Zuo Qiu Yi's words made the old man pause, then shake his head with a laugh. "You really dare to ask. This old man wants the Daoist Canon too. But no one in this world seems to have succeeded in obtaining all three treatises, have they?"
"The one you have," Zuo Qiu Yi said, staring at the old man. "Quite a few people know the Treatise on Seeking the Dao, and I'm one of them, so I don't need that one. I believe you must have one of the other two."
"You're that certain?"
"Given your identity alone, you ought to have one."
"That's right. I have the second, the Treatise on Enlightenment. Unfortunately, I have no clues whatsoever about the third, the Treatise on Attaining the Dao, and no way to find it."
"Then trade the Treatise on Enlightenment for it."
The old man smiled. "Aren't you being a little too greedy?"
"I'm in no hurry," Zuo Qiu Yi said calmly. "If you change your mind someday, this offer will still stand."
Listening to their conversation, Huo Lian felt anything but calm.
He and Huang Xiao had obtained the Treatise on Seeking the Dao.
He had never expected that quite a few others knew it too.
Judging by Zuo Qiu Yi's tone, however, those who knew the Treatise on Seeking the Dao were probably experts on their level.
Is it only one part of that Daoist Canon? Huo Lian marveled inwardly.
He and Huang Xiao had yet to fully comprehend even the Treatise on Seeking the Dao. One could say they had understood only a small portion.
The mysteries within it had benefited both him and Huang Xiao immensely.
The ultimate of the Dao-anything taken to its utmost extreme was an incomparably astonishing existence.
But actually reaching that point