Soul Lamp
Ding Yue smiled upon hearing this:
"The path of cultivation is extremely difficult. While Spirit Root are important, even more crucial are one's character and fortuitous opportunity. You possess both character and fortuitous opportunity. I won't ask where you obtained the talisman treasure, but acquiring it is your fortuitous opportunity, which is even more important to us cultivators than Spirit Root."
"Like you, I possess Low-Grade Spirit Root. My success today is due to relentless effort and a bit of fortuitous opportunity. You are remarkably similar to me in my youth."
"Ah!" Zhang Zhonghu was stunned for a moment, then blurted out, "If I am killed by someone in the future, will Master still accept that person as a disciple?"
Ding Yue paused, then continued walking into the hall.
"If you were to die at the hands of your own kind, I naturally wouldn't avenge you. All I can do is ensure that no one dares to bully the weak. You probably understand!"
Zhang Zhonghu subconsciously reached up and scratched his hair. "Disciple seems to understand Master's meaning. If I were to die at the hands of my peers, it would be because I am incompetent, and naturally I cannot expect Master to stand up for me."
Ding Yue nodded and said, "That's right. The Ascension Immortal Sect has eight lineages of disciples. Although the competition is fierce, there are also rules to ensure the orderly inheritance. You can go all out in the future, and your master will support you in everything."
Zhang Zhonghu became excited, his voice rising several octaves. "Disciple understands!"
As they spoke, the two entered the main hall. Zhang Zhonghu followed them to a side hall, where they saw a wall of steps. Each step had a bronze lamp on it. The bottom steps had the most lamps, and many of them were extinguished. The higher they went, the fewer lamps there were. At the very top, there was only one bronze lamp.
Ding Yue beckoned, and an extinguished bronze lamp flew into his hand. "This is the Soul Lamp that every disciple of each lineage possesses. When the lamp is lit, the person is alive; when the lamp goes out, the person dies. At the same time, it can also illuminate everything that happened before death when the lamp goes out."
He handed the lamp to Zhang Zhonghu, saying, "Light this lamp with your soul, and you will become a disciple of my Seven Ingenious Workshop lineage."
"Yes!" Zhang Zhonghu took the Soul Lamp and looked at the wick. He then realized why he had been found so easily. It turned out that all the disciples who had entered the eight major meridians had left behind Soul Lamp.
*****
Inside the courtyard, Fang Yu watched Zhang Zhonghu light the Soul Lamp, lost in thought.
This method of sensing life and death with one's soul was nothing special to him. Dao of Qi Ingestion there were too many similar wonders over there. Not to mention anything else, even his own inner fire possessed such wonders.
Comparatively speaking, this method of using Soul Lamp is not only inconvenient, but also has many hidden dangers.
The remaining wisp of soul can be used for a great many things; sensing life and death is merely the most basic of these abilities.
If I were to enter the Eight Extraordinary Meridians in the future, I would need to prepare in advance not to leave my soul within them, as that would be tantamount to leaving a huge handle against me.
On the other hand, if one can control these Soul Lamp, one can use their connection with the main body to perform various secret techniques to influence the corresponding subject.
Fang Yu pondered for a moment, then took a sip of tea, his gaze falling on Zhang Zhonghu.
Previously, he thought Zhang Zhonghu had a hint of being a chosen one of destiny. Now, not only has he turned misfortune into good fortune, but he has also become a disciple of a Nascent Soul. He is no longer just a chosen one of destiny, but a chosen one of destiny.
The chosen one will encounter all sorts of fortuitous opportunity, and the assistance one previously provided to him may well have been influenced by his luck.
This Great Scarlet Heaven is not the Black-Yellow Realm, so it doesn't have as many means to suppress the development of the Child of Destiny. I will definitely have to pay more attention to it in the future, and who knows, I might be able to get some benefits out of it.
For example, through this, we have learned about the specific implementation plan of the Ascension Immortal Sect for the orderly inheritance of its traditions.
In general, the policy encourages competition among peers and prohibits bullying. Even if bullying is necessary, it must be done through disciples of the same level to avoid escalating the conflict. It prevents situations where the death of a Qi Refining Realm genius disciple leads to a fight between two Nascent Soul monsters.
Of course, we should be extra careful with the sons and grandsons of those Nascent Soul monsters. If we really kill them, we will break the unspoken rules and attract irresistible forces.
*****
Several months later.
Zhang Zhonghu came to visit.
"Senior Brother Zhang, please come in quickly!"
Fang Yu warmly invited Zhang Zhonghu, who had broken through to the seventh level of the Qi Refining Late Stage, into the courtyard, and while brewing tea, said:
"I never imagined that Senior Brother Zhang would actually become a disciple of Nascent Soul Ancestor! This is truly a meteoric rise, his future is limitless!"
"Hahaha! I didn't expect you to have heard about it too!" Zhang Zhonghu laughed. "I never thought I would be chosen by my master and become a disciple of the Seven Ingenious Workshop lineage."
Fang Yu pushed a bowl of tea in front of Zhang Zhonghu and said with a smile, "Now that you've become a disciple of the Seven Ingenious Workshop lineage, don't forget to help your junior brother out!"
Zhang Zhonghu picked up his teacup, about to drink it all in one gulp, but then seemed to remember something and stopped, taking only a sip before saying, "We come from the same region, so we should naturally look after each other. I'm not a brainless person like Wu Youtian. Look, I've come today because of some good news."
"What good news?" Fang Yu asked, his spirits lifting.
Zhang Zhonghu laughed and said, "Of course I need your help to refine medicine!"
As he spoke, he took out a Storage Bag and handed it over.
Fang Yu took it, and a quick scan with his Divine Sense revealed that it was filled with all sorts of first-tier spirit medicine. "So many?"
"Not much, not much, this is nothing!" Zhang Zhonghu laughed. "I heard you've been refining pills for others for free to improve their Dao of Alchemy skills lately, so I'm here to help you out. I won't take advantage of you; we'll split all the pills we refine 30/70, how about that?"
Fang Yu nodded repeatedly, cupped his hands, and said, "Thank you for your care, Senior Brother. I will certainly do my best and will not let you down!"
"Hahaha!" Zhang Zhonghu said, raising his teacup again and taking a sip, then grinning, "Um, I have another favor to ask you for?"
"What is it, Senior Brother? Please speak freely," Fang Yu said, picking up the teapot.
"It's just a small matter!" Zhang Zhonghu looked at the teapot in Fang Yu's hand and said, "To be honest, my master also enjoys tea ceremony, but I know nothing about it. I see that you are quite particular about drinking tea here, and your tea set is even more exquisite than the one my master uses. So I would like to ask you to teach me how to brew tea, so that I can drink tea with my master in the future."
"Uh!" Fang Yu was slightly taken aback. He really didn't expect that Zhang Zhonghu's real purpose in coming to him was to learn the tea ceremony. It seemed that Zhang Zhonghu was not as simple as he appeared on the surface, and was also a person who knew how to flatter.
"No problem!" Fang Yu immediately laughed, "What's so difficult about that? I'll teach you right away!"
Fang Yu waved his hand and took out several kinds of common spiritual teas that he often drank, placing them one by one on the tea table.
"The most important thing about drinking tea is being able to tell what truly good tea is. Take the 'Sparrow Bud' tea I have here, for example. Based on its processing method, it can be divided into seven different flavors..."