Only After Meeting the King of Chen Did I Learn How Vast the World Was

"Ten days----"

"With Sword Qi mastered, the Qi Refinement chapters of all related Technique Method, such as weapon forging, talismans, formations, and elixirs, have all been perfected—"

"Not only that, you're also taking the time to learn the two completely different writing systems used by immortals and mortals, not to mention the culture, poetry, music, and songs—"

"On the other hand, they are even taking into account the historical process, the distribution of Daoist traditions, the situation of the world, and common knowledge about cultivation, including spiritual objects and Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi!"

"And even after all this, you still managed to squeeze in time for real combat practice in the evening."

The following night, in the Capitalist Immortal Cultivation Realm, Punk Lü Yuan entered the consciousness space to check on the learning progress of Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan, and couldn't help but sigh.

"You're practically a superman!" It's not as difficult as you think—" Although he spoke very nicely, Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan was not complacent.

But he was even reading in his consciousness space. "And this isn't because of my talent, it's purely a convenience brought by my cultivation. Once you cultivate to the Qi Refinement and your Divine Sense reaches a level similar to mine, you'll find that you can remember many things after reading them only once."

"I think even among Qi Refinement cultivators, you're an exception." Punk Lü Yuan leaned against him, and together they looked at the "Chan School Jokes Collection."

In other words, it's the dark history left behind by "Amitabha Buddha," the disciple of the immortal-cultivation version of Roselle.

That is, "The Buddha Speaks" successfully plagiarized almost all the famous quotes from celebrities and classic works throughout history and across the world.

"None of the Qi Refinement cultivators I know are even one percent as skilled as you—"

"You haven't even started gathering qi yet!"

What constitutes a normal level of Qi Refinement might be unknown to others, but surely Punk Lü Yuan knows it?

The line leader of the assembly line where he used to work was a Qi Refining Qi Refinement.

However, his situation was far worse than that of Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan; he only remembered clearly who gave gifts and who didn't this month.

Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan shrugged and didn't answer, but actually he was too busy laughing to reply.

Punk Lü Yuan glanced at it and saw that he was reading. "[The Buddha said: The third principle of Chan School: Once you confirm that your opponent is an enemy, you already have a way to die!]"

Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan couldn't hold back, so living in the information age, he was even less likely to be able to.

What Sun Xiaochuan

"How could he directly copy the words of Buddha Tang? Does this guy even have any moral compass?"

Doesn't he consider that future generations might see these dark secrets of his past?

"And I originally thought I was unrivaled in the world when it came to using overused tropes among time-travelers."

"I never expected that there would be someone who could match me in chess, someone with such talent."

Punk Lü Yuan sighed with regret, "It's a pity that the two of us didn't meet. Otherwise, it would definitely have been a story of kindred spirits finding each other amidst mountains and rivers, and the legendary duo leaving behind a legacy for ten thousand years. As for whether it would have been the kind of development where fellow countrymen meet and then stab each other in the back, Punk Lü Yuan didn't think about it."

After all, what kind of villain would a time-traveler who uses overused tropes be?

"Honestly, I think your Zen Chan School would be very interesting, but unfortunately I can't bring my talents there."

At this point, Punk Lü Yuan felt heartbroken, realizing that his potential for immortality had vanished before he could even attain it.

After all, this Amitabha Buddha is so good at spreading rumors, he might leave behind something like a "Buddha's Diary" written in Chinese.

According to historical records and Chen Sheng's corroborating evidence, this guy was a genuine Golden Immortal who ascended to heaven!

Golden Immortal ----

Well, he didn't really have a concept of Golden Immortal, but it was a realm above the Dao Embryo anyway.

If we leave behind a few good things, we won't have to worry about overthrowing giant corporations and turning the serfs into masters.

It's a pity, even if there were things, they would only benefit the Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan!

Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan looked helpless. "Can you please stop having this insatiable mentality all the time?"

"And even if he did leave something behind, it's not like I'm not giving it to you. You don't understand." Punk Lü Yuan reached out and turned a page of "The Buddha Speaks."

He said quietly, "What I want is not the fortuitous opportunity itself, but the feeling of fortuitous opportunity in my hands after I discover fortuitous opportunity. Do you understand?"

"Just thinking about it is amazing! It's even more exhilarating than taking off!"

"Otherwise, why would we have liked wish-fulfillment novels so much in our past lives?"

"If I had to say, even compared to Li Yelan, I'm considerably inferior."

The Buddha said: The absolute strong, the higher they climb, the lonelier they feel; the one who can teach you to love is—

Okay, okay, you watch Jujutsu Kaisen too, right?

No wonder the book says you like to debate, and you spend all day ranking the [Three Enclosures], including the Golden Core and Dao Embryo of your time.

This is due to observing the Five Mansions.

Seeing this, Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan suppressed a laugh and replied, "Then you should hurry up and cultivate to the Qi Refinement. Didn't we discover it after I Qi Refinement?"

"Besides my cultivation level, it seems my consciousness can also be transferred to you to fight for you."

"Once you've Qi Refinement, it should be the same principle. When this happens again, I'll let you open the blind boxes, okay?"

"Hehe----" Punk Lü Yuan didn't want to pay attention to him. It would be at least a few more years before he Qi Refinement, and he didn't dare to think about how much he would miss in the meantime.

Moreover, this shifting of consciousness is probably the most problematic thing right now.

At least that's the case when neither side can exchange.

After discovering this, they originally wanted to try it, but Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan hadn't managed to get much in on their own.

Punk Lü Yuan felt like he was about to be sent to the Western Paradise by the Buddha's light.

How can I describe that feeling?

To put it simply, for a fleeting moment after that, Punk Lü Yuan actually felt that money didn't seem important at all—that was terrifying!

I can't believe I thought the potential for immortality was useless!

To kill someone and then destroy their spirit?!

Even if both sides can exchange them later, this thing should be avoided if possible!

"Cuckoo, I don't want to be corrupted by good!"

"By the way, how's your cultivation progressing? And how's your swordsmanship and other Technique Method?"

Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan asked curiously, only to be met with Punk Lü Yuan's dead fish eyes.

What is my current situation?

During this period, relying on the "Back Then, Listening to Scriptures in Changrong Heaven," he cultivated his Divine Sense, so he didn't get stuck at any level and directly advanced to the Embryonic Breathing Fourth Layer.

Although there was no time to upgrade my swordsmanship, with the items Lin Qi provided, smoothly wielding my Sword-Ray again shouldn't be a problem.

The talismans are still the same.

That sounds pretty good, and my cultivation speed has broken the record of Mingyang City No. 1 Technical Primary School.

But compared to Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan, this achievement seems rather insignificant.

"Don't ask, just like I didn't use your three-year Golden Core and twenty-year Dao Embryo immortal version of the Great Sage to rub it in."

"Let's not talk about this. Will our friendship last a long time?" Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan just smiled at this, while Punk Lü Yuan saw that it was almost time to go back.

I've almost finished using "the Back Then, Listening to Scriptures in Changrong Heaven".

I'll go back in a bit and seamlessly connect with Lin Qi to boost our favorability.

"See you tomorrow."

He waved his hand and his figure gradually disappeared.

With Punk Lü Yuan gone, Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan naturally had no intention of staying any longer.

After all, from the outside, it would look like I was slacking off, and it wouldn't look good if the teacher saw it.

Consciousness returned and I opened my eyes.

As the sun rises, it is another early morning. This is the eleventh day since Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan came to Great Marsh Mountain.

Now, he is staying on a desolate mountain peak in [Swan Palace], leaning against an ancient tree near a small pond.

Lü Yuan, slowly waking up, yawned and, without even bothering to tidy his long hair, simply opened the history book he had been holding.

After communicating with his self in the consciousness space and the realm of capital cultivation, and having finished reading today's episode of "The Buddha's Laughing Tale," he began his studies for the day.

As for why he's here, and why he's all alone—

Is there even a need to say it?

[Swan Palace] is so big, and there's no one else around, so he can naturally go wherever he wants.

The reason for the latter is even simpler.

Of course, Chen Sheng couldn't possibly teach him everything personally.

After all, Lü Yuan himself wasn't intellectually deficient; ever since Chen Sheng taught him the unified written language for both immortals and mortals on the first day...

He can understand what's written in the book without using Law Technique.

Therefore, Chen Sheng didn't need to take special care of him.

Now, having already grasped the general outline of the history of immortals that he could find in books, Lü Yuan is studying the history of the mortal world.

Of course, the history of the mortal world is not much more complete than the history of the immortal path.

At least there are very few records from the reigns of [Supreme Palace] and [Purple T176], and even those that can be found are fragmented and cannot be definitively identified as belonging to any particular country or period.

It's just something to watch for fun.

Furthermore, the only systematic historical record he could find was the history of Middle Earth.

Although the world is divided into Nine Provinces, Lü Yuan still doesn't know how the other eight provinces managed to remain untold in any historical records.

Surely those in power aren't mentally challenged?

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that Chen Sheng failed to collect them.

But that's not all; the biggest problem is that even the only systematic history of Middle Earth is incomplete.

All that Lü Yuan could find was nearly 1,500 years of history, and even that was fragmented, with no idea how many years were missing.

"Most importantly, it lacks the first five hundred years of the Heavenly Market calendar's history—"

"When that period of history occurred in the mortal realm, the corresponding stage in the immortal realm should be the time from after the Great Sage defeated the Third Devil Ancestor until his ascension—"

"The history of immortals is vague on this, and there's nothing about mortal history either. Who can fill in the gap in my missing Xianxia version of Journey to the West for me?"

It's no wonder that Lü Yuan is becoming more and more like his counterpart in the Capitalist Immortal Cultivation Realm, loving Ye Cao.

The more he knew, the more he felt that his level of abstract thinking was no less than that of the neighboring group.

"I remember last time I had almost finished reading those scattered records."

"It stops precisely at the era of the chaotic struggle between the North and South during the Wu and Wei dynasties, corresponding to the history of immortality around the 400th year of the Heavenly Market."

"The reason this situation arose in the mortal realm is that after the Victorious Fighting Buddha ascended to immortality, the internal conflicts within the immortal path intensified, leading to a division into the righteous and the evil paths."

"The emergence of the Second Northern Dipper was the catalyst for the first great war between good and evil, and also the real reason for the eventual unification of the two dynasties."

As Lü Yuan murmured to himself, he continued to eagerly absorb all useful knowledge in the tranquility of Great Marsh Mountain.

His time in Great Marsh Mountain was a short eleven days, but it was also the most important eleven days of his life.

Because his basic understanding of the world was completed during this period.

Chen Sheng's teachings broadened his horizons and knowledge, enabling him to understand the essence of immortality and cultivation.

It also made him aware of the existence of yet another time traveler, and extinguished the slight sense of complacency that had once appeared in his heart.

It is no exaggeration to say that this trip to Great Marsh Mountain completely filled in the last missing piece of Lü Yuan's puzzle.

This made him a true all-around genius!

"When I met Emperor Gaozu, I began to understand the true nature of the world; when I met King of Chen, I realized how vast the realm truly is—"

Records of the Grand Historian: Annals of Emperor Hui