Wandering Gods of Day and Night

Chapter 1388 - 518: Master Ziyan

Zhou Xuan had originally planned to ask the Eternal Life Sect Leader about a method to "freely move through the Ancient Hall," but he never expected to solve the case by accident."So that’s how he’s been hiding." Zhou Xuan muttered.

The Eternal Life Sect Leader heard this and hurriedly asked, "Who’s been hiding like that?"

"Little Changsheng, Alchemist Bai Lu and I will head back to the Jingyi Shop first. Come over later, I have an important matter to discuss."

Zhou Xuan gave a brief instruction, then disappeared inside the Ancient Hall together with Alchemist Bai Lu.

The Eternal Life Sect Leader turned his head and said to that Tiancan Monk, "Bald donkey, you stay here and keep guarding the pill for me. Here, your reward."

He took out three Joyful Longevity Elixirs and handed them to the Tiancan Monk.

The Eternal Life Sect Leader now was no longer the previously dirt-poor sect leader; he was well stocked with elixirs, so his hand had naturally grown much more generous.

"Where did you get these elixirs? Weren’t the Joyful Longevity Pills all turned in?" the Tiancan Monk asked.

"This is a benefit Master Zhou gave me."

"Just how many benefits did he give you?"

"Not many, just ninety Joyful Longevity Pills." The Eternal Life Sect Leader waved his hand with the air of a nouveau riche.

The Tiancan Monk was speechless. This Eternal Life Sect Leader had really stepped in dog shit luck—getting his hands on a fourth-grade Land Walking Pill was one thing, but he’d also gotten ninety Joyful Longevity Pills?

He felt envy, jealousy, and a bit of hate, but right now he had no time to suffer from "red-eye disease." He hurriedly asked, "Sect Leader, there’s something I don’t understand, please enlighten me?"

"What is it?"

"I might have been stubborn and dense before, but now I’ve started proactively embracing Master Zhou. Just like earlier, I also tried flattering him, so why did he barely pay me any mind?"

The Tiancan Monk now just wanted to cling to Zhou Xuan’s thigh—the Eternal Life Sect Leader had only been clinging on for a short while, yet the benefits he reaped already exceeded the Tiancan Monk’s gains over the past ten years.

"You think flattering someone is that simple? There’s a threshold." The Eternal Life Sect Leader said.

"Please, Sect Leader, explain."

"Want to hear it?" The Eternal Life Sect Leader stretched out his hand. The Tiancan Monk understood and returned the three Joyful Longevity Pills he had just received.

The Eternal Life Sect Leader happily pocketed the pills and said, "It really just comes down to two words—’from the heart.’"

"From the heart?"

"You have to genuinely admire Master Zhou; only then will your flattery carry real feeling, and only then will Master Zhou take it in. You jumped in and started licking my Master Zhou like crazy—what do you think he’d feel?"

"Feel what?" the Tiancan Monk asked.

"Disgusted, grossed out. The only reason he didn’t kick you is that he’s broad-minded and can’t be bothered to stoop to your level."

After speaking, the Eternal Life Sect Leader strode away. "When you’ve got time, mull it over more—what does it mean to be ’from the heart’?"

After the Eternal Life Sect Leader left, the Tiancan Monk was still pondering what "from the heart" was supposed to mean.

"I’ve read so many Buddhist Scriptures and never heard of anything called ’from the heart’—the heart’s buried in the chest; how is it supposed to walk anywhere?"

The Tiancan Monk thought for a while, scratching at his bald head until he almost tore it open, yet he still couldn’t figure out how to "go from the heart"...

...

At the Zhou Family’s Jingyi Store, the lamps were lit once again.

Yun Ziliang, Li Changxun, Zhou Xuan, and Alchemist Bai Lu sat in the room, waiting for the Eternal Life Sect Leader.

After a short while, the figure of the Eternal Life Sect Leader appeared in the Jingyi Shop.

"Master Zhou, Li Shanzu, Mr. Yun, Alchemist Bai, good evening and auspiciousness to you."

The Eternal Life Sect Leader now loved the house and its crows; having submitted to Zhou Xuan, he had become much more courteous toward Zhou Xuan’s friends as well.

Everyone nodded to the Eternal Life Sect Leader. Zhou Xuan then asked, "Eternal Life Sect Leader, how much do you know about the Multiple Spaces of Jing Country?"

"Not too much, but not too little either."

The Eternal Life Sect Leader said with a grin, "Master Zhou, I, Little Changsheng, aside from cultivating the Shaman incense, have also comprehended a certain Law—the Space Law. At present my realm isn’t too high; it’s at the Second Realm Law."

"Old Hua also has the Space Law." Zhou Xuan said.

The Eternal Life Sect Leader nodded in agreement. "Indeed, but in terms of his comprehension of the Space Law, that Painter is not particularly profound. He’s at the First Realm of the Law, called ’Divine Movement.’"

"’Divine Movement’ merely means he can tear open the space of reality and enter a space called ’Wangling.’ The Wangling Space and the real space share many nodes; a distance of several dozen meters in that space, converted into human world distance, might span a Thousand Miles, even ten thousand miles."

"And the Second Realm of the Space Law is called ’No Breath.’ Every citizen in Jing Country has thoughts and ideas, and these thoughts form a silent, breathless space."

The Eternal Life Sect Leader said, "In this space, we Hall Disciples can glimpse the thoughts of many people. It’s just that this space cannot be entered by our true bodies; we need to rely on this..."

As he spoke, he shook the rattle in his hand.

The moment the drum sounded, it fell silent again, yet Yun Ziliang, Li Changxun, and the others all heard the drumbeat in their hearts.

This drumbeat was the Eternal Life Sect Leader using sound to walk through their ’No Breath Space.’

The Eternal Life Sect Leader stopped the rattle and continued, "The Space Law has Five Realms. Each Realm is a key to entering one of the five kinds of spaces in Jing Country. It’s just that—spaces in Jing Country are scattered large and small; there may be dozens of types, far more than merely five spaces."

Zhou Xuan asked, "So that means that even if a Disciple who understands the Space Law is very powerful, they still can’t freely roam all the various spaces in Jing Country?"

"Naturally."

As the Eternal Life Sect Leader spoke, he drew a Ghost-faced Butterfly out from his Secret Realm.

This Butterfly, when its wings were folded, was truly beautiful, the patterns on its wings variegated and colorful; but once it fluttered, those patterns, in their vibration, revealed a kind of "ghost face" shape, making it look rather eerie.

"This Ghost-faced Butterfly can take me into quite a few spaces, and the Ancient Hall is one of them."