Cui Jingzhong frowned deeply at this and hurriedly waved his hands in refusal, but unable to decline, he could only open it for a look.
"Qi Lingzi? Which master was this...?"
Seeing the large characters on the cover, Cui Jingzhong was initially rather baffled. He thought it over but could find no such name in his memory.
But when he turned to the section on alchemical arts and medicinal principles, before long, his expression grew animated. His eyes blazed with light and fixed upon the pages, utterly engrossed.
Chen Heng smiled faintly at this. He did not hurry him, merely watched Cui Jingzhong read carefully, page by page.
This spell of absorption did not last long, however.
Before long, Cui Jingzhong raised his eyes and could not help remarking:
"For a figure like this to have left not the slightest reputation behind is truly a pity. The affairs of this world really are strange..."
Qi Lingzi’s Secret Instructions for His Direct Disciples brought alchemy, talisman-making, array consecration, spirit-rearing, and all manner of other arts together in one book.
Its scope was extraordinarily broad, revealing the hidden and elucidating the subtle, encompassing almost everything!
And back in the Flowing Fire Grand Transformation Grotto-Heaven, the clues in that Underground Palace alone had been enough to hazard a rough guess.
Qi Lingzi had served as Huo Xia Patriarch's right-hand man and held an extremely high position!
Presumably, he had been valued so highly because his talent in these auxiliary arts had reached the very pinnacle, a level even Huo Xia Patriarch could not disregard.
Moreover, alchemical arts and medicinal principles accounted for the largest portion of Qi Lingzi’s Secret Instructions for His Direct Disciples, fully half its contents.
Besides the methods of Taking Earth and Making Charcoal, the Three Prohibitions and Six