Laojun the Patient
"Sima Xiangru generous; he sent me such a wonderful gift after not seeing me for several years!"
Zhang Xuezhou enlightened the Marquis of Sui's Pearl Marquis of Sui's Pearl, transforming it into a lucky charm. He had also once possessed a dragon and phoenix lucky charm gifted by the King of Huainan.
The Marquis of Sui's Pearl is a powerful weapon for Fortune War, while the Dragon and Phoenix Pair is a tool to aid in the cultivation of Fortune Technique.
Although he hasn't achieved anything significant in terms of Fortune Technique over the years, he is very familiar with manipulation tools.
The Sun Star Chart is indeed a type of energy-manipulating device. This particular device is very crude and primitive, but after Zhang Xuezhou acquired it, it stirred up specks of golden energy, indicating that the device is still intact and functional.
"Sun Star?"
Reaching out and touching the astrolabe, Zhang Xuezhou felt a sense of clarity throughout his body, and the gloom that had weighed on his heart due to the events at the Void Heaven Palace gradually faded away.
As Sima Xiangru said, wearing this amulet can indeed dispel gloom and ensure peace.
Zhang Xuezhou felt as if someone had delivered a pillow to his head when he was about to fall asleep; he was considered to be enjoying great fortune in Chang'an City.
Where exactly is the Void Heaven Palace hidden?
As the gloom dissipated, Zhang Xuezhou couldn't help but ponder the location of the Void Heaven Palace.
The Void Heaven Palace was a gift from Houtu, but Hongjun tampered with it.
If one wants to unravel the mystery of the Void Heaven Palace, perhaps the only way is to search for the Investiture of the Gods text, as Hongjun suggested, in order to determine the relevant circumstances.
"Old Candle, do you know where the Investiture of the Gods is?"
Zhang Xuezhou exited through the East Sima Gate and returned to his residence.
With Zhu Jiuyin, who was familiar with Hongjun, by his side, Zhang Xuezhou had little difficulty finding relevant clues.
He found Zhu Jiuyin Zhu Jiuyin, who was hanging sullenly in the side room, and pulled him down from the rope.
"What did you call me?" Zhu Jiuyin asked in surprise.
"If you're not afraid of causing trouble in Chang'an City, I can address you respectfully," Zhang Xuezhou shrugged.
"Fine, call me whatever you want!"
Zhu Jiuyin responded listlessly.
Ren Anran insisted on following Zhang Xuezhou, and Zhu Jiuyin had no choice but to stay overnight at Zhang Xuezhou's residence.
When you're under someone's roof, you have to bow your head; you can accept some minor grievances regarding how you're addressed.
"What, did An Ran scold you again?"
Zhang Xuezhou watched with great interest as Zhu Jiuyin suffered a setback.
Although he lost his physical body, Zhu Jiuyin still possessed the strength of a great cultivator in the Three Realms, only slightly inferior to his physical form. There weren't many cultivators who could defeat Zhu Jiuyin, so if he was feeling frustrated and unhappy, it was most likely due to Ren Anran.
"She thinks I'm too talkative." (Zhu Jiuyin)
"What did you say?" Zhang Xuezhou asked curiously.
"Daozi hasn't opened his tongue yet, so learning Chinese is too slow for him. I always said learning Chinese characters is useless, there's no need to go to so much trouble!"
Zhu Jiuyin replied sullenly, and Zhang Xuezhou felt that Zhu Jiuyin deserved to be reprimanded.
The Realm Technique of the Southern Jambudvipa Continent are diverse and flourishing, with each sect and school having its own unique Realm Technique, numbering in the thousands. It is a melting pot for the development of Realm Technique, and if you want to embrace all kinds of techniques, you can only choose the Han Dynasty, the largest country in the Southern Jambudvipa Continent.
While Xiong State like those in the Northern Kuru Continent possess immense strength, they lag far behind in terms of humanistic cultivation. They either rely on the nine traditions of the Three Sacred Land and Six Ancestral Lands or develop by borrowing Demon Power, resulting in a very narrow range of options.
To the west, however, the religions such as Zoroastrianism and Western Sect are dominant, and their content is extremely limited.
Learning the Great Han, understanding the archives of the Great Han Dynasty, and engaging in exchanges with Confucian School, which excels at integration, is the only and inevitable path for Ren Anran.
Only by opening up this path can Ren Anran make up for her own and Zhang Xuezhou's shortcomings, or provide a more suitable way of cultivation for people in the real world.
This is Ren Anran's cross-disciplinary study abroad opportunity, which is hard-won and involves the hopes of many people. How could Ren Anran let Zhu Jiuyin stop her?
"If you don't learn from Daozi, be careful you won't be able to keep up in the future!"
Zhang Xuezhou made a sarcastic remark, which startled Zhu Jiuyin.
Zhu Jiuyin was fluent in the language, allowing him to communicate in almost any place in the Three Realms. However, Zhu Jiuyin his eloquence, he did not understand the written language.
He can communicate in Great Han, but Zhu Jiuyin doesn't recognize Chinese characters.
He paced back and forth a few steps, took out some bamboo slips left behind by Gongsun Hong in the mansion, and after flipping through them, Zhu Jiuyin felt that at least 60% of the text was illegible.
Zhang Xuezhou's reminder immediately plunged Zhu Jiuyin into anxiety, as he felt he was about to begin learning to write.
Tell me about this Investiture of the Gods of the Gods!
Seeing that Zhu Jiuyin was recklessly messing around, Zhang Xuezhou had to remind him again.
"The Investiture of the Gods is a treasure used against the Heavenly Court. It can seal those Heavenly Court Gods who cannot be killed within it, preventing them from being reborn," Zhu Jiuyin pondered. "This list belongs to Laozi of the Human Sect; only he knows its whereabouts!"
"Laozi?"
"That's the Laozi who killed himself by playing the One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones," Zhu Jiuyin nodded. "He still has a 'One Pure One' avatar in the Immortal Court called Laojun. You can go to the Immortal Court and ask Laojun. If Laojun remembers, that's fine; if he doesn't, then no one will know where the Investiture of the Investiture of the Gods is!"
"This seems to be a troublesome matter!"
Zhang Xuezhou murmured something.
Let alone whether Laojun knew the whereabouts of the Investiture of the Gods, even if the Investiture of the Gods the Gods were in Laojun's possession, it would be a difficult task for him to access it.
If he couldn't make Laojun and others form a closed loop of erroneous cognition like Zhu Jiuyin, how could he interact with these top cultivators?
"You must contact Laojun immediately and tell him about this... In short, you must contact Laojun to find the Investiture of the Gods, otherwise you may all perish!"
Zhang Xuezhou urged Zhu Jiuyin a few times, but found that the words Hongjun had entrusted to him were vague in his mind and difficult to communicate verbally. He had no choice but to briefly summarize them and entrust them to Zhu Jiuyin.
"Why are you trying to scare me with this death? I'm practically dead already," Zhu Jiuyin muttered. "Besides, at least I can still cling to life here for a while. If I go to Laojun and he has an attack and drags me straight into his furnace to be refined into pills, who am I supposed to complain to then!"
Is Laojun) sick?
"He turned himself into three, and the whereabouts of the other two are unknown and they haven't been recovered to this day. Do you think he wouldn't get sick in this situation?"
"Is it serious?"
"It's really serious. He always feels like he has a serious illness, and he spends every month and year at the Tushita Palace refining elixirs to cure himself. He also concocts all sorts of strange and unusual elixirs, and he'll try any new or unfamiliar elixir-making materials he sees. Using dragons in medicine is something he's done frequently over the years. I used to be terrified of him, let alone seeing him in his current state!"
That's a bit crazy!
Zhang Xuezhou used to think that Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds of Eastern Heavenly Gate was crazy for conducting biochemical experiments, but he never expected that Laojun, one of the Three Pure Ones, was even crazier.
Thinking back to the fact that he had taken the elixir from the Tushita Palace, Zhang Xuezhou couldn't help but feel a little remorseful, realizing that he had been incredibly audacious at the time.
If it weren't for the Jade Emperor's help in cleaning up the mess, he would have inevitably been thrown into the alchemy Pill Furnace and turned to ashes if Laojun had discovered him.
As Zhu Jiuyin continued to recount Laojun's past actions, Zhang Xuezhou felt a throbbing headache. He realized that communicating with Laojun was risky, and asking about Laojun's trump cards and magical Law Treasure would be even more difficult.