The Immortal Method and Plans for What Came Next

Hearing Chen Feng's praise, Li Xiaorou blushed slightly.

She was delighted to have earned her boss's approval.

Chen Feng asked Li Xiaorou, "By the way, have the people from the research institute arrived?"

Liu Mu had previously told him that he would send people to set up a small research lab at the factory.

Chen Feng wondered whether they had arrived yet.

"They have. They just moved all their equipment in today. The person in charge is a female professor named Lin Wei. She's over at the lab now. I'll take you over to meet her, boss."

Li Xiaorou got to her feet and led Chen Feng toward the eastern side of the factory.

The factory's technical department had originally been on the eastern side.

Chen Feng had only hired a few university students to keep up appearances, and the area had now been converted into a research lab.

As soon as Chen Feng entered the lab, he noticed a lot of new experimental equipment.

Several staff members in white lab coats were busy working.

When they saw Chen Feng and Li Xiaorou enter, they all stopped what they were doing.

At that moment, a woman in a white lab coat stepped out from among them and walked toward Chen Feng.

She was tall, with fair, delicate skin and black-framed glasses, and had an intellectual beauty about her.

"Hello, Professor Chen. I'm Lin Wei, a researcher from the Dragon Academy of Sciences. It's a pleasure to meet you."

Lin Wei held out her hand to Chen Feng.

She studied him carefully. Although she had heard he was very young, seeing him in person still took her by surprise.

Chen Feng looked even younger than she was.

At such a young age, he was not only the owner of a company with assets worth ten million, but had also developed the new metal Blazing Sun Iron entirely on his own.

It was no exaggeration to call him a genius.

Chen Feng politely shook Lin Wei's hand.

"Hello, Professor Lin. It's a pleasure to meet you. You're from the Dragon Academy of Sciences?"

Chen Feng was somewhat surprised that she came from the Dragon Academy of Sciences.

Liu Mu had said he would send people from the Institute of Metals Research, yet the people who had arrived were actually from the Dragon Academy of Sciences.

The Institute of Metals Research could not compare to the Dragon Academy of Sciences.

The institute was a scientific research organization focused on research into a particular project.

The Dragon Academy of Sciences, on the other hand, was a directly administered institution and Dragon Country's highest academic institution for natural sciences.

Everyone there was the elite among elites.

"I happen to be very interested in Blazing Sun Iron, so I submitted an application to Professor Li Busheng to take charge of your factory's research lab."

"I hope you'll look after me from now on, Professor Chen."

Lin Wei explained with a smile.

Chen Feng nodded slightly, then looked toward the laboratory bench and asked, "What are you researching now?"

At that moment, Chen Feng didn't know what to say. If he tried to discuss academic matters with them, he didn't understand them.

But saying nothing would be awkward.

"We're trying to synthesize Blazing Sun Iron a second time to see whether we can increase its strength further. Since you're here, Professor Chen, would you like to join us?"

Lin Wei invited Chen Feng to join them. She was very curious about how he had developed Blazing Sun Iron.

She had also volunteered to come here because she wanted to exchange ideas with Chen Feng and learn a few things.

Chen Feng immediately shook his head.

"You go ahead with your research. I have something else to take care of. By the way, do you have a microscope here?"

Chen Feng had no desire to conduct research with them. The moment he did, he was bound to be exposed.

Besides meeting Lin Wei and the others, he had come to borrow a microscope.

He had examined the jade pendant and found that even a magnifying glass couldn't bring the blue light into clear view.

That had made Chen Feng think of a microscope.

"Of course. You're welcome to use it whenever you like, Professor Chen."

Lin Wei pointed to a nearby laboratory bench, where a microscope stood.

Chen Feng walked over to the bench, then placed the jade pendant under the microscope and began examining it.

The researchers around him watched curiously, but none of them came over.

Their superiors had instructed them not to casually ask Chen Feng questions about his research.

Nor were they allowed to interfere with his work; they could only assist him.

Under the microscope's magnification, the blue light in the jade pendant became exceptionally dazzling.

Chen Feng tried setting the microscope to a thousand times magnification. Before long, he discovered row upon row of tiny characters beneath the blue light.

Each character gave off a faint blue glow, making for a rather strange sight.

Chen Feng immediately recognized them as characters from the Painting Scroll World.

He promptly fetched paper and a pen and began copying them down.

It took him a full hour to write down everything inside the jade pendant.

In the lab, Lin Wei was studying Blazing Sun Iron with several researchers.

Li Xiaorou had left long ago to attend to her own work.

Chen Feng put the jade pendant away and said to Lin Wei, "Professor Lin, I have something else to do, so I'll be going now. Thank you for the use of your microscope."

Lin Wei smiled.

"You're too polite, Professor Chen. We're here to assist you. If you need anything, just let us know at any time."

They addressed Chen Feng as Professor Chen because he now held a nominal position at the Dragon Academy of Sciences.

Li Busheng had originally intended to give Chen Feng a nominal position at their Institute of Metals Research.

But Director Hu of basic materials science had adamantly refused, insisting that Chen Feng be placed under his name.

Faced with their dispute, Liu Mu had no choice but to give Chen Feng a nominal position directly at the Dragon Academy of Sciences.

Only then did the two stop arguing.

After all, no matter how large their two institutions were, neither dared compete with the Dragon Academy of Sciences for him.

After saying goodbye to Lin Wei, Chen Feng returned to his room.

He looked at the paper in his hand, and a smile appeared on his face.

The contents of the jade pendant described a cultivation method, but not one for martial artists.

It was an Immortal Method called the "Qi Induction Art."

It could be cultivated all the way to the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining and included several minor Law Techniques.

Chen Feng had always longed desperately for an immortal's method.

Cultivating immortality meant longevity. Martial artists lived for a hundred years at most, so how could they compare to immortal cultivators?

But during his more than a year in the Painting Scroll World,

he had failed to find an immortal's method. The only information he had was that the Yue Kingdom's imperial family possessed one.

Yet a behemoth like the Yue Kingdom's imperial family was beyond his power to shake. It was practically impossible to obtain an immortal's method from them.

Now, through a fortuitous coincidence, he had actually obtained one. He had no idea where Jiang Xiao had gotten the jade pendant.

What was certain was that Jiang Xiao hadn't known the jade pendant contained an immortal's method.

Characters this small were not something martial artists in the Painting Scroll World could see.

If Chen Feng hadn't used a microscope from the modern world, he wouldn't have discovered them either.

Jiang Xiao had probably only known that the jade pendant was special, so he had kept it on his person.

Chen Feng began cultivating according to the contents of the "Qi Induction Art."

The first step in Qi Refining was to sense Spiritual Qi, and that depended on whether one had aptitude.

Being able to sense Spiritual Qi meant one possessed a Spirit Aperture, and having a Spirit Aperture meant having aptitude.

Chen Feng didn't know whether he had a Spirit Aperture, so he could only give it a try first.

After trying for an hour, Chen Feng stopped cultivating.

He hadn't sensed even the slightest trace of Spiritual Qi, leaving him somewhat disappointed.

But Chen Feng didn't give up.

It hadn't worked in the modern world. Perhaps there was simply no such thing as Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth here.

He could only wait until his next return to the Painting Scroll World to try again.

Just then, his phone rang.

He took it out and saw that Liu Mu was calling.

"Little Chen, I heard you're back. When will the factory start production?"

Liu Mu had called Chen Feng as soon as he heard that he had returned to the country.

He was still waiting for Chen Feng's Blazing Sun Iron to produce tanks.

"We'll start production in the next couple of days. We're already making preparations," Chen Feng replied.

"That's good. Nothing happened to you abroad, did it?" Liu Mu asked with concern.

"No, everything went well."

After chatting briefly with Liu Mu, Chen Feng ended the call.

He checked his injuries and found that they had more or less healed.

Chen Feng planned to return to the Painting Scroll World the next day. If he delayed too long, it would be difficult to explain to Liu Mu.

Having thought through his plans for what came next, Chen Feng lay down on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

He hadn't slept properly in many days.