Water Spirit Art

Granny Liu's health gradually improved, and now she could feed the Hundred Treasures chickens by herself!

Word of Divine Physician Xiao Feng had spread. The villagers never failed to mention Divine Physician Xiao in their conversations over tea after meals. Now Xiao Feng was hiding in his room, too afraid to show himself. "My medical skills are brilliant, but surely I can't bring the dead back to life? Granny Liu's lamp had plainly burned dry, yet one dose of a nourishing medicine cured her completely? When I checked her pulse yesterday, all her ailments really were gone. What on earth happened?"

"Divine Physician Xiao, why are you still hiding in your room? Aren't you going out to enjoy your moment in the spotlight?" Ye Fan teased as he came through the door.

"Xiao Fan, stop making fun of me. My medical skills are brilliant, but I'm still a tiny bit short of my father! Even the old man said Granny Liu's time was... Oh, but what on earth happened?"

"Brother Feng, why think so much about it? Isn't the most important thing that Granny Liu has recovered? You still deserve a great deal of credit!"

"That's right, big brother. Granny Liu has recovered from her serious illness. We should be happy! I'll make a few extra dishes today so we can celebrate properly!" said Ke'er, who had finished her work at the pharmacy.

"Whatever the case, it's a good thing and worth celebrating. Xiao Fan, stay and eat with us. Let's see, it's been more than half a month since Dad left. He should be back soon. Once he's home, I won't get this kind of treatment anymore!"

After the three finished eating, Ye Fan chatted with the siblings for a while before getting up to leave.

Father Ye had been gone so long that it would have been a lie to say Ye Fan wasn't worried. After all, he had promised to be away for only half a month! Now it had already been well over that. Father, I really should have gone with you...

The old village chief and his party were on their way back. As the saying went, happy events put a spring in one's step. The matter of where to relocate had been settled, and everyone felt relieved. They walked with the wind at their heels~

"At this rate, we should reach the Endless Mountains in another two days. I wonder how things are in the village now? We've been away quite a while this time."

"Old village chief, we were delayed a few days, but at least perseverance paid off in the end! Haha..."

"That's right, moving the village is a matter of the utmost importance. I can feel it-our days will only get better and better!"

"Haha..."

By the time they reached this point in their journey, the old village chief and his party had long since spent all their travel money. The outside world was unlike the Endless Mountains, where even if you had money, there was nowhere to spend it! Out here, there were plenty of things that required money!

Night fell. In the Endless Mountains that night, lightning flashed and thunder roared, while rain fell like a curtain of pearls. Ye Fan stood by the window, looking out at the mountains in the rain. "When it thundered and rained back then, Father would coax me and hold me in his arms! Now I've become the pillar of the family myself! Time is a thief..."

Rumble...

Thunder rolled without cease as light and shadow crossed, and bolts of lightning tore through the sky.

Suddenly, Ye Fan noticed something unusual. Light shimmered in one spot, reflecting off the mountains, and a faint blue glow spilled out even through the curtain of rain.

"What's that? Could the lightning just now have struck a tree and started a mountain fire?" He immediately cast the thought to the ninth cloud. A mountain fire? It was still raining! How could there be a mountain fire?

"Should I go take a look? If I hide in my own world, nothing serious should happen, right?"

With a thought, Ye Fan flashed into his new world, leaving only a tiny opening. "Better be careful. If I get struck by lightning, that'll be trouble!"

Peering through the opening, Ye Fan got his bearings and guided the new world forward. Lightning still flashed and thunder roared outside, but it didn't seem to affect the new world.

In this way, Ye Fan carefully guided the new world through the flashes of lightning and peals of thunder until he reached the spot shining with blue light!

It was halfway up a mountain. Presumably, the heavy rain had washed out a hollow, and a blue jade box lay quietly inside it, giving off light!

"What's this? The box looks expensive. It must be a treasure!" With a thought, he drew the box into his inner world!

He picked up the box and examined it closely. Carved on it was an image of a beautiful woman ascending as an immortal! Clad in splendid silk robes, with ribbons fluttering, she rose on the wind, chasing clouds and pursuing the moon! The box was so exquisite. Whatever was inside had to be very valuable!

Ye Fan carefully opened the treasure box. Rosy light shimmered, dazzling his eyes. Inside was a pendant of mutton-fat jade!

"How could something like this be halfway up a mountain? It looks very old! Where did it come from?"

When the light faded, Ye Fan picked up the jade pendant and examined it closely. It had to be very valuable. The whole pendant was flawless, white as mutton fat and as lustrous as oil! It really was a fine thing.

"I'll give it to Ke'er tomorrow. She'll definitely love it!"

Just then, the jade pendant in his palm flashed with a milky-white halo, broke free of his grasp, and floated in midair, facing him!

"This..." Startled, Ye Fan even wanted to hurry and throw the pendant out of his inner world.

How do I keep running into all these strange things!

Who would believe this if I told them!!!

The jade pendant hung quietly in the air! Ye Fan stared up at it in a daze and carefully backed away several steps!

As Ye Fan quietly backed away, a screen of light abruptly formed above the pendant suspended in the air!

Light flowed across it, shifting unpredictably. Before long, the screen stopped displaying colors, and symbols like ink brushstrokes constantly flickered and moved, densely filling the screen.

"Water Spirit Art. Heaven gives rise to ten thousand things, and that which excels in water leads the way! Water nourishes all things and benefits the world..."

Dense ink-black characters appeared on the screen!

"Water Spirit Art, what is this? There are way too many characters!"

Ye Fan gave it a quick read. Not only were there a lot of characters, but they were also obscure and hard to understand.

I'd better hurry home. Even though I'm in my own inner world, these mountains still aren't very safe.

Just as Ye Fan was about to guide the inner world back, the ink-black characters moved again, turning into white light that entered his sea of consciousness.

"I..." Ye Fan froze. There must be something special about my body. Otherwise, why does everything keep wanting to enter it? The world seed did this, and now this Water Spirit Art I can't understand has done it too... Sigh, I don't know whether this is good or bad...

While Ye Fan was muttering to himself, the white light that had poured into his sea of consciousness flowed along his meridians like a trickling stream, circulating again and again.

The complete cultivation method of the Water Spirit Art was engraved in Ye Fan's mind, along with the insights of the person who had created it!

"So this is immortal cultivation: seizing the fortune of heaven and earth to strengthen oneself and defying the heavens-that is immortal cultivation!"