Chapter 643: Chapter 71 Old Friends Reunited, Breaking Through the Bottleneck Chapter 643: Chapter 71 Old Friends Reunited, Breaking Through the Bottleneck After almost half a day, Shi Liuli indeed returned from the Donghua Sect as scheduled.
“Husband.” After returning to the Heavenly Craft Workshop, she briefly recounted the events to Luo Yan, which were nearly identical to what Qiu Changtian had witnessed, “…In short, that’s what happened.”
“I see.” Thinking to himself that his wife really trusted him and hid nothing, Luo Yan’s curiosity was piqued, and he asked, “So what treasures did you bring back from the Cardinal Hall of the Donghua Sect?”
“This.” Shi Liuli forthrightly took out the compass Magical Treasure, “This object can locate positions through the constellations.
So things that traditional art calculation thods cannot deduce may be divined through astrology.”
She watched Luo Yan calmly, only to see him utter an “Oh” without showing any particular expression on his face.
…So, he’s completely unaware of the matter of his destiny being obscured from others?
With this thought, Shi Liuli put away the compass Magical Treasure-glancing at it as she did, she indeed saw the needle had already pointed towards Luo Yan.
Locked on.
Very good.
...
Shi Liuli thought to herself.
Of course, she wasn’t the type of wife who liked to put her husband under surveillance.
It was just that Luo Yan’s destiny couldn’t be calculated.
If sothing were to happen to him while he was outside gaining experience, she wouldn’t even be able to find his location!
I’m doing this for his safety… With that in mind, she hid the compass Magical Treasure deep in her Storage Bag, planning not to take it out for calculation unless it was absolutely necessary.
“Liuli,” Luo Yan saw that she was in a good mood, and tried to probe, “Your husband has already cultivated to the Perfection of the Soul Storing Rank in the Golden Core Realm, just waiting for an opportunity for a breakthrough.
Why don’t you help calculate where I should seek this opportunity?”
“Soul Storing Rank Perfection?” Shi Liuli asked in astonishnt, “How did it happen so quickly?”
“Ahem.” Luo Yan awkwardly tried to brush it off, “Maybe it’s because your husband is exceptionally gifted, and the speed of leveling up is especially fast?”
Shi Liuli looked at him wordlessly, her expression seeming to say, “Could you co up with a more unbelievable excuse?”
Luo Yan felt a bit embarrassed at that mont; this Miss Shi was not as easy to fool as Senior Sister An!
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“Alright then.” Seeing that he was unwilling to explain, Shi Liuli could only sigh and took out six copper coins.
“Hm.” She looked at the hexagram she cast and pondered, “It is favorable to head in the southwest direction…
Huh?”
“What’s wrong?” Luo Yan asked.
“It’s nothing.” Shi Liuli said calmly, “I’ll accompany you there.”
“That would be great.” Luo Yan agreed cheerfully.
After reporting the matter of the Donghua Sect to the Master of Xuandu, the two of them took off on their swords from Penglai, flying in the southwest direction.
They reached Divine Land and entered the Yangzhou area, where Shi Liuli and Luo Yan traveled a long distance by sword.
Finally, they landed on the outskirts of a certain city.
Luo Yan fixed his gaze and saw that the characters engraved on the city gate were “Hongdu.”
“Liuli?” He called out softly.
Shi Liuli didn’t speak, only leading him through the streets and alleys, arriving in front of a certain civilian household.
On the street at the entrance, a three or four-year-old child was sitting on the stone steps, holding a file in his hands and whittling a wooden sword.
Luo Yan caught sight of his profile and was imdiately struck with surprise.
The child seed to feel sothing, lifting his head to look at the two of them, suddenly revealing a bewildered, vaguely familiar smile.
“Liuli,” Luo Yan said with shock, “Isn’t that…”
“Sigh.” The wife beside him let out a faint sigh, then walked over to the boy, bent down slightly, and asked, “Child, what’s your na?”
The child didn’t intend to answer the stranger’s question, but what blurted out instead was the truth:
“Shi Mian, my na is Shi Mian.”
“Hmm.” Shi Liuli’s eyes were filled with complexity as she slowly took out a scripture from her storage bag and handed it to the child, saying, “Take this.
Making a sword isn’t as simple as you think; there’s a lot to it.”
The child timidly looked at her, but did not reach out to take it, hesitatingly saying:
“My mother told not to accept things from strangers.”
“Is that so?
Your mother is right,” sighed Shi Liuli as she sat down beside him, tenderly saying, “How about this-I won’t give you this book, but I’ll tell you the knowledge within it.
That way, it won’t count as taking sothing from a stranger.”
Realizing she had a point, the child imdiately cheered up and moved closer, listening intently to Shi Liuli’s explanation.
Luo Yan watched the two of them silently, his expression indescribably complex.
He saw Shi Liuli explaining to the child with extre patience, tenderness, and detail, just like how Elder Shi Ding had patiently taught her about artifact forging in the past.
Only back then, Miss Shi, despite understanding Elder Shi Ding’s teachings, had hardly any interest in learning.
She always found so excuse to run off and play, leaving Elder Shi Ding sighing helplessly and without recourse.
Yet, the child of today, even though he didn’t understand Shi Liuli’s explanation, was earnestly committing it to mory as if he already realized the importance of the knowledge.
Worried that he wouldn’t rember, Shi Liuli deliberately explained it three or four more tis, then had him recite it back until the child could stumble through it.
Only then did she slowly reveal a certain relieved yet sad smile.
“Sister.” The child timidly asked, “Why are you crying?”
Shi Liuli paused for a mont, quietly wiping away the tears on her face with the back of her hand, and smiled:
“It’s nothing, I just rembered…
the elder who taught these things.”
“I understand, sister,” the child said with half-comprehension.
“When my father used to travel for business, I would miss him terribly.
Every ti I thought of father, I’d end up crying.”
“I think they must have been very important elders to you, sister, to make you look so sad…
Please don’t cry, okay?
I’ll share so of the candy my mother bought for with you.”
He took out a cherished cloth bag from his sleeve, containing two or three pieces of malt sugar, and shared one with Shi Liuli and another with Luo Yan across from her-the child had already noticed that this brother was very close to his sister.
Luo Yan accepted it, looking pleasantly surprised, but could not bring himself to eat it on the spot.
Shi Liuli, on the other hand, put the piece of malt sugar into her mouth, and her tears finally began to subside.
“Actually, what you said just now, I didn’t quite understand it,” the child admitted a bit glumly.
“Is it enough just to rember these things?”
“It is enough,” Luo Yan assured him with a smile.
“When you start reading seriously in the future and can independently understand the anings in the scripture, you will be able to comprehend the significance of these words.”
“After that, you can go find a martial arts sect…
It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand what a ‘martial arts sect’ is right now, you will eventually understand.”
“I understand,” the child said earnestly.
“You and sister co from one of these martial arts sects, right?”
“We are from Penglai Yuqing View,” answered Luo Yan seriously, suddenly feeling a subtle sense of trance.
He realized he was leading this child toward Penglai, just as he himself had been led into the sect by Elder Shi Ding.
The parallel between the past and the present echoed within him, giving Luo Yan a sensation of predestined enlightennt, as if suddenly the whole world burst into brightness.
He had broken through to the Soul Storing Rank.
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