Chapter 25 Ranshan Sect

Chapter 25 Ranshan Sect

Chapter 25 Ranshan Sect

When Zhao Qi returned to the Chen family's wing, his shoes and hems were soaked with mud and water. It wasn't because he got wet on the road - he had excellent light body skills, and the moonlight was hazy tonight, so he could see all the muddy puddles on the road clearly. When he returned to the outside of the Chen family's gable, there was only a slightly thick layer of mud on the soles of his shoes.

The problem was this layer of mud. When he went out, he left a window for himself in his room. Originally, when he reached the gable, he could jump into the room from the window with a leap and a little leverage on the wall. But when he was using the mud to gain leverage, the mud on the sole of his shoe slipped, and he didn't fall to the ground, but stepped into a puddle, splashing his lower body with mud.

He angrily took off his shoes and Taoist robe and threw them on the ground. He sighed and kicked them all under the bed to avoid being discovered by the Chen family.

These days, he has been presenting himself as a detached master, so that the Chen family can't figure out the depth of his Taoism and avoid looking down on him. So far, he feels that he has performed well - for example, this time, Chen Xin asked him for help in the evening, so tomorrow morning he can tell him that the young man named Li Jiye is indeed the young master of the Li family in Lijiawan. This is something he casually deduced, and this is the method of a god.

But if they found muddy shoes and robes, they would think, oh, Master Zhao would also step into the mud? He is not much different from us ordinary people!
Once they have this idea, they will inevitably look down on him and no longer be as respectful as before. These rural folks are the most stubborn and unruly. This is all what the master taught him. As he traveled along the way, he realized that what the master said was indeed reasonable.

Thinking of his master, Zhao Qi paced anxiously in the room for a few times.

He came to Jinshui this time to find his master Zhao Kui. Fourteen years ago, his master suddenly said that he had found the method of immortality and wanted to go down the mountain to find a treasure place to practice the method. He also lit a longevity lamp and asked his disciples to add 100 kilograms of lamp oil to it every year. He said that if he succeeded, the lamp would shine brightly, and if he died, the soul lamp would go out. Then he left Ranshan with the treasure of the sect, "Jin Chanzi". He was only sixteen years old at that time.

The fellow disciples had thought that the master would be back in a few years at most - apart from the occasional reports of someone from the Eight Divisions of the Mysterious Sect ascending to heaven, in this world, who had ever heard of anyone achieving immortality among the remaining sects, big or small?
But no one expected that this wait would last fourteen years. Without the sect treasure, the Golden Chanzi, the disciples of the Ranshan Sect had to rely on their own talents and elixirs to build their foundations, but where in the world could there be so many talented people? Even if there were, they would have gone to the Eight Divisions of the Mysterious Sect. Therefore, the Ranshan Sect gradually declined over the past fourteen years. By last year, he was the only one left on Ranshan Mountain guarding a few houses that were about to collapse and his master's longevity lamp.

Then, just a few days ago, the light went out.

Zhao Qi knew that his master must be dead. Maybe something went wrong while practicing some fantastical technique, or maybe he was killed by his enemies. These were common things on the road of cultivation, but the key point was that the golden entanglement that the master brought down the mountain was not only a treasure that could help ordinary people build their foundation, but also had a "magic seal" on it. Whoever got this treasure with a magic seal would have the qualifications to establish a sect outside the Eight Divisions of Xuanjiao. This was something that many Taoist masters would risk their lives to get!
He had a one-or-the-less idea that if his master really died in a secret cave and he could find him, he might be able to get the golden entanglement and bury his master properly. Then he could live in seclusion and practice for decades. If he was lucky enough to form an elixir, he would take the golden entanglement and find a remote and desolate place to establish a sect, which would be worth his life in this world.

So he searched along the way and finally found the traces left by his master, and then came to Jinshui.

Jinshui was a remote place, but it was not far from the territory of the Eight Mysterious Sects. Zhao Qi felt that his master would never choose to retreat here to practice immortality. But the clues ended here, and the money and food he brought with him were also exhausted. It happened that the town owner Chen Xinxin had only taken over this place for a few years and needed to enshrine a fairy sorcerer, so he held his nose and stayed.

These days, he was not sitting idly waiting for good luck to knock on his door, but was planning something - if he accomplished this, he should be able to find clues about his master.

But the cost of what he was going to do was not small. First, he had to offer three things - dragon, phoenix and tiger. When he passed by Qingjiang City, he bought a roll of snake skin. The scales were the size of fingernails. He used it as a raincoat, which was useful. There were many chickens in Jinshui Town. He had chosen a large rooster with colorful feathers and fed it in the backyard of the Chen family with the elixir residue brought down from the mountain. In a few days, the spirituality would be sufficient. Now the only thing missing was the tiger. The dragon was not a real dragon, and the phoenix was not a real phoenix. The tiger must be a fresh adult male tiger bone, otherwise the work could not be done, but it would be easy to attract evil spirits. Another thing was a noble person. This Jinshui Town was not noble, but he had seen the horoscope of the daughter of the town owner Chen Xin, named Chen Xiu, and it was barely usable.

The town master Chen Xin seemed to be a daughter slave, but if a man could be the town master, he must be sensible. If he could just say that this was to exorcise the evil spirits in the town, and give him a pill to persuade him that he could have a son, he would readily agree.

A few days ago was a suitable day, but the butcher in the town fled overnight, so the matter was delayed. But after tonight, Zhao Qi felt that this delay was not a bad thing.

Because he found his true benefactor - the young master named Li Jiye from Lijiawan.

When it comes to the Ranshan School, people always think that the most proficient method is paper puppetry, but in fact, the disciples of Ranshan are better at observing qi. Just now, when the child was speaking in a daze and stumbling, he had already observed his qi on the roof - extremely expensive! That's how he confirmed Li Jiye's identity. If he wasn't the son of the real town master, he wouldn't have such a qi.

Before, he was wondering whether there was something fishy about how this young man could survive the flood. But after seeing him tonight, all his doubts were gone - a person with such noble destiny, as long as he was not manipulated by outsiders like himself, even if he experienced natural disasters or man-made calamities, he would only suffer more torture but would not die.

Before this, he was still thinking about what to do next if this thing didn't work out. But now with Li Jiye, he didn't even have to think about the next step.

There is just one thing - these days he sneaks into the Chen family's kitchen every night and sprinkles some elixir residue on the prepared rice and flour, in order to cultivate Chen Xiu's spirituality. But he has to be more cautious with Li Jiye. People in Jinshui said that the Li family of Lijiawan has been the town master for nearly a hundred years and has a deep foundation. Li Jiye is not like Chen Xiu who has never seen the world. I am afraid that he has seen real elixirs.

Moreover, people with this kind of nobleness are usually destined to be lonely. Now that his family has all died, I am afraid that there will be some enemies and creditors around him to haunt him. To nurture his spirituality, I am afraid that it will take a greater investment and a longer time.

Zhao Qi paced a few more steps and slowly sat down beside the bed. He decided to go see the boy openly tomorrow. If he was as stupid as a pig, then things would be easy. If he was really smart, he might as well ask him to become his master, give him some elixirs, and wait until the end...

Thinking of this, Zhao Qi let out a sigh of relief. In the end, everything will be taken back... If I really get the Golden Chanzi and make the elixir, as long as I don't go crazy like my master, what else can I not get?

(End of this chapter)