell" had entered the Shangqing Daoist Canon. What was there he did not understand?

Both eagerly began asking questions.

Feeling he had fallen short toward his two disciples, Cheng Xinzhan answered in considerable detail, and whenever he expanded on a question, he would casually teach them another spell as well. This discussion of the Dao between master and disciples, their first in so long, actually continued for seven days and seven nights.

Lin Mingxu and Zhuming Yue felt as though the tangled brush blocking their understanding had suddenly been swept away.

After answering their questions, Cheng Xinzhan took out four lead bottles and handed them to his two disciples, saying,

"Mingxu, you cultivate the stellar Dao of