A Name Left Behind, a View Beyond Compare

"True Person Chu, this 'Record of the Harmony of Medicine and Stone in the Northern Heaven' is the culmination of a thousand years of alchemy practice in our Northern Daoist school, and it also contains some of my own original ideas."

To express my gratitude to True Person Chu for eliminating the great scourge that is Celebration of the Sage Temple, I wish to present this item to True Person.

"Why be so polite... wait, the prologue of your book mentions the Great Void Formless Sha Fire?"

"Indeed, when I discussed the Dao with Tongxuan, I discovered the wondrous uses of the Great Void Formless Sha Fire."

Although its nature is fierce, it can alter the foundation of the potential of living beings, regardless of whether they are human, beast, insect, or ghost, and naturally it can also be used in medicine.

Although I cannot understand why Tongxuan was able to collect so much Great Void Formless Sha Fire, according to the records of the Daoist sages, meteorites that fall from the sky and are not destroyed upon landing often carry Great Void Formless Sha Qi.

Therefore, I traveled to various places to search for unusual stones. Although I did not find many meteorites, I did find several unique mineral deposits.

I cultivated herbs in the mine. With Attaining the Dao enlightened state of mind, I observed them closely and found that the same herbs grown inside the mine were indeed vastly different from those grown outside.

Over the years, we, the humble Daoist priest and others, have not only gained more experience in the prescriptions for resolving the Moon Turbidity, but also developed a method to harmonize the Earth Lung Formless Sha Fire and transform it for our own use.

Its essence overlaps with the utilization of the Great Void Formless Sha Fire, which may help True Person Chu master the secret techniques of the Tongxuan Sect.

This is part of the conversation between Chu Tianshu and Daoist Kou on that day.

Now, sitting in the deep valley, leaning against a pine tree, he flips through these astonishingly thick manuals with print smaller than ants, and he still vividly remembers how he felt back then.

Is this some kind of medical compendium?!

They're literally using herbal samples as mothers and radioactive materials as fathers to cultivate new herbs.

Why not just call it "Observation Notes on Radiation Breeding by the Northern Celestial Master"?

Honestly, the research on radiation breeding in my hometown wasn't this outrageous.

After all, back in his hometown, there isn't a single Taboo expert who's so idle that he can spend all his time squatting by the herb garden, practicing his internal energy to study the changes and combinations of radiation and herbs.

However, my hometown already has a very broad foundation for research and application in radiation.

If we bring this information back, its practical value will be no less than that of the stone tablets of the Tongxuan Sect.

After all, even if those stone tablets have a higher limit, there is still a lot of content that remains undeciphered.

This document, however, is crystal clear and detailed, with every important point described in great detail.

If we apply this to the existing technology in our hometown, it will probably blossom into something new very soon.

Moreover, the Tongxuan Sect used a lot of Demonic Dao perspectives when deciphering the stone tablet technology.

In comparison, these manuscripts by the Northern Celestial Master can be considered to represent the perspective of a normal practitioner.

Even though, due to global environmental issues, the characteristics of cultivation abilities among those who practice normally in their native regions are somewhat different from those in their hometowns.

However, Chu Tianshu had already made comparisons in this regard.

If domestic spiritual practitioners were to learn some internal Refining Spirit into Qi, the quality of their internal energy would be in the same category as that of the Northern Celestial Masters' Way.

If the Special Investigation Bureau still doesn't have enough manpower in this area...

The disciples of unorthodox practices who had gathered together in their own pharmacy all happened to be following the path of Refining Spirit into Qi into qi.

With the revival of the Spirit Realm, the pharmacy will cultivate an increasingly large workforce, which will provide talent for research in this area.

"My Calming Spirit Pharmacy..."

Chu Tianshu muttered to himself, a smile unconsciously appearing on his face.

His plans for the pharmacy and Dragon Gate Way were completely different.

Given the current situation, the Dragon Gate Way must fight and struggle; without ruthlessness, it cannot stand firm, and without ruthlessness, it cannot suppress the Demonic Dao.

The fact that the Dragon Gate Way Path teaches the Thirteen Death-Claiming Swords upon entry will not change.

In Chu Tianshu's mind, the pharmacy was more like a safe haven, and it relied on a supporting business model for profit.

It's clear from the initial team that they weren't primarily skilled in direct combat, but they were involved in things that could support combat power.

It's something you don't use often in normal times, but it provides a solid foundation when you really need to.

Are you leaving?

Suddenly, the pine tree transmitted a sound.

Chu Tianshu was taken aback. "How did you figure that out?"

"Intuition."

The pine branch swayed slightly, extending and bending in front of Chu Tianshu, forming a small, icy teacup containing a small cup of truffles.

Chu Tianshu placed the book on his lap, took the truffle with his left hand, and with his right hand, he squeezed out a ball of water essence, shaped it into a cup, and placed it on the pine branch.

"Strange, didn't you already possess the ability to manifest your spirit before?"

Chu Tianshu took a sip of the truffle and casually remarked, "Every time I see you with Xiaolan, you look like a spirit, but when you talk to me, you always seem like a tree?"

The pine tree speaks its mind.

Chu Tianshu's cup stiffened slightly. "Huh? I've never done anything strange to your soul, have I?"

"It's just an instinct."

The pine tree said, "Your presence is too strong for me. Just having my spirit appear in front of you gives me the feeling that I'll die if you make a move."

Even knowing you won't take action, I still prefer chatting with you in my physical form.

Okay.

Chu Tianshu shook his head slightly and drank a little more truffle.

"And then..."

The pine tree suddenly said, "Xiaolan helps me come up with a name, but you don't."

Chu Tianshu coughed lightly, feeling both amused and exasperated.

"Fellow Daoist Tree, given your cultivation and experience, it would be impolite of me to presume to name you."

The pine tree always accepted the title "fellow Daoist".

Chu Tianshu thought that the other party was naturally indifferent to fame and reputation.

Pine Tree said, "So, if I invite you, would you be willing to help me think of a name?"

"Certainly."

Chu Tianshu smiled, turned his head, and looked up at the treetop. "Let me hear what name Xiaolan Lan gave you, fellow Daoist?"

After rattling off a long list of names, the pine tree hesitated and said, "I think 'Songshu' is a good name."

"But to be a person, you should have a surname, right? Xiaolan said I could be named Zhuo, but I don't really want to be called Zhuo Songshu."

Chu Tianshu repeated twice, "Songshu, the sound is similar to a pine tree. If we're talking about the meaning of the words, do you like reading?"

The pine tree said, "I enjoy listening to people tell stories and watching them act out the things in the books, but I don't like reading them myself. Words are static, and they're lifeless."

"Words are full of fun. The shapes of characters, even their arrangement, are incredibly varied. Some of these can't be appreciated just by listening to audiobooks. For example, there was an author I really liked who used words to create illustrations, like eight horses surrounding a person... well, that guy was probably just trying to get more words!"

Chu Tianshu did not agree with the other party's opinion, but he did not dwell on the topic and simply continued to ponder it.

"Songshu means reading them; you enjoy listening to books, but you don't actually read them yourself."

"A common surname, when placed before these two characters, sounds like someone is reading a book to themselves; no wonder you're not satisfied."

Thinking of this, he looked up at the treetop, his gaze piercing through the gaps in the branches to see the vast blue sky and wispy white clouds, and couldn't help but smile.

"The clouds have changed, but the pine trees remain."

"How about Yun Songshu? The white clouds travel in all directions, reading through a thousand years of history, all of which you can clearly hear."

The pine branches swayed gently, and a breeze stirred, causing the surrounding grass to rustle.

The pine tree exclaimed happily, "I like this name, let's call it that!"

Chu Tianshu picked up the book, stood up, and patted the tree trunk.

"Listening to the Yun Songshu is a pleasant experience, but you mustn't develop the bad habit of reading from the clouds, relying only on hearsay and not knowing the true content."

"I just don't like reading for long periods of time, it's not that I really won't read at all, besides, Xiaolan reads to me."

Yun Songshu laughed happily, repeatedly reciting his own name.

"Thank you. Many people in my memory have become blurry, but you helped me choose a name, and I will remember it for a long time."

"I hope that when you come back, I'll be able to pull up tree roots and run all over the mountain."

Chu Tianshu imagined it for a moment.

It feels like even if it's just to see this scene, he'll definitely come back to this valley next time he's here.

"Then I'll look forward to it, fellow calligrapher."

Chu Tianshu turned and walked away, waving his book in farewell.

"I still need to say a few words to Xiao Liang and Xiaolan. Until we meet again!"

The pine branches all swayed, as if waving their hands vigorously.

Half an hour later, Chu Tianshu walked out of the valley, watched by a group of people.

The legend of this number one person in the world traveling overseas and visiting various countries will soon spread.

In reality, Chu Tianshu only walked a dozen miles before returning to his hometown.

The furnishings in the house are still the same, but there's a faint smell of dust.

"Hmm, the smell of dust is fainter than I expected."

Based on the time he spent during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, if the ratio were two to one, almost five months would have passed back in his hometown.

Chu Tianshu took out his phone, and the first thing he did was connect to the internet.

To my surprise, when I checked the dates, only three months had passed back home.

Although the time ratios in the past were not always as precise as a true two to one.

But this deviation should be considered the largest.

Tap! Tap tap tap tap!!!

After not turning it on for a while, my phone started popping up a bunch of random notification messages.

Only a few were from group chats; the rest were guys from various software programs.

Chu Tianshu always cleared these kinds of notifications one by one.

However, he glanced around and noticed that many news articles and social media posts mentioned the same thing.

"A major supernatural event in New York?"

Chu Tianshu clicked in to take a look.

It turns out that two months ago, Roosevelt Island in Manhattan District New York, was completely engulfed in the Overflow Zone, which caused a global media frenzy.

He checked the news dates and flipped through the pages.

"Oh, so the matter has been resolved."

After more than half a month, the Overflow Zone was broken.

However, this incident involves too many people and has attracted great public attention.

Protests have erupted in multiple locations across the Americas, demanding that the authorities accelerate the popularization of supernatural powers and open up channels for supernatural ascension, among other things.

Chu Tianshu had never paid attention to this kind of thing before, and only learned about it after seeing these news reports.

While China is already providing External Elixir and martial arts instruction to junior and senior high school students, only a few states on the other side of the world have made similar decisions.

Now that the protests have broken out, they've practically spread everywhere.

Even the states that made the right decisions were not spared from the demonstrations, and faced even more demands and protests.

Chu Tianshu browsed for a few minutes, but found it all a mess, so he exited the news app and went to check the Special Investigation Bureau's internal website to see what was happening in China.

While there haven't been any events on the Manhattan District in China, the frequency of paranormal events is still on the rise recently.

Fortunately, thanks to the incident involving General Yungu, a large group of rather stubborn and treacherous martial arts lineages were also brought together.

This serves as a way to give these people a way out, making it a logical step to hire them to assist in resolving incidents in various locations.

Breakthroughs at the expert level relied on the passage along the Yangtze River to access the Spirit Realm, collecting various experimental data, the cultivation progress of key military personnel, and technological research and development...

The situation is generally expected to remain stable.

Chu Tianshu nodded to himself and sent an emoji in the group chat to indicate that he had returned.

Seeing that no one responded for a while, he put down his phone.

Going downstairs and out the back door, the bamboo grove was lush and green, the sky was bright and clear, and the scenery was exceptionally beautiful.

Chu Tianshu patted Sanqi, signaling it to fly a little further away, but Sanqi refused.

"Alright, it's good to have courage."

He took out the Great Void Heavenly Eye.

(End of this chapter)